Beautiful statement from @Harvard President Claudine Gay on "Combating Antisemitism."

harvard.edu/president/news… "Finally, I have heard concerns from some about how this important work relating to antisemitism will bear on Harvard’s vital commitment to free expression. Combating antisemitism and fostering free expression are mutually consistent goals."

2/

Here we go.



1/ mncourts.gov/SupremeCourt/O…
Counsel for MN voters, @ronfein: is a case of extraordinary importance." Trump engaged in insurrection and rebellion against the Constitution of the United States

2/

"Today, this Court stands in the way and rolls back decades of precedent and momentous progress. It holds that race can no longer be used in a limited way in college admissions to achieve such critical benefits.

1/ "In so holding, the Court cements a superficial rule of colorblindness as a constitutional principle in an endemically segregated society where race has always mattered and continues to matter.

2/

Look. No one really knows when the Department of Justice will charge Donald Trump with federal felonies related to document hoarding and destruction at Mar-a-Lago (and beyond).

1/ However, all of the legal experts expect that the next indictment is coming in the coming weeks if not days. “Next” — because, in case you’d forgotten, a Manhattan grand jury indicted Donald back in March on 30 state criminal counts.

2/

The SEC just sued Binance Holdings Ltd (Binance) a company registered in Cayman that operates the world’s largest crypto exchange & founder Changpeng Zhao alleging “blatant disregard of the federal securities laws and the investor and market protections these laws provide"

1/ Zhao founded the business in 2017 and by 2021, the platform accounted for $7.7 trillion in crypto exchange volume. Plus, since July of 2017, Binance.com and Binance.US alone allegedly earned at least $11.6 billion in revenue from U.S. customers

2/

My guest today on #BookedUp is David de Jong, the author of a mindblowing new narrative nonfiction book called Nazi Billionaires: The Dark History of Germany’s Wealthiest Dynasties.

1/ NAZI BILLIONAIRES puts the lie to the often-heard claims by descendants and apologists for the industrialists who collaborated for profit with Hilter. You’ve heard them too.That these business leaders did not know what was going on at the concentration and extermination camps

2/

Judge Lewis Kaplan lays down the law. Donald Trump has until Friday to file a response to E. Jean Carroll's letter (from Monday). And he has until June 5th to reply to her motion to amend the complaint (originally filed in 2019).

1/ Read that letter here. Page 1

I’m watching so you don’t have to. And I plan to drag the advertisers. Disgusting. Lots of applause from the audience for the convicted sex abuser and defamer.

Hooboy—

I’m watching this so you don’t have to Globalists and Marxists. Fake news media.

💰On the Money: Orange Collar Crime Edition

With the Grand Jury Poised to Indict How is Donald Sleeping at Night?

1/ Last night Mary Trump and I spoke with Mehdi Hasan about the looming indictment of her uncle. While we did not broach the subject of how Donald is sleeping, given his ALL CAPS rants on Truth Social, I don’t imagine he’s getting much solid rest. What a shame.

2/

💰I wrote this Silicon Valley Bank explainer just for you —

“As the saying goes, the rich privatize their profits and socialize their losses. Just like there are no atheists in foxholes, there are no capitalists in bank collapses”

@monthly

washingtonmonthly.com/2023/03/16/ban… “Here we go again—bank failures followed by government bailouts. So many of us said this would happen, and it did. We told Congress to resist the siren call of Silicon Valley and Wall Street, but they didn’t. And now, here we are.”

2/

Today I was ready

With E. Jean Carroll’s case beginning next month, I’m thinking a lot about the courage it takes to confront your rapist in court.

This morning, for the first time since a terrible night in 1985, I contacted mine. I am trying to get a dialogue going.

1/ The first time I shared my story publicly in 2018 during the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearings.

It was difficult to be so exposed, but I thought it was important for myself and others. You may have read that.

cnn.com/2018/09/28/opi…

2/

💰Popular restaurant chains are allegedly cheating employees out of hard-earned overtime pay. Hours worked above 40 per week usually should be paid out at time-and-a-half. Yet many folks get paid nothing at all for that extra time. That’s right. Not a penny.

1/ Employers do this, according to a new story by Noam Scheiber in the New York Times, by giving a worker the title of “manager,” while actually treating them like an ordinary hourly employee.
nytimes.com/2023/03/06/bus…

2/

💯Guys, I’m still fuming. It’s been two days since I listened to oral arguments in the two cases challenging President Biden’s student loan debt relief plan.

(I took the photo below in July 2022)

1/ More than 26 million borrowers have applied and over 16 million have been approved. As a parent with a PLUS loan, I am one of them. And I’m angry.

jentaub.substack.com/p/loan-sharks-…

2/

💯High energy and hopeful message. "We're just getting started," @POTUS @JoeBiden

Gutsy. "I'll see you at the groundbreaking," he said to the Republicans who did not vote for the infrastructure law but are happy to take the money and build the projects.

#SOTU #DarkBrandon "We're building back pride."
That's the line. That's the message. Thank you, Joe.

❤️ Kvelling that Michael Kuch's The Little River was among the books displayed in the "Making the Modern Book: The Aramont Library at the Library of Congress" symposium.

@librarycongress

1/ The Little River (published in 2013) received two awards at the UK Fine Press Book Fair in Oxford England, both The Judges’ Choice Award and the Parrot Prize for the best illustrated book printed in the last two years, an unprecedented achievement.

2/

Uh. No. This is not the lesson anyone with a brain would take away from this crack down. But you do you.

https://twitter.com/bantg/status/1613537296757710848

Details

https://twitter.com/SECGov/status/1616205929589968952

💥Here. It. Is. The unsealed deposition of Donald J. Trump

1/

Link: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco… 2/

🧵Court is in session for en banc oral argument in Trump et al v. E. Jean Carroll

1/ Chief Judge Blackburne-Rigsby sets out procedural history of how this came to the D.C. Court of Appeals

I won't repeat that here, but in sum. This began as a case brought by Carroll against Trump in state court in NY, then removed to Fed Court . . .

And . . .

2/

💰What is TAX FRAUD?

✅Willful attempts to evade or defeat a tax;

✅Failure to perform required acts including tax collection or paying a tax, filing a return or supplying required information; and

✅Submitting fraudulent or false statements to the government

1/ What does WILLFUL mean?

Willfulness for purposes or a criminal conviction for tax fraud was defined by SCOTUS in 1973 in U.S. v. Bishop as:

“a voluntary intentional violation of a known legal duty”

2/

Religious pluralism is an American tradition. The founders secured religious freedom in the U.S. Constitution. Today that is more important than ever

1/ We are a diverse nation, including a quarter of Americans with no religious affiliation at all.

2/