Which was established in 1898 ( Cornell itself was established 30 years earlier in 1865 ). So, does it seem that "Ivy League" membership was based on the age of the college? There must be more than that - my own college ( RPI ) was established in 1824.
"The Ivy League colleges were founded as follows:
Harvard: Established in 1636.
Yale: Founded in 1701.
University of Pennsylvania: Established in 1740.
Princeton: Founded in 1746.
Columbia: Established in 1754.
Brown: Founded in 1764.
Dartmouth: Established in 1769.
Cornell: Founded in 1865.
The Ivy League itself was officially founded in February 1954
[ The term "Ivy Colleges" was first coined by a sportswriter in 1936 ]
Also, too, there's this:
"...The Ivies were to be places where athletes were primarily students who participated in sports as a part of an overall educational program, not professionals who were recruited for their physical abilities nor students who were exploited for the material gain of their institutions...."
Somehow, I don't think this idealism holds so much anymore
I honestly don’t know how sending people to this prison doesn’t violate the 8th Amendment’s cruel and unusual punishment clause. CECOT could not exist n the U.S. just like all persons (not just citizens) get Due Process, all persons should be free from cruel and unusual punishment.
SCOTUS needs to step up and tell Trump his invocation of the Alien Enemies Act is illegal and he can’t send anybody to an El Salvadorian dungeon.
Without your commentary in this and all your other newsletters, I would surely open a vein. Thanks for the incisive and FUNNY analyses. You have no idea how therapeutic it is.
Rep. Jahana Hayes (D-Conn.) admitted she regrets siding with her Republican colleagues when voting in favor of a migrant detention bill earlier this year, saying she trusted the Trump administration at the time to work with Democrats. “As I’ve thought about it over the past couple of months, I probably would have voted differently. It’s a vote that I regret,” Hayes said at a CNN town hall on Thursday.
Hayes and 45 other House Democrats voted in favor of the Laken Riley Act, a bill named after a Georgia nursing student murdered by a Venezuelan migrant. It required that migrants without legal status who are accused of crimes ranging from theft to violence be detained, even if the allegation has not been proved. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jahana-hayes_n_67f92d5be4b089014393ef7c
She's a Black woman , and a freshman Congressperson. I'm fully confident that other White Congresspeople were leaning on her.
And I'm sure you're going so say "So why didn't she vote her conscience", as opposed to asking how many other White Democrats voted for this terrible bill -- after the only Black state AGs including Tish James asked them not to -- and how many other White Democrats in the House AND Senate went ahead and voted for it anyway.
Please don't scapegoat the Black people without asking what the White people did.
Yes she admitted that. When you get in the dirt with a pig you’re gonna get dirty. It’s too bad she trusted him. As for putting words in my mouth, well I suppose you’re gong to say you know more than me.
I know of 6 SCOTUS justices that need to be arrested, shackled and deported to a certain slave labor torture gulag in the jungle, never to be heard from again ....ever ! ....with special accommodations for Thomas & Alito.
Oh look, it's the Supreme Court doing its best impression of a stern librarian tutting at fascism while quietly reshelving the Bill of Rights under “Fiction.”
This ruling is Roberts Court Kabuki at its finest: a carefully choreographed "tsk-tsk" toward Trump’s jackbooted bureaucracy while functionally giving it the green light to keep operating the American rendition program like it's a lost scene from Zero Dark Thirty. The court didn't just fail Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia; it institutionalized his erasure.
Let’s connect the dots that the article politely tiptoes around:
1. Executive Deference Has Become Fascist Code for ‘We Don’t Wanna’
The decision says: “We think it would be nice if the executive branch respected the law, but if they don’t… oh well.” That’s not a ruling. That’s an embossed invitation to autocracy.
2. Due Process Now Requires Vibes-Based Clearance
ICE’s justification for holding a man with no criminal record in a foreign torture prison is that… someone somewhere has similar vibes to a gang member. It’s “pre-crime” from Minority Report if the script were written by your racist uncle and greenlit by Pam Bondi’s hair dye.
3. Thoughtcrime is Now Immigration Policy
In Khalil’s case, the State Department’s claim isn’t that he broke the law, but that his opinions are problematic for U.S. “foreign policy goals.” That's McCarthyism with a Green Card clause. You can love democracy all you want, but say the wrong thing and bam—you’re a national security threat.
4. Universities Are Getting Mugged in Silence
Hundreds of students have been disappeared from U.S. campuses and academia is mostly responding with… a few press releases and an amicus brief. Congratulations to Tufts and Columbia for finding their spines. The rest of you? You’re complicit. Your silence is not neutrality; it’s cowardice in tenure-track clothing.
This is what fascism looks like in the modern era, not tanks in the streets, but visas revoked by spreadsheet, academic dissidents locked in immigration jails, and courts that write strongly worded letters while the government burns the Constitution behind their backs.
We’re not “sliding” toward authoritarianism anymore. We’re here.
when will people learn . . . you can't make a deal with t'RUMP?
he will honor it only as long as he sees immediate benefit for himself . . . as soon as it no longer gives him something he wants he reneges . . . he doesn't wait for bad things to happen to him.
He's dead like Otto Warmbier, and probably in very much the same way.
They're not dragging this out as a power struggle -- although that, too -- they're dragging this out because he's dead. The longer they drag this out, the more plausible deniability they will have, but he almost certainly "fell down a flight of stairs" a day after the suit was filed.
Sadly I think he is too. That’s why they are avoiding his return as much as possible. To know that our government is killing people and that SCOTUS is all but making that ok is truly horrific. They KNOW IT TOO. Silence is complicity.
I would hope that evidence of the government actually killing people, or getting them killed, would wake the populace up to the disaster that is currently unfolding. But I'm sure plenty of sicko MAGAts would be thrilled by news like that.
"...US policy to combat anti-Semitism around the world and in the United States..." I am shocked Rubio's written statement didn't self ignite with bolts of lightning shooting out from that page. When did that become US policy? Before or after Charlottesville?
Are we officially in a Constitutional Crisis!?!? Now what?
Take it to the ICC.
I really, really hope Abrego Garcia is still among the living, and is safely returned to his loving family.
Orange Mussolini is here to keep hope dead.
Keeping quiet didn't do Cornell any good - FFOTUS "froze" over a billion dollars in grants to Cornell just the other day.
I never really understood why Cornell is considered an Ivy League school.
Part of the reason is their superb medical school.
Which was established in 1898 ( Cornell itself was established 30 years earlier in 1865 ). So, does it seem that "Ivy League" membership was based on the age of the college? There must be more than that - my own college ( RPI ) was established in 1824.
"The Ivy League colleges were founded as follows:
Harvard: Established in 1636.
Yale: Founded in 1701.
University of Pennsylvania: Established in 1740.
Princeton: Founded in 1746.
Columbia: Established in 1754.
Brown: Founded in 1764.
Dartmouth: Established in 1769.
Cornell: Founded in 1865.
The Ivy League itself was officially founded in February 1954
[ The term "Ivy Colleges" was first coined by a sportswriter in 1936 ]
Also, too, there's this:
"...The Ivies were to be places where athletes were primarily students who participated in sports as a part of an overall educational program, not professionals who were recruited for their physical abilities nor students who were exploited for the material gain of their institutions...."
Somehow, I don't think this idealism holds so much anymore
I honestly don’t know how sending people to this prison doesn’t violate the 8th Amendment’s cruel and unusual punishment clause. CECOT could not exist n the U.S. just like all persons (not just citizens) get Due Process, all persons should be free from cruel and unusual punishment.
SCOTUS needs to step up and tell Trump his invocation of the Alien Enemies Act is illegal and he can’t send anybody to an El Salvadorian dungeon.
They are owned by dump. Won’t happen.
Kilmar is Trump’s Navalny.
Without your commentary in this and all your other newsletters, I would surely open a vein. Thanks for the incisive and FUNNY analyses. You have no idea how therapeutic it is.
Sounds like SCOTUS is getting their Susan Collins on. What's the federal budget line item for judicial clutching-pearls?
We should DOGE that shit.
Rep. Jahana Hayes (D-Conn.) admitted she regrets siding with her Republican colleagues when voting in favor of a migrant detention bill earlier this year, saying she trusted the Trump administration at the time to work with Democrats. “As I’ve thought about it over the past couple of months, I probably would have voted differently. It’s a vote that I regret,” Hayes said at a CNN town hall on Thursday.
Hayes and 45 other House Democrats voted in favor of the Laken Riley Act, a bill named after a Georgia nursing student murdered by a Venezuelan migrant. It required that migrants without legal status who are accused of crimes ranging from theft to violence be detained, even if the allegation has not been proved. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jahana-hayes_n_67f92d5be4b089014393ef7c
We tried to tell them
She trusted trump. There’s your sign
That's just what she said to the media.
She's a Black woman , and a freshman Congressperson. I'm fully confident that other White Congresspeople were leaning on her.
And I'm sure you're going so say "So why didn't she vote her conscience", as opposed to asking how many other White Democrats voted for this terrible bill -- after the only Black state AGs including Tish James asked them not to -- and how many other White Democrats in the House AND Senate went ahead and voted for it anyway.
Please don't scapegoat the Black people without asking what the White people did.
Do the proper follow-up.
And read Dr. Greer's piece if you haven't
https://www.wonkette.com/p/would-some-climate-nice-time-recharge/comment/108280154
Yes she admitted that. When you get in the dirt with a pig you’re gonna get dirty. It’s too bad she trusted him. As for putting words in my mouth, well I suppose you’re gong to say you know more than me.
Mariel is that you?
I’ll look at it
I don’t know who Mariel is
She should resign. If she thought for a day that Trump would work with Democrats on migrant detention she is too stupid to be in Congress.
* sigh *
https://www.wonkette.com/p/supreme-court-says-kilmar-armando/comment/108365142
I know of 6 SCOTUS justices that need to be arrested, shackled and deported to a certain slave labor torture gulag in the jungle, never to be heard from again ....ever ! ....with special accommodations for Thomas & Alito.
Oh look, it's the Supreme Court doing its best impression of a stern librarian tutting at fascism while quietly reshelving the Bill of Rights under “Fiction.”
This ruling is Roberts Court Kabuki at its finest: a carefully choreographed "tsk-tsk" toward Trump’s jackbooted bureaucracy while functionally giving it the green light to keep operating the American rendition program like it's a lost scene from Zero Dark Thirty. The court didn't just fail Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia; it institutionalized his erasure.
Let’s connect the dots that the article politely tiptoes around:
1. Executive Deference Has Become Fascist Code for ‘We Don’t Wanna’
The decision says: “We think it would be nice if the executive branch respected the law, but if they don’t… oh well.” That’s not a ruling. That’s an embossed invitation to autocracy.
2. Due Process Now Requires Vibes-Based Clearance
ICE’s justification for holding a man with no criminal record in a foreign torture prison is that… someone somewhere has similar vibes to a gang member. It’s “pre-crime” from Minority Report if the script were written by your racist uncle and greenlit by Pam Bondi’s hair dye.
3. Thoughtcrime is Now Immigration Policy
In Khalil’s case, the State Department’s claim isn’t that he broke the law, but that his opinions are problematic for U.S. “foreign policy goals.” That's McCarthyism with a Green Card clause. You can love democracy all you want, but say the wrong thing and bam—you’re a national security threat.
4. Universities Are Getting Mugged in Silence
Hundreds of students have been disappeared from U.S. campuses and academia is mostly responding with… a few press releases and an amicus brief. Congratulations to Tufts and Columbia for finding their spines. The rest of you? You’re complicit. Your silence is not neutrality; it’s cowardice in tenure-track clothing.
This is what fascism looks like in the modern era, not tanks in the streets, but visas revoked by spreadsheet, academic dissidents locked in immigration jails, and courts that write strongly worded letters while the government burns the Constitution behind their backs.
We’re not “sliding” toward authoritarianism anymore. We’re here.
"the Attorney General’s got a vaguely racist gut feeling"
vaguely? . . . or is that the thermonuclear variety of "vaguely" ?
Columbia U didn't grovel sufficiently. Now the Gummint is going to take them over. Are you listening, other schools??
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/10/trump-columbia-consent-decree?CMP=share_btn_url
when will people learn . . . you can't make a deal with t'RUMP?
he will honor it only as long as he sees immediate benefit for himself . . . as soon as it no longer gives him something he wants he reneges . . . he doesn't wait for bad things to happen to him.
If nobody else is going to say it, I will.
That poor guy is dead.
He's dead like Otto Warmbier, and probably in very much the same way.
They're not dragging this out as a power struggle -- although that, too -- they're dragging this out because he's dead. The longer they drag this out, the more plausible deniability they will have, but he almost certainly "fell down a flight of stairs" a day after the suit was filed.
Sadly I think he is too. That’s why they are avoiding his return as much as possible. To know that our government is killing people and that SCOTUS is all but making that ok is truly horrific. They KNOW IT TOO. Silence is complicity.
I would hope that evidence of the government actually killing people, or getting them killed, would wake the populace up to the disaster that is currently unfolding. But I'm sure plenty of sicko MAGAts would be thrilled by news like that.
i fear you are right.
"...US policy to combat anti-Semitism around the world and in the United States..." I am shocked Rubio's written statement didn't self ignite with bolts of lightning shooting out from that page. When did that become US policy? Before or after Charlottesville?
Schools are signaling their complicity through their silence, so we have to rely on past editors of the student newspaper that published Ozturk's op-ed to speak out on her behalf: https://jonathanlarsen.substack.com/p/an-open-letter-from-tufts-daily-alumni