Posts by Kim Browne
US: S&P 500, Nasdaq hit record closing highs amid trade negotiations, rate cut bets
[NEW YORK] Wall Street extended its rally on Friday (Jun 27), sending S&P 500 and Nasdaq to all-time closing highs as trade deal hopes fuelled investor risk appetite and economic data helped solidify expectations for rate cuts from the US Federal Reserve. Stocks pared gains after US President Donald Trump terminated trade negotiations with Canada…
Read MoreUVA President James Ryan Caved to MAGA—and They Forced Him Out Anyway
How do the Department of Justice, or the Department of Education, or Stephen Miller, or Donald Trump define DEI? They don’t. This allows them to ignore the true, subtle, essential nature of the actual efforts and lets a specter of anti-white, anti-male discrimination take over the public mind. DEI is whatever bigots fear it could…
Read MoreThe Supreme Court Just Gave Trump Three Victories in One Ruling
Trump’s third victory was over the separation of powers itself. Congress, which is controlled by Republicans loyal to him, is effectively moribund as a coequal branch of government. The White House has asserted the power to freeze congressionally appropriated spending for any reason or none at all, to dismantle and disband congressionally established agencies at…
Read MoreTrump Enters Meltdown Mode Over Iran for Pettiest Reason
Donald Trump erupted Friday after Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei declared victory over Israel. In a defiant video statement released Thursday, Khamenei said that the United States had been dealt a “severe slap” and that Israel would have been “completely destroyed” if the U.S. had not stepped into the conflict. Trump hit back the…
Read MoreTrump Makes It Easier to Deport Haitians After Claiming They Eat Pets
In a 6–3 ruling, the Supreme Court on Friday restricted lower courts’ nationwide pauses on Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order, though it did not rule on the merits of the order itself. Now, thanks to the court’s conservative supermajority, the undecidedly unconstitutional order may go into effect, in at least some states, come next month—a…
Read MoreTrump Throws Temper Tantrum, Launches New Trade War With Canada
In a 6–3 ruling, the Supreme Court on Friday restricted lower courts’ nationwide pauses on Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order, though it did not rule on the merits of the order itself. Now, thanks to the court’s conservative supermajority, the undecidedly unconstitutional order may go into effect, in at least some states, come next month—a…
Read MoreTrump’s Fury Over Iran Failings Just Got Worse. Take Note, Dems.
As of now, Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania is the only one of the body’s 45 Democrats (and the two independents who caucus with them) to explicitly declare opposition. “I would never want to restrict any future president, Republican or Democrat, to do this kind of military exercise,” Fetterman said Thursday. Fetterman also insisted he…
Read MoreRon DeSantis Sued Over Alligator Alcatraz
Two environmental nonprofit groups are suing to block Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s expedited plans to open “Alligator Alcatraz,” an ICE detention center in the middle of the Florida Everglades. A nonprofit called Friends of the Everglades, Inc. and another called the Center for Biological Diversity filed a lawsuit Friday alleging that construction on the…
Read MoreTrump A.G. Struggles to Explain New Birthright Citizenship Rules
In a 6–3 ruling, the Supreme Court on Friday restricted lower courts’ nationwide pauses on Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order, though it did not rule on the merits of the order itself. Now, thanks to the court’s conservative supermajority, the undecidedly unconstitutional order may go into effect, in at least some states, come next month—a…
Read MoreCalifornia Governor Hits Fox News With Defamation Suit Over Trump Call
Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” is so wildly unpopular that even Fox anchors have started bashing it. Fox Business host Liz Claman highlighted some particularly unfavorable polling during an interview with Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins Thursday afternoon. “These are all showing that few people favor this thing,” said Claman. A Fox News poll taken between…
Read MoreElena Kagan Torches Supreme Court’s Terrible Logic in Porn Ruling
Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan ripped the court’s majority decision Friday upholding age-verification requirements for pornography websites. In a scathing dissent joined by Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Kentanji Brown Jackson, Kagan accused the majority decision in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton of diluting First Amendment protections for sexually explicit speech. “The majority’s opinion concluding to…
Read MoreSotomayor Warns No One Is Safe After Birthright Citizenship Ruling
In dissenting opinions, Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson excoriated the Supreme Court’s Friday ruling on birthright citizenship, which restricts courts’ ability to keep the Trump White House from carrying out its lawless orders. At issue was whether lower courts can issue “nationwide injunctions” halting Trump’s anti–birthright citizenship order from being enforced against anyone,…
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