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The government claims it can deport former student visa holder Mahmoud Khalil as part of an order using the Civil Rights Act to combat antisemitism among universities that get government funding. But former student visa holder Elon Musk also gets government funding, and does more to support overt antisemitism than Khalil has been accused of.

Over and over, Trump 2.0 has taken aggressive steps based off bullshit, much of it coming from Elon or other far right propagandists. And over and over, Trump's top people keep creating problems for themselves as they try to adjust the (legal) narrative to match their evolving understanding of the facts. 

Compared to Columbia, Elon Musk has been downright solicitous of antisemitism. As a government contractor and platform for government speech, that should make Xitter and Musk himself liable for action under Trump's Executive Orders purporting to combat antisemitism.

In his response to Judge Dale Ho's questions about the scope of a judge's authority on a Rule 48(a) dismissal, Emil Bove engages in his own little Twitter Files game, presenting quotes from Danielle Sassoon and Hagan Scotten and making transparently false claims about what those quotes mean. And he does so while claiming their ethical decision to resign rather than do something unethical amounted to misconduct.

Rather than a dearth of pushback against Trump's fascism, as many overly focused on the State of the Union complained, there was instead a flood of it this week. You just had to know where to look.

What We are Quietly Losing in All the Tumult Last week the ghouls of DOGE came to gut NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) by firing all the probationary employees, because they were the easiest to fire. It was terrible, but…

Predictably, Sammy Alito misrepresented the posture of the Global Health challenge when dissenting from the mere lifting of a stay of a Temporary Restraining order. While he oozed contempt, he didn't mention the government's own contempt.

When Judge Dale Ho first asked Emil Bove to address amicus briefs submitted in Mayor Adams' case, he wasn't asking about the amicus briefs themselves. Rather, he was getting Bove to authenticate the letter he sent Danielle Sassoon.

A memo written by an Acting Assistant Administrator of Global Health at USAID puts Senators who were placated by Rubio's past public reassurances about life-saving aide on notice: They were lying to you. And while they were lying to you, food and medicine was spoiling and people were dying.