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Iran really is bullying us. Like when they blew up our top leadership, blockaded our ports, sank our navy and grounded our entire air force. Wait, I think that's what we did to them instead.

I figure that while Arab Palis would kill whomever and let Allah sort out who's who, Western antisemites pressuring Israel only hate Jews.

Jordan. Syria. Egypt.

There's a reason that NO Islamic shit hole will let "Palestinian refugees" within their borders. They've already put up with - past tense - all the crazy that they're going to.

Race Discrimination in Admissions Suit Against U Washington Can Go Forward

https://reason.com/volokh/2026/08/08/race-discrimination-in-admissions-suit-against-u-washington-can-go-forward/

From Zhong v. Univ. of Wash. Bd. of Regents, decided yesterday by Judge James Robart (W.D. Wash.):

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This civil rights action arises from the University's rejection of Stanley's application to enroll in its undergraduate computer science program in Fall 2023. Plaintiffs assert that "Defendants have engaged in systemic racial discrimination against Asian American applicants" by requiring them "to meet higher standards of academic and extracurricular achievement than applicants of other races." …

Plaintiffs represent that Stanley is a resident of California and a highly qualified applicant for undergraduate admission. Specifically, Plaintiffs allege that Stanley was among the top students academically at his high school, scored well on standardized college admissions exams, and "took on leadership roles in a variety of academic and volunteer organizations." Stanley is a "self-taught programmer" who earned "top honors in some of the world's most competitive coding contests[.]" ... When Stanley was 13 years old, Google offered him a full-time software engineer interview before learning that he was ineligible for employment based on his age. Just before his 18th birthday, Stanley successfully re-applied for a software engineering position at Google. When Plaintiffs filed suit, Stanley worked for Google as a software engineer. ... …
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The court concludes that Stanley has plausibly alleged racial discrimination in the
University's admissions process…. Here, the [School of Computer Science & Engineering] DEIA Plan describes a plan to "[m]easure the percentage of domestic Black, Hispanic, and American Indian/ Alaska Native, Hawaiian/Pacific Islander undergraduates and, by year 5, evaluate whether the percentage is at least 15% (the UW-Seattle average)." Similarly, the [School's] BPC [Departmental Broadening Participation in Computing] Plan states that one of its six "'stretch goals' for the next 5 years" is to "ncrease the percentage of domestic BHN [Black, Hispanic, Native] undergraduates to the UW-Seattle average[.]"

These documents, taken together, plausibly support Stanley's claims. In sum, viewing the complaint and incorporated documents and all reasonable inferences therefrom in the light most favorable to Stanley, the court concludes that he has sufficiently alleged that race is considered as a factor in the University's admissions process to achieve racial balancing.

While this ruling bodes ill for U Washington, it "merely" allows the lawsuit to go to trial. It does not decide the case. If U Washington is wise, they will settle, so as to avoid the potential for a lot of embarrassment in discovery. I would not accuse academia of being wise.

BTW, Stanley Zhong's high school is one of the top high schools in the US. Zhong was rejected because of his ethnicity, not his qualifications (which are off any existing chart).

1. Checking my calendar ........ it's summer, when teachers, profs, educrats, and other school employees are "unemployed". But for these and other miscellaneous government employees moved/moving on - remember that 57,000? - there would have been a jobs increase.

2. Remember how LIEden's jobs numbers always got readjustedcorrected downwards, sometimes more than once? Trump's readjustments follow no pattern, sometimes downwards, sometimes upwards. Come next month, there's at least a 50-50 chance that 23K loss will become a ##K gain.

ETA:

THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING GOVERNMENT

I wish you could go to the DUmp and make a thread about this...

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2026/08/the-incredible-shrinking-government.php

BLS reports, https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t17.htm , break down their stats by sectors. BLS is the source of the 53K government jobs loss data, not some MAGA's rectum. More to the point, the Trump-Hater meme creator knew this and lied by omission, concealing the facts that manufacturing, services, and service-industry jobs all increased, and the 23K "job loss" was more than entirely in government jobs.

I wish you could go to the DUmp and post that

1. Checking my calendar ........ it's summer, when teachers, profs, educrats, and other school employees are "unemployed". But for these and other miscellaneous government employees moved/moving on - remember that 57,000? - there would have been a jobs increase.

2. Remember how LIEden's jobs numbers always got readjusted/corrected downwards, sometimes more than once? Trump's readjustments follow no pattern, sometimes downwards, sometimes upwards. Come next month, there's at least a 50-50 chance that 23K loss will become a ##K gain.

ETA:

THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING GOVERNMENT

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2026/08/the-incredible-shrinking-government.php

John mentioned the July  jobs report yesterday, which showed a net reduction of 23,000 jobs, driven by a monthly 53,000 loss in  government jobs at all levels. The bulk of that reduction came in the category of local government, namely public schools. Overall employment at the federal level also dropped slightly in July.
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Digging into the numbers, overall employment at the federal and state government levels and with local public schools, are all down for the past year. That means hundreds of thousands of workers are now available for more productive pursuits. The number of federal workers has dropped by almost 11 percent since last July.

BLS reports, https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t17.htm , break down their stats by sectors. BLS is the source of the 53K government jobs loss data, not some MAGA's rectum. More to the point, the Trump-Hater meme creator knew this and lied by omission, concealing the facts that manufacturing, services, and service-industry jobs all increased, and the 23K "job loss" was more than entirely in government jobs.

Fixed a typo