A coward is on boards and loses a thousand clients, but the brave do client on-boarding but once.
Found it in Texas Transportation Code 204. If you're under 18 and not in school (and didn't get your diploma or GED already), proof of being enrolled in a GED prep program can substitute.
Home school also counts as school.
I wouldn't worry so much that a big law firm that settles with Trump isn't going to fight for its clients. I'd worry that they're dopes, since they're trading their livestock for a handful of beans that they should know are not magic.
Speaking of beans, I got $270 in compensation for damages Trump did to the price of soy beans. Which does not cover the loss and I'm going to donate it to someone anyway.
Some news I enjoyed recently was the pathetic former University of Michigan president failing to become the pathetic University of Florida president, but only after debasing himself for the MAGA movement.
Yeah, that was pretty funny. Except for Florida people who want a good education while paying in-state tuition.
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I know it's too early for a detour, but this is the right thread to note that the US Supreme Court decided several cases today. Mostly about procedural things, but that will have some real consequences in a number of cases.
I've only read the syllabi so far. There's one I just don't get: the question is whether you have to have minimum contacts to bring a case against a foreign governmental entity. OK, yes, the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act doesn't say anything about minimum contacts, so I guess not. But come on, International Shoe is constitutional, not statutory. Oh wait, the Court didn't decide the constitutional question because it wasn't dealt with below. Maybe Justice Alito has provided some sort of reasoned explanation for focusing on the elephant's tail, and not its torso. Or maybe they decided to let the case spend a couple more years on remand before it comes back with the real question properly presented.
The religion case looks pretty interesting. Sotomayor for the court, Jackson and Thomas separately concurring.
My guess is that the discrimination case will be the one that breaks through to the public. The result seems pretty obvious, but will probably result in more "reverse" discrimination suits.
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The Thomas concurrence in the religion case is about an issue that the Court did not need to reach: when it's appropriate to pierce the veils of separately incorporated entities of a Catholic diocese. I haven't read it -- but why stop at a diocese? Why not pierce all the way to the Pope? Or would you need minimum contacts?
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Just skimming, but Thomas seems to want the government to respect an ecclesiastical "sphere of authority"??
6: Also in this vein, the Trump/Musk rift is actually looking like a real thing. Narcissistic assholes have trouble collaborating over the long term, I guess.
But these two grifters are such natural allies that I'm actually a little surprised. Elon may have become an even bigger fuckup than Trump.
TSLA stock is taking a hit today.
12.3: Very gratifying. Seems likely more because of sales drops reported yesterday in China & Europe though.
CCarp, you always have a free pass to drop Supreme Court decision analysis in any thread. OR just send in a guest post, y'know.
If I had been asked before reading this post, I would have assumed that undocumented students never qualified for in-state tuition in Texas.
I see #3 as going a different way. Columbia says, screw you, we don't need accreditation. Utah, NC, Texas, etc., who are already making noise about not wanting accreditation because of woke or DEI or whatever acronym says 'seeee?' Floodgates open, college accreditation becomes completely meaningless, because we'll accredit a 'Utah bachelor's' that won't mean anything to anyone out of state.
7: wait, what? his Florida job fell through?
Anyway, yes Florida rejected him. I assume DeSantis was the issue, but I don't know.
his Florida job fell through?
He was considered too woke, on account of all the DEI.
That's because you're a Michigan alum.
He debased himself in various public statements post-Michigan but apparently misjudged the degree to which Florida requires debasement. Some Florida politicians must also have misjudged because he was apparently the only candidate selected, and usually you don't do that if you expect one candidate to fail.
It wouldn't be so funny if he had principles and stuck to them, like if he'd already been there and then been fired for refusing to cave.
It really is fascinating the way that Stephen Miller, and Stephen Miller alone, has never had a break with Trump. I guess it's still only like 10 years, so he still has time (see Cohen, Michael).
There must be some circumstances in which there's a hard rule about requiring accreditation? But I don't actually know what they are. Like does the GI bill require you to be accredited? Pell?
OK, Tesla's drop at the start of the day may have been about the sales, but now it's definitely that he and Trump are going off on each other. It's like Christmas.
12 etc seq yes indeed. Who had June in the prediction thread?
Classic root for injuries type situation
There is so much potential for mutual destruction and I hope they do all of it.
33: Musk is now posting old MSNBC video of Trump and Epstein. If Musk has the pee tape, we're going to see it.
(I hadn't been following this today. This has spun delightfully out of control.)
I'd feel better about it all if Elon hadn't already uploaded all the government's personal data on us to his own private Dropbox account.
And if they took down the Starlink shit he set up.
Well I was GOING to save this link from E. for tomorrow, but if we're already relishing the breakup, I guess I'll just drop it here:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/05/trump-elon-musk-fallout
Jammies, reading that link: Is churlish a real word?
me: yes, it means rude or petty. why?
Jammies: I thought it was making fun of southerners, like "in da clurb!" I thought they were trying to say "childish".
I'm laughing so hard.
Musk is apparently in Missoula. Rumored to be at that glamping place up the road.
And there's a rumor that Vance is coming this weekend. Don't these people know that they're supposed to go to Wyoming?
So much for the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.
One Russian agent and one Nazi. Checks out.
Went stargazing last weekend. There must have been three or four satellites visible all the time.
That's nothing. If you look closely, you can see at least eight stars.
DEVGRU currently closing in on Elon's position
I remember getting yelled at last year for suggesting that Trump could be both a bigger threat to _specific_ billionaires than Biden/Harris/basically anyone the Democrats would nominate, despite Democrats putting* a lower ceiling on how far billionaires in general can go.
*Or half-heartedly trying to put.
So, if Musk and JD Vance launch a coup against Trump, how do the side line up?
Obviously Peter Theil is going with Musk/Vance, and probably most of the other billionaires. Bezos would go, and take the Washington Post with him.
Zuckerberg, I think might well side with Trump. And probably the evangelicals will be on his side. And House Speaker Churchy McGoo Mike Johnson and probably, what, 2/3 of congressional Republicans?
Military likely to stick with Trump. Musk/Vance gets Palentir. And space launch capability.
FOX News probably still the kingmaker, though.
Obvious move for Trump is to arrest Musk ASAP. Maybe they could plant some drugs on him or something.
50 In December, I was pretty sure that Musk would have Thiel, and whoever in the cabinet was answerable to SV. Unfortunately, he's shown himself to be a drug addled liar. His standing might be low enough that he couldn't get anyone. Where is Vlad in all this?
It would be pretty rich if DOGE cancelled some Musk contracts.
I continue to presume that more than one acolyte of Thiel has a full dossier of 25th Amendment material.
Doesn't Thiel already have experience doing a coup against Musk in the business world?
I don't want to get in the way of the schadenfreude in this thread, but the Texas case is really disturbing to me as a non-lawyer. Here's the order of events:
1. Republican state legislature in Texas DECLINES to overturn 20-year-old law allowing undocumented students to pay in-state tuition.
2. US DOJ files suit almost immediately at the end of the legislative session to challenge the law.
3. The Texas AG near-instantaneously says he won't oppose the lawsuit.
4. Six HOURS after the original DOJ filing, a judge halts the program.
I realize that state AGs of all stripes sometimes decline to defend state laws for various reasons, but this seems like a really concerning situation to me. How is this not some kind of illegal collusion between US DOJ and TX AG?
https://x.com/gtconway3d/status/1930779050626412568?s=46&t=nbIfRG4OrIZbaPkDOwkgxQ
Steve Bannon agrees with me on arresting Musk.
First comment in the Prediction thread. lw is so close!
Guess the date of the Musk-Trump rupture. I say May.
http://www.unfogged.com/archives/comments_18803.html
So is this good for science or bad for science? I attribute a lot of the differences between the two Trump terms to Musk, but maybe that's wrong and it's the Project 2025 people.
I don't think either of them actually support science.
"Dr Strangelove" is prophetic because it predicts that a major war will start because someone leaks lies about WMD to the New York Times, and the New York Times is gullible enough to print them.
The war starts, at the end of the film, because
a nuclear explosion (the bomb dropped by Slim Pickens and the "Leper Colony") is detected by the Doomsday Device, which
was only built in the first place, as the Soviet ambassador admits, because
the Soviet government was afraid of a Doomsday Gap because
it believed (falsely) that the US was building its own Doomsday Device because
"our source was the New York Times."
And it's explicit in the film that the US is not, in fact, building its own Doomsday Device - Dr Strangelove tells the president that they looked into it and decided not to, and there's no suggestion that he's lying. Which suggests that as far back as 1962 the New York Times was seen as a paper that habitually printed leaked bullshit.
The Department of Education sent a warning to the accreditor of Columbia University on Wednesday, saying the Ivy League institution violated federal anti-discrimination laws.
Should Columbia respond that this letter must be forged, since Trump signed an Executive Order eliminating the Department of Education?
There had better not be any auto-pen hanky-panky going on.
There will be no autopen at the autogolpe.
Update to OP.1: Damian Williams, SDNY US Attorney 2021-24, who prosecuted Menendez & indicted Adams, has quit Paul Weiss (which knuckled under) & joined Jenner & Block (which didn't).
66: wearily tapping the sign once more that says YOU GUYS IT MIGHT NOT BE AN ENTIRELY BRILLIANT IDEA TO GIVE LAW ENFORCEMENT POWERS TO UNACCOUNTABLE ACADEMIC BUREAUCRATS WHO HAVE NO REQUIREMENT TO FOLLOW DUE PROCESS