Not Surprising. Just disgusted.
The Trump White House Is Tackling America’s Most Urgent Crisis: Upwardly Mobile Black People
Finally, this administration has identified a form of “disparate impact” it finds objectionable.
Law & Politics
Department of Justice
By Madiba K. Dennie June 12, 2026
For decades, the Supreme Court, Congress, and the White House all recognized that seemingly neutral policies can conceal unlawful discrimination, and victims of that discrimination still have a right to redress—even if the people behind the policies didn’t say the quiet part out loud.
In 1971, for instance, the Court unanimously recognized that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act prohibits not only overtly discriminatory job requirements, but also those that are “fair in form, but discriminatory in operation.” Congress reaffirmed that understanding in 1991 when it amended Title VII and explicitly empowered people to prove that an employment practice (like hiring and firing decisions) is unlawful by showing that the policy unnecessarily and disproportionately harms people based on a protected characteristic like race or sex. The executive agency charged with enforcing Title VII, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, has long incorporated disparate impact liability into its work.
On June 4, however, the EEOC updated its National Enforcement Plan to “eliminate the use of disparate impact liability theories” in its investigations and lawsuits. And on June 9, the Office of Legal Counsel, an arm of the Department of Justice that provides legal advice to the administration, published an opinion declaring that EEOC’s Title VII guidelines are unconstitutional.
The opinion declares that a given employer’s employment practices are “presumptively job-related,” and calls on the EEOC to require more “robust” and “demanding” proof from plaintiffs claiming otherwise. At the same time, the opinion directs the EEOC to set an “appropriately low threshold” for employers to defend themselves against disparate impact claims. Basically, keeping an unfair policy should be very easy, and changing it should be very hard.
According to the OLC, the EEOC rules and guidelines for implementing disparate impact liability need “updating” so that they focus on intentional discriminatory motivations, in order to “resolve the tension” between civil rights laws and “our colorblind Constitution.” To support that proposition, the OLC quoted the Supreme Court’s April decision in Louisiana v. Callais, which killed off the Voting Rights Act, and the Court’s order last week forcing Alabama to use an intentionally racist congressional map in the upcoming midterm elections.
The Trump administration has long recognized that the discriminatory power of the Supreme Court’s legal reasoning in cases like Callais can apply beyond polling places. In September 2025, for instance, the National Credit Union Association removed disparate impact liability from its “Fair Lending Guide,” making it easier for banks to get away with illegal redlining. In December 2025, the DOJ eliminated disparate impact liability from its regulations enforcing Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, giving law enforcement agencies that receive federal funding more leeway to harm people of color without consequence.
Encouraged by recent Supreme Court precedents, the administration is now taking even bigger swings. In May 2026, the Office of Management and Budget published a 430-page proposal for overhauling the regulation of federal funding awards from all federal agencies, including a prohibition on the use of federal awards to “promote or support disparate-impact liability.”
The OMB proposal defines disparate impact liability as a theory under which policies that are not explicitly discriminatory nonetheless give rise to “an automatic or near-insurmountable presumption of the existence of unlawful discrimination.” According to OMB, disparate impact liability “effectively mandates” discrimination and “incentivizes racial balancing.” The OLC made the same claims in its EEOC opinion this week, warning that disparate impact gives employers a “strong incentive to adopt racial quotas” to avoid liability for “racial disparities they did not create.”
Time and again, across agencies, the Trump administration insists that racial disparities caused by policies that do not explicitly mention race are the natural and correct result of a system working as it should. It regularly denigrates disparate impact liability as overly concerned with equality of outcomes rather than equality of opportunity. And it demands that facially neutral policies be left alone, lest statistical disparities become an excuse for racial engineering.
With one exception: Last week, the Department of Justice announced that it opened 15 new investigations into potential racial discrimination in medical school admissions. If the government’s previous investigations are at all representative, the policies these schools use are facially neutral: They account for socioeconomic status, for example, and call for a holistic review of applicants’ life experiences. But they do not require race-based decisionmaking or impose some kind of quota system.
These policies nonetheless aroused the administration’s suspicion, and the DOJ’s latest investigations provide a clue as to why. In a press release on Wednesday, it denounced University of California, Davis School of Medicine for its “contempt for the rule of law” and disregard for “the potential public health consequences of putting race over merit, skill, and competence.” The government’s primary evidence? That in 2024, Davis “became the third most racially diverse medical school in the country, behind only historically black universities.” In other words, there are too many Black people outside of the space specifically designated for Black people, so somebody must be breaking the law.
The Trump administration smears disparate impact liability as racial balancing and works to prevent its use as a legal theory when it may result in Black people getting jobs or mortgages. But it encourages actual racial balancing when a student body is not as white as Trump thinks it should be. This is not a real theory of law. This is just bigotry wearing the law’s trappings, privileging the groups Trump likes and harming the ones he does not.
Chasing that YT Adjacency
Chasing that YT Adjacency
Pew Research Center
@pewresearch.org
Follow
57% of Latino #Trump voters say that what happens to Latinos in the U.S. doesn’t affect what happens to them.
By contrast, 75% of Latino #Harris voters say it affects what happens in their own lives a great deal or a fair amount.
https://bsky.app/profile/pewresearch.org/post/3mqp3rxtdry2b
Democratic Wins Media
@DemocraticWins
BREAKING: Democrat Faye Thomas just won her race for Mayor of Abbeville, South Carolina by a stunning 37-point landslide. Abbeville is a town that voted for Donald Trump in 2024. A blue tsunami is inbound.
https://x.com/DemocraticWins/status/2077191074481648084
RIP :(
The Swamp Wytch
@theswampwytch.bsky.social
Another Ancestor has been gained. My Godmother,
@deniseoliver-velez.bsky.social
Denise passed away peacefully at home, surrounded by her husband, godchildren, & friends. Thank you for the outpouring of support and love.
https://bsky.app/profile/theswampwytch.bsky.social/post/3mqpemqihuk2p
FOH!!!
“Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday announced a new effort to annually screen service members’ testosterone levels and offer testosterone replacement therapy, framing it as a way to keep troops on the ‘leading edge of lethality.’” NewsNation reports.
“The screening, added as part of war fighters’ periodic health assessment, will affect troops age 30 and older, though those under 30 can voluntarily choose to get the test.”
Aaron Rupar
@atrupar.com
OSSOFF: Who won the 2020 election?
CLAYTON: Uhm, you know, I’m not going to do this with you
O: This is a job interview. You have an obligation to be honest with the committee. Who won the 2020 election?
C: I’m not gonna get into that with you
O: You’re not being honest or forthright
C: …
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mqp24kjgcv2r
Joe Biden
@JoeBiden
I’ve written a book about my time as President. It’s called PROMISE ME, AMERICA. It’s coming out November 17th and is available for preorder now.
promisemeamerica.com
@littlebrown
https://x.com/JoeBiden/status/2077350082702123105
Marco Foster
@MarcoFoster_
Hunter Biden on Trump: “I would tell him to go fuck his fucking self. And please leave. This man has tried to torture me for fucking ten years. The shit that he says about my dad. His obsession with tormenting my dad. Hanging a picture of an autopen on the colonnade. Demeaning him and all the things he said about him. What the fuck kind of man would I be if I didn’t tell him to go fuck himself?”
https://x.com/MarcoFoster_/status/2077355291578876010
Cincinnatus🏗️🚊🏙️🇺🇦
@Cincinnatus56
Haley Stevens is providing a template for how to deal with a progressive as a moderate. Stop apologizing. Stop letting your staffers bully you into adopting unpopular positions. Stop pulling punches because you’re afraid of what twitter will say.
1:50 AM · Jul 15, 2026
https://x.com/Cincinnatus56/status/2077209119048798699
Aaron Rupar
@atrupar
😳 this is not going well for Clayton AT ALL
OSSOFF: Are you aware that Director Gabbard was present at the Fulton County raid earlier this year?
CLAYTON: …
OSSOFF: What is going on here?
CLAYTON: … …
OSSOFF: Are you aware that members of this committee are probing Gabbard’s potential misconduct in this matter?
CLAYTON: …. Uh uh ….
COTTON: Senator Ossoff your time is expired!
https://x.com/atrupar/status/2077416379322339640
Derek Thompson
@DKThomp
Some polling numbers
1. Mamdani beat Cuomo by 24 points among college voters and lost non-college by 22; a 46 point education divide
2. El-Sayed leads by 7 among college in this poll, down 22 among non-college; 29 point divide
3. Platner led by 37 points among Maine college voters in NYT polling, but was down 23 to Collins among non-college; 60 point divide (*general election, not primary numbers)
A lot of interpretive places to go with this. One is that—for now!—it seems the populist left revolution is creating a kind of leftwing party-within-the-party that might accentuate the benefits and costs of Democrats over-performance among college grads rather than fix it.
https://x.com/DKThomp/status/2077405911245619225
Joyce Alene
@JoyceWhiteVance
Sen Blackburn complains that during the Biden admin, she couldn’t subpoena Epstein files.
The difference? DOJ was involved in ongoing prosecution/appeals of Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell & the records could not be released until her appeal was finalized.
It’s disingenuous, at best.
2:58 PM · Jul 15, 2026
https://x.com/JoyceWhiteVance/status/2077407426861555848
Democracy Docket
@DemocracyDocket
During his confirmation hearing to be the next director of national intelligence, Jay Clayton was asked a simple question: Who won the 2020 election?
The DOJ official refused to answer.
His election fraud rhetoric also reached California when he endorsed false conspiracies about its elections.
https://x.com/DemocracyDocket/status/2077415894523736280
Acyn
@Acyn
Blanche: it’s absolutely false to suggest that this DOJ is not executing as we should in doing the right thing every single day.
Whitehouse: I will tell you that you are wrong, that in the history of the department, this kind of criticism by federal judges is unprecedented. And it comes from judges of every different political persuasion.
https://x.com/Acyn/status/2077406519491227671
no lie told
Tim
@trouble_man90
Black people are the most progressive voting group in the entire country. There’s not a single group of people that vote to the left of us.
5:29 AM · Jul 15, 2026
https://x.com/trouble_man90/status/2077264339665330311
Headquarters
@HQNewsNow
Sen. @maziehirono: Trump’s Justice Department has sued 30 states seeking their voter lists. 14 of those lawsuits have been resolved by judges. Did any of those 14 judges from across the country agree with the DOJ’s position?
Acting AG Todd Blanche: The answer to the question is yes
Hirono: That’s not correct. The answer is no.
https://x.com/HQNewsNow/status/2077430780565897695
ICAM
Tiff4Mahogany_44 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 NATO MEMBER
@tiff4mahogany
Hasan is the real deal. He doesn’t like annoying things like elections.
He’s using the Democratic Party to spread his pro communist pro authoritarian message.
No serious Democratic candidate should ever be reaching out to him.
https://x.com/tiff4mahogany/status/2077403153247379897
Acyn
@Acyn
Whitehouse: You have refused to exclude January 6th rioters from your anti weaponization fund. You have refused to put in writing that the slush fund is dead. Indeed, you signal to allies that payouts are still on track.
You have vacated seditious conspiracy convictions against members of the proud boys and oath keepers. You hired January 6th rioter Jared Weiss. You scrubbed press releases about January 6th prosecutions and called the releases partisan propaganda.
You denied that trump encouraged any violence on January 6th. You’ve cleaned house of every attorney who worked on a case related to Trump, and you bragged that bringing justice for violent rioters meant that every one of them was either pardoned or had their sentence commuted. I hope that our colleagues who are
concerned about what happened on January 6th, take that into account.
Blanche: Everything he just said was absolutely false. He had the absolute right to pardon anybody for any reason he sees fit. I am not celebrating that. It is a fact
https://x.com/Acyn/status/2077407628138107373
Rachel Bitecofer 🗽🦆
@RachelBitecofer
Q: Is the public going to learn the identities of the men who abused the girls in the Epstein files?
Attorney General Nominee Todd Blanche: Like, what does that mean? I don’t understand what that means.
https://x.com/RachelBitecofer/status/2077411074463404310
The visuals in this video are INSANE!!
THEE.ENTIRE.PHUCK.!!!!
Oh Canaduh
@CanaduhOh
CN train crew casually rolling through literal HELL in Northern Ontario and handling it in the most Canadian way possible: “that’s a meat and a half eh?”
https://x.com/CanaduhOh/status/2077285351731957952
It’s all part of a scam. Get a foot in the door by using this miniscule group, and then expand it further to the general EX-PAT community. It’s the GOP Playbook, over and over again. Never -resident are more than likely the children born overseas to EX-PATS.
They want to separate those overseas voters from the Military Voters. UOCAVA voting (the Federal Name for it), currently has Military and Overseas Voters grouped together. The rules for one apply for the other.
Democracy Docket
@DemocracyDocket
Republicans are increasingly targeting so-called “never-resident” overseas voters — U.S. citizens born and living abroad who vote through a family connection to a state.
Are you one of these voters? We’d love to talk for a story.
Email rivas@democracydocket.com for more details. bit.ly/4vOv5cC
https://x.com/DemocracyDocket/status/2076992621700890700
heyduke john
@HeydukeJohn
Replying to @DemocracyDocket
“Never resided” voters account for an extremely small fraction of the nationwide voting public—well under 0.01% of all cast ballots.
11:50 AM · Jul 14, 2026
https://x.com/HeydukeJohn/status/2076997798092742679
Barb McQuade
@BarbMcQuade
Michigan voters deserve answers for delay in opening Gordie Howe Bridge. We already had a sweetheart deal with Canada. Why are we negotiating a new one? Political donation to Trump PAC by private owner of rival bridge has created appearance of corruption.
apnews.com/article/canada…
https://x.com/BarbMcQuade/status/2076733220067103152
Citizens for Ethics
@CREWcrew
Companies that can afford to make millions in donations to the president’s pet projects are rewarded with support, access and influence.
That is textbook corruption: citizensforethics.org/reports-invest…
https://x.com/CREWcrew/status/2076985236563366023
Not that I’m against this theory, but, I believe it’s directly connected to the lack of qualified migrant farm laborers because they have been scooped up by ICE.
Lyn🦋
@_ayandamay
My theory is that clean water is being prioritized for data centers, while farms are being irrigated with “dirty water” and that this is what led to the Cyclospora outbreak.
10:53 PM · Jul 13, 2026
https://x.com/_ayandamay/status/2076802154107449389
Because, of course…
Bloomberg Law
Bloomberg
@BLaw
Google LLC’s Nest cameras collect the biometric data of Americans without their consent, according to a class privacy suit filed Thursday in federal court.
https://x.com/BLaw/status/2075376994687111361
absolutely love this
IG: olesoul57.2 ♉️ 5/12
@olesoul57_2
Timeline Cleanse:
Credit: IG/theveritasschools
ATL AIRPORT TAKEOVER by the Veritas parents to welcome home our Harvard debate champions!!! Now this is how you celebrate a historic 8th win!!! 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
Veritas scholars spent the last 2 weeks studying and competing alongside gifted scholars from across the globe at Harvard.
Of the 9 cohorts Veritas has sent to Harvard in the past 9 years, 8 of them have returned home to Atlanta victorious!
https://x.com/olesoul57_2/status/2076468310460244387
Barb McQuade
@BarbMcQuade
Court has found what we knew all along. Blanche’s “settlement” with Trump providing tax immunity was illegal self-dealing. Trump barred from using it and lawyers sanctioned. Great to see a court call out the corruption.
nytimes.com/interactive/20… via @nytimes
https://x.com/BarbMcQuade/status/2076792969319915744
Marc²
@M5squared
Heck, this ruling may go down in history, as having saved our Constitutional Republic.
“This was an attempt to use the Court to provide some legitimacy to an agreement to confer immunity to people and entities affiliated with the President and to earmark billions of dollars from American taxpayers to redress grievances not defined in the law.”
-Judge Williams
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
https://x.com/M5squared/status/2076729343217135923
UH HUH
UH HUH
Marc²
@M5squared
Blanche kinda f’d up. He signed the separate Release Order himself, granting Trump, his family, companies and affiliates sweeping immunity.
The Court said that unilateral act helped prove both sides shared a single interest and were never genuinely adverse, because so-called Trump’s attorneys didnt sign that doc, only Blanche, evincing that they were one and the same.
O-M-G what a dumb move….
https://x.com/M5squared/status/2076798941849321833
The Tennessee Holler
@TheTNHoller
“We do not have the government we deserve… they treat workers like they’re expendable…”
@tnequality & @tnaflcio on Tennessee being DEAD LAST in quality of life under @GovBillLee & the Republican supermajority per CNBC — “weaknesses: crime, inclusiveness, worker protections”
FULL: wkrn.com/news/tennessee…
https://x.com/TheTNHoller/status/2077007068792238086
TRUTH
King Roy
@RoyIsThaTruth
Let’s be real here … only reason why they trying to lower the value of degrees is because the PERCENTAGE of black people locking in and getting them has sky rocketed ! Keep getting them degrees , those certificates ! Keep yall heads up ! Dont let nobody talk you out of anything .
1:13 AM · Jul 14, 2026
https://x.com/RoyIsThaTruth/status/2076837461888586055
Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦
@AdamKinzinger
What’s sad to me… is that Lindsay Graham probably thought he could outlast Trump and then reconcile his morality after that. There is no after that now.
4:10 PM · Jul 13, 2026
Joe Walsh
@WalshFreedom
Smart insight here by my friend @AdamKinzinger. I’ve had former Republican colleagues tell me privately over the yrs exactly this…that when Trump is gone they’ll get back to how they were before Trump. And my response was always – “Do you actually understand what you’re saying?”
https://x.com/WalshFreedom/status/2076706934099751342
Democratic Tweeter
@WileELiberal
Trump filed his IRS lawsuit in the Southern District of Florida hoping for more lightning in a bottle with an assignment of Judge Aileen Cannon… instead he got Judge Kathleen Williams, who just handed him – and his lawyers – their asses – & justifiably so.
Hero:
https://x.com/WileELiberal/status/2076741424779829380
LongTime🤓FirstTime👨💻
@LongTimeHistory
Police Deputy Commissioner assaults Black woman—for observing him on public sidewalk.
Hits her so forcefully—she goes flying backwards several feet.
Woman hit the ground hard—but he just walks away without checking on her.
Attacker was Deputy Commissioner Craig Macy of Buffalo Police Department.
The Chief of Police issued a statement saying the video was “concerning” and needed “review.”
All of the officers involved are still on the job—not placed on administrative leave.
Incident occurred in the entertainment district on Chippewa Street in downtown Buffalo, New York.
Reese doesn’t have an account on this platform—so posting first full length and credited video here to help raise awareness.
https://x.com/LongTimeHistory/status/2076988326549057907
Brian Krassenstein
KrassenCast
@krassenstein
FACTS:
Raphael Warnock (D) defeated Kelly Loeffler (R) by approximately 93,000 votes in 2020.
Jon Ossoff (D) defeated David Perdue (R) by approximately 55,000 votes in 2020
The governor and Secretary of State in Georgia were both Republicans at the time.
10:56 PM · Jul 13, 2026
https://x.com/krassenstein/status/2076802925670682669
Agent ATL
@Major_Atl
Replying to @DapperDomo
In 1860, when you could own slaves Mississippi was the 5th wealthiest state in America.
After 1865, when you could no longer own slaves Mississippi was the poorest state in America.
That’s how valuable Black Slaves were; Black Americans need to recognize their own value.
7:09 AM · Jul 14, 2026
https://x.com/Major_Atl/status/2076927032877867017
Reverend Raphael Warnock
@ReverendWarnock
Donald Trump is at war with our democracy and Georgia is ground zero.
But this is John Lewis’ Georgia. We are not intimidated. We are not moved.
Mr. President, instead of attacking our democracy, why don’t you do something about the high cost of gas, housing, and health care?
2:05 AM · Jul 14, 2026
https://x.com/ReverendWarnock/status/2076850436124930051
Christopher Webb
@cwebbonline
Rachel Maddow’s description of Juan Sebastian Guerrero killed by ICE in Maine is something you need to see.
She explains what happened without being graphic, and somehow that makes it even more powerful.
Remember Alex, Pretti, and Renée? There have been no prosecutions. Still no justice.
We know how this goes.
Watch it to the end.
https://x.com/cwebbonline/status/2076875713265750121
UH HUH
UH HUH
Richard W. Painter
@RWPUSA
Why did the @nytimes swoon over Morris Katz, rich kid turned political operative? Katz and other young trust fund socialists then snookered Maine voters into thinking Graham Platner (a lawyer’s son expelled from Hotchkiss) was “working class”.
https://x.com/RWPUSA/status/2076632595744366595
Kevin D. Grüssing 🪷 (Pronounced Grew-Sing)
@KevDGrussing
Joe Biden became President in 2020 largely because he was Obama’s VP.
He got the Black vote on that basis and Kamala only got at most half Black support because of that.
2028? Kamala will not have ANY major competitor for the Black vote.
https://x.com/KevDGrussing/status/2076985674276667393
Joyce Alene
@JoyceWhiteVance
Judge Williams is absolutely unstinting in her criticism of the government in the “original” slush fund case. This is the one Trump filed in Florida against the IRS, which I wrote about here if you want a refresher on the backstory: joycevance.substack.com/p/the-week-ahe…
https://x.com/JoyceWhiteVance/status/2076714489534136798
Joyce Alene
@JoyceWhiteVance
Judge Williams, in the original Trump v. IRS case orders the clerk of court to send her decision to the state bar committee investigating ethics allegations against Todd Blanche, even as he is sitting for a confirmation to be AG beginning tomorrow. Only Trump would keep a nominee like this in place. He’s found his Roy Cohn. joycevance.substack.com/p/judge-is-a-b…
https://x.com/JoyceWhiteVance/status/2077019541457043754
There is a reason why the song was called
Mississippi Goddamn
Don Salmon
@dijoni
Mississippi and Nolan Wells. Long before we had not to Germany we had Mississippi.. they murdered they tortured and kidnap Black people. They bombed churches schools business.. and covered it up. Mississippi it’s got to be one of the most racist and brutal sadistic state for Black people in America..
https://x.com/dijoni/status/2076977320364040259
Good Morning, Everyone😊😊😊