HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Yale women’s studies professor: Gay white men are symbols of heterosexuality.

Cost of attending Yale College: $72,775.

SARAH HOYT: We Don’t Have a Problem with White Supremacy. We Have a Problem with Leftist Supremacy.

BLUE-STATE CALIFORNIA NOW HARASSING JOURNALISTS:

Let’s assume, hypothetically, that an independent journalist working in Washington somehow obtained a confidential FBI report on the death of a prominent Trump administration official that described its lurid circumstances, including the presence of a woman not his wife and the use of illegal drugs that caused, or at least contributed to, his demise.

Let’s also assume that the Justice Department responded to the disclosure by raiding the journalist’s home and confiscating computers and other tools of his trade, hoping to learn who leaked the report.

Democratic politicians and civil libertarians would erupt in outrage at a heavy-handed government act intended to discourage journalists from delving into areas that officialdom considered off-limits.

So where is that outrage about the San Francisco Police Department’s May 10 assault on journalist Bryan Carmody, who had obtained a police report about the death of San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi under exactly those unbecoming circumstances?

Just think of the media as Democratic Party operatives with bylines, and their silence makes perfect sense.

ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: Democrat Rep. Steve Cohen Questions Nancy Pelosi’s Patriotism Over Impeachment and We’re Here for It. “Is this one of those ‘inject this into my veins’ moments? I think it is.”

WHEN YOU’RE A DEMOCRAT WHO’S LOST POLITIFACT: Did Kamala Harris flip-flop on independent probes of police shootings? “We rate Harris’ new position a Full Flop.”

IT’S THE DEMOGRAPHY, STUPID: Is U.S. fertility at an all-time low? It depends.

In any case, Cory Booker’s proposed ‘Office of Reproductive Freedom’ should finish things off.

(Classical reference in headline.)

WIKILEAKS FOUNDER JULIAN ASSANGE INDICTED ON 18 COUNTS OF CONSPIRACY.

FASTER, PLEASE: The Army is getting its first full brigade of souped-up Abrams tanks sooner than expected.

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YOUR DAILY TREACHER: Equality Between the Sexes Means Counting the Number of Lines Women Say in Movies and TV.

PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS: Rahm Emanuel, Bailout Critic.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Uncontrollable Orgasms Are A Problem You DON’T Want To Have.

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: When the Authorities Tell You to Dissent.

Naturally, I was pleased and even proud to have been accepted into the University of Melbourne’s 2017 Master of Journalism program. I believed, without really thinking about it, that I was in for a challenging year and a half at a school far more rigorous than the one from which I received my baccalaureate. (The University of Oklahoma consistently lands somewhere in the 400s on the Times Higher Education index.)

Of course, I was aware of the complaints directed at Australian universities—that the integrity of their curricula had gradually been compromised to appease social justice activists. Ubiquitous Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson expresses these concerns somewhat apocalyptically:

You may not realize it, but you are currently funding some dangerous people. They are indoctrinating young minds throughout the West with their resentment-ridden ideology… They produce the mobs that violently shut down campus speakers, the language police who enshrine into law use of fabricated gender pronouns and the deans whose livelihoods depend on madly rooting out discrimination where little or none exists… And now we rack up education-related debt, not so that our children learn to think critically, write clearly or speak properly, but so they can model their mentors’ destructive agenda.

It’s natural that these denunciations should sound wildly hyperbolic—a bit like Joseph McCarthy’s claim that there were 81 Communists lurking in the State Department. Who but a political cultist would be willing to believe something like that without seeing it for himself?

He did. Read the whole thing.

MEMORY HOLED: Michael Avenatti conspicuously missing from CNN’s homepage.

Evergreen:

Related: CNN Continues Its Death Spiral as Ratings Collapse in Epic Fashion.

REPAIR OF ICONIC ’60S ERA SYNTHESIZER TURNS INTO LONG, STRANGE TRIP FOR ENGINEER:

For years, an urban legend circulated online and in documentaries purporting how part of a groundbreaking musical instrument — versions which are stored at a Bay Area university and other institutions — was dipped in LSD.

Online chatter detailed how musicians who used the instrument would wet their finger, touch the device, and then lick their finger to get a little bit of mind-expanding inspiration.

Now this supposed myth may turn out to be a reality.

Read the whole thing.

21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS, GLOBAL BABY BUST EDITION: Is U.S. fertility at an all-time low? Two of three measures point to yes.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: The Burger Joint Everyone Is Talking About In Your State.

THAT’S DIFFERENT BECAUSE SHUT UP:

FREEDOM OF THE SEAS: China Enraged After US Sails Two Destroyers Through Taiwan Strait.

Any nation opposed to free passage in open waters ought not engage in maritime trade.

WELL, GOOD — NOW PICK UP THE TRASH: LA Mayor Garcetti Not Apologizing for Supporting U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem.

(Depressingly modern reference in the headline.)

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Building vs. Buying an AR-15.

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HEH: McConnell Campaign’s ‘Cocaine Mitch’ T-Shirts Raise over $70,000, Mostly From New Donors.