DEFUND HIGHER EDUCATION! July Fourth poll: College spoils patriotism in high schoolers.

‘MURICA: Record-Setting Gun Sales Could Leave Stores Dry.

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH! MSNBC Promotes Homophobic Blogger to Replace Misogynist Creep.

WORST. POLITICAL CLASS. EVER. US Intelligence Says Leak Of Russian Bounty Story Was ‘A Crime,’ Jeopardized Investigation.

THE BURIED LEDE IN THIS WSJ STORY IS THAT COLLEGES ARE EXPLICITLY BASING TUITION ON RACE: How to Get a Big Break on the Cost of College: Just Ask: The pandemic has accelerated a yearslong shift in financial power toward families, away from schools. Key bit:

The task is to determine who has more leverage, the school or student, said Nathan Mueller, an enrollment-management consultant with EAB, a firm in Washington, D.C. When one client, a midsize Catholic college, raised its sticker price 4% for the 2019-20 year, he used an algorithm weighing 253 characteristics—such as gender, race, parental income, addresses, frequency of contact with recruiters—among students admitted there the prior school year to determine what it should charge each new applicant.

Based on his calculations, the school offered a $31,000 discount to a female Asian-American from a well-off Wisconsin family with a grade-point average of 3.96. It offered a $27,914 discount to a female Hispanic from a low-income Oregon family with a 3.22 GPA. The first accepted; the second declined.

This seems likely to be illegal to me, and I hope the Department of Education, and the Department of Justice, will investigate.

IF YOU CAN DO YOUR JOB REMOTELY IT’S PROBABLY ALSO EASIER FOR YOUR EMPLOYER TO OUTSOURCE IT: Stanford research provides a snapshot of a new working-from-home economy. “We see an incredible 42 percent of the U.S. labor force now working from home full-time. About another 33 percent are not working – a testament to the savage impact of the lockdown recession. And the remaining 26 percent – mostly essential service workers – are working on their business premises. So, by sheer numbers, the U.S. is a working-from-home economy. Almost twice as many employees are working from home as at work. More strikingly, if we consider the contribution to U.S. gross domestic product based on their earnings, this enlarged group of work-from-home employees now accounts for more than two-thirds of U.S. economic activity.”

GOOD: Trump Admin Vows to Secure Permanent U.N. Arms Embargo on Iran.

WHO COULD HAVE SEEN THIS COMING? D.C. Black Lives Matter Protest Turns Anti-Semitic.

A CORONAVIRUS UPDATE FROM JOEL KOTKIN: Triumph of the Oligarchs: A new class of overlords are making their bid for world domination. “The Corona virus has trammeled the prospects of most Americans, particularly low-income workers. But for one small group, the pandemic has proved something like manna from heaven. Already ascendant beforehand, the tech oligarchy—a relatively small number of companies, venture, and private equity funds—are riding the current crisis to unprecedented dominion over our ever-weakening Republic.”

UH-HUH: Antifa Rioters Threaten a ‘Rude Awakening’ for the ‘Pigs’ Who Finally Broke Up CHOP Antifastan.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, LEGAL EDUCATION EDITION: Is A Law School Meltdown Coming? “The health arguments against live instruction may be seriously overstated.”

“WE ARE WITNESSING AN INDUSTRY-WIDE NERVOUS BREAKDOWN:” New York Times compares America’s enduring caste system to India, Nazi Germany.

Related: ‘Y’all have lost your minds’: New York Times gets tossed in the shredder after reminding everybody why Mt. Rushmore is problematic.

They really did; I’m not sure why the Times’ Democratic Party operatives with bylines didn’t get the memo in time:

So will Alfred Hitchcock’s North By Northwest get memory holed ala Song of the South, or simply have a warning before it airs again on TCM about all those racist sculptures in the film’s climax? Best to get a physical copy to be on the safe side. As Sonny Bunch warns: Want to fight corporate censorship? Buy physical media.

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Seen on Facebook:

UPDATE (From Ed): Have the talking points gone out Journolist-style, or is this simply socialist groupthink? MSNBC Dubs Mount Rushmore as a ‘Racist’ ‘Symbol of White Supremacy.’

(Updated and bumped.)

THIS SHOULD BE A LEARNING EXPERIENCE FOR EVERYONE: Pitchfork-wielding protesters descend on wealthy Hamptons estates.

PLAY STUPID GAMES, WIN STUPID PRIZES:

don't play stupid games with this woman pic.twitter.com/lzrNyLA8g6

— Jessica Fletcher (@heckyessica) July 1, 2020

AT AMAZON, summer savings in Automotive.

ONCE YOU DECIDE THAT SOME THINGS, LIKE APPROVED POLITICAL PROTESTS, JUSTIFY IGNORING QUARANTINE RULES, YOU OPEN IT UP FOR AN ARGUMENT ABOUT WHAT ELSE QUALIFIES: ‘Bar Lives Matter’ Protesters Descend on Texas Capitol to Oppose Closures.

I WOULD HAVE PREFERRED A BIGGER EXTINGUISHER:

i’ll be watching this on repeat for the rest of my life pic.twitter.com/6rVfB4vaks

— Jessica Fletcher (@heckyessica) July 2, 2020

THIS SHOULD BE FUN: D.C. Sued Over “Black Lives Matter” Painted on City Street.

TRAINWRECK A-COMIN’:

UPDATE: From the comments: “The New York Times sits on land owned by the Lenape people who were swindled out of it for $24. The Lenape had no idea how much the land was worth or how the Europeans intended to change it. New York Times, Give the land back!!!”

Yes! The NYT should give its building to the Lenape tribe survivors as reparations!

GRANDMA-KILLER CUOMO DIDN’T REQUIRE THIS OF THE NURSING HOMES WHERE HE SENT CORONAVIRUS-INFECTED PATIENTS: NY malls can’t open without air conditioning systems that filter the coronavirus, Gov. Cuomo says.

MY FRIEND TINA COOK HAS A PETITION TO STOP THE RENAMING OF JOHN WAYNE AIRPORT IN ORANGE COUNTY. In case any of you want to sign.

OPEN THREAD: Transmit the message, to the receiver. Hope for an answer someday.