THEY TOLD ME IT WAS JUST A PURGE OF CONFEDERATE GENERALS: UNH Law School Faculty Votes To Drop Franklin Pierce Name. “Not all faculty are in agreement. Dean Megan Carpenter says that of 25 full-time law school faculty, twelve supported the resolution, six voted against it, one abstained, and six didn’t vote.”

OUCH: Boeing’s Spaceship Still Really, Really Sucks.

In an announcement, NASA outlined a whopping 80 recommendations for Boeing to fix its astronaut shuttle. It’s the final assessment of the agency’s investigation that followed a botched December test flight that almost ended in disaster.

The news comes after Boeing was found in February to have failed to conduct an “end-to-end” test of its Starliner spacecraft prior to the December test flight. At the time, Boeing was under the belief that it would have been “more logical to break the mission phases into chunks and do a lot of testing in those smaller chunks,” according to Starliner program manager John Mulholland.

The recommendations released this week include overhauls to the communications hardware, several updates to the spacecraft’s software, and changes to safety reporting structures.

That’s a lot to fix before the Starliner’s next test launch this fall.

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Related: What Boeing is doing instead of building spaceships and aircraft that work.

TYPICAL OF THE DE BLASIO EDUCATION APPROACH: New York’s school decision a slap in the face to parents.

WUHAN, CITY OF SILENCE: Looking for answers in the place where coronavirus started.

ROSS IZARD: Kids won big in school choice ruling. “Last week, the Supreme Court of the United States issued a landmark ruling invalidating the use of state constitutional “Blaine Amendments” to bar faith-based schools from participating in K-12 scholarship programs. That ruling removes the largest legal impediment to private school choice in three dozen states and throws open the doors of opportunity for millions of students nationwide.”

Read the whole thing, which focuses on a yearslong legal battle over schooling here in Colorado.

Parents, I’d add, seem more than ready to take advantage of the new opportunities.

YES: We Need More Statues and Ways to Interact With History, Not Less.

QUESTIONS YOU’RE NOT SUPPOSED TO ASK: Why is painting over a BLM sign a hate crime but these 5 vicious assaults are not? The Ruling Class has its favorites, and is unwilling to be constrained by fairness or the rule of law.

IT WOULD COST A LOT MORE THAN THAT TO GET RID OF ME: University Paid $504,000 to Get Rid of Professor. This is longtime UNC-Wilmington gadfly Mike Adams:

Sartarelli, in a note to the campus, said he had three choices. “1) Have him continue as a faculty member and accept the ongoing disruption to our educational mission, the hurt and anger in the UNCW community, and the damage to the institution. 2) Attempt to terminate him, and face drawn out, very costly litigation, that we might not win, which was the case when Dr. Adams sued UNCW and won a First Amendment retaliation lawsuit in 2014. That legal process lasted 7 years and cost the university roughly $700,000, $615,000 of which was for Dr. Adams’ attorneys’ fees. Losing a similar lawsuit today could cost even more. 3) Negotiate a settlement when, as part of a conversation with me about his conduct and future at UNCW, I learned Dr. Adams was interested in retiring. This approach allows us to resolve the situation quickly, with certainty, and in the most fiscally responsible way. This is the best option for our university and our community.”

The news story I read when it happened made me suspect that they bought him out. If I were him, I’d now hire a forensic accountant and start filing FOIA requests regarding the university’s finances. This buyout doesn’t look big enough to have included a non-disparagement clause . . .

MARK LEVIN: Maybe We Should Use the Left’s Defunding Strategy.

SEGREGATION NOW, SEGREGATION TOMORROW, SEGREGATION FOREVER! Seattle held ‘segregated’ training session on ‘undoing whiteness,’ encouraged staffers to forfeit ‘guaranteed physical safety.’ It all makes sense when you realize that the words in the headline were originally spoken by a Democrat.

OPEN THREAD: Same as it ever was.

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Marquette University threatened to rescind student’s admission over pro-Trump TikTok video.

Why is leftism a cesspit of intolerance and oikophobia?

MISTER, WE COULD USE A MAN LIKE PAUL KERSEY AGAIN: NYPD limits retirement applications amid 400 percent surge this week.

Earlier: New York City Proves You Don’t Have to Defund the Police, You Can Just Demoralize Them.

(Classical allusion in headline.)

SPACE: NASA mission to weird metal asteroid Psyche remains on track for 2022 launch.

I’M DRIVING A STOLEN CAR, DOWN ON ELDRIDGE AVENUE. EACH NIGHT I WAIT TO GET CAUGHT, BUT I NEVER DO: Oregon man driving stolen car crashes into woman driving another stolen car.

SUE ME, SUE YOU BLUES: The Band Lady A (The Artists Formerly Known as Lady Antebellum) Files Lawsuit Against Singer Anita ‘Lady A’ White. “‘Today we are sad to share that our sincere hope to join together with Anita White in unity and common purpose has ended,’ the group said in a statement. ‘She and her team have demanded a $10 million payment, so reluctantly we have come to the conclusion that we need to ask a court to affirm our right to continue to use the name Lady A, a trademark we have held for many years.’”

UNEXPECTEDLY: District attorney who filed hate crime charges for painting over Black Lives Matter mural was backed by billionaire George Soros.

Earlier: “A left-wing criminal justice advocacy group with ties to George Soros is targeting nearly 500 prosecutor and sheriff elections across America in 2019 to install leftist local officials who will be soft on crime and refuse to cooperate with U.S. immigration enforcement.”

UNEXPECTEDLY: 400% surge in NY police retirement applications this week.

NOW OUT FROM KURT SCHLICHTER: The 21 Biggest Lies about Donald Trump (and you!) (Bumped).

YOU GET A SORELIAN MYTH! AND YOU GET A SORELIAN MYTH! AND YOU GET A SORELIAN MYTH! Amid Deadly Riots, Oprah Signs on to Adapt Anti-American ‘1619 Project.’

(Classical reference in headline.)

THINK OF THE PRESS AS A PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE OPERATION AIMED AT NORMAL AMERICANS AND YOU WON’T GO FAR WRONG: Mollie Hemingway: Media Straight Out Lying In Attempt To Take Out Trump And Republicans.

WHY ARE NFL PLAYERS SILENT ON DESEAN JACKSON?

In early June, Drew Brees of the New Orleans Saints refused to take a knee because he didn’t want to insult the flag. Black NFL players lined up to denounce him.

‘Ignorant,’ said his black teammate Emmanuel Sanders.

‘Drew’s words were extremely painful to hear,’ another black Saint, Malcolm Jenkins said, ‘and I hope he rectifies them with real action.’

‘If you don’t speak about racism, then you’re a part of the problem,’ said A.J. Brown of the Tennessee Titans.

A month later, in early July, DeSean Jackson of the Philadelphia Eagles posted on Instagram an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory attributed to the noted sports fan Adolf Hitler. None of Jackson’s NFL peers, black or white, has said a word. Colin Kaepernick, who is usually so vocal about racism, has been uncharacteristically silent. The New York Times, usually so quick to denounce imaginary offenses against the speech-code mania of the day, said nothing at all. The leaders of Black Lives Matter didn’t order their minions to add this outburst of racism to their to-do list either.

Related: Shannon Sharpe Doesn’t Condemn Louis Farrakhan In Discussion With Co-Host Skip Bayless.

BLACK ACTIVISTS IN MINNEAPOLIS DO NOT WANT TO DEFUND THE POLICE: “‘It is time to stand up in this city, it is time to tell the city council that utopia is a bunch of B.S. We are not in Mayberry RFD, we are in the wild wild west. And it is time for some answers,’ Clemons said.”