CIVIL RIGHTS: Department of Ed threatens Pitt’s funding for demoting professor who said affirmative action harms students.

IT’S THE ULTIMATE PUNK ROCK MOVE. Sex Pistols singer John Lydon: ‘Of course I’m voting for Trump.’

ANALYSIS: TRUE. The Ivy League Is Decadent And Depraved.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: UC Boulder prof on Trump: ‘I just want him to die.’

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BOB DOLE WEIGHS IN ON THE “NONPARTISAN” COMMISSION ON PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES:

One legacy of the Trump era is that just about every single “nonpartisan” institution has turned out to be politicized and corrupt.

Related: Roger L. Simon: The Presidential Debate Commission Should Resign Now. “It’s an open question whether the Commission on Presidential Debates should be abolished altogether or completely reconstituted, but it’s clear now that the current members should resign immediately.”

ONCE, I WOULD HAVE CARED: Wonder Woman Director Patty Jenkins Fears Theater Shutdown May Kill the Industry.

PAUL BEDARD: Charge: It’s a 2-point race, not 16, pro-Biden media polls trying to suppress Trump vote.

To be fair, they’re also trying to make cover for Democrats’ election-stealing efforts.

IS THIS THE ULTIMATE IN TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME? Keith Olberman has again left ESPN to do Far-Left political commentary, only this time he’s also applying for Chief Commissar for Ideological Purity in the coming Harris-Biden USA of CHAZ. Here’s his first criminal referral:

“So, let us brace ourselves. The task is two-fold: the terrorist Trump must be defeated, must be destroyed, must be devoured at the ballot box, and then he, and his enablers, and his supporters, and his collaborators, and the Mike Lees and the William Barrs, and Sean Hannitys, and the Mike Pences, and the Rudy Gullianis and the Kyle Rittenhouses and the Amy Coney Barretts must be prosecuted and convicted and removed from our society while we try to rebuild it and to rebuild the world Trump has destroyed by turning it over to a virus.”

ANTIFA WILL EXPLOIT YELP’S NEW “RACISM” WARNING:

However, should Yelp flag itself about its own racism? Newsweek notes Republicans are pouncing! Yelp Racist Behavior Alert Decried by Conservatives over Fears It Will Destroy Businesses:

Director Robby Starbuck added: “So Yelp if we accuse you of racism will you mark your own site as being accused of racism?

“This idiotic policy will be weaponized. It’ll destroy families and their businesses which will hurt their kids. Will Yelp get a ‘you’ve been accused of hurting kids’ badge?”

Other social media users pointed out that Yelp’s office in Phoenix was the subject of racism allegations last month.

The link in the above Newsweek article goes to a September 19th USA Today article that now redirects to the regularly updated USA Today latest news page. However, it’s still in the Google cache for now, and is headlined, “At Yelp’s Phoenix office, some insiders say a ‘boy’s club’ atmosphere fueled racism, sexism, and a hard-partying culture — on top of regular verbal abuse from customers:”

One of Yelp’s Black employees says she was getting tired of the racist abuse hurled at her while working.

As a member of the company’s inbound sales team, she was responsible for handling angry businesses that were listed on the online directory service, trying to sell them advertising even as they called in to complain.

“I was getting called the n-word every day defending the algorithm,” she recalled, along with sexist and homophobic slurs. When she let her manager know, she was given sympathy, but little in the way of material support. The manager told her “don’t let your last call affect your next call” — and sent her a BuzzFeed article of puppies dressed up in costumes.

Such verbal abuse from aggrieved customers was commonplace for the employees in Yelp’s Phoenix, Arizona office who dealt with them, as was Yelp’s failure to offer affected employees meaningful assistance, some employees say.

But, according to some current and former employees from Yelp’s sales team, most based in Phoenix, it wasn’t the only problematic conduct that many employees had to face.

Business Insider spoke to nine current or former employees of Yelp, who described a workplace that at times featured racist comments, inappropriate conduct, bacchanalian parties, a clique-y atmosphere, failures of trust in management, and drug use in the office. (Sources were granted anonymity as they weren’t authorized to discuss their experiences.)

Yelp’s Phoenix office housed much of the local sales team, which is the largest team but also tends to be younger and less experienced — and away from senior management in San Francisco. One source from another of Yelp’s sales teams said they felt much of the problematic conduct would not be accepted elsewhere in the company.

Obviously, there’s only one way for Yelp to atone — flag itself as racist under its new system:

The Blaze rounds up additional reaction from conservatives:

“Didn’t think this one through, did you? You are going to be buried under lawsuits you’ll never recover from, rightfully so,” said Amber Smith, former deputy assistant to the Secretary of Defense.

Harmeet K. Dhillon, lawyer and founder of the Center For American Liberty, said Yelp is “weaponizing defamation,” adding, “More work for me, more litigation for you.”

As Robert Conquest’s Third Law of Politics states, “The simplest way to explain the behavior of any bureaucratic organization is to assume that it is controlled by a cabal of its enemies.”

NORTH CAROLINA’S DEMOCRATIC SEX SCANDAL: Are There More Women? Cal Cunningham Won’t Say: Scandal-plagued Democrat repeatedly dodges question at ‘news’ conference.

NANCY PELOSI FLIRTS WITH INVOKING 25TH AMENDMENT, SPECULATION IMMEDIATELY JUMPS TO PREPARATION TO INSTALL KAMALA HARRIS, SHOULD BIDEN WIN.

COLLUSION: Putin Says He Wants to Work With Biden, Claims ‘Shared Values’ Between Democrats and Communism.

GET WOKE, GO BROKE: San Francisco tax revenue plunge points to resident exodus.

FATHERS ARE THE FORGOTTEN KEY TO SOCIAL WELFARE: Dr. Patrick Fagan of Marripedia cites multiple data-driven studies during the Trump era that demonstrate the crucial importance of fathers being present and genuinely involved with their kids. But you would never know that from how federal social welfare programs are focused.

HEH: Teachers Unions Promise School Will Resume As Soon As The Teachers Are Done Campaigning For Biden.

BIDEN-TRUMP PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE IN MIAMI OFFICIALLY CANCELED:

At this stage, the third Trump-Biden contest in Nashville on Oct. 22 is still going ahead.

The Trump campaign later issued a statement on the cancelation.

“There is no medical reason to stop the Oct. 15 debate in Miami from proceeding as scheduled, since the President will be healthy and ready to debate. There is also no reason there shouldn’t be the three total presidential debates as Joe Biden had originally agreed. We have suggested using Oct. 22 and Oct. 29 to hold the final two debates. It’s time for the biased commission to stop protecting Biden and preventing voters from hearing from the two candidates for president,” said Tim Murtaugh, Trump 2020 communications director.

And earlier, The Post reported that as many as 175 medical doctors from across the nation have written to the commission saying an in-person debate would be safe as long as social distancing guidelines were followed by both Trump and Biden.

According to CNN, Trump is in talks to take part in a solo NBC town hall on the night of the cancelled Miami meet-up.

Prior to the announcement, Jim Treacher wrote: Debate Moderator Steve Scully Asks Anthony Scaramucci for Help With Trump, Debate Commission Claims He Was Hacked.

The Commission on Presidential Debates is investigating the dog’s feces for traces of the homework Steve Scully failed to turn in.

So now the journalists and other Democrats will circle the wagons and proclaim Scully is the finest and most evenhanded reporter who has ever lived. Anybody who scoffs will be branded a MAGA-head Trumper who’s not worth listening to anyway. And then they’ll wonder, for the millionth time, why so many Americans distrust and revile them.

How are our moral, ethical, and intellectual betters in the press supposed to give us the truth if we keep busting them for lying?

I‘m honestly surprised to see C-Span going the Joy Reid/Anderson Cooper/Anthony Weiner route as a modified limited hangout. It will likely work in the short-term, but it won’t do much for their reputation. Scully hasn’t helped matters by apparently first deleting his Twitter account, and then protecting his tweets:

Incidentally, yesterday’s incident is at least the third time Scully has claimed his account was “hacked.”

Perhaps it’s best for all concerned to: Retire the Commission on Presidential Debates. “Two-hundred-and-thirty-three. That is the combined age of the three co-chairs of the Commission on Presidential Debates, an organization which has become embroiled in several eyebrow-raising incidents in the past three elections. (Candy Crowley anyone?) The debates haven’t revealed much this election season. Trump is being Trump and Biden is allowed to skate by without answering questions. In fact, the most consequential revelation has been how ill-equipped the Commission for Presidential Debates is for the moment, and for the future. The Commission finds itself as the focal point of the debates, thanks to their choices of moderators and their on-the-fly rule changes.”

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SYSTEMIC RACISM: Data Reveal How Yale Discriminates Based on Race.

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