ANTISOCIAL MEDIA: Facebook bans academics who researched ad transparency and misinformation on Facebook. “Laura Edelson, an NYU researcher involved in the project, and whose personal account was banned by Facebook, says the company wants to end independent scrutiny of its platform.”

RALPH NORTHAM AND BILL CLINTON SMILE: Why Should Cuomo Resign? Democrats Almost Always Get Away With Their Misdeeds.

FASTER, PLEASE: After 60 years, scientists find the missing link in our body’s blood pressure control.

JUST THINK OF THE MEDIA AS DEMOCRATIC PARTY OPERATIVES WITH BYLINES, AND IT ALL MAKES SENSE: Journalism Groups Won’t Condemn NSA ‘Unmasking’ of Tucker Carlson.

BRAVE SIR ROBIN BRAVELY TURNED AND FLED: Obama Scales Back Superspreader Birthday Bash After Criticism.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: WSJ: Law School Loses Luster As Debts Mount And Salaries Stagnate.

Recent graduates of the University of Miami School of Law who used federal loans borrowed a median of $163,000. Two years later, half were earning $59,000 or less. That’s the biggest gap between debt and earnings among the top 100 law schools as ranked by U.S. News & World Report, a Wall Street Journal analysis of federal data found.

Graduates from a host of other well-regarded law schools routinely leave with six-figure student loans, then fail to find high-paying jobs as lawyers, according to the Journal’s analysis of the latest federal data on earnings, for students who graduated in 2015 and 2016.

When Miami students asked for financial assistance, some graduates told the Journal, school officials often offered this solution: Take more loans.

“I had no work experience, life experience, anything like that before I signed on to this quarter-million-dollar loan,” said Dylan Boigris, a 2016 Miami Law graduate, who began his career making about $45,000 as a public defender. “I thought I would come out making much more than I did.”

A law professor at the university, Anthony Alfieri, said law schools “foster this kind of cruel optimism” in students, letting them think six-figure salaries are attainable, when in reality, those high-paying jobs are largely reserved for students at only the top-ranked law schools. “Law schools encourage a kind of magical thinking in order to keep the lights on,” he said. …

Federal data suggest the value of a law degree from nonelite schools has diminished. Salaries haven’t kept pace with inflation over the past 20 years. Meanwhile, tuitions have soared. A three-year juris doctor program, including living expenses, now can cost more than $250,000 at private law schools.

Graduates who finished law school in 2019 earned a median $72,500 the following year, according to the National Association for Law Placement. That is about the same as graduates who finished school a decade earlier earned soon after graduating. …

Just 15% of recent University of Miami Law graduates had begun repaying their student loans after two years—the lowest rate among law schools at elite private research universities, as defined by categories the Education Department uses.

And yet applications overall are still up.

Related: The Wall Street Journal Have An Axe To Grind Against Law Schools? I think the WSJ is right on the long term trend, but the short-term trend is bucking it at the moment.

A CYNIC MIGHT THING CHINA WAS RELYING ON THIS “GREEN” PUSH TO WEAKEN ITS RIVALS: China Doubles Down On Coal Despite Global Push To Go Green.

GREAT. SO WHEN WILL THEY FINALLY ACTIVATE MY BETA SERVICE? Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite internet boosts its subscriber base by nearly 30% in a single month, nearing the 100,000-user milestone.

VINDICATION? McCloskeys pardoned as Gardner twists in scandals.

21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Failing to Cope With His Fiancee’s Death, This Canadian Writer Brought Her Back as an AI Chatbot.

I’VE OFTEN THOUGHT OF THEM AS THE EMO KIDS OF HERBIVOROUS GRAZING ANIMALS: Study: Giraffes are socially complex, misunderstood.

SIR, DOES THIS MEAN THAT PEARL JAM IS NOT COMING? Obama scraps big birthday bash and scales back party after backlash, virus concerns: Report.

(Classical allusion in headline.)

JOHN WAYNE: The Forgotten History of “The Duke.”

WWDD?* GOP Governors Must Stand Up to the Medical Authoritarianism of Biden Administration.

*What Would DeSantis Do?

ONLY A FOOL WOULD BE SURPRISED BY THIS: Rapid tapering of opioid pain drugs poses serious risks to users, study finds.

WHEN YOU’RE A DEMOCRAT SO NASTY THAT BLM TURNS ON YOU: BLM Group Defends Lindsey Graham, Calls For Resignation Of Democratic Party Official.

“Regardless of political affiliation the disregard for human life is unacceptable and should not be tolerated anywhere within any political party,” the group said. “How can we trust someone with such blatant disregard for human life with the will of RI voters?”

I guess they’re saying that all lives matter here.

THE “MISINFORMATION” CENSORSHIP POLICE ARE SO OFTEN MISINFORMED THEMSELVES: Twitter unlocks JTN reporter’s account after CDC said his COVID vaccine tweet was correct.

Reporter Greg Piper tweeted “Vaccines are not safe for everyone.”

The post also linked to a report by the higher education news website the College Fix detailing Brigham Young University’s refusal to grant an exception to its vaccine mandate for a student with a potentially complicating medical condition.

Piper’s appended remark is backed up by CDC guidance, which stipulates that “some people should not get certain vaccines or should wait before getting them.”

Piper pointed out to Just the News that “every mandate has a medical exemption.”

Twitter doesn’t know enough to be a competent censor, but they don’t really care so much about getting things right as about reinforcing the preferred narrative and protecting it from challenge.

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BUSINESS CULTURE REVOLUTION: China’s biggest private companies are in chaos. It’s all part of Beijing’s plan.

The end goal of Beijing’s aggressive bid for control isn’t about creating chaos. The government wants to make clear to its corporate champions that tapping capitalist markets is fine — as long as it is on the ruling Chinese Communist Party’s terms.

The heavy selling has accelerated in recent months as Chinese authorities slap companies with fines, ban apps from stores and demand that some firms completely overhaul their businesses.

Hundreds of billions of dollars in market value has been erased in the last week alone, after regulators announced curbs on China’s for-profit education industry and its food delivery sector.

The way Beijing sees it, the efforts to rein in private enterprise are meant to protect the economy and the country’s citizens from instability. They’re also intended to fix longstanding concerns around overwork, data privacy and inequality in education.

“Ultimately, Beijing’s crackdown on private business is about control,” said Alex Capri, a research fellow at the Hinrich Foundation.

It always is.

“Too much” success in the private sector is a threat to the CCP, but crushing it is no way to maintain a dynamic, innovative economy. Still, it’s no surprise that Xi prefers maintaining or increasing Communist power over modernity.

REP. CORI BUSH’S DISTURBING, CHILDISH ATTEMPT TO SILENCE DEBATE: “I don’t feel bad for [Bush, D-MO.] She is using emotional stunts to push for the imposition of a flagrantly unconstitutional assault on property rights that’s bankrupting working-class landlords—and then accusing anyone who disagrees with her of ‘policy violence.'”

PORTUGAL IS NICE THIS TIME OF YEAR: It is indeed, especially if you happen to be two of those Texas statehouse Democrats who fled to Washington D.C. to prevent the Republican majority from passing election reforms. Like the man said, there’s just no cure for stupid.

FINALLY: U.S. Wrestling Olympic Gold Winner Tamyra Mensah-Stock Loves Being An American (Video).

And on the flip-side: ESPN Writer Wonders Why People Don’t Like Megan Rapinoe and I Have Thoughts.

“I’ll never know?” The epistemic closure is strong in this one. Barnes is free to concur with Rapinoe’s woke beliefs, but as a journalist, it’s her job to investigate why people disagree with them.