HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Law student faces discipline for saying ‘women have vaginas.’

I remember when higher education was advertised as promoting openness, tolerance, and critical thinking.

YOUR NEWS MEDIA INACTION: Israel Showed U.S. Officials ‘Smoking Gun’ Evidence of Hamas Operating in AP Building. “AP knew that Hamas was there. They just chose not to report it.”

SHE’S SO UNLIKABLE SHE COULDN’T WIN A SINGLE DELEGATE IN THE DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY, DESPITE ALL THE MEDIA GROOMING: Kamala’s historical unpopularity threatens the 2024 odds for Democrats.

HE ALSO GOT THOUSANDS OF ELDERLY PEOPLE NEEDLESSLY INFECTED AND KILLED: Governor Cuomo exempts faculty and staff from COVID vaccine mandate on public campuses. “College students at the State University of New York system and the City University of New York system will be required to receive a COVID vaccine in order to learn on campus, under a new directive from Governor Andrew Cuomo. However, the Democratic governor did not mandate the vaccine for faculty and staff, even though older people are more likely to die and suffer severe cases of COVID than generally younger college students.”

#JOURNALISM: The Media Hates You And Is Shocked When You Hate It Back.

GENTLEMEN, YOU CAN’T DISCUSS FACTS IN HERE — THIS IS THE ACADEMY! University Opens Investigation Into Student Who Stated Biological Fact.

BECAUSE LABELING IT TERRORISM WOULD REQUIRE THEM TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT: Jonathan Turley: Why the White House won’t define pipeline attack as terrorism.

Also, they’re reserving the “terrorism” label for their political opposition.

MORE GOOD READS FOR THE GOOD BOOK: Latest survey of the American Bible Society and the Barna Group finds millions more Americans are reading the Christian scriptures during the Pandemic than before.

Will be interesting what happens to the trend in the next year as the Pandemic restrictions go away, especially as the overall trend has been somewhat upward since a low point in 2011 of less than a majority of Americans saying they read the Bible in the past year more than a few times.

SKYNET AND THE BORG BOTH SMILE: Skyborg combat drone’s “brain” flies for the first time.

MICHAEL BARONE: British Labour’s problems could hurt US Democrats too.

NEVER UNDERSTIMATE JOE’S ABILITY TO F*CK THINGS UP: Texas Reports Zero Deaths 2 Months After Biden Called its Reopening Plan as ‘Neanderthal Thinking.’

I DUNNO, but it looks like BLUE HADES to me: New video from USS Omaha shows unknown aerial sphere vanishing into ocean.

Longtime InstaPundit readers have some idea of what’s going on.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Israel Could Use a Real American President Right Now. “The world certainly does seem to be unraveling during this time that the United States is going without a grown-up president, doesn’t it? I don’t know about all of you, but I thought it was super cool when Donald Trump was president and there was peace in the Middle East. We were enjoying those halcyon days mere months ago, but it seems like years.”

COLLUSION: In Unprecedented Move, LinkedIn Censors UK-Based China Critic.

REPORT: Jeffrey Epstein Gave Bill Gates Advice on How to End ‘Toxic’ Marriage, Sources Say.

CHANGE MORE OF THE SAME: Biden revokes Trump-era executive order on online censorship and Section 230. “Biden isn’t a fan of Section 230, either. In January 2020, then candidate Biden told the New York Times that Section 230 should be revoked due to the spread of misinformation. But the administration hasn’t taken any action on the subject, having other more pressing issues like the pandemic.”

HANNAH COX: Unions are bullying Democrats into giving them more power. “In case you haven’t heard, unions are on the outs. Since they can’t force people to join their ranks in 27 states, and since the Supreme Court ruled they can no longer compel nonmembers to pay dues, participation has fallen to an all-time low. Never one to take no for an answer, though, unions have turned to their old buddies in the Democratic National Committee for an assist. And boy, do the Democrats jump when the unions say jump!”

AT MCGILL UNIVERSITY, A BIG PROGRAM FROM the McGill chapter of the Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship on May 31, including Jordan Peterson, Barbara Kay, Gad Saad, and many others.

PEGGY NOONAN A YEAR AGO: Scenes From the Class Struggle in Lockdown.

There’s a class element in the public debate. It’s been there the whole time but it’s getting worse, and few in public life are acting as if they’re sensitive to it. Our news professionals the past three months have made plenty of room for medical and professionals warning of the illness. Good, we needed it, it was news. They are not now paying an equal degree of sympathetic attention to those living the economic story, such as the Dallas woman who pushed back, opened her hair salon, and was thrown in jail by a preening judge. He wanted an apology. She said she couldn’t apologize for trying to feed her family.

There is a class divide between those who are hard-line on lockdowns and those who are pushing back. We see the professionals on one side—those James Burnham called the managerial elite, and Michael Lind, in “The New Class War,” calls “the overclass”—and regular people on the other. The overclass are highly educated and exert outsize influence as managers and leaders of important institutions—hospitals, companies, statehouses. The normal people aren’t connected through professional or social lines to power structures, and they have regular jobs—service worker, small-business owner.

Since the pandemic began, the overclass has been in charge—scientists, doctors, political figures, consultants—calling the shots for the average people. But personally they have less skin in the game. The National Institutes of Health scientist won’t lose his livelihood over what’s happened. Neither will the midday anchor.

I’ve called this divide the protected versus the unprotected. There is an aspect of it that is not much discussed but bears on current arguments. How you have experienced life has a lot to do with how you experience the pandemic and its strictures.

In the past year, the overclass demonstrated its trademark blend of selfishness, incompetence, and sanctimony to an even greater degree than usual. And, as usual, paid no real price for doing so.

Related: Protests show two Americas — those who lost their jobs and those still getting paid.

Also, from a lefty source:

There’s a huge Covid class divide. The economy has not just bounded back for upper income Americans; it’s given them higher housing values and lower interest rates. Meanwhile, 12 million service industry workers are still out of work. Small businesses are struggling. The affluent see Covid as a health problem, while for the working class it’s about economic survival. And liberals are doing the same thing they did with Trump: Clothing their class privilege as science and facts and morality.

The politicians are even worse. Instead of coming up with a clean Covid bill, Democrats are now trying to pressure Biden into student loan forgiveness. Can you believe it? What kind of society thinks it’s ok to ask 12 million people who lost their jobs to Covid to foot the bill for the student loans of the top 40% of earners? Sure, maybe it will accidentally help someone in a food line who dropped out of college. But college-educated Americans are back at work. The Covid recession is over for them. Why are the Democrats designing legislation to help the people who need it least, in the belief that some of the benefits might trickle down to help those who need it most?

Oh, I think I know why.

THIS IS CNN: This CNN Contributor Hates Israel So Much, He Praises Hitler For Killing Jews. Yes, Really.

SALENA ZITO: In the land of Dunder Mifflin, a critical test for Republican progress.

SO, I HAVE IT ON GOOD AUTHORITY THAT THE MESS IN AMAZON LISTINGS IS NOT INTENTIONAL: It is still a mess and a lot of indies who depend on their income to eat have been hurt. I can’t help everyone (obviously) but I tried to mitigate the situation for some of my regulars and their friends.  We’re Gonna Need A Bigger Promo Post.

(Yes, it’s a little  long, but stick with it. It could be longer, but a couple of links failed and I couldn’t figure how to make it work. And as my husband reminded me, after two hours of entering links “you can’t hug every cat.” Still these are real people, affected by database issues, and the books sound interesting, and I’ve bought a couple. And will likely buy a couple more tomorrow.)

THE BABYLON BEE WITH NEWS YOU CAN USE: Eight Warning Signs You Might Be Sharing Office Space With Terrorists.

If the AP read the Bee, they could have saved themselves a deal of trouble….

(Oh, and I share my office with terrorists. They’re called cats.)

AH, 2021, NEVER QUIT THE INSANITY:  Pentagon Confirms Authenticity of Video Showing UFO Maneuvering Near U.S. Navy Ship.