HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE! College works to fire tenured professor fighting to maintain rigorous math standards.

DON SURBER SURVEYS THE DISPATCH VERSUS BULWARK WARS.

RACIST GRIFT IS PROFITABLE: UMich paid Kendi $20k for a one-hour virtual event.

STICKER OF THE DAY: Anti-Biden: Stop Biden 5.5″x3.5″ Car Decal/Sticker. #CommissionEarned (Bumped)

OUR TRANSPORTATION SECRETARY IS LASER FOCUSED ON ENDING THE SUPPLY CHAIN CRISIS: Pete Buttigieg and 12 Other Biden Cabinet Officials to Attend U.N. Climate Summit as Supply Chain Crisis Continues.

Buttigieg is also “currently slated to appear on at least two Sunday shows — CNN’s State of the Union and NBC’s Meet the Press,” Jerry Dunleavy of the Washington Examiner tweets. 

IT’S ALL ABOUT THE NARRATIVE: Network blackout on ‘gender fluid’ rape claim in Loudoun school.

BILL AND MELINDA GATES WALK DAUGHTER JENNIFER DOWN THE AISLE FOR HER SECOND WEDDING CEREMONY AFTER SHE SECRETLY MARRIED NAYEL NASSAR YESTERDAY IN MUSLIM SERVICE: Father and daughter then dance to ‘Can You Feel The Love Tonight’ at $2M reception.

Microsoft heiress Jennifer Gates has married Nayel Nassar, 30, during a beautiful ceremony on Saturday afternoon at her home in Westchester, New York.

It was her second set of nuptials of the weekend having previously tied the knot with the Egyptian equestrian in a secret religious Muslim ceremony on Friday night, DailyMail.com has exclusively learned.

The private Muslim ceremony was held on Friday night in the garden of the family’s 142-acre estate in North Salem, New York where a much larger civil ceremony with 300 guests took place on Saturday afternoon.

The bride, wearing a custom Vera Wang gown, stepped out of her mansion flanked by nine bridesmaids dressed in evergreen, who all appeared to be smiling and laughing as they posed for pictures.

One of the bridesmaids was seen holding up Gates’ long veil as the group gathered for pictures with shades of autumn all around.

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An eighteen-wheel truck and vans hauled in equipment, while golf carts shuttled staff around the site and down the road to where another set of tents were erected to handle catering.

The police chief, fire chief and town officials stopped by to see the progress. Several cops were stationed alongside the property, along with private security officers who were on hand to protect VIP guests and keep traffic flowing.

Plus:

• Coldplay performed at the reception and Georgina Bloomberg is on the guest list of friends and family.
• An elaborate tent city was built over the last few days on Jennifer’s 142-acre estate in North Salem, New York.
• Workers scrambled Saturday morning to make everything perfect, debating over the proper climate setting.
• Curious passersby marveled at the vast scale of the preparations as workers raced to add finishing touches.

Related: Bill Gates: Climate change could be more devastating than Covid-19 pandemic—this is what the US must do to prepare.

To coin a couple of Insta-phrases, I’ll believe global warming is a crisis when the people who tell me it’s a crisis start to act like it’s a crisis themselves. And I don’t want to hear another word about Glenn Reynolds’ carbon footprint.

A CAMPAIGN TO MAKE BLUE CITIES SUCK MORE? OKAY, GEORGE. Soros Drops $1 Million on Anti-Police Effort in Austin.

GOODER AND HARDER: Walgreens is abandoning San Francisco because leftist policies created a shoplifting crisis.

CNN CONTRIBUTOR CALLS OUT NETWORK FOR ‘DISHONEST’ REPORTING OF JOE ROGAN’S IVERMECTIN PRESCRIPTION: CNN contributor Mary Katharine Ham sided with podcast host Joe Rogan stating it was wrong for CNN to call his Ivermectin prescription a “horse dewormer.”

THE POLICE WILL PROTECT YOU: Sir David Amess: MP murder suspect detained under Terrorism Act.

A man detained over the killing of MP Sir David Amess is Ali Harbi Ali, a 25-year-old Briton of Somali heritage, Whitehall officials have told the BBC.

Police said the man was being held at a London police station under the Terrorism Act 2000 and officers had until 22 October to question him.

The BBC understands Mr Ali was referred to the UK’s counter-terrorist Prevent scheme some years ago.

Yet another “known wolf.”

As Spiked’s Brendan O’Neill asks: Can we now have an honest discussion about Islamist terrorism?

CIA FORGETS PLASTIC EXPLOSIVES IN A WORKING LOUDON COUNTY SCHOOL BUS:

Whoops. The CIA accidentally left a “putty-type” battlefield explosive beneath the hood of a Loudon County, Virginia school bus after a training exercise last week, according to the agency. As a result, elementary and high school students spent two days riding the bus as the explosives bounced around under the hood. Hey, it’s not like “intelligence” is the organization’s middle name or anything.

The explosives had been buried in the school bus’s engine compartment as part of a training exercise for explosive-detecting dogs conducted at Briar Woods High School on March 21–24, CIA sources told theWashington Post. According to Loudon schools spokesperson Wayde Byard, some of the explosives fitted beneath the hood fell deeper into the engine than expected, becoming wedged between the hoses.

Earlier: Democrats/Media Deploy Same “Eliminationist Narrative” Against School Parents As They Did Against Tea Party.

Or as America’s Newspaper of Record notes: FBI Assures Nation They Will Get Back To Figuring Out Why That Guy Shot 400 People In Vegas After They’re Done Investigating Parent-Teacher Meetings.

TRUE: Michio Kaku: SpaceX Is Absolutely Destroying Blue Origin. I wish there were better competition here, but nope.

OPEN THREAD: I don’t feel like loving you today. But you know I will anyway.

WOEING: Starliner valve investigation continues to focus on moisture interaction with propellant.

THE PROMISE OF vagus nerve stimulation.

WELL, THEY WEREN’T AS CRAZY IN THE 19TH CENTURY: Say what you will about Karl Marx: He would’ve HATED AOC and the left.

WILLIAM SHATNER corrects the Duke of Cambridge about space flight.

Following Prince William’s comments about issues around current space flights, William Shatner responded to the royal’s concerns. The actor both justified his trip as well as to shut down what the Duke of Cambridge had to say.

“He’s a lovely, gentle, educated Englishman, but he’s got the wrong idea,” Shatner told Entertainment Tonight.

The star explained what he meant by noting that the “idea here is not to go, ‘Yeah, look at me. I’m in space.’” Instead, he said that “the prince is missing the point. The point is these are the baby steps to show people [that] it’s very practical. You can send somebody like me up into space.”

“We’ve got all the technology, the rockets, to send the things up there… You can build a base 250, 280 miles above the Earth and send that power down here, and they catch it, and they then use it, and it’s there. All it needs is… somebody as rich as Jeff Bezos [to say], ‘Let’s go up there.’”

Going a little deeper to explain that “the idea of getting industry up there” is “so that all those polluting industries, especially, for example, the industries that make electricity” end up “off of Earth.”

Although Shatner did agree with the royal when it comes to the fact that we should be putting work in on our own planet, he said, “So fix some of the stuff down here … But we can curl your hair and put lotion on your face at the same time.”

It’s a bit rich for a member of the British royal family to complain that something’s more spectacle than substance.

BARI WEISS: Resist The Woke Revolution: We got here by cowardice, we can get out via courage.

MARK JUDGE: Jesus and the Moody Blues: A Rediscovered Letter from My Favorite Teacher.

THIS SHOULD BE A SEINFELD ROUTINE: What’s the Deal With Caliber?

WHAT COULD GO WRONG? Pentagon Wants AI to Predict Events Before They Occur: Haven’t we seen this film before?

GOOD: A decade after gene therapy, children born with deadly immune disorder remain healthy.

ANALYSIS: TRUE.

Related: Ace of Spades surveys the Dispatch versus Bulwark wars.

AND RIGHTLY SO: Survey: More than half of U.S. adults wary about facial recognition tech in healthcare.