INSTITUTIONAL RACISM AT THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA: EXCLUSIVE: UF spends 38k on ‘anti-racist’ training that discourages ‘All Lives Matter.’

IT’S GOOD TO BE THE NOMENKLATURA: Becerra’s Wife Sits on Board of Nonprofit That Pushed His Nomination “The foundation stands to benefit from a Department of Health and Human Services charged with expanding the Affordable Care Act’s health care policy.”

HE’S ALSO A GRANNY-KILLER: Will the Gov. Get Arrested? Police Alerted to Latest Sexual Assault Claim Against Cuomo.

MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: To defeat woke tyrants, the rest of us must treat them like the monsters they are.

CAITLIN FLANAGAN ON THE OBSCENITY OF FANCY PRIVATE SCHOOLS:

Parents at elite private schools sometimes grumble about taking nothing from public schools yet having to support them via their tax dollars. But the reverse proposition is a more compelling argument. Why should public-school parents—why should anyone—be expected to support private schools? Exeter has 1,100 students and a $1.3 billion endowment. Andover, which has 1,150 students, is on track to take in $400 million in its current capital campaign. And all of this cash, glorious cash, comes pouring into the countinghouse 100 percent tax-free.

These schools surround kids who have every possible advantage with a literal embarrassment of riches—and then their graduates hoover up spots in the best colleges. Less than 2 percent of the nation’s students attend so-called independent schools. But 24 percent of Yale’s class of 2024 attended an independent school. At Princeton, that figure is 25 percent. At Brown and Dartmouth, it is higher still: 29 percent.

The numbers are even more astonishing when you consider that they’re not distributed evenly across the country’s more than 1,600 independent schools but are concentrated in the most exclusive ones—and these are our focus here. In the past five years, Dalton has sent about a third of its graduates to the Ivy League. Ditto the Spence School. Harvard-Westlake, in Los Angeles, sent 45 kids to Harvard alone. Noble and Greenough School, in Massachusetts, did even better: 50 kids went on to Harvard.

As with the Ivy League itself, I wouldn’t mind so much if they produced a higher class of graduates.

Plus: “This is a system that screws the poor, hollows out the middle class, and turns rich kids into exhausted, anxious, and maximally stressed-out adolescents who believe their future depends on getting into one of a very small group of colleges that routinely reject upwards of 90 percent of their applicants.”

Well, yes.

THE TEACHERS UNIONS AND PLENTY OF TEACHERS CERTAINLY AREN’T: When It Comes To School Reopenings, We Are Not All In This Together.

Instead of accepting the science and data suggesting a safe return to classrooms can happen now, Bedford said, teachers unions are “demanding ransoms from communities” by manipulating the pandemic circumstances, families, and school districts to get what they want.

“A lot of the teachers unions are pushing back, saying, ‘We don’t care about the test scores, we don’t care about being your babysitter,’ and they are demanding ransoms from communities like in California, where [the state] awarded them $6.6 billion in order to return to jobs,” Bedford said. “Most of the country has” returned to work.

Bedford said public school teachers are exploring their political connections to stay at home while many private school teachers and other essential workers around the nation went back to work before they were vaccinated.

It’s difficult to continue believing in public education when public educators obvious don’t.

TWO WEEKS WAS FINE, TWO MONTHS WAS CRAZY, A YEAR WAS A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY: One Year Later, Vindication for Lockdown Skeptics. “The overwhelming majority of Americans last March acted in good faith to do what we were told was in the best interest of our country. That faith has been abused and squandered.”

HEY, IT GOT THEM THE WHITE HOUSE AND THE SENATE: Conrad Black: Joe Biden’s Stimulus Speech Was a Complete and Total Failure: President Biden demonstrated his and his party’s dependence upon the coronavirus pandemic for the achievement of office and their conduct in office.

RETURN TO NORMALCY: Illegal border crossings highest since 2006.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: The COVID Panic Porn Freaks Need to Be Shamed and Silenced. “Even the states that have experienced the most onerous lockdowns are beginning to open up. Sure, New York and California are only doing it because their governors are both neck deep in trouble, but it’s still happening. What’s stunning to those of us on the pro-freedom side of things is that so many people still want to be miserable.”

AMERICA’S CULTURAL REVOLUTION CONTINUES: Yesterday Glenn linked to a story on the firing of a Georgetown University law professor.  Speaking the truth can get you in trouble these days.  That’s why we’re hearing less and less of it.  Powerline has more.

History is repeating itself at Georgetown.  That law school had a similar blowout on the issue of race-preferential admissions more than two decades ago. I’ll blog on that later today. In the meantime, this article explains in detail why the professor was right:  On average, affirmative action beneficiaries tend to struggle academically.  Alas, Georgetown prefers to cover it up rather than fix the problem.

GO AFTER THE SEDITIONISTS & TERRORISTS: Lawmaker Demands Investigation Into ActBlue: Democrat donation portal tied to terror-connected group, BDS movement.

FLASHBACK: Admissions scandal reveals why America’s elite colleges are under fire: Bribery scandal, affirmative action lawsuits show cultural turn against selective universities.

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SAVES ITS FIGHT SONG FROM THE WOKE DOGS: Longhorns lock horns over ‘racist’ song ‘The Eyes of Texas.’

Enter the alumni, gesticulating, so to speak. Attempts to channel conservative alums into organized resistance don’t exactly fall flat, but they don’t succeed in proportion to the presumed percentage of conservative graduates. A lot of alums give money to their schools; the money buys them attention and naming rights on new campus buildings. They keep generally quiet.

Uncharacteristically, however, once alerted to presumptuous demands for replacing ‘The Eyes’ with something better suited to The Moment, Texas alums rose in wrath. And I don’t mean they just sent hot emails to the administration. Hundreds backed up those emails with promises to quit funding the university in the event it caved to the woke. They protested that UT was being asked, not at all politely, to ditch its heritage; to mumble to the offended, oh, sorry, sorry, we didn’t know. But now we do!

Yeah, said the angry alums. And we know something else: that silliness of the anti-‘Eyes’ sort, once acquiesced in, just invites more silliness. And injury. So that figuring out early what’s at stake and taking a firm stand against it is of the essence. If you’re giving money to the firing squad, tell its members to pass the tin cup in more sympathetic venues.

As Glenn writes in the New York Post, “ Treat these [woke]tyrants as what they are: awful people who shouldn’t be listened to and who need to work hard on joining the better half of the human race. And remind them of it, over and over. Because it’s true. Deep down, they know it, too.”

THE BIDEN ILLEGITIMACY: Courts Repeatedly Refused To Consider Trump’s Election Claims On The Merits: The losing side needed to know that a fair shake was given, and that justice prevailed, even if it wasn’t the outcome they wanted. That did not happen after Nov. 3.

THE NEW ANTI-RACISM LOOKS AN AWFUL LOT LIKE THE OLD RACISM: A woke professor is ranking law schools by their “Total Whiteness.” Let me explain to you how that works and what it means. “Being ‘less white’ is only partially about skin color. It does include using forced racial quotas instead of merit, but it goes so much farther than that.”

NO. NEXT QUESTION? Federal ‘COVID’ Spending Just Hit $41,870 Per Taxpayer. Did You See That Much in Benefit?

DARK WINTER: Joe Biden’s Inspiring Vision of Defeating COVID-19 Is Depressingly Bleak.

Americans have been struggling with the pandemic for almost an entire year, hunkering down in lockdowns, trying to give school-deprived children hope, postponing gatherings with family and friends, and struggling to keep businesses open amid government restrictions. Yet Biden attempted to hold out a great promise, a goal to strive for that would make all the struggle worth it.

What is that magnificent goal — the grand prize for struggling through this extremely difficult year? A barbecue with family and friends — mind you, not a large one, and even that may not happen because the experts may start a new round of lockdowns.

“Because here’s the point, if we do all this, if we do our part, if we do this together, by July the fourth, there’s a good chance you, your families and friends, will be able to get together in your backyard or in your neighborhood and have a cookout or a barbecue and celebrate Independence Day. That doesn’t mean large events with lots of people together, but it does mean small groups will be able to get together,” Biden said in what appears to have been the climax of his speech.

“After this long, hard year, that will make this Independence Day something truly special, where we not only mark our independence as a nation, but we begin to mark our independence from this virus,” the president declared.

Biden apparently hasn’t been to Texas recently.

TYLER O’NEIL: The Devastating Tragedy of Becerra’s Likely Confirmation to HHS.

FROM DOROTHY GRANT:  Scaling The Rim.

Never underestimate the power of a competent tech.

When Annika Danilova arrived at the edge of the colony’s crater to install a weather station, she knew the mission had been sabotaged from the start. The powers that be sent the wrong people, underequipped, and antagonized their supporting sometimes-allies. The mission was already slated for unmarked graves and an excuse for war…

But they hadn’t counted on Annika allying with the support staff, or the sheer determination of their leader, Captain Restin, to accomplish the mission. Together, they will overcome killing weather above and traitors within to fight for the control of the planet itself!

HMM: Judge rules Texas can remove Planned Parenthood from Medicaid program.

CANCEL CULTURE CLAIMS ANOTHER VICTIM: Liberty Unyielding’s Hans Bader reports that Georgetown University Law School Professor Sandra Sellers is no longer on the faculty after making the unforgivable mistake of being honest about the negative effects of race-based admissions policies on the beneficiaries. To see what is killing off what is left of American education, look no further than Georgetown.

UNTIL YOU CAN’T:  Do What You Can.

AND WITH HR1, EVERY ONE OF US:  Today’s blacklisted Americans: Alabama University suspends 3 professors for 2014 Halloween costumes.

THIS IS THE DEATH BLOW TO THE REPUBLIC:  More HR1.

This guarantees that the ballot box is gone. The left should know what comes next. Of course, they don’t.