FIGHT THE POWER: Suspended ‘Jeremy’s Chocolates’ professor cleared, returns to classroom.

WHY ARE LEFTY MOVEMENTS SUCH CESSPITS OF HATE AND BIGOTRY? Columbia queer/non-binary student group ‘derecognized’ due to antisemitism, racism.

K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: Bay Area elementary school where just 4% of students are proficient in math and 12% in English spent $250K on ‘Woke Kindergarten’ program: Third-grade teacher was told to ‘disrupt whiteness,’ with non-binary creator keen to abolish police.

MY LATEST SUBSTACK ESSAY: Biden and the Border: Are we approaching a Civil War?

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HIGHER EDUCTION BUBBLE UPDATE: MA cuts college degree requirements for 90% of state jobs.

NOW OUT FROM ANDREW WAREHAM: The Last Campaign (Innocents No More Book 7).

ROGER KIMBALL: Democracy in Decline: The Subversion of Rule of Law: There are many signs and portents that signal the guttering of the rule of law and its replacement: rule by law. It is an autumnal sign—a sign of civilization at the end of its tether.

FIGHT THE POWER: Victory to the French farmers: Europeans are right to rise up against our eco-obsessed elites.

IT’S A WINNING SLOGAN: ‘Deport every illegal’: Sky News host proposes new DEI slogan.

BORG DEPROGRAMMED IN REAL TIME:

This is utterly brilliant. A student accuses @jk_rowling of being transphobic. This teacher skilfully dissects the claim and challenges it by asking questions.

He teaches not what to think, but how to think critically.

Watch until the end.
You see the epiphany in real-time. pic.twitter.com/x00gWdOugc

— Lee Harris (@addicted2newz) February 3, 2024

AT THIS POINT, ANYTHING IS BELIEVABLE: FBI charged with Jan. 6 ‘cover-up’ in Ashli Babbitt shooting case.

HMM: WATCH: Is Biden’s Brain Disease Contagious? Other White House staffers are exhibiting symptoms of severe cognitive decline.

DEAL OF THE DAY: Wrangler Authentics Men’s Classic 5-Pocket Regular Fit Flex Jeans. #CommissionEarned

REPARATIONS:  The members of the Black Caucus of the California Legislature are making it explicit that ACA7 is part of their “reparations package.”  That seems impolitic of them to me.  Californians–particularly those whose families came to America in the last 40 years or so–are unlikely to be excited about paying reparations, whether cash or non-cash.  Already a pro-reparations group is saying the package as a whole is NOT ENOUGH.

Assembly Constitutional Amendment 7 (ACA7) would gut the part of the Cal Constitution that forbids preferential treatment based on race, sex, or ethnicity. It is one of many elements of the Black Caucus’s official “reparations package.”

Reparations are a very unpopular cause.… pic.twitter.com/lInE2NtKT0

— Gail Heriot (@GailHeriot) February 4, 2024

Nothing good will come of this.  I can’t imagine Gavin Newsom is happy about it coming up while he is trying to establish himself as a moderate Democrat.

K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: High School Holds Candlelight Vigil for ‘Martyr’ Fidel Castro.

EVERYONE KNOWS THE PLAN, BUT ONLY GREG ABBOTT IS DOING MUCH ABOUT IT: Elon Musk Triggered Lefties by Summing Up ‘Outrageous’ Reason Biden and Dems Want an Open Border.

JOSEPH ROBINETTE GUMP:

This is hysterical, check this out. After getting caught plagiarizing and lying about a bunch of things in 1987, Biden dropped out of the Presidential race. He was asked about claims he made about being an activist for civil rights and he came clean, admitting that none of it was… pic.twitter.com/TSWAxXieaj

— MAZE (@mazemoore) February 3, 2024

LOL: Shush! L.A. Times Editor Asks “Departees” Not to Criticize California on Their Way Out.

IT’S BEEN A BLOATED AND CORRUPT SECTOR FOR YEARS: University Budget Cuts Were Overdue: Several large public universities are getting multimillion dollar budget cuts. Of course, the cuts will probably be at the expense of faculty, not administrators. . . .

OPEN THREAD: Make of it what you will.

SOME (MOSTLY LEGAL) THOUGHTS ON THE BIDEN/ABBOTT BORDER STANDOFF.

FREE THE SPACE REVOLUTION: Startups call for streamlined US regulations for emerging space capabilities.

21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Experts Confirm: US Is Dealing With an ‘Out-of-Control’ STI Epidemic. “The most common STI in the US in 2022 was chlamydia, which has remained in the top spot for years now. Nevertheless, it is the recent rise in syphilis that is concerning health officials most. According to CDC data, syphilis cases of all stages have increased by 80 percent in the past five years.”

Apparently 20-somethings don’t wrap it anymore. They aren’t afraid of AIDS, there are pills for Herpes and anyway everyone has it, they’re vaccinated against HPV, and the other stuff is curable (they at least think) with antibiotics. Good luck with that, kids.

SCIENCE, UNSETTLED: Galactic Surprise: Milky Way’s Slower Outer Stars Suggest Dark Matter Overestimated.

WAITAMINNIT, WUT?  Now as most of you know, I am not a criminal defense attorney, so I might be missing something here. (You’re welcome to correct me). If the police have probable cause to arrest someone, why doesn’t that same evidence suffice to remand them to jail or require them to put up bail?

JustTheNews reports that last week, four immigrant men were charged with felonies in an attack on two New York City Police Department officers in Times Square. The NYPD said that at least a dozen immigrants were involved in the attack and six are still wanted, according to CBS News. So why then, did Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg not request bail?

(Wait for it…wait for it…)

“Four of those released are believed to have left the state, according to a high-ranking police source who spoke to CBS New York. The four men gave fake names to a church group that arranged for bus tickets as part of a migrant resettlement program. They are believed to be headed to California, but the NYPD isn’t planning to track them down at this time, as they aren’t due back in court for a hearing until Feb. 20 […] If they don’t show up for the hearing, a bench warrant will be issued for their arrest.”

Here’s the best part:

“Bragg said he did not request bail because he is proceeding cautiously to ensure they have the proper suspects identified in the case.“

How the hell does that work? Enlighten me, please.