OPEN THREAD: Disport yourselves.

IF THE EU HAD WORKING ROCKETS IN ANY QUANTITY, IT WOULD BE A BIGGER PLAYER HERE: EU space law proposal due in March.

BORDER: Will the resistance in Texas prevail? 25 states and a significant majority of the American people support the Texas Guard’s efforts to secure the border.

WELL, GOOD: Hepatitis Treatment Prevents The Progress of a Common Blood Cancer.

“SCIENTISTS:” Redefining Earth’s Future: Scientists Advocate for Revolutionary Planetary Commons Framework. “The study, conducted by a collaborative team of 22 leading international researchers – including Professor Louis Kotzé, Senior Professorial Fellow in Lincoln Law School, and Professor Duncan French, Head of College of Health & Science and Professor of International Law – over nearly two years, calls for a paradigm shift in global governance to effectively safeguard the Earth’s critical systems.”

We law professors are the salt of the earth, nature’s noblemen, but we’re not scientists unless we do science, and telling other people how to live isn’t science, it’s something more like oppression.

IT’S ABOUT TIME FOR ME TO GO DONATE: Red Cross doubles down on plea for donations during blood shortage.

My regional blood bank is Medic, a non-Red Cross bank originally organized decades ago by, among others, my friend Doug Weinstein’s dad. I think the Nashville Red Cross is having difficulties, though, because I saw they were having a blood drive here in Knoxville at West Town Mall a while back.

THE NEW TOBACCO INDUSTRY: NYC issues public health advisory about social media due to its impact on kids.

MORE POWER, MORE AI: 2025 Volkswagen Golf GTI First Look.

I WAS TOLD THAT THIS IS JUST CRAZED CONSPIRACY THEORY STUFF: Expert shows how to tamper with Georgia voting machine in security trial.

COMING NEXT: DEAF ACTIVISTS OPPOSE THIS TREATMENT AS “GENOCIDE.” Gene therapy restores hearing in children with hereditary deafness.

NEWS I HOPE YOU CAN’T USE: 10-year study evaluates prostate cancer treatments, side effects.

TEACH WOMEN NOT TO MURDER: Woman Stabbing Boyfriend 108 Times Receives Probation, Avoids Prison Time.

With slap-on-the-wrist penalties like that, they aren’t going to learn anything.

NEW FRONTIERS IN FEMINISM: Know Your Place, Men!

I SUSPECT THERE WILL BE LESS DUMB STUDENT (AND FACULTY) POLITICS: ABA Seeks Comments On Proposal To Allow Accreditation Of Fully Online Law Schools.

IF IT WEREN’T FOR FAKE HATE CRIMES, HOW MANY HATE CRIMES WOULD THERE BE? HOAX: ‘Black feminist theory’ PhD student raised $40K on false assault claim, police say.

WE ARE NOT GOVERNED BY THE BEST AND BRIGHTEST: Democrat Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced her proposal for free community college in a bizarre video with “Professor Potato.”

I DUNNO, IN THE PAST THE “PART-TIME” TRACK HAS MEANT WORKING 50 HOURS: Should Law Firms Pay Their Lawyers 20% Less For 20% Less Work?

GOOD: Youngkin’s surging approval threatens unpopular Biden in Virginia.

THE ENEMY WITHIN: Embattled Biden Judicial Nominee Helped Lead Anti-Police Nonprofit.

DOING TO THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION WHAT THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION DOES TO THE LAW AND CONSTITUTION: Texas’ Latest Border Move Is a Giant Middle Finger to the Biden Admin.

TOXIC INDUSTRY: Antisemitism on College Campuses Has Shot Up 1,753% Since Oct. 7. Higher Education Spawned This Culture of Hate.

ROGER KIMBALL: Gay Science: On DEI’s dangerous lies.

Curiously, Gay herself touched on the deeper significance of her defenestration in the headline of a bitter, self-justificatory aria she published in The New York Times: “What Just Happened at Harvard Is Bigger Than Me.” Forget the shaky grammar. Gay is right that Harvard’s travails far transcend her fate as president.

She is completely wrong, however, in her explanation of why she was forced to resign. It had nothing to do with “racial animus,” as she said in her letter of resignation. Nor is it part of “a broader war to unravel public faith in pillars of American society.” That faith has unraveled, all right, but not because of “demagogues” attempting to “weaponize” her presidency. Gay says that such efforts begin “with attacks on education and expertise, because these are the tools that best equip communities to see through propaganda.” At stake here, however, were not “education and expertise,” but a failure, a hollowing out, of both, precisely, and ironically, by their subordination to the partisan demands of propaganda.

Again Gay is right that “trusted institutions of all types—from public health agencies to news organizations” have seen their “legitimacy” and “their leaders’ credibility” challenged. But these institutions are not victims of “coordinated attempts” by nefarious “extreme voices.” On the contrary, the crisis of legitimacy is a self-inflicted wound, the natural by-product of the institutional embrace of the ideology of dei, for which values like truth, accuracy, and competence must be systematically subjugated to politics.

Bill Ackman seemed stunned by the real agenda of dei. It is much worse than he thinks. Claudine Gay, as everyone knows though not everyone will admit, is a dei personage. That is, she was hired, groomed, and promoted by Harvard not because of her scholarship, which would hardly qualify for tenure at the University of Southern North Dakota at Hoople. It wasn’t for her fund-raising prowess or her educational vision that she was made president of the most prestigious university in the galaxy. It was because she was a black female whose parents were Haitian immigrants. True, her uncle owns the biggest concrete company on that unfortunate island and she went to school at Exeter. But the fact that Gay grew up in a bubble of wealth and privilege is but a small liability. She may have benefited from the free market. But she did not let that impinge upon her support for the entire smorgasbord of anti-capitalist, woke attitudes about race, gender, race, climate change, race, identity politics, and . . . race.

That’s what they have instead of competence.

MORE PUSHBACK, PLEASE: Major Cornell donor pulls funding over ‘toxic’ DEI culture, pens letter calling for president’s resignation.

UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN LAW SCHOOL’S DIVERSITY TRAINING PROGRAM DRAWS MORE FIRE: And the legislature is not amused, which should have been predictable. “If they’re threatening ‘continuing efforts,’ and they’re asserting that the DEI practices are ‘cancerous,’ you would think the school would take care to produce high quality, genuinely educational training sessions that would impress the public at large and win support in the larger political debate. Perhaps the cocoon is so isolating that the handout seemed truly wholesome and not cancerous at all.”

It’s been said before, and it’s still true: Social Justice Warriors always lie, and they always double down.

OPEN THREAD: Hump Day.