IT’S TIME FOR CHANGE: Harvard Corporation members should resign in wake of Gay fiasco, watchdogs say.

More from Bill Ackman, who isn’t going home:

In light of today’s news, I thought I would try to take a step back and provide perspective on what this is really all about.

I first became concerned about @Harvard when 34 Harvard student organizations, early on the morning of October 8th before Israel had taken any military…

— Bill Ackman (@BillAckman) January 3, 2024

YEP: Has Anyone Noticed How Cheap it Was to Bribe the Biden Crime Family and Our Universities? “And this is, to me, perhaps the most troubling part of the story. The Biden crime family so undervalued my country that they sold it for chump change—not merely disloyal, but deeply dismissive and disrespectful.”

WHAT DOES MIT PRESIDENT SALLY KORNBLUTH SAY? MIT student group continues the fight for free speech in 2024.

WELL, THE NEW YORK TIMES: “What a delicious parenthetical!

That link on “poorly” goes to the FIRE website, where you have to do a search to see where Harvard ranks. I did the search (and you can too). We’re told the “speech climate” is “abysmal.”

But of course, this article, outside of its parentheses, portrays conservative critics of academia as the threat to freedom.

LOL. Of course.

REGIME CHANGE COMES TO HARVARD.

STEPHEN KRUISER: The Morning Briefing: Academia Needs a Purge, Not a Reshuffling. Slashing federal funding, perhaps by capping eligible tuition and expenses, would get the ball rolling. And tuition caps would be an easy sell.

SEXUAL VIOLENCE BY THEIR FRIENDS IS FREEDOM, A LUSTFUL LOOK BY THEIR ENEMIES IS RAPE: From crucifying Kavanaugh to defending Hamas: The Left’s hypocrisy about sexual violence.

DECLINE IS A CHOICE: UK Methodists Dropping Terms ‘Husband’ and ‘Wife.’

SOME PARTS OF AMERICA STILL WORK:

Liftoff! pic.twitter.com/djbETJCPTk

— SpaceX (@SpaceX) January 3, 2024

REALCLEARINVESTIGATIONS: The FBI-Tainted Whitmer ‘Kidnap Plot’ You’ve Heard Next to Nothing About. “In the years since the election, the national press has given little attention to the case since the initial arrests, even though court documents have recast the episode as something more sinister. Instead of a heroic effort by the FBI to safeguard the country from domestic terrorists, it now appears to have been a broad conspiracy by law enforcement to entrap American citizens who held unpopular political views.”

YOU DON’T GET RICH BY GOING COMMIE: The China (Degrowth) Syndrome: The Beijing communists can’t command growth from either their economy or population.

Communism can enrich the top leaders, and a few collaborators in other countries, but it impoverishes everyone else.

WELL, GOOD: Israeli Drone Strike Takes Out Multiple Hamas Leaders Who Were Meeting in Lebanon.

TED BALAKER: Our Problematic Nation: America Isn’t Down with DEI.

TAR. FEATHERS. Ex-CIA analyst says intel agencies to be politically active again in 2024 election: ‘Significant problem.’

I think we’re well past the point at which the Intelligence Community has become a net negative.

OPEN THEAD: Well, here we are.

AT MY SUBSTACK: Claudine Gay Has Gone Away: Is this the dawn of a new day?

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WARM UP THE LEARJET, WE’RE GOING TO NOVA SCOTIA! Total solar eclipse April 2024: 10 of the biggest cities within in the path of totality.

Now where’s my apricot scarf?

MICROBIOME NEWS: Microbes May Be The Secret Behind Keto Diet’s Protection Against Epileptic Seizures.

IF YOU CAN’T FIRE A BLACK WOMAN FOR PLAGIARISM AND INCOMPETENCE WITHOUT IT BEING BLAMED ON RACISM, YOU SHOULDN’T HIRE A BLACK WOMAN: Claudine Gay Resigns As Harvard President, Claims ‘Racial Animus’ Fueled Criticism.

LOL:

Tragic: Hamas Loses Two Leaders In One Day https://t.co/mmjR2RTo5x pic.twitter.com/jvyNRkPxVk

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) January 2, 2024

IT’S NOT CLEAR THAT THE NEW MODELS PRODUCE BETTER LAWYERS THAN THE OLD ONE. Hard questions about experiential learning and legal education.

And the move to experiential learning drives up costs and tuition and student loans. Say what you will about Professor Kingsfield, but one professor’s salary for 200 students is a lot more efficient than one for eight.

I HAVE A BROWNING 12 GA. OVER-UNDER: Of note, if you don’t think terrorists will use this capability here soon, you’re not thinking.

Pull!

MICROBIOME NEWS: Experimental drug that alters gut microbiome shows promise for long COVID relief.

ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Why aren’t more people buying over-the-counter hearing aids?

WHATEVER HAPPENS, WE HAVE GOT THE MAXIM GUN, AND THEY HAVE NOT: Memes about animal resistance are everywhere — here’s why you shouldn’t laugh off rebellious orcas and sea otters too quickly.