WELL, BYE. Former Oscars diversity chief on ‘micro- and macro-aggressions’ that led to exit.

I’VE SEEN THIS WITH A NUMBER OF FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCES, TOO: Hamas Atrocities Red-Pilling Progressive Celebs.

ENDORSED: Woke left’s getting punished under its own rules: Don’t stop now!

KAMALA DOESN’T CARE ABOUT DEAD JEWS, AND IN FRONT OF THE RIGHT AUDIENCE SHE DOESN’T HAVE TO PRETEND TO:

Two days after somberly standing behind Mr. Biden in the White House as he denounced the attack as “sheer evil,” Vice President Kamala Harris spoke on Oct. 12 to an auditorium filled with Latino and Black students at the College of Southern Nevada in Las Vegas, as part of a fall tour focusing on young voters of color. For nearly an hour, she addressed pressing concerns such as climate change and student loans and offered a passionate defense of diversity, equity and inclusion efforts. She made no mention of the attack in Israel.

Well, that whole mass-murder issue is hurting the Democrats so best to skate over it.

PROGRESS: U.S. Supreme Court to Hear Landmark NCLA Case Against Government Social Media Censorship.

For the second time in eight days, the U.S. Supreme Court has granted certiorari in one of NCLA’s cases. This afternoon the Court agreed to hear arguments over the Fifth Circuit’s grant of a preliminary injunction in Missouri v. Biden, a case brought on behalf of NCLA clients Drs. Jayanta Bhattacharya, Martin Kulldorff, and Aaron Kheriaty, and Ms. Jill Hines, alongside the Attorneys General of Louisiana and Missouri. The injunction would bar officials[i] from the White House, CDC, FBI, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and Surgeon General’s office from coercing or significantly encouraging social media platforms to censor constitutionally protected speech. The New Civil Liberties Alliance welcomes this opportunity to defend the First Amendment rights of our clients in the U.S. Supreme Court.

A Fifth Circuit panel last month upheld the key components of U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty’s July 4 preliminary injunction order, prohibiting named federal officials from coercing or significantly encouraging social media companies to suppress legal speech. That decision vindicated NCLA’s clients, who have been blacklisted, shadow-banned, de-boosted, throttled, and suspended on social media as part of the government’s years-long censorship campaign orchestrated by the White House, CDC, FBI, CISA, and Surgeon General—among others.

The Biden Administration’s censorship regime has successfully suppressed perspectives contradicting government-approved views on hotly disputed topics such as whether natural immunity to Covid-19 exists, the safety and efficacy of Covid-19 vaccines, the virus’s origins, and mask mandate efficacy. The vast, coordinated, and well-documented effort has silenced influential, highly qualified voices including doctors and scientists like Drs. Bhattacharya, Kulldorff and Kheriaty, as well as those like Ms. Hines who have tried to raise awareness of issues. Though the U.S. Supreme Court temporarily stayed the Fifth Circuit’s injunction today, NCLA believes the Justices are ultimately unlikely to permit the egregious First Amendment abridgements this case has exposed.

Let’s hope. Disclosure/reminder: I’m on the NCLA advisory board.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE: UPenn Donors Demand Ouster of School President Over ‘Palestine Writes’ Festival.

THEY WERE USING YOU ALL ALONG: On Israel, Progressive Jews Feel Abandoned by Their Left-Wing Allies.

Progressive Jews who have spent years supporting racial equity, gay and transgender rights, abortion rights and other causes on the American left — including opposing Israeli policies in Gaza and the West Bank — are suddenly feeling abandoned by those who they long thought of as allies. This wartime shift represents a fundamental break within a liberal coalition that has long powered the Democratic Party.

In Los Angeles, Rabbi Sharon Brous, a well-known progressive activist who regularly criticizes the Israeli government, described from the pulpit her horror and feelings of “existential loneliness,” her voice breaking. “The clear message from many in the world, especially from our world — those who claim to care the most about justice and human dignity — is that these Israeli victims somehow deserved this terrible fate.”

In Atlanta, a Jewish mother involved in local politics wrote an open letter lamenting that her child’s progressive private school had not addressed the attacks in Israel with the same kind of empathy it showed after local killings of Asian Americans. “Our people are butchered, and no one speaks to it?” she wrote. “I don’t know if I’m seething or just sad.”

And as the Hamas attacks in Israel were still underway, leaders of the New Israel Fund, which supports progressive Israeli and Palestinian groups, fielded calls from a former American ally on the left demanding that the organization label Israel an “apartheid state” — even as they waited to learn if colleagues in another organization, hiding in Israeli bomb shelters, had been killed.

Many of the most inflammatory comments came on social media, from progressive groups that responded to the immediate aftermath of the massacre of Israeli civilians by skipping even a moment of mourning and instead moving immediately to try to justify the attack.

They are your enemies, they used you, and they had contempt for you, and now it shows. Conduct yourselves accordingly.

Related: Detroit Jews ‘Beyond Disappointed’ with Rashida Tlaib for Refusing to Forcefully Condemn Hamas Terrorism. Really? Really? Disappointed? Why would you ever have expected anything else from her? Time to pay more attention to who your alleged allies really are — and always were. And to treat your enemies as the enemies they are.

OPEN THREAD: Thank God it’s Friday. Only three more working days until Monday.

THE TOXIC INDUSTRY OF HIGHER EDUCATION: We law students aren’t surprised campuses are so pro-Hamas.

Those outside academia should know these students are likely shocked that wider society is not applauding their actions.

They don’t see these statements as particularly heterodox — in fact, the opposite.

Why?

Schools have, by their own design, become devoid of free inquiry and exchange, adopting instead a homogenous set of viewpoints, many of them extremely radical.

An elite American institution’s average student body is no longer a representative sample of adolescents with top GPAs and test scores.

For years, admissions offices across the country have deliberately prioritized passion for social justice and activism in potential applicants — to their detriment.

Yes, the admissions people have been actively selecting for crazy social-justice warriors.

Related: Why Did Harvard Students Cheer on Hamas? Perhaps its administrators should modify the school’s admissions process to ensure that students lacking a basic moral compass are rejected.

Mr. Kimche describes how “a collection of some 30 student groups” not only “failed to condemn this proto-genocide” perpetrated by Hamas, but “justified and celebrated it.” In recent months, Harvard administrators have bemoaned how the recent Supreme Court decision on affirmative action has threatened the preservation of diversity in the admissions process.

Perhaps its administrators should be more concerned with how to modify the school’s admissions process to ensure that students lacking a basic moral compass are rejected.

Instead of rewarded.

WHEN BUREAUCRATS WAGE WAR: SpaceX frustrated by Starship licensing delays.

WE ALL KNOW THE ANSWER: Stacy McCain: Why Is KiwiFarms.net ‘Harassment,’ But What Taylor Lorenz Does Is ‘Journalism’?

HMM: Major Study Claims to Identify The Root Cause of Obesity: Fructose.

THAT’LL BE THE DAY I GO BACK TO ANNANDALE: California Supervolcano: Caltech’s “Chilling” Discovery in Long Valley Caldera.

OUT: Worries about football injuries.

In: Marching band injuries strike a sour note in emergency rooms.

MICROBIOME NEWS: Deep dive into the gut unlocks new disease treatments.

STILL A FEW EV BUGS IN THE SYSTEM: Testing Our Lucid Air Resulted in a Loud Bang, Loss of Power, and Two Tow Trucks: What was supposed to be a fun and routine test of our Lucid resulted in an hours-long ordeal.

WORKS FOR ME: Ruy Teixeira: Time to Throw the Intersectional Left Under the Bus! “Similarly a recent Public Agenda Hidden Common Ground survey found 91 percent agreement with the statement: ‘All people deserve an equal opportunity to succeed, no matter their race or ethnicity.’ This is what people deeply believe in: equal opportunity not, unlike the intersectional left, equal outcomes.”

It’s pretty much always a mistake to listen to the “academics and activists.” At best they’re mostly idiots, at worst — and far too frequently — they’re basically monsters.

UPDATE: You know, following the drama at Harvard it seems like it would be a good time for some prankster to plaster the campus with those ISLAM IS RIGHT ABOUT WOMEN and ISLAM IS RIGHT ABOUT GAYS posters, and let the intersectional fun begin!

DISNEY IS FAILING AT EVERYTHING: Disney is failing at Merchandise Star Wars by forgetting cool aspects.

DID THEY HAVE S.U.V.s BACK THEN? Waves of change: How sea-levels and climate altered the marine ecosystems at the South Pole 390–385 million years ago.

BIDEN’S “SMART DIPLOMACY” IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Nuclear Test Ban Treaty on the Chopping Block?

On the upside, that would remove a possible barrier to my favorite spacecraft design, the Orion Nuclear Spaceship.

MICROBIOME NEWS: Dietary supplement modifies gut microbiome—potential implications for bone marrow transplant patients.

FOLLOW THE MONEY: Senators question NIH director nominee on drug costs, research ethics, COVID-19.

LIKE TRUMP, HE ALIGNS WITH WORKERS: JD Vance’s Support for UAW Should Surprise No One.

WHY IS HIGHER EDUCATION SUCH A CESSPIT OF HATE? Calif. professor’s post threatens violence against ‘zionist journalists’ and their children.

HAVE YOU NO SENSE OF DECENCY? NO DECENCY AT ALL? WATCH: ‘Why should I condemn anything?’ – Students for Justice in Palestine president refuses to condemn Hamas.