EVEN THE REPUBLICAN SQUISHES ARE BAILING ON THEM: Huntsman family, longtime Penn supporters, will halt donations to ‘unrecognizable’ University. “In an email to Magill obtained by The Daily Pennsylvanian, Huntsman — a former University trustee, governor of Utah, and United States ambassador — said that the Huntsman Foundation will ‘close its checkbook’ on future donations to Penn. Huntsman, whose family has donated tens of millions to Penn over the course of three generations, wrote that the University had become ‘almost unrecognizable’ due to administrators’ response to antisemitism.”

HE’S NOT WRONG: DeSantis is a ‘no’ on the U.S. accepting Gaza refugees – ‘They’re all anti-Semitic.’

AS MANY AS IT TAKES? How many Palestinians should die for Israel’s self-defense, asks UK’s Jeremy Corbyn: The speech Corbyn read at the pro-Palestine demonstration mourned those murdered in the Negev desert, but did not mention the party responsible for the brutal attack.

The distinction between Corby and Oswald Mosley is pretty much gone. If it ever existed.

JOHN HINDERAKER: It’s Time To Crush Gaza. “When a country is invaded by a foreign power, the only sane response is to retaliate with massive, overwhelming, disproportionate force. And when an invader commits the kinds of atrocities that we have seen over the last week, unprecedented in modern times, vengeance must be the order of the day. War is a terrible thing. But the Gazans started this war, and war is what they are going to get. Every resulting casualty should be laid at the foot of Hamas and all Gazans who have supported and collaborated with Hamas–a large majority, by all indications.”

OPEN THREAD: Ring out the weekend.

IT LOOKS LIKE MY CHICAGO X ALBUM THAT WAS LEFT IN THE BACK SEAT OF A FRIEND’S CAR ON A HOT DAY: The Milky Way is warped, and it might be the work of dark matter.

WELL, IT’S PROBABLY CAUSED BY THE INTERNET AND SOCIAL MEDIA: Massive Review Finds ADHD Is More Prevalent in Adults Than We Realized.

MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Pro-Hamas protests show how higher education has finally crossed the line.

THIS SEEMS RIGHT: Obama, Biden administrations failed Israel: Misplaced trust in Iran among factors that spawned Hamas attack. Though it’s hard to say someone failed until you know what they were trying to do.

FLASHBACK: Higher Ed’s Prejudice Problem.

ROGER KIMBALL: Juvenal on this Mad, Mad World.

HMM: Tech workers trying to live longer are turning to buzzy peptide treatments.

ABOLISH THE CIVIL SERVICE? I have thoughts at Substack.

BOB GRABOYES: Arugula for Asphalt Crews: Unintended Elitism of Healthcare Wonks. “The biggest problem with healthcare policy may be that those who design healthcare policy mostly design it for people who design healthcare policy. . . . We policy folk reside in a variety of institutions: medical facilities, corporations, universities, think tanks, legislative offices, regulatory agencies and advocacy groups. But we broadly share certain characteristics. . . . The problem is that many of America’s most serious health problems reside in people whose lives and jobs do not remotely resemble those of healthcare professionals or policy-shapers.”

SELF-DEFENSE ADVICE: Troubled Times.

AT HARVARD, STANDING UP FOR MURDER, RAPE, AND TORTURE: More Than 1,000 Rally on Harvard’s Campus to ‘Free Palestine’ Ahead of Expected Ground Invasion of Gaza.

GEE, MAYBE YOU GUYS SHOULDN’T HAVE BEEN INFILTRATING CATHOLIC CHURCHES, PARENTS’ GROUPS, AND MAGA RALLIES THEN: FBI director warns of rise in terror threats against Americans, potential copy-cat attacks on US soil.

But hey, maybe he’s reading my columns: Israel’s intelligence failure is a warning for America’s politicized agencies.

SCIENCE, UNSETTLED: Officially extinct fish is alive and well, according to DNA analyses.

WELL, GOOD: Common drug can improve hand osteoarthritis symptoms, finds study.

SCIENCE: Research suggests women are perceived as slimmer in selfies.

NOW OUT FROM ANDREW WAREHAM: The Pinchbeck Peer: Book 7: A New Veneer.

WELL, GOOD: New AI software highly accurate for spotting melanomas, study shows.

SO HERE’S A STORY BRIMMING WITH SYMPATHY FOR THE HARVARD STUDENTS WHO ENDORSED HAMAS. But it’s worth reading for what it reveals.

Such comments represent a sea change in the cozy relationship between Harvard and the elite institutions where its alumni have traditionally forged their careers. An investor at an asset management firm in Silicon Valley privately told Insider that he recently spoke to a hedge-fund founder who made no bones about how he approaches hiring. When a résumé hits his desk, the founder said, he skips over the sections on experience and education and instead races to the bottom of the page, where applicants list their “activities.” Then, if he sees something he doesn’t like, he will simply “rip up” the résumé and reject the applicant as a “bad cultural fit.”

For Harvard students — especially those in the business and law schools — having prominent leaders in your chosen profession openly declare that they won’t hire graduates who hold political views they disagree with is not an academic issue — it’s an existential threat. In a visit to Harvard, Insider spoke with a range of students about the backlash to the statement on Israel. Many expressed qualms about the tone of the letter, or the way it was handled. But even some who opposed it felt that the threats against its signatories had gone too far.

One MBA student, who thinks the statement was “too strong,” believes it is unfair for companies to demand the names of students who signed it. (Like most students, she spoke on the condition of anonymity, given the potential for reprisals.) Similarly, a Jewish graduate student in Middle Eastern studies said he is “frustrated and angry and sad” to see the truck circling campus branding signatories as antisemitic.

“My take is everyone is free to hire or not hire who they want,” he said. “But I don’t think anyone’s personal information should be made public. I don’t think a 19-year-old who feels something right now and decides to put their name on something should have the rest of their lives decided in this moment. We’ve all done things that we would rather we hadn’t.” . . .

But now, some Harvard students fear that the backlash from the business community will have a chilling effect on student speech. Like it or not, they say, students have to think about how expressing their views could affect their financial and professional prospects. That’s especially true when Wall Street billionaires are posting on X, formerly Twitter, and professional network LinkedIn has become a home for all kinds of sharing. There’s every chance today that what’s said on campus won’t stay on campus.

A first-year law student told Insider that students would be wise to think through what voicing their opinions could mean for their future employment, especially in a buttoned-down field like law. “The general advice,” he said, “is to keep your opinions to yourself for the most part.”

A second-year law student, who was appalled by the letter, likewise sympathized with fellow students who were unnerved by having their words provoke such ire beyond the campus. “There is a real employment consequence for people — and that is a scary situation,” she said. “We are all here with a lot of student loans, and we need to work.”

Sorry, guys, I didn’t make the new rules. But those are the new rules.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: ‘Take Back Pride at Clemson’ protest held after tampons removed from men’s bathrooms.

You can’t make this up.

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: France quietly putting 7000 troops on the streets. Prediction: Soon they’ll be arming select groups of military veterans.