STANDING UP TO HATE AND RACISM: Education Department informs major accreditor that Columbia violates federal law, accreditation standards.

NOT READY. NOT EVEN TRYING TO BE READY.

…is with aspiring flag ranks.

Being seen as part of the "officer in-crowd" on FPV drones is far more important for their careers than doing the hard work of thinking and adapting to the:

"FPV's are the way 21st century wars a fought"

…2025 reality.

2/2

— Trent Telenko (@TrentTelenko) June 5, 2025

A USEFUL REMINDER:

Trump and Elon are both billionaires who don’t need any of this. They could both be living large, away from the broken border invasion and debt mess and nasty political problems they did not create.

Instead, they chose to sacrifice everything for America.

Elon spent billions…

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) June 6, 2025

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Harvard Hires ‘Counter-Zionist’ Professor in Effort To Fight ‘Anti-Israeli Bias’ in Classrooms. “Magid, who has described the Jewish state as ‘illiberal’ and ‘chauvinist,’ will be the university’s inaugural Professor of Modern Jewish Studies in Residence.”

This is their idea of balance.

GOOD: 8th Circuit Joins 5th, 7th, And 11th Circuits In Dismissing Complaint Against Judges For Refusing To Hire Columbia Law Clerks.

ROGER KIMBALL: Is Biden’s autopen mightier than the sword? The scandal has echoes of Hillary Clinton’s emails.

Whom do you suppose wrote this: “Let me be clear: I made the decisions during my presidency. I made the decisions about the pardons, executive orders, legislation, and proclamations. Any suggestion that I didn’t is ridiculous and false”?

The one person I can assure you did not write it is its supposed author, former president Joseph R. Biden, who by the way is suffering from metastatic prostate cancer.

Nor, pace Biden’s suggestions, it is clear that he did not sign many of the myriad “pardons, executive orders, legislation, and proclamations” issued over his name.

As I note in another Speccie piece, on January 17 of this year, 2,490 pardons and commutations were issued over Biden’s name, more than any prior president had granted in the course of his entire presidency. Who decided to issue that wholesale clemency? And who signed the documents ratifying the decision?

“The issue,” former House speaker Newt Gingrich wrote on X, “is not President Biden, who was clearly cognitively incapable of these acts. The issue is who was doing them and what did they get for doing them?”

Gingrich is right. We do not yet know the answers to those two questions, but we might soon. Yesterday, President Trump issued a memorandum directing the Attorney General and White House Counsel to investigate “whether certain individuals conspired to deceive the public about Biden’s mental state and unconstitutionally exercise the authorities and responsibilities of the President.”

Somebody knows the answer.

TRUMP VS. ELON:

Who’s right?

Trump or Elon?

They both are.

Elon is emphasizing the way things ought to be.

Trump, the way things are, given the current makeup of Congress.

If Musk wants to fix things, don’t start a new party.

Help the GOP win a strong majority of fiscal conservatives.

— Dinesh D'Souza (@DineshDSouza) June 5, 2025

The Trump administration should recognize Elon’s point about the budget & build a bridge with him — & the majority of Americans — who want to see us cut spending.

Here’s what they admin should say/do: “we hear you Elon, we are going to sharpen our pencils and iterate on BBB to… https://t.co/uvdr0EqeN2

— @jason (@Jason) June 5, 2025

Some of y'all cant handle 2 high agency males going at it and it really shows

This is direct communication (phallocentric) vs indirect communication (gynocentric)

I understand you aren't used to it

— Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) June 5, 2025

Both have a tendency to talk a lot of smack and then cut a deal. That’s what will likely happen here, because neither one of them is stupid.

This is the way. pic.twitter.com/WEsnSnFGDO

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) June 6, 2025

But fundamentally, the question is, is our system deathly sick? Yes. Can we fix it wholesale now? No. At least I don’t see how. I’d love to be wrong. And to be fair, if anybody can prove me wrong, it’s these two.

UPDATE:

The below post is profoundly true.

But, see… I love the perfect too, but not if it defeats the good.

The question I keep asking, and which no one seems able to answer (even the likes of Elon Musk) is this:

How do you achieve the perfect without 60+ votes in the Senate?

No… https://t.co/jYrC7sqA9m

— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) June 5, 2025

THE ENEMY WITHIN: Marc Thiessen: Stanford is a case study in how Beijing infiltrates U.S. universities: Student reporters at Stanford University revealed China’s spying methods using Chinese nationals.

The Trump administration is revoking visas for Chinese students “with connections to the Chinese Communist Party or studying in critical fields” and revising its “visa criteria to enhance scrutiny of all future visa applications” for students from China and Hong Kong.

This is both necessary and long overdue. For years, China has been engaged in a systematic effort to target U.S. universities, using Chinese students to conduct extensive espionage and intellectual property theft on elite campuses across the United States — which has helped fuel China’s technological and military growth.

To understand how China uses its students as spies, read the stunning investigative report published last month by Stanford Review reporters Garret Molloy and Elsa Johnson in which they documented the infiltration of Stanford University by the Chinese Communist Party. “The CCP is orchestrating a widespread academic espionage campaign at Stanford,” Johnson told me and my co-host, Danielle Pletka, in a recent podcast interview. “Stanford is in the heart of Silicon Valley,” she added, “and that’s a huge incentive for China.”..

Molloy, an economics major, visited China last summer and was shocked to meet with many members of the CCP who were educated at Stanford. “We’re educating the head of the Chinese [securities and exchange commission], we’re educating the head of Beijing’s tariff negotiators. I’m meeting all these people and they all say ‘I work for the Chinese Communist Party in a really high role. I hope that China beats the U.S. And I also went to Stanford for my undergraduate and master’s degree.’ And I’m putting this together and I’m saying it’s shocking that we are educating such high-level Communist Party officials. … What’s going wrong here?”

It’s a fair question — one of many for which the Trump administration plans to get answers.

And it’s not just Stanford.

EVERYONE YOU DON’T LIKE IS A NAZI:

WTF

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu just compared ICE agents to Neo-Nazis.

SHAMEFUL. pic.twitter.com/oiRU5c0gOS

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) June 5, 2025

WITHOUT HER, THERE’S NO WNBA. Caitlin Clark won’t rush injury return as Fever outlook remains murky.

Every game she misses costs the league money. Message to Caitlin: Take it easy getting well until they rein in the people who are deliberately injuring you just because you’re a white girl who outperforms them.

Actually, I think she’s already gotten this message. Will the league?

WHAT TROUBLES ME ABOUT THIS ASSESSMENT IS THAT DAVID BROOKS IS GENERALLY WRONG: David Brooks: Democrats Are Worse Off Than They Think.

OPEN THREAD: Because I love you and want you to be happy.

SPACE LAW: Europe’s far-reaching Space Act nears launch. “While details of the incoming law remain under wraps, legal experts anticipate a move away from voluntary guidance toward binding obligations in key areas such as space sustainability, safety, resilience and security. . . . It would stand in contrast to current approaches in the United States and those of the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS), which tend to favor non-binding codes of good practice over rules with teeth.”

Oh, there’s a surprise. The Europeans like to make rules regarding things they can’t really do.

REMEMBER WHEN MORONS WERE CLAIMING THAT IT’S BAD FOR YOU? Coffee Could Be The Secret to Healthy Aging For Women, Scientists Discover.

ANN ALTHOUSE: If you’re trying to understand the mindset of young women as they fail to step up and solve the problem of worldwide population collapse.

To be fair, if global civilization depends on Miley Cyrus, it’s doomed.

IT’S HARD TO BE CHEERFUL WHEN YOU’RE EATING KALE: Low-calorie diets might increase risk of depression.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Cheapest SUVs and Crossovers of 2025: Utility on a Budget.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: First Look: Premier Body Armor Everyday Armor T-Shirt 360.

GOOD NEWS FOR SPINAL TAP DRUMMERS: Can humans spontaneously combust? The baffling cases explained.

Or is it?

SCIENCE: Are Dead Sea Scrolls older than we thought? Combining radiocarbon dating and a new AI program called Enoch yields surprising results.

WELL, GOOD: P2Y12 drugs may be better than aspirin to prevent heart attack and stroke in patients with coronary artery disease.

HMM: Pregnant woman’s weight may influence child’s infection risk.

DOUBLE YOUR DAVID, DOUBLE YOUR BERNSTEIN: Two David Bernsteins on Free Speech and Antisemitism.

“SCIENCE:” Flawed ‘racial concordance’ study cited nearly 800 times, study finds.

HMM: State Department will counter CCP ‘exploitation’ of U.S. research amid efforts to revoke student visas, spokesperson says.