EXACTLY:
"At one level, Black Lives Matter was merely a get-rich-quick swindle … At another level, however, it was about converting accusations of racism into political capital for Democrats."https://t.co/HR9bsB7Fo4
— The Patriarch Tree (@PatriarchTree) May 29, 2025
YES, MY STUDENTS WRITE THEIR EXAMS IN CLASS WITH NO INTERNET ACCESS: The Solution To Cheating On Exams With ChatGPT Is Painfully Old-School: Blue Books.
JOSH BLACKMAN: President Trump Has to Obey the Constitution, But So Does Chief Justice Roberts. “Roberts is quite right that the rule of law is ‘endangered,’ the separation of powers are out of balance, and ordered liberty depends on a ‘normal appellate review.’ But what Roberts misses is that he has exacerbated these problems in crucial moments. For nearly two decades, Roberts has decided contentious cases not based on the best reading of the law, but rather on a crude calculus of political costs and benefits. These rulings have corroded the Supreme Court as an institution, such that reasonable observers will always question whether Roberts’s decisions are based on law or politics. Recently, Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas declared in dissent that ‘Both the Executive and the Judiciary have an obligation to follow the law.’ These justices are emphatically correct. As Roberts continues to lecture Trump about weakening the rule of law, the Chief should realize he shares in the blame.”
Nobody respects a trimmer.
And The Constitution isn’t a synonym for what lefties and NYT editorial boards want.
Related: Courts are infected with ‘injunctivitis’ — and tempting Trump’s defiance.
AGREED. BUT IT WAS ALWAYS TEMPORARY DUTY, AND ELON HAS BIGGER FISH TO FRY.
You are the only Government employee I have ever been sad to see go.
Ever.
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) May 29, 2025
NO LESS THAN I’D EXPECT FROM NPR:
The woman who called the First Amendment a distraction and a hindrance is now attempting to use it to protect their federal funding, which is not a First Amendment issue. https://t.co/2KyjmwwBr2
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) May 28, 2025
WHY IS HIGHER EDUCATION SUCH A CESSPIT OF HATRED AND BIGOTRY? Cal Poly Hit with Anti-Semitism Investigation Amid Allegations That It Told Students To ‘Hide Their Jewish Identity.’
EUROPEANS HATE IT WHEN YOU TELL THEM THIS:
Your weekly reminder that the poorest State in our Union–and my ancestral homeland–still has a greater per-capita GDP than the United Kingdom.
Oh, and they're knocking it out of the park in returning to proper teaching. https://t.co/gUnoFSCotq
— cdrsalamander (@cdrsalamander) May 28, 2025
TREAT THE NEO-COMMIE DSA LIKE NEO-NAZIS:
A reminder that most of “the squad” came out of the DSA. https://t.co/nB0IxlLKbU
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) May 28, 2025
THIS:
It’s not about Harvard per se. It’s not about anti-Semitism. Rather, it’s class warfare: people of lower status making privileged elites pay a price for decades of rising condescension. The people dismissed as a “basket of deplorables” would rather see world-class universities… https://t.co/dA0c9tf8WH
— Timur Kuran (@timurkuran) May 28, 2025
HAHA, SO LONG AS THEY JUMP OVERBOARD:
So the rats have time to get off the sinking ship. https://t.co/RLUFK3A52Y
— Tim Burchett (@timburchett) May 28, 2025
OPEN THREAD: Hump Day.
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JEFFREY CARTER: Down to the Banana Republics. “A judge just ruled that Trump’s tariffs are not kosher with him. . . . This same court, and these same businesses and states, were okay with Biden/Obama and anyone else charging tariffs. Hence, it’s political.”
Maybe there’s a legal principle that can explain this. But there have been so many examples like this that people have stopped assuming propriety on the part of the judiciary. That’s unfortunate, but it was inevitable once a significant number of federal judges started positioning themselves as part of the “resistance,” and once the Supreme Court — and in particular, Chief Justice Roberts — decided not to put an end to this right away.
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All of this stuff is going to come around just too late to do me any good, isn’t it?
GOOD, SCARE THEM MORE:
Former Israeli hostage says the terrorists were “very scared” of Trump.
“More food, treated me better, stopped cursing me, stopped spitting on me.” pic.twitter.com/tgGk9Wqm5E
— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) May 28, 2025
SO MAKE SURE THEY CAN’T: Erasing All Doubt Dems Fully Intend to Restrict You to Their Plantation the Second They Can. “I believe they are going to try to ride Trump out.”
I THINK HE’S MOSTLY RIGHT. I’M ALWAYS SURPRISED HOW IMPRESSED SOME PEOPLE ARE WHEN I CAN PERFORM ORDINARY PHYSICAL TASKS AS AN ACADEMIC.
I don’t think academics realize how useless most people think they are.
They don’t genuinely hate them, and often have a gentle respect for most. However, they think they’re not equipped to deal with the world, and certainly not tell them how to live their lives.
They only…
— Chris Arnade 🐢🐱🚌 (@Chris_arnade) May 28, 2025
Related:
This is a real failure to model the minds of working class people. They don’t feel inferior to academics. Rightly or wrongly, they really do have the impression that academics are studying increasingly stupid things. They have a sense that academics may be smart in some narrow… https://t.co/uMdXZwkZK7
— wanye (@wanyeburkett) May 26, 2025
CHANGE: Young men are binge drinking less than young women for the 1st time. What’s going on?
Why young men are drinking less is still up for debate, notes study author and University of Pittsburgh internist Dr. Bryant Shuey. Though he sees the declining rates of binge drinking among young men as a “public health success,” Shuey wonders if it’s more complicated than a pure win. “Are young people happy, socially connected and drinking less, or is it that middle-aged and young men are more lonely, less social and less willing to call up a friend for drinks,” he says. “There’s potential that there is a tradeoff here: Less alcohol and more loneliness, and we need to think about addressing both.”
Or maybe they’re just broke.
THE ARC OF HISTORY IS BENDING TOWARD FREEDOM: Poland Sets Gun Ownership Record, Argentina Drops Minimum Age: Another reminder that the right to keep and bear arms is a universal right. “While we disarm narco-terrorist gangs and organized crime, we celebrate the fact that good citizens can access weapons as legitimate users. Empty speeches are a thing of the past. In this government, we are making the right of Argentines to protect themselves and live in freedom a reality.”
SHOCKING NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF SCIENCE: New study: Teen drivers safer with more practice.
YES, MICKEY IS RIGHT:
If you think of immigration as basically a social good–elite CW that many judges, even on SCOTUS, buy into–then sure, the only irreparable harm possible is to the individual immigrant. TRO granted! But if you think excessive immigration is bad–lowers wages, raises rents,… https://t.co/1IWfwgzhwI
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) May 28, 2025
As he often is.
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