Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds

April 28, 2025

CDR SALAMANDER: If You Think Greenland is Strategic, Look West.

Different but related:

Posted at 11:59 am by Glenn Reynolds on Apr 28th, 2025

FASTER, PLEASE: New SpaceX Starship Booster Has 29% More Thrust. “The 35-engine SpaceX Starship booster using version 3 raptor engines is coming sooon. Booster 18 could be the first Version 3 booster. 35 Raptor 3 engines (280 tons of thrust each) will be 9800 tons of thrust. This is 29% more than 33 Raptor 2 engines with 230 tons of thrust each for 7590 tons. The old Saturn V had 7.75 million pounds of thrust vs the SpaceX V3 booster with 21.7 million pounds of thrust. 2.8 times more thrust than a Saturn V.”

Posted at 7:30 am by Glenn Reynolds on Apr 28th, 2025

THEY’RE TERRORISTS. MAKE THEM PAY. ‘Reminiscent of the KKK’: Columbia Janitors Sue Protesters Who Took Over Hamilton Hall.

The Columbia University janitors who were held hostage during the violent takeover of a campus building last spring are suing their alleged captors for battery, assault, and conspiracy to violate their civil rights, according to a copy of the suit reviewed exclusively by The Free Press.

The lawsuit was filed in federal court on Friday evening by Torridon Law and the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law on behalf of Columbia janitors Mario Torres and Lester Wilson. It alleges that over 40 Columbia students and “outside agitators,” some but not all of whom were arrested by police following the takeover of Columbia’s Hamilton Hall last April 29, “terrorized” both Torres and Wilson “into the early morning of April 30th, assaulted and battered them, held them against their will, and derided them as ‘Jew-lovers’ and ‘Zionists.’ ”

The occupation of Hamilton Hall occurred almost exactly a year ago, and both Torres and Lester say they have been struggling to cope ever since. The lawsuit states both men suffered physical injuries the night of the occupation, and that they have also been suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder that has required ongoing medical care. Neither has been able to return to work, and are instead “subsisting on interim Workers Compensation payments” which are “inadequate” to pay for their basic needs and medical bills, according to the suit.

“Mario and Lester are decent, honest, hardworking men who have been through hell. None of this ever should have happened,” said Tara Helfman, one of the Torridon lawyers on the case.

The lawsuit describes the protesters, the majority of whom “donned masks and hoods to conceal their identities,” as “reminiscent of the Ku Klux Klan.” It claims they “are part of a broad pro-Hamas, anti-Semitic network of organizations, groups, and cells that are connected through a largely untraceable underground communications system. They promote and resort to violent and illegal tactics, and are motivated by invidious discrimination against Jews and supporters of Jews.”

The Brandeis Center also filed a federal lawsuit late Friday on behalf of two students, a professor, and a rabbi at the University of California, Los Angeles, alleging that several groups, including National Students for Justice in Palestine, Faculty for Justice in Palestine Network, American Muslims for Palestine, and Westchester People’s Action Coalition, engaged in “a coordinated campaign of egregious acts of racial exclusion, intimidation, and assault” to “intimidate Jewish students, faculty, and staff.”

Go after them, and their funders.

Posted at 7:00 am by Glenn Reynolds on Apr 28th, 2025

April 27, 2025

WE KNOW WHY:

Posted at 10:23 pm by Glenn Reynolds on Apr 27th, 2025

OPEN THREAD: Ring out the weekend.

Posted at 9:30 pm by Glenn Reynolds on Apr 27th, 2025

ACTBLUE ACTS LIKE A MONEY LAUNDRY. PERHAPS IT IS ONE.

Posted at 5:00 pm by Glenn Reynolds on Apr 27th, 2025
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