CHANGE: West Point disbands 12 student groups following Trump’s DEI executive order.

CHANGE: CUNY takes down Palestinian Studies job posting amid anti-Semitism concerns.

BOB GRABOYES: “Many friends, mostly on the Left, appear incapable of writing an email on any topic without inserting some gratuitous mention of Donald Trump, always written in the form of a Euclidean postulate—a universal and unassailable Truth that warrants no comment. This post is my response.”

LEFTISTS AT PLAY:

Kevin Drum was reportedly forced out of Mother Jones by junior staffers for vague allegations of racism + calling Tara Reade a "lunatic."

Meanwhile, he'd spent years refusing every offered raise and telling the magazine to give the money to the magazine's fellows instead https://t.co/rB1DFFZemc

— Eric Levitz (@EricLevitz) March 11, 2025

Kevin had to go; he was pretty much the only voice of sanity left there by then.

LEFTIES ALWAYS HAVE AN EXCUSE FOR BEING NASTY TO THEIR POLITICAL OPPONENTS, BECAUSE EXCUSES FOR BEING NASTY TO PEOPLE ARE ONE OF THE TOP ATTRACTIONS OF LEFTISM:

Step 1: “everyone I don’t like is a Nazi”

Step 2: “killing Nazis is good”

This is the slippery slope, every time. And we’re seeing it in real time. https://t.co/3J81igXRF0

— Arthur MacWaters (@ArthurMacwaters) March 11, 2025

Also, LOL, Rick Wilson.

MAKE THEM PAY: Douglas Murray Wins Libel Claim Against The Guardian.

THIS SHOULD BE THEIR DREAM: WTH, Cato Institute? Are You Worried That the Dept. of Ed. Will Get Too Small? “Did you ever expect CATO to express concern about whether the government had enough bureaucrats? I didn’t. And I have to say that if this pullquote–and it is entirely possible that CNN took his words out of context–is an honest reflection of CATO’s position on reductions in the Department of Education, I will have to get off every CATO mailing list, and take away their honorary chainsaw.”

While I’m always ready to be disappointed by any DC institution, if you’re playing the odds they heavily favor CNN doing something shady with the quote.

I emailed CATO to ask if the quote is correct.

HMM. WHAT CAN I BRAVELY PROTEST BY . . . (CHECKS NOTES) . . . DECIDING TO TAKE THE DAY OFF? Columbia Professors Cancel Classes in Solidarity With Pro-Hamas Activist in ICE Custody: One professor gave students an automatic ‘A’ for their canceled midterms.

NOT A CHANCE. NEXT QUESTION? Elon Musk Saves Free Speech. Again. Will Ireland Forgive Him? “This time, Musk intervened to save Gript, an independent, conservative, pro-life platform in Ireland, which reported on a grassroots demonstration against the government’s immigration and placement policies. The Irish government tried to force Twitter/X to secretly cough up Gript’s data, in an apparent attempt to retaliate for critical coverage of the policies. Musk’s X told the Irish government to pound sand, and notified Gript of the attempt in defiance of the order.”

UTTERLY ROUTINE, NOTHING TO BE CONCERNED ABOUT: USAID official tells remaining staffers: Shred and burn all your documents. “The email didn’t provide any reason for the document destruction.”

Because it's juxtaposed by people being arrested outside abortion clinics praying and singing or people arrested at home by feds with guns drawing for similar "crimes". These people and those like them need to get the Roger Stone treatment. Full SWAT and perp walk.

— Dr. Oliver's Scalp Tonic President and CEO (@consilium65) March 11, 2025

SO MUCH WINNING: Education Department to slash half its workforce.. “‘Employees will not be permitted in any ED facility on Wednesday, March 12th, for any reason,’ the message said.”

JESSE SINGAL: If The New England Journal Of Medicine Doesn’t Correct This Error, You Cannot Trust Anything It Publishes.

Back when I wrote about that white paper, I was disturbed not only by the fact that Yale Law School published and promoted such propaganda-posing-as-science on its website, but also by what happened next. Despite the fact that critics (myself included) pointed out numerous errors and distortions in the paper, some of them of a straightforward factual nature, none of the authors — Meredithe McNamara, Kellan Baker, Kara Connelly, Aron Janssen, Johanna Olson-Kennedy, Ken C. Pang, Ayden Scheim, Jack Turban, and Anne Alstott — took their names off the paper or pushed for a correction. They failed to clear the lowest bar imaginable for a public intellectual, in other words. I try to give people the benefit of the doubt, but if a researcher is willing to affix their name to a claim that they know is false — and I specifically emailed Alstott, Olson-Kennedy, and Jannsen about this — then what won’t they do to further whatever causes they think are righteous? If someone is openly willing to lie, it should call into question everything that comes out of their mouth.

The same thing applies to publications, from the lowliest tabloids to the most celebrated medical journals. And I think The New England Journal of Medicine is about to put itself into that camp.

Not unlikely.

ABOLISH THE UN.

No joke: Meet the new Chair of the U.N. Women's Rights Commission. pic.twitter.com/Dw9mSd5l2R

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) March 11, 2025

THEY AREN’T SENDING THEIR BEST:

Decrepit Maxine Waters has no idea what a “Me-Me” coin is. https://t.co/tuqmiMVI89

— MRCTV (@mrctv) March 12, 2025

OPEN THREAD: Tuesday’s groovy.

WELL:

🚨 #BREAKING: The US House just EXTENDED the statute of limitations for people who committed COVID fraud, allowing those who stole COVID relief funds to continue to be prosecuted.

DOGE is coming for these criminals.

Democrats are apparently VERY afraid of this, considering 127… pic.twitter.com/3EZ69bUh4Z

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) March 11, 2025

21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: My Sex Robot is Mad at Me.

HAVE YOU NOTICED THAT SPEAKER JOHNSON SEEMS ABLE TO HOLD THEM TOGETHER: House Republicans pass government funding bill ahead of Friday shutdown deadline.

TAR, FEATHERS, FIRING SQUADS: H5N1 Bird Flu Strain Reported to be Another “Gain-of-Function” Virus.

NOW IT’S 32 YEARS LATER: Blizzard of ’93: Remembering the ‘Storm of the Century’ 26 years later.

“ANTI-WAR?” YOU SPELLED “JEW-HATING ‘DEATH TO AMERICA’ RIOTS” WRONG: Politico: Republicans have hated universities for years. Anti-war protests gave them a reason to punish them.

Universities chose to become partisan political havens. No one forced them into this position; they chose it eagerly. Some of us warned them.

LOVE THIS:

Trump is incapable of taking a non-iconic photo pic.twitter.com/I80BtAYRYm

— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) March 11, 2025

"Get in, loser. We're saving America." pic.twitter.com/mMXKFVqomC

— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) March 11, 2025

BEYOND OZEMPIC: Researchers Find a Way To Trick the Body Into Changing How It Burns Fat.

QUESTION ASKED: Is the AI Bubble more like the Tech Bubble, or the Telecom Bubble? “Tech came back. But telecoms never really did.”

THERE ARE SO MANY THINGS THEY DON’T UNDERSTAND:

Not understanding the concept of busting balls is one of many reasons they’re not reaching men. https://t.co/MNVwGKjPgQ

— Mary Katharine Ham (@mkhammer) March 10, 2025