REMEMBER WHEN THE LEFT WAS AGAINST “PRICE GOUGING:” GOP lawmakers launch investigation into high Ivy League tuition prices: Republicans suspect institutions have ‘collusion to raise tuition prices.’
Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
April 12, 2025
COMMON SENSE RULES EXCEPT AMONG THE RULING CLASS: Most Americans support Trump crackdown on anti-Semitism on campus, new poll shows.
OUT: ALL COPS ARE BASTARDS, DEFUND THE POLICE! In: Bohemian Greenwich Village not so liberal anymore as crime, drugs push residents to beg for more cops.
TOO MANY SPOILED SPECIAL FLOWERS IN OUR LEADERSHIP CLASS EVERYWHERE:
If you want to know why we haven’t won a war in 30 years, it’s officers thinking that what they feel is important and needs to be shared with the wide wonderful world https://t.co/8H5z7ClIG2
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) April 11, 2025
THE DEI MOPPING UP OPERATION CONTINUES: NASA Jet Propulsion Lab Parts Ways With Top DEI Officer In Wake of Free Beacon Report.
JOHN ROBERTS ISN’T AS POLITICALLY SOPHISTICATED OR CLEVER AS HE THINKS HE IS, AND THE RESULTS WILL BE AWFUL:
This is now a real mess, caused by over-finessing by SCOTUS in a situation that called for clarity and decisiveness, combined with patently unreasonable behavior by the district court – weakness at the top and willfulness at the bottom. https://t.co/fByy6wqdsx
— Adrian Vermeule (@Vermeullarmine) April 11, 2025
To be clear, she is demanding details (in open court) about negotiations between the Executive Branch and a foreign power https://t.co/AS3uHQHcbu
— Adrian Vermeule (@Vermeullarmine) April 11, 2025
The problem with SCOTUS’ whole approach to this case — and the point generalizes to other cases as well — is that it is too clever by half. Subtle distinctions (“facilitate” vs. “effectuate,” release from custody in El Salvador vs. return to the US) are trampled over by district… https://t.co/IM86AtgAUv
— Adrian Vermeule (@Vermeullarmine) April 11, 2025
I always tell my law students that as a lawyer, when you’re patting yourself on the back about how clever you’re bing, you usually aren’t.
YOU’LL OWN NOTHING, AND LIKE IT: No one owns their phone: Or knows what it really costs.
April 11, 2025
OPEN THREAD: Ring in the weekend.
NAMING IT “MURDERBOT” MAY HAVE BEEN A MISTAKE: ‘Murderbot’ declares ‘humans are idiots’ in 1st tantalizing trailer for Apple TV’s upcoming sci-fi series.
WEIRD THAT THE IVY LEAGUE IS LOSING PRESTIGE:
a mob of Yale students shouting "VIVA VIVA PALESTINA" as they tear down an American flag on campus, and cheer as it hits the ground.
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) April 11, 2025
NOW DO BIRTH CONTROL PILLS: Sleep And Anxiety Medication Is Having a Curious Effect on Salmon Behavior. This study suggests that the drug residues render salmon more fit at migration and spawning, which sounds like a good thing. Hey, people need these drugs to get through their jobs today, so . . . .
I’VE ALWAYS BEEN SKEPTICAL: What to know about peptide therapy. My GI doc, who’s a very buff, fit guy, was singing the praises of peptides to me a while back, but like I say, I’m skeptical.
WELL, GOOD: Trump is already winning his trade war with China. “Behind the global economic chaos provoked by president Trump’s tariff tsunami, there are growing indications of a strategic purpose. It is now conceivable that plunging into, and then retreating from, a generalised trade war was actually a deliberate means to a truly geostrategic end: to thwart China’s ambition to replace the US as the dominant world superpower. . . . In this light, the suspension of tariff combat for 90 days with most countries, while doubling down on the levies imposed on China, leaves Beijing isolated and in the firing line.”
Do tell.
WAGES OF OPEN BORDERS:
Ten years ago it would be unthinkable that El Salvador would be considered safer than Sweden.
But now that has happened.
Malmö is now ranked as dangerous as Baghdad.
There has been almost daily bombing attacks in Sweden.
Something went very wrong in my home country.
— PeterSweden (@PeterSweden7) April 10, 2025
WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY: NASA nominee: ‘We will prioritize sending astronauts to Mars.’
CHINESE OVERFISHING IS THE CULPRIT: Global fisheries’ nutrient extraction threatens ocean ecosystems and productivity, study finds.
I PREFER REAL DIVES: Virtual dive will take explorers deep into unexplored waters off Hawaii. But it’s cool.
HMM. HOW GOOD IS THE AI? To promote drug safety, FDA to replace animal testing with AI-based experiments, other methods.
I AUTOMATICALLY WRITE DOWN ANYONE WITH PRONOUNS IN THEIR BIO OR EMAIL: David Mastio: She/her, He/him: Please keep your obvious pronouns out of my emails. “I think people in professions who want to be trusted by all comers should recognize that many on the conservative half of the political spectrum view the superfluous use of pronouns as the equivalent of putting a liberal political bumper sticker in your every email. Count me among them.”
REMEDIAL MATH AT THE IVY LEAGUE: Harvard’s math class problem shows why merit still matters.
A MESSAGE MUST BE SENT:
She should now be court-martialed for conduct unbecoming, busted down a rank, and administratively separated with a reduction in retirement. https://t.co/RKRaLsM3IO
— Shipwreckedcrew (@shipwreckedcrew) April 11, 2025
SETH BARRETT TILLMAN: A Critique of John Yoo on Ex parte Merryman. “Yoo tells us that Lincoln defied a judicial order in Merryman. But Taney issued three orders in Merryman. Which among the three Taney-issued Merryman orders does Yoo believe Lincoln defied? Yoo does not say. That is a tell. Nor does Yoo, in any readily identifiable way, explain what action or inaction by Lincoln constituted defiance. And that is a tell too.”
IF YOU CAN MAKE IT WITH A CORPSE THERE, YOU CAN MAKE IT WITH A CORPSE ANYWHERE:
The subhed appears to be, uh, pretty backed up by the headline. pic.twitter.com/9UaeE7QEaZ
— Liz Wolfe (@LizWolfeReason) April 11, 2025