STANDING UP AGAINST HATE AND BIGOTRY AND DISCRIMINATION: Trump Administration Will Review Billions in Funding for Harvard: The move follows the cancellation of roughly $400 million in funding for Columbia and the suspension of $175 million for the University of Pennsylvania.. The Trump administration said on Monday that it was reviewing roughly $9 billion in federal grants and contracts awarded to Harvard, claiming that the university had allowed antisemitism to run unchecked on its campus. In a statement on Monday, the administration said that it was examining about $256 million in contracts, as well as an additional $8.7 billion in what it described as ‘multiyear grant commitments.'”
Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
March 31, 2025
AT 9:46 PM ET, SpaceX is scheduled to launch the Fram2 polar-orbiting mission.
UPDATE: Launch successful, booster recovered on its 6th flight. Nominal orbital insertion for Dragon. Capsule separated from second stage, flying on its own in polar orbit.
OPEN THREAD: Monday, Monday.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: NASA adds Starship to launch contract.
LOL, TIM WALZ:
They had a prior DUI, Tim.
Which, of course, is grounds for deportation when you’re here on a green card status.
The University of Minnesota released a statement earlier today on this. Maybe have your staff check their emails before tweeting.
— Dustin Grage (@GrageDustin) March 31, 2025
BECAUSE BETA MALES LIKE AN EXCUSE TO FEEL POWERFUL: Why Do Democrats Love Violence? “The coordinated attacks on Teslas, Tesla drivers and Tesla dealers represent one of the most appalling political developments of recent years. These attacks are coordinated, organized and financed: yesterday was proclaimed a ‘global day of action’ by the ‘Tesla Takedown’ movement. CNN found the violence exciting. As do, apparently, 100% of Democratic politicians. I hadn’t seen any Democratic officeholders condemn the violence, so I thought I must have missed it. But no: the Google search ‘Democrats condemn Tesla attacks’ turns up zero instances of any such criticism.”
WELL:
Huge indeed. SCOTUS may not even need to review Humphrey’s Executor. https://t.co/lPof6GhnVw
— Ilya Shapiro (@ishapiro) March 31, 2025
WILL WOMEN TRUST MEN WHO SAY THEY’RE ON THE PILL? 99% Effective: First Hormone-Free Male Birth Control Pill Enters Human Trials.
In my experience, trusting women on that is iffy.
MARTYN FOGG, CALL YOUR OFFICE, IT’S TIME TO TERRAFORM MARS: Seismic Data Suggests Ocean’s Worth of Water Lies Beneath Surface of Mars.
I notice that used copies of his book are going for, er, astronomical sums. Time for a new edition?
CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: House Judiciary Advances Concealed Carry Reciprocity.
IF IT CAN BE DONE BY CHEATING, IT WILL HAPPEN: Republicans are acting like there’s a Blue Wave coming: Could Democrats retake the House … *before* the midterms?
I’d like to see a lot more urgency from Republicans in the legislative branch about now . . .
HMM: FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado: Indiana University quietly removes profile of tenured professor and refuses to say why. “A prominent computer scientist who has spent 20 years publishing academic papers on cryptography, privacy, and cybersecurity has gone incommunicado, had his professor profile, email account, and phone number removed by his employer Indiana University, and had his homes raided by the FBI. No one knows why. Xiaofeng Wang has a long list of prestigious titles.”
THOUGHT: If you’re an actual Nazi, you can now drive around with swastikas on your Tesla and people will just assume it got vandalized.
TEACH WOMEN NOT TO RAPE (CONT’D): Twisted NJ special education teacher sent 25,000 texts to 8th-grade boy she molested: indictment.
MY LATEST SUBSTACK ESSAY: Three Small Items: On Political Passion in Trump’s Second Term.
LONGEVITY UPDATE: Multivitamins Slow Biological Aging in Large Trial.
The COSMOS trial included men and women who were older adults (≥ 60 years of age). In this study, the average age was 70.2 years. I’d like to acknowledge that I’m a co-investigator on this study. Approximately 950 participants who had blood tests at baseline and at 1-year and 2-year follow-ups were randomly selected. Biological aging was assessed using five different epigenetic clocks, two of which were first-generation, two were second-generation, and one was DunedinPACE.
In all five epigenetic clocks, there was a signal for slower aging in the multivitamin compared with the placebo arm. For the two second-generation clocks (PCGrimAge and PCPhenoAge), there was significant slowing of biological aging in the multivitamin arm compared with the placebo arm, with an average of about 10%-20% slower aging with daily multivitamin use over the 2 years of the intervention. This equated to about 4 months of aging that seemed to be averted or prevented. Among participants who had accelerated aging at baseline, the reported benefits were even greater.
Vitamins are cheap.
THEY’VE BEEN LOOTING AMERICA FOR DECADES:
HOLY CR*P 🚨
– Democrats did give MILLIONS of illegals Social Security Numbers
– They were REGISTERING TO VOTE
– Elon Musk has confirmation THEY DID VOTE
– Democrats qualified illegals for MAX SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS
– They enrolled in Medicaid with their new Social Security… pic.twitter.com/ixWAObSyoL— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) March 31, 2025
INTERESTING POINT:
The centrality of the new product development cycle is what's missing from the tariff debate. Tariffs, for all their defects, have the possibility of reshoring the entire new product development cycle. If production is offshored to China parts of that cycle will be out of scope.
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) March 29, 2025
YES, MUCH OF THE MEDIA’S POWER, AND THE LEFTS (BUT I REPEAT MYSELF), WAS TO BULLY AND SHAME THE RIGHT INTO GOING ALONG. THAT’S OVER. When Conservatives Refuse to Play Along, the Dems and Regime Media Lose.
HMM: 2025 Multistate Bar Exam Scores Fall To All-Time Low. Bar exam scores usually correlate pretty closely with LSAT scores; I wonder if this means that the people being admitted in 2021 had lower LSAT scores? Weren’t a lot of schools admitting people without test scores back then?