Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
January 24, 2025
READER BOOK PLUG: From Mara Schiffren: The Mistake.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Job postings in higher ed hyperfocus on equity, omit traits like ‘quality,’ ‘efficiency’: research.
IT’S WORKING ALREADY: Swaths of U.S. Government Grind to a Halt After Trump Shock Therapy: Rescinded job offers, delayed health updates and confusion over cutting government checks upend business as usual across Washington. I know this headline is supposed to alarm me, but . . .
HA HA, LIZ WARREN IS THE WORST:
“The Secretary of Defense has to be ready to go 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.”
Twice in his tenure, the last SecDef, who she voted for, literally disappeared and didn’t tell anyone where he was! https://t.co/q7TilrwqZK
— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) January 24, 2025
Related:
Just two months ago, DC Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly sentenced Paulette Harlow who is 75-year-old and in poor health to 2 years in prison for praying outside an abortion clinic.
When her husband begged for mercy for fear she would die in prison due to poor health, the Judge… pic.twitter.com/ootBjC3Nt6
— Dr. Ben Braddock (@GraduatedBen) July 17, 2024
Also:
Maybe the birthright citizenship order will ultimately be held unconstitutional, but I find it highly embarrassing for a judge to say something so unequivocally at a preliminary stage without the slightest acknowledgement that there is an entire literature that disagrees. 1/2 pic.twitter.com/2R4OE9lT8a
— Ilan Wurman (@ilan_wurman) January 23, 2025
A BLOW AGAINST RACISM AND BIGOTRY: Cal State Alters Systemwide Program Excluding Whites and Women Challenged By Equal Protection Project.
KEEP THOSE JUDICIAL VACANCIES COMING:
CHANGE:
Yesterday, there were 45 reported ARTICLE III vacancies. Today, 47 vacancies are reported.
new:
J. JAMES O. BROWNING, DISTRICT OF NEW MEXICO;
C.J. DANNY C REEVES, DISTRICT OF EASTERN KY;— Seth Barrett Tillman (@SethBTillman) January 24, 2025
MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Trump can fix biased, bloated bureaucracy — by abolishing the civil service.
CHANGE:
We are currently watching the wokest elements of the left realizing in real time that they are a tiny minority and that most Americans hate them and their ideas.
For a long time they thought they were the dominant force in America, socially and politically.
It is now dawning on…
— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) January 23, 2025
PHILIP HAMBURGER: How Washington Can Get Back to Fiscal Sanity. Cut, baby, cut.
YEP.
You might be confused as to why agencies would fight so hard to keep DEI officers in place.
It’s totally understandable if you haven’t accepted the fact that DEI officers are actually communist political commissars. https://t.co/BpXxA6PUoG
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) January 22, 2025
January 23, 2025
THIS IS THE MOST LIBERAL-WHITE-WOMAN THING EVER.
On behalf of middle aged white women, I’m sorry. https://t.co/F5LtsIosKb
— Emily Zanotti 🦝 (@emzanotti) January 23, 2025
MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Trump can fix biased, bloated bureaucracy — by abolishing the civil service.
OPEN THREAD: Disport yourselves in the comments.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: China launches fourth batch of Thousand Sails megaconstellation satellites.
SCIENCE, UNSETTLED: We’ve Been Wrong About What Causes Sunburn, Scientists Discover.
THE HITS KEEP COMING: BOOMITY! Brent Bozell Named Head of US Global Media, Including VOA, Radio Free Europe…
MICROBIOME NEWS: Could Your Gut Bacteria Be the Secret Cause of Heart Disease?
HMM. ChatGPT perceived as more empathetic than human crisis responders in experiments. “AI doesn’t get tired. . . . Caregivers experience compassion fatigue.”
STILL A FEW BUGS IN THE SYSTEM: Dumb New Electrical Code Could Doom Most Common EV Charging.
THE PRICE ISN’T ONE OF THEM: Six best features of the Rolls-Royce Ghost Series II.