HELP US, ELON, YOU’RE OUR ONLY HOPE: Odds of a Tunguska-Scale Impact in 2032 Just Doubled.
Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
February 11, 2025
IT’S COME TO THIS: Opposing Lab Grown Meat and Insect Meal in Pasta is ‘Far Right.’
You know, if they keep telling people that everything admirable is “far right,” people may start to admire the far right.
STUDDED TIRES FOR THE WIN: Audi RS E-Tron GT Performance with Studded Tires Proves 912 HP Isn’t Too Much for Winter.
WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: How 3D-printed parts changed the NASCAR Cup Series.
THEY’RE ALWAYS IN THE LAST PLACE YOU LOOK: Students discover a new protein while investigating Streptococcus infection.
J.D. IS A SMART GUY:
A Yale law professor says JD Vance is right: the federal judge who blocked DOGE from exposing wasteful spending by the Treasury Department violated the Constitution.https://t.co/2cCjdf2aXC
— Media Research Center (@theMRC) February 11, 2025
IT BEGINS: “Under-Reported Trump Order Has Sweeping Implications For DEI At Universities.
It gets worse for the woke.
Trump’s new order includes this:
A term requiring the contractual counterparty or grant recipient to agree that its compliance in all respects with all applicable Federal anti-discrimination laws is material to the government’s payment decisions for purposes of section 3729(b)(4) of title 31, United States Code.
Want to guess what that referenced Code section is?
It’s the False Claims Act – the whistleblower law that allows private citizens to file what are called qui tam actions. That provision in Trump’s new order is specifically intended to make it easier to win whistleblower actions under the False Claims Act. In other words, if a university or other party falsely signs the certification that they have no DEI policies, private parties like their employees can blow the whistle, perhaps getting a cash award. Treble damages are among the possible consequences for False Claims Act violations.
Many major law firms have posted warnings for their clients about the new Trump order and the potential for whistleblower complaints, such as here.
However, the regular press and general public have yet to catch up on how drastically the law has turned against DEI.
WHY IS YALE SUCH A CESSPIT OF BIGOTRY AND ANTISEMITIC VIOLENCE? Yale Jewish students kicked out of own center during pro-Palestinian protest.
THIS WILL END WELL: Universities’ opposition to ICE raids puts professors on the front line. “My university’s guidance does seem designed to delay ICE agents’ access to certain spaces on campus and to complicate identification of any particular person that agents may be seeking.”
MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Incompetent or crooked? Elon Musk exposing Washington’s rotten system. “Generally, when auditors find that an organization’s accounting system makes errors easy to commit and difficult to spot, they assume the system is designed that way because it is intended to facilitate fraud.”
ABOLISH THE CBC FOR A START: CDR Salamander: What if Canada Were Conservative? America’s Hat Could be Warm Comfort. “I cannot give a stronger endorsement to both Poilievre and his plan. It is exactly what the moment needs.”
OH NOES, A GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN: Double Down, Dudes: Dems Willing to Shut Gov Down to Save Fraud and Abuse From Trump.
COMMUNITY NOTES WINS AGAIN:
And @CommunityNotes wins again pic.twitter.com/nDjZcwltqp
— Harry Bōlz (@elonmusk) February 11, 2025
ANYBODY BUT THE NORMAL-AMERICAN COMMUNITY, WHICH THEY REGARD AS DEADLY ENEMIES:
Democrats have identified two groups of people they’ll go to the mattresses to defend: illegal immigrants and government employees. What a platform.
— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) February 10, 2025
IMMIGRATION HYPOCRISY:
I just visited the Vatican for the first time last month. It was freezing. While in line outside, there was a homeless man with no shoes or socks on begging right outside the Vatican gates.
Then I walked through Vatican security.
No more homeless people to be seen. https://t.co/0rXvmkW7YG
— Jesse Kelly (@JesseKellyDC) February 10, 2025
MOST OF THE POLITICIZATION IN THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS AN OBAMA PRODUCT: Chaos At DOJ In The First Week Of The Trump Administration? Blame Barack Obama. “We are now 15 years past the start of that Obama-era hiring frenzy that turned DOJ a department full of social justice warrior zealots.”
ANALYSIS: TRUE. Trump is not the radical — he’s simply undoing radical things Dems did. But he’s breaking the compact of the last 80 years, in which Democrats do radical things, and then Republicans “conserve” them.
Related: John Stossel: I’m with Elon — we must rein in Washington’s crazy spending, toxic rules.
February 10, 2025
A FRIEND COMMENTS, “A WEIRD HILL TO DIE ON BUT SO LONG AS THEY DIE ON IT.” Liberal Analyst Warns Dems: ‘Suicide’ to Defend USAID.
Related: Thoughts from Kurt Schlichter on the injunctions.
Here is a long take on the court injunction crisis, which is less crisis than an opportunity…
OK, stop panicking about all the stupid legal decisions from leftist judges that the left is getting from judge shopping in leftist jurisdictions.
Stop. Panicking.
First, no one should…— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) February 11, 2025
Plus:
Listen Larry, we need to stop government spending like a drunken sailor on fraud & waste or America is gonna go bankrupt.
That does mean a lot of grifters will lose their grift and complain loudly about it.
Too bad. Deal with it. https://t.co/7mrwqDxyIc
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 10, 2025
OPEN THREAD: Monday, Monday.