THE NEW SPACE RACE:
If you have to deny it… (that means you are already planning for it).https://t.co/hNMRJj6bht
— Jim Meigs (@jamesbmeigs) July 11, 2024
Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
July 11, 2024
ERIC COWPERTHWAITE: Observations During The Late Republic: Lawfare Part Deux.
“ANTI-DISCRIMINATION:” Seven GOP-led states sue to block Biden’s new anti-discrimination healthcare rule.
OUR MORAL BETTERS: The crafter of language, Margaret Atwood, proffers a “hints”/”details” distinction and now proclaims what she knew but did not know to be “horrifying.” “If something horrifying might be true, but you only have ‘hints’ and not ‘details,’ you have some responsibility. Not only was Atwood Munro’s friend, but Atwood writes books that purport to nudge and instruct us about morality. ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ seems to be taken as a perceptive observation of the evils inherent in our culture, a warning to see and to act before it is too late.”
GIVE THIS TO BIDEN IN 1998: New Test Could Tell if You Have Early Signs of Dementia With High Accuracy.
EVERYTHING IS SCARY: Few Americans understand dangers of raw milk.
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Colorado health officials confirm case of human plague.
MORE ON SCHOOLS AND SEX ABUSE: Hot for Teacher: Eros and Education.
ENDING THE CULTURE OF IMPUNITY: University of Florida withholds diploma, suspends pro-Palestinian activists. “The University of Florida is not a day care, and we do not treat protesters like children—they knew the rules, they broke the rules, and they’ll face the consequences.”
MEH, WHAT HAVE THE XENOS DONE FOR US?
Democrat Rep. Summer Lee suggests that passing a law that only American citizens can vote in our elections is a "xenophobic attack."
They really really want illegals to vote. pic.twitter.com/3lnh65wido
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) July 10, 2024
Also, whenever lefties are throwing around the suffix “phobic,” it means they’re trying to con you.
What is the Media Forensics Hub? Described as “an interdisciplinary team of researchers working to study and combat online deception,” the project kicked off in 2017. That was the year communications professor Darren Linvill and economics professor Patrick Warren joined forces to “uncover and expose” millions of tweets they attributed to Russian trolls. Sponsored by the taxpayer-funded South Carolina Research Authority, the Hub was officially launched in May 2020. Two years later, along with the University at Buffalo and several other institutions, it received a $5 million grant from the National Science Foundation.
Last May, Racket filed a FOIA request with Clemson. Our search produced a series of emails that make explicit reference to the university’s dealings with federal law enforcement agencies (providing Clemson “help with resources,” among other things), social media companies, and the news media. The Clemson files are difficult to summarize, but offer probably the most comprehensive portrait we’ve gotten yet of the role such ostensibly non-governmental “anti-disinformation” research institutions can play as middleman organizations. These emails also document the high degree of influence the school had with federal agencies and media, even if Twitter was not always as cooperative.
A summary of key communications is listed below, while three new batches of documents have been uploaded to the Racket FOIA library, where as always, they’re not paywalled.
Read the whole thing.
WHY IS HIGHER EDUCATION SUCH A CESSPIT OF HATRED AND ANTISEMITISM? UCLA Defends Facilitating Antisemitic Encampments On Campus.
Well, it’s a short step once you start facilitating anti-Americanism, and higher ed has been doing that for years.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Harvard leftist summer reading list recommends book on how to indoctrinate students with CRT. One book suggests that ‘the US educational system is maintained by and profits from the suffering of children of color.’
I agree. Shut it down to end racism.
REALCLEARINVESTIGATIONS: Forbidden Fruit and the Classroom: The Huge American Sex-Abuse Scandal That Educators Scandalously Suppress. “Given the roughly 50 million students in U.S. K-12 schools each year, the number of students who have been victims of sexual misconduct by school employees is probably in the millions each decade, according to multiple studies. Such numbers would far exceed the high-profile abuse scandals that rocked the Roman Catholic Church and the Boy Scouts of America.”
The press has an anti-religious axe to grind; it doesn’t have an anti-public-school axe. Quite the reverse.
MY LATEST SUBSTACK ESSAY: Fly The Plane.
THE EV BUBBLE DEFLATES: EVidently Lousy EV Demand Is EViscerating EVeryone’s Prior Plans.
THEY’RE TOO INSECURE FOR THAT: Mark Judge: Recovering from the journalism crisis: Reporters need to learn to apologize.
NOT BY ACCIDENT, BUT BY DESIGN: Today’s Students Are Dangerously Ignorant of Our Nation’s History. And Our Failing Education System Is to Blame. “Numbers like these do not arise from lazy pupils but from feckless pedagogues who are failing in their charge.”
This is not the result of inept teaching. It’s the result of a deliberate strategy.
CHANGE:
This is huge
Georgia will now require ballots to be hand-counted each day of voting to match machine counts
Georgia now much more likely to flip red this November https://t.co/cdD0sP3sN7
— DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) July 9, 2024
21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: “Liberal Woman” Complains That It’s Hard To Find Masculine Men Who Aren’t Conservative. “She says it’s difficult to find a liberal man who is willing to pay on the first date and fulfill a ‘more traditional masculine role in the relationship.'”