‘WITHOUT EVIDENCE,’ NBC BLASTS ‘CONSERVATIVE PUNDITS AND LAWMAKERS’ ON SECRET SERVICE DEI. More and more “news” articles are popping up with this “without evidence” line. This jarring tell simply means “we don’t want you to believe the upcoming claim.” NBC even spends the next few paragraphs discussing the very evidence cited by DEI critics (female agents in the video being a foot shorter than Trump, or seemingly out of position). Maybe the critics are wrong and the weight of the evidence is against them, but they’re not “without evidence.” Saying they are is incompetent journalism.

UNC ASHEVILLE CUTTING WHOLE PROGRAMS IN FACE OF 25% ENROLLMENT DROP. Asheville is in one of the prettiest parts of the country, and the town is considered liberal and cool. How are they still losing students? This is how: “UNCA added sciences to its mission in July 2022. It now offers majors in New Media, Atmospheric Studies, and Environmental Studies.” Sure, who would not want to pay tuition for that?

FIRE TO COLORADO: BACK OFF CENSORSHIP OF PRO-LIFE SHIRTS AT CAPITOL OR WE SUE. Plus, “[j]ust weeks before Hunt was forced to leave the gallery, sergeants-at-arms allowed a group of students to sit in the gallery wearing pro-gun-control shirts,” because of course they did. Deadline is July 30.

WHY A TENNESSEE JUDGE WAS WRONG TO USE ‘COPYRIGHT’ TO BLOCK RELEASE OF THE NASHVILLE TRANS SHOOTER’S MANIFESTO. It also seems weird to me that the parents of the shooter transferred the copyright to the victims’ families. Is that a customary thing of which I was just ignorant?

HOW DO YOU FORCE A UNIVERSITY TO REFLECT THE DIVERSITY OF THE STATE? There are no good options if that’s your goal. I wonder, though: if major state universities just set objective GPA and SAT goals and put all applicants who met them into a lottery, would they actually be any worse off?

GOFUNDME FOR THE RALLY-GOER VICTIMS OF THE TRUMP ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT. I’m donating.

EXTREMELY GRAPHIC LEAKED PHOTO OF ALLEGED SHOOTER. It’s here. (Assuming it’s real and not AI or something.) I recoiled from it when my wife sent me the link, so you have been warned. He’s… not in good enough shape for ID by anyone who doesn’t know him, I think, so you’re not missing anything by not clicking. But it’s certainly newsworthy.

(LIKELY) GUNSHOTS AT TRUMP RALLY IN BUTLER, PA – TRUMP ALIVE BUT RUSHED OFFSTAGE WITH BLOOD ON HIS FACE.

UPDATE: Seems to have been grazed in the right ear. After a series of “pops,” he grabbed his right ear and then dove for the stage. At one point you hear someone yell “shooter down.” Here’s a jackleg stream of Fox News.

On the way out:

ANOTHER UPDATE: Ok, take this with an ENORMOUS grain of salt, but Wall Street Silver on X claims to have the name of the would-be assassin, and talks of a YouTube video of him saying “justice is coming.” Again, could be TOTALLY WRONG. Fox just reported that AP says the shooter is dead right after I hit “post,” so who knows. <– This tweet has been taken down, so I am guessing it was a fake or wrong.

MORE: Supposed video of the alleged shooter, lying dead(?) on top of some kind of structure at the rally.

7:42 PM ET: Horribly, Fox is now reporting that a rally-goer is dead and another is in critical condition.

STILL MORE (FROM GLENN): A former student sends the pic above and adds: “And the people who think they matter want us to believe this selfish rich man doesn’t love America??”

IT WAS A SUPER SHORT TRIP FROM RENAMING FT. BRAGG TO LABELING PRO-LIFERS TERRORISTS. You look at the slide and think, “maybe it’s just random pro-life clipart?” Nope, it’s in the text. Along with “Row [sighs in lawyer] v. Wade.”

MAKE POLITICS FUN AGAIN! Trump challenges Biden to $1 million charity golf tournament.

Say what you will about Trump, he tries to make it so things aren’t so boring and serious all the time. I mean, this is a guy who not only believes in “NO TAX ON TIPS!” (and don’t we all? Can we please give the Chili’s waiter a break already?) but has it in his official agenda. In all caps.

UPDATE: Biden said no in the most anti-fun way possible. (Maybe he shouldn’t have issued the original challenge?)

“TEACHING SOCIOLOGY” JOURNAL IS AN IDEOLOGICAL NIGHTMARE. No surprise, sadly, but it’s “good” to have confirmation. Representative example: On climate change, “‘horrific … scenarios’ must be privileged even if they cause ‘students … [to] fall into despair,’ because ‘climate change is, in fact, an intractable existential crisis.'” Wow, thanks, “science.”

FIVE BIG FREE SPEECH TAKEAWAYS FROM THIS TERM’S SUPREME COURT CASES. With eight First Amendment cases, it was a blockbuster term for freedom of speech.

RAPPER ON PROBATION MUST RUN ALL LYRICS BY U.S. GOVERNMENT IN ADVANCE. Not a rap fan myself, but replace “rapper” with “Trump” and “lyrics” with “speeches” and you may begin to see the potential issue here.

DUKE HEALTH FIRES DOCTOR FOR PUBLICLY CHALLENGING ‘ANTIRACISM,’ ETC. They didn’t like him talking publicly about this kind of stuff (from a Duke event):

OH GOODY: FEDERAL ‘SCIENTIFIC INTEGRITY TASK FORCE’ TO POLICE RESEARCH MISCONDUCT. Brought to you by the same folks who punished and silenced those who suggested COVID might have leaked from a lab.

PRETTY WEIRD HOW MUCH TIME “LAW” ENFORCEMENT SPENDS ENFORCING NON-LAWS. Not just the FBI, either – Vermont State Police are paying this FIRE client $175,000 for violating his First Amendment rights, not just over the stupidest thing imaginable but in the stupidest way imaginable. (Video at link.)

DON’T TRUST COLLEGES ON RACE-NEUTRAL ADMISSIONS. “This spring, University of Chicago law professor Sonja Starr reported in the Indiana Law Journal that, of the U.S. News and World Report’s top 65 colleges and universities, 43 had essay prompts addressing diversity, identity, or adversity in the latest application cycle, 31 of which mandated responses from students.”

Why exactly are college admissions such a closely-guarded secret anyway?

WAS UNC RIGHT TO CALL THE COPS ON THE PRO-PALESTINIAN CAMPERS? Rules should be consistently enforced. If enforcing them would be wrong, the rule needs to be changed. Here’s a rule of thumb for admins: if your campus is treating pro-Palestinian or pro-Israeli rulebreakers differently from how it would treat the Patriot Front or Proud Boys in the same situation, it is in the wrong.

WHILE OKLAHOMA DAWDLES, ITS UNIVERSITIES ROT. “Red state” public universities are staffed by the same people who staff every other college, except with the added missionary zeal of bringing the Gospel According to Foucault to the rubiest of rubes.

COLLEGE UPHEAVAL AS PSYCHOLOGICAL ‘GROUP PURITY’ CRUSADE. Bitterly ironic that this is the fruit of the generations-long “diversity” push. Imagine if we had spent 40 years and umpteen billons pushing the Golden Rule instead…

NEW FROM PROF. CAROL SWAIN: ‘THE ADVERSITY OF DIVERSITY.’ With the current products of the campus DEI bureaucracy rooting as hard as they can for people on the other side of the world to kill each other, it’s getting awfully hard to pretend there’s something past the adversity…

THIS TIME IT’LL WORK! ADDING ‘BELONGING’ TO FIX DEI. Now it’s DEIB? At this rate it’s going to have as many letters as LGBTQQIAA+ soon.

The Israel-Hamas blowup on campus post October 7 is all the evidence one needs to end the DEI bureaucracies forever. It turned out that the result of spending billions, ruining the lives of dissenters, and warping the purpose of education in an effort to promote “diversity, equity, and inclusion” is campuses that explode with ethnic unrest and violence when a war erupts on the other side of the planet. You had one job, DEI bureaucrats, and you failed in spectacular fashion. For a situation like this, Cromwell put it best: “It is not fit that you should sit here any longer. You have sat here too long for any good you have been doing lately … In the name of God, go!“

MORE STUDENT LOAN FORGIVENESS CHICANERY. Yes, it’s unlikely that the trillion-plus in student loans are going to be paid back in full. But a giveaway to current debtors without changing the system that caused the problem is beyond foolish. And call me old-fashioned, but if we’re going to spend the money, Congress should probably vote on it.

“CHATGPT IS REALLY HELPFUL.” A non-heavy breathing interview about AI in education. (I should note that at my kids’ school, they seem to use ChatGPT to write more elaborate insults about one another, such as a Shakespearean sonnet about how someone’s face looks dumb. Really adds some gentility to the middle school experience.)

“JUST STOP OIL” ATTEMPTS TO DESTROY THE MAGNA CARTA. There are some acts that are utterly unacceptable in a civilized society, or any society, and trying to destroy the freaking Magna Carta is one of them. This is futile, purposeless destruction of the heritage of mankind, sponsored by millionaires and billionaires.