Author Archive: Stephen Green

JOANNE JACOBS: Too much ‘adult supremacy’ at school? Or not enough?

I am an adultist, and proud of it. Now that I know there is such a thing.

San Francisco teachers were urged to resist “adult supremacy” at a weekend workshop sponsored by Teachers4SocialJustice, reports Annie Gaus in the California Post. “Youth as Knowledge Producers: Challenging Adult Supremacy Through Ethnic Studies” was part of an “Ethnic Studies Everywhere” conference.

Teachers who chose to attend learned that “the relationship between students and educators is an oppressive one,” as a slide explained. Adult supremacy “constructs adults as developed, mature, intelligent, and experienced, based solely on their age and ensures that adults control the resources and make the decisions in society.”

Somebody has to be the grownup, as my wife likes to say.

FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: Is That a Stolen Radiological Device in Your Pocket? “It’s time for your much-needed break from the serious news, and this week, we’ll learn why you don’t bring your own chimichanga to Taco Bell, where not to sell your stolen radiological device, and how an excavator is best used to settle domestic disputes in Pennsylvania.”

TIS A PITY THEY CAN’T BOTH LOSE… OH, WAIT — THEY DID: Katie Porter Whacked Eric Swalwell To Come In 5th. “That’s right, Katie Porter, who we were told was the Democrat insider’s choice for governor, and the reason then-leading Democrat Swalwell had to be shived, garnered less than 5% of the vote.”

FORBIDDEN FRUIT: Once Again, No One Sells More Guns in America Than Gun-Grabbing Politicians. “Recent FBI data suggests Virginia gun stores are seeing a huge surge in demand. In May, Virginia recorded 75,376 background checks — more than double the total from the same month last year. While background checks are not a direct measure of gun sales, they’re widely used as an industry indicator.”

UM, WHAT? ‘Khamenei’ says US, Israel hit by ‘decisive blow’ amid mixed signals on talks, US security alert. “Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei has not been seen or heard in public since being wounded in strikes that killed his father and predecessor, Ali Khamenei, on the first day of the US-Israeli war with Iran on February 28. His message, read out by a prayer leader at a ceremony marking the anniversary of the death of the Islamic Republic’s founder, came amid weeks of talks marked by threats and flare-ups of violence that have so far failed to secure a deal to end the war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a key conduit for global energy flows.”

Kudos to the Times of Israel headline writer who put scare quotes around “Khamenei.”

THE UNEXPECTEDLIES MOVE IN ONE DIRECTION UNDER A DEMOCRAT PRESIDENT, AND IN THE OTHER DIRECTION UNDER A REPUBLICAN:

IT’S TIME FOR VICTORIA TAFT’S West Coast, Messed Coast™: A Medicaid Scam You Never Saw Coming Has California Circling the… Drums “What’s the emptiest place on the West Coast, Messed Coast™ this week? It appears to be the election counting offices in California where navel-gazing vote counters are taking their sweet time to tell Californians if their vote for change has been diluted by Tom Steyer and Karen Bass ballot harvesters and vote ‘cure’ experts. We have an update.”

THE NEEDS OF THE PARTY ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE, COMRADE:

HEY, BIG SPENDER: SpaceX tells banks it won’t move its $135-a-share IPO price.

SpaceX told banks in its $75 billion initial public offering ​that it is set on the $135-a-share price ‌that the firm disclosed on Wednesday in its amended IPO filing, sources told Reuters.

The company’s decision ​is the latest sign that Elon Musk ​is intent on holding the largest ever initial ⁠offering according to his preferences, upending ​Wall Street tradition — though sources stressed that the ​decision is subject to change before the IPO takes place. SpaceX didn’t immediately respond to a request ​for comment.

SpaceX began meeting with investors on ​Thursday in its IPO roadshow – where securities issuers and their ‌bankers ⁠typically gather investor feedback before determining the final IPO price at a meeting held a day before the shares begin trading.

Needless to say, the company’s orbital AI data centers require a lot of cash.

HOWEVER MUCH YOU DESPISE THE MEDIA…:

…it will never be enough.

HIGHER EDUCATION IMPLOSION UPDATE: Low enrollment rocks U. Oregon as it works to slash $65 million, shutters dorms.

“Based on our new numbers, we will need to cut around $65 million from our budget to avoid an ongoing annual budget deficit in the coming years,” President Karl Scholz recently announced to the campus community.

He primarily blamed lower out-of-state first-year enrollment, which means lower tuition revenue, and instituted a hiring and pay freeze.

Other factors cited at a June 1 Board of Trustees meeting include increased costs and a loss in grant funding.

The university on June 2 announced it will shutter two off-campus dorm as it grapples with the budget shortfall. It will close Barnhart Residence Hall and Barnhart Dining Hall and shutter Riley Hall for the 2026–27 academic year, the Daily Emerald reported. If some students need to be housed, Riley Hall will serve as an overflow dorm.

Weird, but I didn’t see anything in that report about reducing administrative bloat.

Previously: If only someone had warned them.

HEH:

It’s fun having a POTUS having so much fun.

I DID NAZI THAT COMING:

THE NEW SPACE RACE: NASA head urges new launcher for Blue Origin’s moon landers to meet Artemis mission deadlines.

In an interview with FOX Business on Thursday, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman described a “whole of government response” to the May 28 incident, which badly damaged Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral. “We are also de-coupling the lander from the launch vehicle and the pad itself,” he said.

“NASA is laser focused on the lander because we’re laser focused on our mission to return astronauts to the surface of the moon before 2028, and we’re gonna be able to keep that lander in development, progressing, so it’s available for our test mission in 2027, which is Artemis 3, and potentially available to meet our landing objectives in 2028,” Isaacman said.

“It’s a setback that happens in this business. It’s incredibly complicated. A rocket is a controlled explosion, whether you’re going to Earth orbit, 17,500 miles an hour, escape velocity, 25,000 miles an hour, it’s an awful lot of energy, things will happen. We have to learn from it and be ready to move forward.”

Faster with Starship, please, Elon.

GOODER AND HARDER, NEW JERSEY:

YES ON BOTH COUNTS:

KEEP IT UP: Feds announce major fraud busts in Ohio. “Unfortunately, this area around Columbus is responsible for 1/3 of all of the $1.5B spent on home healthcare in Ohio… that’s 3x what you would expect… it defies belief. Some of these buildings were vacant.”

FRAUD ALL THE WAY DOWN:

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Talarico Is Continuing Proof That Dems Don’t Do Jesus Stuff Well. “In addition to selling him as a moderate even though he’s not, the MSM hacks are crafting an involved fiction about Talarico being a good Christian. A new kind of Christian, one who magically turns the New Testament into leftist marching orders.”