HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: UMinn plans to cut $225 million over next 2 years due to enrollment, rising costs. “Citing declining enrollment and rising costs, the University of Minnesota president announced plans Thursday to implement major budget cuts over the next two years.”
Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
September 26, 2026
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: University of Maine plans for faculty layoffs amid $19 million deficit.
PUTIN’S PROBLEMS: Two More Russian Refineries Shut Down Operations After Drone Strikes.
THE ENEMY WITHIN:
For more than two years, school officials in Boston, Mass., have employed True-See Allah, an admirer of Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan who has described white people as being “born with lie and murder in their nature” and has declared Jews the “enemies” of God.
Allah…
— Dexter Van Zile (@dextervanzile) September 25, 2026
NO. NEXT QUESTION? John McWhorter: Are Lynchings Really Happening?
Since 2024, to judge from news reports, there have been at least 10 Black people found hanged in public in the United States. Eight of these cases have been officially ruled suicides or are being treated as such given no signs of foul play. In neither of the other two has a white suspect been named. . . .
Lynchings, of course, once loomed as a real and grisly threat over Black communities — arbitrary killings, treated as a public spectacle for whites, and unpunished. And there are certainly cases in which police officers have claimed that someone in their custody died by suicide, but the circumstances strongly suggest that the individual was killed by the police.
But what Pressley and others are suggesting is different: that today, white people are hanging Black people for the purpose of terrorizing Black communities, and that local authorities are consistently overlooking it or covering it up.
In the cases Pressley’s letter cites, there is often good reason to think otherwise. Consider a few examples:
In 2024, Javion Magee, a 21-year-old Black truck driver, was found dead in North Carolina with a rope around his neck, dangling from a tree. There is surveillance video of Magee buying the rope.In 2025, Demartravion Reed, a 21-year-old Black student at Delta State University in Mississippi, was discovered hanged from a tree on campus. Reed had sent his girlfriend suicidal text messages the night before.
In the case of Tasia Fortune, a 29-year-old woman who was found hanged from a tree in Mississippi last month, two people have now been arrested in connection with her death — but they are both Black men, which runs counter to the idea that these cases are reanimations of old-school racism.
But the left needs for lynchings to be happening, because they need it to be 1953. But despite their nostalgia for those days, it’s not. Instead we live in the Jussie Smollett Century.
THEY USED TO BURN HERETICS, BUT THIS IS MORE LAUGHABLE THAN INCENDIARY: Episcopal Priest Claims ‘God Is Trans,’ Mary ‘Assigned’ Jesus the Wrong Gender.
September 25, 2026
OPEN THREAD: Ring in the weekend.
GLORIOUS RESULTS OF A MISSPENT YOUTH: James Webb Space Telescope looks back in time, finds our ancient universe wasn’t as pure as we thought.
21ST CENTURY WARFARE: U.S. Army Puts Defenses To A ‘Stress Test’ Using Massive Drone Swarms.
ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM: Rich US Neighborhoods Are More Likely to Burn in Wildfires, Study Reveals.
FOLLOW THE SCIENCE: Why Are Heterosexual Women Attracted to Each Other?
ONE OF PETE HEGSETH’S STRONGEST CREDENTIALS IS THE CALIBER OF THE PEOPLE WHO HATE HIM:
According to failed General Mark Hertling, "it's not clear why" the Pentagon has decided to test senior officers. I could end this post there and have the internet tell it how it is. But I'm not. I actually read this rag of an article.
My response to Hertling (who blocks me… https://t.co/5p8vRTjBX0 pic.twitter.com/GWYUMIwWS9
— InfantryDort (@infantrydort) September 25, 2026
You were branched as a Finance officer and later became a public affairs officer.
In the Reserves.
Your highest award is a DMSM.
Look, as a career logistics officer myself I always preach one team, one fight, but not when someone like you–who is supported by the cretinous,… https://t.co/vAnzH78GHb
— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) September 25, 2026
UPDATE:
More unqualified frat boys then.
Putting the warfighting back in the War Department.
(Dead name DoD, for Department of DEI. He transitioned it. Because the upper echelon of our military just like the rest of our government was burdened with unimaginative careerist hacks who… https://t.co/otcUTMTdcj
— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) September 25, 2026
CHANGE: GM Supersizes the 2027 Duramax, Snatching Ford’s Diesel Bragging Rights. “The all-new Duramax ups its displacement by nearly 26 percent to 8.3 liters. That alone is remarkable news, considering the Duramax has been a 6.6-liter engine since GM introduced it more than a quarter-century ago.”
NEW IN NICK KRISTOF NEWS: Dog rape revisited.
He’ll be “Dog Rape Man” for the rest of his life.
HE DESERVES JAIL TIME: Leaked Fauci Pardon Papers Cast Doubt On Claims He Never Asked Biden for Clemency.
TIME FOR ELON TO BUILD HIS SALVAGE VESSELS: A new report from Europe raises serious alarms about orbital collisions.
THE TSUNAMI HASN’T QUITE HIT YET, BUT IT’S COMING VERY SOON: AI, Internet, and Rapid Advances in the Technology of Fraud.
MASSIVE RESISTANCE: No ‘hidden DEI program’ SMU says after video shows staffer saying opposite.
THE WAY THINGS WORK:
The NGOs end up increasing the number of homeless people they manage, because that’s the only way to increase their revenue! Incentives drive outcomes.
“Homeless” is a propaganda word used to describe people on the street who are mentally ill or severely addicted to drugs. The… https://t.co/iELKphtgi9
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 25, 2026