WHY IS HIGHER EDUCATION SUCH A CESSPIT OF RACISM AND DISCRIMINATION? University of California, Riverside grant funding policies favor immigrants over U.S. citizens.

THE DRONE REVOLUTION IS BECOMING UNMISTAKABLE: Russia Closes the Kerch Strait After 76 Ships Hit With Drones.

SHE IS A NATIONAL TREASURE: The Data Cruncher Who Debunked The Biggest Charlie Kirk Conspiracies.

R.I.P. LINDSEY GRAHAM:

Statement from the Office of U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina). pic.twitter.com/CQ5yVvqTH1

— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) July 12, 2026

He has his fans and detractors, but for me his best moment was his insouciant response to being followed by shrieking harridans during the Kavanaugh confirmation.

SHADY: Anti-Corruption’ Senate Candidate Chris Pappas, Whose Ex-Lobbyist Husband Works for Uber, Sits on House Transportation Committee That Uber Heavily Lobbies.

THE HISTORY PROFESSION IS QUESTIONABLE: A Decorated Historian’s Research Comes Under Fire.

A major publisher appeared to pull a prizewinning history book about a prominent South Carolina slaveholding family and its role in the abolitionist movement, after several scholars accused the author of misleading readers about details that were central to what reviewers had described as a groundbreaking narrative.

The book, “The Grimkes,” and its author, the historian Kerri K. Greenidge, received widespread acclaim when the book was released in 2022 by Liveright Publishing.

Glowing write-ups came pouring in, including from The New York Times Book Review and Publishers Weekly, which named “The Grimkes” one of the 10 best books of 2022. In 2023, the American Historical Association awarded Greenidge with the Joan Kelly Memorial Prize, which recognizes scholars in women’s history and feminist theory. . . .

In the review, Glenn noted that the book quoted letters exchanged between the Grimke sisters, Angelina and Sarah, “antebellum radicals who renounced their family heritage to campaign for abolitionism, racial equality, and women’s rights,” while the siblings discussed their biracial nephews.

But Glenn asserted in her review that the University of Michigan did not possess the letters in its archive, despite the book’s claims that they were kept there.

Glenn also disputed Greenidge’s account of an 1838 attack on Pennsylvania Hall in Philadelphia by an anti-abolitionist mob, which indicated that the Grimke sisters “led thousands of antislavery women through prayer” and helped them escape the “flaming building.”

“But as numerous sources have documented, no one was in the building when it was torched since antislavery activists cancelled a scheduled meeting, fearing impending violence,” Glenn wrote.

Shades of Michael Bellesiles, whose Arming America, which had the astonishing thesis that guns in colonial America were rare and usually held by the government in armories, won a lot of awards but was ultimately found to be full of lies, including references to nonexistent archival sources.

But as a white male, Bellesiles didn’t have access to this tactic: “In an interview on Friday, Greenidge, who is Black, said that her life’s work had been torn down by white scholars who disagreed with her conclusions about racism, slavery and white supremacy.”

Plus, this doesn’t inspire confidence: “She criticized the university’s peer review panel, which she said included two senior historians whom she described as hostile toward Black women in academia. She did not name them. She said that the university’s review was prompted by the complaints from a white woman scholar, whom she also declined to name. She said that she had sought a restraining order against that scholar.”

Puhleez. Race doesn’t excuse fraud, plagiarism, or even sloppy scholarship. And people who think it does have no business in academia.

HAHA:

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— Stephen E. Sachs (@StephenESachs) July 10, 2026

OPEN THREAD: I can’t cry anymore, while you post around.

CRITICS, CHINESE FRONTS, WHATEVER: The US wants to build offshore rocket launch sites. Critics say ‘our coasts deserve better.’

OH, GREAT, ANOTHER JURASSIC PARK SEQUEL: For The First Time, Ancient Human DNA Has Been Found Preserved on Cave Walls.

WELL, GOOD: Researchers Finally Solve a Decades-Old Mystery About Cellular Aging.

AMONG OTHER THINGS, LESS WORK FOR DOCTORS: The pitfalls of using social media and AI for health decisions, according to a doctor.

EVERYONE’S SUV SHOULD HAVE A SLUSHIE MACHINE.

THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE, THE ISSUE IS ALWAYS THE REVOLUTION: Omnicause Mission Creep: Giffords Moves from Gun Control to Defending Illegals Attacking ICE Agents.

STATING THE OBVIOUS WILL GET YOU BURNED AT THE STAKE IN THE UK NOW: Oxford don under fire for saying Britain needs air-con. He’s right that opposition to air conditioning is basically a “tribal issue.”

VITAMIN D UPDATE: 5 New Things Scientists Have Learned About Vitamin D In 2026.

SO MY FRIEND’S SISTER WHO SAT ON THE WASHING MACHINE A LOT WAS AHEAD OF A TREND? Vibration plates are trendy. But do they actually work?

MAKE THEM PAY: Seven years later, a campus cancel culture incident heads to trial.

HIGHER EDUCATION WAS SUPPOSED TO ENCOURAGE CIVILITY AND CRITICAL THINKING: College campuses are ground zero for ‘the gospel of envy.’

RULE OF LAW: The Anti-Gun Left’s Solution to Consistent SCOTUS Losses: Pack the Court.

SEDITION:

Because we've developed this really bad habit of waving this kind of thing off as 'crazy college kids' just doing the campus radical thing for a few years before becoming adults.

It's a very typical boomer attitude because so many boomers experienced it themselves. They marched…

— Hon. Vickie Paladino (@VickieforNYC) July 9, 2026

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: Newsom Lawyers Up as Missing Tax Returns Fuel More Questions About Federal Probe.

#WAR:

Anthropic is giving left wing NGO’s free access to its tools to target conservatives and MAGA. This company is completely out of control and is now waging war against every Trump voter. pic.twitter.com/NzRnvMV5Sg

— Cernovich (@Cernovich) July 9, 2026

“ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW” HAS BEEN THE BIGGEST DRAG ON TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS FOR THE PAST HALF-CENTURY: ‘Reckless’ space-based data centers lack environmental review, drawing criticism.

OPEN THREAD: Zombie see, and zombie do.