Eric Trump -- the president's son -- is on Maria Bartiromo's show bragging about one of his companies landing a $24 million Pentagon contract

Outraged online man asks Grok how Mary Anne Franks is "allowed to teach law"; Grok responds, "She's a tenured law professor at GW with a Harvard JD, Oxford DPhil (Rhodes Scholar), and decades of scholarship on First Amendment, civil rights, tech law, and image-based abuse. Universities hire and retain faculty based on credentials, publications, and teaching record."

Grok out there defending muh honor

This is a pitch perfect response from @aoc.bsky.social -- she mocks their whining, she brings the receipts and then she uses this move as a sign that Democrats are moving to offense now.

We have an unhealthy unspoken media agreement in this country that you can’t point out that someone harbors objectively insane, delusional beliefs that should disqualify them from being anywhere near a position of power if said beliefs are colorably linkable to a mainstream religious worldview.

Burchett is right: the most DC thing ever *is* a member of Congress blaming the city for something he and his colleagues did themselves.

This is a FRAUDULENT paper, AI-generated. My name was used as an author and I had nothing to do with it, never saw it until today e-pubmed.co.uk/journals/dig...
The "Editors" Angelo Rossi Mori, David Mensah, and Zarnie Khadjesari and this "Journal" should be reported.

Make UAE Profitable For The Trump Family Again.

Put that on your ugly red hat.

He didn't even get Trump's mad maths right here. Trump would say a $600 drug going down to $60 is "down 1,000%". RFK Jr can't even get his wrong maths right.

Officer I have a different way of calculating blood alcohol percentage

And if you can’t trust the math skills of a guy with a string of bankruptcies & failed businesses, who can you trust?

Remember, these are the guys trying to control university curriculum to eliminate wokeness...like math

Conservatives: Communism is bad!

Also conservatives: State ownership of enterprises is good, actually!

The committee, established a year ago by Yale’s president, Maurie McInnis, was created in response to a collapse of public trust in higher education, particularly in elite private schools. It examined many reasons: skyrocketing tuition costs, bureaucratic bloat, opaque admissions standards, an ideologically monochromatic faculty, rampant grade inflation, an intellectual atmosphere of censoriousness and self-censorship. This, for the most part, is the standard conservative indictment of modern academia. The committee’s verdict: guilty. At Yale, “registered Democrats outnumber Republicans 36 to 1 across the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Law School and the School of Management.” The percentage of undergraduates who do not feel comfortable expressing their political beliefs on campus nearly doubled between 2015 and 2025. Grades are now, effectively, meaningless: In 2022-23, 79 percent of grades given to Yale undergraduates were an A or A–, up from 10 percent in 1963.

But is it enough? I have my doubts. Part of the problem is that a university that spent decades turning itself into what it is now cannot easily turn itself into something else — not least because the self-governing (and often self-dealing) structures of academic life make it difficult to foster the deep cultural changes that universities require. University leaders who try to address the problem of ideological homogenization, for instance, are rarely able to do more than establish an on-campus institute or a faculty position for a tokenized conservative view. But those efforts mainly replicate one of modern academia’s worst mistakes, which was to embrace the cause of diversity (of race, ethnicity and now viewpoint) as a substitute for truth-seeking. What universities need aren’t more young Republicans or islands of conservative thought. What they need, in every department, are more skeptics and iconoclasts and people with a capacity to change their minds intelligently. Selecting for those virtues, particularly in faculty hiring, is a long-term task.

Another blow to @yale.edu's credibility, as lying dimwit hack Bret Stephens praises their pick-me-GOP report for regurgitating the "standard conservative indictment of modern academia."

Unsurprisingly, Stephens demands more: universities should stop hiring scholars and hire only right-wing frauds.

Remember, Democrats have repeatedly advanced measures to ban partisan gerrymandering and Republicans have voted against them time after time.

This is the game Republicans wanted to play. OK, then.

Cf. the Bezos Post, "Republicans gerrymandering in Texas is fine, actually" b/w "Democrats gerrymandering in Virginia is a threat to democracy"

"Nor will we force you to wear a helmet in the battlefield, if you prefer. You do you, American warrior."

All I want for Christmas is for the Atlantic to skip a MTD and get discovery into Patel's drinking habits

Trump Is Said to Be in Talks to Send Afghans Who Aided U.S. Forces to Congo

This is monstrous. Just profoundly shameful behavior by our government.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/w...

Hell, why have modern medicine in the military at all? Let's get back to vicious battlefield amputations. Anesthesia is woke.

Powerful 7.5-magnitude earthquake strikes off Japan, tsunami alert issued A powerful earthquake struck off the northern Japanese coast, and the Japan Meteorological Agency issued a tsunami alert in the region.

It’d be cool if the Trump regime hadn’t fired a bunch of people from the two tsunami warning centers.

Hegseth sneered about the military's logistical experts, and now he's got ships stuck with sailors almost starving on them.

But he's still sure the dismissive attitude about the flu won't come back to bite him.

This Isn't Trading. It's Theft from Your Retirement. Someone keeps making perfectly-timed bets right before the President speaks. The victims are your pension, your 401(k), and the country I took an oath to defend.

Fifteen minutes before the President announced he was pausing strikes on Iran, somebody moved $500 million in oil futures. Somebody knew. Somebody told them. Or somebody is them.
New piece ↓
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

You know who else famously used paid informants to infiltrate extremist groups?

The Justice Department.

Some historians credit England's better management of scurvy for their defeat of the Spanish Armada

Can’t wait until Attorney General Jamie Raskin makes use of this precedent

Even worse, his pseudo-engagement antagonizes the other government and kills off the possibility of real diplomacy later. When the Hanoi summit fell apart, it convinced Kim that negotiating with the U.S. was pointless. There have been no talks since then.

Some historians have said that the 1917-18 flu epidemic started at an army post in Kansas.

Problem: White House is concerned by reports that several men in the cabinet are drinking on the job.
Solution:

If you have something good to read, it’s not wasted time.