Gail Heriot

“…California was never a slave state. Nevertheless, numerous “reparations” bills have passed the Assembly to benefit the descendants of American slaves. For example, AB7 would (if it passes the Senate and is signed into law by the governor) authorize California universities to discriminate in admissions in favor of the descendants of slaves. Similarly, AB57 would earmark 10% of the funds available under California’s first-time homebuyers program for the descendants of slaves. As passed by the Assembly, AB742 would “prioritize” applicants seeking “licensure” who are descendants of slaves. The Senate version is currently worded somewhat differently, but it’s still the same idea.

More such bills have passed the Assembly and seem destined to pass the Senate.

Apparently, California Democrats think this gets them around those pesky laws that forbid race discrimination. They are wrong. Imagine if, back in the 1950s, segregated school districts had switched from segregating the schools based on race to segregating them based on descent from slavery. It wouldn’t have made a difference. They’d have been laughed for their efforts.

Obviously lawsuits will be filed if these bills pass. More interestingly, the Department of Justice could go after the State of California for a violation of Title VI. Thanks in part to the Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1987, the federal government could potentially cut off the state from billions of dollars in federal funding.

This stuff deserves to get more publicity than it’s getting. If Gavin Newsom signs any of them, and then runs for President (or even if he doesn’t), you can bet they will be a standard talking point for Republicans. Personally, I rather stop them now. But some in the Republican Party have a different opinion…”

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Biden’s pardons of the January 6th committee were signed by autopen at the direction of an assistant

Unfreakingreal looking back on this:

“President Trump and his supporters have contributed to this violent rhetoric.”

“Well absolutely, George.”

*Lists the bloodbath hoax and J6*

Some smart person once said, “no matter how much you hate the media, you don’t hate them enough.”

Marc Andreessen: Foreign Enrollment At Top Universities Has Grown From 3% To A Majority Over the Past 50 Years

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America’s ‘Useful Idiots’

“…Yazzie is an example of how most faculties in this country now run from the left to the far left. Applicants who espouse center-right viewpoints are often rejected as lacking “intellectual rigor” or depth. However, you cannot be too far left to secure a position in many departments that do not have a single Republican or conservative.

Take University of Chicago Assistant Professor Eman Abdelhadi, who used her recent appearance at the Socialism 2025 conference to denounce the University of Chicago as an “evil” and “colonialist” institution. Nevertheless, she insisted that she wanted to remain at the evil institution — not for its intellectual community, but to “organize” and “leverage” to build a socialist coalition.

Keep in mind that the faculty not only decided that Abdelhadi was worthy of a faculty position in the university’s Department of Comparative Human Development, but then also made her the Director of Graduate Studies…”

David Brooks: David Gergen Was “A Good PBS Conservative” Like Me

“Jews for Zohran” Linked to Pro-CCP Billionaire’s Niece

MAGA saves children

“…Underage illegal aliens are pure gold to Democrats because Democrats can use them in so many ways. They prop up enrollment at schools because federal money is based on body counts and how poorly children do in school. Ted Kennedy and Dubya monetized failure. Graduate kids who cannot read and collect more money in the name of helping children. Democrats can use underage illegals for sex. The Glass House raid shows child labor lives on…”

And the more measured Randy Barnett:

I think most Americans see these childish antics like in the video below, shake their heads and think this why we need Trump. Working Americans face layoffs regularly. No one cries for them, or calls them heroes, or tells them to fight fascism (as if getting laid off is fascism). These scenes have the opposite effect that legacy media wants them to have.

I think the State Department has about 85,000 employees.

85,000.

DODGERS HOLD MS 13 BOBBLEHEAD NIGHT – BABYLON BEE.

California’s Gasoline Crisis Was Manufactured—Now They’re Pretending to Fix It

The Democratic Party Civil War Just Escalated Big Time

“…The Democratic Party’s internal fractures are no longer simmering beneath the surface—they’re erupting into open warfare. The latest salvo comes from within the party’s own ranks, as the far-left wing grows increasingly emboldened to challenge the establishment’s authority. What we’re witnessing is not just a disagreement over policy or tactics, but a full-blown civil war for the soul of the Democratic Party.

Democratic Socialist allies of Zohran Mamdani are reportedly laying the groundwork for primary challenges against several incumbent congressional Democrats in New York City—potentially even targeting House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries…

…Top Hakeem Jeffries adviser Andre Richardson is sounding the alarm over rumblings of a left-wing primary challenge, lashing out at the Democratic Socialists circling Jeffries’ seat. “Our response will be forceful and unrelenting. We will teach them and all of their incumbents a painful lesson on June 23, 2026.”

Jeffries, for his part, feigned ignorance about the whole thing. “I have no idea what these people are talking about,” he told CNN, before pivoting to the usual script about “pushing back against extremism”—as if the radicals threatening to take his job aren’t in his own party…”

Jeffries adviser Andre Richardson sounds like the Ayatollah threatening Trump 

Vaginal Traps Instead of Migration Policy: Germany’s Latest Absurdity

“…Germany is facing an alarming rise in rape cases. In just five years, the number of reported assaults has increased by 49.5%, surpassing 12,000 per year. And yet, the institutional and academic response does not point towards a serious analysis of the causes or reforms that would effectively protect women. Instead of addressing the factors driving this violence—such as massive and uncontrolled immigration—the reaction is a grotesque distraction: proposing “trap condoms” with internal spikes designed to injure the attacker’s penis.

The idea, recycled from an old South African invention called Rape-aXe, consists of a vaginal device that a woman can wear for self-defense. If she becomes a victim of rape, the device activates, inflicting pain and injuries on the attacker and also facilitating later medical identification. Sociologist Julia Wege of the Ravensburg-Weingarten University of Applied Sciences and physician Urs Schneider of the Fraunhofer Institute for Health Technology in Stuttgart have announced a study in which they intend to investigate technical aids against sexual violence, which includes this one.

What is presented as an innovative and empowering measure is a surrender of the state. It is the tacit admission that the streets are unsafe, that the judicial system offers no protection, that the borders are open, and that women must prepare to defend themselves alone—as if they lived in a war zone…”

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The Idiocy of the Epstein Mythology

“…Epstein mythology can be roughly defined as the popular belief, nearly ubiquitous on social media and adjacent outlets, that the deceased financier Jeffrey Epstein orchestrated a sprawling child sex-trafficking operation in which the powerful individuals across government, business, entertainment, and academia with whom Epstein consorted were systematically entrapped into compromising sexual encounters, surreptitiously filmed, and then blackmailed into silence or complicity—likely with the assistance of some unknown intelligence agencies (Mossad being a typical candidate). The true scale of this operation has been covered up, the mythology goes, because its exposure would unveil the evil at the very heart of global power structures.

More recently, the mythology has taken on a startling new dimension. While the second Trump administration promised to vanquish the Deep State and to bring long overdue justice to child-predating wrongdoers, there appears to have been a slight snafu. Justice was apparently to be served by releasing what had colloquially become known as the “Epstein Files”—a compendium of damning documents understood to be sitting in a government repository somewhere, shielded from public disclosure by reprobates in the Biden Administration—and indeed the first Trump administration, which had also been obstructed by the insidious Deep State. But this time, Trump would install only the most loyal and tenacious warriors. Incorruptible heroes such as Kash Patel, Dan Bongino, and Pam Bondi would stop at nothing to reveal the truth, once and for all. And yet now, in a shocking twist, Trump and his subordinates have decided to join the coverup, and let the elite pedophiles continue enjoying their impunity.

That’s a brief rundown of the current iteration of Epstein mythology. Of course, there are also non-mythological components to the Jeffrey Epstein saga. He really did procure teenage girls for his own perverse gratification. He really did hobnob with an astonishing array of well-connected and powerful individuals. He really did die under peculiar circumstances. It is easy to see why this story has morphed into an object of such sustained intrigue. But kernels of truth have long since given way to an ever-expanding mythology which cannot be falsified. No countervailing evidence could ever disabuse its most committed adherents of their essential belief: that organized sexual predation rings of the kind orchestrated by Epstein are pervasively real and play a decisive role in how power is distributed in society…”