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MEGAN MCARDLE: Academia Finally Got Schooled: Universities, colleges took prestige and public support for granted. Now they are paying the price. The left, not the right, picked this fight. Too many institutions set themselves up as the “Resistance” to Trump and tried to make a lot of mainstream political opinions anathematic, while expecting to be protected from backlash by principles such as academic freedom that they were no longer honoring. This was politically naive and criminally stupid for institutions that rely so heavily on U.S. taxpayer support. . . . By presenting their expertise as part of a political fight, academics were not only squandering their credibility. They were asking to be treated like political adversaries. And in a real political fight, the ability to get your opponent’s journal article retracted is way less important than his ability to cut off your supply lines. This danger has been evident for years, yet when I asked academics if this was really wise, most were curiously oblivious to the risks. Though they complained about stingy state legislatures and meddling Republican politicians, many bizarrely took them as evidence that there was little cost to politicizing academia — essentially, “They’re already attacking us, so there’s no point in trying to placate them.” They did not seem to grasp how much worse it could get. Fundamentally, they took their prestige and public support for granted and seemed unable to imagine a world where the word “education” no longer conjured reverent deference among most of the population. Like children throwing rocks from an overpass, they felt protected by their elevated position, assuming their targets could do little but yell back. They weren’t expecting one of the drivers to get out of the car and grab a baseball bat from the trunk. It’s not like they weren’t warned. https://archive.is/qqfXh

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Conservatives poised to lead Germany; AfD second The Hill, by Lauren Irwin German conservative opposition leader Friedrich Merz appears poised to win the country’s election Sunday, while the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party places second despite making gains. Chancellor Olaf Scholz conceded defeat, calling the election results “bitter,” The Associated Press reported. Scholz’s Social Democratic Party placed third, behind the AfD, in its worst result in a national election in decades. With more than 200 constituencies’ results declared, Reuters reported that the conservative party earned 28.8 percent of the vote with the AfD trailing at 20.9 percent. The Social Democrats came in at third place at 16.3 percent. The AP noted that Germany, as the most populous country in the European Union, , will be key to the ongoing conversation in the region, particularly as it is Ukraine’s second-largest weapons supplier. https://thehill.com/policy/international/5160281-conservatives-poised-to-lead-germany-far-right-afd-second/

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Ahhh, that old dodge. Apparently you skipped over this earlier. More than qualified. But you knew that. .

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This man was willing to risk his life for President Obama, even though they had differing political views. That’s a worthy deputy director for the nation’s leading law enforcement agency. https://x.com/LawrenceBJones3/status/1893842509207330902? .

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Sell one of your many houses Bernie !

. As they should have The Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance – Reason and Justice is a political party in Germany founded on 8 January 2024. It has been described as far-left, left-wing populist, left-wing nationalist, socialist, culturally conservative, Eurosceptic and critical of the United States. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahra_Wagenknecht_Alliance

The pilot behind the dramatic Delta crash that flipped a plane upside down at Toronto Pearson Airport has been identified as 26-year-old First Officer Kendal Swanson. A Minnesota beauty pageant winner who completed her training just last April with under 1,500 flight hours. The more experienced captain, James Henneman, was handling communications as Swanson piloted during the crash. https://x.com/ShadowofEzra/status/1893108202654310607

#"Arrest Adam Schiff"

President Donald Trump released a statement And, as usual, the left refuses to accept an election outcome.