The Trump Administration is tightening up visa requirements for Chinese communists who come to the USA for training at Harvard — and none too soon:

For decades, the [Chinese Communist Party] has sent thousands of mid-career and senior bureaucrats to pursue executive training and postgraduate studies on U.S. campuses, with Harvard University a coveted destination described by some in China as the top “party school” outside the country. …

Harvard enjoys a sterling reputation among Chinese officials thanks to its record in training highflying bureaucrats who went on to take senior government roles and, in some cases, join the party’s elite Politburo.

The ChiComs are open about their close relationship with likeminded Harvard:

“If we were to rank the Chinese Communist Party’s ‘overseas party schools,’ the one deserving top spot has to be Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government in the U.S.,” said a 2014 commentary published by Shanghai Observer, an online platform run by the city’s main party newspaper.

The current regime in China is continuous with Mao Zedong’s, which killed over 70 million of its own people in peacetime. Xi Jinping seeks to displace the USA as the world’s dominant superpower so as to expand communist tyranny.

Xi sent his own daughter to Harvard. He isn’t worried that students will be exposed to dangerous Western ideas about freedom and property rights — not at the leftist school that FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression) ranked dead last in the country for free speech, scoring 0 out of 100:

What’s more, granting Harvard a score of 0.00 is generous. Its actual score is -10.69, more than six standard deviations below the average and more than two standard deviations below the second-to-last school in the rankings, its Ivy League counterpart, the University of Pennsylvania.

The Wall Street Journal’s Gerry Baker emerges from a fog of TDS to praise Trump for declaring the party over:

Trump is right to have identified the [higher education] system as having corrupted our sense of national cohesion and purpose and right again to target Harvard as the symbolic and substantive summit of that system.

The sins of Harvard don’t stop at training our most dangerous adversary’s politburo:

Through its admissions process it has actively discriminated against many of the most gifted Americans based on their skin color. Through its hiring practices and teaching it has created an oppressively intolerant monocultural intellectual microclimate. Through its massive inflation of administrative bureaucracy it has enforced and policed these rigidities at great cost, paid for by steep tuition hikes as its $53 billion endowment has made it a hedge fund with a university attached. And through its aggressive pursuit of international students it has built a little elite globalist community of highly privileged like-minded students and academics.

Harvard is lucky Trump is only limiting Harvard’s access to the taxpayer teat and the influx of ChiCom tyrants in training rather than calling in an airstrike.

On tips from abcanc, Varla, and David Kight.

Where liberals prevail, hiring and promotions are based not on merit but on equity. Liberals control most schools; shouldn’t the same principle be applied there? It will be in San Francisco:

San Francisco’s public school system is quietly rolling out a “Grading for Equity” program that will reportedly exclude homework or weekly tests from final grades and allow students to pass with scores as low as 21 out of 100.

With standards like that, Joe Biden could graduate.

Under Grading for Equity, semester grades will depend entirely on a final exam that can be retaken multiple times—even if students skip assignments or fail to attend class.

Passing the exam is not intended to be challenging:

[The] Grading for Equity system will allow students to earn an A with a score of 80, a C with 41, and a D with just 21 out of 100…

C used to be average. When equity has been achieved, everyone will be average — with average set to the lowest common denominator.

On a tip from Franco.

A high school student barges into the locker room of the opposite sex and records video. A Title IX investigation follows so that the educrats running the school can punish which of the following: (1) the miscreant or (2) the kids who were recorded? The question is hard so here’s a clue to make it easy: this happened in Loudoun County, Virginia:

[T]hree young men … were videotaped inside the boy’s locker room at Stone Bridge High School.

The video was shot by who they say is a biologically female student that uses the boys’ facilities because she identifies as male. That is permitted under the Loudoun County School Board’s Policy 8040.

The girl is not in trouble at the school. The boys are. They stand formally accused of sexual harassment because they talked among themselves about their discomfort over her presence in the boys’ locker room.

Making it more difficult to defend the boys, the school wouldn’t let their families have a copy of the video the girl took of them allegedly sexually harassing her. They had to submit a Freedom of Information Act request to the sheriff’s office to see it.

If Stone Bridge High School sounds familiar, you may be thinking of Scott Smith, the parent who was punched in the face by police and dragged out of the room with his pants pulled down after he complained at a school board meeting about a boy in a skirt sexually assaulting his 9th grade daughter in the girls’ bathroom. This was consistent with the Democrat view that concerned parents who resist the liberal agenda should be treated as domestic terrorists. Afterward, the media piled on by portraying Smith as a villain for standing up for his daughter.

The depraved fiends running public schools in Loudoun County are like something out of a book by Aldous Huxley. For more on what they have been inflicting on children, see here, here, here, here, here, here, and here. What do you expect of a region that serves as suburbia for the Swamp?

On a tip from ABC of the ANC.

People who would sexually corrupt children won’t shy from misappropriating funds.

From the Land of Fruits and Nuts:

The Genders & Sexualities Alliance (GSA) Network — which backs over 4,000 LGBT student groups in the U.S. — uses the clubs to engage kids on topics such as transgenderism, sexuality and queer activism, all while leaving parents in the dark, documents show. The Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) burned nearly $60,000 in HIV prevention grant funds from the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on the GSA clubs.

The CDC grant funds Healthy Oakland Teens, a school-based program with the goal of reducing HIV and STDs among the district’s middle and high school student population.

Encouraging teenagers to engage in homosexuality is a funny way to reduce diseases spread by homosexuality — and yet:

OUSD’s 2018 grant application revealed it used part of the Healthy Oakland Teens funding to pay school staff members, called “LGBTQ Liasons,” to oversee middle and high school GSA clubs and help create a school climate that “affirms” LGBT students. A July 2023 award letter shows an additional $50,000 of grant funding paid elementary school staff to run similar LGBT programs for younger students.

Erin Lee reports on what a GSA club masquerading as an art club did to her 6th grade daughter:

“They talked about sexual attraction, how being uncomfortable in your body actually means you are ‘trans,’ puberty blockers, polyamory, unsupportive parents, and suicide. …

“They planted seeds of distrust towards parents; they manipulated her feelings; they violated her innocence; they lied to her. And they lied to us. They tried to keep it all a secret and persuade her to keep the secret, too.”

In any other time, people like this could count themselves lucky if the police got to them before parents did. But we are more tolerant now. What you tolerate, you get ever more of, until you understand why it didn’t use to be tolerated.

On a tip from Franco.

The official ideology of academia is moonbattery, a fundamental component of which is self-hatred. So no one should be surprised that Smith College — a women’s college — just granted an honorary degree to a man who has waged war on women.

The honoree is Richard “Rachel” Levine…

…who has weaponized his medical position as a doctor to attack fairness in women’s sports, privacy in women’s intimate settings, and a generation’s ability to have children.

Levine took part in the abomination that was the Biden Regime as assistant secretary for health at the Department of Health and Human Services.

[H]e has repeatedly condemned commonsense laws protecting women, claiming that these laws represent a threat not just to his worldview but to people’s health.

Mr. Levine has no regrets that he didn’t transition to a grotesque parody of a woman until relatively late in life, because that way he got to have kids.

Yet Levine seems not to care about the next generation’s ability to have children. Not only does he champion “gender-affirming care” for young people, but he pressured the World Professional Association for Transgender Health—an activist group masquerading as the authority on health care for transgender people—to remove age limits for transgender surgery.

As illustrated at ZeroHedge, bestowing honors on Levine expresses contempt not only for real women but for truth…

It is an interesting kind of horror that modern academia, an environment where objective facts should be most revered, has instead become an environment where objective facts are most reviled. The complete denial of biological reality within the western academic community is an enduring source of social disruption. Their continued promotion of gender fluid theory, based on zero concrete scientific evidence, is stealing opportunities from real women and turning western education into an embarrassing mockery.

…and for mental health:

The overarching problem with the trans movement is that it demands the normalization and even celebration of mental illness under protected group status. On the totem pole of social justice, trans people are at the top, enjoying a venerated position even above black women and gays.

There is one good reason for the Ivory Tower to lavish honors on Levine. He personifies moonbattery as well as anyone alive.

Not all real women are pleased:

In the interest of fairness, now let’s hear from the other side (LANGUAGE ALERT):

One of these sides has Big Education behind it.

On a tip from Franco.

The liberal establishment is getting desperate in its attempts to persuade us to surrender our right of self-defense. A recent peer-reviewed paper in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine links guns to tooth decay:

Increases in firearm violence were associated with lower dental care utilization and higher rates of edentulism. A 1-shooting increase corresponded to a 0.01% reduction in dental care utilization and a 0.06% increase in edentulism the following year.

“Edentulism” means your teeth rotted right out of your mouth from buying too much candy with your EBT card.

Neighborhoods experiencing higher levels of firearm violence face disparities in dental care and oral health, highlighting firearm violence as a social determinant of oral health.

As an interim solution, until guns can be banned,

Interventions such as mobile dental clinics and integrating dental care into violence intervention programs could mitigate disparities in dental care access and oral health in communities affected by firearm violence.

Mike McDaniel picks it up from there:

And of course, it will be law-abiding, non-violent taxpayers who will have to shoulder the financial burden of “interventions” that might slightly raise the overall level of dental health in really bad neighborhoods, but do nothing whatever to lower the level of violence not committed by guns, but by people wielding the guns they’ve stolen or bought on the black market. One wonders how many taxpayer dollars paid for this pre-ordained result from Rutgers “scientists?”

The study acknowledges funding from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, which is part of the voracious maw known as the National Institutes of Health.

On a tip from R F.

Snug on their ivory tower thrones, members of the liberal intelligentsia insist we take them seriously. Then they publish papers like this:

The abstract explains the scholarly term ecolesbianism:

Ecolesbianism is a concept we co-created, bringing together queer ecologies, political lesbianism, ecofeminism, transecology, ecosexuality, and our own experiences.

It was only a matter of time; bestiality appears to join academia’s parade of perversions:

Ecolesbianism explores our relationship with the Earth and asks: what if our interspecies relationships are lesbian too?

Anthropussy is a corruption of the term Anthropocene:

The Anthropussy is the erotic and utopian potential we carry within this era of unprecedented anthropogenic climate change. It combines an environmentalist recognition of the climate crisis with a feminist and queer theory analysis of the vulva as a symbol for vast potential, pleasure, intimacy, and expansiveness.

Again we see that moonbattery is fungible. The global warming hoax, feminism, politicized sexual perversion — it is all the same thing: moonbattery.

The authors of the article were excreted by Yale-NUS College, considered among the most selective institutions in the world.

On a tip from Steve T.

This is what passes for scholarly research in woke academia:

Abstract
Queer, trans, and Two Spirit Native youth are rarely represented in research, with extant evidence continuously pointing out health disparities and pathologizing individual characteristics rather than accounting for the structural aspects of colonial society. Global Indigenous scholars have put forth a holistic conception of social and emotional wellbeing that integrates Indigenous sovereignty, strengths, and cultures, positing that Indigenous health is a culturally bound phenomenon. To move beyond these deficit-based framings and collate available scholarship, the present work presents the results of a scoping review surrounding the social and emotional wellbeing of queer, trans, and Two Spirit Native youth. Informed by the Indigiqueer ecological medicine wheel, the present work includes a breadth of health and wellbeing concepts for QT2S Native youth across micro and macro domains.

Be sure to add “Indigiqueer” to your copy of the Newspeak Dictionary. Don’t forget that it needs to be capitalized to express the required reverence.

More info on author Autumn Asher BlackDeer:

Dr. Autumn Asher BlackDeer is a queer decolonial scholar from the Southern Cheyenne Nation and serves as an assistant professor in the Graduate School of Social Work at the University of Denver. Dr. BlackDeer centers Indigenous voices throughout her research by using quantitative approaches and big data as tools for responsible storytelling. Dr. BlackDeer is a racial equity scholar with an emphasis on Indigenous tribal sovereignty and is deeply committed to decolonizing the academy.

“Decolonizing” is a reference to the systematic eradication of Western Civilization in the name of cultural Marxism.

Costume aside, she doesn’t look much like an Indian, but that is not to say she belongs on the Racial Impostor List. She certainly looks more Indian than Elizabeth “Fauxcahontas” Warren.

Democrats think you should be forced to pay off the student loans of slackers who choose to spend years wallowing in indoctrination by pernicious grievancemongers like Autumn Asher BlackDeer rather than getting on with adulthood.

On a tip from Mike B.

On a tip from Wiggins.

Kent State University may be best known as the site of the National Guard killing four antiwar demonstrators in 1970. The tradition of violence continues, except that nowadays all politically tinged violence comes from tolerant liberals:

The huge rendering of Trump’s bloody head floating with a pike through the middle was featured on the public university campus alongside the shocking sentiment: ‘We only have to get lucky once.’

In the context of two recent assassination attempts and any number of assassination plots against Trump, this is a clear call to violence, amplified by a taxpayer-supported state school.

Kent State initially refused to remove the display but finally agreed to take it down.

Try to imagine a similar image displayed on campus featuring Barack Obama during his presidency. It could not be more obvious which side comprises the bad guys.

On tips from Ed McAninch and WDS 2.0.

As an Ivy League institution, Princeton’s most valuable asset is the reputation for excellence it developed over centuries. This is what allows it to charge $90,718 per year for undergraduates to attend. But now that reputation lies in ruin. DEI has inflicted such devastation that Eddie Glaude passes for a Princeton professor.

Bear in mind that this is not a cognitively impaired 13-year-old who just discovered wokeism but an Ivy League professor:

Trump is a “felon” because he was found guilty of 34 felony counts of nothing in particular by a hyperpolitical kangaroo court in New York. Quoth the nutty professor:

“We chose a felon because we didn’t want to elect a black woman.”

He says we would rather destroy our own country rather than let a black woman become president — presumably because Americans hate every single black woman out of sheer nastiness.

Kamala Harris must have some qualification to be president other than the Woman of Color status she exploited to climb as high as she did despite her conspicuous incompetence and intensely unappealing personality. Any day now, Professor Glaude’s research may uncover what that qualification might be.

It is unsurprising that Glaude would promote the preposterous lie that it is a disadvantage to be black in the Land of Affirmative Action. Admitting that no white guy of his intellectual caliber would be hired as a professor would damage his prodigious ego. But to truly believe the balderdash spewing out of his own mouth, he would have to be not merely mediocre but a moron.

Glaude’s erudition allows him to understand other people’s motivations, but it does not extend to knowing what the word “literally” means. Evidently because Trump has been deporting illegal alien gangbangers, he proclaims that Americans have chosen “to literally throw the republic into the trash bin.”

Credit where it’s due: the nerve of a Democrat accusing Trump of grift in the aftermath of the Biden Administration and the DOGE revelations is almost awe-inspiring.

Stick a fork in the Ivy League. Like the liberal media, it has chosen what Eddie Glaude personifies over any claim to our respect.

On a tip from Mr. Freemarket. Hat tip: Not the Bee.

No one speaks truth to moonbattery more eloquently than Pat Condell. Regrettably, he has been off the radar for a while. Wokesters are advised to find dark holes to cower in now that he is back.

Watch and admire as Condell accurately describes the ruin leftism is making of higher education:

On a tip from KirklesWorth.

Those without wealthy parents and who don’t want to sink themselves into decades of debt can get a taste of academia over the internet for free by reading abstracts from scholarly articles. The following is from a piece published in Journal of Lesbian Studies entitled “The Earth Is a Big Badass Butch Dyke in Menopause.”

Cross my heart, this not satire:

In this article, ecosexual artists and activists Beth Stephens & Annie Sprinkle re-envision our planet as a butch dyke in menopause. This displacement of the “mother” earth trope re-orients the urgent questions of climate change and consent. … To counter the dominionistic practice of extraction and exploitation, the artists propose an ethical practice of co-sense, rather than consent, in which humans attune themselves to the earth via the senses, a process enabled by repeated, communal, non-monogamous marriages to the planet.

Author Beth Stephens is a professor at UC Santa Cruz. She holds a PhD in “Performance Studies.” University of California is of course coercively funded by taxpayers.

On a tip from Dennis G. Hat tip: Steven F. Hayward.

The purpose of Newspeak Dictionary updates is to control how we think by controlling how we talk so as to advance the liberal agenda. Washington State University’s Inclusive Language Guide provides examples, as reveal by Campus Reform.

To obliterate the distinction between male and female:

Words like “moms and dads,” “he/she,” “mankind,” “freshman and freshmen” as well as “upperclassmen and upperclassman” are all discouraged.

To destigmatize criminality:

The guide warns against mentioning past or present incarceration status, as well as “language that defines people by their crimes and sentences,” such as “felon,” “inmate,” “offender,” “convict” and “ex-con/ex-convict.”

To desanctify marriage by blurring its meaning:

The list also extends to romantic relationships, where the terms “husband/wife” and boyfriend/girlfriend” are to be avoided in favor of “spouse” and “partner.”

To promote the displacement of the American population via unlawful mass migration:

Another identity listed is national origin, and the words “illegal immigrant,” “foreign,” “first-world country” and “third-world country” are also discouraged. The site tells readers to “[r]emember that actions, not people, are illegal.”

The stated purpose of the guide is to assure no one says anything that could “exclude people” based upon identity. It’s still okay to say “Christofascist” and “bitter clinger” though.

On a tip from ABC of the ANC.