The first qualification of a law professor ought to be support for a stable society under rule of law. Yet some advise defiance of lawful directives from the President:

Law professors from several different universities banded together to write a memo calling Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) “mission critical” and urging schools to not follow President Donald Trump’s anti-DEI directives.

The memo, issued on Feb. 20, was signed by law professors from the University of California, Berkeley, New York University, University of Washington, and Boston University, to name several.

Law professor Peter Arenella of UCLA takes peevishness further, calling for a military coup:

“At this point, my only hope for the US to avoid becoming an ally to Russia is a violent resistance by our military. Tragic to say that because the military are trained to avoid any politically motivated intervention,” the professor said of the democratically elected president.

Hilariously, the insurrectionist then accuses Trump of trying to “destroy our democracy.” But I’m forgetting; when liberals say, “our democracy,” they mean “Democrat rule.”

On tips from Anonymous and ABC of the ANC.

The term “climate justice” strikes the normal ear as woke duckspeak, if not moonbattery sarcastically pushed to the point of parody. That’s because normal people are uninitiated in the credenda of progressivism. “Climate justice” has a meaning, but it is only comprehensible through advanced indoctrination. For that, we have institutions like the University of Sussex:

The BA in Climate Justice, Sustainability and Development, which will begin in 2026, will equip students with a unique blend of expertise in climate politics, activism, and environmental human rights. This will be combined with the practical green skills – the know-how and abilities needed to work in ways that help protect the environment – needed to drive real-world change.

It’s nice to know educrats have their feet firmly planted on the ground and will offer “practical green skills” so that graduates can impose their will on climate fluctuation.

Kidding aside, the practical application of such a degree is to secure a career as a bureaucrat. Sussex grads can be thankful they don’t have DOGE over there.

Barks Geert De Neve, Head of the School of Global Studies at Sussex:

“This course … will provide a unique opportunity for students to combine their passion for tackling the climate crisis with the skills and knowledge required to lead in the fight for sustainability and justice. It reflects Sussex’s long-standing commitment to educating students who can drive positive global impact.”

They will have no impact on the climate, which will fluctuate regardless of the fashionable left-wing poses they strike. But as future bureaucrats, they can aspire to impact the future by deepening Europe’s economic malaise through ever more punitive regulation of the energy sector.

Even without spending years of time and tens of thousands of pounds, Sussex is willing to provide a hint regarding what “climate justice” means:

Climate justice, the focus of this course, addresses social equity, historical responsibility, and economic shifts in climate change. Emerging from civil society movements in the 2000s, it now shapes debates in the UK Parliament and UN. It is crucial for policymakers, NGOs, activists, and businesses.

Science is not mentioned because this is a BA, not a BS, despite being comprised entirely of BS. Climate justice has nothing to do with science; it is a means of imposing left-wing globalism.

On a tip from Steve T.

Normally taxpayers don’t get much in return for the money we have showered upon Hamas since the horrific 10/7 atrocities via the Biden Administration and USAID. But at least the demonic terror group has done us a service by alerting us to evil festering within our own society.

The truly wicked cannot help but support Hamas, thereby exposing themselves as malevolent and insane. Examples abound on campus, both here and in the UK:

The London School of Economics has defended its decision to stage the launch of a book at its Middle East Centre which claims Hamas has been wrongly “vilified and demonised” since carrying out the 7 October massacre.

Authors Helen Cobban and Rami G Khouri make the case for Hamas as the good guys in Understanding Hamas and Why That Matters.

The book claims branding Hamas “as ‘terrorist’ or worse,” has meant “demonisation intensified after the events in Southern Israel on October 7, 2023.”

The unenlightened reacted narrow-mindedly to women and children being systematically raped, tortured, and murdered so as to advance Islam at the expense of Western Civilization.

Promoting the event on the LSE website, it is claimed Hamas has been “subjected to intense vilification” in mainstream Western discourse as a result of the classification in many Western states as a proscribed terrorist group.

The heart bleeds.

The 10 March launch also features a line-up of other academic speakers who have condemned Israel and Zionism and criticised attempts to portray Hamas as “irrational terrorists”.

Students pay big bucks to steep in this intellectual environment, even at taxpayer-supported public universities like LSE.

On a tip from Bluto.

The reason college professors make such good money (largely at the expense of taxpayers and often for relatively little work) is that they have a special skill. Even after the envelope of moonbattery has been pushed over the edge into self-parody, they find creative ways to push it further still.

Presenting an abstract published by professors at University of San Diego and North Carolina State University:

Amplifying the importance of geologic processes in subject formation, the study asserts that geological time is important for understanding memory and memorials. In the Equal Justice Initiative’s Community Remembrance Projects and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, materials of geologic composition like soil, and those made from earth materials, such as steel and bricks, are employed to trope the bodies of lynching victims and weather racist geologic formations of subjecthood. The holding and eroding of violent memories crafts an intimate and resistant geopoetics of Black humanity.

Whatever you major in, there is only one subject in college these days: moonbattery. Geology is now about how much liberals hate America. In an interview, two of the authors provide a glimpse into their classrooms by giving a history lesson:

In the US, white people killed Black people who wanted to be free, to be treated equal and to build a community for themselves. White people wanted to be more powerful than the Black people and use them to make money, so they would sometimes kill some of them to scare their friends and family. This was wrong and created a lot of pain. It’s important that we remember and honor the lives of the people who were killed. It’s also important to help the communities who experienced this violence heal. Our research is about how people can use rocks to heal from this horrible history.

If BDSM can heal blacks from the wounds of whiteness, why not rocks?

On a tip from Jester. Hat tip: Campus Reform.

The school board that walked out of a meeting when parents objected to kindergarteners being exposed to indecent LGBT material now prohibits public comments at meetings — because racism.

As reported by The Daily Wire, residents in Penfield, New York, tried to raise concerns at a school board meeting on Tuesday about an explicit LGBT book out on display at the school’s elementary library, called “The Rainbow Parade,” which is about a young girl with two mothers who take her to a Pride Parade.

Illustrations include nudity, drag queens, and the S&M bondage gear so popular in the gay community.

However, the board walked out on parents before public comments began, telling attendees they must submit written complaints only.

Now, the board representing Penfield Central School District has barred public comment at all meetings for the months ahead.

The suppression of dissent at Board of Education meetings is necessary so as to “work together restoring a positive environment in which respectful conversations can take place,” according to School Board President Emily Roberts. She cites racism on the grounds that…

…one of the board meeting attendees showed up [at the meeting] wearing a gorilla suit and a black “Make America Great Again” hat.

If the sort of people who run our schools ever consolidate control over the federal government, any public comment that deviates from the Democratic Party platform will be criminalized on the same basis.

On tips from WDS 2.0 and Chris Neilson.

For an idea of how well liberals are taking Trump’s success, let’s have a look in the classroom:

A teacher at an all-boys Catholic high school on Staten Island resigned after going on an anti-President Trump tirade during class that descended into calling one of his students a “punk a–” during an unhinged outburst, according to a recently leaked video clip.

The unnamed teacher at Monsignor Farrell High School was recorded last Wednesday by a student while speaking vehemently against Trump — criticizing the president’s order to release billions of gallons of water in California to fight the Los Angeles wildfires and labeling him a dictator…

Apparently the students did not receive his MSNBC-style rant with appropriate solemnity:

“I’m not kidding when I say, ‘Wipe that smile off your face.’ Detention, I just wrote you a referral mentally. You’re going to detention for bringing up politics in class,” the instructor aggressively yelled at a student at the private school.

Here’s a taste of what students are served:

The woke teacher will have a new job in a public school in no time with this on his résumé.

On a tip from Jack D.

Formerly prestigious and ever more expensive Ivy League schools are lavishly subsidized by the federal government. No doubt this has accelerated their decay. But learning still takes place at them. For example, at Cornell, students can learn to pole dance at a Black History Month Workshop this February 25.

The event will be held in Willard Straight Hall by Pole Posse, which reveals that the blacks whose history is revered this month have plenty of company in the rapidly expanding cultural Marxist coalition of the oppressed. Their About Us page denounces the political incorrectness of those who view pole dancing as merely a form of exercise:

We believe that the active attempt to verbally cleanse pole dancing by separating it from its origins in sex work enacts violence upon this marginalized group. As a club, we refuse to indulge in this cleansing by exclusively invoking pole dancing as a fitness regimen which developed in a vacuum rather than one that came and comes from a systemically oppressed group and culture. We are committed to honoring this group and expressing the multitudes that exist within the craft of pole dancing while working in active opposition to individuals and systems that seek to harm this group.

Pole Posse is a registered student organization of Cornell University. If graduates can’t find anything else to do with degrees that cost $66,000 per year just for tuition and fees, they can always take up sex work.

On a tip from Mike B.

New York Democrats enraged over Trump reigning in the federal Leviathan are falling back on their favorite standby — namely, taxation:

Gov. Kathy Hochul and US Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand warned that the possible Department of Education eradication President Trump has alluded to will cause property taxes to spike across the state. …

“This is $5.5 billion that the State receives annually from the Department of Education — $3.2 billion goes directly into our budget, $2.3 billion goes to localities. If that money is jeopardized, what I can tell you will happen, localities lose that money, they will have to raise taxes,” Hochul said.

You mean New Yorkers might have to pay to have their children corrupted and indoctrinated rather than educated instead of the rest of the country being forced to finance it? The horror!

Of course, New Yorkers would no longer have to finance the ruining of children’s minds in other parts of the country. But then, other parts of the country might not go along with the Department of Education’s leftist agenda after the federal Swamp has relinquished control of education. That’s what has Hochul so mad.

On tips from Wiggins and WDS 2.0.

Never let a crisis go to waste, say the moonbats. Education Week calls for exploiting the Los Angles wildfires as a pretext to shirk work and then reinforce global warming brainwashing.

We were in no hurry to get teachers back to work after Covid, were we? Fear of “climate-related disasters” may “pose significant challenges for educators” by causing them to be frightened by doomsday rhetoric. This can “hinder their ability to deliver instruction effectively” and sometimes even “exacerbates teacher burnout.” So,

Efforts to return to normalcy for students often overlook or minimize the needs of educators, pushing them back into work mode before they may be ready to fully process and recover.

Speaking of doomsday rhetoric, the wildfires are not the only phenomenon moonbats are blaming on the global warming hoax, resulting in a generation of neurotic children:

Studies have shown that many young people hold fatalistic views about the future of the environment, which can heighten their anxiety, making it essential to engage them in constructive conversations about climate change. …

By fostering a sense of collective agency and providing opportunities to engage in climate solutions, we can help students combat these feelings, contribute meaningfully to the fight against climate change, and shape a more sustainable future.

To sum up, when they feel up to coming back to work, teachers must double down on the delusion that insufficient taxation and regulation cause Santa Ana winds to blow so that students can be recruited as fellow change agents a.k.a. moonbat myrmidons for California’s left-wing establishment.

Maybe it is for the best not to hurry kids back into their classrooms after all.

On a tip from Mike B.

Something about Christianity rubs bad guys the wrong way — including the bad guys who dominate public schools.

In Connecticut, seventh grade teacher and grandmother of five Marisol Arroyo-Castro long drew solace from a crucifix hanging near her desk at DiLoreto Elementary & Middle School. But then:

After receiving a complaint from another district employee, the district directed her to either remove the crucifix completely or to put it out of sight — in her desk drawer or underneath her desk, by her feet…

“I wanted to give them what they wanted. I wanted them to be happy. So, I said, ‘Okay, I’ll move it,’” Castro told National Review. “When I picked it up in my hand and I was about to move it, I felt really guilty. I felt like I was sinning. I felt like I had to go to confession.”

When her conscience wouldn’t let her hide the crucifix, educrats suspended her. She is under pressure to quit her job.

This is rich:

The district’s superintendent, Tony Gasper, alleges in an email that having the crucifix visible near Castro’s desk “infringes on the religious freedoms of our diverse student population” and “violates both federal and state laws requiring public schools to remain neutral in religious matters.”

Because their ideology is evil, leftists must call what they are doing the opposite of what it is. Christianity is suppressed in the name of “religious freedoms.” Imposing intolerance is how they “remain neutral.”

If instead of the crucifix, Castro had displayed a flag encouraging children to embrace sexual depravity, she might have been promoted.

On a tip from Varla.

To prevent moonbats from bleeding America to death, after the DC Swamp has been drained, attention must turn to massively taxpayer-financed academia, where moonbat activists like Ohio State University Assistant Professor Christina Dyar are feeding like hogs at a trough.

From her OSU bio:

Her research focuses on groups of LGBTQ+ individuals that have been underrepresented [yeah right] in research, including bi+ individuals (i.e., individuals with attractions to more than one gender), LGBTQ+ women, non-binary individuals (i.e., individuals who identify outside of the gender binary), and BIPOC LGBTQ+ people. She is particularly interested in understanding mechanisms through which stigma-related stress (e.g., discrimination, microaggressions) impacts mental health and substance use. Her research often incorporates an intersectional perspective [yadda yadda yadda].

If flakes want to wallow in this silly crap, fine. Except we are forced to finance it.

OSU’s College of Nursing proudly announces a $3.6 million grant to Dyar from the National Institute of Mental Health “to examine the impact of microaggressions and discrimination on the mental health of bisexual and pansexual adolescents and young adults.”

As a rule, the purpose of studies like this is not to examine but to advocate for favored groups to receive priority in healthcare because “disparities.”

Barks Dyar:

“The findings from this study will inform the development of interventions designed to help bisexual and pansexual adolescents and young adults overcome microaggressions and discrimination and improve their mental health outcomes.”

Seriously, that’s what they are spending our money on.

On a tip from Mike B.

Remember when the esteemed countermoonbat Riley Gaines was physically assaulted by a mob of transsexual militants at San Francisco State University and forced to barricade herself for over 3 hours in a safe room? It has happened again, this time to her friend Olivia Krolczyk up the Left Coast at the University of Washington.

Via Post Millennial:

On Tuesday night, far-left activists forced the cancelation of a speech by Olivia Krolczyk with University of Washington's Turning Point USA chapter.

Krolczyk took up the fight against moonbattery while majoring in chemistry at the University of Cincinnati:

She was given a failing grade on a project proposal in one of her courses for using the term “biological woman.” She posted about the incident to TikTok and the video reached more than 6 million views before it was deleted by TikTok over “community guideline violations.” She was permanently banned from the platform for stating the biological fact that men and women are different.

The ideology currently presented as “liberalism” cannot withstand scrutiny. Consequently, “liberals” cannot tolerate free speech.

After announcing they would attack the event, Trantifa creeps banged on doors, blocked entrances, and broke a window to toss in noisemakers while brandishing transsexualism flags and pro-LGBTQ signs.

Because moonbattery is intersectional,

Many of the activists were wrapped in Palestinian keffiyehs and were recognized after they participated in pro-Hamas events on campus including the Gaza camp last Spring.

After the TPUSA event was shut down, participants were eventually evacuated through a hidden exit. That’s how it works at University of Washington:

Earlier in the school year, rather than remove and arrest pro-Hamas activists, police escorted administrators, faculty, and members of the Jewish community who had come to speak about campus antisemitism, through tunnels after surrendering the building to the radicals.

Although educrats can be counted on to effectively side with leftist mobs, this is no longer true of the federal government as of Monday.

Via Trends Newsline:

According to Charlie Kirk, a prominent conservative figure, the situation has escalated to a point where the President of the University of Washington, Ana Mari Cauce, could be facing scrutiny from the Department of Education’s Civil Rights Division.

Let’s hope so. Free speech is fundamental to American society. It is no longer a free country to the extent leftist educrats can let Antifa thugs shut it down.

On a tip from Straight Shootr.

New York City public schools are implementing a black studies curriculum called the Education Equity Action Plan, from pre-K to 12th grade, mandatory for all students in the USA’s largest school system. Jared Taylor is unimpressed regarding the effect the action plan is likely to have on test scores:

Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) must be happy about the pre-K lesson devoted to Juneteenth, the federal holiday he created in obeisance to Black Lives Matter race rioters.

Taxpayers are forced to pay for this toxic cultural Marxist BS through the teeth:

New York’s lavish pay, pension and health care plans pushed for by powerful teachers’ unions helped ramp up spending on school districts to a staggering $89 billion…

For $89 billion, imagine how many cans of Raid you could buy. You might even have enough to clean out New York’s educracy, if not the teachers unions.

Teachers in New York State — who are not required to achieve basic literacy because that would be racist — make $92,696 per year on average for what is effectively a part-time job. This is a form of looting as surely as the mostly peaceful protests effectively advocated by John Cornyn.

On tips from ABC of the ANC and seaoh.

Higher education offers access to arcane realms of knowledge. Via an Instagram post from its Pride Center, San Diego State University graciously provides a free introduction to the concept of intersectional fatphobia:

Fatphobia is the systemic discrimination and stigmatization of fat bodies.

Not even the media is woke enough to keep pace with universities:

There is a lack of positive representation for fat bodies in the media. Instead, they are often ridiculed and depicted as undesirable, lazy, immoral, etc., thus allowing for such perceptions to become the norm.

Viewing obesity as undesirable has always been the norm, if only because it is exceedingly unhealthy. But then, the same goes for homosexuality, which also has been designated for normalization by leftist social engineers.

Anti-fatness/fatphobia is intrinsically rooted in anti-Blackness, racism, classism, misogyny, homophobia, and many other systems of oppression.

Those who cannot grasp the interconnectedness may require an advanced degree in Intersectional Moonbattery. Such degrees are lavishly subsidized by taxpayers and have the added value of allowing students to prolong adolescence indefinitely, thereby avoiding the burdensome responsibilities of adulthood. Those who need to take out loans to finance their willful uselessness can rest assured that Democrats will force others to pay off the loans, Supreme Court be damned.

On a tip from Steve T. Hat tips: Campus Reform, Legal Insurrection.