PUBLIC SCHOOLS DON’T GET A VETO OVER ANTI-BIDEN SLOGANS. Two Michigan students were threatened with punishment for wearing the anti-Biden slogan to school, and FIRE is asking the Supreme Court to make clear that schools can’t magically turn protected political speech into punishable profanity because they know what the euphemism means. See this week’s update!
October 4, 2026
METAPHOR ALERT:
The Omani pilot asked the Indian pilot if he could leave his seat to pray and after being granted permission, he attacked the Captain with the axe from behind.
This is actually a great metaphor for the west.
— GimpelTheMaccabee🎗️ (@MaccabiGimpel) October 3, 2026
RUSSIA’S STOLEN CHILDREN ARE BEING TAUGHT TO KILL — USING HAMAS’S PLAYBOOK:
ABC News Australia’s new documentary, Ukraine’s Stolen Children, released this week, brought me to an image I couldn’t shake: a young child holding a rifle, smiling proudly. The image was jarring for another reason. I had seen it before.
Not in Ukraine. In Gaza.
The countries are different, the wars are different, and the actors are certainly different. Russia is a state. Hamas is a terrorist organization. Their histories, ideologies, and objectives are not interchangeable. What was impossible to ignore, however, was the similarity in what children were being taught and the methods being used to teach them.
The documentary examines Russia’s removal of Ukrainian children, including children taken from orphanages, care facilities, and camps. More than 20,000 have been identified by Ukrainian authorities as deported or forcibly displaced, although the true number may be considerably higher. Yet it was what happens to some of these children afterward that caught my attention.
The countries are different, the wars are different, and the actors are certainly different. Russia is a state. Hamas is a terrorist organization. Their histories, ideologies, and objectives are not interchangeable. What was impossible to ignore, however, was the similarity in what children were being taught and the methods being used to teach them.
The documentary examines Russia’s removal of Ukrainian children, including children taken from orphanages, care facilities, and camps. More than 20,000 have been identified by Ukrainian authorities as deported or forcibly displaced, although the true number may be considerably higher. Yet it was what happens to some of these children afterward that caught my attention.
Related:
Now it can be told. The NYT can reveal how Russia is using migrants "who come from countries as varied as Eritrea, Afghanistan, Iran, Somalia and Cuba" as "part of Russia’s larger strategy for sowing discord in the West".https://t.co/us8qG4uyi6
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) October 4, 2026
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DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: The ‘Cornell 7’ haven’t been charged. The mob doesn’t care.
The allegations of a gang rape at a Cornell University frat house in 2024 that are dominating headlines have transported me right back to the preceding decade, where cases of regret too often turned into accusations of rape.
These were the years of the Obama administration, during which colleges and universities were pushed to investigate allegations of sexual misconduct in ways that favored the accusers. The accused – almost always young men – were essentially stripped of their constitutional due process rights, and the accuser’s word was all that mattered. Many male students were kicked off campus, with their reputations in ruins while they often lost judicial protections.
This problematic and unfair framework was fixed during President Donald Trump’s first term, and as of Sept. 28, those guidelines have been officially reinstated.
There is a rush to judgment in the Cornell rape allegations
The heated reaction to the Cornell allegations and the rush to judge the young men involved before they’ve had their day in court makes me fear the country has learned nothing about the dangers of simply “believing women.”
Read the whole thing.
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The black kid is also the one who wrote the lewd messages on the group chat encouraging other boys to go see. Seriously, what is Letitia going to do? Is BLM going to intervene?
— Peachy Keenan (@KeenanPeachy) October 4, 2026
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Record-low three in ten Americans consider college ‘very important’: poll.
BIDEN’S TITLE IX RULE ISN’T JUST DEAD. IT’S FINALLY OFF THE BOOKS. The Education Department formally repealed the Biden administration’s 2024 rewrite and restored the 2020 framework, whose speech and due process protections FIRE had defended long before courts vacated the Biden rule nationwide. Check it out for yourself in this week’s update.
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Why Is Mark Carney Preparing for an American Invasion?
ABOUT YOUR FINGERPRINT: Today on HillFaith is the first of a dozen wonderful episodes of the “Glimpses of God” short videos produced by Illustra Media for the John 10:10 Project. Regardless of your views about the divine, each of these remarkable productions can inspire a new and deeper appreciation for the incredible beauty and complexity of the creation. Enjoy!
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Reality Slaps College Graduates In The Face. “A recent analysis from Burning Glass Institute found that unemployment among those 22-34 years old without a college degree is lower than it’s been in decades, but those with college diplomas are having a much harder time finding work than before.”
If only someone had offered some sort of warning.
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Iran’s Regime Is Running Out of Options. Well, when you lack money or a functioning military…
ROGER KIMBALL: Trump and the Relentless Momentum of Events.
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EVERYONE SHOULD: Even Democrats Oppose John Roberts Letting Foreign Citizens Tilt The House Of Representatives. “The survey, conducted by McLaughlin & Associates on Sept. 23, shows that of 1,000 likely voters, nearly two-thirds, 65 percent, believe the congressional apportionment base should be comprised solely of U.S. citizens. Strikingly, not only four in five self-identified Republicans, but also 54 percent of Democrats and nearly 60 percent of independents polled also somewhat or strongly agree with a policy that would necessarily exclude illegal aliens and other noncitizens from the count.”
October 3, 2026
OPEN THREAD: Party on.
THE NEW SPACE RACE:
SpaceX has launched every rocket in their lineup, 3 different vehicles, from 4 different pads, in 3 different states this week.
They also lifted basically every “category” of payload. Starlink, Crew, Commercial, and Military.
WHAT. A. WEEK. pic.twitter.com/4fmkvzj9OY
— Ken Kirtland IV (@KenKirtland17) October 2, 2026
DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Cornell brings back #MeToo.
#MeToo is back – thanks, largely, to Cornell University. A former student, identified only as Jane Doe, alleged in a civil suit last month that seven members of the Chi Phi fraternity drugged and gang-raped her in October 2024. Most of the subsequent social media outrage blurs a few distinctions. Prosecutors looked at her initial 2024 police statement and decided not to file charges. Cornell ran its own Title IX process. The county DA says the new civil lawsuit is “dramatically different” from what she told police at the time – as her original statement suggested she consented, and that when she raised concerns, the men stopped. The 2024 statement recounts Doe participating in three ketamine-fueled threesomes with four men, while three others burst into the room and snort ketamine off her naked body. The DA has since reopened the case and sent it to a grand jury, which could bring charges.
You would not know much about what Doe told the police initially from the social media clamor around the story – which centers on some vulgar but not incriminating Snapchat messages between the fraternity members, and how few of them were solely disciplined by having to write essays. After news of the civil suit broke, the Cornell Daily Sun newspaper decided to name the seven men it accused. Since then, Instagram, TikTok and X have been awash with outrage. People are being encouraged to call Cornell University and complain. At least one of the seven has been fired from his job at a North Carolina bank. A man unfortunate enough to share a name with another of the seven has been harassed online. On TikTok, mothers are filming themselves hectoring their male children about sexual assault, to broadcast that they’re not raising rapists. “Remove their heads in a public setting, it’s the only answer,” declares one Instagram post featuring the fraternity brothers’ faces, that has 200,000 likes.
Yet the events of the days that followed the night of the October 19, 2024 party merit consideration. The New York Times has more than 1,000 pages from Cornell’s internal investigation, which tell a broader story than the civil lawsuit or viral rage would suggest.
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Paglia's point is that women have been raised in a way that makes them naïve. They believe that the suburban, middle-class setting is the default condition of the world, and that the rights they have go with them anywhere, even to a foreign country or a bedroom during a drunken… https://t.co/YwzZWC2SWN pic.twitter.com/ZapI9RXklM
— Laocoon of Troy (@LaocoonofTroy) October 3, 2026
I SUSPECT PUTIN HAS REACTIVATED THE OLD SOVIET BIOWAR APPARAT:
Pneumonic plague can be nearly 100% fatal if not treated in time and can kill you within 24 hours. WTF were they doing with this?
— Chris (@TiberiusChris) October 3, 2026
Cipro and Levaquin are very effective treatments. Unless, of course, the strain has been weaponized with antibiotic resistance.
ALL THE BEST PEOPLE TOLD ME THE OPPOSITE: Cannabis Users More Likely to Commit and Experience Violence, Study Finds.
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