May 6, 2026

TRUMP ADMINISTRATION SUES NYT FOR ALLEGEDLY DISCRIMINATING AGAINST WHITE, MALE EMPLOYEE:

[EEOC Chair Andrea Lucas,] who has been involved with the EEOC since President Donald Trump’s first term, was promoted to chair of the federal watchdog group in his second administration. Her goal as chair is to dial back corporate DEI policies.

As chair, Lucas’s EEOC has gone after a Coca-Cola distributor for hosting a two-day networking event, specifically for women. The group is also investigation Nike, after allegations the company discriminated against white workers in an attempt to exemplify its DEI efforts.

“No matter the size or power of the employer, the EEOC under my leadership will not pull punches in ensuring evenhanded, colorblind enforcement of Title VII to protect America’s workers, including white males,” Lucas said in a statement.

The Times’ editorial product has for years endorsed a left-wing identitarian approach to race and gender. Use of the words “racist” and “racism” increased by 700 percent in the Times from 2011 to 2019, according to an analysis by Tablet. In 2018, the Times editorial board hired the writer Sarah Jeong despite her lengthy history of denigrating white people on social media. The Times’ focus on race only increased during the moral panic around race and identity that gripped the country in 2020, with the New York Times Magazine publishing the 1619 Project, which sought to reframe America’s founding around the arrival of slaves in the new world.

Earlier: Even New York Magazine Writers Don’t Bother To Read New York Magazine.

Posted at 12:30 pm by Ed Driscoll

WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO MEGYN?

Posted at 12:28 pm by Stephen Green

THE POWER OF SOCIAL CONDITIONING:

UPDATE (From Ed):

More (From Ed):

Posted at 10:55 am by Glenn Reynolds

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Will A.I. Make College Obsolete?
Americans already distrust institutions, including academia. More and more people may decide that its stamp of approval isn’t worth the cost. When the New Yorker of all establishment organs says this, it’s a sign: “If we agree that college primarily serves a credentialling process that stamps select young people as worthy of work, and, if we agree that A.I. helps to expose it as such, might we not conclude that, at some point, people will collectively stop paying into the system, or will start seeking out other, less expensive credentials?”

Emphasis added by me, but basically there in the original.

Posted at 10:42 am by Glenn Reynolds

K12 IMPLOSION UPDATE:

Too sensible to take hold.

Posted at 10:00 am by Glenn Reynolds

BEEGE: Keir Starmer Should Have Looked in the Harbor Before Signing Those Ukraine Loan Papers.

X has been full of reports of the Russian shadow fleet running fearlessly close to UK shores, basically with impunity.

Then off went the Prime Minister to Armenia this past weekend, to hobnob with his globalist European Union masters and see what he could do to bend the knee to earn further favor. It turns out that it only takes money.

The Bond villainess running the show wants £1B-a-year dues to join the EU club, and Starmer agreed to sign the UK up for the debt pool to finance the Ukrainian war and defense effort.

That little collective note will be setting its borrowers back by some £78B.

‘Where, oh, where,’ some observers of this off-site profligacy wondered, ‘will we ever find the money for OUR OWN DEFENSE if we’re paying for theirs?’

Suspicions were already high that the defense of the British Isles was not high on Starmer’s to-do list, and that came shockingly into public confirmation yesterday.

Much more at the link.

Posted at 9:38 am by Stephen Green

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Let’s Hope Georgia Voters Realize 2021 Was One Big, Stupid Mistake. “Chris’s post has a laundry list of reminders about all that has hit the fan regarding the Southern Poverty Law Center recently. It’s no surprise that Ossoff has been remarkably mum about it all thus far. That won’t be easy to do once it’s general election time. Again, that all depends on whether the National Republican Senatorial Committee and the likely nominee Rep. Mike Collins play their cards right. That’s never a given with Republicans, but at least we know that Collins knows how to win an election.”

Posted at 9:07 am by Stephen Green

“GOOD FAITH” AMONG THE CRITICS IS RARE.

Posted at 8:49 am by Glenn Reynolds

YEP. IT’S NOT ABOUT WHAT THEY’RE DOING, IT’S ABOUT NOT LETTING THEM GET AWAY WITH IT.

Posted at 8:43 am by Glenn Reynolds

HARSH BUT UTTERLY FAIR:

Posted at 8:42 am by Glenn Reynolds

REDISTRICTING: Gov. Hochul eyes redistricting after NY loses residents, House seats.

Gov. Kathy Hochul said New York has been losing residents to other states because of a failure to build enough housing. She said that loss also cuts into the state’s representation in Congress.

“We’ve been losing too many New Yorkers, as I said, to other states because of our failure to build housing,” Hochul said.

Hochul said fewer residents make New York “more vulnerable” when Republicans in other states redraw districts to keep control of the House.

She said she planned to meet with Congressman Joe Morelle to discuss redistricting in New York and how that process could move forward after what she described as changes in the legal landscape following a Supreme Court ruling on the Voting Rights Act.

Hochul said any change in New York would not be done only by lawmakers and would instead have to go before voters.

“And I want to make sure that New Yorkers have a chance to vote on this — this will not just be done by the Legislature,” Hochul said.

There’s so much more than housing behind New York losing residents, but “affordable housing” is a lot like homelessness — it’s a longterm opportunity for graft, not a problem to be solved.

UPDATE (FROM GLENN):

Posted at 8:36 am by Stephen Green

HOW IT STARTED:

Fast-forward to the 1970s. Kenner’s a division of General Mills. It makes Easy Bake Ovens, and tops wish lists with its Six Million Dollar Man merchandise based on the day’s hit cyborg-action series. (Television shows, not movies, was where it was at for the toy industry.) Then one day a filmmaker shows up with an oddball proposal. Corky Steiner paints the scene: “A number of toy companies passed on [this] unusual presentation with funny names… These names are ridiculous. [People thought,] ‘This guy must be nuts.’”

“No, he’s not nuts,” Kenner’s research-and-development team says of Lucas and the pitch for his unseen film, Star Wars, per Steiner. “Everything we think we see in this script is a toy. This is a bonanza.”

—“The First, Worst Star Wars Christmas: A Look Back at the ‘Brilliant,’ Toy-less 1977 Holiday Season,” Yahoo, December 14th, 2015.

How It’s Going:

Tweet continues, “So they bought it for billions and the creative dept feminized it defeating the entire purpose of buying it to begin with.”

As John Nolte wrote in 2023, “Disney went woke and killed what even the stillborn Lucas prequels couldn’t kill: the magic of Star Wars.”

Posted at 8:35 am by Ed Driscoll