October 5, 2026

CRITICS DON’T CALL IT THE “STOP NICK SHIRLEY ACT” FOR NOTHIN’: New California Law Shields Taxpayer-Funded Entities.

An immigration activist group that receives substantial taxpayer funding helped push a California law creating new privacy protections for immigrant-service organizations, drawing criticism from watchdogs who say the measure will reduce transparency and public accountability.

AB 2624, which California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed in August, extends a privacy program to immigrant-serving nonprofits, their staff, and volunteers, allowing them to acquire substitute addresses in public records rather than their home and business addresses. The law also bans anyone from posting information on the internet with the intent of enabling another person to threaten violence against an immigration support services provider.

The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights — which received more than two-thirds of its revenue from government grants between July 1, 2021, and June 30, 2025 — co-sponsored, testified in support of, and lobbied for the bill. CHIRLA, which operates an “immigrant political power project,” did not respond when asked whether it expects to apply for the protections in the bill.

Translation: They have applied or soon will apply.

Posted at 3:48 pm by Stephen Green

SOMEBODY HIRE THIS KID ALREADY:

Well, Elon?

Posted at 3:32 pm by Stephen Green

THINKING THROUGH AI IN HIGHER ED. This is one of those areas where doing practically anything different than the status quo is likely to be an improvement.

Posted at 2:43 pm by Robert Shibley

THE CRITICAL DRINKER: Digger — A Fascinating Disaster.

 

Posted at 2:35 pm by Ed Driscoll

THAT’S CERTAINLY WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE FROM HERE IN THE HEARTLAND:

“Females deliberately drink themselves blotto in order to lower their sexual inhibitions, voluntarily participate in sex, and then, after the regrets set in, deny their agency and put exclusive responsibility for their drunken encounter on their male partner, on the grounds that they are helpless to take care of themselves.”

Heather’s City Journal report is from 2008, but hasn’t aged a day.

Posted at 2:29 pm by Stephen Green

ALEX BERENSON: Europe is in Trouble.

Update on Europe, The World’s Progressive Dream (TM), the place all those Gen Z ladies say they’ll move when they stop being too sad to get out of bed.

The Spanish government — loved by annoying lefties everywhere — just collapsed.

The French are doing what they do best, rioting.

In Germany, anti-immigration conservatives keep gaining ground.

Of the four countries that dominate continental Europe, only Italy has a stable government — a conservative government run by Georgia Meloni, which has now lasted longer than any other in Italy’s post-World War 2 history and which just banned burqas for students.

This trend is not accident or coincidence.

Nope.

UPDATE (From Ed): When All Else Fails, Start a War: Europe’s Descent From Net Zero Folly to Military Mobilization.

Posted at 2:07 pm by Glenn Reynolds

YOU KNOW YOU’VE REACHED PEAK ABSURDITY, OR CLOSE TO IT…:

…when the tenets of leftism require you to leave aside the linear nature of time.

Posted at 1:58 pm by Stephen Green

THE ENEMY WITHIN / THE RETURN OF ASSASSINATION CHIC: Event at UC Berkeley mocking Charlie Kirk memorial draws scrutiny from State Department. “Spokesman Tommy Pigott told The College Fix in a statement via email that ‘people in the United States on visas are guests in this country, and we will not tolerate people here on visas who break our laws, support terrorism, or unlawfully incite violence, which ultimately led to the horrific assassination of an American.'”

Posted at 1:44 pm by Stephen Green

I DON’T MEAN TO BE PUSHY MIKE, BUT GET TO IT!

Posted at 1:28 pm by Stephen Green