THAT’S A REAL SHAME: Georgetown U. students miffed pre-orientation program no longer ‘identity-focused.’

According to The Hoya, the center’s Young Leaders in Education, Advocacy & Dialogue program, aka YLEAD, was changed last August to Total Hoya Readiness: Intro to Vocation and Experience, or THRIVE, which no longer has programming related to identity and diversity.

YLEAD used to “foster dialogue” about “ability, ethnicity, gender, nationality, race, religion, age, sexual orientation, and social class,” according to the Hoya’s review of the center’s archived webpages.

Solene DeGaynor, a former YLEAD participant who later became a THRIVE coordinator, said she was “disappointed” the university moved away from the original program.

“We did a lot of presentations on what it means to be a woman on campus, what it means to be a person of color in a predominantly white institution,” DeGaynor said. “That was really helpful in terms of understanding how identity intersects and plays a role in how you operate on a college campus.”

DeGaynor added that the new THRIVE is more about “academic success” and “access[ing] to all of the resources” at Georgetown.

Campus relations were so much better before schools started to “foster dialogue” about “ability, ethnicity, gender, nationality, race, religion, age, sexual orientation, and social class.”

BOO HOO: Georgetown U. students miffed pre-orientation program no longer ‘identity-focused.

MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE: DOJ Charges Illegal Voters in Battleground States.

INSTITUTIONAL RACISM: Beloit College requires ‘diversity plan,’ equity advisor for faculty hiring.

ANOTHER STIMULUS, XI? China says it will pump $54 billion into banks and insurers — but their stocks still fell. “The moves build on a 500 billion yuan capital injection into four major state banks last year and a pledge in March to issue 300 billion yuan in special treasury bonds this year to replenish capital at large state lenders. China’s banking sector has been grinding through a multiyear margin compression, as Beijing pushes lenders to keep credit cheap for struggling borrowers. The net interest margins — the spread between what banks earn on loans and pay on deposits — fell to record lows this year.”

INSTANT KARMA:

HE TEXTED ICE HE WAS VOTING DEMOCRAT IN THE MIDTERMS.

That’s how they caught him.

Honduran noncitizen. California voter roll. Already on probation for blocking an ICE building — then he kept texting the agent that he couldn’t wait for November so their immunity would be gone.… pic.twitter.com/VjyBSkMOos

— QThestorm (@17QStorm) September 7, 2026

Also, that thing that never happens happened again.

A STUDENT SENATE VOTES 25–0 TO DENY A REPUBLICAN CLUB FOR BEING REPUBLICAN. At Whitman College, apparently freedom of association is fine, as long as you associate with the approved people. Rights that protect only popular opinions are not really protections at all.

ROGER KIMBALL: The Democrats are both cynical and naive.

Which leads me to the political principle a friend summed up in a pithy observation: “To be a liberal is to be unable to learn from the past.” Sometimes experience is a great teacher. Sometimes it is hardly more than a distraction. My friend’s point is that Democrats seem to derive no sustenance from their experience. The failure of their policies does not lead them to adjust their expectations or their actions. It causes them to double down on their mistakes.

The history of America’s welfare apparatus since the time of FDR and, especially, since the time of LBJ and the so-called Great Society programs, is a case in point.

Well, it depends. If the purpose of the Great Society was to make America better and happier, it was a mistake. If the purpose was to enrich a vast bureaucratic parasite class while holding the nation’s poor in government-funded serfdom, then it succeeded brilliantly. Just remember: The purpose of a system is what it does.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: It’s Going to Be a Big Week for IslamoFAUXbia. “I frequently write about the fact that American leftists live in an alternate, fictional reality. One of the biggest fictions that they peddle is that Islamic terrorism isn’t a problem but the white Christians are a powder keg that’s ready to blow. It’s wearisome and dangerous. When Democrats are in charge, they’re never looking for the real bad guys.”

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE:

It’s alarming that Americans with advanced degrees are twice as likely to support political violence than high school graduates. They occupy the commanding heights of the US. They staff federal agencies, universities, foundations, newsrooms, law firms, tech companies, and medical… pic.twitter.com/I2WstrA5z7

— Timur Kuran (@timurkuran) September 8, 2026

Remember when higher education was supposed to have a civilizing influence?

THAT’S BRAVE: Small-scale protests break out in Iran over cost of living. “The protests come after DW Persian reported that many Iranians, including cancer patients, were forgoing or delaying critical treatment as healthcare costs become increasingly unaffordable. The prices of some medications had risen by 120%, Iran’s semi-official Tasnim News Agency reported. Some medications had increased in price by as much as 543%, German news channel Deutsche Welle (DW) reported.”

OF COURE HE DID: James Talarico Voted Against Bills Targeting CCP Influence in Texas, Including Popular Measure Barring Chinese Nationals From Buying Farmland.

IMPRESSIVE:

EXCLUSIVE: Drone activity at the U.S.-Mexico border dropped roughly 75% after the U.S. used a laser weapon, the military says. https://t.co/7ZkYRoeNAt

— CBS News (@CBSNews) September 7, 2026

GOOD LORD: U.S. Citizenship Official Was Selling Green Cards.

IT WAS TOTALLY ON-POINT, WASN’T IT? Looking Back on the 2016 ‘Flight 93 Election’ Essay That Changed American History.

HMM: The Problem is Not the JAGs. Not Really. The Problem is the Commanders.

LIGHTNING DEAL: Mukiya 20000mAh Laptop Power Bank with Retractable Cable & Stand. #CommissionEarned

MACARTHUR PARK IS CLONING IN THE DARK: Adam Carolla: Los Angeles is “number one in artist renderings. You say whatever you want about your city, we’ll kick your ass with our renderings. Our actual product is shit, but if you want a bullet train or a park or a  bridge, we got a rendering, and it’s amazing. Except we’ll never realize any of it:”

A new $82 million dollar park is opening under the 6th street bridge in Los Angeles, California

The promotion materials show it being amazing, clean, a place for kids with a splash pad and tons of amenities and fields

It’s not even open and it’s already COVERED in graffiti, it… pic.twitter.com/wYD0ZrnfY9

— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) September 7, 2026

CURIOUSER AND CURIOUSER: Amy Acton’s ‘Assassination Attempt’ Narrative Is Falling Apart.

LEFTISM IS BAD FOR PEOPLE AND OTHER LIVING THINGS: America’s Bad Cities Are Costing You. “Does crime reduce the extent of agglomeration economies? To a major extent, yes, and we know it thanks to a suite of different disasters—bombings, fires, earthquakes, hurricanes, etc.—, to random events that displaced populations—the Mariel Boatlift, Japanese internment, close elections that appointed discriminatory mayors, etc.—, to the historical period known as the Great Migration—the mass movement of African Americans from the southeastern U.S. to the rest of the country’s urban areas. My replication package deals with all of these, and they produce convergent results, but for this article, I’ll just talk about the clearest example.”

Some fascinating stuff at the link.

MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Lindsay Clancy’s lawyer bashed America’s juries — and battered another pillar of justice.

NICE WORK — NOW GO FIND THE NEXT ONE:

🚨 BOOM! All the hospices are gone. Not a single hospice remains. No more luxury vehicles and no more of your dollars funding their fraudulent scheme. They were all frauds.

In this one location alone we saved America $30 million+.

END IT ALL. pic.twitter.com/AZd6ptatr7

— Nick shirley (@nickshirleyy) September 7, 2026

Meanwhile: Critics say new ‘Stop Nick Shirley Act’ will make uncovering fraud more difficult.

“THE COUNTERREVOLUTION”: Victor Davis Hanson Surveys Trump’s Fall and Rise.

IT’S SEVEN IN THE MORNING. DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOUR MARS ROVER IS UP TO?  What is going on with Perseverance?

AN IDEA SO CRAZY IT JUST MIGHT WORK: Carmakers Have A New Idea to Boost EV Range: Add a Gas Engine.

EV sales remain depressed since the Trump administration removed a $7,500 incentive last year and rolled back regulations driving a more electric market.

Two primary concerns have kept Americans from buying EVs en masse: the higher cost of battery-powered cars, and concerns over range—specifically, the availability of charging. In theory, EREVs solve the range and charging problem, while offering other advantages for bigger vehicles like three-row SUVs. Those require large batteries that can struggle with long recharge times. The setup is popular in China’s high-tech auto market, where even Ford and General Motors offer EREV vehicles not sold in the U.S.

Most plug-in hybrids on the road today are essentially gasoline vehicles with a battery shoehorned in to provide a small amount of all-electric range. EREVs flip the concept. They are designed first as electric vehicles, and the engine solely acts as a generator for the battery, with no mechanical connection to the wheels.

The setup saves some battery costs compared with full EVs and eliminates the need for gas-car parts like a transmission. EREVs also drive like EVs, including instant acceleration even when the battery is drawing from the generator.

EVs need to offer the range independence of gas cars.