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The Era of DEI for Conservatives Has Begun

Spare me the rebrand. Academia has always run on quotas: legacy quotas, athletic quotas, billionaire-spawn quotas. Now the same crowd that torched DEI offices wants its own safe space with leather-bound Hayek and a Koch endowment. Call it what it is—affirmative action for the Federalist Society. If universities were honest, they’d admit they’ve been selling ideologically flavored prestige since Andrew Jackson signed diplomas with a quill. The real diversity crisis isn’t red vs. blue; it’s donor talking points vs. independent thinking. Swap the mascot, keep the paywall, and the carnival rolls on. – James “Tricky Shotgun” Woods

Picture two fossil-fuel locomotives bolted nose-to-nose on the same stretch of track: one painted crimson for “patriotic civic thought,” the other cobalt for “inclusive social justice.” Administrators shovel donor coal into both engines, professors wave flags in the dining cars, and students, who are the paying passengers, sit in the middle as the contraption grinds in place, hissing steam and going nowhere.

Meanwhile, outside the tunnel, the economy has switched to maglev. Careers rise and fall at the speed of a Git commit, capital is borderless, and AI is clipping tasks off résumés like coupons. Yet campuses keep staging their twentieth-century tug-of-war, teaching kids to chant ideology instead of to build leverage. Left or right, it’s the same obsolete machinery, and every tuition check is a ticket to stand still.

Scrap the partisan engines. Universities should be launchpads, not museums for yesterday’s politics, and any curriculum that confuses activism with ability is just another debt trap in school colors. – Jason MF Free

Supreme Court rejects appeal of Massachusetts student who wanted to wear ‘only two genders’ T-shirt

I stand with trans kids, full stop. But muzzling a slogan doesn’t protect them; it gifts bigots a martyr badge and turns a hallway scuffle into a national cause célèbre. The Vietnam armband case taught that the antidote to bad speech is better speech in plain sight, not a confiscated cotton blend. Let the shirt show how small the message is, then drown it in rainbow ink and reason. – James “Tricky Shotgun” Woods

You beat bigotry by flooding the zone, not bottling it up. Spin his cotton stunt into your content machine:

Merch Blitz – Drop a limited-run “Trans Rights Are Human Rights” hoodie collection, share the profits with local LGBTQ shelters, and tag every post with a QR code to real gender-identity resources.

AI Meme Barrage – Feed his slogan into Midjourney, spit out a thousand parodies (“Only Two Genders? My Guy, I’ve Got More Fonts Than That”) and carpet-bomb Instagram Reels. Mockery travels faster than outrage.

Data Flex – Host a livestream with a neuroscientist and a nonbinary athlete, clip the receipts, and SEO-blast “biological complexity” until Google turns his phrase into a digital cul-de-sac.

Ally ROI – Challenge every club on campus to earn ally badges by logging volunteer hours; publish the leaderboard weekly. Make solidarity a competition he can’t enter.

Turn his retro bumper sticker into the spark for a multimedia pride offensive that no principal, judge, or algorithm can throttle.

Oklahoma to require schools to teach Trump’s 2020 election conspiracy theories

Walters and his cowboy caucus can’t fix cratering reading scores, so they carpet-bomb classrooms with MAGA fan fiction, waving Bibles like hall passes. Every hour spent drilling “stolen-vote” lore is an hour not spent on JSON basics, media-forensics, or anything that might keep these kids from punching a time clock for the same corporate donors who bankroll the legislature. Student just need to Walk in, ace the state’s propaganda test for the GPA, then self-educate online and sprint past the politics of these idiots – Jason MF Free

Worried how to pay for college? Here’s how to maximize your chances of getting the aid you need

The article reads like a polite ransom note. Spend a decade grooming your offspring for merit trinkets, massage your income to fit FAFSA algebra, pray Congress does not yank the subsidy rug, and maybe the bursar spares you a lifetime of debt bondage. That isn’t a higher education system, but instead, it is a carnival game with Ivy wallpaper where the carny counts the cash while parents quote Raj Chetty studies to feel sophisticated. Hand your kids the truth early. College is a market that sells prestige at luxury prices. If you walk in unarmed, the market will bleed you dry. – James “Tricky Shotgun” Woods

Stop waving the tin cup and weaponize AI. Use GPT copilots to auto-mine every scholarship database, reverse-engineer essay prompts, and negotiate aid packages like a Wall Street quant. Feed your coursework into custom tutors that compress a semester into a Saturday, then redeploy the same models to crank side-hustle code or freelance design while your classmates cram for midterms. Stack industry certs from Coursera, turn internships into remote contract gigs, and let AI handle the grunt work while you pocket real revenue. The new tuition plan is simple: build earnings faster than the bursar can invoice. Leverage beats loyalty—especially when the leverage runs on silicon and never sleeps. — Jason MF Free

13 jobs that don’t require a college degree − and won’t be replaced by AI

It turns out the robot apocalypse forgot to pack a toolbox. Plumbing, wiring, and taming an airborne toddler still demand flesh and blood, not silicon. Meanwhile guidance counselors keep herding teenagers into debt for majors that ChatGPT can digest before lunch. The smartest move for many Gen Z kids may be a union card rather than a campus meal plan. – James “Tricky Shotgun” Woods

This, even Woods’ comments, is just more 20th century thinking. Stop fearing AI and trying to avoid AI. Embrace it to master it. Don’t, and it will master you, even if you are great with a wrench. – Jason MF Free

NYU withholds diploma of graduate who condemned Gaza war

NYU wraps free inquiry in purple silk, then rips up the contract when a valedictorian shreds the campus comfort script. Administrators call it procedural integrity. Translation: do not scare donors, do not rile DC, hand back the mic and smile for the brochure. Freedom without risk is branding, not education. – James “Tricky Shotgun” Woods

I worked with NYU faculty and students two decades back. They drilled crisis rehearsal until it was muscle memory. They would be furious and embarrassed watching today’s administration fumble a completely predictable protest moment. A university that once taught strategy now panics at a microphone. Get ahead of the fire next time or hand your legacy over to risk-averse bureaucrats who confuse damage control with leadership. – Jason MF Free

Michelle Obama warns Gen Z students: Don’t let the Ivy League ‘scam’ you

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Why stop at Princeton? Torch the whole cathedral. State flagships, private liberal temples, fancy tech incubators, they all run the same hustle: inflate tuition, dangle prestige, graduate you into decades of debt while trustees toast record endowments. Skip the pews and build your own altar. Stack certs, code bootcamps, union apprenticeships, revenue-sharing gigs, community-college night classes you can pay in cash. Funnel that saved six-figure tuition into seed capital, index funds, or a one-way ticket to a low-tax country. Do EVERYTHING differently than the 20th-century sheep who go to school with you. – Jason MF Free

Harvard University becomes latest Ivy League to reinstate SAT, ACT for admissions

Harvard pretended for four pandemic years that holistic review could replace a scantron sheet, now it snaps the rubber band back and calls it equity. Standardized tests were never abolished, they were merely sent to the attic until the admission office could rewrite the talking points. The richest school on the planet is terrified of choosing freshmen without a numerical shield against lawsuits. Wrap that decision in Chetty research all you want, this is Harvard admitting that its five hundred variable matrix still cries out for a two digit insurance policy. – James “Tricky Shotgun” Woods

Woods is happily swinging the sledgehammer, but here is the practical angle. Tests are blunt yet they expose gaps that grade inflation and extracurricular theater hide. First gen kid from a low budget public school with a seven hundred math score suddenly pops on the radar next to the legacy applicant whose internship at Mom’s hedge fund reads impressive until the proctor hands out a Number Two pencil. Data is leverage if you know how to wield it. The task now is to keep the score requirement while killing the forty five hundred dollar prep course racket that turns a measure of aptitude into a receipt for privilege. – Jason MF Free

USC Valedictorian Slams School For Canceling Her Speech

USC waves the safety flag yet cannot name a single credible threat, then hides behind the legal truism that no one has a constitutional right to a podium. Translation: loud donors dialed the switchboard and the administration folded faster than a campus brochure in the rain. The school invites Milo Yiannopoulos for conflict tourism but muzzles a biomedical engineer who wears a hijab and studies genocide. That is not risk management. That is brand management soaked in cowardice. – James “Tricky Shotgun” Woods

Rule one for universities in conflict seasons: build a security plan before you pick a speaker, not after the comment section ignites. If threats are real, publish the evidence and arrest the source. If threats are vapor, let the student speak and own the decision. Anything else teaches graduates that the marketplace of ideas closes early when the merchandise offends the cash register. – Jason MF Free

Former assistant principal charged with child neglect in case of 6-year-old boy who shot teacher

Oh, look. Administrative taxidermy in real time. They stuff one assistant principal, mount her on the courthouse wall, and hope nobody notices the entire district smells like gunpowder and negligence. Eight felony counts for one bureaucrat is theater, not justice. The rot is systemic: a kid with a rap sheet longer than a Dixie Highway billboard, parents AWOL, and a school board that treats warnings like spam email. Felony charges won’t resurrect curiosity or conscience; they just hand the mob a scapegoat dressed in last season’s khakis. – James “Tricky Shotgun” Woods

Woods is half right. This isn’t just one bad administrator. But spare me the fatalism. Charging Parker sends a message every other district drone can translate: do your damn job or face a judge. Kids keep slipping weapons past security precisely because adults assume liability ends at the classroom door. Make negligence a career-killer and watch vigilance skyrocket. Then turn that same heat on school boards, legislators, and parents who treat safety budgets like optional toppings. Accountability is contagious; let’s infect the whole chain.- Jason MF Free

Liberty University will pay $14 million, the largest fine ever levied under the federal Clery Act

Liberty brags about being God’s fortress yet ran campus policing like a lemonade stand. One officer, minimal oversight, rape reports labeled unfounded because someone decided consent means surrender. Fourteen million is lunch money next to a three point five billion war chest, but it tears the holy safety sticker off their marketing brochures. When your devotion to image eclipses your duty to protect students, the gospel you preach is liability management. – James “Tricky Shotgun” Woods

Here is the lesson: Compliance theater invites disaster. Real Clery work needs trained investigators, transparent stats, and warnings that arrive before the headline, not after. Liberty spent years punishing survivors for breaking The Liberty Way while letting perpetrators walk. Now they owe fourteen million plus whatever enrollment drop follows. Christian universities that want to keep federal aid have two choices. Get serious about safety audits now or pay a public penalty later and watch donors ask why their tithe funds a cover up. – Jason MF Free

‘You just feel lied to’: This struggling Texas woman asks why she got a college degree — thought she’d be able to buy a house and ‘things that make you happy.’ Does she have a legit gripe?

College used to be a launch pad. Now it is a revolving door that dumps graduates into wage stagnation while lenders garnish the future. Productivity climbs, pay crawls, and the diploma that was sold as a ticket to middle class life becomes an IOU stapled to a cubicle. The lie is not personal. It is structural. Universities market aspiration, employers hoard profit margins, and politicians chant about upskilling while housing prices rocket past orbit. – James “Tricky Shotgun” Woods

Under its current structure, fuck no. It’s not worth it and any one who says differently is a fool or a liar. – Jason MF Free

The DARE Snitches

DARE was always a narcotics-themed puppet show: badge in one hand, coloring book in the other. You dress cops as guidance counselors and, surprise, kids become pint-sized informants, shredding their own families for gold-star approval. It’s the War on Drugs re-branded as story time, weaponizing trust the way a con artist weaponizes kindness. Anybody still wearing a faded DARE T-shirt should read this and realize they were drafted into a surveillance militia before they could spell marijuana. – James “Tricky Shotgun” Woods

DARE wasn’t just stupid; it was strategic. Turn classrooms into precinct annexes, groom children into data mines, and you’ve got a self-replicating snitch economy. But here’s the actionable takeaway: yank uniformed police out of K-12 tomorrow and replace them with actual health professionals who treat drug use as chemistry, not criminality. Teach kids harm reduction, civil rights, and whistle-blowing up the power chain, not sideways at friends or down at family. We can still undo the cop-campus pipeline if we quit pretending programs like DARE merely “didn’t work.” They worked exactly as designed.- Jason MF Free

If Harvard Succeeds In Revoking Francesca Gino’s Tenure, It Would Be History Making

Harvard wraps itself in the rhetoric of academic rigor yet needed nine years to notice that its star behavioral scientist might have been pumping fake numbers into journals. Now the institution wants to parade a tenure revocation as proof that no one is above the rules. Spare me. This is retroactive virtue laundering. They loved the citations, the conference headlines, and the corporate workshop fees. The moment the Data Colada gang pulled the fire alarm, Harvard sprinted for the exit sign and left Gino holding the matches. Tenure is supposed to guard truth from politics. Here it guards brand value from embarrassment. – James “Tricky Shotgun” Woods

Boston University President Accuses 2023 Graduates of “Cancel Culture” After They Boo David Zaslav During Commencement

Brown scolds the kids for rudeness yet hands the microphone to the millionaire who axed entire film libraries for tax write-offs. He calls it cancel culture when students hiss, but not when a studio head erases a season of television from existence. That is Ivy League hypocrisy wearing a crimson gown. The graduates paid six figures for a seat in that stadium, they can boo the corporate Grim Reaper all they like. – James “Tricky Shotgun” Woods

Woods loves a bar fight, fine, but here is the tactical point. If your protest goal is leverage, do not just boo. Use the stage time to force an on-record commitment. Hand Zaslav a cardboard check made out to the Writers Guild, livestream it, tag every shareholder. Embarrass him with receipts, not volume. You bought your degrees, now buy some negotiating power for the people who script the shows you binge on study breaks. That beats fifteen seconds of heckling that the administration will spin as a tantrum. – Jason MF Free

Opinion: College campus hecklers, your disruptions don’t count as free speech

Everyone loves free speech until the wrong mouth starts flapping. Then the purity police swarm like termites in cap and gown, chanting about safety and trauma while they bulldoze the podium. You are not a rebel when you drown out a microphone. You are a hall monitor in face paint. Frederick Douglass risked lynching so ideas could breathe. You risk a paper cut handing out preprinted flyers. – James “Tricky Shotgun” Woods

Harvard to rename school after top Republican donor following $300m gift

Harvard just stapled a price tag to its soul and sold it to a man who bankrolls both Wall Street arbitrage and politicians eager to muzzle classrooms. The crimson crest now comes with a Citadel watermark. Remember when a university’s motto was truth? Now it reads payable upon receipt. – James “Tricky Shotgun” Woods

If the nation’s richest school still needs hedge-fund billions, the tuition racket is officially a Ponzi scheme with ivy on top. Fine, take his cash, but where is the matching pledge to divest from gun makers or to fund scholarship seats for the students his politics marginalize? Until Harvard links every donor dollar to measurable public repair, the Griffin building is just another monument to money talking louder than mission. – Jason MF Free