Representative Jamie Raskin of Maryland, the senior Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee and a former constitutional law professor, said that Mr. Paul had already tainted a prosecution by asserting he wanted to see Dr. Fauci in prison, while at the same time trying to force him to testify.

“I do have some sense of the ethics of a legislative investigation,” Mr. Raskin said. “It just would never occur to me to go around saying a witness should be in prison and then try to prevent them from invoking their Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination over the very matter I’m claiming is criminal.”

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Ugh.

Anything for a friend of the governor! A Florida college prez only has a BS from Akron, but anyway it’s Florida whaddaya expect.

However, his resentment of his appropriately credentialed faculty is such that when he heard an English prof there teaches short stories that … I dunno, lack Baptist content? he up and tossed her out on the spot! ON THE SPOT. Satan get thee hence.

Well his petulant little moment caught the eye of FIRE and the NYT and all, and now you got you a big ol lawsuit…

Yeah, he’s pissed that, in the wake of the Ceuta disaster, Italy has suspended its Schengen open borders agreement with Spain. But listen. It’s optics, ain’t it? The whole world has been riveted, for the last twenty-four hours, to scenes of thousands of young men (only young men) surging into Spain from Morocco cuz Spain can’t control its borders. One can know that more “irregulars” enter Italy than enter Spain; but here one can see the intrusion – into Spain – so so graphically.

The overwhelmed police; the inevitable armed forces. 72 dead in the chaos. A massive embarrassment for Spain. A massive gift to Trump and Co.

AI tells you this if you search FAUCI HERBERT RAPP. Herbert Rapp was UD’s father, and I can imagine him staring wide-eyed at his eminent colleague being publicly destroyed by Trump/Paul.

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Background.

… But weawy???

Now that richly variegated criminal Tom Goldstein has been sent where he belongs – jail, for six years – prepare for What a fall was there! commentary from similarly highly credentialed elites here in the Bethesda/Chevy Chase world UD and Goldstein share. Shared.

But ain’t no kind of fall when you were already trash. Far as I can make out, the dude was always a greedy little shit with no discernible morality — the sort of person who must have enjoyed, as much as Bernie Madoff did, the knowledge that he was ripping off the world while tooling around in one of his Bentleys.

He made clear enough that exceptional people like himself were not subject to laws.

Read his list of crimes and try telling me that I should get all Shakespeare-tragic-like about a garden variety sociopath.

‘So on the question of [multiple sexes] being “settled science,” as the AAA said at the time, there was a survey in 2022, published in the journal Forensic Anthropology, that asked forensic anthropologists about this question, and 42 percent of them said they agree that sex is binary, and 56 percent disagreed that it’s binary. So that ratio would seem to indicate that, in the field, the question hadn’t actually been settled, and I was wondering how you explain that.

I don’t believe in opinion research… I just don’t trust opinion polling.’

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Rational deliberation from the prez of the American Anthropological Association.

SING IT

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Ken’s campaign looked all grody

The AG was all wet

Then Ken told big Cody

He’d deliver the threat

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Yes what a difference Cody’s bucks made

Cody just forked ‘em over

Ken’s campaign got an upgrade

Now he’s living in clover

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It’s heaven when you

Find a shakedown on your menu

What a difference a day makes

And the difference is TTU

Creepy panopticon Monaco, financial crime capital, has managed to eke out three murders or almost-murders in the last few decades, all involving high-level corruption and/or un max d’argent. The latest is a bomb attack on a corrupt Ukrainian oligarch right at his doorstep.

https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nc/charlotte/news/2026/06/26/confederate-flag-displayed-at-n-c–exhibit-at-america-s-state-fair

’. A symbol that the state itself never chose, attached to its flag without permission, displayed at an event meant to celebrate American unity…’

This is why these people need to be kept in Syria. Off she goes onto the free streets of Melbourne, to work her magic. The newspaper article describes her, before anything else, as a bride and a grandmother. If this were about an ISIS man, would his first description be groom and grandfather? UD’s blood boils.

Other well-meaning courts in other well-meaning countries will do the same — I guess because holding Yazidi teenagers as slaves is no big deal.

And what’s really idiotic is that these courts clearly think women can’t be terrorists. Women can’t focus their minds enough to evolve a terrorist ideology. This chick said what they all do and the court bought it – I never really, you know, believed … what does ISIS believe again? It’s only women who are little by little being allowed to walk free. Everyone’s fine with male terrorists staying in Syrian prisons. But women are too stupid to be real terrorists, so let them go.

So there’s the university angle, which interests us here at University Diaries (though lack of qualifications earning a person a job at a Spanish or Italian university isn’t exactly news — that’s one of the ways your big whole entire modern rich country gets exactly one university on a respectable position on the international ‘best of’ lists, and that one – U of Barcelona – only staggers up to #88 on one list, and #145 on another). But the Spanish PM’s now-arrested wife’s expanded list of misdeeds is far sexier than squatting on a university position for which you don’t qualify: ‘embezzlement, influence peddling, corruption in business dealings and misappropriation of funds.’

UD admits to relief at this bigtime Spanish corruption story. She has missed the almost-fall of the monarchy (King Juan Carlos; his daughter; his daughter’s ex-husband) due to breathtaking corruption. So now she has this.

Sing it.

After you’ve gone and left us cheering
After you’ve gone and left us jeering
You’ll feel blue, you’ll feel sad
You’ll miss the dearest wall you’ve ever had

Now your name’s gone and we’ll forget it
When you’re gone too we won’t regret it

After you’re gone, after you’re gone away

You’d think pharma would be on to the scheme by now. Or do companies care that they’re buying bogus studies guaranteed to confirm the legitimacy of their shit?

The whole thing’s a win/win, after all. Except for the dupes buying worthless and destructive drugs.

And the panel of wusses who recently went through the motions of taking it seriously as an interrogative couldn’t help but conclude shucks yeah I guess…

For twenty years, the academy’s position on the incineration of – for instance – literary study has been just like this.

And now – God knows why they suddenly got the thought in their head – there’s something to see here.

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The Chronicle of Higher Ed has for years published opinion pieces that equate an interest in the aesthetic values of art objects with — not making this up – Trumpism. Here’s one of many examples. It’s a little rich that the publication now gives air time to people who have begun wondering whether that might not be a fit thing to argue.

Like many such pieces, this one is simple bullying (give it a read). You shouldn’t let yourself be bullied into contributing to the death of literary studies.

Curious sort of savior. Because she stole over a million dollars from a big federal grant, the government went ahead and killed it. The most vulnerable Native Americans in Arkansas – drug addicts and suicidal depressives and impoverished widows – will now just have to do the best they can on their own.

So fuck her and her tears and her I dunno and her I took all the money because I’m Jesus. She’s going to jail for four years (no parole) and has to pay it all back.