Or twenty miles north; I’m figuring the local shooters moved this weekend’s fun away from Murder Beach proper cuz it’s crawling with cops.

This distance from the boardwalk, they were free to shoot eleven people. An impressive number, even by American standards.

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UPDATE: Happened on a party boat! Did people jump into the water? And eleven shot because it’s hard to run away when you’re drunk, high, and on a boat.

Police are searching for “a motive.” Hm, hm, what could it be. Cram a bunch of drunks, several of whom are armed, on a boat. Motive would be, you know, someone pushed someone aside while reeling around trying not to fall over. BANGBANGBANG

ANOTHER UPDATE: When you go to Facebook, you get all kinds of video and commentary. Some say it was an argument. Some say it was a hate crime. Some say some people drowned. We’ll see.

AND ANOTHER: For all the fervid imaginings of Facebookers, it sounds as though our latest mass shooting was exactly what you’d expect: Too many drunk/high assholes packed into a closed space. Someone always seems to get pissed off (or just pissed) and start shooting everybody.

… with anti-hijabis ignoring the law making veiling mandatory, and pro-hijabis screaming in the streets against the anti-hijabis, while also insisting that women, as per nonexistent divine command, should be far more veiled, the parts of the government that matter seem to have had enough.

Iran’s Parliament Speaker Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf said on Sunday that the Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) has instructed the legislature not to enforce a contentious law mandating stricter hijab regulations.

“Although I had no intention of publicly declaring this in such explicit terms, the SNSC has formally written to the Parliament, directing us not to promulgate the hijab and chastity law for now,” Ghalibaf told lawmakers.

On the other side, the religious fanatics running Iran into the ground have decided that stealing citizens’ personal information, and setting up a Stasi-like system of everyone spying on and denouncing everyone else, is a great way of enforcing an unenforceable law.

“Does the Headquarters for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice even have legal access to people’s personal data?” asked Abdollah Ramezanzadeh, a former government spokesman and law professor, in a popular post on X.

But forget legal niceties! When God decrees hijabs and chadors for all, you gotta go there.

As the suits are one by one dismissed, Gino herself is dismissed: Her tenure has been revoked. Plus she’s fired.

Off she goes, hissing and spitting all the way.

… in support of pro-liberal democracy presidential candidate Rafał Trzaskowski.

The just-elected pro-democracy president of Romania, Nicușor Dan, is among the marchers.

Photo taken by Mr UD’s cousin, Adam Soltan. (Click on pic for a better image.)

Here at UD, we cover both anti-hijab and pro-hijab protests in Iran, where they put you in prison, or at least bankrupt you, for failing to wear the mandatory hijab.

[Photo Vahid Salemi/AP]

Here, enraged women eviscerate the government for failing to destroy the anti-hijabis, and, while we’re at it, we demand MORE VEILING YOU FOOLS YOU INFIDELS.

Why let women get away with a dinky little head doily? Make it black, make it thick, make it full body, baby!

However!

Tehran Governor Hossein Khosh-Eghbal said … that the [pro-hijab] demonstrations were “illegal” and warned that police would disperse any further protests held without permits.

lolololol

An Iranian filmmaker offers his all-hijab all the time movie at Cannes, where, interestingly, all of the film’s actresses showed up hijabless.

And big thick black robeless! MOST immodest. I hope someone has reported them to the Chastity Law’s Morality Police.

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Ah. That’s more like it.

Summer comes to the Jersey Shore!

 [T]here were over 1,900 reported cases of students challenging the values of the [French] Republic in 2023 alone — from refusing to attend biology lessons due to perceived “immorality,” to threats against teachers who discuss secularism, gender equality, or the Holocaust. A growing number of teachers report self-censoring in the classroom for fear of retribution.

And the problem is not confined to France. In Germany, several states have reported an uptick in Islamist-linked intimidation in schools. In 2022, a Berlin teacher went into hiding after receiving death threats for showing a satirical cartoon during a civic education lesson. In Sweden, a teacher in Malmö was assaulted after discussing LGBTQ rights in class. Even the UK is not immune: Batley Grammar School in West Yorkshire found itself at the centre of a firestorm in 2021 when a teacher faced threats and had to go into hiding after showing images of the Prophet during a lesson.

These incidents are not isolated. They represent a systemic issue: the infiltration of radical Islamist ideologies into the educational environments of liberal democracies. Schools — once viewed as neutral spaces for the development of civic identity — are increasingly contested zones where the state’s authority is being tested and, at times, eroded.

And with another pen stroke, a judge has just halted the Trump administration’s ban on international students at Harvard.

Surely, like all dictators and would-be dictators, Trump knows that unless he figures out a way to destroy America’s independent judiciary he’s not going to get all the goodies he craves.

Well, the rhetoric’s grand for sure, but as UD reads the letter from fifty Yeshiva University faculty protesting the school’s bestowal of its highest honor on Elise Stefanik, she’s gotta ask the signers: Do you know where you teach?

Do you recall – it wasn’t long ago – that Bernard Madoff was your BOT‘s treasurer, Ezra Merkin an equally honored campus VIP, and to this day Ira Rennert and Zygi Wilf remain high-profile, influential, beloved, donors? Do you know that by far the largest bloc in America voting for Trump was orthodox Jews? Have you noticed that, right after the courts forced Yeshiva to allow a gay club, the school found a way to shut it down?

I mean so nu it’s always nice to protest, but why don’t you try getting a job at a reputable school?

GUNS.

Read this pathetic editorial up down over and out and you’ll never ever encounter even one mild parenthetical reference to all them guns.

He wanted to win, see.

He now has three years to launch a Head of Prison Library campaign.

Nothing like informed consent to this serious constriction can be said to exist; nor is there any reason for a modern society to play along with the grotesque belief that five year old girls must cover themselves because they are sexually arousing to men.

Macron’s party proposes forbidding “minors under 15 from wearing the veil in public spaces,” and would make it a “criminal offence for coercion against parents who force their underage daughters to wear the veil.”

For most of these children, the veil is only part one. There’s the unvarying uniform of the long baggy black dress, and the comprehensive gender segregation that keeps them out of many normal childhood activities. The French government rightly sees this mode of female upbringing as emblematic of a repressive fanaticism seriously at odds with the free, egalitarian values of the state.

Delaware becomes the twelfth state to legalize medical aid in dying.

66% of UD’s fellow Marylanders support the humane and unremarkable idea that dying people should have control over their deaths, as they had control over their lives. But people in her state legislature who think some notion of what God wants should prevail over what Marylanders want have so far blocked the legislation.

There seems to be some confidence that the legislation will, in not too long a time, pass in Maryland.

… Atul Gawande. But what made this the plagiarism winner and still champeen was that students in the audience got on their cell phones, discovered the plagiarism, and began mouthing the dean’s words in real time. That was very cool of them, and the guy resigned.

The current plagiarism story out of Smith College is less cool, but has its own fun wrinkle. The singer who got an honorary degree there plagiarized her speech and the degree was withdrawn; but what makes this one fun is the official statement from the school’s president, who noted that the speaker explained to her that she “sought to infuse the words of others with her own emotional valence.”