… but for you, only the best: A golf course in super-exclusive Jupiter Florida – typical residence along the course – where four golfers were shot at by a guy who lives in one of the residences. They piled into their golf cart to escape. Must have been cursing all the way: Fucking golf cart! Next time I’ll park my Hennessey Venom F5 on this hole!

Mayor [Errick] Simmons stated, “Over the past several days, our community has been deeply shaken by a surge in violent crimes, including multiple shootings, acts of gun violence, and senseless killings.”

In the same statement, the mayor declared an “immediate State of Emergency.”

The Greenville [Miss.] City Council voted on the curfew. According to the mayor, the curfew will be effective immediately from 9:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. Additionally, nightclubs and other similar businesses must close by midnight.

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Gettin too bumpy with all them guns, and now with this Alex Foster thing bloody Greenville’s all over the national media. Now everyone knows our little town’s a bloodbath. Let’s try something.

Short of doing anything about the guns, of course. It’s Mississippi. “Single worst rate of gun deaths in the country.”

LOL

Steven Pinker.

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More:

Universities should set the expectation that faculty members leave their politics at the classroom door, and affirm the rationalist virtues of epistemic humility and active open-mindedness. To these ends, a bit of D.E.I. for conservatives would not hurt. 

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As with its other maladies, Harvard’s antisemitism has to be considered with a modicum of discernment. Yes, the problems are genuine. But “a bastion of rampant anti-Jew hatred” with the aim of “destroying the Jews as a first step to destroying Western civilization”? Oy gevalt!

… The concern for Jews is patently disingenuous, given Mr. Trump’s sympathy for Holocaust deniers and Hitler fans. The obvious motivation is to cripple civil society institutions that serve as loci of influence outside the executive branch. As JD Vance put it in the title of a 2021 speech: “The Universities Are the Enemy.”

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The Faculty of Arts and Sciences has eliminated the “diversity statements” that vetted job applicants for their willingness to write woke-o-babble…

[Yeah. UD was shocked when Harvard allowed itself to get pulled in to this archetypically bush league faculty mandate. She isn’t surprised that crappy to mediocre schools insist on them. But Harvard?]

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Pinker himself is an example of a truly beleaguered minority: A morally decent rationalist.

 Using his Kurdish connections, [Peter Galbraith] has helped get more than two dozen children of various nationalities out of [ISIS detention] camps… Over the course of a year, he made three trips to Syria to search [for two young boys]. On his third visit, in November 2022, camp officials brought [them] to meet him in a small office… After a DNA test proved their identities, the boys were transferred to an orphanage-like facility within the camps, where they were able to have weekly video calls with their grandparents in Minnesota.

They now live with their family in Minnesota. Their [repentant, cooperating] ISIS father will be in jail here for ten years.

Those who follow TSU know that the jailing, for eight years, of one of its law school deans, was hardly the thievery of one set of hands. The school’s always been pretty filthy, top to bottom.

Now in its [seventy-eighth] year, it has hardly known a time when its fiscal affairs were not in chaos, when its board of regents was not dysfunctional, when its graduation rate was not shockingly low…

The theft of scholarship money by a dean does in fact reflect the culture of TSU, a corrupt and dysfunctional school that should not exist.

In Myrtle Beach, in Philadelphia, mass gatherings and rapid gunfire from weapons modified with gun switches guarantee many fellow Americans for us to memorialize.

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.