In The Shadow Of Mt Hollywood

Minnesota state employee Dylan Bryan Adams, 33, was allegedly caught on camera keying multiple Teslas. pic.twitter.com/s5GlRbkhqo — The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) April 19, 2025 A week ago , I noted a pecullair demographic pattern among the great majority of perpetrators alleged to have damaged Tesla vehicles or sabotaged Tesla dealerships in protest of Elon Musk's involvement with the Trump administration, namely that they tend either to be members of the "bobo" managerial-professional class, or they tend to be transsexual or queer-identifying males. In that post, I cited one member of the 500 Queer Scientists organization and three prosperous members of the bourgeois bohemian class. A month ago, on March 21, I cited four trans-identifying males charged with arson against Tesla dealerships in Oregon, Colorado, and South Carolina. The bobos consistently vandalize individual Tesla vehicles, while the trans guys consistently set dealerships on fire. Three ne...

According to The Daily Beast , Harvard academics have warned they will be forced to euthanize animals used for medical research because of Donald Trump’s $2.2 billion funding freeze. This is disingenuous. According to this site, Animals are typically killed once an experiment is over so that their tissues and organs can be examined, although it is not unusual for animals to be used in multiple experiments over many years. If the lab animals are going to be euthanized no matter what, why the fuss? The answer is fairly clear, Harvard wants to portray the Trump administration as being cruel to animals, when the Harvard researchers are routinely cruel to animals no matter what, just as long as they get their money. Cutting off their money sounds like it would actually benefit future generations of lab animals. But this is an indication of how seriously Harvard takes the current threats from the Trump administration. On top of threats to revoke Harvard's tax-exempt...

I've noted here that a feature of Trump's strategy is to take away multiple legs of any stool on which a problem sits. The Harvard problem -- which is shorthand for the uber-endowed prestigious university problem in general -- sits on multiple stools, each with multiple legs. The international student problem is one of those stools, and Trump is busily taking away several legs of that stool. One leg of this stool is the cash cow that international students represent to US universities. According to Karin Fischer, who covers international education for the Chronicle of Higher Education , Typically, international students and out-of-state students pay more than students who go to college in their own home states, sometimes two or three times as much. International students may also pay special fees for things like visa processing and English language exams. . . . about 80% of international students pay their own way, whether from their own families or by borrowing mo...

Over the past several weeks, there's been growing tension between Harvard and the Trump administration, culminating as of yesterday in an additional discontinuance of $2.7 million in federal grants beyond an already frozen $2.2 billion. The Trump administration itemized its complaints last Friday in a letter to President Garber and the board chair , according to the Harvard Crimson : [T]he Trump administration delivered a longer and more focused set of demands than the ones they had shared two weeks earlier, asking Harvard to derecognize pro-Palestine student groups, audit its academic programs for viewpoint diversity, and expel students involved in an altercation at a 2023 pro-Palestine protest on the Harvard Business School campus. It also asked Harvard to reform its admissions process for international students to screen for students “supportive of terrorism and anti-Semitism” — and immediately report international students to federal authorities if they break Univ...

What's pestered me about this whole Blue Origin all-women space flight is that the crew is obviously a DEI administrator's dream: one Asian, one Hispanic, two blacks, and two whites. Leave aside the Hispanic is Jeff Bezos's girlfriend, or two blacks is 33% of the "crew", when blacks are 14% of tbhe population, we get an appreciation of Bezos's current mindset: no matter he's purged most of the liberals from the Washington Post editorial board, he's still stuck someplace in 2022. So why wasn't there a trans guy among the women? In fact, if Bezos's aim was to pick women who were prominent in media, why not go with Dylan Mulvaney? After all, according to People , all the ladies saw this as an opportunity to act like drag queens themselves: "Who would not get glam before the flight?!" said Sánchez, whose fiancé Jeff Bezos, founded the spaceflight company in 2000. "We’re going to have lash extensions flying in the capsule...

DOJ publishes drivers license photo of Jamison Wagner, the suspect in firebombing of GOP office in New Mexico and Tesla dealership, in which he's wearing blue lipstick. He's also a member of "500 Queer Scientists" https://t.co/3el4iQjJkk https://t.co/X4LzUpkXX4 https://t.co/EpUtEiOc4G pic.twitter.com/c6t3Co3UFM — Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) April 14, 2025 Last month I posted on the odd circumstance that four perps recently arrested for vandalizing Tesla dealerships were trans-identifying males. Just yesterday, it turned out that the guy arrested for firebombiong both a Republican office and a Tesla dealership in Albuquerque, NM wasan't trans, but he did identify as queer, and his drivers license photo shows him wearing blue lipstick. So trans- and queer-identifying males atill seem to make up a key demographic of the anti-Tesla agitators. Another demographic appears to be affluent whites who claim more conventional socioeconomic privilege, which puts me in ...

Just recently, I discovered that as of this past January 25, Spirit Airlines had updated its dress cod e. Somehow I don't think it's a coincidence that this came within days of Trump's inauguration. According to ABC News, Spirit Airlines has revised its "contract of carriage" to include updated guidelines for passenger conduct and attire, including a detailed dress code prohibiting provocative or inappropriate clothing. . . . Outlined in Section 4.3 of the contract, the airline’s policy now explicitly states that passengers must not wear "see-through clothing; not adequately covered; exposed breasts, buttocks, or other private parts." . . . The new dress code is part of broader rules governing passenger behavior under the "Conduct/Condition" section. These new rules include, in part, Disorderly, abusive, or violent behavior that creates an unreasonable risk of offense or annoyance to others. Intoxication or drug use. Off...