3. Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed, the Democrats’ nominee for the U.S. Senate seat in Michigan, is a crypto-Communist, anti-Semitic anti-American, and has said and written dozens of statements that would have ended any U.S. politician’s career in saner times. Last week, CBS reported that El-Sayed was feverishly deleting Twitter posts like this one:

Nice equivalence there! British-American journalist Mehdi Hasan called CBS’s report “Islamophobic.” Never-Trump Bulwark commentator Tim Miller called the story “anti-Muslim.” Rep. Yassamin Ansari called the story racist. Got that? CBS reporting what a major party’s Senate candidate tweeted about a terrorist attack is the problem, not the candidate’s appalling position itself. CBS is being branded a traitor to the cause: it is willing to publicize facts and events that don’t advance the interests of the Democratic Party. How dare they?

4. I don’t understand how one can claim to be a feminist and submit to Islam’s discriminatory treatment of women. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul wore a hijab during a visit to an Islamic cultural center last week. “I was invited as a guest, and I always wear the appropriate attire, whether I am going to a temple, whether I am going to an Orthodox community or whether I am going to a catholic church in the Vatican,” Hochul said. Well, that “appropriate attire” symbolizes the second class status of women in Muslim societies. She was pandering to a voting block, that’s all, and by so doing revealing that she is a hypocrite and has no principles she’s willing to stand for at the risk of losing support. Her Republican opponent Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman put up a social media post featuring a photo of Hochel with the head-covering captioned, “Hijab Hochul. Kathy’s Latest Costume: Whatever the Audience Wants,” calling the stunt especially offensive less than two weeks before the 25th anniversary of the Twin Towers attack. Hochul responded, “If he has problem with that, that says more about him than it does anybody else.” Or “Nyah,nyah,nyah.”

Good one, Kathy.

5. Stuart Reges, a computer science teaching professor at the University of Washington, posted a parody of land acknowledgment statements that read, “I acknowledge that by the labor theory of property the Coast Salish people can claim historical ownership of almost none of the land currently occupied by the University of Washington. ’” Reges created the satire to protest the boilerplate land acknowledgment that the University encourages professors to use. In retaliation, UW amended his online syllabus to remove Reges’s parody and created an alternative section of the class he was teaching so students wouldn’t have to share a classroom with such a racist. About 30 % of his students transferred.

Reges sued, and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in his favor, saying Reges “experienced adverse employment actions, including a lengthy disciplinary investigation and reprimand, because of his protected speech.” “The speech was protected speech, not government speech, because Reges spoke in his own capacity as a professor, and not on behalf of his employer, and he unquestionably spoke on a matter of public concern,” the majority wrote. The university will pay Reges $600,000 in damages, and further agreed to refrain from “pursuing any investigation, creating competing or ‘shadow’ sections of his courses, or withholding future salary increases” due to the statement or complaints about it.

The university then issued a statement saying that it“maintains that we acted appropriately, and this settlement is in no way an admission of any wrongdoing.” Sabotaging its own instructor’s class because he dared to make fun of their stupid “land acknowledgment” is appropriate! Nice. I don’t know why Reges wants to teach there, and I really don’t get why any student would want to go there. Pay thousands to be turned into a woke jerk, or at best be surrounded by woke jerks for four years. Such a deal.