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News On The Mann Front

May 22, 2025 Rand Simberg 25 Comments

New: DC Court orders climate scientist Michael Mann to pay $477,350.80 to the @ceidotorg and @Rand_Simberg in Mann’s long-running libel action.

That’s on top of the $530,000 Mann was ordered to pay to National Review in January.https://t.co/BxvzbI7fz3
— Andrew M. Grossman (@andrewmgrossman) May 22, 2025

[Friday-morning update]

The worm has turned.

[Update Saturday morning]

An actual news report in Pennsylvania.

[Update]

The ice cracks.

[Update a few minutes later]

More over at WattsUpWithThat.

This is the best reporting on the legal situation so far, but I hope that at some point Jonathan Adler weighs in.

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Return To Flight

May 22, 2025 Rand Simberg 1 Comment

FAA has approved Starship’s return to flight. pic.twitter.com/NtxV5TY9jz
— Marcia Smith (@SpcPlcyOnline) May 22, 2025

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Harvard

May 22, 2025 Rand Simberg 11 Comments

FAFO:

This administration is holding Harvard accountable for fostering violence, antisemitism, and coordinating with the Chinese Communist Party on its campus.

It is a privilege, not a right, for universities to enroll foreign students and benefit from their higher tuition payments… pic.twitter.com/12hJWd1J86
— Secretary Kristi Noem (@Sec_Noem) May 22, 2025

[Saturday-morning update]

Harvard is totally corrupted.

It’s unclear that it’s even salvageable.

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The Long-Overdue Deregulation Of Regulatory Offenses

May 21, 2025 Rand Simberg 1 Comment

…has arrived.

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Fracture Day

May 21, 2025 Rand Simberg 3 Comments

The five-year anniversary is coming up.

And don't forget. The five year anniversary of Fracture Day – June 5 2020 – is coming up.

There were lots of lies before that of course, but that was the day that a gaggle of "public health" officials told us that in the middle of a supposedly deadly pandemic that required… https://t.co/sIGQs6umwg
— Eric S. Raymond (@esrtweet) May 20, 2025

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