What changed? It wasn’t just that Harvard got more evidence of plagiarism. It was also that the scions on the Harvard board returned to the Real World™️—Aspen, Miami, probably Palm Beach—over the holidays, only to learn that their fellow elites had lost faith in Gay.
The NYT report confirms @MarcNovicoff’s main thesis in the Washington Monthly: “what led to the demise of the first Black president of Harvard was that she had become an embarrassment among people whom the Harvard Corporation respects.”
NEW: For years, Prince George's County, MD, delivered food to a homeless encampment behind a residential condominium. Vagrants from the camp kept breaking into buildings, defecating in stairwells, and doing drugs in the hallways.
They they broke the heat.
Now the county has deemed half the complex "unfit for human habitation" and is preparing to evict residents—all because of an encampment that the county itself enabled.
The story is shocking.🧵
Residents say the Marylander Condominiums, in Hyattsville, Maryland, used to be a beautiful community.
Here's what it looks like now, after the county refused to clean up the open air drug market on its doorstep.
Half of the complex has gone without heat since Thanksgiving after vagrants allegedly vandalized the boiler room. Some units have lost electricity, too, due to the overuse of space heaters. And amid the cold, a few units have flooded after their pipes burst. Units like this one:
NEW: Several IT firms that appear to bar US citizens from certain jobs also have contracts with the federal government—meaning that they discriminate against Americans even as they receive millions in taxpayer largesse.
The Trump administration is now reviewing the contracts.🧵
The General Services Administration told me it would "take all necessary steps to ensure accountability," adding that it would launch "a full contract review with our agency partners who have active awards with the named contractors, as well as others as appropriate."
We reported last week that the IT firms LanceSoft and Tekgence had posted job advertisements indicating that "USC," or U.S. citizens, were not eligible for certain roles. Both companies have contracts with federal agencies, according to the GSA’s database of active vendors.
NEW: Many IT firms are posting job ads that unlawfully bar applications from US citizens.
Several of the firms are minority-owned—meaning they receive preferential access to government contracts at the same time that they exclude US workers.
We've found dozens of examples.🧵
In a section title "Visa Requirement," a job ad for LanceSoft stated that "candidates must hold an active H1B visa"—and said explicitly that US citizens need not apply.
"No USC/GC for this role," a recruiter wrote, using the acronyms for U.S. citizens and green card holders.
LanceSoft, one of the largest IT staffing firms in the country, describes itself as an equal opportunity employer that strives "to be as diverse as the clients we partner with." It is a certified Minority Business Enterprise—a status the firm has used to score public contracts.
NEW: NYU Law axed a Federalist Society event scheduled for Oct. 7 because administrators feared protesters would disrupt it.
One official cited the "increased likelihood of demonstrations and protests connected to the anniversary of the October 7, 2023 incidents in Gaza."🧵
NYU’s fedsoc chapter had invited the conservative legal scholar Ilya Shapiro to discuss his new book Lawless: The Miseducation of American Elites. Shapiro, who is Jewish, has criticized anti-Israel protesters and taken schools to task over their handling of encampments.
He has also been the target of multiple campus protests, including one at UC Hastings, where he was shouted down for nearly an hour straight.
EXCLUSIVE: The FBI is investigating social media posts by at least seven different accounts that appeared to indicate foreknowledge of the assassination of Charlie Kirk, according to three people familiar with the investigation and screenshots obtained by the Free Beacon.🧵
The posts—one of which referenced the date of Kirk’s assassination, September 10, more than a month before it took place—were all deleted in the days following the killing.
Several of the accounts appear to belong to transgender individuals, and at least one of them followed suspect Tyler Robinson's roommate, with whom Robinson was allegedly in a relationship, on TikTok.
EXCLUSIVE: The Trump administration has launched a civil rights probe into the Duke Law Journal based on our reporting—and it's warning that Duke Medical School could be next.
The school could lose ~1 billion in federal aid if it does not make major changes within six months.🧵
The Department of Education will investigate the Duke Law Journal’s 2024 decision to award extra points to applicants who mentioned race and gender in their personal statements.
Candidates could earn up to 10 points for discussing their "membership in an underrepresented group," according to the grading rubric for the essays, and an additional 3-5 points for holding "a leadership position in an affinity group."