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: Blue jurisdictions are rationing homeless services based on race.
In Portland, a non-white, non-native English speaker who is LGBT would get priority over a domestic violence survivor with a 6 yr old child who's been homeless for 12+ months.
The policies are shocking.🧵
Let's start with Multnomah County, OR, home of deep blue Portland, where deaths of homeless people quadrupled between 2019 and 2023. The county's screening tool for housing services is designed to "prioritize … BIPOC households, LGBTQIA2S+, [and] people with disabilities."
The rubric, obtained via a public records request, wards 1 point for "interest in LGBTQ services," 2 points for "English as a second language," and another 2 points for "interest in culturally specific services," a catch-all term for Portland's race-based housing programs.
NEW: Stanford is awarding five times as much money to a campus drag troupe as to an undergraduate veterans association. And it's awarding more money to the Muslim Student Union—$175,000—than every Christian student group combined.
We obtained the school's activities budget.🧵
The awards include a $50,000 grant to the Stanford Drag Troupe, which last year sponsored a performance by two drag queens, "Slut the Rock Johnson" and "ZZ Chic," as part of a "sex trivia" event titled, "Are You Smarter Than A Sexpert?"
That grant dwarfs the $10,000 earmarked for the Stanford Undergraduate Association of Veterans, the $14,472 earmarked for Stanford’s sole ballet group, the $27,104 earmarked for the Stanford Light Opera Company, and the $27,154 earmarked for the Stanford Symphony Orchestra.
NEW: The Marylander Condominium needed millions in repairs after Prince George's County stood by as a nearby homeless encampment terrorized the condo.
One bank said it would lend if the county guaranteed the loan.
But the county refused—and now residents are being evicted.🧵
After members of the encampment allegedly vandalized the boiler room, 100 units were left without heat and in violation of local safety codes. The damage prompted building inspectors to deem those units "unfit for human habitation" in December and order their occupants to leave.
The situation made the Marylander toxic to lenders, who feared that it was all but guaranteed to default. Starved for credit and at risk of collapse, the condo found financing from a local bank that agreed to lend on one condition: The county would have to guarantee the loan.
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.