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This paper in Management Science has been cited more than 6,000 times. Wall Street executives, top government officials, and even a former U.S. Vice President have all referenced it. It’s fatally flawed, and the scholarly community refuses to do anything about it.

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/01/22/aking/

If Pretti kicked a taillight a couple of weeks ago...

..Why wasn't he already in jail?

MPD had orders not to work with ICE/CBD for crowd control. So Minneapolis jails were not available for detaining violent "protesters".

If Pretti kicked a taillight a couple of weeks ago...

..Why wasn't he already in jail?

Yeah, I've seen him painted as both a Trump supporter and a Trump hater. It's truly said that we can't trust the news media in this country.

With a bit of creativity and time I could easily create multiple accounts on social media platforms and post a wide variety of political ideas. So social media account-based claims have to be taken with a block of salt. Social media false-flagging is very easy.

Biologist Sues Cornell Claiming Racial Discrimination

https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2026/01/28/biologist-sues-cornell-claiming-racial-discrimination-n3811323

Colin Wright is an evolutionary biologist who now works for the Manhattan Institute, a conservative think tank. This week he filed a racial discrimination lawsuit against Cornell University. Wright, who is white, claims he was discriminated against in a hiring process which was focused on making a "diversity hire." In fact, he didn't know at the time that the job was even available because it was never posted publicly.

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The lawsuit, filed Monday in federal district court in New York, claims the university violated federal law when it sought to fill a faculty position several years ago. It cites emails from the ecology and evolutionary biology department in December 2020 that allegedly said that to make a “diversity hire” the department would invite candidates from a list of “underrepresented minority scholars” and avoid having the candidate compete with others.

Colin Wright, the plaintiff, was a postdoctoral researcher in that field at Pennsylvania State University at the time. He said he was seeking an academic job and was well qualified for the tenure-track position that Cornell allegedly filled without ever posting the job publicly, as was required by university policy.

Attorneys for the America First Policy Institute (AFPI), a conservative think tank with close ties to the Trump administration that brought the case, contend that internal documents classified a list of candidates by race, ethnicity, disability status and sexual orientation. Emails allegedly indicated that the department intentionally avoided a competitive search and planned to approach candidates one at a time until one accepted.

I've long viewed government agency jobs as "Whites need not apply", and don't. That's my choice. When government and "educational" institutions operate that way, it is illegal, and that's what Cornell appears to have done. The LIEden MalAdministration was unsurprisingly incurious, and civil rights agencies and courts knew which way the wind blew.