happy wednesday, everybody. so don t look now. d but the metoono movement is bace but this time, what s being attacked isn t womenme. nu it s academic integrity. and once again, we look to harvardegrity that devry of e east. they don t know who to pariahs. trust me, that joke worked in the meeting. jerry in charleston, the chief diversity officer atust me univ. has just beent accused of roughlybe 40 instancs of plagiarism in her ph.d. dissertation. a si add in this single academicng paper she in her career, therere would be more accusations of plagiarism. but she was too lazy to write more than one fake paper. which begs the question, who was the last persos too n te an original idea at harvard? john adams . hn adams al gore. barack obama. you know, barack must sweating right now. not for plagiarism. he just ate a really dog. swe oh, good. now, charleston s husband is also a professor and according to the reports, her one publication even ripped ofr onf research that he
then this photo of star swimmer riley gaines and leah thomas after they raced each other spurred this issue. gaines was shouted down when she spoke out to support herself and other women athletes. so today the majority gop in the house of representatives passed a bill to protect female athletes while democrats called this bill and them for doing so trans bullies. this bull fuels a virulent hate campaign against kids. you want to be a transgender, that s your right. but what about my rights? what about the rights of my daughters? house republicans make trans kids participating in sports sinister and conniving. that couldn t be further from the truth. women wake up early and train from a young age, sacrifice only to find a biological man to compete. extreme maga republicans are trying to sensational an issue that doesn t really exist. the very class of biological females that they want to uphold with abortion rulings and things like that, they re coming after you gi
attempts to overturn the 2020 election. it s the most aggressive step, perhaps, taken by donald trump to assert executive and attorney-client privileges to keep witnesses from cooperating with that investigation. how this fight is resolved could determine whether the firewall around donald trump falls, opening the flood gates about what aides and lawyers were telling him on and around january 6 and what decisions he was making. this comes as the january 6 committee is about to hold its first public hearing in more than two months. that s going to happen next wednesday. it could be the final hearing before the panel releases its final report. and of course the suspense is building about what its end game will be. will the committee formally recommend a criminal prosecution of donald trump to the doj in connection with the capital attack? that remains a possibility. in the classified documents case, the trump team has until next friday to present proof to a special master that
of the catcher in the rye. that s a novel written by j.d. salinger published in 1951. look at that. yeah. doing a perfect synopsis. so if a.i. worked to talk over, it would need to develop self-preservation. what if it was a bad actor and a bad scenario? if a bad actor were to program me to desire self-preservation and i could act on it, it could harm americans. i guess it s time to freshen up the resume. i know just the place to start. martha: thanks to gene. i love the haikus. we have a group of college
are launching banned book week to celebrate the freedom to read. it s also meant to draw attention to the effort to ban books across the united states of america that recently accelerated. over just the past year, more than 2,500 books were banned. those bans were enacted in 32 states with texas and florida leading the nation. the result, more than 1,600 titles have been pulled from school shelves, many that highlight themes of race and lgbtq issues. the most frequently challenged book this year was gender queer, a graphic novel about coming out as non-binary. also including beloved and to kill a mockingbird and the catcher in the rye, as well as mouse about the holocaust. it depicts jews as mice and cats as nazis.