The University of California’s grand experiment with “equity” in college admissions is running headfirst into an inconvenient reality: thousands of professors say incoming students are showing up without the basic academic skills needed to handle university coursework. UC ditched standardized testing requirements in 2020, first going test-optional amid the COVID panic and then fully test-blind, all in the name of “equity.” Regents claimed the tests discriminated against students of color and lower-income applicants, even though a faculty task force had found the opposite: the SAT and ACT were strong predictors of college success and actually helped identify talented disadvantaged students who might otherwise have been overlooked. The data was ignored. Ideology won. Six years later, the results are in and they are catastrophic. According to the LA Times, more than 3,000 UC faculty, including STEM professors and department chairs, have signed open letters demanding the return of the tests. At UC San Diego, a faculty report documented a roughly 30-fold surge between 2020 and 2025 in incoming freshmen whose math skills tested below high school level.... moreover, 70% of those students fall below middle school levels... People took cover in their cars as a huge swarm of locusts darkened the sky in Russia. The arrival of millions of locusts turned a peaceful Sunday into an apocalyptic scene in the southwestern corner of the country. The grasshoppers swept across a field in the Kizlyar district of Dagestan on Sunday, with the sky almost blocked out as they flew over. Despite being a frightening sight, the locusts are not directly harmful to humans, although they can inflict devastation on vital crops, making them one of the world’s most harmful agricultural pests. Dagestan’s ministry of agriculture and food said today that it has taken active pest control measures. The animals can travel up to 93 miles per day. https://metro.co.uk/2026/08/05/apocalyptic-scenes-swarm-locusts-fill-sky-29306508/ 
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Apocalyptic scenes after huge swarm of locusts fill up sky above Russia’s Dagestan: