Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more 'Rat Hunting' Harvard Professor Weaved His Way Through Elite US Institutions Plus, Bari Weiss makes LGBT history, but nobody’s celebrating her achievement Eliana Johnson Oct 8   READ IN APP   The entrance to Harvard Law School (Darren McCollester/Getty Images) Harvard Law School professor Carlos Portugal Gouvea was arrested for firing a pellet gun near a synagogue on the eve of Yom Kippur. Gouvea is a visiting professor who, it turns out, has weaved his way through America’s elite institutions. Before landing at Harvard, our Andrew Kerr reports, Gouvea spent 2018 as a senior research scholar at Yale Law School and a visiting scholar at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business. In 2013, he published a paper, with a grant from Harvard’s David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, calling for the redistribution of goods in Brazil. Thanks for reading the Washington Free Beacon! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support our work. Subscribed Gouvea, a DEI activist, is also a founding member of several organizations that have received lavish funding from left-wing philanthropies, including George Soros’s Open Society Foundations and the Ford Foundation. The prof broke a car window after firing at least two shots from his pellet rifle in the vicinity of the synagogue, which is pretty hard to miss. Then he fled from the synagogue’s private security guards. Public records show his address is about a half-hour walk from the synagogue, so it appears he was just out for an evening stroll with his rifle. The synagogue’s leaders nonetheless told the New York Times that it appears Gouvea “was unaware that he lived next to, and was shooting his BB gun next to, a synagogue, or that it was a religious holiday.” Gouvea must not do a lot of socializing with his HLS colleagues or students. A Harvard rabbi is also quoted in the piece stating Gouvea has a Jewish wife. Must not be very religious! READ MORE: ‘Rat Hunting’ Harvard Law School Professor Weaved His Way Through America’s Elite Institutions Bari Weiss made history this week as the first openly LGBT journalist to lead a major network newsroom. “Alas,” the Free Beacon‘s Andrew Stiles writes, “the landmark achievement was largely ignored by media outlets and LGBT activist groups that purport to celebrate diversity and inclusion.” Reuters, AP, and CNN did not even mention that Weiss is happily married to a woman when they covered her appointment as CBS News editor in chief. The New York Times did, briefly, at the end of its story, but omitted “the historic implications for LGBT representation in mainstream media.” Ditto for the activist groups: GLAAD, which said Karine Jean-Pierre would “represent every LGBTQ person with pride” as White House press secretary, has issued no such statement about Weiss. Neither has the National LGBTQ Task Force, which rejoiced over the “historic first” of Pete Buttigieg’s cabinet role. Pressed for comment, a spokeswoman responded with a link to a “very interesting” piece in LGBT magazine Them headlined, “Who Is Bari Weiss? What to Know About the New CBS Leader and Her Anti-Trans Past.” “The obvious explanation for the double standard is that most journalists and LGBT activists are appalled by Weiss’s slightly right-of-center political views, which are more in line with what most Americans actually believe,” writes Stiles. “For example, liberal activists and their Democratic allies continue to advocate for transgender participation in women’s sports even though more than two-thirds of Americans disagree.” READ MORE: Liberal Media, Activists Silent as Bari Weiss Makes LGBT History at CBS News On Monday afternoon, local authorities announced that there was “no evidence” to indicate the fire that destroyed a South Carolina judge’s home was set intentionally. MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace covered the fire on her show roughly one hour later and suggested a pro-Trump arsonist was to blame. She’s not alone. Between spurious allegations that the South Carolina fire was set by Trumpists, baseless claims that Charlie Kirk’s assassin was motivated by right-wing ideology, and speculation just weeks ago that the president may be dead, it’s part of a rash of left-wing misinformation. Wallace said the incident “comes amid a surge in hostility and threats against judges, as well as criticism directly from the Trump administration.” READ MORE: MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace Suggests Trump Supporter Set South Carolina Judge’s House Ablaze—After Authorities Found ‘No Evidence’ of Arson In other news: The nation’s largest gun control group, the Michael Bloomberg-funded Everytown For Gun Safety, quietly scrubbed its website of its endorsement of Jay “Two Bullets” Jones after we reported on its silence in the face of his text messages that show him fantasizing about shooting a GOP colleague. Seventy-one percent of Americans support “the US destroying boats bringing drugs into the United States from South America,” a new Harvard CAPS/Harris poll found. That includes 56 percent of Democrats and 67 percent of independents. Say it ain’t so, Joe: At then-VP Biden’s request, the CIA buried an embarrassing intelligence report that showed Ukrainian officials mocking Biden for decrying corruption in the European nation as his family carried out corrupt business practices there. Check out our full Wednesday lineup below. ‘Rat Hunting’ Harvard Law School Professor Weaved His Way Through America’s Elite Institutions Liberal Media, Activists Silent as Bari Weiss Makes LGBTQ History at CBS News MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace Suggests Trump Supporter Set South Carolina Judge’s House Ablaze—After Authorities Found ‘No Evidence’ of Arson Sayonara: Everytown For Gun Safety Quietly Scrubs Endorsement of VA AG Candidate Jay Jones WATCH: MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace Suggests Trump Supporter Set South Carolina Judge’s House Ablaze—After Authorities Found ‘No Evidence’ of Arson New Footage Shows Hamas Terrorists—and Gazan Civilians—Kidnapping Israeli Women and Children on Oct. 7 Over 70 Percent of Americans Back Trump’s Strikes on Drug-Smuggling Boats: Poll Tim Kaine Calls Jay Jones ‘Two Bullets’ Texts ‘Indefensible,’ Then Defends Him Trump Hosts Freed Hamas Hostage Edan Alexander at White House To Mark Oct 7 Anniversary Thanks for reading the Washington Free Beacon!