Campus Call Takes a Hard Turn Police body camera footage from the University of Central Florida has resurfaced online, showing a February 2025 encounter involving 27-year-old Jarrett Vick inside a campus building. According to the footage and reports, an officer was on campus for a stolen vehicle investigation when Vick began shouting about other people being in the building. The officer warned that Vick could be put in handcuffs and taken for a Baker Act psychiatric evaluation, which in Florida can allow an involuntary mental health hold. Vick responded with profanity, because apparently the campus conflict-resolution seminar was not available that day. Pronouns Become the Flashpoint The situation escalated after the officer radioed that “he’s having a breakdown,” prompting Vick to yell, “She! She! Just say the right pronouns!” The officer then pulled out mace and pursued Vick around the room as backup was called. Whatever one thinks about the pronoun politics, the video shows the kind of mess police are increasingly expected to handle in real time: mental health concerns, campus rules, identity disputes, public safety, and a crowd of future administrators waiting to write a policy memo after the fact. Struggle Ends With Taser and Arrest When another…

A Debate Meets a SpreadsheetFinancial content creator Caleb Hammer had a tense exchange with a socialist activist who goes by “Doomsday” during an episode of his YouTube show, Financial Audit. According to the episode, the 25-year-old South Dakota resident works in corporate finance tied to stadiums, earns about $60,000 a year, lives in a converted ambulance, and carries notable consumer debt. That is a lot of moving parts for a conversation about capitalism, and, as usual, the spreadsheet showed up wearing steel-toed boots.The Minimum Wage QuestionThe argument heated up when the activist said Americans are forced to work multiple jobs just to survive and claimed many people rely on minimum wage. Hammer asked a basic numbers question: what percentage of Americans rely on the federal minimum wage? She first said she did not know, then said she had met people in difficult situations, and later guessed 30 percent. Hammer responded that the share is under 1 percent, then criticized her for making sweeping claims without knowing the numbers. Federal wage data does show that workers paid at or below the federal minimum wage make up a small share of the overall workforce, which is the sort of dry fact that…