Nightly Scroll with Hayley Caronia

Episode 201: Brown U Security Failures EXPOSED

Date: December 19, 2025
Host: Haley Caronia

Overview

On this fiery and candid episode, Haley Caronia dives deep into the security failures at Brown University and the broader issues of campus safety, immigration policy, and left-wing governance. With her trademark wit and unapologetic conservative commentary, Haley threads together headline events—from the tragic Brown and MIT shootings and campus security blunders to the role of visa policies, liberal district attorneys, and the ripple effects of open-borders agendas. The episode is peppered with unsparing critiques of university leadership, the Biden administration, and progressive stances on everything from transgender care to DEI in hiring. Haley also adds lighter content with “blind reactions” to viral videos and scrolling through interesting social media finds.

Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Brown University & MIT Shooting—Security Gaps and Administrative Spin (04:00–15:00)

• Incident Recap:
  Haley reports that the suspect in the Brown University and MIT professor shootings is dead. He was a 48-year-old Portuguese national, former Brown student (2000–2003), fired from a Portuguese institute. There may be a connection with the MIT professor, who also worked at that Portuguese institution.

• Campus Access & Security
  Haley laments the openness of college campuses:

  “School campuses need to be for enrolled students only... You should have to swipe into every building and every classroom, and it’s a pain in the ass, but it would at least eliminate outsiders from doing harm to students.” (06:05)

• Lax Security & Camera Confusion
  Brown's administration appears unclear or evasive regarding security camera coverage.

  • Frank Doyle, Brown Dean: “We have 1200 cameras located throughout the campus. We don’t publish the locations… There are cameras in this building… all video imagery has been turned over…” (08:19)
  • Haley calls out the inconsistency after an interviewer presses on the lack of cameras in the crime scene building.
  • Brown University President Christina Paxson: “I do not think a lack of cameras in that building had anything to do with what happened there...” (09:31)

  Haley sharply criticizes the administration:

  “These people need to be fired. They need to be fired.” (09:57)

• Homeless in Campus Buildings
  A former student, identified as homeless and living in Brown’s basement, played a good Samaritan role by providing a crucial tip through Reddit about the suspect's car. Still, Haley uses this to underscore the broader point:

  “Not all homeless people can be trusted to fight crime. If I was a parent paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to send my kid to a private university. And I knew that homeless people were living in the basement... that would concern me.” (11:51)

2. Immigration Policies and Security Failures (16:00–25:00)

• Visa Policies Scrutinized
  Haley highlights:

  • The shooter entered the country through the Diversity Visa Lottery (DV1) in 2017.
  • South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem, at Trump's direction, paused the DV1 program.
  • Haley wonders about the shooter’s timeline and critiques the visa system.

  “It’s making me frustrated, but I’m grateful that at least we have the Trump administration in charge. I can’t imagine what life would look like... if we had the Biden administration still in charge and all of their horrific border policies in place...” (16:50)

• Failures of Liberal District Attorneys
  Tells the story of Steve Descano, a Soros-backed DA in Fairfax, VA, who released an illegal immigrant only for him to allegedly commit murder the next day.

  “Instead of keeping this guy behind bars or, I don’t know, deporting him, this district attorney decided it was okay to let him go because he was only involved in a murder and he was only a little bit violent…” (19:00)

• Deadly Consequences of Lax Immigration Enforcement
  Case of a Chinese national with a commercial driver’s license in Tennessee resulting in a fatal accident while distracted by his phone; DHS blamed the Biden administration for issuing work papers.

  “Every single state is a border state now… That’s the reality that we’re living in.” (22:18) “That’s treason. Siding with foreigners instead of your own constituents, that’s treason.” (23:13)

• Espionage and Bioterror Risks
  Reports on a Chinese postdoc (J1 visa) charged with E. coli smuggling.

  • FBI Director Cash Patel:

    “Yet another example of a researcher from China… who chose to take part in a scheme to circumvent US laws and receive biological materials hidden in a package originating from China.” (24:00)

3. Security Crackdowns and Public Safety Abroad – Paris NYE (27:40–34:00)

• Paris Cancels New Year’s Eve Concert
  The official reason: fears of crowd stampedes and unrest. Haley is highly skeptical, comparing this to COVID lockdowns.

  “Imagine having a police force so incompetent that they can’t allow an annual event to go on because they think there’s going to be stampedes or drunk people on New Year’s Eve. Like, groundbreaking.” (30:22)

  She suspects other unnamed threats and points out inconsistencies, referencing Paris’s successful handling of much larger Olympic crowds in 2024.

  “They’re lying. Like, they have to be lying. What is the other purpose? I don’t get it.” (32:00)

4. Government and Social Issues – Transgender Policy & DEI (34:00–46:54)

• Anti-Conservative Attacks and the FBI
  Responds to Senator Dick Durbin’s criticism of Dan Bongino leaving the FBI, lambasting Durbin as a “swamp creature.”

  “We do not need [a career government official to run the FBI]. This is the problem with womb to tomb politicians. They think that they’re the answer. They want someone who’s been in government forever...” (36:12)

• Transgender Rights, Healthcare, and Federal Funding
  Covers the Trump administration/HHS rollback of Medicaid and Medicare funding for “gender affirming” care for minors, denouncing the practice.

  • Notable quote from HHS Secretary RFK Jr.:

    “Gender affirming care is not medicine. It is malpractice. We are done with junk science driven by ideological pursuits, not the well being of children. Amen.” (38:10)

  Haley further critiques the mental health side of transgender care:

  “No one wakes up and feels like, oh, I belong in the wrong body. This is a mental disorder. It’s a dysphoria. It’s a delusion.” (36:54)

  Notes nearly all House Democrats voted against blocking Medicaid funding for transgender treatments for minors.

• DEI and Racial Discrimination in Hiring
  Exposes how, post-BLM protests, the vast majority of new corporate jobs went to "people of color” while white hires plunged, highlighting a new EEOC campaign for white male discrimination claims.

  • Andrea Lucas, EEOC Chair:

    “Are you a white male who’s experienced discrimination at work based on your race or sex? You may have a claim to recover money under federal civil rights laws…” (46:06)

  Haley summarizes:

  “What they really mean is they want opportunities for people who aren’t white… That is racial discrimination.” (46:54)

5. Entertainment: Blind Reactions & Scrolling Time (47:00–60:31)

• Blind Reactions:

  • Epic Burrito Construction Video (48:10–50:33)
    • Haley and crew marvel at a viral video showcasing a chef engineering a multi-layered burrito.

      “It’s literally like 13 different burritos in a burrito.” (49:50)

  • Burger King Doppelganger/George Floyd Lookalike (50:33–51:30)
    • Joking shock at a customer resembling George Floyd.

      “Welcome back, George Floyd.” (51:22)

  • “Merry Christmas, You Filthy Animal” Double Standard (51:56–52:26)
    • Humorous riff on why insulting salutations are only “allowed” at Christmas for white people.

      “Because it’s okay to hate white people. Even then when the movie came out, it was okay to hate white people.” (52:17)

• Scrolling Time: Viral Clips Commentary

  • Cafe Workers Harassing Child Exploitation Officers (53:27–54:54)

    • Viral incident in New Orleans where staff harass officers arresting a child predator (Chinese national on student visa), mistakenly believing they are ICE agents.

      “This is a massive mistake… try having respect for what they do.” (54:13)

  • Congress Members Asked Their Favorite Influencer (56:36–58:18)

    • Lawmakers fumble when asked about influencers; some mention Dylan Mulvaney, others seem clueless.

      Haley on Adam Schiff: “He’s not friends with influencers… just a loser.” (58:12) “Cory Booker... I’m a vegan, but I like watching videos of other people eat good food. That’s what gets him through.” (58:45)

  • Cat Conducting Christmas Carols (59:26–60:13)

    • Lighthearted close with a video of a cat “conducting” “We Wish You a Merry Christmas.”

Notable Quotes & Moments (with Timestamps)

• “School campuses need to be for enrolled students only...You should have to swipe into every building and every classroom, and it’s a pain in the ass, but it would at least eliminate outsiders from doing harm to students.”
  — Haley Caronia (06:05)

• “I do not think a lack of cameras in that building had anything to do with what happened there...”
  — Christina Paxson, Brown University President (09:31)

• “These people need to be fired. They need to be fired.”
  — Haley Caronia (09:57)

• “That’s treason. Siding with foreigners instead of your own constituents, that’s treason.”
  — Haley Caronia (23:13)

• “We need an outsider to come in and fix it, to clean up the mess that they made. This is why the American people voted Trump in in 2015.”
  — Haley Caronia (36:24)

• “Gender affirming care is not medicine. It is malpractice. We are done with junk science driven by ideological pursuits, not the well being of children.”
  — HHS Secretary RFK Jr. (38:10)

• “Are you a white male who’s experienced discrimination at work based on your race or sex? You may have a claim to recover money under federal civil rights laws…”
  — Andrea Lucas, EEOC Chair (46:06)

• “Because it’s okay to hate white people. Even then when the movie came out, it was okay to hate white people.”
  — Haley Caronia (52:17)

Important Timestamps

• 04:00 - 15:00 — Brown/MIT shooting details, security failures, campus access critique
• 08:19 – 09:31 — Brown officials and President grilled over camera placement
• 11:51 – 15:00 — Homeless individual’s involvement in solving the case
• 16:00 – 25:00 — Immigration policy, visa criticism, DAs and criminal alien cases
• 27:40 – 34:00 — Paris cancels NYE: crowd safety or bigger threat?
• 34:00 – 46:54 — FBI, Dan Bongino, transgender medicine, DEI and hiring discrimination, EEOC PSA
• 47:00 – 50:33 — Food blind reaction: “Most complicated burrito ever”
• 50:33 – 52:26 — Viral video laughs: George Floyd lookalike, Christmas salutation “systemic injustice”
• 53:27 – 54:54 — Viral video: Internet crimes officers harassed in NOLA
• 56:36 – 59:09 — Congressional influencer favorites
• 59:26 – 60:13 — Cat conductor video, episode wrap

Tone

The episode is bold, brash, and unapologetically conservative, characterized by sarcasm, directness, and a combative edge. Haley moves fluidly between serious policy critique, culture war commentary, personal anecdotes, and humorous asides, maintaining a rhythm that’s engaging, fast-paced, and bluntly opinionated.

For First-Time Listeners

This episode offers a comprehensive look into how a conservative commentator interprets headline tragedies and perceived systemic failures—especially on university campuses and immigration—with a highly critical view of progressive policies and leaders. It weaves in cultural humor and viral internet content to keep the commentary brisk and relatable, making it clear why Nightly Scroll is a daily destination for its audience.