MICROBIOME NEWS: Could Your Gut Bacteria Be the Secret Cause of Heart Disease?

MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Trump can fix biased, bloated bureaucracy — by abolishing the civil service.

HMM. ChatGPT perceived as more empathetic than human crisis responders in experiments. “AI doesn’t get tired. . . . Caregivers experience compassion fatigue.”

STILL A FEW BUGS IN THE SYSTEM: Dumb New Electrical Code Could Doom Most Common EV Charging.

THE PRICE ISN’T ONE OF THEM: Six best features of the Rolls-Royce Ghost Series II.

MAYBE THEY SHOULD POUR ANOTHER GLASS OF WINE, INSTEAD: Tons of ‘aphrodisiac honey’ seized in France as officials issue health warning.

BIG SURPRISE: Lawsuit: Meritocracy abandoned to hire transgender, gay, black faculty at Northwestern University.

It’s an interesting experiment:

The lawsuit cites three white male law professors applied to Northwestern. This includes First Amendment expert Eugene Volokh, Ernest A. Young of Duke University’s Law School, and Ilan Wurman, a distinguished professor at The University of Minnesota Law School.

“As a result of the mandate, Northwestern University School of Law refuses to even consider hiring white male faculty candidates with stellar credentials, while it eagerly hires candidates with mediocre and undistinguished records who check the proper diversity boxes.”

Well, maybe not that big a surprise.

BE PREPARED: Airmoto Tire Inflator Portable Air Compressor. #CommissionEarned

MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT [VIP]: Another Monty Python Joke Just Became Reality in Mississippi.

IT’S A THEME: European automakers face a “perfect storm” as sales stagnate.

CHANGE? CNN Boss Warns Star Hosts to Avoid Trashing Trump’s Record.

CNN journalists avoided mentioning the most sordid elements of President Donald Trump’s past—including his felony conviction and two impeachments—during inauguration day broadcasts after the network’s top boss told them to show some deference to the most powerful person on earth.

That’s according to a report in media news publication Status, authored by the well-sourced erstwhile CNN media reporter Oliver Darcy.

During a routine editorial meeting on Sunday, meant to plan the extensive logistics of an inauguration, CNN CEO Mark Thompson told journalists to avoid “pre-judging Trump,” Status reported.

In addition to instructing them to keep an open mind about Trump’s second term—three days in, the president has already launched attacks on birthright citizenship, pardoned violent insurrectionists, and withdrawn from the World Health Organization and Paris climate agreement—Thompson told his journalists he does not want CNN’s “coverage to relitigate the past.”

I’ll believe CNN has changed — maybe — when they ditch Jake Tapper.

AND FOR HOW MANY MILLIONS SPENT? After J6 Pardons, The FBI And DOJ Have Nothing To Show For Four Years Of Ignoring Terrorists And Child Traffickers. “Even after devoting excessive time, resources, and agents to the partisan persecution of the Biden regime’s political enemies, the FBI still can’t answer key questions about what went down on Jan. 6, 2021.”

Not can’t — won’t.

THESE CLIPS NEVER GET OLD: Congressman DESTROYS CNN Live On the Air.

READER FAVORITE: Etekcity Camping Lanterns for Power Outages 4 Pack. #CommissionEarned

JOANNE JACOBS: How ‘woke’ are schools? “While more than a third of students say they’re taught that ‘America is a fundamentally racist nation,’ and that ‘white people contribute the most to racism in the United States,’ a majority are also taught that “the United States has made a lot of progress toward racial equality over the last 50 years.” Forty-two percent have heard that ‘the United States is a global leader when it comes to ensuring equal rights for all citizens.'”

Not as bad as I’d feared but not nearly as good as it need to be.

METAPHOR ALERT: Biden hit by blistering final insult from Google’s search engine after Trump takes office.

‘WTF is up with that s**? I know the orange meglomaniac [sic] you want to appease wants to erase him, but you’re losing ALL credibility here.’

Many liberals pointed out that Google CEO Sundar Pichai was at Trump’s inaugural celebrations on Monday.

‘You would think since Google sent an employee to celebrate the inauguration, they could get this one right,’ wrote one X user.

The Google error upset so many that the issue was trending on the BlueSky app, where many liberals have fled to after disavowing X because of its Trump-loving owner Elon Musk.

A Google spokesperson told DailyMail.com on Thursday that ‘There was a brief data error in our knowledge graph. We identified the root cause and resolved it quickly.’

Google fixed the issue by Thursday morning, as Biden is now included in the results for the search ‘US presidents in order.’

Given that Biden was simply an MIA figurehead for four years while a group of Obama retreads ran the country, Google’s algorithm got it right the first time:

WE’LL SEE: Anthropic chief says AI could surpass “almost all humans at almost everything” shortly after 2027.

NOW IT CAN BE TOLD: ‘Don’t Write About the Laptop, Don’t Talk About the Laptop:’ Ace Reporters Claim Politico Killed Negative Biden Stories.

WE’D BETTER BE: Nate Silver Asks: ‘Are We Entering a Conservative Golden Age?’

THIS JUST IN: (but you knew it was coming): Just The News reporting “Judge temporarily blocks Trump’s executive order to end guaranteed birthright citizenship”

The case was brought by Arizona, Illinois, Oregon and Washington.

NEXT THEY’LL BE GETTING A MICRO-ONLYFANS: The Secret Sex Lives of Bacteria.

THAT’S NEW:

US Debt Clock now has a DOGE savings indicator. I’m not sure how the total in calculated but DOGE has gotta pump those numbers up. Those are rookie numbers in this racket.

SNOPES KNOWS ELON MUSK DIDN’T GIVE NAZI SALUTE, WON’T DEBUNK HOAX:

Even Snopes, which fancies itself an objective fact-checker, refused to debunk the claim that Musk gave a Nazi salute.

During his brief speech — available in full on YouTube — Musk said to the crowd gathered in honor of Trump’s victory, “And I just want to say thank you for making it happen. Thank you.” He then briskly extended his right hand from his heart to the crowd in front of him. He repeated the gesture for the people behind him. Then, in a moment omitted from the users’ videos, he said, placing his hand over his heart, “Thank you. My heart goes out to you. It is thanks to you that the future of civilization is assured, thanks to you.”

[…]

We emphasize that as of this writing, Musk has not explained the gesture, nor can we read his mind to learn precisely what he intended by it. It’s possible it was a purposeful Nazi salute; it could also have been entirely innocent. The available evidence is too scant to draw a solid conclusion.

While Snopes wouldn’t debunk it, despite clearly recognizing the gesture was not a Nazi salute, the Anti-Defamation League did debunk it.

This is a delicate moment. It’s a new day and yet so many are on edge. Our politics are inflamed, and social media only adds to the anxiety.

It seems that @elonmusk made an awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm, not a Nazi salute, but again, we appreciate that people are on…

— ADL (@ADL) January 20, 2025

It’s really sick that at a time when the mainstream media has been raising alarm bells about disinformation, they continue to actively engage in it to serve their agenda.

Snopes will get around to debunking this hoax sometime at the tail end of JD Vance’s first term in the Oval Office — that’s how long it took them to debunk the “fine people on both sides” hoax from 2017.

In the meantime, as Kurt Schlichter writes: Elon Musk Needs to Sue Everybody.

I CREDIT SEXUAL SELECTION: More than 100 years of data suggest men are growing taller and heavier at twice the rate of women.

FIRE UP THE MEMORY HOLE: After These Details, the Antioch High School Shooting Is Going to Get Suffocated by the Media.

Pages of writings from the alleged shooter at Antioch High School showed a layout of the school, the weapons he wanted to use and his thoughts about why he wanted to commit a shooting.

The Metro Nashville Police Department identified the shooter as Solomon Henderson, 17. He is accused of killing Josselin Corea Escalante, 16. MNPD Chief John Drake said in an afternoon press conference that there were materials on the internet the department was looking into as part of the investigation.

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In his writings obtained by NewsChannel 5 Investigates, Henderson showed a layout of Antioch High School, photos of a handgun, a lock picking kit and cartridges to load the handgun. He wanted to livestream his attack in the cafeteria. The writings were connected to a social media account that was purportedly Henderson’s. He posted the writings on the account before the shooting in the cafeteria.

In one of his first sentences, Henderson wrote he “was ashamed to be Black.” He was anti-Semitic in his writings and posted a flyer from the Goyim Defense League, which is a neo-Nazi white supremacy group that visited Nashville this summer.

[…]

His writings showed that he had been thinking about violence for a few months. He wrote his final remarks on Nov. 18.

“I was so miserable. I wanted to kill myself. I just couldn’t take anymore. I am a worthless subhuman, a living breathing disgrace. All my (in real life) friends outgrew me act like they didn’t f—ing know me. Being me was so f—ing humiliating. That’s why I spend all day dissociating.”

Henderson’s writings also showed a photo of The Covenant School shooter who died in 2023 after attacking the private Christian school. Three children and three staff people died that day in addition to the shooter.

He wrote he didn’t intend to kill law enforcement and that he didn’t consider himself the victim of bullying.

We’ll keep you updated, but black Nazis cannot be weaponized to attack Trump or push a gun control narrative, so expect this story to once again be buried by the media.

Also, note this detail: Antioch school shooting raises questions on lack of metal detectors in Metro Schools.

Metro Nashville Schools (MNPS) Director Adrian Battle has resisted metal detectors in Nashville schools, and even after today’s tragedy, she is still skeptical of their effectiveness.

“I know there are questions about whether additional steps like stationary metal detectors should be employed. While past research has shown they have had limitations and unintended consequences, we will continue to explore emerging technologies and strategies to strengthen school safety,” said Battle.

Former school board member Fran Bush spent two years fighting for metal detectors and fighting with the MNPS director. She says today never should have happened.

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But see what Director Battle had to say on metal detectors one more time:

“While past research has shown they have had limitations and unintended consequences.”

We didn’t get a chance to ask her what she meant by “limitations” or “unintended consequences” and we are not the only ones who want her to explain herself further.

Better dead than rude, to coin a phrase.