ROGER SIMON: Biden Administration Tops Orwell with ‘Disinformation Governance Board.’

Communism comes in various stripes.

The Soviets had their version, the Chinese have theirs—these days quaintly called “Socialism with Chinese characteristics.” The North Koreans have “Juche!” The Cambodian Khmer Rouge had theirs (thankfully short-lived) and the Cubans a pretty traditional Marxist-Leninist state with the creepy addition—they have long embedded secret police in the neighborhoods to keep an eye on everybody.

But they all have in common what they most loathe: freedom of speech.

Joining them in this abhorrence of the cornerstone of democracies is now the current U.S. administration that is about to install, through its Department of Homeland Security, a “Disinformation Governance Board.”

How Orwellian can you get!

But to call that Orwellian is both an understatement and an insult to the great George Orwell whose “Ministry of Truth” was a far more clever construction that contained the ironic overtone intended by the author.

There’s nothing ironic about the bureaucratic Biden era locution that seems thought up by the totalitarian dullards of our Deep State as a warning lest we peons get out of line and think for ourselves. It owes more to Reich Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels than to the author of “Animal Farm” and “1984.”

We could also call it—using Chinese rhetoric, since it is their form of communism ours most now resembles—“Socialism with American Characteristics.”

As in China, this allows for an oligarchic class to continue to enrich itself without untoward intrusions from the lowly serfs.

That this comes from Homeland Security and its chief Alejandro Mayorkas is more than slightly ominous. Adding to the threatening intent of the initiative is his choice to lead this assault on the First Amendment, Nina Jankowicz.

Jankowicz was such an “expert” in the field of “disinformation” that she was one of those most loudly calling the Hunter Biden laptop story Russian disinformation, which makes her either an idiot or a liar. I’ll go with the latter.

She was also involved in “strategic communications” (“Deep Statish” for propaganda) in Ukraine during the days all the hanky-panky was going on with Burisma.

But it’s worse still. Via Breitbart, we learn that the “talented” Ms. Jankowicz recorded a song on YouTube with the lyrics “Who do I have to [world’s most well-known expletive deleted] to be rich, famous and powerful?”

Well, we now know the answer: the American people. Second answer: the Bill of Rights.

Evergreen:

Related: What could go wrong? Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on CNN: Ministry of Truth won’t “‘monitor American citizens … the board does not have any operational capability. What it’ll do is gather together best practices … and disseminate those best practices to the operators that have been executing & addressing this threat for years’…Mayorkas then suggested that the board would simply be addressing disinformation from foreign sources — such as Russia, Iran, or China — that would pose a national security threat.”

ANALYSIS: TRUE. The Democrats have become the party of miserable, whiny grumps.

BIDEN POLICY: Two Weeks to Flatten the GDP. Before this is over, flat will see good.

NEO: The real “war on women”…

…is being waged by the left, and it’s on the very word “woman” and “women” and on the concept itself.

The left has supported transgender political and cultural activism to such a great extent that not only are biological men such as Lia Thomas allowed to enter women’s sports and compete there by claiming to be women, but the word “woman” itself has undergone a transformation for health professionals, who are now discouraged from using it.

Certainly it’s good for medical professionals to be aware that a person who looks like a man or a woman may have biological organs that don’t match his or her outward presentation and that it can be medically important to consider that possibility at times. But that’s a far far cry from eliminating the basic concepts of men and women and surrendering to the reduction of people to their genitalia.

Related: Matt Walsh Talks New Doc, Reveals ‘Shocking’ Answers He Received To Simple Question, ‘What Is A Woman?’

DISPATCHES FROM NERD PROM: Joe Biden Laughs at America’s Economic Struggles.  “‘I’ll be honest. If you didn’t come I totally would’ve understood,’ [Trevor] Noah told Biden. ‘Because these people have been so hard on you, which I don’t get. I really don’t. You know, I think ever since you’ve come into office, things are really looking up. Gas is up. Rent is up. Food is up. Everything.’ And Joe Biden laughed.”

There’s a powerful campaign commercial here, if GOP video makers are paying attention.

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THEY LIE TO DIVIDE PEOPLE:

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Texas will study how to support college degree alternatives.

IT WAS LITERALLY DESIGNED FOR THAT SPECIFIC PURPOSE: ‘Critical Race Theory’ is incompatible with freedom of speech or equal treatment.

THIS ISN’T ENHANCING THE AAA’S CREDIBILITY ON GAS PRICES: “There are very few weapons in the president’s arsenal they can use, and he’s pretty much trying everything.”

Is he? Is he really?

Related: Biden tormented by Republican guerrilla campaign and ‘I did it’ stickers.

Also: 100Pcs I Did That Biden Funny Car Stickers. #Resist #CommissionEarned

DAVID BARON, CALL YOUR OFFICE: Terrifying moment California toddler is mauled by bloodthirsty coyote on Huntington Beach – just yards from her unaware family: Girl is hospitalized with serious injuries as police hunt wild dog.

DEAL OF THE DAY: Slim Leather Wallet. #CommissionEarned

THE ELITES ARE STUPID, EVIL, AND OBSESSED WITH RACE:

But the elites have decided otherwise. https://t.co/9MWCuloj0G

— Andrew Sullivan (@sullydish) April 28, 2022

UPDATE: So this embed previously included a tweet from Zaid Jilani showing that Americans think race, ethnicity, and gender are the least important factors for college admission. Jilani now appears to have deleted the tweet and gone on a “vacation” from social media, I guess because of all the lefty blowback. Proving the point. . .

FLASHBACK: Biden acts much more like Putin’s puppet than Trump ever did.

RIGGED: Jones Day Finds USC Dean Intentionally Reported False Data To U.S. News To Goose Its Ranking. “The former dean of the University of Southern California’s education school directed administrators to omit information from its U.S. News & World Report rankings submission to boost the school’s placement at least as far back as 2013, according to an investigation released Friday by the university.”

OPEN THREAD: We must either love each other, or we must die. Flying high.

SPACE: Ingenuity Makes a Trip to See The Debris Left by Perseverance’s Landing on Mars.

IT’S JUST WATER WEIGHT, GUYS: Physicists Just Measured The Heaviest Known Particle With Record-Breaking Precision.

FASTER, PLEASE: High-frequency spinal cord stimulation shows improved longer lasting pain relief.

THE COUNTLESS FAILURES OF BUREAUCRACY: Doesn’t matter if the bureaucracy is in the military or Department of Defense civilian workforce, or anywhere else in the sprawling, out-of-control, unaccountable federal bureaucracy.

Don Devine, who ran the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) during the Reagan era, knows a thing or three about bureaucracy and, in a post on the American Spectator, offers examples from the Pentagon that ought to scare the crap out of every one of us.

FULL DISCLOSURE: I was a Reagan appointee, serving for three years under Devine as Assistant Director of OPM for Public Affairs.

THIS SEEMS BELIEVABLE: Brains shift in adolescence to tune out parents’ voices.

CLASS WARFARE: Who Really Benefits From Student-Loan Forgiveness? The proposal’s prominence has less to do with its merits than with college graduates’ agenda-setting power.

Some items end up on the agenda because a towering majority of Americans demand change—the most obvious recent example is rising gas prices. Student debt feels different. After all, just 13 percent of the country carries federal student debt. Gallup frequently asks Americans what they believe is the most important problem facing the country today. According to the Gallup analyst Justin McCarthy, the pollster is unable “to report the percentage of Americans who have mentioned student debt or student debt cancellation because it hasn’t garnered enough mentions to do so.” In 2022 so far, he told me via email, Gallup has conducted four polls on the question and “just one respondent mentioned this as the most important problem facing the nation.”

Why, then, is student-debt cancellation having such a moment in the national political conversation? . . .

Reason five: The power of college graduates

According to Catalist data, roughly 43 percent of the 2020 Biden electorate graduated from a four-year college or university. Compare that with 2012, when, according to Pew, just 36 percent of registered Democrats had completed a four-year degree or more. Given that trend, student-loan forgiveness may seem like the classic tale of a political party transferring a valuable benefit to a crucial constituency.

Although college-educated voters are an important segment of the Democratic Party, no one identity group is completely dominant. The party has long been a coalitional organization stitched together loosely and lacking a clear ideological core. Daniel Schlozman, a political scientist at Johns Hopkins University, explained a coalitional shift within the party in recent years. “Democrats are becoming more consistently liberal in a variety of ways, and they’re becoming more upper-middle-class all at once,” he told me. “And that creates some awkwardness.”

Awkward indeed that so much energy has been spent on a policy proposal that would affect just 13 percent of the population, and that would send the most dollars to high-income earners and those with graduate degrees. The fervor with which student-loan advocates argue that these policies are in fact racially and economically progressive may be an attempt to resolve the awkwardness that Schlozman describes—advocates of debt cancellation are trying to build a coherent narrative for why a diverse coalition, many of whom have never attended college, should be in favor of forgiveness.

College-educated voters are not just dominant within the Democratic Party; they also dominate the media and, naturally, academia—two institutions that have significant power over what issues are brought to the fore.

It benefits the ins at the expense of the outs for doctors and professors to have their loans paid off by truck drivers and manicurists.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: How to Find The Best Concealed Carry Holster.

SPACE: Rocket Lab pushes back attempt of mid-air booster catch to Sunday.

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FASTER, PLEASE: Osteoarthritis: Realigning bad knees may prompt the body to generate cartilage again.

HE’S RIGHT, YOU KNOW: Elon Musk says the far left ‘hates everyone, themselves included.’

Related:

SOCIALIST “IT GIRL” CONTINUES TO PAY DIVIDENDS: Elon Musk Trolls AOC on Twitter and It’s the Best Thing Ever.

Related: Spotted: Socialist AOC’s Tesla Parked Illegally Outside Whole Foods in Posh DC Neighborhood.

SIGNS IN THE HEAVENS: Booming fireball spotted in the skies above 3 states this week, NASA says.

MISSION CREEP: ACLU helped draft article at heart of Johnny Depp v Amber Heard case for $3.5m donation, court hears. American Civil Liberties Union’s general counsel testifies that at least $500,000 came from fund connected to Elon Musk.

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: Colorado inmate is first American to test positive for bird flu.

MARK JUDGE: When Editors Were Necessary.

What do editors do to earn their paychecks? These days, not much. In the blog and digital age, most editors sit around reading copy that’s provided for them by writers. They might change a word here or there, or bitch about a couple typos, but that’s it. For this they get paid a lot more than the writers who produce the pieces that drive the traffic that pays their salaries.

Before the digital revolution, being an editor could be sweaty work. The film Genius, based on A. Scott Berg’s book, dramatizes the legendary editor Maxwell Perkins as he helped to craft masterpieces by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and Thomas Wolfe. Perkins traversed the ocean of paper and ink hoisted onto his desk, spending months and years honing and perfecting. As Berg once told Vanity Fair, “Before Perkins, book editors had largely mechanical jobs: signing the book and preparing the manuscript for the printer. This one person changed the course of great American literature by working closely with authors to shape their manuscripts.”

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Editors like Kate Boo began to disappear with the rise of digital media and the financial collapse of journalism. The job of editor became more simple: gather copy from the horses who were driving traffic, pop it into the slots, collect a check, go home. A lot of these editors are only marginally competent and pathetically risk-averse, making sure their Buzzfeed-chasing hacks stick to short and easy copy. Unlike predecessors mentioned above, they weren’t daring.

And when they do go big, the lack of experience, guts, and wisdom can bring about a disaster. On November 19, 2014, I clicked open the webpage to Rolling Stone. Prominently posted at the top was the story “A Rape on Campus,” about an alleged rape at the University of Virginia. I knew by the third paragraph that the story was fake. It was something that any of my editors in the 1990s would’ve caught instantly. The girl was raped and tossed through a glass table? Are the markings on her back? Did you see the markings? Did you talk to the accused?

Read the whole thing.

THIS IS SO TRUE: The Only Easy Day Was Yesterday Banner. #CommissionEarned

THEY CHOSE…POORLY: Disney Just Fired Its Corporate-Affairs Chief.

THE POWER LINE WEEK IN PICTURES: Kleptocracy Edition.

BOTTOM STORY OF THE DAY: Space Force Canceled at Netflix. The Steve Carell comedy set a record for talent pay as the actor’s deal for the series topped $1 million per episode.

Related: Netflix Stock Price Drops 35%, Posting Biggest Fall Since 2004.

More: Netflix’s Big Wake-Up Call: The Power Clash Behind the Crash.

DEAL OF THE DAY: SparkPod Shower Head. #CommissionEarned

ONE WOMAN WITH COURAGE MAKES A MAJORITY: She came out as conservative at Harvard. It went better than expected.

Of course, she did wait until she was about to graduate.

PUSHBACK WORKS: University is amending its ‘anti-racist’ ‘vision statement’ after 60+ instructors object to politicized language. “Many instructors found the proposals to have a ‘heavy dose of political and activist code language,’ and that they are being pushed by a ‘rigid left-wing agenda,’ The Boston Globe reports.”

HMM: Economy contracts as ‘Bidenflation’ glides toward ‘Bidencession.’

Related: Stagflation is staring Biden in the face but he refuses to change.

COLLUSION: Meet the CCP-Loving Biden Donor Responsible for US Economic Interests in Asia.

DISPATCHES FROM THE ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY AND THE MEMORY HOLE: ‘Woke’ Democrats, including AOC, want to strip former Mayor Koch’s name from 59th Street Bridge.

PRIORITIES: Mayorkas looks to divert VA funding to illegal immigrants.

BACTERIA WITH MACHINE GUNS? Believe it. Michael Behe of the Discovery Institute explains that and some other absolutely amazing bacteria on HillFaith this Saturday morning.

Whether you an IDer or a Darwinian, check out the incredible characteristics of these cells. And don’t miss the medical and digital design and production nanotechnology possibilities Behe describes.

THERE’S A DEMOCRAT IN THE WHITE HOUSE, AND POLITICO IS “UNEXPECTEDLY” BORED ONCE AGAIN: The Rise and Fall of the Star White House Reporter.

Washington reporters have long considered the role of White House correspondent to be the crown jewel of American political journalism. It has launched high-profile television careers, scored countless reporters book deals and been bestowed on media veterans for years of ink-drenched work.

But during the age of Biden, a perch inside the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room has become something altogether different. It’s become a bore.

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The Obama press room launched a whole cohort of journalists into media stardom. The Trump press room launched another. The Biden press room?

“I can’t think of any [stars],” said a well-known television news executive. “I don’t really watch the briefings.”

The dulling down of the White House beat is not due to a lack of reportorial talent in the room. Nor has it meant that the work being done hasn’t been important: major stories are being broken regularly on everything from the Covid fight, to the war in Ukraine, to inflation, immigration and legislative battles over the social safety net. Rather, what is happening is the fulfillment of a central Biden promise. Running for office against Donald Trump — the most theatrical, attention-seeking, Beltway-panic-inducing president in living memory — he pledged to make Washington news boring again.

And, well, mission accomplished sir.

“Jen [Psaki] is very good at her job, which is unfortunate,” one reporter who has covered the past two administrations from the room said. “And the work is a lot less rewarding, because you’re no longer saving democracy from Sean Spicer and his Men’s Wearhouse suit. Jawing with Jen just makes you look like an asshole.”

Notice the name of that last “reporter” isn’t given in the article. But let’s review: Russia at war with Ukraine, and our being dragged in; our disastrous pullout from Afghanistan, with Americans still stranded there; an out of control border; out of control gas prices, and the return of Jimmy Carter-style stagflation; a schizophrenic Dr. Fauci; and the tapping of the appropriately named “Misinformation Czar.” Not to mention Biden frequently in full “Trunalimunumaprzure!” mode, leading to his occasional threatening of Putin, and his staffers having to walk said threats back an hour or so later.

Just think of the media as Democratic Party operatives with bylines, and the return of their Obama-era boredom makes perfect sense.

Evergreen:

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Speaking of which:

LEGAL EDUCATION’S DIVERSITY PROBLEM: Measuring The Conservative Penalty And Liberal Bonus With Updated 2023 U.S. News Rankings Data. “This Article produces a strong, cumulative case for the existence of ideological discrimination in law school in general and, more specifically, in the peer rankings. The conclusion of ideological discrimination is further strengthened when the results of this research are considered in tandem with the compelling evidence of ideological discrimination in hiring law professors—a decision in which law school deans also play a significant role. Because peer rankings are the leading factor in the overall rankings, this anti-conservative bias also inflicts a conservative penalty there as well, although less severe. While the magnitude of ideological bias discovered in this study may be surprising, the notion that law school deans—consciously or otherwise—apply a conservative penalty and liberal bonus when ranking law schools is not surprising. The political ideologies of law school deans are likely comparable with those of law school faculty—which are highly disproportionately liberal.”

RIP: Neal Adams, Comic Book Artist Who Revitalized Batman and Fought for Creators’ Rights, Dies at 80. He influenced multiple generations with his style and co-created such characters as Ra’s al Ghul, the Man-Bat and one of DC’s first Black superheroes, Green Lantern John Stewart.

OPEN THREAD: We are your friends.

ELON MUSK SMILES: Advances in commercial space having geopolitical and national security implications.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Former Rolling Stone Editor: The Liberal Media’s Campaign of Protecting Joe Biden Is Beyond Absurd. “There’s only so much you can sweep under the rug, and even if you cover it, the stench of the crap fills the room. It’s unavoidable. Joe Biden and his son did dirty deals. The emails shine a light on this web of deceit and corruption. Recently, we learned that Modest Joe is rolling in it with $5.2 million in undisclosed income. So many questions will rope in Hunter Biden and eventually lead once again to the emails on his laptop and the deals that were reportedly hashed out. You can’t keep this game up forever, guys.”

WALTER MITTY, CALL YOUR OFFICE: ‘Maladaptive Daydreaming’ Could Be a Distinct Psychiatric Disorder, Scientists Claim.

SOME PARTS OF AMERICA STILL WORK: SpaceX launches 53 Starlink satellites, lands rocket in quickest booster turnaround to date: This Falcon 9 first stage also launched the Ax-1 mission 21 days ago.

GOOD: Dopamine modulation could help to treat stress-induced anhedonia.

THAT’S WHO HE IS, THAT’S WHAT HE DOES: Eric Swalwell Deploys More Lies About the Lies He’s Been Telling About Gun Control for Years.

BE PREPARED: FIRST ALERT Hardwired Wireless Smoke Alarm. #CommissionEarned

I’M EXPECTING AN EARTH-SHATTERING KABOOM: What we know about the ‘Phoenix Ghost’ drones going to Ukraine.

IT’S NOT GOOD FOR YOU TO BE FAT: Childhood obesity increases risk of type 1 diabetes.

SPACE: Ingenuity helicopter captures images of its parachute on Mars.

WHY IS THE FDA DISCRIMINATING AGAINST BLACK PEOPLE? FDA proposes ban on sale of menthol cigarettes, flavored cigars.

Related: Menthol cigarette use highest among marginalized groups, report finds.

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Weapons Shipments to Ukraine: ‘The Closet is Bare.’ “Lawmakers sound the alarm over a protracted war in Ukraine. The weapons shipments to the war-torn country have cut into the Pentagon’s stockpile of Javelin anti-tank missiles and Stinger anti-aircraft missiles by about 1/3. They need to be replaced and soon, according to officials.”

IS THERE ANYONE SANE IN THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION? ANYONE? Biden’s New ‘Ministry of Truth’ Director Turns out to Be a Raving Lunatic.

PATIENT ZERO: Hollywood Consultant Admits Glee Started the Wokeness Epidemic.

In other words, a group of people who numbered, at minimum, in the tens of thousands, and could’ve numbered in the tens of millions, became so obsessed with a TV show, and with characters they related to, that they went and indoctrinated themselves with critical theory just so they could more effectively complain whenever the show did something they didn’t like, and harass anyone who disagreed without consequence. And when this toxicity ruined the show for them, they then spread this behavior to the fandoms of every other art form, and even carried it with them into adult life as participants in America’s cultural institutions.

There’s no other way to put this: this interview and the Tumblr post that preceded it form a confession. These girls (and it almost certainly was mostly girls) were so incapable of telling the difference between fiction and reality, so desperate to pretend that it was them reflected onscreen in a glorified teenage music revue, that they went to the trouble of intellectualizing their discontent through critical theory, and then took the same mission that animated the wars over Glee on Tumblr into the real world, and into real professions, in real industries, with real consequences. And just like they insisted that the actors on Glee live out their personal wish-fulfillment fantasies, the autonomy of those actors be damned, they are now insisting that all of us play the parts they have written for us in a political fanfic while they transform all of the United States not into a utopia, but into an eternal fantasy high school, where our new woke overlords, like the New Directions, will be constantly validated by everyone around them while still being able to claim oppression.

Read the whole thing.

WHEN REALITY STARTS TO INTRUDE: California promised to close its last nuclear plant. Now Newsom is reconsidering.

Newsom’s change of mind is a result of “California’s Potemkin Environmentalism:” No State Imports More Electricity Than California.

FASTER, PLEASE: Impeach Mayorkas. Alejandro Mayorkas has flouted the nation’s immigration laws and effectively opened America’s borders.
It’s time for him to go.

Related: Biden rule to speed processing of asylum claims challenged by Texas.

EVERYTHING YOU EVER NEEDED TO KNOW ABOUT THE SWITCHBLADE DRONE (BUT WERE AFRAID TO ASK): Switchbladeapalooza.

PUNCH BACK TWICE AS HARD: ESPN Anchor Sues for Violation of Free Speech. “Sage Steele is the only openly conservative personality at ESPN, and she has never shied away from or compromised her beliefs. That’s made her a target for wokes at the subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company, and now she’s suing ESPN and Disney for violating her free speech rights.”

Background: Sage Steele Suspended from ESPN for ‘Controversial’ Comments about Mandates, Obama, Female Reporters.

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DESPITE BEING FULLY COGNIZANT OF LINCOLN’S MAXIM: You know, the one about it being better to be thought a fool than to speak up and remove all doubt.

Well, I’m throwing caution to the wind this morning and inviting those who care about such matters to give this HillFaith post a read and then tell me where you think I am right, wrong, maybe somewhere in the vicinity of getting it correct, or just plain without hope of ever understanding.

Here’s the basic proposition: If information is the sine qua non of creation, then there must be intelligence behind the information, it cannot be randomly ordered, which is oxymoronic.

Why am I doing this? Because I know there are a lot of Instapunditeers who are a whole lot smarter than I am and more than a few who will gladly and civilly point out flaws and good ones.

One final note: No, I am not in the midst of regression to Philosophy 101, sophomore year in college. Why we are here, how we got here and what happens to us after we die are forever questions that are always in order.

SPACE: Webb Telescope captures 5 different, dazzling views of a nearby galaxy.

CONSPIRACY TO DEPRIVE PEOPLE OF THEIR CIVIL RIGHTS: VIDEO: Wisconsin university officials help plan Matt Walsh protest. I suspect that most of these “student protests” are actually ginned up by politicized educrats.

KEVIN DOWNEY JR: Women vs. Wokeness: It’s Time to Pick a Side.

THOU SHALT NOT OFFEND GENTRY CLASS PIETIES: College updates its campus speaker policy after controversial Kamala Harris remarks.

SHOT: Russia Is Losing a War Against Hackers Stealing Huge Amounts of Data. “Dozens of Russian companies and government agencies have been hacked in apparent retribution for the invasion of Ukraine.”

Chaser: Russian Linked Attackers Barraged Ukrainian Networks With Hundreds of Attacks. “Attackers reportedly conducted 237 operation with some seemingly occurring in tandem with kinetic military strikes.”

What was supposed to be a quick war has turned into a real knife fight. And the rule of knife fights is: Everybody bleeds.

HMM: A Setback in Durham’s RussiaGate Case Against Hillary’s Lawyer?

CABALS AND COLLUSION: Secretive Soros-funded group works behind the scenes with Biden admin on policy, documents show.

OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY: The US Government May Have Wasted $22 Billion on HoloLens. “A US government watchdog is warning that the Pentagon may have wasted more than $22 billion on Microsoft’s HoloLens by failing to ask if the soldiers who would be theoretically responsible for deploying the hardware actually wanted to use it or perceived any benefit from doing so. This is an observation so banal, one might wonder why the government needed to put it in an audit in the first place. This isn’t the first time, however, that we’ve heard rumors about soldiers not liking HoloLens — or IVAS, as the combat variant is known.”

VOTERS KEEP DISAPPOINTING THE DEMOCRATS WITH THEIR LACK OF GULLIBILITY: Voters know: High gas prices are Biden’s fault.

“Who bears the responsibility for higher fuel prices?” Rasmussen Reports asked.

Biden 51%
Putin 15%
Oil companies 26%

The stickers have helped to remind people. I like the ones in the photo.

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KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Joe Biden Admits That He’s Not a Fan of Joe Biden. “There is so much to not like about Joe Biden that it’s difficult to narrow down his worst traits. I’m gonna give it a whirl here though.”

COLORADO: Democrats move to make housing more expensive. “This year’s edition, House Bill 22-1362 involves forcing local governments to adopt expensive ‘green’ housing codes, significantly raising the cost of new houses, especially new single-family housing. This will be fine for the laptop class who can afford the extra costs right now, but it will drive the dream of home-ownership over the horizon for many more.”

TO BE FAIR, IT’S MOSTLY ABOUT GRAFT, REALLY: San Francisco’s “Housing First” Nightmare: Stuffing people who need drug or mental-health treatment into free or low-cost housing has proved disastrous.

THE CORRUPT AND POLITICIZED SEC NEEDS TO BE DEPOLITICIZED: Twenty-Two Leading Law & Finance Professors Urge SEC to Withdraw Climate Disclosure Proposal.

IT WOULDN’T BE SURPRISING: Is Chief Justice Roberts Trying to Save Roe v. Wade?

MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Stagflation is staring Biden in the face — but he refuses to change course.

A LARGE PART OF MY HEART WILL ALWAYS BELONG TO DENVER, AND I’VE ALWAYS BEEN FASCINATED BY ITS HISTORY:  How a Health Care Professional Rediscovered Denver’s Grand Musical Past.

AND ONCE MORE WITH THE SHOCKED FACE:  Today’s blacklisted American: Jewish professor fired for describing anti-Semitism at college.

LISTEN DUNCES, THIS ISN’T HARD, YOU GET MORE OF WHAT YOU SUBSIDIZE:  San Francisco’s “Housing First” Nightmare.

TOM KNIGHTON IS TILTING AT WINDMILLS: And holding subscription sale for instapundit readers.

LET’S GO BRANDON:  Democrats: ‘It’s Not Us, It’s You!’.

OH, WOW, THERE’S MY SHOCKED FACE AGAIN:  Arctic Sea Ice Stabilizes, No Trend Reduction In More Than 10 Years As Solar Cycle Starts Off Weakly.

BEHOLD, MY SHOCKED FACE:  GDP Decreased by 1.4% in First Quarter, First Contraction Since 2020.

BECAUSE IN THEIR HEADS EVERYONE LIVES IN A CITY:  Watch: Morano on TV explains how climate agenda is pushing ‘the end of private car ownership’ & end of meat-eating.

WHEN YOU CONSIDER THE WOMAN MUST HAVE MORE ER… SOCIAL DISEASES THAN HUGH HEFNER’S POOL WATER:  Kamala Harris Receives Drug Usually Reserved for Those ‘at High Risk for Progression to Severe COVID-19’.

OKAY, I KNOW THIS WILL SOUND WEIRD:   Attack Of The Gell-Man Effect.

Because he’s talking about my post. But a) it’s very gratifying to be listened to. b) well…. read it for the zebras. That’s all.

SECRECY IS THE KEYSTONE TO ALL TYRANNY: Secrecy and Tyranny.

SHE HAS PROVEN CHOPS AT CREATING DISINFORMATION:  Biden Administration Creating ‘Disinformation Governance Board’ Under DHS Headed by Trump-Hating Leftist.

WELL, DUH:  Derek Chauvin Files Appeal Cataloguing Pervasive Trial Misconduct and Irregularities.

THE MINISTRY OF TRUTH IS REAL:

Things got pretty weird, pretty quickly in the wake of Elon Musk’s trial balloon about buying Twitter, a deal that went through Monday, much to the chagrin of the progressive chattering class who were super duper certain the Tesla and SpaceX boy genius was just foolin’ for fun.

Poor NPR, for example, forced to aggregate what Musk might actually do with his new toy (and, to be fair, they pulled from his own public statements), characterizes the sale this way:

“[T]he world’s richest person who has a penchant for theatrics and erratic behavior is about to have the power to reshape discourse on a social network used by more than 200 million people every day.”

They’re not handling it very well.

Hence, the new federally-run truth commission, brought to you courtesy of Homeland Security.

The Biden administration and progressive activists (including former President Obama) sprang into action following Monday’s announcement and — quite literally — began the process of defining disinformation and calling for its regulation to make sure bad speech was addressed and eliminated from the collective safe space.

At the NRO Corner, Jim Geraghty compares the DHS “Disinformation Governance Board” to Obama’s stillborn “Attack Watch” Media Matters clone from 2011. A name that I cannot read without flashing back to the viral video from Misfit Politics mocking it with a sneering “Attaaaaccccckkkkk Waaaaaaaaaaaaaatch:”

UPDATE: “Lock us down:”

Lock us down so we can practice singing!

Meet the Biden DHS national head of censorship, America. Please DO NOT RT this video as it may upset your new internet overlords pic.twitter.com/FoEKlEmziH

— Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) April 29, 2022

OH, SURE, HE’S THE REAL VICTIM:  Ireland Baldwin says dad Alec is ‘suffering tremendously’ after ‘Rust’ shooting.

I mean, the woman he killed? Her family? Pikers. He’s the one who suffffeeeeers.

I DO NOT THINK THIS IS HOW YOU “NORMALIZE” VEGANISM: Vegan who drinks his urine daily swears it’s ‘secret to eternal youth’.

And by “eternal youth” he means “Terminal kidney failure.”  Potato potahto.