OUCH: Tesla lays off ‘more than 10%’ of its global workforce. “We don’t know which specific teams will be most or least affected by Tesla’s layoffs, but two well-known Tesla executives are now missing the ‘Tesla-affiliated’ badge on twitter – Drew Baglino and Rohan Patel.”

TWO NPRS IN ONE!

Shot: Another Boeing whistleblower says he faced retaliation for reporting ‘shortcuts.’

—NPR, Friday.

Chaser: NPR’s New CEO Scolds 25-Year Veteran For Exposé Outing Network’s Bias.

National Public Radio (NPR) CEO and president Katherine Maher lashed out at senior Editor Uri Berliner over a scathing op-ed he wrote for The Free Press — in which he claimed that NPR had displayed political bias on a number of occasions and, in doing so, had “lost America’s trust.”

Maher, who stepped into her role at NPR just three weeks ago, claimed that Berliner’s assessment — made after 25 years with the outlet — was “deeply simplistic” as well as “profoundly disrespectful, hurtful, and demeaning.”

Without mentioning Berliner by name — or giving any specifics with regard to his comments — Maher simply claimed that NPR was devoted to providing information to the public, and that the outlet’s “service to this aspirational mission was called in question this week.”

“Asking a question about whether we’re living up to our mission should always be fair game: after all, journalism is nothing if not hard questions,” Maher continued. “Questioning whether our people are serving our mission with integrity, based on little more than the recognition of their identity, is profoundly disrespectful, hurtful, and demeaning.”

Maher certainly seems obsessed with “identity:”

Of course, she does have other issues on her mind as well:

MAYBE FOOD ISN’T ACTUALLY MEDICINE: “Food-As-Medicine” Trial Fails to Improve Health. Maybe it’s just, you know, food. Or maybe they’re using the wrong food as medicine (they’re following U.S. government dietary guidelins, after all, which suck.)

Either way, nobody’s paying attention to a big study that undermines the whole, uh, feedlot: “Despite a couple of stories on medical sites and an article on the study in JAMA just this week, the “null results” have had little noticeable effect so far on the Food-As-Medicine juggernaut. In February, the Department of Health and Human Services hosted its first ‘Food As Medicine’ summit, with three public-private partnerships already in place, while a dozen projects are underway at the new, partially industry-funded Food Is Medicine Institute at Tufts University.”

Follow The Science! Er, unless it threatens you self esteem, or especially your funding.

MAYBE THEY’RE JUST MAKING A MOVIE VERSION OF KURT SCHLICHTER’S LATEST BOOK.

YET ANOTHER EMBARRASSMENT FOR A MARITIME TRADING POWER: Navy’s new landing ship could cost billions more than planned. “The CBO believes an 18-ship fleet would cost between $6.2 billion and $7.8 billion in 2024 (inflation-adjusted) dollars, or $340 million to $430 million per ship. That’s a stark contrast to Navy figures, which, according to the CBO, has an 18-ship program at $2.6 billion total, or about $150 million per ship.”

WINNING OF HEARTS AND MINDS, YOU’RE DOING IT WRONG: Anti-Israel protesters block highway outside Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport.

Anti-Israel protesters are blocking an access road to Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport, forcing some travelers to get out of cars and walk to the terminals.

Cellphone videos circulating on Instagram showed activists sitting in the middle of Interstate 190 with their arms interlocked using long tubes to prevent cars from accessing the Windy City’s main airport on Monday morning.

Many protesters were seen sporting keffiyeh scarves and brandishing signs reading “Free Palestine” and “Stop Genocide.”

Organizers of the protest said their goal was to send a message to Boeing, because the corporation sells weapons to Israel to be used in its war with Hamas.

“On this Tax Day, when millions are paying taxes which fund the ongoing U.S and Israeli bombardment of Gaza, protestors seek to take dramatic action,” the group Chicago Dissenters wrote in an Instagram post. “O’Hare International Airport is one of the largest in the country, and there will be NO business as usual while Palestinians suffer at the hands of American funded bombing by Israel.”

Curiously, the local police appear to be supporting the protestors:

Well, it’s Chicago, a city whose last Republican mayor left office in 1931, and little has changed since in that regard: As Mayor Daley famously uttered in a classic Kinsley gaffe during the 1968 left-on-left protests at the Democrats’ 1968 convention, “Gentlemen, let’s get this thing straight, once and for all. The policeman is not here to create disorder. The policeman is here to preserve disorder.”

MAYBE THE PRESIDENT DOESN’T KNOW THAT IT HAS: