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LET’S HOPE IT KEEPS WAITING: The Yellowstone Supervolcano Is a Disaster Waiting to Happen. If I thought it was getting ready to go, I’d be looking at property in Tasmania.

TEXAS APPEALS COURT: “Revenge Porn” Law Violates First Amendment.

GET WOKE, GO BROKE: A reader emails: “There’s a homeless guy just napping in the cushion chair in Starbucks right now. I’m not kidding. The world has gone crazy.” Expect more of this. A lot more.

AN OPED BY JOSH BLACKMAN IN THE NEW YORK DAILY NEWS: CUNY Law students heckled my talk on campus free speech.

I was invited to speak at the City University of New York School of Law about the importance of free speech on campus. Alas, I was not able to give that lecture as I had planned. For the first eight minutes of the hour-long lecture, a dozen students surrounded me — standing inches away — and shouted at me every time I opened my mouth. They charged that I was a white supremacist and a fascist. They even shamed an African-American student who came to hear me speak: “Why aren’t you with us?” The obstruction only ended after I began to engage the protesters. When I explained that — contrary to their slanders — I support the DREAM Act, one law student could only respond by screaming “F–k the Law!” With nothing of substance to say — one student actually mumbled, “I don’t want to hear this” — the protestors exited the room.

This event was at once a microcosm for the state of campus affairs. Students are enraged at federal and states laws that they view as unjust and discriminatory. When a right-of-center speaker arrives at their campus, they feel betrayed that the University failed to protect them from ideas they deem harmful. In response, they try to deny the visitor a platform, and shut down the lecture. Despite blatant misconduct, administration officials impose no disciplinary actions. Perhaps most tragically, the students who preach the loudest against intolerance are themselves the most closed-minded.

That’s because they’re not actually against intolerance.

Plus: “The CUNY protest was particularly disquieting because it was organized not merely by undergraduates, but by law students.” If law students at my school did this, I’d report them to the bar admissions committee.

NEW YORK TIMES CALLS THE TRUTH “FAR-RIGHT CONSPIRACY PROGRAMMING.” Leil Leibovitz in The Tablet:

On Saturday, Nellie Bowles, a technology reporter for The New York Times, wrote a piece about Campbell Brown, the former news anchor recently hired by Facebook to help the social media giant improve its relationship with the news media. One obvious problem is Facebook’s contribution to the dissemination of fake news, which Brown is now fighting. How? Let the Paper of Record tell you all about it.

“Ms. Brown,” wrote Bowles, “wants to use Facebook’s existing Watch product — a service introduced in 2017 as a premium product with more curation that has nonetheless been flooded with far-right conspiracy programming like ‘Palestinians Pay $400 million Pensions For Terrorist Families.’”

As those of us who are in the reality based community know, the Palestinian Authority’s financial support of terrorists and their families is very, very far from a conspiracy, far-right or otherwise. Reading Bowles’s report, for example, Lahav Harkov, the Knesset reporter for The Jerusalem Post, took to Twitter to share some of her meticulous reporting on the Palestinian pay-for-slay program with Bowles: Read the real news, and you’ll learn that, in 2017, the PA doled out more than $347 million to families of terrorists who had murdered Jews, increasing the amount to $403 million this year.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: At U. Delaware ‘hate crime’ protest, activists harass, threaten onlookers.

SALENA ZITO: Democrats try to win back labor in order to win back the House.

When Democrat Conor Lamb stood in a sea of United Mine Workers of America here in early March, it was clear that Democrats had found a way to bring the blue-collar worker back into their camp.

Lamb would go on to win the special election in this southwest Pennsylvania district that Donald Trump had carried by 18 points.

The two questions now:

First, will that union support materialize in other races, and thus elect Democrats in swing districts across the country?

Secondly, why had Democrats lost these blue-collar areas in the first place? What was missing from Democrats’ messages over the past 10 years that made them stay home or vote Republican?

The union voters I talked to said they didn’t feel that Democrats in Washington had their back; that they were too progressive, too strident, and way out of touch with their lives and needs.

Well, that seems right.

By the way, Salena Zito and Brad Todd (whom long term InstaPundit readers will remember as the author of the superb “109 Minutes” essay right after 9/11) have a book coming out: The Great Revolt: Inside the Populist Coalition Reshaping American Politics. Well worth a read.

REVISITING 2016 MEDIA BIAS: With the elite media increasingly suggesting that they were too harsh on Clinton and not hostile enough to Trump in 2016, it’s perhaps time to revisit just how biased elite media outlets were in 2016. Consider, for example, this NPR interview with the executive editor of the New York Times, Dean Baquet. Baquet explains why the newspaper decided to use the word “lie” when referring to what seems like ordinary campaign obfuscation: “I think the moment for me was the birther story, where he has repeated for years his belief that President Obama was not born in the United States.” This, for some reason, justifies using the word “lie” more generally with regard to Trump and his campaign, but not with regard to any false statements by Clinton: “I don’t think Hillary Clinton, to be honest, has crossed the line the way Donald Trump did with the birther issue.” Thus, in NewYorkTimesworld Clinton merely obfuscates and exaggerates, while Trump lies. You can’t make this stuff up.

My guess is that Clinton lost far more votes because they resented the elites were shoving Clinton down their throats than because of the “Russian interference” the elites now want to blame for Clinton’s defeat. The response, apparently, is for the elite media to double-down on its strategy of overtly favoring whomever runs against Trump, which, I suspect, is how we get more Trump in 2020.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: VIDEO: Students shocked that Obama also sent troops to border.

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I DID NOT REALIZE THAT KAMALA HARRIS GOT HER START IN POLITICS by dating Willie Brown.

WASHINGTON EXAMINER: Mike Pompeo has a lot in common with another Kansan soldier-statesman: Dwight Eisenhower.

JUSTICE: Trump considering pardon for boxing legend after call from Sylvester Stallone.

Johnson was the first black heavyweight champion of the world. An all-white jury convicted him in 1913 for transporting a woman across state lines for “immoral purposes,” which was illegal under the Mann Act.

Johnson served a year in prison and was released in 1921. He died in 1946.

The conviction was BS, but then so is the Mann Act.