DISPATCHES FROM NERD PROM: Top 10 Media Tweets Criticizing White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

I spent a lot of time looking over a lot of the #WHCD hashtag after the event and I can assure you that there were still plenty of “compassionate” leftists who thought it was all just grand.

This was a very good opportunity for the Republican Party to show Middle America what the Coastal Media Bubble people think of anyone who disagrees with them politically. As I mentioned earlier, they should be culling material from the WHCD and cutting ads already. That Blue Wave might not end up being so wavy if they do.

Which is why a few Democratic activists with bylines are aware of the damage that last night did to their last-gasp claims of “objectivity.” Or as Jim Treacher tweeted today:

BAD FORENSIC SCIENCE: DNA search for California serial killer led to wrong man.

Investigators hunting for the so-called Golden State Killer turned to searching genetic websites in 2017 but misidentified an Oregon man as a potential suspect. A year later, after using a similar technique, they are confident they’ve caught the serial rapist and killer who eluded capture for four decades.

In March 2017, an Oregon City police officer, working at the request of investigators in California, convinced a judge to order a 73-year-old man in a nursing home to provide a DNA sample.

Court documents obtained by The Associated Press said detectives used a genetic profile based off DNA from crime scenes linked to the serial killer and compared it to information on a free online genealogical site.

Investigators cited a rare genetic marker, which the Oregon man shared with the killer, to get the judge to issue the order. The Oregon City man is in extremely poor health in a rehabilitation facility and was unable to answer questions Friday.

His daughter said his family was not aware that authorities took a DNA sample from him while he was lying in bed at the rehabilitation center until she was contacted by the FBI in April 2017 and asked to help expand the family’s genetic tree in the search for suspects.

The woman, an amateur genealogist, cooperated, but ultimately investigators determined none of her relatives were viable suspects, she said. The woman spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because she did not want the family’s name publicly linked to the case.

No harm done, I guess, but not entirely confidence-building.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Fathers, Don’t Let Your Daughters Become “Cannabis Feminists.”

FASTER, PLEASE: Molecule may help tame virulent bacteria and prevent infection.

NYPD SGT. SUING STARBUCKS AFTER VIOLENT ENCOUNTER IN BUSY MIDTOWN LOCATION SPEAKS OUT:

An injury sustained in a violent scuffle inside a Midtown Starbucks could spell the premature end of an NYPD sergeant’s career.

Sgt. Timothy Wall says it all could have been prevented if the coffee chain had just listened to him. He claims he warned them for over a year if they didn’t change their policy when it comes to giving free food to people who are emotionally disturbed, someone was going to get hurt.

He just had no idea it would be him.

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On September 28th, 2017, Wall responded to a call for “a disturbed and violent individual” at the popular coffee shop at 39th Street and 8th Avenue. It’s a spot Wall says is notorious for complaints of harassment from disorderly men.

“Assaults at the location, drug use in the bathroom,” he said.

On that particular day it was a 24-year-old homeless man who was making threats, unhappy with the free croissant he had just gotten from employees.

“He said he wanted to kill everyone at the location,” Wall said. “He went to grab the bag stating he was going to kill everyone… We didn’t know what was in the bag, so we couldn’t take the risk.”

While restraining the combative man, Wall says his shoulder popped out of its socket and stayed that way for 45 minutes. He had surgery in February and now goes to physical therapy three times a week.

After Starbucks’ upper management donned their collective hair shirts following the incident at Rittenhouse Square earlier this month, expect many more articles of this type.

“DESPERATION ONCOLOGY:” When Patients Are Dying, Some Cancer Doctors Turn to Immunotherapy.

JUST WATCHED BLUE ORIGIN’S launch and landing. Very nice. As God and Robert Heinlein intended.

DISPATCHES FROM NERD PROM. The top of the Drudge Report is astounding today:

Credentialed-but-not-educated – and the worst political class in American history, as Glenn likes to say, who have no idea how easily they’re being trolled by the administration over their past fake news and anti-GOP hyperbole.

UPDATE: “After [last night’s] WHCD debacle, the GOP message until November should be ‘They Hate You,’ featuring nothing but clips of Hillary/Schumer/Pelosi/Colleges/Media mocking and attacking heartland voters. ‘They hate you and want to control you. Don’t let them win,’” Sean Davis of the Federalist tweets.

SETH BARRETT TILLMAN: Jonathan Hennessey on the Foreign Emoluments Clause: A Response. “Jonathan Hennessey makes educational videos and writes educational comic books. There is nothing wrong with that; albeit, there is something wrong with presenting one’s intellectual opponents as comic book villains.”

NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT: Human brain cells can make complex structures in a dish—is this a problem?

QUESTION ASKED: What if Alfie Evans had been named Ahmed Edris, and the flight were to Mecca, not Rome?

THE NEWS WE KEPT TO OURSELVES: CNN’s Brian Stelter Gets Called Out For Failing To Cover Two Major Stories.  

(Classical reference in headline.)

SHE SHOULDN’T DRESS LIKE THAT, SHE WAS ASKING FOR IT:  Daily Beast journo blames Sarah Sanders for making Michelle Wolf bully her.

DISPATCHES FROM NERD PROM: Media hands Trump big, embarrassing win.

Related: The Hidden Ugliness of Michelle Wolf Attacking Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Mike Pence Using The Handmaid’s Tale at the White House Correspondence Dinner.

MICHIGAN CROWD CHANTS ‘NOBEL!’ WHEN TRUMP BRINGS UP NORTH KOREA.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: College Republicans’ pro-NRA flyers trashed, members smeared as ‘racists.’

HE’S NOT WRONG: Prof foretells dire consequences from PC academic culture. “Stuart Card subsequently penned a lengthy statement warning that by encouraging ‘subjective emoting over objective thinking,’ universities leave students unprepared for economic realities in the real world.”

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THE GARBAGE FIRE OF LAST NIGHT’S WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENTS’ DINNER SUMMED UP IN ONE TWEET:

IF IT WEREN’T FOR DECLINING STANDARDS, THEY’D HAVE NO STANDARDS AT ALL: Declining standards on the media menu at White House Correspondents’ dinner.

Members of the press will treat themselves Saturday evening to drinks and selfies with vaguely familiar celebrities before sitting down for dinner and a comedy routine presented by “The Daily Show” alum Michelle Wolf.

The annual White House Correspondents’ dinner will also feature the usual speeches about how crucial journalists are to keeping America free. They’ll no doubt be told, either from the podium or by each other, that they’re more important than ever because of the man in the White House.

It’s a gaudy affair, brimming with dreary self-congratulation. And it’s also a reminder that the press has yet to grasp that its declining credibility is largely of its own making.

While DC journalists congratulated themselves on their courage, there was this study in contrasts:

HOSTILE EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT: University of Texas to Treat Masculinity as a ‘Mental Health’ Issue.

The Counseling and Mental Health Center at the University of Texas at Austin recently launched a new program to help male students “take control over their gender identity and develop a healthy sense of masculinity.”

Treating masculinity as if it were a mental health crisis, “MasculinUT” is organized by the school’s counseling staff and most recently organized a poster series encouraging students to develop a “healthy model of masculinity.”

The program is predicated on a critique of so-called “restrictive masculinity.” Men, the program argues, suffer when they are told to “act like a man” or when they are encouraged to fulfill traditional gender roles, such as being “successful” or “the breadwinner.”

Though you might enjoy “taking care of people” or being “active,” MasculinUT warns that many of these attributes are actually dangerous, claiming that “traditional ideas of masculinity place men into rigid (or restrictive) boxes [which]… prevent them from developing their emotional maturity.”

No one’s allowed to tell a woman how to be a woman, but everyone’s allowed to tell a man how to be a man.

B-1B ON A MISSION FROM QATAR: I’m wondering if this is one of the B-1B heavy bombers that participated in the Syria anti-chemical weapons strike on April 14. This photo was taken April 8.

NEED TO? I’M NOT EVEN SURE WE’RE ALLOWED TO: Hardeep Singh: We Need To Talk About Muslim Anti-Semitism.

Speaking at a conference on anti-Semitism in Israel last month, the UK’s Chief Rabbi, Ephraim Mirvis, said something that would not normally be uttered among liberal interfaith circles in Britain: ‘The threat to Judaism and Jews from the world of Islam is one which can only be cured from within the world of Islam. And the leaders of Islam have to take a stand.’

It is very rare for British Jewish leaders or groups to draw attention to anti-Semitism among certain Muslims. But Islamists do seem to have a special antipathy towards all things Jewish – starting with Israel. And this is increasingly becoming a problem among British Muslims more generally.
To their credit, some Jewish organisations have attempted to confront the problem of anti-Semitism among Muslims. The Campaign Against Anti-Semitism’s 2016 report, British Muslims and Anti-Semitism, surveyed the attitudes of non-Muslims and Muslims and found that anti-Semitic views among Muslims were ‘considerably and dangerously’ more prevalent than among the general public. ‘On every single count’, the report noted, ‘British Muslims were more likely by far than the general population to hold deeply anti-Semitic views. It is clear that many British Muslims reserve a special hatred for Jews, rating Jews much less favourably than people of other religions or no religion, yet astonishingly British Muslims do not recognise anti-Semitism as a major problem.’

Well, it’s not — for them.