YOU DON’T SAY: Many Democrats Exaggerated Mental Distress After 2016 Election.

“Our research suggests that for many Democrats, expressing mental distress after the election was a form of partisan cheerleading,” write researchers Masha Krupenkin, David Rothschild, Shawndra Hill and Elad Yom-Tov in their findings. “Clearly, many Democrats were, and are, upset about the Republican victory in 2016; these findings do not invalidate those feelings but put their depth and related actions into perspective.”

This so-called “reverse” cheerleading occurs when a person misreports or exaggerates a condition publicly in order to show support for their affiliated group, or in this case, their political party. The authors say that a person’s actions in private reveal their true condition, however, and for the study, that can be determined by evaluating private search terms. In other words, a person who might describe suffering psychological distress on social media or to their friends, but doesn’t search for any type of help or relief, is more likely showing a form of reverse cheerleading.

It’s minor neuroticism dressed up as severe neuroticism, which is the lamest kind of virtue-signaling.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: SAT to Give Students ‘Adversity Score’ to Capture Social and Economic Background.

The College Board plans to assign an adversity score to every student who takes the SAT to try to capture their social and economic background, jumping into the debate raging over race and class in college admissions.

This new number, called an adversity score by college admissions officers, is calculated using 15 factors including the crime rate and poverty levels from the student’s high school and neighborhood. Students won’t be told the scores, but colleges will see the numbers when reviewing their applications.

Fifty colleges used the score last year as part of a beta test. The College Board plans to expand it to 150 institutions this fall, and then use it broadly the following year.

How colleges consider a student’s race and class in making admissions decisions is hotly contested. Many colleges, including Harvard University, say a diverse student body is part of the educational mission of a school. A lawsuit accusing Harvard of discriminating against Asian-American applicants by holding them to a higher standard is awaiting a judge’s ruling. Lawsuits charging unfair admission practices have also been filed against the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of California system.

So basically this is a dodge to allow them to continue unlawful race discrimination. And as I recall, the lefty regime in Kurt Schlichter’s People’s Republic used something like that, which is unpromising.

WINNING: Trump Claws Back Nearly $1B From California High-Speed Rail Project.

AUTOMATION: Autopilot was active when a Tesla crashed into a truck, killing driver.

Jeremy Banner was driving his Model 3 on a divided four-lane highway in Palm Beach County, Florida. As the car approached a driveway, a semi truck pulled out in front of the car, making a left-hand turn from the driveway to the opposite travel lanes.

The Tesla was moving at 68mph (110km/h) and slid under the truck’s trailer. The trailer sheared off the top of the car, killing Banner. The vehicle continued down the road for another 1,600 feet (500m) before coming to a rest in the median.

“Preliminary data show that the Tesla’s Autopilot system… was active at the time of the crash,” the NTSB reports. “The driver engaged the Autopilot about 10 seconds before the collision. From less than 8 seconds before the crash to the time of impact, the vehicle did not detect the driver’s hands on the steering wheel.”

The NTSB says that preliminary data suggests that neither the driver nor the Autopilot system made evasive maneuvers.

Automated driving still feels like a solution in search of a problem.

WHEN SOME FILMS ARE BANNED, ONLY OUTLAWS WILL HAVE BANNED FILMS:

The prerecorded disc market is about to disappear. At some point in the near future, UHD Blu-ray, Blu-ray, and standard DVDs will no longer be sold by Amazon and other retailers because most content will be available for streaming in very high definition.

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When the day comes that only a handful of major streaming services – Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, and soon Disney and Apple and others that fund the creation of content and control the content that you are able to view — then some films and television series that are now or in the future considered politically incorrect will begin to disappear.

It’s not just the work itself being considered “politically incorrect,” the left wants entire oeuvres of problematic men tossed down the memory hole, no matter the actual product. With Maoist Cancel Culture in full bloom among the modern left, a lot of stuff is going to be disappeared. Or as Christian Toto writes at the Hill, “Could problematic films eventually be pulled from home video and streaming services? Sound hysterical? It’s currently in vogue to tear down statues that don’t align with current groupthink. So why would pop culture artifacts be spared? In fact, it’s already been done.”

LEGACY: Trump on Track to Flip the Ninth Circuit to Republican by 2020.

‘TEARS, LAUGHS AND A GREAT ENDING!’ BIG BANG THEORY FANS REACT TO SERIES FINALE.

The plot points the two-part episode hit were almost entirely predictable, but the writing (especially in the first half) was much better than most of the recent episodes, as this show had been running on fumes for some time. Did you watch the finale? Leave your thoughts in the comments section.

STILL NOT TIRED OF ALL THE WINNING: Trump Gets Another Judge on the Ninth Circuit Over Democrat Objections.

BUT THE NARRATIVE… Racist incidents are down since Trump’s election. Yes, really.

GAMING THE SAT: Grievance Proxies. The College Board adds a tweak to the SAT score to placate diversocrats desperate to admit students by race instead of competence. Heather Mac Donald of City Journal analyzes the racial gap in SAT scores that colleges are trying to ignore.

YES: The Best Brexit Strategy Is To Leave First, And Then Deal.

The next prime minister should first affirm Britain’s decision to leave. He or she can do so either under the terms of Article 50 of the Treaty of the European Union or, better yet, by abrogating the treaty altogether.

Although Clause 1 of the Treaty of the European Union affirms that member countries may decide to leave the European Union unilaterally “in accord with their own constitutional requirements,” the fine print in subsequent clauses complicates that process. In particular, Clause 2 requires the leaving nation to negotiate an exit deal with the European Council of Ministers or with whichever EU entity the council designates to represent it.

In Britain’s case, that has meant dealing with the unelected European Commission, whose sole interest has long been advancing the project of European political integration. The exit deal May negotiated with the commission reflects those priorities and May’s tepid support for a genuine Brexit that restores British Parliamentary democracy. (Since 1973 when Britain joined the European Economic Community (EEC), the EEC and the EU, its courts, and various agencies have imposed more than 20,000 laws on the British public with the British Parliament powerless to stop them.)

The point of Brexit wasn’t to reduce trade, but to reduce EU interference in British sovereignty. The whole purpose of the EU (as opposed to the earlier EEC) is to reduce member states’ sovereignty. That’s why negotiating a good “out” was always an impossibility, and why May — a reluctant Brexiteer at best — was the wrong person trying to do the wrong job the wrong way.

SEGREGATION TODAY, SEGREGATION TOMORROW, SEGREGATION FOREVER! More than 75 universities now host blacks-only graduation ceremonies.

21st CENTURY HEADLINES: Trans Woman Gets A Tilapia Vagina. Yes, You Read That Correctly.

As Muggeridge’s Law states, there is no way any satirist can improve on real life for its pure absurdity.

THIS IS CNN: CNN’s Jim Acosta Spreads Misquote from Trump Immigration Speech.

PUNCH BACK TWICE AS HARD: Winning: Conservatives in Colorado claim victory after suing school.

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LIZ SHELD’S MORNING BRIEF: A.G. Barr is Getting ‘Inadequate’ Answers. “I’ve been trying to get answers to the questions and I’ve found that a lot of the answers have been inadequate and some of the explanations I’ve gotten don’t hang together, in a sense I have more questions today than when I first started.”

PUNCHING BACK TWICE AS HARD: Expelled Columbia journalism student accused of rape sues university over ‘anti-male’ bias.

NOTHING TO SEE HERE. MOVE ALONG. Nellie Ohr deleted emails sent from husband’s DOJ account.

Nellie Ohr, the wife of Justice Department official Bruce Ohr, told her husband she was deleting emails sent from his government account.

The revelation comes as both Ohrs remain under intense scrutiny for their ties to Fusion GPS and British ex-spy Christopher Steele, the author of the anti-Trump dossier that was used to obtain warrants to wiretap a member of President Trump’s 2016 campaign.

Conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch obtained a series of April 2016 emails from a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the Justice Department that show a correspondence between the Ohrs, an aide to Bruce Ohr named Lisa Holtyn, and Stefan Bress, a first secretary at the German Embassy.

They discussed setting up a dinner for the German delegation as well as a meeting to discuss Russian organized crime. Included in a proposed agenda is the “Impact of Russian influence operations in Europe (‘PsyOps/InfoWar’).”

On April 20, responding to the email thread with the subject line, “Analyst Russian Organized Crime – April 2016,” came the email from Nellie Ohr about deleting the emails. “Thanks! I’m deleting these emails now,” she said.

Bruce Ohr was an associate deputy attorney general and director of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force while his wife Nellie was an independent contractor and Russia specialist.

Accountability is for the little people.

THE FUTURE BELONGS TO THOSE WHO SHOW UP: With 9th baby, lawmaker, wife ‘taking AOC’s carbon footprint for ourselves’:

Wisconsin Republican Rep. Sean Duffy and his wife, Fox contributor Rachel-Campos Duffy, are decidedly not taking liberal Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s advice to zip it up and forgo having children because it might promote global warming.

Instead, they have announced that they are having their ninth child.

“We’ll take AOC’s carbon footprint for ourselves,” said Rachel on Duffy’s regular podcast.

In fact, the coming child might even be named after an environmental quirk. “Should we call it ‘Polar Vortex baby?’ It was a long, cold winter in Wisconsin and I have a cute husband,” she said. “What can I do?”

Is it just me, or is there a new spirit of fun in Republicans these days?

“DEMOCRATS ARE BADLY BLOWING IT AGAINST TRUMP. A BRUTAL NEW TV AD SHOWS HOW:” “I assume the Democrats believe in using the idea of impeachment without actually conducting impeachment proceedings and one reason they stop where they do is that they don’t really believe what they are saying, that what Trump did warrants impeachment.”

HERE’S HOW CORY AND MARK BECAME SUCH BOSOM BUDDIES: Kyle Sammin of The Federalist remembers when the Facebook boss pledged $100 million to fix Newark’s public schools. And that’s just the beginning.

CREEPING SHARIA: How Muslim model Halima Aden’s Sports Illustrated burkini pics ‘changed lives.’

Halima Aden knew she would make history as the first Muslim model to grace the pages of Sports Illustrated’s swimsuit edition wearing a hijab and burkini, but she didn’t think she would change lives.

“I was hoping it would be perceived well but I’ve just been blown away,” the model told AAP.

“When you hear young girls telling you you’ve changed their entire life and they’re going out swimming, trying out these things they thought weren’t for them, I can’t help but feel really proud.”

“You can take your sexual oppression to the beach!” doesn’t seem like a very positive message.