HACKS: Media largely ignored Biden staffer’s attack on CBS News’ Catherine Herridge.

RE-OPENING: NYU planning to bring students back to campus in the fall.

I’M GUESSING IT’S BECAUSE THEY HAVE A LOT TO BE NERVOUS ABOUT: Why Does This Ted Cruz Tweet Make Obama Officials So Nervous?

21ST CENTURY SCHOLARSHIP: Call For Papers: Columbia Journal of Gender & Law Symposium, April 9, 2021: “Are You There Law? It’s Me, Menstruation.”

DEAR BABYLON BEE: STOP GIVING THEM IDEAS:  Mayor De Blasio Lays Naval Minefield To Deter Swimmers.

Wilhelmina the First of Marxist Glory is quite capable of it.

AND THANK HEAVENS:  On the economy, Trump, unlike Obama, actually knows his stuff.

OR IT WILL END IN HEADS ON PIKES:  Obamagate Must Result in Criminal Prosecutions.
The law must work so people don’t take the law in their own hands. You really don’t want the law in people’s hands. It will get all red and gory.

WELP, IT TURNS OUT THEY LOCKED YOU UP TO SAVE GRANDMA BECAUSE THEY WANTED TO KILL HER…  Michigan: Gretchen Whitmer seeds the nursing homes with COVID-19.

YEP:  The coronavirus may damage nature for years to come.

CAN YOU HEAR THE PEOPLE SING?  Illinois State Police Won’t Arrest Individuals for Violations of Executive Orders.

LEFTIST PRIVILEGE IS BORING:  Michigan State Professor Warns of “Unconscious Bias” and “Microaggressions” in Virtual Meetings.

GAULEITER WHITMER REMINDED THEM THAT BEFEHL IST BEFEHL:  Michigan State Police Issue Three Disorderly Conduct Citations During Operation Haircut.

I WANT TO SAY SOMETHING FUNNY, BUT IF THE DEMS CHEAT THEIR SPOKESZOMBIE IN, THE VP PICK WILL BE PRESIDENT. FROM KAMALA — KNEEPADS — HARRIS — AND STACEY ABRAMS, GAULEITER WHITMER, AND ELIZABETH WAR(BONNET)REN AND OTHER THINGS THAT BUMP US INTO THE NIGHT OF COMMUNISM, MAY THE GOOD LORD DELIVER US:  Biden VP Sweepstakes Pick Up Steam.

I WANT TO BELIEVE:  Gov. Cuomo Must Answer for Nursing Home Deaths.

I TOLD THEM SO:  Doctors raise alarm about health effects of continued coronavirus shutdown: ‘Mass casualty incident’.

I’M A COLORADAN. AND I’M TIRED OF BEING LIMITED BY OUR GOVERNMENT:  I DO NOT CONSENT.

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MEANWHILE MY COUNTY IS GOING TO PHASE 2 OF THE REOPENING PLAN A FEW DAYS EARLY, STARTING TUESDAY. Tennessee to lift capacity and live music restrictions for restaurants in 89 counties, allow large attractions to reopen on Friday.

DAVID MARCUS IN TOMORROW’S NEW YORK POST: End New York City’s lockdown now!

Last Friday morning, some 3,500 New Yorkers lined up at a Catholic church in Queens to receive free food hours before it even opened, ­according to the New York Police Department. Catholic Charities has reported a 200 percent increase in demand over the past month and a half.

By prolonging the coronavirus shutdown long after its core mission was accomplished, Gov. Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio have plunged tens of thousands of New Yorkers into poverty.

It needs to end. Now.

In mid-March, we were told we have to endure a lockdown to ensure that hospitals didn’t get overrun. We did. The hospitals were not overwhelmed. We turned the Javits Center into a hospital. We didn’t need it. We brought in a giant Navy ship to treat New Yorkers. We didn’t need it.

We were told we were moments away from running out of ventilators. We weren’t, and now the United States has built so many, we are giving them away to other countries.

Meanwhile, the Big Apple is ­dying. Its streets are empty. The bars and jazz clubs, restaurants and coffeehouses sit barren. Beloved haunts, storied rooms, perfect-slice joints are shuttered, many for good. The sweat equity of countless small-business owners is evaporating. ­Instead of getting people back to work providing for their families, our mayor talks about a fantasyland New Deal for the post-coronavirus era.

Open the city. All of it. Right now. Broadway shows, beaches, Yankees games, the schools, the top of the freakin’ Empire State building. Everything. New Yorkers have already learned to socially distance. Businesses can adjust. The elderly and infirm can continue to be isolated.

Actually, given Cuomo’s policy of pumping infected patients into nursing homes, it’s more like begin to be isolated.

Plus, a call for revolution:

In late April, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp defied experts by opening his state. The Atlantic magazine, once a serious publication that should now come with a stick of stale bubblegum, accused him of engaging in “human sacrifice.”

You want to guess what happened? Guess, come on, take a guess. Instead of the predicted spike in deaths, the number of cases of coronavirus and associated deaths declined.

We should always consider that we are led by idiots, as one of my friends likes to remind me. Cuomo and de Blasio have no plan. There is not a single question about when New York can get back to normal to which they have a straight ­answer. Not one. They cash their taxpayer paychecks while immiserating the rest of us.

If our elected leaders won’t save the world’s greatest city from a slow death by economic strangulation, then the people of New York must do it themselves. Barbers, tailors, nail ­salons, sporting-goods stores, movie theaters and others should open their doors — while maintaining social distancing, of course — and dare the state to shut them down.

Our politicians serve by our consent; we don’t run our businesses or live our lives by their consent. The suggestion to the contrary is an ­affront to Americanism.

If you live in this world, you’re feeling the change of the guard.

The Post’s front page for tomorrow:

UPDATE: John Hinderaker: The Pushback Continues.

OPEN THREAD: I don’t miss the funky attitudes, and I don’t miss the fights.

HMM: NASA human spaceflight chief Doug Loverro resigns on eve of historic SpaceX launch. “While NASA did not give a reason for Loverro’s resignation when announcing it today, sources told The Washington Post’s Christian Davenport that the wheels were set in motion when Loverro broke a rule during NASA’s procurement of human landing systems for the agency’s Artemis lunar-exploration program.”

RIP: Former White House butler Wilson Roosevelt Jerman dies of COVID-19 at age 91. “He served 11 presidents — from Eisenhower to Obama.”

THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE: Kamala Harris introduces resolution condemning ‘Chinese Virus’ as racist.

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): It’s easy to tell who’s on the payroll, or at least on the team.

I WAS ON FOX EARLIER TONIGHT TALKING ABOUT THE CHINESE CORONAVIRUS’S IMPACT ON HIGHER EDUCATION. You can see the video here. Mike Rowe also appears.

OUR LONG NATIONAL NIGHTMARE MAY SOON BE OVER: 2021 Oscars May Be Postponed, Hopefully Forever.