WHY NOT DEPORT CHILD RAPISTS??? Good question for His Fraudulency, whose minions recently abolished a successful 287(g) program that enabled local police in Bristol County, Massachusetts, to work with the feds to identify felons, including child rapists, arsonists and carjackers, to be deported, according to the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS).

“The program has led to the arrest and removal of thousands of dangerous criminal aliens. In fiscal year 2020, state and local law enforcement trained under 287(g) encountered approximately 920 aliens convicted for assault, 1,261 convicted for dangerous drugs, 104 convicted for sex offenses/assaults, 377 convicted for obstructing police, 190 convicted for weapon offenses, and 37 convicted for homicide, to name a few crimes.

“As of May 2021, ICE has 287(g) agreements with 71 law enforcement agencies in 21 states. ICE has an additional 76 agreements in 11 states based on a more narrowly-focused version of the program,” CIS’s Jon Feere reports.

No doubt, this will be the first question the White House press corps nails Jenn Psaki with later today.

ANTIFA IS JUST AN IDEA: ‘They’re Trying to Kill Me.’ A Portland Antifa Death Squad Goes Head Hunting for Andy Ngo and Somebody Gets a Beatdown.

HERE’S WHERE I WAS OVER THE WEEKEND: That’s my incredible son, Marcus, on the right, who gifted me the Indy 500 last year, but it turned out to be a non-spectator event, so we came this year. Am I still excited? You bet I am.

We were in the grandstand in the middle of turn two, saw a tremendously fast, exciting and safe race. Speaking as someone who pushed a Formula Ford around SCCA tracks for three years, I still marvel at the skill level of these guys (and one woman, not named “Danica”) doing 230 mph laps on a slightly banked, four-turn, two-and-a-half-mile rectangle.

YALE SPITS IN THE FACE OF ITS ALUMNI: Yale’s DisTrustees.

Imagine an election where only incumbents or their hand-picked designates can run, where every candidate is gagged, where all legitimate policy debate is off-limits. Absurd? Yes. Yet that is what Yale’s trustees announced this week for an election already underway and future Yale trustee elections.

Some background. Under Yale’s charter, alumni vote for six of the 17 active trustees. Alumni stand for election through insider nomination or outside petition.

In recent years, incumbent trustees have steadily eroded the process. Nominations now come from an unelected “alumni” committee, where paid Yale officials, some not even alums, make up much of the membership. Petition candidates can gain ballot access only by amassing over 4,600 signatures — a high bar. (Last year, only 17,000 alums voted and Yale denies petition candidates access to alumni contact information. Without such access, how can petitioners realistically amass the requisite signatures?) Worst of all, Yale has of late gagged all insider candidates: Official nominees are instructed not to discuss any issue. Some election!

Last year, a 15-year petition drought ended; a distinguished alum and former U.S. ambassador, Victor Ashe, qualified. As a petition candidate, Ashe was not subject to the gag. He thus raised issues, albeit in debate with an empty chair. His biggest issue was election transparency itself; he was for it. Alas, he lost. . . .

This week, in a Commencement Day massacre, Yale changed the rules in the middle of the game. The trustees eliminated petition candidates “effective immediately” — that is, retroactively, ex post facto. Henceforth, alumni will be allowed to choose only among silent and preapproved administration puppets.

The trustees accompanied this week’s coup with a revealing if unintentionally hilarious explanation. They cited concerns about a “political campaign” where “issues-based candidacies” might emerge. Translation: Incumbent trustees know who they want and alumni might make a bad choice. For an even blunter translation: we hate democracy. Can you spell “voter suppression?”

History is not on the side of this kind of trustee high-handedness. Past incarnations of this board banned Jews, persons of color and women for eons before outside pressure forced the trustees to mend their ways. In 1965, Yale’s first Jewish trustee, William Horowitz, won — as a petition candidate.

I think the State of Connecticut needs to look into this questionable governance on the part of a multibillion dollar tax exempt organization, and perhaps change its laws if this is in fact legal.

IT’S GOOD TO BE THE NOMENKLATURA: American Airlines: No more booze sales onboard until mask mandate ends (except in business and first class).

THE NEW ANTIRACISM LOOKS AN AWFUL LOT LIKE THE OLD RACISM: ‘Kill Everything White in Sight,’ Speaker Tells Crowd at Tulsa Massacre Rally.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. ‘Bowdlerized Classroom Discussion Will Not Properly Prepare Law Students For The World As It Is.’ “Law students are presumably mature individuals. One goal of their professional education is training them to put themselves in the place of the clients, witnesses and adversaries with whom they must deal. When they become practicing lawyers, they will be exposed to similar or worse language from these sources. Bowdlerized classroom discussion will not properly prepare them for the world as it is, however much they hope to make it a better place.”

FROM MCGILL UNIVERSITY’S SAFS (SOCIETY FOR ACADEMIC FREEDOM AND SCHOLARSHIP) CHAPTER, Panel Discussion featuring Jordan Peterson, Gad Saad, Janice Fiamengo, Barbara Kay, Michael Rectenwald, and the film maker Curt Jaimungal. The discussion is hosted by Pat Kambhampati.

THE ROAD TO HELL: Coloradans need not apply: Polis ‘equal pay’ regs mean ‘no pay’ for remote workers.

Gov. Polis signed labor reform into law under auspices of ensuring “equal pay,” but new reports show it’s having the reverse effect for many prospective remote workers.

And by “reverse effect,” we mean “no pay at all” as companies skip hiring Coloradans altogether.

The 2019 law requires employers starting this year to post good faith salary ranges when any new position opens up, including for remote workers in Colorado.

The idea was to give employees of all backgrounds more information about compensation to lower pay discrepancies.

In concept that sounds nice, until you realize Democrats actually put every prospective remote worker in Colorado at a competitive disadvantage.

Several employers including Nike, Johnson & Johnson, and Amazon competitor Digital Ocean are simply refusing to hire Coloradans for remote roles to get around the new requirement.

Thanks, Dems.

WILFRED McCLAY:  Civic education, rightly understood: To become responsible citizens, young Americans need a full, accurate, and responsible account of their own country.

PJ MEDIA VIP ROUNDUP: Don’t forget that VODKAPUNDIT promo code if you’ve been thinking of joining us.

Stacey Lennox: Leading Democrat James Carville Says They Are the Party of Law and Order – Americans Disagree. “Try to stop laughing.”

Victoria Taft: White Teacher Lectures That Not Teaching Critical Race Theory Is Child Abuse and Racist. Uh, Nice Daishiki, Lady. “I finally got a look at this eye-popping video and thought, well, that’s ridiculous, obviously, but what the hell is she wearing? Is that an African headdress? And is that a … Daishiki?”

Yours Truly: Memorial Day: Finding the Memories You Don’t Have. “For everyone who didn’t serve, or couldn’t serve, or served too late, somebody else did.”

SOME FOLKS ARE MAD THAT BIDEN HASN’T SHUT DOWN MORE IMMIGRATION DETENTION FACILITIES YET: Honestly, the ones I visited weren’t bad at all.

FLASHBACK: The rich and powerful thrived as the rest of us suffered in the year of lockdowns.

NOW THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY I’D BEEN HOPING FOR: The world’s fastest jetsuit is making human flight a reality – and could save lives.

CHECK OUT RON COLEMAN’S Coleman Nation Podcast.

CHINA LIED, PEOPLE DIED, PLANET-WIDE: There’s the world’s new bumper sticker, summarizing the pandemic the Chinese Communist Party created when it let the Wuhan/CCP virus spread world-wide and kill en masse. From the Creators Syndicate column I wrote last week but just now got around to posting on Instapundit.

YALE HAS BEHAVED DISGRACEFULLY: Yale University’s War against Alumni and Accountability. Victor Ashe ran as a petition candidate for Yale’s governing board, against the insider picks. He didn’t win, but just to play it safe the board abolished the petition process so that this couldn’t happen again.

Ashe writes: “Now that process has been abolished, and the 160,407 Yale alumni will be able to vote for only the hand-picked choices from the Yale Alumni Association’s 14-member nominating committee in future years. This is similar to what mainland China has imposed on Hong Kong in its future ‘elections.'”

Our ruling class sees China as a model to emulate.

SCIENCE! Scientists warn that lab leak theory could irk China. “Maybe that’s a good thing. Why is China profiling each nation’s DNA? It’s not the last lab accident that’s worrisome. It’s the next one.”

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Newt Gingrich Is Trump’s Latest Brilliant Move to Troll Dems. “Much to the chagrin of the Romney/Cheney/Ryan surrender wing of the GOP, Trump remains a major player in Republican politics from Mar-a-Lago. He’s not going to go away, and most Republicans don’t want him to.”

THIS IS NOT ABOUT JOURNALISTS FROM THE 1930S, IT’S ABOUT JOURNALISTS FROM LAST MONTH: We need to talk about those journalists who praised Hitler: Both the BBC and CNN have reporters who seemed to sing the praises of the Führer. That’s messed up.

Over the weekend it was revealed that a BBC employee, Tala Halawa, tweeted in praise of Hitler in 2014, during the last major flare-up of tensions between Israel and Gaza. Ms Halawa is a digital journalist for the BBC. She specialises in Israeli-Palestinian affairs. Last week I watched a video report she made of the growing trend for celebs like Bella Hadid to noisily signal their support for Palestine. I thought it was quite interesting. Little did I know that the person who made it has previously said nice things about Hitler.

Has anyone asked Bella Hadid for comment? Plus:

CNN’s seeming fan of Hitler is one Adeel Raja. He is a freelance journalist in Pakistan. He isn’t employed by CNN but he has contributed to the channel in recent years. This month, as the Israel-Hamas conflict flared up once more, Raja tweeted: ‘The world today needs another Hitler.’ Yes, that’s right – the American news giant that has spent the past five years telling us that everything is fascism, constantly insisting that Trumpism and Brexit and other populist revolts have ugly echoes of the 1930s, had a contributor who wants Hitler to return to teach those filthy Jews a lesson. To borrow a phrase from journalism on this side of the pond: you couldn’t make it up.

It wasn’t the first time Raja expressed admiration for Hitler.

Plus:

We have got to be crystal clear about how perverse this situation is. Both the BBC and CNN, the self-styled moral consciences of the West’s right-thinking set, had reporters who relatively recently, or very recently, expressed support for Hitler. Just think about that. This should alarm us. It should alert us to how mainstream anti-Semitism disguised as anti-Zionism has become.

What is most striking is the relative lack of fuss and fury these cases have generated. Yes, there has been a lot of commentary, some of it rightly angry. But generally it feels muted. This scandal hasn’t trended in the way one might expect. The cancel-culture mobs of the radical left have been especially schtum. The kind of people who will spend days and days agitating for the sacking of someone who made a joke about ‘trannies’ 20 years ago have been strikingly quiet about mainstream reporters who PRAISED ADOLF HITLER.

Well, Nazis were socialists, and so are most of our media now.

SOHRAB AHMARI: Facebook’s lab-leak censors owe The Post, and America, an apology.

Is there something in the California water that makes Silicon Valley’s censorious dweebs so damned shameless?

On Wednesday, Facebook ­revised its policy of banning posts suggesting the coronavirus was man-made — because the COVID situation is, er, “evolving,” as a spokesman told Politico.

Gee, thanks. The flip-flop comes more than a year after the social-media giant banned a well-reasoned Post opinion column by China scholar Steven Mosher that speculated about a potential lab leak. Will our columnist receive an apology? Of course not. But it’s the American people who should be holding the Menlo Park ­tyrants to account.

Think about it: If you were Xi Jinping, and you wanted to deploy an information-control operation over the origins of COVID-19, you couldn’t have done better than to just let Facebook, working in conjunction with America’s bottom-feeding “fact-checking” industry, do its thing.

It’s almost like they’re working for the CCP. (Bumped).

I GUESS IT SEEMED LIKE A GOOD IDEA AT THE TIME: On this day in 1855, William Walker, a 31-year-old, European-educated, physician-lawyer-journalist-duelist-adventurer from Tennessee, invaded Nicaragua with a tiny army of about 60 well-armed American “colonists.” Nicaragua had strategic importance in the pre-Panama Canal days. Most shipping between the oceans went up Nicaragua’s San Juan River into Lake Nicaragua and then briefly overland to the Pacific (or vice versa). Walker was a “make no little plans” kind of guy.  And he definitely liked a little excitement in life.

This was not Walker’s first rodeo. A few years earlier, he and 45 men had conquered Baja California—sort of. They managed to capture La Paz—then the capital of that sparsely populated territory—where he declared himself “President of the Republic of Lower California” and adopted the law of Louisiana to govern it. Not co-incidentally, that meant slavery was authorized. Walker was apparently hoping that his new nation would eventually enter the Union as a slave state. This made him popular with many Southerners and in particular with the Knights of the Golden Circle (a semi-secret society originally founded for that precise purpose–spreading slavery to Mexico and Central America and then annexing them to the U.S).

A few months later, without actually gaining control of Sonora, he declared Lower California to be a part of a larger “Republic of Sonora” and made himself President of that instead.

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GO FIGURE:

Here’s the Bloomberg article.

Extending “15 days to slow the spread” into something closer to 15 months was a colossal failure by our global governing class. People should be losing their jobs — at the very least — over this.

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: Study Claims Chinese Scientists Bioengineered Coronavirus: The researchers also assert Chinese scientists reverse-engineered versions of the virus to cover up their tracks after the pandemic began.