THE ENEMY WITHIN: Pentagon linguist pleads guilty to exposing U.S. human assets. “Thompson believed that if she did not pass on the classified information that her relationship with the Lebanese national ‘would come to an end’ and he ‘would not marry her.'”
At least the professor who fell for the fake bikini model didn’t get anyone tortured or killed.
OPEN THREAD: Have fun!
BY THEN, IF THINGS GO AS THEY SHOULD, WE CAN ALWAYS MOVE IT: Infamous asteroid Apophis poses no threat to Earth for at least 100 years, NASA says.
NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: ‘Zombie genes’ spur some brain cells to grow after death. “When people die some cells in their brains go on for hours, even getting more active and growing to gargantuan proportions, new research shows.”
ANOTHER DISEASE THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN ELIMINATED: PET and CT scans provide keen views of lungs with active TB, and are better assessment tools than sputum tests.
UPDATE NEWSPEAK DICTIONARIES ACCORDINGLY: Associated Press warns staffers not to call influx at southern border a ‘crisis’ in internal memo.
Related: Sen. Ted Cruz sees a reason AP articles should be tagged ‘I’m Joe Biden and I approve this message.’
THE FRIDAY NIGHT MASSACRE: DHS Secretary Fires Majority of Homeland Security Advisory Council.
The firings are seen as the Biden administration’s latest effort to rebrand the government agency, especially as the border crisis continues. The White House can argue that removing these 32 people is a way of establishing a board that view illegal immigration the same way as the administration. The problem, however, is they chose to do this during the middle of the border crisis. Instead of focusing on the task at hand, DHS now has to vet and find new members for the HSAC when their attention should be stopping the border surge.
One thing is for certain though: Biden can no longer blame Trump. Getting rid of people from other administrations means he can no longer point the finger at Trump appointees.
Well, they shouldn’t blame Trump going forward — but Biden and President Harris will be blaming him for the duration of the administration. (See also Obama blaming George W. Bush throughout his entire administration.)
DID YOU KNOW MOSES WAS LEFT OUT OF THE PASSOVER SEDER? Jeff Dunetz at The Lid has come up with the perfect way to make it up to Moses — 14 famous movie scenes featuring the Prophet. Why 14? Because in the Old Testament, seven is the number for perfection and Jeff wanted Moses to have double satisfaction!
(Bumped.)
LAW & LIBERTY: Heroic in France.
THAT SHIP STUCK IN THE SUEZ CANAL? Yeah, there’s memes and lots of them.
Live video of the stuck container ship below:
THEY OUGHT TO DEMAND REPARATIONS: New Universal Basic Income Program in Oakland, Calif., Excludes Low-Income White Families.
DANA LOESCH: A New Era for Me Begins. I spotted her at the Quincy, IL Tea Party in 2009 and knew she was going to be a star. Got her on PJTV for a while, before she moved on to bigger things. She’s a star now!
DISPATCHES FROM THE INTERSECTION OF THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE AND THE NEWSPEAK DICTIONARY: University’s Transgender Pronoun Policy May Have Violated the First Amendment, Court Rules.
HOW ISRAEL’S AGGRESSIVE VACCINATION PROGRAM CRASHED THE CURVE.
CLINICAL EXPERIENCE SUGGESTS IT WORKS: The latest on convalescent plasma. “The observational studies confirmed doctors’ historical understanding that convalescent plasma was most effective when used early in the course of disease and with high antibody content. A well-conducted randomized trial in elderly outpatients in Argentina supports this understanding. The study reported a halving of progression to severe disease, and, for recipients of plasma with the highest antibody content, a more than 70 percent reduction in progression. Though not statistically significant, the trial showed a halving of mortality and a two-thirds reduction in ICU admission. Importantly, convalescent plasma therapy was administered in the first three days of illness. . . . In hindsight, the totality of the evidence — observational studies, RCTs, mechanistic studies of antibody neutralization, and historical knowledge — provides consistent support for the use of antibody-rich convalescent plasma early in the course of illness, principles that the FDA in its February 2021 update on convalescent plasma now affirms. At the same time, RCTs have found another antibody treatment — monoclonal antibodies — to be most effective when used early in the illness. Since for both monoclonal antibodies and convalescent plasma the active agent is the same, namely antibody to coronavirus, we can consider the findings about each to be supportive of the other.”
Well, I donated convalescent plasma a couple of weeks ago, so I’m glad to hear it might be helping someone.