WELL, THAT’S NOT NICE: ‘I Hope You Get Raped:’ Pro-life Teen Reportedly Shoved, Punched by Enraged Abortion Supporter.

FIGHT THE POWER: NCLA Clients Join Missouri and Louisiana Suit Challenging Gov’t-Directed Social Media Censorship.

You can read the complaint here. Reminder: I’m on the NCLA’s advisory board.

CHARMING: ‘I Hope You Get Raped:’ Pro-life Teen Reportedly Shoved, Punched by Enraged Abortion Supporter.

IT COULDN’T HAPPEN TO A MORE DESERVING INDUSTRY:  Meta, Google insiders: Disappearing perks are the end of the ‘tech bro’.

SETH BARRETT TILLMAN: A Response to Dean Ruger’s Letter to Professor Gadsden, University of Pennsylvania Faculty Senate Chair, Calling for the Imposition of a Major Sanction Against Professor Wax. “This is a short statement responding to the misuse of contestable historical materials to achieve ideological ends in the guise of the discipline of an academic colleague. It is a reflection on the dangers of political correctness in today’s academic environment.”

A truly impressive evisceration. Highly recommended. I hope someone will circulate a copy to the entire Penn faculty.

DO THE GUNS WORK? NEVER MIND, I CAN FIX THEM:  James Bond’s ‘illegal’ Aston Martin DB5 with Gatling guns could sell for $2 million.

I’VE NO DOUBT THAT XI(NNIE THE POOH) IS THRILLED WITH THIS:  The surprising origin of the ‘quiet quitting’ trend sweeping multiple countries.

DON’T READ ME, MIKE:  Oh No – The Guardian is too Climate Alarmist even for Michael Mann.

ALSO WATER REMAINS WET:  Climate Scientist Andrew Dessler Proves Renewable Energy is Useless.

STILL NOT THE 21ST CENTURY I WAS PROMISED, BUT GETTING CLOSER:  Flying car gets approved by FAA.

THERE WILL BE OTHERS:  500 healthcare workers, fired for refusing COVID jab, win $10.3 million lawsuit.

WHEN OPEN BORDERS COMES TO SANCTUARY CITIES:  TX Gov. Abbott Invites NYC and D.C. Mayors to Visit Border After Their Temper Tantrums.

NOW WE DISBAND THE AGENCY AND SALT THE EARTH:  The FBI Twice Interfered in the 2020 Election to Sabotage Trump. Now What?

And we let the left know in no uncertain terms that any shenanigans in the elections this year, and we’ll let loose the dogs of war. They won’t like us when we’re angry.

THIS IS CLOWN WORLD:  Super Serious News Service Reuters Fact-Checks Obvious Joke Meme About Biden.

NODS SAGELY. MAKES PERFECT SENSE:  Monkeypox: California, Illinois, New York Declare State and Public Health Emergencies.

Considering what those states do to their citizens — without lube, no less — they’re justifiably scared.

THAT COULD BE ON ACCOUNT OF HAVING A FEW BRAIN CELLS:  Republicans Don’t Believe New CNN CEO’s Promise to End Partisanship.

IF THE JUNTA COULD TAKE WARNINGS: Germany Energy Shortage Should Be Warning To U.S.

LIKE MANY OTHER INSTITUTIONS, OUR UNIVERSITIES NEED DESTROYED AND THE EARTH SALTED:  Not all racism is created equal.

I don’t know what comes after, but finding something better shouldn’t be an issue.

RIP: L.A. Dodgers Announce Vin Scully has Passed Away, Age 94.

TO BE FAIR, THAT’S JUST BECAUSE THEY’RE TERRIBLE AT WHAT THEY DO: Dr. Rand Paul: The CDC messed up COVID testing and is now botching monkeypox testing. They were terrible on Ebola, too. And AIDS. Maybe they’re just terrible, period.

LIVE RESULTS: Tonight’s Primaries in Arizona, Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, and Washington.

WAS IT OVER WHEN GEORGE BUSH BOMBED PEARL HARBOR?! ‘I impeached Bush twice:’ Bumbling Jerrold Nadler stumbles through debate opening.

OPEN THREAD: How do you feel about what’s going on?

IT’S COME TO THIS: CA sheriff orders raid on Indiana Batmobile garage, allegedly as favor for friend.

We interviewed the San Mateo County Deputy District Attorney, prosecuting this case.

Dan Noyes: “You wrote a letter to Racop in September of last year saying that there would be no criminal charges. What changed?”

Marie McLaughlin, San Mateo County Deputy District Attorney: “Additional investigation, the detectives were able to obtain search warrants and obtain additional evidence.”

McLaughlin would not discuss that additional evidence or the sheriff’s unusual step of sending four investigators across the country, for what Racop argues is a simple business dispute.

Noyes: “After the case went nowhere with the first criminal case, the civil case, is the sheriff stepping in for a friend here?”

McLaughlin: “I can’t speak to that, I have no knowledge about what relationship if any the sheriff has with the victim.”

We wanted to talk to Sheriff Bolanos about Anagnostou and about the use of public funds – four round-trip airline tickets, hotels for three nights, meals, overtime.* He didn’t return our repeated calls and texts to his personal cellphone. His office confirmed he’s away on a month of vacation; he leaves office in January after losing the election. The undersheriff now in charge, Mark Robbins, and the department’s spokesman, Lt. Eamonn Allen, refused our request for an interview citing the ongoing investigation.

We ran the case by Tony Brass, former prosecutor for San Francisco and the US Attorney’s Office. He told us, “I just can’t imagine why it’s in criminal court. It shocks me that it’s in criminal court.”

He says this squabble over a luxury item, the Batmobile, belongs in Indiana civil court – with no involvement by the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Department.

“It simply defies reason, in my view, why so many people, so many high-ranking members of law enforcement, would have to go and enforce something so unnecessary? And so trivial?”

* California’s in the very best of hands.

CONTRARY TO THE SPIN, I’M DEEPLY SKEPTICAL THAT ALL THESE MESSAGES DISAPPEARED IN ORDER TO PROTECT DONALD TRUMP: Surprise: The case of the missing Jan. 6 text messages now extends to the Pentagon.

I mean, it would be the first time this sort of bureaucratic folderol was for that purpose, rather than the reverse.