AGAIN, SUE THEM TO THE BACK TEETH:  Pushback: College that demanded professor use fake pronouns loses lawsuit, must pay him $400K.

AND THERE’S THE VIDEO:  Saved by the bunny.

He’s talking to grade schoolers about Afghanistan…  Seriously. What even?

PARTICULARLY SINCE THE ENEMIES OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WHO HAPPEN TO HAVE PRESS CREDENTIALS:  How to Punk the NY Times.

Are also arrant and asinine idiots.

TAYLOR LORENZ SHOULD BE EXPOSED, AND MOCKED. MOCKED HEARTILY:  WaPo’s Taylor Lorenz Wants to ‘Expose’ the Woman Behind Libs of TikTok, Harasses Her Relatives.

As you do, so shall you be done to. It’s time we take the enemies of the United States to task. Particularly those with press credentials.

SUE THEM TO THEIR BACK TEETH:  Philadelphia Sued After Reinstating Mask Mandate.

OH, DEAR LORD:  Biden Tries to Portray Himself as ‘America First’ President on Steel Needed for Infrastructure Projects.

Xiden. America first. Sure.

IN THE ANNALS OF THINGS THAT DON’T WORK…  Biden Hosting Second Global Covid-19 Summit in Possible Bid to Stop Hemorrhaging Poll Numbers.

THOU SHALL NOT DISSENT FROM THE ENLIGHTENED:  Smear Campaign Mounts Against Trump-Appointed Judge Who Struck Down CDC Mask Mandate, But DOJ Will Not Seek Emergency Stay.

OPEN THREAD: Won’t you listen to what the D.J.’s spinning — he’s tappin’ into just what you’re feeling.

21st CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Elon Musk Says He Could Make “Catgirl” Sex Robots If He Wanted To.

Musk has repeatedly talked about his infatuation with catgirls, which are fictional human female characters with cat ears, tails, and whiskers, often portrayed in anime and manga.

In 2019, he joked that an upcoming Tesla software feature would not only blow customers’ minds, but it’d also be a “crucial step towards catgirls.”

While Musk is clearly having a laugh by bringing a weird meme to an otherwise earnest conversation, Tesla is indeed working on a humanoid robot called Optimus.

So far, though, all we’ve seen is a performer in a black and white jumpsuit dancing on stage at the company’s AI Day event last year.

And, since it’s Musk, the billionaire CEO couldn’t help himself but make some rather big promises during his chat with Anderson.

“I think we’ll have like an interesting prototype sometime this year,” he said. “We might have something useful next year, but I think quite likely within at least two years.”

If there’s one thing we’ve learned, it’s that we shouldn’t take Musk’s predictions at face value. After all, he’s fallen short plenty of times in the past.

Still though, nobody tell notorious robophobe Matthew Yglesias. “He seems to have a particular fear of fembots, the analysis of which I will leave to the professionals.”

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Putting Britain back in the business of launch.

HERE ARE 19 REASONS WHY THE LEFT WANTS TO DESTROY THE LIBS OF TIKTOK TWITTER ACCOUNT:

The following tweets are the reasons why the Left, in this case the Washington Post, chose to dox — out — the previously unidentified person who runs the Twitter account called “LibsofTikTok.”

The article asserts that the LibsofTikTok account is “fueling the right’s outrage machine.” That’s the way the woman who wrote the article framed the issue, but the rest of humanity considers it a public service.

That wasn’t the point of the doxxing, however. After the Left’s “outrage machine” got LibsofTikTok suspended from the social media platform twice, WaPo decided to get to the bottom of the account, which features the Left’s own videos.

That’s right, the Left is upset that this account posts videos from the Left. They have gotten vewy, vewy angwy over watching themselves.

The bizarre and usually vile videos serve as cautionary tales for parents of public school children and others who wonder why it is that kids have to watch porn in the classroom (yes) or get special instruction from their teacher who identifies as a furry. Or why disgusting books featuring fellatio are prominently displayed in school libraries.

You can’t watch the videos for long before screaming, why can’t they leave the kids alone??

As T. Becket Adams of the conservative National Journalism Center tweets, “It’s TikTok, a social media platform where content is meant to be shared and boosted. It’s not an obscure 4chan group chat.” But these are not videos the left wants parents to see, hence the Media Matters-inspired doxxing.

DEMOCRACY DIES IN DOXXING — AND THEN LYING ABOUT AFTERWARDS: The Washington Post lies—claims they did not publish details about Libs of Tik Tok’s personal life.

After Taylor Lorenz doxed Libs of Tik Tok in the pages of the Washington Post, that paper released a statement defending the doxing, and defending Lorenz’s journalistic standards.

They also lied, claiming that Lorenz had not published the home address of the Libs of Tik Tok account holder, when in fact, she had. The article was later scrubbed to purge those details, but they were there when the article was published at 6 am on Tuesday.

As Ted Cruz advisor Omri Ceren tweets, “The reason the Washington Post has to falsely deny they disclosed personal info is because it gives away the game. There was no possible public interest in that info. The article was meant to intimidate not inform.”

The New Rules of Journalism, in other words.

SMART DIPLOMACY: Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman started ‘shouting’ at Biden’s national security advisor when he brought up Jamal Khashoggi’s brutal killing, report says.

Lefties would still rather the Saudis own Twitter than Elon Musk though, which is revealing.

JEFF DUNETZ: While Biden Dithered, Britain Became Ukraine’s Top Ally.

In part because it’s impossible to picture this scene, but with Boris replaced by Brandon in his current vegetated state, even if he was guided by the Easter Bunny:

MIRROR, MIRROR: There’s a Really Weird Effect When Honeybees Fly Over a Mirror.

WELL, THIS YEAR’S FLU SHOTS CERTAINLY DIDN’T HELP: Flu Is Making A Comeback. Here’s What We Can Do About It. “Policymakers should apply the lessons learned from the COVID pandemic and allow patients to purchase, and use at home, the same self‐​administered rapid result influenza antigen tests that health care practitioners use. Patients with positive tests should then be able to purchase Tamiflu directly from pharmacists.”

THEY REALLY WANT TO GET CRUSHED IN NOVEMBER, DON’T THEY? Biden administration will appeal ruling that lifted Covid mask mandate on travel.

THE SOLUTION TO AMERICA’S CRISIS OF MASCULINITY: Tanning your ‘nads?

TAYLOR LORENZ IS SIMPLY FOLLOWING THE NEW RULES OF JOURNALISM:

However, in singling out Taylor Lorenz, what the political Right doesn’t understand is this is about politics and shutting down opposing speech. That is to say, speech that Lorenz or Kaczynski or the Daily Beast are ideologically opposed to. Of course, this is also about media power.

CNN is a multibillion-dollar media conglomerate that used the full weight of its corporate power to threaten a private individual with a Reddit account. In a newspaper owned by Jeff Bezos, Lorenz publishes a story with an individual’s name, professional license, and address information. It’s a struggle between one of the richest, most powerful men on the Earth and someone behind a Twitter account with less than a million followers (although that follower count is almost certainly about to increase).

Taylor Lorenz is not the ultimate problem. The problem is news outlets and infotainment companies using their outsize power and vast budgets to harass and doxx private citizens they disagree with. It’s a new journalistic model for an industry that sees its grip loosening on what news it can control and create (see the media freak-out over Elon Musk buying their favorite toy). Taylor Lorenz, for all her theatrics, is simply leading the charge.

Or as Glenn Greenwald noted at the start of the month: Your Top Priority is The Emotional Comfort of the Most Powerful Elites, Which You Fulfill by Never Criticizing Them.

UH, THANKS? How software saved a stealth fighter jet—and its pilot—from crashing in Alaska. “When the aircraft was at an altitude of 13,520 feet above sea level, with its nose pointed downwards, traveling at a speed of about 600 mph, a software system onboard the aircraft ‘initiated an automatic fly-up’ and steered the fighter jet out of its descent. The aircraft was also reportedly inverted at the time that the software activated. The plane was about 2,600 feet above the ground by the time the system had finished recovering the jet from its plunge. The previously unreported F-22 event highlights the role of the software, called the Automatic Ground Collision Avoidance System, or Auto GCAS, and also represents the only completely confirmed save of a stealth fighter jet with this software, meaning that the pilot likely owes their life to the system.”

IF YOU STRIKE ME DOWN, I SHALL BECOME MORE POWERFUL THAN YOU CAN POSSIBLY IMAGINE: Thank You, Taylor Lorenz. “Lorenz’s attack on LoTT isn’t going as well as she thought it might. She’s currently being served a massive L and is doing what she can to defend herself and, as the left usually does, keep the ideological bubble intact in order to fend off the real truth; that they’re the baddies. In truth, Lorenz did LoTT a favor. The Twitter account was wildly popular but it didn’t have that mainstream exposure. Thanks to Lorenz, more people know about it than ever. More people will begin watching it and as trainwreck after trainwreck scrolls past their screen and they’re unable to look away, they’ll become more familiar with the left as it is today. Parents will see the myriad of teachers in public schools who proudly introduce sex and sexualization to their children and understand why legislators in places like Florida did what they did.”

UPDATE: Babylon Bee CEO announces that he’s worked out a deal to make Libs of Tik Tok’s gig a full-time career.

(Updated and bumped.)

K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: School Librarians Want to Remove Some Classic Titles From Reading Lists.

School Library Journal teamed up with the National Council of Teachers of English to ask school librarians what books should come off reading lists and what, if any, books should join the list.

The list includes some typical targets of the left. Number one on the list? To Kill a Mockingbird. That’s right, librarians think that Harper Lee’s Southern literary masterpiece should come off the list more than any other book. You see, it’s “problematic” because it’s set in the pre-Civil Rights-era South, and we can’t have kids reading stuff like that unless it paints all white people as racist oppressors, now can we?

Flashback: Atticus Finch: American literature’s most celebrated rape apologist.

IT’S WEIRD HOW THEY CAN’T SUPPORT THEIR POLICIES WITHOUT LYING: Anti-Gun Politicians Lie About Violent Crime Because Telling the Truth Is Politically Costly.

HIS APPEAL HAS BECOME MORE SELECTIVE: Jon Stewart’s new show on AppleTV+ is reportedly a flop.