“ANOTHER PROUD MOMENT FOR WOMEN’S SPORTS”: This trans golfer is shellacking female opponents left and right in the LPGA qualifiers.

JUDGING BY THE VIDEO HE’S NOT A WHITE TRUMP SUPPORTER: Man suspected of spray-painting swastika on Rainbow crosswalks arrested after standoff in Midtown. “It’s unclear what charges the suspect faces or what his motivation was.”

A friend writes: “Really? Because up until now everyone was pretty clear that the culprit’s motivation was antisemitic and LGBTQ hatred. What changed???”

Well, the video showed it wasn’t a white Trump supporter.

HMM: Study: Medieval British friars had more intestinal worms than general population.

PENCE HAS OPENED HIS MOUTH AND REMOVED ALL DOUBT: Should we follow Pence’s advice to end FBI criticism and reform demands?

“The Republican Party is the party of law and order,” Mike Pence declared in New Hampshire this past week. “Our party stands with the men and women who stand on the thin blue line on the federal and state and local level.

“And these attacks on the FBI must stop. Calls to defund the FBI are just as wrong as calls to defund the police,” Pence said. However, most of the “attacks” on the FBI don’t demand “defunding” the agency, but instead demand real accountability for its abuses and errors — a failure of elected officials for years, and perhaps decades, including Pence himself.

“Law and order” doesn’t mean “let law enforcement do what it wants, even if it’s breaking the law itself.” If you think that you’re an idiot or a tool.

And Americans get that even if Mike Pence doesn’t, which is why a majority of Americans see the FBI as Biden’s personal gestapo.

IT’S COME TO THIS: ‘Rape Nazis’ Will Exploit Dobbs Decision and Re-Populate Nation with White People, Claims MSNBC Doomsday Nutter.

On the other hand, Gaia forbid that a conservative calls an international socialist a national socialist:

MICROBIOME NEWS: Non-nutritive sweeteners affect human microbiomes and can alter glycemic responses.

GREAT MOMENTS IN STATE-RUN MEDIA: Facebook says posts without government talking points are ‘missing context.’ If you don’t include state propaganda you might get flagged.

THE POWER LINE WEEK IN PICTURES: Hornless Rino Edition.

WELL, PARTLY BECAUSE SOME PEOPLE WOULD RATHER WORK A GIG THAN A JOB: If the Job Market Is So Good, Why Is Gig Work Thriving? “Picking up shifts offers something that traditional permanent employment still generally doesn’t: the ability to work when and as much as you want, demand permitting, which is often essential to balance life obligations like school or child care.”

But there’s also a less rosy reason: “And lately, inflation has provided an extra incentive. As the cost of rent and food soars, gig work can supplement primary jobs that don’t provide enough to live on or are otherwise unsatisfying.”

Yes, in this golden Biden era, people are taking second and third jobs to pay for gas and food.

ONE OF MY COLLEGE FRIENDS POSTED THIS ARTICLE ON OAK RIDGE, but what struck me most was how in the 1945 picture of workers leaving the gate end-of-shift, nobody is fat.

DEAL OF THE DAY: Autel MaxiLink ML629 2022 Newest OBD2 Scanner. #CommissionEarned

HIGHER INDOCTRINATION: Freshman orientations push DEI ‘propaganda’ over free speech, nationwide survey finds.

GET WOKE, GO BROKE: Being politically correct at work can lead to negative behavior, professors find.

I WASN’T EXPECTING SO MANY EARTH-SHATTERING KABOOMS: “A magical evening”: Bombs went off all over Russian-held territory near Ukraine last night. “Somehow, every part of Crimea is now in range.”

Plus, the Ukrainians’ take: “We are fighting against f***ing idiots. It’s good for us. But they have nuclear weapons. Russia is like a monkey with a hand grenade. It’s a problem for the whole world. We don’t know if they are going to blow everyone up.”

A MAJORITY OF AMERICANS SEE THE FBI AS BIDEN’S PERSONAL GESTAPO, AND NOT WITHOUT REASON: Sharyl Attkisson reveals how low the FBI will go. “The forty-two seconds of the Rumble video embedded below are truly shocking. Courageous journalist Sharyl Attkisson testifies to a congressional hearing about the depths to which the FBI has sunk in its attempts to discredit one of its most effective critics. In case you don’t know, while she was working as a reporter for CBS, Ms. Attkisson’s work and home computers were invaded and taken over by the FBI, evidently because she had incurred their ire over her reporting.”

NO MORE DYNASTIES: “Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney’s GOP primary defeat this week did more than just end her family’s dominance in U.S. politics dating back to her father’s role as President Gerald Ford’s chief of staff in 1974. It also marked the coming end of a long stretch of at least 75 years of somebody from one of America’s modern political dynasties serving in federal elected or appointed office.”

No Clintons, no Bushes, no Kennedys. And shortly, no Cheneys.

TREAT YOUR FEET: Merrell Men’s Moab 2 Vent Mid Hiking Boot. #CommissionEarned (Bumped)

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Education Schools Have Long Been Mediocre. Now They’re Woke Too.

I studied for a master’s degree in education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2015. My program was batty. We made Black Lives Matter friendship bracelets. We passed around a popsicle stick to designate whose turn it was to talk while professors compelled us to discuss our life’s traumas. We read poems through the “lenses” of Marxism and critical race theory in preparation for our students doing the same. Our final projects were acrostic poems or ironic rap videos.

At the time, I figured my experience was unique. Surely, I thought, other teacher-prep programs focused on human cognition, behavioral management, child psychology and other educational practicalities. Alas, my program was mild compared with what current graduates must suffer.

The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty has reviewed the required coursework for 14 programs for teachers-to-be in the Badger State. These programs produce about 80% of all teaching graduates in the state each year. What they found was shocking. Worldview building and ideological manipulation take precedence over teacher preparation.

On the syllabi, noticeably lacking are academic literature or manuals of classroom instruction. Instead, Hollywood movies like “Freedom Writers,” popular books like Jonathan Kozol’s “Letters to a Young Teacher,” and propaganda like “Anti-Racist Baby” abound. In place of academic essays, graduate students write personal poems or collect photographs. These kitschy activities infantilize what ought to be a rigorous pursuit of professional competency.

American education was better before these programs existed, just as American journalism was better before it was taken over by journalism school graduates. There may be a lesson here.

THERE’S A REASON WHY A MAJORITY OF THE PUBLIC THINKS OF THE FBI AS BIDEN’S PERSONAL GESTAPO, AND HERE YOU GO: Hmmm: FBI search of Mar-a-Lago run by same counter-intel group as Crossfire Hurricane.

None of these people should have been employed after Crossfire Hurricane, and some of them should have been in jail. Instead, they continue to function as a political hit squad.