DAVID MASTIO: USA Today demoted me for a tweet — because its woke newsrooms are out of touch with readers. “I know something about Gannett’s evolution since I was USA Today’s deputy editorial page editor until August, when I was demoted after I tweeted, ‘People who are pregnant are also women.’ That idea was forbidden because a ‘news reporter’ covering diversity, equity and inclusion wrote a story detailing how transgender men can get pregnant. I compounded my sin against this new orthodoxy by calling the idea that men can get pregnant an ‘opinion.’ If I wanted to keep any job at USA Today, my bosses informed me, I needed to delete these offensive tweets because they were causing pain to the LGBTQ activists and journalists on our staff.”

HOW’S THAT SPACE PROGRAM COMING ALONG? Arecibo observatory scientists help unravel surprise asteroid mystery.

SOUNDS RATHER INSURRECTION-Y: Parkland shooting survivor Cameron Kasky urges followers to ‘go to the home of every Supreme Court Justice who just voted to kill women.’

HEH: Arizona Gubernatorial Candidate Kari Lake Leaves CNN Reporter Speechless. “I’ll do an interview with you… as long as it airs on CNN+, does that still exist?”

JEFFREY CARTER: Citadel Moves to Miami.

CANCELLED: Lawyers Who Won Major Gun Rights Case Forced Out of Firm.

THAT IS THEIR WAY: The Left Freaks Out Every Time They Don’t Get Their Way.

WHENEVER I HEAR THE WORDS “PLANT-BASED” I GROW SUSPICIOUS: Chicken bests plant-based meat alternative for protein intake, study suggests.

VIDEO: Sri Lanka Is Screwed.

If you don’t have the time or inclination to watch the video, Lawrence Person has done his usual excellent job of breaking out the bullet points.

Including this bit: “‘This caused the government to enact strange policies, like banning the importation of fertilizer in hopes of easing its trade deficit. Claiming the ban was to make Sri Lanka organic was simply a way to conceal its dire situation.’ Yes, cutting back the ability of your own people to grow food in order to hide the manifest incompetence of your economic policies is quite the recipe for happiness.”

Was there ever a “green” policy that wasn’t grift, graft, or fraud?

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): No, there wasn’t. Also: Flashback: Looming food shortages is the next ‘slow-moving disaster’ to hit world.

WILL THIS IMPROVE THEIR ESG SCORES?

A FEW MORE THOUGHTS ON DOBBS: First, it’s a big win for the rule of law — by which I mean not so much the opinion as that the justices stood firm in the face of unprecedented threats ranging from Chuck Schumer’s “pay the price” language to mobs and an actual armed assassin showing up at their homes. A Supreme Court that can be bullied is a Supreme Court that will be bullied. Unlike Roberts’ flip in the ObamaCare case, the majority here held firm, which will discourage bullying in the future.

Second, the likely result is that a few states will ban abortion entirely, a few will permit it for the entire term, and for most it’ll look something like Europe, with abortion easy to get for the first 12 weeks or so, and much harder after that. (The Mississippi law in question here, which allows abortion for any reason through the 15th week, was actually more liberal than many, perhaps most, European laws).

States won’t be able to ban interstate travel for the purpose of getting an abortion because interstate travel is a separate constitutional right. Congress will not be able to guarantee a right to abortion because its 14th Amendment power to enforce the rights guaranteed by the 14th Amendment doesn’t apply to abortion, which the Court has found isn’t protected under the 14th Amendment. It will not be able to either protect abortion or ban it under its commerce power because abortion isn’t interstate commerce, and is a traditional subject of state regulation.

It’ll take a few years to shake out, but we’re likely to wind up with what we would have had by 1976 or so if Roe had never been decided — a spectrum of laws around the country that will be adjusted over time based on experience and the views of the electorate. Though, of course, the norm may be stricter than it would have been without Roe, which called into being a huge pro-life movement that probably wouldn’t have existed otherwise.

UPDATE: It’ll be interesting to see if this reduces the flow of immigrants from blue states to red. That’ll be a measure of how much people actually care. To be honest, I kinda hope it does slow the flow.

THIS IS CNN: CNN Hosts Almost Cry Live on Air After Learning Roe v Wade Was Overturned.

THE NEW NARRATIVE: Inflation and Recession Aren’t So Bad, Ackshully.

WHY DO ENVIRONMENTALISTS HATE SEQUOIAS? Bipartisan group defends sequoia tree bill in California despite opposition. “A bipartisan trio of lawmakers defended the ‘Save Our Sequoias Act’ on Thursday despite more than 80 environmental groups signing a letter to Congress opposing the act earlier this month. The bill introduced on Wednesday is aimed at expediting reforestation and protection efforts in California’s Sequoia National Forest.”

REDUCING THE SURPLUS POPULATION: Global Food Crisis ‘Will Kill Millions’ By Disease, Health Executive Warns.

The global food crisis sparked by the war in Ukraine will kill millions by leaving the hungriest more vulnerable to infectious diseases, potentially triggering the world’s next health catastrophe, the head of a major aid organisation has warned.

A Russian naval blockade of Ukraine’s Black Sea ports has stopped grain shipments from the world’s fourth-largest exporter of wheat and corn, raising the spectre of shortages and hunger in low-income countries.

The knock-on effects of the food shortages mean many will die not only of starvation but from having weaker defences against infectious diseases due to bad nutrition, Peter Sands, executive director of the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria told AFP this week.

“I think we’ve probably already begun our next health crisis. It’s not a new pathogen but it means people who are poorly nourished will be more vulnerable to the existing diseases,” he said in an interview on the sidelines of a G20 health minister meeting in the Indonesian city of Yogyakarta.

“I think the combined impact of infectious diseases and the food shortages and the energy crisis… we can be talking about millions of extra deaths because of this,” he said.

Flashback: Looming food shortages is the next ‘slow-moving disaster’ to hit world.

SELECTIVELY, YOU CAN BE SURE: DoJ to SCOTUS on Bruen: We will just have to enforce federal law, then.

ED MORRISSEY: Breaking: SCOTUS overturns Roe in Dobbs — on Alito opinion, 6-3.

AS THE TRUE GOVERNOR OF GEORGIA™, SHE CAN DO AS SHE PLEASES: Two-Faced Abrams Calls for Raises for Cops While on ‘Defund the Police’ Board.

DEAL OF THE DAY: FLEXISPOT Essential Large Electric Stand Up Desk. #CommissonEarned

BLUE STATE BLUES: Here’s How Much Tax Revenue Illinois Will Lose From Citadel’s Decision To Cut Bait.

Illinois’s richest resident, hedge-fund CEO Ken Griffin, announced on Thursday that he—and his company, Citadel—are packing up shop and heading to Miami, citing a better corporate environment and rising crime rates in Chicago.

The move, which Griffin announced in a letter to employees, will deprive Democrat-run Illinois of hundreds of millions of dollars in annual income tax revenue, a company spokesman told the Washington Free Beacon.

Griffin alone—who is worth approximately $25 billion—pays over $200 million in state income taxes every year, the spokesman said, and Citadel employees have themselves funneled over $1 billion to the state over the past decade.

I’d ask the least person to leave Illinois to turn out the lights, but they’ll probably have gone out before then.

MORE ON DOBBS FROM ATHENA THORNE: Supreme Court OVERTURNS Roe v. Wade, Casey With Dobbs Decision.

SO MUCH HATE: Universities silent on moving tampons out of men’s bathrooms during nationwide shortage.

SUPREME COURT RELEASING DOBBS OPINON RIGHT NOW, BY ALITO. Roberts concurs. Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan dissent. Roe and Casey are overruled.

Scotusblog is liveblogging the announcement.

The opinion is here. “Held: The Constitution does not confer a right to abortion; Roe and Casey are overruled; and the authority to regulate abortion is returned to the people and their elected representatives.”

Beware the “night of rage” in response.

And from Scotusblog: “Interesting, The majority uses very similar ‘history and tradition’ language that was used in the New York gun case, but this time finding there is no ‘history and tradition’ that grants a constitutional right to an abortion.” It’s hardly surprising that history and tradition might support things with a history and tradition, but not things without a history and tradition, so I don’t think that’s really very interesting. Nor is it contradictory, as this seems to imply. I’m not a big fan of the Scalia history and tradition approach, but it’s a well-laid-out methodology and one that a majority of the Court holds.

Note that the entire release, with opinion, concurrences, dissent is 213 pages, but talking heads are no doubt already speaking as if they’ve read it in its entirety.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: SCOTUS Stands Up for the Second Amendment.

#BELIEVEALLWOMEN: Surgery resident fabricated story about sexual assault by gun-toting surgeon, LA County says: The Department of Health Services says whistleblower complaint by Melani Cargle is ‘patently false.’

She says she was fired for making an anonymous complaint when the surgeon figured out it was her. No such complaint was filed. She is being fired, though: “Additionally, Cargle has not been fired for the operating room allegation at Harbor-UCLA in unincorporated West Carson, but is facing termination for her conduct with a patient and staff at USC Medical Center near downtown L.A., DHS said, declining to elaborate.”