SEGREGATION NOW, SEGREGATION TOMORROW, SEGREGATION FOREVER! Penn State tells students to celebrate their identities separately with ‘Affinity Graduations.’

INTEGRITY: The North Carolina Supreme Court made several key election decisions on Friday, ruling to reinstate a voter ID law and keep the Republican-led redistricting maps in place. “The rulings were made possible after the court was swung in November from 4-3 Democrat-controlled to 5-2 Republican. The voter ID law, enacted in 2018, had previously been thrown out over claims it unfairly targeted minorities.”

HEH: The Bidens want ‘all books’ available to students, so I got the D.C. library to buy Tara Reade’s memoir.

DEAL OF THE DAY: Everlasting Comfort Knee Pillow for Side Sleepers. #CommissionEarned

CHRISTOPHER HORNER: ‘Greens’ Win a Victory But Will Likely Lose the War.

The United States Supreme Court this week declined to hear a challenge by oil and gas companies seeking to overturn rulings in two lawsuits, both filed by state and local governments seeking billions of dollars because energy company products supposedly caused, or made worse, devastating “climate change.”

This is being reported as a victory for the environmental lobby, but those reports are misleading for a variety of reasons. Among them is that “climate” wasn’t actually at issue before the Court in this case. This was a jurisdictional question. The oil and gas companies were hoping to remove the matters to federal court given how the purported rationale — global “climate change” —unsubtly suggests this is not well-suited for resolution by, say, a county superior court in Maryland.

Meanwhile, after having stumbled in the federal courts, these litigious, progressively-led government plaintiffs view state courts as their best hope to obtain the demanded riches in disgorged revenues, to pay for politicians’ agendas that legislatures won’t fund through direct taxation.

Always looking for ways around the will of the voters.

OUT: How could we trust banks without government regulators to keep them honest?

IN: Regulators have known SVB was in big trouble since 2021, did bupkis.

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: “[P]etitioner’s Second Amendment rights are not dependent on her spouse’s acquisition of an unrestricted concealed carry pistol permit.”

The court’s main point was that, given the decision in Bruen, which came down while the appeal was pending, petitioner had a constitutionally protected right to carry, even without a showing of special need. But the court added:

To the extent that the Attorney General attempts, inexplicably, to justify the determination based upon petitioner’s “fail[ure] to explain why her stated self-defense needs were not already adequately and independently addressed by her husband’s recent acquisition of an unrestricted concealed carry license,” we note that this was not a basis for the denial of this application and “judicial review of an administrative determination is limited to the grounds invoked by” respondent.

More to the point, the statutory framework contains no such required showing and, suffice it to say that petitioner’s Second Amendment rights are not dependent on her spouse’s acquisition of an unrestricted concealed carry pistol permit.

Kind of a sexist argument to make, too.

TAR. FEATHERS. AT BEST.

At the Revere Hotel in Boston, FBI agents and Army Special Ops units were about to conduct a "training exercise".

In the "exercise", they would go into a room and interrogate a "role player".

Instead, they went to the wrong room, where an unsuspecting airline pilot answered the… pic.twitter.com/OmuBXouQQI

— Spike Cohen (@RealSpikeCohen) April 29, 2023

WAR ON PARENTS: ‘Parental Crap’: Virginia Dems Keep Stepping in It as Hot Mic Moments Capture Them Demonizing Parents.

OPEN THREAD: Ooh, it’s Saturday night, everybody’s havin’ fun. I’m in the blogosphere, tryin’ to get my comments done.

THE NEW (COMMERCIAL) SPACE RACE: SpaceX launches second pair of O3b mPower satellites.

THE ILLUSTRATION OF A CHEESEBURGER MISLEADS — AT LEAST, THE CULPRIT, IF ANYTHING, IS THE BUN: Scientists Just Quantified The Shocking Extent of Type 2 Diabetes Due to Poor Diet.

21ST CENTURY WARFARE: Command Posts: Hunter, or Hunted?

For generations, the US military’s senior leadership in the field had no reason to worry about being on the receiving end of enemy fires at their command posts. Even at the company level but especially at higher echelons, we expected that we would be safe and secure in our command posts. Command posts were where one watched, planned, and executed operations – not become player in one.

One of the defining characteristics early in the Russo-Ukrainian War was the high loss rate of Russian General Officers from enemy action. Part of this was due to the top-down traditions in the Russian Army that required direct, forward, and in person direction and guidance – but a significant part of that was the Ukrainian military’s reaching out to eliminate senior leadership where they led the fight – their command posts.

As precision long range conventional fires and the ISR that supports them become more common on even the most primitive battlefield, is it time for the USA and her allies to reconsider their own reliance on large, static, and “noisy” command posts?

Yes.

UPDATE: From the comments: “Current GO ranks are doing damage that costs our enemies nothing. They’d want to leave them alive.” Sadly plausible.

COVID IS OVER: CDC to stop tracking Covid levels in communities.

I THINK IT’S SCHEDULED FOR NOVEMBER OF 2024: A Malignant Flu May Soon Evolve to Infect and Kill Humans.

But isn’t that every flu?

OKAY, GROOMERS: 27 Democrats in the Colorado House of Reps just voted against making indecent exposure to minors a class 6 felony.

HOW IT STARTED: West Hollywood Redirects Funding from Sheriff’s Department to Other Public Safety Programs.

—KNBC, June 29^th, 2022.

How it’s going: Actor James Woods: Watch How W. Hollywood’s ‘Safety Ambassadors’ Handled an Assault in Progress.

Notoriously liberal West Hollywood had the brilliant idea of replacing police officers with unarmed “safety ambassadors.” Let’s take a peek at how that’s worked out during an assault in progress… https://t.co/Qa48aZ8z4o

— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) April 28, 2023

—MRC TV, yesterday.

Gooder and harder, California.

SCIENCE: How the Tesla Model S and Model X Batteries Degrade Over 200,000 Miles.

READER FAVORITE: JLHT 40X60 Monocular Telescope High Power Monocular for Adults. #CommissionEarned

COULD CHATGPT DO THIS? Diagnosing deception: How doctors solved a woman’s dramatically faked condition.

BAN ALL THE THINGS! California Approves Regulation to Phase Out Diesel Trucks by 2036.

ADVICE: You should back up your Blu-rays and DVDs before they break.

CNN’S VAN JONES SAYS THE QUIET PART OUT LOUD: Kamala Harris “is running alongside the oldest person to ever do it, so she’s essentially running for president.”

LOW BAR: Study finds ChatGPT outperforms physicians in providing high-quality, empathetic advice to patient questions.

THE HOG REPORT: A-10s Return to Middle East with a New Mission, and a New Weapon. Tensions with Iran, Russia have CENTCOM calling upon the venerable Warthog once again.