HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: After Riley Gaines Incident, College Mom Says SFSU is Off the Table for Her Children.

MATT TAIBBI: “The Guy Isn’t Totally Wrong”: The Curious Case of Covid-19 Scientists and Senator Tom Cotton: In a supreme irony, the scientists hired to stamp out the “lab leak” theory may vindicate the politician most tarred as a conspiracy theorist for keeping the theory alive. “When Public and Racket obtained hundreds of pages of communications between the scientists who published perhaps the most influential Nature Medicine paper about the origins of Covid-19, one of the first things we noticed was the scientists’ fixation with hits and Internet traffic. If Heathers had been written for the Instagram age, the script would have read a lot like the Slack chats between Drs. Kristian Andersen, Andrew Rambaut, Bob Garry, and Eddie Holmes.”

Our entire ruling class is made up of Mean Girls.

DEAL OF THE DAY: Shark S7001 Mop. #CommissionEarned

IMPRESSIVE: Sound of Freedom breaks $100 million in box office sales.

The film details the true story of how former Homeland Security agent Tim Ballard quit his DHS job and risked his life to journey into the jungles of Colombia in an effort to save children from sex slavery.

On Wednesday, Sound of Freedom grossed $4.7 million, which pushed it to $101 million in total ticket sales, according to box office reports.

Angel Studios Senior Vice President of Global Distribution Jared Geesey told the Washington Examiner that Sound of Freedom is “dominating the box office as the result of a ground-up, grassroots movement of everyday people who are making this an historic success.”

“This is the opposite of the top down system developed by Hollywood gatekeepers,” Geesey added. “We are empowering people to be part of choosing, funding, and sharing stories that amplify light and impact culture.”

Sound of Freedom continues to beat Sony Pictures’s Insidious: The Red Door overall, in addition to besting Disney’s latest Indiana Jones film on a daily basis for more than a week.

IMDB estimates that Sound of Freedom cost about $15 million to produce — just 5% of Indiana Woke’s production budget.

ILYA SOMIN: A Flawed “Popular Constitutionalist” Rationale for Disobeying Supreme Court Decisions: Harvard law Prof. Mark Tushnet and political scientist Aaron Belkin urge President Biden to disobey “gravely mistaken” Supreme Court rulings. Doing so would set a dangerous precedent likely to be abused by the right, as well as the left.

Since it’s the left that depends on unelected institutions to implement policies unpopular with voters, this is a particularly unwise position for lefties. I look forward to seeing President Trump and/or President DeSantis using these theories when in office, just for the entertainment value.

JAMES PETHOKOUKIS: How do we know if the AI Revolution is real?

WOW: The Nation Is Cranky: 47% of Americans Would Consider a Third-Party Candidate in 2024.

SPACE: Thorium Space CEO Pawel Rymaszewski Outlines Ambitions for Commercial Debut.

IN THEIR DEFENSE, THEY DON’T LIKE WHITE, BROWN OR YELLOW MASCULINITY EITHER:  What’s the media’s problem with black masculinity?

WHAT’S THE FUN OF BEING RICH IF THE CLUB ISN’T EXCLUSIVE?  The elite’s war on wealth.

HE’S NOT WRONG!  Robert F. Kennedy Jr. slams Democrats for bid ‘to censor a censorship hearing’.

THE ONLY CRIME A DEM RECOGNIZES IS REPUBLICANS GETTING BRIBES:  Democrat Dan Goldman asks ‘who cares’ if Hunter Biden and Gal Luft got money from Chinese firm.

CMT TO BUD LIGHT “HOLD MY BEER”:  I got Jason Aldean’s ‘Small Town’ canceled by CMT: gun-control activist.

WITH THIS LOT? I WOULDN’T TRUST THEM TO SHOOT A LAME RAT IN A BARREL, MUCH LESS MUCK WITH THE CLIMATE:  Climate Engineering to Fight Global Warming? What Could Go Wrong!

WHO YOU GONNA BELIEVE, THE ENTIRE US GOVERNMENT LEADERSHIP OR SOME FILTHY FOREIGNER?  Biden $10M bribe file released: Burisma chief said he was ‘coerced’ to pay Joe, ‘stupid’ Hunter in bombshell allegations.

SEE? THE CHINESE DESERVE OUR MORONIC CLIMATE CULTISTS:  US Religious Freedom Advocate Targeted by Chinese Hackers in Microsoft Breach.

Honestly, we should send them to Russia who created them in an effort to corner the market on oil, when everyone else would stop pumping….

THE DEMS ARE GUILTY AND HE CONDEMNS THEM:  RFK Jr. Responds to Democrat Attacks at Weaponization Hearing.

DO NOT BEAT MORONIC PROTESTERS BLOCKING THE STREET:  Driver savagely beats protester blocking traffic in the middle of the street: video.

Stun gun them and send them to China. Let them have fun expounding their ridiculous creed to the Chinese. They believe so fervently, surely they’re willing to be martyrs for the faith, right?

MAYBE BECAUSE MERICANS KNOW THAT WHAT BIDENOMICS IS SELLING IS AMERICANS (AND OUR CHILDREN):  Americans Not Sold on ‘Bidenomics’: Poll.

SO NOW WE KNOW WHAT DEMOCRATS DEEM SHAMEFUL:  Dem Claims RFK Jr. — Out of All the Kennedys — Brings Shame to the Family Name.

Leaving girls to drown in cars? Coolness.  Telling the truth about democrats? How very dare you.

Pfui.

BEWARE INTELLECTUALS:  High Flung Dreams.

AND PRETTY PICTURES:  Blog Funding, Day 15 of 15.

PEOPLE EVERYWHERE HAVE HAD ENOUGH OF IDIOTIC HISTRIONIC CHILDREN:  ‘Brutal blonde’ drags climate activist by the hair to stop her from blocking traffic.

Round them up, send them to China. Let them explain de-carbonization to China.

STREISAND EFFECT REVISITED: “CMT censored this video, and that’s a clear indication that it’s great, so I looked it up, and it sure is!” “That’s the top-rated comment on the Jason Aldean video ‘Try That in a Small Town’ (YouTube).”

Plus, Roseanne Barr comments: “Him Talking about small town values is not the same thing that your mind controlled dipshit brain filters it as. All you are doing is showing that you’re batshit crazy and that does no good for anyone. If you don’t like the song don’t listen to it. certainly don’t project your insanity on to it. My god you people are INSANE. Maybe check yourself into a facility or something. Liberals in my day protected art and made fun of those that said it had satanic messaging when you play it backwards or shit like that. That’s what you guys are now, the epitome of what you used to hate. Go get help or maybe dicked down and shut the fuck up. thanks.”

She’s right, you know. But the real point is that you’re not even allowed to think about resisting the Left’s shock troops.

BANKS THAT DO THIS SHOULD BE SHUT DOWN AND THEIR EXECUTIVES OSTRACIZED: New McCarthyism: Coutts Bank Shuts Down Nigel Farage’s Accounts Because They Don’t Like His Politics. “The decision will strike most sensible folk as bizarre. But, even worse, the manner in which it was taken was sinister and deceitful. And the precedent it sets is dreadful. So beware.”