IF THEY’RE NO BETTER THAN THE COVID VAX IT’S STILL OVERCHARGING:  Bill Gates predicts $2 vaccines for every disease.

CHASER:  The NYT Indirectly Exposes Something We’ve Known for Awhile About the COVID Vaccine.

THAT’S OKAY, THE TRUMP TRIAL IS NOT A PURSUIT OF TRUTH:  Michael Cohen’s ex-lawyer to nuke Cohen’s tale before Congress: ‘Habitual liar, totally unreliable’.

THE SURVIVORS ARE ALREADY REBUILDING:  Losing the Sexual Revolution.

SHOCKED, SHOCKED, SHOCKED, BEHOLD MY SHOCKED FACE:  MIT Hired Six New Diversity Deans. Two of Them Are Serial Plagiarists, Complaint Alleges.

OUR WAREHOUSE IS YOUR WAREHOUSE, OUR CARS ARE YOUR CARS:  Stunning New Footage Again Indicts the UN’s Partnership With Hamas.

I DON’T THINK I’M GOING TO USE THE NAME, BUT IT EXPLAINS THE WHOLE HISTORY BEAUTIFULLY:  There’s a right name for the “Woke” ideology, and it’s critical constructivism. Critical constructivist ideology is what you “wake up” to when you go Woke.

If you read the whole thread, you’ll see what people are being indoctrinated into through this is actual insanity. Not metaphorical insanity, but real insanity, as in a complete break with reality.

PROBABLY BAKED IN TO HOW BAD HIS CONDITION WAS BEFORE THE TRANSPLANT:   First Recipient of a Genetically Modified Pig Kidney Transplant Dies 8 Weeks after Historic Surgery.

WHY NOT? THEY ALREADY BUY THEM DRUGS, RIGHT?   San Francisco Spends $5 Million of Taxpayer Money to Give Free Beer and Vodka Shots to Homeless.

Clown timeline is going pro.

IF DIETS ARE NOW HUNGER STRIKES, I HUNGER STRIKE MOST OF MY LIFE:  Princeton Anti-Israel Hunger Strike Collapses, Solves its Problem by Rotating in New Strikers.

GOOD THING ONLY WHITE PEOPLE HAVE BEEN DECLARED CAPABLE OF RACISM:  NYC Mayor Adams Thinks Illegal Aliens Could Be Lifeguards Since ‘They’re Excellent Swimmers’.

FAIR:  The Real Reason for Secularism: For the Left, the Golden Rule and the 10 Commandments turn out to be a major problem.

OH, IT’S NOT JUST NOW. THE LEFT HAS BEEN TRYING TO IMPUGN FREE WILL FOREVER:  Free will itself now under assault.

And I had a knock-out drag-out fight on a panel with Robert Sawyer almost 20 years ago, as he was trying to claim everything was predestined. Bah.

CAN WE GET RID OF BMI ALREADY?  The Modern Myth of Childhood Obesity Exposed.

TEACH TEACHERS NOT TO RAPE:

BREAKING: Dontay Akeem Prophet, the principal of Destiny Leadership Academy in FL, was just arrested for false imprisonment and aggravated child ab*se.

He was caught on security video trapping a student in a classroom where he continuously ass*ult*d him.

Dontay had multiple… pic.twitter.com/fu9ZDRdxMF

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) May 13, 2024

WELL, THEY’D BETTER GET THEIR ACT TOGETHER. OR THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN HAD BETTER PUT IN ITS OWN PEOPLE: RNC Has Few Operatives On The Ground In Swing States, Local GOP Leaders Say.

OPEN THREAD: Tuesday’s groovy.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: SpaceX Starship’s next launch ‘probably 3 to 5 weeks’ away, Elon Musk says.

NATURE includes humans.

MAKE THEM PAY:

⚖️ VINDICATED! "The jury's verdict finally cleared our clients' names after four long years of repeated personal attacks from St. Francis High School." – @KarinSweigart

READ: https://t.co/hMWMucHWqt

— Dhillon Law Group (@dhillonlaw) May 13, 2024

HMM: Human Brain’s Navigational Code Discovered, Revolutionizing Understanding of Spatial Orientation.

EUGENE VOLOKH: Can Nonprofits That Help Organize Protests Lose Their Tax Exemptions? Not because of the viewpoints they express—but yes if they engage in systematic illegal conduct.

It’s time to end the culture of impunity that leftists have enjoyed for decades.

WHERE’S HUNTER, FAT? Joe Biden Says China’s EV Dominance Is a Problem. His Son Hunter Helped Beijing Gain a Foothold in the Industry.

President Joe Biden on Tuesday imposed sweeping tariffs on China’s aluminum and electric vehicle sectors, vowing to stop Beijing’s effort to “dominate these industries.” His son, Hunter Biden, brokered deals that helped China gain a foothold in those sectors while his father was vice president.

Hunter Biden was a founding board member of the Beijing-based BHR Partners and served on the company’s board when the firm brokered a Chinese state-owned firm’s purchase of a Congolese cobalt mine in 2016. China’s acquisition of the mine, which had been owned by an American company, gave Beijing a crucial supply of raw materials used to make batteries for electric cars. That same year, BHR Partners bought and sold a stake in Chinese electric vehicle battery maker CATL, the New York Timesreported.

Previously unreported emails from Hunter Biden’s laptop show that BHR Partners tried to broker a deal in 2015 between the American subsidiary of Chinese company Zhongwang and American aluminum maker Aleris. Zhongwang said the $2.3 billion deal would “strengthen Zhongwang’s leadership in [the] aluminum extrusion industry.” The Trump and Biden Justice Departments have since indicted Zhongwang and its owner for a scheme to evade tariffs levied against Chinese aluminum makers.

Hunter Biden’s work with BHR could prove awkward for his father, who saidTuesday he is “determined to ensure America,” not China, “leads the world” in the electric vehicle, aluminum, steel, and semiconductor industries. To reach that goal, Biden imposed a 25 percent tariff on Chinese aluminum and 100 percent tariff on Chinese-made electric vehicles.

Oh, and when it comes to tariffs on Chinese industry, the(p)resident is going John Kerry’s flipflop on the Iraq War one better— Sundown Joe is now forgainst it, for it!

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden said he would remove Donald Trump’s tariffs on imports from China, which are taxes on U.S. consumers and companies. An aide later asserted the former vice president “would reevaluate the tariffs upon taking office.” A Gallup poll in February 2020 detected positive views of Americans toward international trade, with 79% viewing trade as “an opportunity for economic growth,” while only 18% considered trade a “threat.” (Note: The article has been updated to reflect the Biden aide’s statement.)

—“Biden Says He Will End Trump’s Tariffs On Chinese-Made Goods, Aide Walks Back Statement,” Forbes, August 6th, 2020.

ALIENS: Search for Half Built Dyson Spheres Finds Seven Candidates from Gaia DR3, 2MASS, and WISE.

NATIONAL SOCIALISM—YOU’RE REALLY DOING IT WRONG:

Striking passage from @NellieBowles’s Morning After the Revolution, out today:

NYT colleague (an editor) calls her partner, @bariweiss, a “F-ing Nazi.” pic.twitter.com/t3wnsfAi2q

— Adam Rubenstein (@RubensteinAdam) May 14, 2024

UPDATE: WHOA: Nellie Bowles’ New Book Blows Lid OFF The New York Times, Exposing Rampant Misinformation and RACISM.

thank you for sharing this, freedom of speech is critical for democracy

sad the NYT mislead so many people 😔 pic.twitter.com/qoUyhueIJd

— Gail Alfar (@GailAlfarATX) May 14, 2024

As Glenn noted in December of 2019 when Rolling Stone got the vapors because someone at the Army-Navy game flashed the OK sign, “The 4Chan trollers have scored again. I remember when ’culture jamming’ was a lefty thing, but the lefty culture jammers never scored at this level.” All the way to the New York Times! Former (?) Obama flack Ben Rhodes wasn’t kidding — his party’s vacuous operatives with bylines really know nothing.

STEVEN HAYWARD: Can Our Universities Be Fixed? “It is possible that the current moment, with the shocking anti-Semitism on display at leading universities right now, is an inflection point.”