PROF. STEVEN CALABRESI: Special Counsel Jack Smith Lacks Standing to Defend the D.C. Circuit’s ruling on Presidential Immunity in the Supreme Court.

THE ENEMY WITHIN: Pro-Palestinian Activists Dig In and Fan Out, as D.C. Pivots Toward Israel.

The events, played out across three different cities, were yet another sign that the fierce debates around the Israel-Hamas war engulfing college campuses, U.S. businesses and the 2024 election are here to stay. Washington’s swift pivot in recent days toward more financial and military support for Israel has only emboldened calls among pro-Palestinian groups to take to the streets in the pursuit of a permanent cease-fire and suspension of U.S. aid to Israel.

“The reason you’re seeing more direct action take place—different ways to defund projects and governments, disrupt businesses and disrupt things the government actually does care about—is because they’re not listening to us,” said Ashish Prashar, a pro-Palestinian activist based in New York and a former adviser to Tony Blair, the former British prime minister who became the Middle East peace envoy representing the U.S., Russia, the United Nations and the European Union in 2007.

“That’s why the movement is taking more direct action, directly to the citizens themselves, because that’s where they see the most influence happening,” Prashar said.

The push is expected to only intensify as the election nears. Pro-Palestinian organizers are planning mass protests in Chicago outside the Democratic National Convention in August, where Biden’s party will formally declare him its 2024 presidential nominee.

The news reports keep using “pro-Palestinian” but the protestors are pro-Hamas.

LAWFARE: Trump’s Fate Could Be Determined This Week. “The Democrats’ lawfare strategy against Donald Trump may be thwarted this week, as the Supreme Court is poised to hear arguments on Trump’s case on presidential immunity on Thursday, which could affect several of Trump’s trials.”

IT SURVIVES FOR THE SAME REASON 3-CARD MONTE AND THE SPANISH PRISONER DO: Roger Kimball: Socialism’s Survival: The Endurance of an Ideological Paradox.

ON SUNDAYS I RUN A PROMO POST FOR (MOSTLY) INDIE AUTHORS: Book Promo And Vignettes By Luke, Mary Catelli and ‘Nother Mike.

There’s also a fun vignette contest

FISH STORY, PART 2: Meet “Indomitable,” the Pacific Salmon found one day in 1964 swimming in the same pond in the Prairie Creek Fish Hatchery near Orick, California, where he’d been born two years prior. He made it back despite facing multiple Frostian splits in the “road,” an abundance of natural and man-made obstacles, plus hordes of extremely hungry brown bears.

That such fish have this drive to return to their breeding ground is amazing enough, but this post today on HillFaith describes the incredible obstacles Indomitable overcame. If you missed Part 1 back in January, here’s the link.

IT’S ALL IN WHAT PEOPLE PAY FOR:  There’s a reason Caitlyn Clark isn’t making the big bucks.

LEFTIST SHILLS PAID FOR BY OUR TAX DOLLARS:  Well, at least they’re consistent.

SHOCKED, SHOCKED, SHOCKED:  Disease Caused by Rat Urine Surged in New York City to Record Levels during 2023.

SHOULD BE FIFTY:  Twenty-Five State Attorneys General Sue Biden EPA over Economy-Crushing Emissions Mandates.

INDEED:  Projection Alert: Hillary Clinton Claims Trump “Wants To Kill His Opposition”.

REMEMBER: THEY’RE THE EMPATHETIC PARTY THAT WANTS TO UNITE AMERICA:  NY Dem congressional hopeful slammed for ‘die MAGA die’ message after Ukraine aid vote.

AWWW, HE’S JUST SAYING THAT BECAUSE THEY’RE A HEAVY-HANDED BUNCH OF THUGS:  Bill Barr says he’s backing Trump 2024 because ‘far left’ is a greater threat: ‘Heavy-handed bunch of thugs’.

DISPATCHES FROM THE CULTURE WARS:  The Road to Victory Is Paved With Stories.

THAT’S MISINFORMATION – THE IRANIANS DECLARED THE ISRAELI ATTACK A WET SQUIB AND THE MULLAHS NEVER LIE:  Satellite image shows ‘Israeli missile’ destruction at Iranian base near nuke site: report.

Also, does anyone know where the pliers are? I need to remove my tongue from my cheek.

AND NOW THEY’RE COMING FOR THE DOGS:  Dogs slammed as ‘settler-colonial’ as pooches and owners blamed for ‘gentrifying’ NYC by woke activists.

FUNNY THING ABOUT DISCRIMINATION – WHEN YOU DISCRIMINATE ‘FOR’ SOME GROUP YOU’RE ALSO DISCRIMINATING ‘AGAINST’ OTHER GROUPS:  NYC GOP energized by record number of Asian-American candidates ‘stepping up’ for statehouse runs.

SOMETHING OF THIS SORT WAS INEVITABLE – AND IT’S JUST THE START:  Jewish Yale student journalist stabbed in the eye with Palestinian flag during protest.

AW. DOES THIS MEAN FEWER BIRD SLICE-AND-DICERS?  New York Fails to Reach Contracts with Three Major Offshore Wind Farms.

ALL LEFTY PLACES/ORGANIZATIONS/CAUSES DO THIS:  The Wikipedia fundraising scam.

THEY’RE NOT WRONG:  Privileged Columbia protester who ‘killed’ elderly couple in crash should be in jail, not on campus, furious family says.

I DISAGREE. THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT. THEY’RE GETTING KICKED IN THE FACE, BUT THEY, THEMSELVES, ARE ALL RIGHT:  Zoomers, Video Games, and The New Culture.

INDEED:  Paraphrasing Eisenhower, Richard Nixon warned against “the Media Élitist Complex”; “Sullivan vs New York Times is in effect a license to lie”.

THIS HAS GONE PAST SANITY:  He Eats the Souls of Human Babies.

Partly the problem is the left is a cult, and discomfirmed cults come apart ugly.