THE ENEMY WITHIN: Brown U. student tour guides picket in defense of peer who supported tour ‘disruptions’: Parents and students are ‘going to have to listen to what we have to say, too.’

You’re spoiled kids. Why should people particularly care what you think?

That said, I’m in favor of this. Let parents see what they’re about to pay six figures for in all its ignorant, narcissistic glory.

SHINE A SPOTLIGHT ON BIGOTRY: House education committee requests documents from MIT on campus anti-semitism.

THIS IS CNN: ‘They Won’t Even #SayHerName’: CNN Refuses to Air State of the Union Ad Blaming Biden for Murder of Laken Riley.

CNN refused to air a conservative group’s State of the Union ad that blamed President Joe Biden for the murder of 22-year-old Georgia nursing student Laken Riley, who was killed by an illegal immigrant.

Building America’s Future said Friday that major media networks, including Fox News, MSNBC, and Newsmax, all accepted the ad. CNN ultimately rejected it, however.

Even in their commercials, CNN remains true to form:

LIGHTING DEAL: 90 Teeth 1/2” Inch Drive 25-250 Ft Lb Torque Wrench. #CommissionEarned

OPEN THREAD: I’ve gotten requests for a Sunday Morning open thread, so we’ll give it a try.

DISPATCHES FROM WEIMAR AMERICA: The Agony of Ellen Page.

Last year, Ellen Page—now going by ‘Elliot’ and identifying as a man—released the memoir, Pageboy.

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After moving to Toronto from Nova Scotia at age 16, Page was stalked by an older male fan and feared for her life. Upon arriving in Hollywood, she was, as The Guardian put it, “the perfect target for predators.” A director groomed Page, took her to dinner, and then began stroking her thigh under the table, telling the teenage girl, “You have to make the move, I can’t.” Others were not so reticent. Reviews of Pageboy describing this grooming carefully refer to Page as a “he”; doing so undermines the power imbalance of the predation as well as the gut-wrenching, very female fear Page experienced. She was targeted because she was Ellen, not Elliot.

In a chapter titled “Leeches”—a telling reference to the slimy, bloodsucking parasite worm—she described how another male actor abused her. She had thought of him as kind, and thus she took him up on the offer of a drive home one day. Once there, he took her by the shoulders, guided her firmly into the bedroom, laid her on the bed, took her clothes off, and forced himself on her. She describes being paralyzed with fear; only after it was over did she regain her voice and order him to leave. She was only 17 years old, a short, slight teenage girl whose acting career had just begun to take off.

The following year, she starred in Juno (2006), earning an Oscar nomination for Best Actress. Page played a 16-year-old who gets pregnant, goes to an abortion clinic, and changes her mind at the last moment after one of her classmates who is protesting outside the clinic tells her that her baby has fingernails. She decides to give the baby up for adoption instead and begins to spend time with the couple she has chosen—until the middle-aged husband hits on her. Knowing now what Page was enduring in Hollywood at the time, the storyline is eerily apt. Unsurprisingly, she writes that some of the films she acted in traumatized her because they were, in many instances, far too close to real life.

Nobody knew, as Page’s fame grew, what predatory men in Hollywood were doing to her. She had a waif-like, vulnerable, wide-eyed demeanor that should make men feel instinctively protective, but to a certain sort of man marked her as prey. Her vulnerability as a teen girl in a cutthroat industry should have gained her protection; instead, it made her a target. When she came out as a lesbian, a famous actor—whom she does not name—told her, drunkenly, that he would “f**k” her to prove to her that she was straight and graphically described the things he would do. “He was, and still is, one of the most famous actors in the world,” Page wrote, but provides no further details.

It’s like the city’s chief industry operates as a sex grooming gang or something.

CNN POLL: Americans Didn’t Buy Media Spin on Biden SOTU.

BRENDAN O’NEILL: The disgusting defacement of Lord Balfour’s painting.

There’s a new movement in town: Philistines for Palestine. Not content with traipsing through the streets every other weekend to holler their hatred for Israel, now ‘pro-Palestine’ activists are taking aim at art. Witness yesterday’s fevered attack on the painting of Lord Balfour at Cambridge university – an act of petulant, self-satisfied philistinism that will do precisely nothing to help people in Gaza.

The slashing of the painting was carried out by a member of a group called Palestine Action. She walked up to the 1914 portrait and sprayed it with red paint before wielding her knife to cut it to shreds. Why target Balfour? Because he played a key role in creating the modern state of Israel. And to the manically Israelophobic left, there are few sins as grave as that.

There was something deeply unsettling about this Taliban-style assault on a piece of art. It had a medieval feel. A clearly riled individual, under the spell of some kind of fear or animus, using violence to try to cleanse the world of a sinful image. It feels like Year Zero fanaticism, a Red Guard-style effort to scrub ‘the problematic’ from public view.

Such wanton cultural vandalism is not ‘progressive’ activism. It’s the rage of the entitled. It’s the nihilism of bored bourgeois youths who crave something to hate in order that they might feel more alive. We’ve already seen the sons and daughters of eye-watering privilege glue themselves to art in the name of ‘saving the planet’. Now they’re upping the ante and destroying art in the name of ‘saving Palestine’. That their antics will do nothing to ‘save’ either Gaia or Gaza matters little to these people. All that matters is that they get to make a public spectacle of their personal angst.’

There’s no doubt that England’s pro-Palestinian vandals are taking their cue from a more modern fundamentalist religion. But to be fair, the bar has been razed significantly in recent weeks though:

Self-immolation is the new standard. This is weak shit. https://t.co/7mkbHe5Z8F

— Vanessa (@Nessakins_) March 8, 2024

DON’T WORRY: DHS IS ON THE JOB:  Gangbangers openly sell fake IDs, green cards to migrants on NYC streets as officials warn of danger.

THE LEFT IS ALWAYS TRYING TO TURN ANY SORT OF DISAGREEMENT INTO A VARIETY OF “RACISM.”

Because I am raising concerns about the flood of unvetted illegal immigrants overwhelming American cities, the press will often characterize me as “anti-immigrant”.

As an immigrant myself, nothing could be further from the truth.

I am very much in favor of increased and…

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 9, 2024

THE THING ABOUT ANTI-SEMITES IS THEY DON’T WANT TO BE CURED:  Israeli-born Columbia professor who called out rampant antisemitism on campus being investigated in ‘clear act of retaliation’.

SORRY, BILL, BUT I DON’T THINK NIKKI WILL TAKE THE JOB (NOR BE ACCEPTED BY JOE’S PUPPETEERS):  Bill Maher suggests Biden swap Harris for this prominent Republican to create ‘dream’ ticket.

HOW DARE THEY ACT LIKE FREE CITIZENS! LET NY BURN, THE FDNY WILL HAVE NO DEPLORABLES:  FDNY boss hunts down staffers who booed NY AG Letitia James, cheered for Trump at promotion ceremony.

WHAT AGAIN? MAN, THIS MOVIE IS GETTING BORING. THEY ALREADY DID THAT PLOT DEVICE:  Health Officials Warn of Rise in Monkeypox Cases in North Carolina.

Never gonna give it up, never gonna stop trying to lock us down, never gonna let us run around and vote freely.

Are they?

THIS OUR FIGHT IS A GLOBAL FIGHT. IT’S THE FIGHT FOR HUMAN LIBERTY. AND CIVILIZATION:  Polish Farmer: “Everything was peaceful and suddenly the police came out of nowhere, there were loud bangs, the police started using gas and simply provoking people…”

THEY REALLY, REALLY, REALLY HATE JEWS:  Biden Admin, Like Obama Before It, Has Found An Enemy It’s Willing To Fight: Bibi Netanyahu.

THE NEW GENERATION THINKS THEMSELVES WISE BUT THEY’RE FAR MORE IGNORANT OF FUNDAMENTAL FACTS. IN THEIR DEFENSE THEY’VE BEEN TAUGHT A LOT OF LIES:  Inundated by ignorance.

GLORY WAS DECLARED OBSOLETE. ALSO COLONIALIST:  What on earth has happened to the Land of Hope and Glory?

IF YOU’RE IN IDAHO PROTECT YOUR HOMESCHOOL RIGHTS:  Contact Idaho Senators as soon as possible. Ask them to PASS Education Amendment SJR 105.

SHOCKED, SHOCKED, SHOCKED. FBI DELENDA EST:  The Intercept Drops Secret FBI Files and HOO BOY Does It Make the FBI Look BAD.

I STILL WANT IT PROVEN THAT WE’RE CAUSING GLOBAL WARMING AT ANY LEVEL:  Did Exxon Make It Rain Today?

Absolutely no taking this on faith, measurements taking in heat islands, and computer models. If the entire run of the Covidiocy has shown us anything is that taking extreme measures before the danger is properly established is not just deranged. It’s stupid.

TIME HAS COME TODAY: What time does daylight saving time start? What is it? When to ‘spring forward’ this weekend.

This Sunday, the majority of Americans will “spring forward” and set their clocks ahead an hour, losing an hour of sleep as the annual tradition of daylight saving time begins for the year.

Daylight saving time will end for 2024 in November, when we set our clocks back and gain an extra hour of sleep.

The time adjustment affects the daily lives of hundreds of millions of Americans, prompting clock changes, contributing to less sleep in the days following and, of course, later sunsets.

Those disruptions may have contributed to public sentiment souring on the time change in recent years, but legislative moves to do away with daylight saving time have stalled in Congress.

Even ahead of the time change on Sunday, there are already cities in every continental U.S. time zone that are reporting sunset times after 6 p.m. as the Earth and the Northern Hemisphere begins its tilt toward the sun and summer approaches.

Here’s everything you need to know about the start of daylight saving time.

Classical reference in headline:

OPEN THREAD: Happy Saturday!

THE NEW SPACE RACE: NASA, Boeing delay Starliner capsule’s 1st astronaut launch to early May.

ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Should You Let Your Dog Lick Your Face? Here’s The Science.

Since I don’t have a spleen, I’ve been told to avoid dog and cat saliva for fear of sepsis. I don’t know how big that risk is — I was only warned about 10 years ago and I got licked plenty before that. But I do try to avoid being licked now. And I’m sorry, but people who kiss their dogs on the mouth — or worse yet, french kiss them — are just being gross.