MATT TAIBBI: America’s Intellectual “Bloodbath:” If a censored tree falls in the forest, do we still have to misquote it? Of course, comrade, the narrative requires it.

You gotta love this: “Martin complains a ‘tsunami of free expression’ created a place where Trump’s ‘cries of fake news’ have an impact. What to do? He cites the weekend New York Times hit piece that blamed people like me for stopping new censorship plans, and despairs of government ever gaining enough control to reverse the public’s ‘circumvention of traditional media.’ ”

The Internet identifies censorship and routes around it. Maybe they should have thought of that before they started censoring.

OPEN THREAD: Expatiate freely.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: China launches second batch of Yunhai-2 satellites.

SEEMS PLAUSIBLE: Study Links Computer Habits to Erectile Dysfunction Risk.

IT’S NOTHING, DON’T WORRY: COVID-19 Vaccination’s Timing Linked to Menstrual Cycle Changes.

WELL, GOOD: Massachusetts General succeeds with genetically edited pig kidney transplant.

NOT A CELLPHONE IN SIGHT: This Was Village Life in Britain 3,000 Years Ago.

FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: How to Go Back to Jail with This One Weird Stabbing Trick. “It’s time for your much-needed break from the serious news and this week we have Florida Man’s worst-ever impersonation of Danny Trejo’s ‘Machete,’ the worst-ever getaway vehicle, and Colorado Man’s worst-ever everything.”

HMM: Kremlin says 40 killed and more than 100 wounded in attack on Moscow concert hall.

Impossible. As President Obama lectured us shortly after the Charlie Hebdo attack, mass shootings don’t take place in other countries.

KABOOM: Woman Shoots Alleged Kidnapper During Wine Country Getaway.

THAT’S SAD: Kate Middleton Diagnosed with Cancer.

EVERYTHING IS STUPID: Museum Claims Dinosaurs Have ‘LGBTQ History’ And Birds Are ‘Queer.’

DEVELOPING…: Tony Bobulinski’s Lawyers Refuse to Accept Jessica Tarlov’s ‘Clarification.’

SPRING SALE: Men’s Jeans. #CommissionEarned

JOANNE JACOBS: Four years after ‘two weeks to flatten the curve’…

THE GLOBAL BABY BUST: Why 4 Billion On the Way Up is Different on the Way Down. “There is a difference [between] a world population that is 4 billion and strongly growing versus 4 billion and shrinking. When I write about global population collapse there are many people who will say that they lived in a world with 4 billion people and it was fine. This like saying they were in an airplane that was flying up through 10,000 feet and then 20,000 feet and those altitudes were all fine. The difference will be when the plane at 30,000 feet has lost engine power and will start plummeting uncontrollably. I am saying hey the world has lost three out of four engines for population growth and this is not good.”

HERE WE GO AGAIN: Marjorie Taylor Greene Files Motion to Vacate Speaker Mike Johnson.

DON’T WORRY, PANICMONGERS, BIDEN WILL ALL BUT MANDATE THEM AT THE FEDERAL LEVEL: Maine rejects sweeping electric vehicle mandate in blow to governor’s climate agenda.

SPACE: Rocket Lab successfully launches secret NRO spy satellites.

THIS KEEPS HAPPENING: Stanford Professor Behind California’s New Equity-Focused Math Curriculum Accused of Bogus Citations. “Someone should really make a documentary about this. A “rock-star” Stanford Education professor who helped inspire math de-tracking in San Francisco and who subsequently helped re-write the California math curriculum with an emphasis on equity has been accused of dozens of cases of ‘citation misrepresentation.'”

WE NEED A COVID TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION COMMISSION:

Remember when Ivermectin won a Nobel Prize and had decades of data showing its safety and effectiveness, and then the FDA called it a “horse drug” during Covid b/c its Big Pharma vax sponsors told it to?

Well a Federal court just ruled the FDA broke the law & needs to delete its… https://t.co/q5DKjN3q4T

— DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) March 22, 2024

This appears to be a settlement by the FDA, which is in some ways more impressive.

KEVIN DOWNEY JR: Hungry an Hour Later? Wait Until China Controls Our Food Supply.

OH, GOODY: WHO urges increased cholera vaccine production in response to surging cases.

BLUE ON BLUE: Bill Maher, John Cleese Trash New York Times.

John Cleese visited Bill Maher’s “Club Random,” this week, and the conversation quickly went woke.

By “woke,” we mean the comedians took turns trashing the far-Left movement. Nothing surprising there. Both comic superstars have spoken at length against the cultural scourge.

They might be the movement’s most vocal critics.

What proved far more shocking is how the progressives tag-teamed against the Old Gray Lady.

The New York Times has been an integral part of liberal life for decades. The paper always leaned to the Left, and for many that perspective proved comforting. It embraced their world view and told a reasonable facsimile to the truth.

Not anymore, each lamented.

Maher brought up a recurring section of the paper where readers sound off on various subjects. That feedback left Maher reeling.

“We’re f***ed,” Maher said to Cleese with a smile. “They’re just saying the dumbest s***, and it’s printed in the New York Times.”

These two are about a hundred years behind the times but better late than never, I suppose.

ROBERT GRABOYES: Bipartisan Healthcare Hokum: In which Casey Stengel asks the question and Ray Stevens gives the answers.