A LOT OF THINGS, AND LARGELY CORRECT:  Following Up.

IT’S CLOWN WORLD ALL THE WAY DOWN:  Silly Season Arriving Early This Year.

Silly season is permanently in session now. Must be global warming.

HOW THE UNELECTED AND UNACCOUNTABLE DEEP STATE RUNS THINGS AND WHY POLITICIANS MOSTLY CAN’T GET THINGS DONE THAT THEY ARE ELECTED TO DO (VIDEO):  Liz Truss – in office but not in power.

Swamp? We need an Hercules to clean these Augean stables. Worldwide.

IN MY CASE, AND THAT OF MANY (MOST?) ON THIS BLOG? WE ARE DEEP IN THE TRENCHES OF THE CULTURE AND INFORMATION WAR:  How to Save the World.

THE SHORT ANSWER IS EVIL PEOPLE. THE LONG ANSWER IS LONGER:  Who is paying for all these Nazis protesting Israel’s Existence anyway?

BLESS BIBI:  Netanyahu Signals Defiance of Biden Threats Over Rafah, as IDF Controls Eastern Sectors of City.

A WIN FOR PRIVATE AND HOMESCHOOL:  Title IX Ruling Protects Homeschool from Federal Overreach.

OPEN THREAD: You know how this works by now.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: China launches its first medium Earth orbit broadband satellites.

NUKE THE SITE FROM ORBIT, IT’S THE ONLY WAY TO BE SURE: Chinese scientists create mutant Ebola virus to skirt around biosafety rules – and it causes horrific symptoms and kills group of hamsters.

VITAMIN D UPDATE: The Sun Isn’t Enough: New Study Revolutionizes Vitamin D Guidelines.

We’ve actually known this for ages, but I guess now it counts as official or something.

ARNOLD KLING ON STATUS-DRIVEN SYNDROME: “The more titles an organization has, the more it will select for people who really care about titles. . . . Some organizations, especially government agencies, tend to select for individuals who prioritize status-seeking over the search for the best answers.”

Related: Social Media and other Status Games.

UNTIL THE NEXT ONE: Joe Biden Tells His Biggest Whopper About Inflation Yet.

A 100-DAY REPORT ON THE FIRST RECIPIENT OF A NEURALINK BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE: Restoring Autonomy to People Living with Quadriplegia. “I’m beating my friends in games that as a quadriplegic I should not be beating them in.”

THE WEIMAR REPUBLIC CALLED AND TOLD SAN FRAN TO DIAL IT BACK A NOTCH OR TWO: San Francisco Mayor Appoints Drag Queen to Head Office of Transgender Initiatives.

THE EV MARKET IS DEFLATING: Lucid, Tesla, Rivian, and Fisker Have Another No Good Very Bad Day.

FASTER? PLEASE! NASA’s Proposed Plasma Rocket Would Get Us to Mars in 2 Months.

THE CORBYNIZATION OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY CONTINUES APACE: Day Before Biden Admin Announced It Would Withhold Weapons From Israel, It Issued Sanctions Waiver To Allow Arms Sales to Qatar and Lebanon.

Less than a day before the Biden administration announced its intent to cut off U.S. arms sales to Israel, it issued a sanctions waiver to bypass congressional prohibitions on arms sales to a host of Arab nations that boycott the Jewish state, including Hamas ally Qatar and Iran-controlled Lebanon, the Washington Free Beacon has learned.

On Tuesday—just a day before President Joe Biden threatened to withhold key weapons deliveries from Israel if the country moves forward with an incursion in the Gaza Strip’s Rafah neighborhood—the State Department informed Congress that it intends to bypass laws that bar the United States from selling weapons to nations that boycott Israel, according to a copy of the notification obtained by the Free Beacon.

The Biden administration, which has waived these sanctions in the past, said in the notification that it intends to extend the waiver through April 30, 2025, allowing weapons to be sent to a host of nations that work closely with the Hamas terror group and other Iran-backed terror proxies.

It’s just amazing how much Good Ol’ Moderate Joe’s foreign policy decisions sound exactly like the sort of thing Obama would have done!

LIMITED TIME DEAL: Snailax Shiatsu Neck and Shoulder Massager. #CommissionEarned

WHY IS BIDEN WORKING SO HARD TO SAVE A TERRORIST ORGANIZATION? Biden Commits To Saving Hamas, Will Cut Off Offensive Weapons To Israel If It Enters Rafah. Does he want “forever wars” in Ukraine and Gaza? And if so, why?

WHAT WOULD WE DO WITHOUT EXPERTS? Expert: Federal Reserve Enables Gov’t Financial Irresponsibility, Massive Debt.

THIS IS BECOMING A TREND: Police Clear Pro-Palestinian Encampment in Amsterdam. “Police used bulldozers and quickly cleared the barricades.”

Plus: “Just one more bad idea Europe has imported from US campuses.” To be fair, U.S. campuses are fertile generators of bad ideas.

WILL ANYONE? Will You Miss The Chevrolet Malibu?

HEADLINE OF THE DAY: WaPo Carries Water for Biden on Border Crisis, Spills Most of It.

SOME PARTS OF AMERICA STILL WORK: SpaceX breaks Space Shuttle pad record with Falcon 9 Starlink mission. “With a Wednesday afternoon launch, SpaceX’s Falcon family of rockets exceeded the total number of Space Shuttle missions from historic Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. The combination of Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rocket launches passed the total number of shuttle flights seen at that pad.”

The Space Shuttle flew for 30 years. The first Falcon 9 was launched in 2010 and has made 329 successful launches compared to the Shuttle’s 133.