ABOUT TIME: The reckoning over puberty blockers has arrived. “In gender dysphoria, a ‘successful’ prescription is where puberty is bypassed altogether. The assumption about reversibility, never tested and highly questionable from the start, proved to be the ethical foundation for the entire Dutch experiment, and it quickly crumbled. Over 93 percent of adolescents who are put on puberty blockers for gender issues continue down the medical pathway to cross-sex hormones. Some go on to surgeries.”

TRUST SCIENCE: HHS warns schools against performing sensitive exams without patient’s consent.

MADNESS: Blinken Says Ukraine ‘Will Be a Member of NATO’ Because, Hey, Cool, WWIII.

GAIL’S CALIFORNIA REPORT:  As loyal readers know, I’ve been spending a lot of my time opposing Assembly Constitutional Amendment 7 (“ACA7”).  It passed the Assembly months ago on a strict party-line vote and is now pending in the Senate.  If it becomes law, it will essentially gut the state constitution’s ban on preferential treatment based on race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin (put there in 1996 by Proposition 209).

ACA7 is a little different from the recent failed effort–known as Proposition 16–to repeal Proposition 209 entirely.   ACA7 “simply” gives the Governor the power to make EXCEPTIONS.  But the exceptions will swallow the rule.  (Indeed, that’s the intent.)

Like Proposition 16, ACA7 will require a vote of the people, which I hope and believe it will not get.  But I’d much rather not have to go through a full-scale, expensive and exhausting campaign.  I’d rather the issue die a merciful death in the Senate.

One thing that gives me real hope that the Senate will kill it is that the Black Caucus (as well the bill’s primary sponsor) keep telling people that ACA7 is part of their plan for REPARATIONS.  Reparations are unlikely to play well anywhere outside the state’s wokest precincts.  Proposition 16 (the straight repeal effort in 2020) was defeated by 57% of voters.  If ACA7 is linked to reparations, the NO votes may come in even larger numbers.  Alas, the fight will be bitter and divisive.

If you have time and the inclination, please do me a favor.  If you haven’t already signed our PETITION, please do so.  The petition has been essentially on ice for three months while we tried to deal with Facebook.  I think it’s on track now.  But we need more signatures.  You don’t need to be a Californian to sign. Also if you have Twitter/X account, “liking” and “retweeting” the tweets that tag our state senators (as the one below does) are greatly appreciated.

We only need six Democratic senators to join with the eight GOP senators to block ACA7.  We believe we have two Democrats so far and reason to believe we can get more.  For some it’s a matter of self-preservation.

Now that its sponsors have explicitly (and repeatedly) tied ACA7 to reparations, I suspect you couldn’t get voters to approve it even if it were the right thing to do (which it isn’t). Putting it on the ballot will only result in a harvest of bitterness.https://t.co/cE7hzrTJvb…

— Gail Heriot (@GailHeriot) April 4, 2024

Post Script:  We hope to start picketing one or two Assembly Members who voted for ACA7.  It’s important that Senators know how seriously we are taking this.

21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: ‘I Earn More Than My Husband, But I Don’t Want to Pay More of Our Bills.’

DON SURBER: The fourth anniversary of Faucism: We failed to fight them on the beaches, relinquishing freedom to bureaucrats.

Dishonest and incompetent bureaucrats.

DEI MIGHT FINALLY BE ON THE WANE BUT NOT IF BIDEN CAN HELP IT: Biden Admin Tries To Infect Chip Makers With DEI.

BE PREPARED: Etekcity Lantern Camping, Flashlight for Power Outages. #CommissionEarned

THE PARTY TOLD YOU TO REJECT THE EVIDENCE OF YOUR EYES AND EARS. IT WAS THEIR FINAL, MOST ESSENTIAL COMMAND: Nadler Claims No Men Are in Women’s Sports.

JOHN HINDERAKER: Dawn Of A Brighter Day?

WISELY: How Gen Z Is Becoming the Toolbelt Generation: More young workers are going into trades as disenchantment with the college track continues, and rising pay and new technologies shine up plumbing and electrical jobs.

If only someone had predicted this.

CHRISTIAN TOTO: No, ‘Civil War’s’ Fascist President Isn’t Donald Trump.

Kirsten Dunst leads an ensemble cast including “Parks and Recreation” standout Nick Offerman as the U.S. president. Much of the film’s story has been kept under wraps. The film’s SXSW Film and TV Festival debut let some light shine on the narrative.

Offerman’s president, for example, has fascistic tendencies and is currently serving his third term.

It must be Trump. Of course.

if Hollywood has taught us anything over the past seven-plus years it’s that it can’t stop referencing the 45th president. And, almost every time said commentary is unflattering.

To be kind.

That’s exactly what journalists were hoping from “Civil War.” It’s why they’re trying to get the film’s stars to admit it. So far, they’re striking out.

I watched the trailer a couple of months ago and was pleasantly surprised at how politicized it wasn’t. Maybe that will prove true of the whole movie.

THE SWAMP WASN’T DRAINED:: How the Deep State Played Trump During the Pandemic. My podcast (transcript provided) with Rob Montz,  whose documentary reveals how one scientifically ignorant bureaucrat, Deborah Birx, imposed lockdowns and mask mandates during the pandemic.  He calls it a “silent coup” against Trump — carried out with Mike Pence’s acquiescence. And check out Montz’s documentary, “It Wasn’t Fauci.”

PRIORITIES: Trump Allowed Worship Services at White House for Staffers, ‘Good Catholic’ Biden Doesn’t.

RCP’S CANNON OBLITERATES NYTIMES: For reasons known only to him, RealClearPolitics Washington Bureau Chief Carl Cannon waited three and a half years to respond to a classic piece of cheap-shot “reporting” by the New York Times’ Jeremy Peters.

Trust me, it was worth the wait because Cannon systematically, factually and precisely exposes a hatchet job that demonstrated in the days immediately after the 2020 election just how deep is the agit-prop mire into which the Mainstream Media has fallen.

Bottom-line: RCP carries on the finest traditions of journalism that in the words of the NYT’s former owner, reports the news “impartially, without fear or favor, regardless of any party, interest or sect involved.”

Adolph Ochs, who penned those words in 1896 after taking over the newspaper, would most likely be hooted out of today’s NYT newsroom. After all, when the Ochs bust originally accompanying those famous words moved with the newspaper to a new location in 2007, the quotation didn’t make the trip.

BOEING’S WOES: “It’s an Empty Executive Suite.” A Boeing insider explains the profound alienation between the people who build airplanes and the ones who occupy the executive suite — including the DEI bureaucracy that has poisoned the company’s culture.

COME SEE THE ANTISEMITISM INHERENT IN THE LEFTISM:

Remember when Jews at Harvard had to bring in their menorah every night at Hanukkah because the school couldn’t guarantee it wouldn’t be vandalized? This “apartheid wall” is on display now at Harvard yard, complete with quotes from terrorists, guarded 24/7 by school security. pic.twitter.com/IBAS0RmmxL

— Yael Bar tur 🎗️ (@yaelbt) April 3, 2024

Plus: “The inspirational quote by the way, which they attribute proudly in their art project, is from the spokesperson for the PFLP – a Palestinian Marxist-Leninist terror organization that is known for hijacking planes and planting bombs that murdered dozens of civilians worldwide.”

PROGRESS IN HIGHER EDUCATION: UT-Austin defunds all DEI programs, reportedly fires 60 DEI employees.

KURT SCHLICHTER’S THE ATTACK SLOUCHES TOWARD BIDENISTAN, WAITING TO BE BORN:

Biden’s open borders have created a terror threat — and the ‘what ifs’ are chilling.

‘Migrant influencer’ Leonel Moreno, who encouraged border crossers to squat in US homes, is under investigation for gun charges.

Leader of Colombian gang ‘The Satans’ that shot up butcher shop during reign of terror across city of Bogota is arrested in Texas: Venezuelan fugitive was SEEKING ASYLUM in the US.

UPDATE: Feds bust three migrants after raiding NYC home of gun-toting, drug dealing squatters — just a day after Post report on Bronx chaos.

PLANNING ON WATCHING THE SOLAR ECLIPSE? Total eclipses of the Sun don’t happen every day. In fact, the next one doesn’t happens until 2044, and, since millions of Americans live in or near the path of totality for this coming Monday’s event, it’s worth making the effort to see it. And so is this 5:29 video on HillFaith on what such events tell us about the universe.

CATCH & RELEASE & CATCH & RELEASE & CATCH & RELEASE: Rap Sheets Like These and We Still Can’t Deport Them?

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Unhinged Rutgers prof says it’s ‘homophobic’ to note that Hamas brutalizes LGBT people.

UNEXPECTEDLY: Calif. fast food minimum wage law will cost you $200 more a year for your Starbucks habit.

Comparing previous receipts to current prices, items at Starbucks, where each store is corporately owned, have been jacked up by $0.50 to as much as $1.00, BI found.

A spokesperson for the coffee chain confirmed to the outlet that the rising prices in California stores are a response to the higher minimum wage — but declined to reveal the average item increase.

The menu price increase was implemented as a way to offset the higher labor costs, but loyal customers who visit Starbucks regularly might not be able to dish out the extra change, regardless of whether or not they agree their baristas should get paid more.

How long before some sharp Sacramento lawmaker proposes a coffee subsidy?

AND IT’S ABOUT TIME: J.K. Rowling is Normalizing Common Sense.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Everything but a Baggie of Cheerios—Media Is Always Babysitting Biden. “With President LOLEightyonemillion, they’ve had to create a man and a politician who never existed, then keep that fiction alive. They’re still in the character assassination business too. The poor dears are definitely stretched a little thin these days.”