WELL, BYE: Morning Greatness: 20,000 IRS workers take Trump buyout offer.

DON SURBER: Harvard University, Welfare Queen. “I cannot see how a demand that Harvard end its racial discrimination violates the college’s First Amendment rights, so let’s try to figure this out.”

GOVERNMENT WASTE IS WILDLY EXAGG–

Twice as many credit cards are issued and active than the total number of government employees! Crazy. https://t.co/6Zfr3fyHM8

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 16, 2025

EVERY RECORD HAS BEEN ALTERED: At Harvard-Hosted ‘Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon,’ Law Students Target the Pages of Firms That Criticized School’s Response to Anti-Semitism.

Anti-Israel Harvard Law School students organized a workshop on the Ivy League campus earlier this month to edit the Wikipedia pages of more than a dozen prominent law firms, singling out some that threatened to stop recruiting at the school over its failure to rein in anti-Semitic activity.

Harvard’s National Lawyers Guild chapter, a left-wing legal advocacy group, hosted the “Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon” on April 2 at Harvard Law’s WCC student center, according to an announcement on Harvard Law’s website.

Third-year Harvard Law student Corinne Shanahan, an organizer with Harvard Out of Occupied Palestine, organized the clinic for students to “gather data to edit the Wikipedia pages of Big Law firms to reflect cases they have recently argued.”

Two days later, Harvard Law student Aashna Avachat edited the Wikipedia pages of 14 law firms, mostly to add details of their representation of clients that the activist students deemed to be unsavory, according to a Washington Free Beacon review of Wikipedia edit logs.

Avachat edited the pages for the firms Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett to soften the language about anti-Semitic activity on college campuses. Amid a wave of anti-Semitic protests following the Hamas attack on Israel, the two firms warned Harvard Law and others that they would cut back on recruiting on their campuses for failing to rein in anti-Semitic incidents.

The edit logs show Avachat changed the term “antisemitic incidents” to “pro-Palestine protests,” and reworded references to “incidents targeting Jewish students” to incidents that the law firms “described … as antisemitic.” Avachat herself was involved in one incident at Harvard in which her law school classmate, Ibrahim Bharmal, accosted and shoved a Jewish student during an anti-Israel “die-in.” Avachat said she witnessed the incident and claimed Bharmal was protecting “peaceful protesters” against an “aggressive” Jewish student. Both Bharmal and another student activist, Elom Tettey-Tamaklo, were charged in connection with the “die-in,” a case that Harvard delayed by refusing to cooperate with local prosecutors.

Jeff Neal, a spokesman for Harvard Law School, said the Wikipedia workshop “was organized by a student-run organization and does not represent the views of Harvard Law School.”

I wonder if there might be liability attached.

I WAS NOT SURPRISED: ‘Surprising’ Results in Poll of Voter Attitudes Toward Kamala Running for California Governor.

WHY IS HARVARD SUCH A CESSPIT OF ANTI-SEMITISM? Harvard Law Publishes Fond Reminiscence From Student Facing Criminal Charges for Assaulting Jewish Classmate.

NEW!!:  Please don’t get rid of the Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1995.  It helps discourage devil worship and other creepy crawlies.  (I’m not kidding … not entirely anyway.)

LIMITED TIME DEAL: Carhartt Men’s Loose Fit Heavyweight Short-Sleeve Pocket T-Shirt. #CommissionEarned

JUSTICE, KREMLIN STYLE: Four Russian journalists linked to late Kremlin critic Navalny sentenced at Moscow court.

Four journalists linked to the late Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny were sentenced to spend five years and six months in a penal colony on Tuesday, after they were accused of working for a banned organization run by the Kremlin critic, Russian state media TASS has reported.

The reporters – Antonina Favorskaya, Sergei Karelin, Konstantin Gabov and Artem Kriger – have been on trial behind closed doors since October on charges, which they deny, of belonging to an “extremist” group established by Navalny in 2011.

Prosecutors claimed the four had produced material for the YouTube channel of Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK), according to Reuters, which is prohibited under the country’s “foreign agents law.” Amnesty International has warned that the “repressive” legislation is an “attack on freedom of association” in Russia, where Moscow has increasingly attempted to stifle journalists under censorship laws.

In February, mourners gathered at Navalny’s graveside in the Russian capital to mark the first anniversary of his death in prison. Dozens of people were detained at memorials, according to Human Rights Watch (HRW) and other rights groups.

Over his storied political career, Navalny generated some of the largest anti-government demonstrations in recent years, and unfurled corruption at Russia’s highest seat of power, under the FBK.

Navalny died suddenly at the age of 47 on February 16, 2024, while serving a 19-year sentence on extremism charges he denied. At the time, Russia’s prison service claimed he “felt unwell after a walk.”

It’s a shame that groups like Amnesty blew their credibility by endorsing every leftwing cause, embracing TDS, etc because it detracts from when they try to shed light on authoritarian abuses like the Kremlin’s.

I’M PROUD TO MAKE THE LIST: The 20 Best Quotes of the Last Decade.

ICYMI: This Is China’s Real Problem and Trump’s Real Strength. “Chinese Communist Party boss Xi Jinping has a problem, and the answer is — MORE COWBELL!”

YES:

People should familiarize themselves with Bob Jones University v. United States, 461 U.S. 574 (1983). https://t.co/Oqt1IFraoq

— Randy Barnett (@RandyEBarnett) April 15, 2025

IF PBS (AND NPR) WON’T PRODUCE ANTI-AMERICAN PROGRAMS, WHO WILL?  WILL WE HAVE TO DEPEND ON THE EU FOR THIS?  Trump White House Directs Congress to Defund NPR, PBS.

Next thing you know all the anti-American entertainers and reporters will have to move to Europe just to do their work!  Oh, the humanity.*
*Yes, I probably should stop it before my tongue becomes permanently stuck in my cheek.

GOOD RIDDANCE (BUT JUST THINK ABOUT THE LOST GRIFT!):  DOT Ends Grant Funding for High-Speed Rail ‘Boondoggle,’ Saving Taxpayers Millions.

NOTHING, NOTHING AT ALL:  Whitmer Explains What Was Going Through Her Mind When She Hid Her Face in Oval Office.

THEY FIGURE IT WOULD PROVIDE TOO MANY TARGETS FOR I.C.E.:  The Reason Why Chicago Canceled Their Cinco de Mayo Parade Is Hilarious.

WHY SHOULD DEMOCRAT D.A.S & A-GS HAVE ALL THE FUN?  What ActBlue Did in 2024 Warrants an Investigation.

FIELDS WHOLLY OWNED BY THE LEFT SPECIALIZE IN DEFENDING THE INDEFENSIBLE:  Mainstream Media, Academia Sacrifice Even More Credibility in Articles on Mayan Child Victims.

(They don’t like children, anyway.)

THEY’VE BEEN CLEAR A LONG TIME:  Trump’s Tariff War Exposes China’s Hidden Fragilities.

As my friend Dave Freer told me, now almost 20 years ago, China is a beautiful lacquered vase, completely broken under the lacquer.

EDUCATIONAL:  I am SO GLAD the Trump administration decided to completely UNLEASH Stephen Miller on the media.

And this is for the x-less (thinking that life has passed you by…)

NORMALLY I’D HAVE SAID NO. BUT WE LIVE IN A TIME OF MIRACLES:   Gun Rights Group Wants 2A Task Force to Investigate 12 States. Will They? [Video.]

AU CONTRAIRE. THEIR ANGUISH IS REAL. THEY DON’T WANT US DEPORTING THEIR JANISSARIES IN THE FIGHT TO DESTROY AMERICA:  They Howl in Faux Anguish.

BLESSED ARE THOSE WHO HUNGER AND THIRST FOR JUSTICE:  This girl is brave, in two ways; first to put her face in public for the slavers to see.

SO, THERE’S MORE WORK TO DO:  This is yet another reason why no one should trust the media.

HE’S RIGHT, YOU KNOW?  Yeah, this is a problem.