IT’S COME TO THIS:
DOGE: How do you get half of the woke lawyers in the DOJ to quit? Tell them they're going to have to combat antisemitism and keep men out of women's bathrooms. Assistant AG Harmeet Dhillon managed to get 50% of the woke lawyers in the Civil Rights Division to voluntarily resign. pic.twitter.com/rE7iijf7K8
— @amuse (@amuse) April 29, 2025
OPEN THREAD: Ring in the weekend.
HECK, I SAY GO FULL-SCALE ORION: Why space needs nuclear now.
MY LATEST SUBSTACK ESSAY:
THANK YOU, ANCESTORS: Study Reveals Italians Spent Thousands of Years Perfecting Grape Cultivation.
WORDS MEAN WHAT THE AUTHORITIES SAY THEY MEAN, COMRADE:
So, if I’m following, “democracy” is when the security services investigate a leading political party, make an unpublished determination of “extremism” that licenses surveillance, and then the courts decide whether to ban that party. O-kay. https://t.co/x6lZx81ijA
— Adrian Vermeule (@Vermeullarmine) May 2, 2025
Don’t ask me, ask the Stasi who run Germany now.
SCIENCE: Texas Attorney General launches investigation into companies illegally marketing toothpaste. “The investigation was launched amid a growing body of scientific evidence demonstrating that excessive fluoride exposure is not safe for children. For example, in August 2024, the Department of Health and Human Services’ National Toxicology Program released a meta-analysis that found a statistically significant association between fluoride exposure and lower IQ scores in children. The CDC states that parents should only put a rice-sized “smear” of toothpaste on the brush until the child turns three years old. . . .However, despite both these and additional guidelines, toothpaste manufacturers continue to flavor their products and deceptively market them in ways that encourage kids to ingest fluoride toothpaste and mislead their parents to use far more than the safe and recommended amount of fluoride toothpaste.”
100 DAYS AND TRUMP SUPPORTERS ARE GLOATING: Michael Walsh writes: “Stock market up big, inflation down, jobs good, NPR defunded, Poison Ivy rackets soon to be stripped of their tax exemptions, China reeling from tariffs. What’s not to like?”
I bet CNN hated reporting this. https://t.co/BPCJc22x9A
— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) May 2, 2025
Lots more work to do, though. But good news. Still, beware:
If societal calamities which cam be exploited for political gamesmanship do not materialize organically, the progressive cult and the social apparatus it controls will manufacture calamities, and the nation will suffer for it.
Never underestimate their ambition.
— Thymirus (@thymirus) May 2, 2025
I RECOMMEND A CAN OPENER, TOO:
Experts name five things to survive a grid collapse
1. Cash;
2. AM radio
3. Canned food
4. Candles
5. Spare batteriesThe farmer in Leyte is in many respects better prepared than the advanced Westhttps://t.co/wwVMvrt2Si
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) May 1, 2025
Also guns and ammo.
THE SONG REMAINS THE SAME:
Shot: California’s high-speed rail leaders sound alarm over project’s financial future.
As California’s High-Speed Rail Authority awaits word from the Trump administration over its future support for the train, leaders who oversee the project sounded the alarm about its financial viability.
The authority’s board of directors voted Thursday to approve contracts for the development of Central Valley station designs and to solicit and approve construction bids for the Fresno station. Ahead of the votes, board member James Ghielmetti raised concerns over the potential loss of funds from the Department of Transportation and the risk of moving forward on payment commitments when federal funding is in jeopardy.
“I’m very nervous about receiving the federal funding,” Ghielmetti said. “I want to make sure my fellow board members are aware that if the federal money does not come through, somebody’s got to backstop these contracts.”
—The L.A. Times, yesterday.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: College students don’t spend much time studying.
They’re not more likely to have paying jobs than earlier generations, research shows. In 2024, the average first-year student reported spending 5.3 hours per week in campus activities and clubs, 9.3 hours working for pay and 11.9 hours relaxing and socializing.
Yet most think they’re working hard. “Sixty-four percent of four-year college students say that they put ‘a lot’ of effort into schoolwork, yet only 6 percent report spending more than 20 hours per week studying and doing homework,” Hess and Fournier write. As a result of the low-expectations culture, “students are not getting the opportunity to master the work habits, knowledge, or skills that a college education is supposed to provide.”
Professors complain that students complain about what used to be a normal reading load and normal writing assignments. Everything’s too hard, they say. But used to inflated grades in high school in college, they expect to get A’s.
Replacing “gentleman’s C’s” with “warm-body A’s” was not an improvement.
NOT REALLY SEEING ANY DOWNSIDE HERE: Promise?! The Economist Says the UN Could Run Out of Money In Mere Months and the Jokes Write Themselves.
SPRINGTIME FOR THE BEEB: ‘We’ll burn Jews like Hitler did:’ BBC contributor in Gaza celebrates Jewish civilian death.
BBC Arabic journalist Samer Elzaenen has called for Jews to be burned “as Hitler did,” The Telegraph quoted him as saying in a Saturday report.
Elzaenen, 33, who has been reporting from Gaza, has been posting a series of statements on social media that condemns Jewish people, and has also called for violence against them, the Telegraph added, noting that his social media activity in the past 10 years has endorsed and celebrated more than 30 attacks on Israeli Jewish civilians. The social media posts were originally unearthed by The Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis (CAMERA).
He has appeared on the Arabic-language branch of the UK public broadcaster more than a dozen times since Hamas’s terrorist attacks on October 7, 2023. He called the Hamas terrorists who entered Israel that day “resistance fighters.”
Well, somebody’s auditioning for a sweet gig with Reuters: “Stephen Jukes, global news editor for Reuters, the British wire service, has ordered his scribes not to use the word terror to refer to the Sept. 11 atrocity, the Washington Post’s Howard Kurtz reports (second item). ‘We all know that one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter and that Reuters upholds the principle that we do not use the word terrorist,’ Jukes writes in an internal memo. ‘To be frank, it adds little to call the attack on the World Trade Center a terrorist attack.’”
ONE OF A KIND: Farewell to a Great American Funny Lady.
FIGHT THE POWER: Minnesota Gun Owners Take Aim At Taxpayer-Funded Anti-Gun Activism.
THE POST RUNS THIS HEADLINE YET REFERS TO HIM AS “HER” AND “SHE” THROUGHOUT THE STORY: Transgender swimmer Ana Caldas wins 5 races at national championship event: ‘Real-life South Park episode.’
FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: ‘This Is the Symbol of America, Man.’ “It’s time for your much-needed break from the serious news, and this week, we learn why Disney World is the most magical place on Earth, how to rescue a bald eagle, and what not to do with a corpse on a New York City subway car.”
CLEAN YOUR HOME: Solareye Electric Air Duster – 300000RPM Compressed Air Duster. #Commissionearned
THE NEW SPACE RACE: Lockheed Martin delivers completed Orion to NASA for Artemis 2. “EGS will now take Orion to processing facilities at the center to load consumables such as propellant, water and oxygen, followed by installation of its launch abort system. Orion will then go to the Vehicle Assembly Building to be integrated with the Space Launch System rocket currently being assembled there.”
TRUMP SIGNS EXECUTIVE ORDER TO END TAX MONEY FOR ‘RADICAL, WOKE’ PBS AND NPR:
Late on Thursday night, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to cut taxpayer funds to PBS and NPR through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The text was posted on the Trump team’s “Rapid Response 47” account on X.
It said: “@POTUS just signed an executive order ENDING the taxpayer subsidization of NPR and PBS — which receive millions from taxpayers to spread radical, woke propaganda disguised as ‘news.’”
The executive order includes this argument:
Unlike in 1967, when the CPB was established, today the media landscape is filled with abundant, diverse, and innovative news options. Government funding of news media in this environment is not only outdated and unnecessary but corrosive to the appearance of journalistic independence.
At the very least, Americans have the right to expect that if their tax dollars fund public broadcasting at all, they fund only fair, accurate, unbiased, and nonpartisan news coverage.
Since PBS and NPR are funded by all the American people, it should reflect the viewpoints of the people, and instead, after Trump was re-elected, both networks have doubled down in their anti-Trump animus. This was the top of the NPR home page on Thursday morning:
Given that NPR views America as having been born of Original Sin, they should be thrilled to no longer have to take such dirty money to keep the lights on: Perfect Timing! Here’s a Propaganda Parade From NPR and PBS Just As Trump’s EO Ends Gov’t Funding.
Exit quote:
“I think our reverence for the truth might have become a bit of a distraction that is preventing us from finding consensus and getting important things done.”
— Katherine Maher (NPR CEO)
— The Rabbit Hole (@TheRabbitHole84) May 2, 2025
UPDATE:
Taxpayers will no longer support a media executive who believes that the First Amendment is the "number one challenge" to advancing left-wing propaganda. https://t.co/Oq6UvJQkVI
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) May 2, 2025
NOW OUT FROM KURT SCHLICHTER & IRINA MOISES: Lost Angeles: Silver Bullets On The Sunset Strip. A departure from Kurt’s earlier work, though there are still guns. With silver bullets. Kinda more Larry Correia-ish and that’s a compliment. I enjoyed it, and it’s a real page-turner.
FLORIDA, MAN!
Only in Florida
— Defiant L’s (@DefiantLs) May 2, 2025
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