GOOD: The Education System Is Failing, But Change Is Coming.

OUTSIDE PRESSURE PROMOTING INTERNAL REFORM:

This is fascinating. More than 100 Yale professors have called for an audit of the university's sprawling bureaucracy.

The audit, they say, would "preempt potential federal intervention" and send the message: "Yale prioritizes intellectual vitality over bureaucratic inertia." pic.twitter.com/C37Fjk6FuE

— John Sailer (@JohnDSailer) April 25, 2025

NEWS FROM THE PARTS OF AMERICA THAT STILL WORK: SpaceX launches 28 Starlink Internet satellites from Florida.

This launch isn’t really news, because it happens all the time routinely. The news is that it happens all the time routinely.

ICYMI, IT’S THIS WEEK’S VIP ESSAY: Our Elites Owe Us More Than a Shrug and a Rewrite.

CHRISTOPHER RUFO & RYAN THORPE: Princeton’s War on Civil Rights: The university has entrenched a system of racial discrimination—against whites.

CONSEQUENCES MATTER: Columbia Radicals Ditch Reported Encampment Plans After University Threatens Arrests.

HAMASNIK MOB CHOOSES THE WRONG TARGET: How it started:

How it ended:

HMM: China will weaponise biotech as it ascends to dominance, may create AI-powered super-soldiers: U.S. Commission.

The world is entering the age of biotechnology, a time when biology is the basis of innovation, the report says in a sober analysis, stressing that every strategic sector — including defence, healthcare, agriculture, energy, and manufacturing — can be advanced by biotechnology, but also breached by it.

The Commission’s research indicates that China is likely to follow the same playbook with biotechnology as it has with other strategic technologies, the report said. “First, they steal. Then, they scale. Once they have cornered the market, they strangle,” it said, pointing to the Chinese restrictions on gallium and germanium in 2024 that had disrupted U.S. semiconductor production.

Noting that U.S. allies and partners offer unique capabilities, the report referred to India which it says is “prioritizing” cost-effective bio-manufacturing, particularly of vaccines. “We must do more to take advantage of our partners’ unparalleled strengths, which could include entering into reciprocal data-sharing agreements or pooling demand for biotechnology products,” it said.

Particularly focussing on biotech in the defence domain, the Commission said it has every reason to believe that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) will “weaponize” biotechnology. Now, with its Military-Civil Fusion strategy, the CCP aims to use biotechnology-powered troops — terming this “intelligent warfare” — to make the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) a “world-class military” by 2049. “Drone warfare will seem quaint if we are faced with genetically enhanced PLA super-soldiers with fused human and AI,” the report warned.

To be honest, I’m much less concerned with super-soldiers than with the possibility that the COVID-19 release was a test-run for something more dangerous and more targeted.

I’VE WARNED OF THIS MYSELF: How Activist Judges Could Hasten the Filibuster’s Demise: Lawless injunctions are thwarting the president’s agenda and threatening the Senate’s venerable tradition.

Democrats got rid of the filibuster when it got in their way, and they’ll do it again when they’re in power. Republicans shouldn’t hold back, because Democrats won’t.

Related: Trump and the Lower Courts.

JOSH BLACKMAN ON JUDICIAL SUPREMACY:

Fourth, speaking of President Trump, there is a big difference between Little Rock and CECOT. During the Civil Rights Era, the clash was between the Supreme Court and the states. President Eisenhower, perhaps begrudgingly, backed up the judiciary. Today we have a conflict of a very different nature between the Supreme Court and the executive. The better analogy is whether James Madison would have actually delivered Marbury’s commission, or whether President Lincoln would have ordered the release of Merryman. Here, no one will call the 101st Airborne to help Chief Justice Roberts or Judge Boasberg. To the contrary, I think most Americans would shrug their shoulders about whether aliens who are otherwise subject to removal spend their days in CECOT.

Fifth, I worry about the risk of the Supreme Court issuing an order truly out of its bounds in the separation of powers, and that order is ignored. Much of the criticism focuses how on that effort would empower Trump. But I think the even more compelling concern is how it would weaken the Court, perhaps irreparably. A court that issues a ruling that can be disregarded is no longer a court. That premise should inform the sorts of orders that are issued against the executive branch. Justice Alito stated the issue plainly: “Both the Executive and the Judiciary have an obligation to follow the law.”

Indeed they do.

THOSE LUTHERANS ARE UP TO NO GOOD AGAIN: Minnesota Heads Off ‘Mass Casualty Attack’ Planned for ‘the Next 24 Hours.’

OKAY, SO I CONTINUE READING THE SF THAT PULLED ME INTO THIS CRAZY FIELD.  TODAY WE ASK, WHAT’S WRONG WITH FRANCE?   The Time Spiral — Reading The Future of The Past.

PLAUSIBLE:

Do you know WHY the military hasn't won a war in decades? The pentagon is full of "Amy McGraths." DEI has been an unparalleled disaster. https://t.co/UvAr5QfyLJ

— Dale Stark (@DaleStarkA10) April 24, 2025

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG:  More covid jabs mean more cancer deaths, scientists agree.

THEY FEED THEM BREAKFAST AND LUNCH AT SCHOOL AND THINK THAT MAKES THE KIDS THEIRS:  Breakfast clubs and the state takeover of children.

PRIORITIES:  While Congressional Democrats Were in El Salvador, Bernie Moreno Went to Israel.

WORST. HITLER. EVER:  ‘Threat to Democracy’: Trump Didn’t Mince Words in This Post About Harvard’s Antisemitism.

FETTERMAN SAYS “WASTE THAT [FECAL MATTER]”:  Dem Senator Summed Up His Feelings About Iran in Three Words.

ONCE THE DANCE STARTS YOU CAN’T TELL HOW THE MUSIC WILL PLAY:  History Friday: 18 Minutes on a Day in April (Reprise from 2012).

EXPERTS ARE HUMAN TOO, AND SOME OF THEM ARE INSANE:  Yet another reasons no one can trust the experts.

LET’S REMEMBER SHE DOESN’T KNOW WHAT A WOMAN IS:  Supreme Court Justice said WHAT About Controversial Curriculum?

THAN MONKEYS ON PEYOTE?  Higher than WHAT?

IT’S NOT A RELIGION. IT’S AN INSANE CULT:  A Deplorable Deplores the Rise of Sectarian Violence in the U.S.

IF YOU CAN AT ALL, HOMESCHOOL:  And they wonder why people raise hell at school boards, and want their kids out.

GETS UP ON STAND, PLINKS TUNING FORK: LET THE SHRIEKING BEGIN:  Pam Bondi Drops the Hammer, Begins Bringing RICO Charges.