SLATE PEDDLES DANGEROUS MISINFORMATION: What really happened at the Yale Law School protest. “So why does any of this matter? Well, because Yale Law students disrupted an event, not once but repeatedly. They also disrupted other classes, one of which had to be moved to Zoom because of the noise. And despite all of that, Mark Joseph Stern at Slate has put forward a cherry-picked account to claim the protests weren’t really out of line. He then claimed right-wing outlets were using false claims to spread a narrative about left-leaning students. This is almost the opposite of reality.”

To be fair, Slate has been garbage for the last twenty years or so.

TO BE FAIR, THEY PROBABLY WOULDN’T VOTE FOR DEMOCRATS: Now we’re blocking Russian migrants at the border.

IT’S BEEN A TOUGH WAR FOR SENIOR RUSSIAN COMMANDERS: Deputy Commander Of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet Reportedly Killed In Action.

On the one hand, I suppose I should admire them for leading from the front. On the other hand, the need to clsoely supervise frontline troops usually is a bad sign.

TRANSPARENCY? D.C. Judge Allows Subpoena of Facebook COVID Misinformation Blocking Records.

I feel like DC is trying to bully nonconformists here, but that the results of this may blow up in its face.

OPEN THREAD: I sit here alone and I wonder why.

HEY, GUYS, I’M ALREADY A STARLINK BETA TESTER, SO . . . Startup Aquarian Space aims to deliver high-speed internet at the moon (and maybe Mars).

DON’T TRUST CHINA, CHINA IS ASSHOLE: Something Very Suspicious Is Happening With China’s Latest COVID Reporting.

MODERN SOCIETY HAS EVOLVED IN AN UNUSUALLY CALM AND SAFE ERA: Ice Cores Reveal Huge Volcanic Eruptions, Bigger Than Anything in The Last 2,500 Years.

BREAKING: Clarence Thomas Hospitalized. “Justice Clarence Thomas has been hospitalized after experiencing flu-like symptoms, the Supreme Court announced in a statement. . . . According to McCabe, Thomas’s symptoms are abating and he is resting comfortably. Thomas is expected to be released from the hospital in a day or two, and will ‘participate in the consideration and discussion of any cases for which he is not present on the basis of the briefs, transcripts, and audio of the oral arguments.'”

MAN, TROUBLE: Twitter just suspended The Babylon Bee for calling Rachel Levine a man and the Bee is refusing to delete the tweet because, ya know, it’s true.

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Remember that Twitter also blocked people for sharing the Hunter Biden laptop story, which was true. They even blocked people from sharing it via DMs.

GOOD: “There would be riots like there were in Belgium if they tried to do that.” “Professor Roger Kirby, president of the Royal Society of Medicine, said the public would not tolerate being deprived of their liberty on such a scale again.”

We’ve been told that a riot is the voice of the unheard, and a lot of people have been unheard on this stuff.

HMM: Death rate from aortic tears is rising.

A FUN SERIES OF CHARTS: Putting Time in Perspective. A reminder, among other things, that Cleopatra lived closer to the building of the first Pizza Hut than to the building of the first pyramid.

EVERYONE IS CONSERVATIVE ABOUT WHAT HE KNOWS BEST: New York MoMA’s tough policies are an exhibit on how to maintain order.

MoMA doesn’t let you jump over the metaphorical turnstile if you don’t have $25 (you have to apply in person for your free one-year membership under IDNYC).

But the state-run Metropolitan Transportation Authority is forced to ignore tens of thousands of such chronic trespassers every day.

The MTA can’t ban people after they’ve been disorderly. Even if police arrest suspects on “low-level” charges — increasingly rare — chronic lawbreakers face no deterrence. The disorderly, and even people accused of serious assaults, return, again and again, to harass and menace paying customers.

Drugstores and supermarkets summon the police to arrest a shoplifter — only to see the thief return.

It may be time to take some enlightened inspiration from the liberal arts world: If you can’t behave, you will face the consequences.

To be fair, considering what its first curator of modern architecture was up to in the 1930s, modern MoMA seems like a healthy bastion of tolerance and inclusion for all.

(Classical reference in headline.)

BILL THE PONY AND WINDFOLA: “Bill the Pony came from Bree. He is one of us—one of ours—we take a personal or familial interest in Bill. On the other hand, Windfola was part of a foreign heroic warrior culture. We sympathize and hope for Windfola’s wellbeing. But Windfola is not one of ours.”

AT AMAZON, 20 lb. bag of long-grain rice.

Plus, 25 lb. bag of black beans.

MEH. COVID’s coming back in Europe. Are we next?

QUESTION ASKED: Did official figures overestimate Britain’s Covid death toll? The chaotic way mortalities were recorded during the pandemic could mean thousands were wrongly blamed on the virus.

Meanwhile, back on our side of the big pond: CDC Says It Accidentally Inflated Children’s COVID Death Numbers In ‘Coding Logic Error.’

TALK ABOUT YOUR SUPPLY CHAIN PROBLEMS: Lamborghini Has to Restart Production of the Aventador Because of the Felicity Ace: The ship was carrying no less than 15 Aventadors when it caught fire before ultimately sinking in the Atlantic.

MY “ROOTS OF WOKENESS” ARTICLE MAKES IT INTO THE NEWSPAPERS; THAT’S PRETTY UNUSUAL FOR A LAW REVIEW ARTICLE:  I don’t think this version is behind a paywall.  The WaPo version (by George Will) is.