OPEN THREAD: Ring in the weekend.
Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
March 28, 2025
THE NEW SPACE RACE: China’s megaconstellations take off, government backs commercial space.
REMEMBER, IT’S IMPORTANT TO PRESERVE RESPECT FOR THE JUDICIARY:
RIGHT NOW: Wisconsin Attorney General is suing to stop Elon Musk from giving away $2 million during the Supreme Court race between conservative Brad Schimel and liberal Susan Crawford. The judge assigned to the case? No joke: Susan Crawford. https://t.co/OZnI2AFT9x
— Dan O'Donnell (@DanODonnellShow) March 28, 2025
Apparently, she’s recusing herself but that she’d even be assigned is crazy.
USEFUL DATING ADVICE:
At this point, if I were a young man, I would rule out any woman that has a social media channel where they give one-sided talks to a camera. It seems pathological. https://t.co/AqefDlJIog
— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) March 28, 2025
COLOR ME UNSURPRISED: Exercise Boosts Brain Function Across All Ages, Massive Study Confirms.
THREAD:
🚨🚨🚨BREAKING: Another win for Trump with the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals "staying" the lower court's decision Musk and others can't work with USAID. 1/
— Margot Cleveland (@ProfMJCleveland) March 28, 2025
MICHAEL WALSH TALKS WITH director Tony Palmer.
CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: South Dakota Governor Rhoden Signs Pro-Carry Bills.
I’VE BEEN IN FAVOR OF MOVING FEDERAL AGENCIES OUT OF THE CAPITAL DISTRICT FOR A LONG TIME. Jamie Raskin’s snit-fit only makes it better.
Dismantle the government itself?
Is this an ad for Trump? https://t.co/nU2z8Iyyiw
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) March 28, 2025
Flashback: “A few decades ago, Washington was a sleepy town, famously mocked by JFK for being a combination of “northern charm and southern efficiency.” You could dine at the fanciest restaurants on a senior civil servant’s salary, real estate prices were reasonable, and the cultural life was, well, pretty lifeless. This is what we should aspire to for D.C.’s future. . . . The nation’s capital shouldn’t be a place of extravagance and vibrancy, because those are basically byproducts of graft. It should be boring.”
A D.C. CIRCUIT WIN FOR TRUMP IN ABILITY TO FIRE FEDERAL OFFICIALS. Thread:
🚨🚨🚨BREAKING: Trump win in case involving his firing of executive officials. Lawyer version thread to be followed by layman's thread. 1/
— Margot Cleveland (@ProfMJCleveland) March 28, 2025
CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Youngkin’s Vetoes Save Virginia’s Lawful Gun Owners From Disaster Yet Again.
COLOR ME UNSURPRISED: After 50 million miles, Waymos crash a lot less than human drivers.
COLOR ME UNSURPRISED: Obesity more likely among children of obese mothers, study says.
I KEEP POINTING THIS OUT: Trump isn’t seizing power, he’s just using power that leftists thought was reserved to them:
President Donald Trump is using every tool he has to challenge woke practices in America — and he has a lot of them.
Notably, none of the mechanisms that the president is using were put in place by conservatives for leverage against progressive institutions.
No, Trump is simply availing himself of the vast federal apparatus created by liberals on the assumption that an ever-more powerful and extensive federal government was synonymous with righteousness.
Now that someone is in charge who doesn’t agree with them and who is willing to use all the influence that the progressive state affords him, they are vulnerable to the centralized power that they’ve eagerly built up over decades.
Expanding the federal government has been a progressive priority since the time of Woodrow Wilson, and now its tentacles — via federal funding and a skein of rules — reach into practically every corner of American life.
Yep. And nearly everything he does — nearly every “presidential power” a president can exercise — is actually power that Congress has delegated to the president.
HEH.
Important framing for discussing the NPR kerfuffle https://t.co/vIndtgljSC pic.twitter.com/QgBjN67SWf
— Palmer Luckey (@PalmerLuckey) March 28, 2025
NOT GONNA HAPPEN, THE DECAY IS TOO FAR ADVANCED:
These numbers means Europe must spend 3-4% of GDP as they build up to required strength. There are no smoke and mirrors solutions but Macron and Starmer can't bring themselves to face the Green-Left who want to import the Third World and go Zero Carbon.
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) March 28, 2025
KAROL MARKOWICZ: Don’t let the leftists memory-hole their madness.
Did the last five years, call it “the age of woke,” really happen — or were they just a fever dream?
Apparently we all imagined a time where COVID and cancel culture collided to oppress us.
No one was shunned for saying really obvious and true things, schools weren’t closed indefinitely under pressure from teachers’ unions, and race conflict wasn’t pushed on Americans from every direction.
At least that’s what the left would have us believe.
On Wednesday when National Public Radio CEO Katherine Maher testified in a congressional hearing, she stumbled on some basic questions . . . involving her own opinions.
Yes, they’re trying to pretend the last 5 years never happened. Make them own it.
LIBRARIES RUN BY “MILITANTLY POLITICAL” LIBRARIANS AREN’T WORTH HAVING: America’s Librarians Became Militantly Political, And Now They Suffer The Consequences. “In contrast to the caricature of snobbish museum curators, librarians have been freeriding on a mostly positive cultural stereotype of old biddies who yell at kids to keep quiet but somehow also know how to help you find obscure information on local zoning laws if it comes to that. The reality is that sometime in the last few decades the vocation of local librarian acquired a uniquely left-wing nimbus. It’s hard to say whether there was an organized takeover of the profession or it organically attracted a new generation that saw their primary vocational responsibility as agents of radical and unwelcome social change. Regardless, they’ve become a threat to future generations and are making us dumber.”