DON SURBER: Trump’s next Cabinet: Senators need not bother to apply.

NOPE:

This is not very sustainablehttps://t.co/aJBSKRqaq2

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) January 31, 2024

MARK SIMON: Yes, Taiwan will fight. “Eight years ago, if asked whether the Taiwanese people would fight should the Chinese Communist Party decide to invade, I would have hesitated with a response. Coming off President Ma’s eight years in office there was no sense of urgency in Taiwan as they had yet to witness the worst of Xi Jinping inside China, the persecution of Hong Kong, or more happily, the success President Tsai has reaped in leading the people to a recovery of their Taiwanese identity. Eight years may not seem like a long time, and in fairness to past leaders there was already a shift underway in building the identity of the Taiwan people as separate from China. But 2016, maybe even earlier, was then. This is now. Taiwan fights.”

ILHAN OMAR, D-MOGADISHU. Calls Grow For Ilhan Omar To Be Expelled From Congress After She Says She’s Advocating For Her Homeland Of Somalia.

OUR CORRUPT “JUSTICE” SYSTEM: YGTBFKM: 11 Years in Prison for This?

Some protests are more protected than others.

For instance, you can trash a city, burn down blocks of it, including a police precinct, occupy government buildings, trap innocents behind closed doors as you consider taking ransoms, and everything’s cool. You might be able to sue the city and get millions if the police try to stop you. At the very least, you can get all the right politicians and the entire public health establishment to applaud your bravery and commitment to racial justice.

But if you sing gospel songs outside an abortion clinic? Prepare to go to jail for up to 11 years.

The system of justice isn’t being weaponized. Not at all.

There must be an accounting, and the individuals involved must pay a sufficient price to discourage similar misconduct in the future.

#JOURNALISM: Flashback: The Media Relied on UN Agency Allegedly Filled With Hamas Terrorists.

#JOURNALISM: “Who cares. Didn’t read it. This is not news. Do better”/”Why do I feel like these characters are being forced on us? Nobody cares.”

JAMES PETHOKOUKIS: Fewer and Faster: Can we stop the global fertility collapse?

MARK JUDGE: When Will the January FIFTH Insurrectionists Go to Prison? January 5, 2017 was when the real coup was launched, by Obama and Biden against the American people.

LOL. MOST OF THEM COULD STAND TO LOSE WEIGHT. Federal Employees Plan Hunger Strike for Gaza Over Biden’s Support of Israel.

WHEN DID GARCIA START TRYING TO DRUM UP VOTES FOR TRUMP?

Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA): "The Donald Trump and MAGA plan for the border: Alligator moats, bombing northern Mexico, shooting migrants in the legs, and electrifying the fence and putting spikes on them." pic.twitter.com/XkMaQQxNZr

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) January 30, 2024

HARVARD: THE PRESSURE’S NOT OFF. Billionaire Megadonor Ken Griffin Says He Will Stop Donations to Harvard.

Griffin announced his decision to stop donating to Harvard during a keynote talk at a conference hosted by the Managed Funds Association in Miami. . . .

“I’d like that to change and I have made that clear to members of the corporate board,” he said. “But until Harvard makes it very clear that they’re going to resume their role as educating young American men and women to be leaders, to be problem solvers, to take on difficult issues, I’m not interested in supporting the institution.”

He added that Harvard students were “whiny snowflakes” caught in a misguided ideology of oppressor and oppressed during his remarks.

“Will America’s elite university get back to their roots of educating American children – young adults – to be the future leaders of our country or are they going to maintain being lost in the wilderness of microaggressions, a DEI agenda that seems to have no real endgame, and just being loss in the wilderness?” Griffin asked.

A Harvard spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

During his remarks, Griffin also said that his firms Citadel LLC and Citadel Securities, which recruit heavily from Harvard, would not hire any students who allegedly signed a controversial student group letter in response to Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel — mirroring a pledge by billionaire hedge fund CEO Bill A. Ackman ’88 and other business leaders who have heavily criticized the University in recent months.

Griffin, whose donations to Harvard total more than $500 million, is the largest donor to date to publicly pledge not to give to Harvard over its handling of antisemitism and its historic leadership crisis last fall. His announcement is also a serious signal that donor backlash did not end with former Harvard President Claudine Gay’s resignation Jan. 2.

Good.

OPEN THREAD: Go for it.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: China’s Chang’e-7 moon mission to target Shackleton crater. “The area, stated to be the illuminated rim of Shackleton crater, possibly corresponds to a candidate landing site for NASA’s Artemis 3 crewed mission named Peak Near Shackleton. Such a site could offer favorable illumination while also being close to permanently shadowed regions which could host volatiles such as water-ice.”

FORTUNATELY ENTIRELY THEORETICAL AT PRESENT: Tapping Into The Power of a Hypothetical Black Hole Could Create an Insane Bomb.

WELL, GOOD: DNA Decoys Outsmart Viruses in Groundbreaking Vaccine Approach.

MORE THINGS TO WORRY ABOUT: A rise in appendix cancer among young people.

WHO DO THEY THINK THEY ARE, BOEING? Toyota urges owners of old Corolla, Matrix and RAV4 models to park them until airbags are replaced: Don’t even drive these particular cars to the dealer — the dealer will come to you. “If the airbag deploys, a part inside is more likely to explode and shoot sharp metal fragments, which could cause serious injury or death to the driver or passengers.”

STATES SHOULD OFFER THEIR OWN TRAINING FOR THEIR OWN UNORGANIZED MILITIAS:* The True Intent of the Democrats’ Anti-Militia Bill Is to Infringe on Firearms Training.

*Which is basically everyone.

WE CAN START WITH ABOLISHING THE CDC AND THE NIH: Systemic US reforms needed to prevent mass death in the next pandemic.

HMM: When facing potential annihilation, the DEI industry doubles down. Let’s discuss.

Social Justice Warriors always lie, and they always double down.

AN IDEA SO CRAZY THAT IT JUST MIGHT WORK: Harvard Admissions Should Be More Meritocratic. “What’s the opposite of meritocracy? Historically, positions were distributed by hereditary privilege, family ties, patronage to cronies, or sale to the highest bidder. These are not far from the system we have here.”

Related: Not Just Claudine Gay. Harvard’s Chief Diversity Officer Plagiarized and Claimed Credit for Husband’s Work, Complaint Alleges.

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: 2023 Tax Filing Season Opens Today As IRS Computer Snarl Could Impact Millions Of Taxpayers.

YOU KNEW THEY WERE GOING TO END UP HERE EVENTUALLY: How much does human breathing contribute to climate change? All those billions of bodies exhaling carbon dioxide with every breath really starts to add up…

LIKE THOSE INSTITUTIONS THEMSELVES: The poisonous antisemitism that has infected elite institutions of higher learning is both silly and extremely dangerous.