MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: ‘The Population Bomb’ was wrong: The world’s now struggling to make more babies.

REALITY ISN’T PLAYING BALL WITH THE “EMERGING DEMOCRATIC MAJORITY” HYPOTHESIS:

Don't call it the "Coalition of the Ascendant"! https://t.co/ufYxepXhqU https://t.co/8AIyrQQ8NM

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 3, 2024

IMPLICIT IN THIS IS AN ADMISSION THAT THE DIARY IS GENUINE: DOJ seeks harsher penalty for Ashley Biden diary thief after missed hearings.

TYPICAL LEFTY HYPOCRISY: Gavin Newsom Forces Fast Food Franchises To Pay Their Workers $20 an Hour. His Luxury Restaurants Pay Their Workers Less: Golden State governor’s Lake Tahoe cafe advertises job openings at $16 an hour.

JOHN LUCAS: The Long Jump: And whether to enforce or erode difficult standards.

THOUGHTCRIME: Pro-Life Christians Facing Prison Time for Peaceful Protest.

While criminals are running free across our borders, four pro-life Christians are staring down prison time for praying at an abortion clinic in Tennessee.

Eva Edl, Eva Zastrow, James Zastrow, and Paul Place had charges brought against them for being part of a peaceful protest on March 5, 2021. They gathered on the second floor of an office building in the hallway outside the Carafem Health Center Clinic. The group prayed, sang hymns, and urged women showing up to the clinic to not get abortions.

It seems as though Edl, the Zastrows and Place violated the FACE Act (Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances) of 1994. They face up to a year in prison and thousands of dollars of fines. Their sentencing is on July 30, 2024.

First Amendment violation.

ANYTHING TO HELP THE DEMOCRATS WIN: Concerns raised over universities signing over students’ private FERPA data to voter data companies.

OPEN THREAD: Hump Day.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Russia, China catching up to U.S. in space weaponry, new report finds.

MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: ‘The Population Bomb’ was wrong: The world’s now struggling to make more babies.

WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Next-Gen Refueling Spacecraft to Revitalize Satellites in Geostationary Orbit.

SATIRE, KIND OF:

China Offers To Send 100,000 Soldiers To Taiwan To Assist With Earthquake Cleanup https://t.co/FQ34eMU5da pic.twitter.com/R6K4FbbFwF

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) April 3, 2024

PRETTY SURE THAT MEANS I’M CREATING SPACE LIFE MOLECULES IN MY OFFICE: Study Reveals Dusty Chaos May Be Key to Formation of Life-Building Space Molecules.

ELON MUSK AND THE NEW SPACE AGE: “If Elon Musk were a recluse who did nothing but build SpaceX, he would still be the most important figure of the 21st century.”

True.

FOLLOW THE SCIENCE! Unhelpful, inflammatory Jama Network Open paper suggests that people in Red states dream up vaccine injuries: Not only are the methods poor, the interpretation is biased.

TO BE FAIR, THAT’S JUST BECAUSE HE’S AWFUL: Americans Disapprove Of Biden On Guns—And Most Other Issues.

WELL, GOOD: Far-UVC light can virtually eliminate airborne virus in an occupied room, study shows.

FLASHBACK:

Quincy, Illinois, 2009.

WELL, SURE, MOST THINGS THRIVE BETTER IN THE U.S. THAN IN CANADA: Historical study finds Canada lynx might thrive better in U.S.

WE WON’T HAVE ACHIEVED EQUITY UNTIL MEN ARE TREATED FOR PREGNANCY RELATED ISSUES AT THE SAME RATE: Women more likely to get treated for mental health issues around pregnancy.

MATT TAIBBI: On “The View,” A Crack Finally Shows in the Propaganda Facade.

Something interesting did happen, however, and it wasn’t the ferocious conflict-laden exchange that went viral and tickled conservative pundits like Dave Rubin and Megyn Kelly so much, The Root wrote an article complaining. The surprise came in the first moments when the studio audience burst into spontaneous applause after Hughes suggested, “We should try our very best to treat people without regard for race both in our personal lives and our public policy.”

It would be the first of several outbursts speaking less to a race issue than an informational one. Here was evidence that ideas dismissed in elite circles as radical and “dangerous” may be popular and widely accepted, even among fans of the most aggressive idea-policing show on TV.

“This was the audience of The View,” Hughes says, adding that the crowd’s reaction suggested the antiracist ideas they were confronting “do not have deep subscription in the Democratic party base even.”

It’s just woke white people seeking meaning in their sad lives, and the grifters who feed of their neuroses.

LET’S SEE SOME DEMOCRACY SHUTTING DOWN PRO-PALESTINE SPEAKERS, THEN: Pro-Palestine protesters shut down Dem congressman’s speech, University of Maryland president calls it ‘democracy’ in action.

On the other hand, seeing this happen to lefty mouthpiece Jamie Raskin is kinda sweet, to be honest.

MAKE THEM PAY: UT Austin Administrators Tried to Punish Professor over Anti-DEI Crusade. He’s Fighting Back.

University of Texas at Austin finance professor Richard Lowery has annoyed the university’s administration by publicly criticizing its embrace of diversity, equity, and inclusion and suggesting that administrators exploit their positions for their children’s admission.

Lowery’s crusade did not go unnoticed: Several university administrators — and the university president, Jay Hartzell — responded with a “campaign to silence” the professor, which included threatening his job, salary, professional affiliations, and research opportunities, according to a lawsuit Lowery filed against the administrators.

Lowery embraces the fact that his views are unpopular on campus. His bio on his now-private Twitter account reads: “All opinions are mine and almost certainly diametrically opposed to those of my employer.”

Lowery became unpopular on campus by criticizing the UT Austin’s sprawling DEI bureaucracy, which costs $13 million annually in salaries alone. The UT Austin “Faculty Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Strategic Plan” requires that “all members of faculty search committees must participate in diverse hiring training” and invests $3 million over four years to support “recruitment and hiring of faculty contributing to diversity, equity, and inclusion.”

The focus on DEI is exemplified by a UT Austin research program that offers a voluntary four-week study for white four- and five-year-old children and their white caregivers to learn about “anti-Black racism.” Lowery criticized the project in an op-ed for the College Fix, writing, “Imagine if such training were to be focused only on black preschool-aged children, a subset the researchers deemed deficient in patriotism.”

In response to Lowery’s public criticism of the university, Hartzell and several senior administrators pressured his supervisor at the Salem Center — a research center at the business school of UT Austin — to discipline him, according to the lawsuit. (While he likely couldn’t be fired from his tenured position as a professor, Lowery’s role at the Salem Center came with a $20,000-a-year stipend and is renewed annually.)

Possibly related: Sources: At least 20 UT employees linked to DEI to lose their jobs.

Add a zero to this and we’ll get somewhere.

IF YOU SUPPORT HAMAS, I’M NOT BUYING YOUR “HUMANITARIAN” CONCERNS: Where Were These Ceasefire Bleeding Hearts for the Past 20 Years of Hamas’s Carnage?

If you care about humanitarian issues, you should be calling on Hamas to surrender. It’s telling that no one is doing that.

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Democrats face ‘horrifying’ reality amid young minorities’ exodus: ‘Leaving in droves.’