SPOILER: IT’S NOT PARTICULARLY LARGE OR CAPABLE. Harvard and Sundance Share the Same Brain: 8 things the elite institutions have in common.

WELL, GOOD: Magnetic zaps to the brain may relieve severe depression.

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY, “SMART DIPLOMACY” EDITION:

How it started: How it's going: pic.twitter.com/4EHZ6N3p39

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) January 16, 2024

THEY CAN’T EVEN MAKE THINGS WORK FOR THE APPARATCHIKS ANYMORE: Woah: Blinken’s 737 Breaks Down after Davos. “The incident happened when Antony Blinken flew from Davos on helicopters and boarded the modified Boeing 737. He was then informed that the aircraft had been deemed unsafe to fly as an oxygen leak detected previously could not be remedied.”

TO BE FAIR, WHO COULD HAVE EXPECTED COLD WEATHER IN CHICAGO? Tesla owners run into battery charging trouble in Chicago’s bitter cold.

Plus: Chicago-area Tesla charging stations lined with dead cars in freezing cold: ‘A bunch of dead robots out here.’

Related: Electric vehicle drivers find charging ports not working in extreme cold weather.

CONSEQUENCES: UMass students arrested for illegal sit-in complain they now aren’t allowed to study abroad.

WHY IS HIGHER EDUCATION SUCH A CESSPIT OF HATRED? Dept of Ed opens investigation into Temple University over anti-Semitic incidents.

GOOD: Amid National Backlash, Colleges Brace for Fresh Wave of Anti-DEI Legislation.

INSURRECTION: USCP Arrested 130 Pro-Palestinian Mennonites in the Cannon Rotunda.

Since it’s a lefty-approved cause they’ll get a slap on the wrist instead of solitary confinement, which is what our corrupt “justice” system metes out to its opposition.

EVERY INSTITUTION HAS BEEN CORRUPTED: Don Surber: State-sanctioned protest: Only lefties are permitted to rally in Washington, DC.

#JOURNALISM: Another Bogus Border Story Goes Viral And Most Outlets Aren’t in a Hurry to Issue Corrections.

ENEMIES OF CIVILIZATION: Disgusting: Anti-Israel Protesters Harass NYC Cancer Hospital, Taunt Child Patients Watching From Windows.

COVERUP: “An aide to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin asked a 911 operator that an ambulance retrieving the secretary not use lights and sirens to keep things ‘subtle.'”

MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: The white-collar class derided mass layoffs among the blue-collar workers. It’s about to feel their pain.

THEY’RE ALL NONESSENTIAL ANYWAY: Snow Thwarts Anti-Israel Government Employee ‘Walkout.’

THE FREE PRESS: What Really Happened to George Floyd? 2020 featured a lot of “push narratives.”

GOOD: Oral Argument in Devillier v. Texas Suggests Victory for Property Rights Likely: Both conservative and liberal justices seem to oppose letting states get away with violating the Takings Clause merely because Congress hasn’t enacted a specific law enforcing it against them.

REALCLEARINVESTIGATIONS: How Moderna Came Up With a Vaccine Against Vaccine Dissent. “Like the Twitter Files, the Moderna Reports highlight the push by powerful entities – especially government, Big Tech, and Big Pharma – to identify and brand dissenting opinions about establishment narratives as risky forms of speech. The growing network these efforts rely on shows the growth of what has been called the censorship industrial complex. Moderna’s faltering financials also suggest, at least for now, the limits of that project.”

OPEN THREAD: Party on.

HERE IN KNOXVILLE WE HAVE TEN INCHES OF SNOW AND IT’S SUPPOSED TO HIT MINUS TWO BY TOMORROW MORNING:

10 days apart. pic.twitter.com/mcootxCqe1

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) January 14, 2024

UPDATE: Oops, just rechecked the weather app and now it’s showing -4. Brr. Let’s see if TVA gives us rolling blackouts again.

SOMETIME IN THE NEXT 15 YEARS (REPEAT AS NEEDED): We’ve been ‘close’ to achieving fusion power for 50 years. When will it actually happen?

THE GLOBAL BABY BUST: Family Sizes to Dramatically Decline in The Near Future, Scientists Predict.

MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: The white-collar class derided mass layoffs among the blue-collar workers. It’s about to feel their pain.

LARRY NIVEN, CALL YOUR OFFICE: Ultra-Large Structure Discovered in Distant Space Defies Our Current Understanding of the Universe. “The Big Ring on the Sky is 9.2 billion light-years from Earth.”

Okay, a bit large for Niven, but that’s what the illustration made me think of. Anyway, I’m not saying it’s aliens but, well, you know.

LIKE MOST HR TYPE PROGRAMS, A WASTE OF TIME AND MONEY, BUT MAKE-WORK FOR DRONES AND BUREAUCRATS: Most workplace wellness programs don’t boost well-being.