THAT’S WHAT CONSUMERS ACTUALLY WANT: General Motors Bringing Back Plug-in Hybrids.

Related: GM Went All In on EVs. Dealers Say Buyers Want Hybrids.

WELL, GOOD: Research team achieves regeneration of functional bladder tissue using bone marrow cells.

FREDDY DE BOER ON FEAR AND ENVY AT THE ATLANTIC: The New World Struggles to be Born, The Old World Struggles to Keep Padding Its Resume.

I found this little item in The Atlantic from a few weeks ago to be an amusing volley in an old war. It’s part of a long lineage of establishment publications working to guard whatever lingering sense of superiority they have left, from a writer named Kaitlyn Tiffany.

First, this appears to contains a flat factual inaccuracy: it’s simply historical incorrect to say that Substack “got its start by offering mainstream journalists lucrative profit-sharing arrangements.” Substack’s core financial arrangement is to host newsletters and handle payment integration, in return for which Substack takes a percentage of subscription revenues; this is only “profit-sharing” in the loosest and least-accurate sense. (Am I also “profit-sharing” with Stripe? Are grocery stores profit-sharing with Mastercard? Am I profit-sharing with the government when I pay income taxes?)

Well, The Atlantic.

SPACE: SpaceX launches 20th Northrop Grumman ISS resupply mission.

WELL, GOOD: New pain medicine may be safer alternative to opioids.

I WAS TOLD IT WAS ALWAYS GOOD FOR PEOPLE: Frequent marijuana use may raise risk of asthma.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. It’s Not Just Fat People. We Would All Like Bigger Airline Seats. On the other hand, Instagram models who have had ass-expansion surgery, and 6XL “fat activists” aren’t the best spokespeople.

MATT TAIBBI: “UK Files” Exclusive, Part 2: The Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) Told the IRS It Was A Charity. Documents Say Otherwise. “In reality, the CCDH was and is a pioneering effort in a new form of “non-governmental” pressure group that hides its ties to major-party politics as it pushes for the removal of ‘hate’ speech, often the critics of mainstream politicians.”

NO MAN, NO PROBLEM: Ron Hart: Democrats Got Their Political Playbook From Lenin. “When you have bad policies and cannot sustain your authority based on quantifiable results, you do what Democrats have done these last few years: you weaponize the government against your enemies. It is not a novel construct.”

Plus: “Lenin was famously placed in a glass coffin and publicly exhibited for years after his death. This is the same game plan the Democrats have in store for Biden’s second term.” Heh. It would be funnier if it weren’t basically true.

IT’S SATIRE NOW:

California Becomes First State To Ban Heterosexual Marriage https://t.co/vPHyY9twmp pic.twitter.com/IvUZl4VFA8

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) January 30, 2024

MATT TAIBBI ON 2024: Note to Readers: “The Fix is In.”

WHOM THE GODS WOULD DESTROY THEY FIRST MAKE INSANE: Penn faculty ‘die-in’ blocks building entrance in ‘solidarity with civilians in Gaza.’

THE END OF HIGHER EDUCATION: Princeton adds trigger warnings to library docs to ‘protect researchers from accidentally viewing harmful and offensive materials.’

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.