COLOR ME SKEPTICAL: Acupuncture could help relieve chronic hives, Chinese study finds.

PARDON ME, IT’S TIME FOR MY SIESTA: Any Activity — Even Sleeping — Is Healthier For the Heart Than Sitting, Says Report.

HMM: Vote on tentative contract with General Motors too close to call as more tallies are reported. “The union hasn’t posted final vote totals yet, but workers at several large factories who finished voting in the past few days have turned down the four year and eight month deal by fairly large margins. However a factory in Arlington, Texas, with about 5,000 workers voted more than 60% to approve the deal in tallies announced Wednesday.”

Is the ballot harvesting over, though?

CAMPUS SPEECH: Academic Freedom Alliance Statement on Campus Protests Regarding Events in Israel and Gaza.

FOREIGN INTERFERENCE: Some of Those Pro-Palestine Protests Are Co-Organized by a Wealthy American Marxist Living in China.

HMM. I DON’T THINK I LIKE THIS: Goodbye match, hello retirement benefit account? What IBM 401(k) change means. “Under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, companies must fund 401(k) matches with real dollars. If IBM’s ‘credit’ is just that, with ‘no cash in there, and it’s just listed on the books, if something bad happens, and IBM couldn’t make good on its liabilities,’ employees would be on the hook, Hulme said.”

HMM. IT SEEMS LIKE THIS MIGHT IMPLY SOMETHING USEFUL. Flashback: Climate change is making horses fat as it’s causing an abundance of grass to grow, top vet warns.

IT’S BASICALLY A TOOL FOR LAUNDERING CENSORSHIP: NewsGuard: A Surrogate the Feds Pay to Keep Watch on the Internet and Be a Judge of the Truth.

RED STATE UNIVERSITIES DO NOT RESPECT RED STATE VALUES: Even red state colleges are folding to antisemitism. I experienced it firsthand.

Red State legislatures need to insist that that change.

ABOLISH THE IVY LEAGUE: Hamas extremism, Anti-Semitism continue on Ivy League campuses: A Harvard University proctor has reportedly been fired and evicted from his housing after being identified as a key member of a mob caught on video harassing Jewish students.

It’s a toxic industry.

WELL, GOOD: Catholic University Hosts Symposium Today On Free Speech And Civility in American Law Schools.

LEADERSHIP: Yes, Obama’s famous “Why can’t I just eat my waffle?” was a reaction to a question about Hamas.

READER BOOK PLUG: From C. Bradley Thompson, What America Is: The Moral Logic of the American Revolution and Other Essays.

DAN MARKEL UPDATE: More on Donna Adelson’s Airport Arrest.

MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: The US Army discovers woke doesn’t win wars — but is it too late?

THAT’S BECAUSE THEIR STUDENTS ARE ACTUALLY THERE TO LEARN STUFF: Community colleges and trade schools are largely void of Israel-Hamas protests.

The dirty not-so-secret is that elite schools have so much social activism because they’re easy. If they were academically demanding, they’d have a lot less.

DON SURBER: Greg Abbott is beating DC’s open borders policy one bus at a time.

THEY DON’T COVER THE LEFT, THEY COVER FOR THE LEFT: Alphabet Networks Ignore Leftist Groups Funneling Money to Pro-Hamas Groups.

Related: Biden: Biden: Another $10 Billion for Iran? Sure, Why Not?

It’s as if our institutions are in the hands of people who adhere to our enemies.

PRIORITIES: While Hamas Planned Its Attack on Israel, Biden’s Intel Community Was Focused On Climate Change.

APPARATCHIKS GONNA APPARATCHIK: Report Out on Former St Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner Is As Bad As You’d Imagine.

FLASHBACK: America’s Unregulated Shampooer Menace.

OPEN THREAD: Make it beautiful.

MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: The US Army discovers woke doesn’t win wars — but is it too late?

THE NEW SPACE RACE: NASA slows down work on Mars Sample Return due to budget uncertainty.

WHO DIDN’T? When The Pandemic Came, Zoos Closed, And The Animals Began to Act Differently.