2023: Troubled Times Part II: There’s more to being prepared than just guns and ammo.

WELL: Doctors are now prescribing doxy-PEP, a morning-after pill that helps prevent STIs like gonorrhea, chlamydia, or syphilis.

NO DRUGS COST WHAT WE THINK THEY DO. Ozempic and Wegovy Don’t Cost What You Think They Do.

DEMOCRATS MADE A PHARMACY DESERT AND CALLED IT RACIAL JUSTICE: CVS, Walgreens and Rite Aid are closing stores across the U.S. Here’s how ‘pharmacy deserts’ can impact your health.

Missing from this story: Any mention of shoplifting/retail theft.

THEY RESERVE THAT FOR THE TEA PARTY AND TRUMP SUPPORTERS: AP Won’t Let Reporters Call Hamas a Terrorist Organization.

MICROBIOME NEWS: Antimicrobial peptides modulate lung injury by altering the intestinal microbiota.

YES. Let’s Ask: Has Biden Been Compromised by Iran?

LAWFARE: Michael Walsh: The Lights Go Out in Georgia.

SPACE: Two groups look at the economic viability of mining asteroids. “Their math suggests that over the next 30 to 40 years, harvesting metals from asteroids could become not only profitable but also the predominant means of mining precious metals as prices rise and the cost of working in space declines.”

The real value of these metals, of course, will be for uses in space, not on earth.

IT’S A START, BUT I’M RESERVING JUDGMENT UNTIL I SEE MORE: Could Yale’s Hiring Of Princeton’s Keith Whittington Signal A Shift In Legal Ed’s Alleged Hostility Toward Conservative Professors? Much more.

TAKE SOME TIME TO scroll down Andy Ngo’s feed if you want to know what’s going on.

DON SURBER ON HARVARD, ET AL.: The Nazis Are Winning: Society accepts and promotes anti-Semitism again. “But what does one expect when students are taught about Hiroshima and Nagasaki but not about Pearl Harbor? What do we expect when the liberals brand any Republican president Hitler and his supporters Nazis, watering down their evil to just being a political disagreement? What do we expect when the UN panics about a climate genocide, as if Jews died in tanning beds and not ovens?”

Just a few years ago, all the best people were encouraging me to punch Nazis. Now it’s racist if you notice them.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Academics pledge ‘unwavering solidarity with Palestinian resistance.’

THEY NEED TO LEARN A LOT OF LESSONS: Campus unrest over Hamas attacks on Israel offers students tough lessons on free speech in higher education.

ANALYSIS: Diversity Is Not Our Strength.

YEP: White House Report Card: Biden stumbles show weakness.

PROF. JACOBSON: Leftist Campus Embrace Of Hamas Barbarism: “We’re in the ‘suddenly’ phase” of Higher Ed collapse.

SOMETIMES THEY’RE FOOLED, SOMETIMES THEY’RE COMPLICIT: Award-Winning Disinformation Expert Fooled by Palestinian Disinformation: NBC’s Ben Collins promotes terrorist talking points after ‘hospital’ ‘bombed’ in Gaza.

TRUTH TO THESE PEOPLE IS LIKE GARLIC TO A VAMPIRE: Watch Ilhan Omar Flee From a Reporter Who Shredded Her Argument for a Gaza Ceasefire.

AMERICAN NAZIS: No “Space, Consideration, or Support” for Zionism at Wellesley, Demand Student Resident Advisors: They later issued a “sorry if you were offended” non-apology, and so far the university seems satisfied with that.

They wouldn’t have been as generous to College Republicans.

ICYMI: Hamas torture confirmed as Israeli forensics institute identifies victims.

FROM PAUL CARON: Personal Statements On Hamas And Israel. “The torture and killing of over 1,400 Israeli men, women, children, babies, and elderly (including over 30 Americans) by Hamas is genocidally evil.”

I CERTAINLY HOPE SO. Alarmingly Refreshing: Why Hitting Snooze Might Be Good For You.

WELL, YES: ‘Go woke, go broke’: Billionaire Chamath Palihapitiya suggests that Northeast cities like NYC and Boston are hemorrhaging income due to political ideology — while the South keeps booming. “Palihapitiya sent out a screenshot of a Bloomberg article based on how six southern states had contributed more to U.S. gross domestic product than the northeast corridor of Washington-New York-Boston for the first time in history.”

If you live in this world, you’re feeling the change of the guard.

SO FAR: So Far UPenn Leading In Race to Lose Donors Over Support For Hamas.