CDR SALAMANDER: No, European Strategic Autonomy Drive is not Trump Related.
Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
April 1, 2025
DENIAL OF THAT REALITY IS THE WHOLE POINT:
the funniest part is that you just know these lessons are going to be modeled on the near-mythological "white boy who plays too much COD and loves Andrew Tate" rather than the far more common UK archetype: "Pakistani boy who was raised from birth to think all women are whores" https://t.co/2m1U56IZF0
— pagliacci the hated 🌝 (@Slatzism) April 1, 2025
AFTER ALL, IT WAS YOU AND ME: Michael Walsh: Who Killed JFK?
FLASHBACK: Remembering the 2002 AOL/InstaPundit merger April Fool. The only April Fool I’ve done here, and probably the only one I ever will do, but it was fun — complete with a changed header to AOL/InstaPundit — and a surprising number of people bought it.
#JOURNALISM:
I can't believe my eyes. Lesley Stahl had the audacity to ask a Jewish hostage, who was tortured and starved by Hamas, if Hamas really meant to starve him or if they just didn't have enough food.
Is this a joke? How the hell can she even ask him that?pic.twitter.com/utofSTtbk8
— Vivid.🇮🇱 (@VividProwess) March 31, 2025
DON SURBER: Judge Boasberg is not my president.
THAT’S CRAZY TALK, MAN:
Maybe the real Nazis are the ones painting swastikas everywhere.
Maybe the real racists are the ones who discriminate based on race.
Maybe the real cheaters are the ones who imported millions of illegal immigrants to vote.
Maybe, just maybe… they lied to us the entire time.
— Matt Van Swol (@matt_vanswol) March 31, 2025
DON’T LET CRAZY PEOPLE LOOK AFTER YOUR KIDS: UK School Suspended a Toddler for Transphobia.
I ASSUME THEY’RE ALL FAKE UNTIL PROVEN TRUE: Evanston, IL and Another ‘Hate Crime’ That Never Happened.
And they’re basically never proven true.
SHE GETS THE CLASS ANGLE:
The divide in America is not political—it's a class divide separating the elites from the working class. Trump's economic agenda—a tight labor market and tariffs—raises the wages of working class Americans, which is why Wall Street, the Democrats, and their rich base hate it. pic.twitter.com/58NmuMUxnP
— Batya Ungar-Sargon (@bungarsargon) March 30, 2025
March 31, 2025
STANDING UP AGAINST HATE AND BIGOTRY AND DISCRIMINATION: Trump Administration Will Review Billions in Funding for Harvard: The move follows the cancellation of roughly $400 million in funding for Columbia and the suspension of $175 million for the University of Pennsylvania.. The Trump administration said on Monday that it was reviewing roughly $9 billion in federal grants and contracts awarded to Harvard, claiming that the university had allowed antisemitism to run unchecked on its campus. In a statement on Monday, the administration said that it was examining about $256 million in contracts, as well as an additional $8.7 billion in what it described as ‘multiyear grant commitments.'”
AT 9:46 PM ET, SpaceX is scheduled to launch the Fram2 polar-orbiting mission.
UPDATE: Launch successful, booster recovered on its 6th flight. Nominal orbital insertion for Dragon. Capsule separated from second stage, flying on its own in polar orbit.
OPEN THREAD: Monday, Monday.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: NASA adds Starship to launch contract.
LOL, TIM WALZ:
They had a prior DUI, Tim.
Which, of course, is grounds for deportation when you’re here on a green card status.
The University of Minnesota released a statement earlier today on this. Maybe have your staff check their emails before tweeting.
— Dustin Grage (@GrageDustin) March 31, 2025
BECAUSE BETA MALES LIKE AN EXCUSE TO FEEL POWERFUL: Why Do Democrats Love Violence? “The coordinated attacks on Teslas, Tesla drivers and Tesla dealers represent one of the most appalling political developments of recent years. These attacks are coordinated, organized and financed: yesterday was proclaimed a ‘global day of action’ by the ‘Tesla Takedown’ movement. CNN found the violence exciting. As do, apparently, 100% of Democratic politicians. I hadn’t seen any Democratic officeholders condemn the violence, so I thought I must have missed it. But no: the Google search ‘Democrats condemn Tesla attacks’ turns up zero instances of any such criticism.”
WELL:
Huge indeed. SCOTUS may not even need to review Humphrey’s Executor. https://t.co/lPof6GhnVw
— Ilya Shapiro (@ishapiro) March 31, 2025
WILL WOMEN TRUST MEN WHO SAY THEY’RE ON THE PILL? 99% Effective: First Hormone-Free Male Birth Control Pill Enters Human Trials.
In my experience, trusting women on that is iffy.
MARTYN FOGG, CALL YOUR OFFICE, IT’S TIME TO TERRAFORM MARS: Seismic Data Suggests Ocean’s Worth of Water Lies Beneath Surface of Mars.
I notice that used copies of his book are going for, er, astronomical sums. Time for a new edition?
CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: House Judiciary Advances Concealed Carry Reciprocity.
IF IT CAN BE DONE BY CHEATING, IT WILL HAPPEN: Republicans are acting like there’s a Blue Wave coming: Could Democrats retake the House … *before* the midterms?
I’d like to see a lot more urgency from Republicans in the legislative branch about now . . .