SPACE JUNK: Expanding the human presence in orbit faces growing risk from space debris.

OH NO! ANYWAY . . .

Mystery drone strikes activist supply ship bound for Gaza; was due to pick up Greta Thunberg in Malta en route.https://t.co/S4Z7EDL04m

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) May 3, 2025

FASTER, PLEASE: “Unprecedented Recovery” – Gene Therapy Reverses Heart Failure in Breakthrough Study. “Importantly, the treatment didn’t just prevent heart failure from worsening. Some key measures of heart function actually improved, suggesting the damaged heart was repairing itself.”

YES, THERE’S A REASON WHY PEOPLE HATE THEM: Dear Bicyclists: The Roads Were Built for Cars. I’m convinced that so many people hate cyclists because they’re perceived as cheaters, demanding the rights of cars when it suits them, then running traffic lights or u-turning in traffic without a thought.

WELL, GOOD: Our Long-Term Toyota Grand Highlander Crisscrosses the Country: We’re 30,000 miles in and have had no significant issues with this family-friendly workhorse.

EVERYTHING IS PROCEEDING AS TRUMP HAS FORESEEN: China Erupts: Furious Workers Riot As Factories Collapse Under Trump’s Tariffs. “Workers throughout China are flooding the streets in revolt as U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs slam the fragile Chinese export economy. From the cramped streets of Sichuan in the southwest to the cold outskirts of Inner Mongolia in the northeast, furious workers are demanding back pay and protesting mass layoffs as factories shutter under pressure from Trump’s tariffs.”

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Injunction Paves Way For Non-Residents To Apply For A California Carry Permit. “During the case, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department admitted it sometimes takes a year to a year and a half to process a CCW application, a fact that the judge did not find appropriate.”

PRIORITIES: White House budget seeks to end SLS, Orion, and Lunar Gateway programs: “SLS alone costs $4 billion per launch and is 140 percent over budget.”

HMM: Genetic analysis of all-women extreme divers finds changes linked to blood pressure and cold tolerance.

SPACE JUNK: BETTER PUT UP MY UMBRELLA. Spacecraft launched by Soviet Union in 1972 is falling back to Earth.

METFORMIN NEWS: Study links diabetes drug to reduced arthritis pain in knees. It’s interesting to me that all sorts of diabetes drugs are turning out to have other important benefits.

FUNNY MONEY: NIH investigates Biden last-minute $89 billion grant to ‘seemingly dormant’ University of California nonprofit: Nonprofit founded in 2022, never raised nor spent a dime.

Clearly, I’ve been in the wrong business.

RULE OF LAW: Kentucky universities cancel LGBTQ, black grad ceremonies to comply with anti-DEI law: Kentucky’s Legislature passed House Bill 4 last month, which prohibits public universities from ‘expending any resources’ on DEI.

HEY, THE LEFT HAS BEEN CALLING FOR CIVIC DISTURBANCE: Reaping What You Sow: AOC Townhall Descends Into Chaos As Protester Shrieks, ‘You’re a Liar!’

THEY SAID IT COULDN’T BE DONE:

Government spending drops 5.1% in first quarter.

Amazing.

Every American should celebrate the shrinking of Washington, DC spending.

— Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) May 3, 2025

DEFYING THE LAW: Harvard Law Review Asked Prospective Editors To Disclose Their Race Days After It Was Hit With Civil Rights Probes: Experts say the journal’s personal statement appears to violate federal law.

Elite academia is big on the “rule of law.” They just don’t expect it to apply to them.

MY LATEST SUBSTACK ESSAY:

JUST ASK BOB JONES UNIVERSITY: Trump Might Have a Strong Case in His Attack on Harvard’s Nonprofit Status. “When I started reporting for this column, I thought this was a direct threat to the First Amendment. That’s what the folks at The Wall Street Journal editorial page found. But I am not so sure anymore. After I talked to several lawyers, I found that the case for Trump’s approach is better than I thought. It all goes back to 1983 and an 8-1 Supreme Court decision called Bob Jones University v. the United States. Back then, the Christian university didn’t allow interracial dating, which it considered a violation of biblical values. The IRS decided that since the United States was firmly opposed to racial discrimination as “public policy,” the school should lose its nonprofit status. The Supremes overwhelmingly agreed. You might have noticed that 40 years later, the Supreme Court ruled that Harvard unconstitutionally discriminated by race in its admissions.”

UPDATE:

Laughs in Lois Lerner. https://t.co/iLRvYmUyYa

— The🐰FOO (@PolitiBunny) May 3, 2025

IT’S COME TO THIS:

DOGE: How do you get half of the woke lawyers in the DOJ to quit? Tell them they're going to have to combat antisemitism and keep men out of women's bathrooms. Assistant AG Harmeet Dhillon managed to get 50% of the woke lawyers in the Civil Rights Division to voluntarily resign. pic.twitter.com/rE7iijf7K8

— @amuse (@amuse) April 29, 2025

WE SHOULD! Roger Simon: We Should All Be Rooting for Rubio.

OPEN THREAD: Ring in the weekend.

HECK, I SAY GO FULL-SCALE ORION: Why space needs nuclear now.

MY LATEST SUBSTACK ESSAY:

THANK YOU, ANCESTORS: Study Reveals Italians Spent Thousands of Years Perfecting Grape Cultivation.

WORDS MEAN WHAT THE AUTHORITIES SAY THEY MEAN, COMRADE:

So, if I’m following, “democracy” is when the security services investigate a leading political party, make an unpublished determination of “extremism” that licenses surveillance, and then the courts decide whether to ban that party. O-kay. https://t.co/x6lZx81ijA

— Adrian Vermeule (@Vermeullarmine) May 2, 2025

Don’t ask me, ask the Stasi who run Germany now.