IF YOU MAKE IT PAINFUL, THEY WON’T DO IT ANYMORE:
Lol I love these humiliation rituals.
The universities just want to leave this stuff behind and pretend it never happened.
This is what I voted for. https://t.co/kU86nJvpuc
— Coddled affluent professional (@feelsdesperate) April 28, 2025
YES:
— Randy Barnett (@RandyEBarnett) April 28, 2025
MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: At White House Correspondents’ Dinner, fake remorse over Biden ‘mistakes.’ “Imagine a neurological disease that changed your perceptions in subtle, damaging ways. Stubbing your toe would bring pleasure. Rotten meat would taste delicious. Deadly cold would feel comfy. Meanwhile, a gentle neck massage would make you feel sick, and fresh food would taste disgusting. You wouldn’t last long with such a disease. But our society is facing something similar. The news media, which are supposed to act as a sort of nervous system for the body politic, instead give us misinformation.”
Plus: “Journalists didn’t ‘miss’ the story. They lied about it. They chose not to cover what Americans could see with their own eyes.”
REPORT FROM THE BLUE ZONES:
BREAKING: A prominent Black Lives Matter activist threatens war against the Jewish community as a mob marches towards the Chabad headquarters in Crown Heights.
Can you imagine if the roles were reversed? The media would be all over it. https://t.co/sXAILoq2LD
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) April 29, 2025
WHY IS THE IVY LEAGUE SUCH A CESSPIT OF RACISM, BIGOTRY, AND HATE?
Princeton should be hit with both private lawsuits and massive Justice Department action. And Eisgruber, who had to know what he was ordering was illegal, and his minions in the Princeton administration, should be sued in their personal capacities. https://t.co/JShuzV4ypb
— David Bernstein (@ProfDBernstein) April 28, 2025
Sounds like the Chinese cultural revolution. Wasn't pretty. https://t.co/PoygWPIgEE
— Harmeet K. Dhillon (@HarmeetKDhillon) April 28, 2025
STANDING UP AGAINST HATE, BIGOTRY, AND DISCRIMINATION: Trump Administration Launches Probes of Harvard Law Review’s Racial Preferences: The Education Department and HHS will investigate whether the journal violated civil rights law. “The Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human Services will conduct separate investigations of the university after the Washington Free Beacon published a news report Friday revealing that the law review uses race to select both editors and articles for publication. The report was based on a trove of internal documents.”
THE NEW SPACE RACE: Amazon launches its first satellites to rival Starlink. “Amazon’s Kuiper broadband internet constellation is starting to take shape, with its first batch of satellites shipped and deployed into space on Monday. The launch is just the first of 80 that Amazon has lined up to take all 3,236 Project Kuiper satellites into low-Earth orbit as part of the retail giant’s effort to compete with Starlink — SpaceX’s market-dominating satellite internet business.”
The launch was by ULA, not by Blue Origin.
IT’S A START: Trump administration withholding $436.87 billion in approved spending, top Democrats say. Almost halfway to Elon’s promised $1 Trillion in savings.
DON SURBER: Trump changed DC this time. Trump’s second presidency is very different from his first.
JEFFREY CARTER: Being Late To The Party Actually Means You Never Got An Invite. “China has cities to nowhere and an underperforming economy right now. It has debt. But if it wins the AI/Robotics/Quantum race, it won’t matter. I don’t think the world understands this, nor does much of it care. In fact, some of them are rooting for China because they worship centralization. . . . The US has always been about opportunity. We don’t wait for the meeting to end and for the decision to be made. You can sit on the porch steps and talk about it, or you can just do it. Your choice. You won’t have that choice if China is in control. They will choose. The party velvet rope will be put up, and while they are getting bottle service courtesy of you, you will be excluded.”
OPEN THREAD: Monday, Monday.
MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: At White House Correspondents’ Dinner, fake remorse over Biden ‘mistakes.’ “Imagine a neurological disease that changed your perceptions in subtle, damaging ways. Stubbing your toe would bring pleasure. Rotten meat would taste delicious. Deadly cold would feel comfy. Meanwhile, a gentle neck massage would make you feel sick, and fresh food would taste disgusting. You wouldn’t last long with such a disease. But our society is facing something similar. The news media, which are supposed to act as a sort of nervous system for the body politic, instead give us misinformation.”
Plus: “Journalists didn’t ‘miss’ the story. They lied about it. They chose not to cover what Americans could see with their own eyes.”
I’M SURE THAT “CLIMATE CHANGE” IS SOMEHOW RESPONSIBLE: Earth’s Rotation Is Slowing Down, And It Could Explain Why We Have Oxygen.
WEIRD THAT TAKING ENERGY POLICY ADVICE FROM A PUBESCENT GIRL WORKED OUT BADLY:
If only Europe built more power plants instead of listening to Greta Thunberg they’d never be in this situation https://t.co/IbMrReOJpB
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) April 28, 2025
PROF. CARRINGTON, CALL YOUR OFFICE: World’s Most Powerful Solar Telescope Captures the Sun’s Explosive Activity in Unmatched Detail.
KURT SCHLICHTER: Just Bomb Iran Already.
Nor do I want to hear any crap about how “America started it.” It’s objectively false – we did not start this, except in the sense we refuse to embrace their brand of primitive fanaticism – but I don’t care if we did. You don’t ever get to threaten or kill Americans, two things these savages have been doing for nearly half a century. They took our people hostage in 1979, and eight of our men were killed trying to rescue them. They were behind the Beirut bombings that killed hundreds of American diplomats and Marines. They backed terrorists who slaughtered Americans around the world. They armed and led the Shia thugs who maimed or killed thousands of our troops in Iraq. Payback is in order.
We talk a lot about a Jacksonian foreign policy, where America doesn’t go looking for trouble. But there’s another side to that coin. And that side depicts us wiping out anybody who dares kill Americans. The fact that we’ve allowed these barbarians to murder our people without retaliation is not only a moral disgrace but an invitation for every psychopath with a religious vision and an IED to make some Americans dead.
This is intolerable. The proper state of the world is one in which the mere thought of harming an American never arises because of the certainty that to do so will bring death to the terrorists, to everybody around the terrorists, and to everybody who helped the terrorists.
Andrew Jackson wasn’t just a big talker. If you messed with him, you died. This is actually the peaceful way – you come down hard once, and you don’t have to do it again. To be weak is to invite more conflicts; we’ve had plenty because of our weakness. Many of America’s foreign policy disasters since World War II, when Harry Truman had the stones to nuke Japan until it begged to surrender, have been a direct result of our refusal to make attacking America or Americans something less than an automatic apocalypse.
True Jacksonian foreign policy is tough but fair. It’s tough because if you screw with us, you die. It’s fair because if you don’t screw with us, we leave you alone.
But it offers insufficient opportunities for graft to interest most of our leadership class.
MARK JUDGE: Night Train: Pope Francis and Catholic Death.
PHYSICIAN, HEAL THYSELF: When Death Comes to the Intensivist.
WHAT DICTATORS DO: Meet the man whose lies put an innocent sailor in prison for 20 years. “The government’s case against Patrick ‘Tate’ Adamiak was led by two Assistant U.S. Attorneys, but their main witness became the real reason why a jury found Adamiak guilty, and a federal judge sentenced him to 20 years in prison. To be clear, Adamiak was railroaded by Jeffrey R. Bodell, who works out of a small ATF office in Martinsburg, West Virginia.”
I’VE SEEN THE LOCKDOWNS AND THE DAMAGE DONE: Cancer prevention not fully recovered from pandemic era declines, study says.
JON GABRIEL ON AMERICA’S SPIRITUAL REVIVAL: The Tin Gods Have Failed Us.
GOOD LUCK WITH THAT: “The search for The Joe Rogan of the Left goes on… with low-level desperation.”
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