SETH BARRETT TILLMAN: How Soon They Forget: Arresting State Judges. With the left, history always began three weeks ago. “What is described above happened under President Obama Trump-45 and under President Lincoln. Judges are not above the law; judges cannot interpose their courthouse and personal rules and policies against federal officers. And when state judges violate the law, they must be arrested . . . like you and me and anyone else. We all know that—or, at least, we should.”

No one is above the law, as everyone was saying until, well, yesterday.

IT’S UNWISE TO GO TO THE MATTRESSES WHEN YOU DON’T HAVE MANY MATTRESSES: Coequal Branches? It’s Time for Trump to Stick It to the Judiciary.

SELF-MARGINALIZATION: The Ivy League Is Being Hoist on Its Own Petard. “Trump’s ‘trump card’ against these institutions is not their use of federal dollars to preach and teach hatred against America, and especially conservatives, but rather their open violation of federal law in promoting ‘social justice.'”

OFT EVIL WILL SHALL EVIL MAR: How Activist Judges Could Hasten the Filibuster’s Demise: Lawless injunctions are thwarting the president’s agenda and threatening the Senate’s venerable tradition.

UM: Don Surber: Trump v. academia. New England Journal of Medicine published letter saying narcotics aren’t addictive.

Hey, remember when a bunch of medical “experts” told the kids that steroids didn’t build muscle? Science!

OPEN THREAD: Because I love you and want you to be happy.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Report warns U.S. risks strategic drift in space as China gains ground.

WHAT ARE THE DEEP SEVENS UP TO NOW? Scientists Spotted Signs of a Hidden Structure Inside Earth’s Core.

FASTER, PLEASE:

The goal is to make orbital launches as common as airplanes taking off from airports.https://t.co/54Abzv4aNG

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) April 24, 2025

REVIEW: Driven! The 2025 Lincoln Navigator Navigates to a Higher Plane.

RULE OF LAW: Fla. Walgreens Shooting Ruled Self-Defense.

COLOR ME UNSURPRISED: Study Finds Armed Civilians More Effective at Stopping Active Shooters than LE: A dispersed response works very well against a dispersed threat.

As I’ve said for years, the only first responders who will always be on the scene are the people who are already there.

THIS DOES NOT SURPRISE ME: Young women show greater increase in past-month binge drinking than men.

EVERYTHING IS AWFUL: Tapeworm in fox poop that will slowly destroy your organs is on the rise.

WELL, GOOD: Super-Earths are common outside the solar system, new study shows.

EAT MORE BEEF: Regular chicken consumption linked to higher risk of early death from gastrointestinal cancers.

DO TELL: FDA warns unapproved hair-loss product finasteride tied to side effects.

FOLLOW THE “SCIENCE:”

NYT obituary for former Harvard Medical School pathologist driven out of his job for insisting on a heterodox position on the risk factors of heart disease that clashed with Big Pharma orthodoxy in the service of its financial interests that later was proven to be correct pic.twitter.com/x1T1axXa9r

— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) April 24, 2025

BUT OF COURSE: ‘Pervasive leftward bias’: Taxpayer-funded Truman Scholars overwhelmingly liberal for 11th year in a row.

OH NOOO — OUTRAGED DEMOCRATS: Trump to speak at Alabama commencement, sparks outrage from College Democrats.

GOOD: The Education System Is Failing, But Change Is Coming.

OUTSIDE PRESSURE PROMOTING INTERNAL REFORM:

This is fascinating. More than 100 Yale professors have called for an audit of the university's sprawling bureaucracy.

The audit, they say, would "preempt potential federal intervention" and send the message: "Yale prioritizes intellectual vitality over bureaucratic inertia." pic.twitter.com/C37Fjk6FuE

— John Sailer (@JohnDSailer) April 25, 2025

NEWS FROM THE PARTS OF AMERICA THAT STILL WORK: SpaceX launches 28 Starlink Internet satellites from Florida.

This launch isn’t really news, because it happens all the time routinely. The news is that it happens all the time routinely.

CHRISTOPHER RUFO & RYAN THORPE: Princeton’s War on Civil Rights: The university has entrenched a system of racial discrimination—against whites.

CONSEQUENCES MATTER: Columbia Radicals Ditch Reported Encampment Plans After University Threatens Arrests.