WELL, BYE: Morning Greatness: 20,000 IRS workers take Trump buyout offer.

DON SURBER: Harvard University, Welfare Queen. “I cannot see how a demand that Harvard end its racial discrimination violates the college’s First Amendment rights, so let’s try to figure this out.”

GOVERNMENT WASTE IS WILDLY EXAGG–

Twice as many credit cards are issued and active than the total number of government employees! Crazy. https://t.co/6Zfr3fyHM8

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 16, 2025

EVERY RECORD HAS BEEN ALTERED: At Harvard-Hosted ‘Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon,’ Law Students Target the Pages of Firms That Criticized School’s Response to Anti-Semitism.

Anti-Israel Harvard Law School students organized a workshop on the Ivy League campus earlier this month to edit the Wikipedia pages of more than a dozen prominent law firms, singling out some that threatened to stop recruiting at the school over its failure to rein in anti-Semitic activity.

Harvard’s National Lawyers Guild chapter, a left-wing legal advocacy group, hosted the “Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon” on April 2 at Harvard Law’s WCC student center, according to an announcement on Harvard Law’s website.

Third-year Harvard Law student Corinne Shanahan, an organizer with Harvard Out of Occupied Palestine, organized the clinic for students to “gather data to edit the Wikipedia pages of Big Law firms to reflect cases they have recently argued.”

Two days later, Harvard Law student Aashna Avachat edited the Wikipedia pages of 14 law firms, mostly to add details of their representation of clients that the activist students deemed to be unsavory, according to a Washington Free Beacon review of Wikipedia edit logs.

Avachat edited the pages for the firms Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett to soften the language about anti-Semitic activity on college campuses. Amid a wave of anti-Semitic protests following the Hamas attack on Israel, the two firms warned Harvard Law and others that they would cut back on recruiting on their campuses for failing to rein in anti-Semitic incidents.

The edit logs show Avachat changed the term “antisemitic incidents” to “pro-Palestine protests,” and reworded references to “incidents targeting Jewish students” to incidents that the law firms “described … as antisemitic.” Avachat herself was involved in one incident at Harvard in which her law school classmate, Ibrahim Bharmal, accosted and shoved a Jewish student during an anti-Israel “die-in.” Avachat said she witnessed the incident and claimed Bharmal was protecting “peaceful protesters” against an “aggressive” Jewish student. Both Bharmal and another student activist, Elom Tettey-Tamaklo, were charged in connection with the “die-in,” a case that Harvard delayed by refusing to cooperate with local prosecutors.

Jeff Neal, a spokesman for Harvard Law School, said the Wikipedia workshop “was organized by a student-run organization and does not represent the views of Harvard Law School.”

I wonder if there might be liability attached.

WHY IS HARVARD SUCH A CESSPIT OF ANTI-SEMITISM? Harvard Law Publishes Fond Reminiscence From Student Facing Criminal Charges for Assaulting Jewish Classmate.

I’M PROUD TO MAKE THE LIST: The 20 Best Quotes of the Last Decade.

YES:

People should familiarize themselves with Bob Jones University v. United States, 461 U.S. 574 (1983). https://t.co/Oqt1IFraoq

— Randy Barnett (@RandyEBarnett) April 15, 2025

OPEN THREAD: Have fun!

A GOOD PROBLEM TO HAVE: No man’s airspace: Why our skies aren’t ready for the space boom.

YES:

From a certain POV the tariff war is madness. From another it's the tactic of prematurely triggering an economic ambush before the West is in the kill zone.

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) April 15, 2025

THE WALKING DEAD:

Biden should have never came out of hiding….

“I remember watching a bus go by… it was full of colored kids… I had never seen those.”
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— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) April 15, 2025

SPACE:

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HMM: Ozempic Reshapes The Kinds of Food People Eat. Here’s What Happens.

PUNISH THEM:

No one is above the law. https://t.co/7IDtbbC3aN

— Randy Barnett (@RandyEBarnett) April 15, 2025

WE’RE STILL LEARNING ABOUT HUMAN ORIGINS: Mystery Fossil From Taiwan Identified As Denisovan – A Game-Changer for Human Evolution.

GIVEN ALL THE LEFTIES CHEERING FOR LUIGI MANGIONE, IS THIS A SURPRISE? Months after CEO’s killing, an intruder is arrested near UnitedHealthcare headquarters in Minnesota.

LIST: The Weirdest Pickup Trucks of All Time.

OF COURSE: Racy Interiors Could Look Less Racy as the EU Aims to Ban Carbon Fiber.

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Missouri House Votes to Allow Guns on Public Transit, Lower Concealed Carry Age.

SPACE: Lucy spacecraft prepares for second asteroid encounter.

DON’T OVERDO THEM: Modeling study suggests CT scans carry cancer risk on par with alcohol, obesity.

WELL, THAT’S BAD: Pfizer ends development of weight-loss pill after patient’s liver injury.

YEAH, GUYS, DOUBLE DOWN ON THAT ONE:

Libs: "We have a 21% approval rating and just got our doors blown off in the last election. How can we improve our standing?"

Also Libs: "How about we hate dogs." pic.twitter.com/MSvQCi957R

— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) April 15, 2025

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: ‘Colonial dysphoria’ causes ‘distress’ for minority students, professor says. Faculty condemn Trump administration’s ‘anti-intellectualism,’ advocate for ‘collective’ property.

ACCOUNTABILITY: Trump admin ends $12.6 Million in NIH grants to UW-Madison, including projects on ‘gender identity.’