Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
April 15, 2025
“ELON IS KILLING TESLA’S BRAND:”
TESLA OUTSOLD THE NEXT 10 EV BRANDS COMBINED IN Q1 2025
Tesla remained far ahead of the competition in Q1 2025, selling 128,100 EVs — more than the next 10 brands combined.
The Model Y and Model 3 continued to lead the charts, showing Tesla’s strong grip on the U.S. electric… https://t.co/xLVmjpt4hn pic.twitter.com/Pzsvkf8bkq
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) April 14, 2025
I’VE GOT A LITTLE LIST: These 77 Colleges (And 45 Law Schools) Have The Most To Lose From Trump’s Cuts.
POLLS:
America is healing! Latest Harvard Harris poll shows OVERWHELMING support for Trump policies:
74% for deporting illegals
70% for closing the border
69% for DOGE
65% to ban trans men from girl sports
57% for ending foreign aid
57% for reciprocal tariffs
53% for Alaska drilling pic.twitter.com/jS5ORMJvbv— Jess Fields (@jessalanfields) April 14, 2025
I FIND YOUR TERMS ARE ACCEPTABLE: Dem Senator’s Ultimatum: Bring Back Deported MS-13 Suspect Or I’ll Go To El Salvador.
THE 21ST CENTURY BOB JONES UNIVERSITY: Harvard Rejects Deal With Trump Admin, Putting Billions in Federal Funding at Risk.
YA THINK? You Heard It Here First: The Obamas Are Hiding Something.
To be fair, everybody is, ‘cept for me and my monkey.
SETH BARRETT TILLMAN: Ruminations on Judge Boasberg’s Choices.
MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: How Democrats used NGOs to end-run voters: A ‘parallel government.’
YES.
Tax payers have been funding our opponents. If DOGE continues, the real political dynamic of the US will emerge. This, not the deficit, is why DOGE matters so much. https://t.co/qS9zxGddJ7
— Randy Barnett (@RandyEBarnett) April 14, 2025
April 14, 2025
For those scouring the news cycle for the next meme, I offer what seems to me the word of the day: “chaos.” Yes, that’s right, like some character out of the Book of Revelation Donald Trump has unleashed chaos upon the world. He is in the process of gutting, defunding or eliminating all the left’s favorite playpens, from the Department of Education to the National Endowment for Democracy. Thanks to the efforts of Elon Musk and his team at the Department of Government Efficiency, he has revealed the sorry truth that “NGO,” which we were told meant “non-governmental organization,” actually means “nurturing governmental officialdom,” i.e., diverting taxpayer dollars for oneself, one’s relatives and people who can do you some favors. Which is to say that the “non” in “NGO” really means “all” or “limitless.” As one canny commentator on X observed, “Over the last few months, we’ve come to a realization that should have landed much harder: NGOs weren’t just adjacent to government, they were the parallel government.”
Indeed. Remember all that talk about “the deep state?” NGOs were a critical enabling yeast. . . .
Donald Trump has upset that apple cart. For people who care about things like fiscal sanity, accountability and transparency, it is a welcome restoration. For people who have made their living exploiting the many opportunities for corruption the status quo ante offered, it is chaos, a plunge into outer darkness.
Once again, the tergiversations of the punditocracy and the public-teat-sucking political class are amusing to behold. Donald Trump announces a raft of tariffs in an effort to bring critical industries back to the United States and to level the economic playing field. The markets weep for a few days. One by one, countries line up to make a deal with the world’s largest economy. At last count, some 90 countries have signaled their intention to trim the tariffs and other trade barriers they have erected against America. Even China is making some agreeable noises. Trump has responded by delaying the imposition of certain tariffs, a canny bit of flexibility that the anti-Trump chorus has denounced as “panic.” “No One Is Buying the White House Spin,” screams one headline. But in fact, countries are lining up to buy it, and it’s no spin, it’s negotiation. As the investor Bill Ackman put it, “A willingness to adjust a strategy based on new facts and data is a sign of the strength of a leader. It is not an indication of weakness.”
Leftists’ unwillingness — inability? — to live in the real world is one of the right’s hidden strengths. Well, hidden from the left, anyway.
OPEN THREAD: Monday, Monday.
MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: How Democrats used NGOs to end-run voters: A ‘parallel government.’
BAN SOCIAL MEDIA, REQUIRE JOBS IN HIGH SCHOOL: High School Students Are Growing Incredibly Anti-Social: Dating, Hanging Out and Working Are All in Steep Decline.
ELON CAN LAUNCH THEM FASTER THAN THEY CAN SHOOT THEM DOWN, BUT THERE’S MORE TO IT THAN THAT: Russia and China are threatening SpaceX’s Starlink satellite constellation, new report finds.
AND YOU THOUGHT THE SCIENCE WAS SETTLED: Researchers Identify New Blood Group After 50 Year Mystery.
IN BOATS? New Research Reveals How Bronze Age Scandinavians Could Have Crossed the Sea. Hard to get really lost in the Baltic, I would think.
TODAY IS WORLD QUANTUM DAY. Depending on how you look at it.
AMERICA NEEDS A CHEAP TRUCK: Could a Bezos-Backed Startup Bring a $25,000 Truck to Market?
JUST REMEMBER, AI GETS BETTER EVERY YEAR, WHILE PEOPLE STAY BASICALLY THE SAME: AI isn’t ready to replace human coders for debugging, researchers say. Even when given access to tools, AI agents can’t reliably debug software.