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So, if I’m following, “democracy” is when the security services investigate a leading political party, make an unpublished determination of “extremism” that licenses surveillance, and then the courts decide whether to ban that party.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.

SCIENCE: Texas Attorney General launches investigation into companies illegally marketing toothpaste. “The investigation was launched amid a growing body of scientific evidence demonstrating that excessive fluoride exposure is not safe for children. For example, in August 2024, the Department of Health and Human Services’ National Toxicology Program released a meta-analysis that found a statistically significant association between fluoride exposure and lower IQ scores in children. The CDC states that parents should only put a rice-sized “smear” of toothpaste on the brush until the child turns three years old. . . .However, despite both these and additional guidelines, toothpaste manufacturers continue to flavor their products and deceptively market them in ways that encourage kids to ingest fluoride toothpaste and mislead their parents to use far more than the safe and recommended amount of fluoride toothpaste.”

100 DAYS AND TRUMP SUPPORTERS ARE GLOATING: Michael Walsh writes: “Stock market up big, inflation down, jobs good, NPR defunded, Poison Ivy rackets soon to be stripped of their tax exemptions, China reeling from tariffs. What’s not to like?”

I bet CNN hated reporting this. https://t.co/BPCJc22x9A

— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) May 2, 2025

Lots more work to do, though. But good news. Still, beware:

If societal calamities which cam be exploited for political gamesmanship do not materialize organically, the progressive cult and the social apparatus it controls will manufacture calamities, and the nation will suffer for it.

Never underestimate their ambition.

— Thymirus (@thymirus) May 2, 2025

I RECOMMEND A CAN OPENER, TOO:

Experts name five things to survive a grid collapse

1. Cash;
2. AM radio
3. Canned food
4. Candles
5. Spare batteries

The farmer in Leyte is in many respects better prepared than the advanced Westhttps://t.co/wwVMvrt2Si

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) May 1, 2025

Also guns and ammo.

WELL, GOOD: The Death of the Station Wagon has been Greatly Exaggerated.

FIGHT THE POWER: Minnesota Gun Owners Take Aim At Taxpayer-Funded Anti-Gun Activism.

NOW OUT FROM KURT SCHLICHTER & IRINA MOISES: Lost Angeles: Silver Bullets On The Sunset Strip. A departure from Kurt’s earlier work, though there are still guns. With silver bullets. Kinda more Larry Correia-ish and that’s a compliment. I enjoyed it, and it’s a real page-turner.

WELL, GOOD: Monoclonal antibody provides strong real-world protection against severe RSV in infants, suggests meta-analysis.

DELICIOUS: Eating Harvard’s Lunch.

“DEMOCRACY:” German Intelligence Officially Designates AfD an ‘Extremist Organization’ That Threatens Democracy. In Germany and elsewhere, the grifters in charge are pulling out all the stops to retain power.

Europe needs some revolutions. Hopefully not bloody, but revolutions one way or another.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Busting lightning myths: What’s true, what’s dangerous and what could save your life.

WELL, GOOD: Ozempic shows promise in treating fatty liver disease.

FINALLY: Trump makes first judicial nomination since returning to White House. “The nomination was the first of what is expected to be more than 100 nominations Trump could make over the next four years to the federal courts, helping further put his conservative stamp on a judiciary that to his frustration has stymied key parts of his immigration and cost-cutting agenda.”

Congress needs to increase the size of the judiciary, and the Supreme Court, as soon as possible. It’s a nonpartisan project with bipartisan support!

The National Judicial Council just recommended adding 66 District Judges and two Court of Appeals judges to remedy the “crisis of undermanned federal courts.” Republicans should do at least that, though I would add at least two new Court of Appeals judges to each circuit. And I might increase the number of district judges appointed to the District for the District of Columbia, and perhaps the Southern District of New York, beyond the Council’s recommendations on the ground that those districts seem to be getting busier.

This wouldn’t be court-packing, since it’s simply following the recommendations of a non-partisan commission. (And in truth, it’s been widely agreed for many years that the federal courts are understaffed).

Now for the Supreme Court. Again, no partisan court-packing. Instead, in a spirit of bipartisanship, the GOP should enact the Democrats’ bill from 2021, which would have expanded the Supreme Court from 9 to 13. Although perhaps, in a spirit of generosity, they might increase the number to 15.

Yes. We must be generous.

LIFE AS AN INFLUENCER: “Was everything a lie? Was I secretly insecure this whole time, and just using body positivity to make money so I could finally afford a boob job? No.”

TRANSPARENCY: Iowa may require professors to publish class materials online for public review.