IT’S ALMOST LIKE TRUMP SETS THESE THINGS UP AS TRAPS: Abrego Garcia Case Keeps Getting Worse for Dems.

HAHA:

Never gets old. This year and every year… https://t.co/I1MAraCbTf

— Jim Geraghty (@jimgeraghty) May 1, 2025

Note, however, that the commies did not just give up and go away.

CONFRONTING FICTION BECAUSE THE FACTS ARE TOO HARD TO FACE: UK Parliament Hosts Incredibly Embarrassing Hearing Over Netflix Show ‘Adolescence.’

When African immigrants murder people, we must crack down on adolescent white Britons.

META IS GARBAGE: Robby Starbuck Sues Meta Over False Claims Its AI Made About Him. “Large language models like Meta’s AI can hallucinate false answers about a topic, but he wondered if these specific claims may have absorbed from some “source” when Meta’s AI was scraping the internet for training material. However, Starbuck’s research team couldn’t find anyone making these specific claims about him anywhere else online. Also, other AI companies did not make the same errors. . . . This is the first time I’ve heard of a company being sued for defamation over what its AI said about someone, but it turns out this is not the first such case. There was a similar case in Georgia last year involving Open AI’s ChatGPT. That case also involved a conservative.”

FOLLOW THE SCIENCE MONEY: Email Exposes How Boss Of NIH-Funded Alzheimer’s ‘Amyloid Mafia’ Shakes Down Critics. “77,655 Alzheimer’s papers cite the hundreds of papers compromised by manipulated evidence, according to a February book by Science reporter Charles Piller. Forty-six Alzheimer’s researchers, including major contributors to the amyloid hypothesis, have authored papers with evidence of manipulated data.”

How many lives were lost, and are still being lost, because of this self-interested wrong turn?

TO BE FAIR, THEIR PRESENT SOCIETY IS 100% ORGANIZED AROUND AVOIDING THE TRUTH: Europe’s Problem With Trump Is That He Tells Them the Truth.

MARK JUDGE: David Horowitz: American Hero.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Scathing Harvard Report Details Pervasive Anti-Semitism Driven By ‘Politicized Instruction.’

JUST A BONUS: Trump Didn’t Have to Humiliate ’60 Minutes’ Like This, but He Did It Anyway.

NEW YORK TIMES CLAIM: Trump Invented the Surveillance State. “Donald Trump is fast becoming an Orwellian repository for America’s past sins, helping erase long histories of abuses.”

FREDDIE DE BOER: If “The Personal is Political,” Why Are You All So Fucking Sensitive?

The idea that “the political is personal” has proven to be one of the worst intellectual developments in the history of the left. I would argue that, more than any other ideological influence, this idea has underpinned the social justice turn in American liberalism, which has transformed the language and norms of contemporary left-of-center people and briefly the politics of the Democratic party. That famous little nostrum has ruled over a period of time in which any sense of politics as an exercise beyond and outside of the self has collapsed, leaving us with generations of progressive people who think that doing politics is all about feeling and not doing, who mistake posting black squares on Instagram and liking Frank Ocean for doing politics. “The personal is political” is why people think that crying until the other person stops talking is an appropriate way to debate, why the representation of Black woman in the next season of Love is Blind is treated as a bigger deal than lead in the drinking water in Black communities, why autism and ADHD have become lifestyle trends with vague activist connotations, why an entire generation of culture writers churn out pieces about how Inspector Gadget is propaganda for white supremacy, why left-of-center American politics is so horribly immaterial, why feelings have utterly eaten actual material oppression as the concern of the left. I’m not a fan.

The other thing, though, is that when you erase the line between the political and the personal, you end up with these weird social prohibitions against openly and frankly debating elements of politics that must be debated. If you say that your politics are who you are and that who you are is your politics, then criticism of certain elements of your politics will inevitably be represented as impolite and aggressive personal insult.

Well, yes.

OPEN THREAD: Hump Day.

STAINLESS STEEL IN SPACECRAFT. AMAZING, WHERE DID THEY GET THAT IDEA? China is making stainless steel tanks for its future super heavy-lift rockets. “The 10.6-meter-diameter, 9.0-meter-high tank is part of the development of the Long March 9; a future reusable super heavy-lift rocket designed for large lunar and infrastructure missions which would transform the country’s launch capabilities. It is also being used in early mission concepts for crewed Mars missions.”

What will these creative Chinese think up next?

“JUSTICE:”

This is funny.

I didn’t see temporary asst US attorney Sara Levine cry when I watched her prosecute one of the last J6 trials the week before Christmas 2024.

When Biden DOJ forced a single mom charged with 4 misdemeanors who was inside the Capitol for 9 minutes engaged in no… pic.twitter.com/e01amGskhb

— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) April 30, 2025

I WON’T BELIEVE IT UNTIL COACH STARTS SELLING IT: World’s First ‘T. Rex Leather’ Is Claimed to Come From Dino DNA. Is This For Real? If it’s not real now, it will be.

A BIG WIN FOR SCIENCE:

I'm happy to announce one of the biggest policy victories of this administration.

It's been weeks in the making, but it's finally here:

ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS CANNOT PAYWALL NIH-FUNDED RESEARCH ANY LONGER. https://t.co/sdHCWw1WcZ

— Crémieux (@cremieuxrecueil) April 30, 2025

WOW:

I voted for this https://t.co/7DoQlAylpN

— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) April 30, 2025

UPDATE (From Ed): Capt. Stillman could no doubt use some additional security at Ice Station Zebra:

WEIRD HOW THE ENTIRE PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM SEEMS DESIGNED TO ENSURE THAT THEY DON’T GET IT: Just 15 Extra Minutes of Sleep Boosts Teen Brains.

I HAD MISSED THIS: A Good Day for the Navy. “Has the U.S. grown ashamed of its military victories? There are reasons to believe this is true.”

REAL CHANGE: Terraforming Mars: A Quick Q&A with … Edwin Kite and Robin Wordsworth on designing a new home beyond Earth. “As the prospect of human settlements on Mars draws closer to reality than we could have realistically imagined pre-SpaceX, so does the concept of terraforming, or shaping alien landscapes beyond Earth to suit human needs. The idea of an interplanetary species was first conceived in the 1890s. Not so long after, the idea of modifying the topography and natural resources of planets and asteroids arose as early as the 1940s, before being picked up by imaginative writers like Carl Sagan and Isaac Asimov.”

ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Should Your EDC Be A Throw-Away Gun? “The police are just doing their job, and one of their tasks is to collect evidence; ergo, your gun ends up in an evidence bag. Typically, the police will hold your firearm for a specified period until the investigation is completed. If you are cleared and no charges have been filed, you can expect to get your gun back. Maybe. There is no set timeframe for returning your gun to you. Every state is different. But your gun will be logged as evidence.”

BEEN THERE, DONE THAT: What does ‘remastering’ an album actually mean?

My own philosophy of mastering/remastering is along “less is more” lines, but you can do a lot of “flavor enhancing” without changing the fundamental sound if you know what you’re doing.

THEY NEED AN IPHONE ATTACHMENT: Synchrotron in a closet: Bringing powerful 3D X-ray microscopy to smaller labs.

HALFWAY THERE:

What do you call half the lawyers resigning from the Civil Rights Division of the DOJ?

A start. https://t.co/hmBfJ57cwU

— Randy Barnett (@RandyEBarnett) April 29, 2025

WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: First ‘smart,’ wearable, pediatric soft exoskeleton provides mobility for children with motor difficulties.