THE CALIFORNIA BAR DESCENDS FURTHER INTO PATHETICNESS: California Bar Allowed Non-Lawyers To Use AI To Draft February Exam Questions, Will Ask Supreme Court To Lower Cut Score.

THE HOLE TRUTH: Former Democratic Aide Opens Up About Senate Sex Tape Scandal, Compares Self to Monica Lewinsky.

“DUE PROCESS.” “RULE OF LAW.” Two Americas: Whiffleball Justice For “Progressives.”

REMEMBERING THE BRIEF, FAILED EFFORT TO PASS KAMALA OFF AS “COOL:”

How painfully embarrassing to remember things that were painfully embarrassing at the time. But the media tried to palm it off as “cool” last summer… back when they were pretending America would vicariously appreciate Kamala’s “joy.” I’d have thought no one would be so cruel as to bring up “Brat summer” again. It was so insanely delusional. And that is not cool.

Neither are Democrats, any more.

OPEN THREAD: Disport yourselves in the comments.

WHERE DO WE MINE? NASA’s Lucy probe captures 1st close-up images of asteroid Donaldjohanson, revealing ‘strikingly complicated geology.’

MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN IS UP: Alito’s right to warn: Court’s knee-jerk habit of slapping Trump will cost it dearly.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: What the Comfort Class Doesn’t Get: People with Generational Wealth Control America, but Don’t Understand It. “America has the equivalent of a class apartheid. Our systems—of education, credentialing, hiring, housing, and electing officials—are dominated and managed by members of a ‘comfort class.’ These are people who were born into lives of financial stability. They graduate from college with little to no debt, which enables them to advance in influential but relatively low-wage fields—academia, media, government, or policy work. Many of them rarely interact or engage in a meaningful way with people living in different socioeconomic strata than their own. And their disconnect from the lives of the majority has expanded to such a chasm that their perspective—and authority—may no longer be relevant.”

Plus: “College attainment is more than a matter of educational status; it is also a marker of class comfort. . . . To many Americans, classism is the last socially acceptable prejudice. It’s not hard to understand the resentment of a working-class person who sees Democrats as careful to use the right pronouns and acknowledge that we live on stolen Indigenous land while happily mocking people for worrying about putting food on the table.”

The most damning thing about the “comfort class,” though is that while they’re comfortable and insulated from consequences, they’re also for the most part terrible at what they do. Academics, bureaucrats, journalists, corporate flunkies — unlike the people putting food on the table, it’s hard to quantify what they do, and often what they do is socially destructive.

WELL, GOOD: Autism Breakthrough: Scientists Discover Brain Circuit Behind Social Attention Deficits.

YOU STICK WITH WHAT YOU’RE GOOD AT: All Democrats Do Is Lie.

I ALWAYS WORRY ABOUT HEARING DAMAGE FROM SHOOTING INDOORS WITHOUT PROTECTION: Is It Worth Running a Suppressor on Your Home Defense Rifle or Pistol?

FLASHBACK: How Democrats used NGOs to end-run voters: A ‘parallel government.’

I LIKE AN ANKLE HOLSTER FOR THIS: Carrying Concealed While Driving.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: What to know about GLP-1 supplements for weight loss.

AIN’T NO PARTY LIKE A CHIMP PARTY: Are these chimps having a fruity booze-up in the wild?

WELL, GOOD: Iron and blue light enable rapid, low-toxicity creation of carbohydrates for new antibiotics.

WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY: Scientists improve gravitational wave identification with machine learning.

FASTER, PLEASE: DNA repair mechanism may hold key to overcoming tumor resistance to radiotherapy.

CHANGE: New Poll Data Confirms the Democrats’ Worst Fears.

And that story doesn’t even mention this news:

YALE POLL…

Women, aged 18-21 (middle Gen Z):
🔴 R+4

This is monumental.

This is madness for the Democrats.

Not white women. American women at-large, 18-21. All races, religions (or lack thereof), etc.

I think it might get worse.

BTW – this group was basically destroyed by…

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) April 22, 2025

Democrats’ biggest supporters are now in the 70+ demographic.

THEY’RE NOT UMPIRES CALLING BALLS AND STRIKES, THEY’RE BATTING FOR ONE TEAM: A Tale Of Two Shadow Dockets: The Supreme Court moves heaven and earth to block removal of alleged gang members who are almost certainly removable, but says nothing about Ohio initiative process being declared unconstitutional. “It is often said that the Supreme Court follows the headlines. To be clear, the Supreme Court follows the headlines of the mainstream media. There is a never-ending torrent of hottakes about a constitutional crisis. But most Americans will scratch their heads at this issue and wonder why the Supreme Court is giving so much attention to these alleged gang members.”

Yes, when John Roberts worries about the Court’s “legitimacy,” he means its legitimacy in the eyes of the editorial boards of the New York Times and the Washington Post, not in the eyes of the American people. Which is shortsighted, but so very on-brand.

WELL, CERTAIN WHITE PEOPLE SPEND MORE TIME ON THAT THAN OTHERS: How White People Decide What’s Racist Or Sexist: An interview with sociologist Jessi Streib, who simply asked them. “It’s not just virtue signaling about their group, but because they know they’re part of this group, they know what they’re supposed to believe, and then they also come to actually believe it, often.”

HOW ABOUT NO? Practice ‘enoughness’ for ‘climate change’: Scholars say cut back on kids, travel, meat.

CHANGE: FL universities will be the first to carry out immigration enforcement on campus.

PRIVATEERS WOULD BE A GOOD SOLUTION HERE: Trump Admin Sanctions Iranian Shipping Magnate Offloading Illicit Oil and Gas for Tehran.

THE ACLU THINKS OF ITSELF AS A PART OF THE JUDICIARY, NOT AS AN OUTSIDER: The ACLU’S Ex Parte Voicemail To Seek An Ex Parte Injunction. “The mere fact that the plaintiffs perceive an emergency does not excuse the plaintiffs from following the usual rules. Then again, the Supreme Court ignored a host of procedural rules in this case, so maybe the ACLU thought the call was cool.”

Plus: “Gelernt was on notice not to leave voicemails, as the court said all requests had to be made in writing:” Makes you wonder if he was having unreported ex parte conversations or messaging with other judges who have been less forthcoming.