THE NEW SPACE RACE: China launches internet technology test satellites with Long March 2D.
Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
April 1, 2025
ELECTION NIGHT SO FAR: Two wins in Florida. Wisconsin looking like there may be shenanigans.
WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Woman’s Brain Implant Turns Her Thoughts Into Speech in Real Time.
LIMITS OF THERMOREGULATION: New study validates lower limits of human heat tolerance.
CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Firearm Due Process Protection Act Will Proceed To The House Floor. “H.R. 2184 is sponsored by Republican Representative Tom Emmer of Minnesota’s 6th District, who also serves as House Majority Whip. The bill seeks to provide law-abiding Americans, improperly denied their right to legally purchase a firearm due to administrative errors during a background check, with legal recourse, for which there is shockingly no provision at this time. It is designed to enforce accountability within the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) by mandating finalized decisions on record correction requests within 60 days.”
FASTER, PLEASE: Cancer cells ‘hacked’ to expose themselves to immune attack.
TRUST THE EXPERTS, SHOT:
Notable reporting from Emily Kopp. A study purported to show that mortality is higher for black infants seen by white doctors. By now, the issues with this study are widely known.
FOIAed notes show how the authors in fact cut points that they said "undermined the narrative." pic.twitter.com/RtVe7inKcH
— John Sailer (@JohnDSailer) March 31, 2025
the famous study that Black babies cared for by white doctors died at higher rates than Black babies cared for by Black doctors turned out to be complete bullshit pic.twitter.com/4w0htbmalg
— Armand Domalewski (@ArmandDoma) March 31, 2025
CHASER:
ABC’s “experts” on clean water and air:
– a Colombia law professor
– an IU law professor
– an Obama appointee who was given a department at Yale called the “Center for Green Chemistry and Green Engineering” https://t.co/syPVCG00IH pic.twitter.com/fC1LwqlaYN
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) March 31, 2025
SO I WAS CHATTING WITH A COLLEAGUE ABOUT MY NEED FOR COFFEE BEFORE CLASS, and trying to think of a caffeine-related analog to Housman’s line, “Malt does more than Milton can, to justify God’s ways to man.” Couldn’t think of anything, so I asked GrokAI and got this: “Caffeine does more than Kant can dare, to lift the mind from dull despair.”
Not bad!
MAYBE WE SHOULD ELIMINATE THE ARTIFICIAL RESTRICTIONS ON MED SCHOOL ADMISSIONS AND RESIDENCIES: Physician shortages have hobbled health care for decades -− and it could get worse. Maybe we should also eliminate the paperwork and loss of professional independence that have driven many physicians out of the field.
A FRIEND COMMENTS: “The lopsided nature of our media culture is well-revealed by the lack of puff stories on Susie Wiles as the first female chief of staff. If she served a Democrat president, she’d be in People and Us Weekly, and all the other big magazines read predominantly by women. We’d see her home, her clothing, her family members, etc. Lots of questions about breaking the glass ceiling, being at the center of power. Instead, we see virtually none of that.”
I’m sure that caring about those things is somehow white supremacy or something.
CDR SALAMANDER: No, European Strategic Autonomy Drive is not Trump Related.
DENIAL OF THAT REALITY IS THE WHOLE POINT:
the funniest part is that you just know these lessons are going to be modeled on the near-mythological "white boy who plays too much COD and loves Andrew Tate" rather than the far more common UK archetype: "Pakistani boy who was raised from birth to think all women are whores" https://t.co/2m1U56IZF0
— pagliacci the hated 🌝 (@Slatzism) April 1, 2025
AFTER ALL, IT WAS YOU AND ME: Michael Walsh: Who Killed JFK?
FLASHBACK: Remembering the 2002 AOL/InstaPundit merger April Fool. The only April Fool I’ve done here, and probably the only one I ever will do, but it was fun — complete with a changed header to AOL/InstaPundit — and a surprising number of people bought it.
#JOURNALISM:
I can't believe my eyes. Lesley Stahl had the audacity to ask a Jewish hostage, who was tortured and starved by Hamas, if Hamas really meant to starve him or if they just didn't have enough food.
Is this a joke? How the hell can she even ask him that?pic.twitter.com/utofSTtbk8
— Vivid.🇮🇱 (@VividProwess) March 31, 2025
DON SURBER: Judge Boasberg is not my president.
THAT’S CRAZY TALK, MAN:
Maybe the real Nazis are the ones painting swastikas everywhere.
Maybe the real racists are the ones who discriminate based on race.
Maybe the real cheaters are the ones who imported millions of illegal immigrants to vote.
Maybe, just maybe… they lied to us the entire time.
— Matt Van Swol (@matt_vanswol) March 31, 2025
DON’T LET CRAZY PEOPLE LOOK AFTER YOUR KIDS: UK School Suspended a Toddler for Transphobia.
I ASSUME THEY’RE ALL FAKE UNTIL PROVEN TRUE: Evanston, IL and Another ‘Hate Crime’ That Never Happened.
And they’re basically never proven true.
SHE GETS THE CLASS ANGLE:
The divide in America is not political—it's a class divide separating the elites from the working class. Trump's economic agenda—a tight labor market and tariffs—raises the wages of working class Americans, which is why Wall Street, the Democrats, and their rich base hate it. pic.twitter.com/58NmuMUxnP
— Batya Ungar-Sargon (@bungarsargon) March 30, 2025