IT’S A THEME: European automakers face a “perfect storm” as sales stagnate.

WE’LL SEE: Anthropic chief says AI could surpass “almost all humans at almost everything” shortly after 2027.

NEXT THEY’LL BE GETTING A MICRO-ONLYFANS: The Secret Sex Lives of Bacteria.

I CREDIT SEXUAL SELECTION: More than 100 years of data suggest men are growing taller and heavier at twice the rate of women.

RESEARCH: Massive study looks at benefits, risks of GLP-1 weight-loss drugs.

DON SURBER: Democrat Overkill Made Trump Stronger.

BOB GRABOYES: Generalissimo Franco, Dead Parrot, the ERA.

CHANGE: ‘Countercultural groundswell’: Yale freshmen want stronger free speech protections: Students are pushing back on ‘massive censorship,’ ‘woke ideology,’ law student says. ‘Noble said she believes the results echo “a broader cultural vibe shift [that] will have an impact on Yale long into the future.'”

A SMALL MEASURE OF ACCOUNTABILITY: NYU suspends nearly a dozen pro-Palestine students for a year after ‘sit-in’ protest during finals week.

NOBODY SHOULD: Truckers File Lawsuit Arguing They Shouldn’t Lose Second Amendment Rights Just Because They Cross State Lines. We need legislation establishing mandatory national carry reciprocity.

SO I MENTIONED YESTERDAY THAT LSU LAW PROFESSOR KEN LEVY IS BEING “replaced pending an investigation” of the remarks he made about the election. The remarks seem to be transcribed here, and honestly they sound utterly acceptable to me. They don’t even seem to come close to violating the Louisiana policy that’s mentioned in the letter. I can’t imagine that any student would have felt “intimidated” by them, and any student who did is probably too fragile to be in law school anyway.

Flashback: Reverse Speech Codes Aren’t the Answer. I get that there’s a temptation to play the turnabout is fair play card, and in some cases that may even be true, but this just looks like a big nothingburger to me.

GOOD: Trump’s DEI Scrutiny Coming to Law Schools.

OFFER A BOUNTY TO PLAINTIFF’S LAWYERS WHO SNIFF THINGS LIKE THIS OUT:

What’s beautiful is that thanks to the Interwebs and X, they can’t hide this stuff anymore.

We are unleashing the power of thousands of autistic guys with time on their hands to dig in deep and uncover the lies and deceptions. https://t.co/AGqViv1WrG

— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) January 23, 2025

TNC: Don’t let’s be beastly: On Elon Musk & the grooming gangs of England.

I THINK THIS HEADLINE’S SUPPOSED TO MAKE ME FEEL BAD. IT’S NOT WORKING. Trump’s Arrival Brightens U.S. Outlook, Darkens Everyone Else’s: The bankers, government officials and CEOs at Davos see his deregulatory, energy and tariff policies sucking investment from other regions and hurting their exports. All they have to do is emulate us — and Argentina! Some are beginning to grasp this:

Many at Davos blamed Europe’s dismal outlook on the failures of its own leaders, not on Trump.

European scientists are making progress on technologies that use genetically engineered microbes to solve any number of problems, said Kasim Kutay, the chief executive of Novo Holdings, which manages the assets and wealth of the foundation that controls Danish pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk.

It takes seven to eight years, however, to get such a product approved by European regulators, compared with two to three in the U.S., he said: “A lot of that innovation is happening in Europe, but the companies ultimately seek funding in the U.S.”

How about that?

YES, THE NONPROFIT WORLD NEEDS MORE SUPERVISION. IT’S CURRENTLY A CESSPIT OF SHADOW GOVERNMENT, SLUSH FUNDS, AND MONEY LAUNDRIES.

Everything Donald Trump is dismantling will be parked at a bunch of communist 501c3’s until the next Democrat President, when it will be quickly restored to government.

The Trump admin MUST go after the left wing non profits to secure long term victories. Break them. Strike.

— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) January 22, 2025

I have some related thoughts here.

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OUT WITH THE OLD ELITES: Lawless: The Miseducation Of America’s Elites, With Ilya Shapiro.

OPEN THREAD: Hump Day.

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THE NEW SPACE RACE: Finland Signs On To Artemis Accords.

ANOTHER CAMPAIGN PROMISE KEPT: President Donald Trump Pardons Silk Road Founder Ross Ulbricht.

FASTER, PLEASE: Breakthrough Single-Dose Drug Wipes Out Breast Tumors in Mice Without Side Effects.

WELL, YES:

THIS is why many Republicans are blasé about the J6 pardons. https://t.co/4u6EeAWpvU

— Fusilli Spock (@awstar11) January 22, 2025

A LOOK AT Trump’s Executive Order Banning Affirmative Action and DEI Preferences.

More here.

SLOW DOWN, YOU MOVE TOO FAST, WE GOTTA MAKE THIS COSMOS LAST: Scientists Confirm The Universe Is Expanding Too Fast.