YEAH, THAT’S A REAL MYSTERY: House Oversight Probes Why Census Miscounts Boost Democrats in Electoral College, Apportionment.

OPEN THREAD: It’s your time to shine.

NAME IT BASIDIUM: Earth to get mini-Moon.

OOPS: US Man Dies After Wrong Organ Removal – Surgical Errors Are A Growing Problem.

A CENTURY OF UNDERMINING CHRISTIANITY BEARS FRUIT: Growing Numbers of Latinos ‘Revert’ to Islam.

ICYMI, OVER AT MY SUBSTACK I TALK ABOUT MY PODCAST INTERVIEW ON JURY NULLIFICATION WITH THOMSON/REUTERS’ “THE HEARING” PODCAST:

You can listen to it free at Apple Podcasts or on Spotify Open.

IT’S PROBABLY BEST TO GET THESE PEOPLE OUT OF THE GENE POOL, TO BE HONEST: When climate anxiety leads to childlessness: The sad result of a society soaking in dystopianism.

HE’S NOT WRONG:

BREAKING: Peter Thiel says if the 2024 election is close, Kamala Harris will cheat to STEAL it. He's also joining people like Elon Musk and calling for strict Voter ID, in-person election-day voting, & heavy restrictions on mail-in voting

"They will cheat. They will fortify it.… pic.twitter.com/irWvuzaasU

— George (@BehizyTweets) September 14, 2024

“SYSTEM DECAY” IS MOST OF OUR CIVILIZATION RIGHT NOW: Robin Hanson: Beware System Decay.

TRUE:

For many liberal Christians loving their neighbor means spitting on their current neighbor and replacing them with one that the New York Times would find more fashionable

— Auron MacIntyre (@AuronMacintyre) September 13, 2024

JEFFREY GOLDSTEIN: Am I Racist? part 2: The linguistic origins of a question not worth asking.

DO NOT WANT: Will phones someday be able to transmit smells?

IS THERE ANYTHING IT CAN’T DO? Moderate coffee consumption could provide health perks, study says. Perks. ISWYDT.

FLASHBACK: The Conservative School-To-Pundit Pipeline Is Bad for the Right. “If liberals love to talk about the school-to-prison pipeline that affects too many black kids, conservatives would have their own worries about the school-to-punditry pipeline that makes right-wing commentators soft, wonky, unfeeling and self-righteous.”

OVER AT MY SUBSTACK I TALK ABOUT MY PODCAST INTERVIEW ON JURY NULLIFICATION WITH THOMSON/REUTERS’ “THE HEARING” PODCAST:

You can listen to it free at Apple Podcasts or on Spotify Open.

STAND UP AGAINST BIGOTRY: White students sue Education Dept. over race-based exclusion in federally funded PhD scholarship program: Young America’s Foundation seeks to open the federally funded program to all individuals, ‘regardless of race.’

WHY ARE SO MANY UNIVERSITIES CESSPITS OF ANTISEMITISM? Will UCLA protect Jewish students this fall? Still a ‘question,’ lawyer says: Judge slams university’s ‘abhorrent’ actions helping pro-Palestinian protesters.

SOUNDS LIKE HE’S CREATING A HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT: ‘Racism expert’ Arizona prof attacks white students as ‘primary perpetrators’ of racial segregation on campus.

IF I WERE HIM I’D AVOID PAGERS AND WALKIE TALKIES: Cornell Professor Who Praised ‘Exhilarating’ Slaughter Of Israelis Returns To Teaching.

HAHA:

Hezbollah terrorists this morning adjusting to their new reality. pic.twitter.com/y5lgGbBe1y

— The Mossad: Satirical and Awesome (@TheMossadIL) September 19, 2024

SO MUCH GRASSROOTS ENTHUSIASM EVERYWHERE! Union Members Offered $100 To Attend Rally for Dem Rep. Susan Wild, Leaked Text Message Shows: Pennsylvania Democrat posed for pictures with union members and thanked them for attending.

DON SURBER: What a Never Trumper Believes.

OR MAYBE JUST DISHONORING IT, AND THEMSELVES: RealClearInvestigations: To Many, the Justice Dept. Is Honoring Political Neutrality in the Breach Again.

AWFLS ARE AWFUL: The rise of the Keffiyeh Karen.

There is the person I like to call the Keffiyeh Karen — the female student with a bare midriff and her head wrapped in the black or red and white patterning of Palestinian liberation, yelling anti-Zionist slogans with manic passion on elite college campus quadrangles and lawns.

In her ready and confident fury, her rudeness, her iron-fisted appetite for confrontation over infractions of what she deems political and moral gospel, the Keffiyeh Karen is related to a broader epidemic of the Gen Z Mean Girl. These Mean Girls have graduated from running the schoolyard to terrorizing the workplace. If there is one type to be afraid of in modern offices, it isn’t the lech or the shouty, hungover male middle manager. It’s the twenty-three-year-old gluten-free vegan graduate, wet behind the ears. We know what these misanthropic misses are capable of — we’ve seen the Phoebes and Annas of Just Stop Oil chuck soup on Van Gogh.

Several good friends of mine who work in corporate settings have told me tales to chill the blood — women in their early twenties conducting bullying campaigns, being proudly insubordinate to their bosses. They never face consequences.

Well, obviously they need to.

MATT TAIBBI: House Committee Rips State Department Over Censorship: The House Committee on Small Business prints a blistering report on the Global Engagement Center, a State Department “counter-messaging” entity at the center of the Twitter Files.