YEAH, PRETTY MUCH:

@theofficialmalcolm0471 Let's not let them win!! #trump #trump2024🇺🇸 ♬ original sound – Lee Gann

TRUTH:

Young people are not ok. pic.twitter.com/cuIRgiLi4V

— Dr. Danish (@operationdanish) September 16, 2024

Related: Neurosis and the Curley Effect.

WE’VE NOTICED: Gallup: Young Women Are More Woke and Politically Shrill Than At Any Point In History.

Related: Neurosis and the Curley Effect. “Reading all of these pieces I’m seeing a story that goes something like this: Depressed, neurotic people (especially single women) are more likely to support Democrats. Democrats support policies and messaging that produce more depressed, neurotic people, especially single women.”

MAKE THEM PAY: Pro-cop cafe owner wins $4 million after Boise State bullying: University violated her First Amendment rights, jury concluded. “The jury awarded Fendley a total of $3 million in damages for business losses, mental and emotional distress, personal humiliation and lost reputation. The jury also ruled Webb, now a University of Montana administrator, was liable for another $1 million in punitive damages.”

This is nice, though I’d like to see a zero on the end of those damages.

GOOD: Harvard Chabad holds self-defense class led by UFC fighter amid concerns of campus anti-Semitism.

THE PHILIPPINES’ ALLY, THE U.S., HASN’T BEEN VERY SUPPORTIVE: Another Victory for the PRC …the Philippines did the best they could.

I DON’T THINK SHE IMPRESSES PEOPLE: Teamsters head withholds endorsement after meeting with Kamala Harris.

DON SURBER: Musk 1, Eurocrat 0.

SEGREGATION NOW, SEGREGATION TOMORROW, SEGREGATION FOREVER! Government To Probe Race-Based Medical Care Programs at Prestigious Cleveland Clinic After Bias Allegations.

ICYMI: INCOMPETENCE, OR WORSE: Gat on a Hot Tin Roof: July 13 Whistleblower Report Exposes Secret Service Incompetence.

GO FIGURE: For Some Reason Nobody Has Taken Up This $1,000,000 Offer to Hold Pride Rally in West Bank.

AND AMERICA: The Justice Department is Failing American Jews: Hamasnik protestors are violating various federal laws, and the Justice Department is doing nothing about it.

The Justice Department doesn’t hassle the shock troops of the regime.

OPEN THREAD: This thread’s for you.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: China prepares for 1st launch of new Long March 8A rocket.

PROFESSOR CARRINGTON, CALL YOUR OFFICE: A Perfect Storm of Solar Activity Is About to Unleash an Amazing Show.

SPOILER: NO. Will the Media Apologize to Trump and Vance After Bomb Threats in Springfield Turned Out to Be Hoaxes?

Until the media goes after Democrats for inciting actual violence, I don’t much care about claims that Republicans are inciting hypothetical or fake violence.

WIRED TRIES TO TURN THINGS AROUND: Elon Musk Is a National Security Risk: Musk’s now-deleted post questioning why no one has attempted to assassinate Joe Biden and Kamala Harris renews concerns over his work for the US government—and potential to inspire extremist violence.

What he actually asked, I believe, is why nobody seems worried about Harris’ or Biden’s safety with all these assassination attempts aimed at Trump. It’s a legitimate question given the behavior of the Secret Service.

21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: I Was Divorced And Alone — Until I Met An Unlikely Soulmate On A 40-Foot Sailboat.

WE USED TO HEAR ABOUT THE SAVAGE BARBARITY OF THE BELGIAN CONGO. THE BELGIANS ARE LONG GONE, BUT THE SAVAGE BARBARITY CONTINUES: The Calamitous Rape Crisis Unfolding in Congo’s War: Around 80% of women in camps for the displaced have been raped in brutal attacks, as international attention wanes. ‘If the war ends, I won’t have to be raped anymore.’

Over a decade ago, political leaders and celebrities from around the globe made a high-publicity pledge to put an end the use of rape as a weapon of war. Hillary Clinton, as secretary of state, met survivors in eastern Congo, which amid years of back-to-back and parallel conflicts, had become known as the “rape capital of the world.” The U.K.’s then-foreign secretary, William Hague, who visited Goma, the biggest city on Congo’s border with Rwanda, with actress Angelina Jolie, likened sexual violence in conflict zones, and the world’s quest to end it, to “the slave trade of our generation.”

But it gets worse: Congo’s Forgotten Curse: Epidemic of Female-on-Female Rape. “Rape in conflict zones has long been the subject of news reports and academic study and large amounts of donor funding is channeled to organizations that respond to it. But rape specifically perpetrated by women has received less attention. Recent studies suggest the problem is more widespread than many experts previously believed. In 2010, Harvard academic Lynn Lawry and a team of researchers conducted a survey of human-rights abuses in over 1,000 households in conflict-ridden eastern Congo. It was the same year that Margot Wallstrom, the U.N. special representative on sexual violence in conflict, dubbed Congo ‘the rape capital of the world.’ Lawry’s study asked victims of sexual violence to specify their assailant’s gender. It found that 40% of the women — and 10% of the men — who said they were subjected to sexual violence were assaulted by a woman.”

Also rape by U.N. “peacekeepers.”

And of course, there’s lots of rape of men in Congo too. “During his escape from the civil war in neighbouring Congo, he had been separated from his wife and taken by rebels. His captors raped him, three times a day, every day for three years. And he wasn’t the only one. He watched as man after man was taken and raped. The wounds of one were so grievous that he died in the cell in front of him.”

INCOMPETENCE, OR WORSE: Gat on a Hot Tin Roof: July 13 Whistleblower Report Exposes Secret Service Incompetence.

LIFE EXTENSION: Economists vs. the Public.

LONG-TERM TEST: 10K-Mile Update: Our Toyota Grand Highlander Is in High Demand: Everyone’s loving the larger Highlander’s practicality, effortless power, and quiet demeanor.

IT WAS NEVER MEANT TO REDUCE CRIME: Gun Controllers Knew the Assault Weapons Ban Failed in 2004 and They Know It Now.

GOOD NEWS: Long-term metastatic melanoma survival dramatically improves on immunotherapy, clinical trial finds.

SCIENCE MARCHES ON: Meet the winners of the 2024 Ig Nobel Prizes.