CLIMATE CHANGE: U.S. hasn’t seen an EF5 tornado in 11 years, longest gap in history. I seem to recall being told that global warming was going to bring us more frequent and more violent tornadoes.

EVERY INSTITUTION HAS BEEN CORRUPTED: “City Journal” Details the Ideological Capture of Science Journalism.

MATT TAIBBI:

Sources tell me at least two different active groups are working on political content moderation programs for the November election that tactically would go a step or two beyond what we observed with groups like Stanford’s Election Integrity Partnership, proposing not just deamplification or removals, but fakery, use of bots, and other “offensive” forms of manipulation.

If the recent rush of news stories about the horror of foreign-inspired AI deepfakes (“No one can stop them,” gasps the Washington Post) creating intolerable risk to the coming “AI election” sounds a bit off to you, you’re not alone. This is one of many potential threats pro-censorship groups are playing up in hopes of deploying more aggressive “counter-messaging” tools. Some early proposals along those lines are in the unpublished Twitter Files documents we’ve been working on. Again, more on this topic soon.

Also: beginning around the time we published the “Report on the Censorship-Industrial Complex,” Racket in partnership with UndeadFOIA began issuing Freedom of Information requests in bulk. The goal was to identify inexcusably secret contractors of content-policing agencies like the State Department’s Global Engagement Center. The FOIA system is designed to exhaust citizens, but our idea was to match the irritating resolve of FOIA officers by pre-committing resources for inevitable court disputes, fights over production costs, etc. Thanks to UndeadFOIA’s great work, we now have a sizable library of documents about publicly-funded censorship programs (and a few private ones scooped up in official correspondence).

We’ll be releasing those, too, focusing on a few emails per batch, and publishing the rest in bulk. There’s so much material that a quick global summary here would be difficult, but suffice to say that the anti-disinformation/content control world is much bigger than I thought, enjoying cancer-like growth on campuses in particular, in the same way military research became primary sources of grants and took over universities in the fifties and sixties. Some of these FOIA documents are damning, some entertaining, some just interesting, but all of them belong to the public. We’re going to start the process of turning them over, hopefully today.

Turn on the lights and watch the roaches scatter. And stomp on any that don’t.

STANDING UP AGAINST SEGREGATION AND BIGOTRY: MIT Program Open Only To “Women of Color” Challenged By Equal Protection Project As Violating Civil Rights Laws. “We just celebrated the 70th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, which ended racial segregation in public education. It is sad and disheartening to see that institutions like MIT that receive federal funding are re-segregating the student body through exclusionary programs.”

“PUBLIC HEALTH” IS A CULTURE OF LIES AND CORRUPTION: Britain covered up tainted blood scandal that killed thousands, report finds. “The British government ‘did not put patient safety first’ while covering up a multi-decade tainted blood scandal, leading to thousands of related deaths, a report published Monday found. Britain’s National Health Service allowed blood tainted with HIV and Hepatitis to be used on patients without their knowledge, leading to 3,000 deaths and more than 30,000 infections, according to the 2,527-page final report by Justice Brian Justice Langstaff, a former judge on the High Court of England and Wales. . . . The report blames multiple administrations over the time period for knowingly exposing victims to unacceptable risks.”

The Red Cross has had similar scandals here, of course. Then of course there was the Tuskegee scandal, a multidecade public health atrocity marked by lies and corruption.

CHANGE: ABA Takes Another Step Toward Fully Online Law Schools.

THEY’RE NEVER SATISFIED: People Watching WNBA Now Is Great and All, But It’s Unfair that Caitlin Clark is White. “Caitlin Clark has created some interest in the sport, and I have to say that the little I know of her makes her look wholesome and nice. She likes babies, seems humble, and apparently is quite talented. It’s almost like she is a person, not a sports star, and people seem to like that. She hasn’t even derided America, beat anybody up, impregnated some groupie, or come out as trans. What’s not to like? Well, she is straight and White, and that seems unfair. People have fallen in love with her instead of others higher up on the intersectional ladder.”

MICHAEL WALSH: “We must stop being afraid.”

The Netherlands is about as close as you can get to Belgium, but Amsterdam has just moved as far away as possible from Brussels, the malign headquarters of the increasingly fascistic European Union, and has told it to take its regulations regarding things like “climate change” and immigration and stuff them where the sun don’t shine. “No wasting billions on pointless climate hobbies, but more money for our people,” the newly forming coalition Dutch government’s Geert Wilders, has said. “We have been made to fear climate change for decades… We must stop being afraid.”

Coming on the heels of regime change in Italy and Argentina, the Dutch Nation’s revolution against the power of the internationalist State is another manifestation of the rejection of the New World Order so loudly proclaimed at the beginning of the Great Covid Panic of 2019-22 by European and American bureaucrats and their apparatchiks in the media. Led philosophically and practically by the bonzes of Davos under Klaus Schwab, they openly proclaimed “the Great Reset,” opportunistically piggy-backing onto the Chinese-manufactured (with help from Anthony Fauci & Co.) Covid virus, sending the world into an economic tailspin and helping facilitate the election of Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., as president of the United States.

There must be consequences.

VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN, IVY LEAGUE EDITION: Rep. MTG a ‘bully,’ ‘has to be smacked in the mouth,’ Princeton professor says.

Not sure that he can take her, though.

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— Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 (@mtgreenee) May 20, 2024

OPEN BIGOTRY AT DREXEL UNIVERSITY: Drexel students demand administrators remove Jewish student groups from campus: Drexel University anti-Israel campus occupiers demanded that administrators “terminate” its chapters of both Hillel and Chabad, two Jewish student organizations.

IT’S COME TO THIS: Admissions Dean, Securitas Guard To Address 2024 Grads After Other Speakers Turn Harvard Down.

The 2024 Senior Class Committee wanted Barack Obama or Drake to speak at Class Day. . . .

Harvard Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons ’67 and Securitas employee Bill Oliverio will address graduating seniors on May 22 during Class Day, Senior Class First Marshal Fez S. Zafar ’24 announced in a group chat with Harvard seniors Monday afternoon.

Past keynote speakers at Harvard have included high-profile athletes, politicians, actors, musicians, and academics, but the the HAA and the Senior Class Committee asked Fitzsimmons and Oliverio to serve as emergency speakers for the ceremony after they could not attract a high-profile candidate to address graduating seniors at the annual ceremony.

The admissions dean should take this opportunity to publicly apologize for admitting so many angry, entitled, ignorant snowflakes.

THAT’S TRUE, IF YOU’RE A HORRIBLE PERSON AND A NEW YORK DEMOCRAT (BUT I REPEAT MYSELF): New York Democrat says there’s ‘no greater enemy’ than Trump ahead of Bronx rally.

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Texas Gun-Rights Orgs Get Big Win in Federal Court.

THE ENEMY WITHIN: Biden Admin Sends Iran Condolences After Mass Murderer President Killed in Helicopter Crash.

Related: Meet the Iranian Donor Bankrolling Anti-Israel Jewish Groups.

TRIED FOR AN AS-YET UNDEFINED CRIME: How can it still not yet be determined what law defines the crime?!

The real crime, of course, is simply being Donald Trump. Let’s see him talk his way out of that!

Plus:

If Trump is convicted, just ask people *what* Trump was convicted of? I’ll bet no one — not even the jurors who convicted him — would be able to state the answer correctly.

I myself can’t do it, and I have tried to understand what the crime supposedly is. I even suspect the judge and the prosecutors don’t know!

What the hell kind of conviction will this be — conviction of a crime that no one understood, based on the testimony of a huge liar?

Blue State justice.

YES, ISRAEL SHOULD ERADICATE HAMAS AS WE SHOULD HAVE ERADICATED THE TALIBAN. Salman Rushdie: A Palestinian State Under Hamas Would Be Another Iran or Afghanistan.

WELL, YES: Levin: ICC Further Inflamed Jew Hatred — and Biden Is Behind It.

I AGREE THAT THIS IS ALMOST CERTAINLY A FIRST AMENDMENT VIOLATION: Apparent Suspension of Student Groups at Wisconsin for Pro-Hamas Chalking. “Note that, even if the government could forbid chalking in various places (and it’s not clear whether it can, at least as to public sidewalks), it can’t specially punish chalking that conveys particular views, including advocacy of foreign terrorist organizations and support for violence in foreign conflicts.”

Being pro-Hamas makes you garbage people, but garbage people have free speech rights too.

IN CASE YOU WERE WONDERING IF “HUMAN RIGHTS LAWYERING” WAS A SCAM: Amal Clooney Played a Key Role in ICC Arrest Warrant for Netanyahu, Others. “The fact that Israel is accused of crimes against humanity when it is fighting for its survival against the internationally recognized terror organization that massacred Israelis and others on October 7, 2023, is unbelievable. Equating Israel and Hamas is unacceptable. How would any reasonable person argue that Israel is the same as Hamas unless that person was an anti-Israel, anti-Jew antisemitic? Is that a description of Clooney’s wife? . . . Does that mean ISIS is bad but Hamas is not? We truly live in an upside-down world. Israel is a country that values life. Israel goes out of its way to warn civilians in Gaza when attacks are imminent. Israel helps move Gazans to safety and it moves humanitarian aid into Gaza. It is Hamas that hijacks supply trucks while Gazans go without food, water, or other supplies.”

How would the United States have responded to a similar warrant naming FDR in World War Two? That should guide Israel’s response.

STILL TRUE, I’D SAY: Flashback: Journalists drink too much, are bad at managing emotions, and operate at a lower level than average, according to a new study.

FLASHBACK: That 1938 Feeling.

OPEN THREAD: Monday, Monday.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Beyond blueprints: DoD’s commercial space strategy leaves industry wanting more.

THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT WILL NOW RUSH TO FUND “ACTIVIST” GROUPS THAT WILL TIE ITS EXTRACTION UP IN ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES: A Vast, Untapped Source of Lithium Has Just Been Found in The US.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: NASA’s VIPER Rover Braces for Ultimate Space Challenge. “NASA’s VIPER team is not only building the rover for the Moon’s South Pole but also preparing for its environmental tests. These tests are designed to simulate the harsh conditions of space travel and lunar operation to ensure the rover’s readiness for its mission.”