IT WILL BE UNTIL THE ELECTION: Inflation is Transitory Again.

“WE DON’T EXPECT TO GO TO WORK AND GET SWARMED:” Exclusive: Columbia Custodian Trapped by ‘Angry Mob’ Speaks Out.

AN IDEA SO CRAZY IT JUST MIGHT WORK: Media Should Honestly Report on the ‘Protesters.’ “News outlets have a duty to both accurately report the news and include the context necessary for readers to understand it. The Post article not only casts the whitewashing of Hamas and the murders it committed as “criticism” of Israel; it also fails to explain Hamas’s aims—which include the complete destruction of Israel by any means, including the mass murder of innocent civilians. What happens to public discourse around the most controversial issues when media outlets don’t talk about what we’re actually talking about?”

Plus: “The American media are whitewashing these protests because honest reporting would expose them as rabid anti-Semites and Hamas terror sympathizers … and raise lots of questions about the environment and pedagogy on American college campuses. And the media would rather paint them as sympathetic, which raises all sorts of questions about the media.”

No, it answers all sorts of questions about the media.

POUR RESOURCES INTO HIGHER EDUCATION, THEY SAID. IT WILL INCREASE THE STORE OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGE, THEY SAID.

Some economists tried to reproduce the results of 67 economics papers and they pretty much couldn't do it:

Even with help from authors, only half of papers ended up being reproducible, and this was still a problem at journals with required reporting of code and data. pic.twitter.com/CriUcBcxku

— Crémieux (@cremieuxrecueil) May 6, 2024

STEPHANIE GUTMANN: Bat shit crazy broads vs. the rest of us. Is that how the next civil war will break down? It’s plausible…

THE PRESS WANTS YOU DISTRACTED FROM THIS, AS DOES THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION:

Your reminder that the Palestinians started this war by invading a country, raping its citizens, slicing the throats of babies, tying people up and burning them alive, shooting children in the head and then kidnapping over two hundred people – including toddlers – and raping and…

— leekern (@leekern13) May 7, 2024

PEOPLE ARE SICK OF THE WOKIES: The Hims Hers Drama: “Healthcare” company loses over $200 million in stock value after CEO offers to hire college protesters. Then he walks it back.

WELL, THERE IS THAT: Joe Biden’s biggest problem is that his presidency is an utter failure.

TRUE.

This is the truth. “But Gavin Newsom doesn’t work for the people of California – we are only paying his salary. He works for higher powers – China, the WHO, WEF, the UN. He’s even a graduate of the World Economic Forum’s Young Leaders program.” https://t.co/6pxgCXS6FB

— HK (@hezzopolis) May 6, 2024

WELL, YES: We’re Now in Full Goat Rodeo Mode in the NYC Trump Trial. “How many catastrophic yet entertaining courtroom fails can one team of prosecutors suffer before the judge calls a halt to this goat rodeo? It’s time to dismiss this case against Donald Trump after Friday’s testimony. But don’t get your hopes up. The bulldogger of this rodeo is the judge.”

OPEN THREAD: It’s time.

SCRUBBED: NASA/Boeing Starliner Crewed Test Launch. “Atlas valve issue.”

THE NEW SPACE RACE: China’s Chang’e-6 is carrying a surprise rover to the moon: This is not the first time a Chinese mission has harbored hidden spacecraft.

MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Dems use the legal system to target the right — yet give the left a pass.

“For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law.”

This philosophy, announced by Brazilian President Getulio Vargas in the 1940s, is no longer just the favored approach of Latin American strongmen. It has become the openly practiced strategy of today’s Democratic machine.

Read the whole thing.

I JUST DON’T WANT THEM TO BE ABLE TO OUTRUN ME: There’s a Surprising Reason Why Robots Can’t Outrun The Fastest Animals.

SOME PARTS OF AMERICA STILL WORK: SpaceX successfully launches 23 Starlink satellites from Florida.

HMM. New Study Links Complex Jobs to Reduced Risk of Dementia. “The findings highlight the importance of cognitive stimulation during midlife for maintaining cognitive function in old age.”

It’s also possible, of course, that people with higher cognitive function take these jobs to begin with, giving them more margin for decline in their old age.

IF YOU WANT TO PROTECT THE “DIGNITY OF THE JUSTICE SYSTEM,” YOU SHOULDN’T BE PRESIDING OVER A COURTROOM GOAT RODEO: “Justice Merchan acknowledged that jailing Mr. Trump was ‘the last thing’ he wanted to do, but explained that it was his responsibility to ‘protect the dignity of the justice system.'”

DEMOCRATS’ PROBLEM: The Karen Party has no place for men.

DIAGNOSING AORTIC ANEURYSM RISK with a thumb test.

THE RIGHT ONE:

What kind of message is it sending that Jewish students beg, plead, lobby, demonstrate, sue to have a school like @UCLA remove an illegal, pro-terrorist encampment that blocked Jewish and other students from moving freely on campus, to no avail. But then when a handful of local…

— David Bernstein (@ProfDBernstein) May 3, 2024

#JOURNALISM: A friend from Cambridge writes: “The reporting on the MIT protesters is fascinating. Boston Globe claims hundreds of attendees and dozens of counter protesters. I was there at the time…maybe 40 people and a speaker calling out, ‘where’s the energy??'”

UPDATE: MIT President Says MIT Is Finally Shutting Down Anti-Israel Encampment.

OPEN CARRY: You decide.

ARE YOU AFRAID OF AUTONOMOUS CARS?

IT’S SCHEDULED FOR TAKEOFF AT 10:34 PM ET. Watch: Boeing’s Starliner Capsule Blasts Off on First Crewed Mission to ISS Today. Good luck, guys.

UPDATE: Sorry, I had this as AM before. My mistake.