HOW’S THAT WHOLE “EMERGING DEMOCRATIC MAJORITY” THEORY WORKING OUT FOR YA? Chinese-Americans Are Pushing San Francisco Toward the Political Center: Many are turning against the left over issues like anti-Asian crime and education policy. “Members of the Chinese community, who make up one-fifth of this city of 810,000 and a slightly smaller percentage of registered voters, say they have been particularly incensed by incidents of anti-Asian violence, school policies they believe have emphasized equity over merit, and street homelessness. Many are also upset that property crime has long been higher in San Francisco than most other major cities, though it has dropped this year. Chinese-Americans were among the most emphatic backers of ballot measures passed last month mandating drug screening for public welfare recipients and expanding police powers, as well as the 2022 recall of the three school board members and the district attorney, Chesa Boudin.”

When the Democrats were talking about helping the working class and promoting education, the theory had some basis. Now that the party has been taken over by the woke wing — which basically favors the forced enshittification of every aspect of American life — it’s not selling as well. Turns out, people who came here for a better life don’t much want things made worse.

MESSAGE: I DON’T CARE. Despite Police Pushback, Biden Presses On With Visit To Syracuse After Two Cops Were Just Slain.

OPEN THREAD: It’s your moment.

WE SHOULD REDIRECT ALL FEDERAL DOLLARS, INCLUDING STUDENT LOAN DOLLARS, ELSEWHERE:

For a guy who runs a foundation that sends young people to trade schools all over America – trade schools where I’m pleased to report, no one is calling for the extermination of Jews – today’s headlines are once again offering another excellent reason to consider redirecting…

— The Real Mike Rowe (@mikeroweworks) April 22, 2024

Related:

I've seen his type before https://t.co/LqnIScgXdv pic.twitter.com/Cks0bLgqY9

— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) April 22, 2024

There is a stunning likeness.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Why is it so hard to send humans back to the moon?

Prediction: SpaceX will soon make it look easy.

HMM: For The First Time, Scientists Showed Structural, Brain-Wide Changes During Menstruation.

MY LATEST SUBSTACK ESSAY: In Which I Partake of a Cultural Moment: My morning at “Taylor Swift Yoga.”

THE ELECTION IS 6 MONTHS AWAY: Study shows experts rate influenza as the number one pathogen of concern of pandemic potential.

THINGS I LIKE: Hexclad Pans. I bought one of these skillets about a year ago. I’d been using a Greenpan, which worked well when new but lost its nonstick qualities. You could use a special sponge to “rejuvenate” it, and it kind of worked, but not as well as I’d like.

The Hexclad is as good as new after a year, and is entirely dishwasher safe. (The Greenpan says you really shouldn’t put it in the dishwasher regularly.) And don’t tell me I should use a cast iron pan, because in my house, everything winds up in the dishwasher eventually, no matter how many times I repeat that it shouldn’t go there. But very happy with the Hexclad pan. I have their griddle too, and it also works well. My only complaint about the griddle is that the stainless steel band around the top that isn’t nonstick gets burnt-on grease, and that’s hard to clean. Doesn’t interfere with the function, just annoying.

ANOTHER BLOW TO THE FUTURE OF HIGHER EDUCATION: New Title IX Rules Erase Campus Due Process Protections.

HELL, MOST OF THEM CAN’T BE TRUSTED WITH MATH: Tennessee Teacher Says Her Profession Can’t Be Trusted With Guns.

FOLLOW THE “SCIENCE:” Police Website Reveals CDC Suppressing Defensive Gun Use Data.

If you can’t trust the CDC — well, then it’s a day ending in ‘y.’

CIVILIZATIONAL JENGA CONTINUES: Biden’s favorite historian says images of Trump on trial are ‘reassuring.’

FASTER, PLEASE: Researchers develop a new way to safely boost immune cells to fight cancer.

21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: What Is a Throuple — and How to Know When the Relationship Type Is Right for You, According to an Expert.

WELL, GOOD: Blood test may identify who is at risk for developing multiple sclerosis.

SHADY: Bloomberg, JPMorgan, BlackRock Got Favored Access to Data From BLS Economist. “An economist from the Bureau of Labor Statistics corresponded on data related to a key US inflation gauge with major Wall Street firms like JPMorgan Chase & Co. and BlackRock Inc., raising questions about equitable access to economic information.”

SEEING THE PEOPLE WHO ARE CRITICIZING IT, “SETTLER COLONIALISM” IS LOOKING BETTER ALL THE TIME: Dogs slammed as ‘settler-colonial’ as pooches and owners blamed for ‘gentrifying’ NYC by woke activists.

Woke activists are dogshit. So naturally they resent the competition.

MICHAEL WALSH: In Search of Common Ground:

Hard as this may seem to believe, back before the election of Barack Hussein Obama — just seven years after 9/11, remember — there was at least one thing sane people on both the Left and the Right agreed upon: freedom of speech and the primacy of the First Amendment. Conservatives were dedicated to the constitution in all its aspects, while liberals at least pretended to enjoy the blessings of free expression, even if they often employed the 1A as a shield with which to protect themselves and their dissention from the consequences of their intentions. Honest men on both sides could not only have reasoned discussions with one another, but actually be friends.

Obama’s elections, in ways which still remain to be understood, changed all that.

It wasn’t an accident, though.

Plus: “Perhaps, later, in the rubble, we can find common ground and begin anew. Not with the New Soviet Man but the rebirth of Western Man, a believer in freedom, a capitalist with a conscience, and a man whose philosophy is not beggar-thy-neighbor, who doesn’t see the world as a zero-sum game, and who only asks to live and let live. But it begins with free speech, or it never begins at all.”

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE:

American colleges and universities spent the last decade censoring conservatives – canceling events, punishing teachers, etc. – because they said they wanted to ensure their students never felt unsafe. They spent uncountable millions institutionalizing leftwing diversity programs… https://t.co/WxAp0MuwzX

— Omri Ceren (@omriceren) April 21, 2024

It’s a toxic industry these days.

WHERE LEFTIST “LEADERSHIP” LEADS: ‘Malmö Syndrome’ at Columbia: Leftist-Islamist Reign of Terror Intensifies With Open War Cries: “Protests” Devolve Into Religious War Cries, Demands For More Hamas Attacks.

WHERE WOKE POLITICS LEAD:

Columbia protesters advocate rapes of Israeli women, calling for "1000 October seventh" and saying “We are Hamas”.  In other words “We will do what Hamas did: rape Jewish women.” Can any woman feel safe at Columbia?  (1/2)

— Alan Dershowitz (@AlanDersh) April 22, 2024

Plus:

Imagine what the reaction would be if white racists called for 1000 lynching of Blacks. How is it different if antisemitic racists call for 1000 rapes of Jewish women? (2/2)

— Alan Dershowitz (@AlanDersh) April 22, 2024

That’s completely different because shut up.

WORLD ENDS, GAY COUPLES AND MINORITIES HARDEST HIT: UCLA study: Gay couples at greater risk from climate change.

Follow the science!

“PEACE:” Jewish Voice for Peace to host ‘Anti-Zionist’ Passover Seder at Western Washington University.

TRUE: Noem says ‘ridiculous’ Trump trial isn’t important to people ‘trying to figure out how to pay their gas bill.’