ANDREW SULLIVAN: Will Big Trans Be Held To Account? The Cass Report has definitively destroyed their case for child sex-changes.

Our ruling class never seems to face consequences for the policies it inflicts on others, so probably not.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Serial Plagiarist Claudine Gay To Teach ‘Reading And Research’ Ethics Class At Harvard.

It’s like hiring Jeffrey Dahmer to teach culinary ethics.

WHY ARE UNIVERSITIES SUCH CESSPITS OF ANTI-SEMITISM AND PRO-TERROR SYMPATHIES? U. Delaware investigates possible hate crime after pro-Israel display repeatedly vandalized.

A TACTIC USUALLY USED BY THE LEFT: Mississippi House and Senate pass ‘Women’s Bill of Rights.’

The Mississippi House of Representatives and Senate passed a bill dubbed as the “Women’s Bill of Rights,” protecting women and girls from males seeking to enter female-only spaces and competitions by identifying as transgender.

Mississippi HB 1607 ties the words “man,” “woman,” “boy,” “girl,” “male,” and “female” to sex. It deals with athletics, shelters, and prisons, and was passed by the Mississippi Senate on Wednesday after the House passed the bill.

Independent Women’s Forum spokeswoman Paula Scanlan said that the bill also helps victims of domestic violence.

“There are places like shelters and women’s prisons,” said Scanlan. “We’re hearing stories across the country of women going to women-only shelters after being abused and their abuser is able to follow them because they show up to the shelter and say they identify (as) a woman. And there’s nothing in law to prevent someone who thinks that they are a woman from entering that space, and that puts victims of domestic violence into very dangerous situations.”

I wonder how many lefties will speak out against this, and reveal themselves as anti-woman.

JOEL KOTKIN: California’s Broken Diversity Promise: The Golden State pledges to be “inclusive,” but its policies disproportionately hurt Hispanics.

TRUTH: “Covid” Didn’t Destroy Businesses and Lives; The Government Did.

It is time to stop blaming “Covid” for breaking the economy, destroying businesses and livelihoods, and wreaking untold havoc upon families. It was not “Covid” that did this. It was not even the Chinese. It was our government. The government has conditioned us to blame the impersonal “Covid” for the destruction it wrought upon our businesses and families. We need to change the discussion by using the proper language to fix the blame where it belongs. . . .

Covid did not make the insane decision to close down gyms while leaving liquor stores open; the government did. Covid did not prevent us from going to worship at the church of our choice; the government did. Covid did not chase down and try to arrest bikers, surfers, joggers, and others engaged in outdoor exercise; the government did. Covid did not prevent families from holding and comforting their parents and grandparents during their final hours of life; the government did. Covid did not shut down our schools; the government did (aided and abetted by Randi Weingarten and the teachers’ unions). Covid did not set arbitrary limits on how far apart we should stand everywhere from in grocery stores to national parks, how many people should attend Thanksgiving dinner or other family gatherings in our own homes, while either remaining silent or actively encouraging mass Black Lives Matter demonstrations; the government health bureaucracy and little totalitarians, such as Anthony Fauci and the ‘Scarf Lady,’ Deborah Birx, did.

And the press was complicit all the way.

Related: Four years on, COVID damage remains while Fauci & Co. pay no price.

THIS IS OBVIOUS BS, BUT WHAT WOULD IT SAY ABOUT BIDEN IF CORPORATIONS HAD SUDDENLY BECOME GREEDIER AFTER HE WAS ELECTED? Is Greed Causing Shrinkflation? Andrew Heaton fact checks Elizabeth Warren’s claim.

Also, LOL: “Elizabeth Warren’s claim.”

“OUR DEMOCRACY:” “The word ‘democracy’ appears to have become polite shorthand for insisting that an insular minority in control of the American government always knows what is best for the vast, unrepresented majority. Even worse, it sometimes seems nothing more than a convenient disguise for camouflaging abuses of power.”

This is why claims of Caesarism on the right ring hollow.

HMM: Why the Right Can’t Fight Like the Left.

I’d be happy if it just fought as hard.

J.D. VANCE: The Math on Ukraine Doesn’t Add Up.

Mr. Biden suggests that a $60 billion supplemental means the difference between victory and defeat in a major war between Russia and Ukraine. That is also wrong. $60 billion is a fraction of what it would take to turn the tide in Ukraine’s favor. But this is not just a matter of dollars. Fundamentally, we lack the capacity to manufacture the amount of weapons Ukraine needs us to supply to win the war.

Consider our ability to produce 155-millimeter artillery shells. Last year, Ukraine’s then defense minister assessed that their base line requirement for these shells is over four million per year, but said they could fire up to seven million if that many were available. Since the start of the conflict, the United States has gone to great lengths to ramp up production of 155-millimeter shells. We’ve roughly doubled our capacity and can now produce 360,000 per year — less than a tenth of what Ukraine says it needs. The administration’s goal is to get this to 1.2 million — 30 percent of what’s needed — by the end of 2025. This would cost the American taxpayers dearly while yielding an unpleasantly familiar result: failure abroad. . . .

Proponents of American aid to Ukraine have argued that our approach has been a boon to our own economy, creating jobs here in the factories that manufacture weapons. But our national security interests can be — and often are — separate from our economic interests. The notion that we should prolong a bloody and gruesome war because it’s been good for American business is grotesque. We can and should rebuild our industrial base without shipping its products to a foreign conflict.

The story is the same when we look at other munitions. Take the Patriot missile system — our premier air defense weapon. It’s of such importance in this war that Ukraine’s foreign minister has specifically demanded them. That’s because in March alone, Russia reportedly launched over 3,000 guided aerial bombs, 600 drones and 400 missiles at Ukraine. To fend off these attacks, the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, and others have indicated they need thousands of Patriot interceptors per year. The problem is this: The United States only manufactures 550 every year. If we pass the supplemental aid package currently being considered in Congress, we could potentially increase annual production to 650, but that’s still less than a third of what Ukraine requires.

These weapons are not only needed by Ukraine. If China were to set its sights on Taiwan, the Patriot missile system would be critical to its defense. In fact, the United States has promised to send Taiwan nearly $900 million worth of Patriot missiles, but delivery of those weapons and other essential resources has been severely delayed, partly because of shortages caused by the war.

Way back in How To Make War, Jim Dunnigan and Austin Bay noted that no one was ready for the sheer expense and production demands of modern warfare. We’re seeing that here and this isn’t even a real superpower war.

Vance is right, I think, that Ukraine’s only real option is to stand on the defensive. And that should be what the U.S. wants, too, because the chief upside of this war from our perspective is that it pins Putin into an expensive conflict that will drain his ability to cause trouble elsewhere.

GET WOKE, GO BROKE: Penn Fund donations down 21% from this time last year amid leadership crisis, donor backlash.

Keep ’em crashing.

A DEFEAT FOR FREEDOM: House Passes 2-Year Surveillance Law Extension Without Warrant Requirement. “Speaker Mike Johnson scaled back the measure to two years from five after Donald J. Trump had urged Republicans to ‘kill’ it. An effort to require warrants to search for Americans’ messages failed on a tie.”

Keep this in mind.

TOMORROW’S NEWS TODAY:

Trump Indicted For Taking More Chick-fil-A Sauces Than He Actually Needed For His Order https://t.co/Oq1jU7nBlm pic.twitter.com/v9FJzR0t04

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) April 11, 2024

OPEN THREAD: Ring in the weekend.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: China’s Queqiao-2 relay satellite ready to support lunar far side sample mission.

SCIENTIFIC BREAKTHROUGHS FROM YOUR GRANDMOTHER’S PANTRY: Expired Cans of Salmon From Decades Ago Reveal a Big Surprise.

PROBABLY NOT, SINCE THE PRESS DOESN’T REPORT ON LEFTY VIOLENCE: Did You Hear Who Planted a Bomb at an Alabama Republican’s Office?

HMM: Connecting Lab-Grown Brain Cells Yields New Insights.

HOW THE MEDIA TRY TO FOMENT RACIAL WAR:

This is how WaPo covered a story about a man who opened fire on police during a traffic stop. Let's break down the bodycam footage.https://t.co/jPS7392ZlChttps://t.co/jPS7392ZlC

— Not the Bee (@Not_the_Bee) April 11, 2024

LARRY TRIBE, reprehensible election denier?

THEN: EAT FISH, IT’S HEALTHY! Now: Study: High seafood diet may increase risk of exposure to ‘forever chemicals.’

AMPED UP: Amped Up: Installing an EV Charger at Home.

IT’S ALWAYS A CRIME NOT TO COMPLY WITH THE DEMANDS OF TYRANTS:

Notice that nobody is citing any actual lies that Twitter is alleged to have spread in Brazil. The offense vs Elon is now "obstruction of justice".https://t.co/7o97Phz2pj

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) April 12, 2024

THE COUNTRY’S IN THE VERY BEST OF HANDS: TOP MEN? US Navy Deletes Tweet of USS McCain Captain Shooting Backwards Scoped AR.

Related: Now-Deleted Navy Photo Is So Bad Even the Space Force Called It Out.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Japan and NASA plan a historic lunar RV roadtrip together: It would be the first time a non-American lands on the moon.