SOME PARTS OF AMERICA STILL WORK: SpaceX launches Eutelsat 36D, lands booster on seventh reuse anniversary. “The rocket’s first stage landed as planned on a droneship in the Atlantic Ocean post-launch, marking the 273rd time SpaceX has returned a Falcon 9 booster for reuse. SpaceX launched its first reused Falcon 9 booster for a customer seven years earlier in a mission for SES of Luxembourg March 30, 2017. The Eutelsat 36D launch also marked SpaceX’s 30th mission this year. But less than four hours later, SpaceX launched a batch of satellites for its Starlink low Earth orbit (LEO) broadband constellation from a nearby pad at the Cape.”

Flashback: Hint: The parts that still work are not in the government or academic worlds.

FLASHBACK: Remembering the 2002 AOL/Instapundit takeover April Fool.

DON SURBER: Hamas-shielding AP went too far: By seeking a journalism prize for its propaganda, AP showed it is irredeemably evil. “AP just won an award for its pro-terrorist coverage of the Palestinian attack on Israel. People call it Hamas but it is just like blaming only the Nazis for World War II because the vast majority of Germans — like the Palestinians now — were all in favor of destroying Jews and anyone else who got in their way. For years, AP’s bureau in Gaza City provided cover for the military intelligence of Hamas. As long as AP was in there, Israel could not bomb the place. This was an open secret. Matti Friedman wrote of it in The Atlantic in 2014.”

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: How We’ve Gone from Institutions of Higher Education to Conformity Colleges.

Flashback: Thoughts on our ruling-class monoculture.

GOOD QUESTION: If ‘Diversity Is Our Strength,’ Why Is Our Military So Weak? “Race-conscious ‘diversity, equity, and inclusion’ (DEI) policies are making personnel shortages worse. Minority recruitment has remained steady or increased, which is fine, but a steep decline in white recruits almost entirely accounts for the ongoing recruiting crisis.”

The purpose of a system is what it does.

AMONG MANY OTHER THINGS: Bill Maher Mercilessly Drags the Media for Being Dead Wrong About COVID.

The experts were wrong. The people were right. The dissenting opinions turned out to be the ones who had a grip on science and reality. Even Maher noted he was the target of the media for pushing the theory that COVID came from a lab. It’s not a theory; even the FBI and the Biden administration, as the comedian noted, have come around to that determination for the cause of the pandemic. The lab was messing with COVID, conducting gain-of-function research on said virus, and ground zero was Wuhan. It’s not hard to connect the dots here, lab coats.

The fact that the dissenters were right and the political elites and their medical agents were wrong is why there will be no commission. Maher added that we love commissions. If there were one for COVID, Fauci would be pulled apart like pulled pork over his serial idiocy about the virus, the CDC’s endless contradictory and science fiction-based protocols, along with endless testimonies from families were denied mourning the passing of their loved ones because some busybodies were ensuring that the equally nonsensical social distancing edicts handed down by the medical class were enforced.

Fauci should lose his pension for what he did during COVID.

Among many other things.

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OPEN THREAD: That’s right, today was a twofer.

HMM: Senate bills seek to reform commercial space regulations.

HUMAN BEINGS ARE MADE FOR SPACE: Astronauts Have an Unexpected Ability That Helps Them ‘Fly’ Through Space. “Based on our findings it seems as though humans are surprisingly able to compensate adequately for the lack of an Earth-normal environment using vision.” Well, human beings are surprisingly adaptable, anyway.

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FASTER, PLEASE: Science’s Latest Marvel: Electronic Material That Grows Tougher on Impact.

OF COURSE THEY DID, THEIR PROTESTS ARE ESTABLISHMENT-APPROVED: Yes, Hamas Supporters Felt Perfectly Entitled to Interrupt Easter Services at St Patrick’s Cathedral.

But it’s not true, as claimed, that nothing is sacred. Do the same thing at a mosque — or an LGBT rally — and you’ll swiftly learn what’s held sacred by our establishment today.

FASTER, PLEASE: After Concorde, a long road back to supersonic air travel.

MORE GOVERNMENT-SPREAD MISINFORMATION: This FBI Tweet Just Got Nuked by Community Notes.

Plus: “Do we need reminding that the FBI is staffed with bad people, the worst in committing acts of government overreach? Agents visit people’s homes because they posted anti-Biden material on social media. Illegal FISA warrants are atrocious, but now they’re targeting Americans exercising free speech rights. Why? Are they compiling an enemies list? Would you be shocked? Not me.”

UPDATE (From Ed): FBI Agent Says He Hassles People ‘Every Day, All Day Long’ Over Facebook Posts. “It’s just an effort to keep everybody safe and make sure nobody has any ill will,” he claimed.

PROVOCATION: Heinz to put ketchup dispenser stations outside Chicago hot dog restaurants.

I ALWAYS KIND OF WANTED ONE OF THESE: Farewell to the Audi R8, the Supercar That Pretended to Be a Sports Car. Not enough to, you know, buy one. Helen doesn’t like to ride in low-slung sports cars, and there’s not much point in having one if you’re not going to have a hot chick riding with you at least some of the time.

HMM: Universal brain-computer interface lets people play games with just their thoughts.

ARE WE IN AN AI BUBBLE?

AND NOBODY CARES: Prostate cancer is the second-leading cancer among men.

SPACE: SpaceX sends Eutelsat telecom satellite into orbit.

K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: Massachusetts teachers union offers anti-Israel webinar.

DANA LOESCH: Happy “Jesus Visibility Day!”

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IT’S NOT LIKE BEING A REPUBLICAN: Columbia University groups host event with Israeli-designated terror org: ‘There is nothing wrong with being a member of Hamas.’