FILED: Brief of Professor Seth Barrett Tillman and Landmark Legal Foundation as Amici Curiae in Support of Defendant Trump’s Motion to Dismiss the Indictment.

IT’S AS IF DEI IS A FAKE DISCIPLINE PPULATED BY GRIFTERS: Complaint Alleges University of Wisconsin DEI Czar, Husband of Harvard’s DEI Chief, Has Decades-Long History of Research Misconduct: LaVar Charleston—who once assaulted a police officer—passed off old studies as new research at least five times.

JOEL KOTKIN: The West is being torn apart by the battle of the infinite sexes: For a healthy society to function, lawmakers must strike a balance between individual freedom and collective harmony.

The recent decision by the National Health Service to ban puberty blockers under prescription outside of upcoming clinical trials is a rare indication that common sense and biological reality are staging a comeback. However, this ruling is but a small victory against a growing trend that places ever less emphasis on family, marriage and children.

The battle of the sexes shifting into a battle of infinite sexes represents a key front in this age of familial and gender confusion. Today over 28 per cent of all Gen-Z women identify as LGBTQ, more than twice the rate for millennials and almost three times that for young men.

This break with heterosexual norms has many sources. Women generally outnumber men: 75 per cent of Ivy League presidents, 66 per cent of college administrators, and 58 per cent of recent graduates are now female. On college campuses, as author and longtime feminist Susan Jacoby notes, even the most sensitive and sympathetic men “have been robbed of their true nature and humanity.”

Mamas, don’t let your babies grow up to be college men.

REST IN PEACE: Via Brad Templeton, I hear that Vernor Vinge has died. Here’s the podcast interview that Helen and I did with him for the late and lamented Glenn & Helen Show. Note Helen’s skepticism re virtual sex.

And Rainbows End is looking pretty plausible post-Covid.

OPEN THREAD: Rev ’em up.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: SpaceX’s Starship could fly again as soon as early May.

KEITH RICHARDS’ BLOOD CHANGES LOOKING BETTER: Your Blood Could Be Aging Your Brain, Increasing Risk of Dementia.

“MIGRANTS” ON PARADE: “Here we have the video of the day. It depicts a horde of illegal aliens breaking through the razor wire (mounted, I assume, by Texas authorities) and overrunning Texas National Guard soldiers seeking to resist them in El Paso. The video raises many questions, among them how many many ‘migrants’ does it take to mount used to be known as an ‘invasion’? We have now entered year four President Biden’s open borders program. Why does Biden refuse to see that the law is faithfully executed? Why does he support the invasion of the United States? When do we get to defend ourselves? How long can this go on?”

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Federal Judge: Bragg’s Star Witness in Trump Trial May Have Committed Perjury … Again.

HMM: Harvard/MIT Study: Schizophrenia and Aging May Share a Common Biological Foundation.

NOT A BAD IDEA, THEY USUALLY KNOW MORE ABOUT DRUGS THAN DOCTORS: Let Pharmacists Prescribe.

LONELINESS: Social isolation linked to biological age gap, higher mortality rate. “A new study from Mayo Clinic finds that socially isolated people are more likely to show signs of being biologically older than their age and more likely to die from a variety of causes. The research, published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology: Advances, suggests that social connection plays an important role in overall physical health and longevity, and it should be addressed as a necessary part of the social determinants of health.”

MORE IMPORTANTLY, CAN NISSAN CONQUER ITS RELIABILITY PROBLEMS? 2025 Infiniti QX80 First Look: Can it command a hundred grand?

TO BE FAIR, ALL ANTI-GUN GROUPS USE PROPAGANDA AND FAKE NUMBERS: Anti-Gun Everytown Employs Propaganda, Fake Numbers in Juvenile Shooting Report.

VITAMIN D UPDATE: Vitamin D₂ may help preserve honeymoon phase of type I diabetes.

HMM: Even among the insured, weight loss drugs are rarely prescribed, study suggests.

MATT TAIBBI: Discussion With Glenn Greenwald: How “Free Speech” Turned Into a “Far Right” Slogan.

THINKING AND TALKING ABOUT EMOTIONS GENERALLY MAKES THEM STRONGER. Venting to others doesn’t reduce anger, study shows.

K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: California teen dies from brain injuries from high school fight, mom claims. “Juarez, a single mom of two, claimed Mejia often returned home covered in bruises after she enrolled at the public school in south LA eight months ago. The distraught mother allegedly took pictures and documented her daughter’s injuries to report them to school officials and campus police, but her pleas for help reportedly went unheard, according to KTLA. . . . The grieving mother blamed the tragedy on the school after she reported the videos to the officials and claimed nothing was done with the bullies.”

Well, it’s not as if they’d misgendered her.

DUMBEST MANAGEMENT MOVE SINCE DYLAN MULVANEY: Users ditch Glassdoor, stunned by site adding real names without consent. “Glassdoor, where employees go to leave anonymous reviews of employers, has recently begun adding real names to user profiles without users’ consent, a Glassdoor user named Monica was shocked to discover last week.”

THE OUTER SPACE TREATY HAS DONE THAT SINCE 1967: US and Japan call for ban of nuclear weapons in outer space.

GOOD. NOW MAKE THE RUBBLE BOUNCE: Irish PM Leo Varadkar’s career ended because he went woke.

Get woke, go broke. But the allure of performing for one’s ruling class peer group is nigh-irresistible.

FIGHT THE POWER: Conservative professor sues ASU over its mandatory DEI training.

An outspoken conservative professor at Arizona State University has sued his employer, alleging its mandatory diversity, equity and inclusion training for faculty violates a two-year-old state law that forbids public agencies from requiring employees to engage in training “that presents any form of blame or judgment on the basis of race, ethnicity or sex.”

Owen Anderson, a professor of philosophy, religious studies and theology at ASU, is the primary plaintiff in the lawsuit filed Tuesday with the help of the conservative nonprofit Goldwater Institute, based in Arizona.

The complaint alleges ASU’s mandatory DEI training requires employees to agree that white heterosexuals are inherently racist and oppressive, among other subjective topics regarding white privilege and social justice.

It argues the training, and its test at the end, not only runs afoul of the relatively new state law, but the state constitution’s protections on free speech as well.

Related: Employers’ Talking “About Race—Any Race—With a Constant Drumbeat of Essentialist, Deterministic, and Negative Language” Risks Racial Harassment Liability.

BERKELEY HATEWATCH UPDATE: UC Berkeley is latest subject of congressional investigation into campus anti-Semitism.

UNPRECEDENTED LAWFARE: “Ha ha ha. The media audience, of course, laughed. With one joke, Biden acknowledged the work his party’s lawfare warriors have done in the Trump matter.”

Yet another reason while millions of people will consider a Trump defeat, and the resulting Biden second term, as illegitimate.

Just more of our ruling class’s Civilizational Jenga.