MICROBIOME NEWS: Gut bacteria enhance cancer immunotherapy in mouse study.

HOW ARE YOU GOING TO SPREAD PRE-ELECTION FEAR, THEN? Expert explains how pasteurization protects against avian flu.

PROGRESS: NASA launches new aircraft modeling software.

ANOTHER REASON TO BAN SOCIAL MEDIA, OBVIOUSLY: Social media use linked to higher risk of vaping, smoking.

A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE HEAVILY INVESTED IN PEOPLE BEING WRONG: Planned ‘Everything You Know About Palestine is Wrong’ event at UCLA draws outrage, protest. Some of those people are in the UCLA administration.

PEACE IN OUR TIME: Sacramento State cut a deal with terrorism-loving occupiers. CBS celebrated it as ‘dialogue’.

IN A FEW MINUTES: Blue Origin launches New Shepard.

OH NO! ANYWAY. . . Liberal Activist You’ve Never Heard of Quits Job: Former child poet lashes out at Biden for (truthfully) accusing Hamas of hating Jews.

THE ENEMY WITHIN: Cleric Linked to Prominent Michigan Dems Accuses Pro-Israel Lawmakers of ‘Treason.’

KEEP DIGGING: Reps. Jim Jordan, Thomas Massie threaten CDC subpoena for vaccine efficacy data.

HE’S RIGHT, YOU KNOW:

The richer you are, in general, the more conservative your life choices are. Most left wingers talk left but live right. They live in gated communities, put kids in private schools, maximize tax avoidance, have stay at home wives, pay attention to what they do not what they say.

— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) May 18, 2024

UPDATE (From Ed): As Charles Murray wrote over a decade ago, “When it comes to marriage and the work ethic, the new upper class must start preaching what it practices.”

OPEN THREAD: Hope your weekend is doing well.

PROFESSOR CARRINGTON, CALL YOUR OFFICE: Here we go again — new sunspot regions emerge, strong solar flare recorded.

WELL, GOOD: Ozempic Could Be Good For Your Heart Even If You Don’t Lose Weight.

THAT’S BEEN MY OBSERVATION: Most cancer treatments are useless for patients with advanced tumors near end of life.

THAT’S NOWHERE CLOSE TO ACTUARIAL ESCAPE VELOCITY: Study predicts global life expectancy will rise by more than 4 years by 2050.

END OF AN ERA: Dodge, Ram CEO Tim Kuniskis Is Following the Hemi Out the Door. “Nobody should envy the person at Dodge that has to convince a sales base of high-horsepower V-8 muscle car owners to eventually switch to electric power, but that person won’t be Tim Kuniskis, who is retiring from his roles at Dodge and Ram on June 1 this year.”

Yeah, good luck with that.

ESSENTIAL CONCEALED CARRY ACCESSORIES.

NOW OUT FROM ANDREW WAREHAM: Part 1 of a new series, The Half-Bred Heir.

BERKELEY HATEWATCH UPDATE: UC Berkeley building defaced with swastika, other anti-Semitic graffiti.

Just a few years ago, leftists were telling us we should punch Nazis. Now they’re slapping swastikas up everywhere and calling for Jews to be killed. Color me unsurprised.

JESSE ADAMS: What Glenn Loury taught me.

OPEN THREAD: Go for it.

YES, THEY’RE LETTING THE TRUTH DRIBBLE OUT NOW WHILE PEOPLE’S ATTENTION IS ELSEWHERE: We now know the likely truth about COVID, and how scientists lied.

COVID-19, which killed 1.1 million Americans and destroyed the lives and livelihoods of millions more, is a manmade virus that escaped from a Chinese lab partly funded by the US government.

Even today, you’re not supposed to say that — even though it’s the only plausible scenario.

No, “fact checkers” will rush in to claim that eminent scientists deny this. Which is because those scientists have too much invested — in money, in time, in their own beliefs — to admit the truth. . . .

Anyone who questioned this claim — including The Post — was censored online in 2020. The reason? A statement published in Lancet by 27 scientists calling it a “conspiracy theory.”
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NIH official finally admits taxpayers funded gain-of-function research in Wuhan — after years of denials

We now know that statement was drafted by Peter Daszak, president of EcoHealth Alliance, the company working on research in the Wuhan lab. He was just trying to cover his own complicity.

All signs point to a lab leak. The only reason we can’t say it conclusively is because China has been allowed to destroy all evidence.

Which is evidence in itself, of course.

HIS RULE HAS NOT BEEN NOTABLY SUCCESSFUL:

When you look at Putin and his entourage in China, you just see a broken servant who asks for another bowl from his master. It is pathetic in so many ways. Russia, which was once calling the shots in East Asia and subverted and stole from Qing-China when dictating the Treaty of… pic.twitter.com/aH8eLtvrSC

— (((Tendar))) (@Tendar) May 17, 2024

THE SCORPION IS STILL A SCORPION AND A FROG IS STILL A FROG: No, left-leaning bully Andrew Cuomo hasn’t suddenly changed his spots.