HEALTH CARE COST CONTAINMENT HAS GOTTEN OUT OF HAND: Orangutan treats facial wound with medicinal plant.

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Anxiety is rising among Americans amid economic struggles, looming election.

JOHN LUCAS: The Latest News About the Antisemitic Attacks on University Campuses? “Republicans Pounce.”

I’D JUST LIKE TO SAY GOOD LUCK, WE’RE ALL COUNTING ON YOU: NASA and Boeing “Go” for Historic Starliner Test Mission.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: UW-Milwaukee employs about one administrator for every five students.

YEAH, BASICALLY: Student protesters are no different than babies, an analysis.

SUCK IT UP, BUTTERCUP — LAWYERS ARE SUPPOSED TO BE TOUGH, NOT WUSSES: “Irrevocably Shaken”: Columbia Law Review Editors Demand Cancellation Of Exams Due To Campus Protests.

As Jonathan Turley notes: “[T]he question is how such law students are emotionally prepared for the pressures of practice when such protests shut them down and leave them ‘unable to focus.’ However, they have been educated in systems that have fostered the sense of victimization or trauma from opposing views.”

LOL, TAYLOR LORENZ:

Taylor Lorenz suggests that members of the LGBTQ community are treated the same in Texas and Florida as they are in Gaza where they’re thrown off rooftops.

She somehow manages to even make Don Lemon sound reasonable! 🤡pic.twitter.com/ysmjOtxgUC

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) May 3, 2024

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Pew: Catholic Vote Swinging to Trump — By Double Digits — Over ‘Devout’ Biden.

COLLUSION: Hillary Clinton group wired $500,000 to climate activists behind disruptive protests.

WELL, GOOD: The toppling of the woke authoritarians: From Scotland to New Zealand to Canada, politicians are on a collision course with the public.

THE ENEMY WITHIN: Biden Judicial Nominee Honored by Anti-Israel Group Whose Board Member Cheers Hamas.

WE ARE GOVERNED BY MORONS. “He literally does not know the most basic things about government finance despite being an acknowledged ‘expert’ on the subject. He has the same grasp of basic economics as a third grader.”

IT SEEMS THAT WAY TO ME: The Hysterical Opposition to the Antisemitism Awareness Act is Unfounded.

THE WEEKENDS AT THE COLLEGE DIDN’T TURN OUT LIKE YOU PLANNED:

'I've Never Felt So Alive,' Thinks Police Officer While Clotheslining Communist Ivy League Student https://t.co/t7TFdZHYUP pic.twitter.com/rFKikHQ3lH

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) May 3, 2024

The plastic garbage-can shields may have looked cool, but mostly just hampered their users and provided a convenient handle.

THE ENEMY WITHIN: The ‘Micro-Intifada’: How American Protesters Are Being Trained in ‘Militancy:’ Guides created by radical groups are teaching pro-Palestinian students to use violence on campus.

MATT TAIBBI: The Atlantic Compares Walter Kirn to Donald Trump: The latest “What happened to you, man?” piece goes next-level. “The Atlantic churned out a paint-by-numbers hit piece on my friend Walter Kirn this week, and yes, I’m pissed about it. Really, is there no end to this nastiness? The chief complaint of ‘The Blindness of Elites’ is that Walter, formerly well-regarded smart person, spends too much time complaining about ‘elites’ instead of Donald Trump.”

The elites suck, people are. noticing, and those who are paid to keep people from noticing are turning up the volumne.

OPEN THREAD: Just do it.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: China launches Chang’e-6 mission to collect first samples from the moon’s far side.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: South Korea Plan for Space Based Solar for More Than All US Nuclear Power.

JACK DUNPHY: On the Violent Left, Eternal Recurrence.

BOEING: From Aviation Excellence to ESG Disaster.

IT’S NOT JUST SEC/ACC SCHOOLS NOW:

Patriots at University of Chicago break up the path of the pro-Palestine protesters and waive the American Flag.

This trend is spreading! 🇺🇸

There's hope!https://t.co/lLN71hXImx

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) May 3, 2024

WHY, INDEED? “But who are the outside agitators? If they are not students, who are they? How about some details? Lots of them were arrested. Why isn’t there a torrent of detail about what sort of people they are?”

YES, THE BLACK LIVES MATTER PROTESTS IN LONDON AND BERLIN WERE HILARIOUS: The United States Is Exporting Its Social Movements (and Its Social Problems): Both U.S. protests and radical movements are going global.

Basically, we’re doing socially what China did microbially with exporting Covid — if this shit is going to be our problem, it’s going to be everybody’s problem.