CALIFORNIA MADNESS: Now California Wants to Force You to Ride the Magical Mystery Train. “It takes a special kind of stupid to mandate electric vehicles that many people can’t afford, charged on a power grid that can’t support them. But beyond even that, it takes a special kind of magical thinking to mandate electric trains that haven’t been invented.”
May 23, 2024
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CIVIL RIGHTS VICTORY: Federal Judge Blocks Biden Administration’s Gun Show Background Check Rule in Texas. “Plaintiffs understandably fear that these presumptions will trigger civil or criminal penalties for conduct deemed lawful just yesterday.”
PRIORITIES:
On brand. https://t.co/SnXF5vI17u
— Trent Telenko (@TrentTelenko) May 23, 2024
Then again, what could Biden possibly bring to the table in Switzerland?
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IT’S ODDLY GOOD-LOOKING, TOO: First Aerial View Of B-21 Raider Offers New Insights. “Overall, this side-on image gives us an idea of just how smooth and flowing the B-21 design truly is. While having much in common with its predecessor the B-2, it is clearly a major leap in stealth technology.”
AND OF BEING BOEING: NASA and Boeing’s Starliner delays expose the challenges of space travel.
2024 IS NOT ONLY STRANGER THAN YOU IMAGINE, IT’S STRANGER THAN YOU CAN IMAGINE: There’s No Way in Hell Biden Drops Out But… “There is no way Presidentish Joe Biden will drop out of the race, and I’m here to tell you today why he might.”
WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Brain implant in conjunction with AI app allows nearly mute man to speak in two languages.
GEORGE SOROS HARDEST HIT: Why progressive DAs are losing their grip on the West Coast.
THE MODELS HAVEN’T EXACTLY DISTINGUISHED THEMSELVES RECENTLY: NASA announces new AI-driven weather, climate modeling tools.
NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: Fauci Flunky Admits to Deleting COVID Emails.
ALL THE BEST PEOPLE ASSURED ME THERE WERE NO RISKS: Risk for psychosis skyrockets among teens who use cannabis.
UNEXPECTED HEADLINES: Hollywood’s War on Dwarves. “You may have heard something about a remake of Time Bandits and thought ‘that sounds like a bad idea.’ An even worse idea? Making it without dwarves.”
NOT ONLY IS THE PAST STRANGER THAN WE IMAGINE, IT IS STRANGER THAN WE CAN IMAGINE: Taylor Swift Brings Store Manager’s Dreams to Life in 2012 Macy’s Commercial.
Taylor Swift is great at making dreams come true. In an effort to promote her newest fragrance, Wonderstruck Enchanted, Swift stars in a new Macy’s commercial in which she makes a store manager’s hopes and dreams a reality… sort of.
The star-studded commercial actually advertises products made by a number of fan-favorite stars, including Justin Bieber, Diddy, Martha Stewart, Donald Trump, and Carlos Santana. A Macy’s store manager arrives at work to see all of these celebrities trying out their products, and he immediately wanders off into a dream world — because surely, this can’t be real. He can envision himself playing guitar with Santana, having Martha Stewart serve him breakfast in bed and playing wingman to the Biebs while he puts on an in-store performance.
I had no idea this serious a glitch in the Matrix even existed:
But it gets crazier, as Trump meets Edmund Gwenn’s Santa from 1947’s Miracle on 34th Street:
I DUNNO, I’M MORE OF A “MAKE THE RUBBLE BOUNCE” KINDA GUY: Don Surber: Be kind to libs because they’re losing: Donald Trump isn’t the only one getting the best of them.
ADVISE AND CONSENT: Biden’s New Nominee Is the Absolute Worst, and Ted Cruz Is Having None of It. “Federal magistrate judge Sarah Netburn is one of those radical Barack Obama appointees who probably has ordinary Democrats doing face-palms so hard that you can see perfect fingerprints embedded in their foreheads. Naturally, Presidentish Joe Biden has decided what Netburn really deserves is a promotion to a U.S. District Court.”
THREAD:
SCOOP: Whistleblowers at UCLA medical school say it has dramatically lowered admissions standards for minority applicants.
As a result, they say, 50% of some cohorts now fail basic tests of medical competence.
We've obtained shocking internal data.🧵https://t.co/CVMIXgn6sE pic.twitter.com/3ub10HNPpO
— Aaron Sibarium (@aaronsibarium) May 23, 2024
So when it came time for the admissions committee to consider one such student in November 2021—a black applicant with grades and test scores far below the UCLA average—some members of the committee felt that this particular candidate, based on the available evidence, was not the best fit for the top-tier medical school, according to two people present for the committee’s meeting.
Their reservations were not well-received.
When an admissions officer voiced concern about the candidate, the two people said, the dean of admissions, Jennifer Lucero, exploded in anger.
“Did you not know African-American women are dying at a higher rate than everybody else?” Lucero asked the admissions officer, these people said. The candidate’s scores shouldn’t matter, she continued, because “we need people like this in the medical school.”
Even before the Supreme Court’s landmark affirmative action ban last year, public schools in California were barred by state law from considering race in admissions. The outburst from Lucero, who discussed race explicitly despite that ban, unsettled some admissions officers, one of whom reached out to other committee members in the wake of the incident. “We are not consistent in the way we apply the metrics to these applicants,” the official wrote in an email obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. “This is troubling.”
“I wondered,” the official added, “if this applicant had been [a] white male, or [an] Asian female for that matter, [whether] we would have had that much discussion.”
Since Lucero took over medical school admissions in June 2020, several of her colleagues have asked the same question. . . . Led by Lucero, who also serves as the vice chair for equity, diversity, and inclusion of UCLA’s anesthesiology department, the admissions committee routinely gives black and Latino applicants a pass for subpar metrics, four people who served on it said, while whites and Asians need near perfect scores to even be considered.
Sounds like a conspiracy to deprive people of their civil rights, under color of law. And if you’re worried about black women dying, maybe don’t send them incompetent doctors?
Plus: “Within three years of Lucero’s hiring in 2020, UCLA dropped from 6th to 18th place in U.S. News & World Report’s rankings for medical research. And in some of the cohorts she admitted, more than 50 percent of students failed standardized tests on emergency medicine, family medicine, internal medicine, and pediatrics.”
So who hired her, and who kept her on the job?
CONSEQUENCES: Uvalde Families Sue State Police, School District for Response to School Shooting.
Families of children killed in the mass shooting at an elementary school here two years ago and survivors filed a lawsuit Wednesday against 91 state police officers and the local school district, calling their response the “single greatest failure of law enforcement to confront an active shooter in American history.” . . . A gunman killed 19 fourth-graders and two teachers while nearly 400 officers from some two dozen state and federal agencies waited to intervene for more than an hour, even as children repeatedly called 911 from inside the classroom.
The suit, filed on behalf of families of 17 of the children killed and two of the surviving victims in federal court in the Western District of Texas, is against individuals because of immunity protections for state departments, those involved with the suit said. Among its claims are that the defendants violated the 14th Amendment constitutional rights of the victims and survivors.
A spokeswoman for the Texas Department of Public Safety declined to comment.
We need a federal civil rights law allowing for damages from police departments and officials for failure to protect, with no sovereign immunity.
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UPDATE YOUR NEWSPEAK DICTIONARIES ACCORDINGLY:
Satire is now reality:
Illinois just passed a bill to change the word "offender" to "justice-impacted individual"
HB 4409 passed both chambers.
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) May 22, 2024
You can’t make this stuff up and in 2024 America, you don’t have to.
COLLEGE ATHLETICS IN THE AGE OF ENDORSEMENTS: College QB Sues the School He First Committed to Over an NIL Deal That Fell Apart.
21ST CENTURY CAMPAIGNING: Trump campaign starts taking cryptocurrency donations, vows to build a ‘crypto army.’ “The move opens a new source of potential funds for the Trump campaign, which still lags Biden in cash on hand even as it outraised the Democratic incumbent in April.”
Note that Trump outraised Biden during the New York trial which was supposed to hamstring his ability to function as a candidate.
