OPEN THREAD: Hump Day.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Crewed Test of Boeing Starliner Delayed to May 21st or Later.

NOW OUT FROM GLENN LOURY: Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative.

I’M SURPRISED THEIR TELEMETRY IS UNENCRYPTED: Raw Intercepted Video of SpaceX Falcon 9 Upper Stage in Orbit.

I’LL BE LIVE ON BITCHUTE SHORTLY at 8 PM ET, talking to Amy Peikoff about lessons from the campus protests.

LIKE IMMIGRATION AND “CLIMATE CHANGE,” AFFIRMATIVE ACTION IS A PRIORITY FOR OUR ELITES, EVEN THOUGH IT’S NOT A PRIORITY OF THE VOTERS: Congress is Preparing to Restore Quotas in College Admissions: And everywhere else — as a very quiet part of the bipartisan “privacy” bill. “More than two-thirds of Americans think the Supreme Court was right to hold Harvard’s race-based admissions policy unlawful. But the minority who disagree have no doubt about their own moral authority, and there’s every reason to believe that they intend to undo the Court’s decision at the earliest opportunity. Which could be as soon as this year. In fact, undoing the Harvard admissions decision is the least of it. Republicans and Democrats in Congress have embraced a precooked “privacy” bill that will impose race and gender quotas not just on academic admissions but on practically every private and public decision that matters to ordinary Americans.”

Plus: “Not surprisingly, quota advocates don’t want to fight such a war in the light of day. That’s presumably why APRA obscures the mechanism by which it imposes quotas.”

HMM: Babies born by C-section need two doses of measles vaccine to produce antibodies.

IT’S UNFAIR NOT TO GIVE THEM AN OPPORTUNITY TO RIOT: Students Sue CUNY Law School Over Ban On Commencement Speakers, Claiming Move Is Anti-Palestinian.

CATS AND DOGS LIVING TOGETHER: Courteous airline passengers … what next?

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY (CONT’D):

And this is how the E.U. helps Former President Trump get reelected.

The EU is making isolationism highly attractive to US voters.

I cannot tell you how disappointed I am with Poland. https://t.co/lhFFKhjPuJ

— Trent Telenko (@TrentTelenko) May 15, 2024

THIS GREEN NUDE EEL KEEPS GETTING WORSE ALL THE TIME: Get Your Dirty Paws Away From My Hot Showers, Hippie. “The Left has been working hard to ban your gas- or diesel-powered car or truck, they made you swap out your perfectly decent incandescent bulbs for crappy CFLs or expensive LEDs, and next on the chopping block is your hot shower in the morning.”

ROBERT SPENCER: Why Has Biden Betrayed Israel? Look at His New Special Counsel.

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THE BIG NEWS IS THAT HE HONORED FALLEN POLICE OFFICERS:

Biden trips, barely avoids nasty fall while honoring fallen police officers https://t.co/hEW3F4FUbz pic.twitter.com/dIKmI564n6

— New York Post (@nypost) May 15, 2024

THE BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO defensive knives.

COLORADO: Gas prices to skyrocket in these 9 counties and it’s all Polis’s fault.

Thanks to poor governing by Jared Polis, gas prices within nine Front Range counties will spike fifty cents to a dollar per gallon in the next two weeks.

As those Coloradans are forced to buy an EPA approved reformulated gasoline that’s more expensive to make, it could also result in a fuel shortage at the pump.
Why is this Polis’s fault?

Because when he was first elected King Polis, Lord of the Front Range Flies, protector of the bureaucratic realm and first man of his kind, he passed on getting the ozone waiver from the feds which then Gov. Hickenlooper had long maintained.

Instead, Polis played climate change politics and pretended the Front Range ozone issues weren’t caused in large part by forest fires, pollution from Asia, and other non-climate change reasons so he could shut down sectors of Colorado’s energy and force emission reductions down our throat.

As Energy in Depth has reported, Polis’s political decision unleashed this EPA regulatory process and now he can’t get the genie back in the bottle.

Adding insult to injury, Polis is now whining to the media and acting like it’s not his fault he mucked up the waiver process, and now the Biden administration won’t give him one.

Gooder and harder.

HMM: Cohen Made Huge Admission in NYC Trump Case and Now the Tumblers Begin to Fall in Place.

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THEY HATE YOU, THEY REALLY HATE YOU: ‘Planet of the Apes’ Stars Are ‘Team Ape’ Because Humans Destroying the Earth: ‘I Dislike Humans a Lot.’

I BELIEVE IT: Tech alone can’t replace human coaches in obesity treatment, study finds.

I BELIEVE IT: Americans with private insurance may pay more than Medicare patients. How come we ban “price discrimination” in some areas but not healthcare?

DRAMA QUEENS: Stormy Daniels’ porn star husband says couple will ‘vacate the country’ if Trump found not guilty.

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Warren Smith Learns It’s Not Enough to Be Right.

A few months ago, a Massachusetts high school teacher named Warren Smith went viral for the following exchange with a student. In it, he helps the student understand why he’s been thinking about J.K. Rowling all wrong. She’s not a “transphobe” for knowing how chromosomes work.

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I suspect there was no conversation when they fired him, because they knew he would talk them out of it.

So now this excellent teacher is out of a job for making students think instead of riot. I hope he lands on his feet. He seems like a decent guy. He’s certainly handling this a lot better than I would.

If J.K. Rowling really wants to change things, she should start her own school. A real-life Hogwarts. Except instead of teaching magic, it teaches young people how to think. Staff it with people like Warren Smith.

You don’t need magic when you’ve got logic and reason.

It’s Jim Treacher, so read the whole thing.

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Drowning deaths rise in U.S. after decades of declines.

JOHN NOLTE: Democrat-Run California About to Get Hit with 50 Cent per Gallon Gas Tax.

In today’s edition of Getting What You Vote For, the dummies in California are about to get hit with a 50 cent per gallon gas tax.

Remember, California voters have handed the Democrat party full power over the former Golden State. Democrats run everything from the governorship on down. Democrats not only hold majorities in the state legislature, they hold veto-proof majorities. In other words…

Republicans are powerless in California. And so…

According to Triple-A, the average cost of a gallon of gas in California today is $5.29. That’s nearly $1.70 more than the national average. In some parts of California, gas costs $6.32 per gallon. The lowest cost for a gallon of gas in that Democrat-run shithole is $5.02.

Now add 50 cents to those prices.

Tee hee.

Throw in “road diets,” banning gas stations, and some of the worst roads in the country, and it all adds up to California drivers continuing to get it gooder and harder.