At the University of Texas, Austin campus:

Amid a wave of pro-Palestine demonstrations across American campuses, the University of Texas at Austin gained control overe the situation. On Wednesday, over fifty protestors were detained by Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) troopers after a campus protest escalated beyond the administration's permitted boundaries. The protest at UT Austin mirrors similar unrest at Columbia University and other institutions, yet the response from state officials has ignited a debate over the balance between free speech and public order.

Governor Greg Abbott swiftly endorsed the arrests, describing the protestors' actions as antisemitic and asserting that such demonstrations would not be tolerated in Texas. "These protesters belong in jail. Antisemitism will not be tolerated in Texas. Period," Abbott stated on X.

An NYU Stinky cried about being arrested just because she broke the law.

As RedState reported Tuesday, things got so intense at the NYU protests that the NYPD was called in to clean house and reestablish order. In the process, dozens were arrested including some professors who had previously formed a human wall around the agitators to protect them from consequences.

READ: Chaotic Scene As NYPD Descends Upon NYU in Riot Gear, Arrests Dozens of Pro-Hamas Extremists

Among the students arrested were Moné Makkawi, whose LinkedIn profile sports "she/her" pronouns and which notes she's a Ph.D. candidate in Middle Eastern studies.

On Twitter/X, Ms. Makkawi goes by the handle "Girl Boss Gulag," but she didn't sound like much of a fearless tough Girl Boss when describing her arrest and detainment in the following mini-thread:

after abducting me & hundred of other nyu students + faculty yesterday, NYPD female officers in holding cells stole my possessions, then talked about it in front of others that were detained after I was released, bragging about how they were teaching me a lesson for protesting.

Abducted? Say, you're supporting the people that kidnapped and raped Israeli women, right?

Yes, they take away your property, except for most clothes, when you're arrested.

I guess I shouldn't be surprised that this uneducated dolt don't know that.

these people have no interest in protecting or serving anyone but capital, most of them are white supremacists even if they are black/brown. the way they move and operate reflects a deep disdain for the black/brown people they target, harass, surveil, police.

they train with the iof, learn their logics, exchange tactics, and so on. Palestine is never far

Hopefully Trump will revoke her visa and reunite her with her precious Palestine.

Speaking of ignorant crybabies, AOC.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC

Not only did Columbia make the horrific decision to mobilize NYPD on their own students, but the units called in have some of the most violent reputations on the force.

NYPD had promised the city they wouldn't deploy SRG to protests.

So why are these counterterror units here?

They were observing, not acting. Only this double-digit IQ drama queen would try to milk outrage out of that skinny tit.

The NYPD responded:

NYPD Chief of Patrol @NYPDChiefPatrol

Truly amazing! Columbia decided to hold its students accountable to the laws of the school. They are seeing the consequences of their actions. Something these kids were most likely never taught. Good SAT scores and self-entitlement do not supersede the law. I am sure you would agree that we have to teach them these valuable life skills.

Secondly, I was with those "units" last Thursday that you describe as having, "the most violent reputations." These "units" removed students with great care and professionalism, not a single incident was reported.

The only incidents that day on campus were the student's hateful anti-Semitic speech and vile language towards our cops. I am sure you agree any hateful speech is unacceptable. You should rethink your comments to a simple thank you to the NYPD and hate has no place in our society.

Maybe you should walk around Columbia and NYU and listen to their remarks of pure hatred. I will ensure those "units" will protect you as they do for all NYers 24/7/365.

Lack of accountability = consequences

Hate from anyone, anywhere has no place in our city and country

The filthy colonizers also set up an encampment at NYC's gayest school, the Fashion Institute of Technology.

A pro-Palestine encampment at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) in New York City appears to have sparked a conflict between students and law enforcement.

The FIT Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) group shared video via Instagram Thursday showing crowds of protesters chanting and holding signs in and around the school's Shirley Goodman Resource Center. The account wrote students are "NOW GUARDING THE ENCAMPMENT FROM NYPD AND SECURITY."

Another clip from the altercation shows uniformed security guards forcing open doors and fighting to gain entry to the building as students pound on drums.

"FIT SECURITY IS ASSAULTING PEACEFUL PROTESTORS AT ENCAMPMENT," the account wrote.

No, they were attempting to access a building which they have legal access to and you do not.

The protest follows a decision by the school to ban SJP from organizing on campus, it wrote. Students now demand the school divest from Israeli companies, publicly condemn Israel, drop charges against students and show "complete financial transparency."

WE WILL NOT OCCUPY FIT UNTIL OUR DEMANDS ARE MET," the SJP wrote.

They mean "We will occupy FIT until our demands are met," but they're uneducated hobos. So, some allowance must be made, as usual.

The Smellies have erected a Hamas Camp at George Washington University, just a stone's throw from the State Department where they'll all get jobs after leftwing judges scrub their police records of all arrests.

Spencer Brown:

FOGGY BOTTOM, DC -- In the same neighborhood that holds the U.S. Department of State and its openly anti-Israel staffers in the nation's capital, antisemitic students at The George Washington University established a Hamas Youth (TM) camp on Thursday similar to the one at Columbia University to champion barbaric terrorists in the Gaza Strip and call for an intifada to eliminate Israel and murder Jews.

Signs in the crowd made vile declarations such as "FINAL SOLUTION" while camped-out students chanted "there is only one resolution // intifada revolution" and "from the river to the sea Palestine will be free."

They Just Want to Breathe (TM).

By Thursday afternoon, the camp had some 20 tents, hundreds of student demonstrators, and a portable bathroom set up on GW's University Yard. A statement from the university on Thursday morning stated that demonstrations were not allowed there and instructed the antisemitic students to move to another location on campus. Students did not comply and the university did not take action to enforce its policies. GW also said overnight encampments aren't permitted and that demonstrators and their camp would be "required" to be gone by 7:00 p.m. Thursday.

USC has given in to the demands of The Stinkies and is cancelling their main graduation ceremony. Because Israel or something.

The University of Southern California announced on Thursday that it has canceled its main-stage graduation ceremony for students, a move that follows campus protests over the Israel-Hamas war and a controversy over its selection of a class valedictorian. Advertisement

The university said that it could not host the ceremony, which was scheduled for May 10, because of new safety measures that would have increased the amount of time needed on the day to process the 65,000 students and guests who usually attend.

This week, the university has been rocked by turmoil by pro-Palestinian protesters, resulting in the arrests of more than 90 people.

Here's a smile: Obviously the NPCs at formerly-prestigious university Harvard joined in and followed. They too set up an illegal camp on the campus grounds.

The university activated the sprinkler system, giving The Stinkies a much-needed shower.

Everyone cry for The Smellies.

Harvard University's anti-Israel tent encampment was temporarily thwarted overnight -- by a slew of sprinklers that flooded protesters' tents -- as demonstrations rocked other campuses across the country.

Dozens of sleeping protesters who were trying to catch some shuteye were disturbed when the sprinklers suddenly turned on in the middle of the Ivy League's Cambridge campus.

"As protesters spend their first night in the Harvard Yard encampment, the biggest threat to their stay has not come from administrators or Harvard University police officers, but the Yard's sprinklers," the Harvard Crimson student-led paper said early Thursday.

The first sprinkler switched on just outside the encampment in Harvard Yard at about 2:30 a.m. as temperatures dipped to 36 degrees.

Then, just before 4 a.m., a sprinkler located in the middle of the tents started spraying out water, prompting students to quickly start handing out buckets.

"Two more sprinklers turned on at the edge of the encampment near Massachusetts Hall," the newspaper said in a live blog update at 4:05 a.m.

"The sprinklers began to hit tents on the edge of the camp before protesters rushed over to cover the sprinklers with buckets and sit on them."

Harvard's Palestine Solidarity Committee said in an Instagram post some of the students' tents were flooded with freezing cold water after the 4 a.m. burst. A video showed a student struggling to readjust a tarpaulin in a wet tent.

As Monk once said of The Dirties: "They make their own sauce."

Little question: The school year is ending in two weeks. That means everyone will be taking their final exams, and turning in their final papers, over the next couple of weeks.

Have the Dirties cleared it with the students actually interested in getting a degree for the $80,000 per year they're paying that the school will be turned into a No-Go CHAZ/CHAP situation during the most critical two weeks of the year, or nah?

C. Seasonal Adjustments and Annual Revisions Over the course of a year, the weekly changes in the levels of initial claims and continued claims undergo regularly occurring fluctuations. These fluctuations may result from seasonal changes in weather, major holidays, the opening and closing of schools, or other similar events. Because these seasonal events follow a more or less regular pattern each year, their influence on the level of a series can be tempered by adjusting for regular seasonal variation. These adjustments make trend and cycle developments easier to spot. At the beginning of each calendar year, the Bureau of Labor Statistics provides the Employment and Training Administration (ETA) with a set of seasonal factors to apply to the unadjusted data during that year. Concurrent with the implementation and release of the new seasonal factors, ETA incorporates revisions to the UI claims historical series caused by updates to the unadjusted data.

As I dove into that website, I saw that the “seasonal adjustment” is actually done every single week, bringing the initial filing report back to the boilerplate 212k number that is constantly being reported.

But again, to Mr. Bianco’s point, even if the seasonal adjustment is done weekly using some mathematical formula that is applied to the unadjusted number, then there should still be some variance from 212k.

It seems rather clear that the “adjusted” figure is just a number pulled out of the air by a DOL employee who can’t be bothered to spend 5 minutes coming up with a new phony number to replace the prior week’s phony number.

Related - a gentleman named Don Harrison, with whom I’ve developed a friendship through mutual friends at the Heartland Institute, sent me the following note in response to the question “Why Do Intelligent People Continue to Rely on Government Data That is Known to Be False?” I found his note to be a terrific essay unto itself.

”I think intelligent people are so often wrong because they ARE intelligent, and because of how their intelligence has come to be nurtured and treated in our modern age. First, people with high IQs are now identified at an early age, and funneled into courses of study that focus on the use and manipulation of symbols, both verbal and mathematical. This gives them a very narrow understanding of the way the world works. In addition, they have been told from an early age how brilliant they are, which teaches them to prize their own thinking above all else. And when they do reach out for another opinion, they almost exclusively deal with people who have similar backgrounds. They have no conception of the implications of William Buckley’s statement that he “would rather be ruled by the first 2,000 people in the telephone directory than by the Harvard University faculty.” A large group of people will have a store of wisdom, intelligence and experience that a smaller coterie of the best and brightest cannot hope to match. The most distinguishing shortcoming of the intelligentsia is not near-sightedness, progressive politics or an addiction to Starbucks; it is hubris. They don’t know what they don’t know.

Bottom line: high IQs that are nurtured without an acquaintance with a breadth of experience result in a kind of sterile, and dangerous, stupidity.”

Thank you, Don. Interestingly, Mr. Harrison’s passion and area of expertise is anti-ESG investing. He was a featured guest last month with Jim Lakely and the Heartland gang on their weekly “Climate Realism” broadcast, discussing the topic of “Is ESG on the Outs?” which can be seen at this link if you’re so inclined.

Coincidentally, this heartwarming story about the backlash to ESG investing was just published yesterday:

“US Fund Managers With ESG Mandates Have Worst-Ever Outflows” [Bloomberg – 4/25/2024]

US fund managers suffered their worst-ever quarter for ESG-focused products as the pace of client redemptions intensified. Client withdrawals from US funds targeting environmental, social and governance goals reached $8.8 billion in the first three months of 2024, according to fresh data compiled by Morningstar Inc.

The scale of redemptions from US ESG funds dragged down global inflows, which were a modest $900 million in the first quarter, Morningstar said.

Victory in the culture wars will not occur in Congress, or in the courts, or most anywhere at the federal level. But we can deliver resounding blows to the left in local elections and in how we use our money.

“Sustainable funds have been facing many headwinds in the past couple of years, including elevated energy prices, high interest rates and an ESG backlash in the US,” said Hortense Bioy, global director of sustainability research at Morningstar.

Millions of us using our wallets as weapons are having an impact and causing pain to the woke left. Don’t let up.

Have a great weekend.

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]

ISRAEL vs HAMAS & IRAN
• Victor Davis Hanson: "Why Biden plays Iranian poker with American and Israeli lives."
  War By Affirmative Action?
  
• “Various terrorist organizations” lobbed mortar rounds at efforts on the location laying the groundwork for the pier while U.N. officials were touring the area, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing the Israeli military. The U.N. officials retreated to secure spaces and no one was injured in the attack, but the incident underscored concerns about security for the roughly 1,000 U.S. troops involved in facilitating delivery of much-needed humanitarian supplies to Gaza.
  Biden’s Gaza Pier Site Comes Under Attack As US Troops Prepare To Begin Construction
  
• Douglas Murray: "Khan wants to bring individual cases against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and a head of the Israeli army, most likely the chief of the general staff. If this happens, it will throw kerosene onto the already flammable international situation. And further ignite things here at home."
  International Criminal Court’s vicious smear tactics against America’s allies
  
• You'd think these heathen savages would understand their own concept of "taqqiya" being used by Biden - jjs
  State Department Arabic Spox Quits to Protest U.S. Support for Israel
  
• “How are news outlets dedicating wall-to-wall coverage to campus protests, but not the discovery of mass graves in Gaza of people with their hands tied & clothing stripped? Why do we not know more? Where are the journalists and resources being dedicated to that story?” — Titty-Caca AOC (No, she's not referring to the Jews - jjs)
  Media Hoax: No, Israel Did Not Dig ‘Mass Grave’ At Gaza’s Nasser Hospital
  
• "The rhetoric of genocide surrounding the Israel/ Hamas conflict must be clarified to arrive at a peaceful conclusion that saves the lives of Arabs and Jews in the region."
  "Palestine" is Free. . . In Israel (Only with coupon, while supplies last- jjs)
  * * * * *

• "Columbia University protesters are training and coordinating with their peers around the country, notes show."
  Exclusive: Notes from Princeton Activists Show Coordination Between Campus Radicals and Outside Groups Aimed at Outfoxing University Administrators
  
• USCPR provides up to $7,800 for its community-based fellows and between $2,880 and $3,660 for its campus-based “fellows” in return for spending eight hours a week organizing “campaigns led by Palestinian organizations.” They are trained to “rise up, to revolution.” The radical group received at least $300,000 from Soros’ Open Society Foundations since 2017 and also took in $355,000 from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund since 2019. It has three “fellows” who have been major figures in the nationwide protest movement.
  Nazi Collaborator George Soros is Paying Student Radicals Who are Fueling Nationwide Explosion of Israel-Hating Protests (This would never get off the ground if the students weren't already brainwashed to hate Jews by the professoriate - jjs)
  
• “I don’t hear any of the protesters chanting for the release of American hostages and against what Hamas has done, not just to Israel, but to the 'Palestinian' people.” (If a Democrat is saying this, they know this is radioactive ass-cancer to Biden and the party - jjs)
  Democrat Rep. Manning: College Protests Aren’t Pro-"Palestinian," They’re Anti-Israel and Anti-Semitic
  
• Daniel Greenfield: "Why history is repeating itself on campus."
  The Hamas Nazi Ivy League
  
• "The anti-Semitic student protesters will soon be demanding that you cover their loans."
  These Are The Students Biden Wants To Bail Out — With Your Money
  
• Columbia student Khymani James: "Be grateful that I'm not just going out and murdering Zionists." (Be a shame if this cockroach woke up with his throat slit and his bed in flames - jjs)
  ‘Zionists Don’t Deserve To Live’: Meet the Leader of Columbia University’s Anti-Israel Encampment
  
• José Garza is the District Attorney for Travis County, where UT Austin is located. He has received nearly half a million dollars in donations from George Soros-funded organizations like Texas Justice & Public Safety PAC, according to campaign finance documents.
  Soros-Backed DA Lets Pro-"Palestinian" Protestors Walk Scot-Free In Texas
  * * * * *

• "You know, you do that in Florida at our universities, we’re showing you the door, you’re gonna be expelled when you’re doing that stuff. And you know what? The minute people start to face consequences, you are not gonna see this nonsense going on.”
  DeSantis: Protesters Blocking Roads, Extremists Harassing Others At Colleges Not Tolerated In Florida
  
• "What we are dealing with right now on college campuses is a sprawling—systemic, one might say—conspiracy to deprive Jewish students of basic equal rights."
  Restore Order and Crush the Campus Jihadist Thugs
  
• "Crazy idea. How about you keep the students safe and punish those who break the law and school rules?"
  USC Cancels Main Commencement After Numerous Anti-Israel Protests
  
• Fred Fleitz: "For years, leadership at U.S. colleges has incubated and tolerated extreme left-wing ideologies that led to the current anti-Semitic and anti-Israel protests." (The Jew-hate is just the latest manifestation of the America-hatred that's been going on for decades - jjs)
  Anti-Semitism Should Not be Part of the American College Experience
  
• "A university department stands with Hamas terrorists." (Terrapins now terror-pin-heads - jjs)
  U. Maryland Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies: A Case Study in "Jew Hatred"
  
• "Even more entertaining – and shocking – is watching police bop hippies at the University of Southern California."
  Karma Reigns: Harvard HamaNazis Wake Up to a Super-Soaking

  "BIDEN BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY

• "The amount of illegals pouring into the country has exceeded multiple states’ populations. And with the Biden administration ensuring that illegal aliens would be counted in the Census, this massive new population could permanently rig Congress and the Electoral College in favor of Democrats. The crisis is deliberate. The Democrats think they want to replace Americans with illegal immigrants, despite the many criminals, gang members, potential terrorists, and foreign agents who are part of the illegal invasion. This is the purposeful upheaval of America."
  California Takes the Lead in Illegal Migrant Apprehensions
  
• Illegal aliens shipped to Martha’s Vineyard last year by Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis will be given work visas as “crime victims,” according to the latest insanity coming at you from [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Joe Biden’s open borders.
  Illegal Aliens Sent to Martha's Vineyard Get Special 'Crime Victim' Visas

  BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS & DEMENTIA WATCH

• Robert Spencer: "So is this senescent corruptocrat in the habit of making the sign of the cross when thinking about people and things that he hates? It sure seems that way. And now he has given us the bizarre spectacle of a Catholic apparently praying that more children will be killed. Pious Old Joe, you can always count on him."
  Old Joe Biden Goes to an Abortion Rally, Does the Most Tone-Deaf Thing Imaginable
  
• Daniel Greenfield: "War stories made up by my demented president."
  What’s Eating Joe? (BSE and syphilis are eating his cerebral cortex - jjs)

  SHAMPEACHMENT 1.0, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION

• "Arguments revealed that a majority appears to agree that presidents do enjoy some scope of immunity after their term in office, but the ultimate question will be the establishment of a standard. . . That process could take months. And the Supreme Court appears likely to hold that decision itself would be appealable.That course, if the Court takes it, would ensure the final outcome of a Trump trial in D.C. comes well after the November 5, 2024 Election Day – a stinging blow to Smith and [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Joe Biden, Smith’s boss and Trump’s opponent in that election."
  Supreme Court Poised to Agree with Trump: Former Presidents are Immune from Some Prosecutions
  
• "Dreeben has a long track record of partisan lawfare. Prior to his tenure at the DOJ, he served as a staffer to Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY). It was Dreeben who, despite the Mueller team knowing that the Russian collusion accusations were false, engineered the legal strategy of pursuing Trump over “obstruction of justice” for opposing the Democrats‘ witch hunt."
  DID YOU NOTICE? Biden DOJ’s SCOTUS Attorney Was Also Robert Mueller’s Russiagate Lead
  
• "Writer Ray Bradbury once said, 'Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.' In Thursday’s case before the Supreme Court on the immunity of former President Donald Trump, nine justices appear to be feverishly working with feathers and glue on a plunge into a constitutional abyss.. . . As the justices work on a new set of legal wings, anything is possible as the nation waits for the court to hit ground zero in the middle of the 2024 presidential election."
  Jonathan Turley Op-Ed: Oral Arguments Suggest SCOTUS About to Plunge Into Constitutional Crisis in Trump-Immunity Case
  
• “I mean, as the court considers the implications of not extending immunity to presidents, Alvin Bragg is showing what that means.”
  Jonathan Turley Says Alvin Bragg Is Making Trump’s Immunity Case ‘For Him’
  
• "Biden’s Department of Justice (DOJ) argued Thursday before the Supreme Court that droning American citizens is permissible because Obama’s DOJ said so, whereas questioning election results isn’t OK because the government also says so."
  Biden DOJ Says Droning American Citizens Is Totally Fine Because Obama’s DOJ Said So
  
• "Contrary to Sotomayor’s web of dishonesty, the naming of contingent Republican electors during the 2020 election was neither unprecedented nor unlawful."
  Diabetic, Diaphoretic Dipshit Sotomayor Hijacks Trump Immunity Hearing To Push Democrats’ Debunked ‘Fake Electors’ Smear
  * * * * *

• The third day of the hush money trial of former President Donald Trump did not go well for Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. David Pecker, the prosecution’s lead-off witness, continued to poke holes in Bragg’s case.While the former publisher of the National Enquirer tabloid testified that he believed the “catch and kill” scheme coordinated by attorney Michael Cohen was “for the campaign,” Pecker also insisted that, at the time, he did not believe Trump was aware of Cohen’s activities.
  Trump Trial Day 3: Trump Lauds ‘Breathtaking’ Pecker, Who Continues to Shaft Bragg
  
• "What was Eastman’s supposed 'crime?' He gave legal advice to Trump." (Hat tip to Buck Throckmorton - jjs)
  The Rule of Law Depends on John Eastman
  
• Bove sought to flip the script and demonstrate the McDougal deal was just “standard” procedure. He highlighted multiple instances where Pecker’s magazine suppressed damaging stories for other individuals in the public eye, including for politicians like Rahm Emanuel, current U.S. ambassador to Japan and former Democratic mayor of Chicago, and former Republican California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
  Trump Defense Attorney Fires Crippling Shots At Alvin Bragg’s Case Just Minutes Into Cross-Examination
  
• "While Judge Cannon seems to be playing this trial down the middle, the prosecution of Joe Biden for also possessing classified documents at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement and next to his Corvette in his Wilmington, Del., garage is proceeding.... oh wait. Hold the presses on that one. The Corvette exception applied in that case. If only Trump had been cool enough to put on the sunglasses and drive around with the documents in a Corvette."
  What Do New Documents in 'Plasmic Echo' Case Reveal About the Feds' Surveillance of Trump?
  
• "USAA was ‘founded on military values.’ Now it embraces leftist ideas, transgender ideology, and corporate cancel culture."
  USAA Scorns Its Trump-Voting Members By Debanking The Lawyer Who Defended Him
  
• "We all know that what’s happening in New York is election interference, but we also need to understand the very fundamental rights that are pushed aside to 'get Trump.'”
  Democrats Need To Be Held To Account For Denying Trump’s Due Process Rights (How about abolishing their party and imprisoning them for treasonous behavior - jjs)

  CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION

• "The interlocking of U.S. security and spy agencies is the foundation of the American police state because the parameters of both groups have been so widened in the past two decades."
  Spies are the foundation of the American police state
  
• "A recent book chronicles how critical theorists captured American intelligence agencies."
  The Deep-State Virus
  
• "Experts say the proposals may be unconstitutional." (When did that stop the Left? - jjs)
  As California Voters Sour on Cash Reparations, State Dems Push Subsidized Property Taxes and Expedited Business Licenses Instead
  
• "No more quitters, no more cowardice, I'm sick of it. Fight back now or we're all going down."
  After they indict all the conservatives, the moderates are next
  
• "Whether culturally or economically, progressive Democrats have taken a hammer to American cohesion, leaving us more broken than at any time since the Civil War."
  Democrats Have Deliberately Shattered the Ties Binding America
  
• "Secret Service agents and officers are privately questioning the hiring process and whether the agency had adequately screened Herczeg’s background."
  Secret Service Scuffle Prompts DEI, Vetting Scrutiny

  FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH

• This comes in response to what the site’s founder, Jim Hoft, describes as a series of “lawfare attacks” allegedly initiated by “the radical left.” Hoft detailed the issue in a post on Wednesday.“TGP Communications, the parent company of The Gateway Pundit, recently made the decision to seek protection under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code in the Southern District of Florida as a result of the progressive liberal lawfare attacks against our media outlet,” Hoft wrote.
  Gateway Pundit Files for Bankruptcy Protection
  
• "Leftists have long sought to capture more regulatory authority over the internet using Title II regulations. Essentially, net neutrality regulations seek to prohibit internet service providers (ISPs), such as Comcast and Verizon, from blocking, slowing down, or allowing for “paid prioritization,” by which users can pay for faster, more consistent service."
  Democrat FCC Majority Votes to Restore Obama-Era Net Neutrality Rules
  
• "U.S. law now states if ByteDance does not sell TikTok, the app will be banned in the U.S."
  Chinese Company ByteDance Appears To Ignore Threat of U.S. Ban, Says It ‘Has No Plans’ To Sell TikTok: Report
  
• During the trial, Fox maintained he was a victim of racism. “There’s huge quantities of anti-right white racism in the world. It’s the only acceptable form of racism there is left.”
  Anti-Woke Actor and Activist Ordered to Pay $225K for Calling Drag-Obsessives "Pedophiles"
  
• "The [so-called quote-unquote "president"] has earned a reputation for ghosting the White House press corp, routinely yielding the floor to press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre while being relatively absent. His press dodging became so problematic that even the Washington Post called him out on it in an article last year."
  New York Times: [Dangerous Fake President] Biden Dodging Press Sets a "Dangerous Precedent"

  RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM

• "One reason for this move may be to attract young votes, who are now distracted with their Hamas-Inspired Hate Camps."
  Biden Weighs Declaring “National Climate Emergency”
  
• "This land is Joe Biden's land now. . . Had China seized 13 million acres of sovereign Alaska territory, the difference would be one of degree, not of kind."
  The Feds' Unconstitutional Land Grab
  
• Robert Zimmerman: "[Bill] Nelson exhibits the same kind of utter ignorance about basic space science as did congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) when she proclaimed on April 8, 2024 that the Moon 'was made up mostly of gases.'”
  These are the Idiots WE Have Put in Power
  
• "The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) pushed the White House to boost its support for domestic solar manufacturers as part of a gamble to to weaken calls for even more stringent tariffs from American companies, according to Bloomberg News. The efforts attempted to preempt petitions that could lead to new or strengthened protections for the American industry, the outlet reported."
  China-Tied Solar Trade Group Reportedly Lobbied White House In Effort To Forestall New Tariffs
  
• "Climate hustlers have yet another moneymaking boondoggle lined up."
  Another Climate Folly: Carbon Capture and Storage (Frankie Carbone got captured and stored – in the back of a meat truck - jjs)

  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

• “Since when don’t courts allow evidence of pattern of prior bad acts to be admitted?” she added. “He’s a prolific serial predator who raped/harmed 200+women! Disgusted w/justice system skew [to] predators not victims.” (Funny how there's no reaction to what the courts did and are doing to Trump - jjs)
  ‘Horrified’: Oscar Winner And Other Hollywood Stars React To Overturned Weinstein Rape Verdict
  
• “Moral passions are one thing, and institutional power is another.”
  Weinstein Gets Due Process While Biden Guts It
  
• "The powers of chemical unreason are on the ascent in the nation’s capital."
  News From the Psychedelic Front

  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• The worst part about that one was that another girl had warned teachers and staff that it was going to happen (five hours in advance), but the school just brushed it off saying that nothing would happen. As Stephen put it, "It never does happen. Right until it does."
  Trans Boy Beats Another Girl in Indiana
  
• "Pissed-off parents of Atrisco Heritage Academy High School students in Albuquerque, New Mexico are now demanding to know why – and how – the school hired a provocative dancer to perform at the school’s prom, after video went viral online showing a drag queen performing a striptease-like dance on the school gym surrounded by teenage students."
  New Mexico High School Hires Erotic Dancer In Drag to Perform At Prom
  
• "The College Board, creator of the SAT, is abandoning merit for racialism—and it doesn’t intend to let the Supreme Court stand in its way."
  Don’t Trust Our Test!

  ABORTION

• "Two bills grant broad immunity to the IVF industry, and HB 833 redefines the word ’embryo’ to remove references to an ‘unborn child.’"
  Louisiana Republicans, Democrats Advance Bill Granting Immunity For Killing Embryos

  THE 2020 AND 2022ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH

• Bobb previously worked as a lawyer for former President Donald Trump and a reporter for One America News Network (OAN) before her appointment to the RNC. Despite the indictment, Bobb expressed her honor in joining the RNC and reiterated her commitment to restoring confidence in the electoral process. “I’m honored to join the RNC and thrilled the new leadership is focused on election integrity. I look forward to working to secure our elections and restore confidence in the process,” Bobb said at the time of her appointment.
  One of the People Indicted by Arizona’s Far-Left AG is the RNC’s Election Integrity Chief
  
• "Get Loud Arkansas, led by a former Democrat state senator, created an online page to collect sensitive information to register voters."
  Leftist Group Screams ‘Voter Suppression!’ After Colliding With Arkansas Election Law
  
• "The Federalist asked GOP election officials if they will follow suit and reject voter registration forms collected by federal agents."
  As More GOP Officials Refuse To Follow Biden’s Federal Election Takeover, Others Are Mum

  DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY

• "The self-styled Republican governor of Utah has spent the last few years endorsing a litany of left-wing social causes."
  Utah GOP Gov. Spencer Cox’s Reelection Campaign Is Bankrolled By Far-Left Democrats

  POLITICS

• The reporter then asked, “What’s your message for Joe Biden?” . . .
  WATCH — NYC Construction Worker Shares Message to Joe Biden: "Fuck You"
  
• Justice Gorsuch called the case "one for the ages." So, Trump, stuck in New York, decided to plan an event for the ages. Forget calling him Orange Man, just call him Lemonade.
  Democrats May Regret Trying Trump in N.Y. Court After His Latest Announcement
  
• "Bob Bartels, manager of the Steamfitters Local 638, caught up with both Newsmax and Fox News on Thursday morning in Manhattan after Trump stopped by a construction site on his way to his business records trial."
  NY Union Leader: My Members Back Trump 3:1 over Biden; Leftist Policies Driving Voters to Right
  
• "Government officials created a vast security corridor hours before the president arrived and far beyond the specific area he would visit. Perhaps the de facto lockdown was to ensure Biden heard no heckling? Should people be honored when their personal schedules are disrupted by the [spurious] commander in chief, the same way medieval peasants offered thanks if their crops were trampled by the king’s courtiers? Is Biden entitled to force Americans to pay any price for that blessing of perpetuating his power? Will Thursday’s disruption enter local lore as the Westchester equivalent of the Bridgegate scandal that tainted former New Jersey Gov. Chris [Crisco] Christie?"
  Biden Vexes Commoners with Yet Another Election Money Grab
  
• "If Republicans keep throwing their money at candidates, they don’t stand a chance."
  Democrats Get The Best Bang For Their Buck By Funding Election Infrastructure

  THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"

• “The fact is that the strategy isn’t working. There is no strategy,” Fred Fleitz, the vice chair of America First Policy Institute’s Center for American Security said. “And Trump understands that. And it’s just not fair for these Democrats to say, well, we’re going to Trump-proof NATO. We’re going to Trump proof aid for Ukraine.”
  Republicans Sound Alarm On Efforts To Shield Ukraine Funding From American Voters
  
• "How long is the money supposed to last? How much time does it buy? To what degree will it assist Ukraine in keeping Russia at bay?"
  Washington Is Already Setting The Stage For More And More Ukraine War Funding

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• "But that’s no reason for the U.S. to get involved."
  Burma’s Military Junta Totters Toward the Brink
  
• “Africans live in a world that is still colonial in fact, if not in name.”
  The Mirage of African Independence
  
• "If children are the future, then Guatemala greatly undervalued its own."
  The Worst-Case Scenario of International Adoption

  DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS

• "This is all a game by the diplomats and politicians in power on both sides."
  Russia vetos UN resolution put forth by U.S to ban nuclear weapons in space
  
• Comparisons have been drawn to Franklin Roosevelt’s "Arsenal of Democracy" and the "greatest generation" that mobilized America’s industrial might into a defense industrial base (DIB) that could equip the militaries of the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union simultaneously during World War II. But this generation has different priorities than ensuring that Ukraine beats back Russian aggression, Israel defeats Hamas, and Taiwan deters a revanchist China. Our defense leaders are focused on putting the D-E-I in the D-I-B.
  Putting the DEI in the DIB

  HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE

• So much for “following the science.” Newly released documents indicate that bureaucrats affiliated with the Medicare program ignored advice they solicited from medical experts in their efforts to deny patients care. Worse yet, the individuals with disabilities who were harmed often came from minority households — the same groups the Biden [junta] claims to be helping with its “equity” agenda. It’s but the latest signal of how the left will use rationing tactics to deny patients costly care.
  Medicare Bureaucrat Denies Test To Transplant Recipients Despite Doctors’ Advice

  ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY

• " . . . we now have a rough timeline which, based on China’s past announcements, should be a reasonably accurate measure of what it now plans to do."
  China reveals its rough plans for building its manned moon base.
  
• "[This cool image] gives us another example the many-layered geological history of Mars, seen in numerous locations across the entire Martian surface."
  Numerous layers in the interior slopes of Argyre Basin on Mars

  FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY

• "I’m certain that conservative women will give up the right to vote if it will stop loony leftist women from being able to vote."
  Every Day Brings More Evidence That It's Time to Repeal the 19th Amendment
  
• "Why can't we keep using 'men and women' and 'mother and father?' That's worked fine for a few thousand years." (Except this is year zero, kulak bigot scum! - jjs)
  We Won't Live By Your Wokeness
  
• "Mindless class and race warfare."
  The National Organization of Women Would Leave Even Karl Marx Scratching His Head

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• "Democratic states lead the U.S. birth dearth."
  Baby Blues
  
• "Earn like Episcopalians, vote like Puerto Ricans, and talk like MSNBC anchors."
  An Evening Among the Kool-Aid Drinkers
  
• Christian Toto: "Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey signs law described as 'toughest in nation' for child sex trafficking."
  Sound of Freedom Act Inspired by Hit Film
  
• Toto Too: "Nicola Coughlan set to take lead on Netflix series, ignores real Hollywood Blacklist."
  Bridgerton Star Plays Victim, Says Pro-"Palestinian" Views Could Cost Her Work

  HITHER & YON

• "A new film dramatizes the life of an almost unbelievable heroine." (Timely - jjs)
  Irena’s Vow

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Tech News

• HMD, the company that manufactures Nokia phones these days, has released three new models under its own brand, all under $200. (Ars Technica)
  
  In Europe.
  
  Unfortunately they all have 720p screens, which may or may not be an issue for you.
  
  I recently picked up a Moto G54 - 8GB RAM, 128GB storage, and a 1080p screen - for around $130. That model is also not available in the US.
  
  
  
• TSMC has announced it 1.6nm process, called A16, due late 2026. (AnandTech)
  
  It's not a huge advance over the company's second-generation 2nm process due in 2025, but I'm not sure how much we can ask when new processes are coming out every few months.
  
  
  
• Gigabyte has a new "baseline" option in its latest BIOS version that keeps Intel CPUs running within specs to make sure they are stable for gaming. (WCCFTech)
  
  It reduces performance by 30%.
  
  And your electric bill by a similar amount.
  
  
  
• Australia's police and spy agencies want backdoors in encryption protocols. (The Register)
  
  Because of course they do.
  
  
  
• Best I can do is a backdoor into Chinese keyboard apps. (The Register)
  
  And estimated 750 million people could have their data stolen... If they are using a Chinese keyboard on their phone.
  
  Learn a real language.

The End Of The World As We Know It

Everything You Need To Know About EMPs From A NASA Expert

EMP is the end-of-the-world scenario that scares me the most. I have a friend who has written a book about WWIII opening with an EMP attack. The book is called Mongol Moon. The sequel A Dance of Devils just came out. Highly recommended. In a scenario like The Stand, most people die, but everything is still sitting around for the survivors to use and rebuild. In an EMP scenario, everybody is still here, but nothing works, and nothing is going to work. Scary stuff.

This Is An Outrage

Kentucky Mother Pleads For Help As She Is Threatened With CPS If She Does Not Allow Her Children’s School To Conduct “Unnecessary” Surgeries On Them

In her video, posted on March 18, McQueen explained that in her area of Kentucky, programs are offered for children who don’t have access to healthcare, especially dental work. Her children were sent home from school with a consent form indicating they would receive a free teeth cleaning as part of one of these programs. 

“They have a dentist come out in this big tour bus and they do the cleaning. And was like ok, whatever!” She then explained that she later received a piece of paper in the mail claiming that both of her children had “abnormalities” and she would need to consent for further treatment. McQueen said this took her by surprise, as the children’s family dentist told her that no such abnormalities existed.

“My children go to the dentist on a regular basis – every 6 months to a year. There are no cavities, no decay. I called the school and they said ‘we have no control over that, you will have to wait until the dentist calls you.”

McQueen said that a woman later called her and explained what was “wrong” with her children’s teeth. She then told the woman that it seemed odd that in a matter of 6 months, her children’s teeth were already decaying and that they would need root canals and further procedures. 

The woman told McQueen that they were sending her another consent form, and requested she provide them with her insurance information.

“She told me that once the procedures were being done, which would be done over a consecutive amount of days, that my children would have to miss school because they’ll have to be placed under that laughing gas, anesthesia. I was then told that I would not be allowed to be there. And they would call me whenever it was time to pick them up,” she said.

McQueen immediately became suspicious and refused, saying that she would call her children’s regular dentist instead. After an appointment, the dentist stated that there was nothing wrong with the children’s teeth requiring surgery.

“They both have baby teeth that they are losing but there were no signs of cavities or decay. [Our] dentist showed me the scans,” McQueen said.

No way they should be doing root canals on baby teeth. What for? They're only going to fall out anyway. This has the smell of an unscrupulous dentist getting rich off of doing unnecessary work on kids forced to see him.

Comrade!

Communists Betray Workers, Teachers Unions Betray Students, Civil Rights Organizations Betray Blacks

The Communist Party of the Soviet Union -- like most communist parties -- came to power as the great defender of workers. 

In reality, the Soviet Communist Party didn't give a hoot about Russian workers. The party was nothing more than a totalitarian organization that used workers to gain power -- and then suppressed the proletariat, just as it suppressed every other group. One of the first things the Communist Party did after attaining power was disband independent labor unions and prohibit workers' strikes. Yes, the "workers' party" banned strikes.
The one major exception was the Chinese Communist Party, which came to power as the great defender of peasants. And the CCP slaughtered about 60 million of them.
This has been the modus operandi of every left-wing group everywhere: Claim concern for some group, and use that group to fool people -- specifically, naive liberals, who share few values with the Left but have frequently served as useful idiots for the Left. Liberals do so to this day.

That's why they're called “useful idiots”

AI Enriching Our Lives

Appalling

What a Miserable Difference Six Months Can Make

Dumpster fire. Train wreck. There are a variety of tried and true phrases to describe this period of painful Biden havoc in which we live. In reality, it's more like being caught in the midst of competing dumpster fires and train wrecks, and there's no place to hide. There also seems to be an endless supply of burning dumpsters and wrecking trains. 

It's been six months since Hamas did what Hamas does, only on a grander, more horrific scale. Catherine covered the reminder for us yesterday: 

As Catherine notes, much of the world has lost its bearings on this issue, and it's appalling, especially here in the United States. 

Last October and November, most prominent Democrats were staunchly sticking by our ally Israel. The raging antisemitism was really only coming from the members of the Squad, who had established it as their brand almost the moment they got into office. Sadly, that's no longer the case.

Career Advice

For many Gen Z students, skipping college for a trade may be their best bet

All of this makes sense, both professionally and financially. Young people can make good money more quickly without incurring the massive debt looming over today’s college grads. 

According to the U.S. Department of Education, 43 million Americans are carrying this burden, with the average borrower owing $37,000.
Meanwhile, after a few years of working, twenty-something tradespeople are buying homes and starting their own businesses. 

The median pay for new construction hires was $48,089 last year, compared to $39,520 for new hires in professional services. According to payroll-services provider ADP, pay for new hires in construction increased 5.1% last year, nearly double the increase for professional services. 
Trade jobs are also less subject to replacement by AI and other technologies. Some tech exec might make good money before student loan payments, but he’ll pay some kid a fortune to unclog his toilet.

That's the route Little is taking, and we couldn't be happier.

And that's all I have for you tonight. I'm under the weather, I'll probably go to bed after posting this, I've had a bad cold kicking my ass for the last 2 days.

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Starting from October 8th, Tucker Carlson has consistently attacked Israel and those who supported Israel's right to self defense. I wouldn't be that bothered by that, except for the blatantly dishonest way he presents his arguments, as "I'm just asking questions" or "I just think some people ought to be concerned about America's security."

Weird how he keeps contrasting America's security with Israel's, as if the two are in deep conflict.

The "I'm just asking questions" is dishonest. What he should say, if he were an honest man, is "I've come to be deeply skeptical of Israel, and frankly, believe that their agents are behind Jeffrey Epstein and are blackmailing half of the US government."

Because that is what he's always hinting about when he talks about the corruption of the Regime. He's hinting that it's Israel behind most of it.

If he at least had the courage and integrity to state his suspicions out loud, I'd be less critical.

Because I do think Israel can and should be scrutinized. I don't like the right's reflex to say "Ah-ha, lefties, you're the real racists!," and conflate anti-Israel feelings with anti-semitism. All countries, including our own, and including Israel, are capable of acting amorally and even immorally in their own believed self-interest. No one should be blind to the deep amorality of any country, especially its institutionally-sociopathic "intelligence" bureaucracy.

I mean -- look what we've come to learn about our "best friend," the UK, these past few years.

And while I don't know that Jeffrey Epstein was an agent being run by Israel, I'm completely willing to believe it. It's not out of the question, certainly.

And certainly, it would explain a few things.

But Tucker Carlson makes me deeply mistrustful, because while it seems blatantly obvious to me that the gravamen of all his comments on Israel is his belief that Israel is secretly pulling the strings in America, he won't just say so.

He just keeps saying "I'm just asking questions."

An audience has the right to be told where you're trying to lead them.

And when someone hides something, I conclude they have reason to hide it. That is, when someone acts as if their beliefs are shameful, I believe that person is probably right about those beliefs being shameful.

Tucker Carlson seems to have some reason to hide his new improved beliefs -- and I think he's got enough self-awareness to know that spreading antisemitic "Jews control everything" conspiracy theories is slightly shameful.

I know, I know -- he's just asking questions. He doesn't have any suggested answers in mind. His mind is just a blank page.

If he has evidence to support his new suspicions, then he should present it. Just repeatedly muttering about all the congressmen who tell him this in secret isn't cutting it.

More: What is "Project Aqua"? The more you know.

There is often a very short step between "prophet" and "maniac."

ISRAEL GAZA/HAMAS FRONT
• "There are roughly 130 hostages, including several Americans, being held by Hamas as Israel continues to wage war against the terrorist group in Gaza. Hamas released a video Wednesday of a man identifying himself as Hersh Goldberg-Polin, one of the American hostages taken during the Oct. 7 attacks, appearing under duress and bearing visible wounds."
  Hamas Releases Video of Injured American Hostage Under Apparent Duress
  
• Horowitz & Spencer: "Biden [junta] promotes Hamas propaganda by smearing Israel as a human rights abuser."
  State Department Stabs Israel in the Back, Twists the Knife
  
• "USAID head Samantha Power declined meeting with Israeli ambassador Gilad Erdan during 2021 Hamas conflict."
  Israel Tried To Warn Biden Admin About UNRWA. A Top US Official Declined the Meeting, Emails Show.
  
• "As the Wall Street Journal reports, the Israeli military confirmed Wednesday that it had purchased 40,000 tents which will be set up by Israel and Egypt to house displaced Palestinians, and moved to deploy two reserve brigades to Gaza." (They seem to all be located on the Columbia U quad - jjs)
  Israel builds camp to evacuate Palestinians ahead of Rafah invasion: report
  
• "This is not a confirmed report, but it comes from a reputable source with contacts deep within the Hague."
  Report: The Biden Junta is Behind an ICC Plan to Arrest Senior Israeli Officials
  * * * * *

• "And what happens when the Columbia University President refuses to resign, as Johnson demanded? The faculty will frame it as defiance against Republicans on Capitol Hill and by proxy (though you and I might know it’s not true), Donald Trump."
  What the Fuck is Mike Johnson Doing?
  
• "Where was this energy from Republicans targeting higher education when professors cheered rioting in 2020?"
  After Selling Out GOP Voters on the Border, Mike Johnson Courts Democrats at Columbia University
  
• "The government may prohibit even nonviolent 'material support' for terrorist organizations, including legal support and other advice, without violating the First Amendment."
  Abolish Anti-Semitic Student Groups
  
• "For a decade, progressive Democrat activities have damaged communities and destroyed lives, but the rich and powerful let it go – right up until it affected them personally."
  It Took Ten Years For Powerful People To See That Leftism Has Crossed a Red Line
  
• ". . . remember, it only starts with the Jews. These fascist bullies have made no secret of their desire to ethnically cleanse America and the rest of the world under the euphemism of 'decolonization.'"
  Elite Universities Breed the New Hitler Youth
  
• The wild incident occurred when the NYPD was called in to clear out the campus encampment set up at NYU on Monday night, with more than 100 protesters arrested. The students had created their own “tent city” in solidarity with the sprawling encampment set up at Columbia University, with NYU students demanding their own school divest holdings tied to Israel over the war in Gaza.
  NYPD chief swarmed by anti-Israel protesters and berated while seeking shelter in NYU building
  
• "Columbia protests have included declarations of support for Hamas."
  "Palestinian" Terrorists Declare Support for Columbia Encampment, Call for "Escalation"
  
• He called the responses of several university presidents “shameful,” adding that “more has to be done.”
  WATCH: Netanyahu Blasts Anti-Semitism on U.S. Campuses: ‘Like Germany in the 1930s’
  * * * * *

• "Where are the police and college administrators?" (Itching to expel and arrest the victim, like Trump and Daniel Penny - jjs)
  At Yale, "Peaceful Protesters" Hit Jewish Student in the Face with a Flagpole
  
• The protesters, most of whom were masked, marched on campus calling for the university to “disclose” and “divest” from Israel, according to footage posted by The Texas Horn, the university’s student-run conservative publication. Law enforcement and state troopers arrived to prevent them from occupying the campus, a trend that has occurred at anti-Israel campus protests.
  State Troopers Surround Pro-Palestinian Protesters at Texas University (Bus them to Martha's Vineyard too? - jjs)
  
• "‘Your safety shouldn’t be predicated on making others unsafe,’ says Aya Hashem"
  Columbia Law Students Tell Jewish Classmates Police Presence on Campus Makes Them Feel Unsafe
  
• "You can’t protest abortion, males using female spaces, or support Trump. You can definitely call for the murder of Jews!"
  FBI Director Christopher Wray: "We Don’t Monitor Protests"
  
• "The letter follows reports connecting the Chinese government to a network of U.S.-based nonprofit groups."
  Lawmakers Ask IRS To Probe Chinese Funding to Anti-Israel Protests
  
• “We know a free ' ' Palestine ' ' is only possible through queer, racial, gender, reproductive, and environmental justice.”
  UIUC’s Department of Latino Studies Endorses "Jew Hatred"
  
• "Imagine paying $90,000 a year for your kid to be this stupid."
  Expensive Stupidity: Columbia Student Admits She Has No Clue Why She's Protesting
  
• Contrary to Hirsi's claim that nothing happened to the sprayer, a student identified only as "John Doe" was actually suspended for spraying a noxious-smelling liquid during the protests last week. He's now launched a lawsuit against Columbia, saying he sprayed two novelty substances called 'Liquid Ass' and 'Wet Farts' into the air and "not directly at any individual."
  Isra Hirsi Said She Was Hit With 'Chemical Weapons' During Protest. It Was Fart Spray.
  
• Glenn Reynolds: " . . . you won’t be surrounded by people who hate Jews, people who are enabled, if not encouraged, by university administrations dependent on the full-tuition revenues of hate-filled foreign students and their governments. (If foreign money is corrupting our universities to this extent, maybe we should shut it off.)"
  Jewish students, come here to the South — where you’ll be safe

  IRAN vs. ISRAEL

• Victor Davis Hanson: "The Iranian attack on Israel seems a historic blunder. It opened up a new chapter in which its own soil, thanks to its attack on Israel, is no longer off limits to any Western power."
  Iran’s Nightmares
  
• "Don’t think our enemies haven’t noticed our civilizational failure of nerve."
  Israel and the Decline of the West

  OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY

• "The case for 'shallow Christianity' as a seedbed for rising hostility to Jews."
  Unchurched—and Anti-Semitic?
  
• "Since leaving the Democrats, Gabbard has become one of the most important voices in the nation. For Love of Country may be the most important book of 2024.
  Tulsi Gabbard Steps Up to Defend Religious Freedom – From Her Former Political Party

  "BIDEN BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY

• “There’s one thing this bill does not do: Border security. You know, just this year, I proposed and negotiated and agreed to the strongest border security bill this country has ever, ever, ever seen. It was bipartisan. It should have been included in this bill,” Biden said. “And I’m determined to get it done for the American people. I come back to that in another moment, another time.” (Roast in hell already - jjs)
  Biden Rubs Americans’ Noses in the Fact That He’s Done Nothing on the Border Crisis
  
• "U.S. Customs and Border Protection has encountered at least 145,000 illegal immigrants from Guatemala already this fiscal year, according to data from ICE."
  Illegal Arrested for Fatal Stabbing at Motel

  BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS & DEMENTIA WATCH

• "About one-third of Democrats doubt Biden’s mental fitness, a Harvard/Harris survey recently found. Another poll revealed 82 percent of Americans harbor concerns about his physical and mental health. Only about one-quarter of voters say Biden is physically or mentally fit to serve a second term, Quinnipiac found."
  Teleprompter Battles: Joe Biden, 81, Says ‘Pause’ Instead of Pausing for Applause

  SHAMPEACHMENT 1.0, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION

• "Given the ongoing roles of Meadows, Giuliani, Eastman, Epsteyn, and Bobb in campaigning for and working with the Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee it is impossible to view the new round of indictments as anything more than further banana republic-style election interference."
  AZ’s Dem AG Indicts Giuliani, Meadows, Ward, Eastman, Epshteyn In Major New Election Interference Attempt
  
• "Judge Aileen Cannon unsealed a trove of documents Monday appearing to reveal a coordinated federal effort to target Trump."
  Here are the 3 Most Shocking Discoveries Just Unsealed in Trump Classified Docs Case
  
• "It would seem almost impossible at that point for him to have a trial before the election and if Trump is reelected, Jack Smith may never see a jury in either of these cases.”
  Turley Says SCOTUS Could Throw ‘Wrench’ Into Jack Smith’s Case Against Trump
  
• "The furore around the case underlines how vague the concept of 'election interference' is."
  The Bragg "Interference" Allegations Are Business as Usual
  
• We admit, there may be 12 jurors in New York City who are willing to forestall the reckoning with these uncomfortable ideas and convict Trump, handing the Left the psychic revenge for 2016 which it so desperately craves. But that revenge will be temporary. The reckoning will come, and if fate is kind, it will come this November. And then, perhaps, the arc of history will bend not toward the Left’s false notion of “justice,” but toward the vengeance which the American people have owed them since 2016 itself.
  The Trump prosecutors are still trying to litigate 2016
  
• Miranda Devine: "Hypocrisy is Washington, DC’s lifeblood, so it was a nice change when DC Judge Ana Reyes lambasted the Justice Department for instructing two lawyers in its Tax Division to disregard a congressional subpoena in the Hunter Biden investigation, all while it has been zealously prosecuting Trump officials for the very same offense."
  DC judge points out pervasive hypocrisy hell that’s permeating every corner of the federal government

  CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION

• Robert Zimmerman: "Year by year since the 1960s Americans of all stripes have been unwilling to fight for right when it could have been easily won without bloodshed. Now bloodshed is almost certainly required, and the right continues to be unwilling to fight hard. Instead it still thinks its victories can be won easily, and so it is lazy about fighting those battles."
  On the Left, Certainty and Violent Passion, On the Right, Doubt and Fearful Timidity; This Must Change. This must change!
  
• "The Left doesn’t care about 'precedents.' So why should the Right?"
  Unprecedented Times Call for Unprecedented Actions
  
• "Biden accused Trump of morally equating those spreading hate with those who had the courage to stand against it. He, without having to take his statement out of context, did exactly that."
  For Biden, What Goes Around Comes Around
  
• "The rush to reparations. Blue state madness."
  Kalifornia Krazy
  
• "Prominent black conservatives blasted President Biden and his administration for their discrimination lawsuit against Sheetz convenience stores. Biden’s Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is suing gas station chain Sheetz for what they say are discriminatory hiring practices because Sheetz screens job applicants for criminal records, the lawsuit claims."
  Black Conservatives Blast Biden Junta's ‘Soft Bigotry’ After It Sues Sheetz For Discrimination
  
• "The leviathan that is the 'Swamp' has been allowed to grow to the point where it cannot be drained on an incremental basis."
  Can the Swamp be Drained?

  FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH

• "Nina Jankowicz says criticism of 'disinformation researchers' poses 'greatest threat' to country."
  "Mary Poppins of Disinformation" Returns With New Group to Defend Disinformation Industry
  
• "One of my favorite movies is the frothy Nick Cannon vehicle Drum Line from back in the day. The university's hard-ass marching band director keeps harping on his musicians that there's no room for their own individualism or creativity — they had to stick to the sheet music.  He'd yell 'One band, one sound,' and they'd dutifully respond. This JournoList 2.0 is one band, one sound, one song sheet. Is it the truth?" 
  Obama Attorney Leads Secret Meetings of TV Legal Commentators to Spin Trump Trials
  
• "An additional number of Chinese-owned companies could face having to find a buyer for their U.S. operations or being banned from American markets as well. ByteDance alone offers several other apps in U.S. digital app stores that fall under the same provisions impacting TikTok."
  LIST: Other Chinese Apps That Could Get Caught in the TikTok Ban

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID

• "Bad economic policies may catch up with Biden’s elite supporters just in time for November."
  Could the Stock Market Burst Biden’s Bubble?
  
• David Harsanyi: "Many 'new right' populists don’t like defending tax cuts (Ronald Reagan talked about them a lot, so yuck). But the average American family — which is middle class, lives in the suburbs, and votes in high numbers — will surely be more concerned about a rising tax bill than about any issue animating the populist Internet influencer crowd."
  Joe Biden Just Promised America a Massive Tax Hike
  
• "If the economy is so good, why do small business leaders feel so bad?"
  Why Small Businesses Hate Bidenomics

  RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM

• "Meanwhile, the Bezos Earth Fund is giving $60 million toward revamping alternative proteins."
  Scientists Sign Declaration Proclaiming Fish, Lobsters, Octopi, and Insects Have “Consciousness”
  
• "The Green New Deal is here, and it is worse than you think."
  The Green New Deal Is Based on Lies About Budgets, Green Energy, and Climate Science

  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

• "It was the so-called progressives who brought about this sad state of affairs, and no shift in course will occur until these same people experience a Road to Damascus epiphany or else are driven from positions of influence. It can’t come too soon."
  Cops Wanted (Some Risks Involved)

  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• “The district placed a higher priority on the transgender student’s comfort than the safety of 40 other individuals.”
  MA Middle School Responds to Trans Student’s Threats of Violence With Anti-Bias Training, ‘Empathy’ for the Student

  ABORTION

• The state House’s move to repeal the abortion law came after two failed attempts by lawmakers in the body to repeal the 1864 law as Arizona Republicans juggle the contentious issue in a major election year. Arizona’s abortion law has become a national controversy as even former President Donald Trump has urged the state’s lawmakers “to remedy what has happened.”
  Arizona House Passes Bill To Repeal 1864 Abortion Law
  
• "The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in Moyle v. United States, the Biden [junta's] challenge to Idaho’s Defense of Life Act, which prohibits abortion except when necessary to save the life of the mother and in cases of rape or incest."
  Justice Alito Asks Biden DOJ Point-Blank Why Statute Gov Argues Requires Abortion Uses the Phrase "Unborn Child"
  
• "It’s quite disgusting that Maine put child mutilation and abortion in a provision with kidnapping, child sexual assault, etc."
  Maine Law Shields Doctors Who Perform Abortions, Child Mutilation
  
• "Because it’s rooted in natural law and protects the innocent."
  A Law that is Unchangeable

  THE 2020 AND 2022ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH

• "But a majority of state constitutions declare that every citizen — not necessarily only a citizen — is an eligible voter."
  One Word In Your State Constitution Could Open Up Your Elections To Foreign Nationals

  DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY

• "Nine signed affidavits allege that Stephens paid people to vote for Sampson and used her bail bond company to bribe voters with promises of bail help."
  North Carolina Democrat Claims County Officials Bribed Voters To Support His Primary Opponent

  POLITICS

• "The poll further found that those who plan to vote for former President Donald Trump are more enthusiastic than those who plan to back Biden, as Breitbart News’s Hannah Knudsen noted."
  Poll: Biden Deep Underwater on Top Issues of Inflation, Immigration
  
• TikTok CEO Shou Chew vowed that the company would fight the new law and claimed in an emotional pitch to the app’s users that the law would “take TikTok away from you and 170 million Americans who find community in connection on our platform.”
  Biden’s Campaign To Keep Using TikTok After He Signed Law Acknowledging It’s a Threat

  THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"

• "There are problems money can’t fix."
  What $61 Billion for Ukraine Won’t Do

  DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS

• As retired Col. Mills pointed out in the video, China — via a hacking campaign called Volt Typhoon — is planning to attack Taiwan. It's also looking to cripple the U.S. with cyber attacks that can knock out our water, power, communications, port cranes, air traffic control, and more. Jen Easterly, the Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, called it "an everywhere, everything, all at once scenario."
  The Cyber Attacks Have Already Begun
  
• Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., then Air Force’s top officer, updated demographic goals for applicants to become officers in the Air Force in an August 2022 memo, calling the effort “aspirational.” The Center to Advance Security in America (CASA), a watchdog group focused on security and civil liberties, requested communications related to the memo using a federal transparency law the following year, and when the Air Force said it couldn’t find anything, CASA decided to sue, according to a copy of the filing obtained by the DCNF in advance.
  Air Force Slapped With Lawsuit After Claiming It Has No Records On Officer Diversity Quotas

  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE

• "Government grifting needs to be reined in."
  Toxic Tax Abuse in America
  
• “Baby bonds are of a piece with progressives’ fashionable ‘equity’ paradigm. . . Nothing suggests that baby bonds will dramatically alter family formation.”
  Why Baby Bonds Are a Bust

  FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY

• "Biden [junta] publishes guides on how to help workers 'transition,' warns that misgendering could be fireable offense."
  How the Biden Junta Enables Government Employees To Change Genders
  
• "By obscuring the definition of 'women,' the Biden [junta's] new Title IX rules undermine the very people whom the law was intended to help."
  The Pyrrhic Victory of “Gender Identity”
  
• "Brown [-note's] wife, Connie Schultz, headlined the March 6 event alongside Heather Cox Richardson, a columnist who regularly compares Trump and Republicans to Nazis. During the event—up to $3,300 to attend—Schultz and Richardson said that "a vote for Trump … is the last time any of us will cast a vote for president" and that "the gains women have made since the 1970's [sic] are threatening the heteronormal men," according to "visual notes" shared on Instagram by one event attendee."
  At 'Women for Sherrod Brown [note]' Event, Progressive Hosts Slam Trump and 'Heteronormal Men'

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• "Even left-wing news outlets including New York magazine and the Associated Press have cast doubt on Biden’s tale."
  Watch: The Daily Show Mocks Biden’s "Cannibals" Story — "You’re Going to Lose the Election"
  
• "I would never insult a sexual assault victim,” Barr said in reply to one criticism. "I was talking about E. Jean Carroll."
  WATCH: Roseanne Barr’s Epic Roast of E. Jean Carroll
  
• "The idea that fame is more important than logic." (Or intelligence and propriety - jjs)
  Celebrity Privilege
  
• "Inflation rates keep soaring after flood of COVID-19-related aid to dubious sources."
  Here’s Why We Can’t Forget Hollywood’s Pandemic Bailouts

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Tech News

• Snap is the worst thing since systemd.
  
  If you are running LXD, and you install it with Snap, MAKE SURE TO PIN THE VERSION OR IT WILL DIE.
  
  
  
• Meanwhile, Ubuntu 24.04 is here. (Techzine)
  
  The beta version was delayed by a week due to the near-catastrophe with the xz hack, while the team at Canonical (makers of Ubuntu) rebuilt every single package to ensure that no trace of the hack was left.
  
  I had expected the release of the live version to be likewise delayed, but it has shipped on time.
  
  While I wouldn't install it on a production server just yet, the 22.04 release was remarkably trouble free. And I do have a couple of Beelink mini-PCs waiting to be set up.
  
  (Ubuntu releases twice a year, and the even-number year April releases are LTS - guaranteed free support for five years with paid support for another five beyond that.)
  
  
  
• IBM is buying Hashicorp for $6.4 billion. (Tech Crunch)
  
  Hashicorp does... Stuff. I dunno. Docket strangulation, something like that.
  
  
  
• Stellar Blade is here and the perpetually outraged classes have a new game to be perpetually outraged about. (WCCFTech)
  
  In this case, they're mostly outraged that the game represents impossible standards of feminine beauty, a claim somewhat weakened by the fact that the in-game character looks almost exactly like the motion-capture actress who worked with the animation team.
  
  WCCFTech, which is not a game review site, gives it 9 out of 10.
  
  The actual game review sites hate it because they're all run by the perpetually outraged classes.
  
  
  
• The man who destroyed Google. (Where's Your Ed)
  
  The man running Google Search for the past five years - replacing the man who built Google Search for the previous 20 - was previously head of search at Yahoo.
  
  Which was such a success that they had to replace it with Bing.

  Raghavan's story is unique, insofar as the damage he's managed to inflict (or, if we're being exceptionally charitable, failed to avoid in the case of Yahoo) on two industry-defining companies, and the fact that he did it without being a CEO or founder. Perhaps more remarkable, he's achieved this while maintaining a certain degree of anonymity. Everyone knows who Musk and Zuckerberg are, but Raghavan's known only in his corner of the Internet. Or at least he was.

  Did Google Search fall or was it pushed?
  
  A little of both, it seems.

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On the bright side The Fabulous married me to shorten her surname.

A while ago, following this display of progressive parenting, I wrote,

And yes, the family does live in Brooklyn. And no, they don’t share a surname. And yes, the adults have availed themselves of professional counselling services.
A quip that resulted in some rumblings on the topic of marriage and shared surnames, or the lack thereof. In the comments, Steve E noted,

[Not sharing a surname] creates complications for the most mundane of things, too. Pick up a pizza, whose name is it in? Loyalty account at retail store, whose name is it in? My wife kept her own surname because – feminism, the patriarchy, etc. – she now says if she’d known what a pain-in-the-ass it would be, she wouldn’t have done it. When she signs up for things now, she gives my surname.
And Ray added,

If father tries to board an airplane with a nine-year-old girl who doesn’t share his surname, the airline will hit the big red panic button.
As I said at the time, I don’t have strong feelings on the subject, but it occurs to me that not taking your husband’s surname, ostensibly as some Assertion Of Progress And Enlightenment – while retaining what is presumably your father’s surname – does create complications.

For instance, having different surnames can confuse people as to whether you’re married or not, and if so, to whom. And any children with hyphenated surnames – a fashionable statement of the aforementioned Progress And Enlightenment – will then face the issue of what to do when they get married, especially if it’s to someone whose own name is also modishly hyphenated. Do they ditch some of the accumulated names – and if so, which ones? Or do they go for multiply hyphenated surnames, which would very quickly become a bit much?

Say, if Derek Williams and Sarah Anderson get married but retain their own surnames, and their children’s surnames are hyphenated as Anderson-Williams, they may enjoy a sheen of modernity, and perhaps connotations of aristocracy and status. But what happens when little Annie Anderson-Williams grows up and wants to marry James Houghton-Clompington? Do we get a brood of Anderson-Williams-Houghton-Clompingtons?

I’m exaggerating for comic effect, of course. But only slightly.

As a new, supposedly more equitable tradition – at least outside of the Spanish-speaking world – it seems scarcely less prone to complication and trade-offs. When hyphenated offspring come to name their own children – and if they follow the same rules as their hyphenated parents – the whole thing rapidly becomes unworkable, and, at risk of causing offence, names will have to be cut. Lest each child sound like a law firm.

Though I suppose one could take it as a kind of unintended symbolism, a measure of modern progressivism. In that, the problem it allegedly addresses doesn’t seem to be much of a problem for most of those it supposedly oppresses, and the solution offered is somewhat short-sighted and soon results in something close to absurdity.

In the original thread, pst314 added,

I have heard of some writers, and others in careers where name recognition matters, keeping their names when they marry. But that’s a special case.
Also, among gay couples. Though gay couples tend not to result in children, thereby sidestepping the issue of escalating hyphenation and a society-wide overhaul of stationery, due to the need to enlarge the ‘print name’ and ‘signature’ boxes on every official form.

Somethings are just too perverted to become a Genius Award Winner. Man performed sex act on a corpse after breaking into hospital mortuary

I know for a fact that Buck Throckmorton is not our Genius Award Winner

A battery someone tossed in the trash caused an emergency in an Olathe neighborhood last week.

City leaders said someone tossed a lithium battery into the trash. A trash truck unknowingly started hauling it to the landfill. On the way the lithium battery caught fire and started burning the rest of the trash in the truck.

The driver quickly stopped the truck and dumped the burning load on the pavement to prevent extensive damage to the equipment according to the city. Firefighters then extinguished the fire.

Tonight's ONT has been brought to you by Grandchildren.

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Aim high!