21ST CENTURY PROBLEMS:

Saying the quiet part out loud https://t.co/5MgNdyJLxH

— Justin Lopas (@JLopas) April 17, 2024

MARTIN HACKWORTH: Video: The illusion of virtue: Let’s talk about the delusion of virtue possessed by many radicals.

READER FAVORITE: Keurig K-Elite Single-Serve K-Cup Pod Coffee Maker. #CommissionEarned

SPORT UTES: 2024 Toyota Land Cruiser First Drive: Is the Smaller, Cheaper Off-Road SUV Better?

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Home Defense Pistol Skills: Protecting what’s important to you takes more than just owning a gun.

IT’S GOOD TO BE THE NOMENKLATURA: DC mayor took ‘economic development’ trip to Masters on taxpayers’ dime.

HEADS THEY WIN, TAILS HE LOSES: Liberal Activists Are Trying to Sneak Onto Trump Jury. But It’s Trump Who May Get in Trouble??

THE LONG MARCH THROUGH THE INSTITUTIONS:

One thing I’ve realized after working with teachers for 12 years is that it’s very hard to get them to commit to political or ideological neutrality in the classroom because:

A. They view teaching as an inherently political act intended to turn students into political units… pic.twitter.com/2t640P7KcL

— Chalkboard Heresy 🍎🔥 (@CBHeresy) April 16, 2024

Plus this: “This is so contrary to the teachers I grew up with in the 70’s and 80’s. I didn’t even know if most of them were married, let alone their political persuasion. There were always 1 or 2 more “radical” teachers who didn’t hide their politics, but they were rare.”

I’ve joked for years that I knew so little about my teachers’ lives outside of school that, for all we knew, they blinked in and out of existence when the morning and end-of-school bells rang.

I LIKE THIS, ESPECIALLY THE UPGRADE: Startup pitches a paintball-armed, AI-powered home security camera: PaintCam Eve also offers a teargas pellet upgrade.

THIS STINKS LIKE B.O.: O’Keefe Media Group Exposes Who Is Really Running the White House.

SCIENCE, UNSETTLED: Researchers find glucose levels of nondiabetic people vary more than thought.

KATIE PAVLICH: There’s an Update on the Kind of Classified Information Biden Mishandled. “Our investigation uncovered evidence that President Biden willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency when he was a private citizen. These materials included (1) marked classified documents about military and foreign policy in Afghanistan, and (2) notebooks containing Mr. Biden’s handwritten entries about issues of national security and foreign policy implicating sensitive intelligence sources and methods. FBI agents recovered these materials from the garage, offices, and basement den in Mr. Biden’s Wilmington, Delaware home.”

WELL, GOOD: Weight-loss drug Zepbound reduces sleep apnea, study shows.

THEY’RE A YUGE NUISANCE: Elon Musk Will Get Rid of the Twitter/X Pr0nBots with This 1 Weird Trick.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: SpaceX Plans Permanent Moonbase.

21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: I’m a single mom. I date — but I don’t date single dads. Basically it’s you put up with my issues, I’m not going to put up with yours: “Men with children couldn’t win. If they had equal custody, I felt like they were the enemy — I didn’t want to think about my own sons being taken away from me. If they spent less time with their children, I had a negative reaction to that too.”

THE OHIO-CLASS SSBNs THE COLUMBIA-CLASS WILL REPLACE AREN’T GETTING ANY YOUNGER: US Nuclear-Missile Sub Delayed Up to 16 Months Over Bow, Generators.

RIP: “Dickey was larger-than-life, and his loss will be felt worldwide:” The Allman Brothers Band’s Dickey Betts has died at 80.

TRIGGERNOMETRY: Jimmy Carr on Politics, Religion and Cancel Culture (Video).

ROBERT SPENCER: Warrant Out for Dem State Rep. He’s Mentally Ill, but How Could Anybody Tell?

SHOOTING NEWS: 3 Lessons to Learn From the Death of an Armed Good Samaritan.

“SHUT UP,” THEY EXPLAINED:

Notable tidbit from (now-former) NPR Editor Uri Berliner's piece for @TheFP: He raised internal objections to "the numerous times we [NPR] described the controversial education bill in Florida as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill when it didn’t even use the word gay." Notice that he never… pic.twitter.com/wmPnTqH2Qf

— Christina Pushaw 🐊 🇺🇸 (@ChristinaPushaw) April 17, 2024

And then this from Robby Soave.

NPR's staff sees DEI as a weapon to be wielded against a heretic. CEO Katherine Maher thinks ideological diversity is a racist dogwhistle. Do these statements not prove that Uri Berliner is completely correct? https://t.co/miFpiXlLzF

— Robby Soave (@robbysoave) April 17, 2024

The silence from Berliner’s coworkers, colleagues, and even his union is deafening.

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VIDEO: Loyola Law School Anti-Racism Fellow Goes on One Helluva Racist Rant. “Get the f*** out of here all you ugly ass little Jewish people in this b**ch.”

PRIVACY: Illinois woman hits Target with class action lawsuit for collecting biometric data without her consent. “The lawsuit, filed last month in Cook County, claims Target’s surveillance systems, including cameras with facial recognition technology installed in Illinois stores, ‘surreptitiously’ collect biometric data on customers without their knowledge or consent.”