SOME IDENTITIES ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS:  Street wise: A Met Police guide to who’s welcome . . . and who isn’t.

PERHAPS YOU NOTICED:  How politicians and nudgers deliberately terrified an already frightened population.

WITH CHARITIES AND POLITICAL ACTIVISM, THE CONTENTS DO NOT ALWAYS MATCH THE LABEL:  Hope Not Hate – the ‘charity’ built on deceit: Part One.

THEY’VE BEEN TRYING TO DO JUST THAT SINCE THE SEVENTIES:  War By Affirmative Action?

IMAX LEVEL PROJECTION:  Projection Alert: Hillary Clinton Claims Trump “Wants To Kill His Opposition”.

ARE THE UNIVERSITIES TRYING TO RENDER UNIVERSITY DEGREES TOXIC?   Putrid Campus Ideological Rot on Display at Columbia, Yale.

IT’S TIME TO STOP THIS:  Bidenomics: Energy Prices Skyrocket Nearly 30% Under Biden, 13 times Faster Than Previous 7 Years.

Yes, we can and should try our Trump card.

OF COURSE THEY ARE:  Biden Administration Trying to Implement Its Own ‘Pandemic Treaty’.

They like your face under their boots.

THERE MIGHT BE GRADUATE SCHOOLS NOT DOING THIS. MOST ARE, THOUGH:  Academic Dishonesty at UCLA.

BY WHAT RIGHT DOES THIS JUDGE HAVE ANY POWER, BUT BY THOSE GRANTED IN THE CONSTITUTION: NYC Man Convicted Over Gunsmithing Hobby After Judge Says 2nd Amendment ‘Doesn’t Exist in This Courtroom’.

In other words, is this judge a moron or a villain?

LLM AIS HAVE A FUNDAMENTAL FLAW:  LLM Considered Harmful.

WHEN THE UNBELIEVABLE IS TRUE:  When the stories become true.

VERY FINE PEOPLE ON BOTH SIDES, WORRIED ABOUT MICHIGAN IN NOVEMBER EDITION:

Very fine people on both sides. https://t.co/i3cgdsOuZg

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) April 22, 2024

And from Joe’s boss:

As Joel Pollack tweets, “Only Obama could turn Passover into an occasion for solidarity with the Gazans who attacked Israel on Oct. 7. The missing word from this post, by the way, is ‘freedom.’ Never an important concept for Obama. But it’s the heart of the Passover holiday. He never got it.”

UPDATE: Seth Mandel on the United States of Charlottesville:

“From the river to the sea, Palestine is Arab” is a direct application of the popular academic theory of the day, “decolonization.” The idea of Jewish self-determination in Israel being a settler-colonialist project might be a flat-earth level of historical crankery, but it is all the rage—and I do mean rage—in the classrooms of our esteemed institutions of higher learning. Teaching young minds that Jews must be supplanted from their homes because they represent a race that belongs elsewhere has a long history of inspiring those students to carry out what they’ve been taught. It is no surprise that Jews at Columbia over the weekend were told to “go back to Poland.” The racial ideology at the heart of decolonization theory demands nothing less. As a now-infamous Twitter/X post, amplified by a writer and editor at the Washington Post among others, asked in celebration of Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre and sexual torture spree: “What did y’all think decolonization meant? vibes? papers? essays? losers.”

And that helps us understand the look of absolute despondency on Columbia President Minouche Shafik’s face throughout her congressional hearing this week. She, and many of her peers at other institutions, are facing two problems. The first is the violence and harassment targeting visibly Jewish students. Contrary to various media figures’ attempts to spin recent events, this is absolutely taking place on campus and these violations absolutely are being committed by students. They are also, however, taking place outside of campus as part of the same demonstrations a few feet away. It’s not either/or. The campus-organized protests are spreading and so is the violence they incite.

If Shafik is ever dismissed by Columbia, she definitely has a job waiting for her at Reuters, where they believe “one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter.” Similarly, Shafik sees terrorism as “a form of protesting:”

FLASHBACK: At an event just two months after 9/11, Columbia University's current president Minouche Shafik remarked that terrorism "is a form of protesting" pic.twitter.com/UkSP4iqDZu

— Brent Scher (@BrentScher) April 22, 2024

MESSAGE: I DON’T CARE. Despite Police Pushback, Biden Presses On With Visit To Syracuse After Two Cops Were Just Slain.

OPEN THREAD: It’s your moment.

WE SHOULD REDIRECT ALL FEDERAL DOLLARS, INCLUDING STUDENT LOAN DOLLARS, ELSEWHERE:

For a guy who runs a foundation that sends young people to trade schools all over America – trade schools where I’m pleased to report, no one is calling for the extermination of Jews – today’s headlines are once again offering another excellent reason to consider redirecting…

— The Real Mike Rowe (@mikeroweworks) April 22, 2024

Related:

I've seen his type before https://t.co/LqnIScgXdv pic.twitter.com/Cks0bLgqY9

— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) April 22, 2024

There is a stunning likeness.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Why is it so hard to send humans back to the moon?

Prediction: SpaceX will soon make it look easy.

HMM: For The First Time, Scientists Showed Structural, Brain-Wide Changes During Menstruation.

MY LATEST SUBSTACK ESSAY: In Which I Partake of a Cultural Moment: My morning at “Taylor Swift Yoga.”

THE ELECTION IS 6 MONTHS AWAY: Study shows experts rate influenza as the number one pathogen of concern of pandemic potential.

THINGS I LIKE: Hexclad Pans. I bought one of these skillets about a year ago. I’d been using a Greenpan, which worked well when new but lost its nonstick qualities. You could use a special sponge to “rejuvenate” it, and it kind of worked, but not as well as I’d like.

The Hexclad is as good as new after a year, and is entirely dishwasher safe. (The Greenpan says you really shouldn’t put it in the dishwasher regularly.) And don’t tell me I should use a cast iron pan, because in my house, everything winds up in the dishwasher eventually, no matter how many times I repeat that it shouldn’t go there. But very happy with the Hexclad pan. I have their griddle too, and it also works well. My only complaint about the griddle is that the stainless steel band around the top that isn’t nonstick gets burnt-on grease, and that’s hard to clean. Doesn’t interfere with the function, just annoying.

ANOTHER BLOW TO THE FUTURE OF HIGHER EDUCATION: New Title IX Rules Erase Campus Due Process Protections.

HELL, MOST OF THEM CAN’T BE TRUSTED WITH MATH: Tennessee Teacher Says Her Profession Can’t Be Trusted With Guns.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Lyrid meteor shower 2024: How to see a stunning fireball tonight.

CHRIS QUEEN: Adventures in Bourbonland, Part 1. “For a long time, I’ve wanted to take a trip to Kentucky to visit some distilleries and take in the atmosphere of the area that inspired and created my favorite whiskey. My brother and his wife have been up there a couple of times, and he and I talked about taking a trip for about a year before we finally booked the trip we took last week.”