SOME PEOPLE ARE TERRIBLE AT WRITING THEIR GIVE SEND GO PLEAS:  Please Help Us With Medical Expenses.

Partly because they’re incredibly uncomfortable in asking.  I’ve known this couple for I think 14 years now. Ever since I’ve known them, they’ve wanted children, but because the wife was medically sterilized against her will while still a minor, they had to save and work for this goal. Because of how long it took, it’s not likely to do well and the initial attempt left them flat broke. They need help to pay expenses already incurred and perhaps to rescue something from the previous debacle by managing at least one child.

I know — trust me I know — we’re all tapped out and pinched beyond all reason in this fourth year of Bidenomics.  But these are real people, and for reasons they didn’t choose or create, their dream of being parents is almost unobtainable. Not quite, but almost.

If you can, please help. If you can’t, would you consider sharing the link and praying for them and that they get to have a family?  Thank you.

HOW’S THAT WHOLE “EMERGING DEMOCRATIC MAJORITY” THEORY WORKING OUT FOR YA? Chinese-Americans Are Pushing San Francisco Toward the Political Center: Many are turning against the left over issues like anti-Asian crime and education policy. “Members of the Chinese community, who make up one-fifth of this city of 810,000 and a slightly smaller percentage of registered voters, say they have been particularly incensed by incidents of anti-Asian violence, school policies they believe have emphasized equity over merit, and street homelessness. Many are also upset that property crime has long been higher in San Francisco than most other major cities, though it has dropped this year. Chinese-Americans were among the most emphatic backers of ballot measures passed last month mandating drug screening for public welfare recipients and expanding police powers, as well as the 2022 recall of the three school board members and the district attorney, Chesa Boudin.”

When the Democrats were talking about helping the working class and promoting education, the theory had some basis. Now that the party has been taken over by the woke wing — which basically favors the forced enshittification of every aspect of American life — it’s not selling as well. Turns out, people who came here for a better life don’t much want things made worse.

PROTEST BY WITHDRAWING ALL ALUMNI DONATIONS – THEY’LL NOT HEED ANYTHING LESS:  Columbia Jewish alumni demand firing of president Shafik for failing to protect students on campus.

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.