SOMETIMES COMMENTS MAKE ME REALIZE SOME OF YOU ARE UNAWARE OF HOW BADLY THE GOVERNMENT HAS SCREWED UP … EVERYTHING, REALLY:  The Quest for Motherhood.

YES, I LINKED THIS YESTERDAY TOO, BUT DO YOU REALIZE THAT JUDGE JUST DECLARED NY TO BE IN A STATE OF REBELLION AGAINST THE US?  NYC Man Convicted Over Gunsmithing Hobby After Judge Says 2nd Amendment ‘Doesn’t Exist in This Courtroom’.

DOWNFALL PARODIES ARE PASSE – SO HOW ABOUT A “3 BODY PROBLEM” ONE?  YURI SUBSTACK VIDEO DEBUT: How To Make a Struggle Session Parody (3 min).

AND SPEAKING OF UNTHINKING GROUP BEHAVIOR:  The Increasingly Brave and Powerful Toddler-American Movement.

UM: The Indoctrinated Brain.

Conscious thinking requires these cells to be produced, and if they’re not produced, conscious thinking is not possible, and then we are just sheep following the herd.

Nehls says both COVID and the vaccine cause measurable brain changes that can affect people’s ability to think clearly and critically. And he argues that’s by design.

Read the whole thing

GOOD IDEA:

We need to normalize commie shaming again. Communism is perhaps the worst thing to happen to modern humanity and people should feel bad and stupid for liking it.

— Wyatt (@austerrewyatt1) April 5, 2024

OPEN THREAD: Do your best.

21st CENTURY HEADLINES: Yes, It’s a Flame-Throwing Robot Dog. And Yes, I Need One.

Doesn’t everyone?

TWENTY MINUTES INTO THE FUTURE:

And a modern reboot of Nixon’s “law and order” ad from 1968. As Charles Glasser wrote here in August of 2020, “[I] cannot stress enough how powerful and resonant this ad was in 1968. Ben Rhodes was right: The young reporters in the MSM don’t know anything, and I’d add neither do their readers. This ad could run today and still be effective. If you support Trump, you should be demanding that they start producing ads like this.”

FASTER, PLEASE: Boom’s XB-1 test plane gets FAA green light for supersonic flight.

AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: Columbia Protestors Clarify They Only Want Death To America After America Is Done Paying Their Student Loans.

TRUNALIMUNUMAPRZURE!

BIDEN: "I used to drive an 18-wheeler."

(Biden has literally never driven an 18-wheeler.) pic.twitter.com/NA8EAni2QK

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) April 23, 2024

AT COLUMBIA, THEY’RE PARTYING LIKE IT’S 1939: Columbia University Turmoil Recalls the Hitler Youth.

JOSEPH CAMPBELL: NPR’s Uri Berliner Was Right.

Uri Berliner’s provocative recent essay lamenting “the absence of viewpoint diversity” at NPR brought to mind the critiques of Liz Spayd, the little-remembered final public editor at the New York Times.

Spayd, like Berliner, was a veteran journalist whose departure was a study in the limited tolerance at elite American news organizations for contrary thinking and inward-directed criticism. Spayd left the Times in 2017 when her position as in-house critic was unceremoniously dissolved. Berliner was suspended without pay soon after his essay about NPR was posted this month at the “Free Press” site on Substack. He resigned within days, closing a 25-year career at the public broadcaster.

The two cases, while dissimilar in their details, are both instructive, signaling a distaste for challenges arising from within newsrooms of major media outlets, even when raised by journalists with many years of experience. They also point to an eclipse of values of impartiality, fair-mindedness, and ideological distance that defined American journalism, at least nominally, for decades.

Spayd alluded to those diminished values in her swan song column, writing that “in the long run stories that are measured in tone are more powerful. Whether journalists realize it or not, with impartiality comes authority — and right now it’s in short supply.”

It’s Joseph’s first column at the PJM Mothership, so please click over and read the whole thing.

NOT MUCH OBVIOUS EVIDENCE THAT PEOPLE ARE GETTING SMARTER, THOUGH: Are We Evolving? New Research Reveals That Human Brains Are Getting Larger.

PROF. STEVEN CALABRESI: The Narrowest Ground for Deciding Trump v. United States: Holding that Jack Smith lacks defendant’s standing lets the Supreme Court avoid the fraught question of presidential immunity for criminal actions.

IF TRUMP DID THIS THEY’D CALL HIM RACIST AND UNCIVILIZED: Britain’s Prime Minister Vows Migrant Deportation Flights to Rwanda Will Start Soon.

HE DOESN’T HAVE ANY MORE OF A CHANCE IN FRONT OF A RUSSIAN COURT THAN DONALD TRUMP DOES IN FRONT OF A NEW YORK COURT: Russian Court Denies Evan Gershkovich’s Latest Appeal.

PRETTY IMPRESSIVE TO BE ABLE TO REPAIR A SPACECRAFT THAT IS NEARLY 50 YEARS OLD AND HAS LEFT THE SOLAR SYSTEM: Voyager 1 resumes sending readable status updates after 5 months of repairs.