A GOVERNMENT SPONSORED AGENCY IS CENSORING JOURNALISM:  Inside the disinformation industry.

TELL ME AGAIN HOW PEACE-LOVING OUR COUSINS ARE, AND HOW FEMALES AREN’T COMBATIVE:  Cincinnati Zoo’s Gladys the gorilla undergoes surgery after breaking arm in fight.

‘CONSPIRACY THEORIST’ MAX AZZARELLO DEAD AFTER SETTING HIMSELF ON FIRE ACROSS FROM TRUMP TRIAL IN NYC.

I’M HARSH, BUT FAIR: “LOL. Every time I see NPR it’s a sob story about Palestinians. It’s like having the Volkische Beobachter on Instagram.”

NOW OUT FROM HAMPTON SIDES: The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook.

His Ghost Soldiers was a work of nonfiction that read like a thriller novel.

(Bumped).

HEADS SHOULD, BUT LIKELY WON’T ROLL: Northwestern University Dean of Students Attends Protest Targeting Campus Jewish Community Center. Let’s just pause to take this in for a moment. Northwestern University is already under federal investigation for violating Jewish students’ civil rights. And so the Dean of Students, Mona Dugo… decides to attend a rally protesting, and let’s be honest, trying to intimidate, the campus Hillel (Jewish student group). She later claimed that she wanted to make sure the protestors right to protest was protected, as if roving mobs of Jewish students have been the problem on campus. Who is she kidding? If she isn’t relieved of her administrative responsibilities, and soon, Northwestern will richly deserve the hostile environment lawsuit it loses.

OPEN THREAD: Thank God It’s Friday.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: China to leverage growing commercial space sector to launch megaconstellations.

VITAMIN D UPDATE: Could Vitamin D Be The Secret to Slowing Human Aging?

2024 JURISPRUDENCE: Left Freaks After SCOTUS Rules 9-0 That Reverse Discrimination Is Good Cause for Lawsuit. “The left should be celebrating a lawsuit extending employees’ right to sue over discrimination based on skin color or sex. Instead, they’re alarmed. Because this will limit their ability to discriminate against whites and men.”

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: When Earth’s Magnetic Shield Faltered: Cosmic Ray Invasion 41,000 Years Ago.

FLASHBACK: Prosecutors And Our “Ham Sandwich Nation.”

Related: Due Process When Everything is a Crime.

FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: He Hailed to the King, Baby.

READER FAVORITE: P200 Trail Camera WiFi Bluetooth, Game Camera with 48MP 1296p, 100ft Night Vision. #CommissionEarned

ALL OUR INSTITUTIONS HAVE BEEN CORRUPTED: Has No One Noticed 1st Amendment Foe Katherine Maher Chairs the Board of ‘Free Speech’ Signal Foundation?

IT’S A SHADY PROFESSION: Tennessee Teacher Says Her Profession Can’t Be Trusted With Guns.

SO NEXT TIME THEY’LL BE BOLDER: Anti-Israel protesters who blocked Golden Gate Bridge for hours released without charges.

I GUESS I’LL HAVE TO BUY ONE: First Look: Smith & Wesson Tennessee Edition Pistols.

INFLATION IS ILLUSORY, TRANSITORY, A HIGH-CLASS PROBLEM, AND OVER ALREADY:

BREAKING: The median monthly U.S. housing payment hit an all-time high of $2,747 during the four weeks ending April 7, up 11% from a year earlier, per Redfin.

— unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) April 19, 2024

BREAKING: Man Sets Himself on Fire Outside Trump Court House.

BUT OTHER THAN THAT, HOW DID YOU ENJOY THE SHOW? Hollywood Out of Ideas, Money, Jobs.

I understand there’s a certain amount of irony in complaining that all the trailers were a sequel or a reboot before a movie that was a sequel to a sequel to a sequel to a sequel to a reboot, but usually Alamo has more varied trailer fare.

But that lack of originality, along with wokeness, the red ink carnage of the streaming wars, and the lingering effects of the most recent strikes, has led to a deep recession in Hollywood, so much so that Deadline has a regular Hollywood Contraction feature.

How bad is it? “Employment in “motion picture and sound recording” has grown nationwide, but the share of workers in LA or New York went from just under half at the beginning of 2023 to just one-third earlier this year.”

If the movies were worth going to the theater for, this wouldn’t be a problem.

SKYNET SMILES: Boston Dynamics New Fully Electric Humanoid Robot.

EVEN THE KANGAROOS ARE IMPRESSED: Judge Merchan Let an Anti-Trumper Who Lied Onto the Jury.

GOOD: DNA vaccine against Zika performs well in tests on mice.

THERE BIDEN GOES AGAIN, RESTORING YET MORE OF OUR STANDING ON THE WORLD STAGE: ‘They wouldn’t just eat any white men that fell from the sky’: Outraged Papua New Guinea academics lash out at Biden’s ‘unacceptable’ suggestion that cannibals ate his WW2 pilot uncle.