STEPHEN KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Let the Protesters Stay Until Academia Burns to the Ground. “In yesterday’s Briefing, I was mostly referring to the student mobs who have been making all of the anti-Israel noise and trouble on campuses all over America. We can’t forget the adults in academia who are paid handsomely to indoctrinate the kids and saddle them with such crippling ignorance, however. What we’re seeing is the product of decades of pumping impressionable minds full of, to borrow a leftist word, misinformation. . . . We’re not seeing something that came from the deep recesses of the collective college student consciousness. This has been simmering just below the surface for a very long time. Academic leftists are the cancer, the anti-Israel protests are the symptom. What we’ve seen on American campuses since last October has proven what those of us who write about the rot in academia have been saying for years. That rot is pervasive and really does make it seem as if there is nothing redeemable in higher education.”

WELL, THEY HAVE TO SATISFY THE RADICAL MUSLIM VOTING BLOCS IN MICHIGAN AND MINNESOTA, WHILE NOT BEING TOO OBVIOUSLY ANTI-SEMITIC: White House bobs and weaves through questions on Gaza campus protests.

SOME PARTS OF AMERICA STILL WORK: SpaceX launches 23 Starlink satellites, aces 300th rocket landing (photos, video).

Also: Rocket Lab launches new NASA solar sail tech to orbit.

WELL, GOOD: Amazingly, Harvard Suspends Pro-Hamas Student Group.

OF COURSE THEY DO: ‘Squad’ Members Cozy Up to Anti-Semitic Fundraiser Who Promoted Holocaust Denial: Jamaal Bowman, Cori Bush, Summer Lee, and Ilhan Omar pose for pictures with Maher Abdel-qader.

ED MORRISSEY: Once Again, With Feeling: Decolonize Academia Now! “I wish to offer this essay again to remind us that we could force these schools to recognize the damage they are doing by restoring proper market signals to the education industry. And until we do, American Academia will continue to operate as a toxic and destructive element in our society, imposing indoctrination rather than education and producing generations of moral failures and petty totalitarians. And as the past six months have demonstrated, other approaches simply aren’t working.”

SHOT: That 1938 Feeling: A scent of trouble in the air.

CHASER: This Isn’t the 1930s. It’s Worse.

LIMITED TIME DEAL: 15×52 HD Binoculars for Adults High Powered. #CommissionEarned

I’M NOT EVEN SURE THIS IS SATIRE:

Columbia Admins Promise To Carefully Investigate Whether 'Let’s Kill Every Jew We See On Campus' Chant Violates School’s Conduct Policy https://t.co/zqkQGy2Nki pic.twitter.com/dl5EPzvFrH

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) April 23, 2024

I mean, this is straight news: 54 Columbia Law Faculty Condemn Administration For Disciplinary Action Against Anti-Israel Student Protesters.

I mean, most of these people were probably all in for the “punch a Nazi” fad, but now they’re all in for a “kill the Jews” protest. If these were right-leaning students, the faculty would be applauding.

THE GOLDEN STATE’S SLOW SUICIDE CONTINUES:  Wall Street Journal:  “Slavery Reparations in California?”  Various committees of the California Legislature have now approved various recommendations of the Task Force on Reparations.  They. Just. Can’t. Stop.

TRUNALIMUNUMAPRZURE! Biden, 81, suffers ANOTHER embarrassing gaffe as his attempt to brand Trump untrustworthy spectacularly backfires at Florida rally.

President Joe Biden suffered another gaffe during a speaking event as he tried to paint his opponent, former President Donald Trump, as untrustworthy.

Biden, at 81 years old, the oldest president in American history, appeared before supporters at a community college in Tampa, one week before Florida bans abortions past six weeks.

He called out Trump, his 2024 general election opponent, as the sole person responsible for the ‘cruelty and chaos’ that’s occurred after the overturn of Roe v. Wade.

However, when he did so, he accidentally asked: ‘How many times does he have to prove we can’t be trusted?’

ABC News tried to cover for the president, replacing the word ‘we’ with ‘he’ in describing the speech, though he was clearly heard saying ‘we.’

The House of Stephanopoulos airbrushing fellow Democrats? I’m shocked, shocked!

Evergreen:

WELL, THE FBI: DOJ announces $139M settlement with Larry Nassar’s victims over claims of FBI misconduct.

VETERAN JOURNALIST AND JOURNALISM PROFESSOR W. 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.”

LIBERTARIAN FUTURIST SOCIETY ANNOUNCES PROMETHEUS AWARD FINALISTS FOR BEST NOVEL:  Congratulations, everyone!

Commissions earned on the links below.

KARL K. GALLAGHER: Swim Among the People.

FROM INSENSITIVE JERK:  God’s Girlfriend – Text-Only Edition: Sci-Fi That Should Not Be Published.

DEVON ERIKSEN:  Theft of Fire: Orbital Space #1.

HOWARD ANDREW JONES:  Lord of a Shattered Land (Chronicles of Hanuvar Book 1).

DANIEL SUAREZ:  Critical Mass: A Novel.

SOME OF US AREN’T WORRIED, WE’RE CERTAIN: “Some of us are worried that politics infuses everything that the judge and the prosecutors do. I insist on hearing good faith arguments — and the truth — wherever possible. It seems to me, we are talking about gagging a presidential candidate, whose prosecution might be political persecution, and that’s inescapably political. It’s not something to be brushed off as some sort of ‘ethos’ of Trump’s that deserves ‘a complete onslaught.'”

THEY’RE GOING TO FIND IT HARD BROADCASTING WITHOUT ELECTRICITY:  BBC rejoices as Britain commits economic suicide in pursuit of Net Zero.

WOULD THIS SURPRISE ANYONE:  U.S. Report Claims North Korea is Producing Pathogens for Germ Warfare Program.

AS THEY SHOULD. NOT ONLY IS VIRTUAL SCHOOLING NOT WORTH THE PREMIUM THEY PAY, BUT THIS NONSENSE IS FLUSHING THE VALUE OF THEIR DIPLOMAS DOWN THE CRAPPER:  Columbia Students Demanding Refunds Due to Anti-Israel Protests, Classes Going Virtual.

IT’S LIKE DECADES OF HAVING STRANGERS RAISE THE CHILDREN HAD AN EFFECT?  Nothing is shocking with an attitude like this.

NAH. THEY’RE BOTH. ANTI-ISRAEL AND ANTI-AMERICA. IN TRUTH, THEY’RE ANTI-CVILIZATION:  “This is an openly anti-American movement, which is using Israel as the scapegoat”.

YEAH, WE NOTICED:  Government throws safeguards out of the window in rush for new gene drugs.

WHEN ANTI-TRUMPERS LIKE THIS SAY THE PROSECUTION IS BAD, IT’S REALLY BAD:  How bad is Alvin Bragg’s Manhattan prosecution?

PFIZER PLAYING HIDE THE BALL SOME MORE:  Hide the Ball.

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’.