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!

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FROM INSENSITIVE JERK:  God’s Girlfriend – Text-Only Edition: Sci-Fi That Should Not Be Published.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

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.

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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 s