STAY SAFE: Etekcity Camping Lanterns for Power Outages 4 Pack. #CommissionEarned
April 27, 2025
MAKE COLUMBUS DAY GREAT AGAIN!
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) April 27, 2025
THEY’RE HAPPENING CONSTANTLY: SpaceX plans Thursday evening? Another Starlink satellite launch.
EAT MORE RED MEAT: Anemia in pregnancy raises risk of heart defects, study indicates.
GREAT MOMENTS IN DEI:
The DC plane crash with the Blackhawk helicopter has now been investigated and the results are horrifying
Even the NYT is reporting that the DEI-era pilot was told multiple times to shift altitude and course and she refused
Now 70+ innocent people are dead https://t.co/lm2U613zAT
— DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) April 27, 2025
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LOL: Muslim group wants Biden ‘war criminals’ canceled from academic gigs. Loving the blue-on-blue warfare.
NO NEED TO HIRE A COMEDIAN WHEN AP ‘JOURNALIST’ UNINTENTIONALLY PROVIDES BIGGEST LAUGH AT WHCD:
🚨AP’s Zeke Miller at WHCA: "We at AP remain committed as ever to accurate, independent, nonpartisan journalism."
What a strange way to describe leftwing propaganda. pic.twitter.com/TBGH0dMSLV
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) April 27, 2025
ALL FOREIGN MONEY COMING IN TO US UNIVERSITIES SHOULD BE SCRUTINIZED, IF NOT BLOCKED: Education Department demands Harvard University release more records on its foreign funding.
THE RADAR IS FINE, THE FIRE-CONTROL NEEDS WORK: 9 People Killed After SUV Rams Into Vancouver Street Festival UPDATE: ON Their Radar.
LET THE POOR GUY RETIRE: A Frail Joe Biden Manages to Offend Multitudes During Pope’s Funeral.
LET’S FACE IT, THE PLACE IS A CESSPIT OF BIGOTRY: Racism At Harvard. “In thinking about the current battle between the Trump administration and Harvard University, fought over anti-Semitism and DEI, I recalled an earlier controversy in which Harvard–specifically, its law school–pled guilty to racism.”
NOW TRUMP AND MODI CAN GET TOGETHER AND CRUSH THEM: A Communist-Islamist Axis Puts India and America in Its Crosshairs.
LIGHTNING DEAL: Golf Umbrella Large 58/62/68 Inch Automatic Open. #CommissionEarned
DEMOCRATS: PEOPLE WHO MADE THINGS NOT NORMAL COMPLAINING ABOUT THE NOT-NORMAL RESPONSE TO THEIR NOT-NORMALITY:
In fairness, she’s right that something here “is not normal.” Democrat judges who facilitate a defendant’s escape is like Democrat prosecutors who won’t prosecute criminals. Key pillars of the legal system are being destroyed. This is not normal. https://t.co/scT781caT2
— Randy Barnett (@RandyEBarnett) April 26, 2025
THE IVY EXILE: Public Health’s Sacrificial Lambs.
In trying to wrap my mind around the self-inflicted catastrophe that was America’s COVID-19 lockdown regime, imposed five years ago this spring, I’ve been inclined to assume that public health leaders deserved something close to a free pass for those surreal first few months — that given the panic and the fog of war, people such as Anthony Fauci were entitled to some measure of grace as they adapted to a fluid situation. But in his harrowing and revelatory new book, An Abundance of Caution: American Schools, the Virus, and a Story of Bad Decisions, journalist David Zweig details how swiftly national COVID-19 policies diverged from the broadly accepted protocols enshrined in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s pandemic playbook toward an indefinite lockdown model seemingly inspired by China’s heavy-handed mitigation efforts. “The arrival of a new infectious virus was not unprecedented,” he writes. “But the response to it was.”
Nor was it conducted in good faith.
Plus:
Though public health was no doubt a historically noble calling that had saved and improved countless lives over many decades of rigorous empirical and quantitative work, by the 1970s things had begun to go wobbly: More and more activists were tilting the field away from empirical rigor and toward lacquering a questionable scientific patina atop their political priorities. There were still top-flight epidemiologists and others working on challenges such as clean water and infant mortality, but more and more of the field consisted of laundering activism on issues such as gun control or gender norms into pseudoscientific “scholarship.”
Indeed.
April 26, 2025
OPEN THREAD: Party on.
UNCONSTITUTIONAL: “Prosecutors to Consider Race in Pleas Deals under New Policy Written by Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty.” The policy was deliberately written in an effort to disguise its unconstitutionality. It says both to consider the accused’s race and not to consider the accused’s race in offering plea deals. But, despite the efforts to conceal it, the unconstitutionality of such a policy should be throbbingly obvious.
When someone tries to tell you that a particular instance of considering race is a cool idea, the best thing to do is “flip it.” If prosecutors considered an accused’s whiteness in his or her favor as “part of the overall analysis,” but not necessarily as “controlling,” we would rightly be outraged. It should be no different here.
Can’t this Soros-backed prosecutor be recalled?
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BRIAN KRASSENSTEIN: Are We Going to Start Arresting Farmers Now Who Help Illegals Evade Arrest?
I hope so!
Yes, next question?
— Andrew Young – TANSTAAFL Curmudgeon (@NucMM1retired) April 26, 2025
Such actions would be very much approved by leftist icon Cesar Chavez, a staunch foe of illegal immigration.
[H]is views on border control would be a perfect fit in the Trump administration.
As a child working with his family in the California fields, Cesar quickly learned the reason farmworkers were paid so little and treated so poorly: As his biographer Miriam Pawel writes, “a surplus of labor enabled growers to treat workers as little more that interchangeable parts, cheaper and easier to replace than machines.”
Chavez acolytes today try to explain away his hawkish pro-border views as coming from a different historical context, applicable only to specific strikes and the strike-breakers that farmers tried to import. But this is false.
In fact, even before he started the union and fought against illegal immigration, he was opposed to the bracero program, which legallyimported cheap, disposable labor from Mexico at the expense of American citizens (of Mexican and other origins) who had been working in the fields. Pawel quotes Chavez as saying, “It looks almost impossible to start some effective program to get these people their jobs back from the braceros.”
Congress ended the bracero program in 1964, and the next 15 years were the salad days, as it were, for farmworkers — until illegal immigration became so pervasive (despite Chavez’s efforts) that workers lost all bargaining power.
But during those 15 years, Chavez fought illegal immigration tenaciously. In 1969, he marched to the Mexican border to protest farmers’ use of illegal aliens as strikebreakers. He was joined by Reverend Ralph Abernathy and Senator Walter Mondale.
It’s time topple some statues, and rename many, many streets: The 21st-century left would view all of the above as quite fascist-y, Cesar, Ralph and Walter.
