DISPATCHES FROM THE ECO EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Just Stop Oil activist accused of defacing Stonehenge asks judge not to hold trial during her exams.

Oxford student and Just Stop Oil activist Niamh Lynch, 22, faces charges of damaging an ancient monument and intentionally causing a public nuisance.

Appearing at Salisbury Crown Court alongside a fellow eco-protester, Rajan Naidu, 74, the student pleaded not guilty to the charges.

Video footage showed members of the public trying to intervene with the Just Stop Oil protestors as they allegedly sprayed the powder across the stones in June 2024.

A spokesperson for English Heritage described the incident as “extremely upsetting.”

During proceedings to determine a trial date on Thursday, Audrey Mogan, defending Lynch, pleaded with the court to avoid hearings in May or June – pointing to the importance of the student’s academic commitments.

“Niamh Lynch is an ornithology student at the University of Oxford. She requests that the trial not be held during May or June as that is when her exams are,” Mogan said.

Wait, I thought the world was coming to an end, which is why defacing paintings and monuments is suddenly perfectly acceptable. But studying for exams means that she’s planning to stick around for several more decades – and by extension, so will planet Earth.

THE GRANDSTANDING WAS SHORT-LIVED:

ALLIES, NOT FRIENDS: Avoiding the NATO Burden: “Denmark has made the skill of cheating the US into an art” Writes Danish Editor; “Denmark Deserves No Respect from America.” “In relation to NATO, Denmark has for decades opposed American interests by pursuing a peddling strategy that is about securing security policy guarantees from the United States while at the same time avoiding having to carry its share of the burden in NATO. Denmark has made the skill of cheating the US into an art. In January 2025, Denmark’s real contribution to NATO is approximately 1.7 percent of GDP excluding donations to Ukraine, directly contrary to the agreement of 2 percent of GDP. The SVM government claims that Denmark spends 2.4 percent of its GDP on defense and security, but the Danish attempt to cheat NATO has been condemned and rejected by several NATO countries and the former Secretary General of NATO, Jens Stoltenberg, as the donations to Ukraine do not contribute to Denmark’s or NATO’s defense capabilities.”

If NATO is going to work, members have to contribute their fair share.

SPACE: Bennu asteroid samples yield watery history, key molecules for life.

A bright fireball streaked across the sky above mountains, glaciers, and spruce forest near the town of Revelstoke in British Columbia, Canada, on the evening of March 31, 1965. Fragments of this meteorite, discovered by beaver trappers, fell over a lake. A layer of ice saved them from the depths and allowed scientists a peek into the birth of the solar system.

Nearly 60 years later, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu, similar to the one that rained rocks over Revelstoke. Our research team has published a chemical analysis of those samples, providing insight into how some of the ingredients for life may have first arrived on Earth.

Born in the years bracketing the Revelstoke meteorite’s fall, the two of us have spent our careers in the meteorite collections of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, and the Natural History Museum in London. We’ve dreamed of studying samples from a Revelstoke-like asteroid collected by a spacecraft.

Then, nearly two decades ago, we began turning those dreams into reality. We joined NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission team, which aimed to send a spacecraft to collect and return an asteroid sample to Earth. After those samples arrived on Sept. 24, 2023, we got to dive into a tale of rock, ice, and water that hints at how life could have formed on Earth.

Fred Hoyle, call your office.

DAYS OF (FEMALE) RAGE:

Democrats used to be so much better at optics than Republicans almost ever were. But then the Hollywood-Media-Democrat Axis went Woke, optics went out the window, and then Republicans went with the most optics-savvy nominee since Reagan.

‘I AM NO ONE’S PUPPET:’ Tulsi Gabbard Takes the Deep State Apart in Spectacular Opening Statement (Watch).

Related:

MIC DROP: Kash Patel Bodies Democrat Senator Amy Klobuchar with an Epic Response After She Tries to Entrap Him with a Series of Sly Questions (Video).

After seeing her colleague Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) get owned by Patel a short time earlier, Klobuchar thought she could trap Patel with gotcha questions designed to potentially sink his nomination.

“Do you know under Chris Wray’s leadership, he took over at a very difficult time…During his tenure, applications to the FBI have tripled. Do you think that people would be applying to those agencies if, in fact, it was so corrupt?” she queried.

After Patel refused to bite and reminded Klobuchar that confidence in the FBI was at an all-time low, she tried again with a different question.

“Did you say that the FBI headquarters should be shut down and reopened as a Museum of the Deep State?” she queried.

At that point, Patel had enough of Klobuchar’s nonsense and dropped this massive truth bomb.

“Simply this: if the best attacks on me are going to be false accusations and grotesque mischaracterizations, the only thing this body is doing is defeating the credibility of the men and women at the FBI,” Patel fired back. “I STOOD with them, here in this country, in every theater of war we have – I was on the ground in service.”

“And any accusations that I would put political bias before the Constitution are grotesquely unfair, and I will have you reminded I have been endorsed by over 300,000 law enforcement officers to become the next director of the FBI,” he added. “Let’s ask them.”

Related: What is it with leftist women having repeated meltdowns over the past couple of weeks?

Finally, America’s Newspaper of Record for the win: