Maggie's Farm

Ozempic: Magic Pill or Devil’s Bargain?

 Migrants are Closing Down Broadway

Stuart's  Wednesday Potpourri

 “More than 40,000 dead, you’re arresting kids instead!”

College students identify as kids now? 

 Do Our Rulers Really Believe What They Say They Believe & What To Do About It

 Replace "Donald Trump" saying this instead of Kathy Hochul. Do you think it's racist now?

 World Media Never Seems to Tire of Regurgitating Hamas Propaganda

Death Of Self-Checkout, Walmart Charges For It In Some Location

 Postmodernism and Its Impact, Explained.

 The Climate Cult Reacts As Its Political Position Begins To Slip

 Consistent social routines linked to better emotional well-being in older adults

Duh 

 Warning: Everything on Social Media Is Probably Fake

Everything is fake 

 Top NYT Editor Suggests White House Wants Paper To Act Like Communist Propaganda Arm For President

 Abigail Shrier: There Are Two Sets of Rules for Speech. . .

 Columbia Faculty Group Goes On Strike in Support of Pro-Hamas Disruptors

 WE’RE COLLEGE ADMINISTRATORS, WE DON’T NEED SPINES

NASA’s Curiosity Rover Uncovers Signs of an Earth-Like Environment on Ancient Mars

 Exercising in Midlife May 'Reverse' Years of Inactivity, Large Study Finds

Why Musk cutting back electric vehicles 

 Unscientific American - Science journalism surrenders to progressive ideology.

 Google Censors Trump Ad for Unspecified Reasons

  DOJ Admits To Evidence Tampering In Trump Classified Docs Case

 Student protesters are no different than babies, an analysis

 Confirmed: Nearly Half of Protesters Are Not Students or Faculty

 US taxpayers shouldn’t be subsidizing idiotic college extremism

 United Nations Wants $30–$40 Billion for Hamas

 Biden Launches Investigation of Columbia U for Discriminating Against… Hamas Supporters

 Is It a New Cold War?

It’s been two years since the UK’s poop-engulfed beaches became a national scandal. Now it’s even worse

 Friday Laugh: Pro-Hamas Demonstrators Charge Cops With Garbage Can Shields (the video is amusing)

Also amusing: Hello Mudda, Hello Fadda.... 

 John Cleese reminds us that ‘race doesn’t matter, but culture does’

Stuart's Saturday Miscellany 

 “I cannot believe this emotionally incontinent young person and his friends are driving a national news cycle. .."

Springtime for Sinwar - Notes on the pro-Hamas Left and its antecedents.

 Rogan To University Protesters: "You Guys Are Doing Nonsense" At "Cult Camp"

 Normal Kids Get F*cked - Elite universities went to war against fraternities and fun while indulging Hamas-admiring collectives, and the students have noticed

 Arrested Emory U. Prof. No Victim Despite Leftist Outrage, Admitted She Hit Cop While He Was Subduing Another Rioter

 Joe Biden Is 2024's Chaos Candidate. Column: Biden's incompetence opens the door for a Trump restoration

 Famed conservative journalist who hates Trump says Biden's weak stance on campus chaos is hammering final nails intopresident's re-election campaign

 Illegals fly Florida

 Ukraine's Biggest Problem Isn't Weapons, It's Lack Of Fighting Men

 Russian Troops Enter US Base in Niger That Is Hosting Few Remaining US Troops After Ruling Junta Expels US Military from the Country

 Make Your Workday Work for Your Mental Health

 Medical Pseudoscience

 What Does JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon Mean When He Says "The Consumer Is Doing Well" In 2024?

 TGIF: Don’t Tread on Me, Bro. Our heroes in Vineyard Vines. Plus: Drew Barrymore and Momala. Why the campus jihadis should run the border. Pro-natalist and proud. And much, much more.

RealClearPolitics: Colleges Respond to Campus Protests, New Trend Allowing Non-Citizens To Vote, Interview With Sen. Marco Rubio

 UCLA pro-Palestine encampment sent out request for vegan and gluten-free food and zip ties

" Report says that of the 282 rioters arrested at Columbia 134 had no connection with any college in the area. 4 of the 9 arrested at the U of Florida are not students at the school"

 Pro-Israel And Pro-Palestine Supporters Chant "F**k Joe Biden" In Solidarity As Democrats In 'Panic Mode'

 How have America's universities become hotbeds of rabid Islamist rhetoric, foaming-at-the-mouth Jew-hate, and flat-out anti-American insanity?

 Abigail Shrier: There Are Two Sets of Rules for Speech. Frat parties with offensive themes are swiftly punished. But publicly contemplate murdering Zionists? That’s a different story.

 The Biden Administration Ever More Delusional On Energy

"Barcelona, then, was a Catalonian Pyongyang: and it is important to recall that Orwell approved of it. At this stage of his development, he was an enthusiastic totalitarian, and the shallowness of his belief that such uniformity was a triumph for freedom and equality is rather startling in a man who, a very few years later, was to be the greatest literary scourge of totalitarianism in the world."

Hanania:

 President of the University of Chicago with the best statement yet on the protests: “I believe the protesters should also consider that an encampment, with all the etymological connections of the word to military origins, is a way of using force of a kind rather than reason to persuade others… those violating university policy should expect to face disciplinary consequences.”

"It seems like you're saying, 'we want to be revolutionaries, we want to take over this building, now would you please bring us some food'."

Columbia protestors throw world's biggest toddler tantrum when the cops show up

 New York's Finest Clear Out Columbia Rat's Nest in Record Time

  'Free Palestine' Brownshirts Need a Heavy Dose of Consequences

 Since When Does Criminal Law Not Apply to College Campus Protests?

 UCLA Pro-Hamas Mob Issue List of Demands, Including Zip Ties and Gas Masks. At a press conference, they also demanded UCLA divest, disclose, and abolish policing.

DeSantis Takes Down Reporter Who Accuses Him of Crushing Campus Protests

 Columbia Classmates Call for Intifada. I Just Want to Attend College.

 Nancy Pelosi Has a Meltdown After MSNBC Challenges Her Talking Points

 Trapped by court case, Trump turns Big Apple into his political playground

 The children protesting on American campuses are making incoherent noises in order to attract more attention to their riotous behavior, and thus, to obscure the fact that they are really trying to mask Palestinian shame. 

The Wolves in Colorado 

 AI and the End of the Human Writer - If a computer can write like a person, what does that say about the nature of our own creativity?

 Here's What Happened When a Mom of a 'Trans' Student Tried Scolding a Teacher for 'Misgendering' Her Kid

New York City to pay over $2 million settlement for discrimination against white educators

 Surprise, Surprise: Pro-Hamas Agitators on Campus Have a New 'Demand'

 The NYPD Comes for Columbia’s Occupation. Plus. . .

 University of Florida "Is Not a Day Care" - There Are Consequences for Protests

Related: Protesters wanted free food 

"... campus riots like the ones at Columbia could be a disaster for the Democratic Party. That is what happened in the late 60s. Voters hate these childish and destructive outbursts. "

Stuart's Wednesday Miscellany 

 "There Is No Crime": Dershowitz Says Bragg’s Case Against Trump Will Fail

  NATO Chief Confirms

Ukraine Will Become a Member of NATO — Pushing US Closer to Nuclear War with Russia

Why?

What 10 Years Of US Meddling In Ukraine Have Wrought

 Why Is Israel Singled Out As The Uniquely Hated State?

 Losing Face, Cosmetically

 'Chestfeeding' And Other Transgender Terms Banned In NHS By UK Government

 Things Worth Remembering: Allan Bloom on the ‘Charmed Years’ of College

Glenn Reynolds:  Notes on the Asylum Where I Was Raised. In which I visit the Harvard protests, among other things

 Will Gen-Z cancel America?

 It Took Ten Years For Powerful People To See That Leftism Has Crossed A Red Line

Journolist 2.0 

 Iowa State to close DEI office, eliminate five positions

 DEI Was Supposed to Help People Like Me. It Didn’t. My bosses wanted my Caribbean face at diversity training sessions. What they didn’t want were my actual viewpoints.

 UCLA Students Forced To Take Mandatory 'Fat Positivity' Class

Stuart's  Saturday Miscellany

'there have been reports that many of the students at the big Columbia Camp-In are just there because it is cool to shout slogans, wave flags, and wear keffiyehs. You know, cuz it's counter-cultural and cutting edge and stuff.'   

 George Soros is paying student radicals who are fueling nationwide explosion of Israel-hating protests

 Shadow financiers of ‘spontaneous’ student campus protests

 Texas Shows How to Prevent a Campus Takeover

Cashless Society: WEF Boasts That 98% Of Central Banks Are Adopting CBDCs

TNR really despises suburbs 

" Turns out that living in near-Utopia has the worst possible effect: you decide to strive for a different Utopia altogether."

 Feminism has left middle-aged women like me single, childless and depressed

 A Principal Was Removed, Faced Threats for Making Racist Comments. There's Just One, Major Problem.

 A Culture of Grievance

 Thomas Jefferson High School Drops Out of Top Ten Nationwide After Adopting “Equity” Admissions Policy - “TJ for the first time dropped out of the top 10 of the US News list of top US high schools, falling from being number 1 2020-2022, to 5 in 2023, to now 14 in 2024”

 TGIF: Four More Years, Pause - Australia wants to jail Elon. Women tie their tubes. Mike Johnson is sticking around. Plus: China might not have been honest about the pandemic.

 ‘Social manias die quietly’. Lionel Shriver on why elites are rarely held accountable for their most damaging mistakes.

 Columbia's Tiananmen Square

 Ivy League grads risk losing prized jobs for schools allowing antisemitic protests to fester: Wall Street honchos

 Communist Coachella at Columbia. Plus. . .

 BIG PICTURE – Judge Cannon Unseals and Un-redacts Trump Legal Motion that Exposes DOJ Fraudulent Case Against Him

TRUMP IN THE SUPREME COURT

 Biden is Trying to Make Trump the Nelson Mandela of America

 The fantasy of open borders Mass migration will only lead to more suffering

IDF: The Rafah Op Will Come -- Very Soon

 In First, 17 Nations Release Joint Statement Demanding Hamas Release All Hostages

 Iran's Nightmares

 Four Thousand Years of Egyptian Women Pictured

Scientific American Claims It Is "Misinformation" That There Are Just Two Sexes

 Why transgender madness is so rampant in Sweden

 Scientists Sign Declaration Proclaiming Fish, Lobsters, Octopi, and Insects Have “Consciousness”

 BBC rejoices as Britain commits economic suicide in pursuit of Net Zero

 The Impossible Heat Wave Era is Upon Us

Not where I live 

 Could EVs Compete In A True Free Market?

 Stifling Free Speech Online: Australia’s Misinformation Bill - Every censorship regime in history has claimed to be protecting the public. But no regime can have prior knowledge of what is true or good. It can only know what the approved narratives are.

 Aussie Senator Says Elon Musk Should "Be In Jail And The Key Be Thrown Away"

 This is not your 1992 Democrat Party

 Migrants Gone Wild On Streets Of Midtown Manhattan 

 They Aren’t Hiding it Anymore, Biden Wants Mass Amnesty Before Election 

 Patriots Owner Robert Kraft Yanks Support From Columbia University Over Antisemitism

 Columbia University's Pro-Hamas Activists Vow to Defend Camp Against Police Action

 NYPD chief swarmed by anti-Israel protesters and berated while seeking shelter in NYU building

 The United Nations Is Still Worthless

Here's Columbia University President's letter. It's embarassingly limp and mealy-mouthed.

I have two degrees from that excellent university, so I care. Here's what I would have written, were I in her shoes:

Dear Members of the Columbia Community,

As of today anyone who disrupts our educational mission will be arrested by the NYPD, and expelled. Students and and parents have spent a lot of time and money to receive what we have to offer, and it is our job to provide that.

If anyone decides that disruptive protesting is more important than learning in our excellent institution, they should do it elsewhere.

Sincerely,

Columbia University President Bird Dog

 Tracking The Demise Of The U.S. Green Energy Transition

Atlantic:  IN PRAISE OF HEROIC MASCULINITY - Teach boys that strength can be a virtue.

 The cult of ‘my truth’ - NPR is only the latest institution to fall to woke relativism

 NPR Has a Trigger Warning on the Declaration of Independence

 The lawfare against Donald Trump hits new heights today

 The Kids Skipping Elite Colleges and Heading South.

More on the Yale Protest That Hospitalized Jewish Student

 They Were Assaulted on Campus for Being Jews. At Yale, Sahar Tartak was stabbed in the eye. At Columbia, Jonathan Lederer’s Israeli flag was burned and he was hit in the face.

 Double the Anti-Semitism

 Who Saved Salman Rushdie? Plus. . .Mike Johnson’s moment. Columbia’s radical chic. And why the Trump jury will restore your faith in America.

 Boredom and Gratitude

 Antarctica Is Colder, Icier Today Than At Any Time In 5,000 Years

 UCLA study: Gay couples at greater risk from climate change

 Bill Maher rages at Hollywood for putting kids at risk, calls Disney an aphrodisiac for pedophiles and slams Drag Queen Story Hour trend

 Bill Maher against Wokery

 The Trans Reckoning Is Here

Pro-Hamas Protests Rage Into the Night at Columbia University

 New anti-Israel tent city takes over Columbia University lawn days after NYPD raid as activists vow to stay ‘forever’

 The Intifada Comes to America. Now What?

" I considered moving out of the USA..."

 Democrats are taking from taxpayers to expand their own power

 Germany: Violent Migrant Crime Hit Record High in 2023

 How Climate Change Narrative Is Preventing Africa From Modernizing and Gaining Prosperity

 The Second Cold War Is Escalating Faster Than the First - To understand what is at stake in the fight against the axis of China, Russia and Iran, just read “The Lord of the Rings.

 As long as American officials are writing checks to Kyiv, Ukraine will continue to push for maximalist goals. 

 Turkish President Backs Hamas, Urges Palestinian Unity Against Israel

 Dickey Betts, Allman Brothers Band guitarist, dies at 80: 'Dickey was larger than life'

 Rick Moranis Is 71! Inside His Quiet Life Since Leaving Hollywood 28 Years Ago

What Happened To Bitcoin?

 Conservative Weakness - More divided than their opponents

 Ever More Audacious Efforts To Suppress Mainstream Conservative Speech

 TGIF: WWIII May Come Tomorrow, But. . .Google remembers it's a workplace. NPR CEO is the gift that keeps on giving. Why does Kari Lake sound reasonable on abortion? And much more.

 Columbia, Google’s crackdown on pro-Hamas protesters: Is that common sense we finally smell?

 DANIEL HANNAN: Why, despite two welcome victories, I fear we'll NEVER beat the woke nightmare. And the next generation will be even MORE intolerant

 Who Is Katherine Maher?

 The 'Better' Civilians of Gaza

My pic from a recent  hike. Those are Pileated holes

 How Often Do Happy Couples Have Sex? Sex is an integral part of most relationships, but how much is enough?

 ‘Sweden has been vindicated on Covid’ - Martin Kulldorff on why lockdowns were a disaster for public health.

William M. Briggs on Embracing Uncertainty and Stats as a False God 

AI can get you sued 

 ‘Non-binary, neurodivergent’ activist ordering psychiatrists to push ‘gender affirming’ surgery over therapy

 New York College Suspends Professor "Energized" By Hamas Attack On Israel

 Google FIRES 28 employees over their involvement in $1.2B Israel contract protest inside New York and California offices

 Remote workers brace for harsh reality check and are committing career suicide: study

 Understanding Current Events First Requires Knowledge of History

 Taylor Swift’s Experience Proves You Can’t Placate The Radical Left

 The psychology of cancel culture: New study pinpoints key drivers

Here's the REAL Reason the Soros-Bought NYC Prosecutor Put Trump on Trial. Try Not to Laugh.

 Trump Apocalypse Hysteria Is Spiraling Into Madness. Do you think they really believe this stuff?

 Joe Biden’s Parole Pipeline Imports Over 950,000 Foreign Nationals to U.S., Exceeding Population of South Dakota

 California is the homeland of progressive anti-Semitism. Even Jewish progressives are waking up to the reality of anti-Semitic hate on the Left

 Tucker Carlson’s Turn. A Stabbing in Sydney. Plus. . . Book bans. The widening war in the Middle East. TikTok employees say they worked for bosses in Beijing. The Free Press’s first rodeo. And more.

 An 85-year-old woman was handcuffed to a chair during an armed home invasion. She killed the robber and survived.

 Suicide Mission - What Boeing did to all the guys who remember how to build a plane

 DR MAX PEMBERTON: It's time to prescribe some tough love: How work can help cure the mental health epidemic

 The Prophets: Eric Hoffer - In 1951, a book by an unschooled dockworker predicted the forces that would give rise to radical politics on the left, populism on the right—and a president like Donald Trump.

 The Bargain with Government Is Coming Apart

 Rebranding DEI: How Colleges Are Getting Around State Bans

 Why Did Harvard Fire Martin Kulldorff?

 'Revolutionary Suicide': UCLA Psychiatrists Cheer Self-Immolation in Leaked Audio. Med school talk glorified self-harm, violated CDC guidance, experts say

 The NPR Fallout. Iran’s Attack. Plus. . .A sneak peek from our debate in Dallas. Heartbreak for the ‘Golden Bachelor.’ And more.

 "This Person Is A Crazy Racist": New NPR CEO Exposed As Woke Activist

 The Week In Doom: Follow The Science Edition

 Biden Admin Locking Down HALF of Alaska's National Petroleum Reserve From Energy Development

The Group Quota Regime 

 Ontario resident who wants both a vagina and penis wins public funding for unique surgery

JK Rowling and the Cass report reckoning

 The Inevitable Result of Intersectional Gender Studies

 The Arsonist - Tucker Carlson whitewashed murderers to set fire to evangelical-Jewish relations

 It increasingly feels as though the Biden administration is sacrificing Israel at the altar of electoral calculation. 

 REMINDER: The Biden Administration Granted Iran Billions in New Sanctions Relief Just One Month Ago

 A SLOW-MOTION WAR

Lost some of my links overnight - here's enough for today -

" Nowadays, all unfortunate weather events–and even, in some quarters, earthquakes!–are blamed on “climate change.”

 Affirmative action Scrabble to hit shelves soon

 RETAILERS CLOSING AMID CRIME SURGE

 The UC’s Corner-Office Revolutionary - In a new memoir, a former academic administrator explains how she led the ideological campaign to enshrine DEI as a ‘core mission’ at the University of California.

 How long before the brave NPR editor exposing the woke broadcaster gets shown the door?

The Ministry of BS Will See You Now

Stuart's Wednesday Potpourri 

 ABC’s Hostin Links Eclipses, Earthquakes, Cicadas to Climate Change

The reckoning over puberty blockers has arrived

 Blocking Puberty Blockers

 Ontario schools blame social media after years of failing to educate

 School’s out forever as education bosses use any excuse to skip class. Randi Weingarten and teachers unions did what they could to keep schools closed

 Addiction Activists Say They’re ‘Reducing Harm’ in Philly. Locals Say They’re Causing It.

 Democrats See Ordinary Americans As the Great Unwashed

 The Cultural Elite Is More Absurd Than Ever

 UMass Amherst Researchers Claim Racism is Behind Efforts to Dismantle DEI Policies “citing sources such as NPR, MSNBC, and Axios”

 I’ve Been at NPR for 25 Years. Here’s How We Lost America’s Trust. Uri Berliner, a veteran at the public radio institution, says the network lost its way when it started telling listeners how to think.

 How We Got to 'Death to America' in Dearborn