Maggie's Farm

Design vs Fine Art: Sitting on the art

The branch of the Nile that ran past the Pyramids

The Debate Over Lab-Grown Meat - Are concerns about cultured meat justified?

 How Finding a “Third Place” Can Boost Your Well-Being

Physically-healthy Dutch woman Zoraya ter Beek dies by euthanasia aged 29 because she did not want to live with depression

Angry Young Women

 Bird flu is now widespread in wild birds around the globe, and it has been causing outbreaks in U.S. poultry and dairy cows, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

 Michigan Confirms First Human Case of High-Risk Bird Flu, Marking Second U.S. Case This Year

 Screwworms once killed millions of dollars’ worth of cattle a year in the southern U.S. Their range extended from Florida to California, and they infected any living, warm-blooded animal: not only cattle but deer, squirrels, pets, and even the occasional human.

Trust The "Science"...That Just Retracted 11,000 "Peer Reviewed" Papers

 Anthony Fauci's Superior at the NIH Admits That the "Six Foot Rule" of Social Distancing Was Never Based on Any Science At All

 Nellie Bowles Thoroughly Humiliates the New York Times

 Biden To Ruin Thousands Of Miles Of Land For Green Energy Scheme

 Some employers are reluctant to hire college grads who attended pro-Palestinian protests, survey finds

‘Supportive housing’ is no cure-all for mentally ill homeless

Gavin Newsom Touts California Plan to Combat Homelessness As a ‘National Model’

California’s Looming Crime Catastrophe - Recent legislation makes it easier for felons to claim racial bias—potentially putting them back on the streets in large numbers.

The Nation: It’s Not Too Late for Democrats to Win Back Rural Voters

National Park Construction Crew Told to Stop Flying American Flag

Columbia has more full-time employees than undergrads, including an Earth Observatory DEI director

 New York City's Ongoing "Affordable Housing" Follies

The Massive Immigration Wave Hits America's Schools And Shelters

 Joe Biden spends his Memorial Day weekend celebrating George Floyd

 Harrison Butker, supervillain

 Petition demands Kansas City Chiefs fire kicker Harrison Butker for ‘discriminatory’ grad speech

 'So Much For Democracy'? Blinken Justifies Ukraine Canceling Elections

  Nation Building’s Last Stand in Gaza.

Germany:  No driving on the weekends?

The End of Ireland's Great Consensus

  Is Boeing's Starliner Ever Going to Fly?

 To have or not to have breakfast?

 The Debate Over Lab-Grown Meat - Are concerns about cultured meat justified?

 The Best Years of Your Sex Life - Aging need not be a sexual deterrent; it can be an enrichment.

 35-Year-Old Man Seriously Injured After ‘Surprise’ Grizzly Bear Attack in Grand Teton National Park

 Mathematics & The Imposing Your Beliefs Fallacy

 Too Much Self-Esteem

 Is Beef Production A Major Contributor To Climate Change?

 ChatGPT’s Moral Compass - We hear much talk of “aligning AI with human values” but relatively little delineation of what these values are.

Academic conference looks ‘critically’ at Taylor Swift’s career — including the whiteness of her fans

How The New York Times Went Woke - Confirmation bias has distorted the paper’s reporting.

Stuart's  Saturday Miscellany

Martin Gurri on the Revenge of the Normies. Plus. . .The Pope goes after conservative Catholics. The ICC goes after Israel. Michael Cohen falls apart on the stand. And much more.

  Barbara Furlow-Smiles, a former diversity program manager at Facebook and Nike, has been sentenced for stealing more than $5 million

 Stanford now has 177 DEI employees, research finds

 Stand Firm, Boomers — the Student Protesters Actually Are Idiots

 Exposing The CIA's Secret Effort To Seize Control Of Social Media

Hochul Insults Americans As She Tries to Attack Trump and His Rally in South Bronx

 Trump’s bumper Bronx rally is a bad omen for Biden. He promised to return to New York and sort out the anarchy

 DIALING THE HYSTERIA UP TO 11

 Nonprofits Are Making Billions off the Border Crisis

Guess What Hamas Is Doing With Aid We Are Sending to Gaza

All the Aid From Biden’s Gaza Pier was Seized by Hamas

Expert warns Sweden on 'brink of civil war' as country gripped by migrant violence

Dutch Lawyer Faces Prosecution For Social Media Post Slamming Mass Migration

 On The Atomic Bombing Of Japan

 Hunter hospitalized with ‘significant injuries’ after grizzly bear attack in British Columbia

Is Oreo About to Be the Next Bud Light?

 Trads on Offense

 Plant-based meat alternatives are trying to exit the culture wars – an impossible task?

 The Rise of Authoritarianism

 Scenes From a Global Struggle - Elites still command the strategic heights, but their power and prestige are slipping like water through their hands

 Censorship: A Global Pandemic

 Vouchers and Government Control - would government leave schools alone?

 'A Failed Medical School': How Racial Preferences, Supposedly Outlawed in California, Have Persisted at UCLA

Those 'All Electric' Fire Trucks are a Sad Joke

 Harvard Kiddies and Their Professors Have a Grand Time Calling for Intifada to 'Come to America'

To the Class of 2024: You Are All Diseased

 Why school segregation is getting worse - Seventy years after the Brown decision, many students are divided by their race and socioeconomic status.

 DHS Admits Border Has Been Open To Criminals And Terrorists

 RFK Jr. vows to give black farmers $5 BILLION in reparations if he wins the White House and says funds are 'not money, that is entitlement' despite white counterparts labeling it racist

 Trump tells wild Bronx crowd he's going to win New York like Reagan

How Lawfare Turned Trump Into a Superhero

Salman Rushdie: A Palestinian State Would Be Hamas

New Dutch Government Fixin' to GASP Do What They Were Elected to Do

James Simons: The Man Who Brought Theoretical Physics to Wall Street

 The new moral panic: Social media 

The Insane Flip-Flops Over Vaccines, Masks And Ivermectin

 Douglas Murray: What It Means to Choose Life - Last Monday, our columnist received the Alexander Hamilton Award for his ‘unwavering defense of Western values.’ Watch and read his brilliant acceptance speech.

 The Nonprofits Making Billions off the Border Crisis. Plus. . .Michael Oren on Biden’s betrayal. La Leche League erases mothers. Eurovision. Qatari money in NY schools. Seinfeld’s commencement speech. And much more.

 Is the Backlash to Universities Becoming Real? Taxpayers, politicians, and employers are realizing that campus leftism has gone too far. The question is whether it’s too late to stop it.

 Is the Tide Finally Turning Against Campus Leftism?

 The New York Times Denounces Cancel Culture... After Fueling Cancel Culture For Years

 Here’s How We Know The Climate Crisis Is Not About The Climate

 Pope Francis: World Nearing ‘Breaking Point’ from Climate Change

 Climate Professor Thinks We Should 'Cull' the Human Population to Reach Emissions Targets

 Our government is being run by morons. We are screwed.

 How Motherhood Liberated Me - ‘My daughter doesn’t care if I’m exceptional. She just cares that I am hers.’

 Blockbuster obesity drugs have transformed how we treat the condition - but doctors are warning they may cause potentially severe psychiatric effects.

 Corporate America got woke. Now it's having second thoughts.

Bud Light update 

 Two Students Were Kicked Out of High School for Blackface, but a Jury Agreed It Was an Acne Facemask

Stuart's Saturday Miscellany 

 FBI Confirms It’s Restarting Online Censorship Efforts Ahead Of 2024 Election

 Actual Collusion? Missouri AG Accuses Biden DOJ Of Coordinating With Trump Prosecutors

 SWEDEN SHAKEN BY CRISIS OF VIOLENCE

 ‘Ireland Is Full,’ Say Thousands in Dublin

 The Common Thread Between Secular Progressivism and Radical Islam

 Israel/Gaza: The Masks Come Off in American Society

 Try a Little Honesty About Israel

"Israel has a legitimate government, and Hamas is a crime gang full of the most brutal of homicidal maniacs.  This isn’t so much a war as it is a police action"

 Hysterics for Hamas - Why have young women been so prominent in the recent campus chaos?

 Biden Strikes Deal Where Hamas Gets To Keep American Hostages In Exchange For Fifteen Votes In Michigan

Especially wondering about responses from our lady Maggie's readers: Why are women so Lefty-oriented?

 Re Hysteria: How To Approach Psychogenic Symptoms

 Electric Vehicles: ‘Traditional’ Car Rationing Draws Closer

 Vermont Passes Law Requiring Fossil Fuel Companies To Pay For Climate Doom

 Nellie Bowles: The Day I Stopped Canceling People

 Leftist Thinking Breeds Misery

Correlation not causation. I know some very happy lefties who only get upset about politics.

CNN reporter has dinner with Trump supporters, implies a Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde dynamic

What? 

RFK Jr. would do even more green damage than Joe Biden

 Columbia’s president preached the elite’s pieties about protest ‘reordering society.’ Look what she got

 Cornell University President Martha Pollack quits after donor called for her to be fired over antisemitism on campus and mock trial where anti-Israel students convicted her of genocide

 Columbia law students demand no finals

 The Campus Kill-The-Jews Riots: Paid Professional Agitators Funded By Democratic Party Big Wigs, Or Well-Meaning Kids?

 As Columbia Kowtows to the Radical Fringe, Questions Grow Over External Influence on Anti-Israel Campus Protesters

 FBI Staged Fake Photo of Classified Documents for PR Purposes

 Trump Triumphing Over Evil - The Raid on Mar-A-Lago likely gets him re-elected. 

 Another Trump Trial Derailed: Fani-Donating Judge's Decision To Keep Her On RICO Trial Under Scrutiny By Appeals Court

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