Maggie's Farm

 Top 100 Movie Dances

 What the Octopus Knows - A scuba-diving philosopher explores invertebrate intelligence and consciousness.

 Ohio schoolgirl says she was harassed by male who 'asked to join in' while she was changing in restroom - as dozens of students walk out to protest school's transgender bathroom policy

 American dad who moved to Sweden with his young daughter reveals the staggering differences in European school system that ultimately forced his family to RETURN to the US

 The Perils of Affective Polarization - Our increasing desire to isolate ourselves from supporters of the opposite party can have dire consequences

DOUGLAS MURRAY IN ISRAEL

 White House Aides "Simply Cannot Stomach" Biden's Israel Policy, Dissent Memos Leak, Revolt At State Dept

The Nation:  What It’s Like to Take Over the Statue of Liberty - Hundreds of Jewish Voice for Peace members calling for a Gaza cease-fire occupied the pedestal of the statue. This is how it happened.

 HITLER YOUTH AT MIT

 115 Million Years Ago An Entire Continent Vanished. Now We've Found Where It's Hiding

 Feds Say They Uncovered Prostitution Ring Serving Politicians, Military Officers, And Tech Execs

Is that still enforced in the US? 

 How to Deal with a Narcissist

What horses see 

 The Government Wants to Release Grizzly Bears WHERE?

A strange medical malpractice case 

 Hudson Booksellers blocks 'America First' authors: MTG, Mark Levin, Kari Lake, Judge Jeanine

Why some are really mad at Mr. Beast

 TGIF: Jihadis Get Lost in Translation. Anne Frank is offensive. Building wells is bad. Chinatown is evil. Silence is violence. War is peace.

 Bari Weiss: End DEI. It’s not about diversity, equity, or inclusion. It is about arrogating power to a movement that threatens not just Jews—but America itself.

Stuart:  Should We End DEI?

Who is "we"? 

 Judge Engoron’s TDS-Afflicted Wife Regularly Flips Out on X

 Did you know that the UN runs the school system in Gaza?

What Is 'Rebecca Syndrome' and Is It Ruining Your Relationship?

Your Fault: Climate Doom Is Sexist

 COVID-19 Lockdowns Contributed To 'Collective Trauma' Among Americans: Psychologists

 Controlling Minds by Controlling Language

 You’ll Never Guess to Whom Hillary Clinton Compared Trump (Actually, You Will)

 Marjorie Taylor Greene Weighs In on GOP’s Complete Trainwreck Performance in General Election

 Why does the ‘party of abortion’ keep winning?

 Hamas to NYT: War of Annihilation Is Exactly What We Wanted

 WHO: Gaza Was Unicorns and Teddy Bears Until the Jews Bombed It

 Israel celebrates breaching ground Hamas didn’t foresee as war enters second month

 Zelensky goes on Meet the Press, calls on President Trump for help, and begs for money like a crackhead

 Henry Winkler’s Secret to Always Smelling Great - On the heels of a new memoir, the actor, producer and author talks about therapy, thinking about exercising and the legacy of The Fonz

 Does Elon Musk Have Too Much Power? Bari talks to Walter Isaacson. 

 Elon Musk’s free speech stance is ‘dangerous,’ Columbia journalism fellow says

 Stop clearing thousands of acres to build solar panels: Harvard study

 Progressive teachers want ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ banished from curriculum

 Ohio Voters Approve Radical Amendment Removing Limits on Abortion, Gender-Transition Procedures

Ugly, but it's up to the states 

 Bari Weiss: DEI is Undermining America

 Turley: This Is A Case Uniquely Created For Trump, "This Crosses The Line From Law To Entertainment"

 Trump Derangement Syndrome, Snobbery, and A Sophomoric View Of The Truth Behind Demands For Censorship

The Roots of Campus Hatred - Why have noxious ideas flourished at U.S. colleges? We have some answers.

 Sheena Josselyn, neuroscientist: ‘Eliminating a memory is fairly simple, once you have the right tools’

 Is Flossing A Waste Of Time?

 Sleep experts want to make standard time permanent after clocks fall back 

 How do you solve the problem of free will?

 Climate Cult Pushes Psychedelic Drugs To Deal With Climate Doom Anxiety

 Facebook Censors Nashville Trans Shooter Manifesto

 Liberals Shocked About Musk's Non-Woke Chatbot

 Now That Biden's Campaign Is Off the Rails, POLITICO Discovers He Might Be Corrupt

 Another Hugo Chavez-style idea on electricity rates from California's one-party regime

 The Mindset of Our Anti-Semites - Why does the world apply a special standard of conduct to Israel?

 Don Jr. Shares Viral Video from Germany: “If Necessary, We Must Use Violence to Institute Islamic State Once Muslims are a Majority”

 Anne Frank's Name to Be Removed From Day Care Center in Latest Woke Attempt to Erase History

 Obama: We Are All Complicit For the Violence in Israel-Hamas War

Fierce hand-to-hand combat in and around Gaza City can be expected to continue in the coming days

 The Ukraine war has no end in sight

 Oops. California's Carbon Emissions Went Up Anyway

 'Renewable Massacre': SolarEdge Melts Down After Weak Guidance 

The Wuhan Cover-Up: How Fauci Conspired With Virologists To Deceive The Public And Smear Critics

 Chicago’s Solution to Its Failing School System: Stop Grading Schools on Performance. It’s become abundantly clear that the greatest obstacle to educational reform is the government itself.

 TGIF: Useful Idiots - Terrorists have brainwashed America. A woke ‘Snow White’ has been canceled. Long live Queen Hillary. Plus: equitable bird names, Mike Johnson is poor, and much, much more.

 Biden Issues Government's First-Ever Artificial Intelligence Executive Order To 'Support Workers, Combat Discrimination'

THE FRUITS OF THE ABRAHAM ACCORDS

 Faced with rise in Jewish hate, Kamala Harris tackles made-up ‘Islamphobia’

 Victor Davis Hanson: One Sick War

Hamas Keeps Making a Clear Case for Destroying Hamas

What Happens When You Escape Death? The story of one man and a miracle drug.

 I get paid $150 an hour to cuddle — I’m solving the loneliness crisis for men and Gen Z women

 Homeschooling Has Increased by Over 50 Percent Since 2018. In some states, homeschooling has climbed by over 100 percent.

 THE DAILY CHART: PUBLIC SCHOOL REFUSENIKS

 What you are about to watch is the **final round** of the most prestigious national high school debate tournament...

 VICTORY! Orsted Abandons Whale-Killing Wind Energy Projects

 American Ornithological Society Cancels Birds Accused of Racism. They've run out of people to cancel.

 Speaker Mike Johnson Isn't Rich: Democrats Demand to Know Why

 The $1.8-Billion Lawsuit Over a Teacher Test - In the nineties, New York began requiring aspiring educators to take an exam. Thousands of people later claimed that the test was racially biased.

 Our Cultural Revolution

 Elon Musk, “The Degree to Which Twitter Was an Arm of the Govt, Was Not Well Understood by the Public”…

 Boston Children’s Hospital given $1.4 MILLION in taxpayer money for child sex changes

 White House slammed for ‘tone deaf’ unveiling of anti-Islamophobia strategy as antisemitism surges

 Dying to Please the Moderates - They love dead Jews

AOC Finally Wins The Anti-Semitism First Prize!

 Not Your Great-Grandmother’s Pogrom: Modern Russia’s Attacks on Jews Are Carried Out by Muslims

 'We May Never Know Exactly What Hamas Wants' Says Reporter In Front Of Hamas Holding 'Exterminate Jews From Existence' Banner

 Ukraine rathole: Zelensky advisor admits they're 'stealing like there's no tomorrow'

Photo: Plague doctor outfit - on sale in Venice 

COVID Lockdowns Were a Giant Experiment. It Was a Failure. A key lesson of the pandemic.

 The Great 'Green Energy Transition' That Wasn't

 The Climate is Indeed Changing – Grab a Warm Jacket

 World's Largest Offshore Wind Farm-Developer Abandons Two Major US Projects As Renewable Bust Erupts

The rats always win 

Stuart's  Wednesday Potpourri

  Army Warned That Maine Gunman ‘Should Not Have a Weapon,’ Behaved ‘Erratically’ Months Before Shooting. Weeks before the shooting: “An alert was then sent to law enforcement warning that Card was ‘armed and dangerous.'”

 Muslim Scottish Labour Party Leader Denounces Scotland as Too ‘White’

 Federal Appeals Court Says Ex-Yale Student, Expelled Over Rape Accusation, Can Sue His Accuser for Defamation

Briggs:  What Scientists Know That Ain’t So

 NY’s taxes, biz mandates are driving out its Golden Goose — the finance industry

 Denmark takes forceful measures to integrate immigrants

That is not tolerant and multicultural 

 HOW THE HAMAS ATTACK TOOK ISRAEL BY SURPRISE

 Zelensky Advisor Admits Gov’t Officials ‘Stealing Like No Tomorrow’ as Biden Pushes for Billions More to Ukraine

 Wind companies losing billions, prompting fears a federal bailout could be coming

 Why is there an unex­pec­ted decline in demen­tia? Emer­ging research is chal­len­ging the belief that new cases of the con­di­tion will rise expo­nen­tially as people live longer — with evid­ence that the abso­lute risk is lower than it was a gen­er­a­tion ago.

Article gives the wrong impression. Vascular dementia numbers may go down for age - which is good - but not Alzheimers and similar. 

 The Long March Through The Institutions Is Over, And The Left Has Arrived At Their Destination

 Jen Psaki Warns Democrats that Speaker Mike Johnson Is Dangerous Because He Is a “Bible-Believing Christian”

Taki on Bankman-Fried 

 Indigenous Translations Will Be Added to Street Signs Around Cambridge

So Eliz. Warren won't get lost? 

Iran to Chair UN Human Rights Commission

 Harvard’s Double Standard on Free Speech - At the university, you’re free to excuse Hamas’s atrocities, but don’t dare say anything that offends leftists.

NYC Creates Office To Send Illegal Aliens Packing

VDH:  A Therapeutic Middle East Versus A Tragic One - The tragedy is that realist deterrence is moral, while naïve appeasement is immoral

 Legendary Flatiron Building To Be Converted To Luxury Residential Condos And Rentals

 ‘Gender-Affirming Care Is Dangerous. I Know Because I Helped Pioneer It.’

School Vouchers Are So Popular Some Districts Are Running Out

 The Food Insecurity Scam Is Even Worse Than The Poverty Scam

 ADL removes Libs of TikTok’s Chaya Raichik from ‘Glossary of Extremism’ after threat of legal action

 MARK STEYN GOES TO TRIAL

 The dangers of ‘decolonisation’ - Why the academic left has sided with Hamas's anti-Semitic barbarism.

 Accept That Savagery Is the True Nature of the World – and Deal With It

 The Death of Democrat Jewish Innocence

 Anti-Semitism on Campus

 A Different Concept of Death - An interview with author and intellectual Paul Berman about Hamas’s ideology and Western blindness.

 Democrats Splinter Over Israel as the Young, Diverse Left Rages at Biden

 Czech DM calls to exit UN for supporting Hamas, warns Holocaust is back

 Cosmology’s crisis challenges scientific realism

Academic job openings 

 Pittsburgh public schools to ponder racism ’embedded’ in its math curriculum

 Test Scores Are Plummeting Despite California Spending Wildly on Education. State officials seem to delight in how much money they "invest" in different priorities, without worrying too much about outcomes.

Weiss:  Four Stories about Parenting - Grizzly dad Steve Rinella wants you to raise adventurous children, the virtues of being a young mom, and more.

Stuart's Saturday Miscellany 

 Involuntarily Committing the Violently Mentally Ill Is the Only Solution

VDH: Premodern Diversity Vs. Civilizational Unity - Old immigration once enriched America, but our new version is destroying it

 AMY KLOBUCHAR, CENSOR

 Failing the Hamas Litmus Test - The inflammatory Al-Ahli hospital hoax shows that much of the Western media remains compulsively addicted to dangerous and self-defeating war journalism.

 IDF: Hamas Uses Al-Shifa Hospital as Main Terror Base

 The deranged defence of Hamas on campuses across the West is fuelling a counter-revolution that could finally loosen the stranglehold of wokeism

 It's almost like there's a conspiracy against Trump...

 Carlson Warns Against Biden’s $105 Billion Foreign Aid Request

 Wild New Physics Theory Explains Why Time Travel Is Impossible

Mount Washington weather 

 Bad grammar is so maddening it activates the 'fight or flight' response within the human body, study finds

 ‘Climate Change’ Will Soon Have Us Growing Corn In The Yukon

 Almost Half Think Hotcoldwetdry Is Someone Else’s Problem

 The Latest On Global Warming Is … There Is No Global Warming, Part II

 CDC Confirms Only 3% of Eligible Americans Have Taken COVID Booster Shot – FDA Confirms May Slightly Increase Strokes in Those Over 85

‘I Was Fired for Setting Academic Standards’

 A Spat Over Teaching Evaluations Roils a Department

 Beware Of Media Narratives On Both Left And Right

 Southern Poverty Law Center Union Endorses Hamas. SPLC now thinks hate groups are great. Especially if they're killing lots of Jews.

 Joel Kotkin: Samuel Huntington was right — cultural and religious clashes are driving war today

 UN Warns It May Cut Aid to Gaza

 How Hamas Exploits Foreign Aid

Argentina's problems 

Image via Moonbattery 

 Curiosity rover finds new evidence of ancient Mars rivers

 This Incredible Flip This Old House Hunters Wife Swap Fixers

Physics Lab Gives Lesson in Diversity

 When Everyone Gets an ‘A,’ What Does an ‘A’ Mean?

 Physicist Discovers He Has No Free Will: Chooses To Write Book To Say He Cannot Make Choices

 The fall of Scientific American - This once objective magazine now regularly panders to trans-activist pseudoscience.

 Greenland’s Tipping Point Cancelled? Claims Of A Runaway Melt Are Overblown

 Do We Really Know That Human Greenhouse Gas Emissions Cause Significant Climate Change?

 The Latest On Global Warming Is … There Is No Global Warming

 Staple a Green Card to Their ‘Kill the Jews’ Signs

 Cooke: Face It, the New York Times Wanted the Hospital Story to Be True

 Cornell professor who called Hamas attacks ‘exhilarating’ takes leave of absence

 Is This the End of History?

 Germany's Chancellor Says the Country Must Begin Mass Deportations of Illegal Aliens

 A New Peace Proposal: A Protectorate on the West Bank Governed by a Coalition of Major Powers

At Harvard, there are 2,600 more administrators than undergrads

 America's pharmacy deserts: Rite Aid, CVS and Walgreens will shut more than 1,500 stores due to crime and competition - leaving MILLIONS without access to healthcare

 Blackstone CEO Says Remote Staff "Don't Work As Hard"

 Groupthink on the March

 Trust in News Media Continues to Plummet

 ACLU Announces Lawsuit To Protect Black And Transgender Prostitutes’ Right To Give People HIV

 Latest migrant poll should scare the hell out of Democrats

 How DSA lost me, make Nikki Haley the one and other commentary

 A Record of Pure, Predatory Sadism - Officials in Israel screened footage of the Hamas attack for the press: “What we shared with you, you should know it,” one official said.

 Europe must prioritize Ukraine - Ukrainian fatalities already exceed American losses in two decades of involvement in Vietnam

Highly debatable

 Airport Hacks Every Smart Traveller Should Know

 New Paper Claiming Biological Sex A Fiction Has Normie Academics Pretending To Be Shocked

 The Poster Boy For the Death of San Francisco

Is Serfdom Humanity’s Default?

VDH:  The Sickness of Our Universities—and the Cure. Before graduating, students should demonstrate a minimum competence in math, science, and general knowledge

 The Bankruptcy of the Victim Ideology

Weiss:  A Political Reawakening? A mass emergence from the woke slumber.

 The Day the Delusions Died - A lot of people woke up on October 7 as progressives and went to bed that night feeling like conservatives. What changed?

 The Ceasefire Monsters

 NYT: A Week Later, Hamas "Fails to Make Case" that Israel Struck Hospital

 How the Democrats betrayed the Jews -The sick thrill of antisemitism has a price BY DAVID MAMET

 Why Jews are abandoning the left - The reaction to Hamas’s atrocities is driving a wedge between Jewish voters and their traditional political home.

 On Double Standards and Deafening Silence - A Nazi sympathizer at The New York Times. Listening to voices from Gaza. Plus: Larry Hogan, Shaun King, and more.

 Biden’s 2023 Flood: One Migrant for Every American Newborn

Our perceptions are real to us, and good enough for daily life. Can humans know real reality? I doubt it.

Your tax dollars at work: Scholars to study why $365M DEI investment into STEM failed to diversify engineering

 Global Boiling To Make Beer Taste Bad Or Something

 Climate ‘experts’ assure us they weren’t wrong, it was just a ‘miracle’ year

 The Offshore-Wind Boondoggle - Green advocates remain undaunted by the energy source’s surging costs and questionable efficiency.

 Fake Indian Elizabeth Warren Gets Roasted on Twitter for Posting Message About ‘Indigenous People’s Day’

 USC outdoors club for black students to combat ‘stigma,’ ‘racism’ in nature

 NYU Law School Bar Association's non-binary president Ryna Workman sends email saying Hamas' slaughter in Israel was 'NECESSARY' while refusing to condemn mass-murder of Jewish families

 Is Everything Suddenly Going to Hell? Or are people just starting to notice?

 BLM IS A RACIST HATE GROUP

Stuart's  Wednesday Potpourri

What is the Gaza Strip? 

Weiss:  When People Tell You Who They Are, Believe Them. This is what ‘decolonization’ really looks like. Look carefully at who is cheering it on.

 The real problem is Elon letting people see what Hamas videotaped themselves doing

 The Ideology of Mass Murder - Hamas and the origins of the October 7th attacks.

 Babies beheaded, 40 children shot dead in a single settlement, and families burnt alive by Hamas... SAM GREENHILL meets survivors of the death squads and hears their stories of unimaginable horror

Khamenei Distances Iran From Hamas Operation, Fearing Israeli Attack, As Rocket Salvo Fired From Lebanon

 "At first we were ecstatic": Gaza's FAFO moment and Iran's strategic miscalculation

 IDF: Gaza border sealed; 360,000 reservists mobilized for you-know-what

 One Tank’s Resolute Resistance Against the Hamas Incursion

 What Do You Know About 1491?

1491 is  a very cool book 

Summers: I've never been as disillusioned with Harvard as now

NYC Mayor: Maybe we should look at reparations too

 McCarthy: The US could be next, thanks to Biden's border crisis

 Victor Davis Hanson: Israel, Our White-House Absurdities, & The Left's Empire Of Lies

 Leftists Come Out in Support of Hamas Massacres, Send Money to Palestinians

 Israel Imposes Complete Siege on Gaza, Cuts Off Electricity, Fuel, Food, and Water Ahead of Ground Operation

 UAE Sides with Israel, Condemns Hamas for ‘Nihilistic Destruction’

 A Day at Corso Pilota Classiche, Ferrari’s Classic Driving School

 iOS 17 forces woman named ‘Siri’ to change her name

 More And More Detransitioners Are Taking The Fight To The Doctors Who Ruined Their Lives

A Nobel Prize and the Future of Vaccines

 For Love and Money: Desperate Housewives, Crypto Scammers, and More

 The Decline of the Met and the Rise of Woke Opera - "Dead Man Walking opened the Metropolitan Opera’s 2023-24 season"

 ‘Ethnic Studies’ is CRT peddlers’ sneaky new way to stoke racial division in schools

 The New Push for Censorship Under the Guise of Combating Hate - How an obscure British nonprofit came to influence White House COVID policy and lead attacks on Elon Musk

 Update On Offshore Wind Projects Off The Mid-Atlantic And New England

 Our Establishment’s Alternate Realities

 Extremism In Defense Of Liberty Is No Vice - FBI Gears Up For Fresh Persecution Of Trump Voters :: Luxury Beliefs Prove Deadly :: SF Seeks Supreme Court Help On Homeless :: AOC, Machine Dem :: Corporate Lobbyist From MD Becomes Senator from CA

 Teachers Strike for Free Yoga While 79% of Students Don’t Meet Standards. The union is pressuring the district to provide free yoga and meditation programs

 Better Off Truant? Baltimore City Schools are so bad that kids might get more out of watching Sesame Street reruns.

 Washington DC crime is killing the city

 Biden 'Kicks' Dog As Rumors Of Animal Abuse Swirl

 Hillary Clinton Calls for “Formal Deprogramming” of Strong Trump Supporters

 Elderly Woman Escapes Nursing Home, Rants About Deprogramming The Populace

 AOC is upset the guy she recently endorsed for president is building a border wall

 WAR IN THE MIDDLE EAST (UPDATED)

 Towards a Brave New World - Huxley’s dystopian novel was a warning, but we are systematically moving in the direction he indicated.

Kling:  The Trouble with (nonfiction) Books - Condense your thoughts!

 UK Prime Minister to prohibit cigarettes for UK citizens

 Schools adopted the wrong approach during the pandemic, now no one can fail

 Martina Navratilova has had it with this administration's embrace of a 'pathetic parody of women’

 Returning to Girliness

 The Economics of 'Free Stuff' Is That There's No Free Stuff

 Two Murders—and the Cost of Luxury Beliefs - The death of two progressive activists shocked the nation. And that says everything about crime and class in America.

Popcorn or toasted marshmallows? Watching the American news media collapse is entertaining.