The sense of entitlement here is just disgusting. First of all, it's absolutely clear that the U.S. Supreme Court has already held that a charitable organization, including specifically a university, can lose its tax-exempt status if they are violating fundamental policy

The reality here is that elite universities are undermining confidence in the entire sector. Jewish students are being harassed and assaulted, and elite university administrators have done nothing to stop it, including at Harvard. Financial incentives seem to be the only lever that we can pull to stop the racist and anti-Semitic conduct on their campuses.

Goldfeder was referencing a 1983 case in which the Supreme Court ruled 8-1 that the IRS had authority to deny tax-exempt status to Bob Jones University, Goldsboro Christian School, and other private and religious schools with racially discriminatory educational policies. //

Levin continued:

You have Jewish kids on campus who are being violently threatened, who are being harmed, in some cases running for their safety. That is very serious. If we had black kids on campus running for their safety, locking themselves in libraries, locking themselves in dorm rooms ... you'd be hearing very different stories than you hear from this guy with a smirk on his face. //

ChesterTheGoat
9 hours ago
The holding in the 1983 Bob Jones case is not limited to just interracial dating. It is not that narrow. The SCOTUS held that an IRS 501c3 org "must serve a public purpose and not be contrary to established public policy" and that racially discriminatory conduct was against public policy. To the extent that public universities are found to be following racially discriminatory policies, it is perfectly within SCOTUS precedent to revoke their 501c3 status.

National Institutes of Health (NIH) director Jay Bhattacharya has shut down the agency’s last beagle laboratory, ending controversial experiments linked to Dr. Anthony Fauci.

This decision marks the end of a long-standing practice of using dogs in biomedical research, which drew significant public and ethical scrutiny.

“We got rid of all of the beagle experiments on NIH campus,” Bhattacharya said in an interview with "Fox & Friends Weekend" host Rachel Campos-Duffy.

The closure reflects a shift in NIH policy under Bhattacharya’s leadership, prioritizing ethical considerations and responding to widespread criticism of the experiments’ cruelty before his arrival. //

The White Coat Waste Project (WCW) exposed that experimentation in the fall of 2021. Some of the testing is difficult to stomach even in description alone, let alone the videos and images uncovered showing the deplorable conditions in which these beagles were left to suffer and die.

One such experiment reportedly included $375,000 given to a Tunisian research lab that placed beagle puppies’ heads in cages filled with sand flies, which ate them alive. Fauci conceded to a House subcommittee that he "signed off" on grants that funded the tests. //

Melly
8 hours ago
PETA didn't say jack publicly when the story broke, but they've sent Battacharya flowers.

Someone ought to call that out while they're giving thanks 😉

We all remember our first jobs. Those were the days! You were pretty sure you were going to be swimming in dough. My first attempt at "experiencing the joys of capitalism," as my dad was fond of saying, was at a movie theatre in my junior year of high school. I think I must have seen "Porky's" about 90 times. I can also remember seeing two different totals on that first paycheck, and my dad explaining to me what was meant by "net" and "gross." A recent video on X of a high school girl getting her first lesson in taxation will bring back memories for all of us, and it is also the one thing that young people should be taught when they land that first job.

I often wonder whether the signatories of such letters have to quieten their consciences before publicly boosting a movement intent on removing women's and girls' rights, which bullies gay people who admit openly they don't want opposite sex partners, and campaigns for the continued sterilisation of vulnerable and troubled kids. Do they feel any qualms at all while chanting the foundational lie of their religion: Trans Women are Women, Trans Men are Men?

I have no idea. All I know for sure is that it's a complete waste of time telling a gender activist that their favourite slogan is self-contradictory nonsense, because the lie is the whole point. They're not repeating it because it's true - they know full well it's not true - but because they believe they can make it true, sort of, if they force everyone else to agree. The foundational lie functions as both catechism and crucifix: the set form of words that obviates the tedious necessity of coming up with your own explanation of why you're one of the Godly, and an exorcist's weapon which will defeat demonic facts and reason, and promote the advance of righteous pseudoscience and sophistry. //

Deep down, they all know it's false, but too often, their entire lives and identities are wrapped around this singular delusion. Even people who aren't transgender have to prove they believe it from time to time in order to stay in good standing with their peers, effectively making transgenderism something of a litmus test.

As Rowling put it:

Gender ideology could give medieval Catholicism a run for its money when it comes to punishing heretics, so isn't it common sense to keep your head down and recite your Hail Mulvaneys? //

Random US Citizen
3 hours ago
In “Live Not by Lies,” Alexander Solzhenitsyn wrote that part of the power of totalitarians is that they force people to act as if their lies are true. This makes the people complicit in the lie and gives it power over them and others. Solzhenitsyn explained that by refusing to accept the lies, and by refusing to live as if they were true, people weaken the lies and strengthen themselves. We should all keep this in mind when dealing with those who are no longer our countrymen.

Solzhenitsyn would be proud of Rowling.

Noa magid @NoaMagid
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Can you hear us, enemies?

The first three reserve brigades called up hit a 102% enlistment rate.

That’s not a typo. That’s Israel.
7:50 AM · May 5, 2025 //

The goal is simple, according to authorities in the Jewish state: obliterate Hamas: //

Laocoön of Troy
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"Israel is taking a bold step here, but it won’t come without costs."

ALL war costs human lives. This one more than many others. But what's the alternative? Eternal quasi-war and the sacrifice of the Jewish people on the bloody altar of insane hatred? Desecrating the sacrifice of innocent Jewish infants, girls, women, boys, and men by a Bidenesque betrayal? The allies had to go to Berlin and root out National Socialism house to house at terrible cost. Americans had to drop 2 atomic weapons on Japanese cities to stop the killing. Israel has already paid a terrible cost. They will pay more before Hamas is stopped.

Honestly, this is pretty much the definition of futile. Look at how Mayor Adams worded this, and it comes out looking even worse than a 911 call. You can hit the button "immediately," and I'll concede it has the advantage of not having to visibly pick up a phone. Like a silent alarm button, it can presumably be placed somewhere where it can be activated surreptitiously. But when it's activated, if you've gone through the correct implied process to give the police access to your store cameras - and if you have store cameras - then you get to wait for officers to bring up the camera feed on a monitor, to take a look at what's going on, and then to decide what (if any) response is warranted.

I've got a better idea, Mayor Adams: Stop making it virtually impossible for the law-abiding residents of New York City to arm themselves for their own protection and the protection of their property. Make being a robber or looter a dangerous business. An armed man can face down a thug; an unarmed man can only be a victim. At least give them a chance to resist; right now, they have none, and this panic button boondoggle just drips impotence. No thug will be afraid of being caught by a panic button. //

One of my personal heroes, Colonel Jeff Cooper, once famously said:

If violent crime is to be curbed, it is only the intended victim who can do it. The felon does not fear the police, and he fears neither judge nor jury. Therefore what he must be taught to fear is his victim.

DataRepublican (small r)
@DataRepublican
🚨 DECIPHERING NED DROP 1️⃣: WHAT IS? "DEMOCRATIC BACKSLIDING" 🗳️

The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is a U.S. taxpayer-funded NGO with active members of Congress on its board. While it presents itself as a promoter of democracy, in practice it has long served as a front for the CIA, carrying out foreign influence operations that would be politically or legally unacceptable if done directly by U.S. intelligence.

As I've documented extensively in threads and on Substack, NED also works closely with George Soros's network of NGOs and has largely adopted his ideological agenda, especially overseas.

They publish an academic journal, NED Journal of Democracy, which is extremely revealing.
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DataRepublican (small r)
@DataRepublican
🔥 Think about what this really means.

NED is openly arguing that to "protect democracy," we must override democratic elections, weaken voter power, and use unelected institutions to block political outcomes they don't like.

They are publishing articles on:
🔹Whether to end voting rights for populists,
🔹How to ban anti-establishment parties, and
🔹How to channel foreign money into media and NGOs that manipulate the political process.

These strategies are being funded and implemented globally on your tax dollars, and it is also happening right here in the United States.

Members of Congress sit on NED's board. This is how our political class thinks.

Let it sink in: They do not want you to choose your leaders. And when you vote the "wrong" way, they call it backsliding, and look for ways to stop it.

In short, they despise you. And if you despise them back, you are the threat to democracy. 🧨

This ends Drop 1️⃣, but more to come. 🧵end

This is what Qatar produces.
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Israeli soldiers have filmed themselves blowing up a building in Gaza for a ‘gender reveal’, having rigged it with explosives that give off blue smoke to indicate a fetus is male.

Making the Dutch Baby!

here's the recipe so you aren't wandering for it.

• 10 inch cast iron skillet
  Preheat in 425 oven for 10 minutes

• 3 large eggs

• 1/2C whole milk

• 1 1/2C Ap flour

• 2Tbsp maple syrup

• 1/4tsp salt

• 1tsp vanila bean paste

Blend ingredients

• 3tbsp butter for the pan
• 425F For 20-25min

Miniature Keyboard- Microcontroller-Friendly PS/2 and USB
Product ID: 857
$29.95

Product ID: 482, $4.95

These chrome-plated metal buttons are rugged and look real good while doing it! Simply drill a 16mm hole into any material up to 1/2" thick and you can fit these in place, there's even a rubber gasket to keep water out of the enclosure. On the front of the button is a flat metal actuator, surrounded by a green plastic LED ring. On the back there are 3 contacts for the button (common, normally-open and normally-closed) and 2 for the green LED ring (+ and -). Connect 3 to 6V to the LED to have it light up nicely, there's a built in resistor! If you want to use this with a higher voltage, say 12V or 24V, simply add a 470 ohm resistor in series with the LED connection to keep the LED current at around 20mA.

This button is an on/off switch button, when you press it the 'normally-open' contact shorts to the common contact and the button stays 'pressed'. When you press it a second time, the button springs open, and the contacts open up again.

• Airgapped raspberry pi computer with touch screen and camera
• Featuring LUKS full disk encryption
• For secure offline blockchain transactions and for secure encrypted messaging
• Move files across the airgap to other devices using QR-Codes

The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre just released its white paper on “Advanced Cryptography,” which it defines as “cryptographic techniques for processing encrypted data, providing enhanced functionality over and above that provided by traditional cryptography.” It includes things like homomorphic encryption, attribute-based encryption, zero-knowledge proofs, and secure multiparty computation.

It’s full of good advice. I especially appreciate this warning:

When deciding whether to use Advanced Cryptography, start with a clear articulation of the problem, and use that to guide the development of an appropriate solution. That is, you should not start with an Advanced Cryptography technique, and then attempt to fit the functionality it provides to the problem.

And:

In almost all cases, it is bad practice for users to design and/or implement their own cryptography; this applies to Advanced Cryptography even more than traditional cryptography because of the complexity of the algorithms. It also applies to writing your own application based on a cryptographic library that implements the Advanced Cryptography primitive operations, because subtle flaws in how they are used can lead to serious security weaknesses.

This ruling effectively reins in district courts that have been sidestepping proper jurisdictional channels in cases challenging Trump administration actions. The decision serves as a clear reminder that courts themselves must operate within their prescribed legal boundaries. //

According to Margot Cleveland, senior legal correspondent for The Federalist, the D.C. Circuit’s ruling hinges on a critical point: jurisdiction, which has sweeping implications. As Cleveland explains, many of the legal challenges being hurled at the Trump administration involve employment decisions—precisely the kind of disputes Congress has explicitly said federal district courts have no authority to adjudicate.

The court’s decision also strikes at the heart of a broader legal strategy being used by leftist groups to stymie Trump’s reforms—namely, the claim that the administration is engaging in “wholesale dismantling” of agencies. But as the ruling makes clear, the Administrative Procedure Act was never designed to handle such broad-based political grievances, and Congress never waived sovereign immunity to allow them.

In another key point, the court found that the lower court also overstepped its bounds by trying to restore federal grants—something Congress assigned to the Court of Federal Claims, not the district courts. All told, the decision is a sharp rebuke to the legal overreach being used to obstruct the Trump administration’s agenda. //

The Dark Lord LBPA
20 hours ago
Even worse. This is such a powerful decision it will be appealed to the full DC Circuit for an “en banc” hearing.

Radical Leftists hold a 7 - 4 majority among active judges on the DC Circuit. So, we will lose decisively on appeal.

However, this was such a good opinion it could provide the framework for a sweeping successful decision from SCOTUS. If, …

If Roberts, Barrett, and Kavanaugh decide not to support the judicial coup attempt. //

Hominem Humilem Sum The Dark Lord
18 hours ago
Alas, diminishing the power of the judiciary may not be something Roberts, Barrett, and Kavanaugh are inclined to do: they may prefer to leave the power in the hands of the judiciary and claim the ultimate authority for themselves. Admittedly, that would be a dangerous game to play, since the Article III crew have no indigenous enforcement capability (and would have to rely on the Executive and Legislative Branches to "take their word for it"). //

Mrminwnc Hominem Humilem Sum
18 hours ago
This sounds glib, but respect for the judiciary branch is essentially a courtesy extended by the other two, in particular the executive branch. If the others simply get tired of judges overreaching they can just ignore them.

A turbulent period for stocks around new tariff policies from the White House has remarkably given way to Wall Street’s longest winning streak in 20 years.

The S&P 500 rose again on Friday, notching a ninth straight positive session for the first time Nov. 5, 2004.

The index also traded above its April 2 close for the first time since the major tariff announcement a month ago.

[…]

Not to be outdone, the Dow Jones Industrial Average also cashed a ninth straight winning day, its longest streak in more than a year. In London, the winning streak for the FTSE 100 index hit a record of 15 consecutive days. //

As we’ve noted, Trump plays these games with the media, Democrats, and his political enemies like it’s a best-of-seven series. It’s not over after one game, whereas his detractors act like the clowns who think winning the season's first game means they’re championship-bound. Trump’s enemies have had their best-laid plans at every turn, and narratives get burned to ash.

Independent researchers have discovered, or should we say rediscovered, a major security vulnerability in Microsoft's Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). Previously known as Terminal Services, RDP appears to be designed to always validate a previously used password for remote connections to a Windows machine, even when that password has been revoked by a system administrator or compromised in a security breach. //

The flaw violates universally acknowledged operational security (opsec) practices – and then some. When a password is changed, it should no longer provide access to a remote system. "People trust that changing their password will cut off unauthorized access," Wade said. //

According to Microsoft, the behavior is a design decision meant to "ensure that at least one user account always has the ability to log in no matter how long a system has been offline."

The company had already been warned about this backdoor by other researchers in August 2023, making the new analysis ineligible for a bounty award. Redmond engineers reportedly attempted to modify the code to eliminate the backdoor but abandoned the effort, as the changes could break compatibility with a Windows feature that many applications still rely on. //

brucek brucekMay 2, 2025, 3:30 PM
And on the flip side, RDP doesn't recognize a valid Microsoft Account password that is not cached on the local machine. This can easily happen on a new install where you've only logged in using methods other than the password (PIN, windows hello, etc.) This is a great way to lose an hour wondering why you can't log in because it's so easy to think the problem must be some other configuration problem with setting up RDP or elsewhere in the system. //

FireStormOOOMay 2, 2025, 9:05 PM
This is cached credentials working the same way it had for decades, and it's been configurable by GPO for almost as long. The administrator chooses how long the server will remember stale credentials if it can't reach a domain controller immediately to check. No, the defaults don't make sense for a server that expects 100% availability of your authentication infrastructure.

Welker: In a 9-0 decision, the Supreme Court directed your administration to facilitate the return, you've talked about this in the past, of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, from a prison in El Salvador, whose deportation your administration called an "administrative error." You said in a recent interview you could bring him back but you won't. Are you defying the Supreme Court, sir?

...

I have to respond by saying, again, I have brilliant lawyers that work for me, and they are going to obviously follow what the Supreme Court said.

What you said is not what I heard the Supreme Court said. They have a different interpretation. //

Rapid Response 47 @RapidResponse47
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.@POTUS: "It helps when you know that borders are not racist, speech is not violence, America is good, terrorists are bad, men can never become women, police are not criminals, and criminals are not victims." 🔥

1:07 PM · May 2, 2025. //

Certainly, it’s fair game to disagree with Trump and his policies, but their constant effort to misrepresent his statements highlights what is so very wrong with corporate media.

That sums it up well. While Mills and her state attorney are taking a victory lap, and legacy media is painting an inaccurate narrative, Maine girls continue to be erased, and Maine still has a target on its back. Federal funds from other agencies could be pulled at any time, so if it is a "victory," it's a pyrrhic one.

Space Sudoer @spacesudoer
The people of Boca Chica have voted!

Starbase is now officially a city.

Starbase, TX.
9:13 PM · May 3, 2025. //

Nom de Clavier
5 hours ago edited
Anyone else think that modern rockets are looking more and more like 1950s "Buck Rogers" rockets?

SDN Nom de Clavier
5 hours ago
They land on their tails as God and Robert A Heinlein intended.