LAWFARE WORKS BOTH WAYS: Adam Kredo of the Washington Free Beacon reports on the filing of a lawsuit by victims of Hamas’ October 7 Massacre in Israel against two of the radical Pro-Palestine “student” groups fomenting chaos on U.S. campuses.

“The suit marks the first time terror victims are taking aim at campus anti-Israel groups for their alleged role in bolstering Hamas propaganda on campus and driving a series of increasingly violent protests that have endangered Jewish college students across the country,” according to Kredo.

Every contributed dollar these radical groups get from George Soros that is diverted to legal defense is one less dollar to pay for the agitators, equipment, printing, transportation, etc. etc. required to stage the kind of coordinated madness seen on dozens of campuses for the past two weeks.

TRUTH-IN-LABELLING: HE’S NOT PRO-HAMAS, HE’S ANTI-ISRAEL:  Anti-Israel protester arrested at Columbia, CUNY raids declared Oct. 7 Hamas attack one of the ‘greatest days of my life’.

He’s also humanity, decency and civilization.

IT’S ALL A SINECURE FOR THE PARTY OF GOVERNMENT’S LEGIONS:  Billions blown on a regiment of regulators.

A BELATED POINT ABOUT THE VICTIMS OF COMMUNISM DAY:  In Spain in 1937 and 1938, many thousands of Leftists of all descriptions, were executed or tortured to death in Communist prisons (one who escaped was George Orwell).

YOU ARE NOT THE LONE RANGER:  Lay Down Your Burden.

NO. IT DOESN’T:  This does not end well.

IT ALL STARTS WITH THE BELIEF THE ONLY DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE SEXES ARE COSMETIC:  It should never have come to this, but it was also inevitable.

LET THE FRAT BROTHERS HAVE THEIR RAGER. LET PATRIOTIC GEEKS COMPILE A LIST: Pro-American UNC frat boys: Don’t hold a party, use the money more effectively!

THEY’RE GETTING THE BAND BACK TOGETHER. IT’S STILL A BLOODY DISGRACE:  Obama’s Domestic Terror Buddy Bill Ayers Shows Up to Support Campus Occupiers at U. Chicago.

AND WE’RE NOT EVEN HALFWAY THROUGH 2024 YET: Rutgers University Students Now Complaining of ‘Protest Fatigue’.

When do you think the left will realize it’s point of diminishing returns has long since receded in the rear-view mirror?

GOOD. ISRAEL IS FIGHTING FOR CIVILIZATION. IF WE CAN’T HELP WE SHOULD GET OUT OF THE WAY:   Netanyahu to Blinken: Israel Will Not End War on Terror Group Hamas in Return For Hostage Deal.

TREAT THE TERRORIST SUPPORTERS AS TERRORISTS:  Pro-Hamas Mobs Blocking Students at California State – Long Beach, Rutgers Cancels Finals Today.

SHOCKED, SHOCKED, SHOCKED:  Portland State: Police Recover ‘Improvised Weapons’ Left Behind in Library by Pro-Hamas Mob.

Q: WHY ARE NUCLEAR REACTORS SO EXPENSIVE? A: Massive amounts of government red tape and bureaucracy plus idiot courts failing to dismiss bogus court cases quickly:  Visiting the world’s most expensive nuclear station.

OPEN THREAD: Enjoy the weekend.

MISTER, WE COULD USE A MAN LIKE JOHN FACENDA AGAIN! In the meantime, this mini-Facenda (I don’t know if it’s a real person or AI simulation) will have to do:

College campus protestors get the NFL Films treatment
(original video by @JHolmsted ) pic.twitter.com/JHCVaMm9Wb

— Heavens! (@HeavensFX) May 2, 2024

And for those who prefer their backing scores slightly less orchestral:

The Benny Hill edit. Well done, @mamaswati

Original video from @JHolmsted pic.twitter.com/QBa5VlEPyo

— Tony Katz (@tonykatz) May 2, 2024

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Lawmaker presses Pentagon official on Russia’s potential space nuke.

BIDEN’S LATEST BIG GOVERNMENT INTRUSION TARGETS THE INTERNET:

In the roughly six years since Trump repealed net neutrality, we haven’t seen internet service providers throttle speeds or charge us for every tweet. In fact, internet speeds have only increased, as has investment into broadband access. Yet, for some reason, the Biden administration is nonetheless bringing back net neutrality regulations.

Last week, the Federal Communications Commission voted to reinstate the rules along party lines.

“I think in a modern digital economy, we should have a national net neutrality policy and make clear the nation’s expert on communications has the ability to act when it comes to broadband,” Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel, a Biden appointee, said. “This is good for consumers, good for public safety and good for national security.”

FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr, a Republican appointee, voted against the reinstatement and blasted it as a “power grab.”

In September, Steve wrote, “Net neutrality was Barack Obama’s gift to Netflix, who then gave him a sweetheart production deal a short time after he left office. I wonder what Joe Biden expects to get.”

IT’S NOT AN ENVIRONMENTAL PROTEST:

This is how the anti-American pro-t*rr*rist disgusting slobs left the UCLA campus today: pic.twitter.com/RJchPSQrpf

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) May 2, 2024

And hey, remember how the Tea Party protesters left places cleaner than they found them, and the press called them barbarians?

¡NO PASARÁN!: In Spain in 1937 and 1938, many thousands of Leftists of all descriptions, were executed or tortured to death in Communist prisons (one who escaped was George Orwell).

On this day, VICTIMS OF COMMUNISM DAY (spasiba to Tovarich Glenn Reynolds), and in view of Ed Driscoll’s thorough post over at Instapundit on George Orwell and his Spanish War period, I would like to take the opportunity to add to the discussion by quoting from Paul Johnson‘s history of the 20th century, from which there is much to learn, not least the appalling truth about the “Republican” camp during the Spanish Civil War.

Tom Wolfe is quoted as saying that, with the publication of the Venona transcripts, “it turns out that “the Loyalists secretly called in the Soviets at the very outset of hostilities—and if they’d won, Spain would have been the first Soviet puppet state!”

True enough. But according to Modern Times (A History of the World from the 1920s to the 1990s), Paul Johnson points out that while the war lasted, this was already the case: the Kremlin’s Soviet NKVD (forerunner of the KGB), not the Spanish, were in fact already in charge of the country (or of that part held by the so-called Loyalists).

Behind [Prime Minister Juan] Negrin’s complaisant ignorance, the Communists — that is, Stalin’s secret police — took over Republican Spain.  The result was one of the major political tragedies of the century

Read the whole thing.

CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: DA Gascon’s Top Adviser Charged with 11 Felonies.

2024: A LYNDON LAROUCHE ODYSSEY! RFK Jr. potluck complicated by staffers’ fear of microwave radiation among other unusual campaign details: Report.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s campaign and its staffers want to be taken seriously in the middle of two party heavyweights in President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump.

They’re also reportedly afraid of microwave ovens, a detail that was included among various tidbits about the campaign dropped into a Wall Street Journal article Thursday.

An excerpt in the article on Kennedy’s campaign hit on the claim while discussing some oddities of the campaign.

“Several staffers fear the electromagnetic radiation from microwave ovens, complicating a volunteer potluck,” the story reads. “(People were advised to bring crockpots.)

Can’t say it’s surprising that RFK Jr.’s staffers share many of their boss’s, err, idiosyncrasies.

(Classical allusion in headline.)

LET’S HOPE THIS PANS OUT: New Vaccine For Deadly Brain Cancer Shows Incredible Results in Clinical Trial.

UCLA’S CHANCELLOR TALKS ABOUT HIS “PAIN,” Eugene Volokh has a quote: “What if widespread disorder is … bad? And should be prevented?”

TRUE: Newsom, Bass Only Upset at Campus Violence When Jews Fight Back.