OPEN THREAD: Party like it’s Saturday night.

MAKE THEM PAY:

IS THE AUTISM EPIDEMIC JUST AN OUTBREAK OF DIAGNOSES? “Autism’s apparent explosion cannot be understood without first clarifying what the term now encompasses. What was once a rare, severe neurodevelopmental condition, often accompanied by intellectual disability and institutionalization, has expanded into a broad diagnostic spectrum that includes many individuals with normal or exceptional cognition and minimal functional impairment. This diagnostic elasticity, combined with deinstitutionalization, shifting social expectations, and powerful policy incentives such as mental health parity, has dramatically altered who is counted and why.”

And don’t forget the role played by Somali scammers.

FORMER OBAMA ADVISOR SUSAN RICE SAYS COMPANIES THAT WORKED WITH TRUMP WILL BE PUNISHED WHEN DEMS TAKE POWER:

In a recent podcast appearance, former Obama National Security Advisor Susan Rice said that businesses and other entities that “take a knee to Trump” will be “held accountable” when Democrats come back into power.

Rice said on Stay Tuned with Preet Bharara on Thursday, “The corporate interests, the law firms, the universities, the media, I agree with you, Preet, it is not, it’s not going to end well for them, for those that decided that it was, you know, that they would act in their perceived, very narrow self-interest, which I would underscore is very short term self-interest, and, you know, take a knee to Trump.”

Nice business you’ve got there. Shame if something were to happen to it:

I HAD NO IDEA I WAS EATING “BOY KIBBLE:” Gym bro version of ‘girl dinner’ dubbed ‘boy kibble’ takes over TikTok. After I had oral surgery, I couldn’t eat steak or chicken so we started making ground beef in a pan. Glenn even got me adding ketchup to it. I had no idea it was known as “boy kibble.” That sounds kind of insulting but it is honestly delicious.

One guy’s description about his “boy kibble” reads “Making boy kibble in a girl-dinner-trying-to-add-protein-to-my-meal way, not a scary-villainous-bro way,” he captioned his video. Notice how this guy has to virtue signal that he is like a girl and not scary? Why not just say he is adding protein and leave it at that?

PLAYING WITH FIRE:

HE WAS FROM KNOXVILLE, UNSURPRISINGLY: ‘We are all Jews’: Soldier who defied his German captors to be awarded Medal of Honor.

It was within these conditions that the POWs subsisted until roughly one month after their capture, on Jan. 27, 1945, when Roddie Edmonds, the highest-ranking American noncommissioned officer at Ziegenhain stalag that day, was told to order his nearly 200 Jewish-American soldiers out of the morning roll call.

Instead, the master sergeant ordered more than 1,000 of his fellow prisoners to stand together in front of their barracks.

The commandant scoffed, noting that they couldn’t all be Jewish.

Roddie Edmonds was defiant, telling the Nazi: “We are all Jews.”

The commandant furiously marched over to the master sergeant, placed his Luger to Roddie Edmonds’ forehead and once again told him to order his Jewish soldiers to step forward or this time he would execute him.

“You can shoot me,” Tanner, who was standing next to Roddie Edmonds at the time, recalled the NCO saying. “You can shoot all of us. But we know who you are. And this war is almost over, and you’ll be a war criminal.”

The Nazi slowly lowered his pistol, did an about-face, and walked away.

He deserves the Medal.