SOME PARTS OF AMERICA STILL WORK: SpaceX successfully launches 23 Starlink satellites from Florida.

HMM. New Study Links Complex Jobs to Reduced Risk of Dementia. “The findings highlight the importance of cognitive stimulation during midlife for maintaining cognitive function in old age.”

It’s also possible, of course, that people with higher cognitive function take these jobs to begin with, giving them more margin for decline in their old age.

MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Dems use the legal system to target the right — yet give the left a pass.

“For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law.”

This philosophy, announced by Brazilian President Getulio Vargas in the 1940s, is no longer just the favored approach of Latin American strongmen. It has become the openly practiced strategy of today’s Democratic machine.

Read the whole thing.

IF YOU WANT TO PROTECT THE “DIGNITY OF THE JUSTICE SYSTEM,” YOU SHOULDN’T BE PRESIDING OVER A COURTROOM GOAT RODEO: “Justice Merchan acknowledged that jailing Mr. Trump was ‘the last thing’ he wanted to do, but explained that it was his responsibility to ‘protect the dignity of the justice system.'”

DEMOCRATS’ PROBLEM: The Karen Party has no place for men.

DIAGNOSING AORTIC ANEURYSM RISK with a thumb test.

THE RIGHT ONE:

What kind of message is it sending that Jewish students beg, plead, lobby, demonstrate, sue to have a school like @UCLA remove an illegal, pro-terrorist encampment that blocked Jewish and other students from moving freely on campus, to no avail. But then when a handful of local…

— David Bernstein (@ProfDBernstein) May 3, 2024

#JOURNALISM: A friend from Cambridge writes: “The reporting on the MIT protesters is fascinating. Boston Globe claims hundreds of attendees and dozens of counter protesters. I was there at the time…maybe 40 people and a speaker calling out, ‘where’s the energy??'”

UPDATE: MIT President Says MIT Is Finally Shutting Down Anti-Israel Encampment.

OPEN CARRY: You decide.

COLORADO: Mountain lion hunting ban working its way towards Colorado’s 2024 ballot.

If it makes the ballot and passes, Initiative #91 would bar what the measure refers to as the “trophy hunting” of mountain lions—along with bobcats or lynx–in Colorado. The measure has been approved for circulation and the group “Cats Aren’t Trophies” had already raised nearly $220,000 by the Jan. 16 campaign finance filing date. The next filing is due May 6. The group also registered with the Secretary of Sate as a licensed petition entity on April 11, meaning they can pay people directly for signature gathering. Proponents must gather more than 126,000 valid signatures from registered voters by August to make the ballot.

Trophy hunting is generally considered as the hunting of wild animals just for sport and not for food, but Initiative 91 broadly defines the practice as the “intentional killing, wounding, pursing or entrapping of a mountain lion, bobcat or lynx.”

Trophy hunting is banned in most places in the US unless there is a temporary need to balance out a population. In Colorado, the hunting of mountain lions (as well as bobcats and lynx), which runs yearly from November to March (with additional hunting in April if needed) is already prohibited unless the meat of the animal is harvested for consumption.

If it makes the ballot, I suspect it will pass.

PAULA BOLYARD: This Is What Terrifies Me About the Mainstream Media.

ARE YOU AFRAID OF AUTONOMOUS CARS?

IT’S SCHEDULED FOR TAKEOFF AT 10:34 PM ET. Watch: Boeing’s Starliner Capsule Blasts Off on First Crewed Mission to ISS Today. Good luck, guys.

UPDATE: Sorry, I had this as AM before. My mistake.

WOW: CRIPSR gene editing leads to improvements in vision for people with inherited blindness, clinical trial shows. “While more research is needed to determine who may benefit most, we consider the early results promising. To hear from several participants how thrilled they were that they could finally see the food on their plates –that is a big deal. These were individuals who could not read any lines on an eye chart and who had no treatment options, which is the unfortunate reality for most people with inherited retinal disorders.”

I DON’T KNOW WHAT HE’D BE DOING DIFFERENTLY: Does Biden Want a ‘Forever War’ in Gaza?

GET IN SHAPE FOR SUMMER: Yes4All Kettlebell Vinyl Coated Cast Iron – Great for Dumbbell Weights Exercises. #CommissionEarned

OF COURSE, THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT WON’T ACT ON THIS, ANYMORE THAN THEY DID ON ERIC HOLDER’S OBSTRUCTION: Republicans to hold Garland in contempt over audio of Biden interview with Hur.

Meanwhile Peter Navarro does time for the same thing, because Republican.

IT SHOULD BE UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER, LIKE WE DEMANDED FROM NAZIS, WHICH HAMAS BASICALLY IS: Hamas says it has agreed to ceasefire proposal.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: How to watch NASA’s first Boeing Starliner crewed flight launch today “Watch along today as NASA’s Boeing Starliner Crew Flight Test finally — most likely — blasts off to the International Space Station (ISS). NASA should start streaming its coverage at 6:30PM ET on its YouTube channel, with the official launch set for 10:34PM ET. The spacecraft will carry two astronauts, Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore.”

REGULATORS AT WORK: The long, frustrating wait for better sunscreens in America. “The Food and Drug Administration’s ability to approve the chemical filters in sunscreens that are sold in countries such as Japan, South Korea, and France is hamstrung by a 1938 U.S. law that requires sunscreens to be tested on animals and classified as drugs, rather than as cosmetics as they are in much of the world. So Americans are not likely to get those better sunscreens — which block the ultraviolet rays that can cause skin cancer and lead to wrinkles — in time for this summer, or even the next.”

MATH IS HARD: Jon Stewart Says Biden Is Too ‘F***ing Old’ to Be President and… Hello, Math Much?

TOUGH SELL AT THIS POINT: Research aims to develop vaccine against future COVID viruses.

COVERUPS AND CRIMES: Judge mulls sanctions over Google’s “shocking” destruction of internal chats.

FINALLY, A MARKER HAS BEEN LAID DOWN: Firefox Power User Keeps 7,400+ Browser Tabs Open for 2 Years.

LIGHT RAIL IS USUALLY A VERY EXPENSIVE AND UNFUNNY JOKE: Is Austin’s Toy Train Finally Dead? “Austin’s liberal establishment has been trying to trick taxpayers into pouring billions into their light rail boondoggle for decades, finally winning an apparent victory when voters approved a scheme in 2020. But it turns out that the terms of the ballot language may have doomed the project.”