TRUMP’S CLEVER UNDERGROUND PROGRAM TO GET RE-ELECTED WHILE DISCREDITING HIS ENEMIES PROCEEDS APACE: Pro-Palestinian students set up ‘liberation zone’ encampment in Harvard Yard.

HARVEY WEINSTEIN’S 2020 RAPE CONVICTION OVERTURNED BY NEW YORK APPEALS COURT:

On Thursday, the court found in a 4-3 ruling that the judge in Weinstein’s trial — a landmark moment in the #MeToo movement that the 2017 allegations against him started — had shown prejudice by allowing women to testify about allegations that were not part of the case. The court has now ordered a new trial.

Weinstein, the Oscar-winning producer of “Shakespeare in Love” and “Good Will Hunting,” is serving a 23-year sentence at the Mohawk Correctional Facility, a medium-security prison in Rome, N.Y. He will remain imprisoned as he was also convicted of rape in Los Angeles in 2022 and sentenced to an additional 16 years in prison. However, Weinstein was acquitted in the Los Angeles trial on charges involving a woman who testified in his New York case.

Note though that, “In spite of Thursday’s decision, Weinstein will remain in prison because he was separately sentenced in February 2023 to 16 years in prison in a Los Angeles criminal case for raping an Italian model. She testified that he threw himself onto her after appearing uninvited outside her “hotel room during an Italian film festival there in 2013.”

THE WEST BANK COMES TO MORNINGSIDE HEIGHTS: Columbia is issuing press passes, but the pro-Hamas occupiers are in charge of journalists’ access.

SHOCKED, SHOCKED, SHOCKED:  Thomas Jefferson High School Drops Out of Top Ten Nationwide After Adopting “Equity” Admissions Policy.

YEP: The Morning Briefing: Columbia University Has Become the Epicenter of Insidious Hate.

I WISH THIS WERE FUNNIER:

'Trump Will Receive A Fair And Impartial Trial,' Says Judge As Construction Crew Builds Gallows Outside Courtroom https://t.co/i9cZTi5EfQ pic.twitter.com/AwoFDTowQp

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) April 24, 2024

LIMITED TIME DEAL: Set of 2 Adjustable Steel Mesh Zero Gravity Lounge Chair Recliners. #CommissionEarned We bought these a few years ago and they held up fairly well and were pretty comfortable.

JOHN LUCAS: Negotiating with Uniformed and Well-Supplied Terrorists (not “Demonstrators”).

This “Bits and Pieces” will discuss three related matters surrounding the current take-overs of the Columbia University campus and other venues: (1) The perpetrators are terrorists, not “demonstrators,” (2) the uniforms they choose show their tribal affiliation with the Hamas butchers, and (3) the logistical support they are receiving from unidentified supporters and financiers. It will close with a modest proposal for action: Sue the bastards.

I agree.

THEY’RE RIGHT: House Republicans back Netanyahu in comparing anti-Israel college protests to 1930s Germany.

1960S PROTESTERS: “THE WHOLE WORLD IS WATCHING.”

Now:

Right now at Columbia: faculty members formed a chain to keep journalists out of the encampment. pic.twitter.com/2mJPisuVst

— Zach Kessel (@zach_kessel) April 24, 2024

What don’t they want people to see?

NAVAL NEGLECT: What Happened to Our Ship Repair Infrastructure? Neglect, myopia, and greed.

Related: The Boxer is the 2024 Navy’s Canary. Ignore the excuses: See the waterfront. “Supremacy at sea is not an entitlement. It is not a law of nature. It is taken, maintained, and defended. We are surrendering it.”

BUT OF COURSE: Palestinian Terrorists Declare Support for Columbia Encampment, Call for ‘Escalation.’

JOHN LOTT:  “The Media Say Crime Is Going Down.  Don’t Believe It.”

DESPITE, BECAUSE OF, WHATEVER. NPR Struggles Despite Its Commitment to the ‘North Star’ of DEI.

MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Jewish students, come here to the South — where you’ll be safe.

MAYBE SET UP TENT CITIES BLOCKING TRAFFIC?  Sausages, bonfires and sneering at the eco-nutters – what to do next Earth Day.

DOD FUNDING CHINA’S BIOWARFARE RESEARCH: Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) says the Pentagon and other federal agencies are sending billions of U.S. tax dollars to China, including the infamous Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) that gave us COVID-19, for research on militarizing pathogens capable of causing national and worldwide pandemics.

Question: Wouldn’t it be cheaper for everybody involved for our elites to just hand them the keys to the joint?

MAYBE IT CAN’T BE IGNORED BUT IT CAN BE SUPPRESSED:  This strong evidence of the link between covid vaccines and cancer can no longer be ignored.

AND THEY’RE STILL IGNORING US:  Lest we forget – it’s three years since this anti-lockdown march.

LOOK, HE WAS JUST UPSET HE DREW THE SHORT STRAW TO GUARD THE IDIOT:  Secret Service officer protecting Kamala Harris came to blows with other agents at Joint Base Andrews.

IN OTHER REPORTING, LOOK WHO’S COMPLAINING ABOUT ‘BAD FAITH’:   NPR Chief Defends Coverage, Accuses Critics of ‘Bad Faith Distortion’ of Her Views.

ON THE OTHER HAND, I WOULDN’T VOUCH FOR THESE “SCIENTISTS”:  Scientists Sign Declaration Proclaiming Fish, Lobsters, Octopi, and Insects Have “Consciousness”.

What? They don’t think “experts” have beclowned themselves enough?

OH, REELY? WHAT ABOUT JANUARY SIXTH?  FBI Director Christopher Wray: ‘We Don’t Monitor Protests’.

THEY SURE DO LOVE THEM SOME DEATH!  Maine Law Shields Doctors Who Perform Abortions, Child Mutilation.

WHY ARE WE TOLERATING THIS? DEFUND COLUMBIA NOW. NO FEDERAL MONEY. AND I STRONGLY ADVISE ALUMNI TO CLOSE THEIR WALLETS TOO:  Anti-Israel Encampments: Columbia Caves, Extends ‘Negotiations’ as Hamas Reportedly Shows Support for Protesters.