JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY is ending 2,000 positions due to Trump cuts in foreign aid funding.

The termination of more than $800 million in USAID funding is now forcing us to wind down critical work here in Baltimore and internationally."

I found this quote amusing: "Critics warn that slashing USAID work will affect millions of people." Yeah. Taxpayers. Like me. For the better.

BECAUSE REASONS: Why are young men more conservative?

"THE WORD THAT COMES TO MIND when I think of [Minnesota Gov. Tim] Walz is: 'buffoon'.”

NBC POLL: Gap between college-educated white women and other white voters is growing.

Umm, what are the most likely majors for 'college-educated' white women? Not STEM, certainly.

MAINE CAVES TO TRUMP, will keep men out of women’s sports.

Money talks....

ELITE EXPERTS ARE NEITHER: 'Experts' have only themselves to blame for the distrust of institutions.

RANDOM THOUGHT: The plethora of nagging health and safety commercials on both television and the internet are almost enough for me to ban both television and the internet from my house.

It may soon be enough....

WHILE WE’RE ABOLISHING DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, let’s abolish the teacher unions.

Best idea I've heard yet....

JUDICIAL WARFARE

It's time for the Supreme Court and/or Congress to step in and put this travesty to bed dead.

More (and some history) here.

I’M WONDERING why former NASA astronaut Sen. Mark Kelly [D-AZ] didn't praise SpaceX for rescuing stranded astronauts.

Answer: for the same reason he sold his Tesla -- he's just a Democrat apparatchik.

YOU CAN'T MAKE THIS UP: “The EV charging infrastructure in the United States is definitely not ready to handle mass EV adoption. There just aren’t enough chargers and many of the existing ones suffer from reliability and user experience issues. The one shining exception is Tesla’s Supercharger network.”

And the Left, furious with Elon Musk's DOGE, is trying to destroy it....

SCHADENFREUDE: Former University of Pennsylvania swimmer mocks university donation request.

For what it's worth, the university's 2024 endowment is $22.3 billion.