NOT YOUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS, NO: Randi Weingarten says Republicans 'just don't want public schools' in debate over education.

That's why I'm paying for my grandchildren to go to private school....

SPRINGTIME 2022, Week 8: Finally!. We spent Easter in the flatlands downstate, and they're already well into summer -- bright green, nary a bare branch in sight. Not here, though finally there are some leaves beginning to show.

Here are this week's pictures. First, my two standards, the view from our deck of the pond and the fire pit area.

As last week, neither is ready for prime time. The trees are clearly showing signs of activity, but no leaves yet

Here's the pond, taken from the dam. The grass on the opposite shore is growing madly and ready for its first mowing. The trees on the west bank -- nothing yet, although the fuzziness of the branches is showing that there is activity (the pollen count has picked up this week, too).

The hardwoods are still mostly silent, and the only activity is the low-lying brush which is growing faster than the weedeater can cope.

This picture is to the west, across our road. Still mostly bare, but you can tell the trees are beginning to bud out.

And finally a gratuitous picture of a visitor along the pond walk. Until next week then.

FINALLY GETTING THEIR COMEUPPANCE: University professors unhappy that Florida Gov. DeSantis wants them to be accountable for their misdeeds.

Good and hard, I hope. Tenure should be removed entirely and professors held to annual reviews, just like we did in the corporate world.

Instapundit weighs in.

MASSIVE INCOMPETENCE is damned effective.

MISSED OPPORTUNITY: EARTH DAY was a good one to ask environmentalists if they had computed the cost of California's annual wildfires to global warming? (Oh, and did they add in the additional costs of aviation fuel, fire retardent, and the carbon cost of the aircraft, helicopters, and firefighter transportation?)

And it's not just California; add in a few other states run by the environmental lobby as well.

THIS COMBAT CLOWN would be a nice fit to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin's woke military.

AMMO GRRRLL remembers another world.

AN INTERESTING THOUGHT FROM GLENN REYNOLDS [INSTAPUNDIT]: Maybe Elon Musk should give up on Twitter and let it destroy the woke.

It's a good question: should we encourage Elon Musk to fix Twitter, or just let it burn to the ground and kick ashes over it? I like Musk's energy, but I'm beginning to lean toward ash-kicking.

INSERT COLONOSCOPY JOKE HERE. Sending a probe to Uranus labeled as top priority.

A scientific (yes, I know, but it was still too tempting) probe....

KEEP WATCH AMERICA: Valerie Jarrett will continue to wear a mask in her car no matter what non-scientists say.

Hold her to her promise.

THEY CAN'T HIDE BEHIND THE CURTAIN ANY MORE: The COVID-19 authoritarians panic over the end of the mask mandates.

And well they should panic; that 'smidgen of liberty' they're willing to grant is insufficient in a free country.

BUT SOME CAN HELP: Oligarchs will not save us.

Elon Musk can help at the margins, but he is not going to make it all better for us. Nor should he. Looking for a white knight with big bags of cash to pour out and make it all better is dodging our duty. We are citizens, and being a citizen takes work. Serfs and subjects have it easy. They toil in their masters’ field then kick back afterwards. But we not only have to do our own toiling in our own fields, but we have to take some of our free time to go participate in our own governance.

And that is how it should be. Let’s welcome the rich guys who want to help us out where they can. But let’s not lose sight of the fact that this is our country, and we are the ones responsible for taking it back.

Truer words....

ELON MUSK IS HAVING THE DESIRED EFFECT:

Hillary Clinton urges European Union to police ‘disinformation’ and ‘extremism’ online. [Translation: Restrict the First Amendment so that Democrats can control the narrative without challenge.]

He's forcing the Left to admit publicly that they're completely bonkers -- and have been for a long, long time.

THE LOCKDOWNS WILL CONTINUE UNTIL MORALE IMPROVES: Shanghai further tightens COVID restrictions after weeks of strict lockdown.

CAPTAIN HOOK, TINKER BELL are next in line for woke treatment.

How can Tinker Bell not be woke? She's a FAIRY, for God's sake!

IT'S NOT JUST THE LEFT: FUMU (Fuck Up Move Up) is well known in corporate circles as well.

WHY CNN+ DIED:

Lifted from the comments to this post.

OH, THIS SHOULD BE GOOD. Florida Gov. DeSantis contemplates suing the Twitter Board of Directors for breaching its fiduciary duty to do what’s best for shareholders (i.e., Florida's state pension plan).

DEFENDING AMERICAN DEMOCRACY requires we start by crushing the public school weirdos.

It's Kurt Schlichter, naturally, and to my delight has already started in Virginia. And Florida. Thank you both, Governors Youngkin and DeSantis for following through.

RANDOM THOUGHT: The Overton Window has moved so far Left that common sense is now the sole property of the Right.