May Liang 😎

lawyer, libertarian, foodie, geek

[Megan McArdle @asymmetricinfo]

Also worth noting that operation warp speed went so well because Alex Azar, head of HHS, was a pharma exec who understood exactly what the bottlenecks would be and planned for them in advance, then mobilized military help to handle logistics

[FIRE @TheFIREorg]

Couldn't have said it better ourselves

[The Free Press @TheFP]

“Antisemitism has been woven into the fabric of civil society in Canada,” says @BariWeiss.

“Violence, assaults, stigmatization of Jews, stigmatization of Jewish businesses has been completely normalized...Jewish doctors, Jewish professionals, parents of Jewish kids are talking about fleeing Canada because of the normalization of antisemitic violence.”

@TerryGlavin recently reported on the 670% increase in antisemitic incidents in Canada. Read his reporting here: https://t.co/lpLBOJviNQ

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

Clarence The Angel Takes Gavin Newsom To Florida To Show Him What California Would Look Like If He'd Never Been Born https://t.co/8rZmdcYSLl

[Coleman Hughes @coldxman]

In this essay, I discuss my mother's battle with cancer and what it taught me about the wisdom of assisted dying laws for the terminally ill. I also address the understandable, but misplaced, concern that such laws inevitably lead to slippery slopes. @TheFP

https://t.co/jFTWdZfvGI

[Jake Tapper 🦅 @jaketapper]

It’s Saturday June 22 2024.

WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich was detained by the Russian FSB Mar 29, 2023.

1 year & 85 days ago

“Putin’s Hostage Ploy” https://t.co/DIOY0lu7CJ

JOURNALISM IS NOT A CRIME!
📰 🎙️ 📺

FREE EVAN NOW!

#IStandWithEvan

[May Liang 😎 @mayliang]

How To Commemorate the Tiananmen Square Massacre of June 4, 1989, by @yuribezmenov22 https://t.co/jcnN7zkuOp

[Bari Weiss @bariweiss]

For a second, imagine that black students at Columbia were taunted with chants of "Go back to Africa."

Or imagine that a gay student at Yale was surrounded by homophobic protesters and hit in the eye with a flagpole.

Or imagine if a campus imam told Muslim students that they ought to head home for Ramadan because campus public safety could not guarantee their security.

There would be relentless fury from our media and condemnation from our politicians.

Just remember the righteous—and rightful—outrage over the white supremacist “Unite the Right” march in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017, where neo-Nazis chanted “The Jews will not replace us.”

This weekend at Columbia and Yale, student demonstrators did all of the above—only it was directed at Jews. They told Columbia students to “go back to Poland.” A Jewish woman at Yale was assaulted with a Palestinian flag. And an Orthodox rabbi at Columbia told students to go home for their safety.

What will the response be?

https://t.co/HXph8WFidr

[Steve McGuire @sfmcguire79]

UPDATE: Statement from Dean Chemerinsky:

“I am enormously sad that we have students who are so rude as to come into my home, in my backyard, and use this social occasion for their political agenda.”

Two more “dinners will go forward on Wednesday and Thursday. I hope that there will be no disruptions; my home is not a forum for free speech. But we will have security present. Any student who disrupts will be reported to student conduct and a violation of the student conduct code is reported to the Bar.”

[Nick Gillespie @nickgillespie]

The End of Race Politics author @coldxman's appearance on @TheView is a great example of how much better public discourse is when people with different POVs interact. Sharp but civil disagreement abt the need for color-blind policies. Via @julesterpak

https://t.co/xrxHy1s0fM

[May Liang 😎 @mayliang]

https://t.co/VzqJFILXQS

[Scott Gustin @ScottGustin]

Disney shared video of Chief Flight Attendant Patrick Warburton surprising guests at Soarin’ Over California at Disney California Adventure Park. 🫡

[Yashar Ali 🐘 @yashar]

Full performance of Fast Car by Tracy Chapman with Luke Combs at the Grammys.

Her smile at the beginning is the best.

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

All you need to know about Western civilisation:

The people who are the strongest advocates for Western civ are people like me who have experienced the alternative.

The people who are the biggest critics of Western civ have never experienced anything else.

[Nick Gillespie @nickgillespie]

I'm more of a figurative than literal iconoclast, but have no problem with replacing statues.

Yet the @NatlParkService melting down William Penn from Philadelphia's Welcome Park is a bad, stupid, move. Almost alone among colonial founders, he treated Native Americans with precisely the sort of respect, grace, and love that should be celebrated rather than erased.

If we want to create a better, more "usable past" (in Van Wyck Brooks' famous phrase), we should remember and celebrate radical, proto-liberal figures such as Penn (though not his sons, who were terrible) and Roger Williams of Providence and Rhode Island, who also engaged local tribes properly. We would have been a better country had we followed their leads more closely.

And we will have a poorer future if we remove their presence--already faded, if not forgotten virtually completely--from our daily lives. If the past is filled with crimes, wars, and disasters that still mark us and bleed through into the present, it is equally stuffed with examples of what we could have and should have done differently.

There is so much to learn from William Penn's beliefs, actions, and life--a radical pacifist who was also a champion of religious liberty at a time when that was dangerous, and a champion of honest and open commercial exchange--we beggar ourselves by erasing him.

https://t.co/IE1Pz3fjCC

[May Liang 😎 @mayliang]

When the New York Times lost its way https://t.co/MVoaHBQQkw

[May Liang 😎 @mayliang]

Monday marks 250 days since our reporter, Evan Gershkovich, was arrested and wrongfully detained by Russia authorities. It’s time to bring him home, writes, WSJ Editor in Chief Emma Tucker https://t.co/OGT9xcNViK via @WSJ

[May Liang 😎 @mayliang]

Evan Gershkovich's family never thought they would be spending the holidays without their son. But his resilience and unwavering strength never cease to amaze them. https://t.co/2EO7nYWOpK via @WSJ

[FIRE @TheFIREorg]

President Kennedy was right: A nation afraid to let its people think for themselves is afraid of its people.

[Nahel Belgherze @WxNB_]

One of the rarest satellite loop you will ever see in your lifetime. Hurricane Hilary, 2023.