THE COPS ARE THERE TO PROTECT THE GUILTY: Popular misconceptions. Are popular.

WHEN DATA REPUBLICAN SAYS HELLO, YOU SHOULD READ HER:  This “Hello” message isn’t for Adam Kinzinger. It’s for you, for every American who still believes in truth over narrative.

AND FOR THOSE: Without X.

IF YOU THINK THE LEFT WAS LESS VICIOUS IN THE PAST, YOU’RE NOT REMEMBERING RIGHT:  Long Ago, It Must be.

IT’S NOT YET AN 80/20 ISSUE, BUT IT’S HEADED THERE:  New Poll Destroys Dem Narrative on Riots and Trump Deployment of National Guard.

OPEN THREAD: It’s all you.

CHANGE: Sierra Space doubles down on defense.

THE CALLS ARE COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE: The Cause of Alzheimer’s Might Be Coming From Within Your Mouth.

HMM: UPDATED: U.S. Prepping for an Earth-Shattering Kaboom in the Middle East?

WHY DOES AMERICAN HIGHER ED WORK SO POORLY? A review of Rich Vedder’s latest book, Let Colleges Fail. At this rate, we may have little choice but to watch a lot of them fail.

TOO MANLY FOR THE DNC:

BREAKING: DNC members vote 294 to 99 to annul vice chair victory of David Hogg, citing diversity quotas pic.twitter.com/yousCBac83

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) June 11, 2025

JAMES LILEKS ON 1974: “It really was a dull, cheap era.”

How can you say that about Permaneer(tm) furniture?

But not always cheap: “The inflation calculator puts the price of the 19” set at $2200 in modern money.”

MAGA-TIME IN VACCINE LAND: Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. just demonstrated that the familiar complaint that nobody in Washington ever gets fired is not always accurate.

The Heritage Foundation’s Robert Moffit makes the casein The Daily Signal that RFK’s firing all 17 Biden-appointed members of the Advisory Committee on Vaccination Practices is illustrative of exactly what is needed and what the public health lobby most fears

BRING BACK DDT: Invasive stinging Asian needle ants detected in 20 states. What to know.

IS HARVARD DOOMED? The university is a big enough institution to know that being legally in the right is not an ironclad guarantee that you’re always going to win.

SETH MANDEL’S ROAD MAP FOR PEACE: A Two-State Solution to California’s Woes.

Now I know what you’re thinking: It’s getting pretty crowded here in this hypothetical Greater Los Angeles now. But that’s OK—sometimes justice is crowded.

And there’s an easy solution: Just make Los Angeles an international city! We’d put the greater metropolitan area of LA under a special international regime we could refer to as a Corpus Separatum. The area is home to many religions in addition to its national minorities, so all its holy places—Disneyland, the Staples Center, the Hollywood Bowl, that gas station shop on Pico Boulevard that carries kosher beef jerky—would be placed under a United Nations trusteeship.

And yes, of course Oakland will be demilitarized.

I know this all sounds like a lot, and obviously the devil is in the details, but if what California Democrats are saying about their own state is true, then simply having Donald Trump remove the National Guard from the site of conflict isn’t nearly enough. It doesn’t get at the root causes, you see. Peace isn’t the same thing as justice.

You might be thinking: This is all easy for you to say from thousands of miles away. And you’re right: It is easy for me to say this.

It’s easy for me to say this because the Democratic-progressive one-size-fits-all solution to ethnic and national conflict is seared into my brain. I’ve been listening to it for decades. And what I’ve learned from watching progressives “solve” the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is that all conflicts are the same. That the historical record is a matter of opinion. That violence and mayhem should be rewarded. That in any conflict, the side wearing a uniform is the Bad Guy. That what is happening—whatever it is, wherever it is—simply isn’t who we are. Finally, as a Jew, I just can’t stand by and watch it happen. It’s time to take Democrats’ advice and advance a two-state solution. You’re welcome, Gavin.

Well okay, but I still think Andrew Klavan’s One State Solution for Israel is still worth implementing:

Related:

Is this progress of a sort for the far left?

HMM: 2025 Audi SQ6 E-Tron First Test: Incredibly Quick, But Otherwise … ?

IS HARVARD DOOMED? I more or less say “Yep!” in a long article on Greg Lukianoff’s Substack, The Eternally Radical Idea.  (Greg asked me to expand on my weirdly popular “Harvard is unironically doomed” X thread.)

XI’S GOTTA HAVE IT: Anti-ICE protests fueled in part by CCP-linked Communist revolutionary org and a tech millionaire. “The leadership and activities of PSL are closely tied to far-left groups bolstered by the financial network of wealthy Marxist businessman Neville Roy Singham, who sold his ThoughtWorks tech company in 2017 and has used the money to fund openly Communist endeavors globally.”

Communism is a rich man’s game.

BUGGING OUT: U.S. Prepping for an Earth-Shattering Kaboom in the Middle East?