VIDEO: Urban survivalists.

UPDATE: The BlogProf says we’re just catching up to Detroit.

AN IRANIAN OPPOSITION AD, with English subtitles.

CONTINUOUS IRAN COVERAGE from Nico Pitney.

Plus, Iranian-Americans demonstrate in California.

THERE WILL BE A LOT OF “TEA PARTY” PROTESTS ON JULY 4: Here’s a list.

CAR LUST: Remembering the MGB.

WOMEN AND THE IRANIAN REVOLUTION. More thoughts here.

OLD PEOPLE may be immune to swine flu.

TWITTER: Compare and contrast.

TRANSATLANTIC POLITICS: Iranian minister still invited at G8 meeting next week.

INTERESTING DEVELOPMENTS IN IRAN:

I don’t know where this uprising is leading. I do know some police units are wavering. That commander talking about his family was not alone. There were other policemen complaining about the unruly Basijis. Some security forces just stood and watched. “All together, all together, don’t be scared,” the crowd shouted.

Stay tuned.

UPDATE: “Iran is heading for a revolution.” Let’s hope.

DON SURBER: Don’t Become West Virginia. “If poverty is so good, then why do we have anti-poverty programs? Using her logic, we should have pro-poverty programs.” Well, that’s pretty much what’s going on right now . . . .

PRESIDENT EMILY LITELLA.

Hey, I got to this one first.

VIDEO: The exciting world of giant Tesla coils.

DANIEL DREZNER: “I’m pretty sure supreme leaders in Iran don’t change political tack because of mass protests — it undercuts their claim to be, you know, supreme leaders. . . . I’m not sure that Ahmadinejad and Khamenei will be out of power soon. What I am pretty sure of is that the only way they’re going to stay in power from hereon in is through a display of brute force on a Tiananmen-like scale.”

FROM PRESIDENT OBAMA, a new statement on Iran. “The Iranian government must understand that the world is watching. We mourn each and every innocent life that is lost. We call on the Iranian government to stop all violent and unjust actions against its own people. The universal rights to assembly and free speech must be respected, and the United States stands with all who seek to exercise those rights.”

UPDATE: Andrew Malcolm is unimpressed: “The fact that Obama quotes the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr, not exactly a religious icon in the Muslim world, which will get him all over the U.S. news on an otherwise slow summer Saturday, indicates what audience the chief executive is also trying to reach.”

ANOTHER UPDATE: Very concerned about being “very concerned.” “Perhaps after a whole week of cringe-inducing passivity, saner voices prevailed upon the president. Maybe now the White House realizes it is time to get on the right side of history. And those apologists who cheered Obama’s paralysis will of course now celebrate the more robust language. This is what they wanted all along, right? Well, hardly, but the criticism of those conservatives and some brave Democrats who pleaded with the president to get off the fence will go down the memory hole. The president’s spinners now will no longer need to excuse the inexcusable. What a relief that must be.”

Plus, “Deer in the Iranian Headlights.” Well, I’m just happy that he’s finally starting to take the right line on this. Wish it had been sooner, but I’ll take what I can get.

CHINA MIEVILLE: Five Things Someone Else Should Totally Do.

FOLLOWING DEVELOPMENTS IN IRAN, at The New Ledger.

GIVE THIS LAW STUDENT a million dollars.

VERY SWEET: Letter to a future Boy Wonder.

JOHN STOSSEL has a blog.

PHOTOS FROM IRAN:

Via Nico Pitney. And there’s much more over at Gateway Pundit, too.

MOE LANE looks at the May political fundraising numbers.

THE TOP SIX water guns of all time.

IN THE MAIL: From Tyler Cowen, Create Your Own Economy: The Path to Prosperity in a Disordered World.

TAXPROF: Tax Bloggers Don’t Buy Obama’s Defense of DOJ Tax Division Nominee.