FLORIDA MAN: If Not Donald Trump in 2024, Then Who? Trump Jr. Names a Key Contender.

WHY IS CNN SUCH A CESSPIT OF WHITE SUPREMACY? CNN Could Have Promoted a Person of Color To Replace White Masturbator Jeffrey Toobin. The Network Refused. Why?

SAY HELLO TO THE NEWEST ADVERTISER AT HELEN’S PAGE: No_System website sells cool t-shirts and accessories that feature Capitalist t-shirts, along with Thomas Sowell t-shirts and my personal favorite, this one for F.A. Hayek. They also have fun earrings, I just ordered these “Don’t Tread on Me” ones and it was fast and simple to order.

UPDATE: You can get 15% off your first order when you checkout with the code HELEN15.

HEAVY METAL: First Look: SIG Sauer P320AXG Pro Handgun.

BIDEN 2021: Biden says Ukraine must root out corruption to join NATO.

BIDEN 2016: Joe Biden Pressured Ukraine to Fire Top Prosecutor After Burisma Lobbying Effort.

MEDIA MYTH ALERT: Punctured tale of Trump’s photo op may live on as media myth.

STRIKE A POSE, THERE’S NOTHING TO IT:

KEEP YOUR FRIENDS CLOSE, BUT YOUR ENEMIES CLOSER: If Netanyahu Studied Godfather Movies He Might Still Be Prime Minister.

MATT MARGOLIS: SiriusXM Host ‘Celebrates’ Juneteenth with… ‘Anti-Police Brutality Anthems.’

NO, JON STEWART’S WUHAN LAB TIRADE IS NOT ‘FRINGE’ OPINION: “How do you know an opinion isn’t dangerous? When a famous comedian says it on network TV.”

UPDATE: Former CDC director: That Jon Stewart fellow is on the right track about COVID-19 origin, you know.

FLORIDA, MAN: Florida city accidentally sells its water tower.

MICROBIOME NEWS: Unique Gut Bug Study Untangles Early Human Migration From Siberia Into The Americas.

THE CHINA SYNDROME: French Nuclear Operator Warns U.S. of ‘Imminent Radiological Threat’ at Chinese Nuclear Plant.

WHAT’S SHE AFRAID OF? Pelosi Caves to the Squad, Walks Back Rebuke of Ilhan Omar: ‘We Thanked’ Her.

FASTER, PLEASE: A frozen leap forward for age-related macular degeneration stem cell-based therapy.

HEINLEIN’S CRAZY YEARS (CONT’D): Nickelodeon Ratings Crash Amid LGBTQ Push. “In the last two weeks, both Nickelodeon and its preschool-targeted network, Nick Jr., have released videos championing ‘trans,’ ‘queer,’ and ‘pansexual’ inclusion. One video that sparked mass outrage depicted a cartoon version of drag queen Nina West singing about various LGBTQIA groups “[loving] each other so proudly” on ‘Blues Clues and You,’ a show for two- to five-year olds. That same video showed a female-to-male transgender beaver who appeared to have post-operative surgical scars on its chest. “

SUMMER READING: Wyoming and Democracy Betrayed: A History of the Democratic Party from Cotton Plantation to Urban Plantation.

EVOLUTION IN ACTION: Domestication changes the brain of farm-foxes. “For the study, scientists took advantage of a Russian farm-fox experiment that began in 1958. Several decades ago, researchers began breeding foxes in order to better understand how wolves became dogs.”

OUT ON A LIMB: Former CDC Head: WHO ‘Too Compromised’ to Conduct COVID-Origin Probe.

THAT’S DIFFERENT BECAUSE REASONS: The Left Fights the Racism of American History While Ignoring the Racism of the Bidens.

NEWS FROM MIAMI LAW: I got this email from Tony Varona, the outgoing dean of the University of Miami Law School, giving his side of the story:

I see that you have covered my termination.

I thought I would reach out to suggest a correction.

I did not fire Prof. Ravicher, nor decide not to renew his contract. We had him scheduled to teach this past spring semester and had planned for him to teach through at least the next academic year. We would not have decided whether to renew his contract until late in the fall 2021 semester, and his support of President Trump would have played no role in the decision whether to renew him. (We have many other community members here who supported President Trump.) In fact, I told Dan that it was important to me as dean and for our entire law school community to have conservative perspectives represented on our faculty. I do not know why Dan continues to say otherwise.

Prof. Michael Froomkin covered the matter on his blog. It’s an accurate account.

As Michael puts it: “He’s recently taken to social media – and even Fox TV – to claim he’s been fired for his pro-Trump tweets and other speech, or is about to be, or may not have his contract renewed when it expires. As far as I have been able to ascertain, at least the first two of these claims are simply false. The fate of the third lies well in the future.”

Hmm. Ravicher certainly seemed to think he was being fired. This entire affair just gets stranger. All of the InstaPundit coverage of this odd matter can be found here.

SHOCKER: Too many ultra-processed foods in childhood linked to extra weight gain as adults.

TODAY AT 1 PM EASTERN: VIP GOLD Live Chat With Paula Bolyard, Megan Fox, Stacey Lennox, and Victoria Taft.

COLD WAR II: Feds Investigating Chinese Spies’ Return to US Ahead of COVID Travel Ban.

Intelligence officials are investigating why suspected Chinese spies returned to the United States on student and work visas at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to internal government documents reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon.

Hundreds of Chinese nationals are the subject of a federal probe after law enforcement officials flagged their travel at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Chinese nationals returned to the United States earlier than expected in January 2020, often having modified their travel plans. Then-president Donald Trump signed an executive order restricting entry from non-citizens and residents from China on Jan. 31, 2020.

Isn’t the “why” self-evident?

Plus: “Although intelligence officials have not concluded whether the hundreds of monitored students were confirmed spies, the students’ modified travel suggests that many Chinese nations were aware of the severity of COVID-19, in spite of assurances to the contrary from their government and U.S. health officials.”

I’M SLOWLY STARTING TO HAVE MY DOUBTS ABOUT QUALITY CONTROL IN THE CCP: Another Facility Leak in China, This Time with the Threat of Radiation.