LONGEVITY: Blood protein plays key role in aging, cognitive decline, study finds. “Our findings revealed that ADORA2B on red blood cells has a significant role to counteract aging and that chronic insufficient oxygen supply is an underestimated key factor promoting aging and function decline.”

Exercise might help by improving perfusion. Also: “Other recent studies have indicated that hyperbaric oxygen treatments can help combat the aging of blood cells and even reverse the aging process in healthy aging adults.”

CHANGE: Why I Stopped Hiring Ivy League Graduates. “Normal kids at elite universities keep their heads down. Over the course of four years, this can become a subtle but real habit of obeisance, a condition of moral and spiritual surrender.”

J. CHRISTIAN ADAMS: Happy Juneteenth — if You’re a Federal Employee, That Is. “I might have preferred the more grammatically accurate ‘Emancipation Day,’ but what can you do? It’s 2021.”

HARSH, BUT FAIR:

HECK NO, BETO! Seven New Texas Laws Will Give Gun-Grabbers Night Sweats.

HMM: South China Morning Post Publishes Story About Alleged Defector.

MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE: Black Evangelical Pastor Pleads With Christians to Reject ‘Unbiblical’ Critical Justice Theories.

DAVID BROOKS ADMIRES THE SHARP CREASES OF JOE BIDEN’S TROUSERS: The American Renaissance Has Begun.

INCONCEIVABLE: IIHS Claims Marijuana Legalization Causes Crashes.

ARMIES MARCHING UNDER THAT FLAG ENDED SLAVERY: Singer Macy Gray calls for getting rid of the American flag because it’s “tattered, dated, and divisive.”

CLEANEST ELECTION EVER: November Memo Documented ‘Massive’ Election Integrity Problems in Atlanta.

OUR BOUGHT-AND-PAID-FOR FOURTH ESTATE: Curiously incurious: Where is the media coverage of China’s defector?

NEW HARVARD DATA (ACCIDENTALLY) REVEAL HOW LOCKDOWNS CRUSHED THE WORKING CLASS WHILE LEAVING ELITES UNSCATHED.

As Jordan Schachtel wrote late last month in a Substack article titled, “What to make of the COVID-19 lab leak theory,” “The virus was not the cause for global catastrophe. It was the response to the virus that crippled the global economy and our society. The disease was not nearly as damaging as the ‘cure’ for the disease.”

BREAKING: Catholic Bishops Advance Communion Rules That May Target Joe Biden.

OF COURSE, SO IS THE FIRST ONE: You can catch covid-19 twice, but the second bout is likely to be mild.

LARRY CORREIA: “I love Juneteenth being a national holiday, because it’s when we celebrate Republicans informing a bunch of black people that Democrats have been lying to and using them.”

NEW NATIONAL HOLIDAY SETS OFF SCRAMBLE TO SHUT DOWN GOVERNMENTS NATIONWIDE FRIDAY.

Make it permanent, and then we’re really getting somewhere.

TYLER O’NEIL: Supreme Court Proves Joe Biden Wrong, in More Ways Than One. “Biden and his allies on the Left fear an originalist Court because it means the Supreme Court will no longer force their agenda on the American people. In order to prevent a more restrained Court, they engage in fear mongering about the horrible results of Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett. Yet, when Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett make decisions on the Court, they often align with their fellow justices — even the three liberals on the Court.”

ANSWERING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Are bidets really better for the planet than toilet paper?

WHEN TEACHING THE LAW IS AGAINST THE RULES. America loses another good professor thanks to the kind of stupid “crazy years” incident that gets recounted in books with titles starting with the words “The Decline and Fall.”

IT’S ALWAYS A GRIFT: COVID Hysterics Find Their Next Grift. “Part of the broader left-wing ideology is a false sense that they can bring about utopia. If that means stomping on your freedom and forcing you to wear a piece of dirty cloth on your face at all times, that’s just fine with them. Does the country have COVID under control? Well, let’s stop RSV now, which they say is totally like COVID even though they insisted that COVID wasn’t like RSV for a year and censored anyone who suggested such.”

NO WONDER SHE’S SUCH A DNC-MSM HERO: A Grad Student Tried to Correct a Misleading COVID Narrative. Rebekah Jones Tried to Ruin His Career for It.

BETTER THAN THE VACCINE: Less than 1% of people with severe COVID-19 get re-infected.

WELL, THAT’S GOOD: Study: Pfizer, Moderna vaccines not a threat to male fertility.

WELL, GOOD: Tweak to pritelivir allows treatment of latent herpes infections.