COLONIALISM AT ITS WORST:  G-7 to throw out another $200 billion for third-world ‘green’ boondoggles.

IT SEEMS NICE:  Transgender Activist Who Created ‘Gender Unicorn’ Calls for ‘Supreme Court Assassination Challenge’.

THAT’S BECAUSE THEY TOO ARE A FOREIGN TERRORIST ORGANIZATION:  Biden’s Handlers Allow Members of a Foreign Terrorist Organization to Enter the U.S..

Again, I suggest we put them in a shipping container* and send them to China. I believe in people getting what they pay for.

*Stop kvetching. We’ll punch air holes in the container. We’ll even put some cans of rice and beans in there. Heck, we might even give them a can opener.

SIGNS OF JUDICIAL SANITY IN OTHER PLACES:  New York Supreme Court Strikes Down NYC Law Allowing Non-Citizens to Vote in Local Elections.

MORE IMPORTANTLY, A BIG CONSTITUTIONAL WIN:  Praying Coach Vindicated at SCOTUS in Another Big Religious Freedom Win.

AND WHILE WE’RE ON “HOW COMPROMISED IS THE POTATUS?”:  Voicemail indicates Joe Biden knew of Hunter deals with ‘spy chief of China’.

BEHOLD! MY SHOCKED FACE!  Report: Biden Sent Hunter $100K During Time He Spent $30K on Escorts Linked to Russia.

I THINK DIVERSITY INCLUSION AND EQUITY — I.E. DIE–  IS TRUTH IN ADVERTISING:  (De)Grading for Equity: New grading scheme arriving soon to NAIS private schools.

And I think they know it too, because they started scrambling the words to get a different acronym.

A LOT OF UNDERGRADS HERE REPORTEDLY RELY ON WITHDRAWAL BACKED BY PLAN B FOR BIRTH CONTROL, WHICH IS DEEPLY UNWISE: CVS, Walmart and Rite Aid Limit Purchases of Plan B Pills After Surge in Demand.

WAR ON THE NORMAL-AMERICAN COMMUNITY: Paid to Keep the Lights Off. “Rolling blackouts are coming to the U.S., either this Summer or some time soon hereafter. But the United Kingdom is a little ahead of us on the downhill energy spiral, so it is useful to see what is going on there.”

NO, THEY’RE RACISTS. LA Times wonders: Are progressive Californians ready for gun-totin’ black people?

Catching up with the 1906 Atlanta Journal:

Background here.

Plus:

OPEN THREAD: Now the UFOs are real.

DON’T GET COCKY: Allen West Says Dobbs Won’t Prevent a Red Wave in November.

THEY DON’T LIKE YOU, LIZ, THEY’RE JUST USING YOU: Liz Cheney Gets a Rude Awakening. “Think about it: how many on the left pretended to ‘respect’ Liz Cheney for her ‘bravery’ for standing up to Trump, and yada, yada, yada? Well, Liz Cheney is learning the hard way that she was just a useful idiot for the Democrat Party by being a part of their partisan Jan. 6 Committee and that they really don’t look at her any better than they do any other Republican, especially now that she expressed support for the Supreme Court after Dobbs.”

JOSH BLACKMAN ON THE DOBBS DISSENTERS: The “Judges of Wisdom” and the “Mystical Aphorisms of the Fortune Cookie.”

SPACE: X Prize Foundation studying active debris removal competition.

Meanwhile, here’s a piece that Rob Merges and I wrote about orbital debris removal a while back.

WHY IS THE LOS ANGELES TIMES SUCH A CESSPIT OF RACISM? Is California ready for more Black people to legally carry guns in public?

Screenshot, in case they change the headline.

UPDATE: Some thoughts on the actual column from Ed Morrissey: LA Times wonders: Are progressive Californians ready for gun-totin’ black people?

Er … wut? Don’t let the headline throw you entirely because Erika Smith scores real points in the column, but that headline alone is worth attention in the wake of the Bruen decision last week. Let’s screencap it just in case someone at the Los Angeles Times thinks twice about the message it actually sends, rather than whatever it is they intended. Assuming those are two different things, that is:

[Screenshot included above — Ed]

Are they two different things? YMMV, but that headline strongly implies that the oh-so-progressive state of California is pretty danged racist, no? Actually yes, as Smith argues, and it’s not limited to the rapidly decreasing number of conservatives in the Golden State. Smith has a strong enough point to sustain that headline, emphasis mine:

Read the whole thing.

(Updated and bumped.)

THIS SEEMS RIGHT: The SCOTUS Abortion Leak Backfired: The shock of the ruling doesn’t seem to be there. Because it wasn’t a surprise.

Oft evil will shall evil mar.

THREE PEOPLE DEAD AFTER AMTRAK TRAIN DERAILS IN MISSOURI: “Roughly 243 passengers and 12 crew members were aboard the train when it derailed and there are early reports of injuries, though the railway company did not specify how many people were wounded. The incident occurred after the train struck a dump truck at a public crossing in Mendon, causing several cars to derail, Amtrak said…The derailment in Missouri occurred just one day after an Amtrak train collided with a car in Brentwood, California, killing three people and injuring two others, ABC 10 reported.”