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OPEN THREAD: Get the party started.

LEARNING CURVE: SpaceX changing Starship stage separation ahead of next launch. Quoth Elon: “I think the probability [of] this next flight working, getting to orbit, is much higher than the last one. Maybe it’s like 60%.”

THEY’RE ALWAYS IN THE LAST PLACE YOU LOOK: Scientists Just Figured Out How This Deadly Superbug Hides Inside Us.

MAYBE, BUT IF IT IS WE PROBABLY WON’T LIKE HIS SUCCESSOR ANY BETTER. Is this the beginning of the end for Vladimir Putin?

POT CONDEMNS KETTLE: Pelosi: ‘Shameful’ that Alito, Thomas so ‘cavalier’ about ethics.

Pelosi calling someone corrupt. Now that’s chutzpah.

Related: ProPublica’s lame hit on Alito: a ‘dark money’ assault on high court.

Plus: Conservative Supreme Court justice hit pieces: We are being lectured on ethics by scoundrels.

HMM: Greek Conservatives Score Decisive Election Win. “The dominance of Greece’s conservatives is a sign of how Southern European countries are tilting to the right, a decade after the region’s financial crisis fueled the rise of left-leaning protest parties. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni won power at the head of a right-wing coalition last year. Spanish conservatives are polling well ahead of the incumbent center-left as parliamentary elections approach in late July.”

RELATED: Greece’s Conservative New Democracy Party Wins Election In Landslide.

LEARN FASTER: Harnessing Hypnagogia: MIT and Harvard’s Breakthrough in Boosting Creativity Through Targeted Dream Incubation.

Based on past experience, I’d guess that the real market for “targeted dream incubation” would be porn.

THIS WILL END WELL: Fairfax County, Virginia takes shotguns away from police, replaces them with beanbags, and you can almost feel crime going down!

Exit quote: “I know what you’re thinking. Did he fire six beanbags or only five? Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement, I’ve kinda lost track myself.”

GREAT MOMENTS IN INTERSECTIONALITY: The Left Can Have Islam or LGBTQA+. Not Both. The Democrat coalition is falling apart.

Hamtramck legalized animal sacrifice in homes, and made Eid a paid holiday, as did Dearborn. Despite their protestations, Muslim elected officials in cities on track to have an Islamic majority are representing their community and not anyone else’s. They are the most obvious example that the notion of multicultural “communities” that transcend identities through collective solidarity is a myth. And so is the entire majority of minorities coalition that claims “brown people” or the “oppressed” have anything in common beyond a hostility toward white people.

Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan lashed out at Hamtramck by declaring, “The City of Detroit proudly raises our Pride Flag at the start of every Pride Month.” And it will until it has a Muslim majority.

Democrats have dismantled tolerance and opened the door to a gold rush by members of its coalition to impose their most extreme agendas on the public with no regard to everyone else.

A leftist majority will force pride flags and LGBT pornography in schools on everyone. A Muslim majority will force sharia on everyone. That is what happens in a country that has abandoned both its traditional consensus on values and its respect for individual beliefs leaving regions with a choice between female genital mutilation and transgender masectomies, between marrying 7-year-old girls and grooming first graders.

America has three choices, either imposing sharia or sexual identity politics, or returning to what we were before we had to choose which group of extremists to allow to abuse our children.

If FDR could assemble a coalition of “Progressive” northerners and stone-cold racist southern New Dealers, it could be quite some time before its seemingly incompatible modern equivalent disintegrates.

WELL, GOOD: Double Duty: HIV Drug Maraviroc Takes On Dementia and Huntington’s Disease.

MUSICIANS BOYCOTT VENUES THAT USE FACIAL RECOGNITION TECHNOLOGY ON AUDIENCE:

In a show of solidarity against the proliferation of facial recognition technology at concert venues, an ensemble of over 100 musicians and bands, including Rage Against the Machine’s co-founders Tom Morello and Zack de la Rocha, have united to boycott venues employing the contentious technology. Boots Riley, Speedy Ortiz, Anti-Flag, Wheatus, Downtown Boys, and a chorus of over 80 additional artists are joining this resolute harmony, Rolling Stone reported.

Spearheaded by the watchdog collective Fight for the Future, this boycott is an outcry for a total ban on face-scanning tech during live performances. Its call hasn’t gone unnoticed; a melodic trio of independent venues, House of Yes in Brooklyn, Lyric Hyperion in Los Angeles, and Black Cat in D.C., have struck a chord by promising not to utilize this technology at their gigs.

Leila Nashashibi, a valiant campaigner at Fight for the Future, conveyed the dissonance. “Surveillance tech companies are pitching biometric data tools as ‘innovative’ and helpful for increasing efficiency and security. Not only is this false, it’s morally corrupt,” she stated. She warned against the inaccuracy of the technology and the horrifying prospect of a world under flawless facial surveillance.

More like this, please.

ANOTHER WOKE REBOOT DIES A HORRIBLE DEATH:

The latest example is Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies, the prequel series to the 1978 hit film Grease. I’m not sure who wanted this — it’s bad enough to hear any of the original songs and get them stuck in your head — but once again, the effort seemed less about telling a compelling story, and more about making it an anachronistically diverse, LGBTQ story, flaunting same-sex romances and obsession with racial identity.

Woke reboots, sequels, and prequels don’t have a stellar track record, and it’s hard to understand how Hollywood hasn’t gotten the hint. It’s bad enough that Hollywood doesn’t have enough new ideas it constantly has to borrow from past works, but it’s particularly bad when woke writers take period pieces and shamelessly insert LGBTQ ideology into them or diversify the cast in a way that makes them grossly inaccurate to the point where they’re arguably rewriting history. For example, Disney’s live-action reboot of Lady and The Tramp portrayed interracial relationships and race relations in a way that was grossly unrealistic for the era it took place in. The characters Jim Dear and Darling were made an interracial couple even though interracial marriage was illegal at the time and place the movie was set.

After premiering on April 6, the cancellation of Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies was announced last week. Apparently, the show was so poorly received that it will also be permanently removed from the Paramount+ platform. Though this is being done reportedly as a cost-saving measure, the move essentially memory-holes the movie out of existence.

And the (s)hits just keep on coming! Disney’s Downhill Slide.

Disney’s Star Wars has cast its first transgender actor in a major role, hiring British male-to-female YouTube personality Abigail Thorn for the role in the upcoming Disney+ series The Acolyte, according to multiple reports.

Abigail Thorn is reportedly set to play a character named Ensign Eurus in the series, which is expected to begin streaming sometime next year. The Acolyte reportedly takes place during the High Republic period, which is set before the events of the Star Wars movies.

The series has already cast “non-binary” actress Amanda Steinberg in its lead role.

As a result of all of the wokeness, Disney has “lost a stunning $890 million on its last eight studio releases, including The Little Mermaid and Elemental, according to a box office analyst.”

There will be more financial bloodletting to come.

WATCH: Patriot Front-Like Characters Get Swarmed and Unmasked, Brawl Ensues.

This is the BEST video on the internet right now.

– Pro-America Patriot rally ongoing
– Feds show up dressed as “Nazis”
– Patriots force Feds out of rally
– Unmask the Feds, who PANIC
– The “Nazis” cry, tremble in fear
– Cops rush to save Feds

WATCH:

https://t.co/kWBdRiu9hw

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) June 25, 2023

One of the guys who was unmasked was terrified his face was going to be seen, so he covered it with his hands and then his jacket. The effort came a little too late, and folks are already trying to figure out who some of these guys are. While they’re similar in their outfit, they’re also off a bit — they don’t have the tan hats, and Patriot Front guys wear light color masks. Also, the shirts are a bit different. A local from Portland claimed that they were part of a nationalist group based in the area. Others questioned whether such groups are astroturfed, including by leftists.

Bottom line? Whoever these characters are, some of them have been uncovered, and the search is now underway.

Adam Kinzinger (R-CNN) has thoughts:

HMM: Like dogs, wolves recognize familiar human voices.

HOW MUCH CAN YOU CARRY? How much ammo should you carry on a regular basis? That’s a darn good question. You’ll probably never need to use your carry gun. If you do, you’ll be very unlikely to need a reload. But how very unlikely is too unlikely for you? And, as he notes, the likelihoods change in the event of social unrest, etc.

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HMM: All the immunity, none of the symptoms, through dietary intervention.

THIS WOULDN’T BE A PROBLEM WITH NICE, CLEAN NUCLEAR PLANTS: Fears that Suffolk electricity substation could blight village: Needed to bring offshore wind power to the grid.

SOON EVEN THE PROLES WILL BE ABLE TO BE SKINNY! GLP-1 weight loss drugs are having a moment. Amid Wegovy, Ozempic craze will results last?

WHEN PEOPLE TELL YOU WHO THEY ARE, BELIEVE THEM: NYC Pride: ‘We’re Coming For Your Children.’

THIS SEEMS UNSURPRISING: Lower kidney function may harm health of young adults.

JON GABRIEL WITH NEWS YOU CAN USE: Note to my fellow middle-aged men: You have permission to be old.

RIP, CHEF: Frederic Forrest, Actor in Apocalypse Now, The Rose, Dies at 86. “Coppola also cast him in ‘One From the Heart,’ ‘The Conversation,’ ‘Hammett’ and ‘Tucker: The Man and His Dream.’ Forrest’s titular conversation with Cindy Williams in ‘The Conversation’ is recorded by Gene Hackman, and his voice is heard throughout the film.”

IN THE MAIL: Home Studio Recording: The Complete Guide by Warren Huart and Jerry Hammack.

Watch for a detailed review over at Ed Driscoll.com in the not-too-distant future.