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ROGER KIMBALL: Trump Gets the Beria Treatment.

The Trump indictments—note the plural—are they not like the blind encountering an elephant for the first time?

One touches the beast’s trunk and says it’s shaped like a snake.

Another touches its tusks and says, no, it’s hard and bone-like.

A third, hands on the elephant’s capacious side, says it’s more like a wall of flesh.

That old story was meant to remind us of how limited our individual perspectives can be.

How easy it is to mistake the part for the whole, to seize on one thing we’re familiar with and elevate it to a general explanatory principle.

Noting the wild differences among people in their assessments of the latest—but not the last—of the Trump indictments, I at first thought the differences of opinion might be due to the differences in the vantage points from which individuals survey the news about the indictments.

But the more I learn about the issue, the more I think that’s too generous a conclusion.

It assumes a modicum of good faith among those issuing the judgments.

Alas, I don’t think the motives of every party to this spectacle are pure.

Exit quote: “Donald Trump is being given the treatment that Lavrentiy Beria, Stalin’s head of the secret police, advocated when he said, ‘Show me the man, and I’ll show you the crime.’ At the end of the day, Trump is guilty not because of anything he has done but because of who he is.”

DISPATCHES FROM WEIMAR AMERICA: California mom claims LA school encouraged daughter to transition and is to blame for her suicide.

THE LAZARUSCRUISER: Toyota Land Cruiser Raised from the Dead, Will Return to the U.S.

HEADLINE OF THE DAY: Pond scum publicly angers algae advocate slinging speciesist seaweed slur.

This is a true story, by the way.

HE’S AN OBAMA RETREAD, SO VERY LIKELY YES: Is the Biden White House Secretly Reviving Its Assault on Concerned Parents?

MASSIVE SUPPORT FOR GUN CONTROL EXISTS ONLY WITHIN THE MEDIA AND LEFTY ASTROTURF GROUPS, BUT I REPEAT MYSELF: Colorado Gun Control Rally a Damp Squib While Media Approvingly Swoon.

CHANGE: Bud Light Loses Title as Top-Selling U.S. Beer. “Modelo Especial overtook the brand as the top-selling U.S. beer in May, punctuating a monthslong boycott of Bud Light that has reshuffled the beer industry.”

PAULA BOLYARD: Say Goodbye to the America We Love. “Over the last week, we’ve seen the weaponization of the Department of ‘Justice’ in its ugliest form. It’s breathtaking to see the lengths the Biden administration will go to in order to stop his enemies. And make no mistake: You are his enemy.”

WELL, YES: Time To Wean Ourselves From Chinese Semiconductors.

EVOLUTION IN ACTION: First hominin muscle reconstruction shows 3.2 million-year-old ‘Lucy’ could stand as erect as we do.

NO ENEMIES TO THE LEFT: When LGBT Activists Flood Target With Bomb Threats, Media Pretend Conservatives Did It.

DERELICTION: DHS Secretary Mayorkas Is One Step Closer to Impeachment.

TRANSGENDER LEFT IS LOSING AMERICA: Writing at The Washington Stand, Ben Johnson reports on the growing majority of Americans who reject the Woke Transgender ideology.

The really good news is that majority is not just older folks, but includes a majority of Gen Z: “Even among the most liberal generation in U.S. history, 57 percent majority of Gen Z (born between 1997 and 2010) now believes in the gender binary — increasing 14 points in two years.”

READER FAVORITE: JLHT 40X60 Monocular Telescope High Power Monocular for Adults. #CommissionEarned

THAT’S 87 DEGREES FAHRENHEIT, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS A MILD SUMMER DAY IN THE AMERICAN SOUTHEAST: Scotland boiled by heatwave. “Scotland has recorded its hottest day of the year so far, with Threave in Dumfries and Galloway reaching 30.7C on Monday. . . . A number of weather stations across the country have reached 25C or above for three days in a row.”

25 degrees Celsius is 77 degrees Fahrenheit, otherwise known as a cool morning in Alabama. Below is a picture I took in London last summer when it was a scorching 80 degrees Fahrenheit and the train stations had heat warnings like this one.

BREAK THEM UP AND THEN BREAK THEM UP SOME MORE: EU proposes breaking up Google over anti-competition concerns.

The European Commission has been investigating Google’s ad business, and specifically its market dominance, since 2021. Following its preliminary report, the EU has now sent Google a statement of objections.

“The Commission preliminarily finds that, in this particular case, a behavioural remedy is likely to be ineffective to prevent the risk that Google continues such self-preferencing conducts or engages in new ones,” says the EU Commission in a statement

In other words, the EU does believe that Google’s advertising business is anti-competitive — and that Google will not voluntarily change that.

“The Commission’s preliminary view is therefore that only the mandatory divestment by Google of part of its services would address its competition concerns,” continues the statement.

Previously: Hotel Googlefornia. “Jason Evangelho reports what happens when your smartphone, computer laptop, and tablet are denied access to ‘Google’s 8,699,648 (!) IP addresses,’ and the results weren’t pretty.”

HITACHI: THE EARLY YEARS. Archaeologists discover 6-inch stone penis used in Medieval times.

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Pfizer expects to run out of antibiotic supply soon.

Pfizer has warned that a drug used to treat syphilis and other bacterial infections in children could run out by the end of June as a spike in infections has put pressure on an already short supply of the antibiotic.

Supply of the drug, Bicillin L-A, is expected to be exhausted by the end of this quarter, the company said in a letter to the U.S. health regulator dated Monday. Pfizer’s penicillin products have been in shortage since April.

Another similar penicillin product, Bicillin C-R, which is used to treat infections related to the upper-respiratory tract, is expected to run out of supply in the third quarter, Pfizer said.

Pfizer’s warning comes amid a shortage of the widely used antibiotic amoxicillin since October.

On the upside, a Bicillin shortage may mean that new military recruits will be spared the dreaded “peanut butter shot.” Then again, we have a shortage of recruits, too.

Did I mention that everything is going swimmingly?

VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR WEEKLY INSANITY WRAP [VIP]: I’ll Have a Half-Double Decaffeinated Half-Caff With a Twist of Racism. “Starbucks is guilty of anti-white racism, according to a $25 million jury verdict in New Jersey.”

Plus:

• “Kids and kink can coexist at Pride,” says someone who totally isn’t after your kids.
• Americans have had it up to their fake nipples with this issue.
• PBS News Hour has a very stern warning for Joe Biden Donald Trump supporters.

So much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.

MARK JUDGE: Liberal Supreme Court journalists admit incompetence, prescribe propaganda and harassment of justices.

Liberal reporters who cover the Supreme Court don’t know what they are doing. To fix this, they need to be much more hostile toward conservative justices and even more propagandistic in their coverage.

This was the theme of a live symposium recently held in Washington, D.C. Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern of Slate, Elie Mystal of the Nation, and Jay Willis of the leftist Balls and Strikes all admitted that their coverage of the Supreme Court over the years had been terrible — not because of its obvious leftist bias, but because it had failed to prevent conservative court opinions from being handed down. Calling the past few years “a wake-up call” and the result of “the sinking feeling that we’ve been doing it all wrong,” the speakers argued that they have been too deferential to the Supreme Court and its traditions.

Instead of passively “translating” for readers the often byzantine text of Supreme Court rulings, reporters now need to cover the court with the aggression that is usually used when reporters cover Congress or the White House. They need to trace cases long before they make it to the high court, the reporters claimed. They also need to do a lot of grisly stories about people who are “victims” of the court’s decisions, particularly women harmed by the overturning of Roe v. Wade. Also, when it comes to conservatives and Christians, the new journalistic model calls not for empathy and insightful coverage, but all-out antipathy.

It’s quite an argument. Acknowledging that they have no reporting skills, lefty writers have decided that repeating the propaganda that pushes their agenda, rather than more fairness and broader coverage, is the solution. They’re treating cancer by smoking cigarettes.

Read the whole thing.

HMM: Will AI soon be as smart as — or smarter than — humans?

Narrowing the gap is the apparent fact that people are getting dumber nearly as fast as machines are getting smarter.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Why Disney Fails: Their Blindness To Real Geek Culture. “Social justice showrunners are woefully ignorant of vast swathes of knowledge held by the fandoms they hold in such withering contempt.”

WE ARE FUNDING ILLEGALS’ INVASION: Capital Research Center’s Kali Fontanilla details how federal funds help non-profits like the American Red Cross support the massive invasion of the U.S. by illegal immigrants.