IT IS UNWISE TO CROSS CZAR VLADIMIR: Popular Russian TV series disappears from streaming service after its lead actress speaks out against war. “‘Olga,’ a popular Russian TV series whose last season was released in May, has been removed from the site of the channel that aired it, as well as from the channel’s streaming service, just weeks after the show’s star, actress Olga Troyanova, spoke out against the invasion of Ukraine. The show is considered to be one of TNT’s most successful shows.”

At least Troyanova hasn’t been defenestrated or poisoned — yet?

WHERE’S HUNTER, FAT? Inside the Whirlwind 48 Hours Before Hunter Biden Bought His Handgun.

In the 48 hours before Hunter Biden’s handgun purchase that is now under investigation by federal prosecutors, President Joe Biden’s troubled son was being hounded about hundreds of thousands of dollars he owed in debts, juggling texts from his brother’s widow and her sister, who were also his lovers, and coordinating what appears to be a drug deal at a local 7-Eleven with a man saved in his phone only as “Q.”

Justice Department prosecutors are reportedly investigating the younger Biden for several potential offenses related to his Oct. 12, 2018, gun purchase, including whether he lied on a federal firearms application when asked, “Are you an unlawful user of, or addicted to, marijuana or any depressant, stimulant, narcotic drug, or any other controlled substance?”

A Washington Free Beacon review of emails, photographs, and text messages from Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop* reveals a series of chaotic days that led up to his trip to the gun store and provides further evidence that Hunter Biden was an active drug user at the time of his gun purchase.

Photos published by the New York Post show Hunter Biden asleep with a crack pipe in his mouth on Oct. 8. A few days after he purchased the gun, on Oct. 19, Hallie Biden texted him a photo of crack cocaine paraphernalia forgotten on a table in an unknown location.

* The laptop, you say?

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Feds to begin tracking sexual orientation and gender identity of PhD earners.

MICHAEL WALSH: Heisenberg’s Revenge.

Having failed to destroy us with the Covid Hoax (even the loathsome Facebook nazis have given up on it), the Left has now moved “climate change” front and center as the international left’s preferred soul-sapping means of destruction. Based on the small (in the cosmic scheme of things), 140-year-old sample of randomly gathered temperature data, jealous and vengeful cultural Marxists have decided to extrapolate from cherry-picked, manipulated, and massaged data to convince a gullible and trusting public that the world is coming to an end any day now, unless we act now. Like sleazy used-care salesman, they employ scare and pressure tactics in order to get you to work against your own best, self-preservative instincts and willingly destroy infrastructure, cripple food production, kill sea life, and incinerate forests.

The key to their successful sowing of confusion can be found in the Heisenberg Principle, which states: “we cannot know both the position and speed of a particle, such as a photon or electron, with perfect accuracy; the more we nail down the particle’s position, the less we know about its speed and vice versa.” In popular understanding, this terms of physics is expressed thus: the act of observing a thing changes its behavior and the closer it is observe, the more its nature becomes unclear. Or, if you stare at the word “cat” long enough, you can convince yourself that “cat” is misspelled.

But St. Greta tells us it was all for naught — sadly, the world came to an end today:

MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: China Is Certainly Getting Their Money’s Worth Out of Joe Biden. “Who wouldn’t want a relationship with a guy that stays bought?”

THE GOAL IS TO MAKE RACIAL DISCRIMINATION EASIER: Record number of schools no longer require SAT/ACT in admissions.

OHIO NORTHERN U, WHILE REFUSING TO TELL A PROF WHAT HE’S ACCUSED OF DOING, ASKS CRITICS TO ‘WITHHOLD JUDGMENT.’ I await its petition to the court for mercy in the killing of its parents on the grounds that it is an orphan. (Note: my firm represents Prof. Gerber here. Not the school, thank goodness.)

This country is in the grips of a massive crisis of institutional accountability. From Hunter Biden, the FBI, and Fauci, to colleges that violate the law and school boards that silence parents, those in power believe (with solid evidence) that they will never even have to answer questions. It’s all of our jobs as citizens, not subjects, to make them wrong about this.

COLD WAR II: China negotiating with Havana about joint military training facility in Cuba. “According to a senior U.S. official, Beijing and Havana are discussing what kind of training would take place at the facility and what the leadership structure would look like. Biden administration officials have brought up these talks with their counterparts in Beijing and Havana. It’s unclear, however, how far along China and Cuba are in their chats about the prospects for a deal, the official said.”

Cuba has needed a new foreign sponsor to help keep the lights on since the collapse of the Soviet Union and China “is muscling into power across America’s underbelly.”

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Team Sleepy Joe Seems to Have a Case of Kennedy Panic. “The Democrats were obviously hoping that the drooling shell they have running as an incumbent president wouldn’t be challenged at all. They can’t have Biden in any sort of contest with other people, as he is in a constant struggle with himself. They just want to get Sir Sniffsalot back to the basement and record the occasional video where First Lady DOCTOR Cruella de Biden can do all of the talking.”

IF ONLY HE HAD GIVEN US SOME WARNING: Washington Post Exposes Ron DeSantis’ Nefarious Plot To Govern As A Conservative. To be fair, he did make campaign promises, but the WaPo can be forgiven for discounting those, since GOP politicians seldom follow through on those.

WHEN COMPETENCE AND EXPERIENCE TAKE A BACKSEAT TO INCLUSIVENESS:

https://twitter.com/CatchUpFeed/status/1671372796876984320

From the replies: “You can’t spell DEI without DIE.”

MISSING TITANIC SUB ONCE FACED MASSIVE LAWSUIT OVER DEPTHS IT COULD SAFELY TRAVEL TO:

After Lochridge issued his inspection report, OceanGate officials convened a meeting on January 19, 2018, with the CEO, human resources director, engineering director, Lochridge, and the operations director. Per the complaint:

At the meeting Lochridge discovered why he had been denied access to the viewport information from the Engineering department—the viewport at the forward of the submersible was only built to a certified pressure of 1,300 meters, although OceanGate intended to take passengers down to depths of 4,000 meters. Lochridge learned that the viewport manufacturer would only certify to a depth of 1,300 meters due to experimental design of the viewport supplied by OceanGate, which was out of the Pressure Vessels for Human Occupancy (“PVHO”) standards. OceanGate refused to pay for the manufacturer to build a viewport that would meet the required depth of 4,000 meters.

For reference, the Titanic is estimated to sit on the ocean floor at a depth of nearly 13,000 feet.

Titan’s release form is something else: When This Word Appears Three Times in the Titanic Submersible Waiver, Maybe You Shouldn’t Go.

Spoiler Alert: That word is “death.”

K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: May schools conspire against parents? “Whoever would have thought that school teachers and administrators would spend hours discussing how best to work against parents knowing about their kids’ lives and troubles?”

SPECIAL TREATMENT: Outrage over Hunter Biden avoiding jail.

A BILLION HERE AND A BILLION THERE, AND SOONER OR LATER, YOU’RE TALKING ABOUT REAL MONEY: Pentagon Accounting Error Gives Extra $6.2 Billion In Aid To Ukraine.

THE SOUND OF FREEDOM: The issue of child trafficking is about to get a huge boost, thanks to Angel Studios. Angel is one of the creative energies behind “The Chosen,” the hugely popular and most-successful-ever crowd-funded TV series about the life of Jesus Christ.

In “The Sound of Freedom,” actor Jim Caviezel, who famously portrayed Jesus in Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of Christ,” plays Tim Ballard, a man devoted to his mission of rescuing children from the horrors of child trafficking.

This preview clip on HillFaith is absolutely gripping. As Caviezel explains at the end of the video, “The Sound of Freedom” is another crowd-funded effort and the international release is July 4, the perfect day for a monumental film.

MICHAEL WALSH: Heisenberg’s Revenge. “Alas, it’s too late for benign neglect; as part of the Long March Through the Institutions, some of the Marcusian cadres have engaged in regulatory-agency capture, which allows them to indulge their quasi-religious lunacy with the full force of governments everywhere. So it’s time to fight back, ‘by any means necessary’ as the Left likes to say.”

THE POWER OF ESTABLISHMENT GROUP THINK AND THE NEED FOR PEER APPROVAL: John Hinderaker: Why Aren’t Red States Red? “Is is possible to be redder than North Dakota? As my colleague Bill Walsh notes, that state has overwhelming Republican majorities: 84-12 in the North Dakota House, and 43-4–seriously!–in the Senate. So why are North Dakota conservatives so disappointed in the session that has just concluded?”

LINCOLN BROWN: ‘Inclusion’ Claims Another Victim.

As we all saw on today’s news, there is indeed a two-tiered system of justice. Perhaps three-tiered may be more appropriate. One is for the people who control the government, the economy, and the media. The second is for those who have pledged their fealty to those in the first tier, or who fit the right criteria. The third is for the rest of us.

Since a girl who attended ASK Academy in Rio Rancho, N.M., does not fit into the first two tiers, we may assume that justice for her may be slow in coming, if it ever does at all. Even though she was allegedly raped by a boy in a school bathroom.

Read the whole thing.

CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: Federal Prosecutor on Hunter Biden Case Served as Right-Hand Man to Longtime Biden Family Crony.

But hey, that’s fair because the Trump prosecutor is also close to the Bidens. . . .

Related: Hunter Avoids Jail Time After Pleading Biden.

‘TOTAL INVERSION OF VIRTUE:’ Tucker Reacts to Hunter Biden’s Sweetheart Deal.

Ep. 5 As in most of the developing world, it's safer to be the president's son than his opponent. pic.twitter.com/AtRRaxYSjs

— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) June 20, 2023

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Biden’s Justice Department views Trump as a traitor. It views Trump’s supporters the same way.

Related: The anti-Trump brigade is a menace to democracy: The legal witch-hunting of the former president is infinitely more dangerous than he is.

HMM: OceanGate REFUSED to put missing Titan sub through independent inspection process and also fired director in 2018 after he asked for more rigorous safety tests.

NO, THIS ISN’T ABOUT HIS WAR RECORD: Watchdog group slaps John Kerry with complaint for wildly exaggerated claims.

GOODER AND HARDER, CALIFORNIA: San Francisco supermarket installs metal exit gates to stop frequent shoplifters from raiding groceries amid spiraling opioid-fueled crime that has caused stores and people to flee the city.