MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN IS UP: Thank the green-energy cult for major blackouts this summer.

SOMEBODY’S DESPERATE: Ukraine accuses Russia of blowing up major dam.

Ukraine has accused Russian forces of blowing up a vast dam on the front lines of the war, threatening hundreds of thousands of residents as well as a nearby nuclear plant.

Water was surging through the critical Kakhovka dam on Tuesday, according to video verified by NBC News and local officials, risking massive flooding across the war zone in southern Ukraine that sparked evacuations and warnings of an “ecological disaster.”

Officials in Kyiv accused Moscow of a “terrorist attack” and raised international alarm, while Russian officials blamed Ukraine but played down the gravity of the situation.

NBC News has not verified the claims of either side about the dam, which sits in a Russian-controlled area of the front-line Kherson region.

At least there’s this: “The International Atomic Energy Agency said it was monitoring the situation and there was no immediate nuclear safety risk at the [Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear] plant.”

HMM: Doctored evidence? Democrat-led J6 panel added audio to silent security video for primetime hearings. “In at least two instances identified by Just the News, the panel’s sizzle reel that aired live and on C-SPAN last June failed to identify that it had overdubbed audio from another, unidentified source onto the silent footage. Multiple current and former Capitol Police officials as well as key lawmakers and congressional aides confirmed that the closed-circuit cameras that captured the video do not record sound and that it was added afterwards.”

THAT SEEMS FAIR: DeSantis Suspends Mayor From Office Who Was Arrested For Alleged Voter Fraud.

FDR’S D-DAY PRAYER: Hard to imagine an American President today offering a national prayer like that of FDR, delivered via radio and shared with the nation beforehand so that every American could pray it as well. Today’s ACLU would have sued FDR for such a prayer.

ROBERT SPENCER: FBI Top Dog Wray May Be Held In Contempt of Congress. Can He Be Held In Contempt of the American People? “Wray faces the prospect of being held in contempt of Congress because of the latest confirmation of the fact that the FBI is no longer a law enforcement agency, but a fetid cesspool of corruption that has been weaponized to persecute and destroy Donald Trump and other opponents of the Biden regime while sheltering Old Joe, his chip-off-the-old-block boy Hunter, and their henchmen from all possible consequences of their influence-peddling and other crimes.”

SUPREME COURT WATCH:  I’ll be holding my breath between now and the end of June waiting for the Supreme Court to issue its decision in the Harvard/UNC cases.  I refuse to be quite as optimistic as some of my colleagues.  Thrice burned (1978, 2003, & 2016), forever shy.  But I can’t help looking forward to learning the result.

The good thing about my article An Agenda for Congress is that it contains recommendations that are useful no matter what the Court decides.  One of the recommendations that the article makes would probably have to be done by litigation instead.  Indeed, that would like be more satisfying.  But with the right President and the right Congress, it could be done legislatively.

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Affirmative Action, Democracy, and the Supreme Court.

DISINFORMATION: Fake News Group Behind Deceptive TV Ad Funded By Dem Megadonor Reid Hoffman.

DEAL OF THE DAY: First Aid Only 298 Piece All-Purpose First Aid Emergency Kit. #CommissionEarned

JUST WHEN I WAS STARTING TO ENJOY THE UNEXPECTEDLY LOW SUMMER GAS PRICES: Saudi Arabia Plans To Cut Oil Production Again After No ‘Consequences’ From Biden. “The move comes almost one year after President Joe Biden’s trip to Saudi Arabia, during which he fist-bumped autocratic Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, prompting widespread criticism. Despite Biden’s visit, the Saudi-led Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) in October announced a production cut, leading Biden to vow ‘consequences’ for the Middle Eastern country. The president never followed through on his threats, the Washington Free Beacon reported.”

THE LID: June 6, 1944, D-Day: The Day That Saved The World.

THAT ABOUT SUMS IT UP: Mark Levin Explains Why the Debt Ceiling Negotiations Didn’t Matter: The System Is Broken.

MICHAEL WALSH: The Hoax of the Millennium.

On the one hand, the millennium is quite young. On the other hand, yeah, probably.

HMM: Exclusive: Musk’s Neuralink valued at about $5 bln despite long road to market.

FROM M. C. A. HOGARTH:  Earthrise.

“The thrills are nonstop, the alien cultures and races are well developed and fascinating, and there’s just the right amount of humor to keep the whole thing fizzing.” — Analog Science Fiction and Fact

Reese Eddings has enough to do keeping her rattletrap merchant vessel, the TMS Earthrise, profitable enough to feed herself and her crew. So when a mysterious benefactor from her past shows up demanding she rescue a man from slavers, her first reaction is to run for the hills. Unfortunately, she did promise to repay the loan. But she didn’t think it would involve tangling with pirates over a space elf prince…

Book 1 of the Her Instruments trilogy is a rollicking adventure set in the expansive Pelted universe, and kicks off an epic space opera series where the fate of worlds hangs in the balance. Fans who enjoyed Firefly or Andromeda will like this series.

SOMETIMES YOU GOT TO MEME:  Meme it Like it’s Hot.

NO ICE?  Shadowcam on South Korea’s Danuri lunar orbiter sees no obvious ice in the permanently shadowed interior of Spudis crater.

TRUMP, DESANTIS… LET’S CALL THE WHOLE THING MOOT:  The Game Isn’t Worth The Candle.

IT’S NOT REALLY A COMMUNIST REVOLUTION. ITS MORE REVOLUTIONARY LARPING:  Our Descent into Clown World.

ONE CAN HOPE:  Threat of ESG-Based Corporate Insanity Begins to Recede When Faced With Reality.

BECAUSE IT’S IN HIS NATURE:  Pence Begins Presidential Campaign With FEC Filing.

IF WE’RE GOING TO REVERSE ALL THE UNSPEAKABLE STUPIDITY WE’RE GOING TO BE HERE TILL THE END OF DAYS:  Mike Rowe Is on a Mission to Reverse the ‘Unspeakable Stupidity’ of Devaluing Work.

WE’VE NOTICED:  J6 Defendant on Ray Epps: ‘They Are Protecting Him Like Crazy’.

A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE FEELING SUCKER-PUNCHED:  I fought for gay rights — but trans activists have destroyed the meaning of Pride.

YEAH. I’VE NOTICED:  FDA commissioner betrays his ADHD ignorance.

Hot take: there is no writers’ strike. They’re just covering up for their inability to work without Adderal…