OKAY, GROOMERS: Proposed California bill would brand parents abusive if they refuse to affirm their transgender children’s identity — and let social workers take youngsters into care.

DIVERSITY IS OUR STRENGTH: University Print Office sells Pride flag stickers in more than a dozen ‘inclusive’ designs like ‘demigender’ and ‘aromantic.’

Wait, only a dozen? Bigots!

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: Police Investigating Discovery Of 2020 Absentee Ballots In Michigan Storage Locker.

QUESTION ASKED: Missing: Where Are America’s Urban Kids?

Since May 1, there has been a quiet epidemic of missing kids in America’s large urban areas. In Cleveland alone there are — as of the publication of this article — currently 45 kids listed as missing on the City of Cleveland’s Police webpage. That number includes kids just from the city of Cleveland proper, so the number of missing in surrounding areas is likely much higher still.

In addition, on the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children’s (NCMEC) website, there are three more missing Cleveland kids. That’s 48 kids missing in just a little over five weeks. What the heck is happening in Cleveland?

It’s not just Cleveland; read the whole thing.

DIVERSITY IS OUR STRENGTH: Watch These Adorable Muslim Children Stomp All Over the LGBTQQIP2SAA+ Pride Flag.

GOOD: Norway opens vast ocean area to deep-sea mining.

MK-ULTRA: Did Ted Kaczynski’s Transformation Into the Unabomber Start at Harvard?

Yes. Next question?

BECAUSE SHE’S A DEMOCRAT. DUH. Cabinet secretary admits to lying under oath – why does she still have her job?

Related:

Saying, “No one is above the law” in 2023 sounds like you don’t have a news source.

— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) June 11, 2023

WELL, BYE: Boris Johnson’s shock exit reverberates through British ruling party.

Old rifts resurfaced in Britain’s ruling Conservative Party on Saturday following former Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s abrupt resignation from parliament, while the opposition Labour Party sensed opportunity ahead of a general election next year.

Johnson quit late on Friday in protest against an investigation by lawmakers into his conduct as prime minister during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, when lockdown-breaking parties were held in Downing Street.

In his resignation statement, Johnson railed against the inquiry that examined whether he misled the House of Commons about the gatherings, saying it had not found “a shred of evidence” against him. He also took aim at current Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.

Flashback: Boris Johnson Missed His Churchill Moment: The pandemic was Boris’s biggest test. He failed.

NOPE. NEXT QUESTION? Mark Judge: Kamala Harris Loves ‘The Chronicles of Narnia.’ Is That a Spark of Hope?

ROGER KIMBALL: Joe Biden’s Department of Justice is as corrupt as Hunter Biden’s laptop. Few people of either party trust it, nor should they.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Forest Fires and N95 Masking. “Consider n95 masking for forest fires. The data is of piss poor quality. Sure, in contrived laboratory studies it filters some smoke, but that isn’t the question. The question is: when you live in a city blanketed with smoke, should you advise citizens to mask when they walk outside, etc? Let’s think through that.”

Plus: “Finally, the real motivation for me writing this column is that public health is being led by the dumbest people.”

SEE, THIS IS THE KIND OF QUESTION IT’S A HATE CRIME TO ASK:

What percentage of gun crimes are committed by Republicans?

— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) June 10, 2023

OPEN THREAD: You know what to do.

THE PROBLEMS ARE BASICALLY REGULATORY, NOT ENGINEERING-RELATED: SpaceX Starship problems likely to delay Artemis 3 moon mission to 2026, NASA says. “It’s unclear when Starship will fly again; several boxes must be checked first. For example, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is still investigating the launch mishap, with SpaceX’s help. And a coalition of environmental groups is suing the FAA, claiming the agency didn’t properly assess the damage Starship launches could inflict on the surrounding ecosystem.”

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Chicago-area Hospitals Rationing Cancer Medications Amid Nationwide Drug Shortage.

BAD LUCK: An Extremely Rare Mutation Landed a Woman in Prison For Murder. “Twenty years ago, Kathleen Folbigg was imprisoned, having been found guilty of killing her four children. A few days ago, she received a full pardon and walked free. A mutation in a CALM gene that affects one in 35 million people is now thought to have caused the deaths of her two daughters via a rare syndrome called calmodulinopathy.”

WHY SO MANY PEOPLE DON’T TAKE THE TRUMP INDICTMENT SERIOUSLY: “Oddly, the bureaucrats at the National Archives took the unprecedented step of weighing in on the case, as reported by CNN. I’ve done a bit of digging and I was unable to find a single statement from the National Archives about Joe Biden’s mountain of classified documents scattered around the country in various locations. Nor did they weigh in on the controversies surrounding Hillary Clinton’s private email server back in 2016. But for some reason, they felt compelled to jump on the dogpile surrounding Trump. So be it, I suppose.”

SADLY TRUE:

He wanted to be a woman and believed industrialization was a catastrophe. Had he become a politician instead of a mail bomb maker he might still be in the Senate at 81.

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) June 10, 2023

I MENTIONED THIS EARLIER, BUT HERE’S THE PAPER: Taurine Deficiency as a Driver of Aging.

GIVEN THEIR TRACK RECORD, I DUNNO: El Niño: “The National Weather Service’s Climate Prediction Center says an El Nino weather pattern has officially developed, raising the possibility of a more robust hurricane season for Gulf and Atlantic coast regions.”

BLUEPRINT FOR SAVING MEDICARE: The federal government’s most popular social program (or second most-popular, depending on how you view Social Security) faces insolvency in less than a decade. Politicians keep kicking the can down the road, the root problems in the program continue to worsen and we all go on about our business.

But, as somebody whose name escapes me at the moment once famously said, things that cannot continue, won’t, and that maxim is deeply applicable to Medicare. There is hope, however.

“Modernizing Medicare: Harnessing the Power of Consumer Choice and Market Competition,” co-edited by Dr. Robert Moffit and Marie Fishpaw and featuring essays by a dozen of the nation’s smartest public health policy thinkers, points to the success of Medicare Advantage as the core of such hope.

Check out my latest PJMedia column for more of why this book is essential reading for Medicare beneficiaries and policymakers alike. Radical reforms designed to give the power of choice to beneficiaries can save the program.

CIA HARDEST HIT: Taliban successfully eradicates poppy cultivation: Report. Afghan poppy cultivation, which long provided most of the world’s heroin supply, flourished for decades due to US intervention in the country.

COLOR ME UNSURPRISED: Staying socially active may help seniors maintain optimal health.

DIED IN PRISON: “Unabomber” Ted Kaczynski.