CHANGE: Intravenous ketamine effective against treatment-resistant major depression in study.

HEALTH: Elon Musk’s brain implant company Neuralink announces FDA approval of in-human clinical study. “The implant aims to help patients with severe paralysis regain their ability to communicate by controlling external technologies using only neural signals.”

THOUGHTS ON the Hypergamy Hypothesis. “Educational hypergamy has gone into reverse. Now that women dominate education, they’re actively seeking less educated men, and vice versa. This seems to be because educational imbalances in favor of women have become normative; education is now a ‘proper’ ‘feminine’ trait. In contrast, income hypergamy is still widespread, important, and causing problems for non-compliers. Is the norm weakening over time? It’s hard to tell. . . . And for a laugh, compare the way academic papers talk about hypergamy in straight couples versus hypergamy in gay couples.”

HOW OUR COLLEGE LEADERS “CULL THE HERD.” DEI is a religion, except there’s no Golden Rule and anyone can be part of the Inquisition. No school is beneath its gaze–the victim here, Matthew Garrett, is a tenured prof at Bakersfield College, a California community college. Scott Gerber, who is going through a similar ordeal, is a tenured law professor at Ohio Northern University in tiny Ada, Ohio. (Disclaimer: Gerber is my client.) The people running higher ed are running it right into the ground, and at this point, they have to know it.

REAL MONEY: DeSantis Raises Huge $8.2M in First 24 Hours After ‘Failed’ Launch.

JON GABRIEL: DeSantis or Trump? The choice is clear if Republicans actually want the White House. “Biden is 80 and shows every year of it. Trump is 76 and can’t draw the crowds he used to. DeSantis is 44 and arguably has achieved more big policy reforms as chief executive than either one of them. As always, the choice is up to right-leaning voters, who remain a tough crowd to read. Does the GOP want to defeat Biden at the polls, or spend another four years pretending that they won while a Democrat lives in the White House?”

SAD: Goodbye, Minnesota.

The last reason I’m leaving Minnesota is because of a lack of hope. I’m a realist, and realism tells me there’s nothing more I can do to help prevent Minnesota’s decline. Not only its declining public safety, but also its declining public schools, its hopelessly irrational light-rail transit system and its eroding future.

I know our current leaders won’t solve these problems because they won’t even acknowledge they exist. Minneapolis recently unveiled a new multimillion-dollar ad campaign to draw visitors into the city to “see what all the fuss is about” because “negative perceptions” have “overshadowed” the positive. Unfortunately for that campaign’s credibility, the “fuss” on the day it was announced was about six people under the age of 18 shot in Brooklyn Center.

Plus: “I know I’ve benefited greatly from the excellent public education and wonderful career opportunities that Minnesota provided me. I can leave knowing that I’ve repaid the state many times over with the millions in taxes I’ve paid and the hundreds of jobs I’ve created. That reciprocal history makes it painful for me to say goodbye, but it’s time to end my dysfunctional relationship with the new Minnesota.”

Losing an entrepreneur like Howard Root after he retired is bad enough. What really hurts is the next generation of entrepreneurs who will give up on Minnesota before they pay those millions in taxes and create those hundreds of jobs.

LIGHTNING DEAL: MATEIN Carry On Garment Bags for Travel, Water Resistant Hanging Suit Bag for Men. #CommissionEarned

TALES FROM THE SWAMPLAND: Comer Says Biden Linked to $5 Million Bribe While VP, But FBI Is Obstructing Investigation.

SO YOU’RE SAYING IT’S ALIENS: This Stanford Professor With CIA Ties Says Aliens Are ‘100 Percent’ Already Here. “In comments made at SALT iConnection 2023—a conference that convenes investors, entrepreneurs, and policymakers—Nolan stated that he believed extraterrestrial intelligence had not only visited planet Earth, but that ‘you can go a step further, it hasn’t just visited, it’s been here a long time, and it’s still here.'”

GROW UP KIDS: Cancel conservative NY Times columnist, UChicago students demand.

A bit disappointing, though, as they’re supposed to know better at Chicago.

Plus: “The group concluded by stating it supports free expression but the ‘dignity’ of students must also be respected.”

There’s no dignity in whining, children.

YOU CAN PROBABLY GUESS: Why Is the Indy Youth Carnival Barring Parents?

INDOCTRINATION: UConn to require students to pass ‘Anti-Black Racism’ course in order to graduate.

DOUBLING DOWN: Internal email to Target employees reveals $9 BILLION in losses for one week, pivot to George Floyd anniversary. “Today brings more reflection, pain and the need for continued care as our team, hometown and world remember the murder of George Floyd. As you make space to take care of yourself and each other, know that you can always tap into these tools from Team Member LIfe Resources, and as Mental Health Awareness Month continues, turn to Take Five to Take Care hub for more wellbeing support.”

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Black Lives Matter Going Broke Is the Feel-Good Story of the Week. “The more lily white the Democrat, the more they like to pretend to be down with the struggle.”

TIME FOR CONSEQUENCES: Six in 10 want FBI officials in Russiagate prosecuted.

The Deep State bureaucrats have decided they’re not accountable to anyone. They need to be proved wrong, and examples need to be made.

NOW OUT FROM TONY KATZ & FINGERS MALLOY: Let’s Go BBQ!: Recipes, Tips and Tales from the Pit.

Their Eat! Drink! Smoke! show is great, and this book is likely to be the same. Just in time for Father’s Day!

DON SURBER: “It’s not what the media reports that matters; it is what they don’t say.”

UKRAINE WAR: Russia resorts to massive Soviet-era bombs as Ukrainian air defenses prove a match for missiles, drones.

Ukrainian investigators have increasingly found instances of Russia dropping older bombs, some around 1,100 pounds. The low-tech explosives easily circumvent modern air defenses like the U.S.-made Patriot missile systems that are designed to counter long-range missiles and drones.

Russia’s bombs, resurrected from Cold War-era ordnance stashes, have two major advantages over missiles in that they have no propulsion system for air defenses to track, and they remain airborne for barely a minute.

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With no way to counter the bombs themselves, Ukrainian forces must target the planes that drop them, a tall order for a national air force with planes far older than Russia’s modern aircraft.

“Trying to intercept these bombs isn’t effective, it’s not even rational,” a Ukrainian air force spokesman told the newspaper. “The only way out of this situation and the only way to stop it is to attack the planes that launch these bombs.”

I bet F-16s would help.

IF THEY’RE KEEPING IT SECRET, IT’S NOT BECAUSE IT MAKES THEM LOOK GOOD: GOP Lawmakers Demand FBI Share Findings In D.C. Pipe Bomb Probe.

FASCISM, STRAIGHT UP: Corrupt Bedfellows: SPLC and FBI Working Together to Frame Catholics as Terrorists.

BUILD LARGE MANSIONS: Black Activists Distance Themselves From Black Lives Matter Amid Financial Collapse.

ICYMI: MY LATEST SUBSTACK ESSAY: Thoughts on theology, survival, and The Simulation.

MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE: The County Sold Her Home Over Unpaid Taxes and Kept the Profit. SCOTUS Wasn’t Having It.

When local bureaucrats in Hennepin County, Minnesota, seized an elderly woman’s home over a small tax debt, sold it, and kept the profit, they likely had no idea they would set in motion a series of events that would cripple the practice known as “home equity theft” across the country.

Yet that’s what happened. The Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously ruled that the government violated the Constitution when it took possession of Geraldine Tyler’s condo over an overdue property tax bill, auctioned the home, and pocketed the proceeds in excess of what she actually owed.

Tyler, who is now 94 years old, purchased the Minneapolis-area condo in 1999. But a series of events, including a neighborhood shooting, prompted her to relocate to a retirement community in 2010, at which point it became difficult for her to pay both her new rent and the property taxes on her former home. She accrued a $2,300 tax bill, which turned into an approximately $15,000 bill after the government added on $13,000 in penalties, interest, and fees. Local officials then sold the home for $40,000—and kept the remaining $25,000.

Read the whole thing — Tyler is hardly alone.

WAR ON AMERICANS: DHS funds program that classifies Republican Party as “far right extremist” organization with links to Nazis.

This stuff is all being floated to justify further repression when the time is deemed right.