MARK JUDGE: Reading for the Love of God — Why Christians Should be Good Readers.

WELL, SORT OF: Ted Cruz Draws A 2024 Challenger. “Certainly Allred has Beto O’Rourke’s lack of experience, but he doesn’t seem likely to inspire the same Great Southern Hope hype as O’Rourke did.”

MARK FELTON: The Last Kamikazes — Japanese Attacks After the Surrender (Video.)

WHEN THE LEFT SAYS YOU’RE BEING PARANOID IT’S ONLY BECAUSE YOU’VE FIGURED OUT WHAT THEY’RE UP TO: Not a Conspiracy Theory: Yes, the Government Will Be Coming for Your Gas Stove.

MY NEW SUBSTACK ESSAY: AI and the Screwfly Succession: What if love really does conquer all?

CINEMA: How “The Chosen” cast out the moneychangers.

I LIKE THESE IMPROVED TWITTER COMMUNITY NOTES:

It’s nice to see the faux fact-checkers at PolitiFact get some pushback.

IT ISN’T A SCANDAL WHEN THEY DO IT: Liberal Supreme Court Justice Caught in Scandal.

CHUTZPAH: KJP doubles down on illegal migration going down by more than 90%. “They haven’t even tried the excuse route. They went straight to gaslighting mode, despite the facts staring everyone in the face.”

SHOCKER: Proposed changes ‘obviously’ violate the ‘key’ point of Title IX: protecting women– Dr. Virginia Foxx explains.

Pretty much the entire “Title IX” superstructure has nothing to do with the actual statute. It’s the creation of bureaucratic reinterpretations and judicial acquiescence.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, RAMPANT INFANTILIZATION EDITION: University offers pro-LGBTQ students cotton candy, coloring to ease their anxieties.

REPORT: Charges Against Hunter Biden May Be Imminent.

HORSE, BARN DOOR: Oberlin adds risk manager after Gibson’s Bakery lawsuit and too many others.

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FASTER, PLEASE: Experimental Alzheimer’s drug slows cognitive declines in large trial, drugmaker Eli Lilly says.

DEAL OF THE DAY: DEWALT 20V Max Cordless Drill / Driver Kit. #CommissionEarned

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Save Democracy—Send a Biden to Prison. “If he weren’t the president’s son, he would be wearing nothing but orange jumpsuits. Never have so many worked so hard to keep a monumental sleazebag out of legal hot water.”

IN SLOW MOTION: Druckenmiller On America’s Debt Crisis: ‘It’s Like Watching A Horror Movie Unfold.’ “Honestly, all this focus on the debt ceiling instead of the future fiscal issue is like sitting on the beach at Santa Monica worrying about whether a 30-foot wave will damage the pier when you know there’s a 200-foot tsunami just 10 miles out.”

YOU’RE NOT TAKING US SERIOUSLY WHILE WE ACT LIKE CHILDREN! ‘Dream Defenders’ Protesters Furious That DeSantis Staffer Ate Cake During Their ‘Occupation’ Of Gov’s Office.

But wait: They occupied an office? Doesn’t that count as an “insurrection” now? 12 months in solitary for everyone!

THE IVY EXILE: Cancel Culture and the Limitations of Courage.

Matt Yglesias, like me, has his own platform and is — though for different reasons — financially independent. That doesn’t describe most people, and you’ll notice that cancel culture is at its strongest in fields where employment is cushy, but alternatives are limited.

MARK JUDGE: Conservatives are Not Ready for the ‘Hot War’ Against the Supreme Court.

HEH: Elon Musk Gives NPR the Vapors Again.

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Half of America’s banks are potentially insolvent – this is how a credit crunch begins.

Upside (well, sort of): Bank failures are deflationary. Yay!

AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: Nashville Shooter Manifesto Placed In Secure Crate Alongside Motive For Vegas Shooting, Epstein Client List, Ark of The Covenant.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, INSTITUTIONAL SEXISM EDITION: Gendered-Oriented Funding in Academic Science Is Biased In Favor Of Women: Cornell Professor Wendy Williams: “It’s important to get a grip on what’s going on today and not what was going on in 1985.”