READER FAVORITE: 5-Minute Core Exercises for Seniors: Daily Routines to Build Balance and Boost Confidence. #CommissionEarned

I’D REALLY RATHER NOT BUT NOBODY ASKED ME: Let’s Kick Off Summer with Another Losing War!

PRIORITIES:

EXCLUSIVE: America’s top intelligence agency gave pride month manicures to agents — painting the transgender flag on their nails while a crocheting class taught agents how to make their own pride flags.

Pride activities will be held throughout June, all during work hours 🧵 pic.twitter.com/uU0u1uVB1P

— Spencer Lindquist 🇺🇸 (@SpencerLndqst) June 17, 2024

Plus: “There’s the ‘Pride Ally Challenge,’ which takes intel agents on a ‘guided journey to learn more about the LGBTQ+ community and empower you to become a better, more well-informed ally.'”

Finding and dispatching bad guys, not so much.

“EDUCATORS” SPREADING HATE-FILLED LIES: Teachers union head: ‘Conservatives don’t even want black children to be able to read.’

IN MY ADMITTEDLY LIMITED EXPERIENCE, LEGAL IMMIGRANTS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN VOCAL AND ADAMANT IN THEIR OPPOSITION TO ILLEGALS: Even Hispanic Voters Have Had Enough of Illegal Immigration.

DOMESTIC TERRORISM: TERROR?: Anonymous anti-Israel group ‘torched large portions’ of UC Berkeley construction site.

OLD SCHOOL: The rise of MEI: merit, excellence and intelligence.

MEI — merit, excellence, and intelligence — will determine hiring at Scale AI, declares CEO Alexandr Wang in a statement. “That means we hire only the best person for the job, we seek out and demand excellence, and we unapologetically prefer people who are very smart.”

An MIT dropout, Wang became the world’s youngest self-made billionaire at age 25, by supplying AI companies with “human workers and software services that label and test the data used to train” their models.

“We do not unfairly stereotype, tokenize, or otherwise treat anyone as a member of a demographic group rather than as an individual,” Wang wrote. “We believe that people should be judged by the content of their character — and, as colleagues, be additionally judged by their talent, skills, and work ethic.”

Beats the hell out of “Didn’t Earn It.”

LIMITED TIME DEAL: BLACK+DECKER 10,000 BTU Portable Air Conditioner up to 450 Sq.Ft. with Remote Control. #CommissionEarned

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: ‘Glitch’ Biden Unveils His Illegal Alien Dem Voter Registration Plan. “The docket is, of course, another gateway drug to amnesty. The Dems’ gameplan on the border has always been a variation on this theme: let a lot of people into the country illegally, complain about the Republicans and a lack of resources, everyone throws their hands into the air and begins singing the amnesty hallelujah chorus.”

JEFFREY CARTER: Niall Ferguson Is Right. (So Is Mike Solana). “The problem isn’t Americans or America, it’s the elites that are running America.”

DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: California Jewelry Store Looted In Broad Daylight. “Daylight jewelry store robberies were hardly unknown before, but these large mobs of smash-and-grab looting are a direct result of Democrats decriminalizing shoplifting. Even though the haul here is clearly above the $950 limit of Proposition 47, California criminals that have honed their looting skills on smaller value targets are clearly seeking fatter scores, and show no hesitation in branching out to hit targets in affluent cities.”

Giuliani/Bratton-style “broken windows” policing might have nipped this problem in the bud but that would be racist or something.

WHY IS THE NYT SO ANTI-SCIENCE? NYT Tries to Take Down Georgetown Prof Who Revealed Extent of Defensive Gun Uses.

YEAH, THEY’VE BEEN WORKING ON BUILDING UP THAT EXCUSE FOR A WHILE: Matt Taibbi: We Called It: Karine Jean-Pierre Blames AI “Deepfakes” for Joe Biden’s Real Infirmity. “Last week, Racket showed an intelligence-crafted game blaming AI for suggesting ‘one of the candidates may have dementia.’ Yesterday, Biden spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre played that exact card”

Lol. One of the candidates. Like we don’t know which one.

BTW, Democrats are leaning hard on the “convicted felon” line about Trump, but the only reason there aren’t two of those in this race is that “one of the candidates” was determined to be mentally unsuitable to stand trial. That’s no deepfake.

KEVIN DOWNEY JR: How Many ‘Random’ Sexual Assaults by Illegals Before Liberals Rethink the Way They Vote?

PLAY STUPID GAMES, WIN STUPID PRIZES: Harvard’s ‘Abysmal’ Year Continues.

All of this might have been enough to convince the people who run Harvard that they needed to make some changes, and, in fairness, they have made a few small ones. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences did away with mandatory diversity statements in faculty hiring but replaced them with a service statement that could easily be used to weed out candidates on the same grounds. And it partially adopted institutional neutrality, leaving out a key and currently essential part: that political divestment to get the university to take sides is off the table—National Association of Scholars President Peter Wood saw this coming.

But, despite these small steps, or even because of how small they were, it was reasonable to remain skeptical about whether Harvard had really understood the message. Professor and Dean of Social Science Lawrence D. Bobo has made it eminently clear that it did not get through to him.

Even a flatworm is smart enough to turn away from pain. Obviously Harvard hasn’t felt enough pain yet.

SOVIET STATE MEDIA CONTINUES PROPPING UP BREZHNEV:

This isn't even a fact-check.

The AP is just amplifying the denials of a highly subjective presidential moment as a form of damage control.

— Jon Miltimore (@miltimore79) June 18, 2024

However much you despise the media, it isn’t enough.

REMEMBER, THE POLICE DON’T PROTECT CITIZENS FROM CRIMINALS, THEY PROTECT CRIMINALS FROM CITIZENS: Good Samaritans beat, tied up Ecuadorean migrant busted in rape of 13-year-old girl at Kissena Park.

Dramatic video and photos obtained by The Post shows the shirtless creep – later identified by police as Christian Geovanny Inga-Landi – cowering on the sidewalk early Tuesday as the angry mob pounds him and calls him out as “a rapist.”

“Where are you going? Where are you going?” a woman is heard screaming in Spanish while clutching his hair. “He’s a rapist. He don’t care.”

Of course, they’re safe from prosecution by Alvin Bragg because they’re non-whites.

LOL, THE CDC: The CDC Admits its Latest Anti-Gun Report is Misleading and Full of Holes.

When they can address infectious diseases in a way that’s not criminally awful, maybe I’ll listen to them on other topics. Maybe.

JIM MEIGS: The Fauci Covid Conspiracy. “We told you so. There’s probably a more polite way to say that, but who cares? We are long past the time for politeness regarding the derelictions of our leadership class when it came to Covid-19. The American public has every reason to be angry. And the small, maligned group of scientists, journalists, and political figures who challenged the wisdom of America’s designated Covid experts deserves an apology. . . . In the absence of hard data, a little overreach on the part of experts might have been forgivable, at least at first. As the pandemic ground on, however, scientists started learning more about the disease, including insights that could help slow transmission and that undermined the case for rigid lockdowns. But the Covid gatekeepers mostly ignored any data that challenged their initial recommendations. They never admitted a mistake and rarely changed course on policy. And when it came to the mystery of Covid’s origin, the scientific community instantly closed ranks. The idea that a bat-related coronavirus might have emerged from a Wuhan China lab devoted to studying bat-related coronaviruses was deemed a far-out right-wing fantasy. In other words, our public health officials, abetted by a politicized media, manufactured an airtight consensus on both Covid science and policy. This consensus was largely immune to scientific evidence or concerns about the real-world impacts of draconian policies.”

Plus: “It takes a lot to shock me, but, after following the lab-leak debate for four years, I continue to be stunned by the duplicity of Anthony Fauci and other leading health officials on this issue. I’ve written column after column about how Fauci and his nominal boss, National Institutes of Health head Francis Collins, joined several key virus researchers in scrambling to distract Congress, the press, and the public from questions about their long-standing links to the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Indeed, long before most American conservatives had even heard the term ‘lab leak,’ Fauci was denouncing the idea as a nutty conspiracy theory. Today we know there was a conspiracy. But it had nothing to do with a few dissident scientists and journalists asking questions about the origin of the virus. The conspiracy was orchestrated by Fauci and his closest aides. Thanks to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests and other reporting, we can now see how Fauci strong-armed his fellow scientists to embrace a false consensus on the lab leak. (According to emails later released, even some of the scientists whom Fauci pushed to write the famous 2020 ‘Proximal Origin’ article—which claimed to disprove the lab-leak hypothesis—had doubts about their own paper’s conclusions.) Fauci and his team went on to conceal public records, bamboozle reporters, mislead Congress, and lean on social-media outlets to suppress inconvenient stories—all to cover up their possible complicity in the creation of Covid.”

And none of them has been prosecuted, or even tarred and feathered.

FINALLY, SOMETHING THE MEDIA AND I AGREE ON — BUT I WON’T LIE ABOUT IT: The Media Knows Biden Will Lose the Debate With Trump.

FROM ALPHA MERCS PRESS:  Minstrels in the Galaxy: Stories in the Key of Tull, Volume 1.

Jethro Tull has an amazing discography, spanning everything from folk music to heavy metal. Over the past 50 years, their music has influenced generations of artists working in a variety of media.

Here, a dozen science fiction authors have spun their own Tull-inspired yarns. So belly up to the bar somewhere out among the stars. Grab yourself a drink, and settle in for some colorful tales from our minstrels in the galaxy. Stories of things that could have been, things that might have been…and of things that should have been, but never were.

IT’S SATIRE, BUT IS IT?

White House Claims Terrible Economy Is Just A Deepfake https://t.co/uvSmNqWPtc pic.twitter.com/QVhTRSvgFD

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) June 17, 2024

IT’S NOT THE CHANGE PEOPLE OBJECT TO. IT’S THE DELIBERATELY ANNOYING THE FANS:  Not all change is good.

I’D ASK “WHAT’S THE RUSH?” BUT WE ALL KNOW THAT CHALLENGING GEORGE SOROS IS ANTISEMITIC:  Dem-majority FCC helping George Soros fast-track takeover of nationwide radio network: ‘This is scary’.

THIS IS BAD IN ITS OWN RIGHT AND WORSE AS A SYMPTOM OF UNDERLYING DYSFUNCTION IN THE US MILITARY:  Guest Column: No Horse Sense at the Pentagon.