READER FAVORITE: 10-Minute Strength Training Exercises for Seniors: Exercises and Routines to Build Muscle, Balance, and Stamina. CommissionEarned

BIDENOMICS IS WORKING: Does $42 Billion for Zero Miles of High-Speed Internet Sound Like a Lot?

You’ve read more than once right here at PJ Media about the $7.5 billion that Presidentish Joe Biden’s Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act put on the table as an inducement to build a network of 500,000 EV charging stations up and down the nation’s interstate highways, and about how few have been built. Eight, at last count.

Well, that was a bargain compared to today’s boondoggle.

Much more at the link.

REMEMBER THIS, THE NEXT TIME BIDEN OR AUSTIN TELLS YOU HOW MUCH THEY SUPPORT THE TROOPS: Another Classic DoD Equation: LAB-GROWN MEAT + US Troops = Captive Guinea Pigs Again. “The Progressive Wokesters, who see the members of our military as one big lab rat colony, are here to tell you they’ve got a world to save, no time to do it, and might as well make use of available and basically rights-free subjects to see how it goes.”

WHY IS HIGHER EDUCATION SUCH A CESSPIT OF RACISM? University of Oklahoma discriminates against white students: University allegedly told white female student she would get more aid if she was black.

Because it’s run by racists.

BIDEN IS OUR BREZHNEV, BUT WHO WILL BE OUR GORBACHEV? The U.S. as Soviet Union: A government with a permanent deficit and a bloated military. A bogus ideology pushed by elites. Poor health among ordinary people. Senescent leaders. Sound familiar?

PAULA BOLYARD SPEAKS A HARD TRUTH: The Real Reason Johnny Can’t Read: Bad Parenting.

“DEI GROUPTHINK:” New report accuses Cornell of saying ‘No’ to faculty applicants for opposing DEI brainwashing.

KINDA LIKE DELAWARE, POLITICIZATION OF THE JUDICIARY IS UNDERMINING HONG KONG’S POSITION:

Thank you @NikkeiAsia for publishing my op-ed on how the resignations of Collins and Sumption from the #HongKong Court of Final Appeal are part of a wider malaise in HK’s status as a commercial dispute resolution hub, in which the national security crackdown is not a direct cause…

— Kevin Yam 任建峰 (@kevinkfyam) June 18, 2024

FLASHBACK: Retired WNBA Player Reveals She Was Bullied for Being Straight. “Wiggins, a four-time All-American at Stanford, asserts she was targeted for harassment from the time she was drafted by Minnesota because she is heterosexual and a nationally popular figure, of whom many other players were jealous.”

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Dems’ 2024 Platform — Your Reality Is Wrong, Stupid Voters. “It’s not just the sobering reality of Biden’s behavior that the public is being told to ignore, it’s the harsh reality of the consequences of his policies too.”

LIMITED TIME DEAL: JISULIFE Portable Neck Fan. #CommissionEarned

FOLLOW THE SCIENCE: Fact Checking Hurricane Severity Versus Climate Change. “[If] we have colder periods, we will get more hurricane activity. If we have warmer periods, the hurricane activity tends to drop off.”

AXIOS: Biden backstory: Runs darkened by family trauma, addiction.

To my eyes, the Axios report reads like an attempt to generate sympathy for Biden, and it doesn’t contain much you probably didn’t already know. There is something newsworthy in the lead, however: “The recent courtroom revelations about the turmoil in Joe Biden’s family have left some of his aides torn about whether he should have run for president at all.”

White House senior staff meeting this morning going to be lit, folks. pic.twitter.com/5IGo8oXadI

— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) June 17, 2024

Indeed.

CELEBRITIES THINK PLASTIC SURGERY LOOKS NORMAL: ‘What the f***?’: Celebrities baffled voters like Trump for sounding ‘normal.’

They live in a bubble. A crazy, stupid, frequently evil bubble.

TIME CALLED IT A “CABAL,” AND IT WAS ONE: Judicial Watch: New Records Detail Federal-State Censorship Coordination in 2020 Election.

And of course they’re planning to do it again. They didn’t suffer any consequences last time.

HMM: This Could Be The Biggest News of the 2024 Campaign Yet. “There is no scenario where Trump wins Iowa by 18 points but loses Wisconsin.”

THE ENEMY WITHIN: Ford Foundation Sends Millions to Organizations That Have Celebrated Oct. 7 Terrorist Attacks.

WHAT DISTINGUISHED CHARLOTTESVILLE WAS THAT IT WAS POLITICALLY USEFUL. THESE ARE NOT. THAT EXPLAINS THE MEDIA ATTENTION GAP. Hateful pro-Hamas protests create another antisemitic Charlottesville rally every day.

HMM: China Property Drag Is Getting Worse, Factory Output Disappoints.

Among a slew of data published on Monday, analysts latched onto the bad news from the property market, which has been the biggest drag on China’s economic growth. Declines in real estate investment and home prices both gathered pace last month.

Industrial production rose 5.6% from a year earlier, the National Bureau of Statistics said, slowing from April and missing the median forecast in a Bloomberg survey. Retail sales offered some encouragement, picking up more than expected, but Chinese shoppers remain far from recovering their pre-pandemic mojo.

The numbers add up to a still-weak recovery, most economists said — likely requiring more action from Beijing to bolster consumer demand and tackle imbalances, if this year’s 5% growth target is to be met. That could take the form of stepped-up government spending and heightened efforts by the central bank to put a floor under housing markets and get credit flowing.

“The most disappointing in May’s data is probably that property sales barely saw any improvements even after so many supportive measures,” said Jacqueline Rong, chief China economist at BNP Paribas SA.

It isn’t that Beijing’s troubles aren’t serious — because they are. But not serious enough to detail the country’s unprecedented peacetime naval expansion.

IT’S SATIRE, MOSTLY:

'It's Just Basketball,' Shrugs Decapitated Caitlin Clark https://t.co/1eTETU2FWD pic.twitter.com/WCNl4BQw6i

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

A FEW THINGS TO PONDER: Leaps in Technology – Appreciating Timescales and Connection.

MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT [VIP]: Contrary Take: Maybe Trump Was Right to Accept Biden’s Sundowner Debate Rules. “They’ll try to shut him up. They’ll try to trip him up with questions like, ‘How can America trust you when your record shows that time and again, you would feed transgender people to feral hogs on a pay-per-view channel you owned, and now you want to spend taxpayer money to have SpaceX launch your political opponents into the Sun as part of your program to destroy our precious democracy?'”

IT’S WHO THEY ARE, IT’S WHAT THEY DO:

Biden Administration continues its weaponization of federal agencies to go after Elon Musk.

"Again ask a court to bar him from serving as an officer or director of a public company … exposing him to the possibility of removal from Tesla."

“They sued him previously, and I… pic.twitter.com/00Vvnytzwj

— Warren Redlich – Chasing Dreams (@WR4NYGov) June 17, 2024

I now assume that any prosecution or regulatory attack on a business not overtly aligned with the Democrats is undertaken for partisan political reasons.

NOAA HAS A THING CALLED “BILLION DOLLAR DISASTERS” THAT STOKES THE PANIC ABOUT GLOWBALL WORMING. TURNS OUT IT’S VERY VERY HINKY:  Billion Dollar Disasters on Steroids.

THIS IS KNOWN AS BETRAYING THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. THESE ARE NOT OUR COUNTRYMEN:  An emerging coalition that views Donald J. Trump’s agenda as a threat to democracy is laying the groundwork to push back if he wins in November, taking extraordinary pre-emptive actions.  The Resistance to a New Trump Administration Has Already Started.