WINNING: Disney set to invest up to $17B in Florida parks now that fight with DeSantis appointees has ended. “Woody Rodriguez, director of external affairs for the Disney parks, told board members that the agreement will allow the company to make substantial investments in Disney World.”

AS I SAID, I’M SO CYNICAL I ASSUME THIS IS A SHAKEDOWN OF SOME SORT: US agencies to probe AI dominance of Nvidia, Microsoft, and OpenAI: DOJ to probe Nvidia while FTC takes lead in investigating Microsoft and OpenAI.

IN SHORT, CAMPUS HAMASNIKS THINK THE RULES DON’T APPLY TO THEM: The Real Story Behind Columbia’s Controversial Law Review Article—And Why It Matters. “According to various media outlets, the law review’s board of directors, composed of faculty and alumni, tried to censor an article critical of Israel. Except that’s not what happened at all. The true story involves a faction of the law review secretly breaking all procedural rules and customs to publish a piece of ideologically driven claptrap.”

CHRIS QUEEN: The College Baseball Postseason Is in Full Swing! Here’s What to Watch for During ‘Supers Weekend.’

CORN, POPPED: Trouble Brewing in Chicago for the Democratic National Convention Protests.

DOWNLOAD IT WHILE IT’S HOT: My new article, Three Bad Ideas about Race in America.

THIS HAS BEEN COMING FOR A WHILE: Most Significant Scientific Retraction Ever? “The paper helped create and sustain the theory that amyloid protein buildups caused the symptoms of Alzheimer’s Disease and was one of a number of apparently fraudulent papers written by Sylvain Lesné, a professor at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. . . . If the hypothesis that amyloid protein buildups cause Alzheimer’s symptoms is wrong, Lesné is responsible for perhaps billions of wasted research dollars and two decades of scientists following a false lead.”

That the paper is wrong is no crime. That it is fraudulent is a crime, and that upholders of the amyloid theory actively suppressed research and publication regarding other theories is arguably a bigger crime.

Plus: “There appear to be quite a number of sociopaths in the biological sciences if recent evidence is any guide, and very few checks and balances to control for this fact. . . . This is an age of scientific scandals. Science is now a multi-billion dollar industry, and one that gets far too little scrutiny. That has to change.” Every successful system accumulates parasites. The parasite load in the sciences may have become unsustainable.

OBVIOUSLY WE NEED TO NUKE CHINA: WMO: 80% chance Earth will exceed Paris Climate Agreement warming limits in next five years.

#BELIEVEALLWOMEN: Briahna Joy Gray Canned After Rolling Eyes at Hostage Family Member in Rape Discussion. Remember, no act is too unspeakable so long as the hand — or other body part — committing it is suitably brown and “oppressed.”

YOU’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BLOG: Top 5 insults Joe Biden has lobbed at the American voter.

READER FAVORITE: Camping Fan for Tent, 15000mAh Rechargeable Battery Operated Fan, Portable. #CommissionEarned

WELL, GOOD: Statins, metformin associated with lower risk of brain aneurysms.

MY LATEST SUBSTACK ESSAY: Ad Astra, Per Ardua: “To the stars, through hard work.” We’re getting there, and it’s the most important thing happening to humanity right now.

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VICTORIA TAFT: West Coast, Messed Coast™: Did You Hear the One About the Dad, Naked Man, and the Cop?

OF COURSE: Kendi’s ‘Antiracist’ center is racist by his own standards.

HMM: China Is ‘Aggressively Recruiting’ Pilots from the US and NATO Countries, Intelligence Agencies Warn. “‘To overcome their shortcomings, China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has been aggressively recruiting Western military talent to train their aviators, using private firms around the globe that conceal their PLA ties and offer recruits exorbitant salaries,’ Michael Casey, the director of ODNI’s National Counterintelligence and Security Center, said in a statement. ‘Recent actions by Western governments have impacted these operations, but PLA recruitment efforts continue to evolve in response.'”

THAT’S A LONG WAY DOWN FROM “DISSENT IS PATRIOTIC” Dem Congressional Candidate Wants Nazi-esque ‘Reeducation Camps’ for MAGA Supporters. “Even if we were to have a resounding blue wave come through, as many of us would like, putting it all back together again after we’ve gone through this MAGA nightmare and re-educating basically, which, that sounds like a rather, a re-education camp. I don’t think we really want call it that… I’m sure we can find another way to phrase it.”

Arbeit macht frei?

YOU DON’T SAY: The low-end consumer ‘is really being stretched,’ says Five Below CEO.

UNRWA IS HAMAS: IDF Hits UNRWA School Housing ’30-40′ Terrorists.

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: DOJ Indicts Whistleblowing Surgeon for Exposing Transgender Procedures at Texas Children’s Hospital.

The Department of Justice has indicted Dr. Eithan Haim, a little-known surgeon who exposed Texas Children’s Hospital for secretly conducting transgender surgeries and treatments on minors, on four felony counts related to his alleged violation of a medical-records law.

Last year, Haim anonymously leaked evidence of the child sex-change procedures to conservative journalist Christopher Rufo. The documents revealed that Texas Children’s Hospital had continued running its transgender program, despite announcing that the program had been discontinued in accordance with Governor Greg Abbott’s 2022 directive equating such medical interventions with child abuse.

The Houston-based hospital was ultimately forced to stop its trans-medical practices after a state law took effect in September 2023, prohibiting drug and surgical “gender-affirming” interventions for minors.

U.S. marshals notified Haim of the indictment at his home this week and summoned him to court for violating the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. Haim and his legal team, who don’t yet know the full nature of the charges, are set to appear in court on June 17.

The man who exposed the secret mutilation of children must be punished.

Reminder: The process is the punishment.

ON THE ONE HAND, GOOD. ON THE OTHER HAND, WITH THIS ADMINISTRATION I CAN’T HELP BUT FEEL THAT IT’S PROBABLY JUST SOME KIND OF SHAKEDOWN OR POWER GRAB: U.S. to Open Broad Antitrust Probe Into AI Giants.

WHY ARE OUR CAMPUSES SUCH CESSPITS OF BIGOTRY? USC Jewish center vandalized, glass door smashed: video.

HE KEEPS MAKING ME LIKE HIM MORE: Fetterman Rejects ‘Progressive’ Label.

THE FACE OF LOSERDOM: Meet the University of Florida students arrested at Hamas-endorsed protest.

DO WHO OFFICIALS OFTEN MISTAKE DIABETES AND KIDNEY FAILURE WITH BIRD FLU OR ONLY DURING AN ELECTION YEAR?

CAN'T MAKE IT UP.

Turns out that the man that WHO claimed died from bird flu in Mexico was confined to a bed with type 2 diabetes and kidney failure.

This is the same hoax they did during covid.

— PeterSweden (@PeterSweden7) June 6, 2024

Defund WHO.