SO U.S. V. RAHIMI IS OUT, and the Supreme Court upheld the ban on gun possession by those subject to a domestic violence civil protective order. I was out to a long lunch and just got home, so I’ll have something to say later after I’ve read it, but here’s a summary from SCOTUSblog.

However, if, as the majority says, “firearm laws have included provisions preventing individuals who threaten physical harm to others from misusing firearms,” then does that call into question bans on gun possession by those convicted of nonviolent felonies? It has long been my position that far fewer crimes should be designated as felonies, and that the due process clause and the Eighth Amendment should set limits on what sorts of crimes can be made felonies. But I’ll read the opinion before I say more.

UPDATE: More thoughts from Eugene Volokh.

DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: Oakland Residents Celebrate Juneteenth By Shooting At Each Other. “For all the talk of California having the toughest gun control in the nation, gangbangers seem to have no problem obtaining weapons. Evidently the California Democratic establishment only wants to disarm the law-abiding.”

IT’S NOT ESPECIALLY APPARENT ANYWHERE RIGHT NOW: What IF Ilya is Right and Superintelligence is Near?

HEY, YOU CAN’T DO THAT! At least not if you are a moral relativist. Greg Koukl, writing at Salvo, lays out seven things folks who claim truth is all relative cannot do (and stay true to themselves). The first of the seven things is accuse other people of wrong-doing. Remind you of anybody?

UPDATE: See also Wintery Knight’s analysis of why moral relativists are fundamentally hobbled when asked to justify morality on their worldview. And while you’re out, you might even check out HillFaith and my quickie look at the fraud that is Critical Theory.

FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: She Drove That Ambulance Like She Stole It (Because She Did). “It’s time for your much-needed break from the serious news and this week we have our first stolen ambulance story in months, Robbing Bank for Dummies, and the Michigan politician who knows how to AMERICA! better than almost anyone.”

LIFE IN THE 21ST CENTURY: Dell said return to the office or else—nearly half of workers chose “or else.”

ARE THE OTHER ONE-THIRD ON DRUGS? JustTheNews has a blockbuster story out today, with John Solomon reporting that an Associated Press/University of Chicago poll shows that two thirds of Americans believe Joe Biden did something illegal or unethical:

“The two chairmen leading Joe Biden’s impeachment inquiry are zeroing in on a simple question that could transform their case: With so many red flags surrounding Hunter Biden, did U.S intelligence or the FBI give then-Vice President Joe Biden or his boss, President Barack Obama, briefings about the risks of the Biden family business?”

Of course it’s a simple question. One so simple that the media trying to drag POTATUS across the finish line again are not capable of asking.

I’m so old that I remember once-respectable news organizations asking “What did the President know, and when did he know it?“

LIMITED TIME DEAL: Best Choice Products 10ft Solar Polyester LED Lighted Patio Umbrella. #CommissionEarned

SIX YEARS AGO TODAY:

This tweet is now 6 years old pic.twitter.com/EcVTV7RDi6

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) June 21, 2024

THIS WAS CNN: CNN Death Spiral — Ratings Drop to 396,000 Total Viewers. “CNN is really collapsing in the most important arena, the 25-54 age demo that determines advertiser rates. CNN averaged only 80,000 demo viewers during primetime and 69,000 throughout the total day.”

HALLUCINOGENS ARE OVERRATED: LSD use tied to increased distress in unemployed job-seekers.

FOR THE SAME REASON THE SCORPION STINGS THE FROG: Why Does Joe Biden Keep Nominating Monsters Like This to the Federal Bench?

THEY’RE ALWAYS IN THE LAST PLACE YOU LOOK: Microplastics found in human penises for first time.

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG:

Texas Children’s Hospital has scrubbed its press contact page. The hospital doesn’t want to answer questions about its child sex-change scandal. Why? pic.twitter.com/4bHbgGYUSg

— Caroline Downey (@carolinedowney_) June 20, 2024

Christopher Rufo said, “They are in a full-blown panic,” and he must be right.

SARAH HOYT’S SHOCKED FACE IS IN A MEDICALLY INDUCED COMA: Biden’s Ignoring His Own Executive Border Order, But You Knew That Already.

I KNOW, CRAZY, RIGHT? In Cargill, SCOTUS Ruled that Words Mean Things and Congress Writes the Laws.

THROW SOME MONEY AT THE SYMPTOM, THAT OUGHT TO CURE THE DISEASE: Chicago is so dangerous its progressive mayor has launched a new program to pay murder victims’ families $1,500 towards funeral costs.

MEGAN FOX: ‘Bachelor’ Clayton Echard’s False Accuser Referred for Criminal Prosecution.

THAT’S UNFAIR. Western nations are showing creativity and ruthlessness — in how they copy the Chinese to suppress dissent in their own countries.

#HongKong #World Not a day goes past without Hong Kong authorities devising new ways to render the lives of their critics miserable and unviable. Why aren’t the governments of democratic countries matching their creativity and ruthlessness in response?https://t.co/auQaIwhKPf

— Domino Theory (@DominoTheoryMag) June 21, 2024

ANALYSIS: TRUE. It’s time to dump ‘ethnic studies’ mandates. “Ethnic studies will be offered in all California high schools by the 2025-26 school year, and will be a graduation requirement by 2030, reports Molly Gibbs for Bay Area News Service. But what will be taught?”

Marxist grievance culture. Next question?

IT’S AS IF OUR INSTITUTIONS ARE RUN BY PEOPLE WHO FUNDAMENTALLY HATE AMERICANS. Med school system displaces Americans in favor of foreigners, report finds.

HMM: Is Oakland the Worst City in the USA? Mayor’s House Raided by FBI.

CONSEQUENCES: 3 in 10 campus ‘pro-Palestine’ protesters had job offer rescinded in past six months: Survey.

Related: Punish students for anti-Israel encampments, 3 in 4 Americans say.

Well, unless you’re Alvin Bragg.

Outrage as Manhattan DA Bragg’s office drops nearly all cases from Columbia University’s anti-Israel protest https://t.co/sq9l6315i7 pic.twitter.com/EATuUnZcEO

— New York Post (@nypost) June 20, 2024

AT AMAZON, Laptops Under $500.00. #CommissionEarned

TURNABOUT: China says EU mandated its EV firms turn over ‘unprecedented’ amounts of data.

The Commission, which oversees trade policy for the 27-nation strong European Union, last week slapped extra duties on imported Chinese EVs following the probe, prompting rebuke from Beijing and spying allegations from Chinese state media. China has also launched a dumping investigation into EU pork imports.

“The type, scope and quantity of information collected by the European side was unprecedented and far more than what is required for a countervailing duties investigation,” He Yadong, a commerce ministry spokesperson told a news conference. He was responding to a question from Chinese state radio over whether Brussels had been seeking to spy on China’s EV industry.

The Commission “mandatorily required” Chinese automakers hand over information concerning sourcing raw materials for batteries, manufacturing components, and pricing and developing sales channels, the spokesperson said.

China makes similar demands for data from Western firms all the time — when they aren’t just stealing it. The only problem with the EU’s turnabout is that there isn’t nearly enough of it.