HE SAYS THE MEDIA DOESN’T UNDERSTAND WHAT’S HAPPENING:  It’s Not the Iowa Poll That Has Frank Luntz Gobsmacked.

THERE ARE A LOT OF ZOMBIES WANDERING ABOUT:  Bill Maher Had to Call Out This ‘Zombie Lie’ When Interviewing a Black Radio Host.

I’D SAY THE PROBLEM IS WITH SCHOOLS OF EDUCATION AND THE FADS AND OUT OF THE BLUE THEORIES THEY ENCOURAGE:  The trouble with (many) teachers.

OPEN THREAD: Be here now.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover enters new Red Planet territory: ‘Bright Angel.’

WELL, HE FACED PERJURY CHARGES IF HE LIED TO CONGRESS. HE DOESN’T WHEN HE LIES TO AMERICA. Dr. Anthony Fauci writes COVID-19 lab leak is a ‘conspiracy theory’ in memoir — but told Congress it wasn’t.

THE SCIENCE IS SETTLED. FOLLOW THE SCIENCE. Cheese Makes You Happy And Could Boost Healthy Aging, Study Suggests.

SCHMALTZ FOR THE WIN: Poultry Power: Transforming Waste Chicken Fat into Clean Energy.

METAPHOR ALERT:

‘Big’ cockroach crashes State Department press briefing, alarms spokesman in awkward scene https://t.co/2rqtSWxNTz pic.twitter.com/yPGLHLV0lr

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

WHY ARE DEMOCRATS THE UNFEELING PARTY OF CONTEMPT?

I called Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D) to ask what’s so funny about a minor getting r*ped by an illegal. I think we all missed the joke. Hopefully she returns my call! @PramilaJayapal @RepJayapal https://t.co/dohSXZSC2Q pic.twitter.com/XW2yTIJ0hd

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) June 20, 2024

Related: Migrant charged with murder of 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray was released into US just weeks ago.

Plus, compare and contrast: Donald Trump calls mom of Rachel Morin, jogger murdered by illegal immigrant: ‘Deeply touched.’

DON SURBER: NYC sees Trump was right.

The story not reported often is better than the one not reported. And in this case, the story reported is pretty darned good: A man stalked the illegal alien who raped a 13-year-old girl and with the help of neighbors, beat the crap out of him and tied him with a belt until police arrived. . . .

That paragraph is telling for what it doesn’t say. The paragraph does not say the rapist (the illegal alien admitted the rape) was stalked and beaten. There is no mention of tying him up. Instead in NYT’s world, people just held the man.

In an earlier age, NYT might crusade against vigilantism and maybe it still will. Its story was sympathetic to the rapist “After his arrest, Mr. Inga told officers that he had a drug problem” and downplayed fears of rape, “Sexual assaults by strangers are relatively rare. Only about 20% of rapes are committed by someone who is a stranger to the victim” — only 20%. The Me Too movement is not only dead but with a wooden crucifix driven through its heart.

But I doubt NYT or the rest of the Democrats want to draw attention to this case because it points out that violent crime and the number of illegal aliens are rising under Biden.

What NYT and the rest of the propagandist media decried as racist when Donald Trump said it 9 years ago has been shown to be the truth.

On the upside, the crowd that beat him was made up of immigrants too. They haven’t been denatured by the U.S. legal and educational system yet.

Plus: “The 77% who say illegal immigration is a crisis or a major problem are not saying that because there is too few illegal aliens.”

The priorities of our ruling class — shrinking population, “degrowth,” open borders, climate hysteria, trans-rights, etc. — are not those of the voters. That’s why the ruling class is working hard to make sure that voters don’t matter.

COLOR ME UNSURPRISED: Walking brings huge benefits for low back pain, study finds.

FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF GIANT SUVs: 2024 Toyota Sequoia Interior Review: Everything Is Huge but Thoughtfully Designed. I do not like the big screen. It doesn’t say if you can turn it off, but you can opt for a smaller one. Plus: “The finer radio and navigation controls have all been relegated to the touch screen. That’s an inevitability. However, we applaud Toyota for keeping the climate controls as hard buttons and switches below the screen. Here, you can control fan speed, temperature, fan direction, defogger, and available seat heating and cooling all with button taps. Much less distracting.”

Knobs and buttons are superior.

SUSTAINABILITY:

Everyone is posting that the annualized number is about $1.059 trillion.

However the interest on the debt for just May 2024 was $103 billion. Debt will grow another $2 trillion or more in the next 12 months.

We are already on pace for over $1.2 trillion in annualized payments… https://t.co/ZF0yrmHmJm

— Wall Street Silver (@WallStreetSilv) June 18, 2024

It’s a good thing Milton Friedman isn’t running the show anymore or this would be bad.

FUN AND GAMES WITH THE FCC: Will Biden Help Soros Silence Dana Loesch and Mark Levin?

JUST SAW A TRADWIFE INFLUENCER ON INSTAGRAM DESCRIBE HERSELF AS A “FIRST GENERATION STAY-AT-HOME MOM” AND IT MADE SENSE TO ME. I suspect that we’ll see more of this in response to population changes.

IMPROVING PISTOL SKILLS: Practicing Precision and Transitions.

THIS WAS INEVITABLE ONCE THE MURDER HORNET SCARE DIDN’T PAN OUT: Newly Confirmed Jumping Leeches Are the Worst Fear You Didn’t Know You Had.

BIDEN, TRUMP EXEC ORDERS COMPARED: Every executive order issued to date by President Joe Biden and all of them signed by his predecessor are sorted by topic, and the results show each chief executive’s true priorities, according to The Epoch Times’ Beth Brejle.

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

VIDEO: Caitlin Clark Battered on the Court by Another Opponent.

PROBABLY BECAUSE OF MY SUV: Earth’s rotating inner core is starting to slow down — and it could alter the length of our days. “Since scientists started mapping Earth’s inner layers with detailed seismic activity records around 40 years ago, the inner core has rotated slightly faster than the mantle and the crust. But in a new study, published June 12 in the journal Nature, researchers found that since 2010, the inner core has been slowing down and is now rotating a bit more slowly than our planet’s outer layers.”

No word yet how this will affect hurricane season but you know it will be bad.

A BIG WIN FOR THE INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: Supreme Court Rules Government Officials Cannot Arrest their Political Opponents Without Consequences.

IS IT JUST ME, OR ARE WE SEEING A LOT OF NEWS ABOUT OFF-LABEL USES FOR EXISTING DRUGS? Drugs for enlarged prostate may also protect against dementia with Lewy bodies.

I’m fine with that, I just remember a lot of shade thrown at “unapproved uses” of drugs a few years back.

AUDIENCES ACTUALLY PREFER THE INFAMOUS 1978 HOLIDAY SPECIAL: It’s Official: Star Wars ‘Acolyte’ Is About the Worst Thing Anybody Put on TV Ever.