AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD:

Ford Debuts World’s First Autonomous Car To Leave Factory And Drive Straight To Shop For Repairs https://t.co/PxNK7H3AIC pic.twitter.com/vqOuu4S2av

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) June 30, 2025

MARK JUDGE: The end of Sally Quinn’s Washington.

Sally Quinn won’t return my emails. Perhaps Quinn, the doyenne of Washington, D.C., and the widow of the Washington Post legend Ben Bradlee, is overwrought. As she recently lamented in The New York Times, her city is under siege:

This spring Washington is a city in crisis. Physically, emotionally, psychologically and spiritually. It’s as if the fragrant air were permeated with an invisible poison, as if we were silently choking on carbon monoxide. The emotion all around—palpable in the streets, the shops, the restaurants, in business offices, at dinner tables—is fear. People have gone from greeting each other with a grimace of anguish as they spout about the outrage of the day to a laugh to despair. It’s all so unbelievable that it’s hard to process, and it doesn’t stop.

Nobody feels safe. Nobody feels protected. This is a city where people seek and, if it all goes well for them, wield power. But today in Washington, those who hold—or once held—the most power are often the most scared. It is not something they are used to feeling. I lived through the paranoia and vengefulness of Watergate. This time in Washington, it’s different. Nobody knows how this will end and what will happen to the country. What might happen to each of us.

The kind of ersatz fear Quinn is describing sounds like the actual terror I experienced in 2018, when The Washington Post, her newspaper, tried to destroy me—and turned the city I was born in and love into a horror movie. At the time I reached out to Quinn, for whom I had written several articles when she was editing the “On Faith” section of the Post. I needed some help salvaging my reputation after I was accused by Christine Blasey Ford of being a witness to Brett Kavanaugh’s alleged assault of her. I emailed Quinn and asked her why the Post was not making available to the public the dozens of articles I had written for the paper in the 1990s—pieces about art, music, religion, and a full-page profile of the historic Howard Theatre. The media was a cyclone of activity and wanted to know everything about me. The Post ran story after corrosive story slandering me. So why not produce what I had written for them and for Quinn? Why bury my work?

Quinn never replied. The pieces I had written for her “On Faith” section were gone. The only one I could find was reproduced in Bill Bennett’s compendium The Book of Man.

Quinn has all kinds of “resistance” courage now, but she had none when it mattered.

The late Ginny Carroll, of the then-Washington Post-owned Newsweek, admitted on C-SPAN with pride that during the 1992 Republican Convention, she wore a button that said, “Yeah, I’m with the Media — Screw You,” a brilliant example of journalists dropping the mask and demonstrating both their undeserved hauteur and their visible loathing of their customers.

Choose the form of your destructor, to coin a phrase.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Rocket Lab launches second Electron within 48 hours.

QUESTION ASKED: Why Are Authorities STILL Hiding Social Media Profiles After High-Profile Crimes?

It happens every time there’s a high-profile crime. Law enforcement officials, in collusion with social media companies, surreptitiously disable the social media profiles of suspects, leaving Americans in the dark about their motives and political leanings.

The question is why. And who benefits?

Read the whole thing.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: For Those Fleeing NYC in Fear of Mamdani, You Really Should Come to California. Please!

You Can Be the Better Person Even As People Call You Stupid

Folks will tell you you’re an idiot for staying in California—when so many businesses and people have fled—but you’ll know better and scoff at them. Just remind them they probably have to deal with things that we don’t have to, like winter!

You Won’t Have to Watch Your City Decline

Think about it—if Mamdani wins, New York City would decline even further, and you’d have to watch it.

You wouldn’t have to in sunny California because that’s already happened to most of our cities. With constant looting, the highest homeless population in the country, human waste covering the streets of San Francisco, and downtown LA now a vast homeless encampment, the decline has already happened in many places. You would avoid having to see it happen in real time.

Sharp-eyed readers may have at this point realized that I am dabbling in sarcasm. The state does have a few issues, I admit it. Okay, the real truth is, we really need your tax dollars because Newsom spent just about all our money on healthcare for illegal aliens. Can’t you help us out?

Fleeing Big Apple leftists can skip big messy, eeeevil Trump supporting flyover country, and finally live out this classic New Yorker cartoon:

LITERALLY EVERYTHING IN THE CULTURE HAS BEEN WARNING US FOR A CENTURY: Disturbing Signs of AI Threatening People Spark Concern.

HAHA: WSJ: Say, Remember the Great Stock Market Crash of 2025? Well …

DAMMIT, IT WAS SUPPOSED TO WAKE UP NEXT YEAR: 47 Million Years Old: Oldest True Cicada Unearthed in Europe.

THE CRITICAL DRINKER: F1 — The Summer Movie We All Needed.

KURT SCHLICHTER: The Democrat We Conservatives Need to Worry About.

It’s Representative Ro Khanna from California, specifically Silicon Valley.

Perhaps you haven’t heard of him yet, but if he has his way, you will. The guy is intensely ambitious. He’s a Yale lawyer from back before Yale Law School became a communist joke. He is wired into the tech world (a bunch of big tech companies are in his district). He can also speak in coherent sentences. He tells a powerful story as the son of legal immigrants. He’s got the résumé, but he’s also got the drive. He ran and ran and ran until he finally won an election to Congress against a long-term congressman. And he won’t admit it outright, but he’s got his eyes set on the White House.

I became familiar with him by listening to the Hugh Hewitt Show here on Salem, and when I recently guest-hosted for Hugh, I asked our booker to reach out and see if he would come on. I didn’t expect he would. After all, I am me. But he did. And he was really, really good. It pains me to admit it, but the guy has talent. And we should be, if not worried, concerned.

Read the whole thing.

READER FAVORITE: 2×3 Washable Area Rug – Soft, Non-Slip Entrance Rug. #CommissionEarned

MARK JUDGE: The Moviegoer: Realism, Femme Fatales, and Film Noir.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Best OBD-II Scanners of 2025, Tested.

MIAMI 2017 2025: For New Yorkers Looking to Flee, a Cautionary Warning: Florida Is Not the Paradise You May Envision. “Yes, we have been the preferred destination for many a New York transplant, but as a lifelong resident of this dysfunctional peninsula, allow me to list off a number of reasons that you should think four times, or more, about relocating to this spit of land parked in the temperate south. You need to be made of a certain character to thrive here, and the comforts you have taken to heart in your area simply do not exist here in the psych ward waiting room that is Florida.”

KEEP YOUR PET HEALTHY: Liquid Probiotics for Dogs of All Ages – Probiotics for Cats. #CommissionEarned

FOR ANY GIVEN INDIVIDUAL, PROBABLY NOT MUCH. BUT . . . Iranian Sleeper Cells in America: How Prepared Do You Really Need to Be?

ENERGY DOMINANCE:

In 2007, the EIA projected that the US would import 4.38 trillion cubic feet of LNG per year by 2025. In 2024, we exported ~4.3 trillion.

— Joseph Majkut (@JosephMajkut) June 30, 2025

Majkut says that like it’s a bad thing, but abundance is awesome.

ANYONE SURPRISED?

The Right takes pride in being American.
The Left takes pride in believing they’re better than America.
More true now than ever. https://t.co/nCzWos5rvf

— Buck Sexton (@BuckSexton) June 30, 2025

NEVER A GOOD IDEA: Dear Neighbor: Please Stop Feeding the Bears.

READER FAVORITE: Apple AirPods Pro 2 Wireless Earbuds, Active Noise Cancellation, Hearing Aid Feature. #CommissionEarned

JUST TEACH THE FACTS: From Juneteenth to July 4, celebrate ‘reflective patriotism.’

I DON’T KNOW, I THINK SHE’S PRETTY DUMB: Justice Jackson Is Even Worse Than We Thought.

GOOD IDEA: Japan’s new seafloor monitors could reveal how ‘slow slip’ earthquakes turn into big ones.

THE CEASEFIRE THAT WASN’T:

A member of Iran’s National Security Committee issued a warning following the elimination of IRGC commanders:

“Their assassination will not go unanswered. We will deliver a decisive response.”
He added, “Just as they target our leaders, we too can threaten Netanyahu’s life.” pic.twitter.com/xWKaoWOP6l

— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) June 30, 2025

[VIP] THIS WEEK’S SKY CANDY: Sky Candy: Uplifting, Upbeat, Up There.

An interesting bit of NASA history in this one.