JON CALDERA: Gender equity requires hair-affirming health care.

I have never shared this publicly, only with select friends and health care professionals. It is exceedingly personal and frankly awkward. But I know others have the same challenge. For them I share my story.

I was born in the wrong body. I identify differently than what my body outwardly expresses.

The world wrongly sees me as follically-challenged. I’ll use the modern vulgarism; hateful people call me, “bald.”

I didn’t ask to be this way. God put me in the wrong body. And I demand you pay to make me look as I identify.

You see, I identify as a man with wild, glorious, flowing locks of Fabio-like hair. I have the hair of 1970s rock-stars like Roger Daltrey and Robert Plant. That’s who I really am, even if you can’t see past my scalp.

I identify as haired. I mean, downright shaggy. You will accept me as such.

The Colorado legislature and Gov. Jared Polis have taken a brave and enlightened step to give those of us who are trans-haired the right to hair-affirming health care with the passage of House Bill 1309, assuming we only identify as a different gender.

This new law forces insurance companies to pay (by jacking your insurance rates) for a whole slew of “gender affirming health care,” ranging from mental and psychiatric services to just about any cosmetic surgery you could imagine.

Read the whole thing.

WE’RE NOT ASHAMED OF WHAT WE DID, WE’RE JUST COVERING IT UP: Harvard Law Review Retaliates Against Alleged Leaker—And Demands He Press Free Beacon To Destroy Documents. “The Harvard Law Review retaliated against a student editor for allegedly leaking documents to the Washington Free Beacon and demanded, as part of the journal’s disciplinary process, that he request their destruction, according to emails obtained by the Free Beacon. The demand came as the law review was under a document retention order stemming from multiple federal probes, raising questions about whether the journal was also trying to interfere with a government investigation.”

I think Harvard genuinely believes that rules and consequences are for the little people.

WHAT PORN TOOK FROM US: For Gen Z and, especially, Gen Alpha, the harm inflicted by the porn explosion in American society is so much worse than is commonly assumed. Freya India of the Free Press has the stark facts.

BLASPHEMY: ‘Holy transness’: U. Iowa grad student says 34 early Christian saints were transgender.

Try this with Mohammed.

MEET THE COMPANIES HELPING TRANS YOUR KIDS AND HIDE IT FROM YOU: The Washington Stand’s Suzanne Bowdey digs into the Trevor Group and its corporate backers and finds a sink pit of ugly:

“And while The Trevor Project claims to be harmlessly dedicated to ‘advocacy, education, and crisis support for LGBTQ+ young people,’ it’s the nature of that advocacy and education that should disturb Americans.

“For starters, this is a group that, just three years ago, was exposed for stealthily grooming children online. A suspicious mom, whose daughter struggled with gender dysphoria, logged onto the organization’s TrevorSpace chat room to see what kind of advice she was getting — and was horrified at the graphic and disturbing nature of the site.”

DAVID MANNEY: The ICC’s Phantom Authority: Why the United States Doesn’t Answer to Uninvited Judges.

STANDING UP TO HATE AND RACISM: Education Department informs major accreditor that Columbia violates federal law, accreditation standards.

FORGET 3D CHESS: What if Trump and Musk are playing 5D chess? Has your head exploded yet?

UH-HUH: Biden pushes back on DOJ probe into his admin: ‘I made the decisions during my presidency.’

Biden made the comment after President Trump on Wednesday night directed Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate Biden’s use of an autopen to sign presidential pardons and executive orders, while his administration covered up his health issues.

The order comes as Republicans have been raising questions regarding the former president’s frequent use of an autopen and his declining mental acuity for over a year.

The directive ordered Bondi and her team to probe any activity by Biden’s aides to hide the former president’s mental and physical condition, whether aides made any agreements to cooperatively and falsely deem recorded videos of Biden’s cognitive inability as fake, who authorized the use of the autopen, and what documents the pen was used on.

“Let me be clear: I made the decisions during my presidency. I made the decisions about the pardons, executive orders, legislation, and proclamations. Any suggestion that I didn’t is ridiculous and false,” Biden said in a statement on Wednesday.

That’s what Jill and Hunter told him, anyway.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: While Trump and Musk Spatted, SCOTUS Hemorrhaged Unanimous Decisions. “Ever since I have been politically aware, Mexico has been blaming all of the problems it doesn’t export to the United States, on the United States. It’s wearisome. We’re long past the time when Mexico needs to deal with its criminals as if they’re criminals, rather than letting them continue to run the country.”

NOT READY. NOT EVEN TRYING TO BE READY.

…is with aspiring flag ranks.

Being seen as part of the "officer in-crowd" on FPV drones is far more important for their careers than doing the hard work of thinking and adapting to the:

"FPV's are the way 21st century wars a fought"

…2025 reality.

2/2

— Trent Telenko (@TrentTelenko) June 5, 2025

A USEFUL REMINDER:

Trump and Elon are both billionaires who don’t need any of this. They could both be living large, away from the broken border invasion and debt mess and nasty political problems they did not create.

Instead, they chose to sacrifice everything for America.

Elon spent billions…

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) June 6, 2025

OH, NO! ANYWAY…: DOGE layoffs may have compromised the accuracy of government data.

“Accuracy of government data” sounds like a punchline, but this is CNN, so you know they’re trying to sound earnest while peddling party-line BS.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Harvard Hires ‘Counter-Zionist’ Professor in Effort To Fight ‘Anti-Israeli Bias’ in Classrooms. “Magid, who has described the Jewish state as ‘illiberal’ and ‘chauvinist,’ will be the university’s inaugural Professor of Modern Jewish Studies in Residence.”

This is their idea of balance.

NO SH–– ER, KIDDING? Musk Goes Nuclear on Trump, But Something Isn’t Adding Up.

GOOD: 8th Circuit Joins 5th, 7th, And 11th Circuits In Dismissing Complaint Against Judges For Refusing To Hire Columbia Law Clerks.

D-DAY ANNIVERSARY: The Great Crusade and the Men Who Made It Work.

ROGER KIMBALL: Is Biden’s autopen mightier than the sword? The scandal has echoes of Hillary Clinton’s emails.

Whom do you suppose wrote this: “Let me be clear: I made the decisions during my presidency. I made the decisions about the pardons, executive orders, legislation, and proclamations. Any suggestion that I didn’t is ridiculous and false”?

The one person I can assure you did not write it is its supposed author, former president Joseph R. Biden, who by the way is suffering from metastatic prostate cancer.

Nor, pace Biden’s suggestions, it is clear that he did not sign many of the myriad “pardons, executive orders, legislation, and proclamations” issued over his name.

As I note in another Speccie piece, on January 17 of this year, 2,490 pardons and commutations were issued over Biden’s name, more than any prior president had granted in the course of his entire presidency. Who decided to issue that wholesale clemency? And who signed the documents ratifying the decision?

“The issue,” former House speaker Newt Gingrich wrote on X, “is not President Biden, who was clearly cognitively incapable of these acts. The issue is who was doing them and what did they get for doing them?”

Gingrich is right. We do not yet know the answers to those two questions, but we might soon. Yesterday, President Trump issued a memorandum directing the Attorney General and White House Counsel to investigate “whether certain individuals conspired to deceive the public about Biden’s mental state and unconstitutionally exercise the authorities and responsibilities of the President.”

Somebody knows the answer.

“JUDGE HALTS TRUMP” IS THE NEW “DOG BITES MAN”: Judge halts Trump’s proclamation to suspend new international student visas at Harvard hours after university filed amended lawsuit. “The temporary restraining order issued late Thursday by US District Judge Allison Burroughs comes hours after the university urged the judge to step in on an emergency basis to block a proclamation Trump signed a day earlier that suspends international visas for new students at the nation’s oldest and wealthiest university. Foreign students make up roughly a quarter of the school’s student body.”

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TRUMP VS. ELON:

Who’s right?

Trump or Elon?

They both are.

Elon is emphasizing the way things ought to be.

Trump, the way things are, given the current makeup of Congress.

If Musk wants to fix things, don’t start a new party.

Help the GOP win a strong majority of fiscal conservatives.

— Dinesh D'Souza (@DineshDSouza) June 5, 2025

The Trump administration should recognize Elon’s point about the budget & build a bridge with him — & the majority of Americans — who want to see us cut spending.

Here’s what they admin should say/do: “we hear you Elon, we are going to sharpen our pencils and iterate on BBB to… https://t.co/uvdr0EqeN2

— @jason (@Jason) June 5, 2025

Some of y'all cant handle 2 high agency males going at it and it really shows

This is direct communication (phallocentric) vs indirect communication (gynocentric)

I understand you aren't used to it

— Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) June 5, 2025

Both have a tendency to talk a lot of smack and then cut a deal. That’s what will likely happen here, because neither one of them is stupid.

This is the way. pic.twitter.com/WEsnSnFGDO

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) June 6, 2025

But fundamentally, the question is, is our system deathly sick? Yes. Can we fix it wholesale now? No. At least I don’t see how. I’d love to be wrong. And to be fair, if anybody can prove me wrong, it’s these two.

UPDATE:

The below post is profoundly true.

But, see… I love the perfect too, but not if it defeats the good.

The question I keep asking, and which no one seems able to answer (even the likes of Elon Musk) is this:

How do you achieve the perfect without 60+ votes in the Senate?

No… https://t.co/jYrC7sqA9m

— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) June 5, 2025

I’LL GO WAY OUT ON A LIMB AND GUESS AN EV IS TO BLAME: Cargo Ship Carrying 3,000 Vehicles, Including 800 EVs, Burning Out of Control Off the Coast of Alaska.

THE ENEMY WITHIN: Marc Thiessen: Stanford is a case study in how Beijing infiltrates U.S. universities: Student reporters at Stanford University revealed China’s spying methods using Chinese nationals.

The Trump administration is revoking visas for Chinese students “with connections to the Chinese Communist Party or studying in critical fields” and revising its “visa criteria to enhance scrutiny of all future visa applications” for students from China and Hong Kong.

This is both necessary and long overdue. For years, China has been engaged in a systematic effort to target U.S. universities, using Chinese students to conduct extensive espionage and intellectual property theft on elite campuses across the United States — which has helped fuel China’s technological and military growth.

To understand how China uses its students as spies, read the stunning investigative report published last month by Stanford Review reporters Garret Molloy and Elsa Johnson in which they documented the infiltration of Stanford University by the Chinese Communist Party. “The CCP is orchestrating a widespread academic espionage campaign at Stanford,” Johnson told me and my co-host, Danielle Pletka, in a recent podcast interview. “Stanford is in the heart of Silicon Valley,” she added, “and that’s a huge incentive for China.”..

Molloy, an economics major, visited China last summer and was shocked to meet with many members of the CCP who were educated at Stanford. “We’re educating the head of the Chinese [securities and exchange commission], we’re educating the head of Beijing’s tariff negotiators. I’m meeting all these people and they all say ‘I work for the Chinese Communist Party in a really high role. I hope that China beats the U.S. And I also went to Stanford for my undergraduate and master’s degree.’ And I’m putting this together and I’m saying it’s shocking that we are educating such high-level Communist Party officials. … What’s going wrong here?”

It’s a fair question — one of many for which the Trump administration plans to get answers.

And it’s not just Stanford.

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THEY’VE GOT NOTHING, THEY’LL GIVE US NOTHING, THEY’LL TAKE EVERYTHING:  Chuck Schumer Outburst About Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ Shows the Dems Have Nothing.