OPEN THREAD: Hump Day.

ENDORSED. ALSO ORION NUCLEAR PROPULSION! New study calls for rapid development of space nuclear power systems.

WELL, GOOD: Study of 1.2 Million Children Finds No Risk From Common Vaccine Additive.

WELL, YOU LEARN BY DOING: NASA’s DART Mission Deflected an Asteroid – But Unleashed a Swarm of Space Boulders.

DELAYING STOMACH EMPTYING WILL DO THAT: GLP-1 drugs increase risk of acid reflux, GERD, study finds.

SELF DRIVING CARS PROGRESS: Lucid, Take the Wheel: Major OTA Update Adds Hands-Free Driving to Air and Gravity.

CRAZY, WHO COULD HAVE KNOWN? Baltimore Rediscovers the Many Benefits of Arresting and Prosecuting Criminals.

ANOTHER ALT-ENERGY BUBBLE DEFLATES: Stellantis abandons hydrogen fuel cell development: Fast filling times are seductive, but they don’t compensate for H2’s many drawbacks.

I BELIEVE THIS: Obesity more likely caused by high calorie diet than lack of exercise.

JOEL KOTKIN: Far-Left teachers are indoctrinating children to hate the West. “The NEA is clearly taking political sides, claiming that it is pledging ‘to defend democracy against Trump’s embrace of fascism’. The union is also adamant in defending undocumented immigrants, opposing parental rights, and pledging to back mass demonstrations against the administration. This approach is seen by boosters as ‘social justice unionism’, adding political stances to the usual economic ones.”

COLOR ME UNSURPRISED: Vaping better at helping smokers quit, study finds.

OUT TOMORROW FROM KURT SCHLICHTER: AMERICAN APOCALYPSE : The Second American Civil War.

TRUST CAN BE LOST MUCH MORE QUICKLY THAN REGAINED: Americans’ trust in Ivy Leagues is tanking: poll. Voters polled say they want universities to get rid of DEI, ‘advance truth over ideology.’

CHANGE: Vanderbilt Medical Center cuts LGBTQ staff, ends ‘Trans Buddy’ program.

SETH BARRETT TILLMAN: A Response to Jack Rakove. “These claims are not correct, and Rakove puts not a shred of evidence forward supporting his positions. . . . Professor Rakove’s blaming on the Supreme Court today’s lack of controlling and persuasive precedent regarding the meaning of the Constitution’s Foreign Emoluments and Domestic Emoluments Clauses is, at best, mistaken, and at worst, Orwellian.”

ROGER KIMBALL: The mullahs mean their threats: By and large, the West has grudgingly accommodated Iran’s petulant malevolence.

In the words of Curtis LeMay, if you kill enough of them, the rest stop fighting.

OPEN THREAD: You know what to do.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Private Ax-4 astronauts splash down aboard SpaceX capsule to conclude ISS mission: The nations of Hungary, India and Poland have officially wrapped their first crewed missions to the International Space Station.

WE NEED NEW ANTIBIOTICS: Ancient Killer Is Rapidly Becoming Resistant to Antibiotics, Warns Study. “In spite of having plagued humans for millennia, typhoid fever is rarely considered in developed countries today. But this ancient threat is still very much a danger in our modern world. According to research published in 2022, the bacterium that causes typhoid fever is evolving extensive drug resistance, and is rapidly replacing strains that aren’t resistant.”

TIRZEPATIDE AND HRT: This Drug Combo Is a Fat-Burning Game-Changer for Women Over 50.

WAGES OF ZYN: Health officials see nicotine poisoning spike in young kids.

AN ALTERNATE HISTORY THAT HARRY TURTLEDOVE OR S.M. STIRLING WON’T BE WRITING: Alternative History: What if AMC Had Survived the ’80s?

WHO COULD HAVE SEEN THIS COMING? Narrative Alert: States With Strictest Gun Control Have More Adolescent Firearm Fatalities Than ‘Permissive’ States.

LIVING THE DREAM: Two guys hated using Comcast, so they built their own fiber ISP.

HMM: Higher anticholinergic use linked to faster decline in mobility and strength. Not clear whether the drugs are causative, or a marker for faster underlying decline.