HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Valedictorian Uses Graduation To Attack ICE And Israel. It Doesn’t End Well.

I WOULD BE IN FAVOR OF UNLEASHING IT: Restraining Israel Is Not the Answer.

WHY “CIVILIAN CASUALTIES” IN GAZA LEAVE ME LARGELY UNMOVED:

Oh! https://t.co/wdq3bjVR6d

— Gad Saad (@GadSaad) June 6, 2026

CIVILIZATIONAL DECLINE: What Killed Henry Nowak: One Murderer and All the Malignancy of Collective Self-Hate. It’s not so much self-hate, as it is the hatred of a ruling class for those it rules.

THE MOST UNFORGIVABLE TRUMP TRAIT IS SUCCESS:

Wait, you can fix things without a $452m study to determine if we should perform a $36m environmental impact study before awarding a $875m contract to do what some pool guys did for $3m?

— richard wolf (@RawdogDMonkey) June 7, 2026

Imagine being angry about this https://t.co/GfBt1FVWvq

— Marc Thiessen (@marcthiessen) June 6, 2026

OPEN THREAD: Book me on the next flight to Tracy Island — on Aurora Air!

FINALLY: Going supersonic! NASA’s X-59 jet breaks sound barrier for the 1st time. “The X-59, a long-nosed demonstrator designed to help develop the tech required for ‘quiet’ supersonic flight, notched the milestone on Friday (June 5), more than six months after getting off the ground for the first time.”

This image from the Retrofuture Vault on Facebook captures the 21st Century I was expecting:

TURN THAT SOLAR HEARTBEAT OVER AGAIN: Our Sun’s ‘Heartbeat’ Has Been Mysteriously Changing For 40 Years. Please make mine a double, Sam.

STACY MCCAIN: The Unexpected Heroine Lyndsey Fifield. “After Lyndsey became suddenly famous Thursday, I checked my archives and found those pictures in my April 11, 2010, post, “Breitbart Party Voodoo.” (Breitbart was telling us, ‘I don’t believe in voodoo anywhere else, but in New Orleans? It’s real!’) Did I have any clue at the time that 24-year-old Lyndsey Fifield would one day make headlines? No way. She was just some silly girl fresh out of college, but I have to admit that I’m getting a bit choked up while writing this. She has shown such courage and, Lyndsey, if you’re reading this, please just know: Andrew would be so proud of you!”

HMM: Popular Weight-Loss Drug Found To Slow Biological Aging in Landmark Human Trial. There’s a lot of good news associated with these drugs. On the other hand, there’s so much good news associated with them that it’s making me slightly suspicious.

HMM: Fasting after 60 changes more than waistlines, exposing a trade-off many dieters never see coming.

SECURITY & CIGARS: A D-Day Story.

WARNING LIGHTS ARE FLASHING DOWN IN QUALITY CONTROL: 2027 Kia Telluride Faces Another Recall As Driver’s Seat Belt Can Lock Up: The new Telluride is popular, but it’s also riddled with issues.

“EXPERTS.” ‘Experts’ are Troubled the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division is Now Working to Protect Civil Rights Guaranteed by the Second Amendment.

21ST CENTURY PROBLEMS: Police can’t find shoplifter who fled in self-driving Waymo. Of course it’s in San Francisco, where police don’t work very hard to find shoplifters anyway.

STUPID COLUMBIA: My SSN was exposed in a breach at Columbia—a school I have no connection with.

DON’T WORRY, THE MURDER HORNETS’LL TAKE ‘EM OUT: A flesh-eating screwworm is in the US. How worried should we be?

DON’T DROWN? Here’s how to stay safe in the water this summer, according to a former lifeguard.

Related: Drowning doesn’t look like drowning.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: 17 percent drop in new foreign students exposes universities’ reliance on their tuition, expert says.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Yale fall catalog loaded with racism-focused courses as tuition nears $70K.

THIS:

Trump’s beautification efforts for DC are more important than people realize.

Past administrations treated this nation like conquerors treat conquered land.

They intentionally removed the statues, the culture, the history, etc., so they could remove the national identity.… pic.twitter.com/0yJUkgUO5v

— Clandestine (@WarClandestine) June 5, 2026

Matt Taibbi says America needs a sensible and boring party. But if you look at what Trump actually does, it’s stuff that by any reasonable measure is sensible and boring: Limit immigration, control crime, restore public infrastructure, gain energy independence, neutralize enemies abroad, demand voter ID, etc. These are all straightforward things that politicians of both parties endorsed not that long ago.

But can a boring and sensible party function in an environment where the opposition chimps out and takes to the streets whenever it doesn’t get its way?

CONSEQUENCES:

California Dethroned: Fortune 500 Crown Goes to Texas.

This isn’t “California Derangement Syndrome” as Gov. Gavin Newsom claims. This is the economic reality by businesses to California’s toxic business climate, and as the Billionaire Tax threat looms large.@CaliforniaGlobe…

— California Globe (@CaliforniaGlobe) June 5, 2026

JOEL KOTKIN: The Rise of the UnJews: Anti-Zionism is rising among diaspora Jews; the future of Jewish identity may be increasingly Israeli.

A Zionist Jew and an Anti-Zionist Jew walk into a bar. The bartender says, “Both of you get out, we don’t serve Jews here.”

REMEMBER THEM:

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— Common Sense Todd (@CommonSenseTodd) June 6, 2026

Boris Bittker, better known as the leading tax professor of the second half of the 20th Century, was there. He said he had to get up and leave during the opening to Saving Private Ryan. It was too real and brought back too many memories, even after so many decades.

IT WAS A MISTAKE TO LET THE TQ+ CROWD INTO THE TENT: Andrew Sullivan: The TQ+ Threat To LGB Rights: The return to the narrative of gays as queers, freaks, and child-obsessed is dangerous.