THE NEW SPACE RACE: China eyes the moon, Mars and space dominance.

SCIENCE: Expired Cans of Salmon From Decades Ago Contained a Huge Surprise.

Okay, not a huge surprise, given that the same story came out in the same outlet last year. Does this mean we’re short of scientific breakthroughs these days?

THE NEW SPACE RACE: NASA’s Moon Rover Will Hunt for Ice, Map Minerals, and Reveal What Lies Beneath.

BAD NEWS: Fungal infections are getting harder to treat.

IS ANYONE SURPRISED?

Thank you for answering my question. https://t.co/OEWVznzBes

— Matt Wright (@mattwr) July 11, 2025

UPDATE: Harsh, but fair:

Federal forces under a Republican president once again freeing slaves held in Democrat states.

Jefferson Newsom will lose. Again.

— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) July 11, 2025

So Trump’s maneuvered Democrats into standing up for Dem donors who run illegal pot farms using child slave labor. How does he keep doing this?

MY NEPHEW, WHO IS IN THE ARMS BUSINESS, HAS BEEN TALKING ABOUT THIS FOR QUITE A WHILE: FBI Report on SIG Sauer ‘Uncommanded Discharge’ Goes Public — What It Means for SIG.

GOOD: An FDA-approved drug halts Epstein-Barr virus-driven lymphoma by disrupting a key cancer pathway.

WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Investors appear to like a company with big space manufacturing ambitions.

SPACE: SpaceX to launch Falcon 9 with Israeli communications satellite.

WELL, THEY’RE NOT WRONG. Pew: Most adults say health insurers overly influence health policy.

WHEN EVEN THE ECONOMIST IS ADMITTING THAT IT DOESN’T WORK:

"oops" https://t.co/FwbA7CSHBv pic.twitter.com/2yPsBs5o1b

— eigenrobot (@eigenrobot) July 10, 2025

YES, BUT THEY OFFER INSUFFUCIENT OPPORTUNITIES FOR GRAFT TO APPEAL TO THE POLITICAL CLASS:

I’m beginning to suspect that markets work. https://t.co/c4XdFRuAYY

— Megan McArdle (@asymmetricinfo) July 10, 2025

FIGHT THE POWER: Professor’s lawsuit could end DEI training mandates at Arizona public universities.

SEDUCTIVE AI: Rock band with more than 1 million Spotify listeners reveals it’s entirely AI-generated — down to the musicians themselves.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: UChicago professor calls school ‘evil colonial landlord,’ vows to use it to build power for Palestine.

IT’S NOT SO MUCH LACK OF MORAL CLARITY AS IT IS JUST PLAIN EVIL NATURE: Columbia Trustee Takes School to Task Over Campus Anti-Semitism: ‘Disturbing Lack of Moral Clarity.’

HE’S ACCOMPLISHED A LOT, ACTUALLY, JUST FOR THE ENEMIES OF THE BRITISH PEOPLE: Voters Asked the Main Achievements of Starmer’s First Year, Answer: ‘Nothing.’

I NEVER FELT SHAME WHEN THEY WENT AFTER ME OVER A TWEET: Mark Judge: Surviving the Left’s Shame Storm.

REMEMBER WHEN WE THOUGHT THE GOVERNMENT WAS COMPETENT?

Exactly. In retrospect, that was clearly the most fanciful concoction the writers came up with. pic.twitter.com/NTGVImCcsw

— Shooting News Weekly (@SN_Weekly_) July 10, 2025

THE ENEMY WITHIN: Democracy Experts Scorned by Trump Are Plotting to Sabotage Democracy. “I’ve read this five times now, and I can see no way of comprehending it other than as an insane threat to bring down the American government. The official mentions “color revolutions”; he mentions being representative of “a bunch of well-trained individuals”; and then he says that if the president of the United States wishes to keep his “regime,” he ought not to have fired them. Naturally, this represents a flagrant inversion of how our system of government works. We cannot have a democratic republic if the hired help responds to being let go by endeavoring to stage a coup. Donald Trump was elected fair and square. These bureaucrats were not. To imply that Trump’s presidency cannot survive their dismissal is to reject the American constitutional order root and branch.”

PROBABLY: Is the EU Backing Down in Trade Talks with Trump?

DAVID FRIEDMAN: The Convergence of AI and the State:
It seems inevitable that the NatSec umbrella will envelop frontier AI.

ANALYSIS: TRUE.

Once again, I am amazed that actual violence against our military and federal law enforcement officers is given a pass, over and over, and we seem incapable of doing anything about it.

If this had been J6, anyone who so much as coughed on a vehicle would be behind bars. https://t.co/rxiUm3gLFk

— Anna K. Gorisch (@AnnaGorisch) July 10, 2025

WHAT’S FUNNY IS, THE COMMON SENSE STUFF IS EASY AND STRAIGHTFORWARD:

Eric Adams is doing everything that a mayor should actually do for the city:
– rat crackdown
– new trash bins and pickup to get garbage off streets
– cops in subways
– impound vehicles of biker gangs
– speed limit for crazy ass e-bikes

Almost like common sense governance!

We…

— Inez Stepman ⚪️🔴⚪️ (@InezFeltscher) July 10, 2025

OPEN THREAD: Back on the set, and covering all bets.