THE LAST SHALL BE FIRST AND THE FIRST SHALL BE LAST: Fired Harvard prof tapped by CDC for vaccine advisory board.
Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
July 7, 2025
STILL A FEW BUGS IN THE SYSTEM: Grok-aganda: A flash flood wiped out Grok’s credibility. Good.
IT’S JUST A PATHWAY FOR A PAYOFF: Comey Don’t Play That: Former FBI Goon Writes Crime Novel About Saving the World from MAGA ‘Mouth Breathers.’
ICYMI: MY LATEST SUBSTACK ESSAY IS THOUGHTS ON THE BIG, BEAUTIFUL BILL: Trump 2.0 is a Wrecking Ball. And he’s wrecking the right stuff.
GET WOKE, GO BROKE: Sweden invented ‘flight shaming’. Now it is begging airlines to return.
July 6, 2025
IT’S CRAZY:
This is why I support mass deportations https://t.co/XJjPVyBrVT
— Cernovich (@Cernovich) July 5, 2025
OPEN THREAD: Ring out the weekend.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: China launches first classified Shiyan-28B experimental satellite.
SLEEP QUALITY IS IMPORTANT: There’s a Critical Thing We Can All Do to Hold Alzheimer’s Symptoms at Bay.
Related: A crazy theory:
How about "people don't like the Democratic party's ideas and values"? https://t.co/GnofmJCDSn
— Noah Smith 🐇 (@Noahpinion) July 5, 2025
Democrats:
STILL A BAD IDEA: Elon Musk Offers an Update on His Plans to Form a Third Party.
ADVICE FROM ERIC S. RAYMOND: Hey Elon, ‘Get Your Head Straight About the Second Amendment.’
BUT DID THEY MAKE SOAP WITH IT? New evidence suggests Neanderthals were rendering fat nearly 100,000 years before other early humans.
THEY’RE EVERYWHERE: NASA discovers third interstellar comet. “NASA discovered the third interstellar comet through a survey telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile. The interstellar comet first observed on Tuesday by NASA’s Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Alert System telescope, or ATLAS, has been officially named 3I/ATLAS.”
COLOR ME UNSURPRISED: Hearing aids improve social life, study finds.
SALENA ZITO: A Very Consequential Two Weeks for Donald Trump’s Presidency. “In the past 12 days, some of the most consequential decisions in American history, those that will affect generations and leave a substantial impact on our culture, economy and political alignment, have been made either by President Donald Trump or because of him. But they have been largely either downplayed or not fully analyzed in terms of how they all connect.”
IF THE U.S. MILITARY IS PAYING ENOUGH ATTENTION TO THIS STUFF, I’M NOT SEEING IT:
The battlefield starvation implications of this kind of "Drone Commando Logistics" for US Army style truck logistics is a huge paradigm shift that US Army staff officers just can't understand nor train for.
— Trent Telenko (@TrentTelenko) July 5, 2025
LEFTISM IS BULLYING: He Was Falsely Accused of ‘Blackface.’ It Derailed His Life.
There need to be more consequences. In this case there were: “At last, in May 2024, Hughes and his fellow plaintiff won a major ruling in California’s courts. Though the jury rejected the defamation claims, it did find that the school had not granted the boys their right to a ‘fair procedure.’ In the end, both boys were awarded a total of $1 million and an additional $70,000 each for tuition reimbursement.”