HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, ENEMY WITHIN EDITION: Enablers of Mamdani: America’s Universities.

ANALYSIS: TRUE.

What you have to realize about the communist class in America is that they are all bored, privileged theater kids with nothing better to do than destroy Western civilization.

None of them actually grew up hard knocks. https://t.co/VWLBBGiR2e

— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) June 30, 2025

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Nepo baby who never worked and only became a citizen a few years ago hates the country in which he wants to impose his authority. https://t.co/WALBwsjiew

— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) June 29, 2025

Mamdani Clarifies He Is Not A Communist, He Merely Wants To Seize The Means Of Production And Put All The Capitalists In Gulags https://t.co/rmxaz7A60C pic.twitter.com/HgHDI7gtLD

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) June 30, 2025

MY LATEST SUBSTACK ESSAY: What is College Good For?

OPEN THREAD: Monday, Monday.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Rocket Lab launches second Electron within 48 hours.

LITERALLY EVERYTHING IN THE CULTURE HAS BEEN WARNING US FOR A CENTURY: Disturbing Signs of AI Threatening People Spark Concern.

HAHA: WSJ: Say, Remember the Great Stock Market Crash of 2025? Well …

DAMMIT, IT WAS SUPPOSED TO WAKE UP NEXT YEAR: 47 Million Years Old: Oldest True Cicada Unearthed in Europe.

KURT SCHLICHTER: The Democrat We Conservatives Need to Worry About.

It’s Representative Ro Khanna from California, specifically Silicon Valley.

Perhaps you haven’t heard of him yet, but if he has his way, you will. The guy is intensely ambitious. He’s a Yale lawyer from back before Yale Law School became a communist joke. He is wired into the tech world (a bunch of big tech companies are in his district). He can also speak in coherent sentences. He tells a powerful story as the son of legal immigrants. He’s got the résumé, but he’s also got the drive. He ran and ran and ran until he finally won an election to Congress against a long-term congressman. And he won’t admit it outright, but he’s got his eyes set on the White House.

I became familiar with him by listening to the Hugh Hewitt Show here on Salem, and when I recently guest-hosted for Hugh, I asked our booker to reach out and see if he would come on. I didn’t expect he would. After all, I am me. But he did. And he was really, really good. It pains me to admit it, but the guy has talent. And we should be, if not worried, concerned.

Read the whole thing.

MARK JUDGE: The Moviegoer: Realism, Femme Fatales, and Film Noir.

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FOR ANY GIVEN INDIVIDUAL, PROBABLY NOT MUCH. BUT . . . Iranian Sleeper Cells in America: How Prepared Do You Really Need to Be?

GOOD IDEA: Japan’s new seafloor monitors could reveal how ‘slow slip’ earthquakes turn into big ones.

FOOD PREFERENCES AND SOCIAL CLASS: Can What You Eat Predict Success? Though the notion of a church-hosted “pounding” is, er, evidence of changing language.

WHICH IS FUNNY BECAUSE THE HABITABLE ZONES ARE SMALLER: Tiny stars, many Earths: Potentially habitable worlds may be especially common around low-mass stars.

WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: New ‘smart capsule’ tracks health of the GI tract.

LOOTING THE TREASURY IS THE LAST ACT OF EVERY CORRUPT REGIME: Shovel Ready: Despite Warnings, Biden’s Energy Department Disbursed $42 Billion in Its Final Hours.

FRONTIERS IN SEXISM: College study: There are too many ‘male-identified’ jazz educators.

“What would jazz sound like in a culture without patriarchy?” It probably wouldn’t exist.

CHANGE: Georgetown professor walks back statement that Iran should perform ‘symbolic’ strike on U.S. base. “Brown serves as the director of the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, which offers students research opportunities at the university with the possibility to obtain a minor in Muslim-Christian Understanding.”

ART OF THE DEAL: Another Cave: Canada Drops Tax to Restart Tariff/Trade Talks.

HEH.

If this were a movie, the audience would be thinking, whatever you do, don't answer.https://t.co/5ABXe2ouaE

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) July 1, 2025

CDR SALAMANDER: Chinese Ballistic Missile Submarines and Their Implications. “The Chinese don’t have a lot of waterspace to work with, like most continental land powers. Should a war in the Western Pacific break out, a conventional war, it will be fought in the same place as their SSBN bastion(s). Targeted or not, an enemy submarine if found will be attacked. If you start sinking their strategic nuclear deterrence…that can lead paranoid minds into dark places.”

YEP.

Mao, Che, Pol Pot, on and on it goes.

Communist leaders are almost always rich kids with a god complex who pretend to be of the peasant class to gain power.

Almost every time. https://t.co/KWiIw3mBFe

— Jesse Kelly (@JesseKellyDC) June 30, 2025

HE’S LIKELY RIGHT: Trump Predicts More Nations Will Join Abraham Accords After Iran Strikes.

DON SURBER: The Supreme Court Saves the Judiciary.