NOT OUR BEST AND BRIGHTEST: LaMonica McIver Gives Up the Game in Comments Made After Court Appearance.

ACCOUNTABILITY: Trump Blames Dems For Iran Strike Intel Leak, Calls For Prosecutions.

RICHLY DESERVED: The Scythe Draws Near: CNN’s Overpaid ‘Talent’ Brace for Deep Cuts Amid Corporate Shakeup: Morale is ‘really grim’ at left-wing network as ‘ruthless cost cutter’ Gunnar Wiedenfels sharpens his blade.

FUNNY HOW THAT WORKS:

Remember when it was a big story that a homicidal maniac connected to international orgs and appointed by two Dem governors to state boards k*lled two Minnesota lawmakers and wrote he believed Tim Walz wanted him to take out Amy Klobuchar?

Boy, that story vanished in a hurry. https://t.co/c4Ea2S463B

— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) June 26, 2025

A FREE SPEECH VICTORY FOR PROFESSOR SCOTT GERBER: VICTORY — America First Legal Secures Settlement, Reinstatement, and Vindication for Law Professor Fired by Ohio Northern University for Objecting to Race-Based Hiring.

In 2023, ONU terminated Dr. Gerber, a tenured law professor, after he objected to the University’s race-based hiring practices. When he was terminated, ONU sent campus security and armed local police officers into his classroom to forcibly remove him.

Now, after nearly two years of litigation, ONU has agreed to reinstate Dr. Gerber and allow him to retire at his rightful faculty rank, with all his benefits intact. As part of the settlement, ONU formally acknowledged that:

Dr. Gerber was never a public safety risk to any member of the ONU community.
He never acted with moral turpitude.
He provided “outstanding teaching, scholarship, and service” throughout his tenure at ONU.

“Dr. Gerber should be commended for his courage in filing complaints about what he perceived as ONU’s consideration of race and sex in hiring professors, which is illegal. This has cost him years of lost teaching opportunity, reputational harm, and the stress of years of litigation. However, his reward is full vindication. He was never a safety threat. He was nothing but an outstanding professor and scholar who stood on truth,” said Nick Barry, Senior Counsel at America First Legal.

The right now has a legal infrastructure of the sort that the left always had. More, please. Make them pay.

HE SEEMS RIGHT ABOUT THIS:

This reality utterly changes the calculus of integrated air defense as air-to-air weapons priced to kill a $1.2 million cruise missile are far too expensive for tens of thousands of $50K to $200K OWA drones/loitering munitions.

2/2

— Trent Telenko (@TrentTelenko) June 26, 2025

GOOD: Who Counts? Trump Poised To Try To Remove Noncitizens From Census. “Some immigration researchers project that including noncitizens in the census count disproportionately benefits Democratic states with large illegal alien populations.”

AND THIS WAS ENTIRELY PREDICTABLE: Andrew Sullivan: Trans Extremism is Backfiring on Gay People. “As Sullivan sees it, the fight for gay marriage had always been one that emphasized this was a change for consenting adults which wouldn’t change how the nuclear family worked for straight people. They could still get married and raise their kids whether the gay couple down the street were married or just living together. The argument from the pro gay marriage side was this changes things for us but not for you. And obviously that worked. It worked not just in court but it worked in the greater population. As noted above, opposition to gay marriage became a minority position even in the Republican Party. But the trans rights movement completely undoes that tacit cultural agreement. . . . He’s absolutely right about this. I said the same thing last week and several times before that. The backlash began when this started involving everyone’s children. Gay marriage was carefully framed as a discussion for consenting adults, but the gender unicorn is indoctrination for kids who don’t have the first clue what sex or gender is about.”

The shouts of “we’re coming for your children!” probably didn’t help.

TVA USED TO HANDLE THESE — ENTIRELY NORMAL — MIDSUMMER TEMPERATURES WITHOUT A HICCUP. Now: TVA urges power conservation as temperatures climb. “The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is asking all electric power consumers, including Hartselle Utilities customers, to voluntarily reduce electricity usage beginning today as extreme heat continues to strain the power system across the region. The sustained high temperatures have created significant demand on TVA’s power grid, prompting the call for energy conservation to help ensure system reliability across its seven-state service territory.”

Generation capacity hasn’t kept up, something I’ve complained about before.

Maybe shouldn’t have shut down fossil fuel plants.

Flashback: Thank the green-energy cult for major blackouts this summer.

OPEN THREAD: Disport yourselves.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Chinese scientists push for cubesat swarm mission to fly by infamous asteroid Apophis.

ANOTHER ONE: Promising New Drug For Weight Loss Works With Just One Monthly Dose.

IF YOU CAN’T KEEP THEM AWAY FROM THE CYCLOTRON, IT’S A SIGN: Your Baby’s Favorite Toy Could Hint at Their Future IQ.

A NICE STORY ABOUT A 98-YEAR-OLD BARBER in Knoxville who’s still cutting hair. Perhaps an up-and-coming Salena Zito here.

A SOUPED UP GIANT SUV? 2026 Nissan Armada NISMO First Look: 460 HP and a Ton of Badging? Sign Us Up.

FOLLOW THE SCIENCE: We’ve Been Running a Successful, Years-Long Experiment On What Happens When You Arm School Teachers and Staff.

JAMES PETHOKOUKIS: 3 long-shot ways of solving the global baby bust: God, AI, and space offer better odds than government nudges and subsidies.

CREATIVE DESTRUCTION? Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models: Company hired Google’s book-scanning chief to cut up and digitize “all the books in the world.”

This was a plot device in, I think, Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash. Or was it one of his others?

UPDATE: I think I’m wrong about Stephenson. Was it Vernor Vinge’s Rainbows End?

ANOTHER UPDATE: Grok says that’s it. “In Vernor Vinge’s novel Rainbows End (2006), set in a near-future 2025, there is a depiction of a major corporation engaging in a destructive book-scanning process as part of the ‘Librareome Project.’ This project involves digitizing vast collections of books by shredding them and scanning the pieces, a process that is portrayed as highly efficient but controversial due to its destruction of physical books. This is described in a darkly comedic scene where the physical books are fed into a shredder-like machine, with cameras capturing the fragments to reassemble the content digitally.”

Rainbows End seems to be coming true right on schedule. Here’s the podcast interview Helen and I did with him back in 2006.

NOT FOR LONG WITH RFK, JR. ON THE JOB: Study: 1 in 5 U.S. food, drink products contain synthetic dyes.

YES, IT IS.

This is a good point. https://t.co/GuMiTR0w2e

— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) June 25, 2025

MASSIVE RESISTANCE: In fourth undercover video, group highlights ‘sneaky’ DEI at UNC Wilmington. “Two administrators at the University of North Carolina Wilmington are under investigation after they discussed how some diversity, equity and inclusion concepts are embedded on campus despite a systemwide ban on the ideology, according to a recently released video filmed surreptitiously.”

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: University of Wisconsin funds student group with $136k to distribute sex toys and ‘interactive’ programming.

TO BE FAIR, MATH IS NOW WHITE SUPREMACIST: Democrat Trots Out Placard in House Hearing With a Glaring Math Error.

PUSH THEM BACK INTO THE SEA: Socialism Wins Its American Normandy: Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the New York City mayoral primary opens a new era in American crazy.

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY — NO, REALLY. Personal Income up 8 times inflation.