“YOUR NUCLEAR PROGRAM ISN’T EVEN SAFE FROM A COUNTRY WITH A GDP THE SIZE OF MARYLAND’S.” NYT Wonders: What Message Would a Fordow Strike Send to China?

China built its strategy around a U.S. that was run by a man on its payroll. That turned out to be unwise.

NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW, I WAS TOLD: Why Senator Padilla Must Be Charged: Hundreds of ordinary Americans had their lives destroyed by the Biden Justice Department’s policy choices in how it prosecuted January 6 defendants.

OPEN THREAD: Ring in the weekend.

HMM: Using the Moon as a digital backup location.

AND BIGGER FISH TO BITE ‘EM: Great White Sharks Were Scared From Their Habitat by Just 2 Predators.

And yes, unlike George Costanza I know the difference between whales, sharks, and fish. But it was a good headline!

DECONSTRUCTING THE NYT: “The quote is presented in a context that feels intended to generate empathy for those who’ve been affected by the ‘increasingly aggressive raids.’ But that ‘landscaper’ — that is, person in the landscaping business — was, apparently, competing unfairly with anyone in that business who is dutifully following federal law and not hiring those in the country illegally.”

CAFFEINE: IS THERE ANYTHING IT CAN’T DO? A Common Stimulant Could Hold the Key to Preventing Sudden Infant Death Syndrome: Caffeine may help prevent SUID by reducing oxygen loss in infants, offering a new direction for research.

STILL A FEW BUGS IN THE SYSTEM: Ford’s Lastest Mustang Mach-E Recall Goes Global: Ford has instructed dealers to stop selling the EV until dangerous door locks are fixed.

WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY: Electrification Takes the New 2026 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1X Hyper ’Vette to 1,250 HP!

A DEMOCRAT IN THE WHITE HOUSE WOULD FIX THIS: Gun Business: Indicators of Industry Unease Moving Toward Full-Blown Concern.

FASTER, PLEASE: Personalized cancer vaccines slow tumor recurrence in mouse models.

REPLICATION PROBLEMS? Inaccuracies found in key studies for blockbuster heart drug ticagrelor.

I’M EXPECTING A MOON-SHATTERING KABOOM: NASA raises chance for asteroid to hit moon.

GOOD ADVICE: Coffee may help you live longer, but skip the extra sugar.

CHANGE:

Current head of compute at Anthropic, Corry Wang:

“I don’t think people have realized how much this new Waymo scaling laws paper is basically an admission that “Waymo was wrong, @Tesla was right: In contrast to Waymo, it's clear Tesla has now internalized the bitter lesson. They… https://t.co/q5iiUFfyh6

— Sawyer Merritt (@SawyerMerritt) June 19, 2025

IN A NUTSHELL:

Trump is trying to end Iran's actual authoritarian leadership while Democrats are trying to end Trump's imaginary authoritarian leadership. https://t.co/15EcLEcJZD

— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) June 20, 2025

MAKE THEM PAY (CONT’D): U. Oregon to pay $193,000 after blocking conservative professor on Twitter.

MAKE THEM PAY: MSU professor’s lawsuit advances against board members who called on students to label him ‘racist:’ The lawsuit asserts that two board members encouraged students to call him ‘racist’ and file a complaint against him with an accreditation agency.

WHEN YOUR UNDERSTANDING OF RACE AND POLITICS COMES FROM A SEMINAR AT BARNARD. . . . Latinos And Immigration: Democrats Step On The Rake Again.

JOHN LUCAS: The Art of Propagandistic Headlines: Trump the warmonger? “The middle-of-the-road [sic] Wall Street Journal emphasizes that President Trump and his ‘threats’ against Iran are ‘bellicose.’ I am personally familiar with the precision with which editors of the Journal choose specific words. Headlines and such ledes are perhaps even more important than the remaining text, since as we all know, they form a reader’s first — and sometimes only — impression of the gist of the remaining article. So, what exactly were the very precise and astute editors of the Journal trying to convince us of with their choice of words?”

Among other things, that the WSJ isn’t what it used to be. But we had already noticed.

HAHA:

PROBLEM, MEET SOLUTION: Florida Offers ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ To House Illegal Aliens.

OUTRIGHT RACISM: Exclusive: Harvard Law Review Axes 85 Percent of Submissions Using Race-Conscious Rubric, Documents Show: Journal nixed piece by Asian scholar after editors complained there were ‘not enough Black and Latino/Latina authors’. Why does Harvard hate Asians so much?

UPDATE:

Harvard Law not only appears to have admitted significant numbers of profoundly unprepared students. It also appears to have failed to teach them even the most basic elements of the law. https://t.co/XpNpAB1RCr

— Walter Russell Mead (@wrmead) June 19, 2025

More accurately, I think it’s taught them that Harvard is above the law.

GET RID OF HR AND MOST OF THEIR AUTHORITY, REPLACE THEM WITH THE OLD FASHIONED “PERSONNEL DEPARTMENT.” Everyone hates HR.

AND THEY AREN’T ANY HAPPIER WHEN THEY’RE IN CHARGE: Nate Silver: The Liberal-Conservative Happiness Gap is Real.

People become leftists because they’re self-hating and miserable.