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.

SOUNDS SHADY: Can Federal Prosecutors Avoid Judicial Review of Dismissal Motions by Agreeing in Advance With a Defendant Not to Prosecute?

AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD:

Technical Foul? WNBA Players Use Caitlin Clark's Head As A Ball https://t.co/3HsbflFYay pic.twitter.com/8REr6jwOwA

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) June 18, 2025

SENSE IMPOSED:

As expected.

Breyer made a fool of himself in this decision. Appellate panel rightly overturned his partisan and baseless order. https://t.co/BC1EsZgMpw

— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) June 20, 2025

A TERRIBLE PRESIDENT AND AN AWFUL HUMAN BEING:

Orwellian and insane.

Obama: Distinguishing Between Fact And Opinion Will Require Government Constraints, "We Don't Want A Diversity Of Facts" https://t.co/PE3iSYz8Xn

— Tom Bevan (@TomBevanRCP) June 19, 2025

Flashback: Obama campaign backs Biden’s controversial ‘chains’ remark.

OPEN THREAD: Play nice, children.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: 2 Chinese spacecraft just met up 22,000 miles above Earth. What were they doing?

BOB GRABOYES HAS LOST HIS WIFE: I Lift My Eyes to the Mountains: Meditations on the conclusion of a long and wonderful journey together.

SO TRAVEL BACK IN TIME AND TELL YOUR 20 YEAR OLD SELF THIS: Study Reveals How Much Exercise You Need Each Week to Control Blood Pressure. “When the researchers looked at the people who had done five hours of moderate exercise a week during early adulthood – double the minimum amount currently recommended for adults – they found this level of activity lowered the risk of hypertension considerably, and especially if people maintained their exercise habits until age 60.”

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: “Interestingly, I think there is an argument to bring back the MRS degree.” “I don’t think he said only. And I don’t think you can ignore the smile that broke out on that girl’s face at 0:30. You can want more than one thing, and you don’t have to pretend to yourself that you don’t want those things that are not your career.”

AS A MAJOR OIL PRODUCER, WHY SHOULD THE U.S. GO OUT OF ITS WAY TO GIVE COMPETING PRODUCERS MARKET ACCESS?

A quarter of the world’s oil and 20 percent of the world’s liquefied natural gas pass through it. If Iran mines it the world will indignantly demand it be swept open by you know what navy.https://t.co/IlEBlaCs6P

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) June 19, 2025

YES:

Dear Canada,

Read this headline again. And again. And again. pic.twitter.com/qi1cYYabNQ

— 𝗡𝗶𝗼𝗵 𝗕𝗲𝗿𝗴 ♛ ✡︎ (@NiohBerg) June 19, 2025

WELL, THEY COULD HARDLY BE DUMBER: Fish Are Smarter Than Previously Thought, Scientists Reveal.

THERE’S A SCREWFLY SOLUTION, YOU KNOW: USDA seeks to combat spread of New World screwworms into U.S.

I’M HAPPY TO SEE MORE COMPETITION IN THIS FIELD: Honda’s Playing with Robots and Reusable Rockets—Look Out, Tesla and SpaceX?

WELL, SOMEBODY HAS TO HAVE A HIGH OPINION OF HIM: Malignant Narcissism: ‘Founding Fighter’ Jamie Raskin Has an Awfully High Opinion of Himself.

IT GOES WAY BACK: Earliest evidence of humans in the Americas confirmed. “The tracks showed human activity in the area occurred between 23,000 and 21,000 years ago—a timeline that would upend anthropologists’ understanding of when cultures developed in North America. It would make the prints about 10,000 years older than remains found 90 years ago at a site near Clovis, New Mexico, which gave its name to an artifact assemblage long understood by archaeologists to represent the earliest known culture in North America.”

Turns out Clovis Man was living on stolen land.

ACCOUNTABILITY: Via the False Claims Act, NIH puts universities on edge.

HMM: Positive life outlook may protect against middle-aged memory loss, 16-year study suggests.

NOT A FEDERAL RESPONSIBILITY: Trump administration ending LGBTQ suicide hotline in July.

BRIAN WANG: SpaceX’s 30x Surge to $12 Trillion by 2035 and the Mars Effect.

MAKE THEM PAY: Latest Supreme Court ruling could help white males sue universities, experts say.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Millions of students dropped out as higher ed shifted focus from degrees to DEI.

IT’S A NEW WORLD: Ungentlemanly Robots: Israel’s Operation Rising Lion and the New Way of War.

WHEN THE NEW GOVERNMENT COMES IN, IT SHOULD DEMAND THAT FRANCE PAY REPARATIONS:

France helped to install Ayatollah Khomeini in 1979 after hosting him in Neauphle-le-Château, from where he coordinated the Iranian Revolution. France even chartered an Air France flight for him to Tehran in 1979.

Now, France is offering to negotiate a peace deal to help… pic.twitter.com/sbUdFjeCXL

— Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 (@MarinaMedvin) June 19, 2025