“SCIENCE:” Flawed ‘racial concordance’ study cited nearly 800 times, study finds.

HMM: State Department will counter CCP ‘exploitation’ of U.S. research amid efforts to revoke student visas, spokesperson says.

THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK: Isaacman: people with ‘axes to grind’ about Musk caused withdrawn NASA nomination.

WHAT GRIFTERS SAY: Jasmine Crockett Says Scrutiny of Biden’s $2B Grant to Stacey Abrams-Linked Nonprofit Meant To ‘Keep a Strong Black Woman Down.’

WHO KNOWS? How Credible Is the 2025Q1 GDP Decline? “It is hard to believe that the U.S. economy can be slowing when aggregate wage income and inflation-adjusted consumer spending are still rising reasonably briskly. Yet the official data suggest that the combination of defense cuts, the unwinding of election-related spending, and a modest decline in construction activity all contributed to a notable slowdown in 2025Q1.”

I mean, I don’t know but “official data” haven’t been super-reliable.

MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Failing on every front, is higher education still sustainable today?

MATT TAIBBI: The Memory-Holing of Everything, Even George Orwell: From democracy to vaccines to election results to Orwell himself, the rewriting of the past to fit current attitudes has become an incurable mania.

TONI AIRAKSINEN: How Columbia Hamas Supporters Led Me To Convert to Judaism.

Related: Education Department informs major accreditor that Columbia violates federal law, accreditation standards.

WELL, THE WASHINGTON POST: Washington Post Article Stresses the Library of Congress’s Name, but Largely Ignores Judicial Precedent that treats the Library of Congress as an Executive Branch department as to Presidential removal of the Librarian.

IT’S MORE COMPLICATED THAN IT SHOULD BE, BUT THE SYSTEM ISN’T DESIGNED TO MAKE SPENDING CUTS EASY: Why Doesn’t the Big Beautiful Bill Cut the Budget More? A Defense.

SAME:

I, for one, am in favor of illegal immigrants who wish to set people on fire for their ethnicity or beliefs knowing that if they set people on fire for their ethnicity or beliefs, there will be significant downsides for their illegal immigrant family members, too.

— Mary Katharine Ham (@mkhammer) June 4, 2025

I LIKE RAND PAUL, BUT MAKING THE PERFECT THE ENEMY OF THE GOOD IS A CLASSIC LIBERTARIAN MISTAKE:

I was on the campaign trail with President Trump all across America.

He promised in every rally to pass the tax cuts, fully secure the border, deport the illegals, dismantle the criminal gangs, unleash American energy, build the missile defense shield, reshore our manufacturing…

— Stephen Miller (@StephenM) June 5, 2025

Take the win you can get, then use the momentum to do more. Am I wrong here? Maybe. But I doubt it.

HOW CRAZY PEOPLE THINK: After Years of Calling Us Nazis, NY Times Panel Wonders Where All the Empathy Went.

#NARRATIVEFAIL: Trump Approval Higher Than Bush, Obama at this Time in Their Terms.

OPEN THREAD: Hump Day.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Second ispace mission ready for lunar landing attempt.

GO AWAY: A Massive Cloud of Saharan Dust Is About to Hit The United States.

MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Failing on every front, is higher education still sustainable today?

HARSH BUT FAIR:

🔥 Karine Jean-Pierre just got annihilated by Scott Jennings after announcing she is leaving the Democratic party:

“Congrats to Democrats for ridding yourselves of this untalented mediocrity. The most self-aggrandizing liar ever to held this job.”
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— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) June 4, 2025

I AGREE:

Re: the judicial coup:

As infuriating and stupid as this nonsense is, the smart strategy is passive-aggressive “Irish Democracy” compliance with these ridiculous judicial rulings to slowly grind them into dust. Keep the ultimate executive branch check on a ridiculous judiciary –…

— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) June 4, 2025

FASTER, PLEASE: Scientists Discover Promising New Alzheimer’s Treatment. “In these mouse models treated with the drug, the BBB remained completely undamaged. The brains didn’t undergo neurodegeneration and, most importantly, cognition and memory capacity were completely preserved.”

HMM: Large language models excel at creating and solving emotional intelligence tests, study finds.

ANSWERING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Is Our Yearlong 2025 Mazda CX-70 Actually Luxurious? “Driving smoothly at low speeds shouldn’t be so difficult.”

THE JUDICIARY IS LOSING RESPECT:

My publication sued the Biden admin years ago for illegally censoring us in direct violation of specific U.S. statutes and the First Amendment. We are still waiting for relief.

But if you’re if you’re an illegal foreign terrorist who just set a bunch of people on fire, there’s a… https://t.co/dTlxlS1Pjh

— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) June 4, 2025

DOMESTIC TERROR: ‘The Bomber Had Help’: Accomplice Arrested in Palm Springs Bombing.