IT’S STILL A PLANET, DAMMIT: Pluto photos from NASA’s New Horizons still captivating scientists decade later.

SEDUCTIVE AI: Stanford study on AI therapy chatbots warns of risks, bias.

HIGHER EDUCATION NEWS: Harvard ethics professor fired for dishonesty maintains her innocence.

CHANGE: Wright State closes DEI office, five identity centers amid new Ohio law.

SETH BARRETT TILLMAN: Must Article III Courts Issue Explanations for their Orders?

HE’S NOT WRONG:

You are unworthy of self governance https://t.co/y6AuESL9la

— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) July 14, 2025

A TRUE CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS LOOKS LIKE THIS:

For all the talk of a “constitutional crisis” or threats to “our democracy” having the executive branch systematically run by unknown subordinates of a mentally incompetent president is the biggest constitutional scandal in US history—it’s called into question the legality of… https://t.co/VZtQWHq4tQ

— Randy Barnett (@RandyEBarnett) July 14, 2025

INCONCEIVABLE: Oh Man — Imagine If Universities Were Politically Biased In Their Hiring: ‘I’m shocked — shocked! — to find that [bias] is going on in here!’

SAY LESS, DO MORE: Julie Kelly: How the Epstein Debacle Has Overshadowed Historic Success at the DOJ. The hollowing out of the 100,000+ workforce of the Department of Justice is drowned out by a cacophony of discord, demands, and empty promises over the “Epstein files.”

OPEN THREAD: Monday, Monday.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: China enters race for LEO broadband dominance.

“I’D CURE IT SOON — ABOLISH MONDAY MORNINGS, AND FRIDAY AFTERNOONS.” Mondayitis Could Have a Deadly Effect On Your Body.

THEY’RE ALWAYS IN THE LAST PLACE YOU LOOK: The Milky Way May Be Surrounded by 100 Hidden Galaxies.

HMM: ‘Old’ brains increase risk of death, Alzheimer’s, study says.

Probably more of a marker for being in bad shape.

LOL, “EVANGELICALS FOR HARRIS.” Evangelicals for Harris Apologizes for Using Billy Graham Sermons to Attack Trump.

WELL, IT’S THE ATF: Adamiak: ATF’s machine gun charges are complete fiction.

ATF needs to be abolished.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: It’s hunting season in orbit as Russia’s killer satellites mystify skywatchers.

Elon laughs, as he’s got more satellites than Russians can kill, and can launch new ones faster than they can kill the old ones.

DIFFERENTLY: New research reveals how male and female brains process regret and change decisions.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: SpaceX launches highly secret Israeli communications satellite.

OUT THIS WEEK FROM KURT SCHLICHTER: American Apocalypse. An oral history of the Second American Civil War, set off by the dual assassinations of President Trump and Vice President Vance. In the style of his The Attack.

DON SURBER: The Trump Surplus: MAGA-nomics is winning.

THEY AREN’T RATIONAL PEOPLE: Miranda Devine: Shocking new poll reveals majority of deluded Dems still believe the Russia collusion hoax was real. “The fact that liberals and Democrats still believe in the hoax is likely a reflection of their preferred media outlets, such as the New York Times, which refuses to hand back its ill-gotten Pulitzers, and MSNBC, which pays discredited plotters such as former CIA director John Brennan and former Mueller prosecutor Andrew Weissman to act out their Trump derangement on air.”

Related:

The legacy media has massive range and sway with older people but diminishing sway with younger people. A 70 year old Democrat who still watches CNN every night is possibly the most insane person on the planet because they’ve been consuming poison for 70 years. https://t.co/AeKlrANyEU

— Jesse Kelly (@JesseKellyDC) June 16, 2025

PUPPET GOVERNMENT:

Remember how I said the auto pen thing was a big nothing. Yeah I’m taking that back now. Because I couldn’t conceive of this. https://t.co/AMFzkVzKgk

— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) July 14, 2025

Can’t wait for the “it doesn’t matter that Biden didn’t sign those pardons himself” takes. https://t.co/Q8L6AVUAIL

— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) July 14, 2025

In short they were not pardoned.

This is what irks folks who live by the rules, work hard & expect the same from those they often put in power then watch with frustration and disgust what they do once they get it. https://t.co/oGnyxirH2z

— ZitoSalena (@ZitoSalena) July 14, 2025

UPDATE:

So the guy in charge of Covid censorship to cover up the crimes of Covid criminals then personally pardoned the top Covid criminal so that criminal couldn’t be charged with the crimes he originally censored you from talking about. https://t.co/LPfdLit90D

— Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) July 14, 2025

COMMIES ARE GARBAGE PEOPLE AND SHOULD BE TREATED AS SUCH:

Mao Zedong: “Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.”

Privileged arts graduate: “But that’s not ‘real’ communism!” https://t.co/mp15uMjmEH

— Alice Smith (@TheAliceSmith) July 12, 2025

THE ENEMY WITHIN: “I view Stanford and MIT as mainly political lobbying operations fighting American innovation at this point….”

People who are doing extremely well by milking the status quo are seldom good sources of innovation.