YOU WOULD THINK THAT LASER RANGEFINDER TECH WOULD BE PRETTY MATURE BY NOW: Japan’s ispace blames ‘hard landing’ on moon on Laser Range Finder.

SPACE JUNK, BETTER PUT UP MY UMBRELLA: EU’s Space Act would track space objects and clear satellite debris.

HEALTH: Blood test might predict symptoms relapse in MS patients.

WE NEED IMMIGRANTS BECAUSE WE HAVE A POPULATION CRISIS! WE HAVE A POPULATION CRISIS BECAUSE OF IMMIGRANTS!

Immigrants depress organic population growth by competing for jobs with young men. They’re aren’t a substitute for low population growth, they’re a cause.

What’s more, they also depress innovation and investment by making labor expansion cheaper than capital.

Just say no. https://t.co/z0HV7Q32mf

— John Carney (@carney) June 24, 2025

Both of these things can be true, but I think they’d make a terrible Reese’s commercial.

MARK JUDGE: The Man Crisis and ‘Iron John’ at 35. “I remember that when Iron John became a phenomenon in the 1990s every single actor, journalist, and performance artist I knew was eager to create a parody of it and the so-called men’s movement. Those people have now either lost themselves or are living passive lives where they are ordered around by their wives and raising dull sons.”

CHANGE: ‘Education, not indoctrination’: Texas governor signs higher ed reform bill.

CHANGE: Education Department unveils grants to teach Founding documents ahead of America’s 250th birthday.

SOME VERY SHADY CITATIONS IN LOWER-COURT SECOND AMENDMENT CASES: Seth Barrett Tillman: A Phenomenon in Search of a Theory / Recent Citations to Michael Bellesiles’ Publications.

NOTHING SAYS “ACADEMIC STANDARDS” LIKE “RESISTANCE CREDIBILITY.” Harvard Considers a Deal with Trump but is Worried About Losing Its Resistance Credibility.

BUT IS THERE AN AUTOPEN?

I have a feeling Iran's regime already changed. All the Supreme Leader's underlings needed to do was lock him in a bunker and take away his phone "for his own safety."

Then tell anyone who asks that the Supreme Leader isn't meeting with anyone in person but they know his…

— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) June 25, 2025

SUPREMES: Three Years Later, We Still Don’t Know Who Leaked The Supreme Court’s Dobbs Decision.

AND YET NEW YORKERS VOTED FOR HIM IN DROVES:

mamdani is heir to a form of third-world socialism and decolonialism that totally failed. it resulted in immiseration for billions. india is two generations behind where it could be.

mamdani's middle name is from kwame nkrumah, who cripped ghana's economy for a generation

— Razib 🥥 Khan 🧬 📘✍️📱 (@razibkhan) June 25, 2025

The commentary about NYC Democrats nominating an anarchist-socialist for Mayor omits one point: how unchecked migration fundamentally remade the NYC electorate. Democrats change politics by changing voters. That’s how you turn a city that defined US dominance into what it is now.

— Stephen Miller (@StephenM) June 25, 2025

Related: NYC Trades Prosperity for Socialism. Here come the bond vigilantes. “These huge cities just shoot themselves in the foot. The Democratic Party is a far left wing party now. LA has a communist mayor, and Newsom isn’t far from one. SF had one, but has a new mayor trying to bring it back from the ungovernable and unlivable depths. JB Pritzker in Illinois governs as a fascist, and Chicago has a Marxist for a mayor. Now, NYC joins the party.”

UPDATE:

Mamdani is winning the college-educated white areas that are transplants… Cuomo won the ethnic white neighborhoods. There is a difference

— Ryan James Girdusky (@RyanGirdusky) June 25, 2025

Maybe it was a mistake to let enemies of our civilization educate our youth.

The single biggest step we can do to slay the Leviathan is to attack their incubators – the universities.

University funding is a big part of the "soft power" playbook for both Western and anti-Western nations. Career activists are groomed in universities. Zohran Mamdani, Karen… https://t.co/nvRfatvfdj

— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) June 24, 2025

NO SURPRISE: What ‘Split’? 9 in 10 MAGA Voters Back Trump Strikes on Iran, Poll Shows.

IN A NUTSHELL:

It’s ironic that Democrats want Iran to have nukes but don’t want you to have a gun.

— Tim Burchett (@timburchett) June 24, 2025

Tells you who they see as friends and enemies, I guess…

WHEN “STANDARDIZED TESTS” AREN’T STANDARD: The SAT’s Trust Fall: Legacy standardized-testing firms are cutting rigor to please students.

First, most lawmakers are surprised to learn that the tests change at all. They are then flabbergasted to learn what the most recent changes to the SAT were.

The most noticeable changes were to the structure of the exam. The paper exam was scrapped, and in its place the College Board implemented a computer-based test that is adaptive, meaning students are served easier or harder questions in later portions of each section based on their early performance.

But while these changes were noticeable, they were not the most noteworthy. Many state exams are adaptive, and adaptive testing has been studied by psychometricians for decades. The way adaptive testing was implemented in the new SAT, though, caused eye-popping ripple effects—for those who were looking, that is.

Color me suspicious that this is all about making affirmative action harder to prove.

FALLING BEHIND:

Many, many U.S. Attorney positions are still unappointed across the U.S., especially in very woke districts where the state attorney generals are corrupt and woke. https://t.co/cs12ufht0z

— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) June 24, 2025

WEATHER HYPE, JOINED WITH CLIMATE HYPE, IS HYPER-ANNOYING: “Heat Dome” Hysteria: When Every Hot Summer Day Becomes a Climate Apocalypse.

IT’S UNCLEAR WHETHER HIGHER EDUCATION AS IT EXISTS TODAY IS A NET BENEFIT TO THE SOCIETY THAT FUNDS IT:

The “Elite Human Capital” thesis shatters on this rock https://t.co/rLkMywK1si

— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) June 24, 2025

JUDICIAL TEMPERAMENT:

I guess Justice Roberts is learning that the judiciary is really just a fancy cellblock, and you either grab a shiv or you end up nicknamed “Sugar” cause you give it up so sweet. https://t.co/IRUi0K3kzQ

— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) June 24, 2025

OPEN THREAD: Hope you had a groovy Tuesday.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: The Exploration Company claims partial success of Mission Possible reentry spacecraft.

THAT’S NO MOON: Record-Sized Comet Seen Belching Jets From Surface as It Heads Our Way.

DONALD SENSING: What does “Just War” mean?

MASSIVE RESISTANCE 2.0:

I have a story to break.

Columbia is still practicing racially discriminatory admissions in defiance of the Supreme Court's ruling in SFFA v. Harvard.

Newly-leaked data shows they still prefer less-qualified Blacks and Hispanics over more-qualified Asians🧵 pic.twitter.com/RBsJAA8ojC

— Crémieux (@cremieuxrecueil) June 24, 2025

ANALYSIS: TRUE.

Anybody who thinks Iran not having nuclear weapons benefits only Israel is a rat-brained lobotomite devoid of reasoning skills.

— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) June 23, 2025