MATT TAIBBI: The Coming Democratic Party Coup.

SOME PARTS OF AMERICA STILL WORK:

Liftoff! pic.twitter.com/nwIuI4bwdG

— SpaceX (@SpaceX) June 29, 2024

Falcon 9’s first stage has landed on the Of Course I Still Love You droneship

— SpaceX (@SpaceX) June 29, 2024

Ad Astra, per ardua.

Hint: They’re not in the government or academic worlds.

HARSH, BUT FAIR:

Not trying to be mean or rude. But Elie is sooooooo dumb https://t.co/mdlXeaIWlQ

— Josh__Seattle (@Josh__Seattle) June 29, 2024

IT’S NOT LIKE YOU SHOULD BE TAKING THIS CLOWN SHOW SERIOUSLY: Real Clear Politics just blasted Not the Bee for our “flippancy” that’s “destroying public discourse.” Here is my reply.

I mean, David French? Also, as I’ve noted before, being “nice” isn’t a Christian tenet. Nice people don’t drive the moneychangers out of the temple, or the Moors out of Spain. Niceness-as-Christianity is mostly a cowardly copout by people who are afraid of confrontation.

OPEN THREAD: Ring in the weekend.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: China gears up for deep space missions after collecting 1,935 grams of lunar far side samples.

I WAS EXPECTING A MARS-SHATTERING KABOOM: Quakes on Mars Reveal Red Planet Is Constantly Bombarded by Meteorites.

BACK WHEN I WAS ON THE PLANETARY PROTECTION SUBCOMMITTEE, WE DIDN’T GET TO DO ANYTHING THIS COOL: NASA picks scientists to join Hera asteroid defense mission. Of course, that was over a decade ago, pre-SpaceX when we didn’t have much in the way of capabilities yet.

NEWS FROM 1800: British group says levels of E. coli in River Thames ‘alarmingly high.’

I CAN ONLY IMAGINE WHAT MY GRANDFATHER WOULD HAVE THOUGHT OF THESE: The Most Luxurious Full-Size Pickup Trucks on the Market.

FOLLOW THE SCIENCE? MORE LIES: Citing fake data, U.S. Surgeon General Declares Gun Violence a “Public Health” Crisis.

THE REAL VICTIMS:

The ones I feel sorry for are my administrative law colleagues who built their courses and careers around the intricacies of Chevron deference.

— Laurence Tribe 🇺🇦 ⚖️ (@tribelaw) June 28, 2024

I’m teaching Admin Law in the fall, but I think I’ll bear up under the strain of revising my syllabus. I’d been telling students Chevron was on life support for years.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: SpaceX Launched 1000 Starlink Satellites in First Half of 2024 and Direct to Cell Starting in the Fall.

HMM: Shopping app Temu is “dangerous malware,” spying on your texts, lawsuit claims.

WELL, GOOD: Common blood pressure drug may make leukemia more responsive to chemotherapy while protecting heart.

EVEN IF THEY REPLACE HIM AS CANDIDATE, WE’RE PROBABLY STUCK WITH HIM FOR NEARLY 7 MONTHS: Six Tips for Surviving in Biden’s America.

Though I can imagine a deal where he resigns now in favor of Kamala, giving her several months as the first black, female president in exchange for her not running.

CALL ME CRAZY, BUT I AGREE: Staying fit may decrease men’s risk of ALS.

HMM: Yale Buckley Institute’s National Law Student Survey: Undecided (28%) Leads Presidential Race, Topping Biden (27%), Trump (17%), And RFK (16%).

Disturbing for future employers: “this same group of future lawyers care more about social justice than they do about delivering a favorable result for their potential clients.”

ANOTHER BIG WIN FOR THE NCLA: In Landmark Victory for Civil Liberties, NCLA Persuades Supreme Court to Overturn Chevron Deference. “Today, the U.S. Supreme Court decided 6-3 to overturn the 1984 Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council case and with it the unconstitutional Chevron doctrine. It did so in the New Civil Liberties Alliance’s case, Relentless Inc. v. Dept. of Commerce, argued in tandem with Loper Bright Enterprises, et al. v. Raimondo. The Court vacated and remanded the First Circuit’s decision that upheld a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and National Marine Fisheries Service rule requiring fishing companies like NCLA’s clients to pay for at-sea government monitors on their fishing boats. NCLA celebrates this monumental victory, which will curtail abuses of administrative power for years to come. . . . Concurring opinions discussed two core constitutional problems with Chevron deference that NCLA founder Philip Hamburger has long emphasized. First, employing such deference abandons a judge’s duty to provide independent judgment. Second, when a federal court defers to an agency’s legal interpretation, the litigants opposing that agency—like the fishermen opposing NOAA in Relentless—do not have their case judged by an impartial adjudicator, which violates the core constitutional promise of due process.”

Reminder/disclosure: I’m on the NCLA’s advisory board.

IN THE MAIL: The Gouge!: How to Be Smarter Than the Situation You Are In.

Given the situation we’re in now, that shouldn’t be hard. And yet. . . .

OF COURSE IT IS: New U. Arizona DEI course requirement hit with criticism: ‘academically unserious.’

LOSERS ON PARADE: Meet the Emory University students and faculty arrested at Hamas-endorsed protest.

DON SURBER ON YESTERDAY’S SEC DECISION: Americans 6, Deep State 3. “The SEC used its in-house administrative law judge to fine George Jarkesy $300,000 and to confiscate another $685,000 from him. There was no jury. Well, you don’t need a calculator to determine that $985,000 is more than $20. Mister Jarkesy sued for his 7th Amendment right to a jury trial. He fought all the way to the Supreme Court.”

Plus:

The vote to force the government to prove its case in an actual court of law was 6-3. The dissent written by Justice Sonia Sotomayor actually made the case for the majority opinion.

She wrote, “The majority claims that its ruling is limited to ‘civil penalty suits for fraud’ pursuant to a statute that is ‘barely over a decade old,’ ante, at 18, n. 2, 22, an assurance that is in significant tension with other parts of its reasoning. That incredible assertion should fool no one. Today’s decision is a massive sea change.

“Litigants seeking further dismantling of the ‘administrative state’ have reason to rejoice in their win today, but those of us who cherish the rule of law have nothing to celebrate.”

Of course we want to dismantle the administrative state. We’re American citizens, not British subjects.

Too many grafters and grifters depend on it, though.

IT’S NOT THAT THEY REALIZED HE WAS SENILE AND INCOMPETENT, IT’S THAT THEY REALIZED THEY COULD NO LONGER HIDE IT: Morning Greatness: Biden Debate Performance Has Democrats Freaking Out.

Flashback: Time for Consequences: The “Cabal” who bragged about rigging the 2020 election stuck us with an incapable president at a time of crisis. Examples need to be made.

UPDATE:

Part of me wants to yell "you're all SOBs. You put an impaired old man in the pilot's seat of an airplane with 350 million passengers so you could keep your crummy jobs." How could you?

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) June 28, 2024

The worst of it is that once again the conspiracy theory proved true.

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) June 28, 2024

My personal text feed from Dem pols and operatives is reading like the day after Pearl Harbor…

— Mike Murphy (@murphymike) June 28, 2024

Telling people they didn't see what they saw is not the way to respond to this.

— Ben Rhodes (@brhodes) June 28, 2024

Remember how much shit WSJ took for the Biden age story? https://t.co/3mEUUqq0Ks pic.twitter.com/dJQjg0bJPx

— Ben Smith (@semaforben) June 28, 2024

ANOTHER UPDATE:

As much as last night was an indictment of the Democratic Party for misleading party members and the country about the mental acuity and health of the president, the media deserve far more derision and scorn.

I and others were repeatedly criticized by the media for questioning… https://t.co/oPfhZQWGai

— Bill Ackman (@BillAckman) June 28, 2024

JUST GO BACK TO THE OLD “ILLEGAL ALIENS.” Fight escalates over calling illegal migrants ‘illegal.’ “Illegal Aliens” is the statutory term anyway. Everything else is just a politicized euphemism.