FASTER, PLEASE: Mapping the heart to prevent damage caused by a heart attack.

THE FUTURE: Jensen and Elon Both See Future with Billions of Humanoid Robots.

FOLLOW THE SCIENCE: Top FDA official overrules staff to approve gene therapy that failed trial: Peter Marks overruled three teams and two top directors.

WELL, GOOD: Weight-loss drug effective in treating sleep apnea, study finds.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, CONFIDENCE EDITION: Polls: Confidence in colleges and universities continues plummet to ‘new lows.’

The results not only demonstrate a significant decline in national confidence since the 2023 Gallup poll, but that this decline was especially severe among young people ages 18 to 34, Democrats, and women, with those demographics showing the largest drops, FIRE researcher Nathan Honeycutt wrote in a news release.

What’s more, the drop in confidence from FIRE’s February to May polls shows the unrest and pro-Palestinian protests that have engulfed campuses in recent months has hurt higher education’s reputation further.

Honeycutt told The College Fix recent headlines over academic dishonesty, such as the plagiarism accusations lodged at several top-level campus leaders over the last seven months, could also explain the decline.

Other possible factors cited by FIRE include bias against center-right beliefs, rising tuition costs, and administrative bloat. . . . “The curtain is being pulled back.”

None of that’s a surprise to InstaPundit readers, but apparently their core customer base is catching on.

THOSE BOZOS SAY A LOT OF THINGS: Columbia SJP calls for alleged arsonist and firebomber Casey Goonan to be released from Jail: ‘Resistance is Love.’

I’d like to show them some love.

GANGSTER GOVERNMENT: Lock Merrick Garland Up For Protecting Biden: Voters. “In the latest Rasmussen Reports survey shared with Secrets, voters said that like Trump advisers before him, Garland should be sent to prison for failing to give Congress Biden’s interview recordings, drawing a contempt of Congress charge. By a 47%-31% margin, voters told Rasmussen that they believed Garland was guilty as charged. And 44% said he should be sent to prison, while 35% didn’t.”

Yeah, but it’s pretty hard to get Merrick Garland to prosecute Merrick Garland.

Related:

DOJ Opens New Tipline For Criminals To Report Whistleblowers https://t.co/ARN5JCngHl pic.twitter.com/h3Q4f84Hy5

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) June 21, 2024

WOKENESS AND LABOR ARE UNEASY BEDFELLOWS: Axios: Labor’s GOP flirtation heightens Democrats’ 2024 election nerves.

SALENA ZITO: A Lincoln Highway Icon Dies.

Two weeks ago, Jack Dunkle was sitting with his best friend Bob Barnes at his auto parts store along U.S. 30. Barnes was telling a story to his friend of over 40 years. Dunkle looked pale, but he waved Barnes off when asked if he needed anything.

“A little bit later, as Jack started to leave, he turned and paused for a moment at the threshold of the shop door, looked over his shoulder, and said to me, ‘I do need something, but it is not anything anyone, including you, can give me, and that is time,’” recalled Barnes, 70, who chokes up over the memory.

It was the last time he saw Dunkle alive. The 76-year-old died last week. Those who didn’t read the obituary in the Bedford Gazette found out soon enough when they made the bend along the old Lincoln Highway and saw that the iconic Gulf service station — the last original decorative terracotta Gulf gas station in the country — was closed.

“NO GASOLINE” signs were hand-scrawled and taped on to the two ancient pumps where his wife Susan would come out with a broad smile and pump your gas, check your tires, and wipe your windshield down when you pulled into the station; taped up across the big bay window was another sign left by Barnes that read: “Jack, you were simply GREAT will miss you FOREVER, Bob Barnes.”

It’s Salena Zito so read the whole thing.

DHS IS THE DOMESTIC ENEMY: New DHS Doc Reveals It Labels Trump Supporters, Catholics As Terror Threats.

STEPHANIE GUTMANN: When the trans movement was young, before everybody knew what ‘bottom surgery’ meant….

OPEN THREAD: Ring in the weekend.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: SpaceX rocket launches European TV satellite, makes 250th droneship landing.

Related: Rocket Lab launches 5 IoT satellites on landmark 50th mission.

WAR IS COMING: Senate Democrats have added language to the annual defense authorization bill to require women to register for the draft.

IS THERE ANYONE WHO ISN’T? Is CBS Suggesting That Biden Will Be Drugged for the Debate With Trump?

Related:

Biden arrives at Camp David for a much needed week of doping before the debate

Just look at him walk here… pic.twitter.com/0NSJYeyxTT

— johnny maga (@_johnnymaga) June 21, 2024

ALIENS: The Oldest Known Burial Site in The World Wasn’t Created by Our Species.

Well, sort of: “Critically, they also belong to Homo naledi, a primitive species at the crossroads between apes and modern humans, which had brains about the size of oranges and stood about 1.5 meters (five feet) tall. . . . Engravings forming geometrical shapes, including a ‘rough hashtag figure’, were also found on the apparently purposely smoothed surfaces of a cave pillar nearby.​”

I wonder if they’re truly a different species or if, as with Neanderthals, Denisovans, etc., more-modern humans could interbreed with them. A quick web search suggests that there’s no evidence that they did, but that evidence could be buried in a cave somewhere.

THIS IS A DUMB TIMELINE, BUT A FUNNY ONE: WATCH: Hamas Simps Show Up at Jake Tapper’s House, What Happens Next Is Hilarious.

To set the scene, the protesters showed up and started shouting into a bullhorn about how Israel bombed the Al-Ahli hospital. As RedState reported in late 2023, the hospital was not bombed. Rather, the parking lot area was hit by a Palestinian Islamic Jihad rocket that fell short. While the “Gaza Ministry of Health” initially claimed 500-700 dead, the actual death toll was around 25 people. It was one of the first major hoaxes of the war. Apparently, these protesters didn’t get the memo. More likely, they just don’t care because they lie like they are breathing.

Regardless, amid the protest, something hilarious happened.

If you can’t watch the video, Tapper’s kids come to the window and start blaring the Star Spangled Banner. They then begin laughing and waving, triggering the every-loving mess out of the protesters. . . . They get so mad when you make fun of them, which means making fun of them is absolutely the right choice.

It helps that they’re so ridiculous, too.

WELL, BYE: Disney VP Takes Leave of Absence After Date with Undercover Reporter for James O’Keefe.

COMMERCIAL FUSION POWER IS ONLY 20 YEARS AWAY! Major Fusion Milestone: Princeton Scientists Discover Game-Changer in Reactor Design. We can have endless clean power right now with fission, though, so we can wait. Which is a good thing, since commercial fusion has been only 20 years away for my entire life.

STILL TRUE:

My gas tank bill is starting to look like a grocery bill and my grocery bill is starting to look like a Costco bill and my Costco bill is starting to look like a mortgage payment and I don’t know how people are affording to live right now.

— Meghan 🩷💜💙| The Pursuing Life (@thepursuinglife) June 15, 2022

PRIORITIES: DOJ sues 5 anti-abortion activists for blocking healthcare clinic.

JULIETTE OCHIENG: The Grudges: Eating popcorn on the sidelines. “It’s fascinating to watch on social media as people and groups worry about their ethnic blood lines dying out or being diluted. Be advised, I’m not talking about ethnic genocides, which are always wrong and always evil. I’m talking about those who are up in arms about interracial/inter-ethnic relationships, intermarriage and integration. Especially confusing are black Americans who go on about those of our number who procreate with non-black persons.”

A SOFT FACE USUALLY NEEDS WEIGHT LOSS: Facial gum is all the rage on TikTok. So does it work?

HMM: Judge dismisses charges in Nevada fake electors case over venue question, attorney general to appeal. “Defense attorneys bluntly declared the case dead, saying that to bring the case now to another grand jury in another venue such as Nevada’s capital city of Carson City would violate a three-year statute of limitations on filing charges that expired in December.”

FEEL LUCKY, PUNK? The .44 Magnum: A Love Story.