IT’S A BIG DEAL FOR ADMINISTRATIVE LAW AS WELL AS FOR GUN RIGHTS: What Today’s Ruling in Cargill Means for the 2A and Other Gun-Related Cases. “In an opinion by the ever-reliable Justice Clarence Thomas, the Supreme Court drop-kicked the ATF’s reinterpretation of the National Firearms Act, tossing it on the ash heap of history.”

More: In NCLA’s Bump-Stock Ban Case, U.S. Supreme Court Rules ATF Cannot Alter a Statute’s Meaning. “Today, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in the New Civil Liberties Alliance case of Garland v. Cargill that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ unilateral bump-stock ban conflicts with the federal statute defining ‘machineguns.’ ATF’s regulatory ban, which the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit shot down early last year, reversed the agency’s own long-standing recognition that bump-stock-equipped firearms are not machine guns. NCLA commends the high court for permanently setting ATF’s ban aside, safeguarding the rights of our client Michael Cargill and hundreds of thousands of other Americans to be free from laws written by executive branch bureaucrats instead of elected members of Congress.”

Reminder/disclosure: I’m on the NCLA’s Board of Advisors.

I BELIEVE THIS: Why writing by hand is better for remembering things: Keyboards still have a place, but if you want to retain information, grab a pen. I tell students this, and I notice more are handwriting their notes.

I GUESS THOSE “UNDETECTABLE” MOUSE-MOVERS I SEE ADVERTISED AREN’T: “Simulation of keyboard activity” leads to firing of Wells Fargo employees. “Wells Fargo holds employees to the highest standards and does not tolerate unethical behavior.”

Do tell. Integrity Flashback: Wells Fargo Settles With Feds, Will Pay $3B in Fake-Accounts Scandal.

IS THERE ANYTHING IT CAN’T DO? Climate change linked to increased risk of heart disease worldwide.

WHAT DOES THIS SAY? Flag Day 2024: “If you fly the American flag, everyone seems to know who you’re voting for.”

Plus: “San Francisco City Hall waved the Pine Tree Flag proudly for 60 years, until lefties went after Justice Alito for waving one. San Francisco quickly pulled theirs down. Even the New York Times barfed on that move.”

BUT THEY DIDN’T WANT TO: Hamas Could Have let those Hostages Just Drive Away, Saving 200+ Civilians: The rescue of four Israeli hostages on Saturday was going well, with few casualties. Until Hamas attacked and tried to kill the escaping hostages.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Minnesota university ends 30% of degrees, cuts staff.

LEFT EATS LEFT: Anti-Israel group at FIU hosts speaker from ‘Abandon Biden Campaign.’

IT DEPENDS ON WHAT YOU MEAN BY “WORK:” The Left Knows Leftism Doesn’t Work. It doesn’t deliver on its promises. But it produces a delightful environment rewarding crooks, suckups, brutes, and petty tyrants.

DON’T GET COCKY: Trump odds of winning hit new high, 19 points over Biden.

WELL, AND WHEN ANGRY MOBS ARE BURNING WASHINGTON AND HANGING BUREAUCRATS, CONGRESSMEN, AND JOURNALISTS, EVERYONE WHO COULD ASK THEM TO STOP WILL BE IN JAIL: Democrats May Regret Their Legal War on Trump: The unprecedented targeting of the former president and his allies invites partisan retaliation.

Related: Could the House Order Garland Arrested Under ‘Inherent Contempt’?

TWO-FACED: AOC Decried Growing Anti-Semitism on the Left. Days Earlier, She Requested $1.5 Million Earmark for Legal Group Accused of Hostility to Jews.

PRETTY MUCH, YEAH:

Israelis don't want their people to be killed and Hamas wants to kill them — both sides are at an impasse pic.twitter.com/E80s0FJHov

— Jon Levine (@LevineJonathan) June 13, 2024

PEOPLE HAVE GOOD REASON TO NET-DISAPPROVE THE LEADERSHIP OF THE WEST:

The one the media portrayed as “far-right” has the lowest disapproval rating 🤔 lol

— echotoall (@echotoall) June 13, 2024

MARTIN HACKWORTH: I’m Your Huckleberry. “Yo, you over there in the keffiyeh asking about Zionists on this bus. I’m actually a hillbilly from Appalachia, but for the moment, I self-identify as a Jew. Come on over and let’s have a chat.”

MARK JUDGE: The Left Has Been Doing ‘Oppo Research’ on Conservative Justices for Years.

Over the last 18 months, the conservative justices on the Supreme Court have found themselves in the corporate media’s crosshairs. Justice Samuel Alito, in particular, has faced a coordinated attack from the left ever since he wrote the majority opinion that struck down Roe v. Wade.

Alito’s 2022 opinion was leaked to the media and published by Politico before the Court’s ruling striking down the nationwide abortion law. The justices’ addresses and personal information was shared online afterward and they needed increased security after threats from outraged abortion activists.

The attacks haven’t slowed in the two years since, though they have gotten sillier.

Substance doesn’t matter, just unrelenting attacks to fool the gullible. And it works.

THE WOKE REVOLUTION MEETS ITS MATCH: First Time Ever? 90 Actresses Turn Down Roles in Play Attacking J.K. Rowling. “The play, originally called TERF C**t portrays a fictional intervention of the Harry Potter actors staging an ‘intervention’ to get Rowling to recant her gender-critical views. No actresses want to touch the roles with a 10-foot pole, perhaps because they agree with Rowling, or perhaps because they are afraid that their participation in the play won’t age well as views on gender issues shift rightward.”

Or maybe they think she’s right. Or maybe the play’s just crap.

TRUMP ON SHARKS AND BATTERIES: No, I think people who like Trump feel as though they’re listening to a stand-up comic. A highly gifted one, not a normal one. It’s not “par for the course.” It’s a birdie. An eagle.

RAND SIMBERG REVIEWS Bob Zubrin’s new book, The New World on Mars: What We Can Create on the Red Planet. Quoth Rand: “No one in history has more popularized the idea of Mars being a suitable place for the expansion of humanity than Robert Zubrin. A nuclear and aerospace engineer and founder and president of the Mars Society [and a contributing editor of this journal –Ed.], Zubrin first proposed his plans for getting to the planet and settling there at the 1990 International Space Development Conference, which I attended. He called the plan ‘Mars Direct,’ to distinguish it from NASA’s more convoluted and less economical plan. His 1996 book based on the concept, The Case For Mars, has become a classic in the literature on the exploration and development of space.”

I was there too, and it was the most exciting talk I’ve ever heard. But here’s what’s changed since then: “In the last decade, the SpaceX Falcon family, and particularly the Falcon Heavy launch vehicle, have already reduced the price of getting a pound of mass to orbit to below a thousand dollars, largely by reusing the first stages. Some of those stages are now approaching twenty reuses. Zubrin makes the plausible case that, at the levels of activity desired by Musk, with full reusability of hardware, the price to orbit could come down to some fifty dollars per pound.”

OPEN THREAD: San Francisco show and tell.

MASKED MARCHES HAVE BEEN ILLEGAL IN VIRGINIA SINCE THE KLAN WAS BANNED, AND YET GMU ALLOWED HAMAS SUPPORTERS TO MARCH MASKED: NY needs to outlaw masking at protests NOW before more antisemitic goons run wild. Laws are only as good as the people enforcing them, who by all evidence aren’t worth a rancid turd in NYC.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Armenia signs Artemis Accords.

HMM: Suspected NYC jihadist was caught near major airport as new details of averted ‘disaster’ are revealed.

The “arsenal of weapons” isn’t super impressive. You could find more and better in any random pickup truck in my area. Again, it boils down to how I don’t trust the DOJ, etc., anymore. OTOH, this arrest was apparently based on a random observation by NYC cops, not an elaborate “sting” involving more informants than offenders, so . . .

Flashback thoughts here.

IS THAT GOOD OR BAD? Dietary Supplement Found to Reduce Aggression by Up to 28%. I’d say the problem with our society isn’t insufficient aggression as such, but improperly directed aggression.

TRUE. No, really, you don’t hate journalists enough. “Again, one has to wonder how Bump and Taylor Lorenz survived the mass layoffs that took place over the last year or so at the Post. Some good journalists found themselves out of a job, while the Post stuck with these two clowns. That’s all you need to know about the credibility of the Post, and the Protection Racket Media in general.”