ILYA SHAPIRO: Wrapping Up the Supreme Court Term: Statistics and themes on the term that was, and a brief glimpse at the future.

DISCRIMINATION: Why Are There So Few Conservative Professors?

Higher education is rendering itself irrelevant and sectarian, and will then complain that the inevitable loss of public support stems from “anti-intellectualism.” But there is nothing intellectual about organizations that are organized around the promotion of political dogma. Or about people who are so organized.

I ALWAYS ASSUME AT THE OUTSET THAT THESE SCANDALS ARE LIKELY HOAXES, AND I’M SELDOM WRONG: Ole Miss NAACP won’t share evidence two students made ‘racist remarks’ at rally.

WHO COULD HAVE SEEN THIS COMING? As The Percentage Of Accommodated Students In A Law School Increases, Its First-Time Bar Pass Rate Decreases.

BADGE OF HONOR: Meet the eleven police leaders sanctioned by Iran for breaking up anti-Israel encampments: The Iranian government sanctioned eleven American police leaders for “suppressing” campus anti-Israel encampments across the country.

There goes that vacation on Kharg Island.

JOHN LUCAS: “This murder of political enemies is what many unhinged Trump opponents seek. It is not a secret — they tell us this is what they want.” “This professor of linguistics, this New York Times wordsmith, presumably chooses his words carefully.”

I wouldn’t rule out a “grand insurrection” if Trump were murdered, though. Look what happened after Martin Luther King was shot. Why should we assume that Trump supporters would be more passive than the supporters of a nonviolent protest leader?

Also, I’m sad about this because John McWhorter is normally a reasonable guy who is willing to break with the Left monolith on many issues. That he’s still fantasizing about Trump being assassinated shows just how far the Trump Derangement Syndrome brain-rot has spread.

LOL:

Writing about US food the way the NYT covers Asian fruit: In a nation torn by racial conflict, one unlikely food unites. To those accustomed to chopsticks, the greasy parcel known as a 'burger', a sort of split bao, is crude and messy. Yet it encapsulates a nation's violent past.

— Soon-Tzu Speechley 孫子 (@speechleyish) June 25, 2020

WELL, HE HAS A BETTER RECORD: Voters, especially independents, pick Trump to ‘handle’ inflation.

IT WAS A TEST. ALL TESTS ARE SUCCESSFUL IF YOU LEARN SOMETHING. Europe’s first Ariane 6 flight achieved most of its goals, but ended prematurely.

SIX YEARS AGO TODAY: FBI agent who mistakenly shot man during backflip in Denver bar can carry gun again, judge rules.

Sums up the relationship between the Establishment, its minions, and the citizenry quite well.

JIGGERY-POKERY: NOPD Creates French Quarter Gun-Free Zone by Designating a Police Station a School. I doubt this will last long. I suspect that it may create a lot of knock-on problems for businesses in the French Quarter, though. At least there’s some adult supervision:

After New Orleans officials were unsuccessful in their attempts to get state lawmakers to designate vast swathes of their city’s popular tourist areas as gun-free zones before Louisiana’s new permitless carry law went live July 4, they came up with their own solution, which is probably unconstitutional, definitely whacky, and certain to be contested in court.

The New Orleans Police Department has designated their Eighth District police station – which is located in the middle of the French Quarter – as a vocational technical school. In other words, they turned a working police station into a vo-tech. That makes everything within a 1,000-foot radius of the “school” is a gun-free zone, including more than five blocks of Bourbon Street, an international tourist destination.

It’s a felony in Louisiana to violate a gun-free zone, which is punishable by up to five years — at hard labor — in a state prison.

Who will actually be attending classes at this new “school” isn’t known. . . .

Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill balked at the city’s move, warning officials they could face civil rights lawsuits because of their “made-up designation.”

“I’m working hard to help keep New Orleans safe, but the City cannot avoid state law by unilaterally designating police stations ‘vo-tech locations.’ You cannot just ‘designate’ yourself a vo-tech school. Among other implications, if it was one (it’s not) the police department would be under the jurisdiction of a board of supervisors for higher education, and it would be subject to other oversight requirements. I have no specific plans yet, but would caution the NOPD that it will likely be subject to civil rights lawsuits under Section 1983 of the Civil Rights Act if it arrests people pursuant to its made-up designation, which is clearly not legal or effective. I certainly hope the NOPD isn’t violating people’s rights by making up their own rules, which is why the Department is under a federal consent decree,” Murrill said in a statement posted on social media.

“Schools have classrooms, not booking rooms,” Murrill said in another post.

Even in New Orleans.

SEEMS IN CHARACTER, TO THE EXTENT THAT SHE HAS ONE: Did Kamala Harris Help Torpedo Joe Biden?

WE’VE HEARD THIS SONG BEFORE: Russia Seeks to Boost Trump in 2024 Election, U.S. Intelligence Officials Say.

U.S. Intelligence Officials say a lot in election years, and most of it’s politicized disinformation.

DAVID LAT: The Roberts Court Is Roberts’s Court. Yes, I’m writing something about this in connection with the Rahimi case right now.

THE DIFFERENCE IS, ARGENTINA WANTED TO:

This should be a requirement. If Argentina can do it, so can America! https://t.co/z1hPnFyxgt

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 9, 2024

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Emerson Poll: Trump Ahead of Every Possible Democrat Candidate.

I’ve noticed that there’s all sort of lefty hysteria all of a sudden (which is how it always appears after the memo goes out) about “Project 2025,” a Heritage Foundation presidential transition plan that’s been around since January.

There’s nothing especially shocking here, and Heritage does a transition guide every presidential election. But a friend suggests that the takeaway from all the Project 2025 hysteria is that the Democrats realize voters aren’t that scared of Trump anymore, so they need a new bogeyman.

Related:

It is funny how much they are making up… None of that is even in there, the document has been public for a while.

But if they lie enough, the "source" disappears from people's minds and all they remember is "Orange man wants to impose dystopian nightmare".

— Minorbother (@Jesusfreak770) July 9, 2024

OPEN THREAD: Disport yourselves in the comments.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: China’s dirty and dangerous race to become a space superpower.

FUSION POWER WOULD BE BAD BECAUSE OF . . . “JUSTICE AND EQUITY” AND “INDIGENOUS PEOPLES.” Fusion Is Coming, But Are We Ready For The Problems It Could Cause?

PROFESSOR CARRINGTON, CALL YOUR OFFICE: Are there more solar flares than expected during this solar cycle? “In terms of sunspot numbers, Solar Cycle 25 (our current cycle) has exceeded the sunspot levels of Solar Cycle 24 (which peaked in 2014). With higher sunspot numbers, we’d also expect higher flare counts. This is the case, but the difference is far from what some would have you believe.”

21ST CENTURY “JUSTICE:”

They fined Donald Trump 2x more for accurately appraising the market value of his home than Boeing got fined for killing people. https://t.co/jhfbrI7DZy

— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) July 8, 2024

ASK DR. PRESTONE: Unlocking the Secrets of Ice With Antifreeze and Advanced Microscopy.

“HOMELESSNESS”-AS-STATUS IS AN INVENTION OF ACTIVISTS IN THE 1980S: Are camping laws regulation of “conduct” by homeless people or the “status” of being homeless?

Note, too, that the notion of laws banning camping in public spaces as discrimination against a discrete group run afoul of the more recent PC term, “people experiencing homelessness,” which certainly makes homelessness sound more like an activity than a status.

BUT FOR YEARS THEY ACTED LIKE IT WAS BAD FOR YOU: Coffee a ‘miracle’ drink with many health benefits, experts say.

RICHARD FERNANDEZ: Now They’re Coming for Your Food.