THE HARBOR’S OPEN. NOW FIX THE BRIDGE. Baltimore’s Federal Channel Fully Restored 76 Days After Dali Hit Bridge.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: My New York Post column: Trades surge, colleges sink as the ‘toolbelt generation’ turns to hands-on work.

CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: Records Show FBI Provided Democrats with Information on Whistleblowers Who Testified at May 2023 Weaponization Hearing.

Weaponizing the government to deal with whistleblowers on weaponizing the government. We need mass firings at the very least.

BY COVERING THIS UP, THEY’VE JUST PUSHED THE REVELATIONS CLOSER TO THE ELECTION: Audrey Hale Left a Suicide Note for Her Family (Plus ‘White Nothingness’).

COMMIES GONNA COMMIE, AND HE’S A COMMIE: Paradise and Oppression in Nicaragua: Ortega’s latest targets are the Church, higher education, and the Red Cross.

OH, FUCK OFF: Leguizamo: White People are Overrepresented, Emmy Voters Must Choose non-White Winners.

I’m torn on this. On the one hand, this is racist and moronic. On the other hand, the Hollywood/TV people should have to marinate in the idiocy they’ve peddled for everyone else.

WELL, GOOD: In Europe, Chaos Is the New Normal: The European elections are the beginning of the end for Emmanuel Macron. “Remarkably, these developments are fueled, not slowed, by young voters. In Poland, a plurality of voters under the age of 30 supported the far-right Konfederacja. In France, the National Rally did a little better among voters under the age of 35 than it did in the population as a whole. In Germany, the young are now significantly more likely to vote for the far right than the old, with the AfD out-polling the Greens among those who are younger than 25.”

Europe, like America, needs a new class of leaders who are attuned to reality and not gentry-class fictions and fantasies.

TRENT TELENKO: Western intelligence agencies don’t understand Russian barge shipping. Ukraine is destroying it. Thread:

The resumption of Russian oil and explosives rail shipments over the Kerch Straits Bridge is one of the biggest visual indicators of the success of an ongoing littoral anti-shipping campaign by Ukraine reaching the Azov Sea.

Barge littoral logistics🧵
1/https://t.co/p9lAf2YZbg

— Trent Telenko (@TrentTelenko) June 10, 2024

OPEN THREAD: Monday, Monday.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Space tourism dreams live on.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: My New York Post column: Trades surge, colleges sink as the ‘toolbelt generation’ turns to hands-on work.

WEIRD THAT INJECTING LOTS OF A FOREIGN, POSSIBLY TOXIC SUBSTANCE IN YOUR BODY COULD BE BAD FOR YOU: Tattoos Linked to Increased Cancer Risk, Scientists Warn.

FROM MY FORMER RESEARCH ASSISTANT ISABELLE THIBAULT, a terrific article on space mining.

HUMANS CAME WITH FIRE AND SPEARS AND TEAMWORK: The Megafauna Mystery: Scientists Discover New Clues to What Happened to North America’s Largest Animals.

THE GENE POOL IS CLEANSING ITSELF: “For progressives, waiting to have children has also become a kind of ethical imperative.”

The 60s movements were largely led by Red Diaper babies, from back when commies had kids like everyone else. If these attitudes had been prevalent in 1940, everything would have been different.

HMM: FDA clears GSK’s RSV vaccine for adults ages 50-59.

OOPS: In the Hot Seat: The Kia Telluride Is Being Recalled Over Fire Fears. “Kia’s Telluride just went under a recall advisory over a defect pertaining to power seats. Based on documents filed with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), the front power seat motor on the affected vehicles could overheat due to a stuck slide knob. Since the situation can result in a fire, Kia plans on recalling a whopping 462,869 examples inside of the United States.”

WAR ON AMERICA: Anti-Gun Politicians Are Working Overtime to Destabilize Nation’s Judicial System, Starting with Highest Court.

MICHAEL WALSH: In Europe, A Cheer Moment.

Back in the days when real writers instead of gay teenage-girl ideologues wrote motion-picture scripts, and were concerned not only with plot but theme and character development and the three-act form and finding an emotionally and artistically satisfying ending to a memorable film, they often used to include something called the “cheer moment.” After enduring humiliation after humiliation, insult upon insult, and abuse after abuse, the long-suffering protagonist finally turns on his or her tormentors and gives them what they’ve been asking for all along. Here’s one now. . . .

All of this and more happened across Europe yesterday as voters went to the polls and delivered a well-deserved and long-overdue thrashing of the malignant Left in voting for the European Parliament. In France, Germany, and Italy, the heart of the E.U., patriotic parties — contemptuously referred to by the international state media as “far right” — made significant gains against their institutional opposition, rattling bien-pensant sensibilities and demolishing the various neo-communist “Green” parties everywhere. Savor it.

More like this please.

WHO KNEW? “A new study from The University of Western Australia and Edith Cowan University has found evidence of what’s long been suspected—that men are more likely to be risk-takers than women.”

IT’S SATIRE, BUT IS IT?

Biden Asks Why Europe Didn't Just Arrest Conservative Candidates Before Election https://t.co/3MgAh4kIB4 pic.twitter.com/HcP16crCUA

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) June 10, 2024

THE NEW SPACE RACE: NASA is commissioning 10 studies on Mars Sample Return—most are commercial.

HMM: Stealth gas contracts awarded amid high-profile crewed Starliner mission.

DAVID BARON, CALL YOUR OFFICE: How wild beast invasion is tearing up America – and killing more people than sharks: ‘I’d rather get eaten by an alligator.’

Plus: “‘There are a lot more wild boar dishes in restaurants now,’ said Mayer. ‘But we’re not gonna barbecue our way out of this.'”

I dunno guys, that sounds like a challenge to me.

JAMES LILEKS: Without World’s Fairs, Can America Imagine Its Future? World’s Fairs are but a remnant of a time when America thought big.