SMART LEGISLATION: Hey Universities, You Can Take Money From The ChiComs, Or From Uncle Sam, But Not Both. “This would seem a common sense policy implemented that should have been implemented long before now. Communist China is always looking to steal technology from the West through its ‘Thousand Talents’ espionage program, and Chinese nationals have been stealing technology from American universities (including Texas A&M) for a while now.”
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June 25, 2026
ICYMI, IT’S MY THURSDAY ESSAY FOR VIP SUBSCRIBERS: The Burning Questions Europeans Will Bring Home With Their Ranch Dressing.
JUST DIE, THEY EXPLAINED: The British Government Prefers Its Citizens Well Done. “In the United Kingdom, that Malthusian crusade in favor of the Earth against the humans who occupy it has been taken to the granular, intrusive extreme by the authoritarian climate Nazis that the British people have allowed to usurp their very right to the means for survival.”
SOCIALISM SO BIG, THEY HAVE TO TAKE IT NATIONAL: It’s Official: The Democrat Party Is a Socialist Skinsuit. “Just about the last thing you should expect from some lefty political insider is a forthright admission of what they’re actually up to, but that’s exactly what happened when Democratic Socialist of America (DSA) New York City cochair Gustavo Gordillo spoke with NY1’s Spectrum News earlier this week.”
NOT-SO-SUPER: ‘Supergirl’ – Joyless DC Flop is a Super Mess.
Truth, Justice, Whatever.
The latter was more than “Supergirl’s” marketing campaign. It applies to the film itself, a dimly-lit shrug of IP unworthy of blockbuster status.
Or anyone’s hard-earned money.
Star Milly Alcock isn’t fully to blame, although she does little to enliven matters. There’s no charisma to be found in her performance, but that’s hardly the film’s only sin.
How much time ya got?
I still haven’t figured out exactly how the patriarchy ruined this film, but I’m sure we’re somehow to blame.
NO A/C FOR YOU: Suffer the Little Children, France Insists.
YES, PLEASE: Rep. Keith Self proposes repealing 17th Amendment as House-Senate feud intensifies. “Self, a member of the House Freedom Caucus, is introducing a joint resolution, obtained by the Washington Examiner, on Thursday to repeal the 17th Amendment amid the intensifying rift between the House and Senate over the GOP’s flagship voter ID bill.”
Let’s do the 16th while we’re at it, too.
SAME AS IT EVER WAS: Trump Wants Action While Senate Republicans Count Excuses.
DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: California sets high income taxes for World Cup players.
“Usually jock taxes only really impact domestic American players who are all playing in the same league and are all playing against each other, and in that context, they do nothing,” Wilford told The Center Square.
Take professional football. When the Los Angeles Rams travel to Philadelphia to play the Eagles, the Rams’ players and staff will be expected to pay income tax to Pennsylvania, proportionate to the amount of their salary they earn while in the state. The very next week when the Buffalo Bills travel to Los Angeles to play, the Bills’ players and staff will be expected to do the same for the state of California.
According to Wilford, over the course of the NFL season, everything tends to even out in terms of state revenues.
“States all do this to each other. It’s a circular firing squad where they’re all taxing each other’s athletes, and then they all have to give tax credits to their own resident athletes for the taxes they had to pay to other states,” Wilford said. “States pretty much end up with the same amount of revenue that they would have had if no one did this.”
The addition of foreign, nonresident athletes coming to the United States for the World Cup adds entirely different complexities.
It isn’t that complex, really. Sacramento long ago adopted the GoodFellas approach to tax collection.
MUCH MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE: Trump admin caught $150 million in fraudulent student loans in past months.
“HURRICANE-PROOF INTERNET”: Puerto Rico Taps Starlink For Emergency Network In All 78 Municipalities.
Starlink and the Puerto Rico Telecommunications Bureau (NET) came to an agreement to improve emergency connection throughout the island. All 78 municipalities’ Emergency Operations Centers (COE) and the Bureau of Emergency Management and Disaster Administration (NMEAD) are receiving Starlink satellite dishes as part of the program.
The announcement about this pact was made by Puerto Rico Governor Jenniffer González Colón on her Instagram handle.
“Preparedness saves lives, and that is why we are announcing an agreement between the Telecommunications Bureau and Starlink to strengthen emergency communications in Puerto Rico,” González announced.
I don’t have to worry about hurricanes in Colorado, but my Starlink transceiver does a great job of pre-heating itself before any snow can accumulate even during the worst blizzards. However, the occasional wildcat hailstorm can collect ice on there in a hurry. I might — might — lose access for up to ten minutes, once or twice a year.
HEH:
— Margot Cleveland (@ProfMJCleveland) June 24, 2026
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Trump Is Losing Patience With Useless Uniparty GOP Leadership. “Thune has been unable to deliver on the SAVE America Act, which is one of the rare pieces of legislation that is appropriately named. If it doesn’t pass, we can expect to see the election ‘anomalies’ from the Los Angeles mayor’s race become the norm in all elections nationwide. After that, the Republican squishes in Congress will never have to suffer the burden of leadership again.”
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Has Thune been unable? Or unwilling?
ALL WITHIN THE FAMILY, NOTHING OUTSIDE THE FAMILY, NOTHING AGAINST THE FAMILY: Is this teenage girl North Korea’s next dictator?
Every New Year, North Korea’s ruling elite gathers at Kumsusan Palace of the Sun to pay respects to the embalmed bodies of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, the first two leaders of the secretive state. At the centre usually stands Kim Jong Un.
Such rituals, conducted with senior officials and other Kim family members, are highly choreographed and among the most important in the calendar of the world’s only hereditary communist state. This year, though, there was a slight variation: Kim’s daughter Kim Ju Ae was pictured at the very centre, between her father and mother Ri Sol Ju.
Her positioning at the heart of the family appeared to be the latest stage in a process of introducing her as a possible future heir to North Koreans and the world.
Kim Ju Ae, who is believed to be 13 or 14 years old, has appeared at intercontinental ballistic missile launches, ceremonial parades showcasing the navy and factory inspections. She has driven a tank and fired guns, and senior generals have been photographed kneeling to brief her.
I’m sure she’ll turn out fine.
IT’S MY THURSDAY ESSAY FOR VIP SUBSCRIBERS: The Burning Questions Europeans Will Bring Home With Their Ranch Dressing.
CORN, POPPED: Postmaster General says he will comply with Trump rule to hold back mail ballots.
Postmaster General David Steiner told senators during a hearing Wednesday that he plans to abide by the Trump administration’s rule regarding not delivering mail-in ballots in states that decline to hand over sensitive data about voters to the federal government.
The proposed rule faces court challenges and Steiner said he would follow any court ruling on the matter, but will follow the rule until an order blocks it. The proposed rule seeks to create lists of citizens in each state to help determine who is eligible to vote and calls on the Postal Service not to distribute mail ballots to those not on state lists.
Steiner confirmed he would follow the rule after Democratic Michigan Sen. Gary Peters asked “If a state refuses to turn their absentee voter list over to the federal government, will the Postal Service still mail their ballots under this proposal rule?”
“Under our proposed regulation, no,” Steiner said, according to the New York Times. “We would tell the state that we need the manifest.”
Steiner also agreed that USPS is not responsible for administering elections but indicated the rule was a procedural step for ensuring ballots are only sent to eligible voters.
Cue the lamentations of their women in five… four… three…
June 24, 2026
DEI IS MAKE-WORK EMPLOYMENT FOR OTHERWISE UNEMPLOYABLE NEUROTICS AND ANTI-SOCIAL TYPES:
When you tell your college son to shave and put on a suit and tie for his JP Morgan summer internship interview and then you see who at JP Morgan is going to be evaluating his appearance pic.twitter.com/r6nhiUN7To
— Peachy Keenan (@KeenanPeachy) June 24, 2026
To be fair, she won’t be evaluating any interns this summer.
Update:
JPMorgan hiring her with this résumé is a bigger crime than her dumping the trash on the sidewalk https://t.co/OJVTnxhHDM pic.twitter.com/2S00asbC23
— Trust Fund Terry (@trustfundterry) June 24, 2026
If A players hire other A players, and B players hire C and D players, who hired her?
CLIMATE ALARMISM AS A RELIGION, EXHIBIT #1,000,006:
Literally offering human sacrifices to the climate gods by refusing to use modern technology. https://t.co/LMqQZj3QEZ
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) June 24, 2026