LYING TO CONGRESS IS A CRIME:
BREAKING: Stuart Bell told the University of Florida trustees he didn't merely rename and continue Alabama's DEI offices.
But unearthed faculty senate meeting minutes reveal that Bell assured faculty the exact opposite was true: "The DEI renaming is a name change only." pic.twitter.com/umiNVoM7LH
— John Sailer (@JohnDSailer) June 16, 2026
DIVIDED BRITAIN:
We have class issues in this country, though we deny it, but nothing like the deep loathing that the UK middle classes (not the upper classes) have for the working class. We are talking about the university credentialed class (used to be a lot smaller). A whole class of…
— Daniel Heneghan (@dpheneghan1) June 17, 2026
From Peachy Keenan: “One of the darkest aspects of this is that these girls came from the lower classes, the north, the working class, the industrial towns and cities. Their grandparents and ancestors were coal miners, factory workers, soldiers, servants to the upper classes. To show their thanks to generations of loyal Brits who did backbreaking toil for their country and the crown, their daughters were given as sex slaves to foreign invaders. A genocide of native people. The crimes of the complicit modern UK government put it up there with Ceausescu’s Romania and Pol Pot.”
And the reply: “We have class issues in this country, though we deny it, but nothing like the deep loathing that the UK middle classes (not the upper classes) have for the working class. We are talking about the university credentialed class (used to be a lot smaller). A whole class of educators, officers, medical, engineers, managers. One life example, I recall on Youtube, an interview with a working-class electrician. In the engineering firm that we worked at managment/engineering never addressed him by his name, not his first name nor his last name (Mr. Raines, for example) but simply as ‘Sparks’. ‘Hey Sparks, take a look at this….’. He’s an electricians, so ‘Sparks’, get it. The intent was to alienate, even dehumanize, and it’s still there working today. Deep, deep, deep loathing. A loathing that was as deep as American racism at it’s worst.”
OPEN THREAD: Tuesday’s groovy.
GEORGIA: Rep. Mike Collins wins GOP runoff in Georgia Senate race. “Rep. Mike Collins has won the Republican Senate runoff in Georgia, NBC News projects, setting up a race against Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff in one of the most competitive and important campaigns in the country. Collins’ primary victory over former college football coach Derek Dooley is also a win for President Donald Trump, who endorsed the two-term congressman just a few days before Tuesday’s runoff election.”
WELL, WE’VE CERTAINLY GOTTEN USED TO STRUGGLING ALONG WITHOUT A LOT OF IT: Humanity isn’t ready for the coming intelligence explosion.
GOOD. Alleged DC National Guard shooter could face death penalty with new charges. “Lakanwal — an Afghan national — is accused of killing Beckstrom and critically wounding Air Force Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe in an ambush-style shooting several blocks from the White House last November. He was also charged with attempting to kill two other unnamed service members who subdued him at the scene of the attack.”
I THINK CHESTERTON’S FENCE MAY APPLY TO ORGANS: A ‘Useless’ Organ That Doctors Often Remove May Actually Fight Cancer. “In a study in 2023, US researchers found that those who get their thymus removed face an increased risk of death from any cause in the five years following the surgery. They also face an increased risk of developing cancer during that time.”
THE NOBLE SAVAGE WAS MORE SAVAGE THAN NOBLE, IN PREHISTORY AND MORE RECENTLY: Nearly 80 Headless Human Skeletons Discovered At A Spooky Stone Age Site.
HERE’S THE LINK TO RUPERT LOWE’S HORRIFYING BRITISH RAPE GANG REPORT.
More:
Here are eight essential quotes from @RupertLowe10's Rape Gang Inquiry.
1) This was a nationwide, not merely local, phenomenon.
"…that this was never a series of isolated local failures. It was a coordinated, nationwide pattern of organised child sexual exploitation that… https://t.co/nNOv8rdlLd
— Jamie Bambrick (@j_bambrick) June 16, 2026
UPDATE:
Keir Starmer should be publicly tried then executed. https://t.co/J4qwraGwRO
— 🇺🇸 Mike Davis 🇺🇸 (@mrddmia) June 17, 2026
WORKING AS AN UNDERWATER STUNT PERFORMER: An article by my old dive guide and teacher Liz Parkinson on her underwater stunt work for the Avatar movies and the Thai Cave Rescue mini series on Netflix. You can see her film credits here.
NOW OUT FROM FRANK MINITER: Cool Heroes for Boys: 20 True Tales of Adventure. I blurbed it — it’s good and recommended!
IT LOOKS LIKE A BATMOBILE: Genesis Reveals Its Badass Magma GT3 Racing Concept Ahead of the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
I’M ENJOYING THE LEFT’S UNHAPPINESS WITH THIS ADMINISTRATION’S DOINGS: Panic Setting In As Administration Moves to Bolster Americans’ Gun Rights Advance.
I MEAN, WHY BOTHER EVOLVING IF YOU’RE NOT GONNA GET LAID: 574 million-year-old fossils reveal a lack of sex delayed evolution for millions of years.
21ST CENTURY TREATMENTS: I tried the Las Vegas Strip’s first AI-powered robot massage — here’s what it was like.
AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM:
Only the U.S. could host the World Cup, UFC 250, the Stanley Cup and the NBA Finals all in one weekend with no problems. 🇺🇸 💪 😎
— HausenKS 🌾🇺🇸 (@HausenKS) June 15, 2026
Related:
We didn’t build any of these stadiums. They were just extras lying around. https://t.co/PGr5aVWewJ
— Jon Gabriel (@exjon) June 15, 2026
CDR SALAMANDER: Requiem for a Frigate: It Didn’t Have To Be Like This. “Of all the disastrous series of failures this century to build a surface combatant, none were as unnecessary and avoidable as the failure of the Constellation Class FFG.”
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Bachelor’s Degrees Aren’t Cool Anymore. “In a new research brief, The Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Education found that only 44 percent of American high school students expected to earn a bachelor’s degree in 2022, down from 72 percent in 2002. The study also revealed a parental gap among high school students, with only 33 percent of first-generation students aspiring to a bachelor’s degree in 2022, compared to 60 percent two decades earlier. . . . Pundits typically cite ideological bias, social disaffection, rising costs, credential inflation, and poor labor market returns. Each contributes something, but none has been quite as ignored as this: the internet has effectively dismantled the cultural bottlenecks that historically upheld the fiat value of a college education.”
Matt Damon’s character in Good Will Hunting summarized the problem: “You wasted $150,000 on an education you coulda got for $1.50 in late fees at the public library.”
Related demographic irony:
Irony: Universities since the 1960s have been the center for 'the world is overpopulated! Don't have kids!'
Now the number of universities far outnumber the available students and they're slowly going out of business.
This is referred to as an 'own goal.' Good job there.
— John Ringo SF Author (@Jringo1508) June 15, 2026
HE’S RIGHT. IT IS BAFFLING.
One of the more baffling parts of right wing politics in the USA is that Republican state officials have direct authority over their state universities, yet have consistently chosen not to reform their politics & hiring policies despite complaining about them for 50+ years. https://t.co/MbEwiOAasG
— Nemets (@Peter_Nimitz) June 16, 2026
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