ENDORSED: Preserving America: Scholars argue for mandatory college civics.

AN INSTINCT FOR THE CAPILLARY: University of Rochester provides ‘don’t weigh me’ cards to combat ‘weight stigma.’

EUROS NEED A GROUP OF PRANKSTERS WHO GO AROUND SABOTAGING THE AIR CONDITIONING IN HIGH-LEVEL GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS AND IN GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS’ HOMES:

The European Commission shutting off air conditioning for everyone but the higher level bureaucrats is unreal. Like reading this I want to say it cannot be true.

…. https://t.co/veULkXKeB8

— Aleph (@woke8yearold) June 26, 2026

MY NEW SUBSTACK ESSAY: The Commies Mount An Across the Board Push: DSA targets local elections around the nation in a well-planned strategy.

GOOD: Treasury Secretary vows law-breaking leftist nonprofits to face prosecution, asset seizures: Bessent’s crackdown comes after President Donald Trump signed an executive order last fall asking federal agencies to better police tax-exempt organizations, which have exploded in size and mission far beyond traditional charities.

BLUE POLITICS IN TENNESSEE GETTING CRAZIER: Is Hamilton County Slipping From Red To Blue Or Just From Sane To Unhinged?

As noted yesterday, the Democrat candidate for county mayor in Hamilton County made threats against school board members as part of his unhinged promotion of the LGBTQ in Hamilton County schools.

The Democrat standard bearer acknowledged a “poor choice of words” in calling for a school board members to be lynched and called the controversy over his threats “silly.”

Today, both the Chattanooga Times and Times Free Press published editorials with one calling outMark Herndon’s actions as beyond “silly” and the much more liberal Times simply saying he made a “mistake,” and somehow justified it by promoting the paper’s LGBTQ agenda.

The role of “mainstream” media in justifying Democrats’ psychosis needs to be called out.

Meanwhile, up the road in Knoxville: Knox County mayor candidate Beau Hawk marched in Venezuela for Nicolas Maduro.

CHANGE: Bolton Pleads Guilty.

SACRIFICING HUMAN LIVES TO THEIR RELIGION:

The fact that Europeans built hospitals without AC is truly mystifying to me. We can argue about whether it's good/necessary in homes, I suppose, but the people in hospitals are the most likely to die of heat stroke! https://t.co/mtiqSOf8Zw

— Megan McArdle (@asymmetricinfo) June 26, 2026

PEDDLING ELIMINATIONIST HISTORY: New York Times Marks America’s 250th With Claim Revolutionary Cause was ‘Anti-Native Sentiment,’ Land Grab: Embraces ‘mustachioed villain’ theory of American Founding while warning against it.

AMERICANS PAYING FOR UNAMERICANS:

44% of rent stabilized units in NYC are occupied by people born outside of the US…

American-born citizens are subsidizing the foreign-born to live in our financial capital, while driving up prices of the remaining supply. https://t.co/tiuh1IxdNX pic.twitter.com/57BZoudeLr

— Geiger Capital (@Geiger_Capital) June 26, 2026

GRADUALLY, THEN ALL AT ONCE: I Told You So: Crimea Is in Crisis, and the Trouble Is Getting Worse Inside Russia. “There is a huge traffic jam—for people who still have any fuel left to escape—of people who are trying to use the Crimean bridge that Putin built as a monument to himself and as the direct access for Russia to Crimea.”

JUSTICE: The Supreme Court Kicks District Judges Out Of Immigration Decisions By Closing The Lawfare Door On Challenges to Ending TPS.

CHANGE:

America is currently experiencing a profound awakening to its Appalachian roots.

For decades, coastal media dismissed this region as an afterthought, an isolated pocket of the past.

But today, everyday Americans are hungry for something real.

In a world filled with… pic.twitter.com/kSHB7EXlLF

— ZitoSalena (@ZitoSalena) June 25, 2026

OPEN THREAD: You oughta know how all the pros play the game.

OOPS: NASA’s aging infrastructure can’t handle Artemis launches without $1 billion in upgrades, watchdog warns.

MY NEW SUBSTACK ESSAY: The Commies Mount An Across the Board Push: DSA targets local elections around the nation in a well-planned strategy.

SPELLING CHECK:

The USA is playing Turkey in the World Cup.
T-U-R-K-E-Y — that's the team we're playing.
Don't come at me with your "Türkiye" bulllshit.
We are Americans, and we call it TURKEY.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

— The Patriarch Tree (@PatriarchTree) June 26, 2026

TURN IT OFF: Scientists Uncover a Hidden Switch That Helps Colon Cancer Spread to the Liver.

MICROBIOME NEWS: A species of gut bacteria could ease anxiety and diarrhea-predominant IBS.

ANSWERING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: 2026 Toyota Grand Highlander Hybrid Trim Guide: Which Model Is Best?

THEY WERE COLLUDING WITH THE CHINESE, SO WHY NOT? Of Course the Biden Admin Colluded With Gun Control Orgs…Why is Anyone Surprised?

PRETTY CONFIDENT I CAN’T: Could you give birth in space?

NOBODY WANTS LEPROSY: Why Armadillos in NC Mountains Have Officials Alarmed.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Can’t Work Out? Here’s Exactly How to Preserve Your Muscle Mass Until You’re Back in the Gym.

FOLLOW THE SCIENCE: A single letter in 1968 ruined MSG’s reputation. Science is finally clearing its name. “So how did a completely natural flavor enhancer become one of the most misunderstood ingredients in modern history? It’s a recipe that calls for a bit of bad science, a dash of cultural bias, and a single letter written to a medical journal. In 1968, a doctor wrote a letter to the New England Journal of Medicine about several symptoms he was experiencing. He reported numbness and even heart palpitations after eating at local Chinese restaurants. This physician’s observation led him to a hypothesis: could MSG be the cause? This single query did not immediately prompt the medical community to conduct a peer-reviewed study. Instead, the media ran wild with the story. Local papers and news broadcasts associated MSG with the dubious term ‘Chinese Restaurant Syndrome.’ And just like that, a safe food additive used around the globe became a culinary villain. And the stigma has stuck around ever since. . . . When FDA scientists finally put MSG to the test in the ’90s, the “syndrome” myth quickly crumbled. Research shows that consuming MSG in normal amounts causes no adverse symptoms.”

It’s amazing how many medical “facts” have similarly shaky roots.