OPEN THREAD: Monday, Monday.

IF YOU FOCUS ENOUGH LASERS ON THEM YOU CAN BUILD UP DECENT VELOCITIES: Can solar sails really send humans out into interstellar space?

DON’T BE TAKEN IN BY HER FLIRTING, SHE’LL SUCK YOU RIGHT IN IF YOU LET HER: Strange Event Might Have Been A Primordial Black Hole Winking At Us.

TAR, FEATHERS, AND MORE ARE NEEDED:

Hard to watch. The lies of the killer, the utter disregard in his voice. The disregard of the police, accepting the lies without question, cuffing someone already immobile, unresisting on the ground, who is telling them he's been stabbed.

The British people are going to have to…

— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) June 1, 2026

UPDATE:

Henry Nowak's murder perfectly demonstrates what's wrong with the UK (and Europe) today. https://t.co/z4aUBvVQd4 pic.twitter.com/qTNeUW0GrR

— Skscartoon (@skscartoon) June 1, 2026

THEY’RE ALWAYS IN THE LAST PLACE YOU LOOK: Your Blood May Carry a 700-Million-Year-Old Secret.

HENRY NOWAK VIDEO IS OUT:

Imagine feeling the life leaving your body as you beg for help, your murderer standing over you chatting casually with the police as they handcuff you, at the whim of the murderer's lies. All whilst making sarcastic comments about your cries for help.

Our entire two tier… https://t.co/t3wPidPd0b

— Damien Slash (@damienslash) June 1, 2026

GOOD: Spokane Anti-ICE Activists Convicted of Federal Charges.

Related:

🚨 BREAKING: ALL NINE members of an Antifa cell in TX have just been found GUILTY of TERRORISM charges brought by the DOJ, per @MrAndyNgo
This is HUGE, as it's the first terrorism trial against Antifa members in US history!

A precedent has been SET 🔥
The terrorists AMBUSHED ICE pic.twitter.com/vRvJgtvjyi

— Q Minister Of Truth (@QMinisterTruth) June 1, 2026

SEEMS KINDA . . . PERMANENT: One-time gene editing treatment lowers ‘bad’ cholesterol by up to 62%.

REVIEW: I Drove The 2026 Lincoln Navigator L Black Label: Here’s My Honest Review Of Lincoln’s Biggest, Most Lavish Luxury SUV.

THEY’RE ALWAYS IN THE LAST PLACE YOU LOOK: Scientists discover elusive new chameleon hidden in Mozambique forests and name it for Jane Goodall.

COGNITIVE ATROPHY: Using AI for just minutes reduces focus and persistence, new study warns.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Forget the 3-1-1 rule — you can bring these full-size liquids through TSA.

THE 21ST CENTURY IS NOT TURNING OUT AS I HAD HOPED: The internet is divided over a passenger’s allergy request — was he wrong to ask? The passenger has a severe food allergy.

A SMALL MEASURE OF ACCOUNTABILITY: Conviction for Antifa Conspiracy to Riot Upheld, Despite Claim of Mental Disorder.

LEFTIST LIES HAVE CONSEQUENCES:

Over 100 Canadian churches were burned over this hoax. Over 30 were completely destroyed. All over a lie. https://t.co/NWTASmquD5

— PoIiMath (@politicalmath) May 31, 2026

HMM: Forget the Consumer Surveys, Businesses Say We’re in a Boom. “Gloom and doom is everywhere these days — except in the economic data or in business planning meetings.”

I remember Mark Penn bragging about how the ’92 Clinton campaign convinced people the Bush economy was awful when it was actually rebounding sharply. It helps to have the press in your pocket, of course.

“MOST EVIL” IN TRANSLATION: “SOMEONE WHO STANDS IN THE WAY OF CURRENT DEMOCRAT GOALS.”

“Susan Collins, one of the most evil people in public life”

is an insane sentence to type out and post https://t.co/O1tN6OxoYW

— Sunny (@sunnyright) June 1, 2026

MERCY TO THE GUILTY IS CRUELTY TO THE INNOCENT:

Let me get this straight:

– 1% of people account for nearly 2/3 of all violent crimes. Think about how wild that is!

– When those 1% are executed or imprisoned, society flourishes in safety and trust (England+America 1700 to 2000)

– When those 1% are allowed to terrorize the… https://t.co/Y68qd1P4Bc pic.twitter.com/R8WHnSeBG8

— Arthur MacWaters (@ArthurMacwaters) June 1, 2026

IT’S GOOD TO BE THE NOMENKLATURA:

This is by design. One of the pulls of communism is that membership has its privileges. https://t.co/AIJJpEhwny

— Karol Markowicz (@karol) June 1, 2026

CULTURE OF HATE: Largest U.S. teachers union accused of hostile work environment, discrimination against Jewish members.

DIVERSITY PROBLEM: Boston College faculty give almost all political donations to the left despite school’s Catholic identity.

ROGER KIMBALL: AI, Papal Encyclicals, and Eternal Hubris: Why Magnifica Humanitas Misses the Mark. “Magnifica Humanitas lands its strongest blows not against machines, but against the old human temptation to mistake technological power for moral authority.”

HOW THINGS WORK:

It must be nice to be a leftie. Free stuff just appears on the streets, literally. Hot meals get delivered. Nice people show up to offer training.

— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) May 31, 2026

INSURRECTION: “Over the past two weeks, there have been nightly and escalating riots at the Delaney ICE Detention Center. Massive resources have been poured in by outside NGOs funded by leftist billionaires, foundations, Neville Singham, and the Chinese Communist Party. Protesters from around the country have assembled there, expensive riot gear provided to the activists, and even scripts given to selected spokespeople to push out a carefully constructed message. As in Minnesota, local politicians have been backing the rioters, insisting that they are only using their First Amendment right to protest, even if that means assaulting officers, lighting fires, stealing from local businesses, dismantling public property to turn the rubble into weapons, and demanding that officers kill themselves, or threatening to kill them and their families.”

I’M A FAN OF WALTER MCDOUGALL: A Return to Proper History. REVIEW: ‘The Mighty Continent: A Candid History of Modern Europe’ by Walter A. McDougall.

“Too often academic treatises these days are insufferably ‘woke’ or even unreadable, thanks to their postmodern jargon,” explains the author of this refreshingly countercultural work. “This book, by contrast, consists of old-fashioned, meat-and-potatoes history.” After lecturing on European history at UC Berkeley and Penn, Professor Walter McDougall is clearly exasperated at the way his craft has been wrecked by what he lists as “postmodernism, deconstructionism, critical race theory, radical feminism, and ‘wokeness’ in general.”

Instead of merely ranting against those ideologies, however, he has shown what can be achieved if historians simply ignore them. Drawing on his half-century of lectures, he has written a history of Europe from the Renaissance to 1945 that is erudite, thought-provoking, and engaging, proving that sweeping surveys of the past can still be written in the grand old style. This book is a triumphant return to proper history, the way it was written before the commanding heights of the Academy were captured by the Left. It’s so old-fashioned that there are no endnotes or bibliography, but is none the worse for that.

I’ve been a fan of his ever since his The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age.