“EXPERTS.” ‘Experts’ are Troubled the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division is Now Working to Protect Civil Rights Guaranteed by the Second Amendment.

21ST CENTURY PROBLEMS: Police can’t find shoplifter who fled in self-driving Waymo. Of course it’s in San Francisco, where police don’t work very hard to find shoplifters anyway.

STUPID COLUMBIA: My SSN was exposed in a breach at Columbia—a school I have no connection with.

DON’T WORRY, THE MURDER HORNETS’LL TAKE ‘EM OUT: A flesh-eating screwworm is in the US. How worried should we be?

DON’T DROWN? Here’s how to stay safe in the water this summer, according to a former lifeguard.

Related: Drowning doesn’t look like drowning.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: 17 percent drop in new foreign students exposes universities’ reliance on their tuition, expert says.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Yale fall catalog loaded with racism-focused courses as tuition nears $70K.

THIS:

Trump’s beautification efforts for DC are more important than people realize.

Past administrations treated this nation like conquerors treat conquered land.

They intentionally removed the statues, the culture, the history, etc., so they could remove the national identity.… pic.twitter.com/0yJUkgUO5v

— Clandestine (@WarClandestine) June 5, 2026

Matt Taibbi says America needs a sensible and boring party. But if you look at what Trump actually does, it’s stuff that by any reasonable measure is sensible and boring: Limit immigration, control crime, restore public infrastructure, gain energy independence, neutralize enemies abroad, demand voter ID, etc. These are all straightforward things that politicians of both parties endorsed not that long ago.

But can a boring and sensible party function in an environment where the opposition chimps out and takes to the streets whenever it doesn’t get its way?

CONSEQUENCES:

California Dethroned: Fortune 500 Crown Goes to Texas.

This isn’t “California Derangement Syndrome” as Gov. Gavin Newsom claims. This is the economic reality by businesses to California’s toxic business climate, and as the Billionaire Tax threat looms large.@CaliforniaGlobe…

— California Globe (@CaliforniaGlobe) June 5, 2026

JOEL KOTKIN: The Rise of the UnJews: Anti-Zionism is rising among diaspora Jews; the future of Jewish identity may be increasingly Israeli.

A Zionist Jew and an Anti-Zionist Jew walk into a bar. The bartender says, “Both of you get out, we don’t serve Jews here.”

REMEMBER THEM:

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— Common Sense Todd (@CommonSenseTodd) June 6, 2026

Boris Bittker, better known as the leading tax professor of the second half of the 20th Century, was there. He said he had to get up and leave during the opening to Saving Private Ryan. It was too real and brought back too many memories, even after so many decades.

IT WAS A MISTAKE TO LET THE TQ+ CROWD INTO THE TENT: Andrew Sullivan: The TQ+ Threat To LGB Rights: The return to the narrative of gays as queers, freaks, and child-obsessed is dangerous.

GOOD: WaPo: Dems Worrying About Freaky Senate Candidate *Not* Named Platner, Too. “Seriously? What could embarrass the ‘party of women’ and muh democracy more than backing a Nazi-tatted misogynist with a history of lies and violence? Funny you should ask.”

ENGLAND EXPLAINED:

In fairness, the Pakistani rape gangs pose no threat to the ruling elites or to any protected group. The cone thrower is an existential threat to both. https://t.co/qGSZD6sF2o

— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) June 5, 2026

FOR SOME VALUES OF “WE.”

The other way to say this is we have turned immigrants into an aristocratic class with special rights and privileges https://t.co/yTryk9M9oV

— Auron MacIntyre (@AuronMacintyre) June 5, 2026

THEY SHOULD BE WORRIED. IF LAW ENFORCEMENT WON’T DO IT’S JOB, MORE PRIMITIVE KINDS OF JUSTICE ARE LIKELY TO REAPPEAR.

They're doing the Norm tweet again https://t.co/a98PNtipPe pic.twitter.com/UFAe4BdJVj

— Auron MacIntyre (@AuronMacintyre) June 5, 2026

THE LEFT HAS ITS PRIORITIES:

President Trump isn't allowed to restore our fountains and monuments, or build stunning structures showcasing American craftsmanship, engineering, and architectural excellence. Apparently, government spending is only acceptable when it's funding drag queens, the Taliban, Somalian…

— Suburban Black Man 🇺🇸 (@niceblackdude) June 4, 2026

Related:

Say what you want about Trump…

But you have to admit that one of the most eye-opening parts of his adminstration is the DECLINE IS A CHOICE.

You can just shut the border.
You can just clean anything, anywhere.
You can just remove the homeless.
You can just stop the fentanyl…

— Matt Van Swol (@mattvanswol) June 5, 2026

#JUSTICE.

Former Prosecutor—

Yeah, this is standard practice pretty much nationwide.

You cannot trust teachers or academics on a jury. They will do all manner of mental gymnastics to view the offender as a child in need of a second chance that they can be the ones to grant. https://t.co/9Xwr73UjQJ

— J.T. Alexander (@JTAlexander) June 5, 2026

OPEN THREAD: Ring in the weekend.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: SpaceX launches back-to-back Starlink missions from both coasts 19 hours apart (photos).

HMM: A Hidden Virus Found in Gut Bacteria Is Linked to Colorectal Cancer.

WELL, GOOD: Researchers Solve the Mystery Behind a Billion-Dollar Dental Implant Disease.

LIFE LESSONS: “Young looks like an funny throwback to an earlier time, but Hendrix died a year later, and Young lived for 3 more decades.”

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: Scott Pelley is out. So what? The demise of the news anchor as someone who matters.

VITAMIN D UPDATE: Summer sun fails to fix vitamin D gap in at risk groups.