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Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
June 23, 2026
PREDICTION:
Suspect SCOTUS is dropping some pro-administration rulings on immigration because at the very end of the term they're going to drop a 6-3 bomb ruling in favor of birthright citizenship – and then they're all going to disappear for their vacations and paid seminars/speeches.
— FischerKing (@FischerKing64) June 23, 2026
INSURRECTION:
It’s only calls for an anti-Democratic insurrection when it’s a right wing candidate calling for it, when it’s a left wing candidate doing it he’s bravely calling on his supporters to rise up as freedom fighters in defense of Democracy https://t.co/JPPgzp8V0l
— Enguerrand VII de Coucy (@ingelramdecoucy) June 23, 2026
CAN’T YOU TELL FROM THE GAS GAUGE? NO, APPARENTLY. Our 2025 Toyota Land Cruiser Is a Hybrid, but It Doesn’t Act Like One: You wouldn’t know it by the fuel economy or even by looking at it, but yes, it’s a hybrid.
COLOR ME UNSURPRISED: AP Poll Shows Dems Not As Worried About Threat to Gun Rights They Don’t Value.
#JOURNALISM:
This reporter describes the Antifa attack on a TX ICE facility as a “noise demo”, during which they showed up in all black, armed, threw fireworks as a distraction, and then shot an Alvarado, TX police officer in the neck as he responded to the scene. https://t.co/zhBNNTNjJb
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) June 23, 2026
21ST CENTURY HEADLINES: Trump signs orders to boost quantum research, security.
WE WERE A PRECOCIOUS SPECIES: Human Ancestors May Have Used Fire Far Earlier Than We Thought, Study Reveals.
DEMOCRATIC PARTY POLITICS YIELD HOT PUTZ-VS.-PUTZ ACTION:
NEW from me
The owner of the coffee shop which refused Dan Goldman's "AIPAC" money:
1. Owes NY almost $400,000 in taxes
2. Accused Israel of doing 9/11
3. Donated to Graham Platner (naturally)
4. Been repeatedly cited by NYC health inspectorshttps://t.co/Gbq9ZklPwh— Jon Levine (@LevineJonathan) June 23, 2026
He's found out too late that he isn't communist or antisemitic enough for the DSA. After today the Democratic party should officially change it's logo. The communist left has taken over. pic.twitter.com/gxRPlm7M9q
— Michael Birzin (@bigbee383) June 23, 2026
IF YOU THINK YOU’RE HEALTHY IT JUST MEANS YOU HAVEN’T HAD ENOUGH TESTS: Should People Avoid Whole-Body Screening Info?
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: ASU professor docked for ‘Christian bias’ after asking students about ‘highest good.’
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Syracuse student questions ‘value’ of degree as university misses enrollment target amid tuition hike, budget woes.
2004 FLASHBACK: Instapundit is not a news service. “I do try to call attention to stories that I think deserve more attention than they’re getting from Big Media outlets, but that very effort means that InstaPundit isn’t going to be ‘balanced.'”
EVERYTHING IS A RACKET: Where Did the K-12 Money Go? Lessons from the Front Lines. “Student population grew 25%. Admin and support layers and their costs rose 400–500% or more.”
ICYMI: CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Federal Court: ‘Suppressors are Arms’ Cueing Up Supreme Court to Decide Split.
THE PLACE DOESN’T SOUND VERY POSITIVE, DESPITE ITS NAME: Open Letter to Restaurateurs –and specifically to the owners of Positive Pie in Montpelier, Vermont.
I never “give orders” to waitstaff or treat them as if they were servants. I always say, “When you get a moment, may I please have a refill?” I can’t be any more polite or easy to serve. There’s nothing else I can do to signal that I’m friendly and won’t cause a problem.
Here’s the part where I get really candid because I have nothing left to lose: How dare your staff treat me like I’m some piece of shit interrupting their day? What’s wrong with your management, your business vision, and your standards?
I realize you’ve probably never had a letter like this. You’re likely to see this letter as coming from an asshole customer, because that’s the standard response in business today even when customers are reasonable.
But I’m not alone. Most people won’t tell you candidly what your service is like because they don’t want to cause a fuss. But I’m one of millions of Americans who are fed up with this shitty, rude service that’s taken over our culture in the past six years.
I have to say, I basically never have this experience in Knoxville, where people are almost always pleasant and helpful, and if they’re not it’s obviously because they’re busy and they’re generally apologetic. Maybe it’s a blue-state thing?
Example: I was having lunch at the Chop House in West Knoxville a while back, and had ordered the prime rib sandwich. It came medium, not medium rare, but it was juicy, not dried out, and basically fine. (I order medium rare because I’m pretty much fine with anything from rare to medium). So I noted the difference but didn’t even think of sending it back, which I will do only in extreme circumstances. But a couple of minutes later the manager showed up with another one that was actually medium rare, apologized and said the server had noticed that my prime rib was overdone and put in for a replacement. Now that’s service, but this is just a nice but not particularly expensive West Knoxville eatery. Maybe that’s just southern hospitality culture, or maybe people here are just in a better general mood than people in Bernie Sanders’ home state.
#JOURNALISM:
NYT headline yesterday:
A driver in a Tesla vehicle that was engaged in automated driver-assistance mode crashed into a house in Texas and killed a woman.
Today: Tesla logs confirm the driver manually overrode the self-driving system and had the accelerator floored the entire… pic.twitter.com/QNmNodDOHY
— John LeFevre (@JohnLeFevre) June 22, 2026
GAY MARRIAGE BECAME POPULAR BY BEING NORMALIZED. THIS STUFF IS DENORMALIZING IT. Virtue Signaling as a Vice: How LGBTQ+ Activism is Slowly Killing Support for Gay Marriage.
Gays never should have let the TQ+ crowd into the tent.
June 22, 2026
OPEN THREAD: Monday, Monday.