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.

STACY MCCAIN: Platner in the Führerbunker: Are Democrats trying to ‘do a Biden’ on their scandal-plagued candidate?

ICYMI: JOHN LUCAS: Is the Country Smothering Under a Blanket of Darkness? Or Is There Room for Hope and Optimism? If you want to know the answer to that, do not consult our media. Take a fresh look around you and talk to normal Americans.

Always good advice.

CHANGE:

Wow just wow another Latin American country where the left has mysteriously collapsed after USAID was annihilated https://t.co/3sRwmafx4T

— Matt Forney (@mattforney) May 31, 2026

Based on their current trajectories…

The Milei/Bukele model will bring sweeping prosperity to South America, while Europe declines into the third world.

— Geiger Capital (@Geiger_Capital) June 1, 2026

I may retire to Argentina. Or Cuba, which I expect will be hospitable by then.

OPEN THREAD: Ring out the weekend.

SPACE: SpaceX lands a $4 billion contract to help build Golden Dome.

I’M GONNA START WITH 20 YEARS IN PRISON: What Should Happen to ATF Agents Who Lied to Put a Man in Prison for 20 Years? And go from there.

OR MAYBE TO AI WHO MASTER PEOPLE: The Future of Work Belongs to People Who Master AI.

I DON’T LIKE THIS: Why some chikungunya virus infections may turn chronic.

CHANGE: Jeep Buyers Are Getting Younger And Richer, But Value Still Matters.