I love how Mr. Pseudo-Originalist Mike Lee is experiencing FAFFO-Fuck around with the founders and find out. A main reason why people in the founding generation wanted to keep religion and the state separate is because of how politicizing religion pits different sects against each other.

from a 2023 article: "Nithya Raman turned into a political celebrity when she emerged as the face of a rising progressive vanguard to campaign for the Los Angeles Council in 2020... Raman wound up receiving more votes than any council member in the city’s history & [drew] comparisons to AOC."

The American Chemical Society's magazine, C&EN, says that the Iran war has taken about a third of the world's helium off the market. Helium is needed to keep magnetic resonance scanners cool and to make semiconductors. Prices are going up.

From the last days of WWII until his death in 1953, Josef Stalin ran a campaign persecuting Jewish intelligentsia in which they were labelled "космополитическая элита без корней" ("rootless cosmopolitan elites"). It's very weird to hear a GOP senator from Missouri spouting this Stalinist coinage.

Scott Stantis, Chicago Tribune

Philippines verifying reports of at least five deaths after magnitude 7.8 quake reut.rs/3PKkEaw

To be incurious is a type of death

2 weeks ago in the free press: www.thefp.com/p/nithya-ram...

Also, if you're ever in Brussels (great city, go there), the Magritte Museum is worth a few hours. Odd but charming, just like his art. musee-magritte-museum.be/en

Just need everyone to know that the Belgium men's soccer team has new jerseys based on the art of Rene Magritte and this is the official photo shoot

Looks like the war is back on (was it ever off?). Deep joy.

Last night we filed a lawsuit to stop Donald Trump and his allies from personally profiting by staging a for-profit MMA fight on the White House lawn. Do we want to use our most sacred national monuments for private enrichment? The question answers itself. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/07/u...

Former Ohio Congressional candidate Carl Setzer delivered a masterclass testimony against data centers on June 1. A clip:

Let's put the Trump and the GOP's record on job creation into historical context. A short thread. Trump has the worst jobs record of any President since Hoover. 1/

Fact-checking Trump’s interview with NBC News’ ‘Meet the Press’ nbcnews.to/3Q6yeF2

If Madison Square Garden is safe for Trump for the NBA Finals it doesn’t seem he needs a $1.2 billion ballroom.

Trump walked out on his 'Meet the Press' interview. That wasn't the weirdest part. I wrote about yet another unhinged moment in a string of them. Have a look: www.azcentral.com/story/entert...

"nearly 75% of instructional staff in American higher education now work outside the tenure system. Contingency no longer exists at the edges of academic life; it increasingly defines the structure through which the university teaches, adapts, + reproduces itself." working-mass.com/2026/06/04/i...

Author of Home Office report on China reveals attempts to compromise him www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

If you are in the mood for some good D Day remembrance, Disney+ has two really good documentaries on the Third Reich that uses home movies. A good documentation of the mania that swept the German people amid Hitler’s rule.

rsync broke, and it turned out the lead dev had just gone full AI. Many people are unhappy.

He is such an embarrassment to our nation.

Chaos at Sochi airport with thousands trapped in the terminal as Ukrainian drones ground flights. Dozens of arrivals and departures delayed or cancelled. Ukraine showing they can now pressure all Russian infrastructure.

Kegseth brings his kids with him for a taxpayer-paid vacation in France, and he decks them out in combat fatigues.

Donald Trump Jr. invested in a startup. Three months later, the Pentagon handed that startup $620 million after the White House called and ordered them to fast-track it. The company's value went from $200 million to $2 billion overnight.

Desperate to manufacture cases of supposed anti-Christian bias, FBI has fired analysts who investigated a violent nut who happened to be trying to recruit via a church. open.substack.com/pub/friendly...

Here’s NBC’s fact-checking of Trump’s Lie Vomit:

Today in 1960, a BOMARC A nuclear-tipped surface-to-air missile on alert at McGuire AFB, New Jersey, caught fire. The high-intensity blaze melted the 10-kiloton W40 warhead and caused significant plutonium contamination of the surrounding soil that was not properly cleaned up until 2004.

Actual quote by a guy on our local online message board, arguing that the t-shirt & slogan for the town’s annual 4th of July parade was too woke & anti-Trump: "I for one do not want to see a 4th of July parade celebrating revolutionary resistance."

“Bari Weiss sends an email to my boss, Tanya Simon. Two of the things in the email include, can we make the protesters look more violent? Now, I’m paraphrasing... And the other thing, Renee Good’s car. You need to describe her as driving *toward* the officer.” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/07/m...

Scott Pelley with @lulugn.bsky.social on being told the President had commented on his firing. (I’m not crying, you’re crying etc)

Just in: New modeling from the CDC shows that if measures aren't taken immediately, this outbreak could sicken more than 20,000 people in the next three months.

I don’t particularly need a “vision of masculinity,” but if for some reason I were in the market for such a thing, I cannot imagine wanting to get it from a political party.

Tesla is literally just scattering these likely hand-made prototypes around various US cities to make it seem like their "robotaxi" plans are more serious than 20 cars in Austin that have crashed more than 15 times in the last year

New from me: radleybalko.substack.com/p/how-bari-w...

*CHICAGO BEARS TO DEPART ILLINOIS FOR INDIANA AFTER 100 YEARS WTF?

It's been carnage in crypto markets this week. Lots of big cryptos dropping. Meanwhile, US Senate on verge of passing sweeping legislation blessing the industry with "Clarity" regs they have sought for years.

Crypto's total market cap has been cut in half since October. $2.1 trillion wiped out.

A terrific actor, an essential part of one of the greatest TV shows ever, and from what I’m hearing, a really good dude. Rest in Peace, Anthony Head.

More than half of the publicly identified donors to President Trump’s White House ballroom project have won new or expanded federal contracts worth more than $50 billion during the past six months. Yes, that's billion with a "B." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

More useless vanity projects coming while Americans struggle to pay bills. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/u...

Elon about to run off with everyone's 401k in the most obvious pump and dump of all time like a heel cashing in his Money in the Bank briefcase.

holy shit, the whale account wasn't just making shit up dallasexpress.com/business-mar... www.barrons.com/articles/buy...

exactly the right response

The sad thing is I would have been all for a serious version of something like DOGE. But as far as I can tell they did zero consultation with actual policy experts to attempt to sort out what was valuable. It was all essentially LLMs and the gut instincts of socially maladapted children.

I feel like we’re in for many years of “haha, they were spending taxpayer money on bug condoms—DOGE to the rescue!” turning out to be something important Elon’s Tween Team didn’t understand.

Trump’s DOJ enlists partisans, conspiracy backers to probe president’s political foes

1.Medicaid is not a cash payment. 2.Healthy people cost almost nothing to insure. 3.Insurance fraud is orchestrated by providers not recipients