HEH, INDEED:

Similarly, remember when leftists lost it last year when Pete Hegseth ordered the USNS Harvey Milk renamed? Hegseth Orders Navy to Strip Name of Predator Harvey Milk From Navy Ship.

Earlier: Winston Smith Smiles, as Cesar Chavez is Getting Obliterated From History in Real Time.

Finally, an evergreen headline from America’s Newspaper of Record:

JOHN ROBERTS, PAY ATTENTION!

Roberts complains about criticism of federal judges, but the above comes from one of America’s leading constitutional scholars, not some crank.

And it’s correct. If Roberts doesn’t wish to provide over the dissolution of Article III, he needs to do something about the politicization of the judiciary, not complain about the people pointing it out.

THREAD:

People still think of the Strait as a vital lifeline for the United States, but as the world’s biggest producer — now outproducing Saudi Arabia and Russia combined — we don’t need the oil. (Plus more from Venezuela is coming online daily). As a net exporter, we benefit from less competition.

FROM SARAH A. HOYT:  No Man’s Land: Volume 1 (Chronicles of Lost Elly).

Sufficiently advanced science is indistinguishable from magic.

On a lost colony world, mad geneticists thought they could eliminate inequality by making everyone hermaphrodite. They were wrong. Catastrophically wrong.
Now technology indistinguishable from magic courses through the veins of the inhabitants, making their barbaric civilization survivable—and Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus Kayel Hayden, Viscount Webson, Envoy of the Star Empire—Skip to his friends— has just crash-landed through a time-space rift into the middle of it all.
Dodging assassins and plummeting from high windows was just the beginning. With a desperate king and an archmagician as his only allies, Scipio must outrun death itself while battling beasts, traitors, and infiltrators bent on finishing what the founders started: total destruction.
Two worlds. One chance. No time to lose.

Volume 1
The Ambassador Corps has rules: you cannot know everything, don’t get horizontal with the natives, don’t make promises you can’t keep.
They’re a lot harder to follow when assassins are hunting you, your barbarian allies could kill you for the wrong word, and death lurks around every corner.
The unwritten rule? Never identify with the natives.
Skip’s already broken that one.
Now he’s racing against time to save his new friends from slavery—or worse—while dodging energy blasts and political intrigue. One crash-landed diplomat. A world of deadly secrets. And absolutely no backup.

Some rules are meant to be broken. Others will get you killed.

I ABSOLUTELY AGREE WITH HIM ON ALL OF THIS; I HAVE NO QUARREL WITH ANYTHING HE SAYS:  Wars and rumors of wars.

THANKS FOR THE SUPPORT: I really appreciate a number of you ordering my book His Side recently. I sincerely appreciate it.

OPEN THREAD: Hump Day.