June 24, 2026

DEI IS MAKE-WORK EMPLOYMENT FOR OTHERWISE UNEMPLOYABLE NEUROTICS AND ANTI-SOCIAL TYPES:

To be fair, she won’t be evaluating any interns this summer.

Posted at 2:01 pm by Stephen Green

SPACE: Could we actually terraform Mars? Scientists are trying to find out.

Edwin Kite, an associate professor of geophysical sciences at the University of Chicago, detailed the plan here at a Space Resources Roundtable, which was held from June 2 to June 5 on the campus of the Colorado School of Mines.

Kite’s talk showcased a mission concept prototype to validate aerosol dispersal to warm Mars’ atmosphere as a first step toward terraforming the Red Planet.

“Creating sustainable habitats and biospheres beyond Earth is an enormous scientific and technical challenge, but it’s one we’ll have to surmount if we’re going to extend life beyond Earth,” Kite told Space.com.

“We do not yet know enough to create a biosphere from scratch,” he added. “Applied astrobiology, like planetary science, requires contributions from many disciplines.”

Of course, the only way to know for sure is to try.

Posted at 1:46 pm by Stephen Green

JEFFREY CARTER: The Socialist Sweep: NYC is a warning sign. “Socialists are taking over cities. Last night in NYC, the Mamdani candidates won. They beat well-funded, more establishment Democrats. Those Democrats were NOT centrists. They were people of the left, too, just not communists.”

Posted at 12:47 pm by Glenn Reynolds

THE DOG THAT DIDN’T BARK: Why Is the Media Ignoring the Montreal Shooter’s Antisemitism?

In the wake of the shooting, the suspect allegedly left behind a 104-page manifesto, which is now public. In it, he cited feminism, liberalism, capitalism, pornography, and male isolation, among a slew of other factors, as components of a social rot that must be addressed through violent revolution. “I call on all of you now, and I ask you to join me,” he wrote. “Let us be the initiators of a new bloodletting, one in which the blood will flood out from the lacerated bodies of our opponents; all those culpable people, be they bourgeois or lumpen, who hitherto have remained unpunished.”

The apparent manifesto, which ended with a call to “KILL THEM ALL!” was laden with incel ideology and rambling diatribes against women as well as hateful and delusional commentary on “homosexuals,” “black people,” and “immigrants,” among other groups.

The alleged shooter also referred to the “influence of Zionist Jews,” “elite Zionists and their Western bourgeois allies,” and the idea that Israel serves as a “kind of base” that Jews, with their “newly acquired power,” have been using to “assist in the expansion of capitalist hegemony.”

Yet virtually no Canadian coverage of the attack mentions these references to Jews, Zionists, or Israel. Nor do they note that the attacker clearly harbored long-standing antisemitic and anti-Zionist conspiracy theories.

Instead, articles from major outlets like the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Global News, and CTV, among many others, focus almost exclusively on what they described as Hatfield’s “violent incel” ideations and “anti-feminism.” Canadian journalist and author Warren Kinsella noted the omission, writing on X that these major media outlets included “not one mention of the killer’s antisemitism, seen throughout his manifesto.” Joe Roberts, the executive director of the Jewish Federation of Tulsa, Oklahoma, acknowledged, “Yes, the Montreal shooter was an incel. Yes, he was a revolutionary Marxist. That is not the end of the story. It is the beginning. Because his manifesto is also explicitly antisemitic and anti-Zionist, and the media’s refusal to say that plainly is indefensible.”

Earlier this month, Ilya Shapiro wrote on his Substack, “It’s Amazing That the Heart of Antisemitism in America Lies on Campus,” and the same is true in Canada. In both nations, some of those young students become journalists. The alleged shooter’s references to the incel movement gives left-leaning Canadian journalists all the excuse they need to minimize his antisemitism.

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): More on campus hate here.

Posted at 12:30 pm by Ed Driscoll

JOHN FUND: The rise and rise of America’s radical left.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani endorsed three fellow socialists in the New York City Democratic Congressional primaries and all three won last night.

Democratic incumbent Dan Goldman lost to Brad Lander, who was a member of the Democratic Socialists of America until 2023. DSA Member Claire Valdez won nomination for a Brooklyn House seat.

But the eyepopper is the victory of Darializa Avila Chevalier, a 32-year-old DSA member and PhD graduate student, in East Harlem and the Bronx. She defeated Adriano Espaillat, the chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, and will easily become the most radical House member since Vito Marcantonio of the American Labor Party represented the same area in the 1940s.

The night before his election in November, Zohran Mamdani filmed a video honoring his “radical” hero, Marcantonio.

Chevalier’s views would send even Marcantonio into orbit. DAC – as she will inevitably be dubbed – is so ideologically extreme that Jeff Maurer, a former writer for unrelentingly left-wing comic John Oliver’s HBO show, is gobsmacked by her. Maurer began his latest Substack post by announcing “My challenge is to find words to describe just how bonkers this Cirque du Soleil-level s—show truly is.”

DAC has called for abolishing police, prisons, and borders. As recently as last week, she refused to back down on those views when given an opportunity: “All deportations are wrong,” she says, even for those convicted of a crime.

She co-founded Columbia University Apartheid Divest, the militant student group behind the violent 2024 occupation of Columbia after the Hamas attacks in Gaza the year before. CUAD is explicitly anti-Enlightenment: “We are Westerners fighting for the eradication of Western Civilization. We stand in full solidarity with every movement for liberation in the Global South. Our intifada is an Internationalist one…”

Chevalier called the United States “a f—— disgrace,” and referred to the US as “occupied” Native American land. She’s written favorably about communism and seizing “all properties from landlords.”

She has criticized Bernie Sanders and AOC for being too pro-Israel, and is known as a key leader in the “left of AOC” faction of Democratic Socialists of America.

The never-Trump right are wondering how we got to this point: Oops! ‘Republicans Against Trump’ Are Figuring Out How Insane Democrats Have Gotten.

Posted at 12:00 pm by Ed Driscoll

INDEED:

No clue how this ends, aside from “not well.”

Posted at 11:57 am by Stephen Green

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: California’s Glock ban sets stage for nationwide gun control.

There’s more than just a ban:

Beginning July 1, firearms dealers will also be required to complete comprehensive, state-approved training designed to help them identify customers who might pose a danger to themselves or others.

On the surface, the measure sounds entirely reasonable, even noble. Nobody wants firearms falling into the wrong hands or arming someone who hears voices in the drywall.

The catch, as always, is the inevitable consequences of these supposedly well-meaning grand plans. Once private businesses are forcefully transformed into behavioral screening centers, subjective judgments hijack the purchasing process.

What actually constitutes suspicious behavior? Who decides the baseline for mental stability at a retail counter? What protections exist for ordinary individuals who are wrongly flagged based on an employee’s personal biases, political views or a simple misunderstanding?

Suddenly, a minimum-wage store clerk is acting as a state-mandated psychologist with the power to deny a constitutional right, transforming a retail transaction into an amateur interrogation.

Conservatives and civil liberties advocates nationwide should pay very close attention to this shift. California has a long, documented history of exporting its political trends to the rest of the country. Policies that begin as Petri dish experiments in Sacramento almost always become the blueprint for progressive lawmakers elsewhere.

Tell me about it: Colorado To Restrict Ammo & Reloading Supplies Starting July 1, 2026.

Posted at 11:42 am by Stephen Green

FRAUD ALL THE WAY DOWN: How Government ‘Affordability’ Turns an $18 Antibiotic Into $2,500. “Nothing makes anything less affordable than a government promise to make something more affordable, and a Texas pharmacist revealed this week how an $18 generic antibiotic gets listed for $2,500. But from there, things get so seriously stupid that you just know there must be a government program involved.”

Posted at 11:11 am by Stephen Green

MORE NUKES IS GOOD NUKES: Trump administration announces $17.5 billion in loans for 10 new large nuclear reactors.

Energy Secretary Chris Wright cited “tremendous interest” among developers of data centers that would buy the power, as well as utilities and energy companies. The nuclear plants could begin construction by 2030 and become operational in the mid-2030s, Wright and other officials said Tuesday.

“This is the start,” Wright said on a call with reporters. “We’re going to move with the players that are ready to stand up and move quickly. Once that supply chain is up and running, do we think there will be dozens of these built going forward? I’d be very surprised if there were not.”

Faster, please.

Posted at 10:40 am by Stephen Green

TREAT THE MENTALLY ILL, DON’T CODDLE THEM:

Posted at 10:24 am by Stephen Green