STACY MCCAIN: Education and the Tyranny of ‘Equality:’ Do not sacrifice your children to the dogmas of democracy. “Sorry it took me 4,000 words to get down to brass tacks — GET YOUR KIDS OUT OF PUBLIC SCHOOL! — but thanks for your patience. Sometimes I just need to rant.”

RUNNING THE NUMBERS:

Elon Musk's companies employ roughly 170,000 people.

AOC drove Amazon out of New York, killing 40,000 jobs.

One creates. The other destroys.

They are not the same.

— TMK (@themagaking) June 13, 2026

SECURITY & CIGARS: It’s Elon’s World Now.

Politicians worth hundreds of millions of dollars lecture him about giving his wealth to the government. Influencers demand that he feed the entire continent of Africa. It is only a matter of time before the ladies on The View condemn him again.

What these jealous critics miss, or perhaps understand but will not admit, is simple: hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of people live better lives today because of what Musk has built. One clear measure of this impact came yesterday: more than 4,000 new millionaires were created by the SpaceX IPO alone.

They don’t actually care about improving people’s lives — as evidenced by their whole course of action over years — they just regard him as a threat to their power. Which, thank God, he is.

FROM M.C.A.HOGARTH: Earthrise (Her Instruments Book 1).

“The thrills are nonstop, the alien cultures and races are well developed and fascinating, and there’s just the right amount of humor to keep the whole thing fizzing.” — Analog Science Fiction and Fact

Reese Eddings has enough to do keeping her rattletrap merchant vessel, the TMS Earthrise, profitable enough to feed herself and her crew. So when a mysterious benefactor from her past shows up demanding she rescue a man from slavers, her first reaction is to run for the hills. Unfortunately, she did promise to repay the loan. But she didn’t think it would involve tangling with pirates over a space elf prince…

Book 1 of the Her Instruments trilogy is a rollicking adventure set in the expansive Pelted universe, and kicks off an epic space opera series where the fate of worlds hangs in the balance. Fans who enjoyed Firefly or Andromeda will like this series.

THIS SAVES THE NEW EMPLOYER FROM FIRING HIM:  Antisemitic Cornell student turns down interview because he’s ‘not interested in working for a Jew’.

THE SAD PART IS THIS REPRESENTS AN IMPROVEMENT OVER THEIR USUAL STANDARD:  The biased BBC’s Brexit documentary tells only half the story.

THEY ONLY HATE CRUELTY LIKE THEY HATE RACISM, WHEN THEY CAN ACCUSE OTHERS OF IT:  If Labour really hated cruelty it would ban abortions up to birth instead of harmless trail hunting.

AGAIN? WHEN DID SHE STOP?  Hillary Clinton Is Back and Lying Again.

WARNING: CNN BROADCASTING NOW WITH FACTS UNCHECKED:  CNN’s Fact-Checker Has Vanished.

“BELIEVE ALL WOMEN’ … BUT IN A HIGHLY NUANCED WAY:  Wait, Did the NYT’s ‘Me Too’ Reporter Really Say That About Graham Platner’s Domestic Abuse Allegations?

YEAH. WE LEARNED IN 2020:  Trump prosecutor in L.A. pushing unusual public search for voter fraud before count is in.

WON’T ADD A IOTA TO YOUR HAPPINESS:  Hating on Elon Musk, the world’s first trillionaire.

DON’T JUDGE HIM BY WHERE HE WAS BORN:  Pope Leo’s views on immigration should be completely non-controversial. He says he is against open borders. Countries have a right to decide who enters. Mass immigration is a problem to be solved.

X-cancel.

YES:  I guess there’s a consequence to constantly saying your AI system is a dangerous weapon with unique capabilities that everyone should fear.

X-cancel.

GOOD:  Trump administration blocks federal homelessness funds in Los Angeles.

GUN BEATS PAPER:  Paper Versus Gun.

MOST OF THE PEOPLE WHO OPPOSE IT HAVE NO IDEA THE SHENANIGANS THE GOVERNMENT HAS PULLED IN ADMINISTERING THESE LOANS:  The Government Sets the Trap. addressing the conservative case for student loan reform.

WELL, IT’S FUN. AND MUCH NEEDED JUST NOW:  Clanker Songs.

At least by me.

THAT STUFF HAS BEEN MEMORYHOLED NOW. “OBAMAWHAT?”

Wait, isn’t our current health insurance system Obamacare? https://t.co/0qFjuXgqfv

— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) June 13, 2026

OPEN THREAD: Rock on!

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Photo of the Day: Satellite-boosting spacecraft inside air-launched rocket.

PAGING DR. VENKMAN. DR. PETER VENKMAN TO THE WHITE COURTESY PHONE. Giant Underground Detector Releases First Major Findings on Ghost Particles.

IT’S CERTAINLY AMONG THE BEST:

I think possibly the best thing about Elon Musk becoming a trillionaire is how angry it makes a bunch of losers who've never built a thing in their lives.

— Konstantin Kisin (@KonstantinKisin) June 13, 2026

Related:

What an idiot https://t.co/iywshleXUY

— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) June 13, 2026

Didn't you lay off your entire socialist magazine's staff when they tried to unionize? https://t.co/Ula3mVBLDY

— Phil Magness (@PhilWMagness) June 13, 2026

UPDATE:

If he used it to destroy the democrat party, the next 7 generations would owe him a debt that can't be repaid. https://t.co/vz034AWiUL

— unseen1 (@unseen1_unseen) June 13, 2026

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Syracuse University issues financial warning as admissions slump: We’re in the red.

Related:

Offering the discounts wasn’t enough to attract a full class, and those who enrolled will be paying less the whole time they’re there.

“What students were telling us effectively was that they didn't believe what we were offering was worth what we were asking them today.” pic.twitter.com/hJwcBP1JSq

— Steve McGuire (@sfmcguire79) June 12, 2026

Possibly a coincidence, but Syracuse has been regularly featured here as the home of absurd and nasty woke politics for years. Is it any wonder that so many students are fleeing south?

UPGRADE YOUR PILLOW: Beckham Hotel Collection Bed Pillows Standard/Queen Size Set of 2. #CommissionEarned