June 20, 2026

June 19, 2026

OPEN THREAD: Ring out the weekend.

Posted at 9:30 pm by Glenn Reynolds

SPACEWAR: ‘It’s quite a bit more than we expected’: Satellite reveals immense scale of GPS signal tampering. “An experimental satellite has mapped the scale of GPS jamming across Europe and the Middle East from space for the first time. The data surprised the team behind the project and indicated that satellites orbiting far from Earth aren’t the only ones that experience degradation of their positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) signals, which could affect their performance and the safety of their operations.”

Posted at 9:00 pm by Glenn Reynolds

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Cigars, a canceled lacrosse season and the scandal rocking a Massachusetts town.

The boys gathered on an Ipswich, Mass., beach to celebrate their high-school graduation, some with medals draped over their black gowns. Jutting from each mouth: cigars that may or may not have been real.

The photos taken under cloudy skies June 7 mirrored those snapped all around the country lately. But in this coastal enclave dubbed America’s Best-Preserved Puritan Town, those snapshots have lit a burning debate.

What’s beyond dispute: Six of the grads were on Ipswich High School’s lacrosse team, and administrators suspended all six from a playoff game two days later for violating state athletic association rules against tobacco use. The team ultimately voted to forfeit the contest—and just like that, their championship run went up in smoke.

Now, this hamlet of 14,000 north of Boston is in a fierce debate over whether the penalty matched the foul. It has grown into a saga featuring a “a CSI-level investigation” at a local grocery store, and a heated showdown involving two dads in the principal’s office—captured on a police body camera.

“Come on, how many times you’ve been pulled over and a cop has said, ‘Ahh, go ahead?’ ” said Marc Randazza, a lawyer representing one of the suspended students and his father. “There is always discretion, right?”

To Ipswich resident Heidi Garofalo, though, the line was clear. “Kids have to learn the consequences when they do something wrong,” she said. “You have to abide by the rules. It just takes one slip [to] ruin everything.”

It really is “America’s Best-Preserved Puritan Town” – as H.L. Mencken famously wrote, “Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy:”

UPDATE:

Posted at 8:45 pm by Ed Driscoll

YES:

Posted at 8:16 pm by Glenn Reynolds

DON’T DISS THE MIDWEST:

Posted at 8:04 pm by Stephen Green

FEMINISM IS JUST ANOTHER LEFTY FRONT. THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE, THE ISSUE IS ALWAYS THE REVOLUTION.

Posted at 7:57 pm by Glenn Reynolds

TRADE NEWS:

Posted at 7:54 pm by Glenn Reynolds

DISPATCHES FROM THE BOOM BELT:

 

Posted at 6:25 pm by Ed Driscoll

GABBARD LEAVES, WHERE’S CONGRESS’S COJONES? Tulsi Gabbard made public what appears to be documents that make a devastating case on behalf of the proposition that Anthony Fauci funded the dangerous research at China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology from which a leak resulted in more than 1 million American deaths.

That’s the issue that will grab the most headlines and social media clicks, but the crucial constitutional issue here concerns Congress and whether its Inherent Power is a dead letter.

As I point out today in my latest PJ Media column, there was a time when lying under oath could land you in the Capitol jail. Nobody in today’s Congress appears to have the stomach for a return to those days, even though the Founders didn’t just happen to make Congress “the First Branch.”

Posted at 5:34 pm by Mark Tapscott