Human cooperation undergoes constant breakdown and repair Incentives to cooperate must therefore be actively renewed (don't assume cooperation will sustain itself). nature.com/articles/d41586-0…

"Vance got to the point. They needed to invoke the Insurrection Act, swiftly, to crush the unrest in Minnesota. It would be painful in the short term, he said, but the message it would send — that paid agitators could not get away with disrupting ICE operations — would make sure no one tried it again. (There was no evidence that either Mr. Pretti or Ms. Good had been paid activists.)" nytimes.com/2026/06/15/us/po…

Happy 250! Thousands of rednecks on the front lawn in front of a fight… What could possibly go wrong?

It's so depressing to keep watching this happen. The Women's March had an entire movement of women who were outraged by Trump/GOP and the leaders tried to co-opt it and make it about Bernie Sanders and Israel. Completely ruined it. Indivisible has the whole No Kings rallies, which again are about people who are disgusted by the actions of Trump/the GOP and the 'progressive' leaders are trying to co-opt that energy to make it about Lefty causes. It sucks. The activist class is a cancer on our party.

New: The NYT is reviewing Nick Kristof's columns after he failed to disclose ex donor ties in a series of columns. When Kristof returned to the paper after a failed bid for governor of Oregon, the NYT said he would disclose financial ties when writing about former donors.

The fighter yelling “Michelle Obama is a man,” at an official White House event to honor America is utterly unacceptable and the administration should denounced it in no uncertain terms.

Every day, we happily and freely export the texture of our lives to the cloud via our chief stenographer, the smartphone. You’re not just writing emails and texting close friends. You’re writing to everyone: loose federations of group chats; your neighbors on WhatsApp and Facebook; acquaintances in Instagram DMs; prospects on ­dating apps; co-workers on Slack. You’re typing into Search, Notes, Venmo. Realizing your trove exists is terrifying. So is learning that it’s never been more vulnerable. Cybercrime is rising at harrowing rates. It can also become exposed to the public through explicitly legal means. You don’t need to be the target of litigation yourself to find your private conversations suddenly available to a wider audience: see the 2025 lawsuit filed by Elon Musk against Sam Altman and OpenAI, which exposed more than a decade of group chats and emails between some of the world’s richest men, squabbling over their personal financial stakes in the fate of humankind. It could be your coworker, your friend, your family member — why else would texts from Matt Damon’s wife, non-famous person Luciana Damon, become a matter of public record? She can thank Blake Lively for suing Justin Baldoni and dragging her iMessage history into discovery. Most of us, however, no matter how seemingly unimportant, conduct ourselves differently in public than we do in the digital realm, our version of behind closed doors. The problem now is that this private self has been recorded in your trove. Its very existence, and the sheer volume of its contents, means it could be useful, interesting, compromising, or lucrative to someone, somewhere, given the right set of circumstances. For our Cover Story, Bridget Read reports on how hacks, lawsuits, and data breaches are increasingly exposing our digital records — threatening to spill everything into the public: nymag.visitlink.me/CGzkMh

What matters most for childhood brain organization? We analyzed 649 variables. The answer: Socioeconomics (SES); with brain patterns pointing at sleep & stress as drivers. Even brain-IQ associations were better explained by SES confounding. In Science: science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…

Having the military hold flags for UFC fighters is a pathetic misuse of service members. They are being turned into props for a made-for-camera spectacle tied to a president with weak approval ratings. The military’s purpose is to defend the Constitution, not provide stage dressing for celebrity photo ops. American dignity deserves better than this.

We instinctively know this, hence narrow picturesque alleys feel safer and cozier, because the alternative, wide expanses of asphalt dominated by cars, is neither safe nor cozy.

New York City elected a socialist mayor, and the Knicks won their first championship in 53 years. Imagine what we could do with a socialist governor in Wisconsin? @packers @Brewers @Bucks

Here is a compilation of Trump falling asleep over the past year. He is now 80 years old.

NOW: Maryland State Police join National Guard, federal agents, and DC Police agencies in protecting White House UFC event tonight.