Trump Signs Bill to Fund DHS and ICE Throughout the Rest of His Term

—Disinformation Expert Ace

The 80-day long (IIRC) Democrat shutdown resulted in chaos and disruption but ultimately failed.

They're the party of chaos and disruption, riots and "teen takeovers," subway knife attacks and women having their throats slashed open by infinitely-indulged homeless maniacs.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed legislation to fund key immigration enforcement agencies through the end of his term after Congress approved the package via the reconciliation process.

"This morning, I'm thrilled to sign the Secure America Act to immediately and fully fund the Department of Homeland Security through the end of my term," he said at the signing ceremony in the Oval Office.

The legislation followed a record-breaking shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security, which Democrats orchestrated in a bid to secure immigration enforcement policy concessions. Ultimately, the shutdown ended with Congress passing a bill to fund DHS that excluded funds for Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh

🚨 BREAKING: President Trump SIGNS $70 billion in ICE and Border Patrol funding through the end of his term through 2029, meaning Democrats have LOST the ability to hold our border hostage in government shutdowns

BIG WIN! 🇺🇸

"The Secure America Act provides $38 billion to ICE, $26 billion to Border Patrol to ensure these critical law enforcement agencies of the necessary resources to do their jobs, protecting our borders and getting criminal aliens out of the country."

Jasmine Ratchett: "Black Women Live in Agony" Daily that Murdered Athlate Austin Metcalf "Never Lived Through" (Except The Day He Was Murdered by a Jasmine Ratchet Supporter)

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Was she ever murdered?

No?

So Austen Metcalf did actually experience agony of a kind that this fat donut disposal unit and sloppy whore can only imagine.

She also blacksplains that the knife used to lethally stab him through the heart is not really a deadly weapon at all. She says that in her opinion as a Real DEI Lawyer, she would have argued that the knife was not a deadly weapon, thus sparing Karmelo Anthony the death penalty, even though the knife is a weapon which was used to inflict an almost-instantly deadly wound.

She's a good lawyer, she really earned that J.D.

After Iran Downs Apache Helicopter, Trump Threatens New Round of Airstrikes

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Is he serious this time or is it more, you know, twitter bullshit?

Comments President Donald Trump made on Wednesday suggest that he may be losing patience with the ongoing negotiations with Iran, which have for months failed to produce a peace deal.

"They've taken too long to negotiate a deal that would have been great for them, now they will have to pay the price!!!" Trump said in a post on Truth Social.

The statement comes a day after the U.S. launched what it called "self-defense strikes" against Iran in retaliation for the downing of an Apache helicopter. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi warned his country will retaliate against the U.S. strikes, stating "no attack or threat" will be ignored.

Trump now says that the limited airstrikes of Tuesday and today are just the preamble, and that the long-planned attack on Iran's power plants and bridges is coming.

I have to say, I don't believe this. I think this is more saber-rattling to provoke Iran into signing a "deal" that they simply will never, ever sign.

And it would mean nothing point zero zero zero even if they signed it. They are lying, dishonorable, death-cultists animals.

Trump Orders the Postal Service to Not Deliver Mail-In Ballots to States That Refuse to Turn Over Their Voter Lists

—Disinformation Expert Ace

CNN is so mad.

States' rights! States' rights! States' rights!

Postal Service won't deliver mail ballots for states that don't hand over voter lists, under plan for Trump directive

State election officials could soon face a stark choice: Hand over voter lists to the Trump administration or risk losing Postal Service delivery for mail-in ballots.

That dilemma stems from newly proposed USPS rules that seek to comply with an executive order President Donald Trump signed this spring to crack down on mail-in voting.

Crack down on illegal mail-in voting.

CNN is garbage and I can't wait until they're all fired.

If courts let the order stand, it would give the federal government an unprecedented role in elections -- and could put even more voter data in the hands of Trump officials searching for supposed election fraud.

1, it's not supposed, and 2, this reveals that you did know the measure is intended to crack down on illegal mail-in voting, but chose to conceal that from readers out of a motive to propagandize for the Democrat Party and their legions of fake voters.

The proposed rules lay out new conditions that states would have to meet to send ballots through the mail, including giving the agency lists of all voters set to receive mail ballots.

So far, 23 Democratic-led states and the District of Columbia are suing, as are Democratic Party leaders and non-partisan voter advocacy groups, setting up a potentially active summer of high-stakes judicial rulings.

The Trump administration cleared an initial legal hurdle last month, when a federal judge in Washington, DC, who is overseeing one set of the cases, declined to block Trump's executive order, allowing the Postal Service to begin implementing it.

The Democratic Party groups are asking an appeals court to speed up its review of that decision, warning that voters around the country could be disenfranchised in this year's midterm elections if the proposal is not blocked.

In an interview with CNN, Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, a Democrat whose state is part of the coalition that filed a legal challenge in Boston, said that if courts rule for the Trump administration, "Then you will see a virtual elimination of mail-in voting, unless the states supply voter lists to the federal government."

Yes, "unless" states obey federal directives in an area the federal government does indeed have supremacy over state law.

Look: Just secede already. You're agitating for it and I, for one, would love to be rid of you.

Grasping Basket-Case Nancy Mace Humilitated in Run for SC Governor, Finishing... Fifth

—Disinformation Expert Ace

How could she finish fifth in the SC Republican gubernatorial primary? She got Trump's endorsement!

Or... so her social media account strongly implied, using an AI generated fake picture of her and Trump.

Surprise! Democrat "Ballot Harvesters" Were Illegally Paying Skid Row Homeless Drug Addicts $5 to "Vote" for Nithya Raman

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Isn't odd that these meth-addicted morons knew, in advance, that it was Nithya Raman who would need the bulk of their "votes" and not the current communist mayor?

It's almost as if most of these votes were cast after Election Day, with Democrat "ballot harversters" knowing they needed many more votes for Nithya Raman to eliminate the one person they needed out of the race, Spencer Pratt.

Skid Row homeless claim they've been paid to vote for Karen Bass and Nithya Raman

By Jamie Paige and
Katie Jerkovich

A series of shocking videos show homeless residents on Los Angeles' Skid Row claiming they were paid to vote for Mayor Karen Bass and councilwoman Nithya Raman.

The California Post obtained copies of the videos after they were published Tuesday on the TikTok account LaneNeedsSpencerPratt.

The footage, recorded near 7th Street and Flower Street in downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday morning, has since been provided to the Department of Justice. It also follows The Post's revelations that thousands of homeless voters were registered to shelters where they didn't live.

One shelter in Venice, where 185 Raman voters were registered, received $600,000 from taxpayers care of the socialist Raman.

In one of the clips, a man who calls himself Kevin Shepherd, claimed he received $4 to vote for Bass.

When asked whether he would also have been paid to vote for Raman, Shepherd answered "yes" and said Spencer Pratt was not among the candidates he was encouraged to support.

"They gave you an optional choice," Shepherd claimed, alleging the was offered $2 but negotiated for a higher payment and ultimately received $4.

Shepherd further claimed he completed a mail-in ballot for Bass and deposited it in a ballot box.

Skid Row resident, Rene Johnson, 39, also claimed she received $5 after being told to vote for Bass.

Johnson said she supported Bass, but told the creator she was still unclear about some of the forms she had completed.

"But, you know, at the time, I didn't know that that was going on," she said.
A person wearing sunglasses and a white t-shirt, standing outdoors with hands

"I was just trying to make five bucks, you know? But I didn't do the fraud."

When asked if she thought it was fraud, she said she thought that it was "fraudulent behavior."

She also said she thought people were being taken advantage of.

Another woman, who said she was living on the street, also claimed she accepted money to vote for Mayor Bass.

"It was like two bucks," the unidentified woman said, adding that "yeah they come out here all the time."

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The creator said he spent about two hours speaking with residents, many of whom claimed voter-registration and outreach efforts were a routine part of life on Skid Row before Election Day.

Several residents alleged that groups regularly visited the area asking people to sign paperwork, though some acknowledged they did not fully understand what they were signing.

According to multiple residents interviewed on camera, outreach workers allegedly visited the area as often as three to five times a week before the election, with several organizations purportedly involved.

A fourth resident, identified as Mark Sanchez, claimed he had been approached repeatedly by political canvassers.

"To sign a petition for the mayor or different things in office and they paid me $4 or $5 in different accounts," Sanchez claimed.

Sanchez further alleged the payments occurred multiple times.

"It happened more than four or five times," he claimed.

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A Los Angeles chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America openly promotes a guide instructing volunteers on how to encourage voters to cast ballots on the spot and hand them over for delivery.

The practice, commonly known as ballot harvesting, is legal in California but remains highly controversial. The guide, titled "How To: Ballot Delivery," was published by the Los Angeles chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America in May 2022 and remains available online.

The instructions provide a step-by-step process for collecting completed mail ballots and urge volunteers to repeatedly press voters to submit them immediately. "Will you vote now?" the guide tells volunteers to ask, before adding: "Ask at least 3 times."

The California Post reached out to Bass and Raman campaign for further comment but did not hear back.

More regarding the many "votes" "harvested" from homeless shelters where the "votes" collected greatly exceeded the number of homeless living there.

Thousands of homeless voters were registered to vote at LA shelters -- despite many not living there or the facilities not having any beds.

And as Spencer Pratt was eliminated by Nithya Raman in the mayor's race on Monday night, it can be revealed that one drop-in center that received $600,000 from the socialist candidate had 185 registered voters at the address but offers no accommodations.

The revelations have prompted US Attorney Bill Essayli to say he will investigate the concerns uncovered by The Post and "follow the evidence" to see if the law has been broken.

A review of records shows 7,600 voters tied to homeless shelters and service providers.

Among them was St. Joseph Center in Venice, a homeless services drop-in center with 185 registered voters tied to its address. The organization received a $600,000 taxpayer-funded grant awarded by Raman while she chaired the City Council's Housing and Homelessness Committee.

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The largest concentration of homeless voters was at the Midnight Mission in Skid Row, where voting records show 1,160 registrations -- but its website shows it only has beds for 84 men and 36 women.

One homeless man on Skid Row, Norman, said he's witnessed voter registration efforts in the area for years and claims he had previously been paid to help sign up voters -- and that cigarettes were offered to some people during the drives.

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Outside the Midnight Mission on Monday afternoon, The Post met with Bo Jackson, who is registered to vote but says he could not remember registering -- and couldn't even name a candidate in the LA mayor's race.

The Post asked Midnight Mission staff for comment on how ballots are handled when they arrive at the shelter, but our reporter was kicked out and was left without a response.

Wednesday Morning Rant

—Joe Mannix

California is very much in the news courtesy - this week - of the obvious chicanery involving the LA primary election. There is another reason that has ebbed and flowed over the past year, and that is California's (actually, the SEIU's) proposed "billionaire tax" that is on the ballot this autumn. This proposed "tax" is a simple expropriation. The tax scheme as proposed is fairly straightforwad. If someone has a net worth over $1.1 billion, California will confiscate 5% of his net worth. If someone has a net worth of between $1.0 and $1.1 billion, California will confiscate slightly less of his net worth. When the tax is due, he can pay the entire sum in full, or he can spread payments out over 5 years - with interest. The money will go to fund "shortfalls" due to Federal or state budget cuts to medical (Medi-Cal), food (CalFresh) or school budgets.

Set aside whether wealth expropriation is just or legal or proper. Set aside whether the primary medical services union sponsoring a ballot initiative to confiscate assets and transfer them to the medical industry is a conflict of interest. Set aside whether the confiscation will raise as much money as expected. Set aside whether the money raised will actually go where it is supposed to rather than be stolen. Set aside widespread fraud in these programs, and whether throwing more money at them is sensible. Set aside unintended consequences on capital structure. Set aside the risks of forced liquidation. Set aside all of the very real objections to such a scheme and consider what this would actually accomplish even if it works exactly as promised.

Mid-Morning Art Thread

—CBD

Little Denise
Theo van Rysselberghe

This amuses me greatly because of her loose-limbed posture that the artist captures quite well. The model is his six-year-old niece, who clearly isn't listening to instructions. That lean is her attempt at amusing herself while the boring adult finishes up.

The Morning Report — 6/ 10 /26

—J.J. Sefton

Good morning kids. Well is anyone surprised that bearded clam oyster farmer Maine Kampf Platner won his Democrat primary? He is in the last analysis a quintessential Democrat — a prevaricating antisemitic pedophilia-connected/adjacent sex Pest. Hell, with attributes like that, just slather his head in Brylcreem and Newsom can kiss his presidential aspirations goodbye, nein?!

Speaking of which as CBD and I discussed in disgust on the latest episode of the podcast (linked here and in the sidebar and on the popular outlets listed at the bottom of the post)
Newsom's trail of destruction won't serve him well to say the least in the run-up to 2028 but considering the direction and mindset of the Democrat base, the prediction or wishcasting that that party and its movement are being abandoned may be just that. Yes they stole the LA mayor's race and will rig the gubernatorial race as is their wont despite both being bluer than blue. It's just how they roll. In any case with contenders like Newsom, Chlamydia Harris and Titty-Caca Ocasio Cortez already in the mix, look who is now being pimped: the moral equivalent of Alien chest-burster ass cancer:

California Dem Ro Khanna Being Prepped for 2028 Presidential Run by Biden’s Chief of Staff Ron KKKlain'sman...Khanna announced while speaking with left-wing activist terrorist Rev. Al Shvarpton at the National Action Network Conference in April. that he would “consider” a run after the November midterm elections.

Yeah the Democrats are becoming moderate. Pfft.

A new poll suggests that more than half of Democrats don’t like the U.S. or even want to live here, and it does seem like we’ve reached a fork in the road. The Democrats want a more socialist society with the government running more and more of our affairs.  The funny thing is that most Democrat young people have never actually lived in a country like that, say Cuba, but they have fallen in love with whatever their college professor has told them about the socialist utopia.  Another big difference is getting married and having kids, another point where the two sides don’t see eye to eye.. . So here we are.  It does seem like we’ve reached that famous fork in the road, or a moment of decision.

Indeed, and our as in the GOP's response is illustrated this way . . . because besides this horrid oyster cracka we also have to likely endure the other cracker, in the mangled parlance of Trayvon's faked-inamorata Rachel Jeantel, the crazy-ass cracker (shift the hyphen) the crazy ass-cracker Lindsay Graham the bottom who came out on top yet again in South Carolina.

Moving on from the ridiculous to the utterly insane:

Attempted Beheading in Belfast... Celebrate diversity!

Anyone who is older than about 20 should be able to remember a time when we did not see, ever, stories of this kind in Europe or North America. What has changed, and what can we do about it now?

LBC reported Tuesday that “a stab victim is in serious condition in hospital after a gruesome knife attack in a street in Belfast. In harrowing video posted online, an attacker can be seen straddling the bloodied victim’s neck armed with a knife.”

It might have been taken down by the time you read this, but as of this writing on Tuesday morning, you can find the video here. The perpetrator “stabs the victim in the head repeatedly before taking the knife to the man’s neck, before members of the public rush over to stop the attack. Bystanders can be heard screaming in the clip: ‘He’s trying to cut his head off.’”

Lest we forget what happened about 10 years ago in Manchester to British army soldier Lee Rigby who was beheaded in broad daylight in the middle of the street. might have an ocean between us and the soon to be Islamized Europe but of course we have tens of thousands of head-choppers and that number in many multiples of their cheerleaders already here.

But if we didn't have them, we have always had our own homegrown savages in our midst courtesy of the Democrats. Their goal is to MAGSA . . Maintain America as the Great Society Always!

The repeat offender who stabbed Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska to death aboard a Charlotte, N.C., commuter train last year is incompetent to stand trial, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday. . . In the August attack, Brown appeared to select Zarutska almost at random, stabbing her repeatedly in the neck from behind before casually getting off at the next stop. Zarutska died almost immediately, apparently confused, and then with a look of tragic understanding on her face before she collapsed, unattended and uncomforted by any of the other passengers. The murder, caught on video, shocked the world. 

If it had really shocked the world . . . I don't want to complete that sentence.

Have a great day,

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• He's also up on state charges of first-degree murder.
  OUTRAGEOUS: Iryna's Killer Found Incompetent to Stand Trial
  
• The history of elections suggests a Potemkin ballot: a public ritual of choice that frequently conceals prearranged outcomes driven by entrenched interests.
  The Potemkin Ballot
  
• Victor Davis Hanson: The Left’s favorite moral crusades always end the same way: manufactured hysteria, institutional damage, and a quiet retreat from the wreckage.
  Stop Destroying Civilization!

Daily Tech News 10 June 2026

—Pixy Misa

• We haven't had a critical local privilege escalation bug in Linux for at least... What's the time now? (Ars Technica)
  
  Today's little surprise package comes courtesy of an unexpected exclamation mark in the source code for the Netfilter module that handles firewall tasks resulting in a use-after-free bug that can pretty reliably be tricked into granting an unprivileged user administrator access to the entire system. Might break shared-kernel containers too; not sure about that.
  
  If you think you're safe because you use iptables or lfw rather than Netfilter I have some uncomfortable news for you: It's Netfilter all the way down. That's been true since the last millennium.

Tuesday Overnight Open Thread - June 9, 2026 [Doof]

—Open Blogger

Howdy Hordelings! Welcome to the Tuesday ONT! Open thread, as always. What's on YOUR mind tonight?

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Historical greatness

Today in 1973, the greatest horse race in history was run.

Secretariat won the Belmont Stakes by 31 lengths to become the Triple Crown winner and set a world record time that has never been beaten!

🎥: CBS Broadcast pic.twitter.com/5p49h583Lf

— Today in History (@TodayinHistory) June 9, 2026

Such an amazing athlete was Secretariat. He has a prominent place in my bourbon collection, as well. A bottle that I will likely never open.

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Don't know, don't care - It's now a boob thread!

I don’t know what this fruit is called but I know it needs to calm the hell down. pic.twitter.com/488CoDgsao

— Rob (@_ROB_29) June 9, 2026

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Florida man vs gator

Man Sues Airboat Company After Alligator Bit Him In The Face

A South Florida man has filed a lawsuit against a Central Florida airboat tour company after an alligator bit him in the face during an attraction last summer, according to court records.

The lawsuit states that Edil Kasenov visited Airboat Rides at Midway in Christmas, Florida, in June 2025 and participated in the company’s free “Alligator Encounter” experience.

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Court documents state that the alligator bit him while he was participating in the attraction. The lawsuit further argues that the business failed to maintain a reasonably safe environment for guests.

As a result of the incident, Kasenov is seeking more than $50,000 in damages. The case remains pending.

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The math isn't mathing on this one

‘Teenagers’ didn’t exist until the 20th century

For most of human history, you were either a child or an adult. The word “teenager” first entered the lexicon in 1913, appropriately enough, but it wasn’t until decades later that it took on its current significance. The ages spanning 13 to 19 are formative no matter what you call them, but three developments in the mid-20th century had a major influence on the creation of the modern teenager.

The first was the move toward compulsory education, which got adolescents out of farms and factories and into high school, where they spent more time among their peers. The second was the economic boom that followed World War II, which created a new, highly sought-after demographic for companies and advertisers. And the third was the widespread adoption of cars among American families, which afforded 16-year-olds unprecedented independence.

Because one generation criticizing — and, to a certain extent, fearing — the next is a tale as old as time, not everyone was thrilled about this. In 1953, J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI published a report warning that “the nation can expect an appalling increase in the number of crimes that will be committed by teenagers in the years ahead.”

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Satisfying to watch!

This has got to be one of the most satisfying jobs available! 👌 pic.twitter.com/96A9fN6hLY

— HOW THINGS WORK (@HowThingsWork_) June 9, 2026

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Monday Cafe

—Disinformation Expert Ace

by alp alper

Partially paralyzed dog is restored to full mobility by doctors and kind rehabilitators.

Rescued baby beaver Beatrix.

Tiny puppy's first bath.

Crazy bridges.

Donkeys being nutty.

The least weasel.

Chatty magpie.

Dogs steal food, but they're honest enough to show their guilt.

Baby elephant wakes her sister up.

Trolling a doodle puppy with your Ring.

Little dog fakes a paw injury until it's time to go for a walk.

Every year, a new crop of ducklings has to be led through a university building to the pond.

The Left, Which Has Propagandized Against Childbirth and For the Self-Extiction of the Human Race for 50 Years, Wonders Why People Aren't Having Babies Any Longer

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Of all the anti-human psyops of the left, this one is the most consequential -- and insidious.

The New York Times looks right past their own relentless anti-childbirth propaganda and names "cell phones" as the disruptor.

Now, thare's some truth in that -- in that the cell phone is The Regime's greatest achievement, a mobile, personal, 24/7/364 portal to Regime propaganda.

Why Are Birthrates Down? Two New Studies Point to Phones.

Modern smartphones rolled out in 2007, the year that fertility rates began falling. Two studies say that is not a coincidence.

The enduring mystery of the fertility decline has a new culprit: the smartphone.

Experts have long wondered if phones played a role in the birthrate decline -- which began in 2007, the same year that Apple introduced the iPhone -- but until now there had not been hard evidence to prove it.

Two new papers, one published Monday and the other in May, are the first academic endeavors that test whether the smartphone was a cause.

They are the most recent efforts to explain the sweeping fertility rate decline in the United States and other countries over the past 20 years. Researchers have already looked at contraception use, abortion rates, rising levels of female education and even the popular television show "16 and Pregnant."

Proving phones caused the decline is a tricky endeavor. There were a number of major events in those years, including the Great Recession, and isolating smartphone use is difficult.

The gold standard for scientific evidence is known as random assignment. It compares outcomes for people randomly chosen to receive a treatment (like getting a smartphone) with people who are not.

But that is not possible when it comes to ferreting out reasons for declining fertility.

So researchers sought out data about smartphones that introduced randomness.

Caitlin Myers, an economist at Middlebury College, and Ezekiel Hooper, her student, used the spotty early rollout of the iPhone as a way to isolate the effects of the phone on fertility. The first iPhone was released in June 2007, they wrote, and was available only on the AT&T network until February 2011. The study compared fertility rates in U.S. counties that had near-universal AT&T coverage with counties that had little or none.

Their paper, published in the National Bureau of Economic Research, found that the iPhone caused as much as half of the fertility decline between 2007 and 2011. The most pronounced effects were among young people aged 15 to 24.

What happened in the counties with iPhones? One theory, Professor Myers said, is that young people began to socialize more on their phones and less in person, and consequently were less likely to have sex and become pregnant.

And what messages did they get over their cellphones 24/7? Constant crisis, constant fear, constant messaging that the world was ending and it was all due to human births, constant messaging in favor of hook-up culture and abortion and, for the boys, pornography, and constant messaging against marriage, the family, and humanity itself.

And then they wonder: Why are women under 40 barren by their own decisions and actions?

Report: Bari Weiss Will Assume Editorial Control Over Basketcase Ratings-Disaster Partisan Spin-Shop CNN

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Via Steven Miller, who's worried about Tater.

And what will happen to Fake Jake?

CBS News boss Bari Weiss is likely to gain editorial oversight of CNN if and when Paramount Skydance's acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery is approved, according to a report.

Paramount executives are said to have held preliminary discussions with several candidates who would come in and run the business-side operations next to Weiss while she continues to oversee editorial.

The company is considering several big names, including current CNN CEO Mark Thompson, NBCUniversal News Group chairman Cesar Conde and former NBC News chief Noah Oppenheim, Axios reported.

Ben Sherwood, currently CEO of Daily Beast, and former CBS News president David Rhodes are also under consideration, according to the report.

The search implies that once the merger goes through, Weiss will also be put in charge of CNN's editorial operations, Axios said.

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According to Axios, Ellison couldn't be more pleased with Weiss' performance thus far.

"The Paramount brass loves Bari Weiss," a source told the news site.

"She has the full confidence of David Ellison, who believes Bari has done a fantastic job as editor-in-chief."

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Paramount Skydance's proposed acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery has not yet closed, though both companies have said they expect the roughly $110 billion deal to be completed in the third quarter of 2026, pending regulatory approvals and any legal challenges.

Warner Bros. Discovery shareholders have already approved the transaction, but the merger still faces scrutiny from antitrust regulators and California Attorney General Rob Bonta, who has said his office is reviewing the deal.

thanks to runner.

Fake Tapper knows that, like Pott Smelley, he'll be one of the first overpaid prima donna Theater Kid jokes to be fired by Bari Weiss, so he's preparing his Heroic Flounce.

CNN's The Lead host Jake Tapper leaned on his sanctimonious reputation late Wednesday afternoon as he devoted the first 14 minutes to huffing about CBS News firing longtime 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley for his petulant reenactment of Pickett's Charge, thinking he could eviscerate his bosses and intimidate them in his "house."

For the second of three segments, Tapper turned to former ABC colleague Terry Moran and former CBS January 6 correspondent-turned-MeidasTouch host Scott MacFarlane. Both are now at Substack.

MacFarlane went first, declaring "[n]obody wins if 60 Minutes is damaged" because "[i]t's still one of those rare media entities, Jake, that can cut through the noise and cut through the clutter."

[Disgraced fake "journalist" now working for a Biden political PAC McFarlane] then embarrassingly referred to Pelley as "the living Mount Rushmore at CBS News" and that, speaking for himself, he wasn't known at CBS as "Scott" because that name had "reverence" reserved for Pelley.

"I'm surprised that anybody would get rid of a transcendent personality who can attract an audience or who is associated with the strength of a brand. You watch Scott Pelley on 60 Minutes. You knew you were going to get a comprehensive report. You never want to damage a brand by getting rid of the pillar of the entity," he further opined.

Scott Pelley was fired by CBS from the "anchor" position by Ben Rhodes' brother David Rhodes. For months, Rhodes schemed about how to solve "the Scott Pelley problem," as Sheryl Attkisson reported. She said that Pelley was "unpopular" at CBS because of his domineering incompetence, insisting on rewriting and censoring reporters' stories after, emptilly, assuring them that their reports would be the "stars" of the show.

She also made this funny quip about his preening, Look At Me ego:

Sharyl Attkisson @SharylAttkisson

Perhaps David Bloom put it best. "When Scott Pelley gets in line at Starbucks and orders coffee, he doesn't order what he really wants. He orders what he wants people behind him to hear him order."

Mount Rushmore? Seriously?

MacFarlane at least conceded much of 60 Minutes's large ratings are owed to its lead-in from NFL games.

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The only explanation, [disgraced partisan lightweight fairy Terry Moran] argued, for the changes to the show are from Paramount Skydance boss David Ellison "want[ing] to curry favor with Trump."

Drool was missing from Moran's shirt as he said this about Pelley's fellow fired colleagues: "They fired Cecilia Vega and Sharon Alfonso, two fearless, bold journalists, troublemakers. I mean, in a good way, good trouble, right, as John Lewis used to say."

I can't help noticing they only made trouble for one political movement.

Tapper presented MacFarlane with the reality that "polls do suggest that the media trust is at an all-time low" and wondered if he saw any validity in that widespread belief in legacy media having "an anti-Trump spin, liberal spin."

MacFarlane scoffed, deriding the idea that those polls are legitimate or provide context:

Former CBS correspondent-turned-MeidasTouch pundit Scott MacFarlane scoffs at the notion found in polls Americans don’t trust the media...

“I would venture the bold prediction that, if Americans were surveyed about the trustworthiness of 60 Minutes, it may have more support and… pic.twitter.com/PWaLEOKTia

— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) June 3, 2026

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Moran hurled predictable venom in his heart for half the country, arguing we're too partisan and stupid to appreciate what he believes is real journalism: "I think chasing MAGA audiences are a fool's errand because they don't want the kind of journalism that 60 Minutes does, which is in-depth and straight and fearless. They want the journalism that flatters their own prejudices."

Fired ABC correspondent-turned-Substack host Terry Moran says Scott Pelley’s firing from CBS’s ‘60 Minutes’ is “a fire bell in the night” about press freedom from corporate interference and that anyone in legacy media appealing to “MAGA audiences” is “a fool’s errand” because… pic.twitter.com/jLHKuRgBNT

— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) June 3, 2026

Goodbye, Fake Jake! I got you a little going-away present:

Curtis Houck
@CurtisHouck

Jun 3

Jake Tapper just opened his show with a snarky commentary about how much he hates Bari Weiss and Nick Bilton for what they've done to Scott Pelley.

His panel to react? Former network correspondents-turned-Substackers Terry Moran (ABC) and Scott MacFarlane (CBS)

Curtis Houck
@CurtisHouck

Jun 3

WATCH: CNN's Jake Tapper opens his show with over 14 minutes melting down over CBS News, Bari Weiss, and Nick Bilton firing Scott Pelley....

Tapper: "Now, let's zoom out for a second to look at the core issues here and why this larger 60 Minutes overhaul may be happening because this story is relevant...

"[T]his is also a story of media consolidation and those who are trying to build big mega-companies in the environment where we have a President who is more than willing to impose his likes and dislikes on the regulatory world. Now, people close to Bari Weiss insists that the CBS overhaul is about culture, not politics. They think that 60 Minutes is an archaic institution that is in urgent need of reinvention. Bari Weiss argues that the news media needs to be fairer and needs to regain the public's trust, and her boss, David Ellison, says that CBS News needs to appeal to the 70 percent of the country that is in the political middle."

"On the other hand, what 60 Minutes defenders see as its strengths, the Bari Weiss individuals and executives see as potential shortcomings, and they're determined to rebuild this news magazine for a digital world in a vertical video age. But Scott Pelley and others at CBS, and others who used to be at CBS do think there's something more, something political behind this rebuild. They say that Paramount's new owners, with David Ellison at the top, are seeking a closer relationship with Donald Trump and his administration and that Ellison appointed Weiss to appease Trump and overhaul 60 Minutes, which Trump doesn't like, and all of CBS News, which Trump doesn't like."

"And this argument goes that all of this is happening in order to get approval of the purchase of Paramount last year by David Ellison's company and the pending purchase of Warner Bros Discovery any day now. And of course, we should note Warner Bros Discovery owns CNN. If you want to know one of the reasons why people keep suggesting that new ownership of these news organizations is behind wanting to curry favor with Trump, and that's one of the things driving all this, it's because of things that President Trump keeps saying, or Secretary Haggseff, just a few moments ago, President Trump said this to CNN's Kaitlin Collins...."

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TAPPER: "A reminder that President Trump calls any reporting he doesn't like felt -- false, and any reporting he doesn't like garbage. Again, CBS News and Paramount reject the assertion of any political influence or interference."

So that's Fake Jake accusing Bari Weiss and Larry Ellison of making MAGA TV. He covers it with some he-said, she-said, but it's clear -- based on the number of words he devotes to each proposition, for one thing -- which side he's claiming is the truth.

WATCH: CNN’s Jake Tapper opens his show with over 14 minutes melting down over CBS News, Bari Weiss, and Nick Bilton firing Scott Pelley....

Tapper: “Now, let’s zoom out for a second to look at the core issues here and why this larger 60 Minutes overhaul may be happening because… pic.twitter.com/2qQMHkgc7Z

— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) June 3, 2026

Close it up

Breaking: Psychopathic Race-Murderer Karmelo Anthony Convicted of Brutal Killing of Innocent Athlete
"Protesters," Get This, Begin Punching People; Police Are Arresting the Thugs

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Washington Times:

A Texas jury on Tuesday found Karmelo Anthony guilty of murder in the fatal stabbing of 17-year-old Austin Metcalf at a Frisco high school track meet last year, concluding a closely watched trial that drew national attention over questions of race, self-defense and school safety.

The Collin County jury deliberated for about three hours before returning its unanimous verdict. The same jury will now decide Anthony's sentence. Under Texas law, a murder conviction is punishable by five to 99 years in state prison.

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The case stems from a confrontation at Kuykendall Stadium in Frisco on April 2, 2025, where Anthony, then a student at Frisco Centennial High School, and Metcalf, a student-athlete at Frisco Memorial High School, clashed under a team tent where athletes had gathered during inclement weather. The altercation ended when Metcalf was stabbed in the chest. Medical examiner testimony at trial revealed that Metcalf had been stabbed through the heart, with a two-inch wound described as "gaping."

Prosecutors characterized the stabbing as a provoked, unjustified "sneak attack" inside the team tent, while the defense argued it was a split-second act of self-defense born of fear and chaos. Anthony did not testify in his own defense.

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Anthony, now 19, was convicted in Collin County District Court in McKinney. The sentencing phase, to be decided by the same jury, was expected to begin promptly given the speed of deliberations.

Former Platner Campaign Aide: Captain Nazi Is a Monster and More Women Have Come Forward

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Believe all women.

Not this woman, mind you, and not the women who have come forward with new accusations against Gerald Platner.

Believe all women who concoct a Law & Order: SVU pantomime allegation about Trump raping their scrawny Crypt Keeper ass in a changing room in a year TBD. Believe that woman.

Ex-Graham Platner campaign director says embattled Maine Dem 'shouldn't be a US senator': 'My concerns have only grown'

Graham Platner's ex-political director expressed her growing concern about the embattled Maine Democrat in a Washington Post op-ed Monday, arguing that her former boss "'shouldn't be a US senator."

"I quit the campaign in October, disturbed by what I learned about the candidate and concerned about his potential impact on the Democratic Party's prospects in my home state," Genevieve McDonald wrote. "As Tuesday's primary arrives, I want to make clear what transpired since August and why my concerns have only grown."

McDonald argued that Platner "exhibits a pattern of dishonest behavior that is impossible to ignore."

"Despite being exposed by a series of scandals beginning last October, he kept assuring voters and the Democratic Party that there were no more skeletons in his closet," she continued. "Then more emerged -- the latest, in recent days, have involved former girlfriends' serious accusations of physical mistreatment."

McDonald described herself as "one of the Platner campaign's first gaslighting casualties," claiming the candidate and his campaign dismissed her concerns about his Nazi tattoo and electability.

"I was willing to believe his explanations, I wanted to believe, until his flaws as a candidate became impossible to ignore," she wrote.

McDonald said she "realized the campaign had not been honest" when reports on Platner's disturbing Reddit post history started to surface.

She claims the Platner campaign offered her "$15,000 to sign a nondisclosure agreement," after her resignation, which she refused to do so, and that "over the past eight months, women have come to me with their own disturbing stories about Platner."

"Enough is enough," McDonald wrote.

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Platner, a Marine veteran and former oyster farmer, has faced numerous controversies since launching his campaign, including the sexting scandal and Reddit posts he made downplaying sexual assault, mocking soldiers and contending that white Americans "actually are" racist and stupid, among others.

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McDonald urged Democrats to "demand better from those entrusted with power or seeking it."

Maine Democrats are having concerns about the Nazi-tattooed woman-beating socialist violent revolutionary, on the day of the Maine primary.

Strong work, guys. Give yourselves all a bonus.

Platner's continued drumbeat of scandals has divided both Democratic Party leaders and voters as they stare down the must-win Senate race. Defeating Republican Sen. Susan Collins in November is crucial to the party's plans to take back control of the upper chamber and provide a check on President Donald Trump. But even as Platner's staunch supporters stick with him, his political baggage is threatening to sink him with some Democratic and independent voters heading into the general election, according to interviews with nearly two dozen Maine voters.

Several Democratic voters were hesitant to weigh in on the Senate race, saying they felt Platner's candidacy was all but certain at this point and sharing their opinion on him was likely to be met with backlash. Others who were planning to vote Democratic in November are now toying with backing Collins or sitting out the Senate race entirely -- a challenge for the likely nominee and his party.

Peter and Kelly Dufour were manning the grill at a Get-Out-the-Vote event for gubernatorial candidate Hannah Pingree in Portland on Saturday and excited about the former Democratic state House speaker's candidacy for governor. Asked about the Senate race, Kelly put her head in her hands.

Wow, they're too afraid to speak out against Gerald Platner? And they claim those of us who mostly defend Trump against the mostly-absurd communist propaganda allegations against Trump are "cultists."

So we're cultists for Trump? The most successful Republican president since Reagan (and some would say before that)?

But meanwhile you're cultists for an unemployed and frankly unemployable Fake Oyster Farmer born on third base but who has oozed his way down to the non-working class, beating women and ranting on the internet 24/7?

I think I'd rather be a cultist for the guy with actual accomplishments.

The SPLC Repeatedly Invokes the Fifth Amendment to Avoid Answering Whether They Used Donor Money to Pay "Extremists" to Put On "Hate" Marches, Burn Crosses, and Recruit New Members

—Disinformation Expert Ace

I say he invoked the Fifth Amendment, which he did. But the words he kept using were "We will address those allegations in court." In other words, I will not answer questions for which I will be held criminally responsible in another court.

That's his right, but:

1, why are people allowed to invoke the Fifth without explicitly invoking the Fifth? I bet you Democrats would demand to know what basis a witness has for refusing to answer.

and,

2, he's a fucking criminal, he knows he broke the law, and this is not some kind of principled invocation of the Fifth. He's guilty and his answers would either confirm his guilty or deny it, which would be obstruction of Congress because he'd be lying.

Here's some of his repeated refusal to aswer on the basis that he will be answering these questions in criminal court.

A lot of money, and some bodily fluids, flowed from the SPLC to their "informants."

House Judiciary GOP 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 @JudiciaryGOP

🚨 A SPLC informant had a romantic relationship with a SPLC employee.

That same employee oversaw field sources.

They shared a home.

They held joint bank accounts.

And 66% of the funds in those accounts came from the SPLC.

Invasion: Sudanese Colonist Uses Knife to Slash Open the Eyeballs of Northern Irish Man, Attempts to Saw His Head Off on Street in Broad Daylight

—Disinformation Expert Ace

The country that fought a civil war for a hundred years to resist colonization by Britons is apparently cool with colonization by black Islamic Africans.

Do you feel Culturally Enriched?

Belfast attack: Sudanese man arrested over stabbing 'had leave to remain'

Victim has 'significant' eye injuries from attack that bystanders stopped -- the city is now braced for protests

A Sudanese man arrested over a knife attack in Belfast on Monday is understood to have been granted leave to remain in Northern Ireland, the police have said.

The man, initially believed by police to be Somali but later confirmed as Sudanese, was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after officers were called to Kinnaird Avenue at about 10.30pm on Monday.

Video of the attack appeared to show a man with a knife holding another man down on the ground, before bystanders intervened. One of them hit the attacker over the head with a hurling stick. The victim, who is in his forties, had "significant" eye injuries, Assistant Chief Constable Ryan Henderson said.

Yeah he cut out his eyes. This is cultural enrichment.

Asked about the suspect's immigration status, Henderson said: "My understanding is that the individual came into Northern Ireland from Dublin, moving up, and then was granted leave to remain."

Northern Ireland remains part of the UK so this is once again all due to Two-Tier Queer Keir and the British Islamo-Labour establishment.

Police are not seeking anyone else over the attack and at this stage is not deemed terror-related, Henderson said.

Of course not! But later on you will see that the "authorities" (who have no remaining authority) were immediately capable of judging planned protests for tonight as "far right."

Their capacity to detect ideology is highly selective.

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Henderson said he shared "the public's revulsion at the attack', which he said had "sent shockwaves through communities".

Sure. The people in power attempting to convince the peons to accept this as normal and mainstream -- and racist to object to -- are "revolted" by the newest apocalyptic violence they've engineered.

The suspect is believed to have travelled from Sudan to Paris, then to Dublin, on unknown dates before taking a bus to Belfast in February 2023 where he immediately claimed asylum. He was given leave to remain in the UK in September 2023, according to Jon Boutcher, chief constable of Northern Ireland. He said his status when crossing the Irish border was still to be determined but that "lawyers will debate the legal status of this individual for weeks, months and even years to come".

The police who can't identify any ideological motive immediately sprang to label those who don't want to be invaded by bloodthirsty savages as "toxic."

Boutcher accused "faceless" people online who know nothing of Northern Ireland of causing "toxic" discourse that was inciting violence. The first minister, Michelle O'Neill, echoed his thoughts and called on people to reject "sectarianism" and violence.

In London, the Conservatives have demanded "total transparency" on the immigration status of the suspect. Chris Philp, the shadow home secretary, said: "Last night's brutal attempted beheading in Belfast is appalling. The government must ensure full details about the suspect's nationality and immigration status are released. Total transparency is required.

"If it turns out this man is an illegal immigrant it would provide further evidence that the government's lack of border control is endangering the public."

Hilary Benn, the Northern Ireland secretary, would not comment on the suspect's immigration status. He appealed for calm, adding it was "innocent people who suffer" when political leaders failed to reduce tensions.

And don't worry about the people having their eyes slashed open by a foreign invader. The only thing that bothers them is "backlash" against the violent foreign invaders. The forelash is accepted and even praised as "cultural enrichment."

He also paid tribute to the bystanders who intervened to pull the assailant away, saying they represented "the very best of humanity".

I'm sure he's very happy about this. He got civilians to do the police's job for them. The police are too busy harassing people over tweets.

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Anti-immigration protesters have sought to capitalise on the incident by calling for a mass protest in Belfast on Tuesday evening. An online message of unknown origin has widely circulated on social media calling for men over 18 to arrive wearing dark clothing and to be "prepared to fight or be arrested".

A version of the post circulating on X called for "road closures and businesses to close in protest over the migrant invasion of Northern Ireland". Politicians in Northern Ireland warned that the incident may be hijacked by far-right activists.

The Morning Rant

—CBD

Unions are one of the most corrosive influences in America, and teachers unions (along with government employee unions) are the worst of the bunch. They drive an aggressive progressive agenda into our schools, while sucking state and municipal coffers dry in their never-ending quest for more...more...more. The education of our children is an afterthought. Number one on their agenda is of course more money and less work. Number two is to relegate actual teaching to a few minutes each day, and concentrate on the leftist agenda of racial and gender politics, and above all the denigration of America.

And all of that is protected by their oceans of money extorted from their members.

Except in right-to-work states! And guess what? Mississippi is one of those states. Is it a coincidence that with increased accountability and more important, dissemination of objective data about the success of their schools, that Mississippi rapidly can improve their education outcomes?

Mississippi Proves that More Money Won't Fix Our Schools

Over the past decade, Mississippi has made such progress in fourth-grade reading that people have taken to calling it the “Mississippi miracle.” Mississippi ranked 9th in the country for fourth-grade reading in 2024, up from 49th in 2013, a forty-place climb in a decade, from near the bottom of the table into the top ten.

Mississippi’s fourth graders now read better than their peers in New York, Minnesota, and California -- every one of them a state that spends a great deal more per child than we do. And here is the part the spend-more crowd would rather you did not dwell on. We get those better results on far less money.

Mississippi spends around $12,300 per pupil, one of the five lowest figures in America. New York spends $31,918 -- more than two and a half times as much -- and its children read less well for it. New York, in other words, buys more than two dollars of schooling for every one of ours, and ends up further behind.

The education of our nation's youth is not an intractable problem, especially because the skills necessary to teach children are not particularly rare or difficult to train. And the reality is that education is a product, just like everything else in an economy, and if the transactions are transparent, with accessible data describing that product, then the consumer -- parents -- can make informed decisions. And the providers -- the schools -- can respond to those market pressures. Only when unions and politicians interfere with those decisions is the basic education of our youth at risk.

[Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter and X/Twitter]. If you folks who are on X/Twitter would follow us it would be much appreciated!

Mid-Morning Art Thread

—CBD

Garden at Sainte-Adresse
Claude Monet