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Under Threat of Anti-Trust Action, Un-American MLB Walks Back Threat to Discipline Players for Daring to Include Biblical References on Their Forced Gay Cosplay Hats
—Disinformation Expert Ace
As you know, the San Francisco Giants forced players to wear pRiDe rainbow caps. Some players objected to being forced to wear this antibiblical message, so they put little strips of cloth on the caps noting a specific Biblical passage that mentions the rainbow as God's promise to never flood the world again.
It was a small attempt to balance out the compromise of their conscience being forced upon them by the Gay Mafia, Baseball Chapter, and the Gay Mafia could not tolerate that. They threatened to fine or discipline the players daring to safeguard their own consciences, citing fake rules that no player may ever include his own private messages on his uniform.
That's a lie, the league allowed/encouraged BLM messaging on uniforms and cleats.
MLB Walks Back Threats Over Bible Verses At Pride Night
"The players were neither fined nor disciplined, nor will they ever be."
Major League Baseball backed down Monday after threatening several San Francisco Giants players over Bible verses marked on their Pride Night caps, promising not to fine or discipline them for expressing their Christian faith.
In a letter to Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), MLB Commissioner Robert Manfred said the league was enforcing existing rules and blamed the San Francisco Giants for a controversy that quickly became a religious-liberty flashpoint.
"By warning the Giants players that they may not include Bible verses on their caps in the future, MLB was not discriminating or chastising those players based on their religious beliefs; rather, MLB was enforcing (with only an oral warning) a long-standing, collectively bargained rule that keeps uniforms clean and avoids controversy," Manfred said.
Manfred explained that the MLB allows clubs to wear customized uniforms during just 12 league-sanctioned events each year, including Mother's Day, Father's Day, Independence Day, Sept. 11, and Jackie Robinson Day.
And BLM messages.
And if you don't want players stealth-objecting to the pro-LGBT messages you're forcing them to repeat, stop forcing them to repeat pro-LGBT messages. Make wearing the Gay Cosplay optional.
However, Manfred said individual clubs retain the flexibility to recognize other commemorative events throughout the season. He noted that in 2023, the San Francisco Giants and Los Angeles Dodgers successfully requested that their use of Pride emblems on uniforms and hats during Pride Night be grandfathered in under the league's policy.
Oh, so some people are allowed to add their own messages to their uniforms, if the Gay/BLM MLB approves.
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"We understand that some players or other on-field personnel have not been comfortable wearing the pride emblem on their uniform based on their religious beliefs," he added.
During Pride Night, San Francisco Giants starting pitcher Landen Roupp was among them. He inscribed a passage from Genesis 9 on his cap in silver, placing it next to the rainbow logo.
The verses describe God's promise to Noah and all future generations that he would never again destroy the earth with a flood, with the rainbow serving as the sign of that covenant.
What a horror!
I could understand some consternation if players were including the passage from Leviticus calling homosexuality a sin, but all they were doing was supplying an alternate justification for wearing the rainbow, noting that the rainbow was a promise from God.
They would wear the rainbow -- with the gloss that the rainbow they were celebrating was God's rainbow.
Acceptable? No! Tyrants must be obeyed!
The San Francisco Giants decided, "No, not only do you have to wear the Gay Rainbow, you also have to mean the Gay Rainbow means what we say it means. We will not allow you to pretend the Gay Rainbow is anything other than your personal affirmation of homosexuality. Reject your god and bow to the new gods."
But they're the good guys, right? Bullies and tyrants are always the good guys in history, right?
I keep noticing that they way favored political minorities say they want to be treated is not the way they treat minorities when they have the (temporary, limited) majority power.
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Shortly thereafter, MLB issued a verbal warning advising players not to include Bible verses on their uniforms in the future, triggering a wave of conservative backlash, including legal scrutiny from elected officials and state attorneys general.
"The Civil Rights Act prohibits MLB and its franchises from unreasonably burdening the rights of players with religious objections to serving as the League's vehicle for pro-Pride messages," Assistant Attorney General Dhillon wrote in a letter to Manfred.
In a response to Hawley's scathing letter, Manfred appeared to deflect blame to the San Francisco Giants.
"Unfortunately, this year the Giants' communication with players was inadequate and not clear. Some players apparently did not understand that they had the option to wear their normal uniform and elected to add messages to their hats bearing the pride logo as a result," he explained. "After the game had concluded, my office issued a routine oral warning about the uniform policy violation -- unfortunately, it was issued before we became aware of the Giants' lapse in communication,"
In a win for the conservatives, the MLB vowed that no players would be punished for the Bible verses.
"The players were neither fined nor disciplined, nor will they ever be," Manfield said.
Fuck you. Strip their anti-trust immunity.
This is the problem with monopolies. You can't just tell these players "Find another league that doesn't force you to confess sinful messages contrary to your religion," because the monopoly guarantees there is no other league to join.
We’re not letting them hijack the Bible to "take back" the rainbow. The rainbow is about Pride. It’s about our beautiful LGBTQ community. And it’s about San Francisco beauty & joy.
Happy Pride!
Fuck you. We'll keep in mind your own rules about how the majority should treat a minority going forward. How about that?
Update:
Our investigation into MLB will continue.
MLB thinks it can sweep this under the rug with a non-apology. Any sign of Christian viewpoint discrimination will be rooted out. https://t.co/pxGeYRiX4i
— Attorney General James Uthmeier (@AGJamesUthmeier) June 23, 2026
Two new defendants charged in alleged White House UFC mass-casualty attack plot
Jordan W Rincker allegedly transferred a shotgun and funneled cash to co-defendants who planned to storm the White House
The FBI has identified two additional suspects in the alleged plot targeting the UFC Freedom 250 event in Washington, D.C., bringing the total number of publicly identified defendants to seven.
Newly unsealed court records identify Missouri resident Jordan W. Rincker and Washington state resident William Lee Spartacus Falkner as alleged members of the conspiracy. Prosecutors say Rincker allegedly helped fund and facilitate the operation, while Falkner allegedly discussed procuring and operating drones intended for use in the attack.
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Falkner allegedly joined a Telegram chat devoted to drone operations June 7 and communicated with other alleged conspirators about drone procurement, tactics and the use of explosives, according to the Washington state complaint.
Prosecutors allege Falkner discussed obtaining multiple drones through a network of contacts and argued that "the more drones the better." Court records also allege he exchanged messages about drone payloads, anti-jamming measures, fiber optics controls and the number of drones needed to carry out the attack.
The complaint alleges Falkner claimed he could obtain drones capable of carrying heavy explosive payloads and discussed coordinating their acquisition with other members of the group.
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The newly unsealed affidavit also suggests investigators were examining whether members of the group discussed a potential future attack targeting a FIFA World Cup match scheduled for July 3 in Kansas City, Missouri.
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Prosecutors said the plotters met around March through a TikTok community known as "Vanguard of the Old" where participants shared workout videos and tactical content before moving to encrypted Signal chats.
TikTok, huh? Why does Trump permit China's propaganda/destabilization app to exist in the US? (It's banned in China!)
That's a rhetorical question. I know why: Because it's popular among the brainwashed, vacant-eyed youths and no one wants to incense the incels. A lot of the more disturbed losers threatened to literally kill themselves if TikTok were banned.
But sometimes, you have to bite the bullet.
Meanwhile, a similar nihilistic violence event actually came to fruition in Montreal.
Suspect 'neutralized' after Montreal shooting leaves at least 2 dead including officer
A suspected gunman has been neutralized by authorities following a Monday shooting in Montreal's Cote-des-Neiges neighborhood that left a police officer and a citizen dead
A gunman was "neutralized" Monday following a shooting in Montreal that left one police officer and one other person dead.
Authorities told Fox News that the shooting happened in the Cote-des-Neiges neighborhood of the city.
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A male officer and a civilian died, he said. A female officer was injured and taken to a hospital in critical condition but was upgraded to stable condition.
Via Beege Wellborn at Hot Air, the incel left behind a manifesto attacking women and capitalism.
Montreal shooting: suspect left a manifesto attacking women and capitalism
The man, who drove from Alberta in recent days, espouses "incel" ideology
The man who opened fire in Montreal on Monday left behind a delusional manifesto in which he attacks, among other things, women and Western capitalist society.
"Be unwavering, move forward, and KILL THEM ALL!" wrote Seth Hatfield in the conclusion of his 104-page document. Police were meticulously analyzing the text on Monday, in the hours following the tragedy that left three people dead.
It is unclear whom the young man proposes killing. According to our sources, Hatfield drove from Alberta in recent days. Investigators believe he espouses an ideology aligned with that of "involuntary celibates," or "incels."
In his lengthy text, which our Investigative Bureau was able to review, he laments "the state of affairs regarding young people (roughly under the age of 30) living in highly developed Western countries."
He decries the plight of the majority of men, whom he calls "ordinary men." He contrasts them with a small number of "brutes"--men supposedly preferred by women due to their attractive physiques. The individual who donned a military uniform at the time of the act is nostalgic for a society founded on traditional values.
In a speech worthy of the Middle Ages, Hatfield lashes out in all directions. According to him, most women today engage in "frequent and cruel verbal abuse" toward men.
Among other unacceptable remarks, he claims they have also "abandoned all or most efforts to be attractive" -- not to mention the refusal of some to have children.
"For the average man, the closest thing to intimacy he is entitled to is usually watching internet pornography on his phone screen, in the darkness of his bedroom, late at night," he writes.
So Close to Pride Month? As Chicago Recovers From Bloody "Juneteenth" Violence Leaving Eight Dead and Thirty-Nine Shot, BlacKKK Mayor Brandon Johnson Changes the Topic and Babbles About Anti-Trans Violence That Barely Exists
8 dead, dozens hurt over holiday weekend in Chicago, including 14 shot during Juneteenth party
A 14-year-old boy was among the dead from gun violence over the long weekend, which also left nearly 40 people injured, catching the attention of President Donald Trump.
A 14-year-old boy was among eight people killed over the long holiday weekend that saw nearly 40 others wounded, including 14 people shot during a Juneteenth celebration on the Far South Side.
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A mass shooting in Roseland happened Friday about 11:10 p.m. in the 200 block of West 95th Street as a large crowd gathered for the holiday. A red SUV drove by and two people inside opened fire, hitting the 14 victims, whose ages range from 17 to 47.
That shooting caught the attention of President Donald Trump, who posted on social media: "Lots of Killing going on in Chicago. 22 people shot, at least 4 Dead. Why isn't Governor Pritzker calling me for help."
Seven others were killed from Thursday at 5 p.m. until Monday at 5 a.m., according to officials. They include:
Christopher A. Lakes, 34, shot in Austin;
Aniyhas S. Jackson, 18, shot in Austin;
Craig Wright, 21, shot in Englewood;
A 37-year-old man shot in the 500 block of East 38th Street in Bronzeville;
A 33-year-old man shot in the 3000 block of West 30th Street in Little Village;
A 29-year-old man shot in the 11900 block of South Michigan Avenue in West Pullman;
A 32-year-old man shot in the 600 block of East 92nd Street in Chatham.
Other shootings wounded nearly 20 others in neighborhoods on the South and West sides, according to Chicago police.
Note that the "14 shot" mentioned there has greatly increased... to 39.
So another Red Weekend in a Blue City.
Why aren't billionaires paying more in taxes? And other questions to distract you from the literal Death Cult that is the Democrat Party.
Racist clown Brandon Johnson doesn't want to talk about this and certainly doesn't want to ask The White Man for help.
Instead, he wants to extend the "crisis" declaration regarding the non-trend of the non-word "transfemicide."
Transfemicide.
Lunatics make up their own languages in the asylums, don't they?
Chicago mayor ridiculed for touting trans violence 'state of emergency' amid murder-plagued Juneteenth weekend
The mayor's office reupped the 2024 "Transfemicide State of Emergency," drawing mockery from commentators online
Chicago's mayor has become the subject of ridicule after promoting his transgender violence state of emergency amid a deadly Juneteenth weekend where dozens of people in his city were shot and six were killed.
"Since declaring a Transfemicide State of Emergency, our administration has strengthened the City's capacity to support LGBTQ+ Chicagoans," a Sunday X post from Mayor Brandon Johnson said. "This framework builds on that work by centering the voices and lived experiences of trans Chicagoans to chart a path toward a safer, more connected city."
How about the mass shootings in Chicago? Anything, you low-IQ incompetent DEI disaster?
"Transfemicide" is defined as the "targeted killing of a transgender woman motivated by transphobic and misogynistic hatred." Critics were quick to point out that Johnson appears focused on promoting on Juneteenth weekend the fight against an obscure transgender violence category rather than the killing of black Chicagoans.
Critics point out the obvious.
A report on the subject suggests that violence against transgender women, particularly black, indigenous people of color (BIPOC) transgender women, is endemic in Chicago.
But the report does not mention how many transgender women have been killed in the city, and admittedly includes suicides in the "transfemicide" category despite the term's definition.
Online critics lambasted Johnson for focusing his administration's energy on the transgender issue, and many noted that the timing of the post coincided with a weekend where 39 people were shot and six killed while the city celebrated Juneteenth.
"Nobody knows what a 'Transfemicide State of Emergency' is," said Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas, on X. "This is what the Mayor of Chicago is focused on."
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"Everyone is dunking on this but I think it's NICE that Mayor Johnson finally found a type of murder he doesn't like. Baby steps," said X personality Jarvis Best.
Despite the lies of activists who claim that there's some ever-increasing trend of people murdering trannies, the actual truth is that, despite so many trannies working in the incredibly dangerous sex industry, transgenders experience violence at lower rates than the rest of the population.
They claim otherwise to "center" themselves in the discussion, always.
Hello! I hope everyone and their families are feeling good and healthy on this Tuesday afternoon.
What is so complicated about the thoroughly obvious concept that a nation cannot long survive if it sees race as a defining characteristic of its citizens?
Extrapolate that to ethnicity and religion and sexual proclivity and eventually the absolute insanity of recognizing psychiatric illness (transsexualism), and we have the current situation in much of the Western world! And how are we doing? Not well. Not well at all!
Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas on Monday dissented from the Supreme Court’s refusal to take up a case that they said forces police officers to create a separate set of rules for racial minorities.
"It is dangerous to allow an individual to be treated differently based on statistics, studies, or expert testimony that purports to show that members of the racial or ethnic group to which he belongs are more likely to act in a certain way than are members of other groups," Alito wrote on behalf of himself and Thomas. "Here, the special treatment helped the individual; in other situations it will not."
The case, U.S. v. Donte J. Carter, involved a Black man whose firearm and theft convictions were vacated after the D.C. Court of Appeals held that police seized him before they had reasonable suspicion. Officers later recovered a .40-caliber pistol from Carter’s pants and the government said the gun had been stolen from an FBI agent’s vehicle.
I understand why the two retards and the reliable leftist voted for racial preference. And the new chick just wants to be in the club. And I understand that the chief justice is a wind vane without any philosophical foundation. But Gorsuch and Cavanaugh? I thought they had brains!
This is a depressing bellwether of the court, and we should expect more of this sort of post-modern horror. The Constitution is clear about this question, and we fought a military civil war and a cultural civil war to end exactly what the court seems to be approving. This is a dangerous precedent that will have repercussions far beyond the criminal. Are we going to return to affirmative action? Because this seems suspiciously like that catastrophic foray into inequality! Maybe this time it will be explicit!
Imagine a world in which blacks or any minority are allowed even greater leeway to break the law because of some cultural norm. That won't end well, and it may very well bring about wholesale changes in the way all Americans respond to law enforcement or, for that matter, any government action.
And based on this decision, my hope for a ban on anchor babies just went up in smoke.
Yuck!
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A federal judge blocked Department of Justice (DOJ) subpoenas of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) and other Democrats in the state, which the DOJ had issued to investigate the link between Somali corruption and local politics. . . The George W. Bush-appointed chief judge said Trump’s repeated attacks and promises of “retribution” against Walz, a Democrat, and other Minnesota officials “establishes beyond reasonable dispute” that the grand jury subpoenas — issued at the height of ICE’s Operation Metro Surge — “were a part of a broader campaign to coerce state and local officials in Minnesota to assist the Trump administration in its enforcement of immigration laws.”
Probably the greatest case of political corruption in American history, a minimum of $9 billion dollars swindled from the Minnesota state treasury as well as the US treasury and direct and indirect links to Walz, Frey and the state's Democrat Party. And this hack shuts it down. Well at least he's a Bush appointee which means, yay Bipartisanship! Meh, what it means is that he's likely in on the grift along with Walz, Frey and every other crooked pol.
Judge Sparkle Sooknanan (yes, that’s her actual name) the daughter of immigrants from Trinidad is a Biden appointee who has militantly engaged in judicial activism on issues involving foreign nationals in the United States is at it again, this time ruling that the federal government was forbidden to verify the citizenship of voters because it violates their privacy. Has she ever heard of the IRS?
“All in all, the federal government has knowingly trampled on the privacy rights of American citizens in a manner that threatens the sacred right to vote. This Court cannot stand idly by while that happens,” Sooknanan falsely claimed.
The only people whose voting rights are threatened are those who should not be voting because they’re non-citizens. Much as Judge Sparkle should not only not be on the bench, but shouldn’t be allowed within a thousand feet of a gavel or a courthouse.
Voting isn’t threatened by citizenship verification, it’s threatened by those ineligible to vote who are voting and those who ineligible being counted in censuses and having those numbers used to allocate districts.
Judge Sparkle Sooknanan isn’t the ‘court’, she has no authority to intervene here, only an ideological mandate to protect the corrupt system that made her.
First of all, anyone named Sparkle is unfit to be a judge, except in a drag competition. But that aside, a leftist hack foreigner placed as she was by Joey Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants Biden with the sole purpose of holding the doors open for third world invaders to flood in, among other things that advances the Democrat/Leftist agenda at the expense of Americans, Americanism and to tear all that down to grease the wheels of the LLeftist counter-American revolution.
Yes there is of course the personal element of attacking Trump personally by shredding his policies but the real goal is destroying America as founded and seizing absolute power. Trump has been the first real leader to stand in their way at least for now thwart their malign intentions as well as hopefully open the eyes of Americans everywhere to that danger and win over hearts and minds. And so, the assassination attempts, the shampeachments, the lawfare and the treasonous insubordination in the Judiciary and the bureaucracy and stolen elections.
Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) called on Senate Republicans to work with President Donald Trump and advance the SAVE America Act, urging lawmakers in a Monday social media post to “hit the ground running” as Congress returns to Washington. . . According to Scott’s proposal, Republicans should focus on preventing another government shutdown and passing the SAVE America Act, legislation that would require proof of citizenship when registering to vote
Obviously the Democrats will never support legislation that prevents them from rigging elections, but worse the Quislings of the Grifting Oleaginous Parasite GOP like Thune, Murkowski et al will be right there to sabotage this to preserve, protect and defend their roles as confederates for pay.
God bless Rick Scott but I don't think this has a snowball's chance.
The resumption of Iranian oil exports signals a significant economic and geopolitical shift; specifically, that normalcy may be gradually returning to the region following months of conflict. It also suggests that the Islamic Republic is using the peace agreement to boost its energy trade. Iranian Oil Exports Climb as Peace Deal Eases Trade Restrictions.
Victor Davis Hanson: Trump’s Iran memorandum is not a surrender or a new beginning—it is the next phase of a strategy built on pressure, deterrence, and avoiding another costly Middle East war. Don’t Forget the Broader Context of the Iranian Memorandum
The Iranian regime has used the conflict with the U.S. and Israel as an excuse to round up between 3,000 and 4,400 of its own Persian people, claiming they were undermining the regime or collaborating with "the enemy," according to a New York Post report on June 22. The outlet emphasized these numbers are additional to the 50,000+ arrests and 40,000+ deaths earlier this year resulting from the major popular uprising in Iran. So far in 2026, the regime has carried out at least 40 official prisoner executions. Iran's Regime Arrested Thousands More Dissidents in Last Few Months
One would think that if a Democrat truly believed the Iran War was such a catastrophe for the U.S., the people of Iran and the Middle East region as a whole, a peace deal — even one orchestrated in part by Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance — would be welcomed. If peace is the ultimate goal, should it matter if the peacemaker is the Orange Man from Queens? It really shouldn’t, if one is deeply opposed to war. Democrats Prove They Hate Trump More Than Death, Destruction And Economic Depression
ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS, HEZBOLLAH . . . AND LEFTISTS. . . The U.N... AND HISTORY
A society stripped of civic pride struggles with cohesion. Without a sense of legitimate inheritance -- flawed yet worthy of stewardship -- patriotism Democrat Weaponized Narratives
The fee increases could delay or deter naturalization for hundreds of thousands of immigrants, particularly lower-income immigrants, while shifting more of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ (USCIS) operating costs directly onto applicants. Notably, fewer naturalized immigrants would likely mean fewer citizens importing foreign family members through chain migration. Public comments on the proposed rule will be accepted for 60 days following its publication in the Federal Register. Trump DHS Proposes Steep Hike in Immigrant Naturalization Fees. (Judge Buch M. Danno ready to strike it down - jjs)
THE GREAT SOMALIAN SIMOLEON SWINDLE
The George W. Bush-appointed chief judge said Trump’s repeated attacks and promises of “retribution” against Walz, a Democrat, and other Minnesota officials “establishes beyond reasonable dispute” that the grand jury subpoenas — issued at the height of ICE’s Operation Metro Surge — “were a part of a broader campaign to coerce state and local officials in Minnesota to assist the Trump administration in its enforcement of immigration laws.” Judge Blocks Subpoena of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Minnesota Democrats
Patel highlighted some of the results of Operation Riptide, which focuses on “criminal actors and the key services they rely on, their infrastructure, their tools and services, their communications platforms, and their money.” FBI Busts Multimillion Dollar Fraud Schemes Across the Country
The ruling delivers a legal setback to the Trump administration’s efforts to stop state Democrats from sabotaging federal immigration enforcement through sanctuary policies and other disruptive actions. Notably, Walz and other senior Minnesota Democrats are also under pressure for their role in allegedly facilitating or covering up widespread fraud—much of it connected to the Somali community—with Vice President J.D. Vance recently referring Walz for criminal investigation following a damning House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform report. Judge Blocks DOJ’s Grand Jury Subpoenas of Tim Walz and Other Minnesota Officials.
The incident has left the community in shock. As of the time of publication, the motive behind the attack remains unknown or undisclosed, and the police have not released the suspect’s name or ethnic, religious, or immigration background. Canada’s Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA) has said it is “closely monitoring the situation” and urged community members to “exercise vigilance” as they wait for more details to emerge. The civilian who was killed is reported to be a Jewish man. Gun Battle in Canadian Jewish Neighborhood Leaves Three Dead, Including Police Officer.
Over the last few days, the networks have overflowed with gooey propaganda about the new Obama Presidential Center in Chicago. But the fakest news in the goo was claiming Obama's career was all about "bridging divides and finding common ground." This spin pretends there was only unity, and no conservative opposition. The Fake News About Obama's Unifying Presidency
Newsguard reportedly encouraged AI companies to use its data during the “supervised learning” process, a technique that influences how AI models analyze information and coordinates AI outputs with developer preferences. The Free Beacon reported that Newsguard would license its data in a “machine-readable” form that would be ideal to train AI chatbots to discourage the spread of disinformation. Report: Newsguard Wants to Empower AI Censorship, Rates Chinese Propaganda as More Reliable than Conservative Media
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,
Elite university graduates are elevated above the people they claim to lead. Time to acknowledge that inequality by reserving the ballot box for those who need its amplification. Brown or the Ballot: End Voting Rights for the Ivy League
SECOND AMENDMENT
A new ban on Glock handguns takes effect in California, starting July 1. The law will, once again, remind Americans why California has become the ultimate legislative laboratory for aggressive gun control. California’s Glock ban sets stage for nationwide gun control
“We need to make it clear to all Americans that Democrats want to shut down government and don’t care how it impacts federal workers or the economy and Republicans want to fund the government,” he wrote. “We need to make it clear Republicans want election security and Democrats want fraud.” Sen. Rick Scott Rallies Senate Republicans to Advance Trump’s Priorities
Primaries and special elections have seen a far greater turnout among Democrats than among Republicans, which may reflect higher turnout in the high-stakes midterms this November, according to an analysis by the Washington Post. Democrats Are Turning Out In Droves — Even In MAGA Country
Speaking to XiNN in 2017 Clinton said the Electoral College “needs to be eliminated” and, “In a democracy, we should respect the will of the people and to me, that means it’s time to do away with the Electoral College and move to the popular election of our president. 10 Years Later, Hillary Clinton Is Still Struggling To Accept 2016 Election Results
For Obama and his Democrat friends, bending the arc towards justice means little more than using government power to invent new gubmint handouts for Democrat voters, because justice. Obama Rehearses the Liberal Political Formula
Sánchez, of course, looks at every new immigrant as a potential future voter who won't care about the mind-boggling corruption within his Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE). As increasing numbers of Spaniards take to the streets to demand the prime minister's resignation, Muslim migrants are among his most loyal supporters. In the video below, we meet a Muslim store owner a minute in, with a poster of Sánchez on his shop wall, who says Muslims are “100%" going to vote for the prime minister if they become citizens. Why? Because he "stands with Iran and Palestine." Indeed he does. So, How's Spain's Mass Amnesty Working Out?
An even better solution: Transfer both Kennedy and Wallops to private entities, and get NASA out of this business entirely. It will eventually no longer be launching its SLS rocket, and will then no longer need any pads of its own. At that point it will simply hire private rocket companies, who will in turn lease their pads from private sources. Let these spaceports become private as well. NASA IG: NASA’s launch infrastructure at Kennedy and Wallops needs attention
Initially, Chinese policymakers did not take Elon Musk’s company particularly seriously. But as Falcon 9 dramatically lowered launch costs through reusability and SpaceX began dominating global launch markets, the attitude changed. Chinese leaders recognized that they could not rely solely on large state-owned organizations if they hoped to remain competitive in one of the world’s most strategically important industries. China’s Private Space Industry Must Not Be Underestimated (if you think it's private you're a fool - jjs)
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
Alexandr Dugin’s critique of the modern West taps into real frustrations, but his cure is a geopolitical poison: the collapse of America itself. Ten Points to Understand Alexandr Dugin
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Or almost almost here. You can enter a lottery right now, which will offer winners the chance to buy the Cube from June 29. Delivery will take place sometime after that.
It launched in China a little while ago, but is now available internationally. MSRP is a hefty $850 but it's discounted to a still pretty hefty $650 for now.
Also, the older Lenovo Legion Tab Gen 3 is now on clearance, discounted as much as 50%.
At that price it is - adjusted for inflation - actually cheaper than the iconic 2013 Nexus 7, while offering a higher resolution screen, larger battery, six times the memory, eight times the storage, ten times the CPU performance, and literally a hundred times the graphics performance. To be fair, the Nexus 7 was kind of bad at 3d gaming.
No wireless charging, but it has dual USB-C ports rather than one failure-prone micro-USB socket.
Fuck you Microsoft GameInput.
But at least I know that it wasn't a hardware problem.
Short and simple ONT this evening. No whining or excuses as we routinely receive on Friday evenings. It's summer and there are fish to catch. Not ONTs to write.
Could smoking weed protect your aging brain? A study recently highlighted by The Washington Post suggests it might.
Led by the Salk Institute, the work focused on a cannabinoid called cannabinol, which is a byproduct of THC, the active ingredient in pot responsible for its psychoactive effects.
In experiments using human brain cell cultures and animal cells, the researchers found that cannabinol appeared to protect neurons against oxidative stress, a pernicious form of biological wear and tear that leads to cell death. Oxidative stress is considered a critical factor in neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s.
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The ONT Musical Interlude & Weed N Feed Emporium
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Gov. Kathy Hochul has quietly extended a pilot program providing free healthcare to sex workers – with taxpayers footing the nearly $2.5 million bill.
The state Health Department in 2023 awarded $1 million in public funds to two contractors as part of Hochul’s plan to help the “world’s oldest profession,” but new documents reviewed by The Post show the program extending through June 2028, with $1.5 million more in costs.
Under the initiative, sex workers in NYC and the Buffalo area will continue to receive primary, sexual, behavioral, and dental care.
Once again government rewards incorrect decisions upon the checkbooks of those who did the right things.
Volunteer Under Investigation for Cleaning Polluted River Without a License, Faces Two Years in Prison
"The section of the river which was cleared is really coming back beautifully, wildlife is returning, yet we are being threatened with prosecution."
Let no good deed go unpunished indeed. Then "They" wonder why we mistrust, hate, despise, revile...............them.
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On a lighter note. The failure to plan on your part does make you a Genius Award Winner.
A hurry to a larping tournament ended with a very real arrest in northern Arizona.
On June 11, troopers stopped a driver clocked at 106 mph in a 65 mph zone in Flagstaff, according to the Arizona Department of Public Safety.
The driver told troopers she was running late for a “larping tournament” in Colorado.
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By the way, there haven't been a lot of crow updates because the crows have been scarce lately. I don't know why. I've been putting out food. I put out a lot of food today when a single crow came by, but she flew away. But a couple hours later all the food was gone (cheese and ham), so I assume they got it.
Tucker Carlson says he is done with the GOP: "How could I support a party that puts the interests of a foreign country above its own citizens? I have been a consistent defender of the Republican party for 35 years, but there is no defending this. I'm out."
From Axios:
What they are saying: "I'm out," Carlson said on an episode of the "Can't Be Censored" podcast that aired last Thursday but gained traction online Monday.
"And if I'm out, then I think a lot of other people are out."
"I would not support the Republican Party. There's no chance I would support the Republican Party," Carlson said, adding that the GOP has "betrayed" voters by prioritizing Israel's national security over America's.
"How could I or any American voter support a political party that's not loyal to the United States. That puts the interests of a foreign country above those of its own citizens. It's not possible to vote for people like that, and I'm not going to."
Zoom in: Carlson says he's been a fierce defender of the GOP for 35 years, but can no longer do so.
He says he also won't support Democrats and is unsure how he'll vote moving forward.
He's pretending he's leaving. No, we threw your fat Nazi Hunter-Biden-loving ass out.
And I do mean that he's a Nazi. He has called for "violent" revolution (before claiming he never meant to say that). He is attempting to lead a violent overthrow of the US system in order to usher in a new white supremacist concept of the country.
Now I don't like the system any more than you do, but I do not want it challenged by violent revolutionaries led by this fat alcoholic grifter mental patient. I feel like Dirty Harry Callahan having to explain to the four rogue motorcycle cops that just because I hate scumbags doesn't mean I want to murder people in the streets.
JD Vance's efforts to appease the Tucker Carlson Bloc turn out to have been not just wrongheaded and unamerican, but foolish and futile. You can't appease a Nazi and you can't appease a brain-damaged lunatic.
Well, what he says is this: He denies that Kirk was killed by the gay furry lover for "transgenderism," and then declares he was killed over "his evolving views on Israel."
Which itself is a lie -- Kirk's views didn't evolve. When Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson kept badgering him to support Hamas' mission to destroy Israel, Kirk eventually gave them a noncommittal response like "Yeah I don't know if Israel should be knocking down buildings over terrorist attacks."
Which these lunatics took not as what it was -- him attempting to defang these lunatics trying to turn TPUSA into a Nazi organization -- but as a deeply-felt, deeply-considered Heel Turn on Israel. (And Kirk continued supporting Israel and denouncing the animals of Hamas until the day he died.)
But now he's saying that Kirk definitely, really turned on Israel and unnamed persons -- who, I wonder? -- shot him over this turn.
Again, this coward wants plausible deniability for what he's plainly implying but too much of a slithering pussy to say straight.
What a fucking disaster of a "man."
Oh, and he also says that Gerald Platner didn't even know about his Nazi tattoo and the only people claiming he did are filthy treasonous Israelis.
Justin
JustinUSA
Jun 19
As expected, Tucker Carlson has rushed to Graham Platner's defense.
He claims Platner didn't even know about his Nazi tattoo, and insists the real reason people are attacking him is because he's "not sufficiently supportive of Israel."
I think Tuq'r sees that his grifting potential on the right is very low now. Last week, Me-Again Kelly, who has repeatedly told the Republican Party "f*** you" when we asked her to please do what she promised to do at TPUSA and "protect" Erika Kirk, now says that we all need to unify to fight the left.
We have to join with Me-Again you guys.
Sounds like her ad revenue is taking a hit, too.
Dave Rubin
@RubinReport
1h
Told ya that Tucker would leave the Republicans and Megyn would come back to Trump.
For now Tucker will say he isn't a Dem, but watch his guests and topics, they will only be pro Dem and anti Republican.
His goal is to split the Republicans and usher in National Socialism...
Biden tried to block the release of the audio recordings of his "well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory" interviews with special counsel Robert Hur, as well as the interviews he did with his autobiographer. He claims he has a privacy interest in the DOJ interviews and would suffer irreparable reputational damage if they were released.
Besides the obvious - wanting to establish just how hopelessly pudding-brained the former president was by the stage he was being quizzed by Hur - the Heritage Foundation sued under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to get access to tapes of conversations Biden had with the ghostwriter for his biography to further investigate the claims that Biden had mishandled classified information. The recordings POTATUS made with his ghostwriter are all circa 2016-2017, years before his election.
...The dispute over Biden's discussions stems from a Freedom of Information Act request that the Heritage Foundation filed in March 2024. The group sought records that former special counsel Robert Hur relied on to write specific portions of his report on Biden's handling of sensitive government records, which included passages referring to the former president's recorded conversations with Zwonitzer in 2016 and 2017.
The interviews were used for Biden's 2017 memoir, "Promise Me, Dad."
Hur's report referenced the former president's "diminished faculties and faulty memory" shown in Zwonitzer's recordings, and called Biden's recorded conversations with his ghostwriter "painfully slow, with Mr. Biden struggling to remember events and straining at times to read and relay his own notebook entries."
They might well shed light on the basement campaign strategy, too.
Schumer shrieks that any verification of the voter rolls could remove 25 million "voters" from the lists!
Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
🚨 HOLY CRAP. Sen. Chuck Schumer just sounded the alarm that the SAVE America Act will REMOVE "25 MILLION PEOPLE" from the voter rolls
Keep in mind, the bill is for voter ID and proof of citizenship
If true, that means 25 MILLION people are illegals or not eligible citizens without ID! 🤯
Chuck is either making crap up or HE KNOWS THERE ARE 25 MILLION ILLEGALS VOTING
Which is it, Chuck? PASS THE SAVE AMERICA ACT!
Boy, blocking ineligible foreign invaders from voting could really hurt the Democrat Party!
🚨 BREAKING: Foreign-born Biden judge Sparkle Sooknanan (yeah, that's her actual name) has just BARRED the Trump admin from checking citizenship data for voters, per AP
Democrats are TERRIFIED about illegals no longer being able to vote
The federal government was using a federal database to PURGE ILLEGAL VOTERS. And a judge just put a stop to that.
Insanity. Bring it all the way up to SCOTUS!
SCOTUS Wire
@scotus_wire
🚨 Judge Sparkle Sooknanan has struck down the Trump administration's expanded SAVE voter-verification system, ruling that federal agencies unlawfully created a centralized database containing Social Security and citizenship data to facilitate mass voter verification.
The foreigner making sure her illegal alien cousins can vote says that voters have a "right to privacy" that shields them from having their identities and citizenship verified when voting in United States elections.
By the way: She's actually a citizen of Trinidad and Tobago. She was naturalized under Obama as a US citizenship, but when she was asked in her Senate questionnaire if she would renounce that citizenship if made a judge, she said she would if the law requires it. Which it doesn't (insanely).
The New York Times' "Fathers Day" piece is written by a "trans man" -- that is, a mentally ill woman -- who says that her child has no problem with the idea that her daddy used to have breasts.
They cannot stop using children to advance their cause. I think their idea is that children's minds are open and pure, and so if a child accepts that a man is a woman and a woman is a man, closed-minded, tainted adults should accept it too.
And yes, children's minds are "open" -- meaning untutored and easily swayed -- and "pure," meaning untouched by corruption and the evil of the world.
Children make for good recruits not because they know the truth but because they are easily bullied by agenda-driven adults in positions of power over them, like "teachers" and even "fathers."
And this is a determined trend at the NYT. Almost all of their pieces on "fatherhood" depict fathers as abusive monsters.
Cannot make this up, either.@nytimes opinion has had four recent pieces about fatherhood and masculinity, with six authors:
Three women A trans "man" Two childless men
Not one father. The cultural elite contempt for dads runs so deep we don't even get to speak for ourselves. https://t.co/zLWJUDxQeW
Recent themes include "My father's death helped me self-actualize," "My father was an addict who failed me," and "The pain of caring for an abusive parent." https://t.co/wSIVZP6GAmpic.twitter.com/jLBHmgVQvm
Meanwhile, the NYT features pieces about women who abandoned their husbands and children to "find themselves" and showers them with praise for their "bravery."
If financial "disclosures" by Ilhan "Omar" can go from $25 million to zero in a month, then what good are financial "disclosures"?
Rep. Ilhan Omar’s financial disclosures just got a major revision.
New filings show wealth and income figures tied to her husband’s companies were dramatically reduced after earlier reports valued them at as much as $30 million.
He says this as the left is shooting all of their hate objects and cheering on the assassins.
Elon Musk 'needs to answer' for 4.5M kids 'sentenced to death' over DOGE cuts, Ro Khanna argues
By Lindsay Kornick, Fox News
Khanna suggested that the Democratic Party take initiative to hold Musk accountable if they were to regain control over the House of Representatives or the Senate.
"I do believe once we take power, there needs to be accountability," Khanna said on the "I've Had It" podcast. "There needs to be accountability for Elon Musk. You know, they're celebrating that he created 4,400 millionaires, but they don't talk about the 4.5 million children around the world who he possibly sentenced to death by dismantling USAID."
Khanna continued, "He needs to answer for that. He needs to be subpoenaed. He needs to face investigation. He needs to answer for what he did with DOGE [Department of Government Efficiency]. It's not just 'let's move on.'"
Host Jennifer Welch agreed with the idea of investigating Musk, claiming that he was responsible for "killing" millions through DOGE's government spending cuts.
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
3h
Absolutely. This is a total lie.
All DOGE did was require contact with the aid recipients to confirm that funds were being used legitimately. Anything less than this is insane!
Multiple people from USAID have been charged by the Justice Department with stealing money.
Moreover, they pled GUILTY!!
C3
@C_3C_3
They're trying to do to Elon what they did to POTUS Trump.
And Charlie Kirk.
Poison the minds of mentally unstable people with lies.
The goal is to get the unstable to act out violently.
The Left knows exactly what they're doing.
Ro knows exactly what he's doing.
Must stop.
For his part, Musk is calling Ro Khanna "the Robber" due to his being among the most egregious in Congress making day trades based on insider information:
DogeDesigner
@cb_doge
BREAKING: Elon Musk calls out Ro Khanna as his household wealth reportedly grew from roughly $27--46 million to an estimated $232.7 million.
631 million total trade volume across 38,666 trades since entering Congress, most prolific Democratic trader in House history.
2022 investigation found 15% overlap between his legislative work and family stock holdings
Ro Khanna's AI-focused trades returned +112.1% excess over the S&P 500 from January 2024 through April 2026, far beating Nancy Pelosi's +38.5% outperformance.
143% return on Nvidia shares bought via wife's trust in Feb 2024, right before CHIPS Act helped double the stock
Ro 'the Robber' Khanna seems to be the most active insider trader in Congress.
The real reason the foreign communist operatives are upset by USAID cuts are, of course,
1, USAID was how they were funneling millions to themselves, their family members, their staffers, and their donors (in payback for the donation),
Without the dirty communist State/CIA slush fund, communist governments are falling in South America.
Colombians went to the polls for their presidential run-off election yesterday.
Fourteen hours or so ago, the Washington Post had a worm on its tongue and was waiting with baited, horrified breath for what looked to be one of the remaining Leftist South American dominoes to fall to, as they love to call it, 'the Trump-back hard-right-wing.'
[CUE: terrified woman's cream...or soyboy's]
You know - the law and order guys who are tired of cartels and communists
A pro-Trump wave has swept Latin America. Colombia appears to be next.
Abelardo de la Espriella, a far-right firebrand, won at least 49.6 percent of the vote, according to an initial count, beating leftist Iván Cepeda by less than a percentage point.
In one Latin American election after another, President Donald Trump has gotten exactly what he wanted.
Right-wing, pro-Trump candidates have defeated leftists across the region, as the Trump administration has pursued the most aggressive U.S. intervention in Central and South America in decades.
And on Sunday night, a Trump-endorsed outsider appeared headed for a victory in Colombia's presidential election. Abelardo de la Espriella, a far-right firebrand, won at least 49.6 percent of the vote, according to an initial count, beating leftist Iván Cepeda by less than a percentage point.
Colombian President Gustavo Petro, a Cepeda ally, has not recognized a winner, and said a formal ballot review process would determine the final results.
If the results hold, de la Espriella could be an ideal partner in Trump's lethal war against alleged drug traffickers on land and at sea. An ostentatious criminal defense lawyer who has never held public office, de la Espriella, 47, calls himself "the tiger."
He has vowed to build megaprisons for drug traffickers, to bomb "narco-terrorist camps" and abandon Petro's efforts to broker peace with Colombia's long-standing guerrillas.
The idea of actually campaigning on imprisoning gang members and drug cartel operatives has the WaPo so frazzled they had to invoke the name of one of their favorite boegymen, Nayib Bukele of El Salvador, to show just how bad this could be for the current narco-state of Colombia.
DON'T BE EL SALVADOR!
John LeFevre
@JohnLeFevre
Colombia just exposed the entire American election grift:
1. Marxist leftist regimes can't win clean elections without foreign cash pipelines like USAID.
2. A narco state counted ~25 million votes in under 2 hours - paper ballots, in-person voting, ID required, and public hand-counting. Cleaner, faster, and more transparent than California, which is still "finding" mail-in ballots weeks later.
3. Democrats don't have a "voter suppression" problem.
The streets of Bogotà, Colombia have just erupted in celebration due to the victory of @ABDELAESPRIELLA!
Petro is actively trying to say the election results are invalid but no one out here cares… they are taking their country back from him and the rest of the socialists who… pic.twitter.com/0i6XxKznKw
In 2022, USAID sent $34 million to Colombia under its “Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance” program—the bucket it used to funnel cash to left-wing NGOs that rig elections.
A communist “won.”
This time, the communists didn’t have American taxpayer dollars to help them.… pic.twitter.com/RJ0vISvVIm
Trump and Elon officially shut down USAID in July 2025 after the big foreign aid freeze.
Since then, right-wing leaders have swept to victory across the region, at least 7 major wins in quick succession:
• Chile: José Antonio Kast (hard-right, biggest rightward shift in decades)
• Bolivia: Rodrigo Paz (ended decades of socialist MAS rule)
• Ecuador: Daniel Noboa (re-elected on law-and-order)
• Colombia: Abelardo de la Espriella (far-right surge into the runoff)
• Peru: Right-wing momentum building hard
• Honduras & Costa Rica: Conservative/right-populist takeovers
Coincidence? Or did cutting off billions in U.S. taxpayer dollars that were flowing to leftist NGOs, "democracy" programs, and activist networks finally let voters decide for themselves?
The pink tide is collapsing. People are choosing security over chaos, sovereignty over dependency, and results over ideology.
This is what happens when the money tap gets turned off and the people get to speak.
🇨🇱🇧🇴🇪🇨🇨🇴
The @SecRubio effect. Once he cut off the corrupt USAID slush funds, look what happened:
Europeans Visiting the US for the World Cup Have Been Marveling At American Plenty, So the Left-Wing Bitter Widow Vanity Magazine "The Atlantic" Tries to Prove It's All a Right-Wing Psyop
—Disinformation Expert Ace
This has been going on for a couple of weeks. Europeans are posting videos (mostly TikToks) showing themselves astounded by the portion sizes at American restaurants, enjoying American conveniences, delighting in America's unique cuisine (such as barbecue and chicken and waffles), and generally enjoying the American way of life.
Emanuel Quiñones
@EQuinones6310
Jun 19
The World Cup has turned America into a discovery channel for the rest of the world.
And they are not handling it well.
In the best possible way.
Here is what they are discovering:
Free public restrooms. Europeans pay every time.
Free water at every restaurant. Just appears.
Free refills. Coffee. Sodas. Iced tea. Unlimited.
Free chips and salsa before you even order.
Free warm bread with dinner.
Ice in drinks like civilized people.
Air conditioning everywhere. Not a moral debate. A fact.
Parking lots attached to the actual place you are going.
Drive throughs where the food comes to the car while you sit in it.
Ranch dressing by the gallon.
Tex-Mex that cannot be explained only experienced.
Dental care that actually works.
Buccee's. There are no words for Buccee's.
Then they found the grocery stores.
Five of them within one mile.
Each one the size of an aircraft hangar.
Burgers. Steaks. Brisket. Ribs. Pulled pork. Lamb. Veal. Every cut of every animal ever domesticated by human civilization available in one refrigerated aisle at ten in the morning on a Tuesday.
The Germans stood in the meat section for forty five minutes.
In silence.
Processing.
They finally understand why we do not have trains.
We have roads wide enough for the cars we actually drive.
Parking lots the size of small European countries.
Airports in every city worth visiting.
Why would we need trains.
The Germans are taking ranch home by the bottle.
The Dutch found queso and briefly lost the ability to speak.
The Japanese are photographing HEB like it is the Louvre.
The Czechs are weeping in West, Texas.
Welcome to America!
The greatest country on earth.
So it's a nice story. It's a trend that reminds us in America to not take our plenty for granted, but to be grateful for it.
The left, on the other hand, doesn't think it's a nice story at all. They hate America for its riches and simultaneously curse it for having so much poverty. Choose a lane, guys.
So Steve Jobs' useless widow's Rich White Karen Needs a Hobby vanity magazine The Atlantic tried to debunk this "trend," as it's called, of Europeans appreciating America. They tried to prove it was inorganic. Fake. A right-wing op.
Note that he failed to find any evidence of this, but The Atlantic still claims, in its headline, that the videos are "not what they seem." Lack of evidence for the conspiracy is just further evidence of the conspiracy.
Justine Bateman read their attempt to #TakeDown this #ReichWingOp so that you don't have to.
Justine Bateman
@JustineBateman
It's sad that someone would feel compelled to write an article like this.
Within this Atlantic article, the writer strains against the joy that's been expressed by our foreign World Cup guests, and tries to find evidence of its falseness.
He is unable to.
I have saved you the trouble of reading the article. Enjoy all the happy videos instead.
And @TheAtlantic, you would gain many subscribers if you were to instead print the obvious piece about the joy being expressed. And also pull some happiness to yourself in associating with this joy.
It’s sad that someone would feel compelled to write an article like this.
Within this Atlantic article, the writer strains against the joy that’s been expressed by our foreign World Cup guests, and tries to find evidence of its falseness. He is unable to.
"Joy" is a dirty word to communists. They are anhedonic, unable to take pleasure in the joys of life, so out of spite they seek to deny joy to others.
Communists, as you know, are the most miserable people who have ever infested the earth. They look at people enjoying food they never had before, like barbecue, and get angry to see people showing pleasure.
There is only one kind of pleasure allowed on earth, and that is to agitate for communism and "critique" -- meaning "relentlessly attack with invective both fair and fictitious until it collapses due to the sheer weight of hate heaped upon it" -- any functional, working capitalist system.
If successful, this "culture of critique" results, deliberately, in the immiseration of all people it is inflicted upon.
Now it just so happens that I saw someone post on Twitter a letter to Karl Marx from his father. Marx's writings created the "culture of critique" and he announced the scheme to engage in never-ending denunciation of the bourgeois comfort he was born into, with the idea that if enough communists engage in this coordinated Satanic rite of mass denunciation, it will bring civilized society down, dying from a million cuts from angry, spiteful, bitter, mentally-ill communists.
I thought maybe the letter was a fugazy but no, it's entirely real.
Karl Marx's father scolded him for not replying to any of his letters, except in a "fragmentary" "embittered" rant. He then scolded Marx for being permanently bitter about his state, despite having grown up in material comfort with all of the advantages in life.
I've bolded the key part but I'm including all of it. Skip to the bold if you're impatient.
Have you still your headquarters in Stralow? At this time of year and in the land where no lemon trees are in bloom, can this be thinkable? But where are you then? That is the question, and for a practical man the first requirement for correspondence is to know an address. Therefore, I have to take advantage of the kindness of others.
In other words, Karl Marx is a transient with no fixed abode and does not update his father on his current whereabouts. But he "takes advantage of the kindness of others," which I assume means he gave this letter to a mutual friend to deliver to the itinerant communist dipshit.
An address, however, is form, and precisely that seems to be your weak side. Things may well be different as regards material?
His father's kind of witty. He's mocking the idea that Marx has no "material" to write to him about.
At least, one should suppose so, if one bears in mind: 1) that you have no lack of subject-matter, 2) that your situation is serious enough to arouse great interest, 3) that your father is perhaps somewhat partial in his attachment to you, etc., etc., etc., and yet after an interval of two months, the second of which caused me some unpleasant hours full of anxiety, I received a letter without form or content, a torn fragment saying nothing, which stood in no relation to what went before it and had no connection with the future!
If a correspondence is to be of interest and value, it must have consistency, and the writer must necessarily have his last letter before his eyes, as also the last reply. Your last letter but one contained much that excited my expectation. I had written a number of letters which asked for information on my points. And instead of all that, I received a letter of bits and fragments, and, what is much worse, an embittered letter.
Marx was a manic-depressive lunatic, as one could gather from his Exclamation-Point-Riddled-Rants!!!, and I imagine the last fragmentary letter to his father was written in his style of deranged excitement and denunciation, which caused the poor dad to worry.
Frankly speaking, my dear Karl, I do not like this modern word ["embittered"], which all weaklings use to cloak their feelings when they quarrel with the world because they do not possess, without labour or trouble, well-furnished palaces with vast sums of money and elegant carriages. This embitterment disgusts me and you are the last person from whom I would expect it. What grounds can you have for it? Has not everything smiled on you ever since your cradle? Has not nature endowed you with magnificent talents? Have not your parents lavished affection on you? Have you ever up to now been unable to satisfy your reasonable wishes? And have you not carried away in the most incomprehensible fashion the heart of a girl whom thousands envy you? Yet the first untoward event, the first disappointed wish, evokes embitterment! Is that strength? Is that a manly character?
FUCKING GO OFF KING!
You yourself had declared, in dry words, that you would be satisfied with assurances for the future, and because of them renounce all outward signs for the present. Did you not make that renunciation word for word in writing? And only children complain about the word they have given when they begin to feel pressure.
I don't know what this means but the sense I get is that Marx has pestered his father relentlessly for money, writing only when he needed some, and at some point angrily declared he would trouble him no further for it, and now the father is asking: Did you not tell me directly that you would no longer make demands on my wallet? Are you a "child" who now regrets that declaration and seeks to undo it?
Yet here too your luck holds. Your good mother, who has a softer heart than I have and to whom it still very often occurs that we too were once the plaything of the little blind rogue, sounded the alarm, and the all too good parents of your Jenny could hardly wait for the moment when the poor, wounded heart would be consoled, and the recipe is undoubtedly already in your hands, if a defective address has not caused the epistle to go astray.
Time is limited, for Sophie is to take the letter before the post to the von Westphalens, who now live far away, and this good opportunity also was announced to me only today, so that I must conclude. As a matter of fact, at present I would not know what to say, at most I could only put questions to you, and I do not like to be importunate. Only one thing more my Herr Son will still allow me, namely, to express my surprise that I have still not received any request for money! Or do you perhaps want already now to make up for it from the too great amount taken? It's a little too early for that.
I think the means "I am surprised I have not received a demand for money since your last one," as he goes on to mention "too great amount [of money already] taken."
Your dear mother refused to reconcile herself entirely to the fact that you did not come home in the autumn as the others did. If it is too long for you and dear mother until next autumn, you could come for the Easter vacation.
What a shock, a spoiled communist, refusing to pay his parents any kindness, only writing when he needs more money to continue loafing around without contributing anything to society (and indeed, as the fullness of time will reveal, doing a great deal to destroy it.)
Massachusetts Middle School Principal Apoglogizes to Muslim Students for Making Them Feel "Unseen" and "Unsafe" for... A Teacher Teaching a Standard, Basic Lesson About the Holocaust
—Disinformation Expert Ace
They intend to make you submit to Islam.
StopAntisemitism
@StopAntisemites
Boston (Lexington), MA: William Diamond Middle School Principal Johnny Cole sent an email apologizing to Arab, Muslim, Palestinian, and Lebanese students who were offended by a mandatory Holocaust lesson.
Since when is teaching historical fact something that requires an apology?
And why is a school principal validating outrage over Holocaust education instead of defending it?
Kevin Deutsch
@kdeutschjourno
A Massachusetts middle school principal apologized to seventh-grade students after some families complained that a lesson on antisemitism and the Holocaust left them feeling "unseen" and "less safe."
The email message from William Diamond Middle School Principal Dr. Johnny Cole, of Lexington, Massachusetts, was sent to families following a presentation that connected Holocaust education to contemporary antisemitism -- at a time when hatred of Jews has reached unprecedented levels in the U.S.
Karen Hunt aka KH Mezek
@karenalainehunt
17h
Absolutely sickening.
Boston (Lexington), MA: William Diamond Middle School Principal Johnny Cole sent an email apologizing to Arab, Muslim, Palestinian, and Lebanese students who were offended by a mandatory Holocaust lesson.
He was so sorry they "felt unseen" and that their "own history, identity, community" had been "left out".
Seriously???
The Holocaust is about 6 million JEWS being murdered, along with others such as Christians who protected Jews, homosexuals and the mentally ill murdered along with them.
Only several dozen Muslims were killed in the death camps and most were Russian prisoners of war. Their deaths had nothing to do with being Muslim.
But Islam requires that EVERYTHING be about them and their point of view.
And their point of view, based on the Quran, is that Jews SHOULD be killed.
Islam glories in the death of Jews!
Here's an idea: If Muslims want to be included in history lessons about the Holocaust, they should learn about the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem plotting with Hitler to kill the Jews!
The View welcomes antisemitism with open arms. The View refuses to push back when" Charlamagne tha God suggests the Jews control Trump and America. pic.twitter.com/O0xBh5epRA
UK Police told mother of daughter stabbed to death 23 times with screwdriver by Rwandan 'asylum seeker' to 'tone down' statement to avoid anti-migrant 'violence'
27-year-old Rhiannon Whyte was stabbed 23 times with a screwdriver in October 2024. Her killer, Deng Majek, was a Sudanese national and was later sentenced to 29 years in prison.
by: Hayden Cunningham
UK Police told mother of daughter stabbed to death 23 times with screwdriver by Rwandan 'asylum seeker' to 'tone down' statement to avoid anti-migrant 'violence'
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Police in the United Kingdom encouraged the family of a hotel worker who was murdered by an asylum seeker to moderate their public statements out of concern that the killing could trigger anti-immigration protests.
27-year-old Rhiannon Whyte was stabbed 23 times with a screwdriver in October 2024. Her killer, Deng Majek, was a Sudanese national and was later sentenced to 29 years in prison.
The killing came just months after the Southport child murders, which sparked anti-migrant riots and demonstrations across parts of the UK. Whyte's mother, Siobhan, said police were concerned about the possibility of the murder prompting further unrest, saying they didn't want "another Southport."
"Did they tell us what to say? No. Did they guide us so it didn't look so aggressive? Maybe. I was aggressive -- they toned it down," she said, according to the Daily Mail.
"Those migrants were out within two hours -- I think that's because [the police] feared violence," Siobhan said.
Following the revelation that Majek had arrived in the UK on a small boat just three months before the attack, Siobhan publicly accused Prime Minister Keir Starmer of having "blood on his hands."
Keir Starmer hung on to power in order to have an "orderly" -- that is, scripted and pre-decided by party elites -- transition of power.
The transition involves making another leftist, Andy Burnham, PM. Starmer couldn't do this right away because Burnham had actually left Parliament (I think to be mayor of Manchester). So Starmer hung on to his seat to allow time for the currently-serving leftist Member of Parliament of Burnham's old district to resign, and then for a by-election to be scheduled to fill the seat, and then for Burnham to be elected as an MP again.
By the way I wasn't even 100% certain that the current MP for Manchester resigned specifically to allow Burnahm to run to replace him when I wrote that paragraph. I just assumed it. But now, having bothered to check, yes this was all arranged by party leaders.
And now that he's an MP again, he will be coronated PM.
And then he'll serve until the next required election in 2029.
But not yet. Starmer says he'll remain in office for a while as they further scheme to coronate Burnham. He says he'll definitely be out by September, though.
Neil Farage, leader of Reform, is calling for a sooner election -- a "snap" general election -- as are many, many others.
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🚨 NEW: Nigel Farage has called for a general election following Keir Starmer's resignation
But that will be ignored, of course, because while Labour can arrange and confabulate a single win in a Labour stronghold, they will be destroyed in any national election.
🚨 BREAKING: Keir Starmer gets emotional as he resigns as Prime Minister
"I shall spend more time on the most important job. Being the best husband I can to my fantastic wife Vic... and being best dad I can to my beautiful children, who have been my pride and joy" pic.twitter.com/3OaOMTqPLQ
“While Sir Keir Starmer was the Director of Public Prosecutions, it has been reported that 13,000 suspected rape gang members and paedophiles were let off with warning letters.”
— Politi_Rican 🇵🇷 𝕏 🇺🇸 (@TheRicanMemes) June 22, 2026
Meanwhile, Rupert Lowe, leader of the Restore Party -- which is like Reform only not soft and cucky -- rejects claims that his Gang Rape Report is "Islamophobic."
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Vile attempts by Zack Polanski, Humza Yousaf and many others to demonise me following the release of our rape gang inquiry report will not work.
For decades the mass rape of vulnerable white girls by gangs of Pakistani Muslims was covered up exactly because of efforts like this.
It will not work anymore.
There is a clear link between religion and these abhorrent crimes that have stained on our nation for so very long.
That religion is Islam, and other politicians must finally find the courage to say so.
Threats, abuse and intimidation will not work.
We have held our hearings, the report has been published and now we move onto the private prosecution phase.
Our aim is to put rapists and their enablers in prison.
Fathomless Corruption: Feds Probe Gavin and Jennifer Newsom's Wholesale Looting of Taxpayer Money Through Their "Non-Profit" Grifter Organizations
—Disinformation Expert Ace
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🚨🇺🇸Federal investigations are targeting the Newsom family's nonprofits and personal finances.
Officials are examining $3.7 million paid to the governor's wife Jennifer Siebel Newsom from her charities over the past decade.
Gavin Newsom himself is also being probed for soliciting millions in behested payments for her organizations from major donors with state business.
Questions have also surfaced about how the couple bought a $3.7 million Sacramento home through an LLC that allegedly didn't appear on his tax returns.
Federal investigators are digging into the finances of California Gov. Gavin Newsom and his wife, First Partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom. The governor calls it a political attack tied to his expected 2028 presidential run. The Trump administration's Justice Department is probing the Newsoms' ties to nonprofits, taxes and business dealings going back years.
Siebel Newsom has occupied a higher profile position compared to the spouses of other state leaders. The filmmaker and gender equity advocate has helped shape her husband's policies on issues like reproductive health, the male loneliness and mental health crisis, school nutrition, and regulating children's access to social media.
Here are key takeaways:
The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating Siebel Newsom's taxes and nonprofits connected to her and the governor, with several probes ongoing for about a year that originated from whistleblower complaints to the U.S. Attorney's Office in Sacramento.
IRS and FBI agents have approached staff, friends and associates of the Newsoms in recent weeks and obtained their bank records. The Governor's Office said the probe intensified after Todd Blanche became acting head of the DOJ.
One of the investigations is connected to Dana Williamson, Newsom's former chief of staff, who pleaded guilty to fraud and lying to the FBI last month and faces up to 38 years in prison.
Siebel Newsom earned about $2.3 million from the Representation Project nonprofit between 2011 and 2018. A 2021 Sacramento Bee investigation found more than $800,000 in donations to the nonprofit from companies that lobby the governor, including PG&E, AT&T and Kaiser Permanente.
Just days before the DOJ probe became public, the state's Fair Political Practices Commission fined Newsom $31,500 for failing to report $5.6 million in charitable donations on time, with most going to the California Fire Foundation during the 2025 Los Angeles wildfires.
Newsom was late filing reports on so-called behested payments 34 times in 2025, and the governor has previously been fined for failing to disclose $14 million in donations made between 2019 and 2024.
There's a reason Newsom doesn't want to admit these "behested payments."
After Gov. Gavin Newsom announced this week that the U.S. Department of Justice may be investigating his wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, media and pundits pounced on millions in charity payments he has solicited for nonprofits, including ones she is involved in.
Those donations, known as "behested payments," aren't illegal in California, but, long before Newsom started asking for them, many have found them unsavory -- with good cause. A behest, after all, is by definition a command or at least a strong suggestion.
Anytime a politician is commanding money, regardless of the purpose, there is at least the appearance that the giver -- Meta, Google, Blue Shield for example -- may expect something in return.
It may seem absurd that the Trump administration could be investigating Newsom for questionable ethics, when Trump has hawked everything from crypto-coins to sneakers from the Oval Office. But the problem Newsom now faces is that behested payments are actually skeevy, and legal or not, they make an excellent target for pummeling the presidential contender. Especially because some of the charities are tied to his wife.
"The Newsom case has blown it wide open, but this has been an issue for years," Sean McMorris told me. He's the transparency, ethics and accountability program manager at Common Cause, a nonpartisan organization that has been raising alarms over behested payments for more than a decade.
McMorris said that while these payments don't violate any laws, they are "ripe for abuse" because companies and people likely aren't ponying up cash just to be good citizens. If you or I called up PG&E and asked them to give a few million to our favorite cause, I doubt we'd have much luck, even if it involved kittens, puppies or small children in need.
The entire system, McMorris points out, "doesn't really work unless you're shaking down people who you know need things from you as a politician."
In other words, it's a shakedown. He asks corporations for money for his favored "charities," with the understanding they will either get a favor in return (or that all favors will be refused unless they pay up).
A lot of these donations go to his fucking wife's "charity."
Which then pays her a salary putting her in the top 5% of all CEOs of "charities" in the country.
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🚨 Gavin Newsom's wife was laundering herself so much money from her NGO she was actually in the top 5% for pay from all charities in the entire nation
But that's not all, Gavin Newsom "bought his $3.7 million Sacramento estate, it was done through an LLC, but that LLC doesn't seem to have appeared on his tax returns -- There's a lot of questions"
"He's released at least partly to journalists in closed-door viewing sessions, his tax returns. And if you look at that, his income, it's about $1.2 to $1.4 million a year. And it just doesn't add up for all of his expenses. He's got massive mortgages, $625,000 in mortgage payments and he's got at least $1 million in living expenses, and the two just don't add up"
"When I had a look at Jennifer Newsom's charity, I found that she was paying herself since 2012, $3.7 million. And this is a lot of money when you look at the amount that the charity brings in. It's sort of $1-$1.7 million a year. And she's paying up to a third of that to herself and her own company--$300,000 a year.
Now, I did a bit of data analysis looking at what charities that size usually pay their executives, and she was in the top 5% of all charities in the nation for pay"
In the video I included more instances where Gavin Newsom laundered money to his wife
- $1 million to block a casino project
- $5 million to an office for his wife that he created
- He sent $300,000 from his donor PG&E to his wife's NGO
🚨 Gavin Newsom’s wife was laundering herself so much money from her NGO she was actually in the top 5% for pay from all charities in the entire nation
But that’s not all, Gavin Newsom “bought his $3.7 million Sacramento estate, it was done through an LLC, but that LLC doesn't… pic.twitter.com/xCQNVtOuo3
Below, a chart showing the Newsom's looting operation. Gavin Newsom takes taxpayer money and pours it into an NGO. That NGO then sends that money to a subgrantee, another NGO which just happens to have his wife as its CEO, which pays her an exorbitant salary. Her own NGO then also promotes Gavin Newsom (using taxpayer funds).
It's insane that this is tolerated.
But this is all the Democrat Party is. The Somali pirates are not an aberration. They are just the plebeian face of mass looting. Democrat elites have been doing this for decades.
Related: Gavin Newsom was just humiliated by a bipartisan rejection to spend $20 million to honor California's "living governors," that is, the Democrat ones, including himself, of course.
California Democrats have quietly scrapped Gov. Gavin Newsom's controversial $20 million plan to honor the state's living former governors from the budget -- abandoning a proposal that sparked rare bipartisan backlash and ridicule of the taxpayer-funded vanity project.
The so-called "Governors' Legacies" fund was first revealed by The Post as being part of Newsom's May budget revision would have authorized taxpayer funds to be spent on projects recognizing former governors' public service and policy achievements.
But the funding request vanished from a tentative budget agreement shaped and approved this week by Democratic legislators.
The Post calls this a "vanity" project. It is not. It was an attempt to steal $20 million from California's taxpayers to pay for disguised political advertising about Newsom's "accomplishments" as governor just as he's running for president.
How is this allowed? He needs to be in prison. And his grifter whorebag wife, too.
MORNING RANT: The Iran Situation and Trump’s MOU – What Constitutes “Finishing the Job” After the Lessons of Iraq and Afghanistan?
—Buck Throckmorton
I’m being told that Donald Trump has failed. Instead of bringing about eternal harmony in a region that has never known peace, the president has simply killed off Iran’s senior leadership, obliterated its military, weakened its proxy networks, and destroyed its nuclear capability. In addition, this conflict has finally compelled the Gulf States to start building oil pipelines to the Mediterranean and Red Seas, ensuring that the Strait of Hormuz will not be a chokepoint for global oil flow in the not-distant future.
Unfortunately, and despite our military success, Iran still doesn’t have a secular, pro-western government releasing doves while crooning “I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing.” Neither do Iraq or Afghanistan, for which a tragic amount of American blood was spilled in pursuit of unattainable, western-style democracies. All those regimes deserved to be toppled, but none of them are worth spilling American blood to rebuild.
While it’s a shame that the people of Iran did not rise up and reclaim their country from the Islamists holding levers of power, the U.S. has done enough for now, and if we need to come back and do some more bombing, that remains on the table. But occupation cannot be an option we’re considering. This is a consistent opinion of mine, and I believe it is consistent with much of the MAGA right.
A year ago, right after the bombing of Iran’s nuclear facilities but well before this latest round of strikes, I wrote a piece titled “President Trump’s Use of Military Power - If We Have to Break It, We Aren't Going to Buy It.” In it I rejected the notion that the only two options regarding the use of military power are either pacifism or boots-on-the-ground nation-building, writing, ”There is another much better option, which President Trump just demonstrated – the use of our military to destroy what needs destroying, and then leaving the mess as a lesson. If Iran attempts to rebuild its nuclear program in coming years, we can bust it all up again. We don’t have to occupy Iran or pretend that it will become a western democracy. It can figure out whatever it wants to become, but if Iran restarts its nuclear program or exports terror again, it can also face our wrath again.”
The full text of that piece is below the fold. I stand by it, and it seems to be the avenue President Trump is pursuing.
But first, here are a few other thoughts I have regarding the domestic U.S. political battles involving Iran and Israel.
• What does “Finish the job” even mean? It if means a resumption of the Crusades and re-Christianizing the Middle East, then I’m all ears. But if it means spilling American blood in the futile pursuit of a friendly “Islamic democracy,” we cannot go down that road ever again.
• After the first Gulf War in the early 1990s, President Bush (41) was criticized for not finishing the job. In the ‘00s, President Bush (43) did attempt to finish the job. We’ve been down this road before in both Iraq and Afghanistan. It went poorly.
• Perhaps I’m projecting myself onto others, but I believe that a solid majority of Trump/MAGA voters are both America-first and solidly pro-Israel. Sacrifices such as higher gas prices and some inflation are a price we’re willing to pay for a while in support of our civilizational ally, but not in perpetuity. American voters elected Trump overwhelmingly for domestic concerns, not to fix what is unfixable in the Middle East.
• The online debate regarding the Iran situation seems to be argued most loudly by Israel-haters and Israel-firsters, but I want to believe both of those camps are at the two ends of a bell curve. I passionately dislike the anti-Israel crowd because they seem to be in service to Islamists, with whom we (western civilization) are engaged in a war that has been going on for 1,400 years. But I’d also like to warn the Israel-firsters that their screeching denunciations of Trump and his voters for not prioritizing Israel above all other concerns is actually deleterious to their cause. If you keep accusing people of “not supporting Israel” if they object to a military invasion of Iran and $200 per barrel oil, they may start to accept the terms of your phrasing.
Our political class has repeatedly told us that the only allowable “solutions” to pressing problems are alternatives not embraced by the majority of Americans. That is why we finally turned to Donald Trump. Just one example was the border crisis – Democrats argued for mass amnesty and a wide-open border, while establishment Republicans countered by also proposing mass amnesty with a slightly less porous border. Trump laughed in all their faces, shut the border, and started deporting criminal aliens.
In the matter of foreign military engagement, we have also been presented just two bad options over the past few decades.
1) Massive military commitment to foreign wars, including nation building and boots on the ground in perpetuity, all with an endless airlift of fallen troops being flown home to Dover AFB.
2) Pacifism, with the U.S. never unleashing its military might, even where it is appropriate.
There is another much better option, which President Trump just demonstrated – the use of our military to destroy what needs destroying, and then leaving the mess as a lesson. If Iran attempts to rebuild its nuclear program in coming years, we can bust it all up again. We don’t have to occupy Iran or pretend that it will become a western democracy. It can figure out whatever it wants to become, but if Iran restarts its nuclear program or exports terror again, it can also face our wrath again.
I have been waiting for the U.S. to strike against Iran for more than 45 years. The lost wars of the Bush-Cheney era have driven home the futility of trying to impose democracy on those not capable of it. But still, I’ve never stopped wanting there to be righteous retribution against Iran’s mad mullahs. They attacked America on American territory when they took our embassy personnel hostage in 1979, and they’ve been killing Americans wherever they can ever since.
One of the dubious lessons learned from World War II was that we must always rebuild what we destroy in war. In that spirit, Colin Powell famously told President George W. Bush regarding the Iraq War debacle, “If you break it, you own it.” Donald Trump has put that idea to rest.
We broke it (Iran’s nuclear program) and Israel has destroyed Iran’s war fighting capabilities. And now we’re done fighting. What Iran does now is not our problem, unless/until we have to break it again sometime in the future.
With all that said, there are plenty of reasons why the mainstream American right has become so anti-war in recent years. The awful loss of young Americans’ lives in service to other countries interests - but not America’s interests – is paramount. But it is also the realization that the war-pushers have a deep reserve of ashamed-to-be-American guilt that motivates them. There is an inherent contradiction in how they go about waging war. Quite simply, they rush into foreign wars, but then refuse to fight for victory, because they believe:
1) The United State has a moral obligation to fight other countries’ wars because of our power, wealth, etc.
2) It is culturally offensive for the United States to inflict what is necessary to actually win a foreign war.
Donald Trump’s America-First position is rejected by this same war-loving crowd whose loyalty is to the “international community” that wants Americans to fight and to die, but not to win.
A repellant aspect of the “we broke it, we bought it” mindset is the belief that all wars require a Marshall Plan to rebuild the infrastructure and economies of lands where we battled. Perhaps Western Europe would not have rebuilt so quickly without all the American aid post-WWII, but maybe they wouldn’t now be failing welfare states either. We taught them that Uncle Sam will pay to (re)build their countries and provide their defense, thus allowing cradle-to-grave welfare, all while their politicians and populace screech about how awful the United States is. By contrast, Eastern Europeans who suffered under communism received nothing from America, but they are vocally pro-America now because they simply crave freedom, and they learned how awful the alternative was.
By rejecting “we broke it, we bought it,” President Trump is also rejecting any more 21st century occupations and Marshall Plans. That doesn’t mean the enemies of civilization will not incur the fearsome wrath of our military if they try to cause problems outside their borders. But under President Trump, if we have to break it, we’re just going to leave it.
Sir Keir Starmer choked up as he announced his resignation as UK Prime Minister Monday – less than 2 years after the Labour Party stormed to a landslide general election win.
Starmer, 63, set out a timetable to stand down after coming under mounting pressure following last month’s local elections, where the governing Labour Party lost over 1,000 seats.
The Prime Minister announced his intention to step down after admitting the Labour Party was questioning whether he could lead it into the next general election, which must be held before July 2029, just 23 months after leading his party to a landslide win.
“I have heard the answer of my parliamentary party to that question, and I accept that answer with good grace,” Starmer said outside 10 Downing Street in London.
Every decision I’ve taken has been about putting the country I love first. That is why I will resign as leader of the Labour Party. I have spoken to His Majesty the King this morning to inform him of my decision.”
This is something that’s also totally missed by the report’s focus on Islam as the main driving force behind the grooming: Pakistani Muslim men raping white British girls because they aren’t Muslim. In many cases, the Muslim identity of the men appears to be incidental to the grooming, and the kinship networks like the Kashmiri birādarī system that structure it predate conversion to Islam by centuries. Yes, some groomers do refer to the girls as kuffār—non-believers—and the justification is that of the wretched Quran verse “What the right hand possesses,” which says Muslim men can take sex slaves from among kuffār women, but it seems to be kinship, rather than religion, that gives these crimes their systematic and persistent character. Ultimately, though, this remains to be explored properly.
While Starmer is gone, is there really a chance that the English people will recognize the mortal danger they placed themselves in by allowing the socialists to rule essentially unchecked since the end of the Second World War, Churchill's sunset years and Maggie Thatcher notwithstanding.
The uprising in Belfast over the attempted public beheading of a man in broad daylight certainly gives one hope that people are indeed waking up at long last. Still, I'm hesitant to predict a sea change over there, knowing full well that despite being mugged by reality, Leftists/Democrats will lather rinse and repeat and continue to vote for their own destruction. Of course the societal and political pressure imposed by the globalist/political media cultural complex to bend the knee and surrender cannot be underestimated either. And in the UK there is now an official censorship regime where one can be hauled off and prosecuted for uttering anything critical against Islam, let alone even silently praying in front of an abortion mill.
Regardless of the naysayers, neoconservatives, and progressive leftist shills using social and mainstream media to portray America as weak for the thousandth time, President Trump's Iran deal and the communication of the deal by Vice President JD Vance has been a masterclass in geopolitics and media dexterity. President Trump's preliminary MOU with Iran took pressure, pragmatism, forceful language, and a militaristic strategy to secure, but it was all worth it. The priority of using peace through strength, the ever-powerful Trumpist foreign policy mantra, proved yet again that President Trump is the best negotiator in modern American or world politics.
Using bombs to force conversation is certainly an option, but it ended up being the best solution for all sides of the war in Iran. While Obama's Iran deal funded radical Islamic terrorism and the spreading of Sharia Law throughout the globe, Trump's deal utilized tariffs, bombs, and blockades to bring Iran up the ramp and into 12 rounds with the 45th and 47th President of the United States.
Trump Coulda Been a Contender -- The destruction of a legacy. . .
It’s one of the most justly celebrated moments in cinematic history. In Elia Kazan’s classic movie On the Waterfront (1954), the failed boxer Terry Malloy (Marlon Brando), who was forced to take a dive during the bout that could have established him as a possible challenger for the championship belt, says to his brother, who was in on the fix: “I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am.”
I was going to make the subtitle to this article “Instead of a bum which is what he is,” but it was just too painful. Trump isn’t a bum, and maybe, just maybe, he will eventually right the ship and get on with the business of making America great again. But showering billions on a regime whose leaders routinely scream “Death to America,” and pretending that the evil men who now control that regime are rational people with whom America can do business — that’s the behavior of one of the America-Lasters who has governed this unhappy land in recent decades, not that of the visionary who promised to take on and defeat those who were selling out our interests.
A number of good essays in the links that illustrate both sides of the argument. So, as the President himself is fond of saying, we'll just have to wait and see.
President Donald Trump’s Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Iran suggests we have now taken a breather in our conflict with the regime. Is The Iran Deal A ‘Breather?’
This lack of monopoly was the flaw in Tehran’s calculation. Iran saw the Strait as insurance against retaliation, but it did not stop Israel or the U.S. from bombing it. The geography of the Strait only guarantees Iran can hurt others, but it provides no protection from actors that don’t rely on Hormuz. The Strait War
Trump may have given Iran everything it wanted on paper—but the real question is whether Tehran fell for a deal that gives America the leverage to walk away. Did Trump Snooker Iran?
The Pentagon needs $80 billion to cover expenses from the Iran War and other expenses, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the discussions. The details of the funding constraints were reportedly unveiled by Deputy Defense Secretary Stephen Feinberg during phone calls with lawmakers. The Iran War Is Reportedly Bleeding The Pentagon Dry
In 2024, Parastoo Ahmadi, age 29, livestreamed a video of her singing the patriotic song Az Khoone Javanane Vatan (From the Blood of the Youth of the Homeland) that went viral, generating millions of views. She and several musicians who performed with her was briefly detained before being released, but according to court documents obtained by The Guardian, she received a harsh and brutal punishment by the regime for not wearing a hijab. Iran Sentences Singer Parastoo Ahmadi to 74 Lashings for Performing Without a Hijab
You can’t always fight to the finish, but fighting can help you get there. Punitive War 101
DHS added that the American people gave the Trump administration a “mandate to arrest and remove criminal illegal aliens,” adding that under President Donald Trump and DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin, the agency would “continue to deliver.” DHS: ‘Record High’ Deportations Under Trump Administration
The American dairy industry employs roughly 130,000 workers, half of whom are immigrants. The H-2A program is projected to import approximately 400,000 workers by the end of 2026. Along with the previously mentioned concerns about wage suppression, stagnant investment in automation, worsening working conditions, and displacement of native workers, the industry’s already heavy reliance on cheap foreign labor suggests that recent reports of worker shortages point to a more fundamental, structural challenge preventing it from hiring American workers. Trump Admin Expands H-2A Program to Include Migrant Dairy Workers.
Victor Davis Hanson: By any measure, California is a failed state — and a national embarrassment. What happened to the nation’s most richly naturally endowed, and once best-governed, state?The left took total control — after millions of the embattled middle class fled. Millions more impoverished immigrants, legal and illegal, took their place. Left-wing Silicon Valley spawned some of the wealthiest elite liberal enclaves in the world. How California’s self-sabotage by the left made it a national disgrace
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
Thad McCotter: America’s fertility crisis has many causes, but a new study suggests the device that changed how we communicate may also have changed how we connect. Are iPhones Dialing Up the Birth Dearth?
It has zero chance of passing even a Democrat Congress; it’s blatantly unconstitutional; it’s economic suicide — and it’s fundamentally tyrannical... Which means there’s an excellent chance some scaled-down version of it will be grist for multiple 2028 presidential campaigns, and the demand of lefties in Congress — and so prompt serious consideration of various “compromise” proposals. . . And, really, some smaller-scale version of “seize the wealth” now drives practically every major Democratic proposal — with “clever” Republicans looking for creative ways to join in. Bernie Sanders’ call to seize the AI industry has damning lessons about politics today
Education in America is a mess. Student achievement is abysmal and continues in decline. Without an honest assessment of what went wrong, we will never make the necessary changes to help children learn. Education Scorecard Ignores Common Core disaster
“Higher education can be rescued only by recovering the virtues it abandoned: truth, merit, discipline, intellectual courage, national confidence, and civilizational stewardship.” Higher Education’s Crisis of Trust, Cost, and Ideology
Embattled Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent Alberto Carvalho has resigned – almost four months after the FBI raided his home and office as part of a fraud and corruption probe. Carvalho, who held the role for just over four years, tendered his resignation Sunday and said it would be effective immediately, the Los Angeles Times reported. LAUSD Superintendent Alberto Carvalho resigns four months after FBI raid
Trump has reshaped the Republican Party into a disciplined political machine, rewarding loyalty, punishing failure, and forcing a movement long plagued by weakness to finally fight. Who’s the Boss? Trump, That’s Who
“Trump is more popular than Tim Walz in his home state because Minnesotans are sick and tired of Walz siding with illegal aliens and Somali fraudsters.” Walz Approval Craters Below Trump in Minnesota
BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS
U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich found Biden unlikely to win his case and ruled that the department’s choice to release the files was not an abuse of discretion, the opinion states. She wrote that heavy redactions had shrunk his privacy stake, leaving material that no longer touched on family, illness or death. Judge Rejects Biden’s Bid To Bury Ghostwriter Tapes, Then Pauses Release For Appeal
Well, we can say that another country in Latin America has taken a swing to the right because El Tigre won narrowly, though I'm willing to bet Petro and his folks were up to some funny business. I just don't buy that nearly half the country voted for the commie... or, at least, half of the 63.6% of people who showed up to the polls in Colombia and beyond. For what it's worth, Colombian expats who live in North America and Europe overwhelmingly voted for de la Espriella. I'm seeing Colombian journalists on social media proclaiming that they are ready to return to their country. Another One! Colombia Does the RIGHT Thing. Now On to Brazil.
Whether Keir Starmer has resigned or not, Britain’s turmoil over immigration, speech, and identity signals a ruling consensus fracturing under public backlash. “Is There No England Now?”
A PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) report released on June 11 projects that U.S. healthcare costs will increase 9% for employers and 8.5% for individuals in 2027. The expected increases are being driven by “AI-enabled revenue optimization tools,” rising reimbursement pressure among providers and heightened spending by pharmacies, according to PwC. AI May Actually Be Making Healthcare More Expensive
Americans cannot drug and diagnose their way out of the national mental health and chronic disease crises. A huge part of our problem is our sedentary lifestyles, tech-fueled isolation, and childhoods spent primarily indoors. The Department of Health and Human Services has a new website to encourage Americans to reconnect with other humans and God's great outdoors. Kennedy Tells Families to Reconnect and Get Outside This Summer
The move away from FD&C synthetic colors is unlikely to stop with just Nestlé USA. Secretary Kennedy has already called on other companies to take similar action. “Now it’s time for every food company operating in America to do the same and help Make America Healthy Again,” Kennedy posted on X. The removal of synthetic dyes by Nestlé and other major companies reflects growing consumer demand for healthier, more natural ingredients. This story also shows that the MAHA agenda is making progress. MAHA Win as Nestlé Delivers on Pledge to Eliminate Artificial Colors.
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
The science team for the asteroid probe Lucy yesterday published their final results from the spacecraft’s fly-by of the main belt asteroid Donaldjohanson in April 2025, outlining their present hypothesis based on the data as to the asteroid’s origins and evolution that has left it today a tumbling peanut. Final results from Lucy’s 2025 fly-by of asteroid Donaldjohanson: A tumbling peanut!
This decision essentially ends the lawfare campaign of these groups. I am sure they will try again, but their options continue to shrink, especially because they have practically no support in the southern Texas region. Everyone else is enthusiastically enjoying the prosperity and wealth SpaceX is bringing to the area. Texas Supreme Court rejects beach closure lawsuit against SpaceX
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
Stacie-Marie Laughton, a 42-year-old man who claims to be a woman, faces more than 33 years in prison after convincing his former partner, Lindsay Groves, to take photos of children at the daycare where she once worked. Groves took nude photos of children estimated to be between the ages of three and five during bathroom breaks and diaper changes, according to the Department of Justice (DOJ), before sending them to Laughton via text. (RELATED: Doctor Pushing Puberty Blockers On Teen Boy Was Charged With Possessing Child Porn) Trailblazing Trans Lawmaker Sentenced To Over 33 Years For Child Exploitation
The Pathways trial, led by King’s College London (KCL), aims to study the effects of puberty blockers on children with so-called gender dysphoria. Despite previous bans and safety warnings, the trial will proceed with a minimum age requirement of 11 for girls and 12 for boys. Critics argue that the trial is an unethical experiment on children who cannot give informed consent—under-18s in Britain are not allowed to smoke, drink alcohol, or even use tanning beds—to “treatments” that can permanently stunt growth and cause infertility. UK Approves Trans Puberty Blocker Experiments on Children as Young as 11.
This century-long experiment of demonizing, removing, and replacing men has failed. Bring Back the Patriarchy
The World Cup is showing visitors the America many never see: a nation of friendly people, open spaces, family businesses, and everyday places built on trust. The United States: No Place Like Home
The self-styled socialist and Hollywood Hills resident – who has an estimated net worth of some $40 million thanks to the benevolent capitalist system which he professes to despise – used an interview with Katrin Riedl of Germany’s Metal Hammer magazine to deliver his sneering critique of artists who back away limelight: “When people say that musicians should not be involved in politics, it means they are people that disagree with your politics,” he shared, before continuing: Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello: Artists Who Are Apolitical or Stay Silent on Politics Should Go to an ‘Extra Hot Layer of Hell’
“Rivalries aside, the acquaintance blossomed into a friendship...The yin and yang polarity resurfaced in their final exchange.” Leonard Cohen’s Dark Faith
Roger Kimball: The consequences of history often arrive like starlight: events unfold in real time, but their true significance can take years to reach us. The Solstice of Our Discontent
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Sunday Overnight Open Thread - June 21, 2026 [Doof]
—Open Blogger
Howdy Hordelings! Welcome to the Sunday ONT. Hope you enjoyed the first official day of summer. Open thread, as always. Fashion and music, as always. What's on YOUR mind tonight?
— Kerry Slone(Stilettos&Shotguns) (@thereal_SnS) June 21, 2026
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'Ette Couture (Courtesy of Piper)
It's that time of the week - when we turn the ONT over to our good friend Piper for a bit. Here's this week's fashion pr0n.
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The Glamour Dash at Royal Ascot: Hats, Horses, Henry’s Vintage Flex… and That Viral Video
Oh the Royal Ascot, where the dress code is stricter than a Victorian nanny armed with a ruler. Ladies drifted in like elegant cupcakes wrapped in silk, lace, and hemlines that stayed politely north of scandal. Gentlemen arrived in flawless morning dress: tails, waistcoats, and top hats tilted with mathematical precision while sporting some truly fun ties.
Two of my favorite ties belonged to Mike Tindall and the Duke of Edinburgh.
Mike wore an E. Marinella pink classic silk tie in the Small Flower pattern.
The Duke of Edinburgh once again delivered in his signature “Racing Colours and Saddles on Pastel Ground” tie by Soprano, a piece he has worn every year for the last 12 years.
Among the dresses, two stood out: Princess Catherine’s rewear of a gorgeous marigold Roksanda Brigitte dress (not everyone could pull that one off) and Zara Tindall’s utterly charming bespoke Claire Mischevani Poppy Dress in Polka Dot.
Alongside the bright yellow dress, Princess Catherine wore a Jane Taylor London Pomona hat, Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Chandelier Earrings, and a Nigel Milne Birthright Three-Strand Pearl Bracelet. She carried an Anya Hindmarch Maud Pearl-Embellished Clutch Bag in Ivory and finished the look with Gianvito Rossi Gianvito 105 Pumps in Bisque Suede.
Zara Tindall paired her polka-dot dress with a bespoke Sally Ann Hats Ariel Hat (retail version shown), Hector Lion Cassis Collection Croissant Earrings, and a Mulberry Amberley Clutch in Black Small Classic Grain leather. Her shoes were the Emmy Rebecca Pump in Jet Black Suede.
Then Henry Cavill arrived with his… um, watch, and the internet promptly lost the ability to behave. The watch itself was spectacular: a 1926 Longines Monopusher Chronograph. But honestly, the video says it all
In the end, Royal Ascot proved once again that while the hats are huge, the horses are fast, and the royalty is royal, nothing, and I mean nothing, can compete with a 6’1 superhero in morning dress casually flexing a vintage chronograph on his wrist. 😉
NEW: Just heard something extraordinary from a former White House official who worked with former National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster in Trump45's NSC: "McMaster had weekly phone calls with George Soros. We have no idea why." Neither could be reached for comment.
Podcast: CBD and Sefton dissect the Iran treaty but praise the great U.S. military, decry the deep state's influence on SAVE and FISA, talk marijuana and guns, mock the Northeast's racism, and Go Knicks!
Update to Gavin Newsom Under Investigation story: This investigation was begun under Senor Dementia:
Adam Housley
@adamhousley
As I have reported several times and now acknowledged by the Governor of California... Gavin and his wife are under federal investigation... what he failed to tell you... This began during the Biden Admin. Kind of a big detail.
Days before the woman was stabbed in the neck by a taxpayer-supported Cultural Enrichment Officer, in the same general area, another taxpayer-supported Cultural Enrichment Officer attacked a boy and bloodied his head with a brick. What is the UK Regime's plan for protecting the citizens from the savage criminals they've foisted on the populace? They offer NONE. They do, however, have a plan for protecting the savage criminals from the citizens: The citizens must STAY CALM and not get angry and not share videos of citizens being attacked by savage criminals.
The public keeps saying "protect us from the foreign savages you have imported against our wishes and over our objections" and the UK branch of The Regime keeps proposing plans to protect the foreign savages from the public. Soclose to what the public is demanding, just, you know, the complete opposite. Just a thought: Maybe you wouldn't have to worry about the public attacking the savage criminals if you actually introduced a plan to protect the public from the savage criminals. Maybe they wouldn't feel as if it was necessary for them to protect the public through self-help.
