DO TELL: Democrat: Yes, there are a lot of extremists in our party, and voters know it. “First, a Votecast survey, conducted by University of Chicago’s National Opinion Research Center in conjunction with the 2022 election, asked whether each party was “too tolerant of extremist groups.” Fifty-three percent found Republicans too tolerant of extremists and an identical 53 percent said the same of Democrats. In response to another question, 47 percent said Republicans need more moderate candidates while 49 percent expressed the same desire for Democrats. Equal numbers said Democrats and Republicans welcome extremism and that each party needed more centrist candidates.”

Plus: “More Nevada Latinos perceived Republicans as working to keep their neighborhoods safe from crime than felt that way about Democrats, and more believed Democrats were too liberal than that Republicans were too conservative. Again, that’s among a segment we consider part of the Democratic base.”

UNEXPECTED TURN IN NASHVILLE SHOOTING: Attorneys for the parents of Audrey Hale, the troubled young trans-gendering woman who killed three adults and three young children at Nashville’s Covenant School, are moving to assign to the facility’s students all rights to the murderer’s writings, The Epoch Times’ Chase Smith reports.

ROBERT GRABOYES: A Quiet Bluegrass Genocide. “The scientific and political communities in America were solidly behind the project. Those performing the sterilizations were considered humanitarian heroes, and academics who questioned the idea were subject to vilification, loss of employment, and loss of academic funding. The press and political activists formed a solid phalanx to protect the pro-eugenics side. . . . This writer’s expression, ‘bluegrass genocide,’ is a marvel of imagery, simplicity, and power. Nowhere to be found on the internet (till now), the term lashes an arcadian adjective to a dystopian noun. Just two words and five syllables describe a sweeping saga, imparting both sense of place and sense of horror. It starkly captures the inhumanity that, for the better part of the last century, exerted a vise grip over science, medicine, culture, politics, journalism, and public policy—the notion that experts are entitled to play God with lives in pursuit of their favored social goals. The writer’s addition of ‘quiet’—’a quiet Bluegrass Genocide’—makes the events described all the more vile.”

Plus: “While I know next-to-nothing about the Family Planning Services Act, I’m from Virginia, and I know how my state’s government, dominated by ostentatiously inbred elites, sent swarms of public health practitioners and social workers into the Blue Ridge and Allegheny Mountains to round up and sterilize those they considered unworthy.” (Bumped).

GOVERNMENT: Hopelessly Compromised SEC Dismisses Dozens of Cases Due to Widespread Agency Misconduct.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) dismissed dozens of enforcement cases Friday, including two involving current NCLA clients (Michelle Cochran, Marian Young) and one of a former client (Christopher Gibson). The agency revealed on June 2, 2023, that members of its enforcement staff had gained illicit access to confidential adjudicative documents and downloaded them in far more cases than originally reported, exposing rot in a hopelessly compromised in-house adjudication regime.

SEC publicly admitted in April 2022 to the existence of a so-called control deficiency within its administrative adjudication system. It said the agency’s Chair had launched an internal review of the issue (using a contractor dependent on staying in SEC’s good graces for its other agency business). At that time, the agency specifically divulged that SEC Division of Enforcement personnel had accessed adjudication material in the SEC v. Cochran case, temporarily making the material available to everyone in the Division, including attorneys who prosecuted Ms. Cochran on SEC’s behalf. Now it turns out agency personnel had done the same thing in dozens more cases.

Abuse of power has become the norm in our government institutions, along with impunity.

GOVERNMENT: The Real Reason State Farm Won’t Sell Home Insurance in California Anymore.

Though State Farm said nothing about climate change in its press release, there’s no question that California has struggled mightily with wildfires in recent years. Data collected by Policygenius show California experiences more wildfires than any other U.S. state (9,280 in 2021) and the most acreage burned (2.2 million acres).

Worse, California’s wildfires tend to be the most destructive. The Golden State suffered $14 billion in insured wildfire losses in 2017, the most in history. The worst years for other states don’t even come close: The next closest is Texas, which suffered $530 million in insured wildfire losses in 2011, followed by Colorado ($450 million in 2012) and Arizona ($120 million in 2002).

Many have seized on California’s struggles with wildfires to perpetuate the myth that wildfires are at historic highs in the United States—they are not—because of climate change. The truth is wildfires are not a serious problem in most parts of the U.S., and it’s not because the climate change gods are fickle, but because these states practice better land management.

In a 2020 ProPublica article, journalist Elizabeth Weil pointed out that California officials have turned the state into a tinderbox through years of fire suppression.

Plus: “The authorities have shown they are far less competent than the indigenous tribes who managed the land far more effectively through prescribed fire.”

FOLLOW THE SCIENCE! Mayo Clinic Suspends A Doctor Who Commented in NYTimes About Testosterone’s impact when Trans-athletes compete in Women’s sports. “FIRE— an organization devoted to championing free speech on university campuses— has broken the story of Mike Joyner, a Mayo Clinic Professor suspended for comments he made to the news media. They even published his disciplinary letter. It appears Mike Joyner is in part being punished for comments he made about fairness when trans-athletes compete in women’s sports.”

THINK OF THEM AS WILLING TOOLS OF THE REGIME AND YOU WON’T GO FAR WRONG: Matt Taibbi: Press Silence on Latest Twitter Files Scandal a New Low.

PAULA BOLYARD: Google Doesn’t Want You to See This Letter From a Christian Pastor About Pride Month. “That’s because the powers that be at Google deemed it hate speech.”

HMM: Social conservatism hits highest level in a decade. “More Americans this year (38%) say they are very conservative or conservative on social issues than said so in 2022 (33%) and 2021 (30%). At the same time, the percentage saying their social views are very liberal or liberal has dipped to 29% from 34% in each of the past two years, while the portion identifying as moderate (31%) remains near a third.”

ACTUAL AMERICANS DISAPPROVE OF BASICALLY ALL ELITE RACIAL POLICIES: Pew: US adults disapprove of affirmative action 50-33.

But our contemporary system of government is designed to ensure that what a majority of Americans want doesn’t happen.

SPEAKER MCCARTHY ON THE TRUMP INDICTMENT:

Today is indeed a dark day for the United States of America.

It is unconscionable for a President to indict the leading candidate opposing him. Joe Biden kept classified documents for decades.

I, and every American who believes in the rule of law, stand with President Trump…

— Kevin McCarthy (@SpeakerMcCarthy) June 9, 2023

TRYING TO HARNESS THE DEEP SEVENS. THAT WON’T END WELL. China Has Started Digging a Mysterious 10,000-Meter Deep Hole.

OPEN THREAD: Be here now.

NOT YOUR GRANDFATHER’S MILITARY:  True, true.

GET WOKE GO…: Was Edward Enninful’s Vogue too ‘woke’ for Wintour?

When Enninful took over, advertisers were reportedly keen on the new direction. In 2017, “woke” paid. Marketing teams were scrambling for a chance to be associated with him and be seen to make deals with a diverse, inclusive range of talent. Under Enninful, the magazine attracted hundreds of millions of pounds in advertising from companies like BMW. Advertising money aside, PR moves, like the Forces for Change issue in September 2019, which was guest-edited by Meghan Markle, and having Greta Thunberg on the cover, sold out in a matter of days. After early success, Enninful saw himself as Wintour’s heir apparent, with sources telling the Mail that “there have been plenty of pretenders to the throne, but Edward considers himself her natural successor. He is the only person who appears to be a real threat.”

Six years later and a lot has changed. In 2017, when Enninful started, the magazine needed to get with the times. The Vogue look was out, and WASPy-women covers were old hat. But fashions change in politics as well as clothes, and with “wokeness” on the wane we emerge from the collective hysteria of the past few years, Enninful’s progressivism is proving to be too much. More importantly, he seems to have forgotten that his magazine’s success has relied on the fact that it has been a staple for wealthy, fashionable women. When asked about the Vogue reader a few years ago, Enninful said: “They are predominantly women but in this day and age can we really separate the sexes? I’m a man working in a woman’s publication. Femininity sounds old-fashioned.”

As one employee put it, “Nobody was ever going to make Vogue genderless while Anna Wintour was around. I’m not surprised he’s going; I’m surprised he ever lasted this long.”

Why would Condé Nast want British Vogue to be “genderless,” when they also publish the British edition of GQ for men?

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Chinese commercial rocket firm launches 26 satellites, sets national record.

WANT TO VOTE FOR A GOOD GUY?  No, not in any governmental election.

This is more like a popularity contest where the prize is having an article written about you.  A friend of ours is running for Mr. Health and Fitness. Some of you have seen mention of my wife here.  She’s been going to a trainer at our small local gym.  He’s one of the reasons Nina is it way better health in general than she was seven years ago. Sure, living out here in the country is less stressful than California. (You can’t chew the air here.)  And (most of) the politicians don’t give us heart palpitations. But Michael has really been a great asset. He’s not only (as you can see in the photos on the linked page) fit himself, he’s also truly a guy concerned with his clients’ mental and emotional fitness, not just physical fitness.  Although secretly I think Nina may help him as much as he helps her in some of those areas.

Anyway – if you have a mind to do so, please log in here and vote for a really good guy.  And you can buy more votes to support his chosen charity “Homes for Wounded Veterans” which is a great cause.

(Bumped.)

BUT, BUT, YOU HAVE HIS “WORD AS A BIDEN:” Biden dishonestly smears Republicans who oppose his agenda.

WHEN THE HEADLINE DOESN’T MATCH THE STORY: Variety’s Stephen Rodrick: Without Fox News, Tucker Carlson Takes Man Cave Rants to Twitter Show — to Smaller Results.

Unmentioned in the article: Carlson’s first Twitter video currently has 108 million views. In contrast, according to the WaPo, “Carlson’s show on Fox averaged 3.27 million in his last four weeks as a host.”

Incidentally, Carlson’s next episode has dropped: Watch: Episode Two of Tucker Carlson on Twitter.

UPDATE: From tonight’s episode: Tucker: “By 2008, it was obvious to anybody who was paying attention that Barack Obama had a strange and highly creepy personal life.” 👀

BOB MCMANUS: 50,000 New Yorkers died fighting slavery — is that not reparations?

It’s only reparations if it supports graft and grift today. So no.

VILE FROM NEW YORK, IT’S SATURDAY NIGHT: Abuse Scandal Rocks Saturday Night Live: Cast Members ‘CELEBRATE’ Toxic and ‘Silencing’ Culture, Claims Top Author.

CHANGE: “In the past several years, views have shifted on gender identities.”

In 2021, nearly six in ten Americans (59%) said there are only two gender identities, man and woman, and 40% of Americans believed there are many gender identities. The following year, in 2022, 62% of Americans believed that there are only two gender identities, and more than one-third (35%) said there are many gender identities. This divide slightly increased again in 2023, with 65% saying there are two gender identities and 34% saying there are many.

Hmm.

Flashback: The Washington Post Did a Poll on Transing Children and Trashed the Results Because They Didn’t Fit the Narrative.

JOE BIDEN WAS ALLEGEDLY PAID $5 MILLION BY…THE BURISMA BOARD, DOCUMENT HIDDEN BY FBI CLAIMS.

Related: Biden Melts Down During Presser When Asked About Bribery Allegation, Gives Unbelievable Answer.

DEVELOPING: Trump indicted in classified documents case in Florida.

ELECTION INTERFERENCE: Trump Indicted in Miami.

NEWS: Trump writes on Truth Social that his attorneys have been informed that he has been indicted in the classified docs probe

He says he been summoned to appear at the Federal Courthouse in Miami on Tuesday, at 3 PM pic.twitter.com/m88oBnG3SX

— Alayna Treene (@alaynatreene) June 8, 2023

Question: Does this mean the Democrats are afraid of him? Or that they want him to be the nominee and figure an indictment will cement his support?