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June 23, 2025

CHANGE:

Posted at 8:41 pm by Glenn Reynolds on Jun 23rd, 2025

SADLY BELIEVABLE:

Posted at 8:40 pm by Glenn Reynolds on Jun 23rd, 2025

WELL YES, IT’S SPELLED ŠXʷMƏΘKʷƏY̓ƏMSƏM STREET, BUT IT’S PRONOUNCED THROATWOBBLER MANGROVE: You’ll never believe what the wokies in Canada just renamed this street to be more inclusive of indigenous people.

So the City of Vancouver, Canada, just got super woke and changed the name of a street that was previously called “Trutch St,” to…

Well, just watch the video, because I can’t do this.

As Rod Dreher notes:

From the comments to the tweet that Dreher links to: “It’s good to see him wearing the eyeglasses of his people.”

Classical reference in headline:

 

Posted at 8:14 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jun 23rd, 2025

CHANGE:

UPDATE: Or is it same?

MORE: Trump announces Israel and Iran have agreed to cease-fire ending ‘12 Day War.’

Posted at 7:15 pm by Glenn Reynolds on Jun 23rd, 2025

OLD AND BUSTED: Queers for Palestine.

The New Hotness?

Posted at 5:14 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jun 23rd, 2025

MASS TRANSIT: Copper thieves target Seattle-area light rail, shutting down train line. “The incident comes as the agency is also managing emergency repairs on the 1 Line in Seattle. Five downtown stations were closed over the weekend to address broken rail segments, forcing passengers to rely on buses and streetcars.”

Posted at 4:50 pm by Stephen Green on Jun 23rd, 2025

WE SHOULD JUDGE THE RESULTS, NOT THE INTENTION:

Publius makes a good point.

Here’s the whole post:

One of the things that drives me crazy about American politics is the inability of people to understand the difference between intent and outcomes.

For example, if your intent is to help poor people with social welfare programs, but the actual outcome of your policy is to make the poor poorer and create more poor people, your intent is irrelevant. Only outcomes matter. You are hurting the poor, regardless of your intent.

Usually we see this intellectual failing on the Left, but today we can see Thomas “Look at Me!” Massie as a shining example of the same thing on the Right.

While Massie may voice intents that most of us on the Right approve of, the actual outcome of his narcissistic grandstanding is to empower Democrats.

Give me results over rhetoric, 100% of the time.

While pretending to be conservative, Massie is the Democrats’ best friend.

Posted at 4:37 pm by Charlie Martin on Jun 23rd, 2025

TYLER O’NEIL: Former Harris Lawyer Now Works for a President She Called ‘Unfit to Hold Office.’

Biden’s National Security Council now works in President Donald Trump’s administration as an ostensibly non-political staffer in the Department of Defense, even though she wrote an op-ed calling Trump “unfit to hold office.”

While presidents appoint more than 3,000 people for political positions, the federal government directly employs roughly 2.3 million people, most of whom serve in ostensibly nonpolitical, career positions. The Office of Personnel Management tracks when political appointees transition to career positions—a process often referred to as “burrowing in” to the bureaucracy—and Samantha Goldstein did so in 2023.

“Drain the swamp” was a popular catchphrase during Trump’s first term, and it remains just as important today.

Posted at 4:30 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jun 23rd, 2025

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER:

Trump is speaking to the mullahs like dad grounding a petulant child. But what happens now that he’s called out their (likely) face-saving strategy?

Posted at 4:14 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jun 23rd, 2025

WELL, TUCKER:

One report claimed Iran tried to launch 80 missiles today, got off 20, and that the remainder were destroyed on the ground.

Posted at 3:48 pm by Stephen Green on Jun 23rd, 2025

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Posted at 2:47 pm by Glenn Reynolds on Jun 23rd, 2025

JONATHAN TURLEY: ‘Where’s Jackie?”: Why the Public Needs Answers on Biden’s Alleged Incapacity.

When then-President Joe Biden asked in September 2022 if House Rep. Jackie Walorski, an Indiana Republican who had died weeks earlier in a car accident, was in a meeting, observers were shocked. Biden had not only issued a statement of condolence; he had attended the congresswoman’s memorial service to lower the flags at the White House in her honor.

As Washington Post media critic Erik Wemple noted last week, that moment should have been a wake-up call. In Washington parlance, it left no room for “plausible deniability” about whether Biden was still fit to hold the office of president. And it wasn’t just Democratic politicians who were willfully blind to Biden’s obvious deterioration; it was the media, too.

That’s why the country should fully support President Donald Trump’s June 4 order for his administration to investigate Biden’s competence and answer some of these questions, including the possible abuse of an autopen to sign legislation, pardons and other documents while he was president, instead of looking for political motivations.

Similarly, the Republican-led House Oversight Committee is also investigating.

The New York Times called it part of Trump’s “campaign of retribution against his perceived enemies” and “the latest effort by President Trump to stoke conspiracy theories about his predecessor.”

There is a weird dissonance when journalists blame Biden’s White House for a coverup, but then criticize efforts to investigate that coverup.

There’s no dissonance when you remember that journalists like Jake Tapper aren’t actually blaming the Biden White House for a coverup.

They’re merely trying to cover their asses for their role in it.

Posted at 2:46 pm by Stephen Green on Jun 23rd, 2025
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