WHEN THE NEWS ISN’T: Oh, Noes! That ‘Economic Blackout’ Guy Is Bankrupting McDonald’s.
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June 27, 2025
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RELIGION OF PEACE UPDATE: As Christians Are Slaughtered, the World Looks Away.
Father Ukuma Jonathan, the local parish priest, was in the presbytery with displaced Christians when they heard yells of “Allahu Akbar,” gunfire, and screams. Everyone immediately dropped to the floor, fearing for their lives, according to John Pontifex, head of press and public affairs at Aid to the Church in Need UK, who spoke to Father Jonathan the day after the attack.
The jihadists broke into homes and shelters, murdering people with machetes. They were “cutting them like they were cutting a cow or an animal to be eaten,” said Kefas, who visited Yelwata and interviewed around 30 survivors the week after the massacre. The terrorists then doused their victims’ bodies and homes in petrol and set them ablaze.
“It’s psychological,” said Kefas. “They could just shoot people and move on. So I feel going the extra length of butchering these people is to send a message to the survivors that: ‘Hey, look what we’ve done to these people. That’s what we’re going to do to you if you don’t vacate your land.’ ”
At this writing, the death toll is 218, but it could keep climbing as survivors continue to die from their injuries.
And the Christian West — or largely post-Christian West — remains silent and deeply uninterested.
PROGRESS: AI Is Quietly Rebuilding Manufacturing From the Inside Out. “Artificial intelligence isn’t coming for manufacturing. It’s already there, installed, integrated, and making corrections before anyone upstairs has time to schedule a meeting. The shift hasn’t been loud or flashy. That’s part of the reason so many people still don’t believe it’s real. But those working closest to the machines know the difference. The line runs cleaner. Errors happen less often. Waste is down. And in most cases, no one on the floor was told why. It just started working better.”
CHANGE:
BREAKING: SCOTUS in 6-3 decision authored by ACB
"Universal injunctions likely exceed the equitable authority that Congress has given to federal courts. The Court grants the Government’s applications for a partial stay of the injunctions entered below, but only to the extent…
— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) June 27, 2025
UPDATE: Full opinion is here.
THE ENEMY WITHIN: ‘Iran will never die’: USF professor praises regime, blasts critics.
WE REALLY NEED TO TREAT MARXISM LIKE NAZISM:
Yes. This is downstream of the end of the Cold War and the War on Terror. As it became clear that there was no global working class ready to overthrow the Western order, leftists needed another revolutionary class to fantasize about. They began to fantasize about Muslims. https://t.co/EvLWJIHzZ0
— Noah Smith 🐇 (@Noahpinion) June 26, 2025
“MISSED OPPORTUNITIES?” AYFKM? Zohran Mamdani’s Jewish Problem: The presumptive Democratic nominee for mayor of New York has repeatedly missed opportunities to forthrightly condemn antisemitic violence. He hasn’t “missed opportunities to forthrightly condemn antisemitic violence” — he supports antisemitic violence.
MORE AND MORE ASTROTURF:
BREAKING: Dozens of “Scottish independence” X accounts suddenly went silent on June 12—the same day Israel began its strike on Iran, including a major cyber attack.
They’d been tweeting nonstop for months. Then, nothing.
Turns out, they may have been Iranian bots all along. pic.twitter.com/uNFKLlWF17
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) June 26, 2025
Musk could eliminate a lot of foreign agitprop with more transparency.
WHY IS HIGHER EDUCATION SUCH A CESSPIT OF BIGOTRY AND RACISM?
According to a whistleblower, Cornell University DEI administrators rigged the search process for a professor of evolutionary biology by deliberately excluding white men from consideration and hand-picking their "hoped-for diversity hire."
This is racial discrimination. pic.twitter.com/UVJxa9f5XT
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) June 26, 2025
NEW YORK, NEW YORK: Inside the campaign to find a new Republican to run against Mamdani — and why it could be Mayor Adams.
Prominent donors are gunning to get Republican mayoral nominee Curtis Sliwa a job in the Trump Administration in hopes of pushing him out of New York City’s mayoral race, sources told me. The aim is to open up the GOP nomination — and the nearly 30% of the vote someone running in that lane is expected to get — for current mayor Eric Adams.
At present, the mayor is running for re-election as an independent — sandwiched in between Sliwa on the right and Zohran Mamdani on the (ultra-far) left. My sources said Adams, who recently struck a deal with the Trump Administration to clear himself of charges leveled by the DOJ, is open to running as a Republican, but it hinges on a rather complicated chain of events.
Sliwa would have to leave the state to open up the slot, and then Republican borough leaders — city council members and the only Republican borough president, Staten Island’s Vito Fossella — would need to anoint Adams.
Welcome to “Hot Commie Summer.“
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: I Need a New Bingo Card Now That Racism Causes Diabetes. “I know that the rules say that a white guy isn’t supposed to weigh in on anything having to do with race but, hey, once some moron tries to link racism to diabetes, all bets are off. I find the perma-victims to be exceedingly tedious. Jamaal Bowman is a former member of Congress who now runs a super PAC. The fat crybaby is practically a Rockefeller compared to me.”
THE NEW SPACE RACE: Rocket Lab launches HawkEye 360 satellites.
Rocket Lab is overshadowed by SpaceX, but is a very cool company in its own right.
IS SOCIAL MEDIA A NET NEGATIVE? You are not going to believe the results on this question among congressional aides.
UNDERREPORTED STORIES: Illegal But ‘Honest, Hardworking Individuals’ at NE Meat Packing Plant Also Using Stolen IDs, SSNs.
When I initially heard about this raid, I thought it was a repeat of that classic dance from the late 90s and early 2000s, but was kind of surprised that a factory owner would be so sanguine about employing illegals in numbers approaching that in this day and age. It didn’t seem especially prudent.
I also gave a passing moment to wondering why the feds would be bothering with a plant in the middle of nowhere when surely there were plenty of the first-to-go criminals to be found by the gross in any city they were already working in.
And that was that, until I read a Judicial Watch newsletter this morning, which began to explain exactly HOW an obscure plant out of thousands in the country wound up raided.
It also answered my question about the plant owner’s apparent lack of concern. It turns out, as far as he knew, all his employees were kosher by virtue of passing their E-Verify screenings. The plant was 100% compliant with federal regulations for hiring. The workers did so by using stolen identities and Social Security numbers.
Full details at the link.
NOT OUR BEST AND BRIGHTEST: LaMonica McIver Gives Up the Game in Comments Made After Court Appearance.
DOG BITES MAN: Jamaal Bowman Just Went Bat Poop Crazy on CNN.
JONATHAN TURLEY: The Icarian Gene: The Rise and Fall of the Expert Class.
In his concurrence in United States v. Skrmetti, a case upholding Tennessee’s ban on adolescent transgender treatments, Thomas called for his colleagues to stand against an “expert class” that has dictated both policy and legal conclusions in the United States.
The reference to “experts” is often used to insulate an opinion as self-evidently true on a given question when they speak as a group. It distinguishes the informed from the casual; the certifiably authoritative from the merely interested. Yet, what constitutes an “expert” can be little more than an advanced degree, and the “overwhelming opinion of experts” can be little more than groupthink.
Thomas warned his colleagues that “[t]here are particularly good reasons to question the expert class here, as recent revelations suggest that leading voices in this area have relied on questionable evidence, and have allowed ideology to influence their medical guidance.”
Indeed, those “good reasons” have become increasingly obvious to those outside of the Beltway. The public saw experts line up during the pandemic to support mandatory uses of surgical masks, shutting down schools, and requiring the ruinous six-foot rule of separation. Many of these rules were later found lacking in scientific support. At the same time, dissenting experts, including the signatories of the Great Barrington Declaration, were blacklisted, censored, or fired for challenging these views.
We have seen the same orthodoxy on issues ranging from gender dysphoria to COVID measures.
And the results are rarely — never? — as beneficial as you’d expect to get from experts. Unless, of course, their real expertise is in leftwing orthodoxy.
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): The Suicide of Expertise.
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FUNNY HOW THAT WORKS:
Remember when it was a big story that a homicidal maniac connected to international orgs and appointed by two Dem governors to state boards k*lled two Minnesota lawmakers and wrote he believed Tim Walz wanted him to take out Amy Klobuchar?
Boy, that story vanished in a hurry. https://t.co/c4Ea2S463B
— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) June 26, 2025
A FREE SPEECH VICTORY FOR PROFESSOR SCOTT GERBER: VICTORY — America First Legal Secures Settlement, Reinstatement, and Vindication for Law Professor Fired by Ohio Northern University for Objecting to Race-Based Hiring.
In 2023, ONU terminated Dr. Gerber, a tenured law professor, after he objected to the University’s race-based hiring practices. When he was terminated, ONU sent campus security and armed local police officers into his classroom to forcibly remove him.
Now, after nearly two years of litigation, ONU has agreed to reinstate Dr. Gerber and allow him to retire at his rightful faculty rank, with all his benefits intact. As part of the settlement, ONU formally acknowledged that:
Dr. Gerber was never a public safety risk to any member of the ONU community.
He never acted with moral turpitude.
He provided “outstanding teaching, scholarship, and service” throughout his tenure at ONU.“Dr. Gerber should be commended for his courage in filing complaints about what he perceived as ONU’s consideration of race and sex in hiring professors, which is illegal. This has cost him years of lost teaching opportunity, reputational harm, and the stress of years of litigation. However, his reward is full vindication. He was never a safety threat. He was nothing but an outstanding professor and scholar who stood on truth,” said Nick Barry, Senior Counsel at America First Legal.
The right now has a legal infrastructure of the sort that the left always had. More, please. Make them pay.
HE SEEMS RIGHT ABOUT THIS:
This reality utterly changes the calculus of integrated air defense as air-to-air weapons priced to kill a $1.2 million cruise missile are far too expensive for tens of thousands of $50K to $200K OWA drones/loitering munitions.
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— Trent Telenko (@TrentTelenko) June 26, 2025