AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD:

THAT’S A WRAP FOR GRETA THUNBERG:

It must have been an amazing high for Thunberg to be the center of so much adulation. I suspect this because she has been chasing that high ever since, long after the media gaze moved on. In the Biden era, the media were no longer interested in highlighting the urgency of youth apocalypticism. (That was more important to emphasize when Trump was president.) And so the spotlight vanished.

Hungering for continued relevance, Thunberg responded by escalating her tactics, seeking arrest at anti-mining and anti-oil protests across Europe to garner headlines. But the media reaction was tepid, and the thrill was gone. It surprised me not the slightest bit when she instantly transitioned from environmental activism (old and busted) to pro-Palestinian activism (new and sexy with the kids these days) in the wake of the October 7 massacre. A year later, she was performatively arresting herself on podcast appearances to signal her solidarity with Hamas.

And now, apparently, she’s on a boat as part of an activist flotilla headed towards Gaza for . . . no particular reason, really. They claim they’re carrying relief supplies to “lift the siege of Gaza,” but that’s obvious pretext for what is transparently a low-stakes international publicity stunt. Israel will almost certainly seize Thunberg’s boat and interdict the rest of “Freedom Flotilla” before it reaches land. Those aboard will assuredly have their iPhones out to film the affair. Slogans will be shouted, clips will be posted. And when the day is over, all involved will congratulate themselves on a job well done: Way to go, making real change in the world.

I’m at least mildly impressed by the brazenness of it all: Thunberg is inserting herself into the frame of a picture unrelated to her, because she is an important person whose mere presence must be given appropriate deference. The self-regard would be inexplicable were we not talking about a coddled activist who also briefly became the most important teenager in the world — and has been haunted by it for the rest of her life.

As for myself, I couldn’t care less about Thunberg’s fate. If the Israeli Navy wants to hole her boat below the waterline as the French did to sink the Rainbow Warrior, then it’s no problem of mine. I don’t ever want to write about her again, and unless she escalates to suicide bombing, I intend not to. For as much as her astringent mien and unearned pretense make her a figure of comedy, I find her morally repulsive.

But I confess that I also love Greta in at least one way: I’m thankful for her existence as an almost novelistically perfect “character type.” Thunberg is the fulfillment in the flesh of an intellectual conceit: the brutally perfect embodiment of an entire younger left-wing generation’s hopeless attachment to the politics of gesture as opposed to the politics of hard work; politics as little more than an externalized expression of narcissism; politics as a plea for attention from an otherwise indifferent world.

Julie Burchill adds: Greta Thunberg’s pathetic Gaza voyage.

Her origins are interesting. Thunberg was born into a showbiz family – actor father, singer mother who represented Sweden in the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest, finishing 21st. With the eye-catching middle name of ‘Tintin’ – she apparently stopped talking at the age of 11 on hearing about climate change, a condition known as ‘selective mutism.’ Thunberg has declared that this condition means that she ‘only speaks when necessary’ – if only that were true! After being diagnosed with Aspergers and autism – with a soupçon of OCD sprinkled on top – she suffered with depression for four years until the idea of playing truant – or ‘school strike’ as she chose to call it – occurred to her.

It’s striking how her activism seems inseparable from her own personal fulfilment, something which is not always the case; indeed, many activists throughout history have seen their personal lives worsen due to their political commitment. But whether it was her father saying ‘She can either sit at home and be really unhappy, or protest and be happy’ or her own declaration that the best things to have come out of her activism have been friendships and happiness, there does seem to be an unusual amount of ego invested in her eye-catching antics.

Attention is a very pleasant thing for a certain sort of person – I’m one of them. Attention-seeker, scenery-eater, show-off – it’s good to ‘own it’, as the kids say. But it’s a rather odd look to wallow so unapologetically in the plaudits of the fashion world, an industry responsible for an unimaginable level of pollution and pointless air travel. Should she really have appeared on the cover of British Vogue in 2019 or on the cover of the inaugural edition of Vogue Scandinavia in 2021 or accepted the Glamour Woman of the Year Award? Shouldn’t she have used the opportunity to denounce the fashion industry for its huge contribution to global warming and criminal waste of resources? But logic has never been Thunberg’s strong suit, as her current boat trip to Gaza proves. The stated aim of the trip is to ‘raise awareness’ of what’s happening in Gaza – but can it really be possible that anyone on earth isn’t aware already?

If Greta’s goal is also “famine relief,” she’s gonna need a bigger boat:

ELON MUSK GOES NUCLEAR ON TRUMP, CLAIMING HE’S “IN THE EPSTEIN FILES.”

UPDATE:

Exit question:

UPDATE (5:53 pm):

Elon Musk really did speed run through the Republican Party experience.
1. Euphoric victory
2. Grand sweeping plans
3. Complete governing incompetence
4. Political disillusionment

— John Ekdahl (@JohnEkdahl) May 29, 2025

DEVELOPING:

BREAKING: Aaron Rodgers has informed the Steelers he plans to sign a contract and attend mini camp next week, per sources.

— Gerry Dulac (@gerrydulac) June 5, 2025

BURIED LEDE: The Dr. Demento Show is still on the air: Dr. Demento Show To End With 55th Anniversary.

DISPATCHES FROM THE BIG TENT:

In retrospect, Sanjay Gupta’s October 2021 appearance on Rogan’s podcast, and his shameful about-face the following night on a CNN show hosted by Don Lemon where the two endlessly mocked Rogan for taking a drug Lemon described “as a horse de-wormer” was a huge mile marker on the way to the 2024 elections.

THE DRAMA OF THE GIFTED CHILD: Naming Imane Khelif has caused ‘immeasurable psychological damage.’

Algerian boxing bosses have issued a furious response to boxing’s new world governing body for a “violation” of Imane Khelif’s rights to medical confidentiality.

A statement released by World Boxing last week, naming Khelif while outlining its new policy of gender testing, has “created psychological damage to our athlete” according to the Algerian Boxing Federation.

In a letter the Federation President said the “consequences are immeasurable.”

He added that the statement had internationally harmed “our national sports movement” and that Khelif was not given “the right to defend herself” nor did World Boxing “hear from the doctors specialising in endocrinology who follow her.”

This week World Boxing President Boris van der Vorst wrote to the Algerian governing body admitting that Khelif’s “privacy should have been protected.”

In his letter he also revealed that the organisation would not “examine” any boxers previous results, which suggests all records to date – for all boxers – will stand. Khelif won a gold medal at the Paris Olympics.

The apology came after a leaked medical report of a gender test taken from Khelif in 2023, published on the 3 Wire Sports website, appeared to indicate the boxer is biologically male.

But what about the immeasurable psychological – and physical – damage to the biological women who competed against him, and the Weimar-esque perversion of the Olympic games last year?

And I think we know the answers to these questions:

WHAT COULD GO WRONG? The Washington Post is planning to let amateur writers submit columns — with the help of AI.

The Washington Post could soon allow non-professional writers to submit opinion columns using an AI writing coach known as Ember, according to a report from The New York Times. The move is reportedly part of a broader initiative to open the paper to outside opinion pieces, including from other publications, Substack writers, and amateur columnists.

Sources tell the Times that Ember “could automate several functions normally provided by human editors,” including by offering a “story strength” tracker that indicates how a piece is progressing. The tool also reportedly has a sidebar showing the fundamental parts of a story, such as an “early thesis,” “supporting points,” and a “memorable ending.” the Times adds that writers would also have access to an AI assistant, which would support them with prompts and “developmental questions.”

We’ve come a long way from the early 2000s, when major newspaper journalists, who still thought of themselves as the second coming of Woodward, Bernstein, and H.L. Mencken, collectively got the vapors over “non-professional writers” drafting opinion columns: Cat Food Eating Pajama Wearing Extreme Bloggers In Boardroom Bathrooms. But in 2025, this speaks far more about the decline of the Post than now ubiquitous self-publishers.

In any case, hopefully Ember will do a better job as a “writing coach” that Chat-CCP, but I’m doubtful: Erasing Content! How Is China AI DeepSeek Better than US Competitors?

Despite widespread praise following its debut, the communist Chinese AI chatbot DeepSeek completely erased an entire day: June 4, 1989 — the date of the Tiananmen Square massacre, 36 years ago [yesterday].

MRC researchers asked DeepSeek a series of questions with known, objective answers related to the topics the communist Chinese government considers to be controversial, like the Tiananmen Square massacre, Taiwan as a sovereign nation, pro-freedom Hong Kong political figure Jimmy Lai and the plight of the Uyghur Muslims. In every instance, the communist Chinese AI would begin to answer the query before self-censoring and erasing the information it clearly had access to. “Sorry, that’s beyond my current scope. Let’s talk about something else,” the AI replied again and again, both feigning ignorance and attempting to redirect. The most egregious example? The chatbot first showed and then completely erased the date “June 4th, 1989,” with no additional context.

Is Rollerball a big sport to placate the masses in communist China? Because the above is definitely the 21^st century I was promised as a kid:

WILLIAM VOEGELI: Now It Can Be Told.

Biden was still a white male in 2024, but identity politics had come to work in his favor. It was hard to see how Kamala Harris could win the election, but even harder to see how she could be denied the nomination. In identitarian terms, Harris was a three-fer: the first woman, and black, and Asian vice president. No matter how bad her chances in a general election, Democrats recoiled from the prospect of passing over Harris, or even of making her fight for the nomination against other candidates. To do so would antagonize the constituencies her selection in 2020 had propitiated, as well as confirm Republican claims that Harris had been, from the outset, a minimally qualified affirmative-action hire. There was only one escape from this dilemma: sticking with Joe Biden as he ran for a second term and hoping that he could somehow make it through to November and pull off a second victory against Donald Trump. The June 2024 debate incinerated that strategy; the ensuing Harris campaign validated it.

Taken together, the three books provide enough evidence to discard one fevered conspiracy theory, which circulated after the June debate: Biden advisors, knowing his campaign against Trump was doomed, set their boss up in a pre-convention debate for the exact purpose of having him fail before he was formally nominated, giving Democrats time to swap in a different nominee. To the contrary, the thinking of Biden’s inner circle, described as “the Politburo” in Original Sin, was that Biden could still be president, even if he could no longer be a presidential candidate. The hope seemed to be that the “basement campaign” Biden had run during 2020’s COVID pandemic could be retooled into a basement presidency, where the commander-in-chief would make (or, at least, sign off on) policy decisions, which others in his administration and party would explain and defend.

Any chance that this plan would work depended on a compliant press, one that would voluntarily curtail the skepticism that is its reason for existence. Until such willed credulity was rendered untenable and humiliating by Biden’s disastrous debate against Trump, journalists went along with the charade. As Jill Abramson, former executive editor of the New York Times, commented immediately after the debate, “Shame on the White House press corps for not [having] pierced the veil of secrecy surrounding the President.” She did not recoil from naming the most obvious explanation for this dereliction of duty: “too many journalists didn’t try to get the story because they did not want to be accused of helping elect Donald Trump.”

* * * * * * * * *

Rather than try to tell people they weren’t seeing what they were seeing, most journalists took the slightly less audacious line of insisting that what people were seeing of Biden wasn’t conclusive. The key was to faithfully report the claims by Democrats that, behind the scenes, Biden remained sharp, commanding, and vigorous. Part of the motivation, as Abramson says, was to do their utmost to prevent Trump’s return to the White House. But another part was the refusal to concede that conservative media outlets like Fox News and the Washington Examiner had done a much better job covering a crucial story than the reporters and editors who disdain the “right-wing noise machine.” One Original Sin author, CNN’s Jake Tapper, was recently forced to admit when interviewed by Megyn Kelly that “the conservative media was correct” about Joe Biden’s decline, and that “legacy media” outlets like CNN need to do “a lot of soul-searching.” When Kelly confronted Tapper about instances where he had derided Republicans for raising the suspicions his book now confirms, Tapper could only say, “I feel tremendous humility about my coverage.”

Yesterday, Mediaite ran this dramatic headline about Original Sin co-author Alex Thompson: Alex Thompson Burns Source Over KJP Book Deal: ‘If You Don’t Tell the Truth, Off the Record No Longer Applies.’

Axios national political correspondent and Original Sin co-author Alex Thompson accused a New York publicist of lying to him about her work with Biden administration staffer Karine Jean-Pierre.

On Wednesday, Thompson took to X to respond to a Politico report from Eli Stokols that pulled together reactions from former colleagues of Karine Jean-Pierre to the announcement that the press secretary is putting out a book about her time in former President Joe Biden’s administration. She also announced she is leaving the Democratic Party.

Thompson’s focus fell to the part of the Politico report revealing that New York publicist Gilda Squire was working “informally” with Jean-Pierre while she was still at the White House and was even being copied on email communications. Squire has previously done publiclity work for major publishers like HarperCollins Penguin Putnam Publishing.

“Funny. The White House repeatedly told me that this was not true back when I asked about Gilda Squire’s involvement in February of 2024,” Thompson wrote in reaction to the report.

The reporter then shared emails with Squire in which he asked Squire if she’d been “enlisted” by Jean-Pierre. She replied by telling Thompson “off the record” that it is “unequivocally untrue” that she was working with Jean-Pierre.

“If you don’t tell the truth, off the record no longer applies,” Thompson wrote. “Here is Gilda Squire’s denial at the time.”

Fair enough. But as Megyn Kelly asks Thompson:

Because Tapper and Thompson want to keep working in DC, and don’t want to risk being frozen out by a future Democrat administration.

CHARLES COOKE: Of Course We Should Deport Jihadis’ Immediate Families.

If I had answered yes to any of the questions above — or, for that matter, to the hundreds of similar questions I answered over the years — my applications would have been delayed while I accounted for myself, and rejected if I could not. And, remember, I was living legally in the U.S., with a job, a wife, kids, a mortgage, and I was seeking work visas, permanent residency, and citizenship. I was not a tourist, who, by the plain terms of his admission documents, was forbidden to build a life in America.

In the case of the Solimans, all this is rendered moot by the fact that they were illegal immigrants. But, as a prudential matter, I simply cannot imagine having a moral problem with a system that rescinds the temporary visitor visas of the immediate families of antisemitic jihadis. Such people have no right to be here, would not have been allowed in had we known about their connections, and offer nothing to the existing citizenry that could possibly overcome the risk of their staying. Good riddance.

Read the whole thing.

DAVE CHAPPELLE REVEALS HILARIOUS REACTION SNL WRITERS HAD TO TRUMP WINNING: ‘You Should Have Seen Them.’

Comedian Dave Chappelle offered an inside look at the Saturday Night Live (SNL) writers’ room after it was revealed that Donald Trump had defeated Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election.

A funeral would have been more lively.

Chappelle, speaking with fellow comic Mo Amer on Variety magazine’s “Actors on Actors” series, recalled hosting the show on the first Saturday after that historic election. However, he also drew on the reactions of the writers and cast as they prepared during the week.

“Man, when they called Donald Trump the winner – that s*** shut the writers’ room down,” he said, promoting hearty laughter from Amer.

“You should have seen them in there – the first one – boy, they was crying … They couldn’t believe that this was happening.”

The original iteration of Saturday Night Live had a similarly blinkered political worldview – the cast and writers thought that easy-going liberal Republican Gerald Ford was the antichrist, simply because he had (R) after his name. But if he had won in 1976 over Jimmy Carter, I can’t imagine sobbing breaking out on the 17^th floor of Rockefeller Center; they were made of much sterner stuff. But then, they were underground comics from places like the National Lampoon and the Second City launching a new untested program, rather than Ivy League grads walking into an established franchise that has led to huge movie and TV deals for many in the cast and its writers.

BOMB CANADA, THE CASE FOR WAR: Let’s check in with Canada to see what their police officers are up to.

The York Regional Police Department hold drag-queen pride month celebration funded by the Canadian taxpayer. pic.twitter.com/evCzjp4W3C

— Canadian Patriot Media (@realpatriotM) June 4, 2025

We would be welcomed as liberators, to coin a phrase.

(Classical reference in headline.)

IT’S ONLY A FLESH WOUND: Chamberlain called German blitzkrieg a ‘minor setback.’

CNN HOST CLAIMS SHE PREPARED FOR US VISIT ‘AS IF I WAS GOING TO NORTH KOREA:’

CNN/PBS anchor and self-styled journalist Christiane Amanpour recently gave a wild, anti-Trump commencement speech at Harvard where she invoked everything from 1984 to Benito Mussolini, but that may not have been the wildest part of her recent trip to America. On her Tuesday podcast installment of The Ex Files—so named because she co-hosts it with her ex-husband, Jamie Rubin—Amanpour declared she prepared for the visit by getting a burner phone because Trump’s America forced her to treat her trip “as if I was going to North Korea.”

Amanpour recalled her horror story, “I have to tell you when I went to Harvard to give this speech, and it was just a few days ago, last week. I must say I was afraid. I’m a foreigner, I don’t have a green card, I’m not an American citizen, I’m fairly prominent, and I literally prepared to go to America as if I was going to North Korea. I took a burner phone, Jamie. Imagine that. I didn’t take a single—not my mobile phone, not my iPad, nothing, and I had nothing on the burner phone except a few numbers, and I could text with my sister, I had your number, I had our son’s number, I had our lawyer’s number, you know, the CNN lawyer, and I was really afraid.”

Wait, is this meant to be derogatory, comparing America to North Korea? Because past CNN coverage of North Korea has often passed the Juche on the lefthand side!

THERE IT IS! Biden Appointed Judge Rules Trump Admin Can’t Deport Family of Boulder, CO Terrorist.

NEW DOCS SHED LIGHT ON FBI’S ANTI-CATHOLIC MEMO: ‘Apparently, We Are at the Behest of the SPLC,’ FBI Staffer Wrote in Response to Anti-Catholic Memo.

The FBI Richmond office’s notorious anti-Catholic memo reached more staff at the bureau than previously suggested, and some FBI staff were aghast to see it, according to new documents released by Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, Tuesday.

The memo urged FBI agents to develop sources and surveil Catholic churches, citing the Southern Poverty Law Center’s list of “radical traditional Catholic hate groups.” The SPLC’s “hate map” plots conservative and Christian groups alongside Ku Klux Klan chapters. While the SPLC claims to be exposing “the infrastructure upholding white supremacy,” critics say it uses the map to silence political opponents.

The FBI rushed to rescind the document after a whistleblower leaked it in February 2023. Then-FBI Director Christopher Wray testified in July 2023 that the memo came from “a single product by a single field office, which, as soon as I found out about it, I was aghast and ordered it withdrawn and removed from FBI systems.” Yet Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, has claimed Wray may have lied under oath because multiple FBI offices were involved in creating the memo.

Grassley announced Tuesday that he found evidence that the memo had been disseminated to at least 1,000 FBI staff.

“Is anyone really asking for a product like this?” an FBI employee in Phoenix, Arizona, wrote in a February 2023 email responding to the memo. “Apparently we are at the behest of the SPLC…”

An FBI employee in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, responded, “And yeah, our overreliance on the SPLC for hate designations is … problematic.”

In addition to these emails, Grassley found the FBI produced at least 13 additional documents and five attachments that used the term “radical traditionalist Catholic” and relied on the SPLC.

How odd that this was happening during the Biden administration; the media assured me that “It’s not a detail he highlights, but people who know him well say his Catholic faith is central to how he sees the world. Biden, who carries a rosary in his pocket and attends Mass every Sunday, is known as a deeply devout person of faith, and his campaign sees electoral implications in that — in part because Biden has tried to frame this election as a clear moral contrast between Trump and himself.”

But then, the media assured me last year that “This version of Biden, intellectually, analytically, is the best Biden ever. Not a close second, and I’ve known him for years. The Brzezinskis have known him for 50 years. If it weren’t the truth, I wouldn’t say it.”

KURT SCHLICHTER: Bono’s Deep Thoughts Are Even Worse Than His Last 35 Years of Music.

Joe Rogan just had Bono on his podcast, and Bono, who famously poses as the great White Irish savior of the Third World, stated that America’s USAID cuts have already killed 300,000 people. Well, that’s a lot of people. Rogan pointed out that USAID is a giant money laundering scam, and a lot of other people have been either asking where all these 300,000 dead people are or wondering why Bono – who’s rich beyond measure thanks to the bad taste of so many people – doesn’t get his checkbook out and start scribbling. No evidence supports his ridiculous claim, but the substance of his accusation isn’t really the point.

The point is foundational. It reflects something that leftists do all the time, whether about the climate hoax, Gaza, or even domestic pathologies. They announce there’s a problem, and it’s our fault for not stopping it. It might be slightly hotter in a century? You (not China) must shut down all your coal plants! Terrorist sympathizers feeling the consequences of their murder sprees? You’ve got to feed them! Drug addict criminal bums infesting our streets? It’s your job to give them the same kind of shelter you suckers work to pay for!

Unfortunately, far too many conservatives accept the premise du jour and go along with it. Bono’s premise, shared by fellow leftists who are outraged that the Trump administration has shut off the cash flow to Third World potentates that their allies took a piece of, is that America has some obligation to the rest of the Earth to keep bad things from happening. Leftists are always announcing that we have some sort of obligation to do something and berating us because we have failed to meet this expectation. But here’s the real question: when did we become responsible for the supplying day-to-day needs of the rest of the world?

That is, what is the source of this duty and obligation to prevent 300,000 Third Worlders from somehow dying because we haven’t just handed over money? Again, I don’t believe that 300,000 Third Worlders have died because we haven’t just handed over money, but let’s assume Bono is telling the truth. Why is filling Botswanan bellies our problem?

Exit quote: “Like leftists do all the time when they decide we have to do something, Bono didn’t say, and I still haven’t found what I’m looking for – an answer to the foundational question of why foreigners’ problems are our fault. I think he’s just pulling it out of the same place he’s been pulling songs out of since about 1987. “

CLOWN NOSE ON/CLOWN NOSE OFF: Never Forget What Jon Stewart Did To America.

For years, when TV actually mattered, The Daily Show was the moral compass for millions of liberals — and eventually, far too many treated it as their only compass. Stewart wasn’t just mocking Republicans; he was reshaping how Democrats thought, spoke, and saw the world. He introduced a generation to the idea that being smug was synonymous with being right. That sarcasm was substance. That having a punchline was the same as having a point.

Even his comedy, once hailed as clever, incisive, “for the thinking man,” was always marinated in elite arrogance. Stewart didn’t just poke fun at politicians. He mocked belief. Mocked faith. Mocked patriotism. Mocked the very idea that tradition might be worth taking seriously. To him, these weren’t pillars of a shared culture — they were punchlines. Red meat for Manhattan elites.

And it worked. For a time. Stewart’s smirk became the face of smart liberalism. He gave a generation permission to roll their eyes at anything that smelled vaguely of God, country, or duty. His jabs didn’t just reflect progressive sensibilities — they sharpened them into weapons. Into blinders. Into a worldview where irony replaced inquiry, and anyone with a flag pin was automatically a joke. He helped solidify a distrust in middle America, fostering a culture of ridicule and sanctimony disguised as satire. That’s his legacy. He didn’t just host The Daily Show. He helped write the script for the very political dysfunction he now claims to diagnose.

That mutation gave birth to a pretentious class of Democratic operatives, consultants, and digital influencers who think politics is mostly about getting claps from the right people — fellow blue-checks, podcast hosts, and Beltway cocktail circuits. It also gave us a generation of liberal “wonks” who treat policy like a graduate seminar — over-intellectualized, emotionally sterile, and completely detached from the lived reality of working Americans.

For them, it’s all about optics, metrics, and reprimanding those who dare to differ. They speak in charts, not language, and moralize through models. Meanwhile, flyover voters are cast as NPCs — passive, stupid, or bigoted — obstacles to be managed or avoided, rather than citizens to be heard. Their pain is reduced to polling data. Their values, pathologized. Their anger, dismissed as ignorance.

Aaron Sorkin’s role in shaping the 21^st century left should also be discussed; though it did create this classic moment last year when two fictitious presidents finally met:

AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD:

MUCH MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE: State and DHS Revoke Visas for Boulder Terrorist Family, Detained for Deportation.

Consequences. How do they work again? Secretary of State Marco Rubio gave everyone a preview late yesterday:

That was not a bluff or an academic statement. Earlier today, the Department of Homeland Security detained the family of the Boulder “Free Palestine” terrorists after the State Department revoked the visas for his wife and children. DHS now has the Solimans on the fast track to get booted out of the country, according to ABC News:

The wife and children of Boulder, Colorado, terrorism suspect Mohamed Soliman are in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the family is being processed for expedited removal, according to a Department of Homeland Security official.

At any rate, the consequences are piling up for the Solimans. The Trump administration isn’t pussyfooting around, and they’re not wasting time either. Presumably the Solimans will have a day or two to file a habeas motion, so a judge still could slow the process down. They won’t succeed in it — the State Department can revoke visas if a national security situation arises, and it certainly has with the Solimans. They will not have much time left in the US, and that will make the prosecution a very lonely process for Mohamed Soliman indeed.

Related:

21st CENTURY HEADLINES: Made in Space? Zero-gravity factories are the next frontier.

DIEBOLD, THE NEXT GENERATION: Election Denier: Rosie O’Donnell Suggests Elon Musk ‘Did Something’ to 2024 Election, Trump Didn’t Win (Video).

Former CNN employee and Democrat activist Jim Acosta held a live event in Washington, DC this week and invited a bunch of his most anti-Trump friends to attend.

Rosie O’Donnell made a guest appearance via the internet from her new home in Ireland and pushed her newest conspiracy theory that Elon Musk somehow hacked the 2024 election and that Trump didn’t win.

Democrats and the media have spent years claiming that election denialism is a threat to democracy. Will they now denounce O’Donnell for this?

No. Next question?

Related: Reminder: ABC News Employed Radical 9/11 Truther Nut Rosie O’Donnell for Years.

RICHARD FERNANDEZ ON MIDWAY:

It does seem to be a particularly tough nut for Hollywood to crack. The 1976 Universal production, with a cast of stars that are all slightly past their freshness date, only has a 6.8 rating at IMDB. The 2019 telling of Midway by director Roland Emmerich only has a 6.7 rating.

By the way, to get a sense of how far the US Navy has lost its way in the decades since WWII: CBS Evening News: How Dare Pete Hegseth Rename the USS Harvey Milk, DURING PRIDE MONTH??? “The whole Milk fiasco encapsulates what underlies Secretary Hegseth’s mission at DoD: restoring readiness to a United States Navy decimated by woke nonsense. Ships run aground, aircraft carriers colliding at sea and amphibious vessels burning in port with no one seemingly able to extinguish the fire because the Navy elevated shipboard drag shows at the expense of operational readiness.”

DO NOT TRUST CHINA; CHINA IS ASSHOE: Chinese nationals charged after bringing possible ‘agroterrorism’ fungus into US.

Seems like a huge deal that Chinese students linked to the CCP are getting caught trying to smuggle crop and livestock killing pathogens into the United States https://t.co/grT6IbfdSu pic.twitter.com/QDEXe6rPJm

— Enguerrand VII de Coucy (@ingelramdecoucy) June 3, 2025

OUT ON A LIMB: Leaked medical report states controversial Olympic boxer has ‘male’ chromosomes.

No competitor could stop Imane Khelif at the Paris Olympics, but a leaked medical report might have floored any hope the boxer has of defending their gold medal in Los Angeles.

The document, which initially was published by 3 Wire Sports, summarizes the findings on the Algerian boxer as “abnormal,” stating: “Chromosome analysis reveals male karyotype.”

Unexpectedly: