SO HOW’S THAT RIOT STUFF WORKIN’ OUT FOR YA? Note the bump from just last week.

Good Morning !

Overnight Trump presidential job approval number is in.

Sunday Night – LA Riot Weekend – 54.49% https://t.co/gkgrGWG3Tv pic.twitter.com/G5pqGEgbr5

— Rasmussen Reports (@Rasmussen_Poll) June 9, 2025

Full Week Trump Approval – 1752 National Likely Voters

All Voters: 51%
Men: 57%
Women: 45%
18-29: 55%
30-39: 51%
40-49: 56%
50-64: 48%
65+: 46%
White: 51%
Black: 41% 👈
Hispanic: 57% 👈
Other: 52% 👈
DEM: 24%
IND: 46%
GOP: 83% https://t.co/o5K9U9QqAZ

— Rasmussen Reports (@Rasmussen_Poll) June 9, 2025

YES:

1/
The riots happening in LA are not organic or spontaneous.

They're designed to look chaotic to cover up the fact that they're well funded, exceptionally organized, and carried out by well trained activists using intelligent, highly developed tactics.

Here's a primer: pic.twitter.com/ZxZ7x71R65

— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) June 9, 2025

The network of trainers, financiers, etc. behind this stuff should be treated as a criminal conspiracy by federal prosecutors, and broken up.

YES: Joel Kotkin: LA riots reflect failure of progressive leadership.

UPDATE:

Hey Gavin, feel free to use this as a campaign ad when you run in 2028. pic.twitter.com/rxK7Y6JZm9

— MAZE (@mazemoore) June 9, 2025

ANARCHO-TYRANNY:

It’s worse than that. They enforce laws against the law abiding (e.g. arcane processes and regulations that prevent the rebuilding of homes that burned down) but not against violent predators https://t.co/R3sOX701Km

— Son of Dr. Spengler (unintentional self-parody) (@spengjr) June 9, 2025

HE’S RIGHT, YOU KNOW:

It's been said elsewhere: If Bass had fought against the danger of fires with half the intensity she fights for illegal immigrants, LA would be a much better place. (Indeed, parts of LA that no longer exist would still exist.) https://t.co/cmIRyBr28p

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) June 8, 2025

DON SURBER: Fire and ICE: Democrats rioting will put California in play. “For a decade now, the media has libeled him as a racist for saying that Mexico and other nations are not sending their best. Republican strategists said they feared he would cost their party the Hispanic vote forever. It is now the most solidly pro-Trump demographic group in the country. MS-13, TdA and other Hispanic thugs live among legal Hispanic citizens. Desperate to turn this into 2020, Democrats side with the thugs, not with the citizens.”

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ICYMI:

A number of NGOs have been implicated in this. Foremost is Coalition for Humane Immigration Rights or CHIRLA, and the photos of signs show they were printed by PSLWEB / Party for Socialism and Liberation. pic.twitter.com/yS7jXkHGJ8

— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) June 8, 2025

ICYMI: WAIT UNTL 2025-ERA GAVIN NEWSOM DISCOVERS WHAT GAVIN NEWSOM DID IN 2020!

Newsom deployed police against people who wanted to walk on the beach or sit on a park bench during COVID https://t.co/QQwTB27EGE

— Daniel Greenfield – "Hang Together or Separately" (@Sultanknish) June 8, 2025

UPDATE: From April of 2020:

As Jack Dunphy wrote in April of 2020: Crackdowns on Lone Surfers and Paddleboarders Threaten to Erode Respect for Law Enforcement Even Further.

UPDATE: Question asked:

(Original post from Ed.)

DON’T TRUST YOUR LYING EYES:

California Democrat Rep. Nanette Barragán calls the Los Angeles riots "Peaceful Protests" on CNN while the network displays a literal car on fire.

Barragán: "We have an administration that is targeting peaceful protests."

Remarkable. pic.twitter.com/3DDkAciwZa

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) June 8, 2025

The reason migration has struck such a political nerve is not because of immigration per se, though that has arguably been excessive, but because it is perceived as implemented with malice by the left. It is the malice which is hard to forgive.

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) June 9, 2025

Ain’t that the truth. https://t.co/oDOzpsDP16

— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) June 8, 2025

The racial group with which Trump has the highest approval rating, at 63 percent, is…Hispanics.

It's ceasing to be a narrative violation that as the salience of deportations increases, his popularity with Hispanics grows.

This is just what they want. https://t.co/QFjtEGNAPx

— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) June 9, 2025

OPEN THREAD: Ring out the weekend.

THAT’S NO MOON . . . .China’s Tianwen 2 spacecraft sends home 1st photo as it heads for mysterious ‘quasi-moon’ asteroid.

LET’S MAKE THAT TAX 35 PERCENT:

Mexico’s president calling for protests in the USA:

“If necessary, we’ll mobilize. We don’t want taxes on remittances from our fellow countrymen. From the U.S. to Mexico.”

The bill going thru Congress would tax at 3.5% all money sent to Mexico. pic.twitter.com/URBQbxyj2J

— Wall Street Mav (@WallStreetMav) June 8, 2025

FOLLOW THE MONEY — THEN DROP THE HAMMER:

Screencap: Notice the rioters are waving PRE-PRINTED signs.
Who supplied the signs? Who PAID for printing these signs? https://t.co/hltD7jcvmD pic.twitter.com/exuKq7mfob

— The Patriarch Tree (@PatriarchTree) June 8, 2025

I’VE ALWAYS THOUGHT FASTING WAS OVERRATED: Experiment Reveals What Prolonged Fasting Actually Does to The Human Body. “Overall, fasting seemed to increase inflammation and put more stress on the body, which can then lead to numerous complications with health – especially for those with existing heart or vascular conditions.”

WELL, I HOPE THIS TURNS OUT TO BE TRUE:

The biggest controversy surrounding GLP-1 drugs is whether they cause excess muscle loss🧵

We now have an answer: "No."

Compared to weight loss by diet or surgery, GLP-1RA-induced weight loss is comparable in its effects on lean body mass. pic.twitter.com/zBF4a8ORNL

— Crémieux (@cremieuxrecueil) May 8, 2025

Interesting thread.

CURMUDGEONLY BEHAVIOR IS HARDWIRED? Age-related brain changes reduce social-engagement behaviors, research finds.

HONESTLY, I THINK WE SHOULD BE ENCOURAGING YOUNG PEOPLE TO GET DRIVER’S LICENSES: You Can’t Skip the Latest Step in Florida’s Driver’s License Process: Florida’s is erring on the side of caution with its newest license requirement taking effect July 1.

HOW IT SHOULD WORK: Armed Citizen, Police Stop Rampaging Criminal After He Shot a Cop.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: How to take photos on your phone via remote control.

I THINK WE KNOW THE ANSWER TO THIS ONE:

This is a test for the Democratic Party. Will they stand up for this nation, its people, its borders, and its laws, or will they continue to Je Suis Kilmar Obrego/Mahmoud Khalil their way into political oblivion. I truly hope they choose wisely. I sadly doubt they will. https://t.co/exsiorAN3y

— Batya Ungar-Sargon (@bungarsargon) June 8, 2025

UPDATE (From Ed):

A rioter flying a foreign flag to block ICE deportations. The symbol of the Democrat party. https://t.co/H2EqZsVUYc

— Stephen Miller (@StephenM) June 8, 2025

If it looks like a foreign army invaded your country that's because it did https://t.co/8EA5OwCn2h

— Auron MacIntyre (@AuronMacintyre) June 7, 2025

LEARNING THROUGH FAILURE: A Japanese lander crashed on the Moon after losing track of its location: “It’s not impossible, so how do we overcome our hurdles?”

ART OF THE DEAL: China to fast-track applications for rare-earth minerals to US, EU.