DISPATCHES FROM THE SOY ZONES: Trump’s UFC fight a lot like 19th century lynching, Boston College historian says.
Author Archive: Stephen Green
June 18, 2026
LIKE, FLAMING?
SCOOP: California is pressuring public utilities to award $633 million in special contracts to "LGBT-owned" firms. To qualify, residents must go through the state's official gay-certification program—and face up to a year in jail if they're not gay enough.https://t.co/rOcnPqYJrl
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@christopherrufo) June 16, 2026
More and more, the state is just a trillion-dollar grift operation.
UPDATE (From Ed):
UPDATE (FROM GLENN):
MURICA:
NEW: TSA warns World Cup visitors not to pack oversized bottles of ranch dressing in their carry-ons, as ranch mania spreads among foreign fans.
— Polymarket (@Polymarket) June 18, 2026
ICYMI: The Iran War Was Easy. The Peace Is the Problem. “There’s so much to pick apart here, but there are really only three things that matter: ‘Status quo,’ ‘End all sanctions,’ and ‘$300 billion.’ As for the efficacy of a denuclearization plan involving the UN… I just throw my hands up in the air.”
NOW THAT’S A LONG HAUL: Qantas to launch world’s longest nonstop commercial flight between Sydney and London.
Qantas plans to launch what it says will be the world’s longest nonstop commercial flight in October 2027, connecting Sydney and London with a journey expected to last up to 22 hours.
The Australian airline announced Wednesday that nonstop flights between the two cities will begin operating as part of its long-awaited Project Sunrise initiative, which aims to connect Australia’s east coast directly with major global destinations.
Qantas unveiled the first of its specially configured Airbus A350-1000ULR aircraft at Airbus’ manufacturing facility in Toulouse, France. The aircraft has been modified for ultra-long-haul travel and includes an additional 20,000-liter fuel tank that allows it to travel more than 16,000 kilometers, or nearly 10,000 miles, nonstop.
The Sydney-London route will become the first nonstop service between Australia’s east coast and the United Kingdom. According to Qantas, the flights will reduce travel time by as much as four hours compared with existing one-stop itineraries.
Four hours savings vs 22 hours on a single plane…
IT LOOKS LIKE THERE’S SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE TO DISLIKE: Hardliners in Iran Hate the MOU, but the Government Media Is Restrained.
THEY’RE JUST HERE TO DO THE CRIMES AMERICANS WON’T: Illegal Alien Theft Ring Skimming Credit Cards, Stealing Fuel. “Credit card skimmers have been around to steal credit card info for a while now, but this is the first time I’ve read of them also being used to quickly encode new cards for the purpose of stealing gas.”
THIS SEEMS LIKE IT WOULD HAVE BEEN IMPOSSIBLE JUST A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO:
Minor league baseball team in Pennsylvania cancels Pride Night game after players refuse to wear jerseys with rainbow sleeves. https://t.co/TSZzIqdJoE
— NBC News (@NBCNews) June 18, 2026
SARAH HOYT’S SHOCKED FACE IS RELAXING ON THE LIDO DECK: Feds Reveal Violent Antifa Conspirators Coordinated With a Major Labor Union to Fight ICE in Minneapolis.
BEYOND PARODY:
The Obama center opening opens with a land acknowledgement:
“We honor the Anishinaabe, the Council of Three Fires, the Ojibwe, the Odawa, and the Potawatomi Nations.” pic.twitter.com/aR9oM8Ee2t
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) June 18, 2026
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): The building was stolen, too — just ask all the contractors who haven’t been paid and who are going bankrupt.
CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: SAF Backing Former Virginia AG’s Challenge to State’s New ‘Assault Firearms’ Ban. “Unlike other lawsuits filed challenging this ‘assault weapons’ ban, this case is unique in that plaintiffs are arguing they have the right to buy the banned arms to preserve their ability to function as the militia that is preserved under the Virginia constitution’s Militia Clause,” Cuccinelli said. “Most other cases are making Heller-like arguments, and we feel this case is a good vehicle to ensure this unconstitutional ban is looked at by the court from every angle.”
CHRISTIAN TOTO: Nick Searcy Reveals Ugly Truth Behind Sean Penn’s Jan. 6 Project.
The Jan. 6 riots matter. And the topic is ripe for a theatrical retelling. That’s not the key takeaway, and veteran actor/director Nick Searcy spelled out the bigger picture on his X account.
You see, the left funds their propaganda, and is willing to lose millions of dollars to get their lies out in an attractive form. While conservative investors will not put their money up to make anything to counteract it. This is why we lose.
Searcy isn’t wrong. Conservative filmmakers routinely fail to get their projects funded. Searcy knows this all too well. He’s helped some small, feisty documentaries get made, like “The War on Truth,” but he’s struggled to get other fictional films off the ground.
Read the whole thing.
UPDATE (From Ed):
Go woke… go broke.
It’s a guaranteed flop. pic.twitter.com/MlyJlHZKCp
— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) June 17, 2026
THEY’RE FURIOUS: Israeli Pundits Slam Iran Deal.
NOT EVEN MOSCOW IS SAFE: Ukraine strikes Moscow oil refinery in large-scale drone attack, with Zelenskyy saying it’s ‘time the war ended.’
Ukraine launched hundreds of drones on Thursday targeting more than a dozen Russian regions, including Moscow, where they struck an oil refinery, sending plumes of black smoke into the air over the Russian capital.
Russia’s Ministry of Defense said the country’s defenses destroyed some 555 drones in the early morning hours. About 180 of those were shot down as they approached Moscow, the city’s mayor, Sergei Sobyanin, said in an update in Russian on the Telegram messaging app.
Ukraine laid claim to the aerial attack, with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy saying it marked the second time within a week that Kyiv had targeted the Moscow Oil Refinery, a sprawling facility in the city’s southeast that’s run by a subsidiary of state-owned Gazprom. Video verified by ABC News showed blasts at the Kapotnya district refinery.
As for the video… it’s impressive:
Footage of a Ukrainian attack drone hitting a storage tank at the Moscow Oil Refinery this morning, sending the tank lid perfectly soaring hundreds of feet. pic.twitter.com/2GIHEGk52M
— OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical) June 18, 2026
That top popped off like the turret of a hit T-72.
THERE’S NO BETTER GUARANTEE OF HIGHER PRICES THAN WASHINGTON PROMISING TO MAKE THINGS MORE AFFORDABLE:
🧵 1/5 Americans can’t afford the price increases that would inevitably follow from a massive influx of federal childcare funding.
We’ve seen this movie before.
It ends with even higher prices. https://t.co/4tY718x0XD
— Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee) June 18, 2026
IT WASN’T DRUGS FOR ONCE: Well, Well, Well… Look What the Coast Guard Dragged In.
UM, WHAT? Georgia Republicans scrap redistricting talks before special session begins.
Georgia lawmakers will no longer discuss redrawing the state’s Congressional maps when a special session begins Wednesday.
Speaker of the House Jon Burns sent a letter to Gov. Brian Kemp signed by the House Majority leadership regarding the decision.
“Changes to Georgia’s maps should take place only when members of the General Assembly and citizens have been given ample opportunity to gather the facts, provide input and engage in meaningful discussion,” Burns wrote.
At a news conference, Senate President Pro Tem Larry Walker III says he and Georgia Republican Senators agree with Burns on not moving forward with redrawing the maps at this time.
Because that’s exactly what Democrats would do in this situation?
What a wasted opportunity.
Elsewhere in Georgia: The Classic City Dodged a Socialist Bullet in Its Mayoral Runoff.
REQUIRED READING:
England did not fail its daughters. It betrayed them with surgical coldness…with the precise, bureaucratic efficiency of institutions that had already decided which children were expendable and which narratives were sacred.
The piece that follows is not another recounting of… pic.twitter.com/MD43NGgUtN
— LHGrey™️ (@grey4626) June 18, 2026
Key section:
These were organised, clan-linked operations that treated white girls as “easy meat”…as fair game precisely because they lacked the honour protections afforded girls inside the perpetrators’ own communities.
But the deeper crime…the one that stains the soul of the state…was not committed by the men who used taxis and takeaways as cover for their predation.
It was committed by the police officers who lost evidence bags and classified raped children as prostitutes…by the councillors and social workers who tippexed the word “Pakistani” out of case files…by the prosecutors who raised evidential thresholds when the suspects belonged to protected demographics…and by the national political class that treated the screams of working-class girls as less important than the maintenance of “community cohesion” and the avoidance of racism accusations.
Britain is in a bad place, but it will have to go through a worse one to get out of it.
And that’s only if Britons have the stomach for it.
MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: The Iran War Was Easy. The Peace Is the Problem.
Several [contractors] also described what they viewed as a wall of silence surrounding the project, with some declining to speak publicly or requesting anonymity because of confidentiality agreements or fears of professional retaliation.
The allegations emerge days after a Fox News Digital investigation reported that the Obama Foundation’s reserve fund — originally promoted as a $470 million financial safeguard intended to help protect taxpayers if the project encountered financial trouble — remains funded at roughly $1 million.
Standing outside the center on a gloomy Friday afternoon, Owen flipped through spreadsheets and financial records that he said documented millions of dollars in losses tied to the project.
Owen said the project stretched on for years longer than anticipated, forcing his company to absorb millions of dollars in labor and overhead costs as work demands changed and expanded.
He said the losses have drained the company’s reserves, created uncertainty for employees and could ultimately force layoffs. Owen also said the years-long effort to recover what he believes is money owed has taken a significant toll on his mental health.
“I haven’t had eight hours or six hours sleep in over a year,” Owen said. “I’m cooked emotionally. I feel like an aluminum can that’s been thrown in front of a steamroller. We’re crushed. And I have to fight for my company and for my people.”
You f****d up; you trusted Obama.
FREE SPEECH FRIGHTENS THEM, AND IT SHOULD:
𝕏 is the #1 news app in the UK.
This is exactly why the BBC, The Telegraph and other UK legacy media keep pushing negative fake attacks on Elon Musk.
They are getting destroyed in the rankings. The British public has rejected them.
Legacy media is finished. They are lashing… pic.twitter.com/UBdVCU65eM
— DogeDesigner (@cb_doge) June 18, 2026
WELL PUT: Thune Keeps Counting Votes Instead of Finding Them.
Reagan’s first political director, Ed Rollins, once explained how the White House got a needed vote out of a stubborn senator. “We just beat his brains out. We stood him up in front of an open grave and said he could jump in if he wanted to.”
Mister, we could use a man like Ed Rollins again.
WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG? California seeks to allow kids to ‘divorce’ their parents without cause.
Assembly Bill 1967 is moving through the California Legislature with barely a ripple of public attention. The bill, authored by LGBTQ rights activist-turned-Assemblymember Rick Zbur, would allow children of any age to initiate state dependency proceedings against their own parents. The parents will not even know this has happened until the die is already cast.
The bill allows any minor residing in any residential facility to file a legal application against their parents, without cause or evidence of harm.
Residential facilities include drug rehabilitation programs, boarding schools, wilderness therapy programs, faith-based residential programs, and runaway shelters It does not matter whether the facility is safe and an appropriate placement chosen by the parents. The child can petition the court to strip the parents of custodial authority and substitute county child welfare control or foster placement. The application need not be corroborated by any adult and need not be served on the parents. The child’s statement alone is sufficient to trigger a mandatory assessment of the parents’ home. This assessment can occur without the parents’ knowledge.
The investigation includes a social worker assessment of the parents’ home. The use of the word “assessment” instead of “investigation” is legally significant: an assessment carries no requirement of a physical home visit and can be completed entirely on the basis of the child’s statements alone, without the parents ever being contacted.
“The children, on the other hand, were systematically turned against their parents and taught to spy on them and report their deviations. The family had become in effect an extension of the Thought Police.” —George Orwell, 1984.
DISPATCHES FROM AIRSTRIP ONE:
The United Kingdom is going to announce additional restrictions in July on VPN usage. This is ON TOP OF the social media restrictions and mandated online identity verifications.
It's over, UK. You sold out your own society. Absolute tragedy. Very sad.
pic.twitter.com/cJRYSwqTlI— Autism Capital 🧩 (@AutismCapital) June 17, 2026
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Trump Chips Away at the Dept. of Education, but Will It Be Enough? “The president and Secretary McMahon have do deal with bureaucratic realities while I’m dreaming of them taking a blowtorch to the whole department. Rather than deliver a knockout punch, they’ve been trying to weaken the Dept. of Education (ED) via a series of body blows in the form of offloading its duties elsewhere.”