KEVIN DOWNEY JR ALWAYS HAS THE BEST HEADLINES: The UK Goes Full Dystopia As Parts of Europe (Finally) Begin to Fight the New World Goblins.
Author Archive: Stephen Green
June 17, 2026
BUT HE’S READY TO HELP MANAGE THE NATION’S FINANCES? Texas’s James Talarico, 37, Shares His Only Checking Account With His Mom. “It’s unclear exactly why Talarico—whose campaign did not respond to a request for comment—shares the account with his mother, but she appears to be helping him, not vice versa.”
AMERICANA RULES:
Germans and Scots singing American Pie. ❤️
The Euros are showing Democrats how to appreciate the US.
🇺🇸🇩🇪🏴 pic.twitter.com/qXl0u08DEK— Buzz Patterson (@BuzzPatterson) June 17, 2026
NOVEMBER PREVIEW: More Georgia Runoff Results — Mixed Results for True Conservatives.
JOANNE JACOBS: Is talent a myth? Can anyone learn anything? I don’t think so. “Testing may favor children who’ve been exposed to museums and libraries and know that a pig says ‘oink.’ But relying on teacher recommendations is far more biased, as Arnold-Ratliff concedes. Universal testing is the most effective way to get more minority and lower-income students into challenging programs.”
ANALYSIS: TRUE.
DSA is essentially a wealthy, white, highly educated movement which very carefully selects candidates from their 0.00001% members of color to try and sell the ideas to black and brown people who are historically extremely averse to socialism https://t.co/mtgng1v8ps
— Jon Levine (@LevineJonathan) June 16, 2026
Voting by group identity is easily exploited, and exploitation is the name of the Left’s game.
CHANGE: Pizza Hut restaurant chain to be sold for $2.7 billion. “Yum Brands, which also owns KFC and Taco Bell, began to explore its options for Pizza Hut in November. Last year, Yum Brands’ global sales rose 5% but Pizza Hut’s sales fell 2%.”
IT’S SAFER TO BE A BRITISH PATRIOT IN TEXAS THAN IN BRITAIN:
Dallas, USA, has been covered in St. Georges flags for the World Cup.
Unlike in Britain, they won't be removed! pic.twitter.com/c4ijDv0HV2
— Inevitable West (@Inevitablewest) June 17, 2026
DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: How Deep Are the Newsoms In It? THIS Deep. “It seems impossible — or just too revolting — to keep up with the financial hanky-panky of California Gov. Gavin Newsom and First Partner (gag) Jennifer Siebel Newsom. But thanks to a couple of investigative reporters with stronger stomachs than I have, let’s see if I can’t put everything you need to know into one easily digestible column.”
OOF: OpenAI’s financials have leaked, showing $21 billion in losses against $13 billion in revenue. “Is there a path to profitability? Maybe. OpenAI’s two biggest expenses are R&D and marketing. Budget cuts there, coupled with an ability to raise prices or win new sources of revenue, could see the company move into the black over time. Cutting R&D would be the most difficult part of that, given that AI companies can only hold onto their customers by generating the best-performing models.”
Switching is easy and cheap for customers, retaining them is difficult — and expensive.
GOODER AND HARDER, VIRGINIA:
JUST IN: Governor Abigail Spanberger officially signs a bill handing over Virginia’s 13 electoral votes to whoever wins the most votes across the whole country…
even if Virginians vote the other way.
Insane.
They rushed it through with mostly Democrat votes. The plan has… pic.twitter.com/zvfV61S1uf
— Tironianae 🍊🍊 Z. – Ultra Verbum Vincet (@Tironianae) June 16, 2026
KEEP THE FORMER, SEND THE LATTER BACK TO BRUSSELS: Some Europeans Are Falling in Love With America. Others Are Yelling at Cruise Passengers.
SAY, THAT DOESN’T QUITE JIBE WITH WHAT LEFTIES CLAIM ABOUT EPSTEIN AND TRUMP: Jeffrey Epstein was obsessed with trying to take down Trump before suicide, report says.
Child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein tried to dig up dirt on President Trump in a desperate bid for leniency in the days leading up to his suicide, but was unable to deliver anything of substance, according to a report.
Epstein became fixated on the president after he was arrested in 2019, as his lawyers tried to hammer out a deal with prosecutors if the disgraced financier could provide helpful information about other defendants, according to the New York Times.
During his many marathon meetings with his parade of lawyers while he was locked up in a federal jail in Lower Manhattan, Epstein often had his nose buried in a legal pad scrawling disjointed one-liners about the commander-in-chief, such as “Trump is a total con artist — smoke & mirrors” and “Never had money.”
The deranged scribblings suggest that Epstein had nothing on Trump, who was serving his first term in office at the time.
Now Trump is serving his second term, despite whatever Epstein and his enablers could throw at him.
THAT’S DIFFERENT BECAUSE IT’S RACIST TO MENTION THE PAKISTANI GROOMERS RAPING WHITE GIRLS:
The Left: “Silence is violence!”
The Left about the Rape Gang Inquiry Report: *silence*
— Alice Smith (@TheAliceSmith) June 17, 2026
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: California Gay Business Certification Another Dem Lurch to the Prog Fringe. “Don’t they care about gay business owners who may not be able to provide ‘Proof of domestic partnership health insurance utilization’ or any of the other proof of gayness documents that the Golden State wants before it signs any checks?”
#RESIST:
This morning, I appeared on Good Morning Britain in a live interview about the grooming gangs. Before I went on air, I was told not to mention the race of the perpetrators. I, of course, didn’t listen.
I have now received an apology from the editor.
My interview is below: 👇🏻 pic.twitter.com/Wwj1WV0N49
— S A M M Y Woodhouse (@officialsammyuk) June 16, 2026
THIS SHOULD HARDLY BE NECESSARY, YET HERE WE ARE: Daughters of the American Revolution to Vote on Definition of ‘Woman’ Amid Criticism of Transgender Policy.
The Daughters of the American Revolution currently allows men who identify as women to join, but the group will vote on a resolution to reverse that policy and formally define “woman,” the Daily Signal has learned.
“Members of the Daughters of the American Revolution will take an historic vote to define the word ‘woman’ on Friday, June 26, 2026, at Memorial Continental Hall in Washington, D.C.,” Laura McDonald, founder and president of Daughters Advocating for Restoration and a member of Daughters of the American Revolution since 2018, told the Daily Signal.
“Daughters all across the country have relentlessly pursued all avenues and have succeeded in their demand for this historic vote,” she added.
The resolution, provided to the Daily Signal, argues that the bylaws, which state that eligibility only applies to women, “should be interpreted in accordance with the intention of the society at the time the bylaw was adopted.” There is no question that DAR’s founders in 1890 did not envision men identifying as women as eligible for membership.
Well, good.
THIS IS GETTING TO BE A PROBLEM: A Chinese rocket breaks apart dangerously close to the Starlink constellation.
The breakup occurred shortly after the Zhuque-2E rocket reached orbit on June 9 with two satellites providing direct-to-cell communications, perhaps around the time the upper stage was expected to perform a disposal burn. The US Space Force confirmed the breakup event in a post on space-track.org, a website used by the military to distribute orbit data to the public.
“The tracked pieces are being incorporated into routine conjunction assessment to support spaceflight safety,” the Space Force wrote in an advisory. “There are currently no threats to human spaceflight. Analysis is ongoing.”
So far, the Space Force has not added any of the debris fragments to the official catalog of human-made space objects. Darren McKnight, a senior technical fellow at the orbital intelligence company LeoLabs, told Ars the fragmentation event likely generated 100 to 150 pieces of debris.
China’s attitude toward space junk is so cavalier I was surprised to read the upper stage was even supposed to have a disposal burn.
LEAVE SYDNEY OUT OF THIS: Is Trump’s Iran Deal Sydney Sweeney-Gorgeous — or More Like Your Great Aunt Agnes’ Neighbor’s Daughter?
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): I’m not super excited or concerned with the Iran agreement because my expectation is that Iran will violate it and we’ll bomb them again. It’s an iterative process…
June 16, 2026
LIVE RESULTS: Runoffs in Georgia and Alabama, Primaries in Oklahoma.
I SITLL MISS MY COMMODORE 64, BUT THIS AT LEAST HAS THE CLASSIC COLOR SCHEME: Commodore’s newest gadget is a flip phone that blocks social media and browsers. “The Commodore Callback 8020 takes advantage of reinvigorated interest in dumb phones. Although Commodore’s phone has Internet connectivity, it blocks web browsers and social media ‘at the system level using patent pending technology,’ the company’s announcement said. The phone supports other Internet-based capabilities, like maps and QR codes.”
It looks something like a late-model Commodore PET shrunk down to flip-phone proportions.
MAGA: McDonald’s is serving fried apple pie again for America’s 250th birthday. “The company said Tuesday it’s bringing back fried apple pies for the first time in more than three decades. They’ll be available at most U.S. restaurants for a limited time starting June 23.”
They never should have taken them off the menu.
PUBLIC OFFICIALS ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS REQUIRE FACT-CHECKING: Nebraska Leaders Need to Check Their Facts on Human Trafficking Problem.