WELL, BYE:
‘I’m Just Not Staying’: Kara Swisher Jumping Ship At CNN As Soon As She Can Over ‘Incompetent’ Ellison Takeoverhttps://t.co/si3QzyFLHu
— Mediaite (@Mediaite) June 16, 2026
Author Archive: Stephen Green
June 16, 2026
MAYBE I SHOULDN’T HAVE LAUGHED, BUT I DID…:
British life summed up in a football match pic.twitter.com/iYbwHerXPg
— Scott Cheggs (@Scott__Cheggs) June 16, 2026
BECAUSE LEFTISTS. NEXT QUESTION? Why Are So Many ‘Violence Interruptors’ So Violent Themselves?
Law-abiding gun owners are treated by gun control activists as nothing more than nascent criminals. They have to be vetted, surveilled, registered, and treated with ongoing suspicion to the degree they’re tolerated at all.
Meanwhile, these same activists treat actual criminals victimizing others in their own communities as the inevitable byproducts of an unfair system who have to be understood, sympathized with, and repeatedly given the benefit of the doubt. In the case of “violence interrupters,” this extends to providing them with public money and free reign to associate with active lawbreakers. In either case, the gun control activists will insist it’s all for the “greater good.”
Yet it’s increasingly difficult to sustain that delusion when so-called community violence interrupters, along with other high profile anti-gun activists, repeatedly find themselves accused of serious violent crimes, as we have previously reported on, including here and here.
Full details at the link.
MAYBE NEWSOM SHOULD TAKE A BREAK FROM SOCIAL MEDIA AND LAWYER UP:
Maybe they're investigating you because your finances don't add up? Or because your wife's LLC received the deed to a $9.1 million home a week before the LLC was even created – while you still had your Fair Oaks home? How was that LLC capitalized? https://t.co/8GNvkFHnus pic.twitter.com/SIIN1tinv1
— Jennifer Van Laar (@jenvanlaar) June 15, 2026
WELL, WE ARE QUITE LOVABLE: The World Is Re-Discovering America During the World Cup — and Loving It.
NO REGRETS:
Starmer’s government has capably proven one thing—over and over again:
We were right to leave in 1776. https://t.co/i6knQcY8J2
— Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee) June 16, 2026
CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Lawsuit filed over rules aimed at Colorado gun dealer records.
A Colorado gun rights organization has filed a federal lawsuit challenging a newly enacted state law giving government officials broad, random access to firearms purchase records without a warrant or even suspicion of wrongdoing.
The Colorado State Shooting Association (CSSA) announced the legal challenge at a June 12 press conference, holding the announcement in the district represented by Senator Tom Sullivan, who CSSA identifies as a chief proponent of Colorado’s ongoing gun rights restrictions. The filing marks the third recent constitutional challenge CSSA has brought against Colorado gun laws.
The impetus for the lawsuit is House Bill 26-1126, signed into law by Governor Polis earlier this month. The law expands record-keeping requirements for firearms dealers and authorizes the Department of Revenue (DOR) to access transaction records maintained by federally licensed gun dealers (FFLs).
Critics say the law contains virtually no guardrails on access.
“There is virtually no limit on where, when, or how many times records may be demanded or for what purpose they may be used,” said David Price, the attorney representing CSSA, describing the law’s reach in legal filings.
And HB 26-1126 is one of the least offensive gun bills Polis signed into law.
A SMALL MEASURE OF ACCOUNTABILITY:
OMG
Denver Public Schools Board just voted UNANIMOUSLY to DISMISS lgbtq teacher Jennifer Honka after she reportedly made female students kiss each other and graded them on it
What is going on in these schools?! pic.twitter.com/UjzgTK0HAQ
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) June 16, 2026
DISPATCHES FROM AIRSTRIP ONE: Here Comes Herr Starmer’s Next Blow Against Liberty. “British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and a top advisor launched a mission to ‘Kill Musk’s Twitter,’ and they might just do it — at least in the U.K. — in their pursuit of protecting children from wrongthink.”
HEH:
The type of women you meet at 3am at Luftwaffle House https://t.co/wUglQ3E7wt
— Siraj Hashmi (@SirajAHashmi) June 16, 2026
DON’T TRY THIS AT HOME: Brandon Herrera Presents The Darwin Awards. “Been a weird week, so here’s something a bit lighter, assuming ‘ighter’ includes ‘idiots mishandling firearms to delete themselves from the gene pool.'”
CHANGE:
🇸🇪 Sweden has passed a "good behavior" law allowing migrants to be deported over non-criminal conduct such as tax debts or extremist links.
This will allow the Swedish government the power to revoke residence permits and deport legal immigrants without a specific criminal… pic.twitter.com/tcCBS9QGa0
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) June 16, 2026
WE DRILLED, BABY, WE DRILLED: The Oil Reserve Hit a 43-Year Low. America’s Energy Muscle Didn’t.
THE NEW SPACE RACE:
SpaceX will launch "Starfall Demo" mission NET June 21st per FAA Operations Plan Advisory from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral, FL.
A single Starfall test re-entry vehicle will launch Southeast from the cape over the Bahamas with the 1st stage likely boosting back to a Land LZ.
The… pic.twitter.com/fHjkqQKPU4
— Dillon Shropshire (@Dillonshrop06) June 16, 2026
“This mission isn’t officially on SpaceX’s itinerary, so date and exact information aren’t known with 100% certainty. This should serve as a preliminary glimpse into this mission.”
But here’s something even bigger that is on SpaceX’s itinerary:
FCC Filing for a "Starship Orbital Return Demo" 🔥 pic.twitter.com/n9xCl8KUVl
— Niall Anderson (@INiallAnderson) June 16, 2026
The company will attempt to take Starship orbital for the first time starting as soon as July 29.
HEY, BIG SPENDER: SpaceX locks in $60 billion Cursor deal to power AI coding push.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX said on Tuesday it would acquire Anysphere, the software firm behind the popular AI coding agent Cursor, for $60 billion, in a bid to ramp up its presence in the enterprise AI market.
The announcement comes days after Musk took the rockets-to-AI company public in a blockbuster Nasdaq debut that valued the firm at more than $2 trillion and immediately made it one of the world’s most valuable companies.
SpaceX had been eyeing Cursor for several months. The company said in April it had secured an option to either acquire the San Francisco-based company for $60 billion later this year, or pay $10 billion for a new partnership.
The deal could give xAI, the Grok chatbot maker that SpaceX merged with in February, a stronger foothold in the AI coding market where it has so far lagged rivals. It would also provide Cursor with more computing capacity to develop AI models.
SpaceX’s shares were up nearly 10% in premarket trading, on track to add about $247 billion to its market capitalization of $2.53 trillion. At $211.27, the stock has climbed more than 56% from its IPO price of $135.
If the gains hold, SpaceX is set to overtake Amazon in value to become the fifth-largest company.
Anysphere was valued at $50 billion in March.
SAFETY IS THE SALES PITCH, CONTROL IS THE PRODUCT:
Social media age verification will not stop the rape gangs, secure the border or fix the weather.
Age verification won’t protect children either. It’s not meant to.
This is just another attempt at universal Bio-Metric Digital ID.
— Resist CBDC 🏁 (@Resist_CBDC) June 16, 2026
DON’T CONFUSE THEM WITH FACTS: DOJ Investigation of Newsom Began Under Biden Administration.
YES: End the Renewable Fuel Standard Now, and Lower Gas Prices. “The Energy Policy Research Foundation (EPRF) has crunched some numbers on this, and the findings paint an expensive and unpleasant picture. These and the other various regulations and requirements are estimated to be costing a typical American family of four an added $734 per annum in fuel costs.”
NIFTY: Here’s Where to Track (and Predict!) Your Congresscritter’s Insider Trades “Democrats like California’s dynamic trading duo, Nancy Pelosi and Ro Khanna, made some of the biggest returns, but plenty of Republicans are in on the game, too.”
REQUIRED READING:
🚨 I won't sugar coat it: our Education Secretary needs to put on her counter-terror hat and address what's unfolding at the University of Michigan on our dime.
It is nothing short of a jihadist takeover.
Amir Makled is an attorney in Dearborn, Michigan.
Recently, 8 students… pic.twitter.com/koJijg72Nx
— NizNellie3 (@NizNellie3) June 16, 2026
Amir Makled is an attorney in Dearborn, Michigan.
Recently, 8 students were federally indicted for unleashing a campaign of violence against Board Regents for nearly 2 years.
The pic on the right is Makled with Alex Sepulveda.
Alex was one of the 8 students arrested by the FBI. He threw chemical agents through the windows of Board Regents homes, as well as participated in violent attacks against university officials.
Makled has appeared with these 8 terrorist students multiple times.
He’s now running in an election to become one of those Board Regents at U of M.
He would be serving alongside the regents WHO WERE ATTACKED and marked for death by the “Gang of 8” for their refusal to divest from Israel.
The enemy is inside our education system.
THEY JUST CAN’T HELP IT: Republicans Saved by Democrats’ Vanity Projects—Again.
Earlier this week, I told you about a Politico story that should send ice through Republican veins: Democratic House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries told reporters at a news conference Monday that the first bill the Democrats plan to pass if they win the House in November would focus on lowering costs, and Democrats are already working on legislation to tackle the biggest struggle Americans are currently facing.
Luckily for the Republicans, that story is already dated.
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Rep. Jamie Raskin wants voting rights…Rep. Yvette Clarke said she’d like to see the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act revived in any new H.R. 1. as well as “comprehensive immigration reform.”
Rep. Adriano Espaillat wants H.R. 1 to claw back funding for ICE and redirect it to Medicaid and affordable housing.
Rep. Brad Schneider wants the party to undo Trump’s tariffs in their first action.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who is on the health care working group, wants “guaranteed health care.”
Then there’s Rep. Ro Khanna, believed to be considering a presidential run in 2028. He laid out his agenda on a podcast later in the week, and it included the usual progressive priorities: Abolish ICE, expand the Supreme Court, and a billionaire’s tax.
Left unsaid: There hardly a Democrat policy that doesn’t involve making things more expensive.
THE MILLION AND SIXTH TIME IS THE CHARM: George Conway Is Back, and THIS Time He’s Really, Really Gonna Get Trump.
RENDRE COUP POUR COUP: Trump warns France in exclusive interview with The Post: Kill tech tax or face 100% wine tariffs: ‘I have no choice.’
Trump said he gave the blunt warning directly to outgoing French President Emmanuel Macron, demanding he ditch the 3% tech levy or face devastating duties in the American market, which accounts for a fifth of the French wine industry’s global sales — worth more than $2 billion annually.
“I asked him not to charge American companies, and if they do, I have no choice but to charge a 100% tariff on all champagnes and all wines coming out of France,” Trump told The Post. “All [Macron] has to do is get rid of the sales tax, and he wouldn’t have that kind of pressure.”
The ultimatum drew a defiant response from Macron, who on Monday told French TV channel TF1 that “tariffs don’t do anyone any good, especially tariffs between G7 countries”. Asked if he would yield to the tariff threats, he responded: “No, because that is not how it works.”
I suppose we’ll see about that, including how long Macron can hide behind the fiction that his “tech levy” isn’t effectively a tariff on American tech firms.
Near as I could get Grok and GPT to figure it out for me, if the entire French tech sector were one American firm, it probably wouldn’t rank among the U.S. top 15 in market cap — maybe the size of Sandisk, or at best, Netflix.