IT CERTAINLY SEEMS SO: Protracted Iran-War Parleys: Is It Part of U.S. Strategy? “Is Trump deliberately delaying a deal to bring Iran to an economically and logistically weak state where it has no option but to drop insistence on some of the so-called ‘red lines’? Three of these lines are very obvious; not surrendering the already enriched uranium with the enrichment facilities, control over the Strait of Hormuz and sanctions relief. At present, only the last two appear to be somewhat negotiable. The first one is considered by the theocracy as contrary to affirmation of its sovereignty and consequently tantamount to the loss of legitimacy of the regime.”
Author Archive: Stephen Green
June 11, 2026
YOU’VE BEEN ROBBED:
This should be the biggest story in America.
How much foreign money has been funneled to democrats through ActBlue over the past decade?! https://t.co/qtoBHyPjHh
— Alex Bruesewitz 🇺🇸 (@alexbruesewitz) June 10, 2026
The Russian connection is the *chef’s kiss* after years of Russiagate bullshit against Trump.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Jasmine Crockett’s Gaping Maw Is Still Belching Up Filth. “It’s always weird and irritating when Crockett attempts to pretend to be down with the struggle in any way. She was educated at a ‘Country Day’ school and an exclusive all-girls Catholic high school. It wasn’t exactly a mean streets upbringing. She’s also owned a law firm and been a member of Congress. Her rough edges narrative is really weak.”
SALENA ZITO: ‘It’s only a matter of national security.’ America Workforce Academy’s mission to fill the workforce gap.
Some raw facts from the American Builders and Contractors Association are even more chilling: 39% of electricians in this country were 45 years old or older. Another disturbing stat: for every five plumbers leaving the workforce, only two apprentices are entering. As Baby Boomers age out, the industry faces an estimated shortage of up to 550,000 plumbers, according to the Merrow Report.
Same with auto mechanics. Currently, the United States is facing a shortage of 600,000 auto mechanics, according to that same report.
All of these shortages are creating a downward and slippery slope for both consumers and builders alike, including higher costs and growing safety risks. And it creates wait times for services that extend beyond days into weeks, months, and even years for larger projects.
Dina Powell McCormick, president of Meta, said that she first saw the impact of this escalating problem when she joined her husband Sen. David McCormick, a Pittsburgh Republican, when he was running for office in 2022 and 2024.
Just off the top of my head, maybe student loan forgiveness for those willing to learn and pursue a trade.
Also, read the whole thing.
WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH:
When the British government complain that social media inflamed the riots in Belfast, what they are actually saying is:
“If people know how badly be have betrayed the country, they will kick off”
It’s an accidental confession that their entire ideology has failed.
— Peter Hague (@peterrhague) June 10, 2026
Related: Tolerance was tested both by the “migrants” and various governments, and limits found.
I also think what we’re seeing with the British and American public are people who have been incredibly generous for many decades. They HAVE welcomed many many foreigners.
And if you look at Ilhan Omar, you see how that generosity is so often repaid. With ingratitude,…
— Megan Basham (@megbasham) June 11, 2026
Which is how we got here:
This.👇 pic.twitter.com/yb7FQ8XdaE
— C3 (@C_3C_3) June 11, 2026
IT’S MY THURSDAY ESSAY FOR VIP SUBSCRIBERS: Solo-Maxxing Your Way Out of Dating, Marriage, and Kids.
NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: One day after discovery, Meta pulls facial recognition code from its smart glasses.
One day after WIRED revealed that Meta had quietly embedded an unreleased face-recognition system into an app installed on more than 50 million phones, the company removed it, according to a WIRED analysis of the latest version’s code.
The most recent version of Meta AI, a companion app for its line of smart glasses, strips out the unactivated software components that powered the system Meta internally called NameTag. The version published the day of WIRED’s report included several code libraries explicitly named for face recognition. Friday’s release includes none of them.
Andy Stone, Meta’s vice president of communications, told WIRED on Monday that the feature is purely exploratory, adding: “No final decision has been made on what to do here, if anything.”
Take off and nuke the entire code from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.
ON THE RIGHT, “LET IT BURN” IS METAPHORICAL:
California's political leaders have failed to clear the brush in the public land bordering Los Angeles. Fire expert Gabriel Mann explains how the state's policies are making another massive wildfire inevitable.
"It's ready to burn." pic.twitter.com/jeW0MZwHei
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@christopherrufo) June 10, 2026
Gooder and harder, California.
June 10, 2026
INDEED:
It seems to me that when a substantial part of the Dem base is unable to accept the most clearcut murder convictions because of racial animus, that's a MUCH bigger societal problem than the GOP base being overinvested in proving voter fraud. https://t.co/2z0yBtFkqC
— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) June 10, 2026
GOOD ADVICE: You can major in Taylor Swift and minor in K-pop — but shouldn’t. “A student who can tell you all about Swift’s entrepreneurship but cannot write a five-paragraph essay is not educated, but entertained.”
TEXAS PRIMARY VOTERS SEEMED TO HAVE FIGURED THIS OUT ALREADY:
Like Tillis, this idiot admits he lied to voters for the last 10 years. https://t.co/nObcKSLF9E
— unseen1 (@unseen1_unseen) June 9, 2026
REAL CUTTING EDGE STUFF: Jane Fonda Cosplays Free Speech Warrior on ‘Daily Show.’ “The group is set to hold a free speech-themed concert with Bette Midler, Rufus Wainwright, Julia Roberts, Patti Smith and more on June 14.”
IT SHOULDN’T BE A BIG DEAL TO BE AGAINST MURDER, YET HERE WE ARE: Black Americans Who Support the Karmelo Anthony Verdict.
FLASHBACK: Oh Good, Screwworms Are Back.
Over the next 30-40 years, the there was a major push for screwworm eradication in North America. It was driven out of the US in the 60’s. With enormous international cooperation, they were pushed out of Mexico and Belize in the 80’s and eradication was pushed down to Panama by the 1990’s.
By a happy accident of geography, Panama was an excellent choke-point for the screwworm eradication. We could effectively maintain a screwworm border in Panama with a minimal effort because the geographic area to sterilize was physically small and politically stable. This also meant that screwworm control could be maintained through limited screwworm production facilities based in Panama and managed by COPEG, a joint commission between Panama and the US. COPEG is an institution specifically founded to maintain control over the screwworm barrier in Panama.
It wasn’t plausible to push screwworm elimination past Panama for a number of reasons that include political instability and the fact that Brazil is an enormous and terrifying place.
But then something went wrong.
Here it is: “The screwworm barrier in Panama cost $15 million a year. This is zero dollars to the US government. This program was basically free and it protected an entire continent from billions of dollars of yearly damage.”
And it seems to have gone to hell in 2022-2023 under the Biden administration, when “They were almost certainly transported via unchecked northward migration of people and animals.”
THIS IS NO TIME TO GO ALL WOBBLY: Meanwhile, in Gaza, Hamas Is on the Ropes.
GOOD: FCC lifts looming deadline for Amazon Leo satellite broadband constellation.
Amazon won regulatory approval for the Amazon Leo network in July 2020. The FCC’s authorization came with two deadlines. First, Amazon had to launch half of its 3,232 satellites by July 30, 2026, in order to maintain authorization to launch the rest of the network. The regulator gave Amazon a deadline of July 30, 2029, to have all of its first-generation satellites in orbit.
It has been apparent for some time that Amazon would not meet the FCC’s requirement to launch half of its satellites—1,616 spacecraft—by the end of next month. Amazon filed an application in January requesting the FCC extend the deadline to July 2028 or waive it altogether. The commission decided on the latter option, removing any time limit for the 50 percent deployment milestone, but keeping the July 2029 deadline in place for the entire constellation.
“Waiver serves the public interest by promoting a second large satellite broadband constellation,” the FCC wrote. “At this time, only one operator, SpaceX, is providing broadband to American consumers from low-Earth orbit. Amazon Leo’s service promises to be ‘groundbreaking,’ both in quality of service and affordability for consumers. Amazon Leo has further invested significant resources into meeting its commitments, including more than $10 billion to deploy the system along with investments in physical infrastructure and manufacturing capabilities.”
Consideration of public interest and Amazon’s multibillion-dollar investment in Amazon Leo, formerly known as Project Kuiper, are among the “special circumstances” the FCC cited for doing away with this summer’s deadline.
Amazon has done everything it can, including manufacturing satellites, building infrastructure, and even buying launches from rival SpaceX. It’s hardly the company’s fault that two of the launch vehicles it needs are currently grounded.
POLL, NOT THAT YOU NEEDED ONE: Democrats Willing to Throw Black Voters Under the Bus to Gain Power.
YOU’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BLOG: California Election Fraud Update. “Everyone and their dog is already reporting on how California’s Democratic fraud machine stole a runoff spot from Spencer Pratt and gave it to Nithya Raman so they could prevent a Republican from even having a chance of being elected mayor of Los Angeles. The steal was so brazen (just like those 3 AM ballot dumps in 2020), either Democrats feel immune to DOJ prosecution, or else the graft they rake of Los Angeles is so vital for running the entire Democrat machine they can’t even risk Pratt getting into a runoff. But that’s not the only fraud news out of California…”
SOME SMALL MEASURE OF ACCOUNTABILITY:
BREAKING UPDATE: The @okstate administrator who threatened a Conservative student for honoring Charlie Kirk in a speech was REMOVED from her position. https://t.co/m6m64Po4yz pic.twitter.com/Hjk3oriSG4
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) June 9, 2026
I FOLLOWED THIS STORY FOR DAYS AND THERE’S STILL NO FULL EXPLANATION: Questions Remain About Tense Moment Aboard ISS.
Even if you’re not normally interested in what’s happening in low Earth orbit, you probably heard that last week NASA ordered its personnel aboard the International Space Station to button themselves up in the docked Dragon spacecraft and await further instructions should they need to make a hasty departure. Known as Safe Haven, this emergency procedure is performed whenever there’s an elevated risk of damage to the Station.
NASA has provided an update on what happened, but it arguably leaves more questions than answers. Usually, crews go to their Safe Haven because some bit of space junk has wandered to close to the orbiting complex, but this time it was because Russian cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikayev were getting ready to start cutting into the walls of the PrK transfer tunnel in an effort to address its persistent air leak.
After about an hour and a half, the Russians called off the effort and NASA gave their people the OK to leave the Dragon and return to their normal duties. NASA Press Secretary Bethany Stevens later posted on social media that the space agency would “look forward to working with Roscosmos on a collaborative approach to address the leaks” in the future. There’s currently no word on what a future repair attempt may entail, or when it would be attempted.
There’s also no word on why they called off the repair work.
Very curious.
IT’S ACCELERATING: Social Security retirement trust fund may be depleted in 2032, new trustees report finds.
A Social Security trust fund used to pay retirement benefits may run out in late 2032, three months earlier than what had been projected last June, according to the new Social Security Administration annual trustees report released Tuesday.
Social Security uses incoming revenue from payroll taxes to pay benefits. When benefit payments exceed payroll tax income, the program relies on the trust funds to help make up the shortfall.
The report said that if the fund is depleted as projected, Social Security will only be able to pay 78% of retirement benefits.
Plan accordingly, because either benefits are going down, taxes are going up, or inflation and debt are going up. Or some combination.