Author Archive: Stephen Green
June 10, 2026
EVERYTHING ABOUT HIM IS FAKE, EXCEPT FOR THE NAZI STUFF: Platner’s ‘living on the sea’ claim dismantled by critics as financial docs paint a different picture.
Platner’s 2025 financial disclosures show that he listed “other $5,001” as his annual income from farming oysters. The candidate’s entire business is only worth between $50,000 and $100,000, which accounts for his boat, lines, anchors and other farming equipment, per the disclosure.
He earned an additional $3,000 serving as the harbor master for Sullivan, Maine, — a role the Washington Free Beacon reported was largely clerical and where he was responsible for overseeing the 17 boat moorings on the small town’s coast.
Taken together, these sums are dwarfed by the $4,800 Platner says he receives through monthly disability payments. Platner is legally entitled to such a sum owing to injuries he suffered while serving in the armed forces.
“I’ve got a couple herniated discs. My shoulder’s a wreck. My knees bother me,” Platner, who saw combat in Iraq and Afghanistan, told News Center Maine in an October 2025 interview.
Despite his reliance on disability, Platner has consistently referred to himself as an “oyster farmer” while campaigning for Senate.
In a September 2025 interview with the New Yorker, for example, he called himself a “small-town oyster farmer.”
While Platner credits federally funded healthcare for his ability to start a business, a number of other factors have assisted him along the way.
A restaurant owned by Platner’s mother, for instance, is the only customer listed on his financial disclosures as purchasing oysters from him. Additionally, Platner’s farm is located on a private island owned by his business partner’s family and he received a $200,000 loan from his father to purchase his home, the Washington Free Beacon previously reported.
He’s certainly good enough getting other people’s money to qualify for employment in Washington.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Friendly Reminder that California Is the DNC’s Testing Ground. “The reason that Gavin Newsom thinks that he is the most popular boy at the Democratic National Committee dance and should be the party’s nominee for president in 2028 is that California is where the Democrats test out all of their insanity. Election fraud. Gun control. Unhinged welfare schemes for illegals. The Dems try it all out in the Golden State in the hopes of exporting everything nationwide.”
UNNATURAL:
The data out of Oregon really are astonishing.
A phenomenon once observed in about 1 in 20,000 adult men and 1 in 50,000 adult women (DSM-5) is now being diagnosed and medically treated in at least 1 in 250 17-year-old girls in Oregon.
— Leor Sapir (@LeorSapir) June 9, 2026
Alternate Insta-headline: Leave them kids alone.
WELL, YEAH: White House border czar Tom Homan blames New York Gov. Hochul for promised ICE surge.
White House border czar Tom Homan on Tuesday blamed New York Gov. Kathy Hochul for a promised surge of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to New York City.
But Homan would not say when he expected that surge of ICE agents to happen, when questioned by reporters at the White House.
“You can expect more ICE agents to go to New York because Gov. [Kathy] Hochul signed legislation that ended our … agreements” that allowed the agency to delegate state and local law enforcement officers to perform immigration enforcement functions under ICE oversight, he said.
The agreements under ICE’s 287(g) program were used to identify and process removable immigrants who were in jail after being arrested by local authorities on unrelated charges.
“We’re going to surge resources in New York,” he said. “We have to.”
Don’t like ICE in your cities? Then stop electing pols who flout immigration laws.
ROBERT SPENCER: All It Took Was a Single Non-Woke Word for This Man’s Life’s Work to Come to the Brink of Ruin. “A Danish man spent years building a clothing company. Over the years, he fashioned, through hard work, careful study, trial and error, attention to trends, and sheer perseverance, a popular clothing brand. In the last few days, however, he has come to the brink of ruin, and of seeing all his labors come to naught.”
THIS IS HARDLY SHOCKING: Germany, France scrap joint fighter jet program.
The Future Combat Air System (FCAS) program, launched in 2017, aimed to build a next-generation fighter to replace Eurofighters and Rafales by around 2040.
The move to scrap one of Europe’s largest defense projects comes as Western military officials warn of a mounting threat from Russia and the United States intensifies pressure on Europe to take care of its own defense.
The more than €100 billion ($115 billion) project, launched in 2017, was once billed as a symbol of Franco-German military unity.
But it has been plagued by years of political and industrial disputes.
French arms giant Dassault Aviation has demanded significantly more control over the project than its industry partner, European consortium Airbus Defence and Space.
The two companies clashed over control of the project’s next phase, access to intellectual property and, above all, differing requirements for the aircraft.
Why can’t Germany and France just get along like they used to in the olden days?
June 9, 2026
GOOD ADVICE:
Karmelo Anthony supporter: "What do I tell my 5 boys? What do we do now!?"
Uh… don't murder? pic.twitter.com/DGrnCbhhe6
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) June 9, 2026
HEH:
“It’s filled with popcorn.”
Yeah not falling for that. Literally how they tricked Troy. https://t.co/PK7FxtTRZ0
— bart (@soxbart) June 9, 2026
NOW WHY WOULD CALIFORNIA DO THAT? US attorney accuses California of blocking voter roll audit.
APPARENTLY, E&E WAS A TRADE PUBLICATION WITH ONE CUSTOMER — YOUR TAX DOLLARS:
Politico is closing its website because the Trump administration canceled its $500,000-per-year subscription.
Read that again. 🤯
This is but another example of the government being used by the left to help both prop up its own propaganda machine and line some corrupt POS's… https://t.co/TaKGLrHAxi
— AwakenedOutlaw⚒️ (@AwakenedOutlaw) June 9, 2026
Heinlein wrote that “A government-supported artist is an incompetent whore,” and the same applies to so-called journalists.
THIS IS SOME CEASEFIRE: Iran’s Regime Shoots Down U.S. Helicopter, Trump Says He Will Strike Back.
ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Why Do So Many Prosecutors Let Criminals Who Have Illegally Converted GLOCK Pistols Walk? “In any case, whatever scary or misleading lingo politicians employ to justify these gun bans, it’s just so much noise if criminals who illegally modify guns aren’t actually prosecuted. On May 30, for instance, St. Louis, Missouri police ‘detained two people in [a recklessly-operated] vehicle and found several guns that had been modified with auto-sear switches, converting them to fully automatic firearms.’ The police department publicized the arrests, saying the city was ‘safer today because of the proactive work of these detectives, which led to dangerous weapons being removed from the streets.’ Nevertheless, the dangerous individuals themselves were reportedly and inexplicably back on the streets.”
CHANGE:
Hospitals get billions in federally discounted drugs, and aren't required to pass a penny to patients.
The Trump Administration is trying to fix with a rebate model that creates a paper trail proving the savings actually reach the poor.
The hospital lobby sued to stop it.… pic.twitter.com/0QXpkQm4fy
— Ken Blackwell (@kenblackwell) June 9, 2026
DECARLOS BROWN UPDATE: Iryna’s Killer Found Incompetent to Stand Trial.
BECAUSE OF COURSE:
Outside the Langley Estate in McLean, VA, which sold this year for $13.5 million.
The seller, Joseph Kaempfer, is a billionaire who made his fortune operating shopping malls in Europe.
He's one of the MANY billionaires maxing out to support Graham Platner. https://t.co/2VZhBxPalO pic.twitter.com/W8hWOfD1Zi
— The Maine Wire (@TheMaineWire) June 9, 2026
DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: More than 10,000 applicants vie for 15 affordable apartments in Seattle.
More than 10,000 applicants are vying for 15 rent-reduced apartments under a new Seattle affordable housing program funded by a city tax on workers who make more than $1 million a year.
Amazon, Microsoft and other companies fought the tax, but voters approved it in a 2025 referendum.
The program was expected to create only several hundred apartments a year, as the so-called social housing developer constructed new buildings.
But the first allotment of apartments is even smaller because the social housing developer decided to buy an existing luxury apartment building and won’t require tenants to leave.
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The Social Housing Developer announced last month that it purchased a 150-unit building by the Pike Place Market for around $60 million.
It looks to me like The Social Housing Developer used taxpayer money to buy a luxury apartment building because the profits are better, and that they’ll get around to the less lucrative affordable housing stuff sometime between mañana and inshallah.
THAT’S ABOUT RIGHT:
Starmers world pic.twitter.com/hoppoIXDld
— 🇬🇧British and Proud🇬🇧 (@unionjackspirit) June 9, 2026
BECAUSE IT’S SENSIBLE AND CORRECT, PROBABLY: Why Are California Democrats Trying to Kill Off Prop 209?
VIDEO: Jeremy Clarkson: All UK Farmers Are Reform, None Are Labour (‘Truly Useless’). “Just as with the rest of the world, the most salient feature of UK’s Labour Party is its obvious contempt for people who perform actual labor.”
And no mention of the Tories that I could find.
YES:
Most of us never identified as “white” until you started all this identity politics nonsense.
Every form with a race or ethnicity box (and no multiple choice) has us Googling what to even put. White? Caucasian? American? Non-latino?
If we identified as anything it was our… https://t.co/jiKCalW3sz
— John Ʌ Konrad V (@johnkonrad) June 9, 2026
“This is YOUR identity politics. Never was ours. Maybe in the south when it was run by Democrats but not for most of the nation.”
THIS IS ONE HELLUVA CREW: Meet the Astronauts of Artemis III.