FINGERS CROSSED, I SUPPOSE:
Whether or not there is mass rioting in response to a Karmelo guilty verdict depends entirely on whether or not the Democrat Party (who would have to fund and organize it, like they always do) thinks that Karmelo is a sympathetic and useful martyr for them. I don’t think he is.…
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) June 9, 2026
One the one hand, riots are bad. On the other, they tend to turn off normies who don’t much care for them or for convicted murderers.
OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY: Newsom targets undocumented Californians with new healthcare cost increase.
At the end of 2023, Gov. Gavin Newsom framed it as a matter of principle when under his administration, California became the first state in the nation to pay for undocumented immigrants to use Medicaid.
“In California, we believe everyone deserves access to quality, affordable health care coverage – regardless of income or immigration status,” Newsom said in a statement to ABC News at the time.
People flocked to the system, with about 1.5 million undocumented Californians using the state’s Medi-Cal healthcare by November 2025. But now Newsom and fellow Democrats in Sacramento are walking back on their promise to provide healthcare access to all.
Lawmakers have slashed the program in a series of cuts over the last year with more expected to come. In January, the state froze any new undocumented adults from applying for the program. Dental benefits for undocumented people are set to expire in July. And Newsom’s latest budget proposal, released in May, calls for increasing premiums from a planned $30 to $50 for undocumented people starting in July next year.
Illegal aliens paying a lousy $50 premium for taxpayer-subsidized insurance, and SF Gate frames it as “It’s getting harder for undocumented people in California to get insurance.”
You cannot despise these people enough.
IT’S EITHER THAT OR LAMPPOSTS — OR SUBMISSION:
This is the way https://t.co/8NTAO9zuPl
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 9, 2026
I’D HATE TO SEE HER GO; SHE RUNS A TIGHT SHIP: Susie Wiles on reported White House departure: ‘I am not going anywhere.’
“After an accomplishment filled week by President Trump, I have the pleasure of reading a piece of Friday fiction, courtesy of the Daily Mail,” Wiles wrote on social platform X.
“To be crystal clear, I am not going anywhere. I am honored and proud to serve President Trump, proud of our team and remain fully committed to advancing his agenda on behalf of the American people.
The Daily Mail, citing five sources, reported Friday that Wiles was preparing to leave the administration after the November elections. The longtime GOP operative ran Trump’s successful 2024 campaign and is the first woman to serve as White House chief of staff.
The Daily Mail, eh?
FRAUD ALL THE WAY DOWN (COLORADO EDITION):
Colorado's Medicaid program paid millions of taxpayer dollars on behalf of nearly 9,000 deceased enrollees, according to a federal audit.
Yet instead of taking responsibility, Colorado democrats fought the findings and refused repayment.@GovofCO and Denver Democrats are… pic.twitter.com/VOHGykxqT0
— Congressman Gabe Evans (@repgabeevans) June 8, 2026
It’s difficult to imagine a reason not to investigate improper payments except for being in on the action.
TOO BIG TO STEAL: Republican Steve Hilton Advances to Gubernatorial General Election.
I’VE SEEN THE VIDEO, AND IT ISN’T EASY TO WATCH…:
“It’s the billionaires”
“It’s the alt-right echo chambers”
“It’s the manosphere influencers”
“It’s the…”Actually it’s the videos of Africans beheading people in the street that are making people more right-wing https://t.co/PEsktVx3Go
— Prufrock 🧃 (@JAlfredJuicebox) June 9, 2026
…but if it “radicalizes” just one more Briton into rejecting his country’s cultural destruction, then it’s worth it.
Visegrád 24 posted it here.
FORGET IT, JAKE:
Accepting the mail-in results at face value is just another of the Left’s endless humiliation rituals.
— Stephen Green (@VodkaPundit) June 9, 2026
BALL IS IN YOUR COURT, DOJ: House GOP Report Shows How Walz, Ellison Fueled Minnesota Fraud.
STILL FURIOUS ABOUT THIS:
They used Covid to nuke small businesses, opened up commercial real estate and then brought in 20 million people in 4 years while giving them federally backed loans Americans didn't qualify for to buy up those businesses and any available housing.
You should be furious about…
— Paul (@WomanDefiner) June 9, 2026
DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: Penn Station slashing suspect was free despite eerily similar 2022 attack.
The homeless madman who allegedly slashed five people with a double-edged knife in Penn Station carried out an eerily similar attack in New Jersey just four years ago, The Post has learned.
But despite the victim being grievously injured in that 2022 Newark stabbing, Hector Deleon, 51, was given just two years of probation as a sentence, court records show.
The victim in that heinous attack, a man who wasn’t publicly identified, landed in the trauma ward, where he received nine stitches to close the knife wound on the left side of his neck, a criminal complaint from February 2022 shows.
Still, Deleon doesn’t appear to have spent any significant time behind bars before Sunday evening — when he allegedly went on a random rampage in the busy Midtown commuter hub, according to law-enforcement sources and witnesses.
The mentally ill don’t belong on the streets.
THE NEEDS OF THE PARTY ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE, COMRADE:
2023. Immediately after her interview with Trump was broadcast, Kristen Welker "fact checked" Trump about his Jan 6th claim that the Mayor of DC had called for the National Guard and that they were turned away.
Welker apparently forgot about her reporting from January 5th, 2021. pic.twitter.com/1knxBAGBrf
— MAZE (@mazemoore) June 7, 2026
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Scott Pelley’s Podcast Tears Made My Schadenfreude Cup Runneth Over. “Pelley is such an arrogant piece of garbage that he probably thought that he was untouchable and wouldn’t be fired. He must have had amnesia regarding Dan Rather. He also must not have appreciated the resolve that the new sheriff in town at CBS News has.”
CHANGE: Once on the Brink, U.S. Steel’s Oldest Plant Is Getting a Big Renovation.
Tokyo-based Nippon Steel, which bought U.S. Steel last year in a controversial deal, said it expects to spend $2 billion to $2.5 billion at Mon Valley Works over the next three years to replace the equipment that rolls steel. The investment is more than double Nippon Steel’s original cost estimate for the project.
Replacing the current 88-year-old hot-strip mill at Mon Valley will lead to more domestically produced steel. The work is expected to generate as many as 6,000 jobs and up to $1.7 billion in economic activity for Pennsylvania, company executives said.
“The Mon Valley project will go a long way to make people feel like there’s a future here,” U.S. Steel Chief Executive David Burritt said in an interview. “We’ve got great partners with Nippon Steel. These investments would not have been able to happen without it.”
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Burritt said U.S. Steel on its own couldn’t afford the costly upgrades and maintenance needed at Mon Valley, which consists of three plants in separate towns south of Pittsburgh.In early 2025, then President Biden blocked the sale to the Japanese company over potential national-security risks. President Trump resurrected the deal and approved it on the condition that Nippon Steel increased its investments in U.S. Steel’s existing plants to $11 billion.
The White House also gets a veto over “plant closings, the transfer of production out of the country and other operational changes,” which in theory should prevent the industry from getting re-hollowed out.
WELL, WHEN YOU PUT IT LIKE THAT…:
Nithya Raman even LOST her own district (CD-4) to Spencer Pratt and Karan Bass, but you expect us to believe she beat them BOTH by winning 40% of the vote in the rest of the city by mail-in ballots? 🧐 pic.twitter.com/H43ws28F0J
— Gays For Trump (@GaysForTrump) June 8, 2026
I KEEP HOPING FOR AN UPDATE ON THESE TWO, BUT ALAS, NOT YET: Score Two More Big Wins for Israel Vs. Iran… Maybe.
VOTING FOR YOUR OWN DESTRUCTION:
The thing is — it keeps winning power in major American cities. It keeps cannibalizing the Democratic Party. It may not be popular in opinion polls, but it is unstoppable in intramural contests within institutions. https://t.co/iYlTEP7ALp
— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) June 9, 2026
SPACE: A Falcon 9 booster turns 5 years old—and just set a remarkable reuse record.
A little more than five years ago, a shiny white Falcon 9 rocket made its debut flight, boosting a Cargo Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station. Over the next year, it would launch a pair of astronaut missions and a handful of commercial spacecraft.
But since then, this first stage booster, designated B 1067, has mostly flown Starlink missions. It has launched them one after another, always returning safely to a drone ship before undergoing refurbishment and flying again. Sometimes it has flown twice in a single month.
On Monday morning, B 1067 once again took to the skies, launching 29 Starlink Internet satellites into low-Earth orbit from Florida. Upon landing on the A Shortfall of Gravitas drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean, the vehicle completed its 35th mission overall, retaining its title as fleet leader for SpaceX.
The successful launch brings SpaceX closer to its most recently stated goal of qualifying its Falcon 9 first stage vehicles to support 40 missions each. Since that goal was outlined more than two years ago and the company has continued flying its experienced boosters safely across dozens of missions, SpaceX may be intending to push past 40 missions.
To date, the only company in the world breaking SpaceX’s records is SpaceX.
That aside, the goal is to get Starship up to hundreds of flights with minimal refurbs in between. The lessons really only SpaceX has learned (the hard way) on reusability for Falcon 9 ought to be a huge leg up on the second generation of reusable rockets.
HOMESTEADING ON THE NAVAL OBSERVATORY GROUNDS: Are the Vances Adding More Than Just a New Baby to Their Family?
I LIKE THEIR WHOLE-BEAN ESPRESSO: Italian coffee giant Lavazza launches single-serve tablets to make espresso in the U.S.
The Italian coffee giant unveiled Tablì last year and launched the new brewing system first in Italy. The tablets, made of compressed ground coffee without a coating, binder or gelatin, can only be used with a Tablì coffee machine made by Lavazza. Each tablet is marked with the words “100% coffee. At launch, the tabs will come in five varieties: espresso, double espresso, decaf espresso, super crema and lungo, or a “long shot” espresso brewed with more water.
“The result that we’ve been able to achieve was through a very complicated industrial process in order to be able to have [the coffee tablet] very compact, to be able to deliver it without destroying it, to have it able to work in a coffee machine,” Lavazza CEO Antonio Baravalle told CNBC.
Tablì is the result of Lavazza’s acquisition of the Italian startup Caffemotive in 2020. The new system took five years of development, more than 15 patents and a new production facility in Gattinara, Italy, to bring it to market.
Anything that speeds up the delivery of caffeine with decent flavor is worth trying once.
REALLY HARD, THAT’S HOW: How Ukraine Is Hammering Russian Logistics.
THEY STILL MIGHT FINISH BEFORE CALIFORNIA: Peru election result close as vote counting continues. “It put the left-wing Roberto Sánchez on a marginal lead of 50.3% of the vote, compared with the right-wing Keiko Fujimori on 49.7%. While not an official count, the tally has been an accurate indicator of the final result in previous polls.”
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