THE HORROR… THE HORROR…:
LOS ANGELES WOMAN SLAMS ICE: "I have friends texting me…my gardener didn't show up, housekeeper didn't show…farmer's market is closed…everyone's scared…you're gonna have to do your own dishes, clean your own house, mow your own lawn!"pic.twitter.com/yLQPoCUS6d
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) June 15, 2025
“Crazy Ladies Lecturing Their Selfie Cameras” is the worst show on TV.
“LOVE TRUMPS HATE” OR WHATEVER: Brookline Police launch hate crime investigation after brick thrown through kosher grocery store window.
“This morning we received a report from the owner of The Butcherie that a brick had been thrown through their window overnight,” Brookline Police said in a statement Sunday. … “Written on the face of the brick in large red letters were the words ‘Free Palestine.’”
Just after midnight Sunday, police said, multiple suspects in masks approached the local kosher grocery store at 428 Harvard St. from Coolidge Street and threw the brick through the window.
The preliminary investigation indicates that there were at least two suspects in the incident, though the exact number was no confirmed, Brookline Police stated. The suspects allegedly fled back down Coolidge Street to an unknown location after the vandalization.
No other businesses appear to have been targeted “as of now,” the police said Sunday.
Brookline Police identified the case as a “hate crime investigation” with malicious damage of property.
More to come, probably.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: You Know, I Rather Enjoy Being on the Side of Patriotism. “It was rather warm like that here all weekend, so we didn’t have a much of a ‘No Kings Day’ presence here in the Old Pueblo. Apparently, the kids were successful: I checked, and we don’t have a king. In fact, there are no extra kings anywhere in the world as of yesterday. Well done, ‘No Kings’ marchers.”
SOCIAL JUSTICE KILLS:
New in Washington Post:
During Covid, scientists at CDC selected policies that promoted “social justice” even when CDC data showed this would cause more deaths. pic.twitter.com/ivGazYGx88
— Kevin Bass PhD MS (@kevinnbass) June 16, 2025
Lives matter less than their hare-brained ideas — but there’s nothing new about that.
OY: Iranian media claims to hit Israeli planes, but footage was actually a video game.
Iran initially claimed to have shot down a jet and captured a pilot. The news was denied by Israel, which spoke bluntly of fake news. A few hours later, a new announcement from Iranian sources: an Israeli plane was shot down and there is also a video. The clip bounces on social media, showing a jet being hit by anti-aircraft fire.
There is something wrong, however. The doubts are more than well-founded. The clip is nothing more than an excerpt from a video game, Arma 3. The realistic images, among other things, are cyclically re-proposed to document alleged jet shootdowns. Further detail: the plane inserted in the video game is not even Israeli but, apparently, it would be a Russian model.
Then there’s this:
This image is circulating in Irani telegram channels. Some say its fake, but I say its proof of 3 meter tall Iranians around a super sized F-35, which until now was top secret. pic.twitter.com/IUKzccWTLY
— Montoya 🎗️ (@montoya_test) June 15, 2025
Losers glom on to what they need to, I suppose.
NICE WORK, FELLAS: Israeli Car Bombs Take Out Iranian Nuclear Scientists.
DECLINE IS A CHOICE:
Los Angeles resident records what the mall looks like right now in Downtown LA
Every store is boarded up and fortified. This is California, this is supposed to be one of the most prestigious iconic places on earth
Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass have made it a 3rd world country pic.twitter.com/ExCrwYUO4I
— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) June 16, 2025
Sad.
WEATHER VANES TURN AROUND LESS OFTEN: After brief moderation, California’s Newsom swings back to left with ICE protests.
When Newsom ran for governor in 2018 and for re-election in 2022, his platform included progressive causes like universal healthcare, climate change policy, criminal justice reform, and expansion of social welfare programs.
While presumably well-meaning, Newsom’s tenure as governor has exacerbated many of the state’s challenges like prolific homelessness and rising crime. As of 2023, California is home to over 180,000 homeless people, including over 10,000 veterans. Public safety has taken a demonstrable hit since California’s passage of Proposition 47, which, in addition to making drug possession no longer a felony, also classifies five property offenses for which the dollar value is less than $950 as misdemeanors: 1) theft, 2) receiving stolen property, 3) shoplifting, 4) check forgery, and 5) writing bad checks. Before the passage of the proposition, these offenses could be charged as either felonies or misdemeanors.
Prior to his term as California’s governor, in San Francisco, where Newsom was mayor from 2004 to 2011, shoplifting and property crimes spiked, with police reporting a 15% increase in theft-related incidents from 2022 to 2024.
Additionally, it is increasingly harder for residents of the Golden State to purchase a home. California’s median home price has surged to over $900,000, pricing out many middle-class families. Newsom’s policies have also increased taxes and regulatory burdens on businesses.
“Presumably” is doing an awful lot of work in that second graf.
THERE HE GOES AGAIN: What the Hell Happened to Tucker Carlson?
IRAN IS NOW IN THE FO STAGE OF FAFO:
Israel is now in a military position to bomb Iran slowly, methodically and selectively for months on end.
Iran is now militarily powerless to stop Israeli air raids and it is running out of missile launchers⬇️ https://t.co/HGT2Z6rjqN
— Trent Telenko (@TrentTelenko) June 15, 2025
Earlier this evening, IDF reported Iranian preparations for another wave of ballistic missile launches at Israel, but nothing seems to have come from it. Indications are that the IAF can now go after the mobile launchers in real time — including at least one disguised as a semi.
Update: Looks like Tehran had better luck with a second wave tonight.
— OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical) June 16, 2025
Related (From Ed):
The same people making excuses for Russia are now making excuses for Iran. And they’re demonizing sovereign countries for defending their people. They cloak themselves in concern for potential US involvement because that resonates with others. But that doesn’t explain their…
— Randy Barnett (@RandyEBarnett) June 15, 2025
THEY’RE A BIT LOST WITHOUT IT: How The L.A. Riots Demonstrate Democrat-Media Complex’s Loss Of Narrative Control. “It’s politics all the way down. When you have an entire political movement willing to blur the line between rioting and ‘a cry of hope,’ the unfortunate implication here is that the violence might be tolerable if the politics were different.”
THEY ARE NOT THE SAME:
Obvious, but not always said: Israel is unmistakably striking military targets in Iran. Iran, as usual, is aiming at civilian targets. Yes there will be civilians killed in the Israeli strikes, but they are not the targets. They are Iran's. https://t.co/UMFXypflkg
— Brit Hume (@brithume) June 13, 2025
I know some people are so broken they will never be able to muster a compliment for Trump, but the level of misdirection and coordination with Israel on this Iran attack was brilliant. Trump used his public platforms to lull Iran into complacency while privately coordinating with Israel. Trump and Netanyahu went so far as to meet privately this week to finalize things while publicly both leaking that Trump was urging restraint.
The problem here for the press corps is that so many of them hate Trump so much, they cannot nuance the cleverness of this. They must either approach it as Trump is a failure who even Israel does not respect or Trump is a liar who lied to everyone to get Iran.
The reality is everyone honest knows Iran has always been the liar, claiming it had no nuclear ambitions even as it plotted a bomb. The Obama/Biden policies helped Iran, which embedded agents within the Biden Administration. And Trump has turned the tables on it all, including probably taking advantage of Iran’s embedded agents to amplify his misdirection.
And now Iran has been set back significantly and the world is safer today.
But scream about Orange Man Bad if you must. The press corps that does not deal with the truth of what happened is just going to further discredit itself. They couldn’t detect Biden’s decline and cannot accept Trump’s calculated misdirection.
It’s amazing what allies can accomplish when they actually act like allies.
FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: He Called 911 After Trying to Pay for WHAT? “It’s time for your much-needed break from the serious news, and this week, we’ll learn when not to call 911, how not to dine and dash, and all about California Man’s weird smuggling operation.”
DATA REPUBLICAN FOLLOWS THE MONEY SO YOU DON’T HAVE TO:
🚨 JUST RELEASED: Follow the Money Behind the No Kings Rally 🚨
DataRepublican has launched an interactive, open-source map showing how your tax dollars flow to organizations involved in the No Kings rally.
🔍 I tracked funding from federal sources to final recipients,… pic.twitter.com/UWdYH3DVYO
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) June 12, 2025
Full text:
🔍 I tracked funding from federal sources to final recipients, prioritizing direct paths (not via DAFs) whenever possible.
👉 IMPORTANT: most paths still went through Donor-Advised Funds (DAFs)—the black box of the nonprofit world. Unfortunately, it’s a common and opaque funding structure that deserves scrutiny.
💥 Explore it for yourself:
Click on “Federal Grant Flow” for any NoKings organization to open any visual flowchart, tracing dollars from origin to destination.
🖼️ Also, you can save any graph as an SVG and take it wherever you need.📌 I’ll keep updating the database as more EINs come in. Got a group to investigate? Send it my email address with an EIN.
🧠 Let’s shine a light on influence laundering.
Here’s the link to her full report.
IT’S TIME FOR VICTORIA TAFT’S West Coast, Messed Coast™ LA Riot Edition, Where All Californians Ask, ‘Senator Who?’
NEWS YOU CAN USE (NEW YORK AND IDAHO EDITION): Aurora alert! Moderate geomagnetic storm could spark northern lights as far south as New York and Idaho on June 14.
Enjoy the show if you’re able.
LEADERSHIP MATTERS:
That is so weird that they would take credit for something that they are 100% responsible for. #Journalisming.
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) June 13, 2025
MAKE CALIFORNIA MEXICO AGAIN: LA riots are descending into ethnic conflict.
The Right’s preferred take on the anti-ICE riots in Los Angeles is that they’ve brought together the full spectrum of hard-Left ideals — what Mary Harrington has labelled the “Omnicause”. At National Review, Jeffrey Blehar sighed that in LA, “all the radicalisms combine into one.” Some of the riots’ college-age protagonists no doubt accept that framing, donning kaffiyehs to signal that they are united in one universal struggle against white supremacy (or whatever).
Yet the most dominant images and slogans from the riots suggest that the motive force might be something else entirely. Consider the numerous photos and videos of balaclava-clad rioters waving the flags of Mexico and other Latin-American nations and shouting slogans such as “Viva La Raza!” — long live the race. Rightly understood, these symbols and watchwords evoke not progressivism, but instead nationalism and reactionary cultural revanchism, with Mexico and Hispanic identity as their objects of devotion.
What we’re dealing with, in other words, is a scenario more akin to banlieue riots in France, in which a subset of the population feels little to no attachment to their country of citizenship and is bent on claiming — or reclaiming — space for other national or civilisational identities. Every few years, rioters claim the Parisian suburb of Saint-Denis for Algeria or Islam. Likewise, LA is being claimed for the spiritual geography of Hispanidad.
Read the whole thing.
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