IT USUALLY DOES: Who’s Paying for the Violent L.A. Protests Against ICE? You Are. And It Gets Worse From There

PLAYING WITH FIRE:

Mexico is actively fomenting civil unrest within the illegals it forced across our border for financial gain

When Russia was accused of meddling in American politics it was used as justification for sanctions and possible military action https://t.co/Rucr2702Vg

— Auron MacIntyre (@AuronMacintyre) June 8, 2025

If Beijing wanted to keep us distracted…

YES:

Let this image sear into your soul.

This IS the Democrat vision for America, anarchy in the streets, foreign flags waving, and our values crushed under the weight of chaos.

Lawlessness isn’t the exception, it’s the plan.

Welcome to the Left’s Summer of Love: Part II. pic.twitter.com/59Tl3Krblo

— Wesley Hunt (@WesleyHuntTX) June 8, 2025

THE OBAMAS, REALLY? Is American Exceptionalism Coming Back into Fashion? “A second streaming documentary suggests a new Hollywood commitment to giving the audience what it wants.”

GOODER AND HARDER (WITH A BACKBEAT), CALIFORNIA:

CA Republicans: fighting for more affordable homes, gas, and groceries.

CA Democrats: https://t.co/8afF47EBF4 pic.twitter.com/bzKh2FPc0g

— Kate Sanchez (@KateSanchezCA) June 4, 2025

If they knew how they looked, I imagine they might not be politicians.

FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: He Broke Into Mar-a-Lago to Preach a Little Gospel and Marry Kai. “It’s time for your much-needed break from the serious news, and this week, we learn how not to woo the president’s granddaughter, how not to shoot par on the third hole, and why it had to be the bees.”

THAT’S A SHAME: Second ispace lunar lander presumed lost. “While ispace said the initial phases of the landing attempt went as planned, telemetry displayed on the company’s webcast indicated that the lander reached the surface about one minute and 45 seconds before the scheduled landing time, with a reported speed of 187 kilometers per hour, far too fast for a safe landing. Telemetry was then lost, or no longer displayed, and the company ended the webcast about 25 minutes later with no updates on the lander’s status.”

IT’S TIME FOR VICTORIA TAFT’S The West Coast, Messed Coast™: States Team Up for a Terror Attack. “The California Dems held their annual convention and discovered their limp-wristed Spartacus was a Nazi. The Antifastan Rose Festival is going back to its home base in downtown Portland — with extra security, naturally. We bring you the quintessential East L.A. workout as we “blow off a little steam,” hand-pick some of your comments to highlight, and lead with PNW leftist terrorists making a recent terrorist bombing a West Coast, Messed Coast™ ‘family’ affair.”

CURIOUS: Why Did the Liberal Justices Write Unanimous Conservative Rulings at the Supreme Court? “I consider it far more likely that Kagan, the craftiest of the three, orchestrated this trifecta of rulings as a strategy. The next time conservatives fault Sotomayor, Jackson, or her for an ideologically skewed ruling, Kagan can point to these opinions as evidence of their ‘fairmindedness.'”

The Left does play the long game well — certainly better than Chief Justice Roberts.

BLUE ON BLUE ACTION: Well Meaning but Delusional Democratic Moderates Gather in D.C. to Pick a Fight With the Left.

THE ENEMY OF MY ENEMY: Israel providing guns to Gaza gang to bolster opposition to Hamas.

Israel has been arming a criminal gang in the Gaza Strip as part of an effort to strengthen opposition to Hamas in the enclave, defense sources confirmed on Thursday following remarks on the matter by former defense minister Avigdor Liberman.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu later confirmed the report, saying the move helped save Israeli soldiers’ lives.

Liberman, who heads the opposition Yisrael Beytenu party, told the Kan public broadcaster on Thursday morning that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had unilaterally approved the transfer of weapons to the Abu Shabab clan, an armed gang or militia that is opposed to Hamas’s rule in the Gaza Strip.

No pun intended when I say that I hope that arming a different bunch of Gazans doesn’t backfire.

MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE: SCOTUS Hands Catholic Charities a Religious Freedom Win.

CHANGE: Maine House Votes to Withdraw from National Popular Vote Compact.

In a stunning reversal of last year’s misguided attempt to overthrow the Electoral College, Maine’s House of Representatives recently voted to withdraw the state from the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC). Three Democrats and two Independents joined Republicans in the vote for withdrawal.

The NPVIC is an agreement among member states and the District of Columbia to award their electoral votes to the presidential candidate who wins the national popular vote once states with a majority of electoral votes join. Democrats created it after George W. Bush lost the popular vote in 2000 but beat Al Gore in the Electoral College, assuming the popular vote would continue favoring Democrats, and the Electoral College would continue favoring Republicans. However, Democrats might reconsider this scheme, considering their party’s increasing unpopularity.

If enough states had already joined the NPVIC in 2024, Maine would have been forced to give all its electoral votes to President Donald Trump, despite Kamala Harris winning the state—a point the bill’s Republican sponsor emphasized on the House floor. Furthermore, in a hypothetical 2022 presidential election, Democrats lost the popular vote but would have likely won the Electoral College.

NPV became a bit of a non-starter among Dems after Trump won the popular vote.

BECAUSE OF COURSE: The Empire Strikes Back: Boasberg Rules That Deported Illegals Can Challenge Their Deportations.

JON CALDERA: Gender equity requires hair-affirming health care.

I have never shared this publicly, only with select friends and health care professionals. It is exceedingly personal and frankly awkward. But I know others have the same challenge. For them I share my story.

I was born in the wrong body. I identify differently than what my body outwardly expresses.

The world wrongly sees me as follically-challenged. I’ll use the modern vulgarism; hateful people call me, “bald.”

I didn’t ask to be this way. God put me in the wrong body. And I demand you pay to make me look as I identify.

You see, I identify as a man with wild, glorious, flowing locks of Fabio-like hair. I have the hair of 1970s rock-stars like Roger Daltrey and Robert Plant. That’s who I really am, even if you can’t see past my scalp.

I identify as haired. I mean, downright shaggy. You will accept me as such.

The Colorado legislature and Gov. Jared Polis have taken a brave and enlightened step to give those of us who are trans-haired the right to hair-affirming health care with the passage of House Bill 1309, assuming we only identify as a different gender.

This new law forces insurance companies to pay (by jacking your insurance rates) for a whole slew of “gender affirming health care,” ranging from mental and psychiatric services to just about any cosmetic surgery you could imagine.

Read the whole thing.

DAVID MANNEY: The ICC’s Phantom Authority: Why the United States Doesn’t Answer to Uninvited Judges.

UH-HUH: Biden pushes back on DOJ probe into his admin: ‘I made the decisions during my presidency.’

Biden made the comment after President Trump on Wednesday night directed Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate Biden’s use of an autopen to sign presidential pardons and executive orders, while his administration covered up his health issues.

The order comes as Republicans have been raising questions regarding the former president’s frequent use of an autopen and his declining mental acuity for over a year.

The directive ordered Bondi and her team to probe any activity by Biden’s aides to hide the former president’s mental and physical condition, whether aides made any agreements to cooperatively and falsely deem recorded videos of Biden’s cognitive inability as fake, who authorized the use of the autopen, and what documents the pen was used on.

“Let me be clear: I made the decisions during my presidency. I made the decisions about the pardons, executive orders, legislation, and proclamations. Any suggestion that I didn’t is ridiculous and false,” Biden said in a statement on Wednesday.

That’s what Jill and Hunter told him, anyway.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: While Trump and Musk Spatted, SCOTUS Hemorrhaged Unanimous Decisions. “Ever since I have been politically aware, Mexico has been blaming all of the problems it doesn’t export to the United States, on the United States. It’s wearisome. We’re long past the time when Mexico needs to deal with its criminals as if they’re criminals, rather than letting them continue to run the country.”

OH, NO! ANYWAY…: DOGE layoffs may have compromised the accuracy of government data.

“Accuracy of government data” sounds like a punchline, but this is CNN, so you know they’re trying to sound earnest while peddling party-line BS.

D-DAY ANNIVERSARY: The Great Crusade and the Men Who Made It Work.

“JUDGE HALTS TRUMP” IS THE NEW “DOG BITES MAN”: Judge halts Trump’s proclamation to suspend new international student visas at Harvard hours after university filed amended lawsuit. “The temporary restraining order issued late Thursday by US District Judge Allison Burroughs comes hours after the university urged the judge to step in on an emergency basis to block a proclamation Trump signed a day earlier that suspends international visas for new students at the nation’s oldest and wealthiest university. Foreign students make up roughly a quarter of the school’s student body.”

I’LL GO WAY OUT ON A LIMB AND GUESS AN EV IS TO BLAME: Cargo Ship Carrying 3,000 Vehicles, Including 800 EVs, Burning Out of Control Off the Coast of Alaska.

MORE NUKES IS GOOD NUKES: Army to lead nuclear microreactor development to power bases.

I THOUGHT THE FIRST RULE OF AI FIGHT CLUB WAS TO NEVER TALK ABOUT AI FIGHT CLUB: Lockheed Martin launches ‘AI Fight Club’ to test algorithms for warfare. “The initiative comes amid Pentagon efforts to accelerate AI adoption as military competitors, particularly China, invest heavily in autonomous weapons systems and AI-powered warfare capabilities.”

IT’S MY THURSDAY ESSAY FOR VIP SUBSCRIBERS: From the Maxim Gun to the Maxim AI.