ALL THE BEST PEOPLE SWORE UP AND DOWN THIS KIND OF THING NEVER HAPPENS: More Frio Vote Fraud Ring Suspects Named. “Remember how they arrested six people in that Frio County voting fraud case? Well, now they’re looking at six more.”
Author Archive: Stephen Green
June 3, 2025
THERE ALWAYS SEEMS TO BE ONE: Biden Judge Dismisses Newsom’s Tariff Suit Against Trump — But There’s a Catch.
GET UP AND MOVE: Colon cancer recurrence and deaths cut 28% by simple exercise, trial finds. “Any type of aerobic exercise works for the improvements, study finds.”
TRUE, BUT…: Ukraine’s Drone Attack on Russia’s Strategic Bombers Will Not Materially Alter the Military Situation.
As someone who lives practically under the shadow of Cheyenne Mountain and within spitting distance of the Air Force Academy, I appreciate Russia having fewer strategic bombers.
Also:
Solid opperation.
The layered and interlocking 2nd and 3rd order effects–and the resulting resource overhead to Russia–are the real value of this attack.
The fact there are even fewer high-demand/low-density heavy bombers to carry cruise missiles to attack UKR is just a… https://t.co/sL0mUMtamq
— cdrsalamander (@cdrsalamander) June 1, 2025
I wanted a strong Russia as a counter to China. What I got was a weak Russia increasingly beholden to China. So it goes.
JONATHAN TURLEY: Marco Rubio declares war on the global censors.
This week, Secretary of State Marco Rubio stopped feeding the crocodile.
On May 28, 2025, Rubio shocked many of our allies by issuing a new visa restriction policy that bars foreign nationals deemed “responsible for censorship of protected expression” in the U.S.
The new policy follows a major address by Vice President J.D. Vance in Munich challenging our European allies to end their systematic attacks on free speech. Vance declared, “If you are running in fear of your own voters, there is nothing America can do for you. Nor, for that matter, is there anything that you can do for the American people that elected me and elected President Trump.”
At the time, I called the speech “Churchillian” in drawing a bright line for the free world. Rubio’s action is no less impressive and even more impactful.
Europe has faced no consequences for its aggressive efforts at transnational censorship. Indeed, this should not be a fight for the administration alone. Congress should explore reciprocal penalties for foreign governments targeting American companies or citizens for engaging in protected speech.
After Vance spoke in Munich, I spoke in Berlin at the World Forum, where European leaders gathered in one of the most strikingly anti-free speech conferences I have attended. This year’s forum embraced the slogan “A New World Order with European Values.”
That “new world order” is based on an aggressive anti-free speech platform that has been enforced for years by the European Union. At the heart of this effort is the Digital Services Act, a draconian law that allows for sweeping censorship and speech prosecutions. Most importantly, it has been used by the EU to threaten American corporations for their failure to censor Americans and others on social media sites.
The EU, like Communist China, is now in the business of exporting authoritarianism — and we’re under no obligation to buy.
RELIGION OF PEACE UPDATE:
BREAKING: Hamas has openly announced “field executions” of Palestinians who went to the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation for food.
They’re publicly murdering their own people for seeking aid—and the media somehow keeps “missing” the story. pic.twitter.com/km627Fc3jx
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) June 3, 2025
Clearly, they were asking for it, accepting actual aid instead of paying Hamas a ridiculous markup for stolen aid.
NOT IF WE HAVE POWERFUL ENOUGH SPACE LASERS: Space assets could be held ransom. Will we have any choice but to pay? “There is an unaccounted-for gap in current space cybersecurity policies that omits the potentially devastating effects of widespread ransomware attacks on space assets. The technical capability to execute a ransomware attack against a satellite is there. Once the first malicious actor successfully ransoms a satellite and receives payment, the floodgates will open. Because of the economics of space assets, owners and operators will likely be forced into a position where payment is their only option and the technical and policy cybersecurity communities are not ready.”
MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: It’s (Past) Time for Trump to Shut Down TikTok. “Why won’t Trump 47 enforce the law Trump 45 lobbied for?”
INCOMING UPDATE TO YOUR NEWSPEAK DICTIONARIES:
ORWELLIAN: The New York Times, NPR, The Washington Post, and Axios are now calling illegal aliens "unauthorized immigrants." pic.twitter.com/KZZRP2exn7
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) June 3, 2025
Please place all previous references to “undocumented immigrants” in the memory hole. If you’re still using “illegal aliens,” report immediately to Room 101.
WELL, THAT’S A RELIEF: The Milky Way may not collide with neighboring galaxy Andromeda after all.’
A titanic cosmic collision between the Milky Way and its closest large galactic neighbor, Andromeda, may not be as sure a thing as scientists thought.
Previously, it had been proposed that there was a good chance that Andromeda and our galactic home, which are moving together, would meet in around 5 billion years and merge to form a daughter galaxy dubbed “Milkomeda.”
New research has revealed that there is a much smaller chance that these two spiral galaxies will slam into each other and merge over the next 10 billion years than was believed. In fact, it’s about 50/50.
If in five billion years, we can’t come up with a better name than Milkomeda, why even bother going on?
THEY CAN’T STAY THIS STUPID FOREVER, BUT THEY CERTAINLY SEEMED TO DETERMINED TO STAY THIS STUPID FOR A LONG TIME: Wounded Democratic Party Needs Help, Calls in the Trans Cavalry. Hilarity Ensues.
PAPER BALLOTS:
Poland used only paper ballots in Sunday’s presidential election and finished counting all 21 million votes within 8 hours of polling stations closing.
The voter turnout was 72% 🇵🇱 pic.twitter.com/ch9YR1lagz
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) June 2, 2025
Previously: 5 Ways California’s Month-Long Vote Counting Process Invites Fraud.
MORE MULTIMILLION-DOLLAR SELF-DEALING BETWEEN THE BUREAUCRACY AND SO-CALLED NGOS: Labor Department Confirms Bureaucrat on Leave Amid Woke Conflict of Interest Questions.
A nonprofit that supports unions across the world received extra infusions of cash from a federal agency after one of the union group’s employees took a leadership role at the agency. She later went on to serve as the agency’s acting chief of staff.
Lauren Stewart spent 15 years at the Solidarity Center, a left-leaning nonprofit that supports unions, advocated for “diversity, equity, and inclusion,” and champions “climate justice.” She joined a subagency in the Labor Department in 2022, and in the years since, that agency awarded the Solidarity Center millions more than it had under previous administrations. A Labor Department official told The Daily Signal that Stewart had been placed on administrative leave in April.
Stewart’s role at the department’s Bureau of International Labor Affairs draws increased scrutiny after the Solidarity Center sued the bureau for canceling the grants under the Trump administration.
Much more at the link.
ENERGY DOMINANCE: Trump Aims to Overhaul Energy Approval Process.
SUSTAINABILITY:
This is not Apple, Tesla or even Nvidia. It’s the US National Debt. pic.twitter.com/xTkPxcKKfn
— Not Jerome Powell (@alifarhat79) June 2, 2025
“How did your country go bankrupt?”
“Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.”
-Ernest Hemingway, possibly.
YES: Open the door to new worlds: Poor kids have a right to Shakespeare, Bach, Plato.
There is nothing compassionate about teaching an easier, more familiar, “culturally relevant” curriculum to disadvantaged children, writes Mark McCourt on EMaths, a British blog. It’s condescension.
Speaking the language of care, some argue that children in poverty “should be shielded from the rigour of canonical texts, or complex scientific ideas, or abstract mathematics, he writes. “That Shakespeare is beyond them. That Bach is meaningless to them. That the laws of thermodynamics belong to someone else’s world.”
School “is meant to offer new worlds,” writes McCourt. “It is meant to take the child by the hand and lead them to places they never knew existed, places beyond their post code, places they have every right to belong.”
If certain educators wanted* kids — and Western Civilization — left behind, what would they do any differently?
*They want it.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Dems Are Getting Way Out Over Their Skis About 2026 Midterms. “For most of my adult life, the Democrats have been a formidable political machine, developing years-long strategies, while the GOP reacted to everything in the moment. That party no longer exists. The Democrats in Washington are a collection of grown children who are trying to live out some naively ignorant Che t-shirt fantasies. Even with all of the help that they get from their propagandists, I can’t rule out their ability to completely blow whatever opportunities that might be given them for next year.”
CHANGE?
BREAKING: Ken Paxton is beating John Cornyn by 22 points in the Texas Republican Primary Election for Senate.
John Cornyn: 28%
Ken Paxton: 50%John Cornyn is the incumbent.
Poll conducted May 27-28. pic.twitter.com/riB94f9TsT
— Corey A. DeAngelis, school choice evangelist (@DeAngelisCorey) June 3, 2025
CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Supreme Court Denies Cert in Snope, Ocean State Second Amendment Cases.
The Supreme Court has denied cert in two key Second Amendment cases. Snope v. Brown (Maryland’s “assault weapons” ban) and Ocean State Tactical v. Rhode Island (“high capacity” magazine ban). The Supreme Court has forsaken us, at least for now.
As Josh Blackman wrote at Reason’s Volokh Conspiracy . . .
“Justices Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch would have granted. Justice Barrett, as usual said nothing. Justice Kavanaugh wrote a very unusual statement respecting the denial of the petition. The first two paragraphs explain why the Maryland decision was ‘questionable.’ If you read these parts, you would expect a grant. Indeed, Kavanaugh as circuit judge had found that the District of Columbia’s ban on AR-15s was unconstitutional.
Kavanaugh says the Court wants more time for percolation, apparently.
As someone living in a state dominated by Democrats determined to legislate away my Second Amendment rights, I’d appreciate a little less “percolation” and a little more SCOTUS action.
MATT TAIBBI: Jake Tapper’s Biden Book is Hilarious and Insane.
Holy catfish! I thought from online buzz that Original Sin was a mea culpa. It would own press failures to cover Joe Biden’s infirmity in a super-belated version of Canadian comic Bruce McCullough’s “I’m sorry I caused all that cancer” routine. But Original Sin isn’t that. It’s much crazier! Instead of a dreary and predictable book-length excuse for thousands of media professionals simultaneously whiffing on the most obvious story in history, it’s an ambitious book-length effort to absolve all concerned, pin an industry’s coverage mistake on its President Droolcup subject (a gambit many times ballsier than blaming one reporter, à la Judith Miller), all while additionally swirling a new storm system of bullshit storylines to delay more serious questions about things like who was just president for four years.
It’s the opposite of a mea culpa and the literary degree of difficulty is awesome, equivalent to a blind unicyclist trying to juggle six chainsaws. Do Jake and Alex pull it off? They don’t! But they sure leave a hell of a lot of blood on stage.
Exit quote: “Tapper right now is getting toasted by everyone from Jon Stewart to Hunter Biden for saying things like, ‘I do not accept that I was part of a cover-up,’ but I almost feel like that’s too serious a criticism for a book like this. People should more find it funny, for its sheer irrelevance and circle-jerkness.”
Taibbi is talking about Tapper, but that’s an apt description of the entire Democrat-Media Complex.
SARAH HOYT’S SHOCKED FACE WAS LAST SEEN SPORTING MS-13 TATS: Here’s a Shocking Look at Who’s Been Hiding Out in Massachusetts. “United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced on Monday that throughout the Month of May, they arrested nearly 1,500 people who are in the country illegally. Many of them were affiliated with transnational organized crime and various gangs, like MS-13, Tren de Aragua, Trinitarios, and 18th Street. Around 800 had criminal records in the U.S., and just under 300 of them had deportation orders from a judge but failed to actually leave the country.”
June 2, 2025
IT’S BEEN SO LONG SINCE WE HAD A GENUINELY PRO-AMERICAN SECRETARY OF STATE THAT I’D FORGOTTEN HOW MUCH GOOD ONE COULD ACCOMPLISH:
Terrorist family members and supporters are now in the purview of the Secretary of State.
This is the correct way to clean out our country.
Effect on family members is the primary source of potential deterrence for terrorism. pic.twitter.com/L1wWegqAGb
— Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 (@MarinaMedvin) June 2, 2025
CORN, POPPED: Harris Mulls 2028 Run as States and Party Grow Restless.