SAY, THAT DOESN’T QUITE JIBE WITH WHAT LEFTIES CLAIM ABOUT EPSTEIN AND TRUMP: Jeffrey Epstein was obsessed with trying to take down Trump before suicide, report says.

Child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein tried to dig up dirt on President Trump in a desperate bid for leniency in the days leading up to his suicide, but was unable to deliver anything of substance, according to a report.

Epstein became fixated on the president after he was arrested in 2019, as his lawyers tried to hammer out a deal with prosecutors if the disgraced financier could provide helpful information about other defendants, according to the New York Times.

During his many marathon meetings with his parade of lawyers while he was locked up in a federal jail in Lower Manhattan, Epstein often had his nose buried in a legal pad scrawling disjointed one-liners about the commander-in-chief, such as “Trump is a total con artist — smoke & mirrors” and “Never had money.”

The deranged scribblings suggest that Epstein had nothing on Trump, who was serving his first term in office at the time.

Now Trump is serving his second term, despite whatever Epstein and his enablers could throw at him.

THAT’S DIFFERENT BECAUSE IT’S RACIST TO MENTION THE PAKISTANI GROOMERS RAPING WHITE GIRLS:

The Left: “Silence is violence!”

The Left about the Rape Gang Inquiry Report: *silence*

— Alice Smith (@TheAliceSmith) June 17, 2026

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: California Gay Business Certification Another Dem Lurch to the Prog Fringe. “Don’t they care about gay business owners who may not be able to provide ‘Proof of domestic partnership health insurance utilization’ or any of the other proof of gayness documents that the Golden State wants before it signs any checks?”

#RESIST:

This morning, I appeared on Good Morning Britain in a live interview about the grooming gangs. Before I went on air, I was told not to mention the race of the perpetrators. I, of course, didn’t listen.

I have now received an apology from the editor.

My interview is below: 👇🏻 pic.twitter.com/Wwj1WV0N49

— S A M M Y Woodhouse (@officialsammyuk) June 16, 2026

THIS SHOULD HARDLY BE NECESSARY, YET HERE WE ARE: Daughters of the American Revolution to Vote on Definition of ‘Woman’ Amid Criticism of Transgender Policy.

The Daughters of the American Revolution currently allows men who identify as women to join, but the group will vote on a resolution to reverse that policy and formally define “woman,” the Daily Signal has learned.

“Members of the Daughters of the American Revolution will take an historic vote to define the word ‘woman’ on Friday, June 26, 2026, at Memorial Continental Hall in Washington, D.C.,” Laura McDonald, founder and president of Daughters Advocating for Restoration and a member of Daughters of the American Revolution since 2018, told the Daily Signal.

“Daughters all across the country have relentlessly pursued all avenues and have succeeded in their demand for this historic vote,” she added.

The resolution, provided to the Daily Signal, argues that the bylaws, which state that eligibility only applies to women, “should be interpreted in accordance with the intention of the society at the time the bylaw was adopted.” There is no question that DAR’s founders in 1890 did not envision men identifying as women as eligible for membership.

Well, good.

ICYMI: Here Comes Herr Starmer’s Next Blow Against Liberty.

THIS IS GETTING TO BE A PROBLEM: A Chinese rocket breaks apart dangerously close to the Starlink constellation.

The breakup occurred shortly after the Zhuque-2E rocket reached orbit on June 9 with two satellites providing direct-to-cell communications, perhaps around the time the upper stage was expected to perform a disposal burn. The US Space Force confirmed the breakup event in a post on space-track.org, a website used by the military to distribute orbit data to the public.

“The tracked pieces are being incorporated into routine conjunction assessment to support spaceflight safety,” the Space Force wrote in an advisory. “There are currently no threats to human spaceflight. Analysis is ongoing.”

So far, the Space Force has not added any of the debris fragments to the official catalog of human-made space objects. Darren McKnight, a senior technical fellow at the orbital intelligence company LeoLabs, told Ars the fragmentation event likely generated 100 to 150 pieces of debris.

China’s attitude toward space junk is so cavalier I was surprised to read the upper stage was even supposed to have a disposal burn.

LEAVE SYDNEY OUT OF THIS: Is Trump’s Iran Deal Sydney Sweeney-Gorgeous — or More Like Your Great Aunt Agnes’ Neighbor’s Daughter?

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): I’m not super excited or concerned with the Iran agreement because my expectation is that Iran will violate it and we’ll bomb them again. It’s an iterative process…

LIVE RESULTS: Runoffs in Georgia and Alabama, Primaries in Oklahoma.

I SITLL MISS MY COMMODORE 64, BUT THIS AT LEAST HAS THE CLASSIC COLOR SCHEME: Commodore’s newest gadget is a flip phone that blocks social media and browsers. “The Commodore Callback 8020 takes advantage of reinvigorated interest in dumb phones. Although Commodore’s phone has Internet connectivity, it blocks web browsers and social media ‘at the system level using patent pending technology,’ the company’s announcement said. The phone supports other Internet-based capabilities, like maps and QR codes.”

It looks something like a late-model Commodore PET shrunk down to flip-phone proportions.

MAGA: McDonald’s is serving fried apple pie again for America’s 250th birthday. “The company said Tuesday it’s bringing back fried apple pies for the first time in more than three decades. They’ll be available at most U.S. restaurants for a limited time starting June 23.”

They never should have taken them off the menu.

PUBLIC OFFICIALS ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS REQUIRE FACT-CHECKING: Nebraska Leaders Need to Check Their Facts on Human Trafficking Problem.

WELL, BYE:

‘I’m Just Not Staying’: Kara Swisher Jumping Ship At CNN As Soon As She Can Over ‘Incompetent’ Ellison Takeoverhttps://t.co/si3QzyFLHu

— Mediaite (@Mediaite) June 16, 2026

ICYMI: Here’s Where to Track (and Predict!) Your Congresscritter’s Insider Trades.

MAYBE I SHOULDN’T HAVE LAUGHED, BUT I DID…:

British life summed up in a football match pic.twitter.com/iYbwHerXPg

— Scott Cheggs (@Scott__Cheggs) June 16, 2026

BECAUSE LEFTISTS. NEXT QUESTION? Why Are So Many ‘Violence Interruptors’ So Violent Themselves?

Law-abiding gun owners are treated by gun control activists as nothing more than nascent criminals. They have to be vetted, surveilled, registered, and treated with ongoing suspicion to the degree they’re tolerated at all.

Meanwhile, these same activists treat actual criminals victimizing others in their own communities as the inevitable byproducts of an unfair system who have to be understood, sympathized with, and repeatedly given the benefit of the doubt. In the case of “violence interrupters,” this extends to providing them with public money and free reign to associate with active lawbreakers. In either case, the gun control activists will insist it’s all for the “greater good.”

Yet it’s increasingly difficult to sustain that delusion when so-called community violence interrupters, along with other high profile anti-gun activists, repeatedly find themselves accused of serious violent crimes, as we have previously reported on, including here and here.

Full details at the link.

MAYBE NEWSOM SHOULD TAKE A BREAK FROM SOCIAL MEDIA AND LAWYER UP:

Maybe they're investigating you because your finances don't add up? Or because your wife's LLC received the deed to a $9.1 million home a week before the LLC was even created – while you still had your Fair Oaks home? How was that LLC capitalized? https://t.co/8GNvkFHnus pic.twitter.com/SIIN1tinv1

— Jennifer Van Laar (@jenvanlaar) June 15, 2026

WELL, WE ARE QUITE LOVABLE: The World Is Re-Discovering America During the World Cup — and Loving It.

NO REGRETS:

Starmer’s government has capably proven one thing—over and over again:

We were right to leave in 1776. https://t.co/i6knQcY8J2

— Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee) June 16, 2026

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Lawsuit filed over rules aimed at Colorado gun dealer records.

A Colorado gun rights organization has filed a federal lawsuit challenging a newly enacted state law giving government officials broad, random access to firearms purchase records without a warrant or even suspicion of wrongdoing.

The Colorado State Shooting Association (CSSA) announced the legal challenge at a June 12 press conference, holding the announcement in the district represented by Senator Tom Sullivan, who CSSA identifies as a chief proponent of Colorado’s ongoing gun rights restrictions. The filing marks the third recent constitutional challenge CSSA has brought against Colorado gun laws.

The impetus for the lawsuit is House Bill 26-1126, signed into law by Governor Polis earlier this month. The law expands record-keeping requirements for firearms dealers and authorizes the Department of Revenue (DOR) to access transaction records maintained by federally licensed gun dealers (FFLs).

Critics say the law contains virtually no guardrails on access.

“There is virtually no limit on where, when, or how many times records may be demanded or for what purpose they may be used,” said David Price, the attorney representing CSSA, describing the law’s reach in legal filings.

And HB 26-1126 is one of the least offensive gun bills Polis signed into law.

A SMALL MEASURE OF ACCOUNTABILITY:

OMG

Denver Public Schools Board just voted UNANIMOUSLY to DISMISS lgbtq teacher Jennifer Honka after she reportedly made female students kiss each other and graded them on it

What is going on in these schools?! pic.twitter.com/UjzgTK0HAQ

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) June 16, 2026

DISPATCHES FROM AIRSTRIP ONE: Here Comes Herr Starmer’s Next Blow Against Liberty. “British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and a top advisor launched a mission to ‘Kill Musk’s Twitter,’ and they might just do it — at least in the U.K. — in their pursuit of protecting children from wrongthink.”

HEH:

The type of women you meet at 3am at Luftwaffle House https://t.co/wUglQ3E7wt

— Siraj Hashmi (@SirajAHashmi) June 16, 2026

DON’T TRY THIS AT HOME: Brandon Herrera Presents The Darwin Awards. “Been a weird week, so here’s something a bit lighter, assuming ‘ighter’ includes ‘idiots mishandling firearms to delete themselves from the gene pool.'”

CHANGE:

🇸🇪 Sweden has passed a "good behavior" law allowing migrants to be deported over non-criminal conduct such as tax debts or extremist links.

This will allow the Swedish government the power to revoke residence permits and deport legal immigrants without a specific criminal… pic.twitter.com/tcCBS9QGa0

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) June 16, 2026