IT’S GOOD TO BE THE NOMENKLATURA: Pelosi raked in millions last year — and her portfolio out-performed every large hedge fund with stunning returns.
Author Archive: Stephen Green
June 25, 2025
THE DOOR WAS LOCKED: When Pain Clinics Disappear and Lawmakers Dismiss the Fallout.
NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: FDA, CDC advisers say lost pregnancies higher than expected following early mRNA vaccination.
Not yet peer-reviewed, the study analyzed hundreds of thousands of Israeli medical records on pregnant women in the three years before and after SARS-CoV-2 emerged in China, finding 43% more “observed-to-expected” fetal losses per 100 pregnancies — 13 instead of nine — when the first mRNA dose is taken between 8-13 weeks’ pregnancy.
Pregnant women who took a booster between 8-13 weeks lost an additional two pregnancies per 100, a “potential dose-response relationship,” the study said.
By using pregnant women who got flu vaccines between 8-27 weeks and women who received either vaccine before their pregnancy as “comparative controls,” the authors said they were able to show the association is unique to COVID vaccines.
All to protect young and apparently healthy women at low risk from COVID.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: TikTok Meth Heads Have More Credibility Than CNN. “Let us move now to CNN and what seems to be a concerted effort to self-destruct. The network’s travails of late have been well-documented. Its ratings are disappearing faster than a bottle of Jack Daniels on Keith Richards’ breakfast table and, with the exception of Scott Jennings, the people who work there aren’t doing anything to correct the situation. In fact, they are all doubling-down on the brand of awful that has chased away all of their viewers.”
HE MAY BE RIGHT: House Speaker Johnson argues the War Powers Act is unconstitutional.
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., argued Tuesday that the War Powers Act is unconstitutional, and vowed that a pending resolution to bar U.S. military action in Iran under that law will not pass the House.
Johnson told reporters that President Donald Trump’s decision to order strikes on Iranian nuclear targets over the weekend was “clearly” within his powers under Article 2 of the U.S. Constitution.
Many constitutional scholars believe that the Nixon-era law, which limits the president’s power to unilaterally wage war, violates Article 2, Johnson said.
“I think that’s right,” he added.
And yet neither the executive branch nor the legislative branch has ever pushed hard enough for (or against) the law to get a definitive decision from the Supreme Court, probably for fear the court might decide the “wrong” way and permanently hamper its authority.
BUT ARE THEY CAPABLE OF LISTENING? LGBTQ Group to Dems: Cool It on the Trans Issues.
IF SO, THEN HAMAS IS GUILTY OF IT: Weaponisation of food in Gaza constitutes war crime, UN rights office says.
Reuters — home of “one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter” — uses this report as an excuse to repeat Hamas propaganda without question.
BECAUSE CNN: Why Trusting CNN on Iran Is a Mistake.
Related (From Ed): Look who’s back on the air!
Joy Reid says America doesn't have the moral authority to decide whether Iran has a nuclear program.
I say people who want to blow us up with a nuclear bomb should be prevented from getting a nuclear bomb.
This lady needs to crawl back under her rock. pic.twitter.com/tiKjw5s2id
— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) June 25, 2025
Reminder that Fox News was just too far beyond the pale for people like Jonah Goldberg at CNN now.
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) June 25, 2025
But as Hillary would say, what difference at this point, does it really make? CNN Prepares for the Afterlife.
HEH: Trump Rejected Putin’s Iran Offer: ‘I Need Help With You.’
Trump has for months sought to end Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine, having entered the White House on a promise to swiftly bring about a peace that has remained elusive as the war rages on each day.
He has expressed frustration with both sides as peace talks make little progress. Trump sees the burden on American taxpayers of military aid to Ukraine and the vast loss of life as intolerable.
“I’d like to see a deal with Russia,” Trump said on Tuesday morning as he headed to the NATO summit in the Netherlands, Fox News reported.
“As you know Vladimir called me up. He said, ‘Can I help you with Iran?’ I said, ‘No, I don’t need help with Iran. I need help with you.’
“And I hope we’re going to be getting a deal done with Russia, which is a shame. Six thousand soldiers died last week.”
Trump slapped Zelensky into line very early in his second term. Maybe now he understands Putin requires similar treatment if there’s going to be a ceasefire.
HISTORY: US, Japan mark 80 years since the end of the Battle of Okinawa.
Many of the Marines and soldiers fighting on Okinawa were veterans of the island hopping campaign. However the 82 days of fighting on Okinawa would not be easy. Japanese forces set up extensive defenses, aiming to lure Americans deeply inland to where they could inflict heavy casualties. The invasion was not helped by the weather or Okinawa’s rough terrain, with troops finding themselves caught in hellish storms, walking into Japanese ambushes, or combinations of the two. Eugene Sledge, whose memoir ‘With the Old Breed: recounted the battle and provided some of the basis for the miniseries ‘The Pacific,’ recounted the overflowing mud, flooding foxholes and miserable conditions that left soldiers and Marines as worn down as the combat was.
At sea, the worn-down Japanese navy heavily utilized kamikaze attacks to strike the larger British and American navies. These damaged the aircraft carrier the USS Bunker Hill, among others. However the U.S. Navy managed to score heavy victories, including sinking the battleship Yamato in April 1945.
Slowly the ground invasion gained momentum. In May, after two months, Americans captured the fortified area around Shuri castle. Japanese forces were pressed back to one end of the island. Despite that, they continued to resist. It was only on June 22 that fighting ended and the Tenth Army raised the flag in conquest.
Ultimately the fighting costs the lives of 12,000 Americans. Three times as many were wounded.
“Thank God for the Atom Bomb,” as Paul Fussell wrote, because Operation Downfall — the invasion of Japan — would have been one long Okinawa from start to finish.
MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: Oh, Chuck Todd, You Sweet Summer Child… “Before we go any further, allow me a brief word about the headline: It is dripping — nay, absolutely saturated — with sarcasm and condescension. Chuck Todd is in no way an innocent, sweet summer child — no matter what the headline might tease. He was a willing participant in the Democrat-Media Complex cover-up of Biden’s increasingly crippling senility. Like Tapper and others before him, Todd now admits to some of the truth in a pathetic attempt at CYA. Unlike Tapper, however, Todd might actually convince a few sad souls that the Biden White House snookered him because, if you’ll allow me to continue being frank, Todd never came across as particularly bright.”
OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY:
🚨ALERT: This pseudoscientific activist "study" on "White ignorance" grounded in Critical Race Theory was paid for by an NIH grant that is supposed to be funding research on coronary heart disease (CHD) in children.
What was the justification for this? How much of this $3.1M… pic.twitter.com/rnW85UBMHX
— Colin Wright (@SwipeWright) June 23, 2025
Stuff like this is exactly why the left squealed like stuck pigs when DOGE got into USAID and other progressive boondoggles.
MORE NUKES IS GOOD NUKES: N.Y. Plans to Build Nuclear Power Plant.
Only five new commercial U.S. reactors have come online since 1991, the Journal said.
The most recently built reactors were at Plant Vogtle in Georgia. Construction started in 2009 and they were completed in 2023 and 2024.
Nuclear plants currently produce about 19% of the nation’s electricity.
Those aren’t even rookie numbers.
KNOWN UNKNOWNS ARE STILL PREFERABLE TO UNKNOWN UNKNOWNS: The Great Unknown About the Damage to Iran’s Nuclear Facilities.
ANALYSIS: TRUE.
You need to understand how many former Obama staffers hated not only Israel but had a general hostility to Jews, and it helps explain their foreign policy for 8 years https://t.co/Haj3Xw6UY6
— Sunny (@sunnyright) June 24, 2025
HERE’S HOW THAT SPACE PROGRAM IS COMING ALONG: The Rubin Observatory found 2,104 asteroids in just a few days. It could soon find millions more.
First of all, to put it simply, with just a few nights of data, the Rubin Observatory team was able to identify 2,104 never-before-seen asteroids in our solar system — seven of which are categorized as near-Earth objects. (No, none are expected to strike our planet. Don’t worry). For context, there are approximately a million known asteroids in our cosmic neighborhood; over the next few years, Rubin could very well hike that figure up to five million.
“This is five times more than all the astronomers in the world discovered during the last 200 years since the discovery of the first asteroid,” Željko Ivezić, Deputy Director of Rubin’s Legacy Survey of Space and Time, said during the conference. “We can outdo two centuries of effort in just a couple of years.”
This is astonishing in itself — talk about an exemplary first impression — but there’s still that second thing that makes Rubin’s new asteroid data incredible.
They can be formatted as movies.
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This feature of Rubin should be huge not only because it’d allow scientists to better study asteroid movements and discover new near-Earth objects, but also for humanity’s efforts in planetary defense.
Well, good.
THE ENEMY WITHIN:
NEW 🔴
NBC: ICE arrested 11 Iranian nationals in 48 hours, including Mehran Makari Sahel in St. Paul, a former IRGC member with ties to Hezbollah.
— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) June 24, 2025
CYNICAL PUBLIUS: The Trump Doctrine (aka the Businessman’s Way of War).
As the dust and smoke settle over Iran’s devastated nuclear weapons program, President Donald Trump’s method of waging war is coming into focus. We had hints of what I call the “Trump Doctrine” in his first term as he annihilated ISIS in Syria, but the two-decade war in Afghanistan that he had inherited initially obscured what has now become a coherent doctrine. In his second term, the freedom of navigation attacks against Yemen’s Houthis were once again a hint of Trump’s way of war, but Saturday’s attack on Iran—and the events leading up to it—tell us much about the deliberate and precise manner in which Trump seeks to conduct American wars. Similar to (but different from) the famous “Powell Doctrine” promulgated by former Secretary of State Colin Powell (more on that later), the Trump Doctrine is the doctrine of a businessman serving his stockholders. Explained another way, the Trump Doctrine is the “Businessman’s Way of War.”
To preview succinctly, the Trump Doctrine consists of a series of business-like, iterative steps for all uses of American military force, and it performs as follows:
1. Identify America’s national interest.
2. Bargain with the prospective enemy.
3. If/when negotiations fail, conceal & misdirect.
4. Strike with precision and overwhelming force.
5. Achieve submission.
6. Bargain again (from a position of complete strength) with the defeated enemy.
I’ll now examine each of these escalating steps in detail.
After breaking Trump’s ceasefire, Iran apparently has a way to go before reaching 5.
And do read the whole thing.
MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: Trump Tried to End the War. Iran Would Rather Murder Jews.