Author Archive: Stephen Green

IRAN IS NOW IN THE FO STAGE OF FAFO:

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.

Related (From Ed):

THEY ARE NOT THE SAME:

THE ART OF THE MISDIRECT:

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:

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🔍 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.

LEADERSHIP MATTERS:

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.

BREAKING: President Trump Speaks Out About Israeli Air Strikes on Iran. “Two months ago I gave Iran a 60 day ultimatum to ‘make a deal.’ They should have done it! Today is day 61. I told them what to do, but they just couldn’t get there. Now they have, perhaps, a second chance!”

If this goes on another 48 hours, there might not be any leadership left to cut a deal with.

I MEANT TO POST THIS EARLIER BUT IT GOT LOST IN THE SHUFFLE:

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Democrats recently voted to create an entity called Parkland Metropolitan District which won the imminent domain case

The head of the government agency IS THE DEVELOPER WHO WILL PROFIT FROM THIS LAND

“What does it mean to be a private landowner here in Colorado? Well, it means in some rare cases, the government can just come in and take your private land or a portion of it for the public good. I’m talking about eminent domain. I am standing here next to Polizi Farms in Brighton, Colorado. And recently, this farm lost an eminent domain case to an entity called the Parkland Metropolitan District.

This is a quasi government agency that won the rights to take a portion of this farmland right in the middle. And this entity, this district, is going to put a drainage pipe right in the middle of this farm. The farm worries that this drainage pipe is going to mess with their whole operation. It’s going to ruin the drainage of the farm, and then the farm is going to be done. It’s going to be done for the pipe is moving forward.

But what is the Parkland Metropolitan District? It was created very recently after a vote by the Brighton City Council. And guess who used to sit at the very head of this government agency, the chairman of this government agency, the private developer who was going to benefit from this drainage pipe. It’s not a public highway that’s going to be benefiting from it. It’s not a public road.

It’s not a freeway. It’s a private development. How is that for private land ownership in Colorado?”

About what I’ve come to expect, sad to say.

MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: Oops!… Mossad Did It Again. “Like so many others, I spent last night glued to the news — here at PJ Media and on X — marveling at the breadth, depth, and mind-blowing precision of Israel’s initial strike on Iran. No surprise here: Mossad and Israeli special forces were the real stars of the show.”

YES:

The Dems do love their imported servants.

PRO-ACTIVE: Abbott Calls Out National Guard Before Leftists Can Loot. “So why don’t Democratic governors take similar precautions to prevent ‘peaceful protests’ from turning into the usual riot, arson and looting sprees we keep seeing over and over again?”

To ask the question is to answer it.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Israel Surgically Delivers Multiple Packages of ‘FO’ to Iran. “There are always a lot of moving parts in situations like this. By the time you read this there will probably be a lot more information. I’ll give you a few things here without much commentary from me, then move onto the Mailbag of Magnificence.”

THE ENEMY WITHIN: PSU professor placed on leave after ‘I am Hamas … we’re all Hamas’ comment.

The professor of Arabic language and literature was placed on leave on Friday, according to a June 6 statement from the university’s President Ann Cudd.

“PSU stands unequivocally against antisemitism, terrorism, and hate of any kind, including the statements made in this video. … The statements made in this video are absolutely unacceptable,” Cudd stated.

“PSU is conducting an investigation of this incident and the faculty member involved has been placed on administrative leave.”

Cudd does not identify the scholar by name but The Oregonian and KOIN Portland both identified her as Professor Yasmeen Hanoosh of the Department of World Languages and Literatures.

She could use an educational trip to Gaza.