CHANGE:

Perhaps an interesting milestone: @SpaceX commercial revenue from space will exceed the entire budget of @NASA next year.

SpaceX revenue this year will be ~$15.5B, of which NASA is ~$1.1B.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 3, 2025

Most of SpaceX’s revenue comes from Starlink, a SpaceX subsidiary. Starlink subscriptions provide the cash flow that keep SpaceX growing, and the launch cadence needed to keep their costs down and their rocket technology at least one step ahead of the competition.

It’s maybe the cleverest business model you’ll ever see.

EVERYBODY HAS THE RIGHT TO SELF-DEFENSE: Guns Aren’t Just Tools for Safety, They’re Also ‘Enforcers of Dignity’ for Some Trans People.

I LIKE WINE: Can I See a Wine List? Man Thinks He May Have Found the Site of the Wedding at Cana.

I’D REALLY HOPED I’D RETIRED THIS SERIES — ALAS: It’s the Return of Your Daily Dose of Doom & Gloom. “Nothing clears a room faster than a fiscal crisis column — and yet, in the immortal words of Whitesnake, here I go again.”

THE MEDIA CHOSE A SIDE; THEY CHOSE POORLY:

Already seeing the sob stories about the terrorist’s poor children who had big dreams before their dad tried burning a bunch of Jews to death in broad daylight.

When do we hear the sob stories of the actual victims, mainstream media? Jackasses.

— The🐰FOO (@PolitiBunny) June 4, 2025

More:

This story is a good allegory to the war in Gaza. Her father preferred to try and murder Jews over keeping her safe, but god forbid anyone pin the blame on what's happening to her now on him. No, it's the laws that are wrong. https://t.co/9Nle1vdCTq

— Noam Blum (@neontaster) June 4, 2025

And:

The fact that there were several people involved in making this story see the light of day should give you a good indication of how corrupt journalism is. They have zero sense of how normal readers will perceive this as offensive.

Anyway, there's a reason why USA Today is no… https://t.co/8FYfW6p7DE

— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) June 4, 2025

The media still doesn’t understand why their reputation is in tatters.

UPDATE (From Ed): “Choices have consequences:”

Here’s a video from the Boulder suspect where he declares that Jihad is more important to him than his family. Choices have consequences.

pic.twitter.com/KWWkvALD8Y

— Political Sock (@politicalsock) June 4, 2025

K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: Genghis Khan was a nice guy. Israel is evil. SF parents push back on ‘ethnic studies’ mandate.

San Francisco parents aren’t happy about the district’s year-long “ethnic studies” class, which is now a graduation requirement, report Ezra Wallach and Anya Kaiser on The Standard. All ninth graders — and 10th-graders who opted out last year — will have to take the course, which focuses on the evils of structural racism, colonialism, capitalism and heteronormative thinking.

Looking at the curriculum on the district website, parent Viviane Safrin found only “four lessons out of 55 highlight contributions by ethnic groups, she wrote in a memo last year. The word “hegemony” appeared 81 times.

“They are taught how to organize — what it means to resist,” Safrin told The Standard. “They’re taught about dominant and counter narratives. It’s an upper-level college course for one way to examine history, but it is not teaching any actual history.”

Some lessons were removed in response to her comments, write Wallach and Kaiser, but “one exercise still in use places the Red Guards, a student-led paramilitary organization from Mao’s Chinese Cultural Revolution, alongside the U.S. civil rights and feminist movements as emphasizing ‘the resistance that oppressed groups have shown in history’.”

Another calls for students to read a 2012 article called “Straight white male: The lowest difficulty setting there is” and asks, “What would white males need to give up (or relinquish) in order to make a more equitable society?”

Communism, straight up.

BIG BROTHER WANTS TO SCAN YOUR ID: UK Labour Party Floats Digital ID to Monitor Illegal Immigrants.

HMM: Ukraine Hits Kerch Strait Bridge Again.

“Ukraine reports this one took several months. During that period of time SBU agents of Ukraine place mines along the supports of the Crimean bridge. Today the device was detonated. The underwater supports are reported as being severely damaged at the bottom level.”

“The supports being structurally compromised and destroyed, as seems to be the case here, means that the bridge is, to use a technical term, ‘knackered.’”

“The bridge is still standing. It has not been downed.” But it has been structurally weakened.

There were similarly optimistic assessments after the previous two strikes, so we’ll see.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: It’s Pride Month — Tim Walz Should Really Think About Coming Out. “One of the most striking things about the 2024 revamped and unelected Democratic presidential ticket was that they managed to find a running mate who was even more inauthentic than Kamala Harris. That’s quite a feat.”

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: 2 Chinese nationals charged with smuggling ‘potential agroterrorism’ fungus into US.

Yunqing Jian, 33, and Zunyong Liu, 34, citizens of the People’s Republic of China, were allegedly receiving Chinese government funding for their research, some of which at the University of Michigan, officials said.

“The complaint also alleges that Jian’s electronics contain information describing her membership in and loyalty to the Chinese Communist Party. It is further alleged that Jian’s boyfriend, Liu, works at a Chinese university where he conducts research on the same pathogen and that he first lied but then admitted to smuggling Fusarium graminearum into America — through the Detroit Metropolitan Airport — so that he could conduct research on it at the laboratory at the University of Michigan where his girlfriend, Jian, worked,” according to a DOJ press release.

This stuff has to be ripped out down to the roots.

CLUB CARTEL: Not Your Average Nightclub Raid: Inside DHS’s Shocking Discovery Near Charleston, S.C. “Around 3 a.m. on Sunday morning, 200 federal, state, and local law enforcement officials went to the underground nightclub and conducted a raid that they called ‘Operation Last Stand.’ You’re probably thinking that since ICE was involved, they found some people who were in the country illegally — and they did — but they also found so much more than that.”

WEIRD, BUT LET’S GIVE IT A TRY: Don’t let people who hate America move here.

I pledge allegiance to the flag …

I heard those strange words for the first time at Riverside Elementary School in 1976, as a first-grader who had just moved to the United States with my family. I learned quickly how to say the words, but it took me much longer to learn what they mean.

Like Jefferson, Franklin and Washington, I was born English but chose to become an American. I took US history in middle and high school, got a degree in history, and later taught American history to 8th- and 11th-graders.

But though I knew the names and dates, nothing taught me to love my country like spending half my life outside of it, including 23 years as a US diplomat in Africa, Asia and Europe. The singularity of American freedom and opportunity is best proven through comparison.

Like many other Americans who came here legally and became citizens, nothing rankles me more than seeing disrespect, ingratitude, and even homicidal violence from some who have been granted the opportunity to come here — or allowed to remain despite coming illegally.

You’d figure the least they could do would be to obey our rules and respect our culture and values.

“Assimilation” is a dirty word to Americans who don’t like America very much.

QUESTION ASKED: Why Won’t Trump 47 Enforce the Law Trump 45 Wanted?

SO MANY TO CHOOSE FROM: Top Five Movie Nazis Who Got Exactly What They Deserved.

NOT MESSING AROUND:

Six One-Way Tickets for Mohamed’s Wife and Five Kids. Final Boarding Call Coming Soon. ✈️ pic.twitter.com/R32j1Ic8Ml

— The White House (@WhiteHouse) June 3, 2025

MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: I Have Seen the Future of the Air Force and it Is Good. “I had the honor of spending quality time (and more than a few drinks) last week with several just-commissioned Air Force officers at an Academy graduation party we threw — and let me tell you, the future looks solid.”

LISTEN TO THEM, THE CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT. WHAT MUSIC THEY MAKE: When the Swamp Screams, You Know You’re Over the Target.

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.”

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.

SCOTT PINSKER: How Harvard Stabbed America in the Back and Became China’s ‘Party School.’

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.”