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June 3, 2025
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.
LAUGHING WOLF: Lightning Strike Conference Report.
The short version is that I wish I had been able to attend one of these Lightning Strike and Electrical Shock Survivors conferences very much sooner. As in not long after I was hit. The amount of information I got was almost like being hit with a firehose. Even better was talking with other survivors and finding out I’m not alone and not crazy (well, not in terms of the after effects of the strike anyway).
The longer version is that the life I had is gone, and it’s not coming back. In the words of the song, it’s the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine. In fact, I feel more than fine. There is a part of me that is sad and other emotions at knowing that life is not ever going to come back. My mind and body are never going to work the way they did, and I will never be able to do some of the things I used to do. I’m still a pilot, though I will likely never fly again. If I can adjust to that, I can learn to deal with needing grab bars in the shower.
Fact is, on many levels I had already accepted that and begun moving forward. For parts of my old life, I was and am glad to see them gone. I prefer to see it as a chance to start over, to build a new life, and hopefully a better one, despite the difficulties. While I was never one who worked at Elon-speed/level, I did okay in certain areas. I can still work through certain types of problems, it just takes me longer to do the work. As I noted to Glenn at breakfast, what used to take me 30 minutes to write back then now takes me four hours (or more to be honest).
I can still look at data and spot patterns and trends, it just may take a bit longer. On the physical side, I’m doing a lot better than I was right after the strike and the conference gave me some ideas on how to work to step up my game mentally and physically. It would be nice to be able to do full prostrations, and get up again afterwards. One thing I realized during the conference is that I’ve been viewing, and gaming, my recovery as yet another experiment — one I’ve not bothered the human subjects committee about (think Les Geddes may have rubbed off on me more than I realized).
Which is probably a good thing, as I sure can’t count on the medical field to do much on a holistic level, much less within specialties
Fascinating and touching stuff — read the whole thing.
THEY WON’T LIKE A RADICALIZED AMERICA:
I am becoming slowly radicalized by this
I have lefty friends who have said without qualification that Elon Musk is an anti-Semite and a Nazi but then their response to the actual racially targeted murder of Jews is "hey guys, this isn't helping" https://t.co/ytphScc9Ao
— PoIiMath (@politicalmath) June 2, 2025
A LONG TIME AGO, FOR STARTERS: How the Democrats Became the Party of Racists, Bigots, and Antisemites.
HISTORICALLY SPEAKING, GERMANS SEEM TO HAVE TROUBLE FIGURING OUT THEIR NATIONAL INTERESTS: Rumor Has It the Russians Have Completely Rebuilt Their Nuclear Facilities With German ‘Help.’
MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: Antisemitism Is Here. So Is the Bear Jew Option.