YOU GOTTA PUMP THOSE NUMBERS UP, THOSE ARE ROOKIE NUMBERS: Americans Now Own More Than 530 Million Guns…That’s Not a Bad Start.
Author Archive: Stephen Green
June 2, 2025
INDEED: Conversations Aren’t Enough When the House Is on Fire.
There’s a particular kind of American optimism that still believes if we just talk to each other, everything will work itself out. That if we break bread, sit porchside, and share stories, we’ll rediscover our common ground and stitch the country back together again.
Anthropologist Anand Pandian tried that.
For eight years, he crisscrossed the country, listening to the voices he least agreed with. He talked to white nationalists, progressive activists, small-town patriots, and big-city idealists.
His conclusion, published recently in The Guardian, was thoughtful and sincere: Americans are divided, but they still long to be understood.
I admire that mission.
But it doesn’t go far enough.
Interesting stuff.
OUR NAVY ISN’T THINKING CREATIVELY; OUR ADVERSARIES ARE:
Why don’t we have modulars for ships? A warehouse of CIWS guns ready to bolt onto merchant ships in wartime? Containerized weapons?
Because Harvard Business School lied and taught the Pentagon that warehouses and stockpiles are budgetary kryptonite. https://t.co/6VNoeqVaGO
— John Ʌ Konrad V (@johnkonrad) June 1, 2025
Restoring American shipbuilding and choosing energetic, creative military leaders ought to be our top national defense priorities.
HOW ARE THOSE SPACE LASERS COMING ALONG? Scientists Spot Mysterious Object in Our Galaxy Pulsing Every 44 Minutes. “The object, which was named ASKAP J1832-0911 after Australia’s ASKAP radio telescope that was used to detect it, was discovered emitting two-minute-long pulses that would pause and then repeat 44 minutes later. As the Curtin press release explains, the researchers lucked out when they realized that NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory was observing the same part of the sky and detected the same repeating signal in X-ray form.”
KEVIN DOWNEY JR: Are We Not Men? The De-Evolution and Death of Western Civilization.
THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE ISSUE IS ALWAYS THE REVOLUTION:
Trans is focused on so heavily because it’s a proxy for undermining some of the most fundamental things actually. Trans ideology at its core is about spreading lies about biology and humanity, and using institutions, culture, thuggery and/or the state to enforce those lies. https://t.co/FuBxdlzeYd
— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) June 1, 2025
GOVERNOR JAZZ HANDS: Tim Walz tells Democrats to ‘bully the sh*t’ out of Trump.
Minnesota Governor and former vice presidential candidate Tim Walz told a crowd of Democrats in South Carolina that the party needs to be “meaner” and should “bully the sh*t” out of President Donald Trump. Walz made the remarks during his keynote address at a Democratic event, once again using profanity and aggressive rhetoric in an attempt to energize the party base.
“Maybe it’s time for us to be a little meaner, a little bit more fierce,” Walz told the crowd.
“The thing that bothers a teacher more than anything is to watch a bully,” the governor continued. “And when it’s a child, you talk to them and you tell them why bullying is wrong.”
“But when it’s an adult like Donald Trump, you bully the sh*t out of him back,” he added.
Walz also called Trump a “wannabe dictator.”
If Trump were a “wannabe dictator,” you wouldn’t want to try and bully him.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Remember When Domestic Terrorism Was Supposedly a ‘White Guys in MAGA Hats’ Thing? “My political predictions always go one of two ways, I have either the precision accuracy of a WWII Soviet sniper or I miss the bullseye more than Miss Cleo.”
THIS, YES:
To repeat: Jews need to arm up. Especially for public gatherings. Become a hard target. https://t.co/144q9OpUYh
— Randy Barnett (@RandyEBarnett) June 2, 2025
Self-defense isn’t just a civil right — these days, it’s a civic duty.
IT’S WEIRD HOW “RADICAL UN ENVIRONMENTAL RULES” COINCIDE WITH CCP INTERESTS:
What do you do when some liberal Admiral decides to voluntarily adopt radical UN @IMOHQ environmental rules on Navy oilers, which delays construction and leaves carriers no way to get go juice for the jets?
You call the US Merchant Marine of course. pic.twitter.com/q9ocmSZuBL
— John Ʌ Konrad V (@johnkonrad) May 31, 2025
And it ought to be punishable when a US Navy admiral volunteers to adopt them.
DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: Doctor in Dem-led city forced out of office by homeless encampment on the roof of her building.
Dr. Tahani Soliman, owner of a Los Angeles County medical practice, has spent years battling a group of unhoused individuals who have turned her rooftop into their own personal space – terrorizing her staff, setting fires, and creating an unsafe work environment, KTLA News reported.
Now, the West Coast physician is officially walking away from her practice, overwhelmed by frustration and a glaring lack of urgency from city officials.
‘We are living in hell,’ Soliman told the outlet.
Located in a Huntington Park neighborhood, Soliman’s family medicine practice sits next to a multi-level parking garage.
However, the parking garage in question is notoriously a hotspot for the local homeless population – and alarmingly, it provides easy access to the rooftop of the doctor’s office.
For years, the self-employed doctor has endured the homeless encampment consistently taking over her building’s roof – stealing electricity, stripping scrap metal from air conditioning units and even starting trash fires.
As recently as Tuesday, a fire broke out atop the parking structure, forcing crews from the Los Angeles Fire Department to rush in and extinguish the blaze.
But this incident is far from isolated. It appears to simply be the breaking point in Soliman’s long-running struggle.
Next Year’s Headline Today: “Los Angeles ‘Medical Care Desert’ Blamed on Trump.”
OPERATION SPIDER’S WEB: Russia’s Nuclear Bomber Force Just Took a Yuge Hit. “Ukraine just pulled off one of those operations that people will study and talk about for as long as human beings maintain our morbid fascination with war.”
FINE, WHATEVER: As Republicans Pass Tax Cuts, Democrats Propose ‘Disability Reproductive Equity Day.’
The new legislation proposed by Democrats claims to commemorate the rights of people with disabilities and would establish a “Disability Reproductive Equity Day.” (RELATED: ROOKE: Planned Parenthood Has Found A New Way To Target Kids)
Citing a “long history of reproductive coercion impacting people with disabilities,” the bill argues that many have been systematically denied their “reproductive autonomy.”
The bill states that about 4.1 million parents in the U.S. have disabilities, while about one in four adults live with a disability and roughly one in ten “people with disabilities” are capable of becoming pregnant.
It specifically highlights “women with disabilities, people of color with disabilities, people with disabilities with low incomes, and LGBTQI+ people with disabilities.”
We’re supposed to celebrate women who largely are unable to bear children — excuse me, that’s “differently abled non-birthing persons identifying as female” — because… I have no idea.
What was Glenn just saying about today’s Democrats being systemically unable to win back male voters because the party “is built by and for batshit crazy upper middle class white women?”
MORE CHOICE IS BETTER: Texas Lt. Gov. Thanks Trump for School Choice Championing.
ROTUND BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU: Smartphone smuggled out of North Korea reveals the insane things Kim Jong Un does to control his ‘suffocated’ people.
A smartphone smuggled out of North Korea has revealed the astonishing levels of control the secretive dictatorship is exercising over its people.
The phone, which from the outside appears no different from a normal device, issued warnings about using South Korean slang words to users, and auto-corrected “South Korea” to read “puppet state,” an investigation from the BBC found.
It would also covertly take a screenshot every five minutes, storing the images in a secret folder which the user couldn’t access, but which presumably were accessible to North Korean authorities.
To be fair, I’m not sure how much worse that last item is in practice than the backdoor the FBI wanted built into every smartphone, or similar requirements in effect now in the UK.
HE’D ABSOLUTELY DO TO AMERICA WHAT HE’S DONE TO CALIFORNIA: So Gavin Newsom Wants To Be President? Let’s Look at the California Governor’s Record.
May 30, 2025
DIGITAL FRONTIER OF JUSTICE: Judge rejects claim AI chatbots protected by First Amendment.
A federal judge has decided that First Amendment protections don’t shield an artificial intelligence company from a lawsuit accusing the firm and its founders of creating chatbots that figured prominently in an Orlando teen’s suicide.
Judge Anne C. Conway of the Middle District of Florida denied several motions by defendants Character Technologies and founders Daniel De Freitas and Noam Shazeer to dismiss the lawsuit brought by the mother of 14-year-old Sewell Setzer III. Setzer killed himself with a gun in February of last year after interacting for months with Character.AI chatbots imitating fictitious characters from the Game of Thrones franchise, according to the lawsuit filed by Sewell’s mother, Megan Garcia.
“… Defendants fail to articulate why words strung together by (Large Language Models, or LLMs, trained in engaging in open dialog with online users) are speech,” Conway said in her May 21 opinion. “… The court is not prepared to hold that Character.AI’s output is speech.”
Skynet might have something to say about that.
FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: Don’t Hide Your Drugs in a Cop Car. “It’s time for your much-needed break from the serious news, and this week, you’ll learn the worst place to hide your drug stash, the worst time to strip down naked and break into your neighbor’s house, and why they ought to call it a people cage instead of a shark cage.”
CHANGE? DC mayor proposes repeal of sanctuary city law. “The law currently bans local police from working with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to detain illegal immigrants. The sanctuary city status prevents the city from asking about a detained person’s immigration status or releasing them to ICE or from allowing the federal agency to interview a suspect in local custody without a court order.”
IT’S TIME FOR VICTORIA TAFT’S West Coast, Messed Coast™: Well, Well, Well, Look Who the FBI Is Investigating “The mean streets of Seattle and their Antifa shock troops have caught the eye of the FBI. And it’s about time someone investigated this continuing criminal enterprise on the West Coast, Messed Coast™— especially after this past week’s assault and battery spree on cops and Christians.”
OH MY: Giant Russian Nuke Info Hack. “Given computer security standards in most organizations, the idea that sensitive information was just sitting on a publicly accessible server for years at a time is entirely too plausible.”
Tons of details at the link.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: China launches spacecraft it says will return samples and yield ‘groundbreaking discoveries.’ “The Tianwen-2 probe launched early Thursday from southern China aboard the workhorse Long March 3-B rocket. The probe will collect samples from the asteroid 2016HO3 and explore the main-belt comet 311P, which lies even farther from Earth than Mars, according to the China National Space Administration.”