FUN AND GAMES WITH THE FCC: Will Biden Help Soros Silence Dana Loesch and Mark Levin?

THIS WAS INEVITABLE ONCE THE MURDER HORNET SCARE DIDN’T PAN OUT: Newly Confirmed Jumping Leeches Are the Worst Fear You Didn’t Know You Had.

VIDEO: Caitlin Clark Battered on the Court by Another Opponent.

PROBABLY BECAUSE OF MY SUV: Earth’s rotating inner core is starting to slow down — and it could alter the length of our days. “Since scientists started mapping Earth’s inner layers with detailed seismic activity records around 40 years ago, the inner core has rotated slightly faster than the mantle and the crust. But in a new study, published June 12 in the journal Nature, researchers found that since 2010, the inner core has been slowing down and is now rotating a bit more slowly than our planet’s outer layers.”

No word yet how this will affect hurricane season but you know it will be bad.

AUDIENCES ACTUALLY PREFER THE INFAMOUS 1978 HOLIDAY SPECIAL: It’s Official: Star Wars ‘Acolyte’ Is About the Worst Thing Anybody Put on TV Ever.

OUT: “DEFUND THE POLICE.”

IN: Seattle police aim to fix staffing crisis by hiring ‘dreamers’ as Biden gives mass amnesty, work permits.

DON’T GET COCKY: ‘It’s Like It Was Written By a Committee of Chat GPTS’: Biden Ad Campaign’s Epic Fail.

XI’S GOTTA HAVE IT: ‘Only Pirates Do This’: China Wields Axes and Knives in South China Sea Fight.

The Chinese coast guard came in small boats with axes, long knives and spears.

They used the crude weapons to slash and puncture the Philippine military’s rubber craft. One Chinese boat rammed a Philippine boat at high speed, severing the thumb of a Filipino seaman who was holding on to the side of his ride.

During Monday’s frantic events in the South China Sea, the Chinese coast guard crew also boarded a Philippine boat, smashed its outboard motor and communications equipment, and grabbed the Filipino crew’s cellphones. They seized seven disassembled rifles that were packed in cases for delivery to a Philippine outpost, the Philippine military said.

“Only pirates do this,” said Gen. Romeo Brawner Jr., the Philippine military’s chief of staff. “Only pirates board, steal, and destroy ships, equipment and belongings.”

The incident, described by the Philippine armed forces, marked a sharp escalation in China’s use of forceful tactics and intimidation against a U.S. ally in the South China Sea. Its coast guard had never wielded bladed weapons and spears in its previous sea confrontations with the Philippines.

There’s hardly anyone around able to push back, so of course, they escalated.

AMERICA’S PRAETORIAN GUARD: Secret Service Says They Destroyed a Tape of Biden’s Dog Splattering Agent’s Blood at the White House.

FRAUD, BULLYING, INTIMIDATION:

This is where we are now: The Biden Administration sent two FBI agents to intimidate a nurse who told the truth about the child sex-change program at Texas Children's Hospital. The regime is mobilizing to threaten and imprison anyone who opposes "transgender medicine." pic.twitter.com/XbtZVnp5Kw

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) June 18, 2024

Full story here.

ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER DELAY: Is Boeing’s Cursed Starliner Going to Be Marooned Up There?

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Lawmaker says watchdog’s report on FDA handling of infant formula crisis confirms panel’s findings.

The report by the Inspector General of the Health and Human Services Department comes two years after the FDA’s investigation into the Abbott baby formula contamination that caused nine infant deaths and triggered a nationwide formula shortage in 2022.

“The long-awaited audit by HHS’ OIG confirms findings by the House Oversight Committee that the 2022 nationwide infant formula crisis was exacerbated by dysfunction and delay within the FDA,” said Rep. Lisa McClain, Michigan Republican and chair of the subcommittee on Health Care and Financial Services.

“This audit confirms testimony by multiple former FDA officials before the subcommittee that the FDA’s failure to heed whistleblower warnings, failure to conduct adequate inspections, and slow responsiveness had serious implications,” she said.

Ms. McClain released documents obtained by the committee during a recent hearing with FDA Commissioner Robert Califf indicating that Biden administration officials knew about the infant formula shortage months before they took action.

Just some basic competence at something, every now and then, would be nice.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. There Is No Equivalency Between ‘Convicted Felons’ Donald Trump and Hunter Biden.

HIGHER EDUCATION IMPLOSION UPDATE: Emerson College announces layoffs amidst enrollment decline linked to campus protests.

The college is blaming the enrollment decline in part on “negative press and social media” from the pro-Palestinian demonstrations and subsequent arrests.

In the early morning hours of April 25, 118 student protesters were arrested by Boston police when officers swept through the pro-Palestine encampment at Boylston Place Alley, a public right-of-way that leads to the State Transportation Center.

President Jay Bernhardt wrote that he expects the enrollment decline to last only one year, but the effects will ripple through the budget for the next several.

“We attribute this reduction to multiple factors, including national enrollment trends away from smaller private institutions, an enrollment deposit delay in response to the new FAFSA rollout, student protests targeting our yield events and campus tours, and negative press and social media generated from the demonstrations and arrests,” Bernhardt wrote in an email shared with the Globe.

There was plenty of warning going back to 2017: Long After Protests, Students Shun the University of Missouri.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Nobody Is Really in the Mood for President Harris to Happen. “The thing about that very real prospect is that it doesn’t make anyone happy. It’s no secret that most Democrats are no more fond of Madame Vice President than Republicans are. I’m fairly certain that’s behind the feverish attempt to create the ‘cheap fakes’ false narrative.”

DISPATCHES FROM WEIMAR AMERICA: Kappa Kappa Gamma Women Lose Last-Ditch Appeal To Remove ‘Voyeuristic’ Trans-Identified Male From Their Sorority House. “The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals has rejected a lawsuit filed by six members of a Wyoming sorority challenging the admission of a 6’2″, 260-pound trans-identified male, who the women have alleged has “watched” them undress with a visible erection. The University of Wyoming’s chapter of Kappa Kappa Gamma (KKG), the complainants argued, caused the women ’emotional distress in a personalized and unique way’ and circumvented voting bylaws in their 2022 decision to admit Dallin ‘Artemis’ Langford as a member of the sorority.”

WE’VE ENTERED THE “LIBRARIES REPLACE PAGES IN THE ENCYCLOPEDIA” PHASE OF OUR SOVIETIZATION: Check Out the Latest Video the White House Will Call a ‘Cheap Fake’ Before It’s Scrubbed.

Related:

This is correct. CBS News digitally manipulates the footage by blurring out the widened footage and cuts the part out of Biden wandering off. They literally created their own "Cheap Fake" according to everyone's new favorite definition. https://t.co/KP8VE14hpI

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) June 19, 2024

Maybe not everything the Left claims is projection — but only maybe.

CHANGE: Russia has moved almost all ground forces from Finland’s vicinity to Ukraine, media report.

Russia has moved the vast majority of its ground forces previously stationed near Finland to the war in Ukraine, the Finnish public broadcaster Yle reported on June 19, citing an undisclosed Finnish military intelligence source.

These revelations stand in contrast to previous claims by Russia on reinforcing its troops near the Finnish border in response to the Nordic country’s entry into NATO.

“On average, 80% of the equipment and soldiers have been transferred to the war in Ukraine,” the high-ranking military intelligence source told Yle.

According to the source, the situation is similar in other Russian regions except for Moscow Oblast. This concerns mainly the Ground Forces, as air defenses, the Air Force, and the Navy remain relatively well-manned, Yle reported.

The numbers of soldiers stationed in bases near the Finnish borders sometimes fluctuate as Russia draws new conscripts, but “all contract soldiers have been sent to do real work,” the source said.

The Kremlin’s actions show that not even they believe NATO is a threat.

MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT [VIP]: Wargaming the Electoral College: Pennsylvania or Bust for Joe?

KEVIN DOWNEY JR: Why Did the White House Allegedly Kill an Anti-Corruption Bill? You Know Why! “Rep. Katie Porter (D-Calif.) and Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) joined forces — and lined up the necessary votes — to push the bill forward. Then three Democrats did an about-face and pulled their support.”

CENTRAL CASTING WOULD HAVE REJECTED HIM AS BEING TOO OBVIOUS FOR THE ROLE: UC Berkeley firebomb suspect, 34, lives with parents, has PhD.

Casey Goonan was arrested Monday morning at his parents’ $1.1 million home in Pleasant Hill on suspicion of a string of arson attacks at UC Berkeley from June 1 to 16.

Feds, cops and CalFire allege the 34-year-old, a Northwestern University doctorate of African American studies, firebombed a Berkeley campus police car and carried out three other arson incidents on university grounds June 1, as well as last Thursday and Sunday.

Charges are yet to be filed by the Alameda District Attorney’s Office. His attorney, Jeff Wozniak, confirmed multiple law enforcement agencies, including the FBI, raided the home where Goonan lives with his parents in Pleasant Hill at around 10 a.m. Monday morning. A bio from a 2018 academic journal states Goonan “considers himself a scholar-activist” and an aspiring professor. No social media profiles, including LinkedIn, could be found for Goonan.

“Casey got his PhD! Onto job apps,” Goonan’s mother wrote in a 2022 Instagram post. He previously completed his undergraduate degree at UC Riverside.

Another bio from 2019 described Goonan as an “abolitionist currently living and working in Chicago.”

In online articles, Goonan has described the United States as a “god-awful fascist hell hole” where social injustices are “concealed under the blinders of white supremacist American reason.”

If reason is white supremacy, what do we call white guys firebombing stuff to get their way?

But maybe his real crime was picking his targets poorly.

One of the weird things, and there are many weird things, about this bullshit is that he believed the best target for this was UC Berkeley.

As far short of his far leftist ideals as Cal may have been, few actual real world institutions are closer.https://t.co/M8hW8hfwYN

— Lee Edwards (@terronk) June 19, 2024

No enemies to the left!

MORE NUKES IS GOOD NUKES: Finally, a REAL Clean Energy Law. “John Starkey, director of public policy at the pro-nuke American Nuclear Society called the bill ‘monumental.'”

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: Hunter Biden revealed top CCP leader wanted him to visit China to ‘discuss business opportunities.’

Hunter Biden informed his business associates in late 2013 that a top Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader allegedly asked him to travel to China to talk about future “business opportunities,” according to an email obtained and verified by Fox News Digital.

In December 2013, Biden accompanied his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, on a six-day trip around Asia that included China, South Korea and Japan. While in Beijing, Biden introduced his father to one of his Chinese business associates, who was accompanied by another associate, in the lobby of the hotel they were staying in.

During the China leg of the trip, Biden attended multiple events with his dad, including a lunch that featured some of the most powerful CCP leaders in China. On Dec. 5, Jonathan Li, the business associate who Vice President Biden was introduced to, emailed Biden asking him how his China trip was going, prompting Biden to email later that day that everything “went very well.”

“Do you know former Governor of Hong Kong- C.H. Troung (sp?),” Hunter asked. “He wants me to come to HK to visit to discuss business opportunities. He sat next to Dad at lunch w/ Premiere and implied we knew each other- but I don’t remember him.”

This ought to be the biggest corruption story in American history.

TO BE FAIR, SHE SEEMS BLITHELY UNINFORMED ABOUT MOST IMPORTANT MATTERS: Yikes! KJP Refuses to Answer a Simple Question About Biden’s Mental Health.

BEEGE WELBORN: I Don’t Want to Get Anyone’s Hopes Up, But…THERE’S BEEN TALK.

So, this is all just kind of fun speculation, mind you. Brought on, of course, not by my twisted imagination – even I have my limits – but by a convergence of events and signs from the Heavens.

First, what was that rumble from the turgid bowels of the WaPo?

Was Taylor Lorenz hacking up another hairball?

Gads, no.

It’s someone once mistaken for a respected columnist. And what she had to say was shocking in the extreme…but, oh, so tempting…

Democrats are wrestling with an age-old problem

Maybe Hillary Clinton could come to the rescue.

DON’T PLAY WITH THEIR EMOTIONS THAT WAY.

Oh, I could go for a little cruelty.