I PREFER THE BLUE ANGELS, PERSONALLY: America 250 Brought The Blue Angels. The Resistance Brought The Blues.
June 16, 2026
NO MORE PLAYING DEFENSE: Attack! Attack! Attack!
AS I SAID IT’S NOT RACE: The Color of Your Head.
LET’S HAVE A CONVERSATION ABOUT WHAT WE’RE TEACHING KIDS: Let’s Have a Serious Conversation About Race.
June 15, 2026
HONESTY IS THEIR ENEMY. ‘No Kings’ Crowd Gets Wrecked by One Brutally Honest Media Column.
OPEN THREAD: Monday, Monday.
AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD:
We Asked AI To Make Soccer Less Boring pic.twitter.com/0vKwtV7JEE
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) June 15, 2026
THE NEW SPACE RACE: Satellite-boosting spacecraft inside air-launched rocket.
CUE THE GOMER PYLE CLIP. AGAIN:A New Study Just Confirmed the Left’s Worst-Kept Secret.
ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: Graham Platner’s Face Now Too Toxic for National Dem Ads — Even as Maine Dems Keep Riding Psycho Train.
👀 Graham Platner's picture must be scaring off donations, the DNC decided to CUT him from their sponsored Facebook ads.
Democrats know he is a deeply disturbed lunatic, and they're terrified. pic.twitter.com/7w3in9Oir5
— Republicans (@Republicans) June 15, 2026
If he makes it past the primary, I’m sure he’ll be in plenty of the other side’s national ads.
NEW CIVILITY WATCH: Ian McKellen Says He Imagined Destroying Mar-a-Lago While Filming Avengers: Doomsday.
The actor rose from his seat to reenact the moment for the audience, explaining that the Russo brothers wanted him to appear even angrier as Magneto unleashed his powers.
“They told me to look more furious — make it look as if you hate what you’re destroying,” said McKellen.
That’s when the actor came up with his own motivation for the scene.
“So I stood there and I shouted: ‘Mar-a-Lago!’ ” he said, referring to President Donald Trump‘s Florida estate.
How much is McKellen acting when he plays a cartoon supervillain? Flashback: Defacing the Bible because of Homosexuality.
In an August 10 interview on New Zealand’s TV1 Close Up program McKellen was confronted by the interviewer questioning the truth of the rumor “He’s the one, that when he stays in hotels rips the part of the Bible out that criticizes homosexuality.”
“Yes it is true,” responded McKellen in even tones. “It’s Leviticus 18:22 that I object to, or is it 22:18, I’ve always got to look it up. Thou shalt not lie with a man as with a woman, it is an abomination. And they, I think the punishment for an abomination was being stoned to death,” he said.
McKellen added, “I think it’s rather obscene and pornographic, and shouldn’t be there, so I remove it.”
Asked how many Bibles he has vandalized, McKellen replied, “I have no idea, but other people do it as well, people send me evidence that they have been removing that.”
McKellen has been vandalizing Bibles in the same fashion for at least a few years. He first admitted publicly to the activity in 2004 in an interview with the UK Telegraph.
It seems odd then that McKellen imagines himself destroying the property of someone who’s been a gay rights proponent for decades.
MATTHEW CONTINETTI: It’s the Age of Sanders, Too.
Indeed, in one respect, Mr. Sanders’s achievement is more historic than Mr. Trump’s. Not that his electoral record is better. Not that his proposals have become law. What makes Mr. Sanders significant is his novelty. He alone is responsible for bringing socialism into the political mainstream.
By contrast, Mr. Trump swims in the deep currents of American life. Populism predates 1776. Nationalism is rooted in our history. America is the exemplary capitalist nation. Mr. Trump has been a fixture in popular culture for 40 years. He embodies aspects of U.S. identity: glamour, spectacle, volume, braggadocio, success and excess.
Nor did Mr. Trump build his movement from scratch. He seized an opening. He used political tools that others had left to rust: immigration restriction, tariffs, traditionalism, confrontation over gentility, social media, tentpole rallies that married Tea Party populism with the concerns and attitude of blue-collar Reagan Democrats. Mr. Trump’s genius was to bring these tropes and tactics under his inimitable personality. The Republican Party wouldn’t be the same.
Mr. Sanders’s task was harder. His socialism put him at odds with the Democrats, a party to which he has never formally belonged. In 2010, according to Gallup, 50% of Democrats had a positive view of socialism. President Obama distanced himself from the term.
Mr. Sanders’s campaigns tapped a reservoir of youthful antagonism toward the American system. When acolytes took up his message, they found that hostility to Mr. Trump was driving the Democratic base to the left. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ousted a 10-term Democratic incumbent in 2018. She formed the socialist “Squad” with Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar and Ayanna Pressley.
Mr. Sanders’s causes—Medicare for All, the Green New Deal, Abolish ICE—set the party’s agenda. In 2020, Joe Biden had no choice but to absorb Mr. Sanders’s movement into his campaign and presidency. The rest of us had to live with the consequences.
Some much more so than others: A Bernie Bro Shot Steve Scalise.
Scalise was the victim of a Democrat terrorist who, inspired by the apocalyptic rhetoric of Bernie Sanders, that millions would die and the planet was in peril because of Republican policies, shot up a Virginia baseball field full of Republican lawmakers in June of 2017. Scalise spent six weeks in the hospital fighting for his life after the Bernie Sanders–supporter decided to save humanity by shooting Scalise and other Republicans.
A few years later: Bernie Bro with Van Full of Guns and Explosives Plotted to Assassinate Biden. Media Buries the Lede, as Usual.
What was Treisman’s motive? He must be one of those evil Proud Boys or crazy QAnon freaks we keep hearing so much about, right?
Wrong. But to find out the actual motive, you have to go all the way down to paragraph 15 of the WaPo story (emphasis mine):
The 19-year-old’s focus on Biden started in the spring, according to the order… Days after Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) suspended his presidential campaign, Treisman, who had suggested in a Reddit post that he had to “save bernie,” posted a meme with the caption questioning whether he should kill Biden.
Oh. He’s a Bernie Bro. He wanted to kill Biden to somehow help Bernie.
And then there’s the man who’s a Totenkopf stan: “Mr. Platner’s success is a reminder that Mr. Trump and MAGA aren’t the only actors in this drama. Running parallel to the Trump Era has been the Sanders Era: The rise of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders from socialist gadfly to Democratic Party kingmaker.”
Nazism is certainly a change.
— Graham Linehan (@Glinner) June 15, 2026
Actually, as Kevin Williams noted a decade ago, Bernie signed his own personal Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact long ago: Bernie’s Strange Brew of Nationalism and Socialism.
YES.
Leftists need total control of info.
Their policies are so bad that truth threatens control.
When Elon bought X they lost control.
People weren’t supposed to see truth.
It was devastating for the Left and
lifesaving for mankind.Now they’re trying to regain control.
Simple.
— C3 (@C_3C_3) June 15, 2026
Related:
"We banned kids from social media and forced everyone else to give the government their ID if they wanted to use social media and now no one criticizes the government's policies."
— John Carter (@martianwyrdlord) June 15, 2026
THE NEW SPACE RACE: MIT’s New Dual-Mode Rocket System Could Send Tiny Satellites to Mars.
GOOD GUYS WITH GUNS: Potential Mass Shooting in Georgia Stopped by Armed Citizens. “During the investigation, deputies interviewed multiple witnesses, reviewed security camera footage, and gathered physical evidence from the scene. Witnesses reported that Jeffrey Tyler Kinzer had been involved in a verbal confrontation with individuals attending a large gathering in the area. Witnesses further reported that Kinzer later returned on foot carrying an AR-style rifle and wearing body armor. Witnesses stated that Kinzer fired toward the gathering, and multiple individuals returned fire toward his location.”
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BREAKING: Military Plane Crashes at California Air Force Base “On Monday, around 11:20 a.m. PDT, a B-52 Stratofortress plane crashed at Edwards Air Force Base, which is located in Kern and San Bernardino Counties in California. The aircraft had just taken off, according to reports.”
“PROTECT THE CHILDREN” TOO OFTEN BECOMES “SHOW ME YOUR PAPERS.” Britain’s age-verification push and Washington’s online-safety bargain risk building speech-control infrastructure in the name of safety.
EMMANUEL RINCON: The Long Tradition of Wealth-Extracting Socialists.
From Karl Marx to Vladimir Lenin, from Fidel Castro to Hugo Chávez, many of these figures denounced private wealth and entrepreneurship, despite the fact that few, if any, lived according to the austere principles they publicly promoted. Instead, many enjoyed lives marked by privilege, luxury, and the very economic advantages they claimed to despise.
This pattern is not confined to communist regimes. In the United States, self-described socialists have often criticized wealth accumulation — until they themselves became wealthy. Senator Bernie Sanders is among the most notable examples. For years, Sanders condemned millionaires and argued that extreme wealth accumulation was immoral. Yet after purchasing multiple homes and earning millions of dollars through book sales criticizing capitalism, his rhetoric shifted largely toward attacking billionaires instead.
Today, the methods have changed, but the underlying dynamic remains the same.
Read the whole thing.
ICYMI: Will No One Rid Me of This Turbulent Musk? “Italics in the original, because otherwise some lefty freakazoid with a rifle might not get the subtle shout-out to assassinate the man who gave the world cheap access to space, universal high-speed internet access, the first mass-produced electric vehicles, and Neuralink brain implants for the disabled.”
