THE MOST UNFORGIVABLE TRUMP TRAIT IS SUCCESS:
Wait, you can fix things without a $452m study to determine if we should perform a $36m environmental impact study before awarding a $875m contract to do what some pool guys did for $3m?
— richard wolf (@RawdogDMonkey) June 7, 2026
Imagine being angry about this https://t.co/GfBt1FVWvq
— Marc Thiessen (@marcthiessen) June 6, 2026
OPEN THREAD: Book me on the next flight to Tracy Island — on Aurora Air!
FINALLY: Going supersonic! NASA’s X-59 jet breaks sound barrier for the 1st time. “The X-59, a long-nosed demonstrator designed to help develop the tech required for ‘quiet’ supersonic flight, notched the milestone on Friday (June 5), more than six months after getting off the ground for the first time.”
This image from the Retrofuture Vault on Facebook captures the 21st Century I was expecting:
TURN THAT SOLAR HEARTBEAT OVER AGAIN: Our Sun’s ‘Heartbeat’ Has Been Mysteriously Changing For 40 Years. Please make mine a double, Sam.
STACY MCCAIN: The Unexpected Heroine Lyndsey Fifield.
HMM: Popular Weight-Loss Drug Found To Slow Biological Aging in Landmark Human Trial. There’s a lot of good news associated with these drugs. On the other hand, there’s so much good news associated with them that it’s making me slightly suspicious.
SECURITY & CIGARS: A D-Day Story.
WARNING LIGHTS ARE FLASHING DOWN IN QUALITY CONTROL: 2027 Kia Telluride Faces Another Recall As Driver’s Seat Belt Can Lock Up: The new Telluride is popular, but it’s also riddled with issues.
21ST CENTURY PROBLEMS: Police can’t find shoplifter who fled in self-driving Waymo. Of course it’s in San Francisco, where police don’t work very hard to find shoplifters anyway.
DON’T WORRY, THE MURDER HORNETS’LL TAKE ‘EM OUT: A flesh-eating screwworm is in the US. How worried should we be?
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: 17 percent drop in new foreign students exposes universities’ reliance on their tuition, expert says.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Yale fall catalog loaded with racism-focused courses as tuition nears $70K.
THIS:
Trump’s beautification efforts for DC are more important than people realize.
Past administrations treated this nation like conquerors treat conquered land.
They intentionally removed the statues, the culture, the history, etc., so they could remove the national identity.… pic.twitter.com/0yJUkgUO5v
— Clandestine (@WarClandestine) June 5, 2026
Matt Taibbi says America needs a sensible and boring party. But if you look at what Trump actually does, it’s stuff that by any reasonable measure is sensible and boring: Limit immigration, control crime, restore public infrastructure, gain energy independence, neutralize enemies abroad, demand voter ID, etc. These are all straightforward things that politicians of both parties endorsed not that long ago.
But can a boring and sensible party function in an environment where the opposition chimps out and takes to the streets whenever it doesn’t get its way?
CONSEQUENCES:
California Dethroned: Fortune 500 Crown Goes to Texas.
This isn’t “California Derangement Syndrome” as Gov. Gavin Newsom claims. This is the economic reality by businesses to California’s toxic business climate, and as the Billionaire Tax threat looms large.@CaliforniaGlobe…
— California Globe (@CaliforniaGlobe) June 5, 2026
A Zionist Jew and an Anti-Zionist Jew walk into a bar. The bartender says, “Both of you get out, we don’t serve Jews here.”
REMEMBER THEM:
— Common Sense Todd (@CommonSenseTodd) June 6, 2026
Boris Bittker, better known as the leading tax professor of the second half of the 20th Century, was there. He said he had to get up and leave during the opening to Saving Private Ryan. It was too real and brought back too many memories, even after so many decades.
IT WAS A MISTAKE TO LET THE TQ+ CROWD INTO THE TENT: Andrew Sullivan: The TQ+ Threat To LGB Rights: The return to the narrative of gays as queers, freaks, and child-obsessed is dangerous.
GOOD: WaPo: Dems Worrying About Freaky Senate Candidate *Not* Named Platner, Too. “Seriously? What could embarrass the ‘party of women’ and muh democracy more than backing a Nazi-tatted misogynist with a history of lies and violence? Funny you should ask.”
ENGLAND EXPLAINED:
In fairness, the Pakistani rape gangs pose no threat to the ruling elites or to any protected group. The cone thrower is an existential threat to both. https://t.co/qGSZD6sF2o
— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) June 5, 2026
FOR SOME VALUES OF “WE.”
The other way to say this is we have turned immigrants into an aristocratic class with special rights and privileges https://t.co/yTryk9M9oV
— Auron MacIntyre (@AuronMacintyre) June 5, 2026
THEY SHOULD BE WORRIED. IF LAW ENFORCEMENT WON’T DO IT’S JOB, MORE PRIMITIVE KINDS OF JUSTICE ARE LIKELY TO REAPPEAR.
They're doing the Norm tweet again https://t.co/a98PNtipPe pic.twitter.com/UFAe4BdJVj
— Auron MacIntyre (@AuronMacintyre) June 5, 2026
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