DOMESTIC TERRORISM: Violent threats prompted cancellation of a University of Washington event featuring Chloe Cole: ‘This shows how little free speech is actually tolerated on the UW campus…’ a conservative student told Campus Reform.

BRENDAN O’NEILL: Henry Nowak and the savagery of state wokeness: The police’s vile treatment of young Henry exposes the cruelty and injustice of state ‘anti-racism’.

This is what it looks like when a regime is at war with its own indigenous population.

PARTHIAN SHOT: CBS Torches Stephen Colbert After His Exit. “So in axing Colbert, the network turned the whole slot profitable. It sure sounds like CBS has now been unburdened by what has been.”

INSURRECTION! Just Another Dem-Funded Riot: A Signal Message Exposed the Organized Machine Behind NJ ICE Facility Chaos.

Related: This Is the Way: Watch NJ State Police, Feds Take Down the Newark Anti-ICE Crew and Their Camp.

GOOD: Trump Admin Targets Big Immigration’s Legal Industrial Complex.

JOHN LUCAS: Is the Country Smothering Under a Blanket of Darkness? Or Is There Room for Hope and Optimism? If you want to know the answer to that, do not consult our media. Take a fresh look around you and talk to normal Americans.

Always good advice.

THE BURNT FOOL’S BANDAGED FINGER GOES WOBBLING BACK TO THE FIRE: Hochul just let Mamdani start to borrow NYC’s way back to the 1975 financial crisis. “Robbing the future to pay for the present nearly sank the city 50 years ago, and the math hasn’t changed. By insisting on ballooning the budget to $127 billion, refusing to make any real spending cuts and embracing this dodgy de-facto borrowing, Mamdani’s not leading New York City into some new golden socialist era.”

INSURRECTION!

The Democrats do a January 6th every day, every week. Their target is ICE.

J6 was a riot.

THIS is in insurrection. https://t.co/CO78hvNpgt

— Ari Fleischer (@AriFleischer) May 31, 2026

I’m looking at HUNDREDS of people that should be in jail for assaulting police.

Hundreds of them.

The fact that any of them are walking free is a complete disgrace.

How can you throw freaking FLASHBANGS AND ROCKS at police and just walk away with ZERO consequences??????

— Matt Van Swol (@mattvanswol) May 31, 2026

This is much more violent than January 6. January 6 was American citizens acting like Americans. This is enemies of America acting like enemies.

FRANCE, BRITAIN, AND GERMANY — AND SPAIN — NEED REVOLUTIONS AT THIS POINT:

I think the Henry Nowak police footage is so bad it could spark a revolution in the UK.

The Government knows.

This is why it’s being hidden.

I would not be shocked if the footage gets “damaged” or “lost”.

The people are already protesting what has been done to their homeland.

— C3 (@C_3C_3) May 30, 2026

Shit happening in Europe. Again.

Christ. https://t.co/FotIf3c5gP

— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) May 31, 2026

Plus:

The situation is worsening and getting completely out of control in Paris.

The Champs-Élysées area is being destroyed, with migrant gangs reportedly even attempting to set fire to the Arc de Triomphe.

A literal war zone. pic.twitter.com/yENmLrpRXm

— Dr. Maalouf ‏ (@realMaalouf) May 30, 2026

Trying to set fire to a stone structure both illustrates the subnormal IQ of the protesters, and the problem that they present. The solutions to the problem are obvious, of course, which is why they are not being pursued.

And, from the open thread:

OPEN THREAD: Keep rockin’!

AN EARTH-SHATTERING KABOOM: Incredible videos show Blue Origin rocket explosion could be seen from hundreds of miles away.

NINA PLANCK WAS RIGHT, REAL FOOD: Giant Study Reveals The Secret to Heart Health Isn’t Low-Carb or Low-Fat.

I WAS HOPING IT WAS PROOF OF ROMAN SETTLEMENT IN LOUISIANA, BUT IT’S JUST WAR BOOTY: Mysterious Stone in US Backyard Turns Out to Be an Archaeological Treasure. “The grave marker was among those later listed as missing. Its exact measurements, as recorded by the museum, matched those of the tablet found in Santoro and Lopez’s garden. Exactly how the stone traveled from wartime Italy to suburban Louisiana remained an equally fascinating saga. According to Erin Scott O’Brien, the Carrollton house’s former owner, the tablet had been on display in a cabinet containing other heirlooms in the Gentilly house of her grandfather, Charles Paddock Jr., a soldier stationed in Italy during WWII.”

EARTH SHATTERING KABOOM: Meteor explodes over Boston as sonic boom rings out across MASSACHUSETTS.

I NEED TO EAT MORE ITALIAN: Scientists Discover Surprising Anti-Aging Power Hidden in Aged Garlic.

HMM: Naloxone use during cardiac arrest linked to improved survival.

RIP: These Vehicles Are Dead for 2027: Pour one out for greats like the BMW Z4, Lexus LC, Toyota GR Supra, and more.

“RULE OF LAW:” Virginia State Police Running Background Checks on Private Gun Sales in Violation of Court Order.

DON’T PUT H.A.L. IN CHARGE OF THE HIBERNATION: Scientists Put a Brain Through a −196°C Cryosleep. Could Real-Life Human Hibernation Change the Future of Deep-Space Travel?

THEYRE ALWAYS IN THE LAST PLACE YOU LOOK: New species found buried on the beach in Costa Rica.

DIFFERENT TAKES:

DERMATOLOGISTS NEED TO GET OVER THEIR SOLARPHOBIA: Gen Z Is Bringing Tanning Back. Dermatologists Are Alarmed.

WHOM THE GODS WOULD DESTROY, THEY FIRST MAKE RIDICULOUS: UMinn bias report: Someone said ‘mothers’ instead of ‘lactating individuals.’

They must really be out for U. Minnesota.

OF COURSE: UPenn ‘America 250’ courses largely ignore America’s founding, conservative analysts say.

ROGER KIMBALL: Trump Has Iran Over A Barrel.

What, after all, is he up to? The commentariat proffers several conflicting narratives. The one common thread is the certainty with which these opinions are uttered. Trump is an idiot. Trump is a genius. For those who say that he has thrown in the towel – that Iran has “won” – I’d offer two observations.

First, it is an odd sort of winning a war when your adversary eliminates your navy, air force, most of your air defense capability, large swaths of your stock of missiles and drones along with the industrial capacity to produce them, not to mention two or three levels of your top leadership, all within a matter of days.

Second, anyone who has pondered President Trump’s adventures in foreign policy knows that two things are true of him. He is a constant advocate for peace. He is also waspish when crossed. Just ask Qasem Soleimani, the Iranian terror-lord whom Trump vaporized in a drone attack during his first term. Cast your mind back to last June’s Operation Midnight Hammer, when a fleet of B-2s, supported by a passel of Tomahawk cruise missiles, buried Iran’s three major nuclear sites. Remember what happened to Nicolás Maduro in January? And then, of course, there is the fury of Operation Epic Fury.

Trump held Iran’s head underwater for six weeks. He pulled it up and let it sputter while he offered the mullahs an off-ramp. But Secretary of State Marco Rubio, responding to the press, is right. “The idea that somehow this President, given everything he’s already proven he’s willing to do, is going to somehow agree to a deal that ultimately winds up putting Iran in a stronger position when it comes to nuclear ambitions is absurd!”

Indeed. Trump is waiting impatiently while the Iranians prance and posture. The IRGC tried laying some mines in the Strait of Hormuz and: pow! The US took out the boats involved and destroyed a surface-to-air missile battery in Bandar Abbas that was targeting US warplanes. “These were defensive strikes,” a US spokesman said. “They do not indicate the ceasefire is over.”

What they do indicate is that Trump is serious about his terms. First, the Strait of Hormuz is an international waterway, not Iran’s territorial property. Shipping must be free to travel through it. Second, Iran cannot be allowed to develop a nuclear weapon. A codicil to that imperative is that Iran must relinquish or destroy (under supervision) its approximately 900 pounds of highly enriched uranium. Third, Iran must stop funding terrorist proxies in Lebanon, Gaza – and elsewhere.

There are some things left off Trump’s list of demands. The most prominent has to do with the Iranian people. Back in January, when the mullahs were slaughtering protesters by the tens of thousands, Trump promised that “help is on the way.” In announcing the start of Epic Fury on March 1, Trump said US and Israeli joint military action would so damage the regime that the people could oust the leaders and replace the government. That hasn’t happened yet.

Opinions differ about the resilience of the Shia regime in Iran. I suspect that, like most totalitarian regimes, it presents to the world a seamless carapace of bluster. But the strength of that shell is deceptive. Once a few cracks appear, it may quickly shatter.

Now that Iran’s Internet censorship has partly broken down, we’re seeing images of riots, demonstrations and unrest. My speculation is that we’ve been running guns in to the opposition — no doubt with help from the Mossad, which seems to have penetrated Iran everywhere — and that the revolution will break out when it’s time. But that’s just speculation.