June 16, 2026

LYING TO CONGRESS IS A CRIME:

Posted at 10:10 pm by Glenn Reynolds

DIVIDED BRITAIN:

From Peachy Keenan: “One of the darkest aspects of this is that these girls came from the lower classes, the north, the working class, the industrial towns and cities. Their grandparents and ancestors were coal miners, factory workers, soldiers, servants to the upper classes. To show their thanks to generations of loyal Brits who did backbreaking toil for their country and the crown, their daughters were given as sex slaves to foreign invaders. A genocide of native people. The crimes of the complicit modern UK government put it up there with Ceausescu’s Romania and Pol Pot.”

And the reply: “We have class issues in this country, though we deny it, but nothing like the deep loathing that the UK middle classes (not the upper classes) have for the working class. We are talking about the university credentialed class (used to be a lot smaller). A whole class of educators, officers, medical, engineers, managers. One life example, I recall on Youtube, an interview with a working-class electrician. In the engineering firm that we worked at managment/engineering never addressed him by his name, not his first name nor his last name (Mr. Raines, for example) but simply as ‘Sparks’. ‘Hey Sparks, take a look at this….’. He’s an electricians, so ‘Sparks’, get it. The intent was to alienate, even dehumanize, and it’s still there working today. Deep, deep, deep loathing. A loathing that was as deep as American racism at it’s worst.”

Posted at 9:58 pm by Glenn Reynolds

OPEN THREAD: Tuesday’s groovy.

Posted at 9:30 pm by Glenn Reynolds

HAPPY WARRIOR: The Wildest Moments from Vance Visiting The View. 

During the interview, [Ana] Navarro was a near-constant problem for moderator Whoopi Goldberg.

As they were approaching a commercial break and Vance was wrapping up a response to a question from Goldberg and co-host Sunny Hostin about race (because of course it was), Navarro tried to squeeze in a question about Michelle Obama. This caused Goldberg to clap her hands vigorously and scream to God to get Navarro shut up:

VANCE: I’m telling you, we celebrate black history. We celebrate all American history in this administration. You guys might be skeptical of this, but I promise you it’s true.

NAVARRO: Can I ask you about a specific piece of black history?

GOLDBERG: He’s gotta – I gotta –

NAVARRO: Do you think the attack on Michelle Obama –

GOLDBERG: I have to go to break! [Claps her hands] ANA, GOD PLEASE!

NAVARRO: – should have been condemned by the White House?

GOLDBERG: We have more with Vice President J.D. Vance when we come back.

“Don’t do that!” Goldberg scolded Navarro, in possibly a hot mic moment.

America’s Newspaper of Record sums up the state of the ABC News program Vance appeared on:

Posted at 9:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

GEORGIA: Rep. Mike Collins wins GOP runoff in Georgia Senate race. “Rep. Mike Collins has won the Republican Senate runoff in Georgia, NBC News projects, setting up a race against Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff in one of the most competitive and important campaigns in the country. Collins’ primary victory over former college football coach Derek Dooley is also a win for President Donald Trump, who endorsed the two-term congressman just a few days before Tuesday’s runoff election.”

Posted at 9:02 pm by Glenn Reynolds

GOOD. Alleged DC National Guard shooter could face death penalty with new charges. “Lakanwal — an Afghan national — is accused of killing Beckstrom and critically wounding Air Force Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe in an ambush-style shooting several blocks from the White House last November. He was also charged with attempting to kill two other unnamed service members who subdued him at the scene of the attack.”

Posted at 8:59 pm by Glenn Reynolds

OH, TO BE IN ENGLAND: Rupert Lowe Releases His Rape Gang Report.

The UK government has refused to investigate the crimes so I believe Lowe crowd-funded an investigatory body and conducted interviews and wrote up a report.

The full document is here.

It begins with some appropriate quotations:

The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.–Albert Einstein

Man is the cruellest animal.

–Friedrich Nietzsche

 

Matt Van Swol @mattvanswolI have just finished reading The Rape Gang Inquiry Report.

It is, without a doubt, the most horrifying document I’ve ever read in my life.

There is no close second… and it’s worse than you could ever imagine.

Here’s everything you need to know 🧵

1. The inquiry estimates AT LEAST 250,000 girls.

A QUARTER MILLION.

They are overwhelmingly white girls and they were raped, trafficked & tortured over decades.

The 250k number is the MINIMUM, the FLOOR… there are likely even more than this.

2. The same crime was documented in at least 149 local authority districts… nearly 40% of the country.

Read the whole thing.

Posted at 8:45 pm by Ed Driscoll

TOLERANCE FOR DIVERSITY SUDDENLY DISCOVERS LIMITS:

Past performance is no guarantee of future results:

Including Kaepernick’s own idiosyncratic additions to his uniform: Clown Kaepernick Now Wearing Socks Depicting Police As Pigs: “This ass**** is just begging to be cut, which he probably soon will be, so then he can cry racism,” JWF writes, linking to a CBS Sports article that notes, “It appears that over the past few weeks, Kaepernick has been wearing socks that show a pig in a cop’s hat. The quarterback has been wearing them since at least Aug. 10.”

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San Francisco 49ers quarterbacks Blaine Gabbert, left, and Colin Kaepernick (7) stretch during NFL football training camp, Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2016, at Kezar Stadium in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Ben Margot.) Click to enlarge image.
Posted at 8:30 pm by Ed Driscoll

I THINK CHESTERTON’S FENCE MAY APPLY TO ORGANS: A ‘Useless’ Organ That Doctors Often Remove May Actually Fight Cancer. “In a study in 2023, US researchers found that those who get their thymus removed face an increased risk of death from any cause in the five years following the surgery. They also face an increased risk of developing cancer during that time.”

Posted at 8:14 pm by Glenn Reynolds

HERE’S THE LINK TO RUPERT LOWE’S HORRIFYING BRITISH RAPE GANG REPORT.

More:

UPDATE:

Posted at 7:55 pm by Glenn Reynolds

THE MANSPLAINERS: Interview with Mike Buchanan, head of Justice for Men and Boys in the UK:

Posted at 6:01 pm by Helen Smith

I SITLL MISS MY COMMODORE 64, BUT THIS AT LEAST HAS THE CLASSIC COLOR SCHEME: Commodore’s newest gadget is a flip phone that blocks social media and browsers. “The Commodore Callback 8020 takes advantage of reinvigorated interest in dumb phones. Although Commodore’s phone has Internet connectivity, it blocks web browsers and social media ‘at the system level using patent pending technology,’ the company’s announcement said. The phone supports other Internet-based capabilities, like maps and QR codes.”

It looks something like a late-model Commodore PET shrunk down to flip-phone proportions.

Posted at 5:53 pm by Stephen Green

MILE MARKERS ON THE ROAD TO DETROIT, SOCAL EDITION: Hollywood’s Mass Exodus: Why Film and TV Production Is Fleeing L.A. and What Can Be Done About It.

The contenders for governor are also battling to show that they can revive the industry with the right package of incentives. Newsom doubled the state program to $750 million in 2025. Everyone seems to agree it should be more — maybe a lot more — and that it should cover above-the-line salaries for actors, writers and producers.

“In my understanding, California’s rebate is one of the least beneficial for anybody who is financing motion pictures and television,” says Charles Roven, co-founder of Atlas Entertainment and producer of “Oppenheimer” and “Wonder Woman.” “It’s capped and it has no above-the-line.”

But the state can do only so much to compete with the 81 countries that have embraced filming as an economic development tool. The U.K. alone spent $2.2 billion on film and TV subsidies in 2024, and national incentives are often stacked on top of local rebates.

California “went into this knife fight without a weapon, and now folks are bringing guns,” says Xavier Becerra, the Democratic gubernatorial candidate who is the favorite to succeed Newsom.

As she runs for reelection, Bass has to walk a fine line between projecting confidence in the city’s ability to retain production and lobbying for more federal help for Hollywood. “I don’t feel like we’re going to lose our industry,” Bass says, noting that studios and networks are still grappling with the business changes wrought by the streaming revolution. “When all of that settles, I feel confident that we can maintain our industry.”

Once a pipe dream, the idea of a federal film subsidy now seems like a real possibility.

“In order to save this industry in America, we need to be competitive with tax credits,” says Sen. Adam Schiff, the California Democrat who is working on introducing an incentive bill in Congress. “We have a lot of our influence around the world as a result of American film and TV. We don’t want to lose that soft power.”

Advocates warn that unless the U.S. responds to foreign subsidies, Hollywood is at risk of becoming Detroit, which has bled jobs as automakers pursued low-wage labor and generous incentives in other states and abroad.

“This is supposed to be the film capital of the world,” said Noelle Stehman, a co-founder of the grassroots group Stay in L.A., at a rally for Raman’s campaign. “It should be the cheapest and easiest place to film. In fact, it is the most cumbersome and the most expensive. That cannot continue. If we don’t do something quickly, this is going to become the next Detroit.”

Mike Miller, vice president of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, was raised in Cleveland. He also sees a parallel. “I watched the demise of steel and rubber and automotive manufacturing as I grew up,” he says. “This is identical in many ways. We have an undeclared trade war that our government is standing by and watching happen.”

Earlier: Fears grow of ‘Detroit-Style’ decline as Hollywood jobs evaporate.

UPDATE:

Posted at 5:22 pm by Ed Driscoll