ICYMI, IT’S MY THURSDAY ESSAY FOR VIP SUBSCRIBERS: The Burning Questions Europeans Will Bring Home With Their Ranch Dressing.
June 25, 2026
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I HAVE ONE OF THESE: Still A Great Rifle: The .30 Carbine.
JUST DIE, THEY EXPLAINED: The British Government Prefers Its Citizens Well Done. “In the United Kingdom, that Malthusian crusade in favor of the Earth against the humans who occupy it has been taken to the granular, intrusive extreme by the authoritarian climate Nazis that the British people have allowed to usurp their very right to the means for survival.”
SOCIALISM SO BIG, THEY HAVE TO TAKE IT NATIONAL: It’s Official: The Democrat Party Is a Socialist Skinsuit. “Just about the last thing you should expect from some lefty political insider is a forthright admission of what they’re actually up to, but that’s exactly what happened when Democratic Socialist of America (DSA) New York City cochair Gustavo Gordillo spoke with NY1’s Spectrum News earlier this week.”
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NOT-SO-SUPER: ‘Supergirl’ – Joyless DC Flop is a Super Mess.
Truth, Justice, Whatever.
The latter was more than “Supergirl’s” marketing campaign. It applies to the film itself, a dimly-lit shrug of IP unworthy of blockbuster status.
Or anyone’s hard-earned money.
Star Milly Alcock isn’t fully to blame, although she does little to enliven matters. There’s no charisma to be found in her performance, but that’s hardly the film’s only sin.
How much time ya got?
I still haven’t figured out exactly how the patriarchy ruined this film, but I’m sure we’re somehow to blame.
AMERICANS WILL USE ANYTHING TO AVOID THE METRIC SYSTEM: Asteroid as large as 5 cruise ships will soar past Earth this weekend.
LOL, THIS IS POLITICO TODAY:
Oh, is that what the case was about? The Court convened, and the justices were asked whether they liked “big business” or those with “cancer,” and seven of the nine chose “big business”? Or was it about FIFRA’s preemption clause? The press’s coverage of the law is a disaster. https://t.co/40OlyH6pc3
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) June 25, 2026
As Ben “Hamas” Rhodes, the failed novelist turned Obama’s Middle Eastern policy “expert” (in)famously told the New York Times a decade ago, “The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old, and their only reporting experience consists of being around political campaigns. That’s a sea change. They literally know nothing.”
COULD SOMEBODY PLEASE AWAKEN THE SENATE: That SAVE America Act that President Donald Trump and a bunch of House conservatives must become law before Congress does anything else has remarkable support from 79 percent of the public, including majorities of all three major voter groups.
But, as I report today in The Washington Stand, Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD), while insisting there aren’t enough votes to meet the 60-vote threshold presently required to approve the measure, sent the upper chamber lawmakers home for two weeks. Because only a simple majority is required to change Senate rules, skepticism is growing rapidly that Thune and the usual Senate RINOs are hiding behind the 60-vote barrier.
The July 4th fireworks around the corner may pale by comparison with the explosions when the Senate returns.
THE 21ST CENTURY ISN’T TURNING OUT AS I’D HOPED: Humanoid Robot Seen Begging for Spare Change on the Street — and yes, there’s a QR code.
Dave Portnoy has blasted WNBA star Alyssa Thomas after she appeared to punch Caitlin Clark in the throat during their game on Wednesday night.
Clark was driving to the hoop when she fell to the ground in the paint while under pressure from a number of Phoenix Mercury defenders.
Three Mercury players were battling to strip the ball away from Clark and succeeded in doing so.
But, while Clark lay on the floor, Thomas charged in and put her closed fist into the Indiana Fever superstar’s neck.
She then appeared to put her weight through it and pushed off Clark’s throat to get back to her feet before stepping over her to rejoin the game.
A reverse angle showed Thomas, while jostling on their way down to the floor, also drove her left knee into Clark’s exposed groin.
The incident infuriated Portnoy, a huge Clark fan, who posted on X: ‘What are we even doing here? Brutal cheap shot.
‘These women would still be flying commercial without Caitlin and this is how she is treated. Insane.’
Despite video replays showing the incident, referees did not call a foul even though there was an official just yards away. The WNBA could review it for a flagrant foul.
Exit quote:
The absolute worst sports organization in world history, and it's not even close https://t.co/bQtsJNLezX
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) June 25, 2026
BOEING IS RELIEVED THAT IT’S AIRBUS: Cracks Discovered on Wings of World’s Largest Passenger Planes Prompt Urgent Inspection of 16 Aircraft.
We live in a postmodern age that seeks to change or destroy the core principles and institutions that are at the foundation not just of the West but of all civilizations. Under the long shadow cast by Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, and Herbert Marcuse, we live in a time of nihilistic totalitarianism (nihilism is the means and totalitarianism is the end) that has as its direct goal the dismantling of those ways of living grounded in metaphysical reality.
Let’s begin by putting our concerns in a broader context. Those who seek to destroy marriage, do so in the name of an ideological passion.
When early twentieth-century Marxists realized that there would never be a proletarian revolution of oppressed workers because the working class was the greatest conservator of the bourgeois way of life, they recalibrated their strategy and decided that the values most important to the working class would have to be destroyed first and foremost. This led the twentieth-century Left on its “long march through the institutions” to extinguish those moral values and institutions that were suppressing and holding back the Marxist-Leninist revolution foretold by the laws of dialectical materialism. That’s when the Left discovered Nietzsche and Freud and began to wheedle away at the soul of Western man.
After the Left captured and transformed the universities, schools, media, Hollywood, and various professional associations, etc., they went for civilization’s jugular. The single greatest scalp won by the Left in the last twenty years has been their corruption and transformation of the institution of marriage. The postmodern Left is now giggling as their minions have stripped marriage of its necessary component parts and left it corpse dangling for all to see and mock. (Apologies for mixing my metaphors!)
Read the whole thing.
NO A/C FOR YOU: Suffer the Little Children, France Insists.
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YES, PLEASE: Rep. Keith Self proposes repealing 17th Amendment as House-Senate feud intensifies. “Self, a member of the House Freedom Caucus, is introducing a joint resolution, obtained by the Washington Examiner, on Thursday to repeal the 17th Amendment amid the intensifying rift between the House and Senate over the GOP’s flagship voter ID bill.”
Let’s do the 16th while we’re at it, too.
SAME AS IT EVER WAS: Trump Wants Action While Senate Republicans Count Excuses.
21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: California cities dominate national ‘catfish’ rankings — as major West Coast hub takes the crown of shame.
DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: California sets high income taxes for World Cup players.
“Usually jock taxes only really impact domestic American players who are all playing in the same league and are all playing against each other, and in that context, they do nothing,” Wilford told The Center Square.
Take professional football. When the Los Angeles Rams travel to Philadelphia to play the Eagles, the Rams’ players and staff will be expected to pay income tax to Pennsylvania, proportionate to the amount of their salary they earn while in the state. The very next week when the Buffalo Bills travel to Los Angeles to play, the Bills’ players and staff will be expected to do the same for the state of California.
According to Wilford, over the course of the NFL season, everything tends to even out in terms of state revenues.
“States all do this to each other. It’s a circular firing squad where they’re all taxing each other’s athletes, and then they all have to give tax credits to their own resident athletes for the taxes they had to pay to other states,” Wilford said. “States pretty much end up with the same amount of revenue that they would have had if no one did this.”
The addition of foreign, nonresident athletes coming to the United States for the World Cup adds entirely different complexities.
It isn’t that complex, really. Sacramento long ago adopted the GoodFellas approach to tax collection.
