June 5, 2026

IT JUST KEEPS GETTING MORE DISTURBING:  Hundreds flee as South Africa anti-migrant mobs go door-to-door. Hundreds of foreigners fearing for their lives have taken shelter in community halls along South Africa’s coast.

I’m all for countries defending their sovereignty but “mobs” and “South Africa” are a dangerous combination. To be fair, something for the left (and illegals in the US) to consider is that if they succeed in stopping the deportations and re-opening the borders, this is how it ends. Or worse.

Posted at 1:00 am by Sarah Hoyt

I PREFER REASON OVER FEELINGS, BUT SOMETIMES FEELINGS MAKE THEMSELVES HEARD:  A Lump of Feelings.

Posted at 12:33 am by Sarah Hoyt

June 4, 2026

#JOURNALISM:

Posted at 10:31 pm by Glenn Reynolds

OPEN THREAD: Be here now.

Posted at 9:30 pm by Glenn Reynolds

SCHUTZSTAFFEL SCHWANZSTÜCKER SOON TO BE SEEN?

Posted at 9:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

INVISIBLE COUNTER-REVOLUTION: It may be the least reported “seismic shift” in the global political alignment. Richard Pollock did NOT miss it and he’s got the scoop.

Posted at 7:32 pm by Mark Tapscott

DISPATCHES FROM WEIMAR, HOLLYWOOD: Masters of the Universe Review.

Your tolerance for Masters of the Universe will likely depend on how funny you find it for a character called “Fisto”—because he has a giant fist, you see—uttering the following line: “Let’s fist some bad guys! Give him head, Ram Man.”

Now, this sequence is funny for a couple of reasons. For starters, Fisto and Ram-Man are not the real names of these characters: They’re just what Prince Adam (Nicholas Galitzine) calls the two heroes of Eternia. Because of the aforementioned giant fist and Ram-Man’s head, which looks like a battering ram. But it’s also funny because of the double entendre. “Fisting” and “giving head” are sexual acts, as you, the adult reading this, well know. Fisto (again, not his real name) has said that he and Ram-Man (ibid) should commit acts of violence that also sound like phrases commonly associated with physical acts of love. The dissonance here is intended to provoke an uncontrolled guffaw as your brain connects the two ideas.

Ha ha. You get it.

And maybe you will love it! I do not dispute that this is mildly amusing; there were people in my theater who laughed quite heartily at several of these gags. “Fisto” is, objectively, a very funny name for a character based on a children’s toy. But it really gets to the annoying, leering wink at the heart of Masters of the Universe, a movie that seems to exist entirely in the hopes of turning any discrete 45-second chunk of footage into a GIFable, memeable moment, something to amuse people on social media once this thing hits home video in six or seven weeks, if not sooner.

Based on an ’80s children’s toy, and with Mattel gearing up to sell new merchandise off of Fisto and Ram Man: Mattel Unveils Full “Masters of the Universe” Product Line Ahead of Highly Anticipated Live-Action Film.

Posted at 6:45 pm by Ed Driscoll

MAINE KAMPF: NYT: Ex GF of Platner Says He Knew All About “My Totenkopf,” Used Physical Force Against Her, Bragged That He Would Rape His Male Enemies, “Not in a Gay Way,” But to Show “I’m Dominant.”

More here: Latest Graham Platner Story Veers Into ‘Me Too’ Territory.

Like the invasion of Stalingrad, Platner seems determined to campaign on:

Next stop, damage control on M-SNOW:

 

Posted at 6:30 pm by Ed Driscoll

NOT THAT THERE’S ANYTHING WRO… NEVER MIND, LITERALLY EVERYTHING IS WRONG WITH THAT:

Posted at 6:20 pm by Stephen Green

SPACE: Meteorite found in Sahara desert may be 1st evidence of lost solar system world. “The meteorite, known as Northwest Africa (NWA) 12774, is a roughly one-pound (454-gram) rock discovered in the Sahara Desert in 2019. Scientists classify it as an angrite, a rare type of meteorite that ranks among the oldest volcanic rocks in the solar system. This particular chunk of space rock, known as NWA 12774, preserves an unusual chemical signature that suggests some of the solar system’s earliest worlds developed differently from other rocky planets, researchers say.”

Posted at 4:53 pm by Stephen Green

YOU DON’T HAVE TO SELL ME ON IT, I ALREADY WANTED HIM GONE: Media Reporter: Pelley Firing May Trigger ’60 Minutes’ Exodus.

Along with Pelley, correspondents Sharyn Alfonsi and Cecilia Vega were recently fired and correspondent Anderson Cooper departed.

“No one has left the building at ’60 Minutes’ without some version of what Scott did, some sort of criticism toward the new management, and indeed the new ownership about the direction of the show,” Byers said.

“It is very difficult to see how this new leadership is able to usher ’60 Minutes’ as it has existed in the past into the future,” Byers added. “We only have three remaining correspondents there. I know that they currently are deliberating over what they are going to do.

“It’s very possible that we’re going to arrive at a moment here in a matter of weeks, if not days, where there is no existing talent left at ’60 Minutes’ and they are going to have to build this back up from scratch.”

Best thing that could happen to the show, really.

Posted at 3:51 pm by Stephen Green

THOSE ARE ROOKIE NUMBERS: Trump signs order to make it easier to fire 8,000 federal workers. “You can have any political views, but if you allow those views to basically interfere with your willingness to actually carry out lawful orders and ​policy directives with the administration, then this provides a mechanism obviously for ​people in those agencies to be able to be removed effectively at will.”

Posted at 2:49 pm by Stephen Green