June 2, 2026

K’PLAH:

Posted at 8:45 pm by Ed Driscoll

HOPENCHANGE IS BARACK IN CALIFORNIA! ‘Barack Obama’ Is Running for California Governor, but There’s a Catch.

Hailing from the sunny streets of Alameda, Barack D. Obama Shaw has entered his not-so-unique name in California’s upcoming gubernatorial election against 61 other candidates.

Born as Cecil Shaw III, the governor nominee legally changed his name to Barack D. Obama Shaw in 2013, while he was serving in the US Army Reserve. In a recent interview with Spectrum News, Shaw credited the Democratic Party leader with opening up political possibilities for the likes of him.

He noted, “When I would stand to attention…and his picture was on the wall, and I was proud. He made it happen that a person like me could become president. And the word on the street was it’s not going to happen in our lifetime,” adding, “Barack Obama is the superhero. I’m the guy wearing his suit, that’s me. I’m the one that has the privilege that carries that banner around.”

If Barack D. Obama Shaw isn’t to your liking, also running for governor of California is LivingForGod AndCountry DeMott.

I have a plan to STOP illegal ICE operations; and a chaplain’s heart to remember who the system serves. I’m 100% against the miles-driven tax. To Make California Great Again, PROTECT THE PEOPLE! As the old parties are debating the heat over who bought the matches, while the dumpster fire burns; I’m handing you a fire extinguisher! That’s why I am the best choice for Governor of California.

No word yet if Kevin Phillips Bong or Tarquin Fin-tim-lin-bin-whin-bim-lim bus stop F’tang F’tang Olé Biscuit barrel are running as well:

 

Posted at 8:30 pm by Ed Driscoll

BRENDAN O’NEILL: The merciless mistreatment of Henry Nowak.

For me, the most chilling thing in the bodycam footage of Henry Nowak’s last moments of life is the cops’ cruel presumption that he is lying. As he writhes in terror and agony and cries out ‘I’ve been stabbed!’, a voice in the background – presumably that of the lowlife who murdered him, Vickrum Digwa – says: ‘He hasn’t been stabbed.’ A female officer responds. ‘I know’, she says. ‘But we have to check, don’t we?’

I know. It is delivered with dry, bureaucratic indifference. Henry is heard moaning, begging, ‘I can’t breathe’, yet here is a representative of the state seeming to agree with his knife-wielding tormentor that he is making it up. That cold, cavalier utterance – I know – will have cemented dying Henry’s great dread: that the police were taking the side of his killer rather than him. As his young, precious life came to an end, he heard himself being disbelieved, distrusted, icily written off as a fabulist. His murderer, meanwhile, was afforded respect. The state blindly bowed to his filthy lies.

The bodycam footage of the arrest of 18-year-old Henry Nowak after he was stabbed in Southampton in December last year is horrifying beyond belief. It is one of the most harrowing two minutes of video I have ever watched. Henry can be seen sprawled in agony in a stranger’s driveway, the place he sought sanctuary after being knifed four times by Digwa. His failing voice is thick with pain and fear. What he wanted in that moment – what he needed – was to be believed. The belief of others was the only thing that might have delivered him from his terror-stricken state. But it never came. He said ‘I can’t breathe’ nine times. He said ‘I’ve been stabbed’ four times. ‘I don’t think you have, mate’, said an officer with chirpy, inhumane derision.

Read the whole thing, and then watch Zia Yusuf of Reform UK reminding Cathy Newman of Sky News of her George Floyd-era rhetoric and the Hampshire police’s ‘race action plan’ that O’Neill mentions in the above Spiked essay. “I am not impugning the intention of people who created all this,” Yusuf tells Newman, but what is crystal clear is that we saw in a harrowing, distressing and tragic body cam footage is directly downstream… and what it makes crystal clear is that reaction of the police proves that the burden of proof for a man making an accusation of racism was zero. Henry was arrested pretty much immediately even as he [was] bleeding to death yet the burden of proof in saying repeatedly ‘I have been stabbed’ was such that the police responded as he [was] bleeding to death by handcuffing him and saying ‘I don’t think you have.'”

UPDATE (FROM GLENN):

Posted at 8:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

GOOD, THAT KNOCKED ME OFF STATINS: A Painful Side Effect of Statins Explained After Decades of Mystery. “For millions of people, statins are a daily shield against heart disease. But around 10 percent of those who take statins to lower cholesterol experience a mysterious, painful side effect that causes many to discontinue these potentially life-saving medicines. Scientists have recently found one possible reason why. Research from Columbia University and the University of Rochester in the US revealed a potential culprit: a tiny calcium gate inside muscle cells that statins may force open. The resulting calcium leak can damage muscle tissue, offering a new explanation for at least some cases of statin-associated muscle symptoms (SAMS).”

Posted at 8:00 pm by Glenn Reynolds

BRITAIN’S GEORGE FLOYD MOMENT:

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UPDATE: A riot is the voice of the unheard.

Posted at 7:56 pm by Glenn Reynolds

FIGHT FOR BRITAIN’S FIRST NATIONS:

Posted at 7:27 pm by Glenn Reynolds

SUBSTACK SOON TO GAIN ANOTHER COLUMNIST:

You could say that Pelley’s likely demise at CBS was “to some degree self-inflicted:”

Posted at 6:37 pm by Ed Driscoll

BUT THEY WERE LECTURING PEOPLE ABOUT BEING “DIVISIVE” TODAY:

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UPDATE:

MORE: Henry Nowak: PM Starmer speaks, cop quits. “Henry died on the street, while being read his rights as an accused criminal. No longer able to speak, the last words Nowak heard were ‘you have the right to remain silent.’ Back to the Prime Minister. Starmer piles on to the idea that the real problem with the Nowak case was not his brutal, unprovoked murder, or the callous indifference shown by the responding police to the dying Nowak. No, the real problem is the (small “c”) conservative reaction to these events.”

Posted at 5:30 pm by Glenn Reynolds

IT’S BACK ON: White House Correspondents’ Dinner rescheduled for July 24 after shooting disrupted initial event.

The White House Correspondents’ Association announced Tuesday that it will reschedule its annual press dinner for July 24 after the initial event was disrupted when a gunman attacked the gathering attended by President Trump, senior administration officials and scores of journalists.

Weijia Jiang, who is the president of the association and a CBS News senior White House correspondent, said in an email to members of the White House Correspondents’ Association that the rescheduled event would be a “more intimate gathering” and feature “significantly enhanced safety measures and new access procedures.”

Mr. Trump said he has accepted an invitation to speak at the dinner next month, calling it a “‘HOT’ ticket!”

Stay tuned…

Posted at 4:51 pm by Stephen Green

CHEATING TAKES TIME:

UPDATE: Vital context from Jarvis follows.

Another update (along with a bump):

Posted at 4:29 pm by Stephen Green

INDEED:

Posted at 4:04 pm by Stephen Green

COSMIC INDIGESTION: Scientists Find Cosmic ‘Rosetta Stone’ To Decode Baffling Signals From Deep Space.

Just a few years ago, a strange signal was received from the plane of the Milky Way.

It was something astronomers had never seen before, pulsing with a radio beat too slow to fit any known astronomical object.

It may have just come and gone as a one-off anomaly.

But then they found another one.

And another.

To date, around a dozen of these long-period radio transients (LPTs) have been detected from diverse corners of the galaxy, leaving scientists baffled.

Now, a team led by astronomer Kovi Rose of the University of Sydney in Australia thinks they may finally have found their Rosetta Stone, the object that could help them interpret at least some of these weird, pulsating objects.

In the direction of the galaxy’s inner regions, the researchers traced an LPT signal directly to a magnetic cataclysmic variable star – a strongly magnetized white dwarf cannibalizing its companion and belching periodic radiation.

Rude.

Posted at 3:49 pm by Stephen Green