June 17, 2026

AS THE NEW YORK TIMES WOULD SAY, FAKE BUT ACCURATE:

Posted at 10:22 am by Ed Driscoll

SAY, THAT DOESN’T QUITE JIBE WITH WHAT LEFTIES CLAIM ABOUT EPSTEIN AND TRUMP: Jeffrey Epstein was obsessed with trying to take down Trump before suicide, report says.

Child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein tried to dig up dirt on President Trump in a desperate bid for leniency in the days leading up to his suicide, but was unable to deliver anything of substance, according to a report.

Epstein became fixated on the president after he was arrested in 2019, as his lawyers tried to hammer out a deal with prosecutors if the disgraced financier could provide helpful information about other defendants, according to the New York Times.

During his many marathon meetings with his parade of lawyers while he was locked up in a federal jail in Lower Manhattan, Epstein often had his nose buried in a legal pad scrawling disjointed one-liners about the commander-in-chief, such as “Trump is a total con artist — smoke & mirrors” and “Never had money.”

The deranged scribblings suggest that Epstein had nothing on Trump, who was serving his first term in office at the time.

Now Trump is serving his second term, despite whatever Epstein and his enablers could throw at him.

Posted at 9:38 am by Stephen Green

THAT’S DIFFERENT BECAUSE IT’S RACIST TO MENTION THE PAKISTANI GROOMERS RAPING WHITE GIRLS:

Posted at 9:22 am by Stephen Green

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: California Gay Business Certification Another Dem Lurch to the Prog Fringe. “Don’t they care about gay business owners who may not be able to provide ‘Proof of domestic partnership health insurance utilization’ or any of the other proof of gayness documents that the Golden State wants before it signs any checks?”

Posted at 9:07 am by Stephen Green

THEN HE FELL IN LOVE WITH THE SOUTH: PJ Media’s Chris Queen — a true Southerner whose book “Neon Crosses” is well-worth your reading  if you want an accurate view of Dixie — follows Freddy, the German here with FIFA. Freddy had dinner at Buc’ees at 1 am and fell in love with the joint, and that’s just one of the many discoveries that blow away the warnings he got before coming from the Left about the “dangers” below the Mason-Dixie.

Posted at 9:05 am by Mark Tapscott

#RESIST:

Posted at 8:51 am by Stephen Green

THIS SHOULD HARDLY BE NECESSARY, YET HERE WE ARE: Daughters of the American Revolution to Vote on Definition of ‘Woman’ Amid Criticism of Transgender Policy.

The Daughters of the American Revolution currently allows men who identify as women to join, but the group will vote on a resolution to reverse that policy and formally define “woman,” the Daily Signal has learned.

“Members of the Daughters of the American Revolution will take an historic vote to define the word ‘woman’ on Friday, June 26, 2026, at Memorial Continental Hall in Washington, D.C.,” Laura McDonald, founder and president of Daughters Advocating for Restoration and a member of Daughters of the American Revolution since 2018, told the Daily Signal.

“Daughters all across the country have relentlessly pursued all avenues and have succeeded in their demand for this historic vote,” she added.

The resolution, provided to the Daily Signal, argues that the bylaws, which state that eligibility only applies to women, “should be interpreted in accordance with the intention of the society at the time the bylaw was adopted.” There is no question that DAR’s founders in 1890 did not envision men identifying as women as eligible for membership.

Well, good.

Posted at 8:36 am by Stephen Green

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

More:

Here are eight essential quotes from @RupertLowe10
‘s Rape Gang Inquiry.

1) This was a nationwide, not merely local, phenomenon.

“…that this was never a series of isolated local failures. It was a coordinated, nationwide pattern of organised child sexual exploitation that repeated in town after town, city after city, from the far north to the south coast.”

2) The scale was enormous, more than anyone dared to think.

“The scale of the crimes committed is staggering. It has been previously established that, at the very least, 250,000 young white girls have been subjected to repeated rape, gang rape, trafficking, torture, pregnancy, forced Islamic conversion, and lifelong trauma. The true number is probably higher.”

3) As has been reported, the vast majority of perpetrators were Pakistani Muslims.

” In court records and official inquiries, around 87% of those convicted in these group-based child sexual exploitation (‘CSE’) cases bore distinctively Muslim names… Dr. Taj Hargey, an imam with the Oxford Islamic Congregation, believes the true proportion of gang members who are Muslims to be around 95%.”

4) Vulnerable girls were targeted using a consistent method.

“Organised networks of perpetrators built coordinated operations that transported victims between locations, supplied them with drugs and alcohol, recorded abuse for distribution and blackmail, and passed girls between multiple adult men.”

5) The police, and other institutions, knew what was happening and ignored it.

“Police forces ignored repeated reports, criminalised victims instead of perpetrators, destroyed evidence, and allowed known rapists to walk free on bail. Social care services undermined protective parents, placed children in trafficking hubs inside children’s homes, closed cases despite clear indicators of exploitation, and retaliated against whistleblowers. The NHS recorded genital injuries, multiple sexually transmitted infections in children as young as 13, pregnancies caused by rape, and suicide attempts, yet discharged victims back to their abusers without safeguarding referrals or trauma care. Schools observed older men collecting girls at the gates, heard disclosures of rape on school premises, and responded by excluding victims rather than protecting them.”

6) Those in these institutions did so because they were afraid of being called ‘racist’.

“Political correctness, fear of accusations of racism, and fear of losing electoral support from certain demographics have taken precedence over the protection of British children.”

7) Parts of the foster and orphan care system became exploitation hotspots.

“Children’s homes became trafficking hubs where staff failed to stop older men collecting girls at night. Local authorities often returned children to unsafe homes and placements despite repeated disclosures of grooming… Social care across England systematically enabled organised grooming and the rape of children. Children’s services, local authorities, foster carers, children’s homes, and independent units repeatedly returned vulnerable children to known risk.”

8) Multiple offenders explicitly linked their treatment of these girls with their own religious and cultural beliefs, and the girls’ white ethnicity.

“They were taken to houses, flats, restaurants, and hotels where they were raped repeatedly by groups of men, tortured, filmed for blackmail, and told they were “white trash” or “kuffar” who merited punishment.”

There must be comeuppance for this, and it must involve the death penalty.

Related:

Some might conclude that he was part of the coverup because he was complicit.

Posted at 7:55 am by Glenn Reynolds

THIS IS GETTING TO BE A PROBLEM: A Chinese rocket breaks apart dangerously close to the Starlink constellation.

The breakup occurred shortly after the Zhuque-2E rocket reached orbit on June 9 with two satellites providing direct-to-cell communications, perhaps around the time the upper stage was expected to perform a disposal burn. The US Space Force confirmed the breakup event in a post on space-track.org, a website used by the military to distribute orbit data to the public.

“The tracked pieces are being incorporated into routine conjunction assessment to support spaceflight safety,” the Space Force wrote in an advisory. “There are currently no threats to human spaceflight. Analysis is ongoing.”

So far, the Space Force has not added any of the debris fragments to the official catalog of human-made space objects. Darren McKnight, a senior technical fellow at the orbital intelligence company LeoLabs, told Ars the fragmentation event likely generated 100 to 150 pieces of debris.

China’s attitude toward space junk is so cavalier I was surprised to read the upper stage was even supposed to have a disposal burn.

Posted at 7:34 am by Stephen Green

LIKE, FLAMING?

More and more, the state is just a trillion-dollar grift operation.

Posted at 7:18 am by Stephen Green

FROM NATHAN C. BRINDLE: I’m the Beautiful But Evil Space Princess Who Rules A Galactic Empire But Really Wants To Leave People Ruthlessly Alone!: Volume 4.

Imperial Princess Regnant Alice and her fiancé, Crown Prince Daniel of Xeros, and the plucky crew of the Imperial Space Yacht Aurora, with the assistance of the Goddess Eireala, have traveled tens of millions of light-years from the Milky Way Galaxy to mend a rift in space.

Once that’s fixed, they’ll head home – and Alice and Daniel will finally be wed!

But nothing ever goes according to plan . . . not even an Imperial wedding.

You’re all invited to the nuptials, regardless . . .

The fourth volume of the BBESP light novel!

Posted at 7:00 am by Sarah Hoyt

GO AWAY, BARACK, YOU’RE A PAIN.

Posted at 7:00 am by Glenn Reynolds