June 6, 2026

THE WAY THE WORLD WORKS:

(Classical reference in headline.)

Posted at 4:44 pm by Ed Driscoll

THE IRONY OF GRAHAM PLATNER’S CAMPAIGN:

Most people don’t know this, but the rise of Graham Platner wasn’t remotely organic, and there is almost nothing real about his origin story or his campaign.

Jim Geraghty did a superb job explaining the process by which a wealthy, mentally unstable guy who was kicked out of an exclusive private school and who bragged about how he went off to war because he wanted to kill people was transformed into a working-class everyman oyster farmer.

Platner was handpicked, groomed, artificially constructed, promoted through a sophisticated public relations campaign, and elevated to superstar status.

Read the whole thing; incidentally, AI image creation is getting increasingly sophisticated. For a split-second, I thought this was a real photo, although “Bernie’s” face looks more like it should be in Madame Tussauds:

Bernie going all-in on Platner recalls Kevin Williamson’s 2015 NRO piece: Bernie’s Strange Brew of Nationalism and Socialism.

UPDATE (FROM GLENN):

Posted at 4:32 pm by Ed Driscoll

NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU DESPISE THE MEDIA…:

Posted at 12:50 pm by Stephen Green

QUESTION ASKED:

Posted at 12:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

WELL, THAT’S ONE WAY TO ELOPE: Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce to marry at NYC’s iconic Madison Square Garden.

Here comes the bride … in Midtown!

Multiple sources tell Page Six that Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s wedding will take place at Madison Square Garden, home of the Knicks, Rangers and numerous concerts, including Swift’s.

“Everyone’s been sworn to secrecy,” said one source.

A rep for MSG did not respond to request for comment.

Page Six previously exclusively reported that the pop superstar and Kansas City Chiefs tight end, both 36, are planning to tie the knot in New York over July 3 weekend.

A source tells us that when it came to picking a place for the high-profile occasion “privacy was of number one importance to them both.

The source added that the potential plan would involve guests being transported to the venue on blacked-out buses and taking advantage of MSG’s multiple entrances and highly secure infrastructure.

While it seems an odd choice for a ceremony, a source tells us “If you have billions you can transform the space into a wedding venue.”

Prior to Sydney Sweeney being their designated Bund Deutscher Mädel fraulein du jour, the DNC-MSM would have had lots of fun with this story during Trump’s first term:

Posted at 10:45 am by Ed Driscoll

THIS:

Matt Taibbi says America needs a sensible and boring party. But if you look at what Trump actually does, it’s stuff that by any reasonable measure is sensible and boring: Limit immigration, control crime, restore public infrastructure, gain energy independence, neutralize enemies abroad, demand voter ID, etc. These are all straightforward things that politicians of both parties endorsed not that long ago.

But can a boring and sensible party function in an environment where the opposition chimps out and takes to the streets whenever it doesn’t get its way?

Posted at 9:41 am by Glenn Reynolds

CONSEQUENCES:

Posted at 9:28 am by Glenn Reynolds

REMEMBER THEM:

Boris Bittker, better known as the leading tax professor of the second half of the 20th Century, was there. He said he had to get up and leave during the opening to Saving Private Ryan. It was too real and brought back too many memories, even after so many decades.

Posted at 8:32 am by Glenn Reynolds