ADAM CAROLLA ON THE VIEW. No, not Carolla actually appearing on The View. That’ll never happen, for reasons Carolla explains thusly:
“Here’s the problem [with The View]. The problem is they have horrible, ill-sorted, bad ideas that are either just sort of lies or they don’t really comport with any reality.”
“They go, well, ‘J6 was 10 times worse than the Summer of Love.’ And then they all nod, and there’s not one person there that raises their hand and goes, ‘What the f*ck are you talking about? That’s insane.’”
“But if there is one person who actually has facts and data… you will watch ONE PERSON WHOOP UP ON FOUR PEOPLE. Because four people who are wrong still can’t match the one person who is right.”
“So they can’t have somebody who’s going to show up with a lot of information.”
QED:
Adam Carolla is correct about this, which is why Scott Jennings has become such a sensation. They put him up against four other left wing panelists who all agree with each other and he wipes the floor with them because he’s right. https://t.co/fmNMRz1wJu
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THE EV BUBBLE CONTINUES TO DEFLATE: Lexus Cancels Plans to Bring LF-ZC Concept to Production. “The LF-ZC was revealed at the 2023 Tokyo auto show as a future electric flagship for Lexus. At the time, Lexus confirmed plans to put the concept into production in 2026, with the model meant to introduce new technologies, including significantly improved battery tech.”
TRAVELING TERRORISTS:
I've been saying this all week. They sometimes talk about it if you watch their streams. They are traveling terrorists. Nothing ever happens to them. They get arrested but released the next day. Someone pays their bail. Charges get dropped later.
— Conan the Barbarian (@RandomPerson242) June 1, 2026
Once, “the McGuffey Readers, an elementary school collection of stories, poems, essays, and speeches, became nearly universal in American classrooms,” Pondiscio tells them. They helped reproduce a common culture.
Now teachers are asked “to differentiate instruction, to tailor learning to each student’s needs, interests, and pace,” he says. Artificial intelligence makes it easier to personalize instruction, to meet each student where they are at and take them where they want to go. But something is lost when education becomes a private good.
Classical education gives us “a common vocabulary and a common world,” he says. Atlanta Classical graduates “can participate in a conversation that stretches across time and place.” You’ve “read the same books — not just heard of them, but wrestled with them. You’ve struggled with the same questions and ideas.”
Read the whole thing.
AT THE VERY BEST, THEY’LL BE EATEN LAST:
…It is telling that Sherill is literally trying to fence in the mob while fueling the anti-ICE rage. Establishment politicians still believe that they can use the mob to retake power without being consumed by that very rage.
Jimmy Kimmel has some thoughts on the purported death of late-night television.
The “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” host opened up in a new interview with Vulture about the future of the genre following the cancellation of Stephen Colbert‘s “Late Show” on CBS and his own run-ins with Trump, including his suspension following comments made about the death of Charlie Kirk.
“I feel a little bit defeated about it,” Kimmel told Vulture after Colbert’s final episode aired on May 21. “In a lot of ways, I feel like I’m looking at my own future.”
CBS canceled “The Late Show” in July 2025 — a year before Colbert’s three-year deal was set to end — citing “purely financial reasons” despite much speculation that Colbert’s anti-Trump views had something to do with it, especially with the Paramount-Skydance merger in the background. Though it was reported that Colbert’s show was losing $40 million a year, Kimmel told Vulture he finds that hard to believe, pointing to a 2023 New York Times article that claims Colbert was offered a five-year contract but decided to go with three.
“Am I to believe that over the course of those two years, they suddenly started losing $40 million a year?” he said. “These are just made-up numbers.”
Kimmel said that ABC has told him “quite specifically” that his show is still profitable.
“There are far more people watching late-night TV than there ever were, if you look at the number of views me and my colleagues get online every day and add in our linear-television ratings,” Kimmel asserted, adding: “We’re not just dying of natural causes. We’re being poisoned.”
However, Kimmel’s contract was extended in December by just one year instead of the standard three. “Everything is so tumultuous,” Kimmel told Vulture. “That seemed to make sense. It’s definitely not how it’s gone in the past.”
Scott Pelley, a veteran 60 Minutes correspondent, called out CBS News management in a heated meeting on Monday morning, attacking the network’s decision on Thursday to fire the show’s executive producer, executive editor, and two fellow correspondents, Sharyn Alfonsi and Cecilia Vega, as part of a broader overhaul of the show, sources tell the Guardian.
During a meeting of the show’s staff and Nick Bilton, its newly appointed executive producer, along with the CBS News managing editor Charles Forelle, Pelley took direct aim at Bari Weiss, the network’s controversial editor-in-chief.
“She’s murdering 60 Minutes,” Pelley said, according to sources with knowledge of the situation. “She does not love this place. She was brought in to kill it and is doing exactly that.”
Kimmel and Pelley must feel a bit like big band leaders with shows on AM radio in the 1950s and ’60s as first television, and then those crazy rock and roll kids and DJs smoking the jazz cabbage arrived on newfangled FM radio, confused by the new technologies that are dooming their beloved legacy platforms.
As with AM radio today, the technology of television will continue long into the future. But the content it delivers will likely change so that those who own these legacy media platforms will continue to make a profit on their diminishing investment returns.
With heightened NATO activity in the Baltic states, European Union leaders condemning Russian threats against Latvia and Estonia, and an emergency UN Security Council meeting over the latest Russian actions in Ukraine, a growing number of officials now appear to believe the Kremlin’s ambitions could extend beyond Ukraine.
Even discussions once considered premature – involving European military readiness and a permanent NATO deterrent in member states that border Russia – have moved into the political mainstream.
The result: a deep psychological shift across Europe and a war that began on the EU’s periphery is being seen as a direct challenge to the continent’s future security order.
“A threat against one member state is a threat against our entire Union,” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said this week.
Should Ukraine fall and Moscow turn further west, no matter what Europe says, most member countries’ actions tell me they’d be happy to let Poland do the bleeding on their behalf.
HE’S A MAN OF FEW WORDS — BUT, DEAR LORD, THE TURNOVER:
Wow, the James Talarico bot problem goes WAY deeper than 2 clips
UGH: United flight forced to turn around because of a Bluetooth speaker name. “While the recording does not explicitly confirm the speculation that the Bluetooth name in question was “bomb,” it would certainly make sense given the response from the crew and security personnel on the ground. It also serves as a friendly reminder that what you think is a clever WiFi or Bluetooth name probably isn’t.”
Wow. Somebody just died on Karen's livestream. LAPD is setting up a white tent to cover the body. This isn't a reality show, it's a horror film. Please pray for this city. https://t.co/WRecu0953Xpic.twitter.com/7N9J8OCGoC
But we should not expect Maine Democrats to abandon Platner, nor pressure him to end his campaign. A whole lot of Democrats inside and outside of Maine are now deeply emotionally invested in the success of this campaign. From the moment they chose to believe that Platner had “accidentally” gotten the symbol of the Nazi SS tattooed on his chest, and the “military history buff” never recognized it as a Nazi symbol for 18 years, they were taking their consciences and integrity and putting them into a lockbox and entrusting them to Platner. Ending their support of Platner now would mean admitting that his critics were right about him all along. And surely, no modern Republican could relate to the phenomenon of sticking with a deeply flawed candidate out of a sense of partisan obligation, and not wanting to let the other side get a win.
Incidentally, this is who the man with the Totenkopf tat seeks to blitzkrieg:
Susan Collins: 1) Voted to convict Trump of impeachment 2) Voted against Amy Coney Barrett & Pete Hegseth 3) Backed limits on Trump's military power 4) Wants to nuke his "Anti-Weaponization Fund"
And more. If *she* is your evil right-wing extremist, words do not mean anything. https://t.co/dLQakRiAkS
Related: Flashing back to the infamous ad full of manly men eating carburetors for breakfast that Camp Kamala ran in 2024, did Platner’s recruiters think that the Totenkopf tat would be a plus…?
Consider the possibility that the DNC saw Graham Platner’s Nazi affiliation to be a PLUS.
Maine is a swing state and Collins is practically a Democrat. They can’t run to the left of Collins, not really.
So maybe they want to run to the RIGHT of Collins, and since these…
“So maybe they want to run to the RIGHT of Collins, and since these idiots ACTUALLY BELIEVE we are all actual Nazis, maybe they saw Platner as the ideal candidate. Because they are stupidly brainwashed. Just a theory…”
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