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June 10, 2026
WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE: Princeton ends 133-year anti-proctoring tradition amid AI cheating fears.
EVERYTHING ABOUT HIM IS FAKE, EXCEPT FOR THE NAZI STUFF: Platner’s ‘living on the sea’ claim dismantled by critics as financial docs paint a different picture.
Platner’s 2025 financial disclosures show that he listed “other $5,001” as his annual income from farming oysters. The candidate’s entire business is only worth between $50,000 and $100,000, which accounts for his boat, lines, anchors and other farming equipment, per the disclosure.
He earned an additional $3,000 serving as the harbor master for Sullivan, Maine, — a role the Washington Free Beacon reported was largely clerical and where he was responsible for overseeing the 17 boat moorings on the small town’s coast.
Taken together, these sums are dwarfed by the $4,800 Platner says he receives through monthly disability payments. Platner is legally entitled to such a sum owing to injuries he suffered while serving in the armed forces.
“I’ve got a couple herniated discs. My shoulder’s a wreck. My knees bother me,” Platner, who saw combat in Iraq and Afghanistan, told News Center Maine in an October 2025 interview.
Despite his reliance on disability, Platner has consistently referred to himself as an “oyster farmer” while campaigning for Senate.
In a September 2025 interview with the New Yorker, for example, he called himself a “small-town oyster farmer.”
While Platner credits federally funded healthcare for his ability to start a business, a number of other factors have assisted him along the way.
A restaurant owned by Platner’s mother, for instance, is the only customer listed on his financial disclosures as purchasing oysters from him. Additionally, Platner’s farm is located on a private island owned by his business partner’s family and he received a $200,000 loan from his father to purchase his home, the Washington Free Beacon previously reported.
He’s certainly good enough getting other people’s money to qualify for employment in Washington.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Friendly Reminder that California Is the DNC’s Testing Ground. “The reason that Gavin Newsom thinks that he is the most popular boy at the Democratic National Committee dance and should be the party’s nominee for president in 2028 is that California is where the Democrats test out all of their insanity. Election fraud. Gun control. Unhinged welfare schemes for illegals. The Dems try it all out in the Golden State in the hopes of exporting everything nationwide.”
OOF:
Having lost a job and lost a spouse in my lifetime, they are very, very, so much not the same. https://t.co/tTEyYTIYwM
— Mary Katharine Ham (@mkhammer) June 10, 2026
WE ALL ENJOYED SPENCER PRATT’S CAMPAIGN, AND IT TURNED OVER A LOT OF ELECTION-FRAUD ROCKS. BUT THIS DESERVES MORE PLAY: Trump-backed Steve Hilton advances to general election for California governor.
NANCY MACE IS OUT, ENDORSES OPPONENT FOR S.C. GOVERNOR. “Buried the hatchet.” She started out promising but has been kind of erratic.
THEY NEED TO KNOW THAT THINGS CAN BE DIFFERENT:
Another Euro's mind is blown.
I kinda thought this World Cup in America thing was a big overblown nuisance, foisting Euro crap on us.
Seems to be having an opposite effect https://t.co/vax45Abihe
— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) June 9, 2026
UNNATURAL:
The data out of Oregon really are astonishing.
A phenomenon once observed in about 1 in 20,000 adult men and 1 in 50,000 adult women (DSM-5) is now being diagnosed and medically treated in at least 1 in 250 17-year-old girls in Oregon.
— Leor Sapir (@LeorSapir) June 9, 2026
Alternate Insta-headline: Leave them kids alone.
WELL, YEAH: White House border czar Tom Homan blames New York Gov. Hochul for promised ICE surge.
White House border czar Tom Homan on Tuesday blamed New York Gov. Kathy Hochul for a promised surge of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to New York City.
But Homan would not say when he expected that surge of ICE agents to happen, when questioned by reporters at the White House.
“You can expect more ICE agents to go to New York because Gov. [Kathy] Hochul signed legislation that ended our … agreements” that allowed the agency to delegate state and local law enforcement officers to perform immigration enforcement functions under ICE oversight, he said.
The agreements under ICE’s 287(g) program were used to identify and process removable immigrants who were in jail after being arrested by local authorities on unrelated charges.
“We’re going to surge resources in New York,” he said. “We have to.”
Don’t like ICE in your cities? Then stop electing pols who flout immigration laws.
REVOLUTION IS BREWING IN EUROPE, AND IT’S ABOUT TIME:
Elon Musk just exposed the EU’s biggest lie.
Ursula von der Leyen was lecturing about “democracy” when Musk hit her with the truth:
“If democracy is the foundation of freedom, surely your position as leader of the EU should be elected directly by the people?”
The EU is run by… pic.twitter.com/f7AG4MLyp1— Right over Left Everytime (@RightSide_Uk) June 10, 2026
I’M SURPRISED IT’S TAKEN SO LONG: Anti-Migration Riots Erupt After Sudanese National Arrested In Brutal Stabbing Attack: “Terrorist scum off our streets.”
ROBERT SPENCER: All It Took Was a Single Non-Woke Word for This Man’s Life’s Work to Come to the Brink of Ruin. “A Danish man spent years building a clothing company. Over the years, he fashioned, through hard work, careful study, trial and error, attention to trends, and sheer perseverance, a popular clothing brand. In the last few days, however, he has come to the brink of ruin, and of seeing all his labors come to naught.”
TWO-TIER KEIR:
1. Protestors will be met with the full force of the law.
2. Beheaders will be met with sympathetic mental health specialists and woke judges who don't care if they do it again. pic.twitter.com/c7ldlylDGW
— Shrodingers Borderline Normal (@JeremyCordite) June 9, 2026
Related: Belfast burns after knife attack protests.
Footage on Sky News showed infants being carried out of neighbouring homes as flames crackled inside the houses, while a pastor told the BBC people were being forced out of their homes “because they’re black”.
Protesters also attempted to set the Sham Supermarket, a Middle Eastern shop, alight on Donegal Road, just south of the city centre.
Several vehicles, including a police vehicle and a Glider bus on the Newtownards Road, were set on fire in the east of the city earlier in the evening.
The violence was widely condemned across the political spectrum.
Michelle O’Neill, Northern Ireland’s Sinn Fein First Minister, said the burning of homes amounted to “outright thuggery” while Arlene Foster, her DUP predecessor, said she watched the unfolding scenes “with great sadness”.
For O’Neill, some riots are far more acceptable than others:
THIS IS HARDLY SHOCKING: Germany, France scrap joint fighter jet program.
The Future Combat Air System (FCAS) program, launched in 2017, aimed to build a next-generation fighter to replace Eurofighters and Rafales by around 2040.
The move to scrap one of Europe’s largest defense projects comes as Western military officials warn of a mounting threat from Russia and the United States intensifies pressure on Europe to take care of its own defense.
The more than €100 billion ($115 billion) project, launched in 2017, was once billed as a symbol of Franco-German military unity.
But it has been plagued by years of political and industrial disputes.
French arms giant Dassault Aviation has demanded significantly more control over the project than its industry partner, European consortium Airbus Defence and Space.
The two companies clashed over control of the project’s next phase, access to intellectual property and, above all, differing requirements for the aircraft.
Why can’t Germany and France just get along like they used to in the olden days?
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FROM C. CHANCY: The Words of the Night (Colors of Another Sky Book 1).
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It’s 1618. Do you know where your historian is?
Retirement wasn’t supposed to have dragons….
Historian Jason Finn crossed the planet to escape the Black Dog of depression – and almost got there. Over the mountains of Korea, a monster out of nightmares tore his plane from the sky… and into another world.
Hunting down ravenous shapeshifting pirates, Night Magistrate Lee Cheong found survivors from elsewhere. Survivors who say pirates are not the only threat. Over twenty years ago Hanyang burned in dragon flames… and that monster still lives.
Now the young magistrate must lead demon-hunters on a desperate chase, aided by a bandit sharpshooter, a seafolk medic, a Heavenly cultivator on the run for her life… and a time-lost historian.
Jason’s willing to help, but he’s cursed, fighting to survive, and struggling to understand a land of magic and monsters. All the while doing his best to keep a teenage girl alive.
Upside? Jason’s definitely not depressed….
IT CAN’T WIN IF CITIZENS UNDERSTAND WHAT’S BEEN DONE TO THEM: EU Demands Sweeping Censorship To Influence Elections.
ON SCOTT PELLEY: Would someone please arrange somehow to re-introduce the former CBS News “60 Minutes” star to his former CBS News colleague Bernard Goldberg. And if that’s not possible for whatever reason, give him a copy of “Bias: A CBS Insider Reveals How the Media Distort the News.” It will be a journey of self-discovery if Pelley reads it. Check it out on The Washington Stand today.
PROMOTED FROM LAST NIGHT
SOMETHING AMAZING TO WASH AWAY THE HORRORS: The rings of Saturn.
THE LEFT LOOKS AFTER ITS OWN: One Does Not Simply Walk into a Lord of the Rings Movie-Unless You are a Progressive Shill Like Stephen Colbert.
