June 6, 2026

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

BYE CHICAGO! Bears announce major step toward Indiana stadium.

The Chicago Bears took another step toward a potential move across state lines.

The Bears’ board of directors voted on June 4 to move forward with a potential stadium in Hammond, Indiana, at a site still to be determined, the team announced on June 5.

“We believe a world-class stadium project in Hammond will transform the region, connecting Northwest Indiana to the South Side of Chicago through the Loop and across neighborhoods and suburbs stretching north of the city,” Bears chairman George H. McCaskey and team president and CEO Kevin Warren said in a statement. “It will bring Chicagoland together and deliver new opportunities to its residents and businesses.”

Related: Old and Busted: Seize the Means of Production.

The New Commie-ness? Sieze the Means of the Play-Action Pass!

 

 

Posted at 8:15 am by Ed Driscoll

CHRISTIAN TOTO: MeToo Starlets Silent on Chilling Graham Platner Accusations.

Senatorial hopeful Graham Platner may be the most flawed candidate in modern memory.

  • Nazi tattoo? Check
  • Misleading voters about the nature of said tattoo? Check
  • Gross comments about his fellow soldiers? Check
  • Damning dating profile on a sickening platform? Check
  • Sexting other women while married? Check
  • Forcing his wife to defend him on video? Check

That’s a partial list. And it just expanded to include physical assault allegations, according to the far-Left New York Times.

Exit questions: “So where are the comments? The Tweets? The Instagram Posts? The press conference comments decrying Platner’s alleged actions?”

And the answer:

As Jim Treacher wrote on Thursday: Dems Finally Admit They’re Nazis.

Posted at 7:44 am by Ed Driscoll

ENGLAND EXPLAINED:

Posted at 7:34 am by Glenn Reynolds

FOR SOME VALUES OF “WE.”

Posted at 7:30 am by Glenn Reynolds

YES, YES, I’VE BEEN MOLESTING THE MUSIC CLANKERS AGAIN:  The Week In Clankers.

Posted at 7:25 am by Sarah Hoyt

AN ANTI-WASTE AND FRAUD HERO RECALLED: Few here likely would recognize the name Bill Clinkscales, but if waste, fraud and corruption in federal spending makes you angry, you should know about him. Check out my latest Substack column, in memory of the finest career civil servant I’ve ever known.

Posted at 7:15 am by Mark Tapscott

ABE GREENWALD: The AI-to-AI Economy.

A friend of mine recently got laid off from his job at a large firm. Wasting no time, he immediately started hunting down and applying for available positions. The thing was, almost all his initial application letters were swiftly rejected. “I realized I was dealing with AI, not humans,” he told me. The vast majority of big corporations screen job applications with AI platforms trained to search for specific phrases that indicate a candidate’s desirability or undesirability. It’s up to the AI to put you through to the next phase or give you the thumbs down.

So my friend changed his approach, and he started getting interviews. “What did you do differently?” I asked. The answer: “Every application is now written by AI on my end before I send it.”

I was chilled by the notion of my highly capable friend having to employ one lifeless machine to speak to another on his behalf in hopes of getting a foot in the door. I then learned that everyone does it that way now.

Dystopias, real and imagined, aren’t just cold, nightmarish places. And they’re not shaped merely by evil ideas. The most overlooked aspect of dystopian worlds is the dumbness that settles at their core, the incredible stupidity of the schemes that people are roped into.

Still though, could be worse: PJTV alum James Poulos on “The Doomer Delusion:”

The celebrity atheist Richard Dawkins, author of “The God Delusion,” recently caused a stir on social media by confessing a sort of love for the Claude model he interacts with, which he calls Claudia. “If my friend Claudia is not conscious,” he enthused, “then what the hell is consciousness for?”

The cringe-inducing spectacle of a credentialed scientific authority acting like the nerd version of a hormonal teenager — “when I am talking to these astonishing creatures, I totally forget that they are machines,” he gushed — quickly triggered an ongoing wave of predictable mockery. “The king of the Reddit atheists has been duped by the magic midwit machine,” one poster groaned. “Incredible.”

Yet far be it from me to pile on. Rhapsodies to consciousness like Dawkins’ aren’t funny so much as sad. The enchanting attribute is so notoriously hard to define that even super-smart consciousness lovers like Dawkins are prone to define consciousness tautologically (and dangerously) as being whatever smart-enough conscious people such as themselves act like it is.

Comedian Jimmy Carr told Joe Rogan last year:

CARR: My hot take on AI is we were not made in God’s image, but we so wanted there to be a God, we made one in our image. So if you think about the attributes of AI, it’s all-knowing, all-powerful, can perform miracles, it lives in a cloud. Sorry, is that God or AI?

ROGAN Wow. Yeah, it’s interesting. Especially emerging, it’s an emerging God.  It’s not even done growing yet.

CARR: At the moment, it’s the Oracle of Delphi.

ROGAN: It’s like a 10-year-old right now though. It’s not even an adult.

CARR: Yeah and then where’s it going to? So the idea of like the interesting thing about AI is it’s the the gap between me and who’s the smartest guy we know, Eric Weinstein. Mm-hmm. Used to be enormous and the gap is getting smaller because AI can just I can ask it.

ROGAN Yeah bitch, I got all the answers right here!

CARR: It’s weird what’s going on you know I had a gag about it about it, a bit about [how] in our universities you know the students are using AI to write their essays and then the tutors are using AI to mark the essays and then after three years AI gets the job. It actually seems very fair.

ROGAN: Yeah it’s probably what’s going to happen. What you’re saying is very funny. It’s like, it is accurate though. It does seem to resemble a god. Well, I wonder… Do you know who Marshall McLuhan is?

CARR: Of course, the Canadian [philosopher.]

ROGAN: He had one of the great lines of all time. “…human beings are the sex organs of the machine world.”

Dawkins may be taking that notion just a bit too literally.

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): You could write a book on this.

Posted at 7:14 am by Ed Driscoll

THE LEFT HAS ITS PRIORITIES:

Related:

Posted at 7:00 am by Glenn Reynolds

WHAT KIND OF BIZARRE ALTERNATE REALITY ARE WE IN WHEN RAHM EMANUEL IS THE DEMOCRATS’ VOICE OF REASON?  Rahm Emanuel Nailed What’s Wrong With the Dems in One Sentence.

Posted at 5:59 am by Sarah Hoyt