June 5, 2026

I DID NAZI THAT COMING:

Posted at 10:57 am by Stephen Green

THE NEW SPACE RACE: NASA head urges new launcher for Blue Origin’s moon landers to meet Artemis mission deadlines.

In an interview with FOX Business on Thursday, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman described a “whole of government response” to the May 28 incident, which badly damaged Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral. “We are also de-coupling the lander from the launch vehicle and the pad itself,” he said.

“NASA is laser focused on the lander because we’re laser focused on our mission to return astronauts to the surface of the moon before 2028, and we’re gonna be able to keep that lander in development, progressing, so it’s available for our test mission in 2027, which is Artemis 3, and potentially available to meet our landing objectives in 2028,” Isaacman said.

“It’s a setback that happens in this business. It’s incredibly complicated. A rocket is a controlled explosion, whether you’re going to Earth orbit, 17,500 miles an hour, escape velocity, 25,000 miles an hour, it’s an awful lot of energy, things will happen. We have to learn from it and be ready to move forward.”

Faster with Starship, please, Elon.

Posted at 10:42 am by Stephen Green

GOODER AND HARDER, NEW JERSEY:

Posted at 10:26 am by Stephen Green

YES ON BOTH COUNTS:

Posted at 9:55 am by Stephen Green

KEEP IT UP: Feds announce major fraud busts in Ohio. “Unfortunately, this area around Columbus is responsible for 1/3 of all of the $1.5B spent on home healthcare in Ohio… that’s 3x what you would expect… it defies belief. Some of these buildings were vacant.”

Posted at 9:40 am by Stephen Green

FRAUD ALL THE WAY DOWN:

Posted at 9:24 am by Stephen Green

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Talarico Is Continuing Proof That Dems Don’t Do Jesus Stuff Well. “In addition to selling him as a moderate even though he’s not, the MSM hacks are crafting an involved fiction about Talarico being a good Christian. A new kind of Christian, one who magically turns the New Testament into leftist marching orders.”

Posted at 9:09 am by Stephen Green

THE ESTABLISHMENT PRETENDS TO DECENCY, BUT IS ACTUALLY ALL ABOUT PROTECTING THE ESTABLISHMENT AND ITS POWER:

Posted at 8:54 am by Glenn Reynolds

NOBODY I KNOW WOULD FAIL THIS TEST:

The left moved almost immediately to the “Everybody Does It” phase of excusemongering for the Nazi who at the very least emotionally abused his girlfriends.

Posted at 8:53 am by Stephen Green

CHARMING FELLOW: Woman-hating Graham Platner made twisted rape comments and lied about Nazi tattoo, ex-girlfriends reveal.

Maine Senate hopeful Graham Platner is a woman-hater who once twisted an ex-girlfriend’s arm — and fantasized about killing people and raping intruders, according to a slew of women who’ve come forward to out his disturbing behavior.

The Democrat candidate also boasted about having a Nazi tattoo, calling it “my Totenkopf,” one ex recalled — contradicting his October claim that he thought it was merely a “terrifying skull and crossbones.”

Three of Platner’s ex-girlfriends recounted their troubling time dating the Marine veteran to the New York Times, with the women describing him as someone who “hated women,” referring to them as “hatchet wounds” in the latest scandal to dog his campaign.

Meanwhile:

If that wasn’t the Cat5 news drop, I can’t imagine what else we might learn.

Or at least I’d rather not.

UPDATE (FROM GLENN):

Posted at 8:38 am by Stephen Green

TWANLOC:

“This man is not ‘my fellow American’ and we do not have any shared interests whatsoever. We occupy the same landmass. That’s it. And geography alone does not hold a nation together for long.”

Update: There’s more because of course there’s more.

Posted at 8:22 am by Stephen Green

CHANGE: The Hormuz Squeeze Is Redrawing the Oil Map for Good.

Across the Gulf, governments are pouring billions into new oil pipelines, rail corridors and energy storage hubs to bypass the waterway in what is set to become one of the most durable outcomes of the conflict. The new energy links are part of a broader redrawing of the region’s logistics map, shifting trade toward trucking, rail and new ports.

“The legacy of the crisis will result in the construction of infrastructure to bypass the Strait of Hormuz,” said Hamad Hussain, commodities economist at London-based research firm Capital Economics. “The genie is out of the bottle given that the longstanding threat of Iran effectively closing the strait has now materialized.”

Even if Washington and Tehran reach a deal to reopen the strait and maritime exports resume, the shift toward an export network with multiple exits will endure because the conflict has proved that robust contingency plans are essential, officials and analysts say. Saudi Arabia’s ability to export oil via a previously underused fallback pipeline demonstrated the strategic value of a backup, while in recent weeks the United Arab Emirates and Iraq have launched plans to expand pipelines of their own.

The stakes extend far beyond the Gulf. Bypassing a waterway that once moved a fifth of the world’s oil will reshape how securely energy reaches all corners of the globe.

If we can’t get a Free Iran, this is the next best thing.

Posted at 7:36 am by Stephen Green

THEY WANT YOU TO FEAR THAT IT IS, THOUGH: It’s Not Racist to Notice Reality. “It is an especially galling dodge to hear that from the same people who will look you in the eye and talk about how whites are inherently racist. They have no problem making sweeping generalizations about white people; they are, as you saw with Senator Antonio, speaking over the question by calling it racist.”

Related:

UPDATE:

Nobody really believes in multiculturalism.

Posted at 7:30 am by Glenn Reynolds