June 1, 2026

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: Camo-Clad ChiComs Caught Crossing Into Texas. “This seems like the sort of thing we should be paying closer attention to. How many military-age Chinese national men are already here, and how much of the anti-border control networks funded by Shanghai-based Neville Roy Singham are designed to to keep ICE from deporting them?”

Posted at 12:42 pm by Stephen Green

NIEMAND WIRD GERNE VON EINEM GEBÄUDE GEWORFEN:

Posted at 12:30 pm by Ed Driscoll

DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES:

Every Republican needs to do things like this.

Posted at 12:26 pm by Stephen Green

LEFTIST LIES HAVE CONSEQUENCES:

Posted at 12:09 pm by Glenn Reynolds

QUALITY LEARING CENTERS, WEST COAST DIVISION: California’s War on Nick Shirley, Explained.

Our story begins at the epicenter of almost all affronts to Constitutional rights / basic decency / shit-free sidewalks: the state of California, where Gavin Newsom and his henchmen of union mouthpieces in Sacramento sensed trouble was afoot.

A young, ragged, hoodie-donning agitator by the name of Nick Shirley, armed with an iPhone camera and a healthy distrust of government officials, had just completed a trip to Minnesota, during which our humble protagonist stumbled upon some curious findings.

Several government-funded daycare centers — all run by individuals who happened to be of a certain common ancestry, an ancestry that happens to be one known for piracy — were not only poorly-spelled… they also had a mysterious lack of children (typically found at daycare centers) and generally appeared to be vectors for outright fraud more than fun playplaces hosting Ms. Rachel singalongs.

This was on the heels of the Feeding Our Future saga, a bombshell scandal in which several Minnesota residents (who also happened to be of the aforementioned ancestry, curious!) stole millions of tax dollars designated for COVID relief in the state, using the money to splurge on cars, vacations, and other various luxuries. In other words, the land of “Minnesota nice” had a bit of a blindspot for scammer exploitation, it turns out, and Shaggy Shirley — “Skater S. Thompson,” they call him (they don’t) — was doing his part to uncover it through gonzo-style, on-the-ground reporting.

After subsequently racking up over 100 million views on YouTube, Shirley’s Minnesota exposé ultimately led to a full-scale response from the Trump administration, including an FBI raid of the “daycare centers,” a freezing of funds by the Department of Health and Human Services, and even the establishment of a Vance-led taskforce dedicated entirely to cracking down on fraud.

But the real kicker came when Shirley announced his next act…

As with Minnesota, that Sacramento has chosen Shirley to be the enemy of the story, rather than those who have plundered their states of millions of dollars of fraud, explains much about the corruption of the left.

Posted at 12:00 pm by Ed Driscoll

HMM: Forget the Consumer Surveys, Businesses Say We’re in a Boom. “Gloom and doom is everywhere these days — except in the economic data or in business planning meetings.”

I remember Mark Penn bragging about how the ’92 Clinton campaign convinced people the Bush economy was awful when it was actually rebounding sharply. It helps to have the press in your pocket, of course.

Posted at 11:57 am by Glenn Reynolds

“MOST EVIL” IN TRANSLATION: “SOMEONE WHO STANDS IN THE WAY OF CURRENT DEMOCRAT GOALS.”

Posted at 11:55 am by Glenn Reynolds

MERCY TO THE GUILTY IS CRUELTY TO THE INNOCENT:

Posted at 11:52 am by Glenn Reynolds

OUCH: The AI economy could crash on mounting chip costs — and those token costs won’t help.

Hardly a week passes without news of another hyperscaler spending billions of dollars on AI chips. A single moderate-to-large data center today uses AI chips costing billions of dollars. A single Nvidia Blackwell GPU in a modern AI chip cluster could cost as much as a new Tesla Model 3. Non-AI chip costs have also risen sharply, with both total spending and unit costs for CPU and memory chips at unprecedented levels. All of this has significant implications for the economy.

The primary reason chip costs are increasing is excessive demand. Proliferation of AI, the Internet of Things, and electric vehicles has increased the overall demand for chips. In particular, chip demand for AI has exploded, supporting both the training of AI models and their deployment across applications. Historically, AI model quality scaled with the volume of compute used to build it — more chips meant better outputs. But the demand driver now is shifting from training to inference. Goldman Sachs forecasts a 24-fold increase in token consumption by 2030, reaching 120 quadrillion tokens per month, as agentic AI systems replace single-prompt interactions with multi-step tasks that consume orders of magnitude more compute per query. Meanwhile, chips must still be replaced every few years simply to remain cost-competitive, compounding demand pressure from both ends.

The enterprise reality is already arriving. Microsoft recently canceled most of its direct Claude Code licenses after discovering that employee AI usage had grown so large that, in the words of one Nvidia executive, “the cost of compute is far beyond the costs of the employees.”

If that last line isn’t indicative of a bubble, I’m not sure what else it might be.

On the consumer side, a low-to-mid-tier 2TB SSD like the one I bought 18 months ago for $89 now goes for $299.

Posted at 11:40 am by Stephen Green

IT’S GOOD TO BE THE NOMENKLATURA:

Posted at 11:35 am by Glenn Reynolds

CHANGE? Iran’s president offers resignation, citing total takeover by IRGC commanders.

In the letter sent on Sunday, Pezeshkian stressed that the president and the government have effectively been excluded from major and vital decision-making processes in the country, and that the vacuum created by this situation has enabled hardline factions within the IRGC to take control of affairs, the source said.

Pezeshkian added that under such circumstances he is unable to run the government and carry out his legal responsibilities, and for that reason has requested to step down immediately.

It is not yet clear whether Mojtaba Khamenei will accept the president’s resignation, but the contents of the letter point to a deep and unprecedented rift at the highest levels of power.

Keep up the pressure.

Posted at 10:38 am by Stephen Green

HOW IT STARTED:

How it went:

Posted at 9:51 am by Stephen Green

HYPROCRISY AND TRUMP’S 1776 FUND: Jason Foster and Katy Talento shred Democratic outrage and Republican cowardice in the Senate reaction to the Trump fund to reimburse victims of Department of Justice (DOJ) weaponization. Central point is Congress, not Trump, authorized it long ago and with support from both parties. In Washington, D.C., hypocrisy knows no bounds.

Posted at 9:39 am by Mark Tapscott

DRUG WAR: U.S. military strike on alleged drug boat in Pacific Ocean kills 3 people in fourth attack this week.

It’s the latest in a monthslong campaign against alleged drug boats traversing the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific.

Video released by the military on social media shows a small vessel moving in the ocean before it’s hit and engulfed in a fireball.

The attack brings the death toll to 205 in a series of U.S. strikes that began in early September, with other attacks announced on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday. The death toll also rose slightly this week because some people that had been initially reported by the U.S. military as survivors of the strikes have not been found.

They could have tried not being drug smugglers.

Posted at 9:36 am by Stephen Green