BIDEN’S CENSORSHIP PRESSURE CAMPAIGN WASN’T A FLUKE: His administration pressured platforms over elections and COVID-19, showing how easily officials can use private companies to censor speech they can’t ban themselves. The JAWBONE Act would help stop that abuse.
June 11, 2026
WELL, ONE’S AN AUDI AND THE OTHER IS A BENZ, FOR STARTERS: 2027 Audi Q7 Vs. 2027 Mercedes-Benz GLE-Class: 5 Key Differences.
WE MADE COLLEGE AN OBLIGATION, AND STUDENTS TREAT IT LIKE ONE. Shockingly, they are not that amped up for more mandatory schooling that is also super expensive.
HANG ON THERE, PARDNER: ‘We Just Made a Great Settlement of the War With Iran.’ “Do you have whiplash yet? Because I do.”
JERRY SEINFELD BRUTALLY SHUTS DOWN PRO-PALESTINE PROTESTOR AFTER KNICKS GAME: ‘It doesn’t exist.’
Jerry Seinfeld was ambushed by a live streamer who attempted to bait him into saying ‘Free Palestine’ after a massive comeback New York Knicks win in Game 4 of the NBA Finals.
The 72-year-old comedian pulled no punches as he dismissed the Kick streamer named FinesseFave outside of Madison Square Garden on Wednesday night.
The social media personality asked the star to say ‘free Palestine’ in the microphone as he left the arena to which Seinfeld chuckled before brutally replying: ‘It doesn’t exist.’
It’s a show about nothing.
Related: Jerry Seinfeld and Adam Carolla talk Cars and Comedy (Video).
VP VANCE’S NEXT-LEVEL FEARLESS MOVE: Battle-Tested Veteran Set to Face the Shrews of The View.
Vice President JD Vance will appear on "The View" on June 16, marking his first visit to the ABC daytime talk show.
Vance will join all six of the program's co-hosts to discuss his new book “Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith.”https://t.co/1EBUUMOoUn pic.twitter.com/oxlQHsMt0k
— Variety (@Variety) June 11, 2026
ICYMI: Britain Goes Full Airstrip One.
Nobunaga adds: “Britain’s basically North Korea at this point, ain’t it?”
Yep.
KEEP YOUR FEET DRY: Mishansha Water Shoes for Men and Women. #CommissionEarned
HEH:
Europeans enjoying the World Cup: “Futbol is the greatest sport in the world.”
Americans enjoying the World Cup: “Wonder what fast food the German guy eats next.”
— The Drunk Republican (@DrunkRepub) June 11, 2026
I mean, at least we’re getting something out of the World Cup.
THE LEFT IS INCENSED BECAUSE PRATT EXPOSED THEIR GRIFT AND INCOMPETENCE:
His entire platform as far as I could tell was:
1) No one wants to live in a vagrant toilet, gross
2) Corruption and waste is wrong
We don’t all agree that these are good things? What even were his Republican policies? Why were libs so incensed by the guy?
— Michael Choi, MD (@swdhldr) June 10, 2026
AT AMAZON: Shop 3 hour delivery. #CommissionEarned
ANALYSIS: TRUE. No one is entitled to work at CBS or anywhere else.
I worked as a writer, reporter, and editor for various publications for more than ten years. So, I’ve worked inside newsrooms and, before that, in the business world. And watching the Pelley spectacle, I keep coming back to the same thought: The rules that apply in every other profession apply here, too.
You have a boss. What the boss says goes. You do the job you were hired to do, or you find another job. What you do not do, if you want to be taken seriously, is hijack a staff meeting to scream at your new executive producer, question his qualifications to his face in front of 50 colleagues, accuse leadership of “murdering” the program, and then act shocked when you are shown the door. What you especially do not do is immediately leak the whole episode to the New York Times and then performatively engage in public grief sessions about the consequences.
Pelley was paid millions of dollars to work at CBS. He had a 37-year run at the network. He is not a sympathetic figure. He is a very well-compensated professional who made a scene, got fired for cause, and is now treating his termination as a national tragedy and some kind of attack on journalism.
No matter the profession, if the new boss has new rules, you can either get on board or get lost.
THE JUDGE ELEANOR ROSS SEX-AND-JUDICIAL-OPINIONS SCANDAL HAS BROKEN INTO THE NYT: “For years, Judge Eleanor Ross’s secret was passed down from law clerk to law clerk. They whispered about the sultry jazz music that emanated from her chambers when a uniformed police commander, a man they called her “visitor,” disappeared into her private office. The clerks could sometimes hear the unmistakable sounds of sex from behind the door. They chalked it up as one of the burdens of working for Judge Ross, who routinely rubber stamped their draft orders and added little else before issuing them as rulings. But the clerks in the Atlanta courthouse felt helpless: Do you report your married boss, a federal judge no less, for having a clandestine in-office affair with a law enforcement officer?”
Finally one did.
QUESTION ASKED AND ANSWERED:
Who stopped? It was a Stalinist rag until 1956, it was a Maoist rag until 1979, it was a Sandinista rag until 1991, and throughout it has supported American terrorists from Sacco and Vanzetti to the Weather Underground to street violence during Black Lives Matter.
— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) June 11, 2026
WHEN YOU WANT THE BEST: NASA’s Artemis III Crew Includes 3 Americans—And They’re All Southern.
GET WOKE, GO…: Going Woke Drove Doctor Who Into Oblivion.
So what went wrong here? I think it’s obvious but the Telegraph summary is pretty good. Starting with the Jodie Whittaker era:
It’s arguable that the show became a little too preachy; the Sunday-night scheduling forced it away from being simple whizz-bang fun, and that a reduction from 12 to 10 episodes per series took away the “appointment viewing” feel and made storylines feel rushed. Moreover, the show had become simply dull. On the fan website Doctor Who TV, eight of Whittaker’s instalments make the 10 worst Doctor Who episodes…
Jodie is a good actress and lovable, but there was all this baggage [during her run]. There was a pregnant man and assistants going back in time to look at their heritage histories. If you’re going for a populist audience that was ill-judged.”
As for the Gatwa era, people hated it.
Some episodes were deliberately childish, while others contained distinctly adult social and political themes – stories about incels and trans rights. The latter became increasingly remarked upon, something that doesn’t surprise the show’s former writer: “We had this nonsense, this identity politics, and there is nothing less likely to make people feel at ease than by making them think they are being hectored or lectured.”
There you have it. Doctor Who was an entertaining show for quite a few years and then it went woke and now the show is history and everyone associated with it is done for good. It will be 4-5 years at a minimum before they find a way to reboot this. It’ll take at least that long for viewers to forget what a boring, woke scold of a show this had become.
Found via the Critical Drinker, “Nerdrotic” has a simple solution for a reboot: “Cast Hugh Laurie as the Doctor with a smoking hot actual female companion. You’re welcome.”
How to fix Doctor Who.
Wipe out everything post Peter Capaldi. Most importantly the horrific Timeless Children.
The Dream Lord and The Valeyard are behind the non-events of the 13th, 14th, 15th, and stupid Fugitive Doctor.Better yet, just never mention them.
Cast Hugh Laurie… pic.twitter.com/BwV4Nw1BZQ
— Nerdrotic (@Nerdrotics) June 10, 2026
JAW, JAW IS BETTER THAN WAR, WAR: ‘They Should Have Made a Deal,’ Trump to Seize Iran’s Oil Infrastructure.
UPDATE: Nope. Trump, according to the WSJ, now says he’s canceled the strikes “after Tehran’s leadership and other parties negotiating a deal to end the conflict approved ‘discussions and final points.'” Echoing what I wrote below, whatever went on behind the scenes, Trump’s threat seems to have gotten what he wanted — even if what he wanted was for the talks to drag on while Iran’s economy continues crumbling. But do read the rest of the column because it includes some fun tidbits.
BRING A BIGGER BAT: The largest scorpion to walk the Earth was the size of a baseball bat.
CRUELTY DISGUISED AS COMPASSION: We knew students were unprepared, and we sent them on to fail. “It’s no surprise to Elizabeth Statmore, who teaches at San Francisco’s Lowell High, the largest single feeder to the UC system. Every year, she finds herself teaching very basic math — fractions, the distributive property, exponents and roots — to her high-achieving students, she writes in Voice of San Francisco. These holes in their knowledge will sink them in college STEM classes.”
SPOILER: MOVIE CRITIC DEVOURED BY TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME: Mark Judge reviews A Sudden Flicker of Light: A Revisionist History of Movies by David Thomson. As Judge writes, “Trump is the bad guy. I just saved you $30 and 368 pages of reading.” At the conclusion of his book, Thomson completely lets his TDS freak flag fly:
July 13, 2024, a day so bright outside Butler, Pennsylvania, that you could miss a flash of light. This is photographed live, soon after 6 p.m. local time, as he takes the stage to speak. This is what he lives for, the being on and seeing how he will play. For years now, he has sounded bored, or lethargic, in a stupor with the words he repeats, masturbating his close-ups. He is growing older, you see. But in July 2024, his opponent had gone dead on camera, staring into an abyss in which we felt the nausea of utter loss. He knows this vacancy will come for him, too. But will anyone notice? He feels himself congealing. Then, outside Butler, there is a tiny crack in the air and he flinches. There are more shots as he is surrounded by the bulk of Secret Service, as if they have nothing to do with the “security” that is supposed to stop a shooter shooting. There is a huddled confusion from which his golden head arises. This is not being critical or unsympathetic: A boy wants to stand up after a splinter of something has stung him in the ear. But what is so striking about this victim is his mix of pathos and bravery—such a movie trope—that understands how thoroughly he is on and how the image of him with his fist upright, and “Fight! Fight! Fight!” will play on T-shirts and posters for a while. This is not to say the Butler shooting was designed or directed—he’s not competent enough for that. But the immediacy with which he took his movie moment, that was destiny and our disappearance. Little happens now that is not like a movie. Our seeing has been trained in the habit. Being spectators has undermined the spectacle. Some anxiety in us understands that everything may be a trick.
So there it is. Trump is the devil, manipulating us with theatrics.
“From time to time in this book,” Thomson writes,
considering the glamour of the moving train that will not stop at our station, and the haunting way in which Charlie Kane and Michael Corleone and so many other fellas have been gang leaders who secured Donald Trump’s rapture at the movies, I have realized that he is our movie man.
Thomson didn’t want to spoil the ending, he insists, writing: “I held back, urged on by my editor: Not yet, keep it for a big finish.”
Finally, he had to go there, because “any theory of seeing had to know that this was as hideous as Germans telling themselves they really could not smell what was coming down the country road.
A couple of questions. First, there was the 1912 assassination attempt on Teddy Roosevelt:
On October 14, 1912, former U.S. president Theodore Roosevelt survived an assassination attempt by John Schrank, a former saloonkeeper, while Roosevelt was campaigning for the presidency in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Schrank’s bullet lodged in Roosevelt’s chest after penetrating Roosevelt’s steel glasses case and passing through a 50-page-thick (single-folded) copy of his speech titled “Progressive Cause Greater Than Any Individual”, which he was carrying in his jacket pocket. Schrank was immediately disarmed and captured; he might have been lynched had Roosevelt not shouted for Schrank to remain unharmed. Roosevelt assured the crowd that he was all right, then instructed the police to take charge of Schrank and ensure he was not harmed.
As an experienced hunter and anatomist, Roosevelt correctly concluded that since he was not coughing blood, the bullet had not reached his lung; he declined suggestions to go to the hospital immediately. Instead, he delivered his scheduled speech. His opening comments to the gathered crowd were, “Friends, I shall ask you to be as quiet as possible. I don’t know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot—but it takes more than that to kill a bull moose.”
The movie industry was still in its infancy in 1912, with the forerunner of Paramount Pictures being founded that year, but Thomas Edison’s studio in the Bronx still a going concern. Did Edison’s pictures inspire Roosevelt to rally himself to finish his speech after being shot?
And how does Trump compare to all of the previous Hitlers who have come before him?
