June 5, 2026

FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: Is That a Stolen Radiological Device in Your Pocket? “It’s time for your much-needed break from the serious news, and this week, we’ll learn why you don’t bring your own chimichanga to Taco Bell, where not to sell your stolen radiological device, and how an excavator is best used to settle domestic disputes in Pennsylvania.”

Posted at 4:23 pm by Stephen Green

21st CENTURY HEADLINES: How to Raise ‘AI-Native’ Kids.

Across the country, we’re living through a moment of intense skepticism toward tech-forward childhoods. When it comes to phones, the received wisdom is that they’re bad for kids: Just last month, Health and Human Services secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced a surgeon general’s advisory against screen time; at least 35 states have now banned cell phone use in school. At home, many parents are embracing analog devices to shelter their children from the tyranny of app addiction at an early age.

“I’m decent at AI, and my 12-year-old is just passing me rapidly,” Scharf said.

And now, the age of the AI revolution is sparking fresh suspicions. Some parents are petitioning schools to remove it entirely. Jonathan Haidt, who’s changed the face of American childhood by campaigning to limit kids’ exposure to smartphones and social media, has warned that “AI chatbots and companions are the next uncontrolled mass experiment that Silicon Valley wants to perform on the world’s children.”

But when it comes to raising children, some parents have a different view. Just as the kids of Gen Z were expected to be “digital natives” if they wanted to get ahead, these parents think kids of the 2020s should be “AI-native” if they want to succeed in life. Sure, a lucky few kids might get a chance at a formal AI education, from a place like Alpha School in San Francisco—but the parents I talked to aren’t waiting for teachers to catch up; they’re taking matters into their own hands.

I spoke to one father, Tarun Sachdeva—a start-up founder from Toronto—who has become “creative partners” with his twin 7-year-old daughters, helping them build an animated universe around a character they generated and vibe coding a KPop Demon Hunters game with them on weekends. A Colorado father, Blake Scholl—founder of the aeronautics start-up Boom Technology—often spends Saturdays side by side with his 12-year-old son, building things like a cell phone, with ChatGPT coaching them through it. When their LLM helps them solve a new problem, he says, his son’s reaction is priceless. “He’s grinning ear to ear,” Scholl said.

Almost all of the parents raising AI-native kids expressed the same simple idea: The future is coming, and it’s inescapable; it’s a parent’s job to fortify their kids for the world ahead.

Kids whose parents scold them for using AI, Scharf said, “have an arm tied behind their back.” The upside of using it, he added, is clear: “It really ends up giving them superpowers.”

Related: Toy Story 5 to set stage for debate over AI in children’s toys.

Posted at 4:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

TIS A PITY THEY CAN’T BOTH LOSE… OH, WAIT — THEY DID: Katie Porter Whacked Eric Swalwell To Come In 5th. “That’s right, Katie Porter, who we were told was the Democrat insider’s choice for governor, and the reason then-leading Democrat Swalwell had to be shived, garnered less than 5% of the vote.”

Posted at 3:52 pm by Stephen Green

FORBIDDEN FRUIT: Once Again, No One Sells More Guns in America Than Gun-Grabbing Politicians. “Recent FBI data suggests Virginia gun stores are seeing a huge surge in demand. In May, Virginia recorded 75,376 background checks — more than double the total from the same month last year. While background checks are not a direct measure of gun sales, they’re widely used as an industry indicator.”

Posted at 2:50 pm by Stephen Green

AND THE WASTE GOES ON: Four major federal departments had improper payments percentages above 10 percent all four years of the Biden administration, including the IRS within Treasury that saw 72 percent of its payments under one program going to the wrong receiver.

That’s according to the latest Government Accountability Office (GAO) assessment of the extent of improper payments. But, as I report today for The Washington Stand, there are reasons to think real progress is starting to be made.

Posted at 2:27 pm by Mark Tapscott

SENATOR ERIC SCHMITT GOES ABSOLUTELY NUCLEAR ON MAZIE HIRONO:

Senator Eric Schmitt absolutely blasted his colleague, Hawaii’s Mazie Hirono, in a Senate hearing after Hirono went to bat for fraudsters and criminals, including murderers and rapists, from being deported.

“Your comments are astounding, Senator,” Schmitt said. “You mention a few words: horrific. I think, to the American taxpayer, that’s been ripped off by people who came to this country to rip them off, that’s horrific.”

“You talk about bizarre,” Schmitted continued as Hirono tried to interrupt him. “No, no, no. It’s my time now. It’s my time. You went over time. It’s my time. Bizarre is the idea that you would be here in this committee defending violent murderers from being deported. That you would be defending violent rapists from being deported. That you would defend people who took advantage of the good people of this country, their taxpayer dollars. That is bizarre.”

Related:

Considering that 1990s-era Democrats at least paid lip service to stopping fraud and illegal immigrants, this is very much true:

Posted at 2:22 pm by Ed Driscoll

Not really shocking, but there’s some weirdness going on here…Politico looks at US “journalist” (yes, those are my scare quotes) pleading guilty at being an unregistered foreign agent, for China.

 

Posted at 2:07 pm by Charles Glasser

A MUST-READ FROM J.D. VANCE:

Posted at 1:52 pm by Glenn Reynolds

UM, WHAT? ‘Khamenei’ says US, Israel hit by ‘decisive blow’ amid mixed signals on talks, US security alert. “Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei has not been seen or heard in public since being wounded in strikes that killed his father and predecessor, Ali Khamenei, on the first day of the US-Israeli war with Iran on February 28. His message, read out by a prayer leader at a ceremony marking the anniversary of the death of the Islamic Republic’s founder, came amid weeks of talks marked by threats and flare-ups of violence that have so far failed to secure a deal to end the war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a key conduit for global energy flows.”

Kudos to the Times of Israel headline writer who put scare quotes around “Khamenei.”

Posted at 1:48 pm by Stephen Green

MORNING IN AMERICA: US job market notches third straight month of solid growth.

The U.S. economy posted a third straight month of strong job gains in May, confirming the labor market was gaining traction after stumbling last year and giving the Federal Reserve ​more room to keep interest rates unchanged amid rising inflation due to the war in the Middle East.

The closely watched employment report from the Labor Department on Friday ‌painted an upbeat picture of the jobs market. The economy added 93,000 more jobs in March and April than previously estimated and the unemployment rate held at 4.3% for a third consecutive month. While financial markets boosted the chances of an interest rate hike in December, economists said the bar remains high for monetary policy tightening.

Economists say fiscal stimulus, in the form of tax and import tariff refunds, has cushioned the impact of the U.S.-backed war with Iran, which has stoked inflation through ​a surge in oil prices. Corporate profits have increased since the second quarter of 2025, allowing businesses to refrain from large-scale layoffs. Economists, however, warned of risks to the labor market ​if the war persists.
“This report is likely to confirm to the Fed that the labor market is in a stable place, allowing inflation to be the ⁠only focus and driver of Fed policy heading into the June meeting,” said Sophia Kearney-Lederman, a senior economist at FHN Financial.

Exit question: “Donald Trump finally got the economic success he has touted since his re-election. Will it come in time to boost the GOP’s midterm chances?”

Posted at 1:35 pm by Ed Driscoll

THE UNEXPECTEDLIES MOVE IN ONE DIRECTION UNDER A DEMOCRAT PRESIDENT, AND IN THE OTHER DIRECTION UNDER A REPUBLICAN:

Posted at 1:31 pm by Stephen Green

GRAHAM PLATNER AND AL QAEDA’S CONGRESSMAN-ELECT FROM NEW JERSEY ARE THE CONSEQUENCE OF DEMOCRATS FAILING THE “DAVID DUKE TEST” WITH MAMDANI:

In August 2025, in the run-up to the mayoral election in New York City, I wrote a piece for The Blaze outlining how that election was a “David Duke” test for the Democrats. They had the choice of a supporting a racist adversary of the United States in Zohran Mamdani, or repudiating Mamdani and supporting the Republican, no matter how unpalatable they might find the decision to vote “R.”

Democrats failed the test, choosing to rally around Mamdani, who is now New York’s mayor.

The consequences are being realized quickly, with Jew-hatred and virulent anti-Americanism now mainstreamed in the Democratic party, as evidenced by Democrats clearing the field for Nazi fanboy Graham Platner to win the Maine senate nomination, and Adam Hamawy winning the Democrat nomination to a Congressional seat in New Jersey. Mr. Hamawy is a squad-endorsed former Al-Qaeda volunteer who also palled around with the original Twin Towers bomber, Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman (aka “The Blind Sheik.”) Hamawy actually testified as a character witness for the Blind Sheik in the trial following the first World Trade Center bombing in 1995.

It’s been quite an eventful decade:

Posted at 1:22 pm by Ed Driscoll

IT’S TIME FOR VICTORIA TAFT’S West Coast, Messed Coast™: A Medicaid Scam You Never Saw Coming Has California Circling the… Drums “What’s the emptiest place on the West Coast, Messed Coast™ this week? It appears to be the election counting offices in California where navel-gazing vote counters are taking their sweet time to tell Californians if their vote for change has been diluted by Tom Steyer and Karen Bass ballot harvesters and vote ‘cure’ experts. We have an update.”

Posted at 1:17 pm by Stephen Green

THE NEEDS OF THE PARTY ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE, COMRADE:

Posted at 1:01 pm by Stephen Green