June 3, 2026

TYLER O’NEIL: “The SPLC built its reputation by suing the KKK into bankruptcy, but now it smears mainstream conservatives and Christians, juicing the numbers on the ‘hate’ it claims to oppose.”

Including, “The SPLC paid $350K to an officer of the National Socialist Movement and Aryan Nations-affiliated Sadistic Souls Motorcycle Club.” It’s 21st century Molotov-Ribbentrop pact between International and National Socialists.

Earlier: So, the Premise Behind Biden’s 2020 Run Was Built on a Lie Paid for By the SPLC?

Posted at 4:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

BESSENT IN BEAST MODE:

More:

The administration is moving enforcement from geography into transaction permission. The question becomes less “who crossed the border?” and more “who is allowed to operate inside the financial system?”

That is a much more powerful enforcement layer.

A person can avoid a checkpoint. A person can move cities. A person can use sympathetic local systems. A person can live in a sanctuary jurisdiction. But modern life requires payments, bank access, cards, transfers, payroll, rent, app-based services, benefits, and digital identity.

Once access to those rails becomes conditional on legal status, the border follows the person everywhere.

That is the phase shift.

Read the whole thing.

Previously: IS BESSENT KILLING CHINA’S CURRENCY?

Posted at 3:03 pm by Stephen Green

CHRISTIAN TOTO: How Taylor Swift Could Save Freedom 250 Concert.

Quick, who have benefited from the U.S. more than Taylor Swift?

Tough question, right?

America has delivered endless dreams to hard-working patriots, immigrants seeking a brighter future and those who never stopped reaching for their stars.

And then there’s Swift. She’s the biggest pop star on the planet, a 30-something artist who has taken full advantage of the freedom and opportunity America offers. To her credit, she’s made the most of every chance her country gave her.

Now, it’s time to return the favor, but it won’t be easy.

It wasn’t easy becoming one of the world’s biggest pop stars, either.

Posted at 2:48 pm by Stephen Green

FACE, MEET PALM:

Immigration detention facilities, what are they for?

Posted at 2:32 pm by Stephen Green

OLD AND BUSTED: Gambling Going On in Rick’s CafĂ©.

The New Hotness? Ron Wydon’s son investing in Rick’s Cabaret!

‘Most Corrupt Regime in American History!’ Scott Bessent Fires Off Epstein Accusation in Wild Hearing Brawl.

“I had hoped to keep this in terms of the economy — Senator Wyden has mendaciously slandered the Treasury building in an attempt to cover up his son having an investment meeting with Jeffrey Epstein to ask for funding,” Bessent said.

Recently-unsealed DOJ documents showed that Wyden’s son, Adam Wyden, met Epstein through a mutual fund and later sought to pitch him an investment opportunity.

“I thoroughly enjoyed our conversation and hope my passion and dedication for my business came through in the meeting,” Adam Wyden told Epstein in a 2016 email.

“Let’s be clear here. Nobody is interested in the ramblings of a capo in the most corrupt regime in American history. We want to get some facts about this deal. That’s what we’re here for,” Sen. Wyden shot back at Bessent.

“And we would like to hear what Adam Wyden and Jeffrey Epstein talked about. Your son’s largest investment position was Rick’s Cabaret. So did your son and Jeffrey Epstein talk about pole dancing as he begged him for money using your limited credibility?” Bessent threw back.

From Forbes in 2021: How This Democratic Senator’s Son Made $100 Million In Stocks And Why He Fled To Low Tax Florida.

[Adam] Wyden is no shrinking violet when it comes to making big bets. His fund is the single largest shareholder in Houston’s RCI Hospitality, operator of over 40 gentlemen’s clubs and parent company of Rick’s Cabaret. Wyden built his 10% position beginning in late April 2020, when the coronavirus led investors to believe that in a world of masks and social distancing, a company built on drunken bachelor parties and lap dances was toast. But Wyden reckoned that as the pandemic ebbed there would be pent-up demand for RCI’s clubs, many located in Florida and Texas, and that they would reopen fast. Another plus: It’s exceedingly difficult to obtain a strip club license, meaning the company has a deep moat around its business.

And from the New York Post this past April: Ron Wyden’s son had business meeting with Epstein.

Democrat Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon has bashed the Trump administration over its handling of Epstein files, but documents released last month reveal his own son arranged a business meeting with the convicted pedo.

Seven years after Epstein was released from a Florida prison after pleading guilty to solicitation of prostitution from a minor, Adam Wyden, who founded his own private investment fund, ADW Capital, in 2010, was introduced to the disgraced financier through mutual friend Jonathan Farkas.

“Adam my friend jeffery Epstein who manages 5 billion said to call his office he wants to see your record and would consider investing with you,” Farkas wrote on April 27, 2016.

A message from a redacted email address also helped arrange the meeting, according to a trove of emails released by the Justice Department.

The men decided to huddle the following day at Epstein’s Upper East Side townhouse at 10 a.m., according to the documents.

Wyden gushed in a follow-up message to Epstein after the meeting about his “passion and dedication for my business” while seeking to reel him in as a client.

He also called them “like minded individuals” and said he ‘would very much look forward to having you join us at the fund.” There are no indications Wyden knew about any illegal Epstein activity or that Epstein became a client.

When contacted by The Post, Adam Wyden, 41, said, “No comment — I’m not interested,” and hung up.

As Leon Trotsky never said, you may not be interested in Rick’s Cabaret, but Rick’s Cabaret is interested in you.

Posted at 2:22 pm by Ed Driscoll

VOTE OF NO CONFIDENCE: How China’s wealthy sidestep strict rules to get money out of the country.

China’s capital controls remain among the world’s strictest. Individuals are generally limited to transferring US$50,000 overseas each year, while emigrants are given a one-time opportunity to move their assets abroad.

Concerns about China’s economic outlook and a drive by President Xi Jinping to reduce inequality have prompted many wealthy families to seek a financial foothold overseas. Households, institutions and companies moved a record US$807 billion, roughly, out of the country last year, according to estimates from the Institute of International Finance.

But demand for overseas assets, as well as the rapid accumulation of private wealth, has fuelled a vast underground industry dedicated to circumventing capital controls. While the true scale of illicit capital flight is impossible to quantify, court records, regulatory disclosures and interviews with industry participants point to sprawling networks that move billions of US dollars offshore each year.

This has drawn increasing scrutiny from authorities. China’s latest crackdown on overseas brokers accused of helping mainland clients trade offshore is the latest sign that regulators are intensifying efforts to monitor cross-border capital and ensure tax compliance on such money flows.

Here are some of the most common ways mainlanders circumvent the government’s strict rules to get money out of China.

Money, to borrow a phrase, finds a way.

Posted at 1:46 pm by Stephen Green

SO MUCH WISDOM IN THIS COLUMN: No, it’s not one of mine. It’s Substack’s Virgil Walker and his point applies to all of us equally – be careful who or what you make your god.

Posted at 1:24 pm by Mark Tapscott

‘WHAT A COOL PIC:’ Totenkopf-Tattooed Graham Platner Admired ‘German Helmets’ in WW2 Photo of Nazi-Allied Troops, Deleted Post Shows.

Maine’s embattled Democratic Senate candidate, Graham Platner, praised a “cool pic” of Nazi-aligned troops aiming a rifle during World War II, zeroing in on their “German helmets” and weapon, in a now-deleted social media post, the Washington Free Beacon can reveal.

It’s not the first time Platner has shown enthusiasm for Nazi iconography. He notoriously had a chest tattoo of an SS “Totenkopf,” the skull and crossbones symbol worn by SS officers who manned the Nazi concentration camps.

In April 2019 a Reddit user shared an image of “Swedish Volunteer Battalion in a trench during The Continuation War, 1941.”

The image showed soldiers in German helmets during the conflict, pointing a Browning Automatic Rifle at the enemy over a defensive trench. A soldier gesturing to an enormous dog—which appears to be an Alsatian or German shepherd—dominates the foreground.

In a comment from his now-deleted Reddit account P-Hustle, Platner offered this response:

“German helmets and a [Browning Automatic Rifle]. What a cool pic.”

As John Levine of the Washington Free Beacon adds in a tweet, “If NOTHING else — this post shows that Platner is a deep in the weeds WWII military history nerd, making it especially unlikely he wouldn’t know what a Totenkopf was.”

Posted at 1:22 pm by Ed Driscoll

REQUIRED READING:

This bit stands out: “F-37, a member of the leadership chat for the Charlottesville rally in 2017, made racist posts under an SPLC employee’s supervision and arranged transport for others to attend the rally. SPLC paid this person $300K.”

Posted at 12:59 pm by Stephen Green