June 1, 2026

HENRY NOWAK VIDEO IS OUT:

Posted at 6:37 pm by Glenn Reynolds

‘NO REGRETS:’ Graham Platner Admitted to Buying Cocaine, Boasted About Doing Drugs During Military Leave While ‘on the Government Dime.’

Platner “highly” recommended the drug-fueled experience to other Reddit users.

“No regrets,” he wrote in February 2020.

Platner, who is running to unseat Republican Sen. Susan Collins, discussed buying cocaine in another post from around the same time. Platner responded to someone who asked about a Coast Guard seizure of 12,000 pounds of cocaine valued at $312 million.

“Street value,” Platner wrote in July 2020. “I always wonder what street you’re buying your cocaine on, because it’s not the street I’m buying my cocaine on.”

Platner’s drug use could also prove a political liability in Maine, the oldest state in the nation in terms of median age. Older Americans typically are more disapproving of drug use compared to their younger counterparts. While there is little public polling on Americans’ views of cocaine and other illicit drugs, just 43 percent of Americans older than 65 approve of recreational marijuana use, compared to 63 percent of Americans between 18 and 29. And unlike marijuana, which is being legalized in multiple states, cocaine remains illegal, and the market is controlled by ruthless drug cartels.

It is unclear if Platner admitted his drug use to the military or if it would have affected his service status. Platner’s posts suggest he took the drug-infused European trip at the end of his first deployment with the Marines, which ended in 2008. After the Marines and a stint at George Washington University, Platner joined the Army in 2011.

No word yet if Platner also scored a few vials of Pervitin as well.

Posted at 6:30 pm by Ed Driscoll

ADAM CAROLLA ON THE VIEW. No, not Carolla actually appearing on The View. That’ll never happen, for reasons Carolla explains thusly:

“Here’s the problem [with The View]. The problem is they have horrible, ill-sorted, bad ideas that are either just sort of lies or they don’t really comport with any reality.”

“They go, well, ‘J6 was 10 times worse than the Summer of Love.’ And then they all nod, and there’s not one person there that raises their hand and goes, ‘What the f*ck are you talking about? That’s insane.’”

“But if there is one person who actually has facts and data… you will watch ONE PERSON WHOOP UP ON FOUR PEOPLE. Because four people who are wrong still can’t match the one person who is right.”

“So they can’t have somebody who’s going to show up with a lot of information.”

QED:

 

 

Posted at 6:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

NETWORK THAT BROUGHT YOU RATHERGATE, PRO-OBAMACARE POETRY READINGS, AND BARRY GOLDWATER AS A NAZI DEMANDS NEW CEO “RESPECT EDITORIAL VALUES:” CBS News Staff Sending Letter to CEO David Ellison Demanding He ‘Respect Editorial Values’ — Media Insider Tells MS NOW.

Oh, and speaking of Dan Rather:

Related: Whom the gods destroy, they first make Olbermann:

More here: Pompous Pelley Tells New ’60 Minutes’ Boss: You’re MURDERING Our Show!

UPDATE:

Posted at 5:45 pm by Ed Driscoll

HMM:

Posted at 5:34 pm by Stephen Green

PRATT SUMMER:

UPDATE:

Posted at 5:30 pm by Ed Driscoll

THE EV BUBBLE CONTINUES TO DEFLATE: Lexus Cancels Plans to Bring LF-ZC Concept to Production. “The LF-ZC was revealed at the 2023 Tokyo auto show as a future electric flagship for Lexus. At the time, Lexus confirmed plans to put the concept into production in 2026, with the model meant to introduce new technologies, including significantly improved battery tech.”

Posted at 5:29 pm by Stephen Green

TRAVELING TERRORISTS:

Flashback to Andy Ngo in 2023: Who funds Antifa protests? We all do.

Posted at 5:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

YES: There are ‘things a free people ought to know.’

Once, “the McGuffey Readers, an elementary school collection of stories, poems, essays, and speeches, became nearly universal in American classrooms,” Pondiscio tells them. They helped reproduce a common culture.

Now teachers are asked “to differentiate instruction, to tailor learning to each student’s needs, interests, and pace,” he says. Artificial intelligence makes it easier to personalize instruction, to meet each student where they are at and take them where they want to go. But something is lost when education becomes a private good.

Classical education gives us “a common vocabulary and a common world,” he says. Atlanta Classical graduates “can participate in a conversation that stretches across time and place.” You’ve “read the same books — not just heard of them, but wrestled with them. You’ve struggled with the same questions and ideas.”

Read the whole thing.

Posted at 4:50 pm by Stephen Green

AT THE VERY BEST, THEY’LL BE EATEN LAST:

Posted at 4:34 pm by Stephen Green

ACTUALLY, IT IS DYING OF NATURAL CAUSES: Jimmy Kimmel ‘Felt Defeated’ by Stephen Colbert’s Cancellation and Says Late-Night TV Is Not ‘Dying of Natural Causes:’ ‘We’re Being Poisoned.’

Jimmy Kimmel has some thoughts on the purported death of late-night television.

The “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” host opened up in a new interview with Vulture about the future of the genre following the cancellation of Stephen Colbert‘s “Late Show” on CBS and his own run-ins with Trump, including his suspension following comments made about the death of Charlie Kirk.

“I feel a little bit defeated about it,” Kimmel told Vulture after Colbert’s final episode aired on May 21. “In a lot of ways, I feel like I’m looking at my own future.”

CBS canceled “The Late Show” in July 2025 — a year before Colbert’s three-year deal was set to end — citing “purely financial reasons” despite much speculation that Colbert’s anti-Trump views had something to do with it, especially with the Paramount-Skydance merger in the background. Though it was reported that Colbert’s show was losing $40 million a year, Kimmel told Vulture he finds that hard to believe, pointing to a 2023 New York Times article that claims Colbert was offered a five-year contract but decided to go with three.

“Am I to believe that over the course of those two years, they suddenly started losing $40 million a year?” he said. “These are just made-up numbers.”

Kimmel said that ABC has told him “quite specifically” that his show is still profitable.

“There are far more people watching late-night TV than there ever were, if you look at the number of views me and my colleagues get online every day and add in our linear-television ratings,” Kimmel asserted, adding: “We’re not just dying of natural causes. We’re being poisoned.”

However, Kimmel’s contract was extended in December by just one year instead of the standard three. “Everything is so tumultuous,” Kimmel told Vulture. “That seemed to make sense. It’s definitely not how it’s gone in the past.”

Related: 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley accuses Bari Weiss of ‘murdering’ show.

Scott Pelley, a veteran 60 Minutes correspondent, called out CBS News management in a heated meeting on Monday morning, attacking the network’s decision on Thursday to fire the show’s executive producer, executive editor, and two fellow correspondents, Sharyn Alfonsi and Cecilia Vega, as part of a broader overhaul of the show, sources tell the Guardian.

During a meeting of the show’s staff and Nick Bilton, its newly appointed executive producer, along with the CBS News managing editor Charles Forelle, Pelley took direct aim at Bari Weiss, the network’s controversial editor-in-chief.

“She’s murdering 60 Minutes,” Pelley said, according to sources with knowledge of the situation. “She does not love this place. She was brought in to kill it and is doing exactly that.”

Beyond Pelley’s own stated establishment left biases, and the Rathergate debacle, I can’t imagine why Weiss “does not love this place” and wants to “murder” 60 Minutes:

Kimmel and Pelley must feel a bit like big band leaders with shows on AM radio in the 1950s and ’60s as first television, and then those crazy rock and roll kids and DJs smoking the jazz cabbage arrived on newfangled FM radio, confused by the new technologies that are dooming their beloved legacy platforms.

As with AM radio today, the technology of television will continue long into the future. But the content it delivers will likely change so that those who own these legacy media platforms will continue to make a profit on their diminishing investment returns.

As for Pelley’s likely future:

UPDATE: 60 Minutes’ Leftist Scott Pelley Knows He’s About to be Fired, So He Stages a Tantrum-Flounce to Make It Seem Like He Was Fired in Retalliation for #FightingThePower.

Posted at 4:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

WHAT WAS THEIR FIRST CLUE? Europe no longer convinced Russia’s war will stop at Ukraine.

With heightened NATO activity in the Baltic states, European Union leaders condemning Russian threats against Latvia and Estonia, and an emergency UN Security Council meeting over the latest Russian actions in Ukraine, a growing number of officials now appear to believe the Kremlin’s ambitions could extend beyond Ukraine.

Even discussions once considered premature – involving European military readiness and a permanent NATO deterrent in member states that border Russia – have moved into the political mainstream.

The result: a deep psychological shift across Europe and a war that began on the EU’s periphery is being seen as a direct challenge to the continent’s future security order.

“A threat against one member state is a threat against our entire Union,” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said this week.

Should Ukraine fall and Moscow turn further west, no matter what Europe says, most member countries’ actions tell me they’d be happy to let Poland do the bleeding on their behalf.

Posted at 3:48 pm by Stephen Green

HE’S A MAN OF FEW WORDS — BUT, DEAR LORD, THE TURNOVER:

Posted at 3:32 pm by Stephen Green

UGH: United flight forced to turn around because of a Bluetooth speaker name. “While the recording does not explicitly confirm the speculation that the Bluetooth name in question was “bomb,” it would certainly make sense given the response from the crew and security personnel on the ground. It also serves as a friendly reminder that what you think is a clever WiFi or Bluetooth name probably isn’t.”

Posted at 2:46 pm by Stephen Green

METAPHOR ALERT:

Posted at 2:29 pm by Stephen Green