June 10, 2026

DON’T BE STUPID, BE A SCHMARTY: The Democrats Have Officially Ceded the Moral High Ground*.

It’s official: The guy who knowingly got a Nazi tattoo on his chest and roughed up his girlfriend is now the Democrats’ nominee in Maine. Graham Platner has won his primary and will now face off against Susan Collins in November.

The same people who called the Right Nazis for 10 years, who accused the Right of sending women back to the dark ages, who called Trump a rapist and pedophile protector, and who claim Trump is sending soldiers to die, are now backing a guy with an actual Nazi tattoo, who twisted his ex-girlfriend’s arm and left bruises, who spent years on a sexting site notorious for hosting predators cheating on his wife, and who has relentlessly mocked veterans.

It’s truly amazing. Yet it goes beyond just the hypocrisy of it all.

There’s a Wall Street Journal video that’s gone viral of an interview with Daniel Moraff and Leanne Fan, the activists who handpicked Graham Platner and convinced his to run for office. The activists had uncovered some of Platner’s gross Reddit posts but told the WSJ didn’t find them disqualifying.

“Part of our thesis here is that people do not want their candidates grown in vats. They want people who are real human beings,” Moraff says.

Did you catch that?

Your choices are Nazi or a vat.

Roughing up your girlfriend makes you a “real human being.”

Apparently, this is how you get back the white working class! This is how you get back men, according to Daniel Moraff and a host of other progressive college-educated pundits and nepo baby activists.

As “Cynical Publius” tweeted at the start of the month:

Tweet concludes, “So maybe they want to run to the RIGHT of Collins, and since these idiots ACTUALLY BELIEVE we are all actual Nazis, maybe they saw Platner as the ideal candidate. Because they are stupidly brainwashed. Just a theory…”

That theory seems confirmed by Bill Maher, who told viewers last week, “I mean [Platner] is a new kind of guy and it is not just in the Democrats, people who, like—if you look at their history, you can find things that make them look very conservative. Like a Nazi tattoo. What I would—in the past—associate with conservatives.”

For the record, outside of a few stereotypical motorcycle gang members on TV cop shows, I don’t recall ever seeing anyone on the right with a Nazi tattoo, but I’ll admit to leading a very sheltered life. The Nazi tat aside (and those are three words I never thought I’d type in a row):

#Metoo? “Believe All Women?” Returning to power is far more important:

 

* I’ll take headlines from 1959, Alex:

Posted at 2:22 pm by Ed Driscoll

“CULTIVATED MEAT.” Working dairy farm near Rotterdam is about to make cultivated meat history.

Posted at 2:00 pm by Glenn Reynolds

GOOD: FCC lifts looming deadline for Amazon Leo satellite broadband constellation.

Amazon won regulatory approval for the Amazon Leo network in July 2020. The FCC’s authorization came with two deadlines. First, Amazon had to launch half of its 3,232 satellites by July 30, 2026, in order to maintain authorization to launch the rest of the network. The regulator gave Amazon a deadline of July 30, 2029, to have all of its first-generation satellites in orbit.

It has been apparent for some time that Amazon would not meet the FCC’s requirement to launch half of its satellites—1,616 spacecraft—by the end of next month. Amazon filed an application in January requesting the FCC extend the deadline to July 2028 or waive it altogether. The commission decided on the latter option, removing any time limit for the 50 percent deployment milestone, but keeping the July 2029 deadline in place for the entire constellation.

“Waiver serves the public interest by promoting a second large satellite broadband constellation,” the FCC wrote. “At this time, only one operator, SpaceX, is providing broadband to American consumers from low-Earth orbit. Amazon Leo’s service promises to be ‘groundbreaking,’ both in quality of service and affordability for consumers. Amazon Leo has further invested significant resources into meeting its commitments, including more than $10 billion to deploy the system along with investments in physical infrastructure and manufacturing capabilities.”

Consideration of public interest and Amazon’s multibillion-dollar investment in Amazon Leo, formerly known as Project Kuiper, are among the “special circumstances” the FCC cited for doing away with this summer’s deadline.

Amazon has done everything it can, including manufacturing satellites, building infrastructure, and even buying launches from rival SpaceX. It’s hardly the company’s fault that two of the launch vehicles it needs are currently grounded.

Posted at 1:46 pm by Stephen Green

THE IRISH, SCOTS AND ENGLISH ARE AT THE END OF THE “FIRST FOLLOWER” PHASE IN CULTURAL SURVIVAL:

When the systems of a ‘law and order’ society find no intention, benefit or reasonable expectation of safety from their established construct of government -generally driven by an intentional willingness to ignore the demands of the citizens those officials are expected to represent- eventually people take matters into their own hands.

It is fair to call this the end of the “first follower” phase.

It began when a singular voice stood boldly in righteous opposition to the violence. This person was watched by many.

Then, when that person, the original opponent to the violence is met with brutal isolation and retaliation, a first follower surfaces.

The first follower is the individual who stands up in anger against the retaliation they have witnessed against the singular voice.

This is the key moment when you can guarantee something is about to change.

Read the whole thing.

Posted at 1:35 pm by Ed Driscoll

WHEN THE LAW OF THE LAW OF MERITED IMPOSSIBILITY REBOUNDS TO EUROPE: Here Come the Riots.

Anti-immigrant violence erupting in the United Kingdom was as predictable as the sun rising in the East and setting in the West.

I knew it was coming. Elon Musk predicted it. Konstantin Kisin, ditto. Anybody with half a brain could see it coming.

Seeing it coming is not the same as wanting it to come. Cassandra didn’t want the evils she foresaw to come to pass, and, unfortunately, those of us predicting the inevitable were reviled as much as she was for telling people the truth. British politicians threatened to prosecute Musk for merely saying what any sane person knew.

Metaphor alert:

Related:

As Rod Dreher wrote numerous times during the previous decade, the Law of Merited Impossibility states: “It will never happen, and when it does, you bigots will deserve it.”

More:

Which seems odd, considering that during June of 2020, Starmer was quite happy to encourage violence and disorder that threatened America, and had little desire for calm or “letting the police get on with their work:” George Floyd death: Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer takes a knee in support of Black Lives Matter movement.

Posted at 1:22 pm by Ed Driscoll

THE PURPOSE OF A SYSTEM IS WHAT IT DOES:

Posted at 12:51 pm by Glenn Reynolds

YOU’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BLOG: California Election Fraud Update. “Everyone and their dog is already reporting on how California’s Democratic fraud machine stole a runoff spot from Spencer Pratt and gave it to Nithya Raman so they could prevent a Republican from even having a chance of being elected mayor of Los Angeles. The steal was so brazen (just like those 3 AM ballot dumps in 2020), either Democrats feel immune to DOJ prosecution, or else the graft they rake of Los Angeles is so vital for running the entire Democrat machine they can’t even risk Pratt getting into a runoff. But that’s not the only fraud news out of California…”

Posted at 12:44 pm by Stephen Green

BRENDAN O’NEILL: The barbarism in Belfast.

Isn’t there now a case against officialdom of reckless endangerment? Every week there are reports of horrifying rapes carried out by illegal immigrants. Working-class women and girls have suffered sickening abuse at the hands of men who came on small boats under the noses of our apathetic, cowardly rulers. People have been murdered, too. From the alleged rape gang overseen by Afghan nationals in Norwich to last night’s demented bloodletting in Belfast – when are we allowed to say this is all the bitter harvest of state failure, the predictable outcome of refusing to get a handle on who is coming here and why?

People are sick of paying the blood price of bourgeois virtue. That is increasingly how it feels to working-class communities – that they are expected to absorb the risk of letting in tens of thousands of unvetted men, while their betters absorb the glow of righteousness that comes with crying ‘Refugees welcome’. The activist class in their leafy suburbs are shielded from the social consequences of their moral theatre. It is the lower orders who suffer the fallout. Working-class girls who suddenly have 800 men from fuck knows where in the hotel at the end of their road. Women like Rhiannon Whyte, murdered by a Sudanese ‘asylum seeker’ from the very migrant hotel she worked in. This poor man in Belfast. It seems their suffering is a small price to pay for the moral gloating of our rulers.

This is why people are angry. Not because they’re racist. Not because they want all non-whites cast out of the kingdom. Such defamatory classist bile doesn’t wash anymore. No, it is the pathological nonchalance of the establishment that infuriates them, and the green light that such institutionalised cowardice gives to certain wicked men who come here. That image of the suspect in Belfast seeming to punch the air with bloodcurdling delight as his exhausted victim fought for his life – this will be burned into people’s minds. It deserves to become a defining image in the life of our nation. For it grimly embodies the twin horrors of an individual’s murderous intent and a state’s murderous indifference.

Already the political class is fretting more about the masses’ response to this apocalyptic event than the event itself. Just as Starmer lamented the calls for ‘pure, cold rage’ over the death of Henry Nowak, so they will seek to crush our outrage over the barbarism in Belfast. An MP for Northern Ireland’s Social Democratic and Labour Party is fuming about the ‘English right-wing politicians’ who might exploit this atrocity to ‘further their own ends’. Imagine witnessing such End Times violence and thinking, ‘Shit, how are people going to react?’. They are so lost. They are beyond lost.

Related: Past performance is no guarantee of future results:

● Shot: As I watch Belfast burn in violent protests, I think of the far right in England and the US spreading poison.

—Headline, the London Independent, today.

● Chaser: ‘No justice, no peace:’ Tens of thousands protest against racism across UK despite coronavirus warnings.

—Headline, the London Independent, June 7th, 2020.

● Hangover: Coronavirus: Stunning photos show world under lockdown. ‘Really, Earth needs a break from humanity… time for a long rest,’ says observer.

—Headline and subhead, the London Independent, March 16th, 2020.

Posted at 12:30 pm by Ed Driscoll

NEVER GO FULL NAZI: DSCC Chair Gillibrand: Oysterführer Uber Alles, or Tomorrow Belongs to Dems. “In 2017, Kirsten Gillibrand helped push Al Franken out of the Senate without even an Ethics Committee investigation. After the picture of Franken fake-groping a sleeping colleague went viral, six women came forward to claim that Franken had kissed them without consent while working on Air America and in stand-up comedy. That’s not exactly nothing, but it all took place before Franken won his Senate seat. Rather than investigate the allegations for truth and context, Gillibrand insisted that the allegations alone were disqualifying. . . . Nine years later, Democratic Socialists of America activists cast a Nazi-tatted Graham Platner to run for the seat, and Gillibrand stuck with him. She stuck with Platner last night, too.”

Posted at 12:28 pm by Glenn Reynolds

ELON IS NOT PUTTING UP WITH THEIR BULLSHIT:

Posted at 12:12 pm by Glenn Reynolds

I FOLLOWED THIS STORY FOR DAYS AND THERE’S STILL NO FULL EXPLANATION: Questions Remain About Tense Moment Aboard ISS.

Even if you’re not normally interested in what’s happening in low Earth orbit, you probably heard that last week NASA ordered its personnel aboard the International Space Station to button themselves up in the docked Dragon spacecraft and await further instructions should they need to make a hasty departure. Known as Safe Haven, this emergency procedure is performed whenever there’s an elevated risk of damage to the Station.

NASA has provided an update on what happened, but it arguably leaves more questions than answers. Usually, crews go to their Safe Haven because some bit of space junk has wandered to close to the orbiting complex, but this time it was because Russian cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikayev were getting ready to start cutting into the walls of the PrK transfer tunnel in an effort to address its persistent air leak.

After about an hour and a half, the Russians called off the effort and NASA gave their people the OK to leave the Dragon and return to their normal duties. NASA Press Secretary Bethany Stevens later posted on social media that the space agency would “look forward to working with Roscosmos on a collaborative approach to address the leaks” in the future. There’s currently no word on what a future repair attempt may entail, or when it would be attempted.

There’s also no word on why they called off the repair work.

Very curious.

Posted at 11:42 am by Stephen Green