June 4, 2026

TWENTY MINUTES INTO THE FUTURE: Do Senate Democrats Really Buy Graham Platner’s Assurances? “‘Worse than [the] Nazi tattoo.’ That’s the claim of Steve Robinson, who runs the website Maine Wire, regarding some sort of forthcoming scandal news about Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner. I think that may be the first time those words have been put in that order in the English language. Robinson isn’t alone; other folks claim to have heard similar claims of some worse scandal that will emerge soon.”

Posted at 12:30 pm by Ed Driscoll

CHANGE? The President Endorses the Tiger. “I mean, Colombia is harboring guerrilla insurgencies and cartels whose violence spills over its borders into dozens of other countries, and it produces roughly two-thirds of all the cocaine in the world. Imagine the country having a leader who is aligned with Donald Trump and others in the region at this unique moment in time, and who is ready to actually combat all that.”

Posted at 12:14 pm by Stephen Green

ICYMI: OVER ON SUBSTACK, ERIC OF SECURITY & CIGARS (WHICH I’VE LINKED A NUMBER OF TIMES) HAS BEEN WRITING A SERIAL NOVEL, BOUGIE APOCALYPSE. “”Bougie Apocalypse” is a serial style post-apocalyptic pulp story. Retired Sergeant Major Jack Harlan and his wife Raych are doing their best to keep civilization alive (real coffee, quality beans instead of MRE’s, refusing to become savages) while the Cough turns people into Zombies. It’s a mix of World War Z realism, Zombieland humor, and Mad Max road survival in the face of collapse. Competent protagonists, zombies, gas station raids, and killing zombies with frying pans!”

I’m in the book, maybe alive, maybe not. Schrodinger’s law professor!

Posted at 12:05 pm by Glenn Reynolds

JOEL KOTKIN: The Strange Afterlife of Fascism.

Within MAGA, right-wing racism is often seen by its critics through their concern that immigration is slowly “replacing” whites who settled and largely built the nation. Like fascism, the term white supremacy has been cited in massively greater instances this decade. Nativism is clearly ascendant on the right, but while some of this is racially driven, much rests on a defense of traditional culture and has only rarely been implicated in organized race-centric violence.

By contrast, the identity politics embraced by progressives in the U.S., Britain, and the EU hinges on pigeonholing individuals as members of specific groups to whom favors are dispensed or withheld. And when it comes to violence, those acting most like the fascists tend to be Trump’s bitterest opponents. The call for political violence is now stronger on the left than the right, and particularly among their young, college-educated base, where it is rising far more rapidly, notes one recent study. Witness, for example, the support and even admiration for Luigi Mangione, who murdered a healthcare executive in cold blood. And it’s a sign of the times that anti-Jewish rhetoric, as well as “anti-Zionist” violence, comes increasingly from the left. Nick Fuentes, who is virulently anti-Israel, is now telling his acolytes to vote for Democrats in November.

The idea that Trump must be eliminated “by any means necessary” certainly does not focus on democratic procedures but reflects attitudes reminiscent of Mussolini’s enforcers – and almost every left-wing dictatorship. A combination of radical politics and personal delusion marks the rhetoric of would-be Trump assassins, as is evident in their digital imprint. Indeed, outside the Washington, D.C., hotel where one recent attempt took place, demonstrators carried “death to the dictator” signs.

Another parallel lies with the embrace of criminal behavior that was typical among Mussolini’s and Hitler’s thuggish enforcers. Today, progressive media figures such as Hasan Piker, as well as writers at the New Yorker magazine, openly embrace theft as a kind of social protest, something practiced on a large scale in the 2020 Black Lives Matter riots. Antifa, the self-appointed center of “resistance” to fascism, most resemble Mussolini’s Blackshirts shirts – and even wear the appropriate color.

Related: Porn-obsessed Hasan Piker goes on shocking homophobic rant after Scott Wiener wins SF congressional primary.

“It’s just f–ing rich liberals who just want homo-fascism in the country, that’s it. They want gay fascism. They want gay techno-fascism,” he insisted, without explaining what those terms meant.

Wiener is a prominent gay politician in the state who has heavily leaned into his LGBT background. During the campaign season, [rival Saikat] Chakrabarti had accused Wiener of being wedded with certain artificial intelligence groups that spent to support Wiener’s bid.

In Chakrabarti’s concession statement late Tuesday morning, the flopped candidate claimed he couldn’t overcome “the 7 million dollars of AI, crypto, and AIPAC money that were put into this race.”

In 2019, Chakrabarti seemed to prefer a much less hyphenated form of fascism:

And apparently still does: “In a move that perfectly captures the modern left’s priorities, former Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez campaign manager Saikat Chakrabarti is melting down because Massachusetts Democrat Rep. Jake Auchincloss dared to call out a Nazi tattoo on Graham Platner as personally disqualifying—and suggested voters might feel the same way.”

Posted at 12:00 pm by Ed Driscoll

LEFTIES ALWAYS ACCUSE THEIR ENEMIES OF DOING WHAT THE LEFT IS ACTUALLY DOING:

Posted at 11:58 am by Stephen Green

UNEXPECTED HEADLINES: Bill Gates: Sex Machine. “Learn to code” is presumably less insulting than “Learn to feign enthusiasm for doing the nasty with schlubby sexagenarian billionaires.”

What, and deny his raw animal magnetism?

Posted at 11:43 am by Stephen Green

YES:

Key bit:

There are three basic responses to any crisis that reflects poorly on the left.

1) Shut up. You can’t say that. Accusations of racism fall under this category.

2) Denial and dismissal. “Without evidence.”

3) Utterly ignore or actively censor.

“Combinations of those tactics may be applied in any given situation. Actually examining or addressing the claims is not part of the playbook.”

Posted at 11:27 am by Stephen Green

I’M PRETTY SURE I SAW THE ZIONIST GOLEMS OPEN UP FOR STONE TEMPLE PILOTS AT THE SPECTRUM IN ’93: Roger Simon’s Golem Is a Zionist.

The novel time-travels through Jewish history–and both reader and narrator are everywhere. Sometimes we are led to safety by an angel. Really, it’s all very Biblical.

Really wanna know how Yahya Sinwar was captured or rather found dead? Just as two terrorist men wearing burqas were about to blow up the Israeli soldiers who were in the process of rescuing some wounded companions, an unearthly beam of light blew up the terrorists and collapsed the building in which Yahya Sinwar had been hiding. Absolutely no one can explain this. The Israeli top secret guys are baffled. Suspicious. But attentive.

Those beams of light were the work of a Golem that was unintentionally created by a humble rabbi living in Nashville, Tennessee named Benjamin Golub.

What else, who else but a Golem could have done this? Or freed an Israeli hostage because her cries so unsettled Reb Golub that the Golem did what he thought? Felt? Knew? that his Master had wanted.

Or, better yet whom else could have, quite on his own initiative, ship a certain Jew-hating Congresswomen back to Somalia in a package marked “Return to Sender?” Of course, with enough food and water to keep her healthy and alive until someone could hear her cries.

No one else but a clever and powerful Golem.

Read the whole thing.

Posted at 10:50 am by Ed Driscoll

DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: Oregon Anti-Hunting Animal Rights Ballot Initiative Targets Hunting, Fishing, Ranching and More.

IP 28 amends Chapter 167 of the Oregon Revised Statutes by removing or narrowing exemptions that currently protect lawful hunting, fishing, trapping, livestock husbandry, commercial meat production, lawful research, wildlife management and other accepted practices. It reclassifies responsible and regulated activities as criminal animal abuse, neglect or assault.

Oregon’s current laws recognize the clear distinction between cruelty and regulated traditional activities such as hunting deer, catching salmon, raising livestock or conducting standard veterinary and animal husbandry practices. IP 28 blurs the distinctions and creates criminal liability where Oregon law now recognizes permitted conduct.

This is an anti-hunting measure. Sponsors argue wildlife should receive the same protections as companion animals, livestock and animals in research settings. But they are hiding the real meaning. It may sound reasonable, or even narrow to some voters, but the real effects are far broader. They are striking at the legal foundations permitting Oregonians to hunt, fish, manage wildlife, raise livestock and produce food.

Let’s see if Oregon voters are self-destructive enough to vote in favor.

Posted at 10:41 am by Stephen Green

HMM:

Posted at 10:25 am by Stephen Green

KEVIN DOWNEY JR: The NIH Went to the Congo and All I Got Was This Lousy Monkeypox. “This story has the makings of a James Bond film: communists, mad doctors spreading dangerous viruses, and globalist toilet people behind it all. And somewhere, I suspect, is a very jealous Dr. Anthony Fauci watching from the sidelines, wishing the coach would let him play the deadly, worldwide virus game one more time.”

Posted at 10:10 am by Stephen Green

FROM THE DEPT. OF JUST NOT GETTING IT: Europe unveils tech sovereignty package amid growing concerns over reliance on U.S. tech: ‘We want to be sure nobody has a kill switch.’

The European Commission on Wednesday proposed a slew of rules intended to bolster homegrown chips, AI and cloud services as the bloc scrambles to develop tech sovereignty amid huge reliance on products and services from the U.S. and China.

The proposals, which must be approved by all 27 member states, include new actions to bolster advanced chip manufacturing and homegrown cloud computing.

As geopolitical tensions across the globe have ramped up, there have been growing calls for Europe to diversify away from non-European providers of critical tech, including U.S. tech companies, which currently dominate the European market.

“We cannot afford to depend on others for the technologies that keep our hospitals running, our energy grids stable and our services secure,” Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said in a statement.

Instead of repealing the innovation-strangling regulations that have made Europe an also-ran in high tech, they’ll impose even more rules.

Posted at 9:39 am by Stephen Green

HOW “ANTI-RACISM” WORKS IN PRACTICE:

The purpose of a system is what it does.

Posted at 9:24 am by Glenn Reynolds

I WONDER WHY? Karmelo Anthony Trial to Proceed with No Black Jurors. “One juror repeatedly said they wouldn’t feel right putting a ‘brother’ in prison.” We’ve seen an increasing reluctance of black jurors to convict black defendants who target white people. That means that there’s cause to dismiss them if they feel that way, or if prosecutors think they do and use a peremptory challenge.

Posted at 9:17 am by Glenn Reynolds