June 22, 2026

VIDEO: Russia’s Military: Thermoclines of Truth (And Endemic Corruption) All The Way Down. “Thermoclines of truth, where valid information can’t make it to the top of organizations because telling unpleasant truths is discouraged, has been an ongoing concern of the blog. Simon Whistler and his crew have taken a look at the Russian military, and it appears that it’s thermoclines of truth (and endemic corruption) all the way down.”

Posted at 4:50 pm by Stephen Green

TRUMP: Make Washington Beautiful Again.

Lefties:

Posted at 4:34 pm by Stephen Green

ICYMI: Meet the New Commie, Worse Than the Old Commie. “The U.K.’s most destructively feckless prime minister (since the last one) is history, but Keir Starmer’s likely successor could prove Britain’s final undoing — if the radical Liberian-born advisor who serves as Andy Burnham’s ‘brains’ gets her way.”

Posted at 4:19 pm by Stephen Green

CALIFORNIA DYING:

How Skid Row got to this point has been a long time in the making, with many guilty parties. In the 1970s, an unholy alliance of trade unions, business, activists and nearby nimby’s agreed on a ‘containment’ plan, that focused all homelessness, medical drug support and NGO activity to the area, with vagrants heavily discouraged from leaving that area.

At around the same time, then-Governor of California, Ronald Reagan, signed a bipartisan state bill that did for mental illness institutionalisation what that other notable leftie, Enoch Powell, did in Britain in the 1960s. It was scaled it back enormously and the area flooded with the former inmates of asylums.

Reagan was likely influenced by his alcoholic father and the belief that they should have been treated as patients, not prisoners. Cost cutting, too, played a part. Regardless, having so many unwell people “unhoused”, in the new nomenclature, went as badly as one can imagine with the benefit of hindsight — despite the fair weather.

Waves of further damaging factors followed. Crack, as cheap as it was addictive exploded in popularity in the 1980s. In the mid-noughties, hospitals were caught discharging patients onto the streets of Skid Row itself. And all the while, actual rooms to house these people in the area decreased.

Most recently, fentanyl has supercharged the drug problem and led to huge fatalities, often by contaminating other drugs and pulling more people into the hell now visible to the world through shocking videos on X. Having now seen the real thing, I can tell you that the footage of these fentanyl zombies doesn’t come close to capturing the awfulness it causes in people already near rock bottom.

Recent efforts by the Democrat super-majority in the city have been built around principles of housing first and harm reduction. It would be another cliché to tell you that I saw a blue haired woman, pride lanyard around her neck, an NGO worker looking over her total and utter policy victory. It reminded me of the line Tacitus gave to Calgacus attacking Rome: “They make a wasteland and they call it peace”. No one can say that this experiment has not been given a long trial time.

Just this weekend, a drug addict died on a Skid Row livestream. By some claims, that fatality will be one of 6 a day. The obvious truth is that these people need to be incarcerated in custom facilities that provide long-term rehabilitation and cold turkey programmes. And that crucially removes them from the mainstream population.

Exit quote:

Tweet concludes, “He went to report it, but was told it looked like it done by homeless, and the city doesn’t report petty thefts by homeless. (Crime is down!) Hope the Bass/Raman voters enjoy their free beer.”

Posted at 4:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG:

Posted at 4:03 pm by Stephen Green

IF THERE’S JUST ONE THING THE NAZIS AND THE COMMIES AGREE ON, IT’S THIS: Graham Platner Endorsed Comment From ‘RevolutionaryCommie’ Calling America a ‘Disgraceful Country’: ‘I’m an American, and I Can’t Disagree.’

The remark from “RevolutionaryCommie” came in response to an original post highlighting President Donald Trump’s famous American flag tweet sent after the January 2020 strike killed Soleimani, then the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ elite Quds Force, who was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of Americans during the Iraq war. The self-described communist Redditor took issue with the “responses to the tweet: the racism, the cheering death, the calling for more killings, the mocking of the dead,” calling it “the most ghoulish and disgusting thing I’ve ever seen. They are a disgraceful country.” Platner, using the alias “P-Hustle,” responded with his endorsement.

“I’m an American, and I can’t disagree with you tonight,” he wrote.

The comment, which has not been previously reported, is the latest in a series of remarks from Platner denigrating the United States and its military veterans.

The mainstream media will demand Democrats disown Platner starting never.

Posted at 3:48 pm by Stephen Green

PRETTY MUCH LITERALLY TRUE, THOUGH IN FACT I THINK THE MUSLIMS HAVE BEEN LEADING HIM BY THE BALLS FOR A WHILE:

Posted at 3:33 pm by Glenn Reynolds

I CERTAINLY HOPE KURT IS CORRECT (GLENN, TOO):

Still, it’s odd that Vance is the public face of the MOU, while Rubio and Hegseth are largely MIA.

Posted at 3:32 pm by Stephen Green

CHRIS QUEEN: A Father’s Day Tribute for a Tar Heel Whose Dad Never Got to See Him in Carolina Blue. “I serve at church in various ways every Sunday, including Father’s Day. I don’t think I’ve had to lead worship since my dad passed away, but this Father’s Day, I did security, which I think my dad would be proud to see me do. But I can’t imagine carrying the weight of Father’s Day that Erik Paulsen, Jr., did on Sunday at the College World Series in Omaha, Neb., on Sunday.”

Posted at 3:17 pm by Stephen Green

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Never Mind Buc-ee’s, If This Message Spreads, the Entire World Cup Thing Will Have Been Worthwhile. “One of the things that’s become extremely apparent to me after spending a few days here with a group of Americans and other nationalities is how much of a fucking pussy English people are in general when it comes to arms, guns, and basically protecting their nation. We’ve been totally pacified in the UK and through removal of our arms, our right to bear arms, it’s caused a big problem for us.”

Posted at 2:46 pm by Stephen Green

RIP: Clive Davis dies at 94: Music executive titan responsible for careers of Whitney Houston and Bruce Springsteen passes away.

Clive Davis — who was responsible for the careers of many legendary musical acts including Whitney Houston, Bruce Springsteen, and Carlos Santana – has died at 94.

The longtime music executive and founder of Arista Records and J Records passed away at his home in New York City on Monday.

Just last month, he was hospitalized in his home state for a upper respiratory infection and was discharged days later.

Davis was a titan of the music industry as he also helped shape the careers of Aretha Franklin, Janis Joplin, Alicia Keys, Carrie Underwood, among many others.

Davis was president of CBS Records from 1967 to 1973, an era when the record label ran its infamous “But the Man Can’t Bust Our Music” ad in 1968:

The text read:

The Establishment’s against adventure. And the arousing experience that comes with listening to today’s music.

So what?

Let them slam doors. And keep it out of the concert halls. Nothing can stop great sound makers like Ives, Riley, Stockhausen, Varese or the Moog Synthesizer.

They’re ear stretching. And sometimes transfixing. And The Man can’t stop you from listening. Especially if you’re armed with these.

On Columbia and CBS Records

Considering how those at CBS News today have to pretend they’re still a bulwark against the establishment as they fight Bari Weiss’s efforts to produce content that’s remotely objective, surprisingly little has changed there in 60 years.

Posted at 2:35 pm by Ed Driscoll

MOSCOW’S AIR DEFENSES AREN’T WHAT THEY ONCE WERE:

Posted at 2:29 pm by Stephen Green

UPDATE NEWSPEAK DICTIONARIES ACCORDINGLY: Chicago Mayor Declares Citywide “Transfemicide State of Emergency:”

Posted at 2:22 pm by Ed Driscoll

SAY ANYTHING:

“The View” is actually part of ABC’s news division, if you wanted to know about their standards and practices.

Posted at 1:59 pm by Stephen Green

RADICAL CHIC AND MAU-MAUING THE FLAK TOWER:

UPDATE: Bill Maher shuts down Rep. Ro Khanna as he fawns over Mamdani: ‘He pals around with terrorists!’

Alas, he’s not the first Democrat to do so.

Posted at 1:35 pm by Ed Driscoll