June 2, 2026

June 1, 2026

OPEN THREAD: Monday, Monday.

Posted at 9:30 pm by Glenn Reynolds

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:

MORE: The media’s janitor is on the case!

It’s not like Stelter is invested in preserving as much of the old regime at CBS as possible: Dan Rather: CNN’s ‘Reliable Source.’

Posted at 8:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

TAR, FEATHERS, AND MORE ARE NEEDED:

UPDATE:

Posted at 7:37 pm by Glenn Reynolds

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

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