WELL, TO BE FAIR, IT’S SPOT-ON: Trump posts a “West Wing” clip decrying the notion of a “proportional response.”
Of course, what’s heroic when President Josiah Bartlett says it is warmongering — and probably a war crime — when Trump says it. Or any other Republican president, really.
WHEN A DUCK IS SWIMMING, THERE’S MORE GOING ON UNDER THE SURFACE THAN YOU CAN SEE: Spencer Pratt Responds to His Crushing Defeat in LA With a Mysterious Image.
THE PURPOSE OF A SYSTEM IS WHAT IT DOES:
BREAKING: Marco Rubio just said the quiet part out loud.
Americans work 40+ years…
Pay taxes.
Follow the rules.
Build the country.Then retire on $800, $900, maybe $1,000 a month.
Meanwhile, new arrivals can allegedly receive more support from the same system they never paid… pic.twitter.com/MkQdrtna8P
— QThestorm (@17QStorm) June 9, 2026
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…”
FASTER, PLEASE: The Man Leading Trump’s Nuclear Renaissance.
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:
—Headline, the London Independent, today.
—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.
SOME SMALL MEASURE OF ACCOUNTABILITY:
BREAKING UPDATE: The @okstate administrator who threatened a Conservative student for honoring Charlie Kirk in a speech was REMOVED from her position. https://t.co/m6m64Po4yz pic.twitter.com/Hjk3oriSG4
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) June 9, 2026
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.”
ELON IS NOT PUTTING UP WITH THEIR BULLSHIT:
The news orgs that say this instead of caring about innocent people being beheaded in the streets are scum of the Earth
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 10, 2026
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.
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IT’S ACCELERATING: Social Security retirement trust fund may be depleted in 2032, new trustees report finds.
A Social Security trust fund used to pay retirement benefits may run out in late 2032, three months earlier than what had been projected last June, according to the new Social Security Administration annual trustees report released Tuesday.
Social Security uses incoming revenue from payroll taxes to pay benefits. When benefit payments exceed payroll tax income, the program relies on the trust funds to help make up the shortfall.
The report said that if the fund is depleted as projected, Social Security will only be able to pay 78% of retirement benefits.
Plan accordingly, because either benefits are going down, taxes are going up, or inflation and debt are going up. Or some combination.
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WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE: Princeton ends 133-year anti-proctoring tradition amid AI cheating fears.
EVERYTHING ABOUT HIM IS FAKE, EXCEPT FOR THE NAZI STUFF: Platner’s ‘living on the sea’ claim dismantled by critics as financial docs paint a different picture.
Platner’s 2025 financial disclosures show that he listed “other $5,001” as his annual income from farming oysters. The candidate’s entire business is only worth between $50,000 and $100,000, which accounts for his boat, lines, anchors and other farming equipment, per the disclosure.
He earned an additional $3,000 serving as the harbor master for Sullivan, Maine, — a role the Washington Free Beacon reported was largely clerical and where he was responsible for overseeing the 17 boat moorings on the small town’s coast.
Taken together, these sums are dwarfed by the $4,800 Platner says he receives through monthly disability payments. Platner is legally entitled to such a sum owing to injuries he suffered while serving in the armed forces.
“I’ve got a couple herniated discs. My shoulder’s a wreck. My knees bother me,” Platner, who saw combat in Iraq and Afghanistan, told News Center Maine in an October 2025 interview.
Despite his reliance on disability, Platner has consistently referred to himself as an “oyster farmer” while campaigning for Senate.
In a September 2025 interview with the New Yorker, for example, he called himself a “small-town oyster farmer.”
While Platner credits federally funded healthcare for his ability to start a business, a number of other factors have assisted him along the way.
A restaurant owned by Platner’s mother, for instance, is the only customer listed on his financial disclosures as purchasing oysters from him. Additionally, Platner’s farm is located on a private island owned by his business partner’s family and he received a $200,000 loan from his father to purchase his home, the Washington Free Beacon previously reported.
He’s certainly good enough getting other people’s money to qualify for employment in Washington.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Friendly Reminder that California Is the DNC’s Testing Ground. “The reason that Gavin Newsom thinks that he is the most popular boy at the Democratic National Committee dance and should be the party’s nominee for president in 2028 is that California is where the Democrats test out all of their insanity. Election fraud. Gun control. Unhinged welfare schemes for illegals. The Dems try it all out in the Golden State in the hopes of exporting everything nationwide.”
OOF:
Having lost a job and lost a spouse in my lifetime, they are very, very, so much not the same. https://t.co/tTEyYTIYwM
— Mary Katharine Ham (@mkhammer) June 10, 2026
WE ALL ENJOYED SPENCER PRATT’S CAMPAIGN, AND IT TURNED OVER A LOT OF ELECTION-FRAUD ROCKS. BUT THIS DESERVES MORE PLAY: Trump-backed Steve Hilton advances to general election for California governor.
NANCY MACE IS OUT, ENDORSES OPPONENT FOR S.C. GOVERNOR. “Buried the hatchet.” She started out promising but has been kind of erratic.
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