NOT ACCORDING TO THEIR ALLIES IN THE PRESS, THEY DON’T:

YEAH, MASSIE TURNED INTO A COMPLETE DISAPPOINTMENT:

14 CALIFORNIA COUNTIES WITH GROWING POPULATIONS: There are 58 counties in the Golden State, and 44 of them have been losing population for years. But 14 of them are actually gaining new residents. Pacific Research Institute’s John Merline dug into the data to find out why those 14 counties have growing populations at the same time California leads the 50 states in net-out-migration.

CHRISTIAN TOTO: Goodbye, Stephen Colbert: The End of ‘Cheap Fakes’ Lie.

Late-night partisans like Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers, Jon Stewart, John Oliver and Jimmy Fallon ignored Biden’s decline. Sure, they told their fair share of “Biden’s old” jokes, but that’s where it stopped.

He’s ancient but “sharp as a tack.”

Stephen Colbert of “The Late Show” fame was a huge part of that misinformation campaign. Until, one day, he had to tell the truth.

Finally. Why?

Read the whole thing.

CHANGE:

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Minnesota’s Gun Rights Battleground Moves From the Capitol to the Campaign Trail. “Rep. Stephenson admitted it — if DFL lawmakers win the majority, they intend to pass these bills into law in 2027. That means bans on commonly owned firearms, magazine restrictions and new burdens on lawful gun owners and firearm retailers are not hypothetical. They are already written and already waiting.”

WHEN TRUTH IS NO LONGER PARAMOUNT. I don’t think it’s clear what a campus is supposed to be doing if truth-seeking is not primary to its mission, but plenty of folks on campus don’t agree.

YOUR RACE CARD HAS EXPIRED:

NOVEMBER PREVIEW: Current polling shows Hilton and Becerra as top 2 in California governor race. “Under California law, the two highest vote getters in the June 2 primary, regardless of party affiliation, will go on to the Nov. 3 general election. The VOTER Index poll says that could be Hilton, a former Fox News host, and Becerra, a former California attorney general and congressman who served as secretary of health and human services during the Biden administration.”

RECYCLING: The Pentagon’s Next Critical Minerals Source Is Already in Its Own Warehouses. “A new generation of hydrometallurgical processing, including biosorption, can recover high-purity metals from end-of-life electronics at commercial scale without the footprint of a smelter. These facilities can be built in about 15 months for roughly $40 million each. They maintain full chain of custody from waste stream to refined metal. And the upstream supply chain already exists: some 900 certified e-waste recyclers operate across the country today. What’s missing is the domestic processing capacity to keep those metals here.”

WORST. HITLER. EVER: Money Well Spent: ‘Moron’ Thomas Massie Joins Marjorie Taylor Greene on Ash Heap of History.

These fans of the soon-to-be-former congressman (and other lunatics) will now be tasked with determining which supernatural force bears more blame for Massie’s defeat—Donald Trump or the Jews? A rhetorical question, of course. As the antisemites have certainly realized by now, even someone as handsome and powerful as Trump is not impervious to Jewish influence. The real question is whether they will ultimately grasp the futility of waging a lame crusade against an omnipotent cult that controls the weather, the space lasers, and the White House.

“My people are smart enough to understand that this is Israel trying to buy an election,” Massie told Fox News on Tuesday. Alas, his constituents’ brains did not prove beyond the reach of the meddling globalists, who spent a small fraction of their towering net worth to defeat a man Trump once charitably described as a “complete and total disaster as a congressman and, frankly, as a human being.” Money well spent, in our opinion. His righteous defeat concluded what was arguably the most important primary of the 2026 cycle. His victory would have emboldened the antisemitic conspiracy mongers that exist on both sides of the political spectrum. The result is proof that Republicans are not willing to coddle these freaks and are willing to happily purge them from their ranks. It sends a strong signal that frothing Groyperism is not a winning message in GOP primaries, which is good for the long-term health of the party and the country. For that, we can thank the unyielding leadership of Donald Trump—and whatever forces are controlling his mind.

Related: “Meanwhile, on the Left, an antisemite like Hasan Piker is praised, mainstreamed, campaigned with, and sanitized. Someone who doesn’t believe Israel should exist as a Jewish state like Zohran Mamdani is lauded as the future. Accusing Israel of genocide is the cost of entry, and the word Zionist has become a slur. Being pro-Israel, as the vast majority of Jews are, is a non-starter. The two sides are not the same. The Right may have antisemites—but the party is easily and eagerly purging itself of them. The Left is plagued by antisemitism—because it is embracing its antisemites.