June 25, 2026

WNBA PLAYER PUNCHES CAITLIN CLARK IN THE THROAT IN SICKENING ‘CHEAP SHOT’ ON FEVER STAR AS DAVE PORTNOY LEADS FURIOUS BACKLASH:

Dave Portnoy has blasted WNBA star Alyssa Thomas after she appeared to punch Caitlin Clark in the throat during their game on Wednesday night.

Clark was driving to the hoop when she fell to the ground in the paint while under pressure from a number of Phoenix Mercury defenders.

Three Mercury players were battling to strip the ball away from Clark and succeeded in doing so.

But, while Clark lay on the floor, Thomas charged in and put her closed fist into the Indiana Fever superstar’s neck.

She then appeared to put her weight through it and pushed off Clark’s throat to get back to her feet before stepping over her to rejoin the game.

A reverse angle showed Thomas, while jostling on their way down to the floor, also drove her left knee into Clark’s exposed groin.

The incident infuriated Portnoy, a huge Clark fan, who posted on X: ‘What are we even doing here? Brutal cheap shot.

‘These women would still be flying commercial without Caitlin and this is how she is treated. Insane.’

Despite video replays showing the incident, referees did not call a foul even though there was an official just yards away. The WNBA could review it for a flagrant foul.

Exit quote:

Posted at 1:35 pm by Ed Driscoll

POSTMODERN MARRIAGE:

We live in a postmodern age that seeks to change or destroy the core principles and institutions that are at the foundation not just of the West but of all civilizations. Under the long shadow cast by Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, and Herbert Marcuse, we live in a time of nihilistic totalitarianism (nihilism is the means and totalitarianism is the end) that has as its direct goal the dismantling of those ways of living grounded in metaphysical reality.

Let’s begin by putting our concerns in a broader context. Those who seek to destroy marriage, do so in the name of an ideological passion.

When early twentieth-century Marxists realized that there would never be a proletarian revolution of oppressed workers because the working class was the greatest conservator of the bourgeois way of life, they recalibrated their strategy and decided that the values most important to the working class would have to be destroyed first and foremost. This led the twentieth-century Left on its “long march through the institutions” to extinguish those moral values and institutions that were suppressing and holding back the Marxist-Leninist revolution foretold by the laws of dialectical materialism. That’s when the Left discovered Nietzsche and Freud and began to wheedle away at the soul of Western man.

After the Left captured and transformed the universities, schools, media, Hollywood, and various professional associations, etc., they went for civilization’s jugular. The single greatest scalp won by the Left in the last twenty years has been their corruption and transformation of the institution of marriage. The postmodern Left is now giggling as their minions have stripped marriage of its necessary component parts and left it corpse dangling for all to see and mock. (Apologies for mixing my metaphors!)

Read the whole thing.

Posted at 1:22 pm by Ed Driscoll

BUCK SEXTON AND I discuss why the dating market is broken and my new book:

Posted at 12:48 pm by Helen Smith

YES, PLEASE: Rep. Keith Self proposes repealing 17th Amendment as House-Senate feud intensifies. “Self, a member of the House Freedom Caucus, is introducing a joint resolution, obtained by the Washington Examiner, on Thursday to repeal the 17th Amendment amid the intensifying rift between the House and Senate over the GOP’s flagship voter ID bill.”

Let’s do the 16th while we’re at it, too.

Posted at 12:45 pm by Stephen Green

CHRISTIAN TOTO: Supergirl – Joyless DC Flop is a Super Mess.

“Supergirl” reportedly endured severe editing in recent months, and boy, does it show. This film is a bona fide mess, a story with no stakes, microscopic character movitation and bland battle scenes.

“Supergirl” features a trafficking subplot that never registers. We also glimpse our heroine’s backstory which is equally blah but suggests why she drinks herself into a stupor.

We also bounce from planet to planet, with some having yellow suns that give Kara super powers and others? Not so much.

So what?

David Corenswet drops in occasionally as cousin Superman, and these moments are like walking into an air-conditioned mall on a sticky summer day. The actor’s “Superman” film may have been a disappointment, but he embodies the character and has a presence that’s lacking here.

Who cares about anything happening in “Supergirl” from start to finish? The best way to sum up this stink bomb of a superhero romp?

Whatever.

HiT or Miss: “Supergirl” is a dud on every level that counts.

Perhaps the Fleshlight-style drinks cup whose photo made the rounds on social media a couple of weeks ago was an omen of bad things to come: David Corenswet & Nicholas Hoult Couldn’t Believe This Suggestive Supergirl Cup.

The Superman co-stars’ unfiltered reactions to the viral Supergirl cup captured exactly why the internet couldn’t look away.

With the next DC Universe film just weeks away, marketing is in full swing, and these days, that means more than press tours and trailers. Collectible popcorn buckets and themed drink cups from theater chains have become a staple of big releases, and Supergirl is no exception.

The upcoming release has had its fair share of promo cups and buckets, but one AMC design stole the spotlight for the wrong reason. The chain released a cup meant to look like Kara Zor-El in her blue suit and her tan coat.

Instead, the flesh-colored jacket took over social media, with viewers pointing out its unfortunate resemblance to foreskin. The cup’s viral moment even prompted a response from David Corenswet and Nicholas Hoult, picked up by Entertainment Tonight.

“I don’t like that one bit,” Corenswet started before Hoult joked, “I need a lot of those.” The Superman portrayer further added, “I don’t understand, and I don’t think I want it explained.” Hoult then slyly said, “It reminds me of…” before Corenswet stopped him, saying, “No, no no no no.” Thus, it’s safe to say that they see the cup’s unusual and mildly suggestive aspect too.

Paging Dr. Freud, paging Dr. Freud:

Posted at 12:30 pm by Ed Driscoll

DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: California sets high income taxes for World Cup players.

“Usually jock taxes only really impact domestic American players who are all playing in the same league and are all playing against each other, and in that context, they do nothing,” Wilford told The Center Square.

Take professional football. When the Los Angeles Rams travel to Philadelphia to play the Eagles, the Rams’ players and staff will be expected to pay income tax to Pennsylvania, proportionate to the amount of their salary they earn while in the state. The very next week when the Buffalo Bills travel to Los Angeles to play, the Bills’ players and staff will be expected to do the same for the state of California.

According to Wilford, over the course of the NFL season, everything tends to even out in terms of state revenues.

“States all do this to each other. It’s a circular firing squad where they’re all taxing each other’s athletes, and then they all have to give tax credits to their own resident athletes for the taxes they had to pay to other states,” Wilford said. “States pretty much end up with the same amount of revenue that they would have had if no one did this.”

The addition of foreign, nonresident athletes coming to the United States for the World Cup adds entirely different complexities.

It isn’t that complex, really. Sacramento long ago adopted the GoodFellas approach to tax collection.

Posted at 11:43 am by Stephen Green

THE SOLUTION TO AI CHEATING: PEN AND PAPER. I would also support IBM Selectric III typewriters with that cool correction tape that sucks letters off the page. That’s peak tech right there.

Posted at 10:08 am by Robert Shibley

“HURRICANE-PROOF INTERNET”: Puerto Rico Taps Starlink For Emergency Network In All 78 Municipalities.

Starlink and the Puerto Rico Telecommunications Bureau (NET) came to an agreement to improve emergency connection throughout the island. All 78 municipalities’ Emergency Operations Centers (COE) and the Bureau of Emergency Management and Disaster Administration (NMEAD) are receiving Starlink satellite dishes as part of the program.

The announcement about this pact was made by Puerto Rico Governor Jenniffer González Colón on her Instagram handle.

“Preparedness saves lives, and that is why we are announcing an agreement between the Telecommunications Bureau and Starlink to strengthen emergency communications in Puerto Rico,” González announced.

I don’t have to worry about hurricanes in Colorado, but my Starlink transceiver does a great job of pre-heating itself before any snow can accumulate even during the worst blizzards. However, the occasional wildcat hailstorm can collect ice on there in a hurry. I might — might — lose access for up to ten minutes, once or twice a year.

Posted at 9:39 am by Stephen Green