June 29, 2026

ABE GREENWALD: The Queering of the Purge.

[Scott] Wiener is the Democratic front-runner looking to replace Nancy Pelosi in the House. He’s also a gay, pro-trans leftist who’s described Israel’s actions in Gaza as a genocide and called for the U.S. to stop giving military aid to Israel.

So he attended the trans march, as he does every year, to stand with those he thought of as his people.

But Wiener is Jewish, and he took a bit too long in deciding that he needed to mimic faithfully the hardcore anti-Israel monomaniacs. So they’re now teaching him an important lesson: A Jew who shows any ambivalence about destroying the Jewish state will not be tolerated by the left.

What was supposed to be a festive stop along the way to a Pride Shabbat with a trans rabbi became something else.

Wiener’s chief harasser at the march was one Dimitry Yakoushkin, whom the New York Times describes as a “49-year-old sex and intimacy coach.” (The Times also generously provides a link to Yakoushkin’s website, where we learn that he is “a Sexological Bodyworker and trained in the Hakomi Method – a body-based, mindful experiential therapy method that helps clients get in touch with and live from their deepest self.”)

As the clip opens, Yakoushkin begins by telling Wiener how much he admires the latter’s stance on trans issues. And then he gives voice to his deepest self, yelling that Wiener is “terrible on Gaza” and does “not belong here.” An aggressive crowd—including one individual in keffiyeh and gold hotpants—steadily gathers and contributes to the abuse. They call Wiener a “genocidal piece of shit” who’s under the control of “Zionist handlers,” and so on. Within a minute, Wiener—and by extension Israel—has become the focus of the gathering.

“Scott, I want to support someone who’s so positive on trans rights,” Yakoushkin pleads toward the clip’s end. “But you’re a piece of shit on Gaza. How could you do that? How could you do that? How could you betray queers?” Another sees Wiener off with this: “You stopped being queer the moment you started supporting Israel, you piece of shit.”

As “The Mossad: Satirical and Awesome” account notes in a lengthy essay on X, “The people who spent years telling Jews ‘just be anti-Zionist and you’ll be fine’ are now demonstrating, in high definition, that it was always a lie. The alligator was never going to be satisfied with table scraps. It wants the whole Jew.”

Posted at 5:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

I’LL TAKE HEADLINES FROM 1943, ALEX: How German trains became the shame of a nation.

When the 10pm service of Berlin’s U2 metro line failed to set off from the station, its frazzled driver finally snapped.

“Get away from the doors!” he bellowed, leaping out to berate a young woman as she pawed at the broken, flashing-red buttons on the side of the train. “Don’t touch the doors!”

Unbeknownst to the driver, who seemed to think the woman’s button-mashing had caused the breakdown, Germany’s entire rail system had just been crippled by a software glitch.

For the next two hours, hundreds of thousands of Germans were left stranded on platforms or sweltering in packed carriages as the metro, intercity and commuter networks all failed at once on Tuesday.

In some regions the delays lasted even longer, with passengers forced to seek out hotel rooms or sleep on benches in the train station.

You might think that travel chaos on this scale in Germany, a nation famed for its love of efficiency and punctuality, is unusual – but you would be sorely mistaken.

After decades of underinvestment, Germany’s crumbling rail network has become a source of national humiliation for a country that was once the gold standard in engineering.

Speaking of humiliating, Col. Hans Landa vants to know, are you are hiding any wallboxes under ze floor? Ve have ways of finding out! German State Media Campaign Against Air Conditioning as Country Faces Record Summer Heat.

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UPDATE: It’s good to be in the nomenklatura:

Posted at 4:55 pm by Ed Driscoll

LEOPARDS EATING PEOPLE’S FACES VOTERS ARE ALWAYS THE LAST TO KNOW:

Posted at 4:34 pm by Stephen Green

BELIEVE THE DSA WHEN THEY TELL YOU WHO THEY REALLY ARE: And what they really are becomes more obvious with every word from their multiple mouths. Plus, they have a new platform, Issues & Insights (I&I, quoting City Journal, tells us:

“As the City Journal’s Stu Smith reported, the DSA has adopted a new platform that is, incredibly enough, even more radical than its previous one. Although it still hasn’t been published on its website, an advance version, which Smith obtained,  is straight-up Marxism, declaring “the entire global system of capital” as its enemy and promising to “build a new society from the ground up.”

Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa), who is among the last sane voices in the Democratic Party, says his party is “drifting firmly into communism.” The smart guys at I&I have it more precisely – the party is “rushing into communism.”

The reality is Marxists always promise they will build “a new society from the ground up.” What they actually and always build are Gulags, the genocidal destruction of millions of people in classes they view as irreparably part of the old society, deeply impoverished cities, towns and neighborhoods that once were not, healthcare for “all” – all of the ruling class, that is, and the complete centralization of all power in members of that same ruling class.

That is the result of every Marxist regime that has ever taken power. Orwell had it exactly right when he wrote in “1984” “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.” And that is what every American must realize: To treat “Democratic Socialists/Marxist” as anything but enemies of truth, freedom and prosperity is to commit societal suicide.

Posted at 4:09 pm by Mark Tapscott

CORRECT:

More:

The movie is about what happens when leftists like you control the government and allow society to be ruined by the criminals you won’t capture and punish.

People like you create the psychopaths on both sides. That’s why you hate the movie.

Because the villain is YOU.

Citizen Vigilante isn’t great by any means, but it’s solid entertainment — and a big step up from anything else I’ve seen from Uwe Boll.

Posted at 3:32 pm by Stephen Green

THIS IS KIND OF A LAST WARNING:

Posted at 2:57 pm by Glenn Reynolds

HIS THINKING HAS EVOLVED, AS THEY SAY: Gavin Newsom — once a capitalist, now a socialist.

Newsom is calling for a national tax on billionaires and Americans worth more than $100 million.

He wants to end the “tax-free lifestyle loan” — a feature of the current tax code that lets the ultra-wealthy borrow against their stock portfolios while reporting no taxable income, then pass appreciated assets to their children with the gains untaxed.

He wants to rewrite inheritance rules so that the state can take another cut of the trillions that rich people want to give to others.

He wants to create a national public equity fund giving Americans a stake in gains from artificial intelligence.

In plain English, he wants Washington to tax, redistribute and socialize more of the American economy.

With Newsom sitting on top of it all, redistributing to the well-connected.

Posted at 2:46 pm by Stephen Green

THE COMPOSITE CHARACTER PRESIDENTIAL CENTER:

The Tablet sage [David Samuels] was on to it at last. Barack Obama is a fictitious character, and in 2023, he was still running the country under the hapless Joe Biden and was responsible for the disaster the nation was living through at the time. From the hideously ugly Obama Presidential Center, the Obama is doubtless hoping for Bidens all the way down—Democratic presidents that he can control moving forward. This is more like the “guided democracy” of Indonesia, where young Barry Soetoro was raised, than anything in the American tradition.

As [David] Garrow noted in Rising Star, the former president, born in Hawaii in 1961, was raised in Indonesia as the stepson of Lolo Soetoro, the Indonesian student his mother Ann Dunham married in 1965. On the other hand, the Kenyan Barack Obama, Sr., in all his writing and documents from 1958 to 1964, mentions nothing about an American wife and son. So it seems POTUS44, in preparing his book on his father, never viewed the archive at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York where Sr.’s writings are housed.

For the fictional character who became president, America was smothered in oppression and racism until he arrived on the scene.  He promptly  canceled missile defense for U.S. allies Poland and the Czech Republic. Fidel Castro was regarded by him as a “singular figure” with “enormous impact,” and the white Stalinist dictator never did anything Obama chose publicly to condemn. The Fort Hood mass murder by “soldier of Allah” Nidal Hasan was only considered “workplace violence,” not terrorism or even gun violence. And so on.

The “Affordable Care Act,” which David Garrow regarded as “in large part, a fraud,” was part of Obama’s fundamental transformation of the USA into a nation where the people get only what the government wants them to have. If the people therefore regard the Obama as the true divider-in-chief it would be hard to blame them.

As the Obama Presidential Center opens, in the run-up to the nation’s 250th birthday, prominent Democrats are panting for socialism, which has proved itself a failure. The “remarkable story” of the first fictional character president is still in progress, and that could spell disaster for the people in 2028 and beyond. So as Trump says, we’ll have to see what happens.

Related: Bill Maher calls Mamdani-backed socialist [Darializa Avila Chevalier] ‘patient zero’ of the ‘woke mind virus.’

As nutty as Chevalier’s worldview is (to the point where even CNN’s Andrew Kaczynski is calling her out), as Yoda would say, “No, there is another.”

Posted at 2:35 pm by Ed Driscoll

IT LOOKS LIKE “UNIVERSAL” SUFFERING, YES:

Posted at 2:31 pm by Stephen Green

ROB LONG: What I Learned From Jimmy Burrows.

On my third day in show business, I went to Stage 25 on the Paramount Studios lot to get a cup of coffee and a doughnut. It was January 1990, and I had just been hired as a staff writer on the long-running hit comedy Cheers, and so far I had made two important career discoveries.

First: that every working soundstage has a table somewhere groaning with snacks and treats. It’s called the craft services table, even though it often sprawls across two or three tables, a deli-sized refrigerator, and a bank of toaster ovens. The entertainment industry is filled with nervous eaters—and no one is more nervous than a newly hired staff writer on a 10-week contract—so this area is replenished hourly with pastries and bagels and mini sandwiches, and it’s where everyone associated with the production self-medicates with sugary carbohydrates, high-fat dairy, and gossip.

The second thing I discovered was this: No one in show business will ever teach you anything, or explain what’s going on, or patiently show you the ropes. If you’re new and want to learn something, go get a cup of coffee and a doughnut at the craft services table and hide in a corner and watch. This is what I was doing on my third day in show business when I watched my boss, James Burrows, sitting at the piano on the set—You remember that, don’t you? Upstage left, in the alcove of the bar under the stairs?—and he was idly playing “I’ll Know” from Guys and Dolls. The rest of the cast and crew were on their mid-morning break, so it was just me and James Burrows—everyone called him Jimmy, but I didn’t feel like I could do that on my third day in show business—in the empty Cheers bar with a doughnut from craft services.

As Burrows himself wrote on the brilliant design of the Cheers set, “strong attention was paid to detail. More than anything else, we wanted class and warmth. We hired Richard Sylbert, an Academy Award–winning art director, to make the set look as beautiful and inviting as possible, since the characters were drinking what many in America still considered ‘devil’s brew.’ Richard was very dignified, often decked out in a safari jacket while smoking a pipe. He had never worked on a television production before. He asked for a salary of 500 dollars for every show produced, which was unheard of. I told Paramount, ‘Pay him, even if you have to take it out of our share.’”

Posted at 2:22 pm by Ed Driscoll