June 21, 2026
FRÉDÉRIC BASTIAT, CALL YOUR OFFICE!
A decline in car break-ins across Oakland is being welcomed as a public safety win, but it is also contributing to a downturn for some local auto glass repair businesses. https://t.co/14r7UeCpS1
— KTVU (@KTVU) June 20, 2026
If only there was a parable about broken windows written 175 years ago to describe the above tweet.
UPDATE: Downside Detected: “Sadly, a fall in gun violence has led to layoffs in the East Bay mortuary business.”
21st CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Chimpanzees mate promiscuously, but fathers still favor and care for their own young.
THIS WEEK IN “THAT’S NOT HOW THE FIRST AMENDMENT WORKS”: AI panic, New York’s warning-label fever, school-board speech policing, FIRE victory in Wisconsin, & Saul Goodman returns!
RELIGION OF PEACE UPDATE:
Attacks against muslims are rare compared with muslim attacks against British citizens.
Numerous MPs including Starmer and Mahmood have expressed their anger at this attack and support for muslims. Something they do not do when British citizens are attacked by muslims. https://t.co/2T8Ul6zedI— Christopher Talbot (@Lord_Talbot64) June 21, 2026
IS THERE ANYTHING THEY CAN’T DO? Popular weight loss drugs linked to unexpected male fertility benefit. As I’ve said before, these drugs are either the greatest medical breakthrough of the century, or the most overhyped.
JENNIFER SEY: Creepy Pasta, Toxic Masculinity and a Full Theater: My Take on Backrooms.
I didn’t find it scary — not in the way other low-budget hits with a truly terrifying premise land. Take Open Water, for example: a couple on a scuba dive gets accidentally left behind in shark-infested ocean waters. It’s just them, bobbing helplessly as night falls and sharks circle. The horror is primal and real — the isolation, the helplessness, the slow-building dread that this could actually happen. We go with them on the psychological journey —
We were left, but it was an accident and the boat will come back —> The boat is never coming back and we are going to die either from the cold water, starvation or getting eaten by sharks and we just have to wait here for it to happen.
This movie made me so uncomfortable and anxious I could hardly stand to watch it.
Backrooms is more weird than that. Not terrible. It had more story than I expected for something born from a 4chan meme (which again, I don’t really know what that is).
The liminal spaces — the endless, off-kilter yellow rooms, buzzing lights, moist carpet vibe, I could almost smell how musty it was — are atmospheric and effectively creepy in a disorienting way.
It sort of seems like it’s supposed to be deep, but I couldn’t really pin down the themes. Is Clark the embodiment of “toxic masculinity,” seeking a place with no rules where he can wallow in his anger? Maybe. Or is it about depression, escapism or how we all get trapped in our own mental mazes? Or is it about nothing at all?
I’m not sure. Overall, I give it a C. Maybe a B-minus on a generous day.
The best part of the whole experience was that the theater was jam-packed and full of energy — a crammed theater, everyone experiencing it together. I had to wait in line for snacks, just like the old days.
I love a shared cultural moment, even for a C-level film.
Exit quote: “Maybe the movies are back? I hope so. I just wish they were better.”
SLEEP BETTER: C CUSHION LAB Deep Sleep Pillow. #CommissionEarned
THE GODLESS PARTY: The New Yorker’s Review of JD Vance’s New Book Is a ‘Distasteful’ Blend of Illiteracy and Anti-theism.
Dear @NewYorker, did you mean "disdainful of?" Also, have you considered hiring me as an editor? Or someone else who knows how to use words? https://t.co/dc5OduicnD
— Aramis L. Perez (@AramisLPerez) June 20, 2026
Whenever an anti-theist tries to lecture people of faith about Christianity, Catholicism, Judaism, or really anything related to religion, it is always hilarious. But when that person of faith is the Vice President of the United States and the anti-theist works for The New Yorker, we know we’re in for a giant belly laugh.
Over the past week, JD Vance has been doing the media rounds — even going on The View — to promote his new memoir, Communion, which chronicles his journey to becoming a Catholic. Because he is the Vice President, of course, other topics have come up, such as the Iran MOU and — erasing black people from history?
Well, Whoopi Goldberg’s weird fever dreams of imagined racism aside, Vance’s book was bound to cause leftists to throw a tantrum because the left is virulently anti-Christian. So, it was no surprise that The New Yorker was going to take out its poison pen to review it.
What was somewhat of a surprise is that The New Yorker doesn’t know what words mean.
Eustace Tilley weeps into his monocle.
(Classical reference in headline.)
HAPPY FATHER’S DAY to all Instapundit readers!
WHY IS HIGHER EDUCATION SUCH A CESSPIT OF ANTI-SEMITISM: Seattle Professor Under Review After Calling for Action Against ‘Zionist’ Employees: The longtime Seattle Central College professor also reposted Facebook reels claiming Ashkenazi Jews are the ‘synagogue of Satan,’ accusing Zionists of working with Nazis, and using the hashtag ‘death to Zionists.’
THE ENEMY WITHIN:
This is a problem many on the Right don't want to accept
The Left is no longer "just like us they just want to have more welfare"
The left is abandoning Capitalism, Christianity and all of the values we used to hold as a Country,(and the right still does)
This isn't a… https://t.co/OkatGKnANe pic.twitter.com/LGR6Crs8aS
— Jason Robertson (@JRobFromMN) June 20, 2026
A HARD DOSE OR REALITY IS ADMINISTERED:
Do you genuinely believe “co-existing and co-operating within a shared commons” is the “natural order”? Because that is totally ahistorical and insane. Slavery and constant warfare are the natural order without rule of law and markets.
— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) June 21, 2026
BRITS MAY SOON SAY GOODBYE TO AN ANONYMOUS INTERNET: The UK’s teen social media ban is being sold as child protection, but age checks for kids often mean ID checks for everyone. Funny how “online safety” keeps turning into a surveillance architecture.
DEVELOPING:
🚨BREAKING: MASSIVE crowds of British patriots have flooded the streets of Birmingham to call for remigration.
Britain’s second-largest city now has over 340,000 Muslims.
They want them all gone. pic.twitter.com/PzJ9g8LtX0
— The British Patriot (@TheBritLad) June 20, 2026
THE RAGE OF A PRIVILEGED CLASS:
Leftists are getting angry because around 10-15 million Leftists are paid to do cushy high-paid fake jobs, based on credentials and a claim to unique technical authority. If Trump and Chuds can fix problems considered impossible, it threatens the entire managerial caste. https://t.co/15u4yYSBtA pic.twitter.com/a2lybc4Tug
— Fugitive Caesar (@ThomBrady5) June 20, 2026
EARLY PRIME DAY DEAL: COSLUS Water Dental Flosser Teeth Pick C20. #CommissionEarned
NORM MACDONALD, CALL YOUR OFFICE:
“People hate the Muslim migrants not because they gang raped A QUARTER OF A MILLION White girls in the UK…
…people hate the Muslim migrants because PEOPLE DARED TO TELL THEM about the Muslim migrants gang raping a QUARTER OF A MILLION White girls in the UK.”
Fuck you, Owen.
— Matt Van Swol (@mattvanswol) June 21, 2026
Classical reference in headline:
Thought I’d share this clip of Norm Macdonald, chatting with Seinfeld about Bill Cosby. RIP to a legend pic.twitter.com/BUMrFfWiBg
— SpongeBob.. At Night! (@spongefacts_alt) September 14, 2021
REFLECTIONS IN A BLOODSHOT EYE:
On the other hand, the algae obsession confirms they really have no legitimate gripe.
They have been reduced to protesting a biological phenomenon.
(Though given the trans thing, it is not entirely uncharted territory.) https://t.co/yDog850TJk
— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) June 21, 2026
Let the pool keep them obsessed; things could be far, far worse right now:
— Magills (@magills_) June 21, 2026
IT’S ALL FAKE:
🚨🧵 BREAKING – The "conservative" protest against AI data centers has an anti-ICE NGO organizer, a DSA member, Facebook money.
Other than that, totally grassroots.
Axios ran an "exclusive" Wednesday about a "conservative group" called Humans First planning a nationwide day of… pic.twitter.com/U3DAynoYQq
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) June 20, 2026
WHY ARE BRITS PUTTING UP WITH THIS?
Rotherham where white young girls were gang raped by Pakistani men with impunity.
The police (also of Pakistani ethnicity) in Rotherham were complicit and joined in the rapes according to the victims. pic.twitter.com/d6JxeuCunP
— Wall Street Mav (@WallStreetMav) June 20, 2026
WELL SAID:
They don’t want Elon Musk to give his trillion to the poor.
They want Elon Musk to give his trillion to them so they can take their cut, split it with their comrades and causes, then look virtuous by throwing to the poor whatever scraps remain.
— Alice Smith (@TheAliceSmith) June 19, 2026
Alice Smith, by the way, is the great-great-great-granddaughter of Adam Smith. The apple hasn’t fallen far from the tree.
