June 7, 2026

SUSAN COLLINS: HISTORY’S GREATEST MONSTER!

Posted at 12:45 pm by Ed Driscoll

21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Send Me A Car: New NYC dating demand has men and women at war: ‘No ride, no date.’ “’One of my rules is, if a man doesn’t at least offer to send you a car for the date, whether you take it or not, no date!’ said Savannah Pagnozzi, a Big Apple lifestyle influencer, in a viral vid. ‘No. Absolutely not. We don’t do that.'” Her picture doesn’t suggest that she’s well-positioned to be so demanding.

My favorite response: “Send you a car? What are you, Princess Diana?”

Posted at 12:02 pm by Glenn Reynolds

THURSTON, WE HAVE A PROBLEM: ‘How Is This Real?’ Scott Pelley’s Post-Firing Instagram Pic Sparks More Than a Few Eye Rolls.

UPDATE:

Flashback: CBS’s Scott Pelley Loses a Fight Rigged in his Favor.

Mike Cernovich: [Hillary] had a seizure and froze up walking into her motorcade that day caught by a citizen journalist.

Scott Pelley: Did you, well, she had pneumonia. I mean –

Mike Cernovich: How do you know?

Scott Pelley: Well, because that’s what was reported.

Mike Cernovich: By whom? Who told you that?

Scott Pelley: Well, the campaign told us that.

Mike Cernovich: Why would you trust a campaign?

Evergreen:

 

Posted at 11:30 am by Ed Driscoll

TWO-TIER BRITAIN:

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Posted at 10:25 am by Stephen Green

OF COURSE HE MEANS THE JEWS:

That’s who guys with Nazi tattoos always mean.

Posted at 9:49 am by Stephen Green

WARNING TO BRAGGING CON ARTISTS: If you are defrauding the U.S. government and bragging about it on social media or instructing others on how to do it like you do, then there are some folks at the Department of Justice and the FBI who will soon be having a word with you. Check it out in my latest news story for The Washington Stand.

Posted at 8:45 am by Mark Tapscott

50 YEARS AFTER THE BATTLE OF YAVIN, THE TURBO-LASERS FALL SILENT: Welcoming the death of Star Wars. 

Some of us cinephiles are breathing a sigh of relief. “Finally,” we think, “we may be free of this thing.” We know that, in the end, Star Wars was a blight on American cinema, a 50-year disease that killed the last golden age of movies and polluted the art form for what seemed to be forever.

I do not say this with any happiness. Like most children of my generation—the tail end of Generation X—I adored Star Wars as a child, and when I watch the original film, I still feel some of the youthful joy I first experienced at the age of three.

But when I became a man, or simply a teenager, I put away childish things. I realized Star Wars was, in the end, a fairly shallow children’s film, and there were works infinitely greater to discover, from The Godfather to The 400 Blows to Citizen Kane to DW Griffith’s Intolerance and Buster Keaton’s masterpieces. There was all the vast history of the art form, yet for so many, its richness had been buried by Star Wars and the empty blockbuster industry it founded.

This was no better illustrated than by the fate of the era from which Star Wars emerged: the great and fleeting moment of the 1970s New Hollywood. Kicked off by Bonnie and Clyde and Easy Rider, this era moved us through The Godfather, Chinatown, Taxi Driver, and numerous other masterpieces before its brutal last gasp with Martin Scorsese’s transcendent Raging Bull. In that era, movies were daring, ferocious, and above all, better than anything that had come out of Hollywood since its previous Golden Age of the 1930s and ‘40s.

Though they sowed the seeds of their own destruction, as James Lileks wrote 20 years ago:

And what an ending, eh? Han Solo — Harrison Ford in his first great relaxed performance, and his last — conquers his selfishness and redeems himself. Luke uses the Force — which is sort of like magnetism, plus ethics — and blows up Peter Cushing and his Death Star, along with untold engineers, support staff, kitchen workers, etc. The movie could have ended there, but no: It concluded with an awards ceremony. At the shank end of the post-Vietnam, post-Watergate, Carter-era malaise and ennui, Lucas filmed a movie that ended with a princess giving medals to heroes.

After a generation of movies with tortured antiheroes who couldn’t order a sandwich without making A Statement, it seemed remarkably fresh.

It saved science fiction. You could argue that “Star Wars” saved “Star Trek” as well; the success of the movie had everyone greenlighting space operas now, and the first Trek movie — a long, serious film by the director of “West Side Story” — was released a while later, leading to three more decades of Trek.

Fast-forward to 2026. As Will Jordan, aka the Critical Drinker, told an interviewer from GBNews recently, “I don’t know where [Disney goes] from here. ultimately they might be better off just trying to sell off the [Star Wars] IP to someone else because they’re not turning a profit from it.”

On the other hand, there’s one more cash grab left for Disney, and I’m eagerly looking forward to contributing to their coffers: “Disney has announced that it will be releasing the original theatrical version of the original Star Wars in theaters once again on February 19.”

Posted at 8:45 am by Ed Driscoll

ROGER KIMBALL: O Brave New World.

Has Kathy Hochul, the Governor of New York, finally caught up with Aldous Huxley? We’ll find out very soon. A bill passed by the New York House and Senate just made it to the governor’s desk. She has ten days to sign it into law. The bill would require proceedings in state family court, child custody cases, and other domestic concerns scrap the words “mother” with the phrase “gestating parent” and “father” with “non-gestating parent.”

This little piece of linguistic insanity is a sop to the pathetic coven of woke sexual exotics who place biology high up on their list of impermissible intrusions into their narcissistic claims of unfettered autonomy. The whole machinery of reproduction, with its tiresome “binaries” and static gender roles, is something they regard with a mixture of resentment and horror.

Huxley predicted some such rebellion in his novel Brave New World.

Read the whole thing.

Flashback to 2022, when Van Jones was a rare voice of sanity amongst his fellow leftists: ‘I’ve Never Met A LatinX:’ CNN’s Van Jones Tears Into Left-Wing Rhetoric.

He said the elites use strange rhetoric that does not appeal to working class voters.

“Those people talk funny,” he continued. “I’ve never met a LatinX, I’ve never met a BIPOC … There’s this weird stuff that all these highly educated people say. It’s bizarre, nobody talks that way at the barbershop, the nail salon, the grocery store, the community center. But that’s how we talk now, so that’s weird.”

He added that Democrats are “overpromising” the lower class on economic issues, such as on reparations.

CNN’s John Berman asked about the reaction from national Democrats to Van Jones’ points. He said Democrats need to focus on issues that appeal to black and Hispanic church goers that primarily relate to family and economics.

“I think there is a penalty to pay if you don’t go along with the normal narrative,” Van Jones replied. “The normal narrative has been [that] all black and brown people hate racists, all Republicans are racist, so all black and brown voters are going to vote for Democrats. All of that doesn’t make sense in the real world. All Republicans are not racist and Republican appeals are not just racial, some of them are economic, some of them cultural, and all black and brown folks are not liberals.”

All the left have to do is not be crazy, and as we’re seeing between their Orwellian language choices, Communist rhetoric, and Nazi tats, they can’t even do that.

Posted at 7:45 am by Ed Driscoll

QUESTION ASKED: How bad will white rage get?

Is this the week that white identity in Britain has emerged as a significant political force?

The conviction of Henry Nowak’s killer and the release of police bodycam footage showing the 18-year-old student’s final moments in police custody have sparked outrage from politicians and the public.

The tragic loss of Nowak’s life was dramatically compounded by the injustice that led to it. Here was an innocent young man who died as a result of an aggressor using false allegations of a racist attack – and of the police swallowing those lies, and acting on them to the extent that they ignored Nowak’s desperate cries that he had been stabbed and couldn’t breathe.

For many, the officers’ decision to immediately accept Vickrum Digwa’s version of events was grim evidence of the “two-tier” justice system that has evolved, thanks to a state obsession with diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) above all else.

Nigel Farage went as far as to say that Nowak had been “killed by DEI”, his murder acting as a “watershed moment” to confront “a two-tier culture where some groups receive greater protection than others”. “Henry’s family have responded to this in just the most extraordinarily dignified way,” Farage added. “But I suggest the rest of us respond to this with pure, cold rage.”

Farage predicted that “the division will get far worse”, saying that violent protests in Southampton were “the beginning. If we get large numbers of young white males who think the police are prejudiced against them, goodness knows where we go. This has to end”.

From the Left-wing point of view, this is tantamount to instigating a race war. Sir Keir Starmer accused Farage of “exploiting this tragedy to create grievance and division”.

Keir knows quite a lot about exploiting a tragedy to create grievance and division: George Floyd death: Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer takes a knee in support of Black Lives Matter movement.

Fast-forward to 2026, and naturally of course, Starmer’s deputy prime minister punts when asked: ‘Would You Take the Knee for Henry Nowak?’

Curiously though, everyday British people aren’t taking his advice:

Earlier: How America’s Racial Politics Poisoned Britain.

Posted at 7:14 am by Ed Driscoll

FROM JAY MAYNARD:  Lone Star Crystal (The Crystal Therapy Chronicles Book 3).

#CommissionEarned

Magic heals. But can it survive the light?

Crystal therapy has transformed lives in rural Missouri and distant Wales. Now it is coming to Houston, rising at the heart of the Texas Medical Center.

CJ Hollister knows how to build things that last. He trusts foundations, schedules, and hard reality — not magic. But as the Texas Crystal Therapy Institute takes shape, he finds himself drawn toward something more permanent than anything he has ever built.

His daughter Rachel is a bioethicist trained to question power and defend autonomy. From the outside, crystal therapy raises troubling questions: permanent suits, new names, and a commitment that can never be undone. When her father chooses to step inside, professional skepticism becomes something far more personal.

The system works. The people inside it choose to be there. No one is forced to stay. But Rachel must decide whether consent is enough when the choice changes everything.

As the institute nears completion, father and daughter must face the same question from opposite sides:

What does it mean to choose a life you can never leave?

Lone Star Crystal is the third novel in The Crystal Therapy Chronicles, a science fiction series about healing, identity, radical choice, and the consequences of changing the world.

Posted at 7:00 am by Sarah Hoyt