Gaslighting the tabs …
I, for one, am in favor of illegal immigrants who wish to set people on fire for their ethnicity or beliefs knowing that if they set people on fire for their ethnicity or beliefs, there will be significant downsides for their illegal immigrant family members, too.
— Mary Katharine Ham (@mkhammer) June 4, 2025
Ed: Indeed, as I have written yesterday and today, those disincentives toward violent behavior must be applied every single time. We should also think twice about asylum applications from countries where this kind of radicalism is the norm. But all of the handwringing over the deportation of the Solimans is absurd, and Mary Katharine puts it in perfect perspective.
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As an initial matter, I fail to see how the nation is embodied by a run-on sentence that has more exclamation marks than a pre-teen’s text to bffs.
The call for unity is particularly curious from a person who has labeled Republicans as racists and consistently engaged in rage rhetoric. Among his prior unifying, “slice of the pie” declarations was that white people “are not good people” and are inherently dangerous.
The Moore pledge has all of the elements that would unify any gathering on Rodeo Drive. It replaces nationalism with globalism and introduces a pastry-based patriotism.
Ed: “Part of one world” means that Moore pledges his allegiance outside the United States. Why not just write the pledge to the UN? That’s what he means.
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Green activists dress up as bugs and host a city council meeting to let the bugs talk out against humans pic.twitter.com/xZ1KITmiwV
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) June 4, 2025
Ed: They’re exploring what it means to have your mental illness indulged.
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So, I walked into the store fully expecting to see a complete takeover of Pride Month – flags flying in front and draped across the entrances; display shelves filled with rainbow cups, plates and knickknacks; “Pride” shirts and accessories…I’m sure I don’t need to go on. We’ve all witnessed the growing retail onslaught year after year.
Instead, I was greeted with summer displays, Americana decorations and Independence Day accessories. I walked past a single shelving display jammed with rainbow products and the familiar misnomer “Love is love.”
That was it. That was all. It was shocking enough to register in my psyche, and as I went to share my observation on social media, I discovered I was not alone. Others are noticing too.
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America is not alone. The Catholic boom is also happening in France—which saw a 45 percent increase in the number of adult baptisms this year—and in England—where, due to a surge in Mass attendance, Catholics are on track to outnumber Anglicans for the first time since the Church of England was born.
Why are so many adults in the once-secularized West seeking to be baptized into the Catholic Church? I’ve been reporting on the rise in religiosity for a while now, and have heard many theories: Modern Americans are starved of beauty, meaning, purpose, and community. The Church of Rome offers all these things, but so do other religions. So: Why Catholicism?
Ed: Because Catholicism stands for its eternal truths, that’s why. We may get irritated over debates about practices and priorities — or more than irritated — but the Catholic Church refuses to change its doctrine to pander to fashion or popularity. Most other churches (not all) have chosen to prioritize social acceptance over eternal truths. And people desperately want a connection to the divine, not the same old worldly stuff they can get anywhere. Be sure to read the whole essay. Speaking of institutions decaying …
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NSFW:
🚨WATCH: Connecticut GOP lawmaker quotes book found in public schools: “Are you gonna eat her p*ssy?”
She is then SCOLDED for her use of the phrase.
She replies: “You’re telling me that this language is inappropriate in this chamber, this is in elementary school libraries.” pic.twitter.com/xYJErag0pe
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) June 3, 2025
Ed: If this language isn’t appropriate for a legislative chamber, then it’s not appropriate for elementary school libraries either. That’s the point. This should happen in every school board hearing on the topic of library curation for children and in every state legislature as well. If parents want to give these books to children, they can make that choice rather than have the schools make it.
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Yet let’s also realize that the $7 billion mentioned above is a drop in the bucket. In total, we’re looking at something like $106 billion spent on this rail project that was launched in 2008.
More than 15 years later, and over $100 billion spent, they have absolutely nothing to show for it.
Honestly, it’s kind of impressive, really.
The fact that people aren’t going to prison is even more impressive.
Ed: Great point. I didn’t get to that in my earlier post, but a boondoggle this size needs legal consequences.
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FUN FACT: Chinese nationals on a student visa are required by law to gather and provide intelligence to the CCP when they return to Chinapic.twitter.com/20AFfIIwJw
— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) June 4, 2025
Ed: Heck, China has floated surveillance platforms to fly across US airspace, and the Biden administration didn’t do anything about that either. It’s time to treat Beijing as the hostile regime it is. Marco Rubio clearly understands that, which is why he pledged to “aggressively” revoke student visas to people from China.
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CNNLOL averaged only 374,000 primetime viewers, which is six times — six times — lower than the Fox News Channel average of 2.3 million primetime viewers.
Fox News topped all three broadcast networks during the week of May 26-30. NBC and CBS averaged only 2.4 million average primetime viewers, while CBS earned just 2.3 million. Fox News grabbed 2.7 million.
Between May 26 and June 1, Fox News earned 1.5 million average viewers throughout the total day, compared to CNN’s pathetic 308,000.
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Mark is right about this. To his credit, he’s always recognized the lefty bias in the media, going back to when we worked side by side covering the Clinton White House. https://t.co/GKaP6lyYEW
— Brit Hume (@brithume) June 3, 2025
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Trump has been wise to play it cool, not clapping back at Musk. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt took the right tone in saying, the president was aware of the criticism, but, “this is one big, beautiful bill, and Trump is sticking to it.”
In other words, they will have to agree to disagree.
This puts the ball in Musk’s court. Even after his outbursts against the bill, there is no reason he cannot continue to work with Trump, as he promised in their press conference in the Oval Office together last week. No lasting harm has been done here.
Ed: I think this works well for both men. Trump can continue to engage Musk on other issues and look magnanimous, while Musk can keep up the pressure for significant cuts in the appropriation cycle that will begin soon. It could even play out as a good cop/bad cop situation. Neither man really has anywhere else to go, anyway, so the only rational option is to work together, albeit perhaps more at arms-length.
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This is hilarious.
[2022-2024]
“Everything Biden did was correct.”
“Everything Biden did was correct.”
“Everything Biden did was correct.”
“Everything Biden did was correct.”
“Everything Biden did was correct.”
[2025]
“Actually, I’m more of an independent. Buy my book” pic.twitter.com/kFTi1FGqlP— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) June 4, 2025
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Iran’s supreme leader effectively rejected a U.S. proposal that allows temporary uranium enrichment in the country before ending it completely, forcing the White House to reconsider its approach as tensions mount over Iran’s nuclear program.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, speaking Wednesday on the anniversary of the death of his predecessor, said the recent U.S. offer to Iran to resolve the standoff over Tehran’s nuclear program breached Tehran’s principles of independence.
“To the American side and others we say: Why are you interfering and trying to say whether Iran should have uranium enrichment or not? That’s none of your business,” Khamenei said on X.
Ed: I doubt this is the last word from Tehran on this, because Iran made this our business decades ago by pursuing nuclear weapons in secret. And it is most certainly Israel’s business, and a refusal to reach a deal would open the door to some devastating strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities — strikes that Iran can’t defend against any longer.
