Friday Links - 19 June

William Teach at Pirate's Cove has a tale of the Zoomers. Climate Cult Yutes Hold Art Exhibit “How Shall We Live”

They have ruined these children’s lives, making them so concerned with the SOON!!!!! doom they can barely operate. Us Gen X and earlier weren’t indoctrinated into Doom over global nuclear war, we were taught to persevere. Today’s kids are just, well, f*cked in the head.

The Other McCain - During PRIDE MONTH, Denver Schools?

Talk about “burying the lead”! The story doesn’t make sense until you get to the 14th paragraph and then you realize that this should have been in the headline: LESBIAN TEACHER FORCES TEEN GIRLS TO KISS IN ‘SKITS’ IN FRONT OF CLASS.

Busted Knuckles - Another one biting the dust? 90 Miles from Tyranny.

“Hey Kevin; As of Tuesday 6/16 it looks like “90 Miles from Tyranny” has been shut down too. The despots are tightening the screws on us.” A reader commented this morning and I went to check it out and lo and behold, gone as if it was a dust bunny sucked up by a vacuum.

Miguel Gonzalez - The Misuse of Language and Karens Clucking Loudly.

Not a single book was banned from the Rutherford County Library, not one. Books deemed not appropriate small kids were simply positioned out of the Children’s section to other age-appropiate section.

Meep at STUMP - On Chicago Pension Reform: Paul Vallas ...and Some High Schoolers

Let’s look at two proposals for Chicago pension reform. One from Paul Vallas, ex-candidate for mayor of Chicago (among many other roles), and one from a trio of high schoolers.

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 18 June 2026: Yes, Glurge Edition

World leaders want American AI. They just don't want America. (Tech Crunch)

Substitute almost anything in place of AI and the story is the same.

Clayton Cramer - Why Academia Is Increasingly Held in Contempt

An historian at Boston University both praises a couple robber barons (Carnegie and Rockefeller) and then compares the UFC event at the White House to lynching.

Mother Protects Her Children

What else should she have done? From Tampa Free Press, we get the following story. Stand Your Ground: Florida Mom Shoots Intruder After He Breaks In And Threatens Her Children

This event took place on Sunday the 14th of June.

Once inside, McDonald aggressively confronted the mother and her two children in the foyer and began making threats. The homeowner repeatedly ordered McDonald to leave the house and warned him that she was armed and would shoot. When McDonald ignored the warnings and continued advancing toward her, the mother fired a single round, striking him in the arm.

He is a bit lucky he wasn't shot in the head or the heart.

Cops caught up with him at a local hospital, where he was arrested. This was not the first time he was arrested. Click thru for his history.

Following the recent home invasion, McDonald has now been charged with burglary with assault or battery.

Flagler County, Florida, is about 50 miles northeast of Orlando, on the Atlantic coast. It is also about 50 miles south of Jacksonville.

Self-defense is a human right.

Queensland Parliament to Consider the Castle Doctrine

I doubt it will work, or not for many years. Robbie Katter pushes Castle Law to give Queenslanders greater legal protection when defending themselves against intruders | Sky News Australia

Queensland, is a state in the Commonwealth of Australia. It is in the northeast corner of the continent of Australia.

Traeger MP Robbie Katter has renewed calls for Queensland to adopt Castle Law, arguing the measure would strengthen legal protections for homeowners defending themselves against intruders.

The Katter's Australia Party MP's push comes after a 75-year-old Tenterfield man allegedly shot an intruder after he and his wife were critically stabbed during a home invasion.

On paper, Australians have the right to defend themselves. In reality they are subject to review by Monday Morning Quarterbacks who don't like self-defense. The term "proportional" is bandied about. As if a 25 year old man can't beat a 75-year-old man to death with his fists alone.

Click thru for the details on the crime, and the push to bring sanity back to Australia.

Mr Katter said his party had supported the concept for years but believed the need for reform had become more urgent as crime concerns intensified.

Self-defense is a human right.

Modern Entertainment Destroys Another Franchise

Doctor Who was a BBC program that first aired 23 November 1963. It ended after 26 seasons in 1989, went on hiatus for a while, and started up again in 2005. It was a good run. Then it got captured by the woke.

While the BBC claims that it is NOT canceled, what else would they say? "We destroyed an iconic British TV franchise on the altar of DEI?" That is essentially what they did.

This is Critical Drinker's video So... Who's Next?

Because the Doctor Who of today was nothing more than a horrifying rotten corpse, vaguely resembling what it once was, but with the life and soul ripped out of it, showered in rainbow colored glitter, and made to prance and flounce around like an obscene puppet on strings.

So what other franchises are similarly destroyed? That's the question. Or maybe the question is, "Can any of them be saved?"

I still love Classic Who the best.

Another Failure of the Victim-Selection Process

I don't think that this is how he saw things working out. Police: 1 person shot, killed during attempted break-in Sunday morning

The shooting happened after 10:30 a.m., when police responded to a reported breaking and entering on Hickory Grove Road.

When officers arrived, they found one person with a gunshot wound.

This incident took place in Charlotte.

The hat tip goes to Concealed Nation, who have the details on North Carolina law.

Because the shooting occurred directly during the execution of an active residential breaking and entering, the legal framework heavily favors the occupant. Under North Carolina General Statutes § 14-51.2 (The Castle Doctrine), a lawful occupant of a home, workplace, or motor vehicle is legally presumed to have a reasonable fear of imminent death or serious bodily injury if an intruder is in the process of unlawfully and forcefully entering – or has already forcefully entered – that occupied space.

Due to this statutory presumption, a homeowner has no duty to retreat and holds the absolute right to meet that intrusion with deadly force.

Self-defense is a human right.

So How Many People Have Been Killed By the Glock Switch?

People don't like to clutter the issue with facts. New Data Challenges Justification for Glock Bans

Regarding the recent push in the Blue States to outlaw Glocks...

A recent report from the Crime Prevention Research Center documents just 43 murders nationwide from 20 attacks involving Glock switches over the 2021-2026 period — meaning fatal lightning strikes killed nearly twice as many Americans during the same window.

It is all about feelings in the 21st century.

Full auto is not what people think it is. There is a reason that the military developed the three-shot trigger.

Click thru for the details. (Hat tip to Jews Can Shoot.)

DEI Is Destroying Gaming Faster than It Destroys Movie Studios

Or so it seems to me. I am open to arguments about Movie studios dying faster.

First Sony moved their games division from Japan to the US, and then adopted US corporate BS. Xbox is part of the huge Microsoft bureaucracy. Both companies swallowed the DEI lies hook, line and sinker. And now they are sinking, because - shocking I know - gamers don't want DEI messaging jammed down their throats while they are enjoying a video game. And they have started voting with their wallets.

French video game company, Ubisoft, is probably the poster child for Get Woke, Go Broke in the gaming sphere. Their stock price has collapsed from a high of just over 90€ in 2018 to just over 5€ today. That is roughly a 90% decrease. But they are not the subject today, just a cautionary tale.

Sweet Baby Inc claims another scalp. The games studio behind South of Midnight is closing. From Video Games Chronicle: Xbox is reportedly shutting down South of Midnight studio Compulsion Games | VGC

The studio, which was founded in 2009 and acquired by Xbox in 2018, most recently developed South of Midnight.

According to Kotaku, however, the studio is set to be shut down as part of widespread layoffs at the gaming division.

The studio is in "negotiations" with Microsoft to be spun off instead of closed outright. If they have any IP worth anything, Microsoft will probably hang on to that and let the people go.

And yes, there were quite a number of Sweet Baby Inc folks "working" on that title.

From Marvin Montanaro at Geeks + Gamers we get a story about Marathon. RUMOR: Bungie Layoffs Could Eliminate 50% of Remaining Workforce After Marathon’s Failure

The future of Bungie appears increasingly uncertain as a new report claims the studio could be preparing for another massive round of layoffs, with as much as half of its remaining workforce reportedly at risk.

Bungie is a studio owned by Sony PlayStation. Rumors (out of France) are that 50% of the company could be laid off.

Bungie dropped future development support for their popular Destiny 2, to double down on their bets on Marathon.

Xbox has been in the news because of South of Midnight. People are not bullish on that company's future. From Polygon: Microsoft should get out of games before it does more damage

News that Microsoft is considering closing three of its game studios — Double Fine, Ninja Theory, and Compulsion Games — is awful, but what's truly alarming is that it doesn't stop there. According to Bloomberg, "several other studios across the portfolio are at risk of being shuttered." State of Decay studio Undead Labs hasn't shipped a game since Microsoft acquired it in 2018. Obsidian Entertainment is prolific, but last year's Avowed and The Outer Worlds 2 underperformed. Rare had its big bet Everwild cancelled and can't survive on Sea of Thieves forever. At this point in Microsoft's dismally bungled adventures in gaming, it's best to think the unthinkable.

There are a lot of details at each of those links.

The poster child for failing games, is of course Concord, from Sony. I was surprised to see that this actually died in 2024, it seems like only yesterday that everyone was pointing and laughing. Sony shut Concord down in 2 weeks, and provied refunds. There are plenty of articles and more than a few YouTube videos on that debacle.

UK Rape Gang Report Is So Much Worse Than You Think

These are the crimes that the UK government didn't want anyone to know about. These are the crimes the police ignored for fear of being called racist. This is why the UK government has fought for years to silence people like Tommy Robbinson. The Rape Gang Inquiry Report

This has been going on for generations, and the people in charged, didn't care.

Britain doesn’t have a racism problem, it has an immigration problem.

    — Rupert Lowe

It is long, but you should read at least through the executive summary.

The hat tip goes to The Bugscuffle Gazette and "You know, in certain older, civilized cultures,
When men failed as entirely as you have ...

… they would throw themselves on their swords.”

Read this section, and think about it.

I was not expecting to learn that the grooming gangs have been operating since 1955. Seventy-one years. At least two generations of British children have been savagely sacrificed on the altar of multiculturalism, willingly helped and encouraged by not only the State, but by our “Journalistic Betters”.

I was not expecting to learn that the victims number a quarter of a million. At minimum.

The least job of a society — the very minimal function expected — is the protection of the innocent and the defence of those who cannot protect themselves.

Do you need more proof that Britain is a failed state?

Wednesday Link Roundup - 17 June

William Teach at Pirate's Cove is first with Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

The View from Lady Lake has twisted hillbetty. And lots more fun all week.
Theo Spark has DOGE them all.

Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 06.16.26 (Morning Edition)

Dana Loesch: The Iran Deal Is Part Of Vance’s POTUS Audition
Don Surber: Musk Beware

EBL - Knicks Win NBA Championship

NY Post: Knicks win series in San Antonio.
EBL: NBA Game 4: Knicks comeback to win 🏀🤯

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 14 June 2026: Inked Edition

Apple's powerful new M5 Max chip is so far only available in laptops. There's just one small problem. (WCCFTech)
It produces enough heat to melt the screen.

Small Dead Animals - Saturday On Turtle Island

The Democratic Party’s America: Victor Davis Hanson – The midterm strategy.
Stories You Won’t Find At Carney’s CBC: Sneering style. Green jobs. The colour of conflict. Moderate Muslims in France.

Political Hat - News of the Week (June 14th, 2026)

Scientists Concerned Latest Gene Editing of Human Embryos Could “Open the Floodgates”
It’s a “gateway to embryo editing to do enhancements.”

Don Surber - HIGHLIGHTS OF THE NEWS

ITEM 8: Red State reported, “The Cleveland Clinic has reached a settlement with the Trump administration over pediatric gender-transition treatments, becoming the second major hospital system to do so in less than a month. Paul Joseph Watson – Didn’t expect this

The Glibertarians - Sunday Morning Clean Up and Clean Out Links

Totally not grift.
World’s smallest violin.
I’d have more respect if it weren’t White Claw.

Gates of Vienna - News Feed 6/13/2026

More LA Homeless Reveal They Were Paid to Vote for Democrats
Multiple homeless residents living on Los Angeles’ notorious Skid Row have come forward to confirm earlier reports that they were offered cash and other incentives

A View from the Beach - Flotsam and Jetsam - Trump Decapitates TDA, Musk Becomes First Trillionaire

Beege Welborn at Hat Hair, BREAKING: Trump Channels Inner Tom Clancy, Takes Out TdA Head in Airstrike. Althouse "At my direction, the United States Southern Command delivered a swift and lethal kinetic strike to successfully execute Niño Guerrero..."

Vlad Tepes - Soros, Muslim Brotherhood, Eskimo parking only and the UK writes the material for families of victims of jihad: Links 1 for June 14, 2026

3. Gad Saad busts a few PC dialectics on Islam.
4. BBC fired one of their staff when he criticized Hamas coverage.

The Glibertarians - Saturday evening Links

I’m gonna miss this guy when he’s gone.
Ohio racists are the worst kind of racists.
Lucy hasn’t pulled the football yet.

Bacon Time!!!! - Sunday Linkange

Pirates Cove Cult Of Climastrology Now Discussing “Indirect Interactions”
Freedom Is Just Another Word.. .Saturday Memes…

Maggie's Farm - Monday morning links

Two-Thirds of Colleges Require DEI Courses to Graduate
Has the Left Ruined the Humanities?
Envy and Musk's money

J.J. Sefton at Ace of Spades HQ - The Morning Report — 6/ 16 /26

"This is what government weaponization looks like."
Documents Show Biden DOJ Ignored Warnings, Targeted Parents at School Board Meetings

Doug Ross - Larwyn’s Linx: Peace Through Subtraction: How Trump Bought the Middle East a Generation and Perhaps a Lasting Peace

• For His 80th Birthday, Trump Chose Violence Jenna McCarthy
• Did Spielberg Sneak A COVID Protest Past the Leftist Reviewers? Jack Cashill

Anonymous Conservative - News Briefs – 06/13/2026

Spencer Pratt Alleges Arson After Fire at Crystals Company Office: ‘No Accident’.
Pentagon releases third batch of formerly classified UFO documents.

I leave you with Saturday Welcome to the Weekend Meme Drop 6-13-26 from Midwest Chick's Place, Sunday Funnies For 06-14-26 from Stately McDaniel Manor, Sunday Funnies from Flopping Aces, and Monday Memes from Granite Grok.

DAs Hate Self-Defense

From the Orlando Sentinel we get the following: Murder charge dropped against suspect in shooting outside Orlando nightclub

The Orange-Osceola State Attorney’s Office on Tuesday dropped a murder charge against a suspect who fatally shot a man outside a nightclub north of downtown Orlando earlier this year after admitting they could not prove it wasn’t in self-defense.

This incident took place back in February. He was in jail until the 2nd of March, when a judge ruled that the prosecutors didn't have the case they hoped for, and a bond was issued.

They finally got around to admitting that they had no case.

Now I don't know what happened, and I don't know what the evidence said, but the judge said something about self-defense when he approved the bail amount. It may just be that I have a deep distrust of public officials, but I don't think Justice was ever a question. Winning is what DAs care about.

Spielberg - The Greatest Director of All Time - Past His Prime

Or as Nerdrotic says, it may be time to take away Grandpa's car keys.

This is the Nerdrotic video Disclosure Day REVIEW - Spielberg's WORST Film

Serenity

Godsmack is a band I never listened to very much. They had songs on the radio, but I didn't go searching them out. Lately some of their work is showing up in the playlists created by the Tidal streaming service, which are based on my listening habits.

This song is "Serenity" by Godsmack from their 2003 album Faceless. It was one of the singles released from the album. It is also included in their 2007 compilation album, Good Times, Bad Times... Ten Years of Godsmack.

SPLC Boss Gave Money to Neo-Nazi Boyfriend

You can't make up anything more insane than this. From The Other McCain, we get an insane story. Perfection: Ex-SPLC Boss Heidi Beirich Gave Money to Her Neo-Nazi Boyfriend

Oh, man, is this a beautiful irony or what?

So people donated money to the Southern Poverty Law Center expecting that the money was going to be used to "fight racism." Instead it was used to support racism. Why? Because before SPLC gave money to racists, their contributions, which support things like salaries, had dwindled to almost nothing. With more racism in the news, there were plenty of contributions to support those lovely NGO salaries.

In case you were wondering, it was Beirich who tagged me as a “neo-Confederate white supremacist” more than 20 years ago, but unlike her, no one has ever accused me of literally sucking Nazi dick.

Click thru for the details.

Tuesday Links - 16 June

William Teach at Pirates Cove is up first with Shame: Fewer “Journalists” Signing Up For Bonn Climate (scam) Talks. (Long fossil-fueled trips are expensive.)

Media outlets that have registered fewer journalists than previous years, or no journalists, include global heavyweights like Reuters, Bloomberg and the BBC, as well as German outlets like Deutsche Welle and ZDF television.

Holly MathNerd - The Government Sets the Trap: addressing the conservative case for student loan reform

Before I give my solution: I have no illusion that the Republicans (the red narcissists) will do any of this, or anything else. The Democrats (the blue narcissists) will probably try for a far less reasonable version, so they can both do nothing and blame the red narcissists.

Stephen Kruiser at PJ Media - So Much for Hoping Cornyn Wouldn't Be a Crybaby on His Way Out

Cornyn is now insisting that he's a staunch Republican who still wants what's best for the party but has been pushed to the side because of President Donald Trump and reasons and feelings and stuff. It's the same oh-so-refined hissy fit we've seen ever since Arizona voters ran Jeff Flake out of office after one term.

Second City Cop - Look! (again)

Lack of enforcement leads to....more crime!

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 13 June 2026: Out Of Ink Edition

Welcome to Earth Delos D. Harriman, our new-minted trillionaire! (Tech Crunch)

May I say how delightful it is to watch the wailing of the worst people on the planet at your good fortune?

(I didn't invest; all my ready cash is tied up in RAM and SSDs. Which to be fair is looking like the soundest investment I have made in years.)

Vlad Tepes - Scotland appears to be kicking off as well now

Of course there is no way one can speak about this in any direct way in Canada. Probably even indirectly would cause problems since clearly the same layer of actual state control exists above all Commonwealth nations right now.

Wombat-socho - FMJRA 2.0: Keepers & Discards

Four of this season’s owners have gone MIA, so if you’ve ever wanted to try out Dynasty League Baseball, this is your chance to get in on the ground floor.

The Other McCain - The Worst Journalist, Ever

You might compare Juan Thompson’s fabrication to the similar scandal of Jayson Blair at the New York Times, except that Blair’s fakery did not involve anything as egregious as Dylann Roof’s infamous slaughter.

Wombat-socho again - Rule 5 Sunday: Rebel Yell

Some folks question the femininity of this gal. Others question her taste in swimwear. We report, you decide.

Father Protects His Daughter

What else was he supposed to do? Riverside County father shoots and kills armed intruder inside home with daughter, neighbors say | KTLA

Police said they were called to a home on Herron Way around 10:23 p.m. on a report of assault with a deadly weapon. When they arrived, officers found the suspect had been shot dead at the scene.

This article provides more information on an incident I posted about earlier.

Neighbors said the father was hanging out with neighbors outside when his wife went inside to charge her phone. When she did, she reportedly came face-to-face with a man who had armed himself with guns he found inside the home. He allegedly then started shooting.

Click thru for the details.

The neighbors at least recognize that this guy protected them as much as he protected his family.

They do emphasize that no charges have been filed, and that the decision about charges will be made by the DA.

They Only Keep People in Jail When They Kill Someone

Also, electronic monitoring of violent criminals does not work as implemented in Chicago. Man on electronic monitoring for CTA sex cases accused of sexually attacking woman on Orange Line in the Loop - CWB Chicago

A man accused of sexually attacking a woman aboard a CTA train in the Loop was wearing an electronic monitoring device and had been ordered to stay away from the transit system while awaiting trial in a similar case. And police are looking at the possibility that he is responsible for incidents involving another woman and a teenage girl on CTA trains, prosecutors said.

At least the politicians in the city are going to "look into it," because the public is not happy about the system's failures.

Read the whole thing.

Cops Love to Shoot Dogs

That is the only explanation that holds up. San Bernardino homeowner says deputy entered yard without warrant and fatally shot dog - ABC7 Los Angeles

Cops also apparently don't understand the Constitution boundaries around searching, and pursuit of a subject. (Spoiler Alert: there was no pursuit of a subject.)

A San Bernardino homeowner says a county sheriff's deputy entered his backyard without a warrant and shot and killed one of his dogs, prompting questions from the family and their attorney about why deputies were at the home.

TL;DR - They were looking for a stolen car, that was later found in the neighborhood, but not at this home. There was no high-speed chase; there were no exigent circumstances. There was only a deputy who either didn't know, or didn't care, about the constitutional limits on entering someone's backyard through a gate.

The incident occurred May 4 in unincorporated San Bernardino. Surveillance video shows deputies walking up a driveway and looking into the backyard, where another dog, Raven, could be seen. The deputies then leave but return about two minutes later, when one deputy enters the yard.

Because police always believe that their authority has no bounds.^‡

Click thru for the rest of the details.

I predict that this cop will face no long-term repercussions. He might get a slap on the wrist, but maybe not.

‡ I can also foresee the comments. "Not all cops ..." Look up what happened after Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. New Orleans Chief of Police Eddie Compass declared that the 2nd Amendment no longer applied, and cops from New Orleans, and cops who had come into the region to help, put on their Jack Boots and violated the constitution. Why? Because we said so, that's why.

End of You

Poppy is an American singer/songwriter who also did some YouTube creating I am not familiar with. Amy Lee is the lead singer for Evanescence; which is one of my favorite bands. (They show up in several of my playlists.) Courtney LaPlante is lead singer for the Canadian Heavy Metal Band Spiritbox. There is a touch of the Death Metal, Death Growl on today's song supplied by Ms. LaPlante.

Those three artists teamed up for a single that was released in September of 2025.

This is "End of You" by Poppy, Amy Lee, and Courtney LaPlante. Albums are such a 20th Century concept.

My talent for keeping up with new music is slipping... I only found out about this song recently.

Self-Defense Is About Attitude

Keep fighting. Would-be robber tied up during social media 'prank' at Memphis home, records show | Fox13 Memphis

He came to the door and asked for a lighter.

After initially leaving, Bush allegedly returned armed with what appeared to be a black handgun and pointed it at the men, demanding their keys and belongings.

Instead of complying, the two men — who declined on-camera interviews but confirmed details to FOX13 — fought back.

Court records say they wrestled the weapon away from Bush, restrained him, and held him down until officers reached the scene.

Click thru for details on the charges.

The "gun" was a BB gun. He is a bit lucky he didn't get shot.

And don't open the door.

Hat tip to USA Carry: Memphis Men Wrestle Gun From Robber, Tie Him To The Porch Until Police Arrive

Regarding the "gun."

That makes no difference to the men who faced it. A BB gun and a real pistol look identical when one is pointed at you, and these two had no way to know which they were looking at. I will say it plainly: you are allowed to respond to the threat as it appears.

I used to have a pair of BB guns that were 1911 pistols. They were exact copies. They disappeared in one of my many moves...

Self-defense is a human right. And as for never giving up...