Tuesday Links - 9 June

William Teach at Pirate's Cove starts us off with Wacko Federal Judge Thinks He Has Power To Strike Down Limits On Asylum And Immigration

Place you bets on this unhinged Democrats ruling, which, based on a SCOTUS decision wouldn’t apply outside the judge’s district, and is in the realm of international policy

The Other McCain - The Unexpected Heroine Lyndsey Fifield

When the story broke Thursday, I was stunned. The ex-girlfriend of Graham Platner featured in the lengthy New York Times story was someone I’ve known since 2010. I spent most of the afternoon calling and texting friends who also knew her, and they were similarly surprised.

Tom Knighton at Bearing Arms - Yeah, That California Gun Control Is Working Just Great...

Now, let's keep in mind that not only are schools gun-free zones almost everywhere, especially for non-staff or police, but that didn't stop this shooter from opening fire on a school campus on the day of a graduation ceremony.

The Silicon Graybeard - OK Hams, you've got a week to get ready

I write about this every year because the best VHF contest of the year is pretty much always the June VHF contest put on by the American Radio Relay League or ARRL. As always, the contest starts on the second Saturday of the month, with the peculiarity that it doesn't start at midnight UTC - as the vast majority of contests do.

Again from William Teach - Guy Who Treated Women Badly, Had Nazi Tattoo He Was Proud Of For Decades, Says His Past Is Being “Weaponized”

Well, gee wiz, Sparky, maybe you should ask some of your Democratic comrades about how they went after Mitt Romney for things he did as a high schooler, George W. Bush, multiple Republican Supreme Court justices, and so many more

Wombat-socho - FMJRA 2.0: To The Winter Meetings

In a splendid example of how anything can happen in baseball, The Atlanta Bravos bested the NY Giants in the 1974 World Series of Pete’s Dynasty Baseball league, despite the Jints having racked up over 120 wins during the regular season.

The Price of Liberty - An interesting thought about RINOs

That last sentence? Right on, brother, right on. GOP “values” are pretty much the same as those of Democrats (or Socialists) or many other political groups: win elections, rake in the dollars, enjoy the power over others. Republicans are nearly as much a threat to liberty as Democrats.

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 6 June 2026: Sleb Edition

SpaceX just launched 50 more Starlink satellites into orbit in a single day, using a pair of its trusty Falcon 9 boosters from facilities at Cape Canaveral and Vandenburg. (Space)

And recovered both boosters, with them landing autonomously on the company's two purpose-built drone ships.

I was curious as to how long it took mankind to launch its first 50 satellites into orbit, and the answer surprised me: Within four years of Sputnik there were over a hundred satellite launches. "Space race" is no misnomer.

Meep at STUMP - Motorcycles: Death Trends in the U.S., 1999-2024

It's a risky proposition, with or without a helmet

Colion Noir on a Self-Defense Incident in Tulsa

This is a story out of Tulsa that I posted about a few days back. I'm not revisiting it, so much as highlighting Colion Noir's coverage of the incident.

This is the Colion Noir's video Armed Homeowner Shoots Intruder After Door Gets Kicked In

The original post is at this link.

The Disturbing Reality of Human Trafficking

Nic McKinley is an ex CIA operative, and Air Force Pararescue Jumper. He is now active in DeliverFund, which is an organization fighting human trafficking. He was recently a guest on The Unsubscribe Podcast. That discussion was long, and covered several things.

The video embedded below is the section of that podcast that covers the current state of human trafficking, and what DeliverFund is doing about it.

This is the Unsubscribe Clips video The Disturbing Reality Of Roblox Predators

DeliverFund describes itself as a nonprofit intelligence agency.

We combat human trafficking with counterterrorism expertise

DeliverFund disrupts global human trafficking markets by combining uniquely qualified personnel with the best technologies and then leveraging them in new ways to reach and rescue victims of human trafficking.

Our team leverages its counterterrorism experience to transform the human trafficking fight. We deploy the same tactics used to track terrorists to take down human traffickers.

They do that by supporting law enforcement in the US.

College Students Can't Do Middle School Math

I'm not surprised. The "system" they use to teach math is insane, and needs to be dropped. 1,000 University of Calif Professors Revolt: Students Can't Do Middle School Math, Demand Return of SATs - Geller Report

Over a thousand University of California professors signed an open letter to the Board of Regents demanding they bring back standardized testing after it was removed during covid for equity.

They reveal that many STEM students are below Middle School level in Math. The poison fruit of leftwing policies. Dumb students, an obvious consequence of avoiding reality.

When the Liberals have lost university professors in California, this shows that they are so far around the bend, that they can't see it in the rear-view mirror.

Click thru.

Into Oblivion

Lamb of God is a Metalcore band from Richmond, Virginia. They have a new album which was released in March, and they released a few singles. Maybe not that new.

And yes, that means that there are harsh vocals, that are usually associated with Death Metal. If you don't like those...

This is "Into Oblivion" by Lamb of God. It was released as a single on January 15th ahead of their March 2026 album of the same name.

Metalcore isn't really my thing. It is a blending of Hard Core Punk, and Heavy Metal. There are few songs by Lamb of God that I like. They tend to remind me too much of Thrash. The verdict on the new album is still in doubt. I need to listen to a bit more of it.

Man Protects His Sister from Attack

What should he have done? Man shot by girlfriend’s brother during fight in southwest Las Vegas, police say

When officers arrived, Price said the brother immediately identified himself as the shooter and was detained. Inside the home, officers found a male suffering from an apparent gunshot wound. They gave the man aid until medical first responders arrived and pronounced him dead at the scene, Price said.

The brother and sister said that the boyfriend was beating the sister.

After attempting to get the woman’s boyfriend to stop hitting her, Price says the brother “produced a firearm and shot” the boyfriend.

I don't know what the laws in Nevada are, but this sure sounds like a justifiable defense of self, or other.

Tommy Robinson at the Henry Nowak Rally

Ben Kew at The Gateway Pundit has an update on the ongoing Henry Nowak kerfuffle. MASSIVE RALLY Held Outside Police Station After Henry Nowak's Murder - Tommy Robinson Addresses Crowd - FURIOUS BRITS Clash With Cops (VIDEO)

In case you haven't heard the details...

Nowak, an 18-year-old white British teenager, was killed last December by Vickrum Digwa, a Sikh man who falsely claimed he had been racially abused before the attack.

He may have survived had officers not handcuffed him while he lay bleeding from stab wounds inflicted with by Digwa’s Sikh ceremonial sword.

So there was a protest outside the police station in question.

The “Justice for Henry Nowak” demonstration began outside Southampton Central Police Station.

Crowds waved Union flags and held signs reading “Henry’s blood is on your hands,” “Save our kids,” and “Prison 4 police on scene.”

Click thru for X posts, video, and the reaction of the powers-that-be.

An Electric Fire Truck Uses Too Much Diesel

Canberra, Australia, has an electric fire truck. It is actually a hybrid, but they don't advertise that. To be fair, you don't want your electric fire truck to fail on the way to the fire.

It is apparently using too much diesel. And you could purchase 2 regular firetrucks, for the same price. That is before the reliability issues.

This is the quote that I love.

The Canberra Liberals' emergency services spokeswoman, Deborah Morris, who requested the documents, said everything about the electric firetruck had been a failure.

"It was never properly tested in Australian conditions. It has spent more time off the road than on it. It has serious safety flaws that put firefighters and their lifesaving work at risk. And it burns more fuel than promised," she said.

That quote is from the Canberra Times. Electric firetruck's fuel consumption was expected to be 'significantly lower': report

Canberra, is the capital of Australia. Like our federal capital, it is located in a district that is not part of any of the other states, in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT), Australia, which is about 280 kilometer drive south of Sydney, and it is about 100 kilometers west of the east coast.

This is the MGUY Australia video WTF?!! ELECTRIC fire truck "uses too much DIESEL" 🤣

I mean, it's hilarious, isn't it? A battery electric vehicle that's using too much diesel. Only in the mad world of net zero insanity could such a sentence be written.

The video is 14 minutes long.

The Painful Financials of Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu

We are on the third weekend of the latest Disney Star Wars movie. And things are worse than expected, and they were expected to be low.

The movie had a 70% drop in the 2nd weekend from the first weekend. Friday, the 3rd Friday of its theatrical run, was down 62% over the second weekend.

On Friday the box office for a Star Wars movie fell behind The Amazing Digital Circus: The Last Act, which is basically the finale of an Australian animated web series, which I had never heard of.

Valliant Renegade is financial analyst and YouTube creator who follows the financial and business side of Hollywood. He is one of a few people who are dillegent about covering the real business side of show business. "It's not show friends," used to be a saying in Hollywood; today it doesn't seem like they want to make money.

This is Valliant Renegade's video Disney Star Wars Faces HUGE $125M Mando & Grogu LOSS

I don't even know at this point if Mandalorian and Grou can even get to 330 or 340 million. That's how dire this is. The international box office for this film hasn't been particularly overwhelming. In fact, it's been more underwhelming even than the domestic box office. And that's going to put this movie on pace to lose about $125 million, if not more.

That number is based on the stated production budget for the movie, but Disney is known for lying about production budgets. If they do major production in England, they have to file tax documents that will eventually reveal all of the financial details. I have no idea where this film was produced.

The video is 12 minutes.

The Left Is Pissed the DOJ is Defending the Second Amendment

They don't like the second amendment, but that isn't news. From Tom Knighton at Bearing Arms we get the following: The Trace and Mother Jones Big Mad That Civil Rights Division Defending Civil Right They Hate

The Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division has a long and storied history of standing up for, well, civil rights. They've taken on a ton of cases over the years, and they've got an impressive record in court cases. However, throughout all that storied history, there was always one civil right they ignored.

Before the Trump administration, they never took on a Second Amendment case.

You can imagine how that is being received.

Click thru for the wailing and gnashing of the teeth.

Electrical Vehicle Fire in a Service Center

The tl;dr message: A fire extinguisher is NOT going to put out an electric vehicle battery fire when the battery is in Thermal Runaway.

This is the StacheD Training video EV Fire in an Auto Shop: Wrong Tool. Wrong Fire

A couple of additional stories are covered by MGUY Australia: 🔥 Oops! 33 BRAND NEW Jaecoo Hybrid SUVs DESTROYED by fire 🔥. This video is 13 minutes. Aside from the 33 SUVs, it also covers a car fire in Worksop, a town in England, and

Porsche Avoids Financial Responsibility Over (Potential) EV Fire

MV Felicity Ace was a car carrier. It was carrying a number of EVs. A fire started, and eventually the boat sank. Porsche was sued for being responsible. From gCaptain: Porsche Wins Felicity Ace Lawsuit as Cause of Fire Remains Unproven

According to German legal news outlet LTO (Legal Tribune Online), the Regional Court of Stuttgart dismissed a lawsuit seeking approximately €30 million ($34 million) in damages from Porsche. The plaintiffs, which included the Japanese owner of the vessel and five marine hull insurers, alleged that a self-igniting lithium-ion battery in a Porsche Taycan sparked the February 2022 fire aboard the vessel.

In the mode of the old tobacco companies, "you can prove it," held up in court. And to be fair, you couldn't prove that the lithium-ion battery started the fire. Once those batteries were involved, it became impossible to put the fire out. (See the video for the explanation of why that is.)

Here is a bit of history from gCaptain on when the fire started.

The fire on the Panama-flagged ship started Wednesday, February 16, approximately 90 nautical miles southwest of the Azores as the ship was underway from Embden, Germany, where Volkswagen AG has a manufacturing plant, to the U.S. East Coast.

This is Sal Mercogliano's What's Going on With Shipping? video The Felicity Ace Legal Battle: Court Rules on Porsche Battery Fire Claims

For more on the MV Felicity Ace fire, see the post at this link.

Saturday Roundup of Link Roundups - 6 June

The Right Way starts things rolling with Top of the News

The murder of Henry Nowak: outrageous - The New Neo
Supreme Court clears Alabama to use GOP-friendly congressional map this fall - Just the News

EBL - Scott Pelley Fired From CBS

Instapundit: Scott Pelley Fired
Scott Pelly goes out with a delusional rant...

Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 06.04.26

The Bugscuffle Gazette: Things don’t happen to me
Stoic Observations: But It Happened

Small Dead Animals - Wednesday On Turtle Island

The Democratic Party’s America: Victor Davis Hanson – Iranian endgames. Rabble-rousers. Threats.
Conman Carney’s Canada: PM appoints member of pro-Hamas group. Sex change advocate.

Bayou Renaissance Man - Tab clearing

2. What happens if the State decides you're too expensive to keep alive?
A very thought-provoking academic study of Canada's Medical Assistance In Dying (MAID) program

The Glibertarians - Wednesday Afternoon Links of… What, Tonio Again?

WHO IS BEHIND THE NEWARK ANTI-ICE PROTESTS: The marvelous and indispensable Data Republican walks us through the command and funding structure of the people behind this.

Again from Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 06.04.26 (Evening Edition)

Don Surber: Britain’s George Floyd
Racket News: America Needs A Boring & Sane Party

Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog - LinkSwarm For June 5, 2026

“EPA boss made criminal referrals alleging Democrats ‘self-dealing’ in lucrative green energy grants. Lee Zeldin alleges that eight nonprofit ‘cutouts’ were used to route billions to former Obama-Biden cronies.”

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 5 June 2026: Lilo Pelekai Multipass Edition

Everything new is old again: DDR4 is back on the menu. (Tom's Hardware)
I'm thinking of picking up a 5800X3D because I have plenty of DDR4 and the larger cache on that chip helps hide the lower bandwidth.

Gates of Vienna - News Feed 6/4/2026

What the EU Prosperity Index Actually Says About Life in Czechia
Czechia climbed two places in this year’s EU Prosperity Index, reaching 14th, its best position since the ranking launched in 2022.

Flopping Aces - The Week in Radical Leftism, 06/05/2026 – Back to The Nation!

Gen Z Women Are Moving Left. Young Men Aren’t.
In other words, young men have resisted The Radical Left’s indoctrination, while women haven’t.

Wombat-socho again - In The Mailbox: 06.05.26

Flopping Aces: Castro’s “Friendship” Machine Just Met Marco Rubio’s Sanctions Hammer
Gates Of Vienna: The Avenger of Qasem Soleimani

A View from the Beach - Flotsam and Jetsam - Bolton to Plead Guilty, More Platner Problems

First, Ace reports Keith Edwards, a Democrat Podcaster and Political Strategist Who Got Advance Word of the Eric Swalwell Sexual Assault Accusations, Now Says the NYT and WaPo Are Racing to Report That Graham Platner Sexually Assaulted "Multiple" Women.

Political Hat - The Digital Panopticon Is Here

The worst part of this all is that even if you somehow are able to avoid any of this digital surveillance, you will be identified and tracked anyway via everyone else’s devices.

Maggie's Farm - Wednesday morning links - I'll be away for a few days

Professors Demand a Return to Testing
English professor warns: Today’s students cannot read or focus on lengthy assignment

J.J. Sefton at Ace of Spades HQ - The Morning Report — 6/ 3 /26

A harrowing journey into our school system's heart of darkness.
Geno Young Video: Students Playing “Shoot Charlie Kirk” Game on TikTok

Doug Ross - Larwyn’s Linx: Which NGOs Are Organizing the Newark Protests, and How

• $7,600 Per Doomer Dispatch: Inside the Billionaire-Backed AI Fear Factory Jordan Schachtel
• The Democrats' Bottomless Weaponization Fund Ann Coulter [$]

Anonymous Conservative - News Briefs – 06/05/2026

Three more guys go into a manhole in NYC, and there are again two cars, perfectly timed which pull up from different directions just in time to catch them:

I leave you with Midweek Memes from Granite Grok, Wednesday Memes … from MaddMedic, Quick Hits Of Wisdom, Knowledge And Snark #3770 from 90 Miles from Tyranny, and Friday's gifs from Wirecutter.

Texans Are Still Armed

Bad guys are still getting shot. Police: 2 teens shot while trying to steal from Longview home

Or how would you respond to two, uninvited guests (don't call them home invaders) at 3 o'clock in the morning?

Police say the facts collected currently point to the teens committing theft and the resident confronted them. The teens' injuries are non-life threatening. Detectives continue to investigate.

Longview, Texas, is a 128 mile drive east of Dallas, or a 63 mile drive west of Shreveport, Louisiana.

Self-defense is a human right.

JD Vance on Henry Nowak's Murder

For the most part, I like JD Vance. He certainly gets this correct.

And nobody—nobody—should ever die the way that Henry Nowak died. May God comfort those who loved him, and may God rest his soul.

Henry Nowak died the same way a civilization dies: abandoned, handcuffed by authorities who neither trusted nor cared for him, and accused of hate crimes he did not commit. His murder is as tragic as it is enraging. He should still be alive today, and he would be if the last few… https://t.co/e3HkjzWzwU

— JD Vance (@JDVance) June 5, 2026

Rapture

Evanescence released their new album on Friday 5 June. I had been waiting for this release. (I really liked the single they released in April.)

This song is "Rature" by Evanescence. It is from their new album, Sanctuary which was released at midnight on Friday morning.

Chicago Bears Moving to Indiana

This isn't really news. They tried to move to Arlington Heights (the Land Beyond O'Hare), and still stay in Illinois, but that crashed and burned. Chicago Bears move forward with Hammond stadium after Illinois fumble

The Chicago Bears have officially made up their minds to leave the land of Lincoln for Hammond, Indiana, after local lawmakers failed to pass a bill incentivizing the team to stay.

Hammond, Indiana, is 25 miles south, and a bit east, of the Loop in Chicago.

Hat tip to Benny Johnson and his video The Chicago Bears are Officially MOVING to THIS Red State...

Friday Links - 5 June

Alice Jones Webb at Take It Outside starts us off with Basecamp Dispatch: What I’m Carrying This Week

My weekly check-in from the woods, the homestead, or somewhere else with spotty cell service

Rita at The Bugscuffle Gazette - Things don’t happen to me

TL/DR version: Choosing one’s perspective is key to overcoming the desolation of life’s disappointments

Miguel Gonzalez - Why they can't be allowed to win.

Sunny Hostin from The View knows that Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner is a Nazi who sits to the right of Hitler while sexually abusing women and has many other evil moral deficiencies, but he is the Democrat’s hope for Democracy.

Andy Ngo at Ngo Comment - Antifa Unmasked: David Zachary Alvey

For years, a Portland-area Antifa member has targeted me both online and in the streets.

This video reveals the real identity of “Fia Marie,” the alias used by Vancouver, Wash., Antifa militant David Zachary Alvey

Massad Ayoob - 1911 HANDLING TIPS

Before I could stop myself I answered, “That’s OK, Sarge. It’s normal to be frightened of things you don’t understand.”

Life lesson: This turns out NOT to be the right thing for a subordinate to say to a superior officer…

Again from Miguel Gonzalez - Handgun Control Inc finally accepts defeat... somewhat

It is always nice to see that the Brady Campaign has to come around the fact that guns are going nowhere and that after 50+ years of trying to ban firearms, now they are forced to try and remain relevant by supporting the voluntary safe storage of guns.

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 3 June 2026: Switch Edition

Windows has a fever and the only cure is more Linux. (The Verge) (archive site)

Seriously, though. Microsoft is planning to fix problems with Windows by embedding more Linux into its operating system.

It seems there might be an easier way to achieve that

The Other McCain - Democrats Electing Jew-Haters, While Losers Blame … THE JOOZ!

Since the Hamas terror attack on Israel in October 2023, the left wing of the Democratic Party has made “Palestine” its all-or-nothing issue, more important than anything else soi-disant “progressives” claim to care about.

Again from Miguel Gonzalez - Temper Tantrum Goes wrong... or right.

During some meeting, 60 Minutes Talking Head Scott Pelley apparently lost his caca and decided to verbally attack CBS News boss Bari Weiss in front of everybody present. After an attempt to calm things down failed, [much] to his surprise Scott Pelley found himself with a very polite letter where he was informed he was canned and don’t let the doorknob hit you on the way out.

William Teach at Pirate's Cove - Bummer: 9th Circuit Torpedoes Yutes Climate (scam) Lawsuit

Too bad they didn’t ask the kiddies if they have given up their own use of fossil fuels and made their lives carbon neutral

Again from The Other McCain - The Liberal Gospel of White Guilt

In 1837, the South Church congregation adopted Unitarianism in the form of the Harvard Covenant, and in 1961, the Unitarians merged with the Universalists to form the UUs, who are so far away from the Calvinism of John Winthrop and Jonathan Edwards that they’re practically in a separate universe.

The Silicon Graybeard - Good night and good-bye, MAVEN

Hopes of saving the mission faded over time and on Wednesday [NASA] announced they were saying good-bye.

What Additional Gun Control Law Would Stop This?

Do you think that a felon, in possession of a firearm (that's illegal) would obey a safe storage law? Boy dies after finding 5-time felon's handgun in Pullman home: prosecutors - CWB Chicago

A Chicago man with a lengthy criminal history is facing felony charges after a 2-year-old boy allegedly found his loaded handgun and fatally shot himself inside a Pullman home.

Pullman is one of the 77 official neighborhoods in Chicago. It is on the south side, about 12 miles south of the Loop.

Hughes is prohibited from possessing firearms because of his criminal record, which includes convictions for unlawful possession of a weapon by a felon in 2016 and 2020. Prosecutors said his record also includes convictions for reckless discharge of a firearm and aggravated fleeing and eluding, both in 2016.

The hat tip goes to Second City Cop: How Does This Keep Happening?

Multiple felony convictions....and still out, armed and committing more felonies.

You know what would fix this? More Gun restrictions on the Law abiding portion of the citizens!

How about we lock up the bad guys? Whatever happened to three strikes laws?