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?

A Court Order Is Just a Piece of Paper

But if it is never served, it isn't even a court order. The High Stakes and Scandals Facing Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart | Chicago Contrarian

There are many problems in the Cook County Sheriff's Department. This one caught my attention.

As Dart navigates his historic tenure, a wave of systemic failures has drawn intense scrutiny. A data analysis by CBS Chicago revealed the Sheriff’s Office failed to serve 75 percent of the orders of protection issued between 2021 and 2023, leaving thousands of domestic violence victims vulnerable.

If that number was 15% you might say that they are understaffed, or something, but when ¾ of the court orders are not being served, I have to wonder if they are even trying.

The Left loves to go on about how you need to get a court order, so that the system will protect you. It is all lies.

The case of Castle Rock v. Gonzales, 545 U.S. 748 (2005) held that...

There is no procedural due process claim when a local government does not actively enforce a restraining order to protect its holder.

Translation, you are on your own, even if the court order (that piece of paper) has been served.

If the court order has not been served, you are on your own.

I have long stated that if you need a court order of protection, you need a plan for your personal safety, because no one, is coming to save you.

An Early Look at the Tolerance of Pride Celebrations

Or should that be Intolerance? Palm Beach Pride is not in June. Both Fort Lauderdale and Miami have a lock on June. When I lived in south Florida, you couldn't beat Miami. With maybe the exception of going to Key West, but trying to find a place to stay in the Keys was a nightmare. (Save the headache of going to the Keys for Fantasy Fest in October.)

For those of you not up on Florida politics, Broward County, home to Fort Lauderdale, is one the most, if not the most, deep blue counties in the state. When I lived there, Miami Beach was the home of many gay clubs.

This year Palm Beach Pride was the weekend of March 28th. (I think that matched up with the so-called "No Kings" thing.)

Arielle Scarcella is a YouTube creator I have come to like. I don't agree with her position on everything, but I think we see eye-to-eye on a lot of things, especially the insanity that has enveloped what used to be called the Gay Rights Movement, and how it has morphed into something I no long recognize.

She was apparently kicked out of Palm Beach Pride 2025, mostly for the crime of wearing a MAGA hat, so of course she came back in 2026.

She said “you’re not allowed to be at pride” cuz I wore a MAGA hat pic.twitter.com/wMsDzPOBrk

— Arielle Scarcella (@ArielleScarcell) June 2, 2026

I wasn't going to post this, because most of the people who are giving her grief, are older than me, and I'm older than dirt. And it mostly devolves to "Orange man bad." It is still worth the 12 minutes, to see the tolerance in action.

This is Arielle Scarcella's video Leftists KICKED ME OUT Of Pride Last Year...So I Came Back

I expect she will post a video about Miami Pride.

On a similar note, this is Amir Odom's video How LGBTQ Activists Destroyed The Gay Community. This is more inside baseball, in that Amir Odom is talking to the gay community, where Arielle Scarcella's video is a bit more general.

Killdozer - 4 June 2004

I almost missed it.

A lot has been written about Marvin Heemeyer, but mostly the picture painted has been by the people who he believed had done him wrong.

The embedded video below, is long at an hour an 16 minutes. This one is 20 minutes from Unsubscribe Clips, and an interview with Lore Lodge.

This is the Lore Lodge video You Were Lied To About Killdozer

Restraint Isn't a Bad Idea

From KUTV in Utah we get the following story. Utah home intrusion raises questions about self-defense laws

The backstory:

Last Thursday, a man fleeing law enforcement made his way into John Santy's house. The Summit County Sheriff's Office said deputies were called after a domestic dispute and that the man was acting violently and threatening people with scissors.

Santy pulled out his gun and was able to subdue the man until deputies arrived.

Why this happened:

But he had one thought.

"I didn't want to shoot him," Santy said. "I didn't want to have to do that."

"Get on the f***ing ground. I will shoot you," Santy can be heard saying to the intruder in video recorded at the scene.

Click thru for discussions of self-defense and restraint.

No word on what charges this guy is facing.

Self-defense is a human right.

The History of June as Gay Pride Month

I'm recycling posts. That's OK. My writing was better 20 years ago. This post is originally from June, of 2006. I lifted it (almost) wholesale from the The now offline original Archives. You'll get over it. (Not to be confused with the newer Archives you can find in the sidebar)

History is different from the current state of things. A lot of gay folks are sort of over it. Pride from 40 years ago, was very different from today. I will get to some of them later in the month.

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Gay Pride is typically celebrated in June. This dates back to the early morning of June 28th, 1969, and a few days in that week, when a bunch of New York's Finest bit off a bit more than they could chew. While several organizations were around before 1969, the start of the movement to secure Gay civil rights is usually marked by the Stonewall riots.

All you straight folks out there have no idea of gay history. I even had a protracted argument one day, with someone who was generally well educated and aware of political reality, that there were no gay bars before the 1980s. There were. They were underground, and even maintaining a low profile was no guarantee that police wouldn't show up.

The Stonewall Inn was a gay bar in The Village neighborhood of New York. Since gay bars had been basically illegal before 1966, it was not uncommon for gay bars to be mafia run. Stonewall was reputed to be mafia run.

Prior to 1966 it was illegal for a bartender to serve a drink to 3 or more homosexuals. So of course, this being the 60s, a "sip in" was staged. The NY liquor board later stated that the rules never had been what the rules actually were, so gay bars started to proliferate after 66.

The police still took delight in harassing gays, lesbians and transgendered at every turn after 66. On June 27, 1969, a Friday night, they decided to raid the Stonewall Inn. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday and the following Wednesday riots were the result of that raid.

Take a look at the desperate criminals arrested by police at a 1962 Halloween Party.

New York must have been VERY safe in 1962, if this is how police were spending their time on Halloween. Or maybe the cops were just a bunch of bigoted idiots back then.

When police would raid a bar, they would arrest anyone "in clothes usually reserved for the other gender." Drag queens and lesbians in butch attire. Sometimes they would simply arrest everyone in the bar. Often they would publish the names of those arrested in the paper.

As they were forcing a lesbian into a squad car on that Friday night in June, she struggled. The crowd decided she had the right idea, and attacked. There were 400 "onlookers" and 8 police, so the police retreated and barricaded themselves in the bar. Since resisting was not to be condoned the cops grabbed the first person they could and dragged him into the bar and beat him. That person was heterosexual folk singer Dave van Ronk, who had come from a straight club down the block to see what the commotion was all about. (Van Ronk was later charged with assaulting police.) A parking meter was uprooted and turned into a battering ram. Someone tried to set fire to the bar with the police inside. Eventually more police arrived and dispersed the crowd. The two following nights, and the next Wednesday saw more of the same, and galvanized the Gay Community.

The first Gay Pride parade took place the following year, in commemoration of the riots.

The End of Literacy

Tyler Jagt at The Chronicle of Higher Education has bad news for the future. My Students Can’t Read: The generational collapse in literacy is measurable, persistent, and likely to get worse.

Six weeks into the term, I assigned my rhetoric and writing students a 20-page article. It was the same length I had assigned for five years and the same length I had read without complaint as an undergraduate a decade ago. Not one student finished it.

When I asked why, a student answered honestly: It was too long, and she kept losing track of what the paper was about.

My first day of Literature, Philosophy, and History my freshman year in college, (way back in the dark ages) we were assigned approximately the first 150 pages of a book to read by the next class. Herbert Marcuse's One-Dimensional Man, is technically an essay, an awful work, and a slog to get through.

What does it say about the state of American education that people in college - they graduated from high school - cannot read a 20 page article?

I miss civilization.

The Battle of Midway

Six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Battle of Midway took place. That was 4–7 June 1942. It was supposed to be another Japanese sneak attack, with the goal of sucking in the American aircraft carriers, so that Japanese can destroy America air power in the Pacific. In reality the Americans had broken the Japanese code, and knew what was going on. So they reversed the ambush.

It was a decisive battle in the Pacific War.

One of the people who distinguished himself during the battle was Jack "Dusty" Kleiss.

This is The Fat Electrician's video America's Greatest Dive Bomber - Dusty Kleiss. It is an hour-long video, but the Fat Electrician manages to make history interesting. And you might learn something. (It will only hurt for a minute.) You get a bit of background on Kleiss, an overview of the Battle of Midway, and Dusty's part in the battle.

Wednesday Link Roundup - 3 June

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

13. Gates Of Vienna: Knife Jihad in Winterthur
14. Don Surber: Making DC worthy of our greatness

EBL - Charlemagne

1 June 794 AD : Council of Frankfurt
AoSHQ: Morning Report 06.01.26

Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 06.01.26

Don Surber: Trump’s Coalition of the Gulf States
Elizabeth Nickson: #WhiteBoySummer – Are You Ready For It?

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 2 June 2026: Rainy Rene Edition

Hackers have been stealing high-profile Instagram accounts via the cunning plan of asking Instagram for them. (404 Media)
Well, that and using a VPN so that they appear to be in the right general geographical region

Small Dead Animals - Monday On Turtle Island

China Carney’s Canada: Blackie’s climate warriors. She destroyed him. The 10m dollar conference.
The Democratic Party’s America: A Buffalo imam. Assault on detention facility.

A View from the Beach - Flotsam and Jetsam - Another Plate Full of Platner

David Klion @DavidKlion, "It's fascinating to me how many randos don't grasp why Collins is evil, so let me spell it out like you're children: -Republicans are evil -They support Trump's evil agenda -By posturing as a "moderate," ..."

Political Hat - News of the Week (May 31st, 2026)

Will Trump’s Reverse Midas Touch Cost the GOP Texas?
The president’s emphasis on loyalty in primary endorsements has a habit of turning winnable races into losses.

Don Surber - HIGHLIGHTS OF THE NEWS

ITEM 8: Just the News reported, “A federal judge on Thursday cleared the way for President Donald Trump to implement his executive order tightening mail-in voting

Gates of Vienna - News Feed 5/31/2026

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Sunday that he will call a special legislative session, beginning on Monday, to consider a constitutional amendment to sharply expand Florida’s homestead property tax exemption.

The Glibertarians - Sunday Morning I’m Gonna Kill Someone Links

Speaking of which… here’s an even dumber idea.
Maybe say that they’re all a bunch of spoiled millionaires with low IQs whose speech should be ignored? When Jameis Fucking Winston is your spokesman, it’s time to re-evaluate your lives.

Vlad Tepes - Bataclan, More Ackbarists stabbing people in Europe, UK police accessories after the fact? Stinging dialectics and more: Links 1 for May, 31 2026

4. Listen to the answer this MP gets from the Ruling Communist Liberal Party about how it is more important to cater to every need of a rapist and murderer and disease spreader because of his group identity as a “vulnerable refugee” than protect the Canadians he victrmizes

Bacon Time!!!! - Sunday Linkange

The Feral Irishman Friday Femme Fatale Farrago…..
The Shekel – Coins, Law, and Commentary – The President Trump $1 Coin and $250 Note?

Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog - The Talafreakco Menace

There are a couple more, but I think you get the idea. It’s like he heard the most cringey social justice pandering from all the failed 2020 Democratic presidential candidates and went “Hey, I want to try that in Texas!”

Maggie's Farm - Saturday morning links

Never Admit These 7 Things When a Cop Asks ‘Do You Know Why I Stopped You?’
Even the Big, Blue Towns Are Sick of the Democratic Freak-Show

J.J. Sefton at Ace of Spades HQ - The Morning Report — 6/ 2 /26

"Because I won't say that she's a boy whatsoever, they won't let me have a relationship with my daughter."
She Wouldn’t Call Her Daughter ‘Trans.’ The State Took Custody.

Doug Ross - Larwyn’s Linx: A Reckoning Comes for the Congressional Baseball Shooting

• GOP Battles Sharia: Is Islamic Law a Threat or Dog Whistle? - Paul Sperry
• Cuban-American congresswoman calls for Democrats aiding Cuba to be investigated for treason - JTN

Anonymous Conservative - News Briefs – 05/31/2026

Tony Seruga says he sees by Speilberg’s Cellphone GPS he was meeting with intelligence and that his new alien disclosure movie is an intel operation. Whether it is predictive programming, preparation for the truth, or psyop, he has no idea.

I leave you with Saturday Meme Drop from Midwest Chick's Place, Sunday Funnies For 05-31-26 from Stately McDaniel Manor, Monday Memes … from MaddMedic, Quick Hits Of Wisdom, Knowledge And Snark #3751 from 90 Miles from Tyranny, and DALEYBABES from The DaleyGator.

Dropped Wallet Leads to Home Invader

Oklahoma is a bad place for bad guys. Tulsa homeowner shoots suspected burglar during overnight break-in - NewsOn6

Tulsa police say a suspected burglar is in the hospital after being shot by a homeowner during a break-in overnight near 21st Street and Mingo Road.

After a confrontation, that ensued when the homeowner saw the guy on his security system, the homeowner shot him. At that point he ran, but he dropped his wallet along the way.

Investigators used identification found inside the wallet to help search for him while officers established a perimeter around the neighborhood.

I'm guessing that isn't how he saw his day working out.

Cops caught up with him, but he resisted, to the point of biting one officer.

Lt. JT Snoddy with the Tulsa Police Department said the suspect appeared to be under the influence.

I'm shocked.

It is early days in the investigation, but it is my understanding that Oklahoma has a fairly robust castle doctrine. Why? Because self-defense is a human right. (Hat tip to USA Carry)

Meta’s AI Support Bot Used to Seize Instagram Accounts

Kerbs on Security has the story: Hackers Used Meta’s AI Support Bot to Seize Instagram Accounts

I am not shocked.

No hacking required. Just find the account you are interested in, and ask the Meta support AI to help you reset your password.

The Instagram accounts for the Obama White House and the Chief Master Sergeant of the U.S. Space Force were briefly defaced with pro-Iranian images and messages over the weekend, after instructions began circulating on Telegram showing how to trick Meta’s “AI support assistant” bot into resetting account passwords.

It isn't really a hack. The bad guys asked the AI tools to send the password reset link to a "new email address." It bypassed 2-factor authentication. It accepted AI-generated videos for selfies. (Grab a photo, and ask your favorite AI to make a 30 second video, and your in.)

What?

Meta has not responded to requests for comment on the video’s claims, but Meta’s Andy Stone said on Twitter/X that the issue had been resolved and that they were securing impacted accounts. The security blog thecybersecguru.com reports that Meta pushed an emergency patch over the weekend, and clarified that no back end database was breached.

So are you really sure you want AI involved in everything? Everything related to security?

Here is Mutahar's SomeOrdinaryGamers video So Instagram Got Completely Hacked...

How did we even get to this point? What the F- is going on?

The video is 17 minutes.

Summertime

Today's song is stolen shamelessly from Miguel Gonzalez and his May 3rd Sunday Repose. Miguel has a musical interlude every Sunday morning. You should listen to them. And you should read his writing.

"Summertime" has been covered by many artists, but I had never heard this particular version. It is wonderful.

This song is "Summertime" by Louis Armstrong, and Ella Fitzgerald. It is an aria composed by George Gershwin for the 1935 opera Porgy and Bess.

Tuesday Links - 2 June

Paul Vallas at Chicago Contrarian is first with a story from my home town. Chicago Mayor’s Political Ideology Is Costing Lives

Mayor Brandon Johnson’s public embrace of a UChicago Justice Project report that claims police response times improved after ShotSpotter was disconnected is another instance in which political ideology appears to trump public safety.

William Teach at Pirate's Cove - Seattle Residents Put Up Barricades To Keep Gun Fire Out

Nowhere in any of the stories have I read about the shots coming from people driving through. Also, they never seem to mention who is doing all the shooting and prostitution and such (illegals, perhaps?). Or that guns are heavily regulated in Dem run Washington and Seattle.

Meep at STUMP - New York Pensions: Making Things More Expensive in Latest State Budget

To make it clear, two things have occurred in this New York State budget passage: ...

I hate both of these things

The Other McCain - Our Sudden Alaska Road Trip

The walls at my son’s house here are adorned with hunting trophies — deer, caribou, turkey, duck, etc. His military exploits are just his day job.

Wombat-socho - FMJRA 2.0: Technical Difficulties

As y’all probably noticed, we’ve been having some problems here at The Other McCain, what with hackers and such, and without dragging all the dirty laundry out in public (because there isn’t any) suffice it to say that when Stacy gets back from Alaska, he and I and Smitty need to have a talk and decide what we’re going to do with this site.

Margaret Flavin at The Gateway Pundit - Girl Power? Dem Reps. Say Employers Who Won’t Pay Women to Stay Home from Work During Menstruation Are Committing ‘Economic Violence’ (Video)

For the crowd that doesn’t seem to be able to define what a woman is, Democrat Reps. Yassamin Ansari (D-AZ), Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ), and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) recently went full ‘girl power’ during a press conference.

Alice Jones Webb at Take It Outside - They Think They're Better Than You

Rural, working-class life has become a popular aesthetic.

Robert Stacy McCain at Born Lucky - Platner in the Führerbunker

Hit by scandal after scandal in recent weeks, Platner’s status as “rising star” is now at risk because Democrats have belatedly realized that there might be even more damaging revelations to come — worse than his SS Totenkopf tattoo.

Again from Wombat-socho - Rule Five Sunday: Outstanding In Her Field

It’s that time of year when gals in overalls get out there and start getting ploweddoing farming stuff.

Professor Yamane at Light Over Heat - Illuminations #8. Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Rational Discourse

Welcome to Illuminations - your monthly dose of light over heat.

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 30 May 2026: Phlegmish Edition

Microsoft is under fire for threatening a "security researcher" with criminal investigation. (Tech Crunch)

The "security researcher" in question is anonymous and definitely no White Hat. The moment "Nightmare Eclipse" finds a security flaw, he goes public with it, regardless of the chaos that might ensue.

On the other hand, Microsoft could do well to put fewer security flaws in their code in the first place.

Crime in Chicago - It Is Not a Law and Order City

I miss living in a civilized society. I miss when Chicago was a great city.

First we have a story about Public Transit. The Left loves to say that people should take transit, so it would be nice if there was some safety. Crazed Man Kidnaps Chicago Bus Driver at Knifepoint, Leads Her to Jump Out Window | The Gateway Pundit | by Michael Austin, The Western Journal

A bus driver in Chicago was kidnapped at knifepoint, prompting her to flee the assailant by jumping out of the vehicle’s window.

The Chicago Transit Authority is not blind to the conditions in that city, so the bus drivers have a silent alarm. She was able to trigger it, calling for help.

He ran, but the cops tracked him down a short time later.

He has been charged with aggravated armed kidnapping, aggravated unlawful restraint, and aggravated assault.

And in a notable change, he was held in jail.

From the New York Post, we get a story of a "teen takeover." Shouldn't this be called a riot? 5 officers struck by car after ‘teen takeover’ hits Chicago’s West Side — as 19 people hurt in shootings

This article was published on Sunday afternoon, so that 19 number doesn't include anything that happened on Monday.

At least five officers were struck by a driver during a “teen takeover” event early Sunday in Chicago’s West Side, only the latest in the viral trend hitting American streets.

Elsewhere, 19 people were shot and wounded on Memorial Day in the Windy City.

So what is the difference between a "teen takeover" and a riot?

It used to be a wonderful city.

Professor Yamane Attended the Smith & Wesson Collectors Association Annual Meeting

I would not use the word crashed. Professor David Yamane at Light Over Heat has an interesting article. I Crashed the Smith & Wesson Collectors Association Annual Meeting

Last summer, I attended the Smith & Wesson Collectors Association (SWCA) annual meeting in Concord, North Carolina to give a presentation about my book, Gun Curious. The SWCA then made me an Honorary Member of the Association. And this spring, they published the text of my presentation in their journal.

For someone whose focus has been on defensive gun culture (Gun Culture 2.0) rather than collecting and other aspects of Gun Culture 1.0, this experience was as gratifying as it was surprising.

Like all of Professor Yamane's writing, it is worth reading.

Late Stage TDS in the Media

Another story of Trump Derangement Syndrome from The Other McCain. How We Got Here: ‘Susan Collins, One of the Most Evil People in Public Life’

In this case we have a Professional Journalist™ from The Nation, namely David Klion.

“TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP!” The deranged obsession so warps David Klion’s perception that, when challenged on his over-the-top rhetoric, his response is to post a syllogism, the first premise of which is, “Republicans are evil,” and believes that he has thereby vanquished his critics.

Click thru for the insanity.

The Platner Campaign Is Entertaining

Watching the Democrats and the media (but I repeat myself) twist themselves into pretzels to claim that the guy with Nazi tatoo is not a Nazi has been something to watch. I shocked to discover that he has other probems. Platner Staffers Bodycheck Journalists Asking Questions About His Sexting Scandal

In case you don't know, Graham Platner is running in the Democratic Primary in Maine for senator. His campaign has hit a few speed bumps along the way.

I wouldn't call it chaos exactly, or call what was done a "bodycheck" (I watch hockey when I'm with family), but shoving reporters isn't called for.

Staffers could be seen shoving signs in the view of cameras to prevent journalists from capturing footage of Platner as he returned to a vehicle. The Maine Wire, an investigative news outlet located in the state, accused staffers of “bodychecking” journalists who desired to ask the candidate questions.

The current scandal - not the Nazi tatoo scandal, that's the old scandal - is about the candidate and his "disturbing sexual deviancy."

Click thru for those details.

Angel of Midnight

Rick Beato is searching for new rock songs. That is fine, but he seems to be stuck in a pop-influenced set of songs. (I can't recommend the video, as I hated all of the songs.)

So I went searching for new songs, from bands I like, and a found a few... Here is one. We will get to others eventually. And this band is described as "pop-infused," but I like it.

Battle Beast is a 6 piece band out of Helsinki, Finland. I generally like their music.

This song is "Angel of Midnight" by Battle Beast from their October 2025 album Steelbound. The song was released as a single shortly before the album. (September?)