Wednesday Link Roundup - 1 July

William Teach at Pirate's Cove starts us off with Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

1. Moonbattery: Anti-American Enviromoonbattery From Useless Hollyweirdos
2. Liberty’s Torch: Race War News

Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 06.29.26

Stoic Observations: Social Entropy
Incensepunk Magazine: Out of the Silent Planet

Small Dead Animals - Saturday On Turtle Island

The Democratic Party’s America: Antifa violence. Soviet New York.
Davos Carney’s Canada: Muslims want money. Report on Ukraine. It’s a secret. Gay sex parade needs money.

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 30 June 2026: Drone Strike Party Edition

The war against woke could end US science as we know it. (The Verge) (archive site)
Promise?

EBL - Karl "The Architect" Rove Supports SCOTUS Birthright Citizenship Decision

Townhall: Win some, lose some, but most cases going our way
RedState: Trump on Birthright: Lemons into Lemonade
AoSHQ: Morning Report 06.30.26

Don Surber - HIGHLIGHTS OF THE NEWS

ITEM 8: A federal judge handed out sentences of 30 years to 100 years in prison to 8 Antifa members who attacked an ICE facility in Prairieland, Texas.
Apparently George Soros doesn’t provide legal aid to his employees.

Bacon Time!!!! - Sunday Linkange

Pirates Cove California State Workers Freaking Out Over Return To Work Mandate
Freedom Is Just Another Word.. .Saturday Memes…

Again from Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 06.30.26

Dana Loesch: Erika Kirk May Face Her Husband’s Killer In Court
Don Surber: The Declaration of Dependence

The Glibertarians - Saturday evening Links

Um. No. And you can tell he’s a New York “Republican”.
Ima chalk it up to “message sent”.

Vlad Tepes - Citizen Vigilante is available free again, Bat Manuel, a real vigilante is operating in Mexico, and the continued deracination of Canadian identity: Links 1 for June 30, 2026

In related news, where art imitates life, imitating art, an actual citizen vigilante is operating in Mexico City, arresting motorcycle thieves and tying them to utility poles with tape and putting their stolen motorcycles next to them

A View from the Beach - Flotsam and Jetsam - Supes Rule Prez can Fire Any Agency Head Except Fed

In other Supreme Court news, Matt Margolis is pissed SCOTUS Just Let a Rigged Verdict Against President Trump Stand, E Jean Carroll. Althouse also reports on Chatrie v. United States

Maggie's Farm - Tuesday morning links

Britain: Time To Go Back To Coal
The $20,000 Drone That Should Wake Up the Pentagon

J.J. Sefton at Ace of Spades HQ - The Morning Report — 6/ 30 /26

The track record for another Iran Deal is as bad as it gets.
When Has Negotiating With Islamic Terrorists Ever Worked?

Doug Ross - Larwyn’s Linx: Michigan’s El-Sayed Urged Mass Release of Prisoners In Webinar With Murderer and Rapist

• Why falling oil prices don't mean Hormuz crisis is over Dalga Khatinoglu
• IDF dismantles Hezbollah terror tunnel complex near Israeli border JNS

Anonymous Conservative - News Briefs – 06/27/2026

The EU Commission in Brussels has shut off air conditioning for environmental impact, but only for the lower floors, where the lower ranks work.

I leave you with Saturday Memes … from MaddMedic, Saturday’s Welcome to the Weekend Meme Drop 6-27-26 from Midwest Chick's Place, Monday Memes from Granite Grok, and Quick Hits Of Wisdom, Knowledge And Snark #3870 from 90 Miles from Tyranny.

Antifa Threaten to Kill Texas Judges

Just because you call yourself an anti-fascist, doesn't mean you are. EXCLUSIVE: 'He has an address': Antifa Threaten to Kill Texas Judges After Terror Comrades Given Lengthy Sentences

Antifa extremists and their supporters are urging one another to assassinate the Texas federal judges who handed lengthy prison sentences to their convicted terrorist comrades

The peaceful Left strikes again.

The threats followed last week’s first batch of sentencing where eight convicts received prison terms ranging from 30 years to 100 years after becoming the first defendants convicted in a federal Antifa terrorism case in U.S. history.

Click thru.

Trump's DOJ Versus California

Trump isn't perfect, and his admin isn't perfect, but Democrats would NEVER do this. Trump's DOJ threatens lawsuit against California over new gun law

The Trump administration's Department of Justice issued a warning to California's leadership regarding a new gun sale restriction law it considers an "unconstitutional 'Glock Ban.'”

The law that is set to go into effect on July 1.

Click thru for more. (Hat tip to KABA)

Can You Stop the Rain

I entered the basics of this post into my drafts folder, and it promptly got pushed down in the queue. I have no recollection of what reminded me of this song. I've heard it before. I am going to guess that it came up in social media, because it doesn't sound like something they would feature on WXRT's Saturday Morning Flashback.

This song is "Can You Stop the Rain" by Peabo Bryson. It was the title song to his 1991 album.

Tuesday Links - 30 June

The Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) is up first with Canada is a much more dangerous country than the United States. Total violent crime in Canada is 295% higher than the US.

Comparisons of crime rates across countries often focus on homicides or murders. In 2025, the U.S. murder rate will be about 4 per 100,000 people—roughly twice Canada’s 2024 homicide rate of 1.91 per 100,000.

Virtual Mirage - Beware the Old Man

Why are old men dangerous? In high-risk fields—like special operations, high-hazard mining, or contract crime—the reckless, impatient, and unlucky are weeded out early. An elder has survived every trap that killed his peers.

Wombat-socho - FMJRA 2.0: Meanwhile, Somewhere In The Great Basin

Because I’m a retard who can’t remember his passwords, there was no blogging from Salt Lake City Thursday and Friday. I was there for the Ark Press rollout of Larry Correia’s American Paladin, which unlike the new Uwe Boll flick is all killer and no filler.

The Other McCain - The Last Ride of Da’Quain Johnson

Police had not randomly noticed Da’Quain Johnson, but rather had specific information that he was armed, and that fact needs to be emphasized

Again from Wombat-socho - Rule 5 Sunday: Redness

I’m late, I’m late!
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

Again from The Other McCain - Woke ‘Supergirl’ Bombs Badly

Much like when the anti-male 2016 Ghostbusters remake flopped, the defenders of Vaguely Queer Supergirl are blaming right-wing “backlash” and “toxic masculinity” for this box-office catastrophe.

Glenn Harlan Reynolds - Bringing Back the 'Spoils System?' Yes, Please.

As for our professional, independent civil service — it is to laugh. The civil service isn’t independent: It happily does the bidding of Democratic presidents. It’s just partisan, in that it does its best to stall and undermine the work of Republican presidents. (By now we’ve all seen the emails.)

Aristo! Aristo! A la lanterne! - Does Hamas execute gay people? Do gay people support Hamas?

Claims of routine public executions for civilians are harder to verify amid the chaos and secrecy in Gaza, but the persecution—including executions—is well-documented and not in serious dispute by credible sources.

Meep at STUMP - New York Pensions and Primaries: Results and Reminders

The results are in, and it wasn’t close: DiNapoli won the Democratic Party primary this past Tuesday.

Don’t look at me — I’m a Republican. I can’t vote in Democratic primaries in NY.

William Teach at Pirate's Cove - German Chancellor Wants Global Rules On Hotcoldwetdry Or Something

Wait, did they just say that people took long fossil fueled trips from around the world for this? Wasn’t there just a meeting in Bonn the other week? And one before that? And before that? And the big one in Brazil in November last year?

Adaptive Curmudgeon - Camping With A CPAP: Part 2

The CPAP lurked in my mind. Some people like them. Some people hate them. I think mine saved my damn life. I’m ever so grateful they exist. Unfortunately, I take the gadget way too seriously. I fear to break the spell it cast when it dragged my ass up from the ground.

District Attorneys Hate Self-Defense

And in California... Attorney Allen Sawyer Secures Release of Security Guard Charged After Fatal Sacramento Cannabis Dispensary Shooting

He was working as a guard at a Cannabis Dispensary. Two masked guys broke in. He shot them. So of course he was charged with voluntary manslaughter.

Sawyer [the defense attorney] said the charges are unwarranted and that his client acted in self-defense while protecting himself and the property he had been hired to secure.

Click thru for the details.

Mass Shooting in Germany

But they have all those lovely gun-control laws. Five dead in Stade shooting as two suspects arrested near Germany youth centre

Five people have lost their lives in a shooting in the northern German town of Stade, police have confirmed.

Stade is city in Lower Saxony, Germany, about 15 miles west of Hamburg, though the drive would be about 25 miles.

Officers announced at approximately 1.45pm CEST (12.45pm BST) that five people had been killed in the attack in the Dankersstraße area of the town. Authorities also confirmed that a number of people sustained injuries in the incident, which occurred at a youth facility.

In addition to the 6 fatalities (see below), several people were injured.

From the BBC: Sixth person dies after shooting at youth welfare centre in Germany

The women and one man were shot dead inside the facility, and a sixth person later died of their injuries in hospital. All the victims were adults.

The German police are also on the job.

Police earlier told the BBC that two people had been arrested, including the suspected shooter. It later said a third person was also being investigated.

It being Germany, we will get no information on the suspects, because that might cause you to adopt some non-government-approved ideas.

Cynthia Yockey Needs Your Help

I don't know her personally, but have known of her for some time. Emergency: Please Help Cynthia Yockey : The Other McCain

Cynthia is active in the Iowa Republican Party, and helped rally support for Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks in the 2024 election, and has worked most recently as a ghost writer and researcher, assisting with Jack Posobiec’s book Unhumans: The Secret History of Communist Revolutions (and How to Crush Them) among other projects.

All this is preamble to urging readers to hit Cynthia’s tip jar immediately. Due to some health problems, she was unable to work regularly for a while, fell behind on her mortgage and needs to come up with $1,500 by Wednesday to avoid foreclosure.

Click thru for the details, and the link to donate.

De Oppresso Liber

Five Finger Death Punch have announced a new album.

Five Finger Death Punch have just announced their new album Legacy in tandem with its second single, "De Oppresso Liber."

The hard rock veterans' 10th studio record will come out digitally on July 31 with physical copies (CD, vinyl, cassette) arriving on Sept. 18. [via Loudwire]

This song is "De Oppresso Liber" by Five Finger Death Punch. It is a single they released on Friday from the album Legacy which is scheduled to be released on July 31st. It is the 2nd single released from that album. The title of the song is "The Book of the Oppressed" in English.

Can't embed the video, because as I type this it is not released to YouTube. Given the way YouTube, et al pays artists, I can't say that I am surprised. (I can embed Tidal videos, but you need a Tiday ID, and I know most of you won't have that.

An Interesting Ruling on Self-Defense and Job Termination

From The National Law Review we get the following: Colorado Supreme Court Decision on Wrongful Termination Claims

The SCOTUS ruling about Hawaii's so-called Vampire Law has drowned this out of the news, or I didn't see much about it. A very interesting ruling was handed down by the Colorado State Supreme Court on June 15th about wrongful termination suits.

The TL;DR version is as follows.

• The Colorado Supreme Court ruled that employees may bring wrongful termination claims if fired for acting in self-defense, even if their lawful exercise of the right to self-defense violates employer policies prohibiting confrontations.
• The court identified a public-policy exception to at-will employment, emphasizing that termination cannot penalize employees for exercising their statutory and constitutional right of self-defense.
• The decision highlights potential wrongful termination liability for employers if they discharge employees for lawful actions taken in self-defense in the workplace.

This is interesting because every large pizza chain forbids its delivery drivers to be armed. Uber and Lyft have similar rules for their drivers, though they are not, strictly speaking, employees. I assume that places like GurbHub and DoorDash have a similar rule. I am guessing that a lot of restaurant and gas station chains have similar laws.

Anyone with a violent stalker needs to be armed in their own defense. But the places where they are disarmed is exactly those places where they are on a known schedule at a known location. To and from work. Picking up and dropping off kids at school and/or daycare. Going to church.

It should be interesting to see how this plays out in Colorado, and to see if this idea gets transfered to other states. (Hat tip to Keep and Bear Arms)

Three Alito Opinions Handed Down by SCOTUS

A short summary worth reading. Three Alito Majority Opinions Mark a Good Day for the Second Amendment and Textualism | National Review

The Supreme Court handed down three decisions yesterday that amount to welcome if not unexpected victories for the Second Amendment and, in a pair of immigration decisions, for textualism.

Click thru. (Hat tip to KABA)

DCU: Is It the Dead Cinematic Universe, or the D-She-U?

Take your pick. (And yes, it was Nerdrotic who asked that question.)

Let's start with the final line from the embedded video below.

And look who has the last laugh now, because let's face it, Henry Caval dodged a speeding bullet when he was fired by James Gunn.

As I type this, Sunday afternoon, the weekend box office estimates are in, at least for the domestic take. It isn't good. The take for the James Gunn, DCU's movie, Supergirl, is $38 million for it's openning weekend. That is for Wednesday and Thursday previews, Friday's actual receipts, some (or all) of Saturday's reporting, and estimates for Sunday. They are pretty good at those estimates at this point.

The international numbers are $30 million, but those estimates are not nearly as good, and the reporting internationally won't really be complete for at least a few days.

You can find that data - it will be updated, positively or negatively as more reporting comes in - at The Numbers. (You have to click the "Box Office" tab, since I have not found a way to link to that directly)

UPDATE: As of Monday afternoon, the Sunday actuals have been revised down from the estimate. The weekend domestic total is now listed at $37.1 million. And the international numbers are even worse. The international box office came in at $25.5 million for a total weekend take of $62.6 million.

And because it bears repeating, it turns out the movie studios don't show movies for free. DC Studios will receive only about half of the box office receipts.

So, is James Gunn in charge of the Dead Cinematic Universe? Let's ignore Creature Commandos, I didn't watch, and neither did very many people, Peacemaker, which lost most people at the orgy scene, and anything else that is 2nd tier. James Gunn's Superman probably lost money, or barely broke even. We don't know, because we don't know the marketing budget, and I'm not convinced we know the real production cost. But it was not a grand success. Supergirl is on track to lose many millions, perhaps 100s of millions, of dollars. Sounds pretty dead to me.

Though it could be James Gunn is in charge of the D-She-U. Because it seems like Supergirl is about as popular as The Marvels, with a story line not too different from Captain Marvel. That is, there is no character arc for the protagonist. She is the same at the end of the movie. Nothing was changed.

This is the Nerdrotic video review of the new DCU movie. Supergirl is Abysmal - The DCU is DEAD

When you're making people miss the CW, I would say Paramount-Warner Brothers, or Mount Bros, has a big problem on their hands.

The movie is 28 minutes, but I think you will enjoy it.

What does it say about Hollywood, when the videos tearing their movies apart, are more entertaining than the movies?

There is a book about titled Save the Cat!: The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need. Supergirl seems to be a "save the dog" adventure. I think they missed a couple of chapters.

What follows is a list of a few review articles on this film. I haven't read all, or even most, of these articles; I just find the titles funny. Well, except for the 3rd entry, which is sad. (Comparing Supergirl to Joker 2 is mean.)

• Forbres: ‘Supergirl’ Review: A Heroine Rendered Powerless By Scriptonite
• The NY Times: ‘Supergirl’ Review: This Glass Ceiling Is Made of Kryptonite
• Screen Crush: ‘Supergirl’ Barely Outgrosses ‘Joker 2’ in Opening Weekend
• The Atlantic: ‘Supergirl’ Crashes and Burns

When Self-Defense Justification Ends

Every bullet comes with a lawyer attached. Memphis Tenant Shoots Masked Burglar Caught Hauling His TV Out the Door - USA Carry

He interrupted a burglary. The burglar reached into a bag, suggesting he was armed. That is grounds for defense.

One detail worth noting for anyone who carries. The tenant fired twice when the suspect reached into the bag, then twice more as the man ran. Self-defense protects you against an imminent threat, and that protection is strongest in the first exchange. Once a threat turns and flees, the legal ground shifts fast. We do not have every detail here, and prosecutors will weigh all of it, but it is a useful reminder that the justification can end the moment the danger does.

Click thru for more, including a discussion of the changes coming July 1st, which apparently have been exaggerated.

Self-defense is a human right. That doesn't mean you can shoot anyone over anything.

Venezuela and Natural Disasters

If you wait for the government to help, you will be waiting a long time. You are on your own: Natural Disasters.

Remind me... What were the conditions in the Superdome in New Orleans, after Katrina?

So there has been a couple of earthquakes. Venezuela is not prepared. Do you think your state, or FEMA would be?

Now, this is Venezuela which has very little on trained emergency services and up to the standard and equipment of the U.S.1 But even if they had that kind of preparation, they cannot just materialize anywhere instantly and wave a magic wand to remove tons of broken concrete slabs to get people out.

Do your preps include tools? I have a couple of crowbars, I keep thinking I should be a Halligan bar, what the firemen use, but the quality examples are expensive. And I don't live in Earthquake country.

Click thru for details.

 

Bringing Sunlight to the Anti-Gun Movement

NSSF has decided to call out the AstroTurf. We Won’t Let Anti-Gun Billionaires Who Finance Civilian Disarmament Live in the Shadows Anymore

The well-known anti-gun groups are apparently all funded from a few sources. You can probably guess some of them.

NSSF has called them out in the past for their bought-and-paid-for activism and it’s time to do it again. Pull back the curtain and it’s easy to see that the antigun movement isn’t much more than a few billionaires and activist foundations pouring cash into their pet gun control projects…to the tune of over $400 million every year.

Click thru for more details, and links to a new site.

Saturday Roundup of Link Roundups - 27 June

The Right Way starts us off with Top of the News

All Three of NYC Mayor’s Endorsed Socialist Candidates Win Primaries - Briebart News
If I Could Turn Back Time... - Evi. L Bloggerlady

Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 06.24.26

CDR Salamander: NATO’s Upcoming Ankara Summit
Don Surber: Court allows Trump to do his job

EBL - New York Jew Hating Islamic-Commies Win In Primaries

Don't say you weren't warned.
Instapundit: New DNC agenda just dropped

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 25 June 2026: Fledermaus Edition

Microsoft's Majorana is poop, says a quantum computing researcher. (The Register)
Microsoft recently announced Majorana 2, a major breakthrough in quantum computing. A new paper in Nature says not so fast, and maybe not at all.

Gates of Vienna - News Feed 6/26/2026

‘Deadbeat Taxpayers’: More Than 500,000 Federal Workers, Retirees Are Delinquent Paying Uncle Sam
An investigation by the House Oversight and Accountability Committee has found

Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog - LinkSwarm For June 26, 2026

The FBI’s Most Wanted Fraudsters list can be found here.
Two wins for Trump on immigration enforcement at the Supreme Court.

Political Hat - Quick Takes – Academic Madness: VR vs. The Handicapped; Solving Physics With Queerness; Malaysian Muslim Transwoman Social Justice Studies

Physics is a mystery to anyone who isn’t queer, ‘twould seem. ...
Maybe Western colonizers aren’t the biggest problem that a Malaysian Muslim “transwoman”.

Small Dead Animals - Thursday On Turtle Island

Carnival Carney’s Canada: The Canadian dollar. Crazed leftist. Islamic Caliphate of Regina.
The Democratic Party’s America: Victor Davis Hanson – The broader context. A jihad caucus.

Vlad Tepes - Half of yesterday’s post and some solid benchmarks of the state of the revolution now: Links post -1 for June 26 2026

2. This is a one hour interview with Queens U law prof. Bruce Pardy on a number of bills being rammed through parliament to destroy Canadian liberty and identity. Yes, identity.

A View from the Beach - Flotsam and Jetsam - Marxists Take New York by Storm

More at Hat Hair, Capt. Ed, Talarico in 2022: Let's Defund the Prisons!, Mitch Berg, Talarico: Will It Play Outside Austin? and Dave Strom, Wow: Representative Seth Moulton, Candidate for Senate, Assaults Questioner.

The Glibertarians - Wednesday morning, Sloopy ain’t here Links

“We can debate in court.”
That’s a lot of fraud.
NYC commies even harder.

Maggie's Farm - Wednesday morning links

Why Cities Go Socialist
The Democrat Party Is Dead
The Morning Briefing: UK Is Probably in for More Steaming Piles of What Hasn't Worked

J.J. Sefton at Ace of Spades HQ - The Morning Report — 6/ 24 /26

Under pressure from Mellon Foundation-funded activists, the UC system restored its DEI initiatives.
The University of California Caves to Activists

Doug Ross - Larwyn’s Linx: ‘National Emergency’: Trump Cancels Housing Bill Signing Until Congress Passes Voter ID Law

Anonymous Conservative - News Briefs – 06/26/2026

Elon makes Citizen Vigilante, the movie about a citizen wantonly taking out the trash, among the migrants and the political leaders, free on Twitter.

I leave you with Midweek Memes from Granite Grok, Wednesday Memes … from MaddMedic, Thursday’s The Weekend is Almost Here Meme Drop 6-25-26 from Midwest Chick's Place, Bookworm Beat 6/26/26: The “political time warp edition” edition from Bookworm Room, and Memes to keep the liberals at bay from Wirecutter.

Self-Defense Is Legal in Baltimore

The DA seems to have thrown a lot of charges at him, hoping to convict on something. 21-Year-Old Acquitted in Downtown Shooting - Baltimore Witness

Davon Matthews, 21, was acquitted of attempted murder, first-degree assault, reckless endangerment, firearm use, and two gun offenses. He was initially charged in connection to a Sept. 14, 2025, shooting that occurred on the 300 block of Light Street. An 18-year-old man was injured in the confrontation.

Seems like the DA couldn't make up his mind about charges.

Seems like police procedure might have been an issue.

Hanna argued that surveillance footage and witness testimony left unanswered questions about how the incident began. She contended that police failed to fully investigate the circumstances surrounding the shooting and could not establish whose gun fired the shot that struck the victim.

Now I don't what happened or who was at fault, whether this is justice or not.

But I'm a bit surprised that the jury, in Baltimore, didn't find him guilty of something. I think the DA might have been surprised as well.

List of Defensive Gun Use Incidents in December 2025

I leave this here for reference. Defensive Gun Uses By People Legally Carrying Guns: 25 Cases During December 2025 - Crime Prevention Research Center

There is no commentary. There is just a list of defensive uses of guns.

I'm sure I have covered some of these, but as I type this, I have not looked.

The Passenger

Another song that comes to us by way of WXRT's Saturday Morning Flashback. WXRT (Chicago's Finest Rock) was revisiting 1977 on May 2nd.

1977 was the year that gave us the original Star Wars, Smokey and the Bandit, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and more. Seattle Slew won the Kentucky Derby in May, and would win the Triple Crown.

This song is "The Passenger" by Iggy Pop from his 1977 album Lust for Life.

I'm actually more familiar with the cover by Siouxsie and the Banshees. While the cover isn't in their usual mode (Goth, Post Punk), it was the version I know and like.