Friday Links - 3 July

Andy Ngo and Ngo Comment is first with an update on the Antifa trial. North Texas Antifa Convicted Terrorist Files Sentencing Appeal

Savanna Batten, one of the convicted North Texas Antifa terrorists, is appealing her 50-year prison sentence.

Watts Up With That - Wrong, Newsweek, Europe’s Heat Deaths Are a Policy Failure, not a Climate Failure

The real story is not climate change, rather it is Europe’s decades-long failure to allow its people to equip themselves with the most effective protection against extreme heat: air conditioning.

Patriotic Viral News - WATCH: Masked Antifa Goon Swings a BASEBALL BAT at Reporters in Seattle — Then Cops Finally Unmask Him

Not a sign. Not a chant. A baseball bat, swung at the heads of people whose only crime was holding up a camera.

Holly MathNerd - The Floor Is Still There

watching a conspiracy theory build itself around the Karmelo Anthony case

Meep at STUMP - Happy Bobby Bonilla Day 2026!

The happiest annuity day of the year!

Professor David Yamane at Light Over Heat - Illuminations #9. An Aspiration, Not an Accomplishment

June is always a busy month for me, but not a productive one, at least not for my writing. But with the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence approaching, my mind kept circling back to that founding document and the aspirational ideal at its center.

The Other McCain - July 1: Captured at Gettysburg

Like much else in the “official” history of the Civil War, that map of the opening engagement at Gettysburg — east of Willoughby Run, on the slope of McPherson Ridge — may not be completely accurate.

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 1 July 2026: Tree Dace Edition

Henrico County in Virginia is asking schools to open the blinds and turn off the lights to save electricity. (404 Media) (archive site)

Henrico County has 37 datacenters and is constructing 17 more right now.

Adaptive Curmudgeon - Camping With A CPAP: Part 5

I thought of the ADV guys and how I wanted to be doing that. My truck based campout wasn’t smooth enough. I have to work up to being more chill (mostly the sleep issue… murderous ideas about raccoons is fine). It’s a necessary step before I can “graduate” to smaller more primitive motorcycle gear.

William Teach at Pirate's Cove - Surprise: Young Warmists Are Being Paid To Be Wackos

If the money is coming from the government I’m not sure that can be considered “grassroots”.

He Tried to Flee - They Followed Him

He tried to avoid the fight. Popeye's Argument Spills Into Gunfire After Pursuers Chase Man To Grandmother's House - USA Carry

An argument at a fast food restaurant ended in gunfire after a carload of people followed one of the customers home and opened fire, leaving two of them shot by the man they had chased, Abbeville Police say.

Abbeville, Louisiana, is roughly a 25 mile drive southwest of Lafayette, or about a 150 mile drive west of New Orleans.

Cops found the car, and had two people taken to the hospital.

No charges have been filed at the time the article was written, but it was early in the investigation.

June in the Windy City

HeyJackass! brings us the June Wrap-up

To understand the following statement, you would need to know that Mayor Brandon Johnson claimed a couple of things. One is that there is epidemic of violence against transwomen of color. Which may or may not be true, but that isn't really going to move the statistics much in either direction.

Despite the 🚨Transfemicide State of Emergency🚨, The Summer of Silly Decisions got off to nearly the same start as last year.

June 2026: 43 killed, 157 wounded
June 2025: 42 killed, 140 wounded
June 2024: 74 killed, 323 wounded

So it is more than last year, and less than 2024. Actually it is much less than 2020 or 2021. Does that mean that crime is down, or is it up?

Aside from the statment about transwomen of color, Johnson has claimed that this entire wave of death and violence is all Nixon's fault. Richard Nixon. This isn't the first time Brandon Johnson has brought up Nixon. He won't let it go. (It used to be a wonderful city.)

It's So Obvious!

Chicago Democrat Mayor Brandon Johnson blames deceased former President Richard Nixon for a spate of shootings in his city over the Father's Day weekend.

I mean, of course, yeah. Why would anyone think differently! pic.twitter.com/LsxtefrocI

— Conservative Brief (@ConservBrief) June 22, 2026

Hollywood Still Blaming the Fans

In case you haven't noticed, DC released a movie over the weekend. That was Supergirl. It was a massive flop.

Hollywood can't admit that the current crop of writers don't know how to write a superhero movie. They don't understand what the stakes should be, what the character arcs should be, how the dialog should flow, or anything else that might get people to turn out for a movie.

When Morbius failed, no one claimed racism. Of course when Blue Beetle crashed and burned, they blamed racism. (Explain Sinners then.) It is never their fault for producing a bad movie.

This is just a roundup of some of the reactions to the cope.

First, someone who is not one of the usual suspects. Amala Ekpunobi is usually more focused on politics, but she does push into the culture war side of culture. She published a video Hollywood Does It Again.

Then the usual crew...

• Disparu: Supergirl FALLOUT Gets WORSE As Media Hate Men
• Snarky Jay: SUPERGIRL FLOPPED... Now They're Blaming YOU
• Clownfish TV: Supergirl BOMBED and MEN are Blamed.
• RK Outpost: Supergirl FALLOUT Gets WORSE As Media Hate Men

Imagine if a vegetarian bought the popular (or maybe the 2nd-most popular) steak house in town. Then imagine that they didn't like the fact that the restaurant was serving meat, and so they changed the menu, either slowly over time, or all at once. Would it be the customers' fault that people stopped going to the restaurant? It isn't serving what the people want.

This is certainly what DC has been doing. And Marvel. Maybe all of Hollywood.

So why does Hollywood think their business is different?

They used to understand this. There was a saying. "It is show business, not show friends." I don't think that they understand that anymore.

NBC's Law & Order Recognizes Reality

It won't last long. NBC's Law & Order SVU actually acknowledges that women benefit from having a gun because they are weaker physically - Crime Prevention Research Center

NBC’s television police shows are often very biased against gun ownership. But a recent episode of Law & Order SVU (S27 E21 05 14 26) gets across an important point that women benefit from having a gun because they are weaker physically. Possibly we are reading too much into [this].

They usually just lie about the guns.

United Kingdom Moves to Outlaw Air Conditioning

From Konstantin Kisin: What the AirCon Debate Says About Britain's Climate Insanity

Every summer, like clockwork, Britain has the same conversation. The temperature creeps above 28 degrees, the country grinds to a halt, and the media bombards the public with hysteria about the “hottest summer since records began” and fear-mongering about the future:

28 degrees Celsius is about 82 degrees Fahrenheit, for those of you not conversant in the international units.

Naturally, this summer being actually unusually warm, a new level of insanity has been reached with a debate about the need to prevent people from using air conditioning. Some councils have gone so far as to force residents to remove air conditioning they’d installed.

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Sony Deletes Movies PlayStation Owners "Purchased"

Purchased is such a flexible term. Sony Deletes 551 StudioCanal Movies PlayStation Owners Paid For

Sony plans to wipe 551 movies and TV shows from the PlayStation Store libraries of customers who paid full price for them. The deletion is coming on September 1 and so far the company has said nothing about giving anyone their money back.

Well of course not, because when you buy "digital copies" of anything, you are really not buying anything. You are renting the item for the length of time they decide you get to have them.

What? You didn't read the terms and conditions before you clicked on "I agree?"

Hat tip to Ed Driscoll at Instapundit.

As Steve would say, “Buy. Physical. Media.”

A Pirate's Cove Musical Interlude

William Teach at Pirate's Cove serves up a musical break from the insanity. Let There Be Shred

Just not in the mood for politics, strife, ‘climate change’, controversy, so, how about some shred?

Click thru for "Let There Be Shred" by Megadeth from their 2026 album, Megadeth

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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