Saturday Roundup of Link Roundups - 28 June

The Right Way starts thing off with Top of the News

Oil Prices Drop Further, Global Stocks Rally on Ceasefire - Bongino Report
AG Bondi: Over 1,000 Iranian Sleepers in US - Newsmax

Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 06.25.25 (Afternoon Edition)

Shark Tank: Miccosukee Tribe Requests Halt To “Alligator Alcatraz” Plans
Shot In The Dark: Back On Course

Animal Magnetism - Animal’s Hump Day News

Well, they may actually be that stupid, yes.
Endurance is a good thing.

EBL - Superman: Red Son

AoSHQ: New York City chooses the form of its destructor
Instapundit: Zohran Mamdani's New York

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 27 June 2025: Thirteen Trillion Edition

AI makes people dumber. (MSN)
This is a finding that has been replicated in a series of studies across education and professional use:

The Glibertarians - Thursday Morning Links

NATO allies agree to higher 5% defense spending target
Former Biden Aide Does Not Know Who Ordered President Autopen Signatures

Flopping Aces - The Week in Radical Leftism – More from The Nation!

Abolishing ICE Is the Bare Minimum
Don’t bother clicking the link, I read the entire article out of morbid curiosity as to what went beyond the “bare minimum”, but that was where the article stopped.

Wombat-socho again - In The Mailbox: 06.25.25 (Evening Edition)

The Political Hat: The Trump Tram Ride
This Ain’t Hell: Illegal alien charged with attempted murder after attacking federal agent

Vlad Tepes - Concrete proofs Canada is going full totalitarian and surveillance state under Carney

4. Top constitutional lawyer slams Indigenous land acknowledgements as virtue signaling
John Carpay and his law firm, are at this point the last hope for rule of law, and actual constitutional rights in Canada.

Gates of Vienna - News Feed 6/25/2025

German National Debt to Rocket With Borrowing to Double in 2025
German national debt looks set to climb to record heights this year, according to the country’s latest budget.

Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog - LinkSwarm For June 27, 2025

Pam Bondi and Kash Patel should shine a lot of disinfecting sunlight here.
Winning: “Supreme Court Allows States to Cut Off Medicaid Funding to Planned Parenthood.”

A View from the Beach - Flotsam and Jetsam - Trump "Obliterates" Media Meme

Hat Hair's Capt. Ed hears Netanyahu: Regime Change Can't Come From a Bombing Campaign -- And MEF Agrees. Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays, "I have a feeling Iran's regime already changed. All the Supreme Leader's underlings needed to do was lock him in a bunker

Again from Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 06.27.25

Victory Girls: Thwap! Amy Coney Barrett Smacks Ketanji Brown Jackson
Watts Up With That: Gardi Sugdub’s ‘Climate Exodus’ Myth

Small Dead Animals - Thursday On Turtle Island

Woke America: Democrats go full communist. VDH – The Iranian theocracy.
Lord Carney’s Canada: A new world order? Gayest country on the planet. Tenth of Senate faults Jews.

DaleyGator - WEEKEND HOOKING UP

Pirates Cove Can hot women overheat the climate?
Woodsterman Release the Libturds
Bacon Time ponders Bob’s Fate

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 27 June 2025: Thirteen Trillion Edition

Nvidia's RTX 5050 is here and it's a waste of sand. (Gamer's Nexus)
Well it's not actually out yet, but comparing the specs with older Nvidia GPUs the picture is not pretty.

Maggie's Farm - Wednesday morning links

Alligator Alcatraz
Trump’s Iran ceasefire depends on American oil

J.J. Sefton at Ace of Spades HQ - The Morning Report — 6/ 26 /25

"I could get a statement that they’re not going to go nuclear, we’re probably going to ask for that."
Trump Shuts Door On Iran Talks: ‘They’ve Had It’

Doug Ross - Larwyn’s Linx: Emissary Steve Witkoff Discusses Next Steps with Iran and Expansion of the Abraham Accords

• In the End, Everyone Hated the Iranian Theocracy - Victor Davis Hanson
• When Professors Quit, America Wins: Trump Was Right to Purge Ideology from War Colleges - @amuse

Anonymous Conservative - News Briefs – 06/27/2025

NYC woman found a phone buried in her lawn — and police say it’s a new tactic thieves use to spy on homeowners. Maybe. Or maybe it is neighborhood surveillance and the “authorities” are running cover for it.

I leave you with Wednesday's gifs from Wirecutter, Quick Hits Of Wisdom, Knowledge And Snark #2715 from 90 Miles From Tyranny, Midweek Memes from Granite Grok, and Wednesday Memes … from MaddMedic.

Another Failure of the Victim-Selection Process

He apparently thought that past performance was a guarantee of present success. Store manager shoots and kills teen robber at gas station, authorities say

This gas station had been robbed a month ago. That person fit this teen's description.

A gas station clerk shot and killed a teenager who was attempting to rob the store early Saturday morning, according to police.

After getting shot, he ran from the crime scene.

The 17-year-old was found wearing a hoodie, mask and orange gloves. He also had a 9mm Taurus pistol next to his body, according to police.

Prichard, Alabama is about 5 miles northwest of downtown Mobile.

Did he rob the store last month? Was he inspired by the robber from last month? We will never know.

Self-defense is a human right.

Levels of Editorial Oversight Failed

I see The Chicago Sun-Times and The Chicago Tribune are still adversarial. Chicago Sun-Times Sunday insert contains 10 fake books in list

A special section inserted into the Sunday Chicago Sun-Times featured page upon page of fun summer activities, including a list of 15 books to bring along while lounging by the pool or relaxing in a favorite reading spot.

The only problem: The authors are real, but most of the books don’t exist. Artificial intelligence, employed by a Chicago freelance writer, simply made them up.

The Sun-Times is "looking into" how this could have happened, but there is no mystery. Whoever put the list together hired a recent college grad, and that recent college grad turned to AI, and no one bothered to check.

“We are looking into how this made it into print as we speak,” the Sun-Times said. “This is licensed content that was not created by, or approved by, the Sun-Times newsroom, but it is unacceptable for any content we provide to our readers to be inaccurate. We value our readers’ trust in our reporting and take this very seriously.”

As Pixy Misa has been saying for some time, AI is a pathological liar in a box.

The internet was fun while it lasted, but it will soon be awash in AI generated lies. It is already less useful that it was 10 years ago.

Burn

Postmodern Jukebox doesn't break into my attention stream very often, but it did through a roundabout way. This song was brought to my attention by Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony.

Disclaimer: Some men just want to watch the world burn. I'm here selling saxophones.

Pixy Misa has a musical interlude as part of the Tech News (almost) every day.

The musicians are:

• Robyn Adele Anderson - vocals (center)
• Cristina Gatti - vocals (left)
• Ashley Stroud - vocals (right)
• Stefan Zeniuk - Flame-O-Phone
• Adam Kubota - bass
• Allan Mednard - drums
• Scott Bradlee - piano

This is "Burn" by Vintage '60s Girl Group Ellie Goulding Cover feat. Robyn Adele Anderson (brought to you by Postmodern Jukebox). The fire starts about 1 minute in. You want to see it.

The fire extinguisher on top of the piano is a nice touch.

Friday Links - 27 June

William Teach at Pirate's Cove starts us off with Heartache: SCOTUS Rules Trump Admin Can Send Illegals To 3rd Party Countries

And, without “due process”. This is going to cause some baying from the moonbats. Also, I love that ABC News, and many others, portray this as Trump personally picking and choosing

The Vigilant Fox - RFK Jr. Shocks Congress With Brutal Message to Top Democrat Rep

The real firestorm came when he called out the one Democrat Rep. who took more Big Pharma money than anyone else on the committee.

The Other McCain - NYC Goes Full Zimbabwe

Never go full Zimbabwe. You can order a $10 trillion Zimbabwe note online for under $25, which is still more than its actual value as currency, but rather reflects what it’s worth as a collector’s item, a memento of the kleptocratic regime of Robert Mugabe.

The Gateway Pundit - Tucker Carlson Exposes Murdoch Plot to Take Down Trump — Says They Urged Him to Run Against 45 Right After Axing His Show

Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson has come forward with explosive claims: the Murdoch family — the globalist puppet-masters behind Fox News, The Wall Street Journal, and the New York Post — tried to recruit him to run against President Donald Trump for the 2024 Republican nomination

Clayton Cramer - A Living Wage and Respect for Laborers: the Left is Going to Explode

Over at X, the TDS crowd is whining that this will increase meat prices. I suspect the vegan/vegetarian segment will applaud. The rest, worried more about how to make decent Beef Bourginon for festive meetings of the Living Wages Committee, are convinced that adding ten cents per pound at most to the price of meet is a disaster.

John Sexton at Hot Air - Jewish Democrats Have a Bad Feeling About This

Mamdani has denied any antisemtic intent but his politics are definitely pretty compatible with that of the Hamas supporters who've been rallying at Columbia University.

The Other McCain again - The Worst News Network on the Planet Has Covered Itself in Shame This Week

For the past couple of days, I’ve been watching CNN (so you don’t have to) and — dear merciful God! — there are no words to describe how awful it is. On the other hand, the attempt to describe it gave me an excuse to beat that dead dog again with a 1,300-word opus.

Attitude Counts in Self-Defense

And when the government forbids you the use of effective tools, you must improvise. Ontario family fought off home invaders using fire extinguisher and baseball bats

The owners of an Ontario home targeted twice by thieves in less than a month are speaking out, describing how they used baseball bats and a fire extinguisher to repel the second home invasion, which police believe targeted their vehicle.

In Texas, or Florida, this would be a very different story. In Canada the law abiding are disarmed. It is for their own protection, of course. That protection didn't stop them from being victimized, of course.

Three weeks earlier, the homeowners said there had been another break-in at their home, this time through a bedroom window. In that instance, the suspects carried hammers, according to the homeowners, who said they fought them off with a coat rack.

Clearly Canada should enact common sense hammer control. Or something.

Still, attitude carries the day.

Self-defense is a human right, but Canada doesn't see it that way. You must rely on the state, even for the things the state cannot provide.

MV Celebrity Edge: A Maritime Mishap

Though it was more in the nature of a near miss, than a catastrophe.

Some time ago, when one of the maritime disasters was in the news, someone asked how often stuff goes wrong around boats. The answer is, "All the time." So much so, that unless a mishap impacts global trade, like the ship that was blocking the Suez Canal a few years back, or the ship that knocked down a bridge in Baltimore, you don't hear about it.

This story may make an impact on the news for a couple of reasons:

1. It involved cruise ships.
2. There is video.

I don't know if this has been plastered all over the news or not. I suspect not, just based on everything else going on, but I am fairly well insulated from the general 24 hour news insanity.

From Cruise Hive: Celebrity Edge Breaks Loose in Alaska Port Due to Sudden Wind Squall. This could have been a collision between 2 cruise ships, but the other ship, that was in danger from this, managed to maneuver out of the way.

On the afternoon of June 16, 2025, Celebrity Cruises’ Celebrity Edge broke free from her mooring lines – likely as a result of inclement weather. Video taken by witnesses shows heavy rain and wind.

MV Celebrity Edge is the lead ship in the Edge Class at Celebrity Cruise Lines. It has a length overall of 306 meters, a beam of 39 meters, a draft of 8.4 meters, and 15 decks. There are 4 Wärtsilä marine engines installed powering 2 azimuth thruster pods, and 4 side thrusters. It was laid down in 2016 and launched in 2018, for a cost of $1 billion.

If you only want to see the video showing the lines parting, this article at The Weather Channel has a short 30 second video. All it really shows are the lines parting and the ship away from the dock. (The video will autoplay the next story in line, so that is something to be aware of.)

This is Sal Mercagliano's video from What's Going on With Shipping? MV Celebrity Edge Breaks Loose from Its Moorings in the Port of Juneau, Alaska | June 16, 2025. The video is 20 minutes, but is comprehensive. Sal Mercagliano makes use of vessel tracking to show the other ships in the area, and how one of them managed to get out of the way, avoiding a collision.

Even Reporters Admit EVs Don't Beat Internal Combustion

Electric vehicles don't work for long distance driving. The infrastructure does not match that built for internal combustion engines (ICE). And then there is cost. After Driving 2,500 Kilometers in Electric Car, they Reached an Irrefutable Conclusion: “Diesel” Is Still King on the Road

A group of journalists started at the Tesla factory in Berlin, and drove 2 vehicles from there to Madrid.

When a group of Spanish journalists embarked on a 2,500-kilometer journey across Europe, their mission seemed clear: test the viability of electric cars on long-distance trips. But after their trek from Berlin to Madrid, the team returned with an unexpected conclusion. The future of electric cars, it seems, is not quite ready to dethrone traditional vehicles for those in search of a cost-effective and practical option on the road.

The cost of recharging was higher than what a comparable vehicle would have paid for either gas or diesel.

Over the course of 2,500 kilometers, recharging the electric vehicles cost them €53.62 more than if they had fueled a comparable diesel car.

This cost discrepancy grew even more when comparing the electric vehicles to a gasoline car, with the electric vehicles’ total fuel cost exceeding the gasoline vehicle’s by €136.61.

The charging infrastructure is also lacking. They were driving Tesla vehicles, and when they could find a Tesla supercharger, things were good. They couldn't always find a Tesla charger however.

Superchargers, known for their speed, are an expensive option. The journalists realized that opting for slower charging stations could reduce the overall cost of the trip, but it would also mean adding more time to the journey.

So will that extra time equate to a motel stay?

The article still parrots the idea that electric vehicles are better for the environment. Pay no attention to the environmental devastation caused by lithium mining is South America, or nickle mining if Indonesia, or child labor mining cobalt in Africa. The fact is that EVs don't work for everyone.

The hat tip goes to Net Zero Quickie: Auto industry in "FULL PANIC MODE" | MGUY Australia. The video is less than 4 minutes.

Churches Need to Address Security

This isn't going to get better. Churches increase security training after CrossPointe shooting incident

Days before a gunman showed up at CrossPointe Community Church in Wayne, members of that church and its volunteer security team were learning how to protect their house of worship.

"If it isn't the norm for your church, it's probably the time to start thinking about it," said Matt Balla from Peacemakers Gun Range in Howell.

It is a sad commentary on the state of the society, but it is what it is.

This brings to mind Hobbes' Leviathan. The idea that security is required for civilization to endure is not new. Hobbes published Leviathan in 1651. In that book he describes the State of War that ensues when law and order break down.

Western Civilization is built on a foundation of law and order. Without law and order, you can't have nice things. You can't have anything really. Or as Hobbes stated it, when there is no force-of-law to keep people in check, things break down. We are left with only the security we can provide for ourselves.

I'm Shocked That After Years of Open Borders ...

Bad people are in the country. ICE arrests Iranian sniper with an Islamic Republic of Iran Army identification card in North Alabama

No doubt people will tell me, basically, that "there's nothing to see here," and I should just ignore the Iranian sniper. Or something.

As federal officials began looking for potential threats to the United States after its actions in bombing Iran this week, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced on Tuesday that it had arrested a Locust Fork man with an Islamic Republic of Iran Army identification card in a nationwide roundup.

Vetting Process? Defending the country from foreign agents? The Biden administration couldn't be bothered with all that, they had important stuff to do!

I wish I could give someone a hat tip for this story, but I neglected to make note of where I read about it.

News Flash: Liberals Oppose Anything Related to Immigration Enforcement

Is anyone shocked? "Alligator Alcatraz" immigrant detention center sparks outcry as DeSantis claims zero environmental impact - CBS Miami

Florida has begun building a new migrant detention center deep in the Everglades, springing into action after the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) approved the development. But activists and locals have already raised major concerns, citing environmental and human rights issues.

It is to be located at the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport. It is just north of US Highway 41, about halfway from Miami to Naples on Highway 41. It is literally in the middle of The Everglades. Anyone attempting to escape could go east or west on US 41, or off into a wilderness area infested with alligators and the invasive anaconda snake. (I haven't lived in that part of the country in more than a decade, but I assume they have not eliminated the snake problem.) That's if you aren't drained dry by the mosquitos, or just overcome by the heat and humidity.

Dwight Bullard, a former State Senator and senior policy advisor at the nonprofit Florida Rising, says the organization is wholly against the building of the detention center, also citing humanitarian and environmental concerns. He says the state, even under Republican leadership, has been looking to “restore the Everglades,” particularly because of its importance in the area’s water system.

There are other 'voices' expressing concern.

Eve Samples, executive director of Friends of the Everglades, said 7600 people had written to the governor and attorney general. Current estimates of Florida's population are about 23 million, so 0.033 percent of the population is "on record" not liking this solution. If you use the 2020 census number of 21 million population, it 0.036 percent of the population possessed to this plan.

Wednesday Link Roundup - 25 June

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

8. GeeeZ….: Hating Trump more than Loving America?
9. IOTW Report: Dr. Demento Retires

EBL - Glenn Reynolds's Five Takes on Bombing Iran

TOM: How Trump Ruined the Media’s Weekend
AoSHQ: Trump confirms Iran nuke sites struck
Instapundit: Operation Midnight Hammer

Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 06.23.25

Elizabeth Nickson: World Tells Muslims Conform Or Get Off My Lawn
First Street Journal: World War III Watch

The judge presiding over the New York Times vs. OpenAI lawsuit rejects claims that she created a mass surveillance nightmare after she created a mass surveillance nightmare. (Ars Technica)

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 24 June 2025: Ottoman Edition

Small Dead Animals - Saturday On Turtle Island

Stories You Won’t Find At Carney’s CBC: Diversity outbreak in Poland. Technocratic death cult. Diversity is our strength in Germany. Somali migrants in Holland. The milkman. From the man cave.

Gates of Vienna - News Feed 6/22/2025

Cleveland Clinic, one of the nation’s most prominent nonprofit hospital systems, is facing scrutiny from the watchdog group Consumers’ Research, which says the hospital prioritizes political ideology over patient care while benefiting from taxpayer funding.

Don Surber - Highlights of the week

ITEM 22: The Kentucky Lantern reported, “Longtime Eastern Kentucky Democrat joins the Republican Party.”
I figured out why Robin Webb, 64, left. She’s too good looking

Battleswarm Blog - Counting Up Texas Gun Rights Wins

House Bill 1403 (No Firearms Registry for Foster Parents by Rep. Cody Harris & Sen. Mayes Middleton). You can’t deny foster parents just because they lawfully own firearms.

A View from the Beach - Flotsam and Jetsam - Iran Strikes Back, Agrees to Ceasefire, Breaks Ceasefire

From RCP, FNC's Griffin: "In 18 Years, I've Never Seen Such Operational Security." Insty at his NYPo, gig, Trump’s Iran strike revealed a second surprise: a competent White House.

The Glibertarians - Saturday evening Links

Apparently, Team Red likes to fuck.
Clone this motherfucker and put him in charge of every country in the world.

Vlad Tepes - Grab your antiemetics: A look at official Canadian culture and the NYC Mayoral race — Links 1 for June 22, 2025

2. The UK pretends to care about foreign Muslims forming sex slave orgs enslaving and industrial scale rape of British girls. This is an interview with one of their victims.

Maggie's Farm - Saturday morning links

What's up with The Great American Novel?
Fossil fuel use is growing
Bari’s Picks of the Week: Will We or Won’t We?

J.J. Sefton at Ace of Spades HQ - The Morning Report — 6/ 23 /25

For years Norway’s support for those waging terror against Israel has been official policy.
Norway and Anti-Semitism

Doug Ross - Larwyn’s Linx: Trump saves world, Democrats complain

• In Latest Media Disinformation, CNN Falsely Accuses Trump Of Not Notifying Democrats Of Iran Strike - Julianna Frieman
• Sorry seems to be the hardest word - Scott Johnson

Anonymous Conservative - News Briefs – 06/24/2025

Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said Tuesday he had ordered the military to strike Tehran in response to what he said were missiles fired by Iran in a violation of the ceasefire announced hours earlier by U.S. President Donald Trump. Iran denied violating the ceasefire.

I leave you with Sunday Funnies For 06-22-25 from Stately McDaniel Manor, MEME ME from DaleyGator, Sunday Funnies from Flopping Aces, Pic Dump................ from Theo Spark, and Who doesn't hate Mondays? gifdump (again) from Wirecutter.

The Prepared Citizen Movement

This sounds a bit like standard prepping with a side order of 3-gun shooting matches. Prepared citizen movement growing among Americans | NewsNation

Does it seem like there is more chaos in the world, or is it just that more people are paying attention?

The “prepared citizen” movement is a growing trend in which people take proactive steps to become self-reliant and ready for various emergencies or crises. It includes hardcore military training, self-defense and tools such as first aid and emergency communication.

Or maybe "Prepared Citizen" is the new PC term for prepper.

“They were trying to learn how to shoot literally days before the Russians invaded,” said [Eric] Roscher, a U.S. Air Force veteran and owner of Barrel and Hatchet Trade Group. “And so they were almost, like, helpless. And I saw it was like in America, we shouldn’t have that problem. One, we have the Second Amendment, but we as citizens should have the ability to defend our country and ourselves, and it’s in our Constitution.”

It's an interesting article, given that the author of the piece seems to have been mostly clueless about prepping. There was one interesting statement.

“Riots, elections, foreign wars, people realizing that their safety is their own personal responsibility,” [Ben Brown, owner of Wise Men Company] said. “No one’s coming to save them.”

The first place I saw that phrase was in the Graham Killhouse Rules:

Vance Boelter, Amy Klobuchar, and Tim Walz

This story was originally on the Star Tribune website, but I could not get that page to display. The link is below. Letter to FBI from shooting suspect made wild claims about Klobuchar and Walz, sources say

I will start with the hat tip, or part of it. Matt Margolis at PJ Media notes "Now We Know Why the Minnesota Assassin Story Disappeared Overnight."

But back to the article above.

In a rambling, conspiratorial letter addressed to the FBI, alleged assassin Vance Boelter claimed Gov. Tim Walz instructed him to kill U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar so that Walz could run for the U.S. Senate, according to two people familiar with the contents of the letter.

I predict that the FBI, or at least the office in Minnesota, will do everything to claim that they cannot release this letter because of an ongoing investigation. I no longer have faith in Kash Patel to overrule them.

Federal prosecutors allege the letter was left behind in a Buick that Boelter deserted near his home in Green Isle, Minn. It also allegedly contained Boelter’s confession that he carried out the shootings that killed state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, and injured Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette.

There is more, and it is interesting, but it is all contributed to those "sources familiar with the letter."

Now back to Now We Know Why the Minnesota Assassin Story Disappeared Overnight.

Have you wondered why the story of the Minnesota assassin Vance Boelter has suddenly vanished from the news? Now we have a pretty good idea why.

The media was quick to pile on Boelter as MAGA, Religious, Conservative, etc.

In short, Boelter is just a wacko. His letter is a testament to his fractured mind, not a manifesto of political grievance. The media’s rush to blame conservatives and the governor’s passive complicity in allowing false narratives to spread are failures that demand scrutiny. The truth matters, and in this case, it exposes a grotesque distortion of reality by those eager to score political points amid a horrific crime.

The original link to the story at The Minnesota Star Tribune: Letter to FBI from shooting suspect made wild claims about Klobuchar and Walz, sources say.

Afterlife

Today's song was served up by YouTube Music, which actually manages to be a reasonable music streaming service, aside from the fact that they are dead last when it comes to paying artists fairly for using their music.

This song is "Afterlife" by Evanescence. It is from the soundtrack to the Netfilx animated show Devil May Cry. It was released as a single in April. (While I have heard of the video game Devil May Cry, I didn't know that Netflix was doing a series based on it.)

Tuesday Links - 24 June

The Other McCain is up first with NY Times on the Left’s Skrmetti Bungle: ‘Somebody Set Up Us the Bomb’

And now that it’s blown up in their faces, the Left is trying to obscure the truth — their ideas are wrong and their policies are bad — by pointing to tactical errors and, also, blaming Trump.

Miguel Gonzalez - Things may get spicy once again.

Expect the Nose Ring/Black Hoodie crowd to be aggressively waving newly made Iranian flags attached to pipes to ply their "mostly peaceful " trade.

Clayton Cramer - California One-Gun-a-Month Struck Down

The 9th Circuit ruled that California's ban on purchasing more than one gun a month violates the Second Amendment. Nguyen v. Bonta (9th Cir. 2025).

On pp. 23-24, thr decision cites a law review article by myself and Joe Olson. Time to update my list of citations.

William Teach at Pirate's Cove - US Strike Iran’s Nuclear Sites

Obviously, this is making the Democrats and TDS infused Republicans upset.

Jews Can Shoot - Jews Must Arm Themselves

Every time I express this position, especially alongside my broader conviction that it is extraordinarily important for Jews to obtain CCWs and carry guns, I hear a wave of pushback from within the Jewish community, which is still largely opposed to gun ownership. But their arguments are always flimsy at best and dangerously deluded at worst.

Again from The Other McCain - How Trump Ruined the Media’s Weekend

“HOLY FUCKING SHIT! THAT SON OF A BITCH!”

Which is how reporters talk, by the way, especially when they find out on a Saturday night that they’ve got barely an hour to write the lead for a front-page story in the Sunday paper, and the only information they’ve got is a Truth Social message from Donald Trump. Bwa-hahahahaha!

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 22 June 2025: B2 Complex Edition

Intel plans to lay off its marketing team and outsource the task to Accenture and AI. (The Oregonian) (archive site)

Torn between predicting obvious failure and predicting that it cannot possibly get worse.

Victory Girls - Gavin Newsom: French Laundry, Part Deux

We could call Gavin and the California Democrats “Les Incompetents”, but it is not their competency that is in question here. They are fully aware of their priorities and how they impact those around them and they simply do not care. This is Political Podcasting in the name of Self-Promotion. This is The French (Laundry) Art of Not Giving a F–k. This is Cabernet over Crisis.

Newsmax - AP-NORC Poll: Dem Support for Solar, Offshore Wind Energy Falls

Americans’ support for green energy tax credits and renewable energies like wind and solar power has decreased in recent years, according to a new poll, driven by a softening in support from Democrats and Independents.

Wombat-socho - FMJRA 2.0: Before The Deluge

Well, it could have been worse.

Is Anything In Your Car Worth Your Life?

I get it. You are angry that they are stealing your stuff. But take a breath. Again! Car burglars shoot man who confronted them in the South Loop; 3rd auto burglar shooting in a week - CWB Chicago

At approximately 3:13 a.m., the man confronted four suspects breaking into his car in the 2000 block of South Wabash, according to Chicago police. At least two of the burglars drew firearms and opened fire, striking the man in the back as he fled toward his home. A nearby storefront’s glass was also damaged by a bullet.

He is in a local hospital in good condition, but it could have gone differently.

CWB has a list of recent incidents, some of which include the owner of the car getting shot. (Hat tip to Second City Cop.)

Does Mutually Assured Destruction Deter Crazy People?

Probably not. M.A.D. v. Mad: There is a difference. - by Miguel Gonzalez

Russia may or may not use nukes. Is anybody with some amount of rationally brain is willing to bet that Iran will not use nukes once they make them?

Russians are sane. Even their craziest leaders were mostly sane. They don't want their country to glow in the dark. Can you say the same about radical Islam?

Miguel G. considers the problem. Click thru.

3D Printed Revolver Seized in Boston

As always, this comes from Impro Guns. Ryno 3D Printed Revolver Seized in Boston

People are already taking advantage of the recently unveiled Infinite .22lr Revolver Hack and are beginning to flood the streets with dirt cheap firepower.

As noted, Australia and the UK will no doubt continue to try and keep this technology under government control. They will fail.

No, banning the ‘templates’ won’t help.

Click thru for the photo.

For those not in the gun community, Ryno refers to this gun being a resonably close copy of the Chiappa Firearms Rhino.

A Wombat-socho Musical Interlude

From Wombat-socho at The Other McCain we get Rule 5 Sunday: In The Sun

I usually stay away from Rule 5, even though Wombat-socho is usually tasteful about the whole thing. Not everyone is.

But this week the Song of the Day is from Blondie's first album, which made an impression on people. And 1976, while it wasn't a great year, the Bicentennial was very disappointing, Gerald Ford was disappointing, etc., wasn't an awful time for me.

Click thru for "In The Sun" by Blondie from the 1976 album Blondie.

Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

Enter The Behelit

Beast in Black is a European Heavy Metal band known for the clear, and high, singing voice of Yannis Papadopoulos. Diablo is an Action Roll Playing Game/franchise that is very popular, and Berserk is a Manga from the late 1980s that spawned both anime and video games. Roll them all together and you get today's song/video.

This is what Metal Heads Forever had to say on April 29th. BEAST IN BLACK and Blizzard Entertainment’s Diablo® Join Forces to release new track ‘Enter The Behelit’

The limited-edition maxi single will feature a brand-new song ‘Enter The Behelit’ from BEAST IN BLACK, inspired by Berserk and produced exclusively for the game, as well as remastered versions of fan favourite tracks ‘Die By The Blade’ from the album From Hell With Love, and ‘The Fifth Angel’ from the band’s debut album, Berserker. With many songs taking inspiration from Berserk story and characters, the Finnish heavy metal band’s music often reflects the undercurrents of struggle, fighting against overwhelming odds, and battling inner demons – themes that are prevalent in the games of the Diablo franchise.

This song is "Enter The Behelit" by Beast in Black. It was released to YouTube at the end of April, and amassed 1 million views by the middle of May.

Good Guys 1, Bad Guys 0

Miguel Gonzalez goes into more detail on a self-defense shooting from earlier in the month. The importance of using the proper shotgun shells (Part 2 - Video)

My previous stance of using at least buckshot stands and now I want to add one that I should have mentioned before.

Anything worth shooting once is worth shooting twice. Keep shooting till the threat ceases.

And he has some thoughts about other weapons.

And yes, if you have a semi rifle, one of them Scary Black Rifles, the racking part takes care of itself and that is my weapon of choice for home defense. But we need to be proficient when we do not have access to our weapon of choice and the only thing available is a pump shotgun or even a coach gun.

Click thru. There is TV news story that includes security camera video of the break in and self-defense shooting, as well as a statement from local police, and a statement from the shop owner.

And I love that the store owner uses the phrase, "Good Guys 1, Bad Guys 0."

Hendersonville, Tennessee is about an 18 mile drive northeast of downtown Nashville.

EVs Are NOT More Reliable than Internal Combustion

From The London Telegraph (by way of the Wayback Machine): EVs ‘most likely type of car to break down’ One in six said their electric car broke down a higher breakdown rate than for petrol, diesel or hybrid cars, according to a survey

The findings come after Jakob Pfaudler, the AA’s chief executive, warned of a “common misconception that electric vehicles break down less frequently than petrol and diesel vehicles”.

This is the MGUY Australia video Oops! EVs are LESS reliable than regular cars: survey

Not only are they more likely to fail on you, you're less likely to get it fixed quickly.

The video is just over 6 minutes.

Lies, Damn Lies, and (Gun Control) Statistics

I'm shocked that the gun-hating part of the Left would lie. Or maybe I'm not so shocked. Things Get Messy Fast When You Dig Into the Number Behind the Gun Control Industry’s Favorite Talking Points

For decades, gun control advocates and their allies in “public health” have pushed a misleading factoid about children and firearms.

This is how it works: Step one, acquire statistics on firearm-related deaths among children ages 0 to 14. Step two, combine that relatively low number with the far greater number of firearm-related deaths involving juveniles and young adults ages 15 to 17, 15 to 19, or even ages 15 to 24. Step three, present the resulting data as the shocking number of “children” (ages 0 to 17, 0 to 19 or 0 to 24) who are subjected to “gun violence” each day/week/month/year. Step four, use the disingenuous statistic to advocate for pre-determined gun control policies by claiming “gun violence is the leading cause of death of children.”

Hat tip to Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit: IF THEIR ARGUMENTS WERE GOOD, WOULD THEY HAVE TO LIE SO MUCH?

Feminist Misses Men, Wants Them Back

That's what she thinks, anyway. Jeff Childers at Flopping Aces wrote a takedown of the feminist and her article. The original is linked below if you think he is overstating the issue. (He isn't.) Feminism Told Women They Didn’t Need Men – Now They’re Dining Alone, Writing Op-Eds, and Wondering Where Everyone Went

Rachel Drucker, the author of the oringinal lament, doesn't say on what terms she wants men back, but Flopping Aces covers that.

The piece’s writer, Rachel Drucker, 53, described herself as a divorced former custodian of records for Playboy Magazine. Thanks to her smut-peddling experience, she’s become an expert on men. Or at least, that’s what she thinks. “I came to understand,” Rachel lectured readers, “in exact terms, what cues tempt the average 18-to-36-year-old cis heterosexual man.”

But alas! At 53, Rachel’s bag of transactional smut-peddling tricks is empty. Or at least, she’s shot past the 18-36 runway. Rachel now lives in a rom-com. She described her New York life as though she were a main character in Sex and the City. After one gentleman politely excused himself at the last minute from a date, she got dolled up anyway and took herself out for dinner. Rachel doesn’t need a man!

Maybe it is just the company I keep, but I don't hear the statement, "A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle," as much as I did during the 1980s.

Rachel Drucker is the strong woman. Career. Married and Divorced. She doesn't say what went wrong. For once, at least for the time being, there is a New York Times article that is NOT behind a firewall. You can read it for yourself.

Women were once signifiers of value, even to other men. It wasn’t always healthy, but it meant that men had to show up and put in some effort.

That dynamic has quietly collapsed. We have moved into an era where many men no longer seek women to impress other men or to connect across difference. They perform elsewhere. Alone. They’ve filtered us out.

Feminists told men to get lost. Well, outside of hookup culture anyway. Men would need to do half the dishes, half the laundry or be derided for not "doing their fair share." How many of the women mow the lawn, or better yet change the oil in the lawn mower. You can't stop by Jiffy Lube, or wherever, on your way home from work, and overpay to have someone change the oil, as you can do with a car. (And yes, I overpay to have someone else change the oil in my car, and I have for decades, but I do change the oil in my lawn mowers - plural.)

As Jeff Childers points out in the 1st link above, there is no reflection on the part of Ms. Drucker to ask, "Why did the men leave?" It couldn't be because they were told they were toxic, could it?

Mr. Childers goes on to discuss MAGA, and the whole tradwife thing on TikTok or Instagram or wherever it is to be found. Not sure I agree with everything he says, but the Democrats seem completely clueless when it comes to the current crop of young men.

As Shoe0nHead pointed out, after the election last year, Democrats, after calling young men the "Hilter Youth," basically asked the question:

How do we get young men to get on board with "Young men eat shit and die!" movement?

Her suggestion that you not call them the Hitler Youth made half of YouTube explode. And listen long enough to hear the section about "The Liberal Joe Rogan." It is about 7 and half minutes to get from where I have the video cued, to the part where Shoe0nHead predicts the blue wave of podcasts, such as Governor Hairgel, and Michelle Obama have tried to start.

By the way, with all these like journalists and people talking about how we need a liberal Andrew Tate, a liberal Joe Rogan, yeah, be prepared to see some of the most forced, overproduced, AstroTurfed, streamers and YouTubers to pop up overnight, and subtly, or not so subtly, start shilling for the Democratic party. You're going to start seeing funded DNC plants all over YouTube, Twitch, TikTok because they really do think the answer to all of this is "more podcasts."

That whole video is worth it by the way, if you can find the 35 minutes, or so, to watch it. (Image at the top was lifted from Flopping Aces.)

When I got to the bottom of the Flopping Aces story, it redirected me to the Coffee and COVID substack for the entire takedown.

Vaccines, Injuries, and Money

Conservative Woman, out of the UK, brings us some info on COVID "vaccines." Another spike in the vaccine coffin? - The Conservative Woman

AS I HAVE previously mentioned in many such articles, the covid vaccines were never necessary, nor are they effective. Indeed, they have inflicted more misery, damage and death than perhaps any other medical intervention ever.

On top of the cardiac, blood clotting and many autoimmune diseases such as Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS) that the vaccine has triggered, it is now accepted that the rise in cancer cases, especially the newly identified ‘turbo’ cancers are indeed associated in particular with the booster shots.

Of course they had to redefine the term vaccine to get these to apply.

And of course the "medical establishment is working overtime to get any study of the "vaccines" killed in the cradle, or stangled before it can see the light of day.

Most published scientific papers pointing out these issues are plagued by efforts to have the papers retracted. It is therefore worth highlighting a current Japanese study, SARS-CoV-2 spike protein in cerebral Arteries: Implications for hemorrhagic stroke Post-mRNA vaccination, recently published in the Journal of Clinical Neuroscience. It clearly shows the presence of the COV-SARS-2 spike protein in cerebral arteries. The study involved 19 patients who had a hemorrhagic stroke post mRNA vaccination. Full details are given, with 43.8 per cent of these patients clearly showing the spike protein in the intima (innermost coating) of the cerebral arteries. Findings show it was still present in patients up to 17 months post vaccination.

These things are still being pushed on everyone.

Follow the money if you want to know why. Also from Conservative Woman: Big Pharma fat cats get fatter still

THE chief executive of BioNTech received a staggering nine-figure pay package last year, according to the industry website Fierce Pharma. The bulk of Dr Uğur Şahin’s $287million (£212million) recompense came from exercising share options, and took him to the top of the publication’s list of highest-paid pharma CEOs.

Eli Lilly’s CEO, David Ricks. That company makes weight-loss drugs to compete with Ozempic.

Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla ranked third, with a total compensation of $24.6million — his second-highest annual salary after his $33million payout in 2022, when Pfizer was reaping massive profits from its covid vaccine and its antiviral Paxlovid.

There is more. COVID figures in some of it. Weight-loss figures in some of it.

Blue States Are Not Interested in the Results of Education

If they were interested in results, those results might be better than awful. From City Journal: Blue States Used to Lead in Education. Not Anymore: Republican-led states are banning ineffective teaching methods, rapidly improving student outcomes.

Not long ago, blue states typically outperformed red ones when it came to education. That is changing. Blue states like Oregon and Washington experienced significant drops in reading and math scores for both fourth- and eighth-graders between 2015 and 2024, worse than the national declines during the same period. Mississippi, meantime, gained five points in fourth-grade reading and math and held steady in eighth-grade performance. Louisiana also maintained its scores, defying the negative national trends.

The most glaring example is phonics. Whole Language became the fad in American education, despite the fact that phonics was used forever. Why? Because reasons. And teachers didn't want to grade worksheets. (That is a common problem.)

In recent decades, however, red states have returned to phonics. In 2013, Mississippi, under unified Republican leadership in both the legislature and governor’s mansion, was an early adopter of requiring that teachers be trained in evidence-based reading pedagogies. At the time, Mississippi rated second to last in reading scores nationally. But since then, the Magnolia State has steadily climbed the rankings. In fact, adjusted for demographics, it now stands among the top states in reading.

Then there is "equity." Click thru for the whole thing.

Take Chicago as typical Blue City. From Illinois Policy, we get a glimpse of the insanity. Chicago mayor praises school with just 2% adept readers as example of his values

Mayor Brandon Johnson's Chicago just signed a new contract with the teachers' union.

In discussing the contract, Johnson pointed to Dyett High School as “a great example of a sustainable community school.” His reasoning? Its basketball team won the state championship last month.

But when it comes to Job No. 1, educating students? Dyett is failing. That’s not unusual because sustainable community schools produce among the worst outcomes for students in CPS.

Only 2% of students read at grade level at Dyett High School

And no students at that school were able to do math at grade level. But hey, they won the basketball tournament.

Government Propaganda in TV Shows

Is anyone shocked about this? PROOF: Government put vaccine propaganda in TV shows?!

Turns out that government Ministers met with mainstream media bosses during covid to tell them to put pro-vaccine storylines in popular TV shows such as Coronation Street.

They met in secret with ITV, BBC and Channel 4, Channel 5, Sky and more with the government talking about ”national unity programming”.

Turns out that BBC claiming not to be state media was a lie. But it wasn't just the BBC.

Here they [ITV, BBC and Channel 4] discussed how to put ”health messages” in soap operas and Channel 4 even agreed they could target young people with their YouTube channel. And they did put pro-vaccine propaganda in soap operas.

This is a story about the UK, but given everything the US government did to Social Media, are you really going to believe that they didn't work with Hollywood on TV shows, and movies?

Murder a Kid with a Car, Get NO Jail Time

This should make your blood boil. From The Other McCain: What the Heck Is Wrong With Florida?

She had been a known public menace for 15 years, basically, and by the time she finally killed someone — running a red light on a residential street at 85 mph — you might think the courts would consider this something more than a mere traffic violation. The appropriate legislative response to this egregious situation would be to fix whatever loophole exists in Florida law that fails to punish vehicular homicide as a felony, particularly in cases with aggravating circumstances such as a prior record of driving on a suspended license, etc.

Go read the whole thing.

Saturday Roundup of Link Roundups - 21 June

Wombat-socho starts things off with In The Mailbox: 06.18.25 (Morning Edition)

The Bugscuffle Gazette: “Mostly Peaceful”
L’ Ombre de L’Olivier: Thanking Yahya Sinwar
Upstream Reviews: The Tale of Alain

The Right Way - Top of the News

Report: Nearly 70K Sign Up for $5 Million Trump Gold Card - Newsmax
Downfall of the ayatollahs? - American Thinker

DaleyGator - Linking Weekend Fun

Campus Reform finds promising signs for free thought
Doug Ross the Targeting of Gabi

EBL - So why is destroying Iran's nuclear program so important ☢️🤔🤨

RedState: What you need to know about bunker bombs
The Iranian Leadership really want to end the world (or start a nuclear war).

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 20 June 2025: Earth Shattering Edition

Australia is moving closer to banning children from social media - which is impossible - after a story commission by the government showed that banning children from social media - which is impossible - is possible though they won't say how and admitted that there is no ...

Wombat-socho again - In The Mailbox: 06.19.25 (Abbreviated Juneteenth Edition)

Vox Popoli: The Science is Settled, Iran Has Nukes, There is No “We”, Kemosabe, The War Drums Get Louder, and Why the USA is Under Pressure
Stoic Observations: Transhumanist AI Fiction

Gates of Vienna - News Feed 6/18/2025

Bluesky Temporarily Suspended JD Vance
Vice President JD Vance’s venture onto Bluesky was cut short Wednesday, with his account suspended less than 20 minutes after he announced joining.

A View from the Beach - Flotsam and Jetsam - The Iran Israel End Game

From Ace, Blue Collar Wages Rise 2% In Just the First Five Months of Trump's Second Term, the Most in 60 Years "Nice:" From Fox, Left's tariff doomsday predictions fall flat as Trump's America thrives

Again from Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 06.20.25 (Morning Edition)

Vox Popoli: So Tiresome, also, Mailvox: Sad Cope
Ammo.com: Gun Ownership By State
JIm McCoy: The Lightning War – Rising Storm

The Glibertarians - Wednesday Morning Links

We are no longer a reality-based country. Well, some federal activist judges aren’t anyway. And they can decide the policy for the rest of us at their sole discretion, apparently.
Like rats from a sinking ship. I can’t say I blame them.

Vlad Tepes - Carney intends to pass bill negating all law and parliamentary oversight, and Diablo ex Machina, on AI and keeping your wits

1. Jamie Sarkonak: Mark Carney is demanding power to suspend all federal laws. What will he use it for?

Small Dead Animals - Wednesday On Turtle Island

Lord Carney’s Canada: No resource projects – (Warning: CBC). Diversity incident in Toronto. Wheel of privilege. You will buy an electric car and like it.
Woke America: Liberal white women. A peaceful protest.

Once again from Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 06.20.25 (Evening Edition)

Don Surber: Help Democrats the Rand Paul way
First Street Journal: Midnight Oil Blogging, President Trump is winning on immigration, and World War III Watch

Maggie's Farm - Wednesday morning links

Blue States Used to Lead in Education. Not Anymore
TV Networks Face Advertising Apocalypse After Trump Admin Mulls Pharma Restrictions

J.J. Sefton at Ace of Spades HQ - The Morning Report — 6/ 18 /25

California under Gavin Newsom has made its bed.
Masks for terrorists but not for law enforcement

Doug Ross - Larwyn’s Linx: A Dangerous Moment – The Targeting of Tulsi Gabbard

• Illegal Labor Crackdowns Are a Victory for American Workers - @amuse
• After Weeks of Internal Drama, the DNC is Broke - John Sexton

Anonymous Conservative - News Briefs – 06/19/2025

The E-4B “Nightwatch,” also known as the Doomsday Plane,has relocated from the US state of Louisiana to Andrews Air Force Base near Washington D.C.amid the latest escalation of the Israeli-Iranian conflict

I leave you with Wednesday's gifs from Wirecutter, Thursday Memes … from MaddMedic, Midweek Memes from Granite Grok, and Once Upon A Libturd Thursday ~ AM from Woodsterman.

Another Failure of the Victim-Selection Process

Even in a Blue State and a Blue City, self-defense might be legal. Intruder hospitalized after being shot by armed homeowner during attempted break-in

The homeowner tells KATU News that the person he shot had been bashing on the door for about 10 minutes, claiming he lived there. The homeowner said he warned the would-be intruder that he was armed.

He eventually managed to break the door, and gain entry. The homeowner shot him. The cops arrived about 30 seconds later, and provided first aid.

The guy who got shot was taken to a local hospital. The homeowner was not arrested.

While banging on the door, the guy who got shot was screaming that he lived there. He didn't. This is either a case of Crazy People Are Dangerous, or I suspect that drugs and/or alcohol may have been involved.

Self-defense is a human right. Good Guys 1, Bad Guys 0.

The Worst Pixar Film Ever Made

Alan Ng's review on Film Threat of the new Pixar film Elio

Last year, Inside Out 2 became the highest-grossing animated film in history. While that didn’t necessarily make it the best, it signaled that Pixar was back to form. After that massive success, Disney/Pixar follows it up with a space tale for boys…can lightning strike twice with Elio? Well, this is Disney after all.

Is there a single property/studio that Disney has purchased in the past 15 years or so, that they have not destroyed over time?

It pains me to say this, but Elio earns the dubious distinction of being the worst Pixar movie ever made. Story-wise, Elio is for children…mostly young boys…unlike every Pixar movie, there is nothing for adults. Mom—Dad! Be prepared to be bored for ninety minutes while your child takes in the cute aliens and slapstick humor.

There are a couple of truly great Pixar films, and not because the animation technology is outstanding, because the early movies were made before the technology was outstanding. The movies were good because they knew how to tell stories. I guess those times are gone.

This is the Film Threat video ELIO IS THE WORST PIXAR MOVIE EVER MADE | Film Threat Rant

This is mostly a critique of the artistic composition of individual scenes. Walt Disney took inspiration from classic, master works. Current generations of animation from Disney takes inspiration from no one. It is a non-spoiler review.

The video is 20 minutes long.

Deeply Disturbed

Infected Mushroom is fairly described as pioneers of Psytrance Music. That would be Psychedelic Trance. Some of their music reminds of the club music from my youth, while being something slightly different. A lot of it is more relaxing.

The album today's song comes from was a bit of an attempt to open up to a broader audience. The first disk was all Psytrance, while the second opened up the musical style a bit. Today's song is Psytrance.

Infected Mushroom is currently based in LA.

This is "Deeply Disturbed" by Infected Mushroom from their 2003 album Converting Vegetarians.

Friday Links

Meep at STUMP starts us off with Taxing Tuesday: the Revenge of SALT

The issue is not the Senate, which isn’t interested in giving the well-heeled in blue states a bigger federal tax break, as can be seen with putting the SALT cap back at $10K.

Toni’s Airaksinen's Substack - Hawaii Doctor calls for Zionists to be “deleted" off Earth

This is not a one-off post — it reflects sentiments Dr. Rao has expressed for months, as he has also posted: “Hope Tel Aviv is leveled. There’s no wrong way to delete Zionists” and “Zionism must be destroyed, [I’m] grateful for all the resistance fighters.”

Lone Star Parson - UK Goes Moar Moloch

The Sceptered Red Isle is at it again, with MPs voting in the aptly named House of Commons to decriminalize abortion up to the point of birth. You see, in the UK abortion is a criminal offence with major exceptions up to 24 weeks. The 24 week limit has now been voted down by the hugely unpopular Rainbow Leftist NWO stooge shills in Westminster.

Clayton Cramer - Those Prairie-Canadians Are Getting Uppity

Canada's national government has been doing its best to get to Net Zero by many methods including high carbon taxes. Saskatchewan has long relied on coal for power. Wind power sometimes drop to zero and solar power era reliably drops to zero on some poorly understood schedule that is probably an oil company conspiracy.

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 18 June 2025: Butter Dog Edition

Why Google just got rid of its 1-click app purchase. (Hot Hardware)

Because people kept accidentally buying apps.

William Teach at Pirate's Cove - Crazy North Carolina Democrat Offers “Apology” Or Something

I’ve been in many Twitter debates, regarding the slow posting of what she did, in comparison to if a Republican did it, and how the media would demand the Republican resign.

Miguel Gonzalez - Something very telling in the case of "Maryland Man" Abrego.

Note to Liberals (and also to some on our side): Before choosing a hill to make your last stand, make sure it is not seeded with landmines.

Again from William Teach - NY Times Runs Propaganda On “Civilian Deaths” From Iranian Government

Who is surprised? We saw the Times and so many other Credentialed Media outlets run propaganda from Hamas’ Ministry of Health, so, why not Iran’s?

The Other McCain - YUGE Win for Trump: Illegal Immigrant Population Has Dropped by 1 Million!

Remember how in 2012, during a Republican primary debate, Mitt Romney was mocked for saying he was in favor of “self-deportation”? The audience actually laughed, as Romney explained that it would not be necessary to “round people up,” but rather that enforcement of the E-Verify system for employment would cause illegal aliens to leave the country voluntarily. Liberals treated this idea as if it were some kind of joke, but Romney’s point — that if the U.S. ever got serious about enforcing our immigration laws, this would encourage illegals to leave — has now been vindicated.

Again from The Other McCain - Radical Vegan Transgender Cult Update: Federal Weapons Charge Indictment

Like I keep telling y’all, Crazy People Are Dangerous.