DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

Well, I enjoyed it….

Antigone.

This realisation that law could provide answers to questions by using reasoning, rather than by authority alone, has profound implications not just for the sophistication of law, but for the idea of what we might call rights. If it is possible to work out that something must be the law (in a given case, perhaps as to what is due to us)^[5] by reasoning from premises of things we already recognise as law, then it is possible to identify “law not simply positive [i.e. declared by an authority], but existing of right and coordinated and developed by reason.”^[6] And further, if what is lawfully due to us can be identified by a process of rational argument based on the nature of things (known laws being among those things but not exhausting them), then it might be possible to say that we have natural rights, and that we might have those rights whether or not there is any legislation that declares we have them. It is ironic that a society that engaged pervasively in slavery nevertheless developed a conceptual apparatus that now offers perhaps the most powerful basis for defending universal human dignity.

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Common sense (and scientific truth) are on the comeback trail.

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Bizarrely, in many states, if you want to start a business, you first must convince bureaucrats that your business is “needed.”

Four years ago, Louisiana blocked social worker Ursula Newell-Davis from helping kids with special needs. Bureaucrats said she hadn’t proved her business was needed.

“Why does the state of Louisiana have the right to stop me from doing what I love?” she asks in this update video.

Good question. Ursula has a master’s degree and a social work license. For two decades, she’s helped kids with special needs.

One, Kamal, told us he struggled to make friends, until Ursula “helped teach me how to talk to people.”

Kamal’s mother is grateful: “She explained to me things that I didn’t understand about my kids. It allowed me to go back into the community and work.”

Ursula helped many families. But four years ago, she tried to help more kids by doing short-term respite work.

Louisiana wouldn’t let her.

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Everybody knew that, of course, but it’s good that they admit it. Now perhaps something can be done to correct the situation.

Axios, a Voice of the Crust.

California is losing people from suburbs year after year, revealing a deeper demographic shift reshaping America’s most populous state.

Time to leave.

Texas Tribune, a Voice of the Crust.

One question that is never even asked, much less answered, is why people who are in this country (not to mention this state) illegally ought to get a break in college tuition that is intended for actual legal resients?

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Amnesty International’s reaction to the murder of Henry Nowak has prompted outrage, with the organization having nothing to say about the atrocious and inhumane actions of the police during the incident, but sharply condemning the “political commentary” in the wake of Nowak’s death.

“At a time when hate crimes are rising, and violence and fear are becoming a daily reality for people of colour and migrants, calls for ‘cold, hard rage’ are completely reckless. Henry Nowak’s murder is an awful tragedy and his family have said “we do not want his death to be used to create further division, hatred or tension”. The very least politicians can do is respect that,” wrote Amnesty International.

Not everyone is happy about Amnesty International’s remarks on the case, which has up until now, said nothing about the manner in which the police handcuffed a dying Nowak as he bled out from eight stab wounds.

Apparently some hate is more equal than others.

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Three months ago, just as the Iran war was getting started, we said it was surprising that UAE’s oil export terminal of Fujairah – already the Middle East’s largest bunkering terminal for tankers transiting the Strait of Hormuz and major loading point for Murban crude – was not a far bigger in terms of capacity and throughput as it bypasses the Straits completely, and predicted a “major infrastructure push here after the war.”

That, coupled with the fact that Saudi East-West pipeline was running at peak capacity of roughly 7mmb/d (including non-oil products), and one could see – we said – the urgency gripping the Gulf in finding alternatives to the Strait of Hormuz which has emerged as Iran’s biggest source of leverage in the war.

Fast forward to today when we get the latest confirmation that plans for Hormuz alternatives are indeed front and center, after the FT reported that gulf countries that export oil via the Strait of Hormuz are in talks about planning pipelines that would allow them to bypass the waterway should it remain largely closed.

Kuwait was among the countries talking to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates about potential pipelines across their countries that could connect Gulf oil production to global buyers, said Sheikh Khaled Ahmad Al-Sabah, managing director of international marketing at Kuwait Petroleum Corp.

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We’re still trying to settle on a name for the new “Rust Belt” for blue states, where high taxes, de-growth climate policies, permitting paralysis, and an obsession with woke governance have sparked a historic outflow of people, businesses, and capital to red states.

The old Rust Belt was hollowed out by decades of deindustrialization. This new version in blue states is being hollowed out by self-inflicted progressive policy failures after policy failures after policy failures.

The latest, and one of the most abrupt examples, is South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics shifting its U.S. headquarters from lefty-controlled New Jersey to red-state Texas, which is governed by common sense.

Time to leave.

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While China has been pouring billions into its own AI infrastructure and expansion, it may also be funding an equally expensive influence campaign here in the U.S. to oppose the building of data centers — critical to advancing the technology.

The stakes in the AI are incredibly high, so high that Interior Secretary Doug Burgum recently said whoever dominates in the field of artificial intelligence is “going to control the world.”

While China is massively expanding their AI industry growing evidence indicates they are pushing misinformation campaigns in the U.S. with the goal of stopping or delaying the build out of data centers.

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Left-leaning Condé Nast, through Wired, appears to be running narrative cover for the protest-industrial complex, gaslighting readers over efforts to impose real penalties on chaos and disorder stemming from protests and riots.

Wired reporter Ali Winston’s target is the Manhattan Institute. She appears to be upset that the Manhattan Institute is pushing for new state laws that make vandalism, blocking roadways, and trespassing during riots and protests felony offenses.

The Washington Poop, paper of record for the Deep State.

And if you believe that one, they’ll tell you another one.

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Because of their allegiance to alphabet ideology, liberal jurisdictions are about as sex offender-friendly as is possible in the First World.

Scott Wiener, the utterly degenerate California State Senator Scott Wiener, who is likely to replace former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, often complains that LGBTQ+ people are “disproportionately” put on sex offender lists, and wants to water them down.

It is in this context that you have to understand how twisted the world has become in places like Northern Virginia, which is one of the most sex-offender-friendly places in the United States, at least if you are transgender. Better yet, a transgender illegal alien. Then you can walk around a high school feeling young girls up and have the school officials allow it.

 

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Ebola has spread to a health zone more than 100 miles from the mining town where the Democratic Republic of Congo’s latest outbreak is believed to have originated, Bloomberg reported.

Health officials confirmed the virus has been detected in a distant health zone from Bunia, the capital of Ituri Province in northeastern Congo.

The development underscores the challenges facing response teams working to contain the disease in a region marked by armed conflict, population movement, and mistrust of authorities.

The outbreak has been declared a public health emergency of international concern by the World Health Organization, and the death toll has risen to more than 100.

Two cases, including one death, have also been reported in neighboring Uganda.

Contact tracing is considered one of the most critical tools for containing Ebola.

And why is that? Because Ebola doesn’t just spread by itself—it requires human contact.

Think of it as evolution in action.

Actually, I would like to strongly encourage Gloria Steinem and all other women similarly inclined to have as many abortions as they can. (Think of it as evolution in action.)

Freeberg nails it.

It occurs to me that we have a lot of loud, brassy people walking around among us, making lots of noise, giving off the impression they speak for everybody, who are especially loud when they’re agitated and apprehensive. And they deal with these apprehensions by passing judgment on what others are doing, micro-managing, propounding narratives about who’s building good things and who’s wrecking things. Who’s showing ultra-competence in what they do, and who’s wandering around going derp derp derp knocking things over like a bull in a China shop. Which Captain of a ship is steering the ship right, which one has hit the shoals and has to go down with the ship or is just about to, which one should be relieved of command the sooner the better…

…highly inaccurately.

The Unites States’ First Holy Emperor, Barack Hussein Replacement Jesus Obama, stands as perhaps the first and best example of this. The clear and uncontested dominant prevailing narrative is that He was the leadership we had long been needing, showing us all the wisdom we needed to be shown, picking us all up and carrying us to where we needed to be taken. And yet, nine years after He left office, what’s His legacy? Where? Someone tell me. It’s amazing when you take it all in and survey the…well, no other word comes to mind. Wreckage. He made health care more expensive. You can squeeze out some metrics of good things, tortured ones, if you work at it hard enough. The most popular one is “a record-breaking 73 consecutive months of economic growth” or some such thing, which I’ve long thought to be sadly amusing. We had such a record standing? We want it broken the way it was broken between 2009 and 2017, really? That’s the way we want to see ’em go?

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If you own property in California, you’re not safe. A new ballot measure will empower the state to confiscate a percentage of the assets of any resident, even though its initial provisions don’t communicate that intent. California’s “One-Time Wealth Tax for State-Funded Healthcare, Education, and Food Assistance Programs Initiative,” which has already qualified for the November ballot, is even worse than it appears.

It’s not as if appearances aren’t bad enough. The explicit intent of the initiative already chased at least six billionaires out of the state in 2025. Moved to Florida are Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, along with PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel. Nevada is now home to billionaire Don Hankey, and Texas has welcomed former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick. Famed director Steven Spielberg has moved to New York, apparently concluding even that deep blue state is a safer bet than California. Just the departure of these six men has lowered the potential take from the wealth tax by an estimated $27 billion.

A Hoover Institution study claims that another 20 California billionaires have already made departure plans and will leave immediately if the initiative is approved by voters. One of the initiative’s many diabolical provisions is that it will apply retroactively to anyone living in the state after January 1, 2026, but unlike the six who got out in 2025, this next tranche of would-be exiles have been advised by their attorneys that the initiative’s retroactivity will not survive a constitutional challenge.

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We are in agreement, then—I want them to live somewhere else as much as they do.

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Well, it appears that Douglas Murray has finally come around. He’s always been on the same team as us hard-core Islamophobes, but it used to be that he pulled his punches. He tended to use the word “Islamist”. He didn’t want to talk like a racist or “extremist”, the way Tommy Robinson did.

But something has shifted in British political culture. The trial of Henry Nowak’s murderer was just the last straw — a big change has been brewing for some time. Nigel Farage, ever the opportunist, has trimmed his sails to take advantage of the new prevailing winds: he said, “White lives matter.” There’s no going back for him now. He’ll never be admitted to the Big Club where he might have rubbed elbows with the leaders of Labour, the Tories, and the Lib-Labs. His die is cast.

And now Douglas Murray sounds like Rupert Lowe. Or like Vlad and me — we’ve been saying for a long time that the behavior of Western leaders cannot be explained by mere stupidity or incompetence. The cultural suicide we’re witnessing now is deliberate. It’s been planned for a long time.

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The Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act was brought to the Senate as an amendment by Lindsey Graham as part of the $70 billion budget reconciliation package funding Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol.

The usual senate suspects, Thom Tillis, Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins and Mitch McConnell voted with Democrats to kill the SAVE America Act amendment. 75% of Americans support the requirement for voter ID, the Senate doesn’t want that.

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First, consider the trail of unintended consequences that follows environmental policy like a shadow. The case of Wild Justice, the activist group co-founded by Chris Packham, provides a perfect, if gruesome, example. Their (fortunately, mostly failed) legal campaigns have not only tightened corvid shooting licenses across the countryside—making it nearly impossible for land managers to control burgeoning populations of crows and magpies—but have directly led to a spike in horrific animal welfare incidents. In 2019, following Wild Justice’s legal challenge that forced Natural England to revoke general licences for shooting carrion crows, farmers across the country reported lambs having their eyes pecked out by emboldened corvids. The policy, born of a simplistic urban notion that all wild birds are equally sacred, ignored the real-world consequence: a slow, agonising death for livestock that no court in London will ever have to witness. This is the hallmark of ideology untethered from practical land management.

Which brings us to the uncomfortable truth about these environmental pressure groups: they are not scientific bodies nor serious land managers, but a religious cult dressed in waterproofs made from oil—the very fossil fuel they claim to despise yet don without a flicker of hypocrisy. They operate on faith, not data. Their central dogma is that nature left entirely alone is a pure, static Eden—a belief that would collapse instantly if any of them had to spend a winter feeding stock on a marginal moor. They have outlier high priests who survive by conjuring audiences through triggering (Packham, George Monbiot), holy texts (rewilding manifestos and ‘peer review’ nonsense heralding from redbrick universities), and a concept of original sin (human intervention).

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A 21-year-old Saudi national, a former student at the University of Surrey, was arrested on Thursday after allegedly using a crossbow to shoot a man on campus.

The incident occurred around 10:00 a.m. at Manor Park Student Village in Guildford. The victim, a man in his 50s who worked for the university’s campus safety team, suffered serious, life-threatening injuries. He was airlifted to a major London hospital for treatment.

Import Turd World people, get Turd World problems.

U.S. to Dismantle System Tracking Atlantic Currents That Are at Risk of Collapse  Because, as we all know, tracking Atlantic currents is TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal government—and the Federal taxpayer.

The SpaceX IPO Will Be the Theft of the Century  Because, as we all know, all of the Little People (the people not as clever as the author) will just be standing around waiting for Elon Musk to vacuum the cash out of their pockets without any choice in the matter. (Ignoring the Real Theft of the Century, the 2016 election.)

Rep. Sara Jacobs mocked Marco Rubio’s shoes in the Foreign Affairs Committee and he had the best response  “Sure, I may have bad shoes, but you’re UGLY, and I will go home and take these shoes off but you will be UGLY for the rest of your life.”

Trump Derangement Goes to Newark: The Anti-ICE Protest Industry

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On May 28, Lockheed Martin announced the delivery of the first Integrated Combat System (ICS) baseline to the U.S. Navy. This milestone starts a planned six-month update and certification cycle for all surface ships and advances the Navy’s goal of a single, common combat system architecture. The ICS merges the legacy Aegis combat system with modern, networked infrastructure, making it easier to field new capabilities fleetwide.

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Katherine Dee:

The premise that everyone wants and is owed a Princeton seminar is itself a fiction. An educated, literate public is a fiction. Most of human history, including the history that produced most of the literature and music and political theory we still draw on, took place in societies where the deep reading of difficult texts was the practice of a small, privileged minority. The first novels were written for an audience that, by our standards, barely existed.

In a perfect world, the world I hope for for my children, the university will get smaller, weirder, more expensive and – if can you excuse my elitism – probably much better. It will look more like Oxford in 1890 than Stanford in 2025. In 1890, universities such as Oxford and Harvard had fewer than 3,000 enrolled students. In those days, undergraduates spent a few years studying Greek and Latin philology followed by Plato, Aristotle, Thucydides, Tacitus, Kant, Hegel, Hume, and Mill. They read an essay aloud once a week to their tutor and defended it in conversation. That model is what the university will rediscover, by necessity, over the next decade – that is, the life of the mind. The life of the mind that so few of us really need, or frankly want access to. (Embarrassingly, I include myself in this.)

The Spectator.

College is extraordinarily expensive and becoming less useful, and those who insist otherwise are working from a model of the labor market that stopped describing reality sometime in the 1990s. Four-year courses at private institutions often cost more than $70,000 a year, and it should come as no surprise that student debt has tipped over $1 trillion .

This situation is ridiculous for a film student, but it is also ridiculous for a computer science graduate whose program could not keep pace with the industry it was preparing him for – and who learned more in four months on GitHub and dicking around on X and Repl.it than in four years of lectures.

It’s sad, but how many people were attending school for “the life of the mind” to begin with? The work is and has been purposeless for most of the people doing it for decades, and they know it, and the professors surely know it, and the institutions have responded by pretending otherwise. When an assignment has no purpose, copying the answer from a machine is not a moral failure, at least from my vantage point. It’s more efficient than googling it, or asking the kid next to you, or buying the answer.

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Karmelo Anthony, who is black, was arrested in 2025 after he stabbed and killed Austin Metcalf, who is white, at a track meet at Kuykendall Stadium in Frisco, Texas.  Karmelo has been charged with first-degree murder: the unlawful killing of another, with malice aforethought and specific intent.

In the past several days 600 people were reviewed to generate a potential pool of 250 jurors.  The 250 were further whittled down to 12 with six alternates.  The jury selection is over and the opening statements in the trial will likely begin tomorrow.  The jury will not be sequestered during trial.

The killing is not being disputed by the defense, there were dozens of witnesses to the murder.  However, the defense is claiming ‘stand your ground’ and ‘self-defense’ as justification for the killing.  The defense is also promoting a motive of racism for everything surrounding the event between Metcalf and Anthony and throughout the pre-trial motions and public positioning.

The New Neo.

Although California is doing its usual counting of votes in geologic timeframes, it looks as though Republicans Steve Hilton (governor’s race) and Spencer Pratt (LA mayor’s race) will be on the ballot against Democrats Becarra and Bass, respectively.

In the blue state of California, one can assume that the Democrats will win (by hook or crook, as it were). But hey, you never know.

The Other McCain.

Perhaps, once Jews have been treated like Republicans long enough, they’ll wake up and make the switch. Perhaps.

The Foundry.

What are California values? Are they sprawling homeless encampments, public intoxication and drug use, and naked people walking through the streets? Are they rising crime rates, small businesses closing, families being driven out of their communities, and parents who cannot safely take their children to a park?

Those were the questions the Daily Signal’s senior national security and legal analyst Mehek Cooke raised during ABC News’ coverage of California’s primary elections Tuesday night.

The answers are already visible on the streets, she noted. The Daily Signal recently sent reporters into Skid Row, a Los Angeles neighborhood known for having one of the highest homeless populations in the United States. Residents described a city in crisis and demanded accountability from Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass. One military veteran who spent 26 years in Skid Row told the Daily Signal, “The whole city of LA is now Skid Row.” Another resident called the city’s homelessness spending scandal the “biggest rip-off in history.”

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The Southern Poverty Law Center allegedly paid at least three people who wanted to leave the white supremacist movement not to do so, according to the Justice Department’s superseding indictment handed down Tuesday.

A federal grand jury in April had indicted the SPLC on charges of wire fraud, bank fraud, and conspiracy to conceal money laundering. The SPLC has pleaded not guilty to the charges.

While the organization “purports to fight white supremacy and racial hatred,” Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said in a press conference that “the SPLC was not dismantling these groups. It was instead manufacturing the extremism it purports to oppose.”

The charges revolve around the SPLC’s program paying “field sources” inside white supremacist groups, such as the Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazi groups. The organization has maintained that it paid these informants in order to alert law enforcement to extremist violence before it happened, and some of the informants’ information did lead to prosecutions.

However, the indictment claims some of the SPLC money actually went to prop up the organizations—and the superseding indictment reveals more details of the allegations.

It’s also excellent practice. You know, just in case.

The Economist, a Voice of the Crust.

Except that it’s not ‘American capitalsm’ but rather ‘American semi-socialism’ that’s the problem.

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In a shock to absolutely no one, Minnesota continues to be a national embarrassment.

While the feds have done their diligence and charged 39 of the activists who stormed Cities Church in St. Paul back in January, including Don Lemon who did us all a favor and recorded his crimes, the City of St. Paul has declined to do anything to the rioters.

They won’t even call them rioters.

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The human brain contains roughly 86 billion neurons. That number appears in almost every popular account of memory and intelligence, and it tends to carry an implicit argument: that the scale of human cognition follows from the scale of this cell count. What is less often mentioned is that the brain contains a roughly comparable number of a different cell type entirely, one that researchers have treated, for most of the history of neuroscience, as little more than biological scaffolding.

A paper published on 23 May in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciencesputs forward a new hypothesis about what those cells, called astrocytes, might actually be doing. The work comes from a team at MIT: lead author Leo Kozachkov, Jean-Jacques Slotine, a professor of mechanical engineering and brain and cognitive sciences, and Dmitry Krotov of the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, who is the paper’s senior author. Their claim is not that astrocytes have been misunderstood in any dramatic sense; it is the more careful suggestion that they may be doing computational work that neurons, on their own, cannot account for.

This is a hypothesis supported by a mathematical model. The experimental work needed to test it has not yet been done.

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In 1999, after twenty years and many tens of millions of books sold,[1] Bantam Books announced that it would no longer be publishing its Choose Your Own Adventure line of children’s paperbacks. So, since these histories currently find themselves in 1999, this seems like a good time to look back on one of the formative influences upon the computer games I’ve been covering for so many years now, as well as upon the people who played them — not least, yours truly. Or maybe that’s just an excuse for me to finally write an article I should have written a long time ago. Either way, I hope you don’t mind if I step out of the chronology today and take you way, way back, to steal a phrase from Van Morrison.

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ou might imagine nuclear power plants as behemoth facilities spanning hundreds of acres. Nuclear microreactors, by contrast, could sit on land the size of a football field and power a whole town.

However, after decades of fraught relationships between the nuclear industry and communities in many parts of the U.S., building these tiny reactors requires reckoning with the complex history of nuclear technology and rebuilding public trust.

Microreactor technology for use in towns or cities hasn’t been developed yet, but many researchers have been building the case for its use.

Good luck with that. Between the Mountain of Red Tape imposed by modern micromanagement government and the dementia of modern Leftists activism, I will bet you it won’t happen, if an all, until we are all dead.

And of course it would do absolutely no good to point out that U.S. Navy ships have been running nuclear reactors that would fit into a Chipotle (and have never had a shred of trouble with them) for over sixty years.

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Picture this: eight men in their seventies arrive at a New Hampshire retreat in 1979. But something strange awaits them. The magazines are from 1959. The radio plays twenty-year-old news broadcasts. Ed Sullivan flickers on black-and-white television screens. Even the mirrors have been removed.

These men aren’t here for nostalgia therapy. Harvard psychologist Ellen Langer has something more audacious in mind. For five days, she wants them to live as if it’s 1959. Not remember it. Not discuss it. Live it.

What happened next should have revolutionized how we think about aging, health, and the stories our bodies learn to believe.

By week’s end, the men had measurably improved. Their hearing sharpened. Posture straightened. Grip strength increased. Memory and cognition perked up. Most remarkably, independent judges looking at before-and-after photographs rated the men as looking younger.

No drugs. No surgeries. No medical interventions at all.

Just a shift in context. A different story to inhabit.

Sometimes the old ways are best. I remember 1959 (back when Disney animated films were worth watching) and in many ways I prefer it to what we have today.

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The team came nowhere close to meeting them. Infighting broke out between two factions—while Gregory simply wanted to patch together his old C code, insisting his product “was within six months of shipping,” the whiz-kid Mark Miller came back from his new job at Xerox PARC, alongside a half-dozen of his closest friends, and insisted on a perfectionistic rewrite in a more flexible language, Smalltalk.

Full disclosure: Mark Miller was a friend of mine at Yale, and you could not get him to shut up about Xanadu.

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In March 2025, an anonymous buyer purchased the 1715 “Baron Knoop” Stradivarius for $23 million (U.S.), making it the most expensive violin ever sold. (The seller, the American stringed-instrument collector David L. Fulton, had purchased it for a more modest $2.75 million in 1992.) Previous record setters have included the 1721 “Lady Blunt,” which fetched $15.9 million in 2011, and the “Joachim?Ma,” which went for $11.25 million in February 2025.

All three of these models were made by Antonio Stradivari, a Cremonese luthier whose output in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries is said to epitomize perfection in violin manufacturing. Depending on your point of view, they may indeed be examples of flawless human handiwork. Or they might be, as the fiction writer and journalist Ambrose Bierce once put it, objects that “tickle human ears by friction of a horse’s tail on the entrails of a cat.” Either way, where do these exorbitant value judgments come from?

Tom Wilder looks for the answers through the wider cultural world that brought the violin to prominence after its development in the sixteenth century and laid the stage for it to become the most iconic instrument of Western music: a physical manifestation of “taste, refinement, and wealth.” The guitar may exist on a similarly high level of symbolism, but the appraisal of an individual six-string turns more on its provenance and on any alterations by famous owners than on the maker. As two examples, an acoustic Gibson owned by John Lennon sold for $2.4 million in 2015, while the 1959 Martin D?18E that Kurt Cobain used on Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged in New York album went for just over $6 million in 2020 (he had picked it up for just $5,000). Pricey, but not near the numbers a Stradivarius commands.

The War Zone.

A new type of submarine that appears to lack a traditional sail has emerged in China. The same shipyard launched a smaller ‘sailless’ submarine — a technology demonstrator — eight years ago. More recently, a top Chinese shipbuilding conglomerate put forward a concept for an uncrewed underwater vehicle (UUV) with a broadly comparable hullform. Designs of this kind can offer benefits in terms of speed, maneuverability, and reduced acoustic signature, but also have major drawbacks.

TWZ has obtained imagery of the submarine in question at JN (Jiangnan) Shipyard in Shanghai on June 1, as seen at the top of this story and below, from Vantor (previously Maxar Technologies). The boat, the name and/or designation of which are currently unknown, first appeared there sometime at the end of May, according to Naval News. That outlet was first to report on this development.

From the imagery, the submarine does not have a traditional sail. However, the exact shaping of what is present is also not entirely clear from the view that is currently available. As noted, JN Shipyard is known to have built at least one other ‘sailless’ submarine in the past, which we will come back to later on.

Trump Throws 1 A.M. Temper Tantrum Over How Innocent He Is (The New Republic) Because, as we all know, Trump throws tantrums—just ask the Narrative Media.

The true meaning of Trump’s choice for America’s new top spy (CNN) Because, as we all know, you, the reader are too fucking stupid fo figure it out yourself, without us holding your and and leading you to the Narrative.

How Trump has used the presidency to benefit himself and his allies (ABC News) Because, as we all know, Trump is a crook, and crooks do that sort of thing. (Hunter Biden, call your parole officer.)

Jeffries: Democrats aren’t focused on Trump impeachment ‘at this moment’ (Justin Papp/CNBC)  Because, as we all know, they’ll impeach him when they get around to it. It’s what they do.

Mullin refuses to commit to following court orders for DHS (Jennifer Scholtes/Politico) Because, as we all know, it’s not enough to submit to the Deep State, you have to say that you submit to the Deep State. You have to say ‘uncle’ to acknowledge that you’re beaten.

Trump loyalist Pulte gets oversight of vast U.S. intel (Josephine Walker/Axios)  Loyalist! Vast!

Pentagon hires convicted Jan. 6 rioter for sensitive counterterrorism job (Washington Post)  Because, as we all know, anybody who was convicted in the witch-hunt for Jan. 6 is ipso facto unqualified for anything anywhere.

NPR Plugs ‘Pride Month,’ Laments Trump Is Curbing Corporate Donations  Because, as we all know, it’s not that Trump doesn’t have Pride, it’s that he has the wrong kind of Pride.

He Blew the Whistle on DOGE. Then His Brakes Were Cut (Vittoria Elliott/Wired)  Because, as we all know, only Left-wingers are subject to dangers when they blow the whistle. (When the Right does it, it’s a ‘conspiracy theory’.)

Trump’s intel pick delights MAGA and shocks nation’s spies (Daniella Cheslow/Politico)  Because, as we all know, we MUST NOT shock the nation’s spies.

Leftists Try To “Cancel” Giants Quarterback For His Appearance At Trump Rally

Scientists lose critical climate record as ocean observatory will go dark under Trump funding cuts (Annika Hammerschlag/Associated Press)  Because, as we all know, observing the oceans and critical climate records are TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal government—and the Federal taxpayer.

Bill Pulte is Trump’s most dangerously sycophantic promotion yet (Hayes Brown/MS NOW)  Because, as we all know, nothing Trump does is anything less than a disaster.

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In the early days of the failed Moscow coup, one was bombarded by writing wherein the “conservatives” from the KGB and communist party wanted to block the path to a market economy and parliamentarianism. Many outlets that were once marked “Stalinist” or “orthodox communist” were attacked as “conservative,” blithely referred to as such often on the same page as political figures such as Reagan or Thatcher, Bush or Kohl. Thus the naïve reader, who wants to take the printed word at its nominal value, logically infers a common attitude and purpose among the previously named Western politicians and the soviet enemies of perestroika. Common sense could protect the sane man from such an absurdity, but this runs out of answers in the face of the schizophrenia of political vocabulary, proving insufficiently idiosyncratic; he seems to have resigned himself without grumbling. The common retort is that conservatives are defenders of the status quo, whatever that may look like in the particular case, so conservatives living in very different societies, unsurprisingly, advocate very different and even contradictory programs. But if political classifications are not backed by political substance, then these classifications must be grounded in psychological or anthropological factors, common attitudes towards life. Should one, in good conscience, impute commonalities among Helmut Kohl and the Russian putschists, this interpretational hypothesis brings little light to the concrete situations—because in such situations it is always about the implementation of particular matters or goals thereby defined, in view of the makeup of a national or international collective, wherein the friend-foe groupings are determined by the positions of each agent with respect to these matters and goals. The legitimation of political struggle often takes place by appeal to anthropological presumptions; political analysis, on the other hand, can infer no concrete substance from formal and inherently abstract anthropological constants without falling into bad metaphysics.

 

Bernie Sanders.

That is why I will soon be introducing the American A.I. Sovereign Wealth Fund Act. This legislation would give the public a direct ownership stake in the largest A.I. companies in our country. How? It would create a sovereign wealth fund through a one-time 50 percent tax — not on the profits of OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI and other companies, but paid with something far more valuable than that: the stock.

In other words, he wants to confiscate half of the ownership of “the largest” (how do you calculate that?) A.I. companies and put that into a gigantic slush fund controlled by Democrats and their minions in the Deep State.

Whenever anyone says The Public, they mean The Government, and the government owns too much already. If the decision to control A.I. is between Jeff Bezos and Bernie Sanders—I’ll pick the founder of Amazon over the millionaire socialist career politician every time.

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The family of Vickrum Digwa has been accused of adding insult to injury after issuing a statement asking that Henry Nowak’s murder not be used to cause “further pain,” despite fierce public anger over the way the 18-year-old was stabbed, falsely accused, handcuffed and left dying in the street.

In a rightly-ordered society the killer would be executed and his family sent back to whatever Turd World shit-hole they came from.

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A violent assault in Lublin, Poland, has sparked widespread political outrage after a Zimbabwean immigrant who seriously injured a 40-year-old Polish man was released by police and now faces only a minor bodily harm charge, with no deportation proceedings.

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The Los Angeles Police Department has significantly reduced the availability and usefulness of public crime data during its transition to a new records system. Specifically, it removed block-level crime location information from its open crime data feed, making it effectively impossible for the public to determine where crimes occurred.

For more than a decade, SpotCrime has helped Los Angeles residents stay informed by turning public crime data into alerts, maps, and neighborhood awareness tools, Millions of alerts have been delivered to families, commuters, business owners, journalists, researchers, and community members trying to make informed decisions about safety.

Now, that flow of information is being restricted.