June 17, 2025
BREAKING STORIES CONTINUE TO BREAK: The FBI Was Ordered to Destroy Evidence of China’s 2020 Election Plot to Help Biden.
MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Truth wins as ‘citizen journalists’ rise — and legacy media fades.
WHEN LEFTISTS SHOOT THEIR OPPONENTS: Colombia Comes Apart. Make the plotters regret their actions.
DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE:
At UVA’s virtual orientation for international students, Academic Director Elizabeth Wittner framed the Honor Code and academic integrity as products of capitalism and questioned America’s foundational equality.
But international students Siddharth and Fan cut through the noise… pic.twitter.com/YnU5kLhCOA
— The Jefferson Council (@TheJeffersonC) June 17, 2025
MARK FELTON: The Last Shah—How Iran Changed from Western Ally to Enemy (Video).
NOT THE BEST HEADLINE: 2026 Kia EV4 First Drive: Let’s Hope the Price Looks Better Than the Car.
“VIOLENT RHETORIC” DOESN’T COME FROM DEMOCRATS, IT’S JUST THEIR “PASSION FOR JUSTICE” BEING EXPRESSED:
Shortly after Chuck Schumer made those comments, a guy was arrested outside Kavanaugh's home with a knife and kidnapping supplies, and he admitted he was there to kill Kavanaugh. https://t.co/TeCeiV6IlG
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) June 17, 2025
TRUNALIMUNUMAPRZURE!, BUT IN FARSI: Report: Ayatollah Khamenei Is Not Making Decisions ‘Due to His Poor Mental State.’ As Jim Geraghty writes, “Ayatollah Khamenei is 86, four years older than Joe Biden. Come on, Biden cabinet. If the Iranians can remove their leader from making key decisions because of his poor mental state, why couldn’t you?”
Related: Trump Tells Khamenei: We Know Where You’re Hiding and ‘Our Patience Is Wearing Thin.’
YOU’RE GONNA A MUCH BIGGER BLOG: 25 Liberal Calls for Violence, Harassment, and Lawlessness During the Trump Years in Quotes.
I’D NEVER HEARD OF HIM: The Most Brilliant Man You’ve Never Heard Of. “What’s of greater interest is how this extraordinary man with incredible insights into the way the mind works lived such an obscure life.”
READER FAVORITE: Toniiq NAD+ Supplement 1500mg. #CommissionEarned
FASTER, PLEASE:
DMV employees handing out licenses to illegal immigrants like its Halloween candy.
You can’t make this stuff up. Lock. Them. Up. https://t.co/vCBA19bQaC
— Rep. Nancy Mace (@RepNancyMace) June 16, 2025
I HAD BEEN ASSURED THAT CANCEL CULTURE WAS A MYTH: Year in review: 101 campus cancel culture incidents during 2024-25 school year.
EXPLAINER (THE FUN KIND): Big Badda-Boom: Why Only One Plane and One Bomb Can Crack Fordow.
IT’S OK TO SAY: “All men are created equal.”
“A federal judge ordered the University of Oregon to pay $191,000 to Portland State University professor Bruce Gilley to cover his legal fees in a successful First Amendment challenge…”
READER FAVORTIE: Alpha Grillers Meat Shredder Claws. #CommissionEarned
I LIKE THE CUT OF HIS JIB: Nevada governor breaks his own record with 87 vetoes.
Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo has broken the state record for most vetoes during a single legislative session with 87.
It’s a record he set himself after the previous session in 2023 when he vetoed 75 bills. Nevada is one of four states where the Legislature meets only during odd-numbered years.
This year Lombardo signed 518 bills into law, and his 10-day window to decide on bills passed on Friday.
Despite all of the noise made around Nevada legislators’ efforts to push bills through the state’s narrow 120-day session window, they still have to make it off the Republican governor’s desk. And the Democratic majorities in the Assembly and Senate don’t have enough seats to override Lombardo’s vetoes.
“I did not take lightly the decision to veto 87 bills,” said Lombardo in a press release. “I do not enjoy using the veto pen, but as Governor, it is my responsibility to protect Nevadans from legislation that goes too far, expands government unnecessarily, or creates unintended consequences that hurt families, businesses, or our economy.”
Mister, we could use a lot more men like Joe Lombardo again.
FASTER, PLEASE: ‘America’s Hypercar:’ The New Chevy Corvette ZR1X Aims to Take Down Ferrari.
The 2025 Corvette ZR1 may already be the fastest rear-wheel-drive car to touch down on our planet: A record-stomping track monster that crushes 60 miles per hour in 2.2 seconds, and whose 233-mph top speed reads like an AI hallucination.
Bucket-list ZR1 laps in May at Circuit of the Americas—the kind of Texas-sized corral this raging bull needs to properly fling itself about—find me chasing the very Corvette engineers who’ve been setting production-car lap records in their spare time; smoking a $1.2-million McLaren Senna, shaming a Porsche 911 GT3 RS.
Stretching its jacked legs on COTA’s back straight, my ZR1 reaches 175 mph, then 178 the next lap. 180 mph feels tantalizingly within reach. The 5.5-liter LT7 screams its titanium-hardened lungs out, flexing more turbo horsepower than the F1 cars that fly past and fill these grandstands. This ‘Vette grips harder than Schwarzenegger on the campaign trail, and it’s not the Terminator you might imagine: It’s communicative, (reasonably) accommodating, and daily drivable, still a Corvette at heart.
And it all costs $178,195 to start, including a $3,000 gas-guzzler tax for a ZR1 that can inhale two gallons of premium unleaded per minute at full power. The drinking problem is real, but you can barely buy a 911 GTS for this much cash; the 532-hp Porsche, with precisely half the ZR1’s 1,064 horses, starts from $167,000.
It certainly looks sharp:
THEY’RE COMING FROM THE UNDERGROUND NAZI UFO BASE: Physicists can’t explain mysterious radio wave emissions in Antarctica. The saucers’ antigravity drives do that.
ISRAEL KILLS IRAN’S NEW WAR CHIEF DAYS AFTER TAKING OUT PREDECESSOR, AS STRIKES CONTINUE:
Israel killed a senior Iranian general overnight, just days after eliminating his predecessor, the Israel Defense Forces said Tuesday morning, as the campaign against Iran’s nuclear program and Iran’s retaliatory missile barrages at Israel entered its fifth day.
Israel launched its campaign early Friday, saying it was acting against an imminent existential threat from the regime’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs.
Explosions and air defense fire were reported Tuesday in Tehran, as Defense Minister Israel Katz warned that there were significant strikes in store for the Iranian capital.
Air defenses were reportedly also activated in Natanz, home to a major uranium enrichment plant that was seriously damaged in Israel’s opening attack, and satellite images showed extensive damage at a missile base.
An airstrike Monday night killed Maj. Gen. Ali Shadmani, the new head of the Khatam-al Anbiya Central Headquarters, also known as Iran’s military emergency command. He had only been on the job for some four days, having replaced Maj. Gen. Gholam Ali Rashid, who was killed on Friday in Israel’s opening strikes against Iran.
Exclusive video of Shadmani taking office last week:
