HMM:

Reports indicate the Chinese Embassy is evacuating its staff from Tehran. https://t.co/1BQhpoS8jW

— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) June 17, 2025

China buys 80-90% of Iran’s oil exports — often using questionable methods to avoids sanctions, and presumably at a discount.

Whatever change is coming, Beijing presumably isn’t happy about it.

DEFUND THE THOUGHT POLICE: The police should patrol the streets, not arrest people for tweets.

LIMITED TIME DEAL: Dyson V8 Plus Cordless Vacuum, Silver/Nickel. #CommissionEarned

THE ECONOMICS OF WAR: Israel’s air superiority lets it strike Iran on the cheap — and force Tehran into costly retaliation.

The effective Israeli strikes on Iranian air defenses and military airports “will degrade Iran’s ability to restrict Israeli operations in its airspace,” the Institute for the Study of War, a conflict studies think tank in Washington, DC, said on Sunday.

Weapons analysts have identified Israeli fighter jets armed with Joint Direct Attack Munitions. JDAMs, which are made by the US defense contractor Boeing, are dumb bombs fitted with relatively cheap guidance kits that turn them into precision-guided munitions. These weapons are not considered stand-off weapons.

Analysts have also spotted Israeli aircraft armed with SPICE bombs. Like JDAMs, guidance kits that turn dumb bombs into precision weapons. They are made by the local defense firm Rafael Advanced Defense Systems.

Open-source intelligence accounts have noted the use of JDAMs and SPICE — which stands for Smart, Precise Impact, Cost-Effective — bombs in the airstrikes across Iran, including around Tehran. Israel’s ability to fire these munitions suggests it is less concerned about defenses and does not necessarily have to employ its more expensive missiles for high-value targets. It has more options.

It’s nice to have affordable options.

TRUTH:

“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.”

— Thomas Sowell

— Thomas Sowell Quotes (@ThomasSowell) June 15, 2025

AND SPEAKING OF THE WASHINGTON STAND: California officials have shoveled tens of millions of tax dollars to five key Far Left non-profit activist groups that are supporting the violent and continuing anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles and elsewhere across the nation.

KERSHAW REMINDS MLB WHO CREATED THE RAINBOW: You may have seen one of the several Major League Baseball team “celebrations” of Pride Month. Los Angeles Dodgers’ star pitcher Clayton Kershaw’s response to the LGBQTetc.etc.etc. tyrants reintroduced them to a hugely significant fact, as The Washington Stand’s Suzanne Bowdey explains.

WAIT, WHAT? Elementary Kids Forced to Ride the ‘Lolita Line’ to School.

DAVID FRIEDMAN: The AI Boom Is an Infrastructure Supercycle.

WASN’T NY JUST DECLARING “NO KINGS”?  This State Tried to Force a Christian Photographer to Work Same-Sex Weddings – A Judge Said ‘Nope’.

THAT’S SO CRAZY IT JUST MIGHT WORK:  Illegals Out, Wages Up: The Quiet Labor Shift Behind Trump’s Self-Deportation Plan,

DEMOCRATS CAN’T STOP LYING – PERIOD:  Democrats Can’t Stop Lying About Medicaid in the Big Beautiful Bill.

FOR IT TO HAVE BEEN ‘POORLY VETTED’ THERE WOULD HAVE HAD TO BE VETTING:  DHS Officially Terminates Biden’s ‘Poorly Vetted’ Illegal Alien Parole Program.

LET’S BE HONEST, CBS HOST’S ONLY HAVE TALKING POINTS:   GOP Senator Shuts Down a CBS News Host’s Talking Points on LA Riots in Less Than 90 Seconds.

THEY ARE…. WHAT’S THAT TERM? OH, YEAH, IDIOTS:   No Heart – Ann & Nancy Wilson Object To Army Using Barracuda.

IF I HAVE TO SPELL THIS OUT, THE TEACHER’S UNION IS IN THE DEMOCRAT PARTY’S POCKET:  DNC Chair Thought David Hogg’s Departure Would End His Woes, But Another Shoe Just Dropped.

Abolish the certification authorities, abolish the education department. Set education free and make it local. And if you’re a parent, and you can at all contrive it, take your kids out of the schools. Bring them home to teach.

APPARENTLY BEING OBEYED:  IDF Issues Evacuation Order for Tehran Ahead of Possible Strike.

GUYS…. I READ A LOT OF STRANGE STUFF IN MY MISSPENT YOUTH: I don’t want it to serve as a script, though.  What Exactly is Going on in Antarctica?

AH, CALIFORNIA:  Final Evacuation Order Finally Lifted Almost 6 Months after Palisades Wildfire Disaster.

PEOPLE HAVE NOTED THE MSM IS LYING AND ARE VOTING WITH THEIR FEET:   Social media now main source of news in US, research suggests.

YEAH:  This was Seattle. This is Seattle. Mostly peaceful? You be the Judge.

THIS IS ONE OF THE REASONS TRUMP HAS A COMMISSION ON CHRISTIAN PERSECUTION:  Christian officer sacked by Indian army for refusing to ‘worship idols’.

SHOCKED, SHOCKED, SHOCKED, BEHOLD MY SHOCKED FACE:  Murder Suspect in Utah ‘No Kings’ Shooting Was Trump-Hating, Antifa-Loving Leftist.

YES “HUMAN RIGHTS” WAS A SOVIET UNION OPS. BUT DO LET’S FLIP IT ON THE LEFT:  The Right Not To Be Groomed and Abused. Using the ECHR to good effect.

ON SUNDAYS I RUN A PROMO POST FOR (MOSTLY) INDIE AUTHORS. AND YESTERDAY I FORGOT TO LINK IT:  Book Promo And Vignettes By Luke, Mary Catelli and ‘Nother Mike.

Remember all of these authors are willing to be linked on my blog, despite my shocking non-woke opinions.