I WAS TOLD THIS WAS IMPOSSIBLE:
Inflation Eases to Four-Year Low in April; Income and Savings Rate Spike https://t.co/tBahrc4k3L
— Media Research Center (@theMRC) May 31, 2025
June 1, 2025
LIGHTNING DEAL: EF ECOFLOW Portable Power Station DELTA 2 Max, 2400W LFP Solar Generator. #CommissionEarned
ALL THE BEST PEOPLE TOLD ME WE WERE DOOMED:
Just so you know …
The S&P500 had the best May since 1990.
Panicans hardest hit.
— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) May 31, 2025
ENEMIES: A LOVE STORY. Democrats and Men. “One might think that $20 million would buy something more insightful than this, but then, this is the same party that triumphantly chose Tim Walz as its vice-presidential nominee, fully expecting him to be the answer to their gender gap problem. Or in other words, don’t hold your breath. In reality, the odds that the contemporary Democratic party will be able to win back men, now or in the foreseeable future, are vanishingly small. The party, as it is currently constituted, lacks both the will and the ability to make the changes that would be necessary to do so. What I mean by this is that the contemporary Democratic party is built on a handful of foundational notions that are, by and large, incompatible with the goal of appealing to men.”
When your platform is built by and for batshit crazy upper middle class white women, men are going to look elsewhere.
FIVE YEARS AGO TODAY: How the BLM riots broke America.
On the night of 1 June 2020, almost exactly five years ago, gunshots rang out not far from my apartment in East Midtown Manhattan. As my wife and I anxiously scrolled news feeds, our kids — then ages three and one — slept, oblivious to the coruscating sirens that carried hints of chaos beyond our door. At 11pm, I went out to see it for myself: gangs of looters smashing stores down Lexington Avenue, while NYPD patrols stood pat, unwilling or unable to confront them. Black Lives Matter.
That night and its aftermath, I now believe, were the biggest factor behind the backlash rippling through US culture today. That was when a Covid-era tension finally snapped; and many millions resolved that every claim issuing from reputable authorities must be a lie. The beneficiaries: YouTube crackpots, semi-literate weightlifting bros, amateur Holocaust revisionists, manosphere goons, spittle-flecked “X” racists commanding huge audiences.
The political consequences: allowing the Trumpian Right and its new tech allies to justify a raft of self-interested, pro-oligarchic measures by simply gesturing at the very real bogeys of that era: woke, DEI, debanking, censorship. This, even as many of these same moves will only deepen the power imbalances — between corporations and consumers, individuals and institutions — cast into stark relief in the plague-and-pandemic year 2020.
Watching the looting on Lex that night, I told myself they wouldn’t bother with our block, bereft of any cool shops. I was wrong. By the time I returned to our building’s lobby, I spotted those roving packs moving down the street. Over the next four hours or so, I joined our two doormen as they kept vigil, unarmed, while more and more looters came, some clearly pausing to size up our lobby. We were spared, but a restaurant and a salon downstairs were smashed.
In the Bronx, a car deliberately slammed into a black NYPD sergeant, sending his body flying like a ragdoll. Another officer was run over by an SUV in the Village. I’d never felt so unsafe, and I’d filed datelines from northern Iraq during the ISIS takeover. In a place like Iraq, you know you’re dealing with war and terror, and as a reporter, you typically move with the security forces. This, by contrast, was our home, and the police were overwhelmed and seemingly ordered to stand down.
As unnerving as these events were, the mainstream-media coverage was somehow more so. By about 3am, when things seemed to calm down, one of the doormen tuned into a newscast on his iPhone: “Protests continue tonight throughout New York,” the anchor began. We both burst out laughing. Protests — mere protests — was how the local affiliate of a major network was describing what looked more like a scene of war.
Well yeah — they were fiery, sure. But for the most part, quite peaceful, according to CNN:
Read the whole thing.
FROM CEDAR SANDERSON AND SANFORD BEGLEY:
#CommissionEarned
Valhalla is no place for a loggie. But Master Sergeant (Logistics) Danny Pederson made a career error and died heroically in combat after thirty years of nice boring supply work. He woke up dead to learn he’s stuck in a nightmare of unending battle called Valhalla. Seems the recruiters lied about Valhalla too.
Now, the only hope he has is to carry out the mission given by a mysterious messenger. Whether he likes it or not, they have to support Ragnarok… if that battle can ever happen to bring everything to an end.
Danny’s pissed, and he just wanted to go fishing. He’s about to take Ragnarok to the throat of the gods themselves. After inventory is complete.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Graduation Speaker Returns Honorary Degree After Plagiarizing Speech At Elite Women’s College. I’m shocked, shocked that a “musician and activist” would have such low intellectual standards.
IT’S GOT TO BE INTENTIONAL, NOBODY THAT FEEBLE-MINDED COULD SUCCEED IN POLITICS: Starmer’s Humpty Dumpty routine is intended to drive you insane .
NONSENSE! FOOD COMES FROM THE GROCER, IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH FARMS. SEVERAL DEMS ON TWITTER HAVE ASSUMED ME SO: Never forget – it’s farmers who hold the keys to our survival.
I CAN HARDLY WAIT FOR THE DEMS TO RECOGNIZE YOUNG MEN ARE MOTIVATED BY BIKINI PIX: Dems Use Obese Woman to Court Male Voters.
POLLS THIS FAR AHEAD OF THE MID-TERMS ARE FERTILE GROUND* FOR DEM POLITICAL PSY-OPS: Why a Pollster Just Said to Bookmark His Prediction About Atlas Intel’s Latest Survey.
IT SEEMS THAT READING THE STAGE DIRECTIONS HAS BECOME THE DEMOCRAT STYLE: Jasmine Crockett Was Asked About the 2026 Dem Midterm Playbook. Her Answer Was a Disaster.
THEY HAVE NO PRINCIPLES. IT’S ALL WILL TO POWER: Far-Left Protesters Block ICE Arrests in Boston – Even Of Accused Child Rapist.
IT’S WAY PAST TIME FROM THE SIXTIES: It’s Way Past Time to Defund PBS and NPR.
CALIFORNIA’S DELUDED POLITICIANS QUIZ DELUDED REGULATORS: California lawmakers, regulators clash over clean air push and upcoming closure of oil refineries.
LET THE PRESIDENT DEAL WITH PRESIDENTIAL DECISIONS: CNBC’s Rick Santelli Floored By How Much Trade Deficit Was Slashed In Wake Of Trump’s Tariffs.
CHANGES MIGHT BE COMING: ATF Announces Firearms Regulatory Reforms and Renewed Partnership with Firearms Industry.
May 31, 2025
OPEN THREAD: Be here now.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: Elon Musk says SpaceX will launch its biggest Starship yet this year, but Mars in 2026 is ’50/50.’
I’d like to see it, but that’s a very aggressive timeline.
FLASHBACK: The Return of Patriarchy. “Across the globe, people are choosing to have fewer children or none at all. Governments are desperate to halt the trend, but their influence seems to stop at the bedroom door. Are some societies destined to become extinct? Hardly. It’s more likely that conservatives will inherit the Earth. Like it or not, a growing proportion of the next generation will be born into families who believe that father knows best.”
Related: Harrison Butker, Harbinger?
JOSH BLACKMAN: The Coming Judicial Nomination Wars On The Right. “Perhaps during a prior time, Whelan’s post would have been enough to stop the nomination. But here, Whelan’s post seems not to have had any effect on Trump’s decision making. Indeed, senior officials in DOJ rejected Whelan’s argument.”
The behavior of the judiciary in the first few months of Trump’s second term hasn’t boosted the position of the GOP legal establishment.
NAZIS ARE EVERYWHERE:
Cory Booker did the thing.
This is literally the Third Reich all over again.
These are the darkest days ever.
Democracy is doomed.
— ALX 🇺🇸 (@alx) May 31, 2025
