June 10, 2025

NIFTY: U.S. Army integrates SMASH smart fire control system on M4A1 rifle to target aerial drones. “The SMASH 2000L is developed and produced by Smart Shooter Ltd., a defense technology company based in Yagur, Israel. The firm specializes in fire control systems designed to improve small arms accuracy and lethality in complex battlefield environments. The SMASH 2000L represents a lightweight, compact iteration of the company’s proven SMASH technology, specifically engineered for integration with standard assault rifles such as the M4A1. It allows operators to effectively engage not only ground targets but also small unmanned aerial systems (sUAS), which pose growing threats in modern combat zones.”

Cool, but wouldn’t a shotgun be cheaper?

Posted at 2:47 pm by Stephen Green 6

POLLING NUMBERS IN? Newsom, Bass, Suddenly Talking Tough to their Shock Troops:

But they likely won’t:

Flashback to Andy Ngo in 2023: Who funds Antifa protests? We all do.

On March 5, an [National Lawyers Guild] member and staff attorney for the Southern Poverty Law Center named Thomas Jurgens was charged with domestic terrorism for his alleged involvement in a violent Antifa attack on police in Atlanta.

When the NLG’s legal observers and their comrades are arrested, they’re immediately provided with pro-bono legal aid and connections for bail money (rioters often write the NLG’s phone number on their body in anticipation of arrests.)

And then the lawsuits come.

Last year, New York City agreed to pay tens of thousands to NLG members arrested in the Bronx in June 2020.

In Detroit, NLG members are suing the city for alleged wrongful conduct stemming from its police response in 2020.

Nearly every American city afflicted by mass protesting and rioting in 2020 ended up settling and paying out millions in taxpayer money to radical protesters who were allegedly subjected to force by law enforcement.

Denver settled to pay $1.6 million to just seven people.

Austin settled to pay $17.3 million.

The cities, led by Democrats, don’t even bother to fight the cases, preferring to write a check.

The settlement cash doesn’t just end up rewarding the protesters, awarded inflated attorney fees are used to reinvest in the legal groups to grow the operation for the next cause. Additionally, law enforcement morale declines as they are punished for doing their jobs.

But lawsuit settlements aren’t the only way that militant protesters and riot suspects get paid. Bail funds have emerged as a lucrative cash source with progressive district attorneys refusing to prosecute most left-wing riot-related cases.

We’ll know if Trump is serious about pushing back against the rioters if they face federal charges and lengthy prison sentences.

Posted at 2:35 pm by Ed Driscoll 15

YOUR TAXPAYER DOLLARS AT WORK: Oops! Masked ‘Protester’ Reveals Identity to Reporter – DataRepublican Shows NGO is Paying Her to Dissent.

First, the funny part. A pro-illegal alien protester in Asheville, North Carolina, was being interviewed by a local TV news reporter. She said and spelled out her name on air. Then said she was wearing a mask to protect her identity. Yep, they’re not sending their brightest. Then, X sleuth extraordinaire DataRepublican did some quick research. Wham! Bam! Yep, the masked fool is a paid protester.

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At the beginning of 1991’s Parliament of Whores, P.J. O’Rourke famously wrote:

Not long after Andy [Ferguson] and I met, we were driving down Pennsylvania Avenue and encountered some or another noisy pinko demonstration. “How come,” I asked Andy, “whenever something upsets the Left, you see immediate marches and parades and rallies with signs already printed and rhyming slogans already composed, whereas whenever something upsets the Right, you see two members of the Young Americans for Freedom waving a six-inch American flag?”

“We have jobs,” said Andy.

But for the protestors on the left, as we’ve learned, this is their job. Nice work if you can get it: Who’s Paying for the Violent L.A. Protests Against ICE? You Are. And It Gets Worse From There.

Oh, and speaking of “signs already printed,” a quick reminder:

And this all-time classic from the late Andrew Breitbart:

Posted at 2:22 pm by Ed Driscoll 18

DAN MCLAUGHLIN: You Picked the Wrong Time to Riot.

Trump is following through on nationalizing the California National Guard and putting them seriously to work in restoring order over the impotent protests of California Governor Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass. Anybody who read the situation and the man could have told them this would happen. Yes, there’s some truth in the TACO taunt: Trump doesn’t much like standing up to people who can fight back, and he often blusters his way into positions he can’t or won’t back up. But Trump has no downside here. He knows he was elected to restore some basic, commonsense ideas that are overwhelmingly popular like public order in the streets, and that Newsom, Bass, and Kamala Harris are about the least sympathetic adversaries possible. He’s also just over four months into his term; it’s not 2020 anymore. A new president responds to challenges such as this one not only with an eye to the situation, but also with an eye on the tone set for the remaining three-plus years. Why did Ronald Reagan come down so hard on the air traffic controller strike? Partly out of principle but also partly to send a message: There’s a new sheriff in town, and you’re not messing with him. The public-employee unions got the message; so did the Soviets and Congress. Reagan meant what he said and was prepared to go to the mattresses.

All of the incentives for Trump, against people burning Waymos and wearing keffiyehs and waving Mexican flags, point in the direction of doing the same. Before you try to use leverage against an opponent, you should first consider whether your acts are received by him as pressure or as a gift. Trump very obviously views disorder in the streets of Los Angeles, against federal authority, and under foreign flags, as a gift. You have to be a special kind of stupid to hand him that. But nobody ever said rioters were smart people.

Neither are looters: Troops and turmoil in LA: Masked looters raid Apple store.

Flashback to 2020’s Summer of Love: Photos show how Apple is tracking and locking demo iPhones that have been stolen from its stores. “Photos of reportedly stolen iPhones have been circulating on social media showing screenshots with a message from Apple requesting that the devices be returned to the store. ‘Please return to Apple Walnut Street,’ one screenshot read, likely referring to the Apple Store located on Walnut Street in Philadelphia. ‘This device has been disabled and is being tracked. Local authorities will be alerted.’”

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): My congressman, Tim Burchett, weighs in.

Posted at 1:35 pm by Ed Driscoll 115

IT MUST BE THE SUMMER OF LOVE AGAIN, BECAUSE CNN HAS ACCESS TO ALL THE BEST HALLUCINOGENICS:

But is Stelter getting the wrong message, from watching footage that is “hours old?”

To be fair, Stelter isn’t the only Democrat Party operative with a Chyron who is pushing the Summer of Love message this week:

Or that they’re simply fun-filled peaceful “rallies:”

And what’s a rally without plenty of American flags?

Which presumably will quickly be set alight. But when they are, the party will demand that you ignore that it happened:

Posted at 1:22 pm by Ed Driscoll 68

“PISSED OFF?” Probably, but not for the reasons they gave. The New York Post reports that:

“ABC News staffers ‘pissed’ at Terry Moran over ‘stupid’ verbal assault on Trump aide Stephen Miller: ‘He should be fired’”

They claim to be pissed that Moran had biases, but I deeply suspect that what they are really pissed off at is that he got caught.

Posted at 1:01 pm by Charles Glasser 30

BRACE YOURSELVES: It Looks Like the Revolution Kiddies Are Planning a June 14th Party.

This group of communist, socialist, progressive turds has everyone involved who you’d imagine would be at a super-secret High Table meeting in a remote location last fall to plot a violent, nationwide opposition to Trump sometime during the next Summer of Love.

Oh, hello.

THEY’RE BACK

And do they ever have their advertising spiel together already.

Snappy af graphics and organization links all locked on.

On June 14th, President Trump shares a birthday with the US Army, and it just happens to be their 250th. In the words of our former rumored president, that’s a BFD in anyone’s book, so there’s a planned military review and parade in D.C. that day to celebrate.

Beege has the details.

Posted at 12:43 pm by Stephen Green 134

FACE, MEET PALM:

“Yes, bitch, I’m in college” might go down as the most unintentionally hilarious self-reveal of the current mess.

Posted at 12:33 pm by Stephen Green 77

GRETA’S BLIND EYE TO MURDER:

The Israelis know how to deport people. If this had been Britain, Greta Thunberg would be sitting in an asylum hotel right now, using a taxpayer-funded mobile phone, working as a Deliveroo driver and gearing up for 20 years of legal battles that will line the pockets of human rights lawyers.

Good riddance, I say. My only regret is that Thunberg refused to watch the footage of October 7 at a screening provided by the Israeli authorities before she was sent back where she came from. Such are the reports, anyway. In an episode rich with irony, this was the turkey in the challah sandwich (provided to the activist by Israeli commandos upon arrival).

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Let’s stop beating around the selfie yacht. It was never truly about the climate, any more than it was truly about the conflict in the Middle East. Closing her eyes to the October 7 footage crystallised the sustaining principle of Greta Thunberg: she is absorbed in a world of her own. It is a world that began with hating her teachers; went on to hating the establishment; and has ended with hating the Jews and the West, powered by endless selfies.

More here: “What happened next gives the whole game away. Why is Thunberg on her way home, you might ask, instead of valiantly opposing the Israelis? The answer is because she immediately signed a voluntary deportation agreement, leaving the rest of her crew behind in detention to propagate their ‘revolution’… When push came to shove, Thunberg ran away back to Europe instead of standing against what she falsely claims is a ‘genocide.’ She’s not a revolutionary. She’s just an attention-seeking fraud who wants to post selfies and get on television while not paying any cost for her radical activism. We’ve seen that dynamic play out many times, where Thunberg is ‘arrested’ and released within hours. She’s cosplaying.”

Posted at 12:30 pm by Ed Driscoll 99

HMM: SEIU Union Boss Charged With ‘Impeding’ L.A. ‘ICE’ Bust—But How Did He Know About It in the First Place?

How did the Democrat union bag man know that FBI and DHS officers were enforcing a criminal search warrant at an L.A. clothing manufacturer on Friday? It seems that the union, CHIRLA, and the Los Angeles Rapid Response Network’s [LARRN] snitch line reporting “men in military garb” paid off. At least that’s what it looks like from the charging documents against SEIU executive and Democrat money man David Huerta.

The SEIU boss was arrested on Friday and spent the weekend in jail awaiting his arraignment Monday afternoon at the federal courthouse.

Read the whole thing.

Posted at 12:12 pm by Stephen Green 26

YES: Abolish Teachers’ Unions. “Doing so wouldn’t only make reforming public education easier, but it would also begin the process of separating education from indoctrination, making schools safer and more responsive to parental concerns; it would also remove one of the main pillars of support for the worst elements of the left and the Democratic Party.”

Posted at 12:05 pm by Glenn Reynolds 44

NICE TRY… NOT:

It’s no exaggeration to say that for some of these rioters, the point is “Make California Mexico Again.”

Posted at 12:03 pm by Stephen Green 58