Oregon, My Oregon

 Cam at Bearing Arms finds Oregon's Latest Gun Bill Is Even Worse Than Headlines Suggest

Most of the coverage surrounding the "Community Safety Firearms Act" approved by the Oregon legislature this week has focused on its ban on "rapid-fire devices", which are vaguely defined as anything that increases "the rate at which the trigger is activated.. to a faster rate than is possible for the firearm without the device; or the rate of fire increases to a faster rate than is possible for a person to fire the firearm without the device." The bill specifically bans bump stocks, trigger cranks ,hellfire triggers, binary trigger systems, burst trigger systems, as well as switches and auto sears, but could arguably trip up any gun owner who puts in an aftermarket trigger that has less pull than what comes standard on the firearm in question. 

 

While that portion of the legislation is bad enough, it's far from the only onerous measure included in the omnibus gun bill.

It would also allow local governments to pass policies prohibiting people with a
concealed handgun license from carrying a gun into certain public buildings.

“A governing body that adopts such policy must post a clearly visible sign at all normal points of entry to the building and grounds and post a notice on the governing body’s website,” the bill says.

The bill also sets the implementation date for Measure 114, the voter-approved law passed in 2022 that bans purchases of magazines that hold more than 10 rounds of ammunition and requires a permit before buying a gun.

In March, the Oregon Court of Appeals ruled that the voter-approved Measure 114 does not violate the state constitution. Barring further legal challenges, the law is effective March 15, 2026.

Democrats and advocates for stricter gun laws and regulations argued collectively the restrictions could help curb firearm fatalities and mass shootings in Oregon.

 

The idea that we can stop a mass shooting by simply putting up a sign telling people they can't bring guns inside is downright idiotic. But this is also a weakening of Oregon's firearm preemption law, and if local governments can ban lawful carryu in certain public buildings I suspect Democrats will soon follow up with legislation allowing localities to impose their own gun-free zones wherever they see fit.

It's equally stupid to believe that criminals are going to go through the mandated training and paperwork to acquire a permit-to-purchase a firearm instead of stealing one or buying one on the black market. The permit-to-purchase requirement is just another barrier placed in front of those trying to exercise a fundamental civil right by making it a more burdensome, expensive, and time-consuming process.

Banning arms in common use, like magazines that can hold more than ten rounds, is a flagrant violation of our Second Amendment rights. In order tor that measure to be upheld, judges have to write magazines out of the Second Amendment entirely by labeling them accessories or misrepresenting what the Supreme Court has said about protected arms, which is what U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut did two years ago in upholding Measure 114.
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The Oregon State Supreme Court has yet to weigh in on the legality of Measure 114 under the state Constitution, and the federal lawsuit challenging Measure 114 is sitting in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Those lawsuits could still delay or derail the implementation of Measure 114 altogether, but even if that portion of SB 243 is put on hold there's plenty left in the omnibus gun bill approved by the legislature to impede and infringe on our right to keep and bear arms.

Back when we lived in Corvallis, Oregon, which has admittedly been a very long time now, it seemed to me to be the very essence of gun culture.  We routinely supplemented our diet with the abundant Black-Tailed Deer in the local coast range. My younger brother Ted even briefly owned a gun store in Lebanon, and we occasionally went to a local gun range and competed in metallic silhouette shooting matches. I was never really competitive. 

It's sad to see Oregon go this route. I guess they should have put up that wall to keep us Californians out like they threatened. 

Beach Report 6/28/25

After a week of blazing temperatures, yesterday was overcast and (almost) cool. Today it was warming up, back into the 80s, but still eminently pleasant.

The nicest of 24 teeth between Georgia and I was this lower Snaggletooth.

Flotsam and Jetsam - Supes Dump Nation Wide Injunctions

At Althouse, Moments away — we'll be getting the last cases of this Supreme Court term. "The cases will be posted on the Court's website, here. And here's the live-blogging at SCOTUSblog. Here's Grok's summary of the remaining cases — birthright citizenship, racial gerrymandering, the nondelegation doctrine, Obamacare, access to on-line porn, and parents opting their kids out of woke school lessons." With updates for the results. Yesteday I post on the one from Maryland, which we might call the anti-educational grooming ruling, teachers can only groom the kids if they give notice and a chance to opt out. More at the Balmer Sun, Supreme Court says Maryland parents can opt their kids out of LGBTQ-inclusive curriculum and Dave Strom at Hat Hair, SCOTUS Lays Down the Law: Schools Can't Force Alphabet Ideology Down Kids' Throats. Also, Mary Chastain at LI, Supreme Court Rules Texas Can Require Age Verification for Porn Sites “Because H. B. 1181 simply requires proof of age to access content that is obscene to minors, it does not directly regulate the protected speech of adults.”

Another biggie is the ruling from court quashing nationwide injunctions in most cases. The case revolved around Trump's order nixing birthright citizenship which the court chose not to rule on, allowing continued fights in the court at lower levels. Julie Kelly @julie_kelly2 "BREAKING: SCOTUS in 6-3 decision authored by ACB "Universal injunctions likely exceed the equitable authority that Congress has given to federal courts. The Court grants the Government’s applications for a partial stay of the injunctions entered below, but only to the extent that the injunctions are broader than necessary to provide complete relief to each plaintiff with standing to sue." Ace, in all red, capital italics, with the flaming skull, BY A 6-3 VOTE. THE SUPREME COURT INVALIDATES PRACTICE OF LOWLY DISTRICT COURT JUSTICES CONTROLLING THE NATIONALLY ELECTED PRESIDENT VIA UNIVERSAL INJUNCTIONS Cutie Pavlich at TownHall, BREAKING: SCOTUS Rules on Rogue Judges, Impacting Birthright Citizenship. Capt. Ed at Hat Hair, BREAKING: SCOTUS Quashes Federal District Courts' Nationwide Injunctions, 6-3. Sundance at CTH, Supreme Court Gives President Trump a Huge Win – No More Nationwide Injunctions Allowed  

At Insty, Kostas Moros @MorosKostas "Holy shit, this is about as brutal as I've ever seen SCOTUS be on one of their own. Translated: "you are so stupid that you aren't even worth responding to." Conn Carroll @conncarroll "More of Barrett nuking Jackson from orbit:" PJM's Matt Margolis thinks Amy Coney Barrett Utterly Humiliated Ketanji Brown Jackson. TownHall's Matt Vespa says Justice Amy Coney Barrett Absolutely Wrecked Ketanji Brown Jackson in the Birthright Citizenship Opinion. The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee "Ketanji Brown Jackson Pauses Oral Arguments To Ask Clarence Thomas 'What Is A Constitution' https://buff.ly/fnPLyOZ" PJM's Cathy Salgado hears a ‘Giant Win’: Trump Reacts to SCOTUS Birthright Citizenship Ruling. Sundance hosts President Trump's News Conference Following Supreme Court Ruling. Matt Vespa sees MSNBC Is Melting Down Over the Supreme Court's Birthright Citizenship Ruling. Bonchie at RedState, Left-Wingers Enter New Depths of Rage Over Supreme Court's Nationwide Injunction Ruling.

Not a lot on the Israeli-Iran war today. Dan Chaitin at Da Wire reports Trump Blames Dems For Iran Strike Intel Leak, Calls For Prosecutions, but "He did not name anyone in particular." Responsible Statecraft asks an obvious question If Iranian regime collapses or is toppled, 'what's next?' "These are questions that are hardly asked, nor answered with any degree of coherency. Seems important." Probably the IRGC. Dave Strom notes Iran Was a Main Driver of Scottish Independence Social Media Campaign "Dozens of the most prominent pro-SNP X accounts that accounted for about 250,000 pro-Independence posts on X all went silent at once--on the day Israel started bombing the crap out of Iran and Iran's internet went dark." Eyal Yakoby@EYakoby "BREAKING: Dozens of “Scottish independence” X accounts suddenly went silent on June 12—the same day Israel began its strike on Iran, including a major cyber attack. They’d been tweeting nonstop for months. Then, nothing. Turns out, they may have been Iranian bots all along." Elon should know. Sundance hosts Russian President Vladimir Putin Delivers Remarks About President Trump Following Iran/Israel 12-day War and notes the U.S. Ambassador to Russia Exits at Critical Stage, a Biden appointee. From the WaT, Trump seizes momentum from ceasefire deal to expand peace in Middle East.

From Da Caller, ‘Direct And Blatant Attack On Our Country’: Trump Announces End To Trade Talks With Canada, after they imposed a tax on 'digital services.' "The tax will require digital services companies like Meta to pay 3 percent of the digital services revenue they make on Canadian users above 20 million Canadian dollars ($14.6 million) in a calendar year, according to Bloomberg." Sundance, Canada Announces Digital Services Tax Against USA – President Trump Halts All Trade Negotiations With Canada and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent Explains Severity of Response to Canada’s Digital Services Tax, "I was unaware until this interview the July 1st digital services tax that Canada is going to apply to U.S. tech companies is retroactive in application. Over a billion dollars will be due on Monday as a result of Canada’s targeting. Duplicitous Snow Mexicans." Sundance also has Mexican President Sheinbaum Apoplectic at U.S. Sanctions Against Mexican Money Launderers.

Matt Vespa thinks The Reactions From This CNN Panel When Scott Jennings Rattles Off Trump's Wins Is Priceless. Twitchy, Scott Jennings Saddens CNN Dems as He Lists Why This Is the BEST Week of Trump’s Presidency Scott Jennings @ScottJenningsKY "This was the BEST week of the Trump presidency (maybe any presidency!) SCOTUS win on activist judges Stock market at record-high Israel-Iran ceasefire Unprecedented Rowanda-Congo peace deal gas prices at 4-year-low Not tired of winning." Cathy Salgado says Hey, GOP: Senate Parliamentarian Isn’t Binding, but if you ignore her, the Democrats will almost certainly filibuster the BBB.

From NYPo, Hegseth unveils new name of USNS Harvey Milk "The US Navy has officially changed the name of its ship honoring slain gay-rights icon Harvey Milk to the USNS Oscar V. Peterson in commemoration of the WWII Medal of Honor recipient."

At CJ, Mamdani Won—Now What? Jake Sullum at Reason on Zohran Mamdani's Jewish Problem "The presumptive Democratic nominee for mayor of New York has repeatedly missed opportunities to forthrightly condemn antisemitic violence." Althouse finds "Plenty of Jews Love Zohran Mamdani." "The headline for a Michelle Goldberg column." Tom Bevan @TomBevanRCP "The next step will be fusing the tax code with intersectionality: straight, white males will pay the most, of course." Quote Tom Bevan @TomBevanRCP, "This is going to be super fun to watch - from afar." Kurt Schlichter @KurtSchlichter "Don’t care. Bitch wants to raise taxes on people because they’re white so he can kind of go screw himself." Quote Defiant L’s @DefiantLs "Zorhan Mamdani gets emotional and says he’s been getting hateful messages for being a muslim." Isabella Custard at JTN reports Chris Cuomo says Democratic Party 'dead,' after brother loses NY mayor primary to democrat-socialist. Beege Welborn at Hat Hair, Aw, Cuomo, Man! Will Randy Andy's Ego Doom the Big Apple? as Cuomo threatens to run Indy. tree hugging s*ster @WelbornBeege "So split the vote between Cuomo and Adams and let the terrorist sympathizer WIN! WEEEE!" Bob Hoge at RedState says Whoa! WaPo Drops Blistering Op-Ed on Socialist NYC Mayoral Candidate Zohran Mamdani, or as we call them "yesterday's news tomorrow." At Racket, Matt Taibbi takes A Pause to Chuckle at the Democrats' Tortured Mamdani Wigout. "The victory of Zohran Mamdani in the New York mayoral primary swiftly moved Democrats to Denial, Anger, Bargaining, and Depression, but not Acceptance." NYPo goes Inside the campaign to find a new Republican to run against Mamdani — and why it could be Mayor Adams.

At Spec World, Dwayne Walter says We must reclaim the word ‘progressive’ "Stop mislabeling society’s saboteurs." The stain on the word will take years to fade.

Driscoll at Insty celebrates A TRUNALIMUNUMAPRZURE TOO FAR: One Year Since Biden’s Disastrous Debate. Hat Hair's John Sexton hears Kamala Harris Wants to Run for Governor But 'No One is Pumped.'

Kyle Becker @kylenabecker "Remember when it was a big story that a homicidal maniac connected to international orgs and appointed by two Dem governors to state boards k*lled two Minnesota lawmakers and wrote he believed Tim Walz wanted him to take out Amy Klobuchar? Boy, that story vanished in a hurry." Quote Viva Frei @thevivafrei "A Trump supporter that kills a Democrat the sole Democrat to vote with Republicans to revoke healthcare for illegal aliens. A Trump supporter appointed by Tim Walz. Whose wife interned for Tim Walz in 2010. Who had pamphlets for “no kings” in his vehicle. A story so stupid, only @NoLieWithBTC could say it with a straight face."

Cam at Bearing Arms has hopes Will DOGE Deliver an Independence Day Gift to Gun Owners? Shooting News Weekly, Gun Rights Orgs Ask Attorney General Bondi to Scrap Her Plan to Merge ATF and DEA.

The Divine Ms Devine at NYPo reports Migrant kids trafficked to pedophiles under Biden are being rescued by ICE, border czar Tom Homan tells ‘Pod Force One’.

 

Don Surber says Keep Natasha, fire CNN. "Its lies damage America by undermining the man we elected president." Matt Margolis thinks Jamaal Bowman Just Went Bat Poop Crazy on CNN. Went? From the Free Bacon, The Scythe Draws Near: CNN’s Overpaid ‘Talent’ Brace for Deep Cuts Amid Corporate Shakeup. "Morale is 'really grim' at left-wing network as 'ruthless cost cutter' Gunnar Wiedenfels sharpens his blade." John Sexton reports Gavin Newsom Sues Fox News "claiming he was defamed by host Jesse Waters. Politico notes that elements of the lawsuit seem to have been chosen for symbolic rather than practical reasons. Aw, did they hurt his feelings? At Da Caller, Pulitzer-Winning WaPo Reporter Charged With Alleged Possession Of Child Porn. Ironically, this same reporter went after "GOP Senate nominee Roy Moore’s alleged sexual assault of minors." From the Times Meet the ‘Trump whisperer’ who flies on Air Force One. "The president often texts his favourite journalist, whom he calls ‘my Salena’, and says she understands him better than most others."

Mike Benz @MikeBenzCyber "Holy shit the advertiser collusion emails in this report are insane. Explicit plot to stop online advertising dollars to pro-Trump content online." Quote Brent Scher @BrentScher Replying to @BrentScher "This is the second major report from the House Judiciary Committee on GARM, which was shut down after the first one. It's just as brutal. Here's Rob Rakowitz, GARM's top official, telling Australia that seeing Trump "effectively sidelined" was his "main thing."

Christopher F. Rufo @realchrisrufo "According to a whistleblower, Cornell University DEI administrators rigged the search process for a professor of evolutionary biology by deliberately excluding white men from consideration and hand-picking their "hoped-for diversity hire." This is racial discrimination." The Peacock shrieks UVA president resigns after Trump administration pressure. "University of Virginia President Jim Ryan is stepping down after the Trump administration reportedly tied his resignation to ending a Justice Department probe into the school’s DEI practices. The White House called it a win, warning other schools to comply with federal civil rights laws."

From Campus Reform, 'Iran will never die': USF professor praises regime, blasts critics. 

Lots of additional links at the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 06.27.25.

Rule 5 Saturday - Sara Malakul

This weeks Rule 5 exemplar:

Sara Malakul Lane was born in Guam to a Scottish father, Alastair Lane, and a Thai mother, Thapthim Malakul na Ayudhaya. Through her mother, she is a member of the Chakri dynasty, the current reigning dynasty of Thailand. Her mother's father, Mom Luang Pikthip Malakul, was a diplomat, including ambassador of Thailand to Myanmar and the United Kingdom; Pikthip Malakul's grandfather was one of many children of Rama II of Siam. The family name Malakul was bestowed by King Vajiravudh on 30 May 1913, following the royal act which prescribed the use of surnames. She grew up between the United Kingdom and Bangkok, where she studied at NIST International School. She lived in Los Angeles and she currently resides in Singapore.

 

Sara, a method actress, started her acting career at the age of 15, transitioning from modeling after she won a role in her first TV series. She acted in Thai soap operas before moving to America.

Her first role in a Hollywood film was playing Steven Seagal's daughter in the 2003 film Belly of the Beast. She then starred in Sharktopus with Eric Roberts in 2010 and alongside Roberts and Peter Stormare in The Wayshower in 2011. In 2014, she starred in Jailbait, a thriller drama film. In 2016, she played a Bangkok detective who becomes the love interest of the lead character in Kickboxer: Vengeance, which was released in September 2016. She reprised the role in the sequel, Kickboxer: Retaliation, released in 2018.

Maryland, My Maryland

Tyler O'Neil at Da Signal, Supreme Court Rules on Parents’ Religious Freedom in LGBTQ School Book Opt-Out Case

The Supreme Court upheld the religious freedom of Maryland parents who challenged a school district policy that prevented them from opting their children out of lessons involving LGBTQ books. The court ruled, 6-3, that the Maryland parents were entitled to a preliminary injunction.

The case, Mahmoud v. Taylor, involved Maryland parents of various faith backgrounds—Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, and Muslim—asking the court for a temporary injunction, allowing them to opt their kids out of instruction that utilize LGBTQ books that Montgomery County Public Schools has mandated schools teach.
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Justice Samuel Alito delivered the Supreme Court’s opinion, in which Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett joined. Thomas filed a concurring opinion, and Justice Sonia Sotomayor filed a dissenting opinion, which Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson joined.

Ace gives it red italic font and the flaming skull, Supreme Court Rules that Public Schools Cannot Preach the Gay/Trans Agenda to Children Without Alerting Their Parents and Allowing Them an Opt-Out

You probably remember this dispute. Maryland, as deranged a progressive cesspit as there is, insists on teaching kids to be gay in grade school. Not middle school, grade school.

Initially, they permitted parents an opt-out of Lessons In Homosexuality, but then reversed themselves, denying parents that opt-out. It seems too many parents wanted to opt their children out, and that defeats the whole point of their gay and trans grooming.

Also, they said they couldn't just excuse kids when they were going to give lectures about changing your gender, because these lectures could come at literally any moment and who could plan for when teachers were going to start grooming children?

Which leads to a question that should be asked and answered: Just how often are teachers engaging in grooming behavior such that they cannot even say when the groomings will begin and end? Maryland's position seems to be that teachers are going to groom children nigh-constantly, so it's too much of a bureaucratic chore to excuse children every time a groomer teacher wants to tell them that gender is infinitely mutable and just "assigned at birth" as a guess by a bigoted doctor and isn't it wonderful to have gay sex?

The Court rejected these arguments, and found that bureaucratic convenience did not overrule the protections of the First Amendment, which guarantees parents the right to decide their children's religious upbringing.

And note that all parents are forced to pay for public school and also that schooling until age 16 (or whatever) is compulsory, so parents cannot just "remove their children from school," as -- guess who? -- Ketanji Brown Jackson asserted in oral arguments.

Good for the Montgomery County parents.  

Flotsam and Jetsam - Trump Admin MOPs Up CNN

Stacy McCain says The Worst News Network on the Planet Has Covered Itself in Shame This Week "For the past couple of days, I’ve been watching CNN (so you don’t have to) and — dear merciful God! — there are no words to describe how awful it is. On the other hand, the attempt to describe it gave me an excuse to beat that dead dog again with a 1,300-word opus: Among the errors to which journalists are prone, none is so common as the delusion of instant expertise. Assign a reporter to do an article about theoretical physics, and by the time he files his story, he’ll be convinced he’s Stephen Hawking.. . ." Matt Vespa at TownHall, CNN Hosts Busted for Lying As They Defend Their Fake News Reporting on Trump's Iran Strikes and BRUTAL: Karoline Leavitt Bulldozes CNN Reporter Who Peddled Fake News About Trump's Strikes on Iran. Driscoll at Insty says CNN IS IN THE MIDST OF ABOUT THE WORST WEEK OF REPORTING A LONE OUTLET CAN HAVE: Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh, "UPDATE: CNN is backtracking BIG TIME as they air that Trump was RIGHT - the Iran strikes were effective, the leaked intel report was WRONG. "It WORKED. It seems to have worked flawlessly!" "The 20,000 centrifuges...they are all COMPLETELY DESTROYED!"" Sundance hosts Secretary Pete Hegseth and Air Force Gen. Dan Caine Hold a Pentagon Press Briefing and Vice-President Vance and Secretary Hegseth Confront an Incurious, Manipulative and Deceitful Intelligence Community Media Operation. Virginia Kruta at Da Wire, ‘We Don’t Play Your Little Games’: Hegseth Smokes Reporter Asking Why He Didn’t Mention Female Pilot "It's the obsession with race and gender in this department that's changed priorities, and we don't do that anymore" and ‘Fire Everyone Involved’: Trump Unloads On Media After Hegseth Presser On Iran Strikes, "Apologize to our great warriors, and everyone else!" Althouse cites Pete, "Because you — and I mean specifically YOU, the press corps — because you cheer against Trump so hard, it's in your DNA and in your blood to cheer against Trump..." Katie Pavlich at TownHall, 'Scum': Trump Unloads on CNN, New York Times, 'MSDNC.' Hat Hair's Dave Strom maintains The Fight Over Iran BDA Is Not About Whether Nuke Program Destroyed. "In a sane world, the bomb damage assessment that would tell us whether key elements of Iran's nuclear program were destroyed would be based on empirical evidence. We don't live in a sane world. The argument has everything to do with whether you like Donald Trump or hate him." Chuck Ross @ChuckRossDC "this guy?" Quote The Hill@thehill, "Former CIA director Leon Panetta: Trump contradicting intelligence assessments "a very scary prospect" https://trib.al/KP6QMTD" Da Fetched, Tucker Carlson Slams Jennifer Griffin as ‘Deep State Shill’ in Explosive Interview.

Ace tracks down the source of the leak; it was Iranian propaganda picked up by NSA, Update: CNN's Big "Scoop" Came from... Iranian Sources Passing Iranian State Propaganda "Outstanding work, CNN. Make sure you all hand out awards to each other." And General "Razin'" Caine: The Massive Ordnance Penetrators Worked Exactly as Designed, and Obliterated Their Targets, CNN's Analyst: I'm Convinced, the Centrifuges Are All Destroyed, "CNN hardest hit." NewsMax cites DNI Gabbard: Iran's Nuclear Sites Have Been Destroyed. Charles Hamilton at RCD explains Why Saturday’s Strike on Iran Was Perfectly Timed. Austin Bay at Insty, IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: The Simultaneous Strategic Bombing Strike on Iran, an operation 30 years in the making. "The 509th’s raid was three decades in the making. In 1996, the U.S. experimented with deep penetration conventional bombs and timing attacks so the second bomb struck milliseconds behind the first. A second bullet in the first bullet hole, one-two punch. In September 1996, I wrote a column mentioning the tests. The potential target: Libya’s chemical weapons stash hidden under a mountain. The 509th’s MOPs delivered these one-two punches. Add submarine-launched cruise missiles that arrive in sync with the bombs and the result: strategic “time on target”." TWZ, GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator Successor In The Works "Here's what we know about the new weapon being sought to replace the B-2's MOP and equip the B-21 in the future."

Rick Moran at PJM In Iran, Mass Arrests, Executions, and Everyone Is Wondering: Where Is Supreme Leader Khamenei? And then Althouse reports he emerges from the bunker to say "The American regime entered into a direct war because it felt that if it did not enter, the Zionist regime would be completely destroyed. But it did not gain anything from this war." Hat Hair's Duanne Patterson sees Trump Boxing Khamenei. 

VodkaPundit at Insty says HMM: "Netanyahu agreed to end Gaza war within two weeks after US strike on Iran. “According to the outlet, Trump and Netanyahu agreed in a phone call that the war in Gaza would end within two weeks. Four Arab states, including the UAE and Egypt, would jointly govern the Gaza Strip in place of Hamas. The terror group’s leadership would be exiled, and all hostages would be released.” That’s nice. Did Hamas agree to exile? Or will the IDF have to keep rooting them out for as long as it takes?" Sundance has an Israeli Report – Trump, Netanyahu and Arab Partners Close to Peace Solution for Gaza, Emissary Steve Witkoff Discusses Next Steps with Iran and Expansion of the Abraham Accords and Israeli Courts Drag Netanyahu Back into Scrutiny – President Trump Sends Message of Support. From Da Blaze, 'Hugely successful': Trump triumphs at NATO summit, winning over allies after years of resistance. From Drew Berquist, Spain Snubs NATO Deal—Trump Says They’ll Pay One Way or Another. At Twitchy, CODEPINK Tries Picking a Fight with DataRepublican for Calling Them Out Over China, and WOW That Was DUMB.

From the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 06.25.25 (Evening Edition), Twitchy: CNN’s Dana Bash Loses It Over Hegseth & Trump Calling Network Out On Its Lies, Army Vet Breaks Down The Destructive Power Of Strike On Iran, Louder With Crowder: AOC claims she’ll beat up Trump because she’s “from the Bronx,” then her yearbook photo exposes where she’s REALLY from, Jasmine Crockett goes on BIZARRE rant that she’s the one who gets to decide to bomb Iran, American Conservative: Trump Threads the Needle on Iran, American Greatness, Trump Says ‘This Is Ridiculous’ After Iran and Israel Exchange Missile Fire But Ceasefire Remains ‘In Effect’, American Thinker: Iran Effectively Surrenders to the United States, President Trump’s Bombing Iran’s Nuclear Sites Did Not And Will Not Start A War, The War Powers Narrative Is False—And the Constitution Proves It, Dana Loesch: Trump Gets A Ceasefire, Don Surber: CNN lies for Iran, The Geller Report, Iranian General Assets “We’ll Chop Off Trump’s Hand, Annihilate Israel”, Iran Breaks Ceasefire, Despite “Total Obliteration,” CNN Claims US Strikes on Iran Did Not Destroy Nuclear Sites, Legal Insurrection, Georgetown Prof Walks Back Statement That Iran Should Perform ‘Symbolic’ Strike on US Base, This Ain’t Hell, BDAs not looking good, Iran’s nuclear program set back years by strikes: President Trump would hit them again if they get rebuilt.

Sundance hosts President Trump Promotes the “Big Beautiful Bill.” Don Surber notes Income up 8 times inflation, unlike in the Biden administration. From Da Mail, Trump has 'outsmarted all of us' admits backpedaling economist who bashed President's bold plan. Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh, "BREAKING: General Electric Appliances invests $500 MILLION to move production from China to KENTUCKY, USA. Manufacturing continues to return home." Rusty Weiss at RedState hears Sen Bernie Moreno Exposes Fed Chair Jerome Powell As a Hypocrite: ‘Should Resign.’ Politico whines Trump says he has ‘3 or 4' picks in mind to replace Fed’s Powell, "Trump did not elaborate on potential nominees to replace the central bank chief, whose term as chair ends in May 2026." Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius "Please repeat after me, three times: Cutting fraud, waste and abuse from a federal program is not the same thing as cutting benefits under that program. Cutting fraud, waste and abuse from a federal program is not the same thing as cutting benefits under that program. CUTTING FRAUD, WASTE AND ABUSE FROM A FEDERAL PROGRAM IS NOT THE SAME THING AS CUTTING BENEFITS UNDER THAT PROGRAM. Thank you for your attention to this matter."

At Da Blaze, RFK Jr. triggers Democratic hysterics after pointing out Big Pharma contributions to Rep. Pallone. Ace, in red font, reports a Study of 1.3 Million Czech Women Shows That Those Who Received the Covid "Vaccine" Had Their Fertility Rates Reduced by One Third As Compared to the Unvaccinated.

Matt Taibbi at Racket thinks Socialism Wins Its American Normandy "Zohran Mamdani's victory in the New York City mayoral primary opens a new era in American crazy." John Lucas at Bravo Blue sees New York Accelerates Toward the Cliff. WSJ, Wall Street Panics Over Prospect of a Socialist Running New York City, "Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani’s stunning primary win is rattling the financial industry that had backed Andrew Cuomo." From Semafor, Eric Adams suddenly finds ‘overwhelming support’ from NYC’s desperate business elites. Mark Hemingway @Heminator "This is a good point." Quote Tim Chapman @TimChapman "With NYC looking like it’s about to hand the keys to a 33-year-old socialist, raising the SALT cap is becoming indefensible. Why should the heartland subsidize billionaires in blue states that keep electing radicals? Rewarding failure with tax breaks is not conservative policy." VodkaPundit at Insty, NEW YORK, NEW YORK: Zohran Mamdani: ‘Working-Class’ Mayor for Upper Class Voters. Capt. Ed at Hat Hair, Dems Wonder: Is It Bad That Our New Star Is a Intifada-Globalizing Socialist? Also from Hat Hair, No Lies Detected: Fetterman Reacts to Mamdani Win in NYC. NewsWire @NewsWire_US, "Sen. John Fetterman reacts to socialist Mamdani's win in NYC: “I’d describe it as Christmas in July for the GOP”" From Ace, Axios: Democrats Wonder If Their New Socialist, Globalize-the-Intifada Superstar Might Lead Voters to Think They're All Terrorist-Loving Radical Communists or Something, "It's their brand. Always has been. They just used to do a better job of hiding it." Twitchy, Matt Walsh's Honest NYC Post ENRAGES Bulwarker Tim Miller SO MUCH He Starts Screaming Racial SLURS At Him: Tim Miller@Timodc "Go back to Ireland you fucking paddy ass mick." Quote Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog, "40 percent of New York City's population is foreign born. Not just second and third generation immigrants. Foreign born. Almost half the city wasn't born in this country. NYC isn't an American city anymore by any reasonable definition of the term. It's a tragedy and a disgrace." The Scuttlebutt says Don’t Interrupt Them when they're making a mistake. At RedState Brandon Morse, Dear New Yorkers: Texas Will Break You. The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee "Democrats Discover Innovative Strategy Of Promising Free Stuff To Stupid People."

From the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 06.25.25 (Evening Edition), EBL: Free immigration & welfare, Communist Muslim Zohran Mamdani Wins Democrat Nomination for Mayor of New York, New York Embraces Class Equity, Louder With Crowder, JD Vance can’t wait to hop on BlueSky, trolls leftists now that an Islamic Socialist’s become the new leader of the Democrat Party, American Greatness: Muslim Democrat Socialist Wins Dem NY Mayoral Primary, BattleSwarm, NYC Democrats Vote For Self Destruction, The Geller Report: 9/11’s FINAL BLOW – NYC Mayor Primary Election – Islamic Terrorist Operative Zohran Mamdani Takes The Lead and THE BREAKDOWN: Lower Income Overwhelmingly Voted for Cuomo, Majority of College Educated Vote For Jihadi Mamdani, Legal Insurrection, Zohran Mamdani is the Red-Green Alliance, Victory Girls: Goodbye New York: Radical Socialist Zohran Mamdani Wins NYC Mayoral Primary.

Liz Stauffer at LI reports Top Biden Aide Tells Congress She Authorized Autopen Use Without Knowing Who Gave Final OK, "Asked by a reporter if there had been an effort to coverup Biden’s condition, Tanden replied, “Absolutely not.”" Ace, Jill Biden's "Work Husband," the Aide Who Controlled The White House and Hid Joe Biden's Infirmity from the Public, Refuses to Testify to Congress. ""Work husband," huh? . . . Another top Biden aide, Neera Tanden, also attempted to dodge testimony. She said she couldn't testify because of executive privilege. But executive privilege is invoked by the currently-serving president, not a past one. Trump requested that Biden invoke executive privilege to protect his own documents, but Biden repeatedly refused. When Neera Tanden made the same request, you know that Trump enjoyed telling her to get stuffed." From the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 06.25.25 (Evening Edition), The Federalist, Key Biden Adviser Refuses To Testify About Former President’s Cognitive Decliner, Biden Staffer Directing Autopen Didn’t Know Who Final Authorization Came From.

At Da Blaze, Supreme Court upholds ban on Medicaid funds for Planned Parenthood. Chris Queen at PJM, SCOTUS Allows States to Remove Medicaid Funding to Planned Parenthood. Pop Times warns Expect Fireworks: Miller Warns Rogue Judge Who Defied SCOTUS on Deportations to Third Countries. Dave Strom says Bye, Bye, Kilmar Abrego-Garcia, as the Supreme Court frees Trump to deport him to a country not named El Salvador, South Sudan? Nick Sortor @nicksortor " #BREAKING: ICE will be removing Kilmar Abrego Garcia to a third party country after an activist judge tries to put him on the streets of America, per Politico DHS promised he’ll never be free in America again, so he’s going to end up in a South Sudanese prison or somewhere similar. He said he didn’t want to be in El Salvador, so maybe he’ll enjoy South Sudan." At Twitchy, Unfrozen Cavewoman Justice: Hilarious Video Shows Everything Ketanji Brown Jackson 'Doesn't Understand' A lot. I think this is a weird verbal tic by which Jackson tries to discredit arguments she doesn't find appealing. Insty, on OVERTURNING REYNOLDS V. SIMS AND BAKER V. CARR — two cases that have no constitutional basis other than the predilections of the Warren Court — should be a priority: Oilfield Rando @Oilfield_Rando, "Upstate New Yorkers live in a de facto vassal district. Ditto rural Coloradans. Southern Illinois same. If the cities aren’t dealt with, that’s the fate of every red county in America." Quote Paul @WomanDefiner, "You know what not caring about NYC leads to? A permanent foothold for Immigrant access to America. You need to care about it otherwise you end up with 200k Somalis taking over your city." For that matter, Calvert County MD is also a Maryland vassal.

From Da Caller, Liberal State Supreme Court Throws Wrench In Dems’ Plan For Taking Back House. At the Milwaukee J Sent, Wisconsin Supreme Court rejects bid to reconsider congressional maps before the 2026 midterms. I'm pleasantly surprised. Ben Weingarten at RCI, Who Counts? Trump Poised To Try To Remove Noncitizens From Census. I doubt he will succeed, but it's worth the effort. Justice Department Files Suit Against Orange County California Registrar of Voters for Refusing to Provide Non-Citizen Voter Removal Records in Violation of Federal Elections Laws. AP whines 6 people are charged in a Texas elections investigation involving ‘vote harvesting’ Ctrl-F fails to find the word "Democrat." But they are.

PJM's Cathy Salgado has Another Reason to Reinstate FBI Whistleblowers, other than to spite liberals, which is good enough IMHO. 

.@RealStevefriend on the alleged 2020 China interference plot:

"This is unequivocally the worst election interference on behalf of the FBI." pic.twitter.com/EyTn0F6w6L

— The Will Cain Show (@WillCainShow_) June 25, 2025

Beege Welborn at Hat Hair doesn't like LA Logic: Since Illegals Are Too Scared of ICE to Go to Work They Shouldn't Have to Pay Rent, Either and Illegal But 'Honest, Hardworking Individuals' at NE Meat Packing Plant Also Using Stolen IDs, SSNs. Stacey Matthews at LI reports DHS Disputes Story of Denial of Prenatal Care to Pregnant Illegal in ICE Custody “Iris Dayana Monterroso-Lemus, 37, is a citizen of Guatemala who has been arrested multiple times for child abuse and is wanted on an active warrant for homicide.” Lovely.

At Ace's Mediator in Trump's Lawsuit Against CBS For Deceptively Editing Kamala's Word-Salad Answers Suggests $20 Million Settlement. "The sticking point isn't the money, the Wall Street Journal reports. Trump wants an apology from the network and an admission of fault, but Paramount (CBS' corporate parent) refuses." Matt Vespa at TownHall, Kari Lake *Went There* When This Dem Rep Tried to Come After Her at a Committee Hearing Lake’s electoral history was brought up by Rep. Stanton, who claimed that she was unqualified since she questioned the 2020 elections. Yet, if there’s one thing about Lake, she’s good at delivering punches, too. Stanton asked a snotty question of Lake. Her response was classic, as she tried to warn that her agency has the power to be a fake news factory (via K12 News): . . "They could literally put out a lie about anybody here," Lake told Stanton. "I know you've been the victim of that. I know you've been the victim. I remember the stories about you where they said you had a gay lover." Dave Strom at Hat Hair, When All You Have Is a Hammer... Thomas Hern @ThomasMHern "Jamaal Bowman is something else. "I'm a black man in America. The reason why heart disease and cancer and obesity and diabetes are bigger in the black community is because of the stress we carry from having to deal with being called the n word directly or indirectly every day.""

At the Kansas City Sentinel, Kobach urges U.S. Department of Ed to investigate four Kansas districts for civil rights violations "Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach is urging the United States Department of Education to open an investigation against four school districts in the state after they have allegedly refused to comply with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, or FERPA and are “socially transitioning” children without their parents’ knowledge." Hat Hair's John Sexton reads Andrew Sullivan: Trans Extremism is Backfiring on Gay People.

Driscoll at Insty, PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS: Mike Benz @MikeBenzCyber "After 10 years of telling everyone the gym makes you a far-right white supremacist fascist asshole, the Democrats are now trying to get in on gym culture."

Fish Pic Friday - Eleni Stewart

 With some of those whacky fish from Down Under:

Eleni Stewart@leni_stewart  Just for fun Ocean lover 🐬 Mgmt: @blue_chip_talent

Virginia Ospreys in Trouble?

Nesting pairs of Osprey in 1987 and 2025

Chesapeake Bay Mag, Osprey Pairs Down to Single Digits on Ocean Side of ESVA

Dr. Bryan Watts, Director of the Center for Conservation Biology (CCB) at William & Mary, has released an inventory of active osprey nests along Virginia’s Eastern Shore Seaside. His report’s title tells the ugly story: “Osprey Population along the Seaside of the Delmarva Peninsula has Collapsed.” Where a CCB survey in 1987 recorded 83 pairs, this year’s survey recorded only nine pairs between Fisherman Island and the Chincoteague Causeway.

 

“We’ve been watching them since the 1990s,” Dr. Watts tells us, “ and the loss rate has really ratcheted up in the last few years.” This population collapse is a concern not only for the loss of an iconic, well-loved bird but also for what it says about the condition of this coastal environment that appears otherwise pristine.

Why the failure? Dr. Watts’s careful summary says: “The underlying causes of this population decline are unclear. Although there have been changes in nesting substrates (like duck blinds, dead trees, navigational aids, or nesting platforms) over time, the availability of nesting substrate does not appear to be a primary factor. Suitable structures remain widely available and many substrates that were used for extended periods are now vacant.

“It is possible that bald eagles may have impacted osprey along the seaside. The bald eagle population within the area has more than tripled since the 1980s. However, the density of eagles continues to be a small fraction of that found within the upper tributaries of the Chesapeake Bay where ospreys continue to thrive.”

That's interesting, I was just speculating about that a few days ago. Bald Eagle commonly rob Ospreys of their prey. Ospreys are great fisherman, but at some point, that has to impact the amount of food they can bring home to feed their chicks. And Bald Eagles seem even more efficient at stealing food from Ospreys than Ospreys are at fishing. I don't think I've ever seen an eagle fail to force an Osprey to drop it's fish.

He goes on to report, “The most likely cause of the decline is prey availability. However, no osprey diet studies have ever been conducted within this site, and we know very little about trends in fish availability. During the 1970s and 1980s, the highest density of nesting pairs was skewed to the southern portion of the area around Fisherman and Mockhorn Islands. These birds could be observed flying out to the mouth of the Chesapeake to forage. Pairs have declined by more than 90% within this portion of the study area.”

When looking for causes, questions arise about the availability of menhaden for ospreys to eat in the “southern portion of the area around Fisherman and Mockhorn Islands.” Some believe menhaden industry giant Omega Protein is competing with the ospreys for their food.

I'm beginning to believe the Osprey population in our Mid Bay region is following the same trajectory, just a few years later.  Our local Osprey population seems to have thinned. I only saw a single Osprey plying the waters off our beach today. There were plenty of peanut sized (2-3 inch) Menhaden dead on the beach, it doesn't seem like lack of them is the problem. 

So, Stripped Bass are in trouble, crabs are in trouble, and the Ospreys are in trouble. I'm sure satisfied the with $25 billion or so we've dumped into the Bay's bureaucracy in the last 30 years. 

Flotsam and Jetsam - Trump "Obliterates" Media Meme

Ace has a leftover from yesterday's news, Leftists Leak a Classified DIA Assessment of the Damage to the Iran Nuke Sites to Embarass Trump "Endless treason. Endless." I even left the misspelling in. Sundance hosts Secretary Rubio Affirms “Significant Damage” to Iran Nuclear Capacity in Wake of U.S. Airstrikes and Vice-President Vance and Secretary Hegseth Confront an Incurious, Manipulative and Deceitful Intelligence Community Media Operation. At PJM Scott Pinkser says Don’t Believe the Media’s LIES: Here’s Why Iran’s Nuke Program Is Almost Certainly Sayonara and Matt Margolis, Iran’s Stunning Admission That Proves Trump Was Right, CNN Most Hurt. "“The Iranian foreign ministry admitted that their nuclear facilities were ‘badly damaged’ by U.S. strikes over the weekend after reports surfaced about a low-confidence U.S. intelligence assessment suggesting otherwise,” National Review reports." Althouse focuses on the word "obliterate", If we take "obliterate" literally, it means to cause to disappear. "The media seem to be overeager to undercut Trump's accomplishment by saying that he said the word "obliteration" but there's actually — possibly — something left." AMAC asserts Liberal Meltdown Over Trump Iran Strike Will Alienate Americans. The Peacock whines House Speaker Johnson argues the War Powers Act is unconstitutional "Many constitutional scholars believe that the Nixon-era law, which limits the president’s power to unilaterally wage war, violates Article 2, Johnson said. “I think that’s right,” he added."

Hat Hair's Capt. Ed hears Netanyahu: Regime Change Can't Come From a Bombing Campaign -- And MEF Agrees. Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays, "I have a feeling Iran's regime already changed. All the Supreme Leader's underlings needed to do was lock him in a bunker and take away his phone "for his own safety." Then tell anyone who asks that the Supreme Leader isn't meeting with anyone in person but they know his orders. It worked for Joe Biden."

Althouse and Sundance both post Trump's press conference at The Hague. Althouse catches the daddy scandal, "This is a great press conference. I've listened to it but don't have a transcript to quote yet.  ADDED: "Mark Rutte, the NATO Chief, he called you 'daddy' earlier.... Do you regard your NATO allies as kind of like children?"" Causing Rubio to crack up. 

Breitbart Bus Dig, Jerome Powell: The Grand Speculator, "The Fed chair once warned against using speculative forecasts to drive policy. Now he’s doing exactly that. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell made a quiet but extraordinary admission on Tuesday: if the Fed were following the actual data, it would be cutting interest rates. But it isn’t—because the Fed expects President Trump’s tariffs to raise inflation, and it's choosing to act on that forecast instead." He just wants to cause Trump, and by extension us, pain as long a possible. NewsMax has a Report: Trump Naming Next Fed Chair Early to Weaken Powell. Hat Hair's Dave Strom thinks It Is Insane That There Is Opposition to Selling Less Than 0.5% of Federal Land. The plan is to sell off 3,000,000 acres in 11 mostly western states. The Federal government owns 640,000,000 acres. I've long advocated selling western lands off to help pay off the debt. 

Sarah Anderson at PJM hears Jasmine Crockett Went After Melania, And I'm Not Gonna Let That Slide. She was admitted under the "hot chicks" clause of the "Einstein" visa program. I'm down with that. It's one way to improve the gene pool. "During a House hearing, Crockett decided that the "math ain't mathin'" when it comes to how the first lady, who is an immigrant, came to the United States. It's a story most people who pay attention know, and it's something Democrats have tried to poke holes in for years, but to use Ms. Crockett's terms, the math does math. The New York Times, of all publications, even laid out the validity of it in a 2018 article called "Did Melania Trump Merit an ‘Einstein Visa’? Probably, Immigration Lawyers Say," which you can find if you do a quick Google search."

Regarding the Muslim socialist Zohram Mandami's victory over Andrew Cuomo in the NYC Democrat Mayoral primary, Stacy McCain says NYC Goes Full Zimbabwe "Never go full Zimbabwe. You can order a $10 trillion Zimbabwe note online for under $25, which is still more than its actual value as currency, but rather reflects what it’s worth as a collector’s item, a memento of the kleptocratic regime of Robert Mugabe." Ace, New York City Chooses the Form of Its Destructor and It's (Check Notes) a Socialist Ex-Rapper (!) Who Supports Global Jihad
Update: One of His "Raps" Praised Five Convicted Terrorist Funders of Hamas, "In the city that was struck by Al Qaeda on 9/11, notes David Strom." Juliana Frieman at Am Spec, The Cuomo Comeback Is Dead — And So Might Be the Old Democratic Party "This is just the latest casualty in a party that doesn’t know who it is anymore." Or maybe it does? Politico, Mamdani’s victory would signal seismic shift in national politics and test for socialist movement. Dave Sypher at Spec World, Zohran Mamdani’s New York: prostitution, crime and socialism. "This isn’t Barack Obama’s party anymore. It’s AOC’s. It’s Ilhan Omar’s. And now, it’s Mamdani’s." Insty has a Driscolly post, AND YET NEW YORKERS VOTED FOR HIM IN DROVES: Razib Khan @razibkhan "mamdani is heir to a form of third-world socialism and decolonialism that totally failed. it resulted in immiseration for billions. india is two generations behind where it could be. mamdani's middle name is from kwame nkrumah, who cripped ghana's economy for a generation" Marina Medvin @MarinaMedvin "The whitest party in NYC is the Zohran election night party. This is incredible. I’ve never seen so little diversity in NY." Stupid white kids. Charlie Kirk @charliekirk11 "WATCH: The Muslim socialist Zohran Mamdani is such a shameless dirtbag he changes his accent depending on who he's talking to. He also used to be a "rapper" whose mom directed his music videos. If New York City voters are dumb enough to elect this conman, they deserve every single bad thing coming to them." "Code switching" is a common enough ploy on both sides of the aisle. Althouse has Let's talk about Zohran Mamdani. I'd avoided even making a tag for him, but times have changed and Donald Trump, AOC, and Mamdani are all from Queens. Is there something about the culture/speech patterns of Queens that is political magic? "That's a question I asked Grok early this morning (and posted on X)." The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee "Hamas Claims Responsibility For NYC Mayoral Primary https://buff.ly/1QePVby."

So now we know who really was Preznit? Matt Margolis at PJM says There’s A New Huge Twist in the Biden Autopen Scandal. In a jaw-dropping revelation that should shake every American to their core, former Biden advisor Neera Tanden has admitted under oath that she — not Joe Biden — was in control of the president’s autopen for nearly two years. A top White House aide, utterly unelected and unknown to most of the country, had the authority to affix the President’s signature to official documents, including sweeping executive orders and controversial pardons, all while the nation was led to believe these were the deliberate actions of the commander-in-chief himself. “As staff secretary, I was responsible for handling the flow of documents to and from the president,” she testified. “I was also authorized to direct that autopen signatures be affixed to certain categories of documents."" 

Ace finds it a Shock: Crack Addict and Prostitute Addict With No Obvious Source of Income Doesn't Pay His Lawyers for Defending Him in Court "I think that this law firm knew all along it was working for free, in the interests of the Democrat-Media-Communist Party. The law firm that represented Hunter Biden in federal investigations filed a lawsuit against him on Monday, saying that former president Joe Biden's son owes its attorneys "substantially in excess of $50,000 in fees and interest." I would guess that $50,000 is the minimum amount of the claim needed to get into superior court or whatever. $50,000 should not be taken as anywhere near what Hunter the Crackhead owes. It's just that they have to note in their lawsuit that the money sought exceeds this threshold."

At PJM, VodkaPundit is not amused ARREST HER, HOMAN: L.A.-Area Vice Mayor Encourages Gangs to Fight ICE (I heard the FBI was having words with her) and Vicky Taft sees SHOCK PRICES: Gavin Newsom's War on Oil Is Expected to Spike Gas Prices to $8 a Gallon. Californians get what they voted for. Good and hard. 

TownHall's Jeff Charles hears Jonathan Turley Predict the Supreme Court Could Give Trump a Massive Win on Immigration "“The court could very well say, ‘Enough. We're not going to have individual judges now freezing the entire United States government on critical programs like this.’" I doubt Roberts has the will to go against the MSM consensus. John Sexton at Hat Hair, Rep. Laurel Libby: 'The Democrats Caved!' Rep. Laurel Libby @laurel_libby "VICTORY! The U.S. Supreme Court just restored the voice of 9,000 Mainers! After 2+ months of being silenced for speaking up for Maine girls, I can once again vote on behalf of the people of House District 90. This is a win for free speech — and for the Constitution." Dan Greenfield at Front Page points out A Radical Company is Paying Supreme Court Justices Millions "And that has crippled the Court." "Penguin is actually Bertelsmann: a German ex-Nazi publishing giant that has waged war on American parents, promoted racism and is trying to monopolistically gobble up all of American publishing. Ibram X. Kendi’s “How to Be an Antiracist”, Robin DiAngelo’s “White Fragility”, Ta-Nehisi Coates’s “Between the World and Me”, and, during WWII, “The Christmas Book of the Hitler Youth” all came out of Bertelsmann."

From Althouse, "'A completely unserious and selfish move,' one House Democrat told Axios on the condition of anonymity to speak candidly about a colleague." "I'm reading "Democrats fume at 'unserious' Trump impeachment vote" (Axios)." 

Jen O'Connell at RedState, Pramila Jayapal Steps on Rake With Fake News Story of ICE Mistreatment. Tricia McLaughlin @TriciaOhio, "Absolutely FALSE. She had FULL medical, prenatal care. We have documentation to show it. Iris Dayana Monterroso-Lemus, 37, is a citizen of Guatemala who has been arrested multiple times for child abuse and is wanted on an active warrant for homicide." Quote Rep. Pramila Jayapal @RepJayapal, "A pregnant woman lost her baby after ICE refused to give her prenatal care. She begged for help and was denied. She was fed food full of cockroaches. She was forced to sleep on the floor."

Capt. Ed, Mediator to Trump: How About $20 Million From CBS Over Cooked Harris Interview? How about 40 and we call it a deal? Defiant L’s @DefiantLs, "250 million people died in Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Dude... I really hope he misspoke." PJM's Stephen Kruiser says TikTok Meth Heads Have More Credibility Than CNN.

At Ace, The Federal Trade Commission Extracts a Heavy Price for Approval of the Merger of Two Ad Titans: Stop Blacklisting and Boycotting Conservative Outlets. "Two major ad companies wanted to merge, but the FTC commissioner forced them to sign a consent decree. They're promising that they will no longer subject conservative outlets to an advertising boycott."

At MSN, Federal judge sides with Meta in lawsuit over training AI models on copyrighted books. If you pay for the book, you can use it to train AI.

Alisha Lehmann

From GB News, 'World's sexiest footballer' suffers nightmare as Swiss women lose 7-1 to 14-year-old boys ahead of Euro 2025

Switzerland's women's national football team, including Alisha Lehmann who was voted 'World's sexiest footballer', suffered a crushing 7-1 defeat against FC Luzern's Under-15 boys' side during their preparations for Euro 2025. Switzerland are due to host the tournament next month, but have been left bitterly disappointed at losing the preparation game in such manner, with the Swiss Football Association trying to keep the result under wraps.

The embarrassing result emerged after footage from the behind-closed-doors friendly was accidentally posted on TikTok by one of the teenage players. The video garnered approximately 70,000 views before being removed from the platform.

So, they get to demand equal pay to the junior high school boys, am I right? 

There are still some good links left at the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 06.25.25 (Afternoon Edition), but I gotta run.