Flotsam and Jetsam - 2016: Punch a Nazi. 2026: No Not That one.

 Graham Platner is still an ass, but before we go there Hat Hair's Capt. Ed says BOOM: Jobs Market Adds 172,000 Jobs in May, +93K in Revisions. From Ace, May Jobs Report "Unexpectedly" Smashes "Expert" "Expectations" "Good news. Not enough to reverse the public's sour impressions of the economy, I'm afraid. And inflation is still a problem." Dan Bongino @dbongino, "Amazing how President Trump’s opponents keep attributing this all to “luck.” As if lower taxes and reductions in government red tape had no role? Even if it were “luck,” I’d rather gamble with Trump than a communist Democrat." Quote RNC Research @RNCResearch, "President Trump more than DOUBLES expectations for the May jobs report CNBC: "172,000...that is a really strong number.""

Sundance had a busy day with USMCA - Canada Officially Requests Renewal as U.S. Triggers Forced Labor Protection Tariffs, Usual Suspects - Senate Fails Again to Pass Save America Act, Voter Integrity Legislation, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy Proposes a Ceasefire and Direct Talks with Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin, President Trump Responds to Media and Congressional Criticism over Acting DNI Bill Pulte Appointment and Federal Fraud Taskforce and Dept of Justice Announce First 14 Indictments in Major Fraud Action in Ohio, Many More to Follow.

The Washington Monument reflecting pool is now refilled, after being renovated by Donald Trump at a fraction of the cost the Biden regency had planned. The White House @WhiteHouse, "The water is ON, the Reflecting Pool is reflecting, and D.C. is looking better than ever. We are so back. THANK YOU, PRESIDENT TRUMP." Sister Toldja at RedState sees Newsom's tweet 'Didn't Age Well': Newsom's Press Office Gets Inconvenient Update About Trump's Reflecting Pool Project Rapid Response 47 @RapidResponse47, "One might wonder why Newscum's team would post something so idiotic, but it makes sense considering they've never actually seen a project completed. It's a foreign concept to them." Right Angle News Network @Rightanglenews, "A Democrat in DC says she hates she’s forced to admit the Reflecting Pool now looks good. “I thought it was a stupid idea to paint the Reflecting Pool, but it looks really good. It makes the reflection look extraordinarily prominent in a way it did not before, and I hate that.”" Suburban Black Man @niceblackdude, "President Trump isn't allowed to restore our fountains and monuments, or build stunning structures showcasing American craftsmanship, engineering, and architectural excellence. Apparently, government spending is only acceptable when it's funding drag queens, the Taliban, Somalian pirates, and the pockets of Ukrainian oligarchs." At Althouse I just wanted to get a look at the refilling of the newly blue Reflecting Pool. "But I couldn't avoid seeing this video, shared by Trump:"

🚨 LMAO!! President Trump just dropped this absolute GEM: He's filling the newly improved Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool with leftist tears

Straight from the source 🤣🤣

📽️ @TheRicanMemes pic.twitter.com/NJrOdFR750

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) June 4, 2026

Tim O'Brien at PJM, Karoline Leavitt Is Enjoying Motherhood, and the Left Is Having a Cow “Karoline Leavitt appears to be turning a blind eye to America's ongoing cost-of-living crisis and instead focusing on cooking with pricey ingredients,” the Mirror's Ellie Hook wrote. The article then goes on to provide in uncomfortable detail what’s in one of the food photos." Mike LaChance at LI notes New York Democrats Pass Legislation That Changes ‘Mother’ to ‘Gestating Parent’ “It’s an example of how out of tune the New York legislature is. It’s an unnecessary and wasteful use of time” Tap In Daily @the_tapindaily, "White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt’s announcement of her daughter Viviana’s birth on May 1st has unexpectedly triggered a diplomatic confrontation. While Leavitt shared the news as a joyful family milestone, the Consulate General of Iran issued a harsh response. The Iranian post claimed Viviana would eventually feel "shame" over her mother’s alleged involvement in the "massacre of children in Iran and Minab." This aggressive move, injecting geopolitical grievances into a personal celebration, has ignited a fierce online debate. Critics argue the response crosses a moral line, while others view it as a stark reflection of the deepening tensions between Washington and Tehran. Disclaimer This post is for informational purposes only. We acquire news from various online sources; in case of any objection, claims of rights, or misinformation, please contact us directly."

Speaking of Iran, ToI hears ‘Khamenei’ says US, Israel hit by ‘decisive blow’ amid mixed signals on talks, US security alert "DC said to demand signing of a deal in Geneva next week; US embassy in Jerusalem warns citizens ‘security environment can change quickly,’ tells them to check where nearest shelter is." Jeff Charles at TownHall, Netanyahu Discusses Phone Call With Trump: 'We've Always Found a Way'. I wish Trump would give Israel the green light to peel another 3-4 layers off the Iranian leadership onion. WSJ notes The Strait of Hormuz Squeeze Is Redrawing the Oil Map for Good.

At Althouse, Platner presents his weary face to the camera "Chris Hayes confronts Platner with the damaging accusations that the NYT published. He was, he say, "not a good boyfriend." He was "self-medicating with alcohol." It was a "pretty dark period' of his life." Matt Vespa, An Ex-Sanders Aide Noticed Something Odd About Graham Platner's MS Now Interview. Symone D. Sanders Townsend @SymoneDSanders, "Planter’s campaign did not deny the allegations about him getting physical to the New York Times, but Platner is repeatedly denying it on MS NOW. Why didn’t they deny it in the piece?" Hat Hair's Capt. Ed hears 'Pathological Liar': M-SNOW's Mission to Rescue a Violent Nazi-Tatted Socialist Candidate and Beege Welborn sees Dems and Progs All In, Do Tearful 'Leave Britney Alone' Meme for Their Nazi Tattoo Boy. EducatëdHillbilly™ @RobProvince, "2016: Punch a Nazi. 2026: No not that one." Quote Zaid Jilani @ZaidJilani, "FWIW I do think Platner figured out the tattoo sometime within the last 18 years but if he had it covered up five years ago the story would’ve been he’s trying to hide his Nazi past. The way he handled it was the best way to politically handle it." Twitchy calls it A Set-Up All ALONG: Lyndsey Fifield SHREDS The New York Times for Using Her Story to HELP Graham Platner. PJM's Matt Margolis, NYT Deliberately Withheld the Most Explosive Graham Platner Allegations From Its Own Story. Matt Vespa at TownHall, Well, the NYT Caved and Omitted This Serious Allegation Against Graham Platner. Saul Sadka @Saul_Sadka, "Cenk is right! Since when was the New York Times meant to report corroborated facts about Nazis who want to be senators? Their job is to report the real news, like how Jews train r-pe dogs and worked out how to starve kids with fat parents." Quote Cenk Uygur @cenkuygur, "I didn't know @nytimes was a gossip rag now. They hyped up this bullshit story against @grahamformaine and then delivered rumors from a relationship when he was in his 20's. They only found one who alleged anything. It was uncorroborated and she's a GOP operative. Come on." Ace, Catch and Kill: The New York Times Had Two Witnesses Prepared to Accuse Graham Platner of Sexual Assault but Didn't Publish Their Stories. "So there's the answer: Yes, there were "multiple women" accusing the Nazi of rape, but the New York Times ran a catch-and-kill operation to suppress their stories, while only reporting on less serious charges. (Though still serious enough.) In newspaper parlance, "catch and kill" is a technique for "getting" a story with the intent to suppress it." At the Victory Girls Dems And Media On Platner: Believe All Women UNLESS She’s A Republican. PoIiMath @politicalmath, "I'm teaching my daughters that feminists and liberal women will NOT support them if they are abused by a left-wing man with any power They will run the old familiar "you can't believe that bitch" playbook b/c, ultimately, they are religious zealots and their religion is politics." Quote Emma Vigeland @EmmaVigeland "Here's the chair of the Independent Women’s Forum, the right-wing group where Lyndsey Fifield is a fellow, bragging about helping draft Susan Collins's remarks when she voted to confirm Brett Kavanaugh. Fifield is NYT's main source, and the only one alleging anything physical." Mark Hemingway @Heminator, "I would like to remind everyone that there is, to this day, no piece of evidence or testimony corroborating whether Bret Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford WERE EVER IN THE SAME ROOM. That was the number one story in America for months. The Platner story is much more robust." Quote Joe Wrote @joewrote Replying to @AltoidTopochico, "The Times states that they reviewed her texts and messages and read her diary. And they still couldn't corroborate it. Personally, if the story is "Heritage Foundation staffer says this happened," I don't think it should be printed." Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby, "Ro will be traveling to Maine tomorrow to actually campaign for Graham Platner. You quite literally cannot make this up." Nick Arama at RedState thinks a New Report on That Tattoo and What Platner Says Now Should Have Dems Very Concerned "When the pair dated years ago, Platner would call the tattoo “my Totenkopf,” Fifield alleged in the bombshell report. “I would never have known what that was,” she told the outlet. “He would joke about it being a Nazi tattoo.”" At Twitchy, Nazi-Tatted Nepo-Baby Just Delivered the Final Nail in #MeToo’s Coffin — And the Left Can’t Stop Cheering. James Lee Bright Law @JLBrightLaw, "All it took was a female abusing, Nazi tattooed, veteran hating, nepo baby fake oyster fishing, Porto potty masturbating, rape shaming dude from Maine to finally kill the MeToo movement. And surprise, surprise it was the Left that killed it in pursuit of power. Who’d a’ guessed?" #MeToo isn't dead; it's like a vampire waiting for fresh Republican blood to revive itself. (((Not That Crown, Maybe))) @CrownMaybe, "Here are things that might come out: 1. "I thought we were serious and he clearly wasn't." 2. "I introduced him to my family and we still broke up." 3. "He was an ass." Things that won't: "He locked me in a room for any length of time." "He manhandled me." "He scared me."" Quote Evan Barker @evanwch, "Every man out there (if they’re being honest) is reading this Graham Platner story and thinking: “gee, what would happen if the biggest newspaper in the country interviewed all of my exes and asked them about our drunken fights?” That’s why this story ultimately won’t land..."

Ace, Graham Platner & Al Qaeda’s Congressman-Elect from New Jersey Are the Consequence of Democrats Failing the “David Duke Test” with Mamdani. Dave Strom says Watching This Made Me Sick Capt. Ed reads WaPo: Dems Worrying About Freaky Senate Candidate *Not* Named Platner, Too. At PJM Stephen Kruiser thinks Talarico Is Continuing Proof That Dems Don't Do Jesus Stuff Well and VodkaPundit asks What in the Actual Hell Is a Democrat These Days? JT Young at Am Spec wants you to Meet the Post-Biden Democrats: Biden’s Democrats, "The failed president still defines the Democrats’ 2028 field." Atop Da Hill, Campaign autopsy? James Carville gave Democrats the only one they needed. Still on crack, at YaHoo!, Hunter Biden hints at 2028 presidential run.

Ben Whedon at JTN reports Feds announce major fraud busts in Ohio, "Oz detailed a string of fraud findings involving illegitimate recipients of public funds for healthcare." PJM's Vicky Taft has another West Coast, Messed Coast™ — A Medicaid Scam You Never Saw Coming Has California Circling the... Drums. Dominic Pino @DominicJPino, "A new report from @Paragon_Inst estimates there are more low-income enrollees in the Obamacare exchanges than there is eligible people in 28 states. Florida is the worst, with over 3M enrollees from an eligible population of 636,000." Eric Boehm at Reason asserts The Feds Wasted $186 Billion on 'Improper Payments' Last Year "That total is a low-ball estimate because some federal agencies didn't report their totals to the Government Accountability Office."

Hat Hair's Dave Strom, There's Nothing Suspicious About It At All, You Know... Benny Johnson
@bennyjohnson, "How are Democrats cheating in L.A.? Let me show you… There are 26 registered voters at this toilet in Los Angeles. I’m not kidding. I have the voter records. See for yourself. The only thing here is a stinky port-a john inside an empty parking lot. No homes. No mailboxes. No businesses. Yet TWENTY SIX ‘people’ are casting ballots here. Straight-up voter fraud out in the open. This just a glimpse of what’s happening under Gavin Newsom. This is why California desperately needs Voter ID — and we must pass the Save Act NOW." Shawn Farash @Shawn_Farash, "So California has been found to have: Hospice fraud SNAP fraud Homeless shelter/funding fraud Healthcare/Medicare fraud Immigration fraud And many other forms of fraud... But NO voter fraud? Sure, Jan." The Law Offices of Dindu Nuffin @DinduNuffinLaw, "@grok how many votes went to Pratt from the latest batch of 24,834 total votes and what are the odds for f that result?" Replying to @DinduNuffinLaw @EndWokeness and @grok, Grok @grok, "**0 votes for Pratt** in that specific batch of 24,834. Prior to the batch, Pratt held ~28-30% support in counted votes. Under a binomial model with p≈0.28-0.30: - Expected Pratt votes: ~6,950–7,450 - Standard deviation: ~70–72 - Observed: 0 → **~98 sigma** below the meanShow more" Twitchy, Well, Well, WELL... What Do We Have HERE?! Even NBC Notices Late Ballot Drops Always Seem to Benefit Dems. Rasmussen Reports @Rasmussen_Poll, "That Pratt-Free LA Ballot Drop: 'It didn't happen!!!' But it DID Happen Bass: +12,853 Raman: +9,521 Miller: +1,227 Others: +1,233 Pratt: 0"

PJM's Cathy Salgado is shocked Supremacists Used SPLC Money to Buy KKK Hoods and Cross-Burning Gear. Ace, Revealed: The SPLC Paid "Informants" to Burn Crosses, Paid "White Supremacists" Who Wanted to Quit to Remain, "So much racism in America we need billion-dollar leftwing grifter organizations to bribe people to be "racist." SPLC paid for KKK cross burnings, robes and hoods, recruitment, living expenses, racist merch: explosive indictmen. Oh, and an SPLC employee was fucking one of the Cosplay Racists she was paying:"

At the Chronic, How to Fill the Supreme Court with Justices Like Clarence Thomas. J.T. Alexander @JTAlexander, "Former Prosecutor— Yeah, this is standard practice pretty much nationwide. You cannot trust teachers or academics on a jury. They will do all manner of mental gymnastics to view the offender as a child in need of a second chance that they can be the ones to grant." Quote FischerKing @FischerKing64, "This is hilarious. The prosecution struck 3 potential jurors who were black, and the defense objected. The prosecution responded that it struck them "because they are teachers." The prosecution didn't think teachers would be willing to give a guilty verdict - probably true. x.com/nypost/status/…"

Sundance is delighted Congress is Getting Nervous About Reauthorizing FISA-702.

Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok, "BREAKING: NJ Governor Mikie Sherrill announces an additional $12 million in taxpayer dollars for legal fees for illegal aliens." Fox, Secret Signal chats reveal how anti-ICE agitators coordinated Newark riots.

Driscoll at Insty, LOCAL MAN ENJOYS AIRLINE AMENITIES: Bethany O’Leary @BethanyForTruth, "BREAKING: Major Security Breach at Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport; 25-year-old Houston man Abdulrahman Oriyomi is facing felony charges after authorities say he slipped through TSA screening with a fake boarding pass and boarded a United flight to Los Angeles. He moved through multiple security layers, blended in with passengers, and got past the gate while employees were distracted. Once onboard, he sat in the wrong seat, bounced between bathrooms, used a false name, and even helped force the plane back to the gate. The flight was delayed for hours. HOW does this happen at one of America’s busiest airports? TSA and airport security have some serious explaining to do. Our so-called security systems are an absolute joke."

Politico whines American journalist pleads guilty to acting as unregistered agent for China, "But there were no hints dropped at the court hearing about the identity of the Trump administration official linked to the probe." PJM's Kevin Downey, asks Where's the Beef? A Long-Gone Livestock-Eating Bug Is Back, and I have a Theory As to Why. Chinese bioweapon.

From the Free Bacon, New York Times Stirs Baseless Panic Over Trump, Vaccines, and Childhood Diseases "‘Anecdotal indications from doctors on the ground that public statistics don’t currently confirm’" Mark Judge at the Chronic outs Reid Hoffman and the Left’s Ongoing Operation to Control Public Opinion. Scott McLallen at TownHall sees Susie Wiles, WH Smack Down Fake News Report From the Daily Mail.

The Martin Center wonders What Would a Pro-Family Academia Look Like? "Colleges can do more than bemoan falling birth rates."

At NYPo, The moral woke abyss that got Henry Nowak killed. TCW asserts Henry Nowak’s death is a sign of civilisational collapse. Sundance watches Outrage Grow in U.K. as British People Witness DEI Outcome and Two-Tiered Policing in Brutal Murder. Dave Strom thinks British Elites Don't Get Why People Are Upset. Althouse finds "Henry Nowak died the same way a civilization dies: abandoned, handcuffed by authorities who neither trusted nor cared for him, and accused of hate crimes he did not commit." "Writes JD Vance:"

The College Fix reports the Justice Department launches probe into ASU for alleged illegal DEI practices following viral videos.

Stacy McCain examines The Liberal Gospel of White Guilt. "White guilt has become a religion for liberals, and they don’t understand why the rest of us aren’t heeding the altar call." More at the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 06.05.26.