Darializa Avila Chevalier Believes All the Crazy Things

Among other things, she accepts the central aim of the extremist left: "the total eradication of Western civilization."

   Radicalism and insanity are rather difficult to distinguish. There's a hell of a lot of overlap between them...

AAUP Finally Admits It's a Lefty Advocacy Organization

Well, not quite--but it apparently has admitted that it's ideologically non-neutral. Like so many shitbag leftist organizations, it dishonestly represents itself as "anti-Fascist," when it's actually hard left.

   I joined the AAUP when I got in some hot water for co-authoring an anti-DEI report for the Virginia Association of Scholars...not that I'm sure that AAUP would have defended me for that. But I was just erecting whatever defenses I could manage at the time. 

   But a little contact with the AAUP makes it impossible to deny that they're a bunch of illiberal leftists and PC/Lysenkoists. Like the rest of the hard left, they don't even believe that objectivity is possible...

Supremes Strike Down HI "Vampire" Firearms Law and "Spirit of Aloha" Justification

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I'm not wild about displacing local modi vivendi...

But the "Spirit of Aloha" justification can't trump constitutional rights.

And, of course, Alito is right: Second Amendment rights are often treated as "disfavored rights"...but they can't be. Second Amendment rights are equal to First Amendment rights. And it would obviously be irrational to allow censorship of controversial speech because something something "Spirit of Aloha"...

Legal carriers aren't the problem.

If you want to reduce gun violence:

[a] Put criminals in jail

[b] Come down hard on illegal carriers--including (maybe especially) juveniles.

These things work.

[Sorry: it's called a "vampire law" because it requires people legally carrying firearms to as permission before entering private property.]

VA "Assault Weapons" Ban Injunction: "An Absolute Ass Whooping"

Great work by John Crump et al.!

And another big loss for the radical VA Dems.

Unfortunately, the Dems will, of course, appeal.

Fortunately, Jay Jones will be in charge of that...

Injunction Granted Against VA "Assault Weapon" Ban!

Monica Showalter: Democrats Board the Crazy Train in New York

This seems pretty much right to me

Though I have to say, I still don't understand Obama's role in all this. I can say for sure that he basically never spoke out against it. He did raise some moderate objections to Woketarianism as things were getting really crazy (he was already out of office at the time)...but he got significant pushback...and he retreated.

Anyway, their latest cute but dumb candidate is a full-blown anti-Western nut:

Congratulations, constituents of NY-13. Your next congresswoman is the founder of an organization that calls for death to America and the "total eradication of Western civilization." Great choice. pic.twitter.com/BxW5GF0r7u

— Columbia Jewish & Israeli Students ✡️🇮🇱 (@CUJewsIsraelis) June 24, 2026

NR: Dems Go Off the Socialist Deep End

The economic deep end, actually.

They went off the social deep end a decade ago.

In 2016 I predicted that the Dems would never embrace the cult of Woketarianism. Which is why I voted for Hillary. I was wrong. Then I predicted that they'd shrug it off soon enough and move back toward the center. Wrong again. Then I didn't so much predict as hope that maybe the Ezra Klein's of the party might shift the faction's focus to some relatively innocuous economic ideas--e.g. "abundance" (dopey as that is).

   Well, despite some retreat in the face of Trumpian pushback, the Democrats are still stupid woke...

   And now they may be going crazy along the economic axis, too. Instead of going for something like "abundance," they may be falling for the dumbest of the major economic ideas...

   Nice job, Democrats.

   If we could just get rid of Trump and replace him with someone just vaguely normal, I think we could clean up. This is an opportunity to contrast conservative reasonableness with leftist moonbattery...

   Instead, we've got Trump...

   His utterly unhinged antics with respect to Iran have made him even more out of the question--I'd guess--so far as normal people go. He just has no business conducting this war. Or, rather, trying to achieve a peace. He acts like a toddler who missed his nap...

   Well, anyway.

   This was supposed to be about how the Dems seem to be getting even wackier...

Parisians Get Culturally Enriched

Import the Third World, become the Third World.

Josh Appel: NY Primary Results Show Democrats' Far-Left Pivot

Pivot?

Pivot????

   The far left began its most recent major assault on the country and the culture ca. 2013, and the Democrats capitulated to them ca. 2017. Contemporary Dems have adopted all the left's Woketarian lunacy up to and including race hysteria and gender pseudoscience...
   There's no "pivot" here. They're already largely far-leftists. You can't pivot on open borders / abolishing ICE when you've been pushing that bullshit for years. (Actually, in the case of open borders, the Dems have been edging closer and closer to that for decades.)
   Oddly, the economic radicalization of the Democrats has lagged behind their social radicalization. Socialism is radical enough...but it's far, far less radical than, say, Only whites can be racist and Women have penises... So I'd have expected this hard left turn on economics before the hard left turn on social issues... 

   But, anyway. If this is any kind of a pivot, it's just an economic one. It's just bringing their economic views into the vicinity of their already-radical social views.

   I doubt rank-and-file Democrats will go socialist...but...I said they absolutely positively would not go hard-left PC/Woketarian...and you see how wrong I was about that... It's still hard to believe that individual Dems actually believe the insane shit the party collectively accepts...but here we are. I don't generally talk to most of my friends and acquaintances about such issues, but I do know people (some are good friends) who sincerely believe that some women are male. And I know others who categorically deny that anyone believes that--though they think we are morally obligated to speak as if it's true...

   Anyway. If you'd have asked me 15 years ago whether the Democrats were more likely to (a) take a socialist turn or (b) come to believe that women have penises and all the rest of the Woke lunacy...I'd absolutely have picked (a)...

   So, anyway...I doubt the Dems will go socialist...but they're already a bit wobbly on it...and given the madness that has gripped the party, it's certainly not impossible.

Trantifa Terrorists Get 30-100 Years in Prison for Attack on TX ICE Facility

Excellent:

🚨 JUST IN: A group of Antifa terrorists were just SENTENCED to HUNDREDS OF YEARS in prison after a violent attack on the ICE facility in Alvarado, Texas

FAFO, LOCK THEM UP! I voted for the law and order! 🔥

The group's RINGLEADER, Benjamin Song, got 100 years.

The others got… pic.twitter.com/qzNQTbbDdq

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) June 23, 2026

On the bright side, that one guy's prison term will be up just in time to celebrate the sesquarcentennial... 

Geraghty: Trump Surrenders to Iran

Sure does sound bad.

OTOH, col_phillip_s_brewster_iii writes, in the comments:

"The Iranian regime gets to stay in power and receive a whole host of dispensations from the United States..."
Does Geraghty care to venture a guess on the number of US maneuver brigades required to subdue Iran and impose a government? Does Geraghty know how many maneuver brigades the US has? (Geraghty just wrote a series of columns on the need to send more US brigades to the NATO Baltic. In Geraghty's worldview the US has unlimited brigades and a reporter is not obliged to count them). How many casualties does Geraghty think the Trump or any administration can politically absorb? Does Geraghty know where replacements for US casualties come from? The year is 2026 and not 1945.
Geraghty's entire column is strewn with the false premise that the one-half to one trillion dollars of damage inflicted on the Iranian military infrastructure (built over 50 years) is instantly repairable. Note to Geraghty: there are 1,000 billions in a trillion and 50 years is five decades.
Geraghty also dissembles on the destruction of Iranian missile launchers which is instantly verifiable by the decline in SRBM launches since 28 February.
The column is a good reflection on the current state of NR military analysis.

Another commenter wrote (summarizing): 

The MOU doesn't matter, because nothing Trump says matters. With Trump, only what actually happens matters.

A common general criticism of National Review: They're basically still unreconstructed neocons, rooting for another forever war.

shrug

I don't know. 

Brandon Johnson Declares "Transfemicide State of Emergency" in Chicago

I'm not even making this up:

For too many transgender Chicagoans, the sense of belonging they deserve in their city has been denied by exclusion and barriers to opportunity in spaces that should feel safe and welcoming. Since declaring a Transfemicide State of Emergency, our administration has strengthened… https://t.co/kJThl0CvHj

— Mayor Brandon Johnson (@ChicagosMayor) June 21, 2026

Starmer Resigns

Good riddance.

Andrew Heaton: Eat the Rich...Then What?

Crowd Sings Country Roads After Win Over Australia

This is freakin awesom:

The reason this song resonates so much across the country is multi layered--part of it is a longing to come home; the other part is so many people from Appalachia/West Virginia were displaced by lack of opportunity and so they migrated away, but they never lost that sense of… https://t.co/I0p2H0wa2M

— ZitoSalena (@ZitoSalena) June 19, 2026