"Transgender" Mayoral Candidate (Hamilton, Ontario) "Scarlett" Gillespie Uses "Emotional Support Sock Puppet"

 Mr. Gillespie pretends to be a woman. He is also a "sex worker," and also goes by the name 'Jelena Vermillion.'

Leftism is a type of insanity.

SCOTUS: Good News, Bad News: States Can Keep Boys Out of Girls' Sports; But We're Stuck With Birthright Citizenship

What's insane, of course, is that this is happening anywhere...and that it had to go to SCOTUS to be defended... "Transgenderism" isn't a real thing--or, you could say: it's a mental disorder. Some people do wish they were the opposite sex...or like to cosplay the opposite sex...but there's no such thing as a male girl or woman, and no such things as a female boy or man.

Anyway: no surprise here. Sanity prevailed at SCOTUS on this one.

OTOH, it looks like we're stuck with birthright citizenship...which was a cool idea...but it's doing significant harm to the nation. We'd have been a lot better off if the Supremes had ruled the other way...but their job isn't to make the most beneficial ruling. Their job is to stick to the law.

   Now...seems to me like there's pretty good reason to doubt the standard interpretation of the 14th Amendment...but obviously my half-assed understanding doesn't exactly outweigh the judgment of the majority of the Court... No surprises here, either.

French Politician: U.S. A/C Responsible for European Heat Wave

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL no

The IPCC has said that no individual weather event can be linked to global warming...and, in fact, it's not at all clear that any general type of weather phenomenon can be linked to it--other than warming itself. Certainly not the notorious--and fictitious--increase in hurricane frequency/severity. Maybe, they say, heat waves are related--but the data are equivocal.

   As for U.S. a/c causing this--oh, sorry...I mean "being not unrelated" to it--no. It didn't cause even 1% of it.

   This is just more religious faith from the cult.

   And, listen: I think we overdo it with a/c. I don't see why some people and some businesses keep it freezing in their homes and stores. We always kinda just used a/c to take the edge off--and lower the humidity. People walk around in 80 degree weather outside just fine...what'd be wrong with keeping your a/c at that temp most of the time? 

   Now...we don't do that anymore. One of our dogs, Ajax, is a big furry monster of a GDS+?...and he likes to sleep under my desk...and that's upstairs. And they need it cool at night sleep. So now we keep it down more near 70. But, then, we drove dinky little econobox cars for years, back when we believed climate apocalypticism...so now our attitude is: fuck it. Also we have two trucks. Also fuck it...

Never Forget: AZ Police Officer Philip Brailsford Outright Executed Daniel Shaver and Got Away With It

Sonofabitch should have rotted in prison.

That article is shit. Brailsford and other cops were yelling contradictory orders at Shaver, and pointlessly making him crawl towards him. He had his hands up and was begging them not to shoot him. His loose basketball shorts started to ride down over his butt, and, obviously not thinking, he moved to pull them up. Then Brailsford (and perhaps other officers--I don't remember) did not merely "fire his gun"...he mag dumped Shaver--still on the ground, hands up, begging not to be killed.

   It was murder.

   I hope Brailsford gets what he deserves some day.

Geraghty: Iran Makes a Mockery of the MOU

What a mess.

Though, honestly, I understand almost nothing about the situation.

Heaton: Gavin Newsome Called Trump a Socialist. Is He?

Lowry: The Perverse Genocide Charge

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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.