John Daniel Davidson: Canada Needs a Real Reconning for the Mass Graves Hoax

Utter madness.

Reminds me of the Satanic Panic.

Unbelievable how the left is able to create such stories virtually ex nihilo, and keep them on life support long after it is clear that they are bullshit. The flip side is their ability to suppress true accounts on the other side, almost no matter how outrageous. I had a conversation with an extremely well-informed (well-informed about the left's takes on current events, that is) student who knew nothing about the Biden administration's censorship initiatives--not the collusion with social media, not the "disinformation" programs...nothing.

Juan David Rojas: My Time inside the Immigration-Industrial Complex

Seems reasonable and balanced.
Definitely worth a read:

What progressives fail to comprehend is that allowing millions of economic migrants to fraudulently claim asylum hurts those with credible claims. If economic migrants believe that they are certain to be deported for asylum fraud, they will be less likely to claim asylum in the first place. Consequently, the overall backlog would necessarily fall, benefiting actual asylees by reducing processing times. Voters, moreover, correctly view progressive immigration policy as facilitating a legal back door for what they regard as illegal immigrants.
None of this justifies the Trump administration’s gratuitous abuse of legal and illegal immigrants, not least migrant children. The administration has revived family separation and has attempted to strip over 26,000 unaccompanied minors of legal representation. Nonviolent deportees, including minors, have similarly been subjected to year-long detentions; since 2025, around fifty people have died under ICE custody. Violent and nonviolent deportees have likewise been sent to maximum security prisons in third countries such as Eswatini and El Salvador. [My emphasis]
Deportation should be neither pleasant nor a means for signaling performative sadism against migrants. Removals should be as swift as possible and prioritize violent criminals over children and daylaborers. Deterring the latter, moreover, would be far more efficient and cost effective by punishing employers of illegal labor. A now forgotten generation of labor leaders and conservative restrictionists such as former Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach argued in favor of a national regime of E-Verify, which would be both more humane and practical than an $85 billion Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Accordingly, corporate prosecutions of immigration-related crimes currently sit at record lows. [My emphasis]
A broader conversation must also be had about reforming asylum. At present asylum writ large has been more or less gutted, save for white South Africans. Trump 1.0 was correct that international law calls for refugees to apply for asylum in the first country they flee to. “Remain in Mexico”, asylum quotas, and Safe Third Country agreements in the Americas are more than reasonable as a means for controlling flows of irregular crossings.
Many restrictionists now advocate for revoking the right to asylum outright, including for unaccompanied minors. Something like that has already occurred in Poland; Florida gubernatorial candidate James Fishback has even called for banning minors without legal permanent status from attending public schools—a proposal which would necessarily increase human trafficking. Yet the fact of the matter is that a reformed asylum system could work under a status quo of managed flow through the border.
To that end, if Democrats are truly interested in protecting victims like Marlón and Xiomara, they must be willing to subject irregular immigration and asylum fraud to limits and penalties. As of this writing, little to no effort has been made left-of-center to reckon with past mistakes and offer an alternative palatable to the broader population. Instead, the prevailing view champions denialism and virtue signaling against ICE. Unsurprisingly, voters still prefer Republicans to Democrats on immigration and especially the border.
Progressives are correct when they point out that US policy has brought devastation to many countries migrants hail from, not least in countries like Cuba and Haiti. But they would do better to advocate for a more sensible foreign policy as opposed to a laxer immigration regime. Indeed, the irony is that migrants from countries like Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua lean overwhelmingly to the right and are likely to lobby for further interventions in their home countries if or when they receive citizenship.
Republicans should note that Democratic policy towards immigration comes not from a conspiratorial effort to “import voters” but a naive and deeply misguided understanding of irregular migration. In the same vein, Democrats must grapple with the fact that lax border policies inevitably alienate workers and lead to even greater cruelty against migrants.

   I'm mostly interested in the criticisms of Trump/red-team policies.

   The failures of the blue team are obvious and well-known to people like me.

   I'm not all that interested in pleading with the left by emphasizing that these policies are bad for illegal aliens. I'm interested in forcing the left to recognize that our interests matter. X is bad for the U.S. is a reason against x. The left's refusal to recognize that seems to have on foot in its childish emotionalism and the other in its Marxist hatred of the USA. Suicidal empathy + a desire for the West (especially the U.S.) to pay--for its success and, to some extent, for its past misdeeds. Well, actually, I guess it has a third foot in its refusal to face facts--and its tendency to infer iss from its fantastical oughts. In happy candy lefty land, all immigrants are pure and virtuous, and every one makes us a better nation...because diversity is our strength or WTFever. 

   BUT: again, I'm really more concerned about the criticisms of Trump's policies. I have no sympathy for the left's unstated master argument here that enforcing laws they don't like is illegitimate. Nor for their presupposition that anyone who screams loud enough must not be arrested. But Rojas obviously doesn't accept such nonsense. His descriptions of Trump policies must be taken seriously, IMO.

Trump's Psychotic Jihad Against __________

Don't know how to fill in the blank, do ya?

Could be any number of different names, because Trump is a psycho about lots of different people who've crossed him.

In this case, like the WSJ, I'm thinking of John Bolton.

(Note: some people deserve to be harassed for their misdeeds--e.g. James Comey. But by Trump personally...not by the damn DoJ. That "86 47" nonsense was just about the goddamn stupidest thing I ever heard of.)

Bad as it would be for the country for the Dems to retake the House in November...more and more I think it's less bad than a rampant and unchecked Trump.

VA Judge Dismisses Charges Against "Transgender" Sexual Predator

Who are these women and girls to spurn Mr. Cox's attentions, anyway?

In Our Blue Future, it will be mandated by law that everyone must find everyone else sexually attractive regardless of sex, "gender," age, or degree of grotesqueness.

All these women and girls are doing is revealing their sexism, "trans"ism, "gender"ism, ageism and lookism. Mr. Cox can't help it that he...oh, sorry: she... is Old, male, gross and a perverted sexual predator...

Morgan Ortagus: America is Winning and Iran is Losing--Bigly

Seems plausible.

But, once again, I don't know enough to evaluate the author's claims.

The Tiananmen Square Massacre, 37 Years On

The Chinese government is still trying to erase its memory.

Tells relatives of murdered protestors not to visit their graves on the anniversary.

Illegal-Alien Attrition Through Enforcement

The NYT is outraged that the administration is cutting off illegals from jobs, banking, government assistance, etc.

Sadly, Trump's dragging his feet on anti-employment measures.

I say: nationwide e-Verify, and strict enforcement thereof.

Statues Being Returned to Their Places After the Mass Damnatio Memoriae of 2020-21

Good.

I say: put absolutely all of them back up.

If anyone has a case for taking them down, let him make it.

People knuckled under to the Orwellian loons...nothing will change that. But we can at least do as much as possible to undo it as we can now.

Put 'em up, and put a decade moratorium on taking them down. I'm certainly willing to hear arguments for removing statues of e.g. Confederates--but I think it's more important to defeat and demoralize the radical left--and to show them that there is nothing they can do that we cannot undo. Crazy fuckers.

Of course Charlottesville desecrated Lee's statue, vindictively having it melted down to be turned into lefty statues. That statue is actually a complicated case--exactly the kind of case that will take some serious thought. But step 1, I say, is: take the material back, re-cast it into a replica of the original, and put it back in place, with the decade moratorium on removal. Then we can talk.

Silent Sam on the UNC campus was battered, but survives.

That goes back up, too.

Condoleezza Rice: What the U.S. Has Accomplished in Iran

This all seems reasonable--though I'm not in a position to evaluate her claims.

Some red-team types seem to suggest that maybe regime change was never such a reasonable goal--so it's not really a failure that we didn't achieve it. I don't know whether Dr. Rice means to suggest that or not.

Anyway: if true, I wish we'd have been informed of that earlier.

Though we weren't really informed of anything...

Dunno which was worse: Bush's long, lie-filled lead-up to Iraq, or Trump's precipitous leap into the Iran conflict. No lies in the latter...because there was no lead-up... Of course afterward we got the long, ever-shifting string of false and unreasonable claims (We've already won and all the rest...can hardly even remember them now.)

I've always respected Rice for being pretty straight with us about Iraq. I still remember a major interview in which she laid out the case for invasion. The interviewer--can't remember who it was now, but good on him/her--said, roughly (IIRC): Well, that seems like an insufficiently strong case...but I guess you've got other evidence you can't tell us about? And Rice (again, IIRC) said, basically: No, that's our case. Really, I think you got to respect that.

Lowry: The UK's Dumb Exclusion of Left-Wing Influencers

Sort of agree?

I mean...probably mostly agree...

But I haven't through my way through the State Department's argument that coming into the U.S. is a privilege, not a right. And the state has a weighty interest in not allowing in those who plan to preach the gospel of anti-Americanism and sow division. If you're already an American citizen, then you have the right to do that--misguided though it may be. But foreigners who are here by the grace of the government--not to mention foreigners who aren't here yet...have no such rights? Or, perhaps: our compelling interest in keeping them out balances against those rights?

   Anyway... Seems to me that there's at least an interesting question here. 

   Certainly this is much less horrific than the UK's denial of free speech rights to its own citizens... There's no doubt about that.

   Forced to push a button that would set policy either [i] in accordance with the State Department's view or [ii] against it, I'd pick [ii]. When in doubt, favor free speech.

Trump, Celebrities, and the Semiquincentennial

[1] Look, how did Trump think that celebrity acts would perform at this? He knows that pop culture is eaten up with TDS, and that anybody who did perform would be cancelled. Why even give them the satisfaction of turning you down? How can this possibly be a surprise? It's 10000% predictable.

[2] I don't want to hear crap like...[insert names of whoever turned him down here...I don't remember...idk and idc*]...

[3] Get a bunch of acts that people want to hear on 7/4 anyway--get Lee Greenwood, some bluegrass and old time, some actual country (not bropop country tho I hate that shit). Dolly Parton. Some of the military bands and choirs. Some unknowns and local bands...look, it could be great. Much better than, e.g., the commodores...bleh

   Though Vanilla Ice--yes. Good. "Ice, Ice Baby" is the unofficial anti-open-borders balad.

*Except for Young MC...I'd see him.

A Brief History of the Left's COVID/G-Floyd Hypocrisy. In Memes.

This is the kind of ludicrous bullshit you get when you make your cultish political aims ends to which all else must be subordinated.

   Two crazy commitments...say, to China Virus hysteria and Saint George of Minneapolis? Just proclaim one of them to be so very, VERY important that the totalitarian diktats associated with the other can be bent a bit so's you can do both! Remember their gymnastics? The ANTI-RAZIZM is so HUMONGUOUSLY IMPORTANT--because TEH RAZIZM IS SO HUMONGUOUSLY BIG AND BAD--that lockdowns can be...etc etc.

!!!!

   Despite the obvious fact that the demonstrations did virtually nothing to change anyone's minds about anything...and, if they'd been right about how soooper-doooper deadly the coof was, people woulda died from them...

   But don't get the idea that COVID isn't the deadliest thing e-var! We're not giving up on that! It's still the deadliest! COVID hysteria can only be temporarily suspended to make space for a different and more hysterical hysteria...then it's back to your regularly-scheduled lockdowns...

Some People are Still "Masking"...Like Japanese Soldiers Stuck on Islands Still Fighting WWII...

From r/ChurchofCOVID:  link

Henry Nowak, Stabbed by a Sikh, was put in Handcuffs While He Died Because His Murderer (Falsely) Told Them Nowak Had Used a Racial Slur

Their two-tiered "justice" system is even more two-tiered than ours:

Imagine feeling the life leaving your body as you beg for help, your murderer standing over you chatting casually with the police as they handcuff you, at the whim of the murderer's lies. All whilst making sarcastic comments about your cries for help.

Our entire two tier… https://t.co/t3wPidPd0b

— Damien Slash (@damienslash) June 1, 2026

Sky News Talking Head: the Apollo Program was RAAAAZZZIIIIZZZZTTTT

I used to give these people the benefit of the doubt...but, no...that's what he's saying alright:

Anonymous: My 15-y-o Relative was Killed for Refusing to Marry Her Cousin; My Family Celebrated, Dancing in the Streets

Sickening.

Good thing we did the Iraqi Freedom thing, huh?

Also:

Behold, the religion of peace...

USAID's Long Record of Wasteful and Destructive Left-Wing Spending

link

   This seems to be one of the patterns that's been revealed recently.

   To me, anyway. Conservatives, of course, have been onto this for at least decades:

   Agencies are created, they are ideologically captured by left-leaning bureaucrats, and vast amounts of tax money is then wasted (at best) or put to destructive use funding loony left-wing causes. USAID misused our tax dollars to fund, for example: DEI-themed musicals in Ireland, "transgender" operas and comic books in Latin America...and the list goes on and on...and on...

   Billions of dollars poured from USAID into Gaza, despite it being clear to everyone that much of it would make its way into the hands of Hamas. The agency also funded Eco-Health alliance, and that money was apparently used to fund the gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology that has killed more than seven million people worldwide...thus far...

   It would be easy for Democrats to preserve whatever good work is done by agencies like USAID: stop corrupting them. Which they will not do. Instead, they (in effect) hold people hostage in places like Africa. The progressive argument is basically: We're going to fund drag shows and CRT indoctrination in Laos...and if you defund us, innocent people in Africa will die because they won't get AIDS drugs...your choice. Thus it's hard to resist the conclusion that CRT-themed drag shows are more important to progressives than African AIDS meds.

   Besides: other nations and private organizations could take over USAID's legitimate functions if they really wanted to. Why does the U.S have to do everything? We've been put in a terrible situation such that our money is, seemingly, being used for both good and bad purposes--and the only people who could stop that...and stop it tomorrow if they wanted to...are progressive bureaucrats. Who refuse to do it.

   Don't blame Trump and Pubs for cutting funds to agencies like USAID--blame Dems for corrupting then and turning them to their destructive, ideological ends.

Mike Pence: A Republican Time for Choosing

This seems important to me.

I don't agree with everything Pence writes--for example, that Trump's populism comes as a surprise to him (Pence). But most of the points in the essay are important and worth getting out on the table.

   Of course, I'm not really a conservative--or not much of one anyway. So I'm a bit less dismayed by Trump's non-conservative actions. The tariffs, for example, bother me less than they bother some.

ATF Lied Repeatedly to Convict Patrick Tate Adamiak

I've read a couple of reports on this case--all of them report the same alleged facts...so all are beyond belief. ATF seems to have spent some time trying to entrap him by repeatedly hiring people to ask him to buy them machine guns. Adamiak always refused. Finally, they got a warrant by telling a judge that a (perfectly legal) barrel shroud for a PPSh-41 was a machine gun. Yeah, that's not a typo: they said that a barrel shroud...a barrel shroud that had itself been cut in two...and that Adamiak had purchased legally...was itself a machine gun. They then turned his residence upside down. They found a replica M-240--a replica--two replica grenade launchers, and two RPG launchers that had been rendered inoperable by, e.g., drilling holes into their chambers... On the basis of these items and some other innocuous, legal, firearms, Adamiak was convicted--and sent to prison for 21 years.

   And those aren't even all the (alleged) facts in this (apparently) outrageous case.

   Some evidence that Adamiak is telling the truth: he was a Petty Officer First Class in the Navy. Normally, if you're sent to prison, you're immediately and dishonorably discharged. The Navy, however, did not do this in Adamiak's case. It let him burn through his accumulated leave. When that ran out, they gave him an honorable discharge. So the Navy, at least, doesn't believe the ATF story.

Pantyfa Open-Borders/Anti-ICE Cheer Sheets

HOLY SH*T!

Leaked “Do’s and Don’ts” show paid left-wing influencers are being handed talking points on Delaney Hall, complete with instructions on how to frame ICE and push anti-Trump administration propaganda.

DO
• Focus on their demand for freedom and the human rights… https://t.co/8HJEZ8GRcO pic.twitter.com/s0VALK4IsV

— I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 (@ImMeme0) May 31, 2026

Delaney Hall: NJSP/Feds Chase Out Leftist Rioters, Take Down Their Camp

The left is batshit fucking insane.

Soros DA Larry Krasner (PA) Zoom Mtg. With Other Dem DAs re: Prosecuting ICE Agents

These people are psychos.

I'm more and more with Trump on this: do everything legal to keep the Dems out of power.

But no, it isn't treason.

It's just crazy.

Ruy Teixeira: Economic Populism: Opiate of the Democrats

These points aren't new/unique...but IMO they're pretty much exactly right.

Americans don't particularly dislike the rich.

Who they do dislike are the cultural elites.

   In '24, they basically voted against Woketarianism. They are fed up with the college-educated managerial/bureaucratic class telling them how to live their lives...and, of course, in particular: with the fact that those elites have now accepted a wide array of utterly insane views (on e.g. race, "gender," immigration)...and so the way these elites are telling them they must live (and think) are all batshit crazy.

   It was bad enough when they were badgering us to e.g. eat less fat (though they were probably wrong about that). It's a different thing entirely when they're telling us that we must believe that women have penises, some boys are really girls, borders are racist and all that nonsense.

   Teixeira doesn't say this, but others have: the left can't shake Marxism. And they can't get it through their heads that most Americans basically admire the rich and aspire to wealth themselves. Yet another failed Marxist prediction: Americans don't really have economic class consciousness. But we are fed up with those who consider themselves our cultural betters. (Hell, I'm fed up with the cultural elite...and I are one... (if the dregs of the professoriate count as part of the cultural elite, anyway...))

   Some think this is one partial explanation for Trump's success--and for the left's hatred of him. He's filthy rich--but, culturally, basically a regular guy. So normal Americans relate to him culturally, and admire him economically. Whereas the cultural elites hate/resent him on both counts. But mostly because he's gauche...like the great unwashed masses...

   Well, whether that last part is right or not, the Teixeira piece is good.

Christian Heiens: This is a Disaster for the Left

This is actually pretty good/right.

It really goes for the lefty-left, of course, not the relatively more centrist e.g. progressive left.

But the left itself admits some of this--see e.g. "queer theory," which is only peripherally about homosexuality--and only insofar as it sees homosexuality as an instance of the general phenomenon queer theory seeks to promote: the destruction of the West via the destruction of Western "categories of thought."