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The Unexpected Heroine Lyndsey Fifield

Posted on | June 6, 2026 | No Comments

When the story broke Thursday, I was stunned. The ex-girlfriend of Graham Platner featured in the lengthy New York Times story was someone I’ve known since 2010. I spent most of the afternoon calling and texting friends who also knew her, and they were similarly surprised.

Did any of us who knew Lyndsey back in the day, when she was fresh out of college and just trying to break into the world of politics, imagine that her name would become nationally known as the “Republican operative” whose tales of an abusive relationship with a D.C. bartender might tip the balance of the U.S. Senate? No. No, we never imagined this.

As I explained earlier this week, anyone who was paying attention knew that the opposition research file on Platner was voluminous, so that we could expect new scandalous revelations every week from now until November, presuming Platner didn’t quit before then. What I did not expect was that someone I’d known for more than 15 years would be the source for one of those revelations. In fact, it appears, it was Lyndsey who first got the word out about Platner’s Totenkopf tattoo, months ago. She related in a long thread on X Friday that she did not want to “come forward” about her 2013-2015 relationship with Platner, when she was working for the Chamber of Commerce. At the time, Platner was working as a bartender at the Tune Inn on Capitol Hill, a so-called “dive bar” popular with congressional staffers. The relationship was traumatic for Lyndsey, who describes Platner as a “narcissistic abuser.”

Fortunately, Lyndsey later met a nice guy, married him, and now has two young daughters. She is widely known and respected in D.C. political circles and is certainly not any kind of “MAGA extremist,” having worked in 2023 for Nikki Haley’s primary campaign against Trump. In fact, Lyndsey has explained, her husband is a liberal. She was asked on X why she ever dated Platner and explained that, in the pre-Trump era, the dating scene in D.C. was much more “bipartisan.” Although people tended to date within their own political camps, young singles in the capital (Lyndsey was 27 when she started dating Platner) weren’t litmus-testing potential partners. As Lyndsey has said, she was shocked when her ex-boyfriend became a Senate candidate in Maine, and felt a duty to do something, even though she didn’t want to get publicly involved. She’s a suburban wife and mom who doesn’t need that kind of attention. However, staffers for the New York Times somehow got her phone number — I’ll give you three guesses how, and the first two don’t count — and persuaded Lyndsey to cooperate with their plans for a story.

My friend Will Upton, who likewise has known Lyndsey for years, has an excellent story in the Daily Caller explaining the “soft catch-and-kill” strategy of which this New York Times story is a perfect example:

The term ‘catch and kill‘ refers to a shady practice where a public relations firm or consultant works with a friendly news outlet that was pitched or ‘stumbled’ upon a negative story about a client to effectively ‘catch’ and then ‘kill’ the story — or delay it until it no longer has impact.
A ‘soft catch and kill’ works similarly, though it mostly involves the publication still running the story in a timely manner, but the details are softened or buried deep in the narrative to soften the bite. The outlet can claim it did its job, but they’ve given the target just enough wiggle room to survive.
The Times’s goal here was not to fairly give hearing to allegations against Platner; it was to play Fifield for a sucker, give her story just enough air that the Democrat Party’s cretin media and consultant class could zero in on it and crush it.

Lyndsey is very much leaning on her Christian faith to help her survive the predictable onslaught of attacks. Among these attacks is what Debra Saunders has called “a long guilty-by-association tweet” from Ryan Grim of Drop Site News. This is actually an answered prayer for Lyndsey, because one of the items that Grim cites is a 2016 interview with Red Alert Politics, when she was named to their “30 Under 30” list. It’s impossible now to find that interview online (Red Alert Politics got bought out by the Washington Examiner, and most of its former content has disappeared), but Grim somehow got a copy of it. And in that interview, talking about her career goals, Lyndsey described her desire to “emulate the late conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart’s approach to online activism.” Dear reader, Lyndsey Fifield knew Andrew.

It was in New Orleans, in April 2010, at the Southern Republican Leadership Conference (SRLC) that Andrew Breitbart and Lyndsey were hanging out. You can see her reaction to one of Andrew’s stories about his undergraduate days as a student at Tulane University. The guy in the background, second from left, is Dave Weigel, who was covering the SRLC for the Washington Post. After Lyndsey became suddenly famous Thursday, I checked my archives and found those pictures in my April 11, 2010, post, “Breitbart Party Voodoo.” (Breitbart was telling us, “I don’t believe in voodoo anywhere else, but in New Orleans? It’s real!”)

Did I have any clue at the time that 24-year-old Lyndsey Fifield would one day make headlines? No way. She was just some silly girl fresh out of college, but I have to admit that I’m getting a bit choked up while writing this. She has shown such courage and, Lyndsey, if you’re reading this, please just know: Andrew would be so proud of you!



 

Category: Andrew Breitbart, Maine, New York Times, Scandal

In The Mailbox: 06.05.26

Posted on | June 6, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Doug Ross: The Day The USS Maine Exploded (1898), Time Surfing – San Francisco, and We’re $400 Billion In – Anyone Asked What Qatar Wants?,
357 Magnum: The Battle of Midway, Killdozer – 4 June 2004, and A Court Order Is Just a Piece of Paper
EBL: Slavery in America: It was bad, but not unique, The Truth and Tragedy of Moriah Wilson, Character Actor James Handy Stabbed To Death By Girlfriend’s Son, John Bolton Pleads Guilty, and “Marching Through Georgia”
Twitchy: Late Night Fun With Graham Fatner, Ro Khanna Beclowns Himself, and Asshole Who Publicized Aborting His Downs Syndrome Baby Now Playing The Victim
Louder With Crowder: New York City Council hosts a trans drag show to celebrate Pride, CNN claims no voter fraud in California, Trans Actor demands more puberty blockers for minors , Russia’s Temu Davos: Ft. Steven Seagal, Candace Owens, & a Sex Offender , and Victoria’s Secret corrects its woke mistakes, and now profits are through the roof
Vox Popoli: The Problem is Vaccination, Report: Iran Has Nukes, Hiding Hultgreen-Curie, The Great Fiction of 1989, and RIP Giles
According To Hoyt: The Week In Clankers, First They Lie To You, A Lump of Feelings, On Iran, and AI Data Center Contamination by Larry Good (Part Two)
Cedar Sanderson: The Groundskeeper – Fen Dead Chapter 6, also, Lightly Toasted Marshmallow Strip #2
Upstream Reviews: A Boy Against The Boxers
Stoic Observations: Trout-Slapping The Hard Problem

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Greatness: LA’s Top Federal Prosecutor Says ‘Multiple Election-Fraud Investigations’ Launched, Rubio Targets Cuban Influence Network, Sanctions Group Linked to Left-Wing Activists, American Citizen Admits Working for Chinese Intelligence, Pentagon Cuts Recognized Religious Codes From More Than 200 to 31, and The ASSIMILATION Act: An America First Reappraisal of Legal Immigration
BattleSwarm: Microsoft Devs Hate Eating Own AI Slop Dog Food, Bill Gates – Sex Machine, Katie Porter Whacked Eric Swalwell To Come In 5th, and LinkSwarm For June 5
Behind The Black: NASA admits mismanagement and human errors caused 2025 Goldstone antenna damage, China completes two more launches, Russia will charge about $27 million for future tourist flights, NASA astronauts ordered to shelter in Dragon while Russians repair air leak, and Musk’s answer when asked, “Why SpaceX going public now?”
Cafe Hayek: A Largely Dispiriting Performance by Five Prominent Economists, Why Bother With Facts When Conventional Wisdom Is So Conveniently Available? and How Is the U.S. Economy Affected by Chinese Forced-Labor?
CDR Salamander: If the Air Force can have Jeremiah Weed, why can’t the Navy have Old Overholt?, also, Fullbore Friday
Chicago Boyz: AI vs. perfection, Instant revolutionary navy, Germany – What Happened?,
Da Tech Guy: Brother Andre’s Cafe & Livestream of the Consecration of Virgins Living in the World Mass, also, Rules for the 1975 Draft Dynasty League
Don Surber: Trump’s A Team Testifies, also, Beauty and the beastly
First Street Journal: Navy Joan Roberts is probably better off with her father being absent, also, A huge scoop for The Washington Post!
Flopping Aces: Castro’s “Friendship” Machine Just Met Marco Rubio’s Sanctions Hammer
Gates Of Vienna: The Avenger of Qasem Soleimani, Death of a Racist, “I Was Held Down by the Men as They Each Took Turns”, The Plan is Being Executed, Not in Secret, But in Plain Sight, and A Message From Vlad Tepes
The Geller Report: Democrat Governor Mikie Sherrill Spends Tens of Millions of Taxpayer Money Protecting Illegals From Deportation, From National Security Adviser to Convicted Felon: John Bolton’s Spectacular Downfall, Huge May Jobs Report DEMOLISHED All Expectations, Democrat Media Goes Full Throttle to Protect Nazi-Tattooed Woman Abuser Platner, and Texas Dethrones California As State With most Fortune 500 Companies
Glenn Reynolds: Scott Pelley Is Out – So What?
Hollywood In Toto: Matrix Co-Director Plays ‘Fascist’ Card, Blasts Film Critics, Power Ballad – Catchy, Mature Music Drama Misses a Beat, MeToo Starlets Silent on Chilling Graham Platner Accusations, Masters of the Universe – Big Action, Bigger Identity Crisis, and Scary Movie – Laugh-Free Parody Is Crushing Disappointment
Legal Insurrection: Court Strikes Down Nebraska In-State Tuition for Illegal Aliens, The Bears Are Leaving Illinois for Indiana, Four GOP Senators Join Dems to Stop SAVE Act, New York Democrats Pass Legislation That Changes ‘Mother’ to ‘Gestating Parent’, and Israeli Strikes Eliminate Several Hamas Commanders, Hezbollah’s Top Bomb Maker
Nebraska Energy Observer: The Future of the Trades, Break Time with Audre, British Police and Henry Nowak, and “A MASSIVE Revolution Is About To Erupt In Britain”
Outkick: Knicks Center Mitchell Robinson Seems Fired Up To Play Game 3 In Front of President Trump, Cadillac F1 Motorhome Is So Nice It Was Worth Demolishing An Elementary School, Ex-Gators Coach Billy Napier Ripped By Former Player, Sophie Cunningham Turns Heads Off Court Before Dominating Angel Reese & The Dream, and Ella Langley Has The Internet Buzzing After Black Outfit & Performance At CMA Fest
Power Line: Minnesota’s most wanted, Personal and confidential: Berney Strauss, On Platner, Fetterman Breaks Ranks, The shrinking federal workforce, and A New $250 Bill?
Racket News: Activism Uncensored – Delaney Hall
Shark Tank: Anna Paulina Luna Endorses Sydney Gruters In FL-16
Shot In The Dark: Unwired
The Political Hat: Serum That Can Grow Entire Limbs Means One Thing: Neko Mimi!, The Right Shouldn’t Try To Legislate From The Bench, Quick Takes: Everyone Is Suicidal, and Firing Line Friday: Civilian Review Board: Yes or No?
Transterrestrial Musings: Regime Change
Victory Girls: Kamala Calls Pride An “Ongoing Fight”, House Democrat Clowns Are Fixated On Marco Rubio’s…SHOES, America’s 250th: Trump Is Not The Problem, and Hypocrites At 10 Downing Street Are Ticked That JD Vance Weighed In On Death Of Henry Nowak
Watts Up With That: Oh No, We’re All Dead – According to a 2016 Climate Mass Extinction Prediction, More Sun, Less Sun, Germany’s Longterm Spring Climate Data Show “No Climate Trend”, The Climate Scam Is Acknowledged. Americans Were Fed Lies, and Deserve to Be Compensated, and ‘EV Guy’ Crushed by His Readers (social media correction)
The Federalist: Blame Government Overspending For America’s Affordability Crisis, The New SPLC Indictment Is Probably Also Just The Tip Of The Iceberg, Here’s What 60 Minutes And The New Jersey Anti-ICE Riots Have In Common, Dems’ Shrug At Platner Scandal Proves Kavanaugh Hearings Were Always A Partisan Witch Hunt, and New Initiative Takes ‘Maximum Warfare’ To Dems’ Racist Congressional Districts
Mark Steyn: When Wanker Coppers Kill, An Odyssey to Ignore, Part II, Double Trouble, Live Around the Planet – Friday, June 5, and Trump, Soccer and Canada

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Category: Linkagery

In The Mailbox: 06.04.26 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | June 5, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Doug Ross: A Day With A Colonial Farmer’s Wife (1776), also, Hate Machine – The $PLC Laid Bare,
EBL: Pompano, Scott Pelley Fired From CBS, Steve Hilton leading in California Governor Primary (for now), “Casey at the Bat”, and “Dunkirk”
Twitchy: “The Only Good Cracker Is A Dead Cracker”, Roseanne Remembers How Nobody Stood Up For Her, and Seb Gorka Comes Out Swinging at The Reich Wing And It’s Beautiful
Louder With Crowder: Marco Rubio puts on a masterclass in why mass migration is a national security threat, Detransitioner gives powerful testimony against the insane arguments used to justify child gender reassignment, Happy Pride Month – Acceptance of the LGBTQ agenda is at its LOWEST in a decade according to new poll, Democrat senator SPEECHLESS after Scott Bessent brings up his son’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, and In the wake of Henry Nowak’s murder, elderly woman GOES OFF on police,
Vox Popoli: War and the Failure of Economics, Two Useful Aphorisms, Opus 4.8 is Unusable, The AI Layoff Trap, and On the Print Edition
Cedar Sanderson: Old Timers
Postcards From Barsoom: I Don’t Think You Have Been, Mate
L’Ombre de L’Olivier: The Martyrdom Of Henry Nowak

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: But What about The Mk57 VLS?
Don Surber: Britain’s George Floyd
Racket News: America Needs A Boring & Sane Party

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In The Mailbox: 06.04.26 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | June 4, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Just back from Las Vegas after $2400 in car repairs. I’m not sure the car’s actually worth that much, but it’s a long walk back to Tonopah, so I didn’t have much choice but to borrow the money and get ‘er done. Hitting the tip jar would be greatly appreciated!
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.
OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Crime in Chicago – It Is Not a Law and Order City
EBL: Apex, Obsession, The Real Reason The Boy Scouts Disappeared, Elizabeth II Coronation, and Henry Nowak Police Body Camera Footage Leaked
Twitchy: CNN’s Aaron Blake Scolds Gov. DeSantis For “Baseless Suspicion” Regarding CA Elections, Marco Rubio Pimp-Slaps Ted Lieu, and Super Genius Rep. MacIver Notes That Every Inmate At Delaney Hall Is A Person of Color
Louder With Crowder: Gay Pride conquers Boston as its flag is raised above City Hall as the choir sings, UFC fighter Sean Strickland drops video of himself “fighting” Dylan Mulvaney to celebrate Pride Month, Dem Rep. Says Wants To Defund DHS Because He Believes Breaking Immigration Laws Is Not A Crime, Drag Queen says quiet part out loud, explains why minors need to be exposed to LGBTQ art, and Henry Nowak was Left to Die and We All Know Why
Vox Popoli: Learning From History, BAILÉN by Benito Pérez Galdós, The More Things Change, On The Refutation of Kant, and A Philosophical Bestseller
The Bugscuffle Gazette: Things don’t happen to me
Stoic Observations: But It Happened
Cedar Sanderson: Lightly Toasted Marshmallow Strip #1
Defending The Wood Perilous: Signal to Noise
Ammo.com: Arming Women In America 2026
Upstream Reviews: Deathbringer

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: Up-Arm The Fleet II – Electric Boogaloo
Dana Loesch: Media Trying Hard To Foment a Bibi-Trump Breakup,
Don Surber: Democrats don’t know American men

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The Liberal Gospel of White Guilt

Posted on | June 4, 2026 | No Comments

The Unitarian Universalists (“UUs”) exist as the consequence of a heresy — the rejection of the Trinity — that originated in Eastern Europe and eventually found a permanent home in New England, where Henry Ware made it the quasi-official religion at Harvard in the early 1800s. Many years ago, one of my neo-Confederate friends cited the conversion of Harvard to Unitarianism as the actual cause of the Civil War, and I haven’t researched the issue enough to confirm that theory, but the general apostasy of New England is remarkable enough, even without that connection to world-historic events. When the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock, they were the most militant Christians on the planet, adherents of the teaching of John Calvin, seeking to escape religious corruption and oppression (as they viewed it) in the England of James I.

The Mayflower Compact‘s description of their purpose as “the Glory of God, and Advancement of the Christian Faith,” and John Winthrop’s subsequent conception of New England as a “city upon a hill,” are sufficient testimony to the profound religious belief that inspired those early settlers. This was not some generic Christianity, but a very specific Calvinist faith, and these settlers were in the vanguard of its most sincere adherents. When, after more than a century in New England, it seemed that the colonial faithful had lapsed from the zeal of their forefathers, Jonathan Edwards inspired a revival with his famous 1741 sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” which I would recommend to the reading of anyone who desires a true understanding of the Gospel.

From the faith of the Pilgrims emerged what came to be known as the Congregational denomination. The Second Congregational Meeting House Society of Nantucket dates to 1809 — the “South Church,” to distinguish it from the First Congregational “North Church.” In 1837, the South Church congregation adopted Unitarianism in the form of the Harvard Covenant, and in 1961, the Unitarians merged with the Universalists to form the UUs, who are so far away from the Calvinism of John Winthrop and Jonathan Edwards that they’re practically in a separate universe. The South Church has made news:

A liberal church on swanky vacation island Nantucket nixed its Fourth of July readings for the first time in 25 years in “political protest” over the Supreme Court’s voting rights ruling — and its congregants’ “whiteness.”
The Nantucket Unitarian Universalists has read the Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights inside its church every Fourth of July for the last 25 years.
This year, the church’s board of trustees and presiding Rev. Erin Splaine published a letter announcing the cancelation of the readings just one month before America’s 250th birthday.
The church blamed the revision on the Supreme Court’s “gutting” of the 1965 Voting Rights Act and “an on-going process within the congregation to better understand our own whiteness,” according to the letter.
The self-proclaimed “liberal and free faith” leaders claimed that white people know the rights laid out in the America’s foundational texts “have, for centuries, been tragically, often violently, and unequally applied” against non-white citizens.

(Hat-tip: Ed Driscoll at Instapundit.)

The Rev. Splaine and her wife, Michelle

What would Jonathan Edwards have to say to the Rev. Erin Splaine? “Erin, her wife, Michelle and their very cute dog Charlie are thrilled to be part of the Nantucket UU and larger community,” we are informed, and I’m pretty sure the Pilgrims would not approve. The assertion that the Supreme Court’s decision in Callais amounted to “gutting” the Voting Rights Act was repudiated by Justice Clarence Thomas:

This Court should never have interpreted [Section 2] of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to effectively give racial groups “an entitlement to roughly proportional representation.” … By doing so, the Court led legislatures and courts to “systematically divid[e] the country into electoral districts along racial lines.” Holder v. Hall, 512 U. S. 874, 905 (1994) (THOMAS, J., concurring in judgment). “Blacks [we]re drawn into ‘black districts’ and given ‘black representatives’; Hispanics [were] drawn into Hispanic districts and given ‘Hispanic representatives’; and so on.” Ibid. That interpretation rendered [Section 2] “repugnant to any nation that strives for the ideal of a color-blind Constitution.” Id., at 905–906. Today’s decision should largely put an end to this “disastrous misadventure” in voting-rights jurisprudence. Id., at 893.
As I explained more than 30 years ago, I would go further and hold that [Section 2] of the Voting Rights Act does not regulate districting at all. See id., at 922–923. The relevant text prohibits States from imposing or applying a “voting qualification,” “prerequisite to voting,” or “standard, practice, or procedure,” in a manner that results in a denial or abridgement of the right to vote based on race. … How States draw district lines does not fall within any of those three categories. Holder, 512 U. S., at 922–923 (opinion of THOMAS, J.); Allen v. Milligan, 599 U. S. 1, 46 (2023) (THOMAS, J., dissenting). The words in [Section 2] instead “reach only ‘enactments that regulate citizens’ access to the ballot or the processes for counting a ballot’; they ‘do not include a State’s . . . choice of one districting scheme over another.’” Ibid. (quoting Holder, 512 U. S., at 945 (opinion of THOMAS, J.)). Therefore, no [Section 2] challenge to districting should ever succeed.

Isn’t Justice Thomas more qualified to interpret the law and the Constitution than the Rev. Splaine and her “very cute dog Charlie”?

Justice Thomas has talked about how, after a racial protest in Boston that turned violent in 1970, he went to the chapel at Holy Cross University and prayed: “I just asked God to take hate out of my heart, and I just vowed that if he did I would never hate again.” He has been commendably faithful to his vow, and I wonder what the Rev. Splaine thinks she will accomplish by her political stunt in a Nantucket church that long ago abandoned its claim to Christianity?

Shelby Steele’s 2006 book White Guilt analyzes the pathology expressed by the Rev. Splaine’s self-flagellating call to “better understand our own whiteness.” White guilt has become a religion for liberals, and they don’t understand why the rest of us aren’t heeding the altar call.



 

Category: Massachusetts, Racism, Religion

Democrats Electing Jew-Haters, While Losers Blame … THE JOOZ!

Posted on | June 3, 2026 | No Comments

Since the Hamas terror attack on Israel in October 2023, the left wing of the Democratic Party has made “Palestine” its all-or-nothing issue, more important than anything else soi-disant “progressives” claim to care about. Some of us suspect that money from Qatar, Iran and other Muslim governments has been subsidizing pro-Hamas activism in the United States and other Western countries, especially in terms of podcasts and other online “influencer” propaganda (e.g., Nick Fuentes).

Following up on Monday’s post about Graham Platner, would you care to guess whom Mr. Nazi Tattoo is blaming for his problems?

First of all, as Emily Zanotti and others have pointed out, Platner flunks math — Susan Collins has raised about $10 million in contributions for her reelection campaign, of which some $350,000 are from AIPAC, which is certainly not a “staggering one-third of her money.” But really, when Democrats are backing a candidate with a Totenkopf tattoo, why would anyone blame Jews for supporting his opponent?

Obviously, I’m not someone who spends time listening for “dog whistles” of racism, and I’m perfectly willing to call out Jews whose behavior deserves condemnation (e.g., Jamie Raskin, “the Leading Cause of Antisemitism in America”). But it is obvious to me that Democrats are willing to exploit the Left’s “Palestine” obsession in ways that reek of 1930s Germany. Anytime a Democrat wants to juice up the “progressive” grassroots, scapegoating AIPAC is now the go-to tactic.

You probably never heard of Saikat Chakrabarti, but he’s a Harvard-educated Silicon Valley tech bro who made a fortune after getting in on the ground floor at Stripe. Chakrabarti reportedly spent $10 million of his own money on a congressional campaign in California’s 11th District, for the seat vacated by Nancy Pelosi’s retirement. He finished third in Tuesday night’s primary, and guess who got the blame?

Scott Wiener is a disgusting scumbag who might some day challenge Jamie Raskin for the “Leading Cause of Antisemitism in America” title, but why scapegoat AIPAC? Did those cunning Jews talk Saikat Chakrabarti into wasting $10 million for a third-place finish?

Expect to see more of this kind of rhetoric from Democrats between now and the November midterms, and if somehow Republicans manage to keep control of Congress, Democrats will blame THE JOOZ!



 

Category: Democrats, Islam, Israel

In The Mailbox: 06.01.26

Posted on | June 1, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Thanks to everyone who bought stuff trough my Amazon links last month! I really appreciate it!
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Doug Ross: Time-Surfing Washington DC, also, Obama’s Third Term Exposed In House Report
357 Magnum: The Absolute Collapse of Star Wars Box Office, also Domestic Violence and Self-Defense in Ohio
EBL: “June Is Busting Out All Over”, Bull Dolphin, The Bear Necessities – Bear Attacks in Glacier National Park, Democrat Me Too – Platner and Gallego, and Snowy Grouper on the Flat Top Grill
Twitchy: NJ State Troopers Step Up & Rush Rioters At Curfew, “‘Murder!’ He Smote”, and Federal Appeals Court Finds Trump’s Military Transgender Ban Unconstitutional
Louder With Crowder: Gavin Newsom and his wife release message saying how proud they are of you…but only if you’re on the LGBTQ spectrum, CA government workers never came back to the office from COVID, now they say they can’t because of climate change, Spencer Pratt Shocks Bill Maher, Sheds Light On “Naked Drug Addicts” Running Amok In LA, Socialist running for LA mayor rattled having to talk about homeless crisis, ran so she could talk about bike lanes instead, and Hasan Piker Gets Banned From The UK (But Not For The Reason He Claims)
Vox Popoli: You Happened, Boris, Here We Go Again, The Retarded Art, A Strong and Based Performance, and It Ain’t Far
Cedar Sanderson: Commoditizations, also, Pickled Radishes
Upstream Reviews: Of All The Gin Joints in the Universe (4/4), also, June New Releases
Based Book Sale: 2026 Summer Based Book Sale – How It Went
Born Lucky: Platner In The Führerbunker
Stoic Observations: The Allure of Binary Drama
Jim McCoy: Hulu’s Paradise
Postcards from Barsoom: Once Upon a Time in Argentina

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Greatness: Feds Allege Taxpayer-Funded Los Angeles ‘Peace Ambassador’ Was Active Member of Street Gang, NYT Reports Leftist, Progressive Lawyers Flee Trump Administration, Non-English Speaking Bus Driver with CDL Kills Five People,  Study Finds Faculty Political Donations at Top Universities Heavily Tilted Left, and Judge Orders Trump Name Removed From Kennedy Center
Animal Magnetism: Animal Magnetism LIVE Ep. 90 – Double Feature
BattleSwarm: Two Videos About Death Rays, Camo-Clad ChiComs Caught Crossing Into Texas, and The Talafreakco Menace
Behind The Black: An active galaxy peered at by Webb in the infrared, China successfully completes maiden launch of its Long March 12B rocket, China successfully completes maiden launch of its Long March 12B rocket, China launches satellite to test cell-to-satellite communications, and Space Force awards SpaceX a $4.16 billion satellite contract, the second this week
Cafe Hayek: Jamieson Greer’s Ignorance of Economics and History Is Alarming, A Cafe Hayek Rerun, Foundational Fallacies Should Never Be Granted, and Giving Free Traders No Quartz-ter
CDR Salamander: R-280 from Rostov to Simferopol = SLOC From San Diego To WESPAC
Chicago Boyz: The Guilt That Isn’t, The Blackmailing of Graham Platner, Cleaning Up the Post Office – And Elections, Advances in Brain Cancer Treatment, and Burying Inconvenient Stories In Unmarked Graves
Da Tech Guy: “Under Rome’s See” (Sung to the tune of Under the See) PLUS livestream of the Consecration of Virgins Living in the World Mass, also, Indulgence Calendar for June
Don Surber: Trump’s Coalition of the Gulf States
Elizabeth Nickson: #WhiteBoySummer – Are You Ready For It?
First Street Journal: At what point does a columnist slanting or hiding information to one side become lying through his scummy teeth?
Flopping Aces: The Henry Nowak Bodycam Video Is Out And It’s Worse Than I Thought
Gates Of Vienna: Peak Telephony, also, Return to Beaufort
The Geller Report: Public Schools in Minneapolis, 1,000+ University of Calif Professors Revolt, Trump’s New Election Order Creates Mail-Ballot Chain of Custody — And Ballot Mills Are Panicking, Afghanistan: Taliban Commanders Engage in Rampant Sexual Abuse of Young Boys, and Muslims Screaming ‘Allahu Akbar’ Set Huge Fire at the Foot of the Eiffel Tower
Hollywood In Toto: Pendragon Cycle Lands Shocking Canadian Nomination, Star Wars RIP? Mandalorian Plummets, Backrooms Soars, Adam Carolla: Hasan Piker is a ‘Luxury Communist’, How Taylor Swift Could Save Freedom 250 Concert, and Did Bill Maher Just Win L.A. Mayor’s Race for Spencer Pratt?
Legal Insurrection: Karma Visits LA Socialist Mayoral Hopeful Nithya Raman in Form of Staged Homeless Camp, Rome’s Jewish Quarter – Great Synagogue and Portico of Octavia, Israel Orders Evacuation of Hezbollah-Held Beirut Stronghold Ahead of Strike, MS NOW Host Feels ‘Deep Unease’ About America’s 250th Celebrations, and Is Trump Souring on J.D. Vance as His Preferred 2028 Successor?
Nebraska Energy Observer: Highballing through Nebraska, The Bloody Hundredth, and American Way of War 4 (Patience)
Outkick: The things Abdul Carter conveniently didn’t mention about his distaste for President Trump,  Brendan Sorsby broke NCAA gambling rules – now his Texas Tech fate is in a judge’s hands, Rams adding Myles Garrett as part of Super Bowl push, Medical cart carrying injured player runs into teammate, and Orlando cops under investigation for letting bikini-clad women dance and twerk for them
Power Line: The Tragedy of Rising Oil Prices, Henry Nowak, The Pratt must be crushed, Paul Robeson – Tribute to a Stalinist, and Platner Speaks
Shark Tank: DeSantis Endorses Pasco County Sheriff Chris Nocco In SD21
The Political Hat: Nevada Primary Early Voting 2026 (First Week), also, The Digital Panopticon Is Here
Transterrestrial Musings: Save The Pets
Victory Girls: Stop the Presses! James “Beta” Talarico Has A Girlfriend, Freedom 250 Lost Bret Michaels. America Will Survive, and Jill Biden’s Cover-Up Has A New Problem: Her Own Party
Watts Up With That: Cost of Renewables To Hit £40bn in 2030, Would You Rather Live Near A Battery Energy Storage System or a Nuclear Plant, Net Zero Just Cut Aussie Wheat Production by 50%, The Rice Catastrophe Paper and the RCP 8.5 Rug-Pull, and Germany’s Ecological Holocaust… Once Fairy Tale Forests Getting Cleared for Wind Turbines
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How We Got Here: ‘Susan Collins, One of the Most Evil People in Public Life’

Posted on | June 1, 2026 | 1 Comment

When I wrote about Trump Derangement Syndrome over the weekend, it was while following the discourse over the latest scandalous Graham Platner revelations. These are certainly not the first such revelations, nor will they be the last, as GOP operatives reportedly have a vast pile of opposition research on Mr. Nazi Tattoo they’re waiting to unload when the time is right. But the reaction from liberals to what came out over the weekend was to double-down, to dig their entrenchments deeper, to rationalize the necessity of defending Platner at all costs, no matter what.

The author of that remarkable sentence is a columnist for The Nation, and when he got ratioed, his response was to double down again.

“TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP!” The deranged obsession so warps David Klion’s perception that, when challenged on his over-the-top rhetoric, his response is to post a syllogism, the first premise of which is, “Republicans are evil,” and believes that he has thereby vanquished his critics.

His defense of Platner will not suffice:

The Democratic primary in Maine is June 9, less than two weeks away, and the question now is whether Graham Platner will get shoved under the party’s bus before it’s too late to find another candidate to challenge Republican Sen. Susan Collins.
Hit by scandal after scandal in recent weeks, Platner’s status as “rising star” is now at risk because Democrats have belatedly realized that there might be even more damaging revelations to come — worse than his SS Totenkopf tattoo, which somehow Democrats had convinced themselves wasn’t really a scandal at all. What they’re realizing now is that Republican sources weren’t just bragging when they told Marc Halperin that their opposition research files on Platner were so toxic that he was not only guaranteed to lose to Collins, but “he’ll have to leave the state.” Frantic social-media drama from Democrats in recent days suggests that party insiders have confirmed what those GOP operatives were hinting at — Platner is unelectable; if he is the Democrat on the ballot in November, Collins will win in a landslide. . . .

You can read the rest of my latest Substack article (it’s free) and if you could, please subscribe while you’re over there.



 

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