HMM: Ukraine Hits Kerch Strait Bridge Again.

“Ukraine reports this one took several months. During that period of time SBU agents of Ukraine place mines along the supports of the Crimean bridge. Today the device was detonated. The underwater supports are reported as being severely damaged at the bottom level.”

“The supports being structurally compromised and destroyed, as seems to be the case here, means that the bridge is, to use a technical term, ‘knackered.’”

“The bridge is still standing. It has not been downed.” But it has been structurally weakened.

There were similarly optimistic assessments after the previous two strikes, so we’ll see.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: It’s Pride Month — Tim Walz Should Really Think About Coming Out. “One of the most striking things about the 2024 revamped and unelected Democratic presidential ticket was that they managed to find a running mate who was even more inauthentic than Kamala Harris. That’s quite a feat.”

EVERYTHING HE TOUCHES: Then: Obama disses Art History.

Now:

"Learn to code" they told us pic.twitter.com/zIYYmik65l

— Anand Sanwal (@asanwal) June 2, 2025

ILYA SHAPIRO: Higher Education’s Future Is Covered in Palm Trees, Not Ivy: As northeastern universities decline, Florida picks up the slack.

DON’T TRUST CHINA. CHINA IS ASSHOE. Chinese Bioterrorism?

DAVID FRIEDMAN: Why Abilene, TX is an AI Boomtown. “Abilene, Texas — population 125,000, more churches than startups, home to a retired Air Force base and a few cattle auctions — is quietly becoming a node in the global AI substrate. And not because it has top-tier researchers or a founder scene. It doesn’t. That’s the point. Abilene isn’t building apps. It’s building the physical substrate of cognition. It has something more valuable than talent or capital: land, power, fiber, and silence. . . . The fantasy of AI still gets marketed as weightless: all in the cloud, ethereal, placeless. But that fantasy is collapsing under the weight of physical constraint. . . . Here’s the real thesis: The map of AI is being redrawn, not by founders, but by land use lawyers, grid operators, and infrastructure billionaires.”

WHERE IS PAUL LYNDE WHEN WE NEED HIM? DIA Employee Tried to Share Intel With Foreign Gov Because… Oh, I Bet You Can Guess!

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: 2 Chinese nationals charged with smuggling ‘potential agroterrorism’ fungus into US.

Yunqing Jian, 33, and Zunyong Liu, 34, citizens of the People’s Republic of China, were allegedly receiving Chinese government funding for their research, some of which at the University of Michigan, officials said.

“The complaint also alleges that Jian’s electronics contain information describing her membership in and loyalty to the Chinese Communist Party. It is further alleged that Jian’s boyfriend, Liu, works at a Chinese university where he conducts research on the same pathogen and that he first lied but then admitted to smuggling Fusarium graminearum into America — through the Detroit Metropolitan Airport — so that he could conduct research on it at the laboratory at the University of Michigan where his girlfriend, Jian, worked,” according to a DOJ press release.

This stuff has to be ripped out down to the roots.

I GOT NOTHIN’: Hegseth Orders Navy to Strip Name of Predator Harvey Milk From Navy Ship.

“No more milk runs”?

21st CENTURY HEADLINES: Made in Space? Zero-gravity factories are the next frontier.

#JOURNALISM: WaPo Releases Belated Statement on Stealth-Edited Story That Cited Hamas Officials: ‘Fell Short of Post Standards:’ The Post initially updated the story on Sunday without explanation.

MY CONGRESSMAN, BASED:

End the Fed. https://t.co/KfUadR4ORL

— Tim Burchett (@timburchett) June 3, 2025

DIEBOLD, THE NEXT GENERATION: Election Denier: Rosie O’Donnell Suggests Elon Musk ‘Did Something’ to 2024 Election, Trump Didn’t Win (Video).

Former CNN employee and Democrat activist Jim Acosta held a live event in Washington, DC this week and invited a bunch of his most anti-Trump friends to attend.

Rosie O’Donnell made a guest appearance via the internet from her new home in Ireland and pushed her newest conspiracy theory that Elon Musk somehow hacked the 2024 election and that Trump didn’t win.

Democrats and the media have spent years claiming that election denialism is a threat to democracy. Will they now denounce O’Donnell for this?

No. Next question?

Related: Reminder: ABC News Employed Radical 9/11 Truther Nut Rosie O’Donnell for Years.

CLUB CARTEL: Not Your Average Nightclub Raid: Inside DHS’s Shocking Discovery Near Charleston, S.C. “Around 3 a.m. on Sunday morning, 200 federal, state, and local law enforcement officials went to the underground nightclub and conducted a raid that they called ‘Operation Last Stand.’ You’re probably thinking that since ICE was involved, they found some people who were in the country illegally — and they did — but they also found so much more than that.”

DON SURBER: How the Pride war was won. All the trans activism was a bridge too far: “LGBT has gone from a darling to coyote ugly this year as corporations gnaw their legs to escape the trap.”

Plus: “Readers have to understand that Pride is not about gays or even trannies. The goal of LGBT and whatever other letters they may add is to disrupt society. Trannies have replaced biology with ideology. The goal is to have ideology replace everything. Look how progressive churches have replaced theology with ideology. Betsy Ross gave us one flag. Forget pride. What America really needs is a Humility Month. I am sure Abe Lincoln would agree.”

I also think that after the Covid hysteria, the populace lost its tolerance for government/corporate faux-mass-enthusiasm.

RICHARD FERNANDEZ ON MIDWAY:

It does seem to be a particularly tough nut for Hollywood to crack. The 1976 Universal production, with a cast of stars that are all slightly past their freshness date, only has a 6.8 rating at IMDB. The 2019 telling of Midway by director Roland Emmerich only has a 6.7 rating.

By the way, to get a sense of how far the US Navy has lost its way in the decades since WWII: CBS Evening News: How Dare Pete Hegseth Rename the USS Harvey Milk, DURING PRIDE MONTH??? “The whole Milk fiasco encapsulates what underlies Secretary Hegseth’s mission at DoD: restoring readiness to a United States Navy decimated by woke nonsense. Ships run aground, aircraft carriers colliding at sea and amphibious vessels burning in port with no one seemingly able to extinguish the fire because the Navy elevated shipboard drag shows at the expense of operational readiness.”

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WEIRD, BUT LET’S GIVE IT A TRY: Don’t let people who hate America move here.

I pledge allegiance to the flag …

I heard those strange words for the first time at Riverside Elementary School in 1976, as a first-grader who had just moved to the United States with my family. I learned quickly how to say the words, but it took me much longer to learn what they mean.

Like Jefferson, Franklin and Washington, I was born English but chose to become an American. I took US history in middle and high school, got a degree in history, and later taught American history to 8th- and 11th-graders.

But though I knew the names and dates, nothing taught me to love my country like spending half my life outside of it, including 23 years as a US diplomat in Africa, Asia and Europe. The singularity of American freedom and opportunity is best proven through comparison.

Like many other Americans who came here legally and became citizens, nothing rankles me more than seeing disrespect, ingratitude, and even homicidal violence from some who have been granted the opportunity to come here — or allowed to remain despite coming illegally.

You’d figure the least they could do would be to obey our rules and respect our culture and values.

“Assimilation” is a dirty word to Americans who don’t like America very much.

YES:

More than one and it’s not “lone wolf,”
It never was. https://t.co/Akf3YxMNyu

— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) June 3, 2025

DO NOT TRUST CHINA; CHINA IS ASSHOE: Chinese nationals charged after bringing possible ‘agroterrorism’ fungus into US.

Seems like a huge deal that Chinese students linked to the CCP are getting caught trying to smuggle crop and livestock killing pathogens into the United States https://t.co/grT6IbfdSu pic.twitter.com/QDEXe6rPJm

— Enguerrand VII de Coucy (@ingelramdecoucy) June 3, 2025

JOHN LUCAS: Intifada Here! Intifada Now! The evil consequences of appeasement and enabling calls for violence.

JOHN HINDERAKER: Mass Murder at USAID?

If you listened to liberals, you would never cut any government spending, because all spending cuts cause people to die. How anyone ever survived before the modern era of behemoth government is a mystery.

The Trump administration’s pause on dispensation of USAID grants is a case in point. We know that many USAID programs were money-laundering operations for the global Left that needed to be shut down. Happily, that is being done. The administration says that legitimate aid programs that survive scrutiny will continue. I have no idea what the status of current program funding is, and this is not easy to discern from news accounts, which are often hysterical and rarely informative.

Thus, liberals are now asserting that USAID cuts have caused 300,000 people to die. U2 frontman Bono made this claim on the Joe Rogan podcast. It didn’t fare well.

Well, you know, it isn’t remotely true, and Bono isn’t remotely bright.

And even if it were true, many taxpayers wonder why it’s their responsibility to save the lives of people in other countries who often as not hate them.

Related: The reviews aren’t good.

Bono's first foray into "philanthropy," the Live Aid music concerts of the 1980s, raised $100 million for famine relief in Ethiopia. BBC later reported that just $5 million of it went to food — $95 million of it went to buy guns and organize CIA-backed warlords. pic.twitter.com/hdI1qd7lNM

— Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) June 4, 2025

QUESTION ASKED: Why Won’t Trump 47 Enforce the Law Trump 45 Wanted?

FLASHBACK: Who are You? Voter ID law and election integrity should be top priority in new Congress.

IT’S NOT LIKE YOU CAN BE ANYONE ELSE:  On Being Yourself.