Um...hooray?

There's a bifurcation of opinions on the Right about the DSA's success in New York last night.

Hot Air: "Politico: You Know Who's Happy About DSA Wins This Cycle?"  It's the House Republicans.

Democrats seem upset: "Dem Rep Summed Up the NY Socialist Takeover Perfectly."

Then there are those on the Right who sense this is a terrible turn of events: "The Dangerous Fallacy: ‘Exposing’ Radical Leftists Won’t Save Us — Their Voters Are Growing and Rabid."

This is my position, also.  We can laugh and point but the bottom line is that utterly insane Socialists are on the verge of being elected to Congress.  These people should be kept far, far away from the levers of power.  We can laugh and say it's New York or California but it wasn't so long ago that Rudy Giuliani was the mayor of New York, Arnold Schwarzenegger was the Republican governor of California and even Charlie Baker was the governor of Massachusetts.  Massachusetts! For eight years!

I'm with Matt Walsh here:

Unbelievably retarded for Republicans to gloat about communists winning elections. This is not some kind of win for the right and if you think it is, you truly have no idea what’s actually happening in the country right now. https://t.co/hAHbzUWox1

— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) June 24, 2026

FAFO time

NY Post: "Lefty owner of anti-Israel NYC coffee shop calls US ally ‘Nazi Germany of our time’ in hateful online outburst."

Jim Treacher has more fallout:

Well, Poetica Coffee has now taken down their Facebook page and all their other social media. They’re getting clobbered on Yelp. Oh, and they’re being investigated by the Department of Justice. So that was a big Sunday for them.

They refunded a coffee purchased by Democrat Congressman Dan Goldman and essentially banned him saying they "we don’t serve racists, fascists, homophobes, genocide enablers." 

I have a feeling you won't be serving anybody soon enough.

This is the way

Hot Air: "Elon Musk Suggests He Could Sue Ro Khanna."

Twitchy: "Looks Like Elon Musk Has Had Enough of Rep. Ro Khanna's Defamation."

Ro Khanna made the mistake of defaming Musk from a podcast instead of the floor of Congress where he would have immunity.

Good news

WSJ Opinion: "Race Preferences Are Falling Nationwide" - "The Supreme Court’s 2023 ruling against racial preferences is turning out to be a landmark with profound consequences as its influence spreads. On Thursday the famously progressive Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled unanimously that a state program that issued scholarships based on race violates the U.S. Constitution." 

It started at the Biden DOJ

California Post editorial: "The Gavin Newsom probe is serious, and he knows it."

Newsom is desperate to paint this as a Trump operation but the investigation started in the Biden administration and last month his former chief of staff plead guilty to conspiracy and wire fraud charges.

The Final Boss of Incoherence

New York Editorial Board Substack: "Darializa Avila Chevalier on Housing, Immigration, & Her Run for Congress in New York's 13th District - The New York Editorial Board's interview with Darializa Avila Chevalier, a Manhattan Democrat running for Congress in New York's 13th District."

This interview of a candidate for Congress is really something.  Scroll to the bottom where she's asked a "gotcha!" question of whether murderers should be sent to prison.  It's wild.

Priorities

Federalist: "Corporate Media Can’t Be Bothered To Investigate Fraud And Crime, They Have An Algae Bloom To Track." 

I dunno: we go on with our lives?

Boston Globe: "Trump’s name was stripped from the Kennedy Center. Now what?"

This part made me laugh:

The federal judge who ordered the removal of Trump’s name, Christopher Cooper, has also blocked the closure. On Tuesday, he ruled the Kennedy Center board must present a plan to the court for staying open by Friday.

This is the new version of "bake me a cake" instead it's "play me a concert."

OK, Hawaiian judge.

It's not going well

NY Post: "With Strait of Hormuz held hostage, Trump’s Iran deal is worse than Obama’s."

As he prepared to sign his “memorandum of understanding” with the Islamic dictatorship of Iran, President Trump again insisted that his deal was much different than that of his predecessor, President Barack Obama.

He’s right — it’s probably worse.

Obama’s treaty did not prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon, it simply punted the issue down the road in exchange for cash.

Trump’s agreement has the same vague promises, the same payouts, but with the added twist that Iran can and will take the world hostage by shutting the Strait of Hormuz at will.

I've criticized Dementia Joe for his Afghan withdrawal because he was desperate to have it done before September 2021 so he could stand in the Rose Garden on the 20th anniversary of 9/11 and claim victory.  Trump seems to be driven by the same motivations: the need to reach a deal before heading to the G7 conference, or to bring down gas prices, or to claim the mantle of Great Negotiator.

I think it's just a matter of time before Iran violates this agreement because that's all Iran ever does.  They are completely untrustworthy and any "agreement" isn't worth the paper it's written on.

Not-so-golden state

Victor Davis Hanson: "Is California Reaching Critical Mass?"

And yet they keep voting for Democrats.  In other California news, the billionaire tax referendum reached enough signatures to appear on the ballot in November and even Gavin Newsom is trying to kill it.  Conservatives, Nevada, Texas and U-Haul are all hoping it passes.

Damning with faint praise

Oh, man, this is low-key hilarious:

"Joe and Jill, you are also here." https://t.co/CbvkLqpgtN

— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) June 18, 2026

And yet I am not surprised

Ace: "Another Surprise: Harvard Students Experience Mental Illness at Double the Rate of the Normal Adult Population."

Mental illness tracks with political ideology and Harvard is full of prissy liberals:

She buys his oysters, too

Free Beacon: "Texas’s James Talarico, 37, Shares His Only Checking Account With His Mom."

This "guy" is a weirdo.

Think of all the learing centers we could buy

Twitchy: "Ratio Machine Elizabeth Warren Rake Stomps While Pitching All the 'Free' Stuff a Wealth Tax Could Provide." 

Oh we still want Greenland

NY Times: "After a Bitter Split, European Leaders Play Nice With Trump - A peace framework with Iran, and hope for cooperation with Ukraine, softened the tone on Tuesday at a Group of 7 gathering in France."

For all the sharp elbows of the last year, they appear to have concluded that the best way to deal with a disruptive president is to court him, particularly since they still hope to engage the United States on thorny issues like the war in Ukraine.

“We’re on the same team,” Mr. Merz said of the president on social media, wishing him a belated happy 80th birthday.

Such conciliatory words would have seemed improbable even a week ago, given the bitter split over Iran, Mr. Trump’s threats to take over Greenland and his regular hectoring of Europe’s centrist leaders — all of which persuaded several of them that America was no longer an ally, and was even, in some cases, a threat.

Now, though, Mr. Trump has presented at least the contours of a peace deal with Iran, and Europe’s leaders have gone back to charming him.

Because they want something.  Make no mistake: I didn't care about Europe's opinion back when they hated Trump.

Good

Legal Insurrection: "Judge Upholds Wisconsin Judge’s Conviction for Helping Illegal Alien Evade ICE - The problem for the defense is that this case did not involve some random encounter on the street. It was a targeted operation, conducted pursuant to agency procedures." 

These people are thick in Western Mass

Red State: "‘No Kings’ Crowd Gets Wrecked by One Brutally Honest Media Column."