I’m the look-around candidate. All you have to do to understand why I’m surging in the polls is just look around. . . .” — Spencer Pratt.

Just watch in wonder and nausea as California’s mail-in ballots dribble in, providing a real-time demonstration of the “Our Democracy” party spitting in the country’s face again, since everybody knows exactly what’s going on. Meanwhile, the Senate voted down the SAVE Act again this week by 52 to 48 for. . . reasons. But, hey, cheer up, it’s Pride Month. At the same time that California was queering its own “jungle primary,” a troupe of drag queens swanned and capered around New York’s City Council Chamber in what was called a “Pride Ball” (actually more of a show than a ball).

And what it really showed is that the party running New York City has no shame. How, exactly, does mental illness intersect with the public interest, you might ask? Historians of the future, roasting armadillos-on-the-half-shell over their campfires, will probably figure it out. For now, you must pretend that no such question even exists. Don’t bother asking. Just go along with the gag.

Here’s a scene you might like to see: As you know by now, the president has nominated Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to be the Senate-confirmed full-on, bona fide AG. But Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) says he would require Mr. Blanche to declare that the Jan 6, 2021, Capitol riot was “an insurrection.” Wouldn’t it be fun to hear Mr. Blanche reply by saying, “Can’t do that, sir, because the DOJ has an ongoing case that involves dozens of federal officers from several agencies instigating the events of that day in collusion with members of Congress and the US military, and, well, I can say no more about that at this time. . . .”

Similarly, election fraud. Just days ago, Mr. Trump told Miranda Divine of The New York Post, “We had a rigged election [2020], we can’t have rigged elections. We know who rigged the election. We know everything now. . . we have information that nobody thought was possible. . . . Let’s see what happens.”

Hmmmm. . .. Wouldn’t that prompt you to suspect that the DOJ has a case, or multiple cases, involving 2020 election fraud cooking on its stove? Recall that not long ago the FBI seized 700 boxes of evidence from the Fulton County Election Hub in Union City, GA. And another truckload out of Maricopa County, AZ. Do you think they’ll discover some, er, irregularities in all that? Perhaps eye-wateringly blatant?

Would it not then be urgent to seek indictments of actual persons, if any are deserved, well before November, so that measures could be taken to preclude more fraud and cheating in the midterm election — measures like . . . passing the SAVE Act! How might Majority Leader John Thune explain his intransigence on the matter in the face of all that? Or, like New York’s City Council, does he have no shame?

In another momentous development this week, the new management at CBS-News cashiered 60-Minutes star Scott Pelley for apparent insubordinate behavior in a confab with the show’s newly-hired Executive Producer Nick Bilton and Mr. Bilton’s boss, Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss. They had already sacked the querulous Sharyn Alfonsi a week earlier. Of course, 60-Minutes, with its giant audience following NFL games, was one of the main units in the Deep State’s gaslighting apparatus, and Mr. Pelley burned brightest there for years, flaring out one lying-a[–] narrative after another from the Russia Collusion hoax to 2020 election fraud to the Jan 6 fake “insurrection,” with the same burnished arrogance he showed his new bosses. Gone now. . . buh-bye. Next up, Lesley Stahl (“Sir!!! Sir !!!”), and the self-important prick Bill Whitaker. Fire them all!

If you seek to understand why the American public is so deeply bamboozled, it is largely the utter failure of the news business. You can trace that to a couple of signal changes of policy. One was the 1987 repeal of the FCC’s “Fairness Doctrine,” which required TV stations holding federal licenses to cover controversial public issues in a “fair and balanced manner.” The other was the 2013 “modernization” (under Barack Obama) of the Smith-Mundt Act (1948), which had prohibited the US government from “propagandizing” its own citizens — and after “modernization” turned squishy on that.

The 1975–1976 (Sen. Frank) Church Committee — the Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities — documented that the CIA had long-term secret relationships with dozens of U.S. journalists. This is casually referred to as “Operation Mockingbird.” Since the Church Committee, it has only gotten much worse as the Deep State struggles to cover-up layer upon layer of crimes it keeps committing. The nightly news shows now are just anchors and “panelists” shooting their mouths off. The news itself goes mostly unreported. A big reason is that broadcast news now employs nearly zero correspondents in-the-field. Nobody is out there reporting on events. They don’t want to spend the money. So, the news just spins and spins, mostly in the service of manufactured lies.

Also last week, famous New York Times columnist and fake Nobel economics prize-winner Paul Krugman put out a video calling for the “purging” of MAGA and everything MAGA-adjacent from American life — when his team (the party of “Our Democracy”) comes back to power, as it must. He didn’t detail whether this process would entail internment camps and crematoriums, but you could infer as much from his tone. Kinda gives you a clue of where their heads are at.

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James Howard Kunstler

Spencer Pratt’s LA mayoral bid surged on Election Day, only to be reversed as California’s entrenched political machine reshaped the final count after the vote.

Bill de Blasio appeared on NewsNation on June 2 and was asked to comment on Spencer Pratt’s campaign. De Blasio smugly described Pratt’s ads as “inappropriate” and wondered, “Who is behind them?”

If de Blasio hadn’t actively participated in the decline of New York City during his disastrous eight years as its mayor, his arrogance might just be dismissed as unwarranted and clueless. But de Blasio is part of a machine that profits from urban decline. Behind his arrogance is a grasping, cynical hypocrite delighted that the machine on the West Coast is as potent as the one that elevated his own mayoral tenure and now supports Zohran Mamdani.

And so way out west, the machine has struck again. In the run-up to California’s June 2 primary, Spencer Pratt, running for mayor of Los Angeles, gave us a moment of hope. But as it turns out, he will not appear on the November ballot. Angelenos will choose between a democratic socialist extremist in the form of Nithya Raman and the “moderate” option, the ex-communist, incompetent incumbent, Karen Bass.

Calling Spencer Pratt’s ads “inappropriate” is a grotesque inversion of truth. Policy failures in Los Angeles have been so intellectualized and contextualized that only crude descriptions of reality on the streets of that beleaguered city had any chance to wake voters up from their brainwashed acquiescence.

Moreover, Pratt’s ads have heralded a new era in campaign messaging. His campaign was pitch-perfect and inspired. It wasn’t merely the use of AI to produce videos at negligible cost, videos that altogether would have cost millions only a few years ago. It was the extraordinary creativity of these videos and their uncanny ability to cut to the heart of issues that by now should have every resident of Los Angeles marching on City Hall with torches and pitchforks.

A few examples should suffice. Have a look at these:

“Entering the illusion,” where two parents confront a child, telling him that “Pratt is MAGA,” wherein the child asks why getting homeless drug addicts help and rebuilding homes is MAGA.

“Catching the Pratt,” where a mother wheels her young adult daughter into the emergency room because she is “thinking for herself,” wanting to “stop addicts from injecting drugs around kids,” etc.

“You are not alone,” where a group of women in a yoga studio realize, to their astonishment, that all of them secretly support Pratt’s candidacy.

“What Spencer Pratt Has in Mind for LA,” a satirical anti-Pratt ad where, for example, a father and daughter chastise Pratt for wanting change “when everything is fine,” while speaking against a backdrop of homes in flames.

And the classic “LA is worth saving,” depicting, among other things, Karen Bass and assorted prominent Democrats dressed in Louis XIV’s Baroque attire, swigging champagne and eating cake, while laughing derisively at a mother trying to protect her children from LA’s dangerous streets.

This was a brilliant campaign. It gave Pratt, who lost his own home in the January 2025 wildfires, instant momentum. So much so, in fact, that his opponents were worried enough to see to it that a second mayoral debate was canceled. And on the day after the election, Pratt had reason for optimism. Early returns reported, “With 63 percent of the votes counted by early Wednesday morning, Bass had 35 percent, Pratt 30 percent, and Raman 22 percent.” Pratt had an 8 percent advantage over Raman. So far, so good.

That was before what members of the machine dismiss as the “red mirage” began to dissipate. It didn’t take long. By Thursday afternoon, Pratt’s lead over third-place Raman had shrunk to 33,076, i.e., from an 8.0 percent advantage to 6.0 percent.

By Friday, the trend was unmistakable. Pratt’s lead was down to 20,672, only a 3.3 percent edge. After the Saturday update, the Los Angeles Times, whose veteran reporters knew better, published an article, “Pratt holds off Raman for now,” as if his lead over Raman, by then down to 7,494 votes or 1.1 percent, left any possibility he would stay in front.

Sunday’s update made it official. Pratt was behind Raman by 4,381 votes. With weeks of counting still ahead, the chances that Pratt will recover his lead are zero. Why? What is the nature of this machine that delivers a red mirage on election night, invariably blown away by a blue wind? How is this possible?

And here it is that accusations of fraud are almost irrelevant. Yes, California’s election laws make voter fraud possible, even easy. With poorly maintained voter rolls, 29 days of “early voting,” provisional ballots, same-day voter registration, automatic motor-voter registration, universal mail-in ballots, a seven-day post-election grace period for mailed ballots to still be counted, ballot harvesting, and county elections offices under oversight by Democrat politicians and staffed by Democrat-leaning bureaucrats, there are means, motives, and opportunities for fraud.

But these laws governing elections in California are tools—all of them completely legal—that turbocharge California’s ruling political machine. To rig an election in California, fraud isn’t necessary. To focus on fraud, without also critiquing the system itself, is a fruitless distraction.

There is a reason that ballot counts in the days after the election skewed two-to-one in favor of Raman, when Pratt led Raman by 8 percent in the early returns, and it doesn’t require fraud. What happens in elections in California today, as noted political observer Chris Rufo stated in a recent interview, is “no less nefarious but much more sophisticated.”

Rufo goes on to describe how California’s system works. “Institutions that have large ground games: unions, DSA, activist groups, homeless shelters—all of these people within the liberal NGO Borg—to go chase ballots, harvest ballots, solicit, and grab all of these ballots, which are technically legal in a way that the opposition cannot do.”

This is what happened to Pratt. This is what dissolved his red mirage. A political machine of extraordinary reach dispatched its operatives to every precinct in the City of Los Angeles wherever voters could be found who were low-information, dependent on government assistance, innately conditioned to oppose a Republican, inclined to have a Pavlovian aversion to any candidate tagged with a “MAGA” affiliation, or unlikely to vote without active assistance, or some combination of all of the above. These votes for Raman were the result of selective vote harvesting from precisely targeted groups.

This is why GOP candidates lose in California. If a race is close, it isn’t enough to wage a brilliant campaign. The endgame is rigged in favor of the party that can field a permanent army to exploit California’s current election laws. That army is populated by operatives from public sector unions that are overwhelmingly partisan Democrats, along with thousands of workers at partisan NGOs. This perennial political machine is fed by taxpayers and tax deductions; the election work they do is often technically “nonpartisan,” and the public programs they provide when they are not harvesting votes are “social welfare” programs that get more funding from failure than from success.

This is California’s self-reinforcing cycle of political dysfunction. Spencer Pratt tried to disrupt the system, and his surge in the polls surprised a lot of people.

But the machine won. Again.

In the shadows of downtown Los Angeles, where human suffering piles up in tents and despair, a disturbing pattern has emerged. Homeless residents on Skid Row are coming forward with claims that they were paid small sums of cash to cast ballots for Mayor Karen Bass and Councilwoman Nithya Raman. These allegations, captured in videos and shared with federal authorities, strike at the heart of election integrity in a city already reeling from policy failures that have turned streets into open-air encampments.

VIDEO HERE:

Skid Row homeless claim they’ve been paid to vote for Karen Bass and Nithya Raman https://t.co/bElx1nmQM2 pic.twitter.com/cQ7dvgR59r— California Post (@californiapost) June 10, 2026

This is not mere politics as usual. It is the predictable fruit of a system where compassion is weaponized for power.

While Bass and Raman position themselves as champions of the downtrodden, reports suggest their machines may have treated Skid Row as a harvest field for votes rather than a mission field for restoration. The very people failed by years of progressive governance now appear to be props in the game of maintaining it.

Videos obtained by the New York Post show multiple Skid Row residents describing outreach efforts in stark terms. One man identifying as Kevin Shepherd claimed he received $4 to vote for Bass, negotiating up from an initial $2 offer. He stated the groups offered an “optional choice” but steered clear of other candidates like Spencer Pratt. Another resident, Rene Johnson, 39, said she took $5 to support Bass, later expressing unease about the forms she signed and acknowledging the behavior as fraudulent even as she distanced herself from direct wrongdoing.

A third woman living on the streets recounted accepting $2, noting that such visits were routine. Resident Mark Sanchez alleged repeated payments of $4 or $5 for signing petitions and forms tied to the mayor’s office and other positions. These accounts paint a picture of coordinated efforts, with groups allegedly visiting the area three to five times weekly in the lead-up to the election.

The timing adds weight to the concerns. The videos surfaced as Raman surged past Pratt in late vote counts to secure a spot in the November runoff against Bass. This comes alongside prior reporting on thousands of homeless individuals registered at shelters with far fewer beds, including one linked to Raman that received substantial taxpayer funding.

A Los Angeles chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America has even published guides encouraging ballot harvesting, a legal but contentious practice in California that involves collecting and delivering completed mail ballots.

These revelations echo a recent federal case where a woman pleaded guilty to paying Skid Row residents to register to vote as part of a signature-gathering scheme. Federal prosecutors have confirmed multiple election fraud investigations in the area. Yet the response from Bass and Raman’s camps has been silence in the face of direct outreach.

“Every one of them thinks they have claim to our voice. They think they speak for us.”

Los Angeles has poured billions into addressing homelessness under leaders like Bass, with visible results that are, at best, underwhelming. Encampments persist, crime festers, and the human cost mounts. The irony is inescapable: officials who decry systemic inequities stand accused of exploiting the very inequities they helped perpetuate. Why target a population with limited resources, questionable comprehension of the process, and high vulnerability if not to manufacture electoral advantages?

Advisor Bullion Numismatics Our constitutional republic depends on the consent of the governed, expressed through free and fair elections. When those elections become transactions—cash for ballots—the foundation cracks. The Founding Fathers warned against factions that would subvert the public good for private gain. James Madison in Federalist No. 10 cautioned against the mischief of factions, yet here we see modern equivalents preying on the weakest links in society.

Don Garza, a disabled military veteran living on Skid Row since 1999, captured the exhaustion felt by many: nonprofit organizations and political actors treat residents as votes to be claimed rather than souls to be served. “We are tired of it,” he said. “We don’t want people coming in and deciding elections and taking advantage of us.”

As California’s mail-in voting and ballot collection rules invite scrutiny, these Skid Row accounts demand a thorough federal investigation. The Department of Justice has received the videos. Americans watching this spectacle should pray for truth to prevail and for leaders who fear God more than they chase power.

“And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I, the LORD, which call thee by thy name, am the God of Israel.” (Isaiah 45:3)

What is hidden in LA’s electoral shadows will one day come to light, exposing whether justice or expediency ruled the day.

In thieThe people of Los Angeles deserve better than a political machine that views the homeless not as neighbors in need but as reliable vote multipliers. True compassion restores dignity. It does not traffic in desperation. Until leaders prioritize accountability over optics, Skid Row will remain both symptom and casualty of a deeper civic failure.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday said that, despite the exchange of strikes between Iran and Israel, a deal to end the war in the Middle East could be reached “in two or three days.”

“They were going back and forth [with strikes], and now they both agreed, through me, to stop, and now we’re in the final throes of what will be a very, very good deal,” Trump told reporters in New York, where he was attending the NBA finals in Madison Square Garden.

Trump said the deal would stop Iran from having nuclear weapons and result in the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz. “The strait will open up right away,” he insisted. “It’ll open up immediately upon signing.”

It is not the first time that the U.S. president has promised an imminent end to the war in Iran, which has been raging since February. Weeks have passed since Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters that negotiating a deal to end the war in Iran could “take a few days.”

Trump on Monday said he had a “very good conversation” with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and downplayed talks of a rift between the two leaders.

Last week Trump was reported to have called Netanyahu “crazy” for his renewed attacks on Lebanon, and over the weekend he told the Financial Times that the Israeli prime minister had “no choice” but to accept a deal with Iran.

The U.S. president on Sunday urged his Israeli counterpart not to retaliate after Iran launched several missiles at Israel. After Netanyahu seemingly ignored the request and struck several Iranian cities, Trump demanded both countries “immediately stop shooting” and respect the U.S.-brokered ceasefire that has been in effect since April.

Both sides suspended military operations on Monday afternoon, but Iran warned that it would respond to any attacks targeting its territory or Lebanon. An Israeli army spokesperson warned residents of the Lebanese city of Tyre to evacuate on Tuesday, suggesting strikes on Hezbollah targets were imminent.

Trump on Monday insisted that Netanyahu had not defied him by retaliating against Iran. “If I tell him to do something, he does it,” he told the BBC, explaining Israel had fired its missiles at Iran before the two leaders had spoken.

According to the Times of Israel, Netanyahu called off a major strike on Iran following the conversation with the U.S. president.

The seemingly brief breakdown of the U.S.-brokered ceasefire began after Israel struck Iran-backed Hezbollah targets in Beirut on Sunday, violating a separate ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon. Iran responded with missile attacks on Israel, calling them retaliation for the strikes on Lebanon. Israel then launched attacks on what it said were military targets in Iran.

The Financial Times reported on Tuesday that the United States was not directly involved in the latest attacks, although U.S. forces launched interceptors to protect American troops stationed in Israel.

Ferdinand Knapp, Politico

“Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out”—David Horowitz

“When you embrace somebody for the job, you really want to embrace a winner”

June 9, 2026 by Daniel Greenfield 7 Comments

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Ouch.

Willie Brown made Kamala, gave her positions, introduced her to donors and moved her through the political system. It probably helped that Kamala, unlikely presumably Gavin Newsom, was his ‘side piece’.

Now with Kamala polling behind AOC in a hypothetical Dem presidential primary, Willie just dumped her. Politically at any rate.

Former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown, one of California’s top powerbrokers, told ABC News while it’s early to speculate, he believes the most “viable” between his two mentees would be Newsom, “because he would not be the most recent loser.”

“When you embrace somebody for the job, you really want to embrace a winner, and Newsom would be what you would have to say at the moment is a winner,” Brown said.

Brown said he was “surprised” that Harris decided not to run for California governor in 2026.

“I would have advised her to be elected governor, so that she would be in the same identical position, if not better than for electability nationally than Newsom. …. If she was in the category of being on January 8, 2027, the governor of California, the dialogue would be about her candidacy, not about anybody else’s,” Brown said.

ABC News, which I’m sure has no agenda, talks to a bunch of anonymous Kamala fundraisers and donors who basically expressed that they would be likely to use their money to roll joints than to donate to her.

But Willie twisting the dagger has to hurt and he has a point. Kamala could have been governor by just showing up. And plenty of people told her so, I’m sure. Instead she was egotistical enough to go for the brass ring that will never be hers.

Now even Willie, her first supporter, won’t stand with her.

What a farmer doesn’t know, he doesn’t eat,” a phrase I’ve heard often in my life. This applies not only to food but also to many other areas. It is often the basis for many prejudices but at the same time—to be fair—it can also be a good defense in certain situations. When does it apply and when doesn’t it?

The average casual visitor to our website may well raise their eyebrows. “What’s that? Noahides?” Some will know what it means, especially the conscious visitor. It is what I noticed earlier when, as a Reformed/PKN member, I eventually moved towards Messianism via an evangelical church. There, you could also feel the judgment of traditional Christianity towards those somewhere in between Christians who leaned towards Judaism.

Those same Messianics, who sometimes already consider themselves Jewish but are still truly Christians, often feel treated that way by traditional Christianity, but those same Messianic Christians can also be harsh when people from their circle make the step toward true Judaism. I was regularly reviled by those same people. I had denied JC, some said.

To all those people who are part of certain mainstream faiths, particularly Christian ones, who are full of judgment toward other groups, small faith groups with parallels and certainly differences, I now ask the following: Go back to the time when your religion was slowly taking shape. Would those early believers recognize themselves in your churches today? Were they exactly like you are now, with all the dogma and rules of today, with the Trinity and Sunday and churches with organs or praise bands of today?

Let this sink in for a moment. Many of you are Protestants, and Protestants are, by definition, seekers of truth. This began with all kinds of details filled in by the only church that existed here before Protestantism, the Roman Catholic Church. Well, you could also say that Noahides and even those messiahs are seekers of truth.

The term “Noachides” is open to debate. I prefer to call myself a righteous person from among the nations or, even better, a follower of Torah and Judaism who is not halachically Jewish and has a strong desire to continue as a gioer (another discussion altogether). But this is absolutely not a sect. My fellow believers and I come from all kinds of backgrounds, but we share one core value, which is the Jewish source in which we find our beliefs.

Was JC not a Jew? And what do I think of JC now? As a person, I have no problem with him. There is plenty of historical evidence that someone existed at that time—with a Jewish name, not a Greek one, by the way—but his fan club morphed everything afterwards. It went through a kind of Greek/Roman Christian filter.

The ONE God, HaShem, was changed by that fan club into a trinity, and the day of rest, which had been the Sabbath since time immemorial, was moved by one day, and the pagan names of months and days + also days from midnight to midnight, nowhere to be found in the Bible or in the Tanakh, took the place of everything.

Back to the beginning, “what the farmer doesn’t know, he doesn’t eat.” You can stay here and kick against everything you find here, even if you yourself are a Messianic Jew and receive similar treatment from mainstream Christianity. It’s easier if you’re Catholic or Protestant or Reformed. Then you can easily judge and condemn Noahism as a sect.

But would you also call Judaism a cult? Perhaps you would reject it just like Islam, or perhaps as a Christian, Jew, or Muslim you would reject all other religions, which is your right. But Noahides are seekers of truth with very good arguments and a study of what God says and teaches. Nothing less than you and perhaps… Perhaps closer to the source and detached from rules and dogma devised later.

Take off your glasses of prejudice, become aware of these prejudices. Go searching and discover that “we” are not so crazy.

“Ein od milwado” -> look it up! 😉

In April 2024, a 73-page secret report landed on the desk of France’s President Macron. It said the Muslim Brotherhood (once aligned with Nazi Germany) had spent forty years (yes, four decades) secretly infiltrating French neighborhoods, schools, and city halls. And all of it was bankrolled by Qatar and Turkey. Emmanuel Macron read the report. He understood it. Then he locked it in a drawer. And full credit for this story goes to Behind the Narrative 📣.

This is the story he tried to bury.

The report had a name: “The Muslim Brotherhood and Political Islam in France.” It laid out a step-by-step plan — recruit the lost with job offers, build a parallel society with its own schools and banks, then get loyal operatives elected to school boards and councils. For months Macron said nothing. Then in May 2025, Le Figaro got the whole thing and printed it. The secret was out. And Macron was pissed.

None of this is free. Turkey’s religion ministry, the Diyanet, runs a $3.5 billion budget. It picks the imams in French mosques, pays them, and writes their Friday sermons back in Ankara. Qatar pushed about $102 million across Europe for mosques and schools. Qatar also owns the Paris soccer club, big stakes in French energy and construction, and piles of French real estate. Nine days after Qatar promised Macron €10 billion, he announced recognizing a Palestinian state was no longer “taboo.” You connect the dots.

Two Reports, Zero Action.

The strangest part is who helped. French progressives and Green politicians waved it through. Anyone who pointed at the problem got branded a racist or “Islamophobic,” so people stopped pointing. 90% of French citizens wanted the Muslim Brotherhood banned.

Doug Ross

‘Nude isn’t lewd’: World Naked Bike Ride returns to Madison this June.

The 12-mile ride is a protest against oil dependency — and a statement that every body has a place in public.

MADISON, Wis. — Whether you love it, hate it or just tolerate it, the World Naked Bike Ride will return to Madison later this month.

Organizers said the ride will begin at 11 a.m. on June 20. Madison is one of dozens of cities holding a ride worldwide. Organizers expect 160-200 people to join this year’s event.

The annual ride serves as a protest against oil dependency as well as a celebration of nature and body positivity.

You don’t have to take your clothes off to join the ride. Organizers have implemented a lonstanding “go as bare as you dare” policy. Participants are only asked to be courteous and not judge other riders.

While it’s a naked bike ride, bikes are also not a must-have. Participants can join in using any for of human-powered transport, provided they respect other riders, follow traffic rules and hold to the spirit of the event.

Registered participants will be told the gathering point for the ride at least one day advance. The route will not be publicized, by organizers will announce a designated viewing area at a later date.

There is certainly a new flavor of socialism emerging amongst the younger generation. 

Raushan Gross | June 9, 2026

There is certainly a new flavor of socialism emerging amongst the younger generation. The updated addition to the socialist dogma is tinged with what is called the Me-First perspective, the current rallying cry for a new batch of socialists attempting to upset the economic apple cart. This latest flavor is not too far from the traditional utopian idea that socialism could work somehow if all that is tweaked are price controls, the elimination of private ownership, slowing down market forces, and stifling entrepreneurial incentive and motivation. In other words, the new age socialists’ prevailing cry for a socialist fix to the economy is to upset the apple cart for their own subsidization and effectively taxing everyone else. Put another way, it is about satisfying their wants using your means. Why do they use capitalist means of production to establish a socialist economy? Why doesn’t the new age socialist have a socialist means of production?

The problem with the Gen Z new age socialist frame of thought is that they have no means of production of their own. Put plainly, there are no such things as socialist means of production or economic market tools; if so, what are they? To Gen Z, putting private property in someone else’s hands and tweaking the economy to their benefit sounds workable, but the basic reality is very scary: they are under the impression that a socialist economy will solve their problems, and everyone else’s for that matter, because in their minds all you have to do is control prices, increase minimums, put a cap on this, overtax the other, overregulate this and that, confiscate wealth, and so on. Yet here is the red pill: the previously listed points are capitalist means of production for a market economy; without a socialist means of production, none of the utopian ideas are workable.

Once all individual incentive and motivation tools are defunct, no one will want to or need to do anything for their fellow man and neighbor. Who will be motivated to do anything for anyone else? How will you eat dinner? You cannot destroy incentives for some and expect prosperity for all. They do not know that they eat dinner every night, not because of the benevolence of the butcher; rather, the butcher is incentivized every day to produce meat for us to consume via the market forces and the butcher’s means of production. Take that market means of production away and install overtaxation, kill the profit motive, and decree price floors and ceilings — then we are in trouble. We will all need to resort to eating grass and carrots.

The big problem with both the new and the old socialist doctrines is their attempt to upset the apple cart without having their own socialist means of production to replace the current system. That is when you get crickets. I would love to hear what they would put in place, let us say, if “capitalism” ended tomorrow. Would everyone own everything? How would that work? What would be the method of distribution? How would property renters know how much to reinvest in a property or what the going rates are? Perhaps I am missing something. The problem, as we already know, is that socialism has no productive means to replace this system other than to usurp the capitalist means of production and expect a third party to control it, as if the third party would not pursue its best interest.

The reality is stranger than fiction. What makes the third party less human than anyone else who wants economic ease and prosperity? Would the third-party economic controller want to eat filet mignon instead of chuck steak every night for dinner? Absolutely. And, yes, they want to pay chuck steak prices for filet mignon; who would not? Who does not prefer being subsidized rather than taxed to death? No one. Here is the kicker: in a capitalist system, prime ribs are produced, yes, at a higher price; in a socialist economy, filet mignon would not be considered a real option. But the third party knows very well, and the butcher and the grocer manager know as well, that there’s just not enough of anything to go around, so the fair “capitalist” thing to do is signal to everyone via prices that is shared with millions of people as what they should buy or should not buy, and this is with everything from homes to cars to everything else. People own the means of production and use them for themselves and for everyone else, and consumers’ demands are met by bidding up or down. So, to me, and probably you too, the new age socialists want to upset the apple cart, but without the tools and means of doing so, it is just plainly unworkable. There are no socialist tools for the means of production, at least that I am aware of, so they can demand reform all they want. Really, it is just hot air.

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The White House is actively considering a plan to purchase the Chagos Islands, potentially undermining the UK’s agreement to transfer sovereignty of the strategically vital territory to Mauritius, according to reports.

US officials have prepared proposals to bypass Britain and negotiate directly for control of Diego Garcia, the key Indian Ocean atoll that hosts a major joint US-UK military base. The idea forms part of broader options being developed by the Trump administration as alternatives to Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s plan to cede the islands to Mauritius, which has close ties to China and Iran.

Strategic Importance Diego Garcia’s location makes it critical for long-range operations. It enables round-the-clock bomber missions, including potential strikes on Iran using B-2 Spirit stealth bombers, and places key areas within striking range. Amid ongoing conflicts involving Iran and China’s expanding naval presence, US and UK officials stress the need to maintain a robust chain of global military bases.

Senior Trump administration officials worry that transferring control to Mauritius could expose the base to espionage or interference. One former adviser to UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy, Ben Judah, told the Telegraph that the base has “super secret, super sensitive facilities” that are vital to British and allied capabilities, noting they would be difficult to replicate elsewhere.

Background on the UK-Mauritius Deal The UK had agreed to hand sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius while securing a long-term lease for the military base, reportedly involving around £35 billion ($46.7 billion) over 99 years. However, the deal requires US consent due to longstanding agreements governing the base, and Britain has since placed it on hold.

President Trump initially appeared open to the arrangement but later strongly opposed it, particularly after the UK reportedly declined to allow strikes on Iran from Diego Garcia in the early stages of the Iran war. He publicly denounced the deal as “great stupidity” and criticized Starmer for weakening the special relationship, calling him “no Winston Churchill.”

US Position and Ongoing Talks A US official told Reuters:

“President Trump has been consistent in his position that the United Kingdom should not give away the British Indian Ocean Territory, which includes our joint U.S.-UK military facility on the Diego Garcia atoll. Diego Garcia’s strategic location in the Indian Ocean makes it a vital and indispensable military installation of significant importance to the national security of the United States.”

The US continues regular discussions with Britain to preserve the base’s viability.

Purchasing the islands outright would likely involve waiting for the UK-Mauritius sovereignty transfer before negotiating with Mauritius. No specific price has been discussed, according to sources.

In February, Trump said that he had retained the right to “militarily secure” the Diego Garcia air base after calling the UK’s decision an “act of total weakness.”

UK Response A UK government spokesperson defended the original agreement, stating it was necessary to protect long-term interests and prevent adversaries from gaining a foothold:

“Diego Garcia is a key strategic military asset for both the UK and the US, which has protected our shared security for nearly 60 years. Maintaining long-term operational control and security of Diego Garcia is the entire basis for the UK-Mauritius agreement.”

In May, UK minister Hamish Falconer stated there was “no scenario” in which Washington could purchase the islands, reaffirming commitment to the deal. Downing Street has not commented on the latest US proposals.

Tyler Durden, Liberty Daily