J.E. Dyer ☘️ @OptimisticCon

Always a potentially useful activity. A cloud is a gaping maw of security vulnerability.

Dinesh D'Souza @DineshDSouza

2 days ago

.@PeteHegseth has announced an internal audit of Bill Gates-connected company Microsoft’s digital cloud system for allegedly being used by Chinese nationals to hack Government systems in Aug. 2025.

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Yeah, that's absurd. Worth pondering that a few years ago, the old Twitter banned use of the gaming abbreviation "NPC," for non-person character. It was deemed demeaning or "hate speech" or something. US social media. Often as absurd as Chinese social media.

Terence Shen @Terenceshen

2 days ago

China banned transactions of ¥64 RMB on WeChat around June 4th this year. Communist dictatorships can be much more absurd than you can imagine.

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Exulting we will go. Critics' track record on these matters isn't very good. Claims that Trump has just nuked everything between here and the Andromeda Galaxy will be as ridiculous as usual.

Aric Chen @aricchen

2 days ago

🚨 Just in: President Trump Slaps Beijing in the Face: “I’ll Call Taiwan’s President ANYTIME I Want!” 🔥 While the Chinese Communist Party screams “hands off” and threatens to blow up U.S.-China relations, President Trump just looked straight into the cameras on Air Force One

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That's a lot of terrorists. Guess we'll see if there's any basis for correction downtream.

John Solomon @jsolomonReports

2 days ago

U.S., Nigerian forces killed 199 suspected terrorists in secret mission, top Trump adviser reveals justthenews.com/government/sec…

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If you ain't caught up on the Friday Last Word - you ain't. 🙂👇

Ed Morrissey @EdMorrissey

a day ago

ICYMI: My TED Talk on stupid life choices, plus much more from lots of folks like @KatrinaTrinko @bethanyshondark @EsotericCD @bungarsargon @DavidAFrench @MattWhitlock @guypbenson and Paul Scofield. What More could you want? Friday's Final Word hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2…

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I do think it was pretty clear already, but the zombie regime certainly dropped pretense with this.

Mike Pompeo @mikepompeo

a day ago

It's clarifying that the Iranian regime has made a deal conditional on Israel ending military operations against Hezbollah in Lebanon. Hezbollah is an arm of the Iranian dictatorship, & it's critical that Israel prevails in the Lebanese theatre to achieve our shared objectives.

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Yes; I don't know the background here nearly as well as I knew it about USAID, so I wouldn't speculate. But there's no reason to be sure the background, behind-the-scenes activities papered over by grant funding under these programs are any less corrupt than the USAID mechanism. Woods Hole could be managing OOI in the best faith it can, as I imagine it is, and still not be able to wrestle down all the shenanigans. The latitude to be doing things beyond monitoring and data-gathering is evident. I hope we're not just throwing the baby out with the bathwater. I'd like to hear Rubio (NatSec Advisor, SECSTATE and our policy-maker on participation in global consortia), and the NOAA administrator, talk about this matter.

For context, it's important to understand what is being cut here. The National Science Foundation is a grant-making entity. It makes taxpayer-funded grants to recipients who then do the work of the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI). There's a PDF to study all the briefly summarized info here (bottom). Lines 10-21 on ES-1 (pg. 5) are your starting point. The big OOI grant each year is to Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, manager of the program. Woods Hole then makes grants, mainly to university programs in Oregon and Washington State. (Cf. Gov Inslee's former employment.) OOI is an auxiliary effort to NOAA's Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS), which spends its budget making grants and paying contractors to tend the IOOS apparatus. OOI has been in full operation (all arrays) since 2016. IOOS was launched in the 1990s as the US component of GOOS (below), and implemented in its current form ca. 2004. See here (IOOS grant-making): ioos.noaa.gov/about/funding-… And here (IOOS history): ioos.noaa.gov/about/ioos-his… OOI and IOOS are the US programs. They constitute the direct US contribution to the UN Global Ocean Observation System (GOOS) managed by UNESCO, launched in 1991. The impetus behind GOOS was what we now call climate change, with all its attendant programmatic concerns and associations. The US contributes funds to GOOS through our general contributions to UNESCO, when we are in member status with UNESCO. When we're contributing, the US share of UNESCO funding is typically abut 22%. GOOS is affiliated now with the international Group on Earth Observations (GEO), a body comprising more than 100 national governments established in 2002-2004, basically to funnel money to various entities involved in climate research and policy. See the screen cap on the focus of GEO (the 4th screen cap). This is a network of programs intended to fund things. Its function is to move money around. As with USAID, it's legitimate to inquire into what it's doing with the money, and interrupt this model of operations for one that may serve the needs of the Untied States better. I'm a friend of oceanographic research. I also think it matters how the taxpayer is funding it, and who's being paid by the taxpayer to do it, with what priorities. I don't know that the OOI/IOOS network has been the entrenched political problem USAID was. But it's not illegitimate to, as the police would put it, stop, question, and frisk. The policy PDF for OOI (April 2008) [Correction: the document is an environmental assessment report for OOI. But the executive summary and parts of the main document contain background essential to understanding how OOI fits in the nested oceanographic research programs described on pg. ES-1 (pg. 5)]: nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/OOI-Draf… Screen caps with useful summaries. On Screen cap 4, see the drop-down menu under "What we do/Explore by topic" (right half of screen). Searches on all the key terms will bring up the background info you may be interested in.

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Jay Inslee @JayInslee

a day ago

Donald Trump seems to think that if we just cover our eyes, the world’s biggest problems will disappear. Playing peek-a-boo with reality is not a strategy—it’s a dangerous abdication of leadership. nytimes.com/2026/06/01/cli…

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Ecuador: At least four fishing boats have been destroyed after a major fire broke out in the port of Manta, Manabí, shortly after midday on June 6. Fishermen reported hearing explosions before flames engulfed the vessels.

Pezeshkian personally reconnecting the internet — without IRGC approval — sparked serious internal uproar, quickly silenced because 85+ days of total blackout was strangling the economy. This was outright insubordination from an “elected” president in a system where such decisions belong to the Supreme Leader. Add to that banning Stability Front loyalists from night rallies, appointing his own special envoy for China, and directly ordering action on Mir Hossein Mousavi — all firmly in the Leader’s domain — and the picture is clear: the situation is not under Mojtaba Khamenei’s control (if he’s even alive). Power remains with the IRGC, and Pezeshkian is openly competing with them. None of them are allies of the Iranian people, but this visible fracture in the Islamic Republic’s unity may be the best chance we’ve had in decades to bring it down. Finish the job, or arm the Iranians. #IranRevolution2026‌ #KingRezaPahlavi‌ForIran

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Today we had the pleasure of mowing Mr. Stan’s lawn as he was inside confined to the bed. Please keep him in your prayers . Making a difference, one lawn at a time .

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@JoanneMason11 @TheResoluteLife But the advance on the "Wheeeee!" front appears massive! 🥳👍🤠

Screwworm border closure fuels beef boom in Mexico, gloom in Texas reut.rs/4vs2vNB reut.rs/4vs2vNB

Well, economics IS known as the "dismal science."

Open Source Intel @Osint613

a day ago

Iranian Economist Mohammad-Reza Yazdizadeh: Iran Must Show the U.S. and Israel It Has Nuclear Capability; We Can Turn 460 Kg of Highly-Enriched Uranium into 100 Dirty-Bomb Missiles; If Attacked, We Will Retaliate against Washington

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The most ingenious gold heist in history. It now has everyone focused, not on the gold heist, but on the devious maneuvers of the guy who almost pulled it off.

Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal

2 days ago

🚨🇺🇸BREAKING: The CIA officer caught with $40 million in gold bars allegedly invented an entire fake top-secret spy program to steal the money. As if this story couldn't get and wilder: -David Rush allegedly built a sham "special access program," the blackest box in U.S.

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A very good read. There's violence in the fight for the vote in S. Korea. But there's also a key lesson for the US: electronic vote counting is risky, and a huge opening for fraud, by hidden algorithm and data manipulation. Back in the 2000s and early 2010s, Democrats acknowledged and complained about the same thing. It took a pivot ca. 2014 to change their tune on that matter. Quite a few nations have found fraud problems with electronic vote counting. They've gone back to hand counting, which works fine when good-faith monitoring is enforced.

UnveiledChina @Unveiled_ChinaX

a day ago

While South Korea reels from chaotic election paper shortages, violent police crackdowns, and terrifying fears of foreign sabotage, a bulletproof solution is hiding in plain sight. Taiwan’s viral, fully manual vote-counting process proves that the ultimate weapon against

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The Teflon rail project. Scheduled to one day, eventually, cut down transit time for the 163 miles from Merced (Ubers galore) to Bakersfield (regional airport) from 2 hr 30m (if you're a nervous granny behind the wheel) to 1 hr 22m racing along on the rails (add transit time for your local transportation, especially if you need a lift into Bakersfield because you have no reason to go there for the airport). 8th Wonder of the Modern World, waiting for its certificate with the gold seal on it.

John Solomon @jsolomonReports

2 days ago

California's high-speed rail project blasted again for lack of transparency after $3.5B contract justthenews.com/nation/states/…

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Gold bar guy from CIA: "Rush’s fake program involved 'continuity of government' operations, or programs to keep the U.S. federal government running in the event of nuclear war, natural disasters or other catastrophes..."

Steve Lookner @lookner

2 days ago

WaPost: "The former senior CIA official found with more than $40 million worth of gold bars in his house allegedly created a fake, highly classified intelligence program that he used as a conduit to funnel millions of dollars for his personal use...It [is] unclear whether the

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