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An American icon. He changed the landscape of an entire genre while creating his own. He made every living artist up their game. He made you feel a season.
— Danny Deraney (@DannyDeraney) June 11, 2025
Best of all, he was ours.
Love you Brian Wilson. pic.twitter.com/bBY3YW0EeQ
Ed: RIP, Brian Wilson. Thanks for all the great music and memories. May you finally find rest, peace, and the perfect waves.
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This is the moment when the previously disinterested voter looks up, notices governors and mayors and congresspersons expressing apparently limitless support for illegal immigration, tax evasion, even crime, and wonders what the deal is. As in, a civilian protester can hold signs saying “No one is illegal” or “Abolish ICE Now” or even wave the Mexican flag on seized highways, but officials who command police forces or are charged with immigration enforcement probably shouldn’t cheer — unless they harbor utopian notions about a borderless world, which they inevitably do because they went to college in America. This zone of realization is where Trump cleans up every time. I used to think it was unfortunate, now I think it’s deserved. These idiots can’t muster the energy to even pretend to care at even a baseline level about mundane patriotic concerns like not letting absolutely everyone over the border, or drawing some kind of line when it comes to vandalism or school standards. Even the most liberal voter reaches a moment of exhaustion with this bullshit.
When Trump was elected in 2017, immigration for him was an open political wound, with just -21% approval. He’s currently at +1%, a 22-point swing. That’s similar to the massive voter shift on education, for ages a safe Democratic stronghold (Trump has lost support on education since inauguration among college Republicans, but still). In both cases voters broadcasted that they fear lefty radicalism more than Trumpian reaction, but no one listened. Just as the public is still told legitimate frustrations about the educational system are ignorant prole fear of “teaching about slavery,” they’re told anger about years of olé border control are xenophobic and unreasonable. Moderates would likely run back to Democrats if they would just act uncomfortable at the sight of masked protesters raising fists in front of walls of flames. You can be sympathetic to Gazans without actually wanting America to be Gaza. But people can sense the secret stiffy lefties get at this imagery.
Ed: Man, I love Matt Taibbi's writing, even when we disagree on policy. He keeps nailing the moment and explaining why the Left is playing directly into Trump's hands, and he's shunned by his former allies for it. It's almost a Cassandra phenomenon, or Jeremiah for those more biblically oriented.
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We’ve already seen what they mean by “globalize the intifada” recently.
— AG (@AGHamilton29) June 11, 2025
It means assassinating couples outside Jewish museums, trying to burn down the occupied homes of Governors, and throwing firebombs at elderly folks walking to support hostages. https://t.co/PTbEsI2Q1w
Ed: As I wrote yesterday, this isn't about immigration enforcement. It's about the Marxist revolution under any and all banners of the radical Left. This surprises me not one whit.
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Elon Musk called President Donald Trump on Monday night, two sources familiar with the conversation told ABC News, after their bitter public feud last week.
Musk posted on X early on Wednesday morning, "I regret some of my posts about President @realDonaldTrump last week. They went too far."
Ed: Ya think? This was the reaction from most observers:
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JD Vance and Susie Wiles pushed Elon Musk to repair his relationship with President Trump after the tech billionaire blew up at the president in a dramatic and public falling out, according to people familiar with the matter.
In a call last Friday, the vice president and the White House chief of staff urged Musk to put an end to the feud. Musk de-escalated early Wednesday.
Ed: I was certain that Wiles played a large part in this apparent rapprochement. It doesn't surprise me that Vance was involved, although I wonder whether Bill Ackman might have acted as an intermediary at some point. He publicly scolded both men on Thursday when this broke out and offered to help resolve the conflict.
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President Trump is feeling good about Elon Musk’s apology after the former “first buddy” admitted late Tuesday he had gone “too far” in his personal attacks on the commander-in-chief.
“I thought it was very nice that he did that,” the president told The Post in a brief phone conversation Wednesday morning, but didn’t say whether he was willing to let bygones be bygones with the Tesla and SpaceX CEO.
Ed: He will, because it's in his interest to do so. The same can be said about Musk. There is nothing to be gained by either man with grudges and recriminations.
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Ed: I've become a big fan of Nate the Lawyer, and this is an interesting development. I don't know much about the plagiarism claim against Ta-Nehisi Coates, but I suspect it's not valid, and that isn't the big issue here. Neither are the "ethics" issues that some will claim, even though the five justices recused. The real issue is that consolidation in the publishing industry means that most books with significant advances only come from the handful of big publishers remaining. That means no dispute involving Penguin Randomhouse will ever get a hearing in this court. It's one way that consolidation warps markets and power in the US.
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Weird, @MayorOfLA says curfew will remain until they gain control, while claiming Trump sending National Guard wasn't needed because they had control of the situation.
— Margot Cleveland (@ProfMJCleveland) June 11, 2025
Ed: She also admitted to looting and pillaging, too. At some point, Bass may finally admit that her city isn't letting Palisades owners rebuild. Stay tuned.
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@CAgovernor Newsom Activated National Guard for Covid Testing in 2022, But Won’t Authorize Guard for LA Riots.
— California Globe (@CaliforniaGlobe) June 11, 2025
Newsom locked California down for 3 years for a Flu, but won’t mobilize the guard for violent rioters, and sued Pres. @realDonaldTrump @CaliforniaGlobe… pic.twitter.com/7SBDCPl5Ot
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Press secretary Karoline Leavitt also attacked the Democrat governor of California and mayor of Los Angeles, claiming they had "fanned the flames" of the clashes.
"President Trump will never allow mob rule to prevail in America," Leavitt told a briefing at the White House, backed by television screens showing images of burning vehicles and masked rioters.
"The most basic duty of government is to preserve law and order, and this administration embraces that sacred responsibility."
Ed: Newsom's first priority is to hide illegal-alien gang members and criminals, and he embraces that choice every day. Let voters determine which approach they prefer. Oh, wait -- they already did in November!
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There were about 15 stores hit in Downtown LA last night. Apple, T- Mobile, Adidas, Foot Locker, Jordan Studio 23, Nike, Shoe Palace, CVS, a perfume shop, Sushi Restaurant, several jewelry stores, Med Men dispensary and several “Mom n Pop Shops.
— Fiona Nunya (@fionanunya) June 10, 2025
Local news outlets didn’t arrive…
Local news outlets didn’t arrive on scene until 4am after all the looters went home to avoid gathering negative footage.
Ed: They aren't news stations. They aren't even narrative enforcers any more, not since the proliferation of smart phones and social media made narrative policing impossible. They are now undertakers, as my friend Bill Whittle suggests in his latest video below.
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Ed: An excellent warning from my friend Bill Whittle, via my friend Adam Baldwin. Does anyone recognize the soundtrack? It was used in a famous film, but it wasn't original to it. Place your guesses about the identity of the film in the comments! (There may well be more than one film that did, but I have one in particular in mind.)
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