I made a pilgrimage to save this tabbing race, never comprehending the race had long gone by ...
If I were a public figure in the UK I would simply not ever sit in the back of a car https://t.co/S0sgUyjPdS
— Luke Savage (@LukewSavage) June 21, 2026
Ed: Never go the full Prince Andrew. Not sure what it is with clowns in cars in the UK, but this seems to be a pattern.
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CBS News: [New UK PM Andy] Burnham has spent years positioning himself as a viable alternative to Starmer, criticizing Labour's leadership at moments of weakness while carefully cultivating his own national profile.
How Burnham would differ from Starmer as a national — and international leader — isn't exactly clear.
A lawmaker from the Conservative Party, Labour's longtime chief rivals, recently described Burnham as "Keir Starmer with a Northern accent."
Whether he would adopt a different approach in dealing with President Trump — after Starmer found that going out of his way to keep the American leader on-side can bring somewhat limited advantages — also remains to be seen.
Ed: Donald Trump has nothing to do with Labour's woes, and for that matter, the Tories' woes either. Both major parties have essentially the same platform now, which is importing workers at the expense of native Brits. The Rupert Lowe report demonstrates just how far the "diversity" rot has sunk in both parties. Burnham will try to distract from that by talking about Trump, and in fact, he already has, when the real problem is that neither Labour nor Conservatives have the stomach to enforce the law and to limit the impact that immigration has had, even a decade after Brexit. They're not listening.
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Not as much as the 250,000 rape victims have cried. https://t.co/8u3RxNwxOv
— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) June 22, 2026
Ed: Starmer should be weeping in shame. So should a large number of other elected officials.
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Charles C.W. Cooke at NRO: It would, I concede, be rather cathartic for me to list all the ways in which Keir Starmer was a historically terrible premier. But, as it happens, I have a different target to roast. Peruse the channels of sophisticated opinion in England today, and you will inevitably encounter some variation of the argument that the United Kingdom has of late become “ungovernable,” because its “complicated” electorate desires a set of public policies that cannot coexist. British voters, this supposition runs, want housing to become more affordable for the young and for the existing housing stock to retain its value; they want taxes to stop rising and for more money to be spent on the health service, on pensions, and on care for the elderly; they want the price of energy to go down and to achieve “net zero”; they want Britain to start inventing things again and for their island to retain its sprawling archipelago of regulations; they want to be welcoming and “diverse” and to acknowledge that the country’s infrastructure is already bulging at the seams. As a descriptive matter, this may well be true. As an excuse, however, it is thoroughly inadequate. Substantively, there is no real difference between it and the suggestion that the median voter in Britain is seven years old. Voters want everything, all at once, with no trade-offs or sacrifices to be seen? Of course they do. Who wouldn’t? But adults ought to know that this is not possible. Where are the adults in British political life?
I am not offering up a defense for any of the figures who have run Britain over the last two decades. Keir Starmer included, they are all craven mediocrities. Rather, I am attempting to lay the blame for that where it ultimately belongs — which is with the British public. Vote-seekers are professionally obliged to pretend that Britain has had seven prime ministers in ten years because there is something abstractly wrong with the “system” that the selection of the right leader will magically fix. I am not so obliged, which allows me to say without fear or favor that the real reason that Britain has had seven prime ministers in ten years is that the British public would rather blame its own lazy schizophrenia on the Westminster class than to look inward and acknowledge that it has routinely demanded its own decline.
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For years Jake Tapper spread the Fine People Hoax.
— MAZE (@mazemoore) June 22, 2026
Since Tapper hates white supremacy so much, surely he will be reporting on the SPLC scandal soon right? The SPLC was funding white supremacy so I'm sure Tapper will be doing to do a deep dive on it any day now. pic.twitter.com/8yU3mAT93O
Ed: The Associated Press did the "Now It Can Be Told" feature on fentanyl in the Biden Regency. I think it will take a little longer to get the NICBT stories on the SPLC on mainstream media outlets. Tapper's hardly alone on this point.
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Kurt Schlicter: Trump is going to try to drag this out past the midterms. That 60-day nuclear negotiation? Of course, that’s going to get extended. There’s precisely zero chance that’s going to be resolved. But understand that their nuclear program has been blown to smithereens. We are not back in a worse position than we were before we entered this righteous conflict. We’re in a much better position. And in the long term, the correlation of forces is in our favor. Israel is wiping out its proxies. The Gulf states are strengthening their defenses, so Iran can’t do again what it just did. We are rebuilding, rearming, and retargeting. And Iran’s regime? It’s still impoverished and teetering on the edge of collapse.
You wouldn’t know it from all the whining online and the self-serving crap of the Democrats, who seemed just as mad about us not shooting as they were at us shooting, but we’re in a good position for the future. All the Iranian mullahs are just crying like the little b****s that they are. They accepted the MOU because they need the MOU as much as Trump does, maybe more. So, at the end of the day, crying like a little b***h is all they can do.
Ed: I'm tending toward this view as well. I suspect the idea with the MOU is to give Iran just enough runway to demonstrate that it will never negotiate in good faith. I'm not even sure Trump will be inclined to stretch out the 60-day deadline, but I think it's most likely that we never even get close to it. Iran will keep pushing Hezbollah to attack Israel, and the IDF will strike back, sinking the talks.
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This is exactly right. Trump tries to clean things up and the left goes on a destructive rampage. It is truly the most insane thing I've seen as an American. The Pro-Filth left is unwell and unpatriotic and a bunch of religious fanatics. Cult of Death. https://t.co/KkJFZwy618
— Kira (@Kiradavis) June 22, 2026
Ed: Honestly, if Trump declared that he'd found a cure for cancer, the Left would tear down the laboratory. Why in the world was cleaning up the reflecting pool such an issue for the Left? It's TDS on steroids.
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NY Post: Texas Democratic Senate hopeful James Talarico once lavished praise on a self-described “TransQueer, Latinx” activist theologian as a major source of inspiration for his left-wing philosophy.
“When you started following me on Twitter, I couldn’t contain my inner fan boy, because I read your book last year and it continues to inspire me and y’all’s work continues to inspire me,” the state lawmaker told Roberto Henderson-Espinoza during a March 2021 podcast appearance.
“I told you I was a boring, straight, cis white man, and I added ‘Presbyterian’ to spice it up,” Talarico added. “My imagination is also just limited by my own background and identity.”
“My whiteness, my masculinity, all those things limit my imagination about what’s possible,” he went on. “And that’s where … your book helps me do that.”
Ed: I don't think his masculinity would be a serious impediment to much of anything. Again, Talarico is the model of masculinity for the Left, while Graham Platner represents the model of masculinity that the Left thinks will appeal to the Right. I'm not sure what will happen in Maine, but Talarico won't do anything in Texas except make Beto O'Rourke look positively steroidal in comparison.
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Susan Collins: I remain a very strong supporter of Israel. I think this sadly reflects rising anti-semitism in our country that Platner is certainly part of. He accuses Israel of committing genocide. This is appalling, and it's important to recognize that AIPAC is made up of… pic.twitter.com/ygQZ8Uk9SB
— Acyn (@Acyn) June 22, 2026
This is appalling, and it's important to recognize that AIPAC is made up of Americans who care deeply about our relationship with Israel. Platner makes it sound like this is some sort of evil foreign influence and that is absolutely wrong.
Ed: Collins is correct on this. AIPAC is an American political organization, not a foreign agent. For decades, it included both Democrats and Republicans in roughly equal numbers. It's not that AIPAC changed but that Democrats changed, and now they're embracing a violent Nazi-tatted creep because of his anti-Semitism rather than despite it. Check out the replies to this tweet, too, to see just how insane Democrats have become about AIPAC.
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WSJ: Weiss’s takeover of CBS News and her editorial decision-making have led to spats with the network’s top talent that have spilled into public view.
The network recently parted ways with Sharyn Alfonsi, a “60 Minutes” correspondent who, in December, accused Weiss of holding a segment critical of the Trump administration for political reasons. Weiss countered that the piece needed additional reporting; the segment eventually ran with some additional material bookending it. Cecilia Vega, another “60 Minutes” correspondent, and the show’s executive producer were also let go in May. And after network veteran Scott Pelley accused Weiss of “murdering” “60 Minutes” in a recent meeting, he was fired.
Pelley and Vega also accused management of making editorial decisions for political reasons, which a CBS spokesman denied.
“What’s being called ‘editorial interference’ is in reality the job description of an editor in chief,” Weiss said.
Ed: This is mainly a profile of Tony Dokupil, who has a very interesting life story. I didn't know that he's married to Katy Tur, for instance, or that his father was a drug dealer in the 1970s. It's worth reading this all the way through, and I think Dokupil is positioned well for success in the new CBS. This portion, though, makes it clear that the inmates are no longer in charge of the asylum, and the crazies resent the hell out of Weiss about it.
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Axios: Conservative pundit Tucker Carlson says he's "out" of the Republican Party moving forward, arguing the GOP no longer reflects his views.
Why it matters: The public split underscores growing fractures inside the broad MAGA coalition President Trump built, as his Iran war and handling of the economy continue to divide Republicans.
What they're saying: "I'm out," Carlson said on an episode of the "Can't Be Censored" podcast that aired Thursday but gained traction online Monday.
"And if I'm out, then I think a lot of other people are out."
Ed: Meh. Tucker has been in the Tucker Party for quite some time now, so this isn't really new. He supported Trump in 2024, but even that was diffident, and his strongest affiliations have been with the fringe on the Right. Don't be surprised if Tucker passes around the horseshoe to emerge on the fringe Left.
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So what you're saying is you, Joy Reid, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Tucker Carlson are all on the same team. https://t.co/gtk4AvJxZP
— Chad Felix Greene 🇮🇱 (@chadfelixg) June 22, 2026
Ed: That's the Horseshoe Theory at work. I prefer the Donut Theory, which is my take on how the fringes eventually come together like a donut. The nuts are all in the same spot.
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Newsmax: Former U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan has died at the age of 100.
He died on Monday from complications of Parkinson's Disease, said his wife of 29 years, NBC News correspondent Andrea Mitchell.
"To me he was my husband, who shaped my life from our very first date in 1984," Mitchell said. "He had 'irrational exuberance' for baseball, the Washington Commanders, tennis, golf, and music, especially jazz. He will be remembered for his brilliance and his kindness. Being his life partner was the joy of my life."
In his 18½ years at the helm of the Fed, Greenspan presided over a sustained era of American growth and prosperity, yet one that ended with devastating consequences in 2008, two years after he had left the central bank.
Ed: RIP, and thank you for your service. He didn't always make the right call, but his batting average was pretty good. Newsmax notes that Greenspan got some of the blame for the 2008 financial crisis, but most of that belongs to politicians of both parties who pushed for cheap mortgages to riskier lenders and financed it through mortgage-backed securities that amplified the impacts of those lending risks.
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I’m gonna be uncool and say that Nick Frost’s response here is actually pretty nice and level headed. He didn’t attack anyone and didn’t point fingers.
— Brandon Morse (@TheBrandonMorse) June 22, 2026
If everyone had this level of chill, Hollywood wouldn’t be burning to the ground. https://t.co/IDdh5nd7oW
Ed: Endorsed. Frost made some great movies with Simon Pegg and director Edgar Wright. He's a good choice for Hagrid, even if fans will always consider Robbie Coltrane the owner of that role.
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Saturday night's lyric: "Walking On Sunshine" by Katrina and the Waves.
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