Althouse: Headlines of the Morning.

June 18, 2025

Headlines of the Morning.

1. "Judge rules that anti-woke is just racism/You can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a rancid bigot" (Public Notice).

2. "ICE Barbie Visited Biohazard Lab With RFK Jr. Before Hospitalization/The HHS secretary shared an image alongside Noem 'inspecting the biological hazard labs' a day earlier" (Daily Beast).

3. "Trump ‘Reamed Out’ Hegseth for Flop Birthday Parade: Author/The president wanted a 'menacing' military parade but got the opposite instead, Michael Wolff tells The Daily Beast Podcast" (Daily Beast).

4. "'More Babies and Beef Tallow, Less Blue Hair and Birth Control'/Seventy-two hours with America’s most ambitious young conservative women" (NY Magazine).

93 comments:

Peachy said...: #3 - a total lie.; 6/18/25, 8:07 AM
Iman said...: Daily Beast? More like Daily Bestiality, as that “site” repeatedly screws teh pooch on a daily basis.; 6/18/25, 8:08 AM
Tom Locker said...: Obviously absolutely unbiased coverage of important issues. Thank God for our incredible "tell it like it is" media!; 6/18/25, 8:10 AM
Mr. D said...: NYT vs. Sullivan, come on down!; 6/18/25, 8:13 AM
mindnumbrobot said...: "Peachy said... #3 - a total lie."

Well, it is Michael Wolff after all. Combine that with the Daily Beast and you know it's fiction from start to finish.; 6/18/25, 8:14 AM
Mike (MJB Wolf) said...: Even at 62 I'm continuously amazed by how hateful leftists are towards beautiful women who aren't leftists.; 6/18/25, 8:14 AM
tim maguire said...: Those seem like fine, legitimate, neutral and not loony left-wing at all stories. I can't wait to read them and find out the real truth!; 6/18/25, 8:14 AM
RideSpaceMountain said...: ICE, ICE, Barbie
ICE, ICE, Barbie
Alright stop, collaborate and listen
ICE Barbie's back with a brand new invention
Illegals in this country tryin' to hang on tightly
Deportations flowin daily and nightly
"Will it ever stop?" Yo, I don't know
Arrests and deportation will make them go; 6/18/25, 8:14 AM
wendybar said...: PATHETIC!; 6/18/25, 8:17 AM
Randomizer said...: TIL, The Daily Beast is still around and that it's fine to trivialize women by using nicknames like "ICE Barbie".; 6/18/25, 8:18 AM
Aggie said...: Here is #4 for those that are interested:
https://archive.ph/p4zHj

It's always good to understand the message that isn't yours, or at least try, or at the very least, be aware of it.; 6/18/25, 8:19 AM
mindnumbrobot said...: Mike (MJB Wolf) said... "Even at 62 I'm continuously amazed by how hateful leftists are towards beautiful women who aren't leftists."

Liberal woman, by and large, are unattractive inside and out. Their venom towards attractive conservative women is a primal instinct.; 6/18/25, 8:21 AM
Just an old country lawyer said...: Nothing to click on here!; 6/18/25, 8:25 AM
Howard said...: I'm surprised that the headline doesn't include Epstein/Mossad Kompromot on Trump forces Donald to push a deficit hog pork bill and greenlight Israel's war with Iran.; 6/18/25, 8:28 AM
Peachy said...: The Daily Beast should be sued.
BTW - Daily Beast better not be allowed in any press pool in the White House.; 6/18/25, 8:29 AM
Mike (MJB Wolf) said...: Shocked to see none, which I mean as a contraction of "not one," of the big headlines are about the FBI finding proof the CCP sent tens of thousands of fake IDs to "midwestern battleground states" in May of 2020*. China harvested actual ID data from US-based Tik-Tok users and used that to create ultra-realistic state IDs that Chinese "students" could use to impersonate Americans and vote during the Pandemic Election Shenanigans.

Remember when I kept warning you Tik-Tok truthers and y'all would say "I'm just a dude/chick in WI why would China care about my data?"

There's your answer. It's valuable whether you know it or not. In fact it's more valuable when you DON'T know its value and just keep on keeping on.

*Isn't it awesome how by early 2020 the Chinese somehow knew the ID and ballot rules would be loosened for the Fall election? Yeah that's just OUTSTANDING!; 6/18/25, 8:30 AM
Peachy said...: Here's a headline you won't see on top of the corrupt American demo-xi-creep media.

"The fastest growing religions in Iran are Zoroastrianism and Christianity.

Islam is rapidly declining, with mosques shutting down weekly and lack of observance even during islamic holidays.

Ironically, the islamic republic destroyed the religion of islam in Iran."; 6/18/25, 8:32 AM
Peachy said...: Mike MJB Wof-

said
"Isn't it awesome how by early 2020 the Chinese somehow knew the ID and ballot rules would be loosened for the Fall election? Yeah that's just OUTSTANDING! "

***It WAS the Chi-Com/get corrupt democrats elected virus.; 6/18/25, 8:35 AM
dbp said...: Leaving aside whether or not DEI is racist, the government is well within its rights to refuse to fund it. Similarly, the government could refuse to fund work on alien abductions or flat-Earth science.
One might say, DEI is anti-racist (stop laughing, this is a hypothetical). Okay fine, it still isn't racist to refuse to fund a fundamentally political endeavor.; 6/18/25, 8:37 AM
rehajm said...: …a sociopathic Margaret Mead with a lobotomy they are…; 6/18/25, 8:39 AM
Aggie said...: "....But I couldn’t help thinking about a young mother I had seen in the ballroom the day before, whose three kids under the age of 5 spent much of the day running around the room and climbing on their stroller. She wore a long, blue pleated dress and flats, looking every bit the godly wife serving her family and country that the women at the summit were told to aspire to. .....Every once in a while, as she chased after the children, I detected a hint of annoyance that she couldn’t actually watch the speeches she’d paid $200 to see. ......I hoped that some of the other young women in the audience would look over at her and see that hint of annoyance, too. Maybe it wouldn’t prompt them to dye their hair blue and volunteer for Planned Parenthood. But maybe it would lead them to question the path they’d been told God had laid out for them. Maybe they would realize they didn’t have to choose a path at all; they could forge their own..... "

'lead them to question the path they'd been told' said the Progressive journalist, completely unindoctrinated, having never been told anything before. Got it.

Progressives, quick to point out that 'Conservative World' has money-hustlers, influencers, and hucksters, and plenty of rubes prone to be their victims - unlike them.; 6/18/25, 8:40 AM
Wince said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 6/18/25, 8:40 AM
Peachy said...: Covid was all for the corrupt democrats and their big pharma money grab. Bonus - dead Americans and Americans with permanent health issues related to the forced jab.; 6/18/25, 8:44 AM
rehajm said...: Is name calling like ICE ‘Barbie’ journalism? I’d say no but what do I know. Seems sexist to me. Feminists should be all over that shit but instead it shuts them up right quick…; 6/18/25, 8:44 AM
Wince said...: Speaking of "Headlines of the Morning"...

Fred Armisen's impression of Micheal Wolf on Morning Joe from seven years ago, SNL cold open.

A classic.; 6/18/25, 8:44 AM
Peachy said...: Leftists are anti-merit.; 6/18/25, 8:45 AM
n.n said...: Diversity, misogyny, inferential reporting, and #HateLovesAbortion; 6/18/25, 8:47 AM
Achilles said...: The leftists are doing a good job of making everyone hate them.; 6/18/25, 8:55 AM
RideSpaceMountain said...: @Achilles, it seems they want to keep digging too, which will eventually make everyone want to shoot them.

Scratch that. Lots are already there.; 6/18/25, 9:02 AM
BarrySanders20 said...: .I hoped that some of the other young women in the audience would look over at her and see that hint of annoyance, too. Maybe it wouldn’t prompt them to dye their hair blue and volunteer for Planned Parenthood. But maybe it would lead them to question the path they’d been told God had laid out for them. Maybe they would realize they didn’t have to choose a path at all; they could forge their own..... "

Would have been great to have a journalist there to ask the participants what they were thinking, then print the comments.
Since that did not happen and we are speculating, maybe the unnamed young women were thinking "I wish I had kids and could be a mom instead of pretending to listen to this boring speech," or "Wow, those kids are cute and active. I can't wait to have my own kids so I can ditch these faux think-fests."; 6/18/25, 9:05 AM
Kate said...: Managing three young children in a social space is difficult. Someone who's had children would pop over and offer to hold/watch the baby while mom chased after the more mobile ones. Having children is a guild: when you're a member you know how to help.; 6/18/25, 9:20 AM
stutefish said...: When will Trump figure out that when the US casually transfers a fleet of Air Force tankers across the globe - something no other nation in the world is capable of doing - *that* is the "menacing military parade". When the US has more carriers than the rest of the world combined, enough for one in each ocean at all times, *that* is the "menacing military parade". When the US unveils its seventh iteration of stealth aircraft, before any other nation has completed it's first, etc.

The US does menacing military parades, sure. But they do them where it matters: On enemy territory.; 6/18/25, 9:20 AM
planetgeo said...: Beautiful Republican women are like the Caitlin Clarks of the political WNBA.; 6/18/25, 9:34 AM
Aggie said...: "...When will Trump figure out that when ...."

I dunno. He's awfully dense, for a billionaire President.; 6/18/25, 9:43 AM
Peachy said...: The collective hive-minion left - street theater-tantrum about superposed authoritarianism - but it is the left who are the actual authoritarians.; 6/18/25, 9:53 AM
Peachy said...: OT:

OMG - this is awesome. Calling out the corrupt power-mongering left for their authoritarian ways.
On the street.; 6/18/25, 9:59 AM
hombre said...: “Judge rules ….” It’s is no longer amusing that lefties, particularly judicial lefties, believe that their partisan predilections reflect what’s so. It’s also no longer possible to attribute that to ignorance. The failure of critical thinking is evil or stupid or both.; 6/18/25, 10:05 AM
Howard said...: Trump fucked up. He could have decided to make it a air show with the Thunderbirds and the Blue Angels with a 10 demonstrations and helicopters in a giant air show. That's the one military parade that everybody loves. The high-speed passes that set off half the car alarms in the parking lot.; 6/18/25, 10:08 AM
Peachy said...: Howard - don't be a D-bag.
The parade was just fine. That you leftist nags need to pick at everything is really very tired.; 6/18/25, 10:15 AM
Peachy said...: OT:
"Jim Acosta mocks Trump’s deceased ex-wife in an anti-ICE no kings day rant as Jen Rubin laughs.

Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told Fox News in response to this video: “Jim Acosta is a disgraceful human being.”

More vile leftist media(D) behavior; 6/18/25, 10:16 AM
Eva Marie said...: “Someone who's had children would pop over and offer to hold/watch the baby while mom chased after the more mobile ones.”
This isn’t what I’ve seen. Many years ago - absolutely. Nowadays anyone - male or female - showing interest in a child is viewed with suspicion. Maybe if moms know each other but stranger moms (supposedly with germs etc) holding a baby, I just haven’t seen it.; 6/18/25, 10:28 AM
Birches said...: Why would someone pay $200 for a ticket without hiring a babysitter? Seems like a conversation starter.

I would have absolutely helped her. But I'm a mom not someone who lives and works in DC.; 6/18/25, 10:48 AM
Joe Bar said...: Howard said...
"Trump fucked up. He could have decided to make it a air show with the Thunderbirds and the Blue Angels "

Hey Howie, this was the ARMY's birthday, not the Navy or AF.

By the way, proud to see my nephew leading one of the division formations.; 6/18/25, 10:49 AM
planetgeo said...: Yesterday I heard the perfect description of the Democrat's #1 strategy to win in 2026, as evident in the "No Kings" riots and the Padilla, Lander, etc. freakouts..."performative chaos." They've really got nothing else.; 6/18/25, 10:50 AM
boatbuilder said...: Why would someone pay $200 for a ticket without hiring a babysitter? Seems like a conversation starter.

Maybe she was the babysitter. A real reporter would have, I dunno, asked.; 6/18/25, 11:01 AM
effinayright said...: Can't you hear Trump thinking to himself: "Yeah, a menacing parade during the No Kings protests. .....A menacing parade while they call me Hitler and my people Nazis.....Yeah, that's the ticket!!!

SNORT; 6/18/25, 11:05 AM
mindnumbrobot said...: "He could have decided to make it a air show with the Thunderbirds and the Blue Angels with a 10 demonstrations and helicopters in a giant air show."

Thunderbirds are Air Force, Blue Angles Navy. Regardless, weather (low ceiling) was too restrictive.; 6/18/25, 11:40 AM
Jupiter said...: Althouse takes a dip in the swamp.; 6/18/25, 11:51 AM
Peachy said...: The corrupt left wanted a dark parade - and they didn't get it - so they lie more.; 6/18/25, 12:00 PM
n.n said...: Critical Diversity Theory (CDT) informs us that color judgments and class bigotry are indistinguishable from class-disordered ideologies (e.g. racism, wokism). #HateLovesAbortion; 6/18/25, 12:04 PM
Iman said...: Howard’s sensible post to nonsense ratio is 1 in 10, Peachy.; 6/18/25, 12:55 PM
gadfly said...: Perhaps DHS Secretary Kristi Noem wouldn't wear a protective mask over her makeup; 6/18/25, 1:09 PM
Kakistocracy said...: 20 ago Republicans stood for huge tax cuts for the rich and wars of choice in the Middle East, but then Trump totally remade the party and realigned American politics, and now the MAGA Republicans stand for...huge tax cuts for the rich and wars of choice in the middle east.; 6/18/25, 1:23 PM
Peachy said...: Kak - Obama funded radical Islamic theocracy.; 6/18/25, 1:27 PM
Peachy said...: kak - give us the names of the Democrats who OKed the war in Iraq.; 6/18/25, 1:28 PM
narciso said...: Clinton Kerry Edwards among others,; 6/18/25, 1:38 PM
narciso said...: https://www.theblaze.com/news/phone-associated-with-accused-assassins-home-traveled-to-dubai-nepal-india-and-turkey-report-says; 6/18/25, 1:38 PM
Kakistocracy said...: ⬆️ Peachy is the queen of whataboutism 🤣

I don’t have the time, nor the crayons, to explain to this dumb@ss why she’s better off not trying to sound like she’s smart.; 6/18/25, 1:39 PM
narciso said...: but they never apologize for their choices, nor really explain when they push Arab spring schemes on Egypt Libya and Tunisia,; 6/18/25, 1:46 PM
Howard said...: America loves air shows and hates military parades. Everyone knows this.; 6/18/25, 1:52 PM
Kakistocracy said...: Can Trump stop the Israel-Iran war even more quickly than he stopped the Russian--Ukrainian war?; 6/18/25, 2:03 PM
Peachy said...: Kak - you gotta show your work. Asking you to tell us which democrats voted for the Iraq war is just part of your show.; 6/18/25, 2:14 PM
Peachy said...: Kak - why Did Putin invade Ukraine during Crook Puppet Joe?; 6/18/25, 2:15 PM
Peachy said...: Howard - it was not merely a military parade - it was a giant thank you, 250 year anniversary, and appreciation to our nation's Army.
If air shows make people happy - they can go find one.; 6/18/25, 2:16 PM
Peachy said...: Kak- a -phony =- btw - Did you get your clever pez dispenser remark @ 1:23 - from MSNBC or NPR?; 6/18/25, 2:24 PM
Peachy said...: Iraq War: 48 Republicans and 29 Democrats voted YEA.; 6/18/25, 2:26 PM
narciso said...: the problem with inveterate liars, is they have to remember every single lie; 6/18/25, 2:38 PM
Peachy said...: Furthermore - the 250 anniversary parade for our Army - was not about Trump, and it was NOT dark.
So everything the left attempted to paint and smear - was wrong.... and is still wrong.; 6/18/25, 2:58 PM
n.n said...: Babies and responsible choice? Life is good.

Beef tallow is not inflammatory, a healthy alternative.

Do what you can, when you can, within reason. Natural is beautiful.

Pro-Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness is worth conserving.; 6/18/25, 3:03 PM
n.n said...: Iraq War? The first one, a prolonged ceasefire, and its conclusion? Or the second one, ethnic Springs, and a well-placed missile up an Iranian proxy?; 6/18/25, 3:07 PM
Jim at said...: You couldn't pay me to click on a single one of those links.

I don't need to step in dog shit to know it stinks.; 6/18/25, 3:11 PM
Rocco said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 6/18/25, 3:15 PM
Rocco said...: "...But I couldn’t help thinking about a young mother I had seen in the ballroom the day before, whose three kids under the age of 5 spent much of the day running around the room and climbing on their stroller. She wore a long, blue pleated dress and flats, looking every bit the godly wife serving her family and country that the women at the summit aspired to. ...Every once in a while, as she chased after the children, I had a hint of annoyance that her cute kids were distracting me from actually watching the speeches I’d paid $200 to see. ...Maybe it wouldn’t stop me from dyeing my hair blue and volunteering for Planned Parenthood. But maybe it would lead me to question the path I'd had laid out for me. Maybe I would realize I could have something more than just writing vapid cliches about '[not] having to choose a path at all; but forging one's own'..."

But my editor would not let me publish that.; 6/18/25, 3:16 PM
n.n said...: Given the majority vote before the fateful 2014 coup, we can conclude that the Ukrainians were, at minimum, disenfranchised, and, at most, under assault by successive regimes and proxies. The Russians only decided to offer aid when Crimea was targeted with denial of services, and nearly a decade later when the Slavic Spring progressed to assault Ukrainians in the East, and threatened to spill over national boundaries. We have acted in a similar fashion when "democracy" and interests were threatened.; 6/18/25, 3:21 PM
narciso said...: i've dubbed it the daily basilisk for a reason,; 6/18/25, 3:22 PM
Jaq said...: Trump is in 25th Amendment territory. I have admired him since I first saw him on live TV take on that heckler, err, I mean journalist, in Iowa in 2016. I feel like he has rarely put a foot wrong, and has been unjustly persecuted, but he has allowed himself to be played by Mark Levin. He cut Tulsi Gabbard out of an important meeting where the strikes on Iran were discussed, and we know exactly why she was cut out, it was for the very reasons that he put her in place, to give him the truth.

Now everything he does just appears to be the ravings of an old man, ever since this crisis broke. It's like he thought that he could pretend that Israel was using F-35s in an undeclared war with Iran without our permission, then he thought it was going great, so he "took credit," now, as the people who convinced him to do it knew all along, we are going to get dragged into it.

This is as big a betrayal as I could imagine: "I am the one who first said 'America First,' so I am the one who says what it means, and it means...[America getting dragged in to Netanyahu's paranoid military misadventures.]

Everything he says now looks ridiculous to me. He needs a vacation badly, maybe he needs to go hang out with Joe Biden up at Rehoboth in his basement, they could share a nurse and swap stories of starting wars where other people died. How is he any better than Hillary Clinton?; 6/18/25, 4:42 PM
Jaq said...: The weakness of course, with the 25th amendment, is that the very people who would use it, prefer to take the presidential power for themselves.; 6/18/25, 4:44 PM
Jaq said...: Oh these cover stories that "talk" about nukes in Iran by... well, we are not told who, it could have been talking heads on TV, after Israel carried out an assassination, which gave all of the Instapunditeers little stiffies, I'm sure, on Iranian soil, well that "proves" that they are minutes away from having a bomb.

How stupid to they think we are?; 6/18/25, 4:47 PM
Jaq said...: Libya was Hillary's War, Syria was Obama's and John Kerrys, and Iran is Trump's war. We all used to like to brag that "Trump never started any wars," well, he was just waiting for his golden opportunity.; 6/18/25, 4:49 PM
Jaq said...: Oh, I forgot Ukraine, Joe Biden's war, his proudest achievement.

"I spend more time talking to Ukraine than to my own wife!" —VP Joe Biden

When will it be enough? "Just this one last war..."; 6/18/25, 4:54 PM
Eva Marie said...: Question: Why do Americans go to war?
Answer: To learn geography.; 6/18/25, 5:03 PM
Achilles said...: Jaq said...
Libya was Hillary's War, Syria was Obama's and John Kerrys, and Iran is Trump's war. We all used to like to brag that "Trump never started any wars," well, he was just waiting for his golden opportunity.

Would you mind detailing how much we have invested in this war?

How many troops have we lost and how many have we deployed?; 6/18/25, 5:21 PM
Achilles said...: Jaq said...
Oh these cover stories that "talk" about nukes in Iran by... well, we are not told who, it could have been talking heads on TV, after Israel carried out an assassination, which gave all of the Instapunditeers little stiffies, I'm sure, on Iranian soil, well that "proves" that they are minutes away from having a bomb.

Nobody cares about Iran having or not having a bomb at this moment. Everyone knew that was their goal.

Furthermore every other leader in the ME wanted the Mullahs out. Everyone in the region and the United States are all happy to let Israel do the heavy lifting here and Israel feels it is worth their time and investment.

You are descending into hysterics here because I sense you realize that this is going to be over sooner rather than later and Trump is going to emerge from this having created a peaceful equilibrium in the middle east for the first time in... ever.; 6/18/25, 5:26 PM
Achilles said...: Jaq said...
Trump is in 25th Amendment territory.

Dude. Intervention time. You all are the people in 25th amendment territory here. This is unhinged.; 6/18/25, 5:27 PM
Kakistocracy said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 6/18/25, 5:40 PM
Jaq said...: Sorry, Achilles, but "one more war" and then China and Russia will throw in their hands without a fight is unhinged.

"How many troops have we lost and how many have we deployed?"

Are we in "to the last Ukrainian" territory here? We have American troops deployed to Syria, where they worked to clear the air corridor by taking out Assad's air defenses, which cleared the way for this attack, that's US deployment already. The first day of Biden's presidency he ordered more troops into Syria. The war is young. Just wait. We have carriers heading there, long range refueling assets. I hope that Trump comes to his senses, but I am not betting on it. He is the one who is unhinged. This is a reckless misadventure, and is certainly not "America First."

I am done with Trump.; 6/18/25, 5:41 PM
Jaq said...: I don't mean literally took out the air defenses, what we did was collapse the Syrian regime by starving it for oil and grain, because we seized their territory and so set the Syrians on a course of starvation and poverty until they finally cracked. Once the head choppers took over, Israel destroyed the air defenses.; 6/18/25, 5:43 PM
Greg The Class Traitor said...: Is if the Daily Beast has actual inside sources at teh Trump White House.; 6/18/25, 6:16 PM
Greg The Class Traitor said...: Jaq said...
I am done with Trump.

You were never WITH Trump, you sad sack of shit; 6/18/25, 6:17 PM
Lazarus said...: I love Michael Wolff for telling Brian Stelter to his face and on Stelter's own show that Stelter was ridiculous, but on matters of fact, Wolff has never been trustworthy. He's a rumor monger.; 6/18/25, 9:54 PM
Iman said...: How many times is this Jaq going to tell the world that he’s “done with Trump”? Please stop with the broken record nonsense.; 6/18/25, 11:44 PM
Mr. T. said...: I just looked and realized that all the links are to bottom feeders left wing jornolist sites that all helped push the Rolling Stone fake rape hoax story.; 6/19/25, 12:59 AM
PM said...: The Hate/Love of Trump. He makes bank for the 'Resistance'.; 6/19/25, 11:30 AM