Althouse: Sunrise.

May 28, 2026

Sunrise.

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Howard said...: I give it a 25% probability that BiBi will allow Donald to sign the MOU with Iran; 5/28/26, 5:37 PM
narciso said...: A wonderfully evocative no 3; 5/28/26, 5:52 PM
narciso said...: 10 years ago was ths senseless death of harambe the guerilla; 5/28/26, 5:59 PM
Michael Fitzgerald said...: A couple of recs for novel readers:
1. Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge by Carlos Castaneda. It's been near 40 years since I last read a book from this series, but I really enjoyed them at the time. Great storytelling, laugh out loud funny at times, spine-tingling supernatural at other times. Don Juan is one of the great characters in 20th Century American literature.
2. Journey To The End Of Night by Celine. Not sure if I mentioned this one before when I was recommending Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn. Contemporary of Henry Miller, Hemingway, and Anais Niin in Depression era Paris, the narration of a rascal and ne-er-do-well who is impulsive, reckless, and completely self-centered but hilarious. Great writing and great storytelling. Charles Bukowski considered Celine an inspiration.; 5/28/26, 6:01 PM
RCOCEAN II said...: We're thinking of going on a canal boat in the erie canal or a boat ride down the Hudson River this year. So to get in the mood, I went to listen to "15 miles on the Erie canal" and who do I get as the top choice? Fucking Pete Seeger! How did this lamo ever become popular. Thankfully, I found a Ed Ames version, and played it for my wife. She liked it too.; 5/28/26, 6:11 PM
Iman said...: Viva ALL of the rent-free skull 💀 life and ALL of these crummy Commie leftwing commenters can whup some skull on No. 47.

It’s “in the cards”.; 5/28/26, 6:18 PM
Narr said...: All three are good; the last two are pierless.; 5/28/26, 6:44 PM
narciso said...: How CIA officer convinced US government to give him $40 million in gold bars — as new allegations about his past revealed https://share.google/EtKrOd7O5nFieRN4L; 5/28/26, 6:49 PM
Dave Begley said...: For the first time in my legal career, I used the doctrine of res judicata. And it will work. Clear case.; 5/28/26, 6:50 PM
Achilles said...: Howard said...

I give it a 25% probability that BiBi will allow Donald to sign the MOU with Iran

I give it a 0% chance that Bibi Netanyahu has anything to say about what Trump does.

Trump is busy reorganizing the post WWII order and he is controlling timing.

The entire Globalist edifice was based on cheap oil from venezuela and iran.

Trump is not done bleeding them out. Meanwhile the US is banking up cash flooding into our economy and domestic manufacturing investment is booming.

Anyone who thinks Bibi decides anything is just being a troll.; 5/28/26, 6:55 PM
FullMoon said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 5/28/26, 6:59 PM
Achilles said...: If they check the names of voters against names of legal citizens and non-citizens then democrat voters will not be able to vote.

Sometimes Democrats are so stupid they say the quiet part out loud.; 5/28/26, 7:01 PM
john mosby said...: Begley, they will just call you a res-ist. CC, JSM; 5/28/26, 7:02 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Video: Jean Carrol lied under oath?; 5/28/26, 7:17 PM
narciso said...: Didnt you like ed nortons performance in the film?

As i recall seeger, was right with the party line from 1939-41
Hence orwells arch comment About always at war with earasia; 5/28/26, 7:18 PM
narciso said...: When the rodina was invaded the switch was flipped

Dalton trumbos earlier work was deemed inconvenient; 5/28/26, 7:20 PM
wildswan said...: Does anyone have an explanation for the CIA guy with the gold bars - how he got away with it? Was he supposedly bribing people?; 5/28/26, 7:22 PM
narciso said...: As i recall (i may be corrected) he wasnt really angered by kruschev revelations (except like fight club); 5/28/26, 7:22 PM
narciso said...: That may have been the way he recorded the transactions was it in venezuela iran somewhere else; 5/28/26, 7:23 PM
narciso said...: There have been similar examples of officers accepting large soviet coin ames nicolson hansen but this is new; 5/28/26, 7:26 PM
Mason G said...: "Does anyone have an explanation for the CIA guy with the gold bars - how he got away with it?"

Same way an ex-vice president ends up with classified material in his garage, probably.; 5/28/26, 7:26 PM
narciso said...: https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/inconveniently-thursday-may-28-2026?; 5/28/26, 7:30 PM
FullMoon said...: wildswan said...
Does anyone have an explanation for the CIA guy with the gold bars - how he got away with it? Was he supposedly bribing people?"

Not only that, this guy conned the CIA

"The FBI affidavit revealed that Rush lied for nearly 20 years to get his high-level job and security clearance. His fake credentials included:
Fake college degrees: He claimed to graduate from Clemson University and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He never attended either school.
Fake military experience: He claimed to be a U.S. Navy pilot. The government found no pilot records for him.
Stolen leave pay: He lied about being active in the Navy Reserves to steal $77,000 in extra military leave pay from the CIA.; 5/28/26, 7:36 PM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ along with $1.8bn of Kleptocracy said...: Trump has about 14 days to ink a deal. Iran is not as constrained by time. In two weeks the May inflation report is due. If the numbers are fairly bad and the Fed moves ever closer to tightening, Trump's hand will be forced.

Iran is holding all the cards.; 5/28/26, 7:36 PM
narciso said...: Do they vet anyone going for the top ranks; 5/28/26, 7:46 PM
Gospace said...: Just what cards is Iran holding?

Is it their non-existent Navy that we sunk?
Or their air force, which may have one or two unscathed fighters or bombers in well enclosed bunkers? Which, by the way, are toast if they fly them.
How their thousands of long range missiles that are left? In their (and perhaps your) fevered imagination?
Anti-aircraft weaponry?
Fully intact industrial base?
Scads of incoming money from oil sales?
Their fully intact chain-of-command?

Come on now,, don't leave us in the dark. Tell us what cards Iran is holding.; 5/28/26, 7:50 PM
Aggie said...: If David J. Rush could scam the CIA from the inside for 20 years, with a completely fabricated C.V., and to the tune of over $42 million, just imagine what a coordinated effort by the best brains in the espionage departments in foreign countries have been able to get away with, considering their budget and resources. And he was caught by a routine audit, not some vaunted internal counter-intelligence protocol.; 5/28/26, 7:53 PM
narciso said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 5/28/26, 7:56 PM
narciso said...: Going down the deighton oevre which began with ipcress the decidely more grungy alternative to bond then bernard samson
Somewhat more upscale tour into the eastern blocs death throws whare no one really knows their footing; 5/28/26, 7:56 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Video: These kids today; 5/28/26, 7:56 PM
Iman said...: This Day in History: Bill Clinton Humiliated a Young Female Intern by Using Her as a Human Ashtray For His Cigar…

In the Meantime, Democrats Believe That Trump is Disrespecting the White House by Building a Privately Funded, World-Class Ballroom.; 5/28/26, 7:57 PM
narciso said...: There were two former company men who had migrated ti the us and served in the bureaus translation section because of their language skills; 5/28/26, 7:58 PM
Iman said...: Alex Feinberg
@Alexfeinberg
If your choice for babysitter was an experienced but retarded woman, an experienced arsonist, or an inexperienced person who was not retarded, who would you pick?

This is the LA mayor race.; 5/28/26, 8:00 PM
Aggie said...: My guess is that he figured out how to hack the security clearance verification process and salt his own made-up data into his portfolio, which then became official, with a seal of approval.; 5/28/26, 8:01 PM
narciso said...: This was all under muellers nose

Of course the infamous chapman ring which had feelers into hillarys circle was handed to the bureau by a walkin

Peter strzok took the credit; 5/28/26, 8:01 PM
narciso said...: It seems there is very little vetting of these operatives

If fact they burn those like carter page who do uncover agents; 5/28/26, 8:14 PM
narciso said...: How good waa our assessment of any foreign powers capabilities; 5/28/26, 8:18 PM
narciso said...: Red sparrow is about the chapman ring with a twisr; 5/28/26, 8:18 PM
narciso said...: The samson serieswas the subject of a number of films with ian holm as samson and gottfried John as stinnes his rival; 5/28/26, 8:22 PM
narciso said...: They arent availabld on youtube maybe dvd; 5/28/26, 8:24 PM
narciso said...: There have been a few valuable walkins like fiorentino aspillaga martinov who was betrayed by hansen; 5/28/26, 8:29 PM
narciso said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 5/28/26, 8:29 PM
narciso said...: https://x.com/VigilantFox/status/2060151420532195347; 5/28/26, 8:38 PM
narciso said...: I thought my holodeck revelation would raise some eyebrows; 5/28/26, 8:41 PM
Breezy said...: I don’t know how to read music, so take this with a grain of wheat, but the clouds in today’s pics struck me as musical notes on a page.; 5/28/26, 8:48 PM
narciso said...: Which notes; 5/28/26, 8:59 PM
narciso said...: Chuck Ross on X: "Just to spell out Platner's game here -- he's falsely accused Susan Collins of voting to send him to Iraq. She responded by pointing out that Platner volunteered 2 years after her Iraq vote. Now, he's framing her response as an attack on ppl who served https://t.co/xNjCsyRndS" / X https://share.google/pTYqxRgOcvbgPZH3O; 5/28/26, 9:03 PM
narciso said...: Mark Hemingway on X: "If Paula Jones was 1) a completely crazy person who couldn't even remember when she was assaulted and 2) whose lawsuit against Clinton was only enabled by a GOP legislature passing a temporary law to obviate the statute of limitations just to get Clinton and 3) her lawyers were" / X https://share.google/Rljij9jGLXn5w80SB; 5/28/26, 9:05 PM
Quayle said...: IEETM1.8BK

I know Trump is Trump. One person.

Who exactly is Iran? Any idea? Care to expound on their current operational leadership structure?; 5/28/26, 9:10 PM
Mason G said...: "Now, he's framing her response as an attack on ppl who served"

That'll work on Democrat voters.; 5/28/26, 9:11 PM
Quaestor said...: 28 May 2016, we all remember that date and that fateful final approach -- one engine dead, the other smoking, negative tailhook. Harambe -- loyal husband, loving father, F/A-18 Super Hornet aviator, callsign SILVERBACK. Semper Fi!; 5/28/26, 9:23 PM
William said...: I have some ambiguous feelings about that CIA scam artist. He's definitely a scam artist, but you've got to admire his audacity and cunning in pulling off such a scam. This is exactly the kind of guy the CIA should be recruiting........Spies have some good PR, but they're really not that impressive. The members of the Philby network weren't all that impressive but they managed to fool the creator of James Bond for a number of years. Which just goes to show you that James Bond is more about the craftiness of writers than the craft of spies. Ditto with Smiley.; 5/28/26, 10:00 PM
narciso said...: Fleming i dont think so, but people like nicholas elliot

Like hansen he pretended to be anti soviet thats how he got to head of section; 5/28/26, 10:03 PM
narciso said...: Robert lee howard was a similar figure i think hes still in Russia

Tim powers declare had some notes about this; 5/28/26, 10:05 PM
narciso said...: Of course many cooks went into the making of bond everyone from sidney reilly to gus march phillips of operation postmaster; 5/28/26, 10:06 PM
narciso said...: Reilly when he stopped trying to convince the Russian navy of the japanese attack he bought all the supplies in port arthur he joined blohn and voss to compete against vickers zaharoff the rreal makarios; 5/28/26, 10:09 PM
narciso said...: March phillips and his team stole the german navys whole supply stock and blew up the reserve u boats; 5/28/26, 10:12 PM
Achilles said...: Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ along with $1.8bn of Kleptocracy said...

Trump has about 14 days to ink a deal. Iran is not as constrained by time. In two weeks the May inflation report is due. If the numbers are fairly bad and the Fed moves ever closer to tightening, Trump's hand will be forced.

Iran is holding all the cards.

The funny part is that he thinks the may inflation report would actually change significantly if a deal is signed.

Democrats are the dumbest people on the planet.

It is hard to really come up with a way he could say something dumber about what is happening in Iran. Chuck is a really stupid person.

I wonder who told him to post that.; 5/28/26, 10:17 PM
Peachy said...: blue origin rocket just blew up ....bigly & badly; 5/28/26, 10:46 PM
Mark said...: Achilles, you promised famine riots in China by this date.

Your claims are a joke, bless your heart.; 5/28/26, 10:57 PM
Eva Marie said...: @Peachy:
Blue Origin founded in 2000
SpaceX founded in 2002
Orbital launches, lifetime:
SpaceX over 600
Blue Origin 3; 5/28/26, 11:12 PM
Eva Marie said...: I think that’s right. Blue Origin might have to pack it in sooner or later - if those numbers are correct; 5/28/26, 11:16 PM
Eva Marie said...: And I think their only launching pad is now badly damaged; 5/28/26, 11:21 PM
Aggie said...: Looks like work on the reflecting pool is going on 24 hrs a day.

https://www.earthcam.com/usa/dc/washingtonmonument/?cam=wamo

This is a live web cam on top of the Washington Monument, 555 ft tall. The WWII memorial is in the foreground, the Lincoln Memorial in the background, 100 ft tall. One can envision the Freedom Arch across the river, at the end of the bridge at 200 ft tall. It will be clearly visible on this camera view, maybe even proportionally awkward when seen past the Lincoln Memorial, too big.; 5/28/26, 11:22 PM
Peachy said...: Eva - good to know. thanks.; 5/29/26, 12:47 AM
wendybar said...: Masih Alinejad 🏳️
@AlinejadMasih
·
13h
Hello
@AOC
, while you smiled in a hijab at a New York event, I was in Federal Court facing the 4th hitman hired by the Islamic Republic to assassinate me, for campaigning for Iranian women to have the same freedom you performed for a photo op. Will you come to court with me in August when I face the 5th hitman? Or does solidarity only work when it doesn't offend the Islamic regime?

You wore hijab voluntarily in New York. Women are killed in Iran for taking it off.

You are the very woman who, at every opportunity, protests against violence against women, decries gender segregation, and champions "inclusion." Yet here you stand, smiling and wearing a hijab, at an event in New York, in the heart of the West, where men and women are strictly separated. To me and millions of Iranian women, this does not look like a choice. It is no longer "My body, my choice," but rather "My body for votes."

They who claim to fight for women's self-determination in the name of feminism voluntarily embrace an ideology that mandates our women cover their hair simply because they are women. They enjoy the prosperity, freedom, and privileges of the Western world, where they may live as autonomous individuals , yet they simultaneously accept that other women should not be afforded the same rights.

#LetUsTalk

https://x.com/AlinejadMasih/status/2060079814376341755?s=20; 5/29/26, 3:31 AM
Eva Marie said...: Never forget #1
1. Bernell Trammell, 60, was shot and killed in broad daylight on July 23, 2020, in front of his small business storefront in Milwaukee. His shop windows were covered with “Vote Trump” signs, and he was well known in the community for standing on corners holding signs Trump 2020, Black Lives Matter, and Bible verses. Milwaukee’s Office of Violence Prevention director said he had recently mediated a dispute involving Trammell and a young man over one of the Trump signs. Murderer never found.; 5/29/26, 4:28 AM
Eva Marie said...: Never Forget #2
2. Paul Kessler, 69, died after being struck with a megaphone on November 5, 2023, in Thousand Oaks, California, during a confrontation at a pro-Palestinian and a counter pro-Israel demonstration. Even as Kessler lay bleeding on the pavement, a pro-Palestinian protester kept shouting “Stop killing our children now”. Loay Abdelfattah Alnaji, a former Southern California college professor (53), was charged. On May 7, 2026, Alnaji pleaded guilty to felony involuntary manslaughter and felony battery causing serious bodily injury. Likely sentence: Formal probation with up to one year in county jail. Alnaji’s attorney Ron Bamieh quoted the judge as saying “two old guys had a dispute and an accident happened”.; 5/29/26, 4:29 AM
Eva Marie said...: Never Forget #3
3. Kerry Sheron, 69, a U.S. Army veteran in Escondido, California, died on Sunday, May 24, 2026, after being beaten outside his home on May 20. His house, dubbed the “Trump House,” was covered in American flags and pro-Trump memorabilia and had been a target of complaints and vandalism for years. According to prosecutors, Thomas Caleb Butler, 32, punched Sheron in the jaw, knocked him to the ground, and continued striking him in the head. Butler was arrested on attempted murder charges, which the San Diego County DA is now reviewing to potentially upgrade following Sheron’s death. A bystander who tried to intervene was also injured.; 5/29/26, 4:30 AM
Humperdink said...: Boy, did the Bezos rocket light up the Florida sky. Wowee, that was a big one.; 5/29/26, 6:03 AM
Jersey Fled said...: I see a new Lefty meme is that Muslims were part of the fabric of America from its earliest days and claiming (without proof) their many positive contributions.

Grok cites their early contributions as “minimal”

And then there’s this:

“ Historian Robert Davis estimates that roughly 700 Americans were held captive in North Africa between 1785 and 1815. While smaller than the number of Europeans enslaved over the centuries, these captures caused national outrage and directly led to the First Barbary War (1801–1805) and the Second Barbary War (1815).
Resolution: The United States initially paid tribute and ransoms (amounting to nearly 20% of the federal budget in 1795) to secure releases. It was only after military victories in 1815 that the U.S. ended the practice of paying tribute and secured the release of remaining American captives without ransom.; 5/29/26, 6:18 AM
Bruce Hayden said...: “ Trump has about 14 days to ink a deal. Iran is not as constrained by time. In two weeks the May inflation report is due. If the numbers are fairly bad and the Fed moves ever closer to tightening, Trump's hand will be forced.”

The idiocy of these posts is unbelievable.

Iran has little, if any, money coming in. And, in particular, the IRGC isn’t being paid. And that matters because they are well hated, with the hate increasing rapidly. They are being murdered by the populace, when caught out in public. Alone. Inflation rate is one of the highest in the world. No money coming in, means little food. The people are hungry, and Iran, long a major oil exporter, is seeing blackouts. Not Cuba level blackouts, of course, but nevertheless… Our blockade and embargo appear to be working well.

What they have left is their threatening of commerce through throttling the Strait of Hormuz. But they have little left to do it with. They have no air force, little navy, and few missiles and missile launchers left. They have mines, but laying new ones is problematic. They have little drones, but they don’t carry enough explosives to really harm the monster ships involved.

Oh, and they have idiotic propaganda, like yours, propping them up. It’s like Baghdad Bob, but the next door Iraqis are even on our side. Even China, their biggest supporter, is tokenly on our side, vowing to help keep the Strait open.; 5/29/26, 6:31 AM
Leland said...: What they have left is their threatening of commerce through throttling the Strait of Hormuz.

Threats coming from negotiators that can freely leave Iran and suffer none of the problems back at home while they spout nonsense.; 5/29/26, 6:37 AM
Leland said...: Wowee, that was a big one.

About a month early to be setting them off like that.; 5/29/26, 6:38 AM
wildswan said...: What Iran has left is the left. The American left would like the Iranian regime to survive as is. That regime murdered 30,000 protestors recently; murders gays routinely; keeps its women uneducated; is a theocracy; closed an international waterway; seeks atomic weapons. Iran's policies, in short, are one long list of everything the left says it opposes but one of Iran's leading policies is to hate America, and so the theocracy is perfectly acceptable to the completely secular American left.
Fighting Iran rather than letting it achieve atomic weapons is necessary. Moreover, whatever nastiness Iran imposes on the world, such as closing Hormuz is merely what that country always intended to do as soon as it was secure as the regional power. It was always going to try to control the Gulf states, the Strait of Hormuz, the price of oil; it was always going to attack Israel; it was always going to help terrorists. We're fighting back against all that and it was time to fight back.; 5/29/26, 7:42 AM
Aggie said...: Iran is drawing heavily on their interpretation of the human condition, using Persian/Arab psychology, the psychology of the souk. They may even think they're sweating Trump, by making it painful to eke out incremental extensions to the cease fire agreement, while denying progress to the peace plan. I wonder if the IRGC really thinks that Trump is worried about mid-terms. I wonder if they're now starting to do some mental figuring based on the 2-year model.

While few armaments are being used, I would imagine the clandestine efforts on the ground to be quite focused. It would be fascinating to know what is being done with the population on the front lines. Too bad very little news is getting out, so I guess 'We'll See'.; 5/29/26, 7:46 AM
Rustygrommet said...: Peachy said...
"blue origin rocket just blew up ....bigly & badly"
This is what happens when you rush your program in order to compete. He should be launching a booster a week just to see if the engines are right and that the capture system is reliable.; 5/29/26, 8:26 AM
Rustygrommet said...: Well, Jersy, in a way they did. We have a United States Navy thanks to the Barbary muslims.; 5/29/26, 8:28 AM
Leland said...: How is all that selling going?; 5/29/26, 12:13 PM
DINKY DAU 45 said...: BIBI at a glance and his "public' AGREE on process but not the rest. He’s backing Trump publicly on the framework (the MOU), but he’s drawing a hard red line: no final deal unless Iran’s nuclear program is dismantled and all enriched uranium leaves Iran. That’s his position across every major outlet reporting on this.Nothing new ,no major change for him.Across multiple Israeli and U.S. reports, Netanyahu’s stance is consistent and firm:
He supports Trump’s process (the memorandum of understanding) — mainly the 60‑day ceasefire extension and reopening the Strait of Hormuz.
He does not support any final deal that leaves Iran with enrichment capability or enriched uranium.
He’s said repeatedly that a real deal must dismantle Iran’s enrichment sites,remove all enriched uranium from Iran, include real inspections address ballistic missiles.
He’s warning that the emerging proposal doesn’t yet cover the nuclear issue, which is Israel’s core concern.He’s telling Trump directly: “Any final agreement must eliminate the nuclear danger.”So he’s backing the diplomacy, but not the deal as currently shaped.
What’s Actually in the Proposed Deal (so far, A 60‑day ceasefire extension, reopening the Strait of Hormuz, talks later about Iran’s nuclear program,no requirement (yet) for Iran to export its enriched uranium, a ceasefire with Hezbollah, but no disarmament of Hezbollah
This is exactly why Israel is uneasy — the nuclear issue is being pushed into “phase two.”Bibi says, too soft on Irans nuclear program ,the whole anchillada of trumps war. Bibi is supporting Trump’s diplomatic track, but he’s drawing a bright red line on the nuclear terms. Bibi show he is in the room but ain't signing no contract. AND NO pallets full of $$$
This should be very interesting but trump cant allow prices to keep accelerating before mid terms he'll do anything at this point. More to be revealed What a cluster F%k.Not even gonna get back to where we were in the beginning, there was no nukes, strait was open, economy wasn't trashed and Americans taking it up the .....Whose getting rich?if you don't know you ain't paying attention...Beaucoup Dinky Dau :(; 5/29/26, 3:45 PM