Althouse: At 5:26, an ultra-soft sunrise.

June 9, 2026

At 5:26, an ultra-soft sunrise.

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rehajm said...: Despite the scotus nat gas stove beat back I’ve noticed a few small spurts of climate alarm perking up in news and television. Haven’t heard a peep since Bill Gates said stifle. Now that the entitlement fraud is being chipped away at a bit perhaps the fear of jail time is motivating leftie scam upper management to recycle the good ol’ killing the planet grift?; 6/9/26, 6:05 PM
RCOCEAN II said...: Sometimes rain or clouds are a good change of pace.; 6/9/26, 6:11 PM
narciso said...: They only have the grift to fall back on

In blue states they 'fear the skydragon'; 6/9/26, 6:45 PM
Humperdink said...: I am completely mystified. Who was Karmelo Anthony trying to impress in the murder of Austin Metcalf? Fellow classmates? A street gang? Something going on there.

Oft quoted: “He was a good boy”.; 6/9/26, 7:00 PM
narciso said...: Gabrielle union ( as likely as any); 6/9/26, 7:01 PM
Jupiter said...: Huh.; 6/9/26, 7:03 PM
Mason G said...: Diversity is in the news in Belfast, I see.; 6/9/26, 7:07 PM
narciso said...: https://x.com/RWMaloneMD/status/2064072289998557398; 6/9/26, 7:10 PM
narciso said...: When did we get a middle east eye subscription; 6/9/26, 7:23 PM
narciso said...: https://youtu.be/EnTV-M0It6M?si=MDHnUGDnzdEcGxWN; 6/9/26, 7:50 PM
Breezy said...: I agree, Humperdink. There’s a lot more to that story…. It seemed the two had some sort of friction going on before that encounter…,; 6/9/26, 7:51 PM
Eva Marie said...: Chi Brown on the Karmelo Anthony verdict and the Black community
https://youtu.be/A8Iehv4xnRY?si=JrvAv3RNNr0NLlgz; 6/9/26, 8:04 PM
narciso said...: https://open.substack.com/pub/dossier/p/the-prophets-of-climate-apocalypse?; 6/9/26, 8:10 PM
narciso said...: https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/keep-on-trucking-tuesday-june-9-2026?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=2czur; 6/9/26, 8:16 PM
Mr. T. said...: Humperdink said...
"I am completely mystified. Who was Karmelo Anthony trying to impress in the murder of Austin Metcalf? Fellow classmates? A street gang? Something going on there.

Oft quoted: “He was a good boy”."

His family made out like the the bandits they are with their six-figure GoFundMe grift and free gov services for all the "doxxing" they recieved-after making numerous press conference appearances.

What is the life of one white male, when there is plenty of racial grievance grift $$ to be made??; 6/9/26, 8:21 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: I love this.; 6/9/26, 8:35 PM
Iman said...: Karmelo Anthony supporter: "What do I tell my 5 boys? What do we do now!?"

Uh… don't murder?

https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/2064437158807539800; 6/9/26, 8:40 PM
FullMoon said...: Gemini says:
Weapons Violation: Prior to the fatal track meet altercation, Anthony received an in-school suspension at Centennial High School after he was caught bringing a knife onto school property.
Skipping Class: On April 2, 2025—the day 17-year-old Austin Metcalf was killed—Anthony was supposed to be in class at Centennial High School. Instead, he was actively skipping school when he went to the district stadium and entered the rival team's tent while armed with a knife
February 4 Incident: School and court records revealed that Anthony had been involved in a separate physical or verbal altercation at Centennial High School just two months prior to the murder."; 6/9/26, 8:51 PM
steve uhr said...: The Justice department has been aggressively promoting the death penalty for federal crimes that meet the criteria. Apparently the cold-blooded killer of democrat politicians in Minnesota doesn’t qualify. perhaps a pardon is in the works?.; 6/9/26, 9:10 PM
Caroline said...: @full moon— I’m anxious to see some background on karmelo coming out. This case is such an object lesson in the “hands off” approach to pathologies associated with black cultural breakdown. How many teachers, coaches, uncles, aunts and parents dismissed his pathological behavior at different hinge points in his life, promoting him to the next stage of adulthood, as if there were nothing amiss? Someone capable of plunging a knife into another human being for no reason does not spring up spontaneously. There were signs, and the signs were ignored, because race.; 6/9/26, 9:15 PM
Aggie said...: A 35 year sentence has been handed down to Karmelo.; 6/9/26, 9:24 PM
Aggie said...: Looks like Graham Platner, Der OysterStürmermeister, is the candidate for Senate in Maine. Decision Desk showing him with 73%of the vote. Janet Mills, about 20%.; 6/9/26, 9:34 PM
RCOCEAN II said...: The only thing that suprised me about Karmelo is he got 35 years. I was sure the libtard "Let me eat cake" Judge would fine some way to give him 10 years or less. After all, "too many black men are in jail".

Young blacks commit almost 50 percent of the homocides in the USA, and that's held steady for 50 years. So, whatever is wrong isn't being corrected by "The black community" and probably never will be.

The sad lesson seems to be - Stay away from young black men. Unfortunately, there's a young white man in Ohio, who didn't get that lesson. He decided to squirt some Black basketball players with a water pistol, and got stomped to death. The killera are out of jail now, after a few years.; 6/9/26, 9:39 PM
RCOCEAN II said...: It'd be interesting to know how much support the killer of henry Nowak has in the Sikh "Community" in the UK. And then compare it to the support for Karmelo in the black community.; 6/9/26, 9:43 PM
Jim at said...: There’s a lot more to that story…. It seemed the two had some sort of friction going on before that encounter…,

Or he could be just your garden-variety thug who went looking for trouble, got dissed by a white boy and then - to protect his rep - murdered him.; 6/9/26, 10:00 PM
Vance said...: Steve Uhr... your kind screams the death penalty is barbaric. Surely we should apply Democrat party justice to people who kill Democrats? (I.e. let them go as soon as possible and praise them to the world like Luigi is?). I mean, that's what your party wants as a "justice system" right? Isn't that killer getting precisely what you want?

Also: the total dropping of that story after it was revealed the accused killer worked for Tim Walz and claims he was told to murder the Hoffmans.. and the immediate radio silence by all the leftist media outlets, is pretty strong evidence there's something fishy with the rank and file "REEE Republican violence killed Democrat politiican REEEE" narrative. Note that most Democrats such as Steve Uhr still claim nothing wrong happened with the baseball shooting of all the Republicans that day.; 6/9/26, 10:09 PM
Achilles said...: steve uhr said...

The Justice department has been aggressively promoting the death penalty for federal crimes that meet the criteria. Apparently the cold-blooded killer of democrat politicians in Minnesota doesn’t qualify. perhaps a pardon is in the works?.

You mean the guy that Walz worked with and who the killer said told him to do it?

Those democrats were killed right after refusing to give more money to illegals.

And Walz oversaw this massive fraud scheme.

Funny how you only mentioned they were democrats. Maybe it is because you are a dishonest piece of shit trying to infer something?; 6/9/26, 10:41 PM
Achilles said...: RCOCEAN II said...

It'd be interesting to know how much support the killer of henry Nowak has in the Sikh "Community" in the UK. And then compare it to the support for Karmelo in the black community.

If I had to guess from the Sikhs I know the last people who Digwa would want to be turned over to are the other Sikhs.

Maybe British Sikhs are different but American Sikhs have integrated into our culture and thrived.; 6/9/26, 10:44 PM
john mosby said...: The Karmelo case, like a lot of school violence, came about because there isn't enough violence in high schools.

Yes, you read that right.

Everybody has heard the accounts of how 40-50 years ago, boys brought Buck knives and even rifles and shotguns to school, and nobody got stabbed or shot.

Why? Because they had a process for resolving disputes with fistfights. There were rules. Losing when you stood up for yourself was not a mortal dishonor. Like Danny Glover said to Ice Cube in Boyz in the Hood, while holding up his dukes: "All you need is this and this. Win some, lose some."

Then in the helicopter-child-rearing era, we thought the way to get rid of extreme violence was to get rid of all violence. That just made it an exceptional, self-image-shattering event to get beat up. A mortal insult that needed mortal response.

Filling young black peoples' heads with tales of the bad old days doesn't help, either. In the very rare events when they are in a confrontation with a white person, they think "damn, granny was right! They're gonna string me up!" and go to 11 on their response.

As an Italo-American, I have a similar impulse when I get into arguments with Austrians, but I just repeat to myself "that was the old country, that was the old country."

CC, JSM; 6/10/26, 3:37 AM
john mosby said...: Also speaking of helicopter child raising: where the hell was the coach in the Karmelo case? That would have been the appropriate adult to say “okay, buddy, you had your fun, you crashed our tent. We gotta have a huddle now, so please go to your team’s tent.”

Or alternatively, tell his own kids, “what, you think this is the Pentagon? It’s raining, let him stay. We’re trying to teach sportsmanship here!”

But of course teachers are afraid of actually teaching now, especially if there’s a potential race issue. CC, JSM; 6/10/26, 3:43 AM
wendybar said...: "Nineteen-year-old convicted murderer Karmelo Anthony, in his first public comments since being found guilty of first-degree murder, expressed regret that he didn't convert to Islam and stab someone in the UK instead."

https://babylonbee.com/news/karmelo-kicking-himself-for-not-converting-to-islam-and-stabbing-someone-in-the-uk-instead; 6/10/26, 4:28 AM
Enigma said...: The White-Black dichotomy of the US obscures the deeper fractures of Europe and Africa. The US pushed a (White) melting pot metaphor until well into the 20th century, and was highly critical of the petty infighting among European kings. Blacks were taken from various tribes but then mixed together (and bred with White owners), so they became "American Blacks" and different than tribal Africans.

For a kick, watch some of the social media videos on American Blacks who relocate to Africa per racism in the USA. Many, many, many express shock and regret -- they get charged "White" prices because they are treated as Whites/foreigners and not part of the local tribe. They face overt discrimination and scams. Africa is hyper tribal and they too fight with their neighbors (beyond old-time Europe). Some tribes did, after all, collect their enemies as slaves for the colonizers.

Karmelo Anthony continues to fight the outside tribe. If in Africa it'd be Black-on-Black, but here it's Black-on-White.; 6/10/26, 4:32 AM
wendybar said...: Matt Walsh
@MattWalshBlog
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This is so devastating. Imagine being a black parent tonight. How do you protect your children? If they go out and stab just one person, they might go to prison. It’s like a black man in America can’t even murder anyone anymore. Unimaginable. Jim Crow all over again. I’m furious.

https://x.com/MattWalshBlog/status/2064534891463573872?s=20; 6/10/26, 4:33 AM
wendybar said...: 0HOUR1
@CHIMPUSX
Austin Metcalf's father was swatted 6 times.

Austin Metcalf's mother was swatted 2 times.

They had to keep all of this under a gag order.

The hell these people went through being terrorized by blacks was insane.
10:16 PM · Jun 9, 2026

https://x.com/CHIMPUSX/status/2064532058819457416?s=20; 6/10/26, 4:34 AM
wendybar said...: Jason Cohen 🇺🇸
@JasonJournoDC
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💥NEW: Greg Gutfeld: “Platner is a hero … He’s slayed 2 big movements: The ‘You’re a Nazi’ movement — by being a Nazi and being accepted by the Left, you can’t call anybody a Nazi anymore! What about the ‘Me Too’ movement? By not believing all women, that goes out the window!”

https://x.com/JasonJournoDC/status/2064465543172628919?s=20; 6/10/26, 4:52 AM
wendybar said...: Benedict Spence
@BenedictSpence
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What terrifies me about this attempted beheading is the potential backlash against peaceful beheaders.

https://x.com/BenedictSpence/status/2064266511225602275?s=20; 6/10/26, 4:57 AM
Clyde said...: Somebody needs to make an AI video of Platner singing "Tomorrow Belongs to Me" in full HJ regalia.; 6/10/26, 4:58 AM
Humperdink said...: @ Wendybar. I haven’t heard any Lefty Commies call Trump a Nazi since Platnikov assumed the mantle. Funny.; 6/10/26, 5:36 AM
Humperdink said...: How do we know Platnikov won yesterday, a mere 12 hours after the polls closed? Asking for friend in California.; 6/10/26, 5:48 AM
Leland said...: “okay, buddy, you had your fun, you crashed our tent. We gotta have a huddle now, so please go to your team’s tent.”

According to testimony, the coach did tell him to leave. It is not like the coach could touch Anthony. The whole premise for Anthony thinking he could get away with it was “self-defense”. If the coach had put a hand on him, they would have just said an adult assaulted him. As it was, many lied by claiming the Memorial track team ganged up on him, but that didn’t happen according to witnesses from both teams.

Part of the problem was Anthony’s team didn’t have a tent. Where was that coach?; 6/10/26, 5:55 AM
Jim at said...: Like Danny Glover said to Ice Cube in Boyz in the Hood..

Pretty sure that wasn't Danny Glover.
Laurence Fishburne.; 6/10/26, 6:27 AM
n.n said...: A "burden". Planned personhood is a human rite. His Choice.; 6/10/26, 6:37 AM
Jamie said...: I was just checking my Google feed to see what it's decided I need to know today, and came across this:

Psychology tells us that the loneliest part of growing old isn’t being alone, but realizing that some friendships disappear as soon as you stop nurturing them, and understanding that they were never based on mutual care, but on your willingness to do all the emotional work

I have a couple of thoughts.

First - my husband and I have been considering something like this since going on the road last September. We recognize that, as the people who left, it's up to us to maintain our relationships with the people who stayed. We've actually been dealing with this since we left California, where our families lived and still live, back in 1992, because we couldn't find jobs there: we spent a whole lot of time and money over the years going back to visit, as often and for as long as possible, so that our kids would have a relationship with their grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins. And indeed, almost none of them ever came to visit us wherever we were. We accepted the fact that the burden was on us, which has not kept us - and particularly my husband, who grew up near his extended family - from feeling regret over the years, even though we couldn't see another way back when we left.

But: one has a choice about how to view the "emotional work" of relationships. Whenever I hear someone talking about how, for instance, marriage is a 50-50 proposition, I shake my head - because of course it's not. It's a 100-100 proposition. You go all the way for the people you love, and you hope that they go all the way for you. You don't set up tests of love, like (as is mentioned in the article Google fed me) "experimenting" by not being the first one to call or text.

No one does this perfectly. It's still very much a part of my life to feel resentment sometimes when it feels as if I'm doing "all the work," whether in marriage or in other relationships. But because I do love the people I'm in relationships with, I have to (and, thankfully, have been able to) set that feeling aside and carry on - because I have a choice about how I act, and love, ultimately, is better treated as something you do than as something you simply feel.

This article seems to imply both that people should resent those who don't "do the emotional work" to stay close to them, and that you can't do anything about your resentment. These apparent themes are pretty widespread these days, I think.; 6/10/26, 7:00 AM
Jersey Fled said...: What Caroline said.; 6/10/26, 7:37 AM
wendybar said...: Just LOVE her Good morning tweets!!

DataRepublican (small r)
@DataRepublican
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@grahamformaine
Hello Mr. Platner,

Ratio.

That's it. That's the whole rebuttal.

You are someone who, by the virtue of his Reddit posts, manages to be simultaneously a filthy-literal-Communist and anti-Semite. That in itself is an egregious sin, because literal, card-carrying Communists are fundamentally at odds with America's norms.

But if that weren't enough, you have voluminous Reddit posts defending the Nazi Totenkopf symbol. You clearly knew the tattoo you got and you defended it publicly. There's no either/or way about it.

Scum attracts scum. Which is why you can comfortably swim in both literal-Communist and literal-antisemitic far-right circles.

I am no fan of Sue Collins. But the fact you are running against her, that you have even the smallest chance of defeating her --

you, as someone who is a self-admitted Communist, someone who has Nazi sympathies -- not to mention all the horrific, personal-life stuff --

You are the worst candidate in history, right AND left. You are the authoritarian evil that every "democracy" group speaks about, yet they will hypocritically not say a word against because they believe that being anti-Trump is more important than allying with Communists or Nazis.

You are not "populist." On the contrary:

You are the perfected example of how liberal democracy has rotted so far that they'd rather stay silent about you, hoping you'll win against the most moderate Republican in the Senate, than to hand Trump the possibility of retaining the Senate.
https://x.com/DataRepublican/status/2064584811763921138?s=20; 6/10/26, 9:08 AM
Dagwood said...: Looks like an impressionist painting. Thanks for sharing it.; 6/10/26, 10:33 AM
Kai Akker said...: Beautiful picture.

Carrying over.....

Leland said...
What's that all mean?
Nothing. You can rationalize gibberish, but it is still gibberish. The market is still higher than the last time you claimed it must collapse because of your gibberish. Trying out cliches instead of gibberish doesn’t make you a better analyst. The only reason you are interesting at all is because the market seemingly acts completely the opposite of your gibberish. It is up again just now, all indices. That consistency of being wrong may mean something, but I suspect it too is gibberish.
6/9/26, 9:13 AM

Actually, it is the rallies that are being sold as most indexes continue to move lower. But it has been happening suddenly, or it appears sudden. Are you buying these dips, Toro? Have you looked at how extreme overall stock valuations had become? Have you considered your risk/reward position? Rhetorical questions but important ones.

Six years of bull run with two relatively modest corrections separating those three uplegs -- that is a long stretch of time. Makes a fellow complacent. The next selloff -- which we appear to have begun -- is almost sure to be much deeper than those two pullbacks. The long stretch-out of the bull move has also made the market ever more fragile. That is, uptrends get ever tighter toward the end and can be broken rapidly on the downside.

And the overwhelmingly one-sided sentiment, as shown in actual portfolio and cash positions, and in the lowest short-term volatility levels ever, says the selling could and should be severe.; 6/10/26, 10:41 AM
Leland said...: So as the conflict with Iran has become hot again, uncertainty in the market has caused people to pull out. None of that is how you predicted things would occur. You wrote gibberish.; 6/10/26, 11:11 AM
DINKY DAU 45 said...: By electing a court adjudicated sexual abuser,Fraud and 34 count felon with no redeeming moral qualities and an obsessive proven liar and unfaithful person the door has been opened without qualms to electing people like Platner,Paxton and so many others.Moral standing and honesty out the door and the serfs cheer in the stadiums for their soiled political picks.Sometimes you do get what you deserve. We have people preaching contrition and others wearing their character defects as badges of honor, ah yes a mixed bag to gain the JUICE they are seeking. I have hope for my grandchildren and great grandchildren as the NEW WORLD 9TH BEATITUDE states"The meek shall inherit the earth, AND the rest will leave for space"Kids studying space travel and science in our area! As Billy H would sing, God bless the child that's got his own!; 6/10/26, 11:39 AM
DINKY DAU 45 said...: trump says"May price spikes amid Iran war: ‘I love the inflation ’BEST PRESIDENT for COLA INCREASE! Remember he doesn't think about peoples financial situations as president and more proof always shows up by his POLICIES! Greatest policies ever.. Gaslighting 101 gas,food,health insurance ,electricity all down great shape best ever,,the fella lives on another planet.MAGAS go see we told you...; 6/10/26, 3:10 PM