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Table arrangement for the bridal supper of Louis and Antoinette. (From Vive la Reine.)

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False Flag Minnesota

 From Tierney's Real News:

Minnesota House Democrat leader Melissa Hortman and her husband were fatally shot in their Brooklyn Park home, and state Senator John Hoffman and his wife were shot and survived the attack at their home in Champlin. Hortman, the top Democrat in Minnesota House, was shot and killed along with her husband. Hoffman and his wife were also shot and are in stable condition.

As usual, we need to wait at least 72 hours for the entire picture to unfold but here’s what we know so far:

WALZ: “We’re here today because an unspeakable tragedy has unfolded in Minnesota. My good friend and colleague, Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark were shot and killed this morning in what appears to be a politically motivated assassination. Our state lost a great leader, and I lost the dearest of friends. Speaker Hortman was someone who served the people of Minnesota with grace, compassion, humor and a sense of service. She was a formidable public servant, a fixture and a giant in Minnesota. She woke up every day determined to make this state a better place. She is irreplaceable and will be missed by so many.”

“My prayers also go out to state Senator John Hoffman and his wife Yvette, who were each shot multiple times. The Hoffmans are out of surgery at this time and are receiving care and we are cautiously optimistic that they will survive this assassination attempt."

“Out of an abundance of caution my Department of Public Safety is recommending that people do not attend any political rallies today in Minnesota until the suspect is apprehended.” (Read more.)

 

 From Just the News:

Walz has stated that the shooting was politically motivated. On its social media account, the Minnesota State Patrol posted photos of flyers that were found in the assassin's vehicle. The flyers had the words “No Kings" on them, a reference to protests planned across the country on Saturday. The patrol asked the public not to attend protests in Minnesota "out of an abundance of caution." Citing police sources, the New York Post reported that Vance Luther Boelter allegedly posed as a police officer Saturday when he shot Sen. John Hoffman, his wife, Yvette, and former Democratic House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband. Hortman and her husband died, while Hoffman and his wife are expected to survive. In 2019, Walz appointed Boelter, 57, to serve on the Governor's Workforce Development Board, according to The Post.  (Read more.}

 

 

Meanwhile, Antifa mobilized across the nation. From Amuse on X:

The term 'No Kings' may sound tame to the average liberal, but to those within Antifa and anarchist circles, it is a slogan loaded with militant history. The phrase "No Gods, No Masters," often modified to "No Gods, No Kings," is an established anarchist mantra, dating back to 19th-century labor radicalism. It connotes total rejection of authority, religious, civil, and institutional. As Kyle Shideler of the Center for Security Policy notes, this slogan is not an accident. It is a signal to militant groups that their participation is not merely welcome, but ideologically affirmed. Moreover, the irony is impossible to ignore: if Donald Trump truly were a king, as the slogan suggests, these demonstrators would not be gathering publicly, waving signs and shouting slogans. In monarchies, dissent is punished, not platformed. The very fact that 'No Kings' protests can be organized and broadcast so widely disproves their central conceit.

In the days leading up to the June 14 protests, flyers emerged online, distributed by anonymous Antifa-linked accounts on social media, urging participants to engage in illegal behavior. These flyers were bilingual, printed in English and Spanish, and made available as downloadable PDFs for mass printing and distribution. They called for active resistance to law enforcement, citing previous riots in Los Angeles as models to emulate. These were not random provocations. They were premeditated directives. The fact that such materials were circulated in conjunction with 'No Kings' branding indicates that the movement's identity was being intentionally co-opted, or more plausibly, was designed to accommodate such co-optation from the outset.

Indivisible has tried to maintain the fiction that it is committed to nonviolence. Their official press guidance states that "a core principle behind all No Kings events is a commitment to nonviolent action." But this disavowal collapses under scrutiny. A group truly committed to nonviolence does not conscript anarchist terminology, does not coordinate with Antifa-aligned activists, and does not release rally planning materials into the same ecosystem where Molotov-throwers congregate. (Read more.)

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Calling Indecency By Its True Name

 From Homefront Crusade:

U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has ordered the renaming of the ship, USNS Harvey Milk, which was named after the famous, proud homosexual. The replenishment oiler was named during the Obama administration in 2016. There is no shortage of articles condemning Hegseth for this move, in which writers laud a so-called “gay icon” while pointing to “our nation’s values” as if sodomy wasn’t a capital crime throughout most of the nation at its founding. They speak esoterically about values, but it would be incredibly difficult to make homosexuality into an “American value” within the framework of an honest history.

Harvey Milk was not a man whom we can remember for an array of public contributions despite a struggle with same-sex attraction. Rather, he is known principally for his attractions, which he acted to normalize and encourage. As is common to the point of stereotype, he was attracted to boys, and had at least one “relationship” with a 16-year-old boy while Milk was in his mid-30s. Pederasty seems inseparable from homosexuality, and tragically, is so often how they reproduce—they cannot beget, so instead they groom. The fact that Milk was murdered does not make his efforts praiseworthy, nor his cause moral.

A common objection to rebranding the ship with a decent name is one of apathy, which is to say, “why bother?” It’s a complacency that comes from how it is easier to resign oneself to how things are than to deal with the logistics and fallout of fixing them. That’s often how the slippery slope effect takes place culturally and politically. It’s a type of normalcy bias that makes people immune from seeing the danger in one’s current circumstances (because catastrophe hasn’t yet happened). We know it is an error because history is full of examples in which decadent societies met their collapse. (Read more.)

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New Biography of James I

  

From Seventeenth Century Lady:

The book contains many, many different historical figures, and there is a handy ‘Dramatis Personae’ at the end, which can help those less well-acquainted with these to get back on track. The two sections of colour images are well-chosen and vibrant. There are maps, family trees, notes, a bibliography, and an index. The Epilogue contained a concise yet surprisingly full summary of the history of the rest of the Stuart dynasty, at least as far as Queen Anne is concerned. It was also a thrill and honour to have my reference book, Sex and Sexuality in Stuart Britain, cited and listed in the bibliography.

Although eminently readable and gripping, Queen James is a hefty tome, and it certainly gave me much to consider. I often reflect upon how one can have preconceived notions about historical figures based on peripheral reading and whatnot and then have these notions tested and sometimes altered by more exposure to primary sources. In my case, I didn’t have a favourable view of James, especially with his dealings with witch-hunting and some aspects of his personality (even his sons, Henry and Charles, thought him rather vulgar, etc); but I pitied him particularly for his lamentably sad childhood and the paranoia he developed about being assassinated (with good reason).

I liked how Russell didn’t just launch straight into James’s sexuality, but spent a considerable time on his backstory – the tragic lives of his parents, the formidable (and terrifying!) impact of his time under the tutelage of George Buchanan, whom I now despise, and the various political complexities, horrors, and intrigues which plagued his life. (Read more.)

 

Gareth Russell's new biography of James I is available HERE.

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Add “Depopulation” to the Agenda

 From The Vigilant Fox:

STORY #1 - “Depopulation” is now on the official agenda of the 2025 Bilderberg Conference—and they don’t want you asking why. While the media keeps you distracted, a group of global elites is meeting behind closed doors in Stockholm. Their agenda? Ukraine, AI, national security—and yes, depopulation. Attendees include Peter Thiel, Alex Karp, Albert Bourla, top U.S. military commanders, and the King of the Netherlands. Even Stacey Abrams is there—for reasons no one can explain. Independent journalist Dan Dicks confronted Thiel directly, pressing him on Palantir’s surveillance and ties to Epstein. Thiel said nothing—then ran away. The group’s own FAQ makes it clear: “Participants agree not to quote each other.” No press. No recordings. No accountability. What happens at Bilderberg, stays at Bilderberg. To quote the late, great George Carlin: “It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it.” (Read more.)

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Neanderthal Fingerprint

 From Science News:

In a rugged landscape in central Spain, archaeologists have discovered a unique granite cobblestone marked with a red ochre dot that preserves the mark of a Neanderthal fingerprint. Dating back approximately 43,000 years, it could be the oldest and most complete Neanderthal fingerprint ever identified.

Roughly 20 centimeters long, the rock bears a resemblance to a human face, with the ochre dot where a nose might be, researchers report May 24 in Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. This arrangement, the scientists say, suggests it’s a case of pareidolia — the tendency to perceive familiar shapes, such as faces, in random objects. It’s possible the likeness inspired the Neanderthal who placed the pigment there. (Read more.)

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A Royal Retrospective

 A new exhibit at the Victoria and Albert. From Tatler:

Whatever you think you know about Marie Antoinette, however, prepare to put it aside – because the Victoria & Albert Museum is to hold the first show in Britain (and only the third outside France) dedicated to this most divisive of queens. And what it uncovers will, says the exhibit's curator, upend all our long-held opinions.

‘She is still seen as a byword for excess and frivolity… it is just this trope based on mythology that is trotted out repeatedly,’ says V&A curator, Sarah Grant. ‘This idea that she bankrupted France and was responsible for the [French] Revolution, which of course wasn’t the case.’

 It is intriguing that the exhibition will be held at a quintessentially English museum, as Grant feels that Marie-Antoinette is ‘viewed more sympathetically’ by the British than the French. Anyone seeking confirmation of this should look to the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics in July – which featured a ghoulish version of the monarch, clutching her own sliced-off head in her hands. (Read more.)

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Saturday Day of Rage

 From Tierney's Real News:

The Communists have set up a “day of rage” called NO KINGS - in every state and hundreds of cities in America - on Saturday, June 14, 2025. Several Communist organizations have 1,800 protests planned across the country - for June 14th - which have purposefully been organized to coincide with Flag Day and the 250th birthday of the U.S. Army, which the Trump administration plans to commemorate with a military parade through Washington, D.C. with 6,700 troops, 28 tanks and 50 military aircraft.

There is a map and an RSVP form to protest. You can find out what's going on in your area below. I’m guessing they will block major arteries and cause all kinds of mayhem so it would be good for you and your family to AVOID them. Don’t engage them or give them any reason to come up with another George Floyd martyr operation on Flag Day:

https://www.nokings.org/?SQF_SOURCE=50501

Patrick Bet-David: “We know what game they’re playing. June 14th is President Trump’s 79th birthday, 250 years of the Army, you got Flag Day. They’re looking for their next George Floyd.”

You got it. They're looking for their next martyr. When it happens, I hope the American people are smarter than they were 5 years ago. (Read more.)

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Origins of Islam

 From It Can Always Get Worse:

The Prophet Muhammad is said to have had the first of the revelations that became the Qur’an in 610 AD and to have died in 632. Islamic historiography presents Mecca in the period preceding the Arab conquests as a bustling metropolis, a key stop on the trade route between Syria and Yemen, and its ka’ba as a focus for pagan pilgrims. Islamic records say that the umra, the “lesser” pilgrimage, predates Islam.1 “Al-Haram”—the “Forbidden”—refers to the fact that violence and killing, even of animals, was banned in the sanctuary space, usually marked out with stones, around a pagan shrine or temple, which was often located in a valley or remote desert. The Forbidden Gathering Place was, so Muslim history says, one of the few places the otherwise fractious Arab tribes united.2

In Gibson’s telling, there is no archaeological record in Mecca before 800 AD. Everywhere in the Arab world, says Gibson, when construction projects begin, somebody from the ministry of antiquities is present at the digging of the foundations because of the likelihood artifacts will be discovered. Mecca—despite Muslim belief it was the “Mother of All Cities” at the time of the Prophet, surrounded by great walls and containing many temples—has seen nothing like this, according to Gibson.

From the Qur’an, says Gibson, we get a picture of Muhammad being born in a reasonable-size city, able to raise men for caravans, and, crucially, the setting is an agricultural one. The earliest surviving biography of Muhammad, says Gibson, refers to the Prophet’s birthplace as one where there are grasses and grapes and trees: this is not Mecca. Gibson makes much of his study of ancient maps, and the fact Mecca is on none of them, an oddity if it was such an important economic and social locale. (Read more.)

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