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Weekend Beacon 6/8/2025
According to a recent study, young people are less able to read books from cover to cover than ever before. Rest assured, the Weekend Beacon stands athwart history yelling Stop, please sign your children up for this newsletter. Speaking of standing athwart history, James Piereson reviews the highly anticipated biography Buckley: The Life…
Iggy Pop: The Last Emperor of Rock
LONDON—Iggy Pop hobbles to the side of the stage at the Alexandra Palace, rocks back and forth on his shorter right leg like a high jumper who left his pole in the changing room, and bounds toward the microphone as the band kicks into “TV Eye.” Shedding the…
Meet the ‘Radical’ Abortion Activist and ‘Defund the Police’ Advocate Behind the Democratic Party’s $20 Million Campaign to ‘Understand Men’
The Democratic Party’s widely ridiculed campaign to spend $20 million on a “strategic plan” to “study young men” was spearheaded by the former president of a left-wing activist group that supported efforts to “defund the police,” denounced the Supreme Court nomination of “frat boy” Brett Kavanaugh, and attacked…
HISTORIC: Karine Jean-Pierre Becomes First Known Democrat To Leave the Party Because They Were Mean to Joe Biden
Karine Jean-Pierre, the former White House press secretary who repeatedly praised Joe Biden’s mental acuity, said in March that she doesn’t want to “rehash the past.” Like many of the things she said from the White House podium, that wasn’t true. Jean-Pierre is more than happy to get…
Jim Acosta Throws Lamest Party Ever (Even By DC Standards)
WASHINGTON—”There are some tickets left,” Jim Acosta told his Substack followers a few hours before taking the stage at the Lincoln Theater in Washington, D.C., to host a live town hall version of the online chat show he started after his “voluntary” exit from CNN earlier this year….
Trump Admin Eyes Using Loan Office Biden Revived for Green Energy Projects To Back $44 Billion Gas Pipeline
DEADHORSE, Alaska—The Trump administration is considering leveraging the federal loan office the Biden administration used to fund dozens of green energy projects to kickstart a behemoth $44 billion pipeline project that would transport natural gas across Alaska. Energy Secretary Chris Wright said Monday that his agency may issue a…
Anti-Semites, Groveling Simps, and ‘Lying Grifters’ Rush to Glenn Greenwald’s Defense Amid Foot-Worship Controversy
Glenn Greenwald, the Israel-hating journalist best known for aiding and abetting the traitor Edward Snowden, went viral on social media last week after someone allegedly leaked illicit videos of Greenwald wearing a skirt and “worshiping a guy’s feet.” You won’t believe what happened next. Observers witnessed the formation…
Alaska Natives Cheer as Trump Admin Axes Biden-Era Oil Drilling Restrictions
UTQIAGVIK, Alaska—Interior Secretary Doug Burgum delivered welcome news to a roomful of Alaska Natives on Sunday evening: The Trump administration will take action to rescind a Biden-era climate rule that locked up millions of acres from future oil and gas development. Burgum made the unexpected announcement in Utqiagvik,…
Washington Post Cited Hamas To Allege, Without Evidence, That Israel Gunned Down Gazans at Aid Site. Then It Changed the Story Without A Correction.
The Washington Post published a story on Sunday that cited Hamas officials to pin the killing of “over 30” Gazans near a U.S. aid site on Israeli troops. The headline blared: “Israeli troops kill over 30 near U.S. aid site in Gaza, health officials say,” though Israel denied…








