Spiraling Out of Control

Plus: Jerome Powell talks, courtpacking watch, medical advancements, and more...

Ceasefire no more: Over the weekend, the U.S. and Iran exchanged strikes, making odds look even worse that a lasting ceasefire deal will be be here anytime in the near future.

The U.S. Central Command said, basically, that Iran started it, having shot down an American drone. Our military, it announced, "conducted self-defense strikes on Iranian radar and command and control sites for drones in Goruk, Iran and Qeshm Island this weekend."

These "measured and deliberate strikes occurred on Saturday and Sunday in response to aggressive Iranian actions that included the shootdown of a U.S. MQ-1 drone that was operating over international waters," added Central Command.

Meanwhile, Kuwait—home to some of our military bases—said earlier today that Iran had attacked its territory, but it gave few specifics. Iran, for its part, "said it targeted American soldiers in Kuwait with missiles, which the U.S. says it shot down," per the Associated Press.

At the same time, fighting between Israel and Hezbollah has gotten more intense. The chances of a ceasefire—especially one that covers the whole region—look worse and worse.

"Talks to end the war have advanced in fits and bursts. Last week, officials familiar with the negotiations said that U.S. and Iranian negotiators had agreed on a document that had been sent to the two countries' leaders for approval," reports The New York Times. "President [Donald] Trump has pushed to toughen the terms of the deal, sending a revised document to Iran, according to three officials who spoke anonymously because they could not discuss the matter publicly."

"Just sit back and relax, it will all work out well in the end — It always does!" Trump counseled via Truth Social this morning.

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Scenes from New York: A personal update, for the many readers who are fans of my son's skateboarding:

After a 6-month break from skating following the birth & hospitalization & death of baby brother, this guy is BACK in BUSINESS doing what he loves most

(and I am approximately 300x more risk averse and terrified than before) pic.twitter.com/qYqLTn125R

— Liz Wolfe (@LizWolfeReason) June 1, 2026

When one of your kids is as sturdy as humanly possible and the other one is born very sick and dies, it is very hard to know how to be properly calibrated in terms of what to allow and what to fear and how to stay rational. A new project along these lines incoming soon…

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QUICK HITS

• "If any administration finds a way to remove Fed officials over policy differences, then future administrations will do so as well," said former Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell in remarks at Boston's JFK Presidential Library on Sunday. "The Fed's credibility would be lost….Our credibility has been built and sustained over many decades, and we have a duty to safeguard that priceless asset for our fellow citizens and for generations to come." (Some libertarians surely disagree with his assessment of the Fed's credibility.)
• "Democrats are likely to retake the House and maybe the Senate in November, which is reason to ask: What would they do with that power?" asks the Wall Street Journal editorial board. "One emerging answer is that they seem determined to blow up the Supreme Court."
• "This has quietly been a miracle month in medicine," writes Derek Thompson on X. "In the last 5 weeks we've got news on: retatrutide, the triple agonist GLP-1 from Lilly, basically melting fat and body-wide inflammation at record levels; RevMed's new pancreatic cancer drug showing unprecedented abilities to extend life; small trial of a one-and-done PCSK9 gene editing therapy for slashing LDL cholesterol; Mayo's AI-assisted radiology showing vastly improved cancer detection; this new therapy for metastatic solid tumors." He caveats: "This stuff is at varying levels of evidence. Retatrutide is ~100% on its way, other stuff needs more clinical trial data. But put it together and we're maybe on the verge of majorly reducing the mortality of heart disease and cancer, the two leading causes of death in America."
• Not wrong!

The government should have done this years ago, but in the US we have rely on big tech to create public goods 🙃 https://t.co/YMXy01OX2V

— Alec Stapp (@AlecStapp) May 31, 2026

Comments

[Fist of Etiquette]

Over the weekend, the U.S. and Iran exchanged strikes, making odds look even worse that a lasting ceasefire deal will be be here anytime in the near future.

Ceasefires are for quitters. DOMINATE.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the celebration of their women!

[Medulla Oblongata]

Lamentations?

[Fist of Etiquette]

Iran, for its part, "said it targeted American soldiers in Kuwait with missiles, which the U.S. says it shot down..."

Made in China isn't all its cracked up to be.

[Fist of Etiquette]

"Just sit back and relax, it will all work out well in the end — It always does!" Trump counseled via Truth Social this morning.

The president is an American, not an American't.

[Fist of Etiquette]

After a 6-month break from skating following the birth & hospitalization & death of baby brother, this guy is BACK in BUSINESS doing what he loves most...

Looks like a Harrison Bergeron moment there in the pic, handicapping him with a white splotch covering his eyes. YET HE MOGS THOSE STEPS LIKE A BOSS.

[Spiritus Mundi]

The government should have done this years ago, but in the US we have rely on big tech to create public goods

Moar government??? Free markets bad????

[Don't look at me! ( Is the war over yet?)]

Government can’t even organize a party, or so I’m told.

[mad.casual]

Either way, it sounds like the back story to a horror/post apocalyptic film.

Putting the two(+) stories together; Omni Consumer Products Umbrella Corporation Google engineers and releases an mRNA/CRISPR-powered GLP-1 mosquito that forces populations to stop eating.

[Fist of Etiquette]

The Fed's credibility would be lost...

It is with a heavy heart that I must announce that the experts are at it again.

[Fist of Etiquette]

"One emerging answer is that they seem determined to blow up the Supreme Court."

I'm not sure how they do that with Trump and then likely Vance in the White House. If not, I look forward to a SCOTUS that rivals the House in membership.

[Fist of Etiquette]

The dems will blow whatever it takes to save democracy.

[Medulla Oblongata]

I've heard rumors about Kamala Harris, to be sure.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Violate the constitution and grant congress powers to nominate.

[mad.casual]

I'm sure with hundreds of historic first persons of undefinable race, gender, religion, creed, and orientations they'll get a lot accomplished.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Women trying to get paid PMS days again.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/dem-lawmakers-gripe-about-economic-violence-not-being-paid-stay-home-from-work-when-menstruating

[Idaho-Bob]

Next up - Something about the wage gap and equal rights.

[Medulla Oblongata]

Get PMS days passed, allow transwomen to claim PMS days, get PMS days granted. What could possibly go wrong?

[mad.casual]

Evil conservative patriarchy forcing double bind yet again; refusing them PMS pay *and* refusing to replace their uteruses with penises.

[Rev Arthur L kuckland (5-30-24 banana republic day)]

So the want to be granted automatic leave for a quarter of the year, then bitch about an 80% "pay gap"
And yes I know the gap doesn't exist

[Fist of Etiquette]

In the last 5 weeks we've got news on: retatrutide-

WHAT DID YOU JUST CALL ME?

[Medulla Oblongata]

Are you TIm Walz?

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Millei continues to prove economists prediction powers regarding Argentina wrong.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/fox-news-world/108-top-economists-predicted-devastation-argentinas-milei-continues-prove-them-wrong

Captain obvious will now turn to Boehm.

[Rev Arthur L kuckland (5-30-24 banana republic day)]

Always trust Ebenezer to handle the money

[Fist of Etiquette]

...basically melting fat and body-wide inflammation at record levels...

If everyone's a 10, no one will be.

[mad.casual]

Olivia Wilde when from a solid "Yes she's an SJW activist, but on the other hand..." 10 to a "Holy Fuck! Get the hell away from me you Disney villain crack whore!" 3.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Wait, she a user? Was she putting on the pounds?

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Hilarious.

Anti ICE protestors cheer when two Hispanic men leave ICE detention center.

Two men were ICE agents dressed in normal clothes.

Protestors mocked.

https://thepostmillennial.com/racist-anti-ice-agitators-cheer-hispanic-dhs-employees-leaving-nj-delaney-hall-because-they-thought-they-were-detainees

[Fist of Etiquette]

...small trial of a one-and-done PCSK9 gene editing therapy for slashing LDL cholesterol...

Big Pharm is going to be calling Hillary for her guy's number.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

It wasn't enough to just have fake business and fake employees to defraud government. Somalis also turned to fake injuries of fake employees for workmans comp fraud.

https://alphanews.org/exclusive-former-minnesota-employee-reveals-suspected-fraud-scheme-of-fake-injuries-at-somali-businesses/

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

California advances bill that will try to make it illegal for independent media to investigate taxpayer funded NGOs.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/nick-shirley-blasts-california-lawmakers-what-some-have-dubbed-stop-nick-shirley-act

[Juliana Frink]

I wonder when Reason will post half a dozen or so articles on this Blatantly Blatant act of Blatantly Corrupt Corruption. Someone should get right on that!

[Medulla Oblongata]

Don't hold your breath, though.

[damikesc]

Clearly, too local and not an assault on the First Amendment.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

US may declare UNRWA a terrorist organization given how many ended up being involved in Oct 7th and how un funds flow from them to Hamas.

https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/05/29/please-do-it-us-mulls-terror-designation-for-unrwa-as-1500-hamas-tied-staff-found-n4953370

[Fist of Etiquette]

Mayo's AI-assisted radiology showing vastly improved cancer detection...

"Sorry, you're right, I missed that one. You didn't have penis cancer. That was an STD. Would you like me to tell you the steps to reattach your genitalia?"

[Don't look at me! ( Is the war over yet?)]

Mayo is just trying to ketchup with the competition.

[mad.casual]

"Using two hands, hold the penis firmly in place. Then, with the other hand, stitch the loose tissue together."

[Fist of Etiquette]

The government should have done this years ago, but in the US we have rely on big tech to create public goods

I better not find out this is Google's mRNA vaccine delivery system.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Because ignoring informed consent is the government's purview!

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Organization sets up fake homeless encampment outside of home of homeless non profit boss running for mayor. Her response is hilarious.

https://www.foxla.com/news/organizer-fake-homeless-encampment-stunt-outside-nithya-ramans-home-defends-viral-videos?taid=6a1926be16ca9c0001d59722&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=trueanthem&utm_source=twitter

"This is happening all over the city. We brought it to her doorstep so she can see what other people are going through," he said.

The display included tents, trash, old tires and a barbecue set up Monday morning outside Raman’s home.
...
(Candidate Raman) "I have two little kids. They didn’t see it, luckily, this morning," she said. "I feel badly that I’m even subjecting them to that at all. But definitely, this has gone far beyond what I expected this campaign to be about."

More of the expected citizens feel the pain of dem policies, not dem politicians.

[Medulla Oblongata]

These are the people the left is protesting for...three counts of murder in the grisly knife slaying in Modesto of an infant and two women, including one with whom he allegedly had a child

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/illegal-immigrant-accused-in-triple-murder-was-deported-three-times/ar-AA24qFbu

A deranged illegal migrant, deported from the U.S. three times, is accused in the triple murder of an infant and two other women after California’s controversial state sanctuary law obstructed federal authorities who sought to deport him, The California Post has learned.

Joaquin Escoto, 28 a Mexican national born in Jalisco, was deported from the U.S. three times and arrested for driving under the influence once before he was arrested again in June for another DUI, a senior law enforcement official told The Post.

On the day of Escoto’s DUI arrest in June, which occurred in San Joaquin County, federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials requested to be notified of the Modesto resident’s release from jail so they could deport him again, according to the official.

But San Joaquin law enforcement officials hogtied by California’s contested sanctuary law failed to notify the feds, and Escoto was set free, the official said.

“Safe to say, California law prohibited the jail from complying,” said the official, who shared police documents that substantiated his claims with The Post.

Now, less than one year after that request from ICE agents was ignored, Escoto is being held without bail on three counts of murder in the grisly knife slaying in Modesto of an infant and two women, including one with whom he allegedly had a child, according to police.

[Spiritus Mundi]

Modesto father

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Jury finds 3 ICE protestors guilty of interfering with lawful ICE actions.

https://www.kuow.org/stories/jury-finds-three-spokane-protesters-guilty-of-conspiracy-for-blocking-transfer-of-ice-detainees

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

We continue to see this from leftist governments.

Germany declares opposition party illegal.
Spain goes after conservatives, now caught up in multiple levels of fraud.
Brazilian leftist judges arrest candidates of opposing parties.

Now Mexico is quietly advancing a bill under leftist controlled government that allows them to overturn any election if they claim foreign influence in an election, something the government continues to claim constantly.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/29/mexico-senate-election-constitutional-amendment

Fascism always comes from the left.

[Neutral not Neutered]

The rise of BRICS- follow the money

[Medulla Oblongata]

Bill Clinton: Hamas did not care about a homeland for the Palestinians. They wanted to kill Israelis and make Israel uninhabitable.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/did-bill-clinton-say-palestinians-never-really-wanted-a-homeland-and-just-wanted-to-kill-the-jews/ar-AA24xVtI

The only time Yasser Arafat didn't tell me the truth was when he promised me he was gonna accept the peace deal that we had worked out which would have given the Palestinians a state on 96% of the West Bank and 4% of Israel and they got to choose where the 4% of Israel was.

[…]

All this was offered […] confirmed by the Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and his Cabinet. And [the Palestinians] said no. And I think part of it is that Hamas did not care about a homeland for the Palestinians. They wanted to kill Israelis and make Israel uninhabitable.

[Medulla Oblongata]

Scenes from NY: Kathy Hochul says she’s done raising taxes — but Mamdani keeps pushing bolder ‘tax the rich’ moves. New Yorkers are mainly rooting for one of them

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/kathy-hochul-says-she-s-done-raising-taxes-but-mamdani-keeps-pushing-bolder-tax-the-rich-moves-new-yorkers-are-mainly-rooting-for-one-of-them/ar-AA24uesK

In a Fox Business interview this week, New York Governor Kathy Hochul was asked about new taxes. (1) "Not from me," she replied. But while she's saying no to more taxes, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is shouting to "tax the rich" to fix what he calls "the greatest fiscal crisis we've seen since before the Great Recession." (2)

According to a recent poll by the Siena Research Institute, 54% of city residents surveyed agree with Mamdani that the wealthy earning over $1 million should pay more personal income taxes. Suburban and upstate voters were receptive, at 50% and 48% respectively. (3)

[mad.casual]

Kathy Hochul says she’s done raising taxes

And then promptly died [fingers crossed]?

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Missed in the Iran writeup.

UAE and SA have both helped woth strikes on Iran in response. Iran remains isolated.

Also rumors of the president resigning in Iran. Claims the IRGC has officially taken over many parts of Iranian government. This makes them a military state as many of us have been saying. This is against the makeup of Iranian government charters. Their leadership is decimated. Once again pointing to the IRGC flailing. Khamenei likely dead. So continued attacks on IRGC will force the change and revolution that reason once backed under Obama for the Green Revolution.

[mad.casual]

and I am approximately 300x more risk averse and terrified than before

The war that women and children actually have always been the primary victims of. Congrats on the bravery to belong to the winning side. Half a league onward.

[Rev Arthur L kuckland (5-30-24 banana republic day)]

"But I must point out that the possibilities, the potential for knowledge and advancement is equally great. Risk … risk is our business!"

[Neutral not Neutered]

My condolences Liz

[NealAppeal]

The mosquitoes are infected with Wolbochia bacteria, which stops them from

finishing sentences?

[Medulla Oblongata]

ICE needs more water canons with indelible blue dye. Oh, and more skunk/vomit/garbage stink bombs.

https://science.howstuffworks.com/skunk-water-weapon-control-crowds.htm