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 ISW: Mounting casualties among Russian junior officers will likely further degrade Russian capabilities and lead to further morale breakdowns. The UK Ministry of Defense stated on May 30 that Russian forces have suffered devastating losses amongst mid and junior ranking officers. The UK MoD reported that battalion and brigade level officers continue to deploy forwards and into harm's way—rather than commanding from rear areas and delegating to lower-ranking officers—due to senior Russian officers holding them to an “uncompromising level of responsibility” for their units.[1] The British Defense Ministry further reported that junior officers are in charge of low-level tactical operations due to a lack of professionalism and modernization within the Russian Armed Forces and that the continued losses of these junior officers will complicate command and control efforts, particularly in Battalion Tactical Groups (BTGs) cobbled together from the survivors of multiple other units.[2] ISW...

 PJ Media: Always ready to exploit a tragedy, Joe and Jill Biden went to Uvalde, Texas, on Sunday to visit the community after the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School. While the response of local enforcement has come under scrutiny, we’ve learned that Border Patrol agents  ultimately ended the shooting at the school, and killed the shooter . Their heroic actions deserve the nation’s praise, but instead, Joe Biden dissed them by uninviting them from his speech. “Biden administration officials uninvited many of the Border Patrol agents and other law enforcement officers who responded to the Robb Elementary School shooting from a meeting with the president scheduled for Sunday in Uvalde,”  reports  Breitbart. “Despite the event being planned for a large open-space facility, administration officials cited space as a reason for the retracted invitations.” According to their report, Border Patrol agents were among the law enforcement officials who received an invitatio...

 Washington Examiner: Former  Attorney General William Barr  said he believes  special counsel John Durham  is uncovering "seditious" activity. The trial  of Democratic cybersecurity lawyer Michael Sussmann  has shown  how Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign and its  allies spread theories  tying rival Donald Trump to Russia in the final months of the election, providing evidence for those who have long argued there was a so-called Russiagate plot to undermine Trump's candidacy and later his presidency. This Alfa-Bank matter tied to the Clinton team may not have spurred the FBI's investigation into Trump's links to Russia, but Barr said he accepted the chance to become attorney general, his second stint, because he believed a "constitutional crisis" was afoot. Barr took charge of the Justice Department in February 2019, overseeing the roll-out of special counsel Robert Mueller's Trump-Russia findings, and appointed Durham to investigate the ...

 Jonathon Turley: With the jury out in the trial of former 2016 Clinton campaign counsel Michael Sussmann, the usual odds-takers appeared on cable news, rating the chances of a conviction. Despite the seemingly overwhelming evidence against Sussmann, the jury’s makeup seems strikingly favorable for the defense . One verdict, however, appears to need little deliberation. It concerns the Department of Justice, and particularly the FBI. The trial confirmed what many have long alleged about how top officials eagerly accepted any Russia collusion claim involving former President Trump’s 2016 campaign. Special counsel John Durham’s investigation, which led to Sussmann’s trial, is an indictment of a department and a bureau which, once again, appeared willfully blind as they were played by Hillary Clinton’s campaign. Despite the trial judge’s rulings imposing strict limits on the scope of the trial evidence, Durham’s case still revealed new information on how the Russia collusion theory ...

  John P Kutcha, Jr.: A tale of two Texas towns ...   As the jihadists drove near the parking lot of the GCC, they simply joined the line of cars snaking its way to the parking lot. It was when they spotted a Garland traffic cop and his private security guard assistant on duty at the lot’s perimeter that they stopped their car and came out blasting, geared up in their full body armor and weapons smoking. What happened next is pure Texas. The traffic cop hurriedly drew his .38 caliber service revolver, took aim at the shooters as their incoming rounds whizzed by, and shot both jihadists in the head, thwarting their expensive body armor. The security guard was injured when one round hit him in the ankle, a painful, but non-life-threatening injury. The gunfight was over in just seconds and that’s when the FBI handler put the pedal to the medal and attempted a speedy exit. Units of the Garland PD gave chase and apprehended the traitor. ... The difference was that in Uvalde there w...

  Daily Caller: 'This is why we need the 2nd amendment!' West Virginia mystery woman is hailed as a hero for using legally-owned pistol to kill criminal armed with an AR-15-style rifle at a graduation party a day after Uvalde school shooting It is a story that will not get as much attention as the massacre in Uvalde. 

Daily Caller: A coalition of 21 Republican-led states implored the Biden administration not to axe a key federal permit for oil and gas projects in a filing published Friday. The states argued that a recently-announced review of the permit is unnecessary and increases fossil fuel industry uncertainty, according to the document obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation. The letter was filed in response to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ (USACE)  announcement  on March 28 that it would conduct a formal review of Nationwide Permit 12 (NWP 12), which isn’t set to expire until 2026, to assess its potential environmental justice and climate change impacts. “Apparently President Biden doesn’t think the price of gas is high enough,” Republican Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen, who spearheaded the effort, told TheDCNF in an interview. “This is just going to keep exacerbating energy production and gas prices in America. This is nothing but more and more red tape.”  (REL...

 Axios: The midterm outlook for House Democrats is so bleak that even members in districts President Biden won by  10 to 15 points  are in danger of losing their seats, according to election experts. Driving the news:  The  Cook Political Report  just revised its fall House forecast to a net Republican gain of 20 to 35 seats. Cook shifted 10 races in Republicans' direction and two toward Democrats, with 35 D-held seats now labeled "tossup" or worse. Zoom out:  This year was always going to be difficult for Democrats — historical trends suggest the president's party typically loses seats. 23 House Democrats have  announced  they won't seek re-election, compared to just 11 Republicans. President Biden's approval  has been hovering in the low 40s for several months, with inflation driving down his popularity. Polling shows Republicans are winning the  generic congressional ballot  (Would you rather vote for a Democrat or a Republi...

 Rick Moran: More than half of American cities registered a loss of population over the last year. People flocked to suburbs and exurbs and headed west to the Sun Belt, according to the U.S. Census. The increase in population in those places comes at the expense of big cities, who lost population during the same period of time. This is the real “Great Replacement” theory. Big cities are not “replacing” their lost populations because the people are moving to smaller cities and towns with less crime, less taxes, and less left-wing folderol. Perhaps more interestingly, fewer immigrants are moving in to pick up the slack. The Hill: The Phoenix suburbs of Queen Creek, Buckeye and Maricopa, Ariz., along with exurban Casa Grande, all landed among the 10 fastest-growing cities. So did North Port, Fla., between Sarasota and Fort Myers, and Spring Hill, Tenn., south of Nashville. Boise, Idaho, added just 1,617 residents last year, but three suburbs — Meridian, Caldwell and Nampa — all saw th...

 ISW: New reports confirmed that Ukrainian forces conducted a successful limited counterattack near the Kherson-Mykolaiv oblast border on May 28, forcing Russian forces onto the defensive. This Ukrainian counterattack is likely intended to disrupt Russian efforts to establish strong defensive positions along the Southern Axis. While the Ukrainian counterattack does not appear likely to retake substantial territory in the near term, it will likely disrupt Russian operations and potentially force Russia to deploy reinforcements to the Kherson region, which is predominantly held by sub-standard units. Ukrainian counterattacks may additionally slow Russian efforts to consolidate administrative control of occupied southern Ukraine.[1] Russian forces continued to assault Severodonetsk on May 29 but did not make any confirmed advances; Russian progress in intense urban combat will likely be slow. The Russian campaign in eastern Ukraine—which previously aimed to capture the entirety of Luh...

  Mike Miller: Jonathan Turley Schools Professor Who Claimed Uvalde Police 'Didn't Give a Damn' About 'Predominately Brown' Kids Turley correctly points out that most of the Uvalde police are Hispanic.  It should also be noted that most of the Border Patrol officers are also Hispanic and they were the ones who finally brought down the shooter.  I grew up on the border and had many Hispanic friends.  They are for the most part patriotic Americans who are some of the first to volunteer for the military and go into policing jobs.

 Jeff Charles: Aren’t you excited? The far-left has been hard at work trying to come up with a new way to demonize conservatives and anyone else who disagrees with their politics. Perhaps terms like “racist,” “homophobic,” and “sexist” have become too hackneyed even for progressives. Now, they just might be ready to introduce a new favorite smear, the way Steve Jobs used to present Apple’s latest iPhone. So what’s the new word, you ask? Here’s your answer: Christofascist. ... You know what’s even more interesting? Google searches for “Christofascism” jumped at the beginning of May. Here’s a chart from Google Trends showing that searches for the word surged between May 1 and 7. Google Trend search results for the keyword “Christofascism.” Source: Screenshot, Google Trend So, what earth-shattering event happened between those two dates? You guessed it. Politico  published its story  about the leaked Supreme Court draft opinion indicated it will probably overturn Roe v. Wade...

 The Lid: It seems that Joe believes “unity” means vilifying anyone that  disagrees with him. On Saturday, President Joe Biden addressed the graduates at his  alma mater , the University of Delaware. His nearly 30-minute speech was reported by some in the media as a speech where he urged “tolerance” toward those you disagree with. President Joe Biden told the University of Delaware graduates to be tolerant and see people who disagree with them as neighbors rather than enemies. Speaking to more than 6,000 graduates, and with the nation mourning victims of two mass shootings in as many weeks. Biden lamented the division and hatred in the country he governs. He bemoaned a ‘crisis of faith’ in US institutions and he pressed graduates to work to bind up the country’s wounds. Biden told graduates to remember that ‘democracy is a human enterprise.’ ‘We do many things well,’ the president said. ‘Sometimes we fall short. That’s true in our own lives. It’s true in the life of the n...