SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – AT 11:55 P.M. ET: 

WE'RE SO IMPRESSED – FROM BREITBART:  NEW YORK, NY — On Saturday, over 135 cities will join a coalition of 17 “national progressive groups,” Democrat and progressive members of Congress, a Watergate prosecutor, writers, celebrities, musicians and activists in a series of national rallies known as the “March for Truth.”  The coordinated rallies are calling for an independent commission to investigate alleged collusion between the Trump administration and Russia, investigate whether Russia interfered with the 2016 elections, and call for President Trump to release his tax returns.  Yes, I'm certainly convinced that "progressives" are deeply concerned about Russian influence in the United States.  This would be a first for them.  What frauds.

FEELING THE HEAT – FROM THE NEW YORK POST:   Former terror leader Oscar López Rivera will not be honored at this year’s Puerto Rican Day parade, after the ex-FALN chieftain decided to turn down the award in the face of a widespread parade boycott.  Organizers of the June 11 march said the freed terror boss will forgo the “National Freedom Hero” honor and instead just march as a “humble” grandfather.  “He declined the honorary title at the parade. We respect that decision,” parade spokesman Andres Chavez said.  Lopez Rivera freed the parade organizers from having to take a stand on their decision to fete him, when he announced in an op-ed column published Thursday that he no longer wants the controversial award.  “I will be on Fifth Ave. not as your honoree but as a humble Puerto Rican and grandfather who at 74 continues to be committed to helping raise awareness about the fiscal, health-care and human-rights crisis Puerto Rico is facing at this historic juncture,” López Rivera wrote in the piece.  López Rivera did not address his terrorist roots, which sparked the outcry over his involvement in the parade.   It was a disgrace to honor this degenerate in the first place.  Many died at the hands of his group.  The list of those boycotting the parade started to grow, and I'm guessing Rivera was pressured to step down to avoid destroying the event.  One who did not boycott was Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York City, a man with a Marxist past.  We'll remember that.

IT'S ABOUT TIME – FROM CAMPUS REFORM:  State lawmakers in Washington are fed up with the antics of Evergreen State College, and plan to introduce legislation to privatize the left-leaning institution.  As Campus Reform initially reported, hundreds of students marched through campus last week demanding the resignation of Professor Bret Weinstein, who had questioned the school’s decision to ask white people to leave campus for a day of diversity programming in an all-staff email.  In previous years, non-white students and faculty members voluntarily left campus to attend diversity workshops while their white counterparts conducted their own programming on-campus, but this year the format was flipped in response to complaints that non-white students feel unwelcome on campus in the wake of Donald Trump’s election.  Despite the protesters’ profanity-laced denunciations of him, school President George Bridges praised their “passion and courage” while capitulating to demands that they be excused from homework assignments for the duration of their demonstration.  Evergreen State is one of the most leftist colleges in the country.  Its main quad is actually called Red Square.  And the charge is that non-white students feel unwelcome?  Seriously?  It's sad to see what the civil rights movement has come to.

June 2, 2017