News and Views: May 31, 2025

Gov. Hochul Lays Out Her Destructive Plans for New York 

Governor Hochul, who hopes to get re-elected, laid out her housing plan to keep people from leaving New York during the USA TODAY interview. She is pretending people are leaving because there aren’t enough houses for them. In reality she wants to get rid of single family homes and replace them with apartment buildings.

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Rod Dreher: My Day in the Capital of Declining Europe 

Brussels feels like an apt symbol of Europe in crisis. It’s broke, woke, politically paralyzed, Islamicizing as it de-Christianizes, and full of empty slogans about its utopian dreams, which few people other than the ruling class, its servants, and janissaries believe.

   If Europe—real Europe—is ever going to live free again, Brussels and its monstrous, soul-sucking, money-burning bureaucracy has to die. Alas, the Eurocracy is the only living thing not subject to euthanasia in Belgium. 

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Level 4 Solar Storm Forecast 

Flare/CME Analysis

Aurora alert: Severe geomagnetic storm could spark northern lights as far south as Alabama and northern California tonight   Geomagnetic storms are classified using a G-scale, which ranks their intensity from G1 (minor) to G5 (extreme). The recent geomagnetic storm watch that the U.K. Met Office Space Weather Operations Centre issued is rated a G4, indicating "severe" storm conditions. NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center has also issued a G4-level storm watch with the prediction that G4 levels could be reached on June 2, with strong G2 conditions still possible on June 3.

Raymond took this picture through a layer of clouds. Hard to see, but two very faint sunspots in the middle. If the weather clears, will post a clearer picture...

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Jewish students storm out of MIT commencement after class president accuses university of aiding Israel’s ‘genocide’   Vemuri’s contentious remarks led to her being barred from attending Friday’s undergraduate ceremony, an MIT spokesperson told Fox News Digital, noting that the speech she delivered was not the version submitted in advance to university officials. 

   “MIT supports free expression but stands by its decision, which was in response to the individual deliberately and repeatedly misleading Commencement organizers and leading a protest from the stage, disrupting an important Institute ceremony,” the university said in a statement.

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Judge rejects claim AI chatbots protected by First Amendment  A federal judge has decided that First Amendment protections don’t shield an artificial intelligence company from a lawsuit accusing the firm and its founders of creating chatbots that figured prominently in an Orlando teen’s suicide.

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Medical school accreditor halts DEI program evaluations 

The Liaison Committee on Medical Education—which accredits medical schools around the country—has announced that it will no longer consider Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs during its evaluations.

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