THIS IS THE WAY:
India is throwing out Communists from power as America is electing them to govern their cities, states — and as members of Congress.
Yes, we’re that stupid. https://t.co/gMWlSIbheF
— Mark Dubowitz (@mdubowitz) May 4, 2026
May 5, 2026
K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE:
The public school system is a jobs program for unemployable adults. https://t.co/DwNpy1waNn
— Bethany S. Mandel (@bethanyshondark) May 5, 2026
ONLY THE POLICE SHOULD HAVE GUNS, THEY TOLD ME:
NEW: Classes are canceled at an Arlington Heights school after a POLICE OFFICER LOST HIS GUN.
The School Resource Officer at the Forest View Educational Center says he removed his gun from its holster while using the bathroom. Shortly after school was out, he realized the gun… pic.twitter.com/dOchmHcrvl
— Marcus Leshock (@marcusleshock) May 5, 2026
WHENEVER WAR LOOMS THEY START SLAPPING MORE GUNS ON THE SHIPS: Yes, Reality Demands More Guns, Larger Guns, Everywhere.
LESS THAN THEY’LL INSIST ON: How Much Oversight of AI Does the Government Need to Ensure Our Safety?
T. BECKET ADAMS: Just How Badly Does the Left Hate the Right Anyway?
Nearly as great a problem as left-wing violence is the left’s refusal to admit it has a problem.
You’ve likely encountered this brand of ideological intransigence over the past decade. You’ve probably heard some variation of it from a co-worker, a friend, or even a family member.
When a Republican or conservative is shot, stabbed, or beaten by a left-wing assailant, the activist left adopts one of three standard responses:
The first: The violence is deserved. He had it coming! The second: It didn’t happen. It’s a hoax! The third, and by far the most common, is: Right-wing violence is still worse.
Of the three, the third is the most annoying, not just because it’s raw whataboutism, but because the counterexamples offered are often mischaracterizations or outright falsehoods.
Related: Voters Blame Media for Inspiring Assassination Attempt, Dividing Nation.
Six in ten voters think it’s likely that negative news media coverage of President Donald Trump inspired the assassination attempt at the White House Correspondents Dinner on April 25, a new national Rasmussen survey finds.
Of U.S. likely voters polled April 27-29 following the attack, 60% think it’s at least “somewhat likely” that hostile media inspired the armed shooter’s attack – including 41% who call it “very likely.” In contrast, just 13% consider it “not at all likely.”
“How likely is it that negative news media coverage of Trump inspired this assassination attempt?”
- Very Likely: 41%
- Somewhat Likely: 19%
- Not Very Likely: 16%
- Not at All Likely: 13%
- Not Sure: 11%
Fully 55% of Democrat voters say it’s likely that hostile media inspired the attack, with far more saying it’s “very likely” (28%) than calling it “somewhat” (17%) so.
More than three-fourths (79%) of Republican voters say media instigated the assassination attempt, including 58% who think it’s very likely media are to blame. Meanwhile, 59% of “other” voters attribute the attack to the influence of the media.
The penultimate scene in Paddy Chayefsky and Sidney Lumet’s 1976 film Network is (spoiler alert) television executives plotting the assassination of one of their on-air hosts in order to improve the channel’s ratings. When Chayefsky wrote the scene, I’m sure he envisioned some completely over-the-top Strangelove-esque satire. Today, a late night host can deliver a throwaway gag (that has very likely been approved by his network’s standards and practices division) envisioning the death of the president, and network execs pray that their cameras are in position when it happens.
NO SURPRISE HERE: Ability grouping helps top students, and doesn’t hurt weak students.
Strong students learn less math in mixed classes, concludes a new Education Endowment Foundation study of English middle schools, reports Richard Adams in The Guardian. Weaker students, as judged by prior math achievement, do about the same whether they’re in mixed classes or lower-track classes, University College London (UCL) researchers found. Furthermore, students placed in lower-track classes were more confident of their math abilities than those in mixed classes.
The “big and important” results “support achievement grouping in maths,” said John Jerrim, a UCL professor who has studied mixed-ability classes but wasn’t part of the study, Adams reports. Jerrim added, “It wasn’t long ago that some educational researchers in the UK and Ireland were calling ability grouping ‘symbolic violence’.”
High achievers grouped by prior achievement made two months more progress on average than similar students in mixed classes, the study found.
Not that long ago, this was common knowledge and common practice.
WHEN “GENOCIDE” LOSES ITS MEANING: Me methodically debunking the Gaza genocide hoax in Skeptic Magazine:
Establishing a claim of genocide against Israel would require more than pointing to the scale of suffering in Gaza or to deeply felt moral condemnation. It would require setting aside established precedent, blurring the distinction between intent and consequence, and relying heavily on tendentious, nay dishonest, interpretations of rhetoric by Israeli leaders. In effect, concluding that Israel has engaged in genocide requires not just expanding the definition of genocide beyond its accepted legal contours but well beyond reasonable interpretation of the concept.
REMARKABLE, ISN’T IT?
About five thousand years have unfolded in the decade since this tweet – and despite the impeachments, indictments, and assassination attempts, “Happy Trump” still shows up. https://t.co/SoFDrdLfna
— Spencer Brown (@SpencerBrown) May 5, 2026
CALIFORNIA WANTS TO EXPORT CAMPUS SPEECH CODES TO THE WORKPLACE. Mandatory “anti-hate speech training” sounds harmless until you remember that “hate speech” has no clear legal meaning, and much of what activists call hate speech is protected by the First Amendment.
TRIM YOUR NAILS: Ergonomic Long Handle Toenail Clippers with Catcher. #CommissionEarned
THAT SEEMS LIKE A ROOKIE NUMBER: Nancy Mace Names 6 House Lawmakers Allegedly Involved In Sex Scandal Cover Up. “Mace’s post names six lawmakers including former Republican Louisiana Rep. Rodney Alexander, former Republican Texas Rep. Blake Farenthold, former Republican Pennsylvania Rep. Patrick Meehan, former Democratic New York Rep. Eric Massa, former Democratic Michigan Rep. John Conyers, and the office of former Democratic New York Rep. Carolyn McCarthy.”
MEN AND WOMEN ARE DIFFERENT, EXHIBIT #1,000,006:
Update: The women lost. https://t.co/AwzsZd40IF
— Brandi Kruse (@BrandiKruse) May 5, 2026
IT’S OFFICIAL: The Climate Scam Was a Scam All Along.
THE JUDICIAL BRANCH’S SELF-MARGINALIZATION CONTINUES:
The attempted assassin’s lawyer tried to cancel this hearing because the issue was solved but the judge REFUSED to cancel it because he wanted to put this performative show on where he apologized to a guy who tried to kill the President last week. That’s how crazy Democrats are. https://t.co/iLip2w39HP
— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) May 5, 2026
HIGHER EDUCATION PRIORITIES: Proposed California bill would require community college health centers to provide abortion pills to students.
FAIL, BRITANNIA: Britain now down to five operational frigates.
HMS Iron Duke has been withdrawn from active service, leaving the Royal Navy with just five operational Type 23 frigates, NavyLookout has revealed.
The naval analysis website broke the story today in a detailed piece well worth reading in full, reporting that Iron Duke has been stripped of her weapons and sensors and has not been to sea since October 2024, with no formal decommissioning announcement made despite her effective removal from the fleet.
The withdrawal comes less than three years after a £103 million refit that by any measure was extraordinary in its scope. The work took 49 months and more than 1.7 million man-hours, and was described as the most complex ever carried out on a Type 23.
Iron Duke had been laid up in Portsmouth since 2017 and arrived at Devonport in such poor condition that the structural work on her hull was almost twice what had been needed on any previous ship in the class.
Nelson weeps.
NEW HEAD OF THE DNC: The GOP Is Holding a Bombshell on Graham Platner: ‘He’ll Have to Leave the State’
UNDERSTOOD:
I need people to understand that our tax dollars were used to train these foreigners how to scam our welfare programs https://t.co/Ry5PREN2ac pic.twitter.com/X14StzZ9GA
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) May 5, 2026
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Gee, It’s Almost Like Iran Can’t Be Trusted at All. “The media coverage of Operation Epic Fury/Roaring Lion has been maddeningly irresponsible. Everything President Trump says is parsed out to the nth degree and treated with scorn and outrage. To the hacks in the mainstream media, Trump is always the bad guy. The lunatic fanatics who have been bankrolling terrorism in the Middle East for half a century get the benefit of the doubt though.”
DISPATCHES FROM THE NATION’S CAPITOL: At least 3 MPD officials under investigation over crime stats may be fired.
At least three Metropolitan Police Department officials who were under investigation for allegedly manipulating crime statistics were issued termination papers by the internal affairs office, law enforcement sources tell News4.
Two of the officials are commanders, sources said; another is a captain.
News4 was first to report in July 2025 that the commander of MPD’s 3rd District was under investigation for allegedly manipulating crime statistics on his district. Cmdr. Michael Pulliam was placed on leave with pay and denied the allegations.
Pulliam was told on Monday that he would be terminated, News4 confirmed.
2nd District Cmdr. Tatjana Savoy also was told she would be terminated, source said.
Multiple other officials were told they would be fired or receive other forms of discipline.
Word of the termination notices spread as a number of high-level officials did not show up to a crime briefing early Monday, sources said.
Interim Chief of Police Jeffery Carroll declined to comment, citing an internal matter. U.S. Attorney for D.C. Jeanine Pirro also said she could not comment.
Two federal reports in late 2025 criticized D.C.’s police chief at the time, Pamela Smith, and questioned the accuracy of the District’s crime data.
Accountability, it’s a helluva thing.
ICYMI: MY WALL STREET JOURNAL COLUMN: Don’t Stand So Close to ChatGPT: The danger of AI isn’t destruction but seduction. Applying fiduciary duty may be the solution.
