May 5, 2026
A CONCLUSION SHORT OF THE REGIME’S DEFEAT IS WORSE THAN THIS WAR: A continued Iran war is not all doom and gloom.
WHAT ARE THE ODDS? (LOOKS LIKE JOHN OSSOF HAS SOME ‘SPLAINING TO DO): It Looks Like the Southern Poverty Law Center Wasn’t Only Funding White Supremacists.
I GUESS THEY’RE NOT FASTER THAN A SPEEDING CANNON SHELL: US Navy Sinks Seven Iranian ‘Fast Boats’ As the Regime Attacks South Korean Cargo Ship and UAE.
BOOSTING A WEAK CANDIDATE TO THE NOMINATION AND THEN DROPPING SERIOUS DIRT IS NORMALLY PART OF THE DEMS’ PLAYBOOK: He’ll Have to Leave the State? Supposedly, the Dirt on Graham Platner Is *THAT* Bad.
AND THE BAND STILL PLAYS: Deck chairs.
MAHER DOESN’T SUPPORT TRUMP BUT HE DOES SUPPORT ACCOUNTABILITY ON THE LEFT: Bill Maher Couldn’t Let This Talking Point About Anti-Trump Rhetoric Slide By on His Show.
WHEN DOES ULLA DANCE? Springtime For Platner: Democrats Go Into Their Dance.
THEY’RE OUT OF THEIR MINDS: ‘Kill the President’: Pennsylvania Democrat Arrested Over Trump Threat.
NUCLEAR POWER IS SAFE, UNLESS OPERATED BY COMMUNISTS: 40 Years Since Chernobyl: ‘May Day’ and Radioactive Spinach.
IT WAS HIS DEATH THAT PROPELLED ME TO COME OUT OF THE POLITICAL CLOSET: Remembering Andrew Breitbart.
I figured if he couldn’t speak, a lot of us had to step up. And a lot of us might come close to his work, even if never be the same.
I STILL CAN’T BELIEVE THE DINGY LADY PUBLISHED THAT: Saint Hillary.
IN CONGRESS. BY A FAKE AMERINDIAN: Spirit Airlines didn’t die. It was murdered.
May 4, 2026
AS THE BRITS SAY (OR USED TO), TELL THE TRUTH AND SHAME THE DEVIL:
🚨 HOLY CRAP!! Justices Sam Alito and Clarence Thomas just PUMMELED Ketanji Jackson's dissent, calling it "trivial at best, and the other is baseless and INSULTING"
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Jackson basically ATTACKED the majority, and argued Louisiana should be required to use an… https://t.co/AEWDA1DM0h pic.twitter.com/eZVwRDMwCe
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) May 4, 2026
Related:
KBJ is single-handedly discrediting progressive jurisprudence for a generation
May she stay on the court for as long as she wants, writing lone, angry dissents https://t.co/3xJRDI6qgv
— Will Chamberlain (@willchamberlain) May 5, 2026
OPEN THREAD: Monday, Monday.
A PROUD DAD COMMENTS:
We've all seen these photos now, but honestly, it's unbelievable that this was our military until Pete took over. https://t.co/DokruSWqt1
— Brian Hegseth (@brianhegseth) May 4, 2026
THE NEW SPACE RACE: US Space Force wants space-based missile interceptors for Golden Dome ready by 2028. “Golden Dome is real, and it is no longer theoretical.”
QUEENS’ SYNAGOGUES, HOMES TAGGED WITH SWASTIKAS:
A group of teens are believed to be responsible for a bunch of swastikas and pro-Nazi graffiti that turned up in Queens overnight. Spots targeted included two synagogues.
According to police sources, the string of incidents that occurred in Forest Hills and Rego Park during the early hours of Monday is being investigated as a hate crime. The investigation remains ongoing, with the 112th Precinct and the NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force involved.
Much of the extensive hate speech was scrawled outside of the Rego Park Jewish Center located at 97-30 Queens Blvd., at about 1:16 a.m. on May 4; the dastardly acts were caught on the building’s surveillance camera.
In the footage, the group of four teenagers wearing hoodies could be seen sidling up to the building before spraying the hateful Nazi symbol and the name “Hitler” beside it.
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Sen. Gillibrand also posted a statement:
I am horrified by this morning's antisemitic graffiti in Queens. Targeting synagogues and Jewish homes is not just simply vandalism, but a hate crime meant to threaten and instill fear.
Jewish New Yorkers deserve to worship and live without fear of intimidation. This city cannot…
— Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (@gillibrandny) May 4, 2026
Related: With Mills out, Democrats line up behind Platner as he reiterates his vision for the party:
“Democrats are dedicated to fighting back against the chaos of the Trump administration by defeating the Republicans who enable his harmful agenda and that includes Susan Collins,” Schumer and Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Chair Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand said in a joint statement. “After years of allowing Trump’s abuses of power, Senator Collins has never been more vulnerable and we will work with the presumptive Democratic nominee Graham Platner to defeat her.”
As Mary Katharine Ham tweeted:
I think if one is trying to figure out if a candidate is sympathetic to Nazis, one of the most important tests is whether the candidate knowingly got a death’s head tattoo signifying an elite, brutal group of SS officers and kept it until the second he wanted to run for Senate… https://t.co/vRjQAQ2kIF
— Mary Katharine Ham (@mkhammer) May 3, 2026
Liz Mair adds, “He either is a serious person and all this stuff deserves to be treated seriously or he’s just a dipshit too online Internet weirdo who shouldn’t be entrusted with legislating even the name of Post Offices. Seems pretty simple to me.”
URBAN WOMEN ARE SCARIER THAN URBAN MEN: Urban Birds Appear to Fear Women More Than Men, But Why? More testosterone?
THAT COULD BE A LIFESAVER: AI Detects “Invisible” Signs of Pancreatic Cancer Years Before Diagnosis.
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.
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HAPPY MAY THE FOURTH* FOR ALL WHO CELEBRATE: The Force adrift.
There is no greater testament to how misbegotten the entire endeavor was than the fact that not once in the sequels do the heroes from the original trilogy appear in the same movie, let alone on screen together. The whole point of the sequels, and the justification for much of the anticipation for them, was seeing the old gang back in action. Yet it seems never to have occurred to anyone at Disney — not CEO Bob Iger, not Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy, no one — that this might be a problem. Luke, Leia, Han, Chewie, and Lando share zero seconds of screen time. How could that happen? It’s the plot equivalent of leaving an exposed thermal exhaust port in the Death Star design: something which makes much more sense as the result of carelessness, incompetence, and bureaucratic inertia than as the purposeful act of sabotage it was retconned into in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016).
The original trilogy is a classic saga of a hero’s journey set against the backdrop of a fight between good and evil, dressed up in futuristic, science-fiction garb. The prequels are an allegory for the unraveling of the postwar American political order, a tale of institutional decadence and collapse. Can anyone say what the sequels are about? There’s no overarching storyline because it was never planned out; the switch of writers and directors produced dramatic, often contradictory narrative shifts. Say what you will about Lucas’s vision, he had one. There is no vision to the sequels. It is questionable whether a corporate writer’s room can even have a vision, though it did give us the hopelessly dated presence of Lin-Manuel Miranda. And Space Monaco. Seriously, what the hell? That Mickey and Co. have managed to release just five movies, and none since 2019, is indicative of its struggles. A sixth, based on the Disney+ series The Mandalorian, is scheduled for May. We’ll see how that goes.
John Nolte has some thoughts on that: ‘May the Fourth Be With You’ Fans Rip Kathleen Kennedy.
The problem always was Kathleen Kennedy, who despised the mammoth Star Wars fanbase and decided to alienate and insult them with her stupid and narcissistic “The Force Is Female” campaign.
Why?
Why did Star Wars need to be feminized?
To what end?
No one does this to female-driven franchises. If they did, The Devil Wears Prada 2 would have gunfights and car chases.
Kennedy feminized Star Wars, she queered Star Wars, and when the fans complained, she and her acolytes (if you’ll pardon the expression) attacked those fans as sexist and racist — even though fans loved the female-led Rogue One, which is populated with non-white supporting characters.
If The Mandalorian and Grogu disappoints at the box office, there will be no blaming streaming or COVID or whatever other excuses the sycophants in the media come up with. So far, 2026 has proven again and again that if you make appealing movies (Prada 2, Michael, Project Hail Mary, Super Mario Galaxy Movie) people will come.
The box office problems post-COVID have been entirely due to woketard movies and nothing else. If The Mandalorian and Grogu flops, especially during a year when people again feel good about going to the movies, that will all be on Disney and Kathleen Kennedy for destroying their golden goose.
I’m holding out for next year: The original 1977 Star Wars returns to theaters for a “once-in-a-generation event” to remind everyone who shot first.
* And for those who don’t:
THIS IS SOME CEASEFIRE: Iran Getting Spicy Again. “It appears the IRCG regards Trump’s slow economic strangulation via blockade as a bigger threat to their tenuous hold on power than American and Israel bombs falling on them. They’re probably correct in that assumption.”
WELL, YEAH:
For Democrats, everybody is a Nazi except the guy with the Nazi tattoo who hates the Jews.
— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) May 4, 2026
