May 5, 2026

AND THE BAND STILL PLAYS:  Deck chairs.

Posted at 4:20 am by Sarah Hoyt

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.

Posted at 1:59 am by Sarah Hoyt

I STILL CAN’T BELIEVE THE DINGY LADY PUBLISHED THAT:  Saint Hillary.

Posted at 1:56 am by Sarah Hoyt

May 4, 2026

AS THE BRITS SAY (OR USED TO), TELL THE TRUTH AND SHAME THE DEVIL:

Related:

Posted at 10:23 pm by Glenn Reynolds

OPEN THREAD: Monday, Monday.

Posted at 9:30 pm by Glenn Reynolds

A PROUD DAD COMMENTS:

Posted at 9:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

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:

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:

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.”

Posted at 8:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

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:

Posted at 6:44 pm by Ed Driscoll

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.”

Posted at 6:38 pm by Stephen Green

WELL, YEAH:

Posted at 6:23 pm by Stephen Green

SPRINGTIME FOR PLATNER: Democrats Go Into Their Dance.

“Don’t be stupid, be a smarty – come and join the Platner party!” is the collective refrain from Democrats (with rare exceptions) as they close ranks around the guy with the Nazi tattoo.

Now that Governor Janet Mills has dropped out of the primary race, the opportunity for Graham Platner to be the Democrat candidate for United States Senate in Maine is all but assured, and Democrats are willingly spinning this news as “happy and gay.”

Yes, yes, Graham Platner covered up his Totenkopf tattoo with a really shitty wolf-ish thing, but let’s all remember two things. First, he knew what that tattoo was (his own former campaign manager attests to that, as do other people who heard him talk about it), and second, he was totally fine with keeping that tattoo UNTIL he was running for office. So no, the Nazi apologetics coming from Democrats are pathetically disingenuous. Example A of this apologia comes from “Pod Save America” Obama bro Jon Favreau, who tried giving Hasan Piker an out (and Piker made a fool of him by affirming his fanboy love for Hamas), who is desperately singing a tune that he would rightfully rip Republicans for, if there was a Republican who had a Nazi tattoo running for office. As he himself says, he’s doubling down because of loyalty to the Party. Ahem. 

In 2014, Daniel Hannan wrote, “The greatest cultural victory of the Left has been to disregard the Nazi-Soviet Pact:”

To the modern reader, George Orwell’s depiction of how enmity alternates between Eurasia and Eastasia seems far-fetched; but when he published his great novel in 1948, such things were a recent memory. It suited Western Leftists, during and after the War, to argue that Hitler had been uniquely evil, certainly wickeder than Stalin. It was thus necessary to forget the enthusiasm with which the two tyrants had collaborated.

Flashforward to 2026, and Oceania has never wanted to punch Nazis: 

Tweet concludes, “It’s a story about how years and years of moral indignation from the Very Serious People™ class proved to be a paper-thin veneer over your team jerseys.”

UPDATE: Heh, indeed:

Posted at 6:14 pm by Ed Driscoll