HATE SPEECH LAWS SOUND OBVIOUS UNTIL YOU ASK WHO DEFINES “HATE.” In The War on Words, Nadine Strossen and I argue that censorship rarely kills bad ideas, but rather drives them underground or turns their speakers into martyrs.
May 6, 2026
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Let’s Hope Georgia Voters Realize 2021 Was One Big, Stupid Mistake. “Chris’s post has a laundry list of reminders about all that has hit the fan regarding the Southern Poverty Law Center recently. It’s no surprise that Ossoff has been remarkably mum about it all thus far. That won’t be easy to do once it’s general election time. Again, that all depends on whether the National Republican Senatorial Committee and the likely nominee Rep. Mike Collins play their cards right. That’s never a given with Republicans, but at least we know that Collins knows how to win an election.”
“GOOD FAITH” AMONG THE CRITICS IS RARE.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Caine, USAF, made it quite clear on March 10 what the goals of the operation were.
1. Destroy Iranian missiles/drones
2. Destroy Iranian navy
3. Destroy Iranian military and industrial base
There are plenty of things out there to critique,… https://t.co/HWPybb070C
— cdrsalamander (@cdrsalamander) May 6, 2026
YEP. IT’S NOT ABOUT WHAT THEY’RE DOING, IT’S ABOUT NOT LETTING THEM GET AWAY WITH IT.
Here's the crazy thing about this.
The issue is not whether or not the white guy was discriminated against.
We all know he was.
The issue is whether or not it was OK he was discriminated against.
Crazy. https://t.co/f1bO2BpTJi
— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) May 6, 2026
HARSH BUT UTTERLY FAIR:
Jeff Bezos has benefited me by making goods and services I like to use. You are a parasite who has done nothing but take money from me to spend frivolously. In a just society, you would be living in a cardboard box. You should be thankful each day life isn't fair. https://t.co/BWeMKJPbtI
— Frank J. Fleming (@IMAO_) May 5, 2026
REDISTRICTING: Gov. Hochul eyes redistricting after NY loses residents, House seats.
Gov. Kathy Hochul said New York has been losing residents to other states because of a failure to build enough housing. She said that loss also cuts into the state’s representation in Congress.
“We’ve been losing too many New Yorkers, as I said, to other states because of our failure to build housing,” Hochul said.
Hochul said fewer residents make New York “more vulnerable” when Republicans in other states redraw districts to keep control of the House.
She said she planned to meet with Congressman Joe Morelle to discuss redistricting in New York and how that process could move forward after what she described as changes in the legal landscape following a Supreme Court ruling on the Voting Rights Act.
Hochul said any change in New York would not be done only by lawmakers and would instead have to go before voters.
“And I want to make sure that New Yorkers have a chance to vote on this — this will not just be done by the Legislature,” Hochul said.
There’s so much more than housing behind New York losing residents, but “affordable housing” is a lot like homelessness — it’s a longterm opportunity for graft, not a problem to be solved.
UPDATE (FROM GLENN):
Actually, you did start it. New York did mid-decade redistricting last cycle and tried again this cycle. This is your fourth attempt at partisan gerrymandering since becoming governor. https://t.co/f6pB8n6TqO
— Mike Lawler (@lawler4ny) May 5, 2026
HOW IT STARTED:
Fast-forward to the 1970s. Kenner’s a division of General Mills. It makes Easy Bake Ovens, and tops wish lists with its Six Million Dollar Man merchandise based on the day’s hit cyborg-action series. (Television shows, not movies, was where it was at for the toy industry.) Then one day a filmmaker shows up with an oddball proposal. Corky Steiner paints the scene: “A number of toy companies passed on [this] unusual presentation with funny names… These names are ridiculous. [People thought,] ‘This guy must be nuts.’”
“No, he’s not nuts,” Kenner’s research-and-development team says of Lucas and the pitch for his unseen film, Star Wars, per Steiner. “Everything we think we see in this script is a toy. This is a bonanza.”
—“The First, Worst Star Wars Christmas: A Look Back at the ‘Brilliant,’ Toy-less 1977 Holiday Season,” Yahoo, December 14th, 2015.
How It’s Going:
What’s hilarious about this whole fiasco is that Disney specifically bought Star Wars because they lacked a brand that appealed to boys. They had tons of merch sales to girls but had almost nothing for boys.
So they bought it for billions and the creative dept feminized it… https://t.co/nodAbbidl0— Bizlet (@bizlet7) May 5, 2026
Tweet continues, “So they bought it for billions and the creative dept feminized it defeating the entire purpose of buying it to begin with.”
As John Nolte wrote in 2023, “Disney went woke and killed what even the stillborn Lucas prequels couldn’t kill: the magic of Star Wars.”
TRAPPING PEOPLE IN THEIR CAR IS VIOLENCE: Dear Cornell kids: Blocking a person’s retreat is threatening his life.
A student group at Cornell University claims university president Michael Kotlikoff “hit us with his car” after a debate over Israel. Students for a Democratic Cornell call the incident a “violent response to student inquiry.”
It’s quite the story: The University refuses to allow open debate about Israel, and resorts to violence to silence dissent!
But video released by Cornell shows a different story: Students tried to stop Kotlikoff from leaving, and he tried, as slowly as possible, to exit.
Because he was in a car, that slow retreat was inherently dangerous to those trying to detain him, but Kotlikoff was still totally in the right.
There’s a legal principle in self-defense called the “duty to retreat.” If someone is 100 feet away from me and shouts, “I’m going to stab you,” I still probably shouldn’t shoot him. I should try to get away instead. In New York State, where Cornell is, that duty to retreat is actually written into law.
Notably, Kotlikoff was literally trying to retreat. The anti-Israel activists were following him, and he was trying to go home. They attempted to stop his departure by blocking his car. First, they stood behind his car as he was trying to reverse. (There was a brick wall in front of him.) Then one student jumped in front of the car when Kotlikoff was trying to pull forward.
Never did Kotlikoff drive fast. At all times, he drove excruciatingly slow. Did he bump one of the activists or run over a foot? Maybe. That’s a risk that comes with operating an automobile. It’s a risk that is justified in this case.
People engaging in these kinds of tactics deserve to get hurt. They should also all be summarily expelled.
CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE:
Too many MAGA people moan about what they are not seeing done while ignoring the incredible wealth of good news in their midst.
I’ll give you just one example.
Did you know that the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division has created a “Second Amendment Section,” designed to protect the…
— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) May 6, 2026
BETRAYAL ISN’T A CHRISTIAN VALUE EITHER, YOU JUDAS:
Republican State Senator Travis Holdman — who lost by over 20 points — isn’t taking it very well.
“Revenge & retribution is not a Christian value.”
All you had to do was listen to your constituents. pic.twitter.com/CW41WrS7Fo
— ThePersistence (@ScottPresler) May 6, 2026
UPDATE: This.
Inevitably, the RINOs will take the wrong lesson from tonight's brutal discipline. They will think that because they personally offended Trump, they got defeated. That’s not it. Trump is not our leader. He is our avatar. You dummies screwed with the base, and the base, not Donald…
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) May 6, 2026
Plus:
Wrong lesson. Republican voters chose Trump because they were tired of feeling like their leadership had no interest in beating the Democrats. They were tired of feeling like even when they won, they lost.
This shellacking tonight didn’t happen because of Trump. His candidates… https://t.co/wBab6rMtsF
— Megan Basham (@megbasham) May 6, 2026
DEAL OF THE DAY: Keurig K-Classic Single Serve K-Cup Pod Coffee Maker. #CommissionEarned
UPDATE: MAGA Is Dying? Look At What They Did to Anti-Redistricting Indiana Republicans Last Night.
“MAGA is dying?” Wishcasting all the way.
THE PANIC IS ABOUT THE FEAR OF LOSING TO ACTUAL DEMOCRACY: Elite Panic and the Push to Regulate “Misinformation.”
BODYCAMS WERE A HUGE SELF-OWN FOR THE LEFT, AND A HUGE COMFORT FOR EVERYONE ELSE:
There’s a reason some leftists are calling for bodycams to stop being used.
“They have been a propaganda tool.”
Meaning, bodycams are a tool that have been very inconvenient to their narratives.pic.twitter.com/UWqITGgfU7 https://t.co/6JtSWgbXMG
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) May 4, 2026
WE’RE NOT BEING SEXIST HERE. IT’S NOT THAT LOOKS MATTER PER SE. IT’S JUST THAT BEAUTIFUL WOMEN ARE ALWAYS ON THE CUTTING EDGE OF SOCIAL TRENDS:
I am always going to side with hot chicks being hot. I just am.
Respect my culture and my cultural sensitivities visavis hot chicks.
My culture says don't put a bedsheet over a woman's head.
Respect that. Plus bacon. https://t.co/JgsS6RxXmS
— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) May 6, 2026
(Classical reference in headline.)
WHY THEY’RE SO DESPERATE, AND WHY NORMIES SHOULD BE FIGHTING HARD:
If the anti trump forces lose the mid terms, they are finished. No impeachment, no ability to stop the funding for maga agenda items, no power to stop the blitzkrieg from rolling over the hedgerows. 2026 will in many ways be a turning point in American cultural one way or…
— unseen1 (@unseen1_unseen) May 5, 2026
I THINK IT’S THE LAW:
I am cackling at how they still kept a White woman for HR lol https://t.co/1HzAWms3q6
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) May 5, 2026
2020: Fulton County challenges DOJ subpoena targeting 2020 election workers.
The Fulton County Board of Registrations and Elections is now asking a federal court in Atlanta to quash the grand jury subpoena from federal agents, which requested the names, addresses, phone numbers and emails for any staff member who worked the 2020 election.
“Its purpose is to target, harass, and punish the President’s perceived political opponents; it is grossly overbroad and untethered to any reasonable need; it cannot yield any evidence that could result in a criminal prosecution,” lawyers for the Fulton County officials said in the motion filed Monday with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.
The subpoena appears to escalate the Trump administration’s pressure on Fulton County amid an ongoing federal investigation into purported irregulates [sic] in the 2020 election.
Driven in part by Trump allies who unsuccessfully sought to use debunked theories to overturn the election, federal agents in January seized all the ballots and records from the 2020 election.
Debunked, eh? Well, I guess we’ll see about that if the investigation is allowed to continue.
THE POWER OF SOCIAL CONDITIONING:
LA voters: “ya the city is a shithole but how do I NOT vote for a minority woman who hates America??” https://t.co/m8jY48uJpS
— Rob Schmitt (@SchmittNYC) May 5, 2026
NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU DESPISE THE MEDIA…:
Muslim girl gets murdered at home by her Muslim parents and they forced her to wear a hijab covering up the abuse
Daily Mail – "Use another stock pic of a white girl" pic.twitter.com/ysFRDfwbxr
— Basil the Great (@BasilTheGreat) May 5, 2026
Or the government, for that matter, which seems to think the issue is home-schooling.
MORNING IN AMERICA:
U.S. exports hit record highs, job growth in March was THREE TIMES expected, and CapEx is off the charts.
The boom is already here. You'll get knocked over by it well before the midterms. https://t.co/9cUxFcDs1i
— Rod D. Martin (@RodDMartin) May 5, 2026
MAKE THEM PAY: Trump Sticks It to the Antisemites.
MEN IN DRESSES: All-Female Smith College Under Investigation for Admitting Men.
