EVEN IF PRATT LOSES, THAT HE AND HIS SUPPORTERS ARE WILLING TO SPEAK THESE BLUNT TRUTHS IS A HUGE BLOW TO THE DEMOCRATS, WHO HAVE SPENT A LOT OF EFFORT TO SUPPRESS BLUNT TRUTHS:

“I’m not MAGA or anything but the city’s kinda gone to shit, right?”

Another banger from @dsonoiki for @spencerpratt pic.twitter.com/O6bnzlkrPn

— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) May 20, 2026

SPOILER: IT DID LESS THAN NOT HELP.

We've already run this experiment. In 2000, NYC spent about $10k per student on education. That's about $20k per student in 2026 dollars.

This year NYC will spend over $40k per student on education.

So we've already doubled spending on education. Did it help?

Bezos is right. https://t.co/qWQjAABkVY

— Harry Heymann 🥑 (@harryh) May 20, 2026

LET’S HOPE: Covid Dissenter Alex Berenson’s Free Speech Victory Might Be The First Of Many.

FINGERS CROSSED: Why This Veteran Political Journalist Thinks Spencer Pratt Could Win in Los Angeles.

AND SHE’S RUNNING FOR THE HOUSE AS A ‘MODERATE’:   Sex therapist Dem candidate blasted over vile call to convert ICE facilities into camps for ‘American Zionists’ with castration center.

SAME PLAYBOOK, SAME PLAYS:

Israel is the new Russia

Netanyahu is the new Putin

The Epstein Files is the new Steele Dossier

Once you see that the "foreign influence" psyop is a recycled play from Trump's first term, you can't unsee it.

Don't fall victim to such an obvious disinformation campaign.

— Shawn Farash (@Shawn_Farash) May 20, 2026

TEMU OBAMA IS JONESING FOR A CIVIL WAR:  Hakeem Jeffries Urges Democrats to ‘Break’ MAGA’s Spirit.

THEY’RE ALL RIDICULOUS:  IPCC Retires Its Most Implausible Global Warming Scenarios.

WHO KNEW THE “FOUR YORKSHIREMEN’ SKETCH WAS POLITICAL COMMENTARY ON LABOUR?  The ‘working class’ mantle worn by every leftie leader bent on betraying their country.

WHO KNEW A LGBTQ+ RIGHTS GROUP (STONEWALL) COULD BULLY?  Ex-BBC news executive breaks ranks and says BBC was steamrollered by Stonewall.

I HAVE NOTICED:  “Gilded Age” Robber Barons didn’t have access to what even working-class Americans have now.

HOLLY CHISM IS ALSO IN THE BASED BOOK SALE:  Light Up the Night is 99c.

WHAT HE SAID:  If this is ‘inclusivity,’ I don’t want it.

YEP:  When they tell on themselves.

AND TILTING AT WINDMILLS IS HAVING: A sale.

NOW THEY’RE TRYING TO TAKE THE WORD ‘MERITOCRACY’. MERIT, PEOPLE, INDIVIDUAL MERIT:  You Keep Using That Word. It doesn’t mean what you think it means.

THE CREEPING STALINIZATION OF THE UK:  Freeborn No More?  The Crime and Policing Bill and the Slow Death of English Liberty.

OKAY…  QotD: Software developers as wizards.

I’VE SPOTTED THAT TOO: I’ve been lurking in anti-AI, anti-data center activist facebook groups just to understand what their arguments are.

X-cancel.

WELL, IF THEY WANT THEIR DIETARY RULES FOLLOWED THEY SHOULDN’T HAVE COME TO A COUNTRY THAT DOESN’T WANT THEM, RIGHT?  NEWS: It has been reported that an Airliner contracted to deport illegal migrants from Ireland to Pakistan has been feeding Muslim passengers Pork Sausages as an in flight meal.

X-cancel.

TRUE REFUGEES:  Trump administration plans to admit more white South Africans as refugees this year.

THE SUMMER BASED BOOK-SALE IS ONE:  The Summer 2026 Based Book Sale. Runs Now Through Tuesday May 26, 2026.

And for reasons of my feeling it’s not fair to have only one third of the book on sale (since No Man’s Land is a book in three volumes.) I put all three books on 99c each sale. Note I can’t afford to do this often, as it’s only 33c a copy to me, but this one time I’m doing it. Volume 1. Volume 2. Volume 3.

OPEN THREAD: Hump Day.

AND NOW, A FIRESIDE CHAT FROM MAYOR FRANKLIN DELANO MAMDANI:

Mamdani is unlocking levels of performative narcissism from a municipal politician that were previously unthinkable. https://t.co/ajBx3lPecS

— Coddled Affluent Professional (@feelsdesperate) May 20, 2026

It’s an “unexpectedly” appropriate comparison:

● FDR’s policies prolonged Depression by 7 years, UCLA economists calculate.

—Frontiers of Freedom, December 14^th, 2015.

● New Documents Reveal FDR’s Eugenic Project to ‘Resettle’ Jews During World War II.

—Steve Usdin, Tablet, April 29, 2018.

● A controversial executive order leads to internment camps:

The executive order didn’t specify Japanese-Americans as a group, but the U.S. military detained more than 100,000 people in the next six months and moved them to camps and facilities with armed guards and barbed wire.

There were 10 camps set up nationally, and about 120,000 people were interned in the camps during the war. About two-thirds of them were Japanese-Americans who were born in the United States. People of Italian and German heritage were also detained.

The controversial moves were met with legal challenges, which eventually were unsuccessful in freeing the detainees from the camps, despite the serious constitutional issues involved.

—The National Constitution Center, February 19th, 2024.

21ST CENTURY HEADLINES: Scientists just solved a tricky asteroid-hopping spacecraft riddle.

WHAT’S UP AT CIA? A CIA veteran tells a Senate committee that political leaders in the agency reversed the draft assessment that Covid was leaked from China’s Wuhan lab. But just before the hearing opens, the CIA’s Director of Public Affairs releases a bruising condemnation of the proceedings. Apologies demanded, but not given. Silence from the White House and CIA chief John Ratcliffe. My latest Washington Stand post explores the behind-the-scenes eruption that seems to be brewing.