MEANWHILE, IN LOS ANGELES:

What the YIMBY folks may not yet understand is that I’m their pathway to actually getting 100K new housing units. Imagine what we can do with 55 blocks on Skid Row, once it’s clean and useable for the first time… https://t.co/NCZq2nys8k

— Spencer Pratt (@spencerpratt) May 10, 2026

You don’t have to choose decline, L.A.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: “Remember: They’re not trying to kill you because you’re a ‘White Supremacist.’ They’re CALLING you a White Supremacist so they can justify killing you.”

Brother of U.S. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.

Ohio State Prof.

Host of a Podcast for the SPLC.

Remember: They're not trying to kill you because you're a "White Supremacist."

They're CALLING you a White Supremacist so they can justify killing you. https://t.co/75IZbQQw2D

— Jeremy Carl (@realJeremyCarl) May 10, 2026

LIGHTNING DEAL: AstroAI Cordless Tire Inflator Air Compressor 20V Rechargeable Battery Powered. #CommissionEarned

TRUMP: US Will Obtain Iran’s Enriched Uranium.

In an interview released Sunday on “Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson,” Trump said the U.S. is closely surveilling Iran’s nuclear facilities through capabilities developed under Space Force and warned Tehran that any movement involving the uranium would immediately trigger a response.

“We’ll get that at some point, whatever we want,” Trump said. “We have it surveilled. You know, I did a thing called Space Force, and they are watching.

“If somebody walked in, they can tell you his name, his address, the number of his badge.

“If anybody got near the place, we will know about it, and we’ll blow them up.”

After seeing what US/IDF forces were able to accomplish before the ceasefire, Tehran ought to believe him.

Still, Trump should have named it Starfleet.

SAY IT AIN’T SO:

You're not gonna believe this, but Gavin Newsom's new "free diapers" program is yet another corrupt NGO money laundering operation.

Kelly Sawyer runs Baby 2 Baby, an LA charity that provides baby gear to poor mothers. If you go to an LA private school, you get solicited to… pic.twitter.com/5TNbU3lFSD

— Peachy Keenan (@KeenanPeachy) May 10, 2026

THE NEW SPACE RACE:

SpaceX just stacked Starship for the first time on Pad 2. Booster 19 and Ship 39 have formed a full V3 stack on the new pad, smashing the record once again as the tallest rocket on Earth! @NASASpaceflight pic.twitter.com/9V4dle0qUG

— Ceaser G (@CeaserG33) May 9, 2026

No announcement yet from SpaceX, but the FAA still has launch slots listed for May 12 and 13.

ICYMI: MY LATEST SUBSTACK: The Gathering Storm.

THE SOONER THE BETTER: Starmer’s End: Will Labour Exit With Him?

ILYA SHAPIRO: Justice Thomas’s Constitution: The Court’s most steadfast originalist reaches a historic milestone.

REFLECTING UPON THE ORIGINS OF MATHEMATICAL MODELING THE WEATHER:  First World War weatherman who saw the future of forecasting.

WHEN BOLD NEW THINKING IS REQUIRED, LABOUR TURNS TO THOSE WHO CREATED TODAY’S MESS:  Flailing Starmer digs up a pair of fossils.

CAN FARAGE RUN A GOVERNMENT THAT HATES HIM MORE THAN OUR DEEP STATE HATES TRUMP?  My TCW week in review: Nigel needs to manage his moment.

LET HIM NOT BE BLUFFING:  ‘They Will Be Laughing No Longer’: Trump Gives Stark Warning to Tehran.

EASILY SAID, BUT WHERE IN OUR NATION ARE THE VOICES TEACHING HOW IT’S DONE:  Widow of Assassinated Conservative Icon Tells Graduates: Get Married, Build Families, Live With Purpose.

MOSTLY PEACEFUL THUGS:  Antifa Radicals Issue Threats and Commit Assault During Demonstration Against Kash Patel.

MAY THE LORD DELIVER AND PRESERVE US:  AOC on 2028 Buzz: ‘My Ambition Is Way Bigger Than That’.

The only woman who would lose an IQ challenge to KJB. She would make Joe Biden during his presidency look like a genius.

LET’S GO:  Artemis II Success Sets Up High-Stakes Mission Artemis III for Late 2027.

I DON’T KNOW. I THINK HAND GRENADES ARE BRIGHTER:  “KBJ has become the equivalent of a hand grenade that Joe Biden threw into the Supreme Court”.

AND THERE IS THAT:  The Hand That Rocks The Cradle. Is The Hand That Rules The World.

First mother’s day without my mother. Won’t lie. It was a little difficult.

WELL, NOW:  A researcher may have found a shortcut to Mars as NASA eyes red planet. Here’s what to know about the newly found possible shorter trajectory to Mars, and what it could mean ahead of future missions to Earth’s planetary neighbor.

AND WE NEED A LOT MORE CHILDREN:  First Lady Melania Trump: Mothers Are America’s Strength.

ON SUNDAYS I RUN A PROMO POST FOR (MOSTLY) INDIE AUTHORS:  Book Promo And Vignettes By Luke, Mary Catelli and ‘Nother Mike.

There’s also a fun vignette challenge.

STARMER STORMS OFF?

I assume we'll be treated to one of those exit speeches where it is explained to the electorate that they failed him.

Unless he's a bigger man than he has been thus far. https://t.co/ggs91Oidb9

— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) May 11, 2026

WHERE WE ARE: SOME THOUGHTS FROM COMMENTER “PORKYPINE:”

I’ve been saying for a while, the modern radical-left Dems have maybe 10% of the country as true-believer supporters. Maybe less. Then there are Blue-Bubble herd followers, who get them to maybe 35%. In a good Dem year low-info moderates who swallow the Dem lie du jour bring it to maybe 45%. Then if cheating can make up the rest, Dems once again control all that sweet grift. It’s been working for decades now.

The obvious conclusion is, the Dems are vulnerable on several of those points, and Trump is indeed working those angles hard. The longer-term conclusion is, the US system rewards two leading parties vying for the center, and punishes all others. But the Dems can’t compete for the center anymore (other than by lying) because any move that way is anathema to the lefties who’ve taken over.

So yeah, they now have to try everything, legal or otherwise, except centrism to win. And they’re desperate because they’re beginning to perceive their likely future as a rump radical 10% ignored and marginalized by some new two-centrist-parties national realignment. Desperate people steeped in violent revolutionary tropes… It’s gonna get ugly until they finally internalize that they’ve lost.

It’ll get far uglier if we do let them win — no tyrant worse than one who’s just had a good scare. Best we don’t let this crowd win national power again, ever.

Yep.

MY NEXT COLUMN TALKS ABOUT THIS:

The US mission in Iran is being judged by a standard in which only complete capitulation is victory for the US but mere survival is victory for Iran. This is nonsense as the post below makes clear. https://t.co/huVexJoSVx

— Brit Hume (@brithume) May 10, 2026