May 21, 2026

SO WHAT’S THERE LEFT TO TALK ABOUT?

Posted at 8:52 am by Stephen Green

UGH: Soros Redirects $300 Million to US, Targeting Trump Policies.

The New York-based organization announced the initiative Tuesday after years concentrating much of its activism overseas, including in Africa and the Middle East.

OSF now says the U.S. has become a frontline political battleground.

“We certainly believe that civil society is essential and must stay on the playing field,” Laleh Ispahani, OSF’s managing director for the U.S., told The Guardian.

Ispahani, previously senior policy counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union, compared current conditions to countries where “autocratic administrations” targeted civic groups.

Soros has donated more than $32 billion to his Open Society Foundation, which funds progressive legal groups, voting-rights organizations, and left-leaning policy initiatives worldwide.

Well, Elon?

Posted at 8:37 am by Stephen Green

THE MEDIA CAN’T SEE THE POPULIST VOTE CLEARLY TO SAVE THEIR LIVES:

If you’re looking for an explanation of Massie’s defeat in a Republican primary election, consider the extraordinary possibility that Republican voters might have had something to do with it, having made their own evaluation about the quality of his service in public office. The change in the last two years is that Massie entered into a political partnership with Democrats, allying with the Bay Area Congressman Ro Khanna, a particularly repellent Democrat, to try to harm Trump politically. He was also one of two Republicans in the House to vote against the Big Beautiful Bill, the landmark legislation of Trump’s second term.

Republican voters are punishing elected officials who don’t work consistently to advance the agenda of the Republican Party and its much-ignored base, while also telling a clear story about working to advance a Republican agenda. Republican voters are … Republicans. Massie didn’t lose because of Donald Trump or because of Benjamin Netanyahu.

Read the whole thing.

Posted at 8:35 am by Ed Driscoll

CHANGE IS COMING:

Posted at 8:00 am by Glenn Reynolds

THE ENEMY WITHIN:

Posted at 7:50 am by Stephen Green

HOW IT STARTED: Smear Campaign Against Larry Elder Reveals Fraud by Woke Media.

Elder, who would have become the state’s first black governor had he won, was smeared continually by California media at the behest of the left in the most absurd and often quite offensive ways.

The Los Angeles Times ran an opinion column in August [2021] headlined “Larry Elder is the Black face of white supremacy. You’ve been warned.” Another Los Angeles Times columnist linked Elder to the politics of David Duke and the Ku Klux Klan.

How It’s Going:

Tweet concludes, “‘so I love the status quo here in LA. Anyway, please vote for the candidate that will allow me to keep pleasuring myself to the sight of living corpses on our streets.’”

Sean Davis responds, that the L.A. Times are “claiming Pratt has a ‘dark vision’ for Los Angeles because he opposes the city constantly being on fire. What a bunch of psychopaths.”

In 2026, that’s the level to which the DNC-MSM has descended. As Jim Treacher writes: Dems to Spencer Pratt: Ha Ha, Your House Burned Down.

A “journalist” named Marlo Stern recently responded to Pratt’s promise to leave Los Angeles if he loses. I guess he said that on some podcast. I don’t know if he was joking. I don’t know. He said it.

And Marlo Stern’s response was:

Okay. Why does he live in Santa Barbara?

Because his house burned down.

That’s the whole point of his campaign. That’s why he wants to be mayor. He knows better than most people how incompetent the government is.

But the Democrats don’t have an answer for that. They can’t rebut the centerpiece of his campaign. So they just pretend it didn’t happen. They act like he doesn’t live in his own home by choice. He decided to move.

And that was Pratt’s response:

That was a “wild meltdown,” according to the Daily Beast. Because Spencer Pratt is not a Democrat.

And now this Marlo Stern idiot is playing victim, because the big bad Republican was mean to him. All he did was make fun of the guy for his house burning down. That’s journalism, isn’t it?

That’s all they’ve got, because he’s exactly right about the problem. And they don’t know how to solve problems. All they can do is lie about it. All they can do is call you names about it.

I’m skeptical that Spencer Pratt can win in L.A., but the Democrats sure think so. That’s why they’re panicking.

Either way, I’m glad he’s pushing back against these corrupt… I can’t think of a word that I won’t have to bleep out. These corrupt so-and-so’s. How about that?

Philadelphians reelected Democrat Wilson Goode in 1987 after his administration burned four city blocks, which “killed 11 people, and left 250 people homeless,” when the police bombed the radical chic MOVE group out of their compound and the resulting fire spread out of control. Los Angelenos will soon likely award far worse incompetence.

Posted at 7:44 am by Ed Driscoll

THE NEW SPACE RACE: NASA’s Psyche Mission Aces Mars Flyby, Targets Metal-Rich Asteroid.

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft completed its close approach of Mars on May 15, coming within 2,864 miles (4,609 kilometers) of the planet’s surface. This flyby used a gravity assist from Mars to provide a critical boost in speed and to adjust the spacecraft’s orbital plane without using any onboard propellant, sending it on its way toward the metal-rich asteroid Psyche.

The spacecraft is now headed directly toward the asteroid, located in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. After the Mars flyby, the flight team analyzed radio signals between the spacecraft and NASA’s Deep Space Network (DSN), the agency’s global system for communicating with interplanetary spacecraft, to confirm that Psyche was on the correct trajectory.

“Although we were confident in our calculations and flight plan, monitoring the DSN’s Doppler signal in real time during the flyby was still exciting,” said Don Han, Psyche’s navigation lead at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. “We’ve confirmed that Mars gave the spacecraft a 1,000 mile‑per‑hour boost and shifted its orbital plane by about 1 degree relative to the Sun. We are now on course for arrival at the asteroid Psyche in summer 2029.”

It’s almost impossible to overstate how important/exciting this mission is.

Posted at 7:35 am by Stephen Green

TEDIOUS REPETITION:

Posted at 7:30 am by Glenn Reynolds

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:

Posted at 7:20 am by Glenn Reynolds

SPOILER: IT DID LESS THAN NOT HELP.

Posted at 7:19 am by Stephen Green

SAME PLAYBOOK, SAME PLAYS:

Posted at 7:00 am by Glenn Reynolds