IT’S CALVINBALL ALL THE WAY DOWN:

Speaking of… all of a sudden CA Dems think the "Top 2" primary isn't fair. I'm not going to get out of their way while they dismantle it, that's for damn sure. From today's Politico CA Playbook: https://t.co/PrlwyYLvOQ pic.twitter.com/HeuQ1KyIlv

— Jennifer Van Laar (@jenvanlaar) May 11, 2026

LIMITED TIME DEAL: Wuffes 23-in-1 Dog Multivitamin Soft Chews Skin & Coat. #CommissionEarned

CHANGE: Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice leaves Democratic Party over antisemitism concerns.

Justice David Wecht, who was elected to the court as a Democrat in 2015, said in a statement he is switching his party affiliation to independent due to an “acquiescence to Jew-hatred” becoming “disturbingly common among activists, leaders and even many elected officials in the Democratic Party.”

“I can no longer abide this. So, I won’t,” Wecht said. “I am no longer registered within any political party.”

In his statement, Wecht said he’s long felt antisemitism was most potent on the fringes of the right — especially after the 2018 shooting at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue, where Wecht was married and is a former board member. But he said that since 2018, “that same hatred has grown on the left.”

Like kudzu, it’s taken over the left.

REALCLEARWORLD: Victory or Defeat, Iranian Old Regime’s Fate is Sealed.

MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: How Trump’s ‘anaconda’ tactics put the squeeze on Iran and China.

And the Democrats.

THE NEW SPACE RACE:

Launch rehearsal complete. During a flight-like countdown, more than 5,000 metric tonnes (11+ million pounds) of propellant were loaded on the fully stacked Starship and Super Heavy V3 vehicles for the first time pic.twitter.com/e9oZlzc0yz

— SpaceX (@SpaceX) May 11, 2026

Still no official word from SpaceX, but NextSpaceFlight has Friday afternoon penciled in.

MISSED IT BY THAT MUCH: Jones “failed to change templates..because this one is still going to the Supreme Court of Virginia. The incompetence is mind blowing:” 

Ok, so the AG of Virginia, Jay Jones, has filed an emergency appeal to the United States Supreme Court asking them to overrule the Virginia State Supreme Courts ruling, and while he may have sent it through spellcheck this time, he failed to change templates..because this one is… pic.twitter.com/VnaSPydgAQ

— Michelle Maxwell ™ (@MichelleMaxwell) May 11, 2026

ROBERT SPENCER: GOP Congressman Wants to Clear Name of the World’s Most Prominent Falsely Accused Innocent Man. “It’s clear now that both impeachments of President Donald Trump were shabby partisan affairs based on zero evidence, and that will be remembered as shameful episodes in American history. So why should they remain on the record? Is there no way for the man to clear his name?”

TEMPERAMENT.

“Don’t pour a pot of boiling potatoes on your spouse’s head” is a single sex neutral standard of conduct that virtually all seekers of high office of both sexes manage to meet, and that no man would be able to continue running for governor having failed to meet https://t.co/jvtKCWkrFL

— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) May 11, 2026

FROM PAM UPHOFF:  Mercenaries.

#CommissionEarned

A hundred and seventy years before the Fall of the Alliance . . .

Anatoli Vyatkin and Wolf Offen have graduated from college into a major economic slump, and no job offers at all.

So why not check out some property Wolf inherited? Previously rented to a mercenary company, a desperate mayor from a world under threat mistakes them for real mercenaries . . . well, why not give it a try?

WELL, THE JAPANESE ARE WAY A-HEAD OF US:  Advanced Civilization Begins Here: A Love Letter (and Mild Audit) of TOTO.

LOSING GRIP ON REALITY:  Reasonable Suggestion.

THEY DON’T DO GRADUATION ADDRESSES LIKE THIS NOW: Every Tuesday on HillFaith there appears a featured post entitled “FAITH OF THE FOUNDERS” that provides readers with a quote illustrating the deep influence on that remarkable generation.

Today’s installment is a passage from the address by then-Columbia University President William Samuel Johnson to the first graduating class after the American Revolution’s successful conclusion. Johnson was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention and was subsequently elected to the Senate. His father had previously served as Columbia’s first president.

The contrast between his deeply faith-informed address and the typical Critical Race Theory-based orations heard on today’s campuses points to the vast distance our nation has travelled in the wrong direction.

OH DEAR:  Suicide pact.

DEMOCRATS HUFFING THE GOOD GLUE:  Democrats Considering Radical Plan to Replace Virginia Supreme Court Justices.

BECAUSE OF COURSE HE DOES:  DOJ: Biden Plans to Fight Release of Recordings With Ghostwriter.

42 PERCENT OF DEMOCRATS ARE NOT JUST IGNORANT ABOUT GUNS, BUT STUPID TOO:  New Poll: 42% of Democrats Think Butler Assassination Attempt on Trump was Staged.

IF NEWSOM IS INVOLVED, IT’S GRIFT:  The difference between helping and grifting.

SIGH:  The Shadow Cabinet of Soros. Inside the Soros-Funded Nonprofit That Hand-Picked Biden’s National Security Team, Then Pretended to Dissolve.

DATA REPUBLICAN BEING A NATIONAL TREASURE AGAIN:  This is their core ecosystem. I did not build this map. Most dots represent a separate NGO. And this is only a partial list and does not include actors such as DemAID.

X-cancel.

WE’RE NOT THE ONLY ONES IN THIS SPOT:  Ibaraki Prefecture’s Rewards Program For Tips On Illegal Foreign Workers In Effect.

WELL, THEY CALLED THEMSELVES THAT:  Were the Nazis socialists?

Related (From Ed): A Brief Comparison of National and International Socialism.

THE DYING BEAST IS MOST DANGEROUS:  Don’t Get Cocky.

WE’RE AT THE BEGINNING OF A GREAT RELEARNING:  Knowledge of the Ancients.

WELL, BYE: Pressure on Starmer Mounts as Dozens of Labour Lawmakers Call on Him to Quit.

Personally, I want Labour out, not just Starmer.