They are actually pitching their failures as positives.

 Union-funded anti-Spencer Pratt ad sparks backlash as critics say it could help him  

"A political advertisement opposing Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt is drawing attention online as critics argue the messaging could ultimately benefit the former reality TV star instead of hurt his campaign.

"The ad, which has circulated widely on X in recent days, attacks Spencer Pratt over homelessness, policing and public employee unions while urging voters to reject the Republican candidate.

"Republican Spencer Pratt is the last thing Los Angeles needs for mayor," the speaker in the video says. "Pratt opposes using taxpayer money to build brand new houses for unhoused neighbors, saying it's time for the homeless to get help or get out.

Red State: Anti-Spencer Pratt Attack Ad Implodes Spectacularly As It Makes Slam Dunk Case for LA Mayoral Candidate

NOW: Leftists are being brutally mocked for DROPPING THIS “attack ad” on LA Mayor candidate Spencer Pratt — which says he opposes rampant homelessness and supports the police
LMAO — and they’re spending hundreds of thousands to blast this everywhere! 

“Pratt says it's time… pic.twitter.com/VYLB2QSUPD

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) May 10, 2026

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Holding the Media Responsible for the SPLC Scandal

"For those who have long watched Southern Poverty Law Center and the extraordinary influence it has with the media, the last few weeks have been positively beautiful to behold." 

Christopher Knight - American Thinker

Victims of SPLC for the past fifty years and more would do well to strike while its wounds are fresh, and hold the media inescapably culpable in its activism against the innocent.

"We are owed an expansive apology. That however would require sincere admission on the part of the aggressors that they did us wrong.

"A vigorous scan through the legacy news from this past two weeks has not turned that up. Indeed, the parties at fault have circled the wagons instead of confronting the problem. They are attempting to make it out that the Department of Justice at the behest of President Trump is executing a campaign of persecution against a “storied civil rights organization,” as CNN on Facebook described Southern Poverty Law Center.

"For those who have long watched Southern Poverty Law Center and the extraordinary influence it has with the media, the last few weeks have been positively beautiful to behold. That nigh-unassailable bastion of “anti-racist monitoring” has been indicted in federal court for funneling $3 million of its nonprofit coffers toward paying the very racial extremists it professed to stand against. The scheme could have sprung from the pages of a comic book: SPLC funding neo-Nazis and other white supremacists to actively hate people, so that SPLC could campaign against them. It’s basically akin to the fire department putting the torch to your house and expecting to be paid to put it out.

"SPLC’s motives and actions could almost be laughable. But there is no hilarity in this situation. Not with SPLC having fought tooth and claw across the previous five and a half decades to establish itself as the definitive arbiter of “hate” in America. Which in the case of SPLC happens to be anything to the right of the Politburo. Conservative individuals and organizations, and especially Christians, however minimum the magnitude of their actions, have long been cast by SPLC as being “extremist hate mongers” to be abhorred. This, while Southern Poverty turns a blind eye to the violence and mayhem and even loss of life brought about by leftist groups such as Antifa and those inspired by Black Lives Matter.

"No, there is not and never has been any intention by the Southern Poverty Law Center to legitimately monitor hate groups. The organization is just as Morris Dees and his confederates intended it to be: a weapon against liberty-minded people and groups that few would dare oppose without also being likened to racists." . . .

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WSJ: Iranians Starting to Notice Nepo Babytollah's Absence

  HotAir  

"Editor's Note: For decades, former presidents have been all talk and no action. Now, Donald Trump is eliminating the threat from Iran once and for all." 

"Did the Wall Street Journal discover sarcasm over the weekend? Or do Iranian "negotiators" really believe in Mojtaba Claus?

"With talks going nowhere, the WSJ's reporting team offers a look at the supposed friction within the regime remnants, centering on Beef Supreme Mojtaba Khamenei. No one has heard a public peep out of the Nepo Babytollah since the strike on his father's palace at the start of the war, except (supposedly) IRGC chief Ahmad Vahidi, who's used Mojtaba as his personal sockpuppet to create a flat-out military junta. Iranian officials insist that Khamenei The Slightly Less Deader is still alive and "managing" regime affairs, but his only public statements come through IRGC media outlets.

"Yesterday, the WSJ reported that this is only now becoming a problem for so-called moderates who want to find an accommodation with the US before the Iranian economy totally collapses. And now, even hard-line supporters are beginning to ask questions as the internecine fighting between factions heats up:

His absence is becoming a bigger problem for Tehran as it tries to negotiate an end to the war. Iran’s rulers have shown unity during the fighting, coordinating their political messaging and maintaining command and control over their armed forces. But they are fracturing over how far to go to strike a deal with the U.S.

Khamenei’s protracted absence from the public eye has been particularly unsettling for his hard-line supporters who are questioning the legitimacy of the talks, said Arash Azizi, a historian and lecturer at Yale University who focuses on Iran and has reviewed group chats of hard-line regime supporters.

Iran’s hard-liners have taken aim at more moderate Iranian politicians who are playing a prominent role in talks—most notably parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, who they see as too compromising.

“They wonder about where he is,” Azizi said of the new supreme leader. “They’re dismayed by what they see as Ghalibaf and the team leading the National Security Council negotiating and giving too many concessions to the U.S.”

"Let's recap a bit. Moderates wonder why Khamenei hasn't shown proof of life to endorse Vahidi's junta fully. Vahidi's hard-line supporters wonder why the Cardboardatollah hasn't spoken up to denounce the moderate "negotiators" who are still talking with the US. The solution to this fracture is as obvious as it is impossible – have Khamenei make a public appearance to settle the question. Even if he is disfigured and maimed, if he's actively "managing" the regime, he can do that much. As for his personal safety, other regime leaders make quite a show of public defiance ... so why not the Supreme Leader, supposedly anointed by Allah?" . . .More...

America’s most successful entrepreneurs are beginning to challenge progressive dominance head-on.

Recall the raucous TV audience applause for comments by Whoopi, Jimmy Kimmel, Colbert, et al. and you will have a picture of those types who put Mamdani, Newsom, and Katie Wilson into office. TD

The American Spectator   

"Words have power, but billionaires have real resources that can result in historic change."

"Kudos to Ken Griffin and Sergey Brin, the two billionaires going public against leftist outrages in New York City and California. They understand that standing ground and fighting back against adversaries has great potential while accommodation hasn’t ceased the recriminations against their success.

"Griffin blasted Mayor Zohran Mamdani for showboating in front of the entrepreneur’s Manhattan residence to promote his bizarre pied-à-terre tax. Brin boldly stepped forward with a $57 million contribution for countermeasures to California’s proposed five percent wealth tax while pointedly invoking his family’s 1979 flee from socialism and “the devastating, oppressive society it created in the Soviet Union.” Several other California billionaires and business leaders have joined Brin to defeat what the Wall Street Journal has called “the biggest act of economic self-sabotage in U.S. history.”

"But if Brin and his financial peers want to make their efforts last for years ahead, they should apply their vast resources to shape common sense governmental, tax, and regulatory policies and make a run at California’s governorship. Now that they’re in for the half, they should go in for the whole.

"There is a brief window of opportunity before June 2’s gubernatorial primary where they can slow or potentially reverse the disaster wrought by Gavin Newsom and an increasingly democratic socialist legislature. With just a fraction of their fortunes, it might be possible to affect the outcome of the governor’s race and prevent the accession of another vassal into California’s left-wing kingdom.

"Less than four weeks remain before California’s “jungle primary” decides where the top two candidates, regardless of party, advance to November. Today, there appear to be four realistic “top two” survivors: Republicans Chad Bianco and Steve Hilton and Democrats Tom Steyer and Xavier Becerra. Nevertheless, polling has been extremely erratic, and six Democrats are splitting their party’s vote. The two Republicans are within striking distance of making it to the top two if the Democrats continue their circular firing squad.

"On the other hand, national Democrats, union bosses, and left-wing special interests are likely on the cusp of spending tens of millions to assure that the top two survivors in the jungle primary are either both Democrats or one Democrat and one Republican. The Republicans have not won the governorship in the last 20 years, and Arnold Schwarzenegger was not a conservative favorite. So even if the Democrat nominee carries Newsom’s dead weight, the numbers will favor dynastic transition for zero change in Sacramento if the final match-up involves a Democrat versus a Republican." . . .More...

Seattle's millennial mayor sparks outrage for waving 'bye' to millionaires fleeing her state — but critics warn she's laughing off a potential exodus - AOL

Toon added by TD

“When the person running the city doesn’t seem to understand that all jobs and tax revenue come from private employers, and driving employers away permanently hollows out her capacity to pay for her social programs, it’s clear that we’re in for a rough decade, if not a permanent decline.”

Heartbreaking tribute from Savannah Guthrie's husband on first Mother's Day since Nancy kidnapping

 UK Daily Mail 

 "Nanos said that five other labs around the US are working on Nancy's case, but the names of facilities, what their roles are, and if there are additional DNA samples that are relevant to the case remain unclear, per the outlet"

Savannah, her sister Annie, and her brother-in-law Tommaso somberly
placed flowers at a memorial site outside Nancy's home in March

"Savannah Guthrie's husband shared a heartbreaking Mother's Day post for his beloved wife who is celebrating for the first time since her mother Nancy's kidnapping. 

"On Sunday, Michael Feldman posted a simple yet emotional message honoring Savannah on the bittersweet holiday. 

"'To the strongest person I know. Surrounding you with love on Mother's Day,' Feldman wrote alongside two red hearts and one broken heart emoji. 

"The image he posted showed Savannah embracing their two young children, Vale and Charley.  

"Directly under Feldman's caption, Hoda Kotb, Savannah's dear friend and Today show coworker, wrote: 'Holding you,' with a heart emoji. 

"Sunday marks Savannah's first Mother's Day without Nancy, who went missing on February 1 from her home in Tucson, Arizona. 

"Her whereabouts remain unknown as she was last seen by family members the night before, on January 31, after joining them for a game night. " . . .  More...

The Girlboss; Michael Crichton warned about ideological contagions long before Hollywood succumbed to one of its own.

 The American Spectator

"What could possess Nolan to sabotage his and Homer’s work? Yes, the Hollywoke Strain, but something else, perfectly described by Jesse Kelly on X. “Please understand that communists do this on purpose … They live for destroying beautiful things. Especially the ones most important to you.'”. . .

Dreamstime

. . . "Which brings us to Christopher Nolan. He may be an overrated director in my view, but he’s smart enough to know about the film-killing potency of the Hollywoke Strain. Yet instead of avoiding it, he appears to be injecting it, into his adaptation of one of the greatest and oldest classics of literature, The Odyssey.

"How many people, myself included, would flock to a screen retelling of the Homeric epic, full of gods and monsters, heroes and battles, sirens and villains, and a man’s long voyage home to his wife and son. What we won’t accept is a feminist interpretation of one of the manliest tales of all time. And that’s precisely Nolan’s source for the material — Emily Wilson’s gender heavy, morally ambiguous, unromantic translation of the story.

"We’re not thrilled by Matt Damon as Odysseus. We’re fine with Ann Hathaway as Penelope. We dislike Zendaya as Athena, goddess of wisdom. We welcome the beautiful Charlize Theron as the seductive demigoddess Calypso. But we’ll avoid like the plague a small deluded girl, Elliot Page, as the fearsome warrior Achilles, and a plain black woman, Lupita Nyong’o, as Helen of Troy, “the face that launched a thousand ships, And burnt the topless towers of Illium.” (Christopher Marlowe, The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus)

"What could possess Nolan to sabotage his and Homer’s work? Yes, the Hollywoke Strain, but something else, perfectly described by Jesse Kelly on X. “Please understand that communists do this on purpose … They live for destroying beautiful things. Especially the ones most important to you.”" . . .

The extremes in the world of journalism

 James Zumwalt - American Thinker

"When it comes to ethics in journalism, there are those in the profession, like Joe Scarborough, who remain totally ignorant—despite only being advisory rather than obligatory—of their professional standards."

"In the world of journalism—both written and photo—there arguably are certain standards to be observed. It is interesting to examine two contrasting extremes in incidents, occurring 33 years apart. One journalist went out of his way to ignore this standard while another—a photojournalist—took just the opposite approach.

"While the driving standard all journalists should observe is accurately reporting a story without bias, there is another standard that occasionally comes into focus, although while recently being violated, no mention was made about it. The standard at issue is that which advises journalists only to report on the story and not to become part of it.

"It should be no surprise to learn the party bringing this standard into question is the leftist co-host of “Morning Joe” —Joe Scarborough.

"On May 1, the MSNBC [MSNOW] network was broadcasting a Pentagon briefing by Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, initially providing an update on the war with Iran. Hegseth then began to give a briefing on our NATO allies in which he mocked their collective inaction.

"Suddenly, Scarborough broke into the broadcast, angrily decrying the administration of President Donald Trump’s “obsession” with hating Europe. At a time viewer trust in the media is at an all time low of 28%, those reporting the news should be pursuing objectivity by remaining neutral. There was zero neutrality exhibited by Scarborough in his outburst as he flagrantly violated the standard.

"Just the opposite extreme was exhibited in March 1993 by a South African photographer who took what would become one of the most controversial photos in photojournalism history. The photo in question was not only memorable, but disturbingly so. In fact, so memorable and disturbing was it that it received the 1994 Pulitzer Prize. But the consequences of taking it would, months later, cause the photographer, South African Kevin Carter, to commit suicide.

"Originally titled “Suffering Girl,” the photograph captured a little Sudanese girl, perhaps only four or five years old, folded over on the ground, her face hidden in the dirt but with the skeletal bones that were protruding on her side telling a tale of starvation.

"However, the disturbing part of the photo was the presence of a vulture. . . More...

James Zumwalt is a retired Marine infantry officer who served in the Vietnam War, Panama and Operation Desert Storm. He is the author of three books and hundreds of opinion pieces in online and print publications. He speaks frequently on foreign policy and defense issues as well as on the leadership of his famous father, after whom the world’s first stealth destroyer is named.

As Democrats Foment Ever More Violence, They Continue To Find Ever More Ways To “Defund Police”

 AFNN

"The“Get Real” host, George, started this podcast by asking Diane about the latest tyranny in Blue Washington State: A new law destroying Americans’ constitutional right to vote for their county sheriffs, which was just slapped down by a judge. Under this law, a Democrat-appointed commission would be deciding who can run for sheriff and who cannot. They also have the unconstitutional authority to kick an ELECTED sheriff out of office. In 2021, the former Democrat governor put Katrina Marie Johnson on the commission. As the head of Black Lives Matter-Seattle, she had orchestrated four months of violence in Seattle in 2020 which killed two black teen bystanders. In 2024, the current Democrat governor re-appointed her. SEE ARTICLE LINKED BELOW*.

"Steve discusses his recent research into the concept of “due process” which is an important constitutional right and the beginnings, in Western society, of controlling & limiting the power of government. We are losing that because we are not following the document which has kept us free since the late 1700s.

"Steve also discusses how the 14th Amendment (to give former slaves citizenship) is being intentionally misinterpreted in order to facilitate the invasion of foreigners. Diane interrupted Steve to mention a footnote in a US Supreme Court ruling which The Left claims creates “birthright citizenship.” Here it is:

"In Footnote 10 in the 1982 Supreme Court case Plyler v. Doe. The issue in the case was about whether or not a state could constitutionally deny illegal alien children the same public school education as American children. Justice William Brennan created a central focus of legal and political debate regarding birthright citizenship. In this footnote, Justice William Brennan wrote that “no plausible distinction . . . can be made between resident aliens whose entry into the United States was lawful and resident aliens whose entry was unlawful” in the context of the Fourteenth Amendment’s jurisdiction.

"The Left has spent the last 40 years arguing that this single footnote effectively created a “constitutional right” to birthright citizenship for the children of illegal aliens, a concept that was never intended by the 14th Amendment’s framers." . . . More...

*How Long Will It Take Dems To Replace ALL 39 Sheriffs In Washington State With Foreign Nationals, Voters Be Damned?

Living Behind Enemy Lines With BLM-Seattle's Head Terrorist, Tale #93: Katrina Marie Johnson

How the Sites of Stonewall Jackson's Wounding and Death Became Tourist Attractions

 HistoryNet. 

"[Union General] Sedgwick had been killed by a sharpshooter’s bullet on May 9, 1864, during the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House. In May 1888, Union veterans planned to gather on the battlefield to dedicate a monument to the fallen “Uncle John.” News about the preparations for that ceremony circulated throughout the Fredericksburg area in the months leading up to the event. Jackson partisans realized that if Sedgwick was going to have a monument, Jackson should have one, too".

"In May 1862, UNION TROOPS from New York—or any state represented in the Army of the Potomac, for that matter—would not have welcomed running into anything associated with Lt. Gen. Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson. But when friends of mine from western New York, heading south on Interstate 95 for vacation, came upon a brown road sign in central Virginia referencing the Confederate general, they were delighted.

“We saw the sign for the Stonewall Jackson Shrine and thought of you,” they texted me, knowing my affinity for the legendary Army of Northern Virginia commander. This particular sign near I-95’s Thornburg, Va., exit—since renamed the Stonewall Jackson Death Site—had caught their eyes, just as it does for thousands of battlefield tourists every year.

"Stonewall Jackson, of course, was mortally wounded on May 2, 1863, at the height of his great triumph at the Battle of Chancellorsville. That afternoon, Jackson’s Corps had rolled up Maj. Gen. O.O. Howard’s 11th Corps on the Army of the Potomac’s right during a daring flank attack still studied by military theorists. The assault crippled Union Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker’s offensive. But Jackson wanted more. As evening began to fall, the general impatiently conducted a reconnaissance in the thick woods in front of his lines, eager to discover the Union positions and perhaps continue his attack. A rippling volley from troops in one of his own North Carolina brigades, however, knocked Jackson from his horse.

"Jackson endured amputation of his left arm and a jarring 27-mile ambulance ride the next day to Thomas C. Chandler’s “Fairview” Plantation near Guinea Station, site of the shrine that caught my friend’s attention. He remained at one of the plantation’s outbuildings until he died of pneumonia on May 10."

Cash for crowds scandal as lobbyist 'offered hundreds of dollars to recruit attendees for JD Vance speech'

  Daily Mail Online  

“Only in 2025 can a man make millions renting outrage — and still complain about competition.”

"Vice President JD Vance's appearance in a state critical to the 2028 Republican presidential nomination is raising eyebrows due to a lobbyist's bid to entice attendees.

Ahead of a rally Vance headlined in Des Moines with Iowa Congressman Zach Nunn that took place last Tuesday, a text message was sent by an Iowa ethanol lobbyist recruiting spectators to attend. The messages contained an offer of payment.

The text, obtained and published by Iowa Starting Line read:

'Gentlemen, Jake Swanson here. I wanted to invite you to join me in seeing Vice President JD Vance this afternoon in Des Moines. I do some work for an ethanol company and so if you're able to join, I will give you $100, and for anyone that you recruit, an additional $25. No limit on referrals, so if someone recruits a group of 20 to show up, that's $500.'

Swanson is a lobbyist and a former policy adviser to Iowa's Republican governor, Kim Reynolds.

In a statement to Iowa Starting Line, Swanson defended the move: 'I love ethanol and what it does for our state. 

'So I was happy to bring some Iowa State kids to the rally to celebrate all the things Trump-Vance have done for biofuels and I think there's opportunity for so much more. This is what I like to do in my own personal spare time,' Swanson noted.

A spokesperson for the Vice President told The Daily Mail after publication that 'our office had no involvement in or knowledge of any such efforts.'... More...

Crowds for Hire CEO Warns of Paid Protesters — Mad He Didn’t Get the Gig – The Daily Skrape

The Jew-Hatred Pandemic No Longer a Mystery - We’ve cracked the case.

 Joan Swirsky-American Thinker  

"And when [God] observed the psychotic October 7 attack on his “chosen people” as so sinful, so craven, so immoral, so bestial, he sent President Donald J. Trump to aid our closest ally and to instruct a largely racist world about the difference between right and wrong and good and bad, and also what is worthy of defending and fighting for at this fraught time in world history."

. . . "The campaign against Israel, Mr. Kinsella said, was “ready to go” and “kicked off” with 2,500 anti-Israel protests around the world —  “even before Israel started to fight back!”  They were using professional signs, professional organizers, a professional global campaign, and that’s hard to do, but they pulled it off.

"Additionally, Mr. Kinsella said that this pro-Hamas, anti-Israel campaign targeted young people who were more “susceptible to conspiracy theories, more susceptible to accept antisemitic tropes — the Holocaust didn’t happen, Jews control the world, et al. — all of that nonsense. Young people, unfortunately, in Canada and the U.S. and Europe, were much more willing to accept those types of lies.”

"Mr. Kinsella explained that in this global eruption of Jew- and Israel-hatred, the campaign manager was Iran, Qatar was the banker, China and Russia acted as campaign co-chairs, Hamas and Hezb’allah were on the front lines, and also that “the alphabet soup of NGOs (non-governmental organizations), nonprofits, and charities pushing these hateful messages were ready to move ... while October 7 was happening ... which was either a hell of a coincidence, or they knew in advance what was going to happen.”

"This is among hundreds of facts that he documents scrupulously in his new book, The Hidden Hand: The Information War and the Rise of Antisemitic Propaganda.

"I remember watching the returns of the 2000 presidential election, when the Republican governor of Texas, George W. Bush, ran against the Democrat senator from Tennessee, Al Gore.  In the hotly contested race, the vote was so close that it ended up in the Supreme Court, which declared the recount dispute in favor of Gov. Bush and pronounced him the winner.

"But what puzzled me at the time and raised some red flags in my mind was that the very next day, instantaneously, it seemed, there appeared professionally produced protest signs and placards and enormous crowds of protesters — fueled by the efforts of the late Rev. Jesse Jackson — to fight the Supreme Court decision.

"How could they produce those signs and all those people overnight? I wondered." . . . More...

Jimmy Kimmel and the ‘Left-Wing Culture of Hatred’; The WHCA Dinner and responsibility.

Sickening especially are the crowds applauding the hateful remarks. 

 The American Spectator 

"Which leads to this close from First Lady Melania Trump in response to the decidedly unfunny ABC host Jimmy Kimmel. Said she: Kimmel’s hateful and violent rhetoric is intended to divide our country. His monologue about my family isn’t comedy — his words are corrosive and deepens the political sickness within America.". . . 

"Unreal.

"There, in the flesh, in the middle of a standard Washington event — the annual White House Correspondents Association Dinner (WHCA) — was what was intended to be a mass murder of U.S. government officials. The Washington Hilton ballroom held not only the president and vice president of the United States but dozens of Cabinet members and members of Congress, not to mention hundreds of journalists. (RELATED: Why Assassins Almost Always Go After Republicans)

"It was by the grace of a higher power that the sole casualty was a mild chest wound to a Secret Service officer who was, thankfully, wearing a bulletproof vest. The immediate audience of Washington politicians and journalists, in chaos, jumped out of chairs, hid under tables, and then raced away.

"This was the third attempt on the life of President Trump. First, of course, was the shooting at a rally in Butler, Penn. Next was a foiled attempt at the Trump golf course. Now comes this attack at the WHCA dinner, which, as noted, is a standard annual glitzy black tie of Washington power brokers in an event held annually in Washington.

"The would-be murderer, captured unharmed, was revealed to be 31-year-old Cole Tomas Allen of Torrance, California. USA Today reported this of the shooter:

"Allen listed his employment as a teacher in a $25 donation to Kamala Harris in 2024. He is registered to vote in California as “no party preference.”

"His LinkedIn profile indicated he’s been a part-time teacher at C2 Education in Torrance, California. C2 is a national tutoring and college counseling provider.

Allen posted on LinkedIn he received his bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 2017 and his master’s degree in computer science from California State University, Dominguez Hills in 2025. Kathy Svitil, a spokesperson for the California Institute of Technology, confirmed a record of an undergraduate student by the name of Cole Allen who graduated in 2017, but declined to release more information.

"Question? How in the world does somebody get to the point that something like this happens in the first place?" . . . 

. . . "Exactly. Hatred has consequences. None of them good. And Jimmy Kimmel, alas, and on repeated evidence, is a hater."  More...