The Morning Report — 5/ 4/26

Good morning kids. Sad to have to kick off a new week and fist full week of May with this troubling news:

“Mayor Rudy Giuliani is currently in the hospital, where he remains in critical but stable condition, the spokesperson said in a statement. “Mayor Giuliani is a fighter who has faced every challenge in his life with unwavering strength, and he’s fighting with that same level of strength as we speak. We do ask that you join us in prayer for America’s Mayor – Rudy Giuliani.” It’s unclear what ailment the 81-year-old ex-mayor and former Trump attorney is being treated for while in the care of a Florida hospital.

Considering who and what is occupying City Hall these days the parallels and metaphors are in your face self-evident.

New Yorkers, you’ve been slacking — so the mayor wants to organize you. Mayor Zohran Mamdani isn’t happy that only 400 people showed up to last year’s Rent Guidelines Board hearings. In response, last Wednesday, he launched Organize NYC, a supposed volunteer effort to have New Yorkers participate in local government... Taken straight from the Democratic Socialists of America’s community-organizing playbook, Mamdani is calling it “a long-term initiative to bring mass public participation into the work of governing.”

Don’t be fooled. Organize NYC is a thinly veiled, taxpayer-funded effort to embed campaign-style political organizing inside city government, dress it up as civic virtue and deliver Mamdani’s campaign promise under a veneer of official neutrality.

Having been born and raised in New York, and coming of age during bad old days of grime and crime in the 60s and 70s, the Giuliani years were absolutely miraculous both in terms of making it America's nd arguably the world's premier city and a truly great place to live. Considering the city's long-standing status as a Democrat/Liberal if not necessarily hardcore leftist bastion (a few isolated pockets and a couple college campuses notwithstanding) Rudy's election and incredible success was somewhat miraculous all things considered, and a perpetually uktra-liberal/leftist city council underscores that.

And so when NYC was on life support it rebounded spectacularly. Perhaps both Rudy and the city itself can one day come back once again. Momdani is going to lay waste to Gotham, but this time around will there be an electorate that rises up to elect another Rudy or are the younger generations so brainwashed and self-absorbed as to make that utterly impossible. I fear that to be the case since as the saner/older cohort of the baby boomers pass away leaving nothing but the younger generations who have no real collective memory nor desire for America as founded and sane Western Judeo/Christian values, since they were barely if at all taught and raised with them.

From this we go to the alleged deathbed "confession" if you will of someone who is a complete polar opposite of Rudy Giuliani:

Former Rep. Barney Frank spent decades as one of the Democrat Party’s most recognizable left-wing figures. Now, in what may be one of his final public warnings, he is telling Democrats that their loudest activists have pushed the party into territory the public simply is not buying. Frank’s warning, delivered as he enters hospice, is blunt. He is not attacking the left from the right. He is saying the left has made a strategic mess of things by turning its most controversial causes into purity tests and then acting surprised when voters balk. . . That is a polite Washington way of saying the fringe has taken over the message and made the party look reckless. Frank also sees a broader pattern in Democrat politics, one that should worry anyone who thinks slogans are a substitute for results. By his telling, too many Democrats have fallen in love with whatever the current thing is, regardless of how radical it is.

Well, as we have seen when (or if) voters balk then the Democrats wield molotov cocktails and rent-a-mobs along with assassins. Funny how he's complaining about the very thing that allowed him to be elected in the first place. In a way perhaps there is a sea change taking place insofar as the DOnald Trump MAGA revolution could not have taken place were it not for the utter disasters engendered by Clinton(s), and the Bushes and GOP-e are in the mix here, make no mistake, and then of course the insanity of Obama and Biden. Nixon's silent or not-so-silent anymore majority must still exist at least to a level that keeps things in check, but how long will that last and will the Socialist-loving Yoots take over the asylum or will America, that is Can America be reborn as we approach 250, or are we destined to fall?

On that cheery note... Here's wishing for a full and speedy recovery for Mayor Giuliani.

Have a good day!

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS
• It’s unclear what ailment the 81-year-old ex-mayor and former Trump attorney is being treated for while in the care of a Florida hospital.
  Ex-NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani hospitalized in critical condition: spokesperson

AMERICA & ISRAEL STRIKE IRAN!
• Trump imposed a blockade of Iran on April 12 after the Islamic regime imposed a toll on ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz. The move came days after Iran declared it would allow passage of 12 ships per day that paid a $1 per barrel toll in either Chinese yuan or cryptocurrency. Trump’s new announcement on Truth Social stated the “humanitarian gesture” addressing “victims of circumstance” would start Monday morning, local time.
  Trump Announces Humanitarian Mission To Free Ships Stranded By Iran War
  
• "Any Interference Will Be Dealt with Forcefully"
  Trump Announces ‘Project Freedom’ to Escort Ships Out of Hormuz
  
• Speaking to reporters before departing West Palm Beach, Florida, President Trump said he would review the proposal after being briefed only on the “concept of the deal,” noting, “They’re going to give me the exact wording now… I’ll let you know about it later.” Moments later, he underscored his skepticism in a Truth Social post, writing he “can’t imagine” the proposal would be acceptable in that Iran has “not yet paid a big enough price for what they have done to Humanity, and the World, over the last 47 years.”
  Iran Warns ‘Renewed Conflict Likely’ as Trump Rejects Latest Proposal — ‘Fully Prepared for American Foolishness’
  
• Roger Kimball: Iran’s regime lost the war the moment American force and economic pressure exposed its bluff; what remains is the slow collapse of a terror state running out of money, options, and time.
  The Last Days of the Iranian Regime
  
• Not yet. And we can’t breathe easy until we do.
  Have We Broken Iran’s Will Yet?

• As storage tightens, Iran faces risky choices that could permanently damage its oil sector.
  How Iran’s Blockade Gamble Could Compromise Its Oil Sector
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• Joining the chorus of Israel-haters.
  Kamala Harris Blames Israel for ‘Dragging U.S. Into War With Iran’

  CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION

• Barely a week after the latest assassination attempt against President Donald Trump, federal agents arrested a Pennsylvania U.S. Senate candidate accused of leaving violent voicemails aimed at Trump and a member of Congress’ family. The suspect, Raymond Eugene Chandler III of Wilkinsburg, is now facing federal charges.
  U.S. Senate Candidate Arrested for Trump Threats
  
• Modern Western unrest stems from a long institutional “war of position” that outlived its revolutionary purpose, leaving frustration, drift, and recurring political violence.
  Revolutionaries without a Cause (Absolute power is the cause - jjs)
  
• The Cloward-Piven strategy was a calculated blueprint for social disruption. How is it working out?
  60 Years of Artificial Chaos in Service for Revolution
  
• After being told states can’t partake in racist gerrymandering, Democrats are renewing their threats to pack the Supreme Court once they regain power.
  Dems Revive Court-Packing Threats After Being Told They Can’t Do Racist Gerrymandering
  
• Minnesota’s leftists threaten cities flying the state’s old flag.
  You Must Fly the Somali Flag or Else
  
• Mamdani isn’t happy that only 400 people showed up to last year’s Rent Guidelines Board hearings. In response, last Wednesday, he launched Organize NYC, a supposed volunteer effort to have New Yorkers participate in local government.
  Mayor Mamdani’s new scam: Charge NYC taxpayers to hire his rent-a-mobs

  "DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST/GLOBALIST BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY

• The SPLC built its power by branding dissent as hate; now its legal reckoning may expose how political smears became a weapon of institutional coercion.
  The SPLC’s War on Immigration Restriction and America

  THE GREAT SOMALIAN SIMOLEON SWINDLE

• Another win for Attorney General Keith X. Ellison.
  Somali Gets Probation in $11M Largest Medicaid Fraud Case in MN History
  
• The funding freeze adds pressure on Minnesota to address systemic vulnerabilities in its Medicaid program, with state officials now required to provide additional documentation to justify payment requests. The move could also influence broader anti-fraud efforts nationwide, as CMS and other federal agencies continue to scrutinize public program expenditures.
  Trump Admin Withholds Another $91 Million in Medicaid from Fraud-Ridden Minnesota.
  
• I’ve been investigating federal waste and fraud for 20 years. This is the biggest scandal I’ve ever found.
  Medicaid Millionaires: How The Feds Pay Immigrants Billions To Hang Out With Their Families

  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE

• The expanded work requirements are contained in the “One Big Beautiful Bill” signed into law July 4, 2025, by President Donald Trump. The adult age bracket previously affected was 18–54 years old, and dependents had to be under 18 years of age, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which is responsible for SNAP.
  Millions Drop Off Welfare Rolls As New Trump Eligibility Rules Take Effect
  
• The USDA said some have been using a loophole that allows wealthier people to qualify for the benefits, Fox News reported Friday.
  USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins Says 14,000 on SNAP Were Driving Luxury Vehicles: ‘This Ends Now’

  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

• California is abandoning constitutional neutrality and the values of Western civilization by elevating Islam’s holidays above all others in a reckless surrender to political appeasement.
  The Golden State Has Fallen: Welcome to the Islamic Republic of California
  
• Refugees welcome.
  Afghan Migrants Invading Europe Stone Girl for Rejecting Arranged Marriage
  
• A 34-year-old migrant who entered Britain illegally is on trial for attempting a knife attack at the Israeli Embassy in London, citing “revenge” for Gaza. He was stopped by police just moments before he could launch an attack.
  WATCH: Armed Boat Migrant Caught Trying to Attack Israeli Embassy.

  OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY, PLUS VARIOUS & SUNDRY GODLESS HEATHENS

• Why would a center for Jewish study host an avowed antisemite who despises America?
  Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center welcomes Raphael Warnock
  
• A new book offers a fresh take on the oldest hatred.
  From the Socialism of Fools to the Wokeism of Morons

  SHAMPEACHMENTS, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION

• The only way out is through.
  Dear Leftists Upset With Trump’s DOJ: You Started This!
  
• “You don't really have a republic if people are allowed to run an absolute coup attempt against a duly elected president by falsely accusing him of being a traitor who colluded with Russia to steal the 2016 election."
  MOLLIE HEMINGWAY to JACK POSOBIEC: James Comey tried to run a coup against Trump and must finally be held accountable

  FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH

• A media class that smothers debate in moral hysteria cannot defend liberalism; on Iran, true liberty demands argument before orthodoxy makes dissent itself the enemy.
  Is It Possible for the Left to Engage in Principled Debate on Iran?
  * * * * *

• Trump said, “Well, you’re really helping the workers because we’re building plants all over the country. When these plants open up, you’re going to see a big surge. But you’re really helping and helping, and you’re helping a lot of other things like cures, diseases that we’re going to find through AI, etc. but we have plants, right now. As an example, construction jobs are way up. The jobs after they open are going to be way up, and AI is going to be a boon to the country. It’s going to be incredible I think. And we’re leading China.
  Trump: AI Will Lead to ‘Tremendous Numbers of Jobs’
  
• AI is no longer a commercial frontier—it is the decisive battlefield of 21st-century power, where speed, scale, and autonomy will define who leads and who follows.
  Steel, Silicon, and Sovereignty: Artificial Intelligence, Geopolitics, and the Price of American Restraint

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID

• The departments of Justice and Transportation on Tuesday launched a two-pronged attack on JetBlue’s $3.8 billion purchase of ultra-low-cost Spirit Airlines — an aggressive effort intended to counter decades of airline industry consolidation and ensure Americans maintain access to cheaper fares.
  2023 Video: Buttigieg Brags About Helping Kill Spirit Airlines, JetBlue Merger
  
• Check the Misery Index, Elizabeth.
  Is Stagflation In The Air?
  
• (Former FTC apparatchik Lina) Khan and then-Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg cheered as the Biden Justice Department blocked JetBlue’s bid to buy Spirit in 2024, arguing that the “industry consolidation” would be bad for consumers. Democrats eager to shift the blame point to how the Iran war sent fuel prices surging, but that at most explains the timing of Spirit’s death: It had been struggling for years, including two bankruptcies.
  Spirit Airlines’ death is entirely on the Biden junta — and specifically faux-populism

  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

• Police swarmed the lake in Edmond around 9 p.m. after multiple 911 calls reported a shooting, Edmond Police officials said in a press conference at the scene.
  At least 12 wounded in shooting at Oklahoma’s Arcadia Lake following large party of young people

  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• Some of the top law schools in the country are purposely training students to defend illegal immigrants as part of their coursework.
  Here’s How Law Schools Are Training The Next Generation Of Immigration Activists
  
• Schools replaced smartphones with Chromebooks, but the result is the same distraction—devices that undermine learning while masquerading as educational progress.
  School-Issued Technology Is Just as Distracting as Smartphones

  ABORTION

• A study last year found serious adverse effects caused by mifepristone abortions are ‘at least 22 times as high’ as the drug’s label admits.
  Appeals Court Blocks FDA Policy That Let Abortionists Traffick Deadly Illegal Drugs By Mail

  SECOND AMENDMENT

• 'The ground floor of the building was completely destroyed'
  ‘Red Flag’ Gun Laws Didn’t Stop a Guy From Blowing Up a Portland Club

  THE 2020 AND 2022ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH

• As part of a plea agreement, Ibezim pleaded guilty to one count of third-degree forgery. Prior to the plea agreement, Ibezim was also facing eight other counts, including witness tampering and election fraud. This case underscores the threat posed by voter fraud to election integrity. In April, the North Carolina State Board of Elections identified approximately 34,000 dead people still on the state’s voter rolls, indicating that there are other vehicles for substantial election fraud.
  Former Democrat Mayoral Candidate Confesses to Forging Voter Registrations.

  DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY, INSANITY

• The groups called The People’s Forum (TPF) and the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) have in some form received money from Neville Roy Singham, according to Fox News.
  Report: Pro-China Billionaire Funded NYC’s May Day Events Where Zohran Mamdani Pushed Taxing the Rich
  
• What they say vs. how they live.
  Kamala Buys $8.5M Home in Area w/0% Black People
  
• They’ve spent the last 10 years accusing Donald Trump of being the second coming of Hitler and melting down when Elon Musk or anyone else perceived as close to Trump made a hand gesture they pretended was a Nazi salute... Now that Maine Gov. Janet Mills has pulled out of her Senate campaign, citing money problems, Democrat grandees are lining up to campaign for their anointed candidate, the ersatz Joe Six-Pack Graham Platner, who has an actual Nazi tattoo on his chest — or did for 18 years until he disguised it to campaign.
  Miranda Devine: Dems seek a blue-collar MAGA man to win back Trump voters — but better look in the mirror

  POLITICS

• Frank is telling Democrats that there is a difference between advancing an agenda and insulting the country into submission. Unpopular ideas do not become popular because activists insist they should. And he’s making a solid point...
  A Dying Barney Frank Has a Message for His Party — and Democrats Won’t Like It
  
• Trump said he made the announcement after meeting with Morris on Thursday and framed him as a “terrific businessman and strong MAGA warrior” who would do better serving in his administration as a yet-unannounced ambassador, according to his Truth Social post.
  Kentucky Senate Candidate Nate Morris Drops Out For Ambassador Role In Trump Admin
  
• Thad McCotter: Republicans will not keep the majority on promises alone; in 2026, deeds—not rhetoric—will decide whether voters reward governance or return to empty words.
  The 2026 Midterm Vigil (No. 1): Words vs. Deeds
  
• . . . believing he failed to help the party recover from the 2024 election.
  Report: DNC Members Looking to Push Ken Martin Out as Chair
  
• The fastest-growing counties in America now sit clustered across Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina, the Census Bureau confirmed.
  South Carolina Rated Fastest-Growing As Staggering Population Declines Persist In America’s Urban Centers
  
• The implications of the Supreme Court's Louisiana v. Callais overturning race-based voting districts are far more profound and far-reaching than anyone has yet realized.
  SCOTUS Tolls the Bell on Racial Gerrymandering 
  
• If Alabama is successful at getting the Allen v. Milligan injunction lifted, the state would be allowed to eliminate racially gerrymandered majority-minority districts, likely costing the Democrats representation in the U.S. House of Representatives in the November midterms. The Louisiana v. Callais ruling against racial gerrymandering earlier this week suggests that there is a high chance the Supreme Court will lift the injunction.
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  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• The move comes after German Chancellor Friedrich Merz heavily criticized Trump speaking to students Monday, stating, “The Iranians are obviously very skilled at negotiating, or rather, very skilful at not negotiating, letting the Americans travel to Islamabad and then leave again without any result.”
  Trump To Pull 5,000 Troops Out Of Germany After Merz Inaction In Iran War
  
• The Secretary of Everything.
  Marco Rubio Adds Another Job Title To His Resume
  
• Decolonization doesn’t have a happy ending.
  South Africa’s New Apartheid
  
• Matteo Salvini, the Deputy Prime Minister of Italy and leader of the Lega or League political party that rounds out the coalition that put Meloni in as Prime Minister, held a huge rally a couple weeks ago in Duomo Square here in Milan alongside other major European conservatives like Jordan Bardella from France and Geert Wilders from the Netherlands. During his address, he told the crowd that President Trump is “our ally” and “our friend,” and that “every misunderstanding will be settled very soon.”
  Exclusive — Deputy Italian Prime Minister Matteo Salvini: Trump’s ‘Courage’ for ‘Cultural Foundation’ Critical to Survival of the West
  
• The question is not whether Milei is right about Keynes. It is whether he can translate that conviction into durable structural change.
  How Javier Milei Took Down Keynes 
  
• The challenges in Canada’s military underscore broader issues with mass migration straining social cohesion and institutional integrity. Notably, over 40 percent of Canada’s population of young people, those most likely to join the armed forces, are immigrants, including a large number of Indian nationals. However, despite the failures recorded in the report, Canada’s armed forces continue to tout the supposed successes of diversity.
  Push to Recruit Migrants Into Military Ends in Disaster.

  THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"

• A nighttime drone strike sparked a blaze at Russia’s largest oil exporting port on the Baltic Sea, according to Russian regional Gov. Alexander Drozdenko.
  Energy Warfare: Ukraine Strikes Russian Oil Tankers, Baltic Loading Port

  DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS

• . . . the two service members, who were last seen near a training area being used during the military’s African Lion exercise. The release from AFRICOM noted air, land, and maritime assets were tasked in the rescue operation.
  Search And Rescue Operation Underway For Two US Service Members Reported Missing In Morocco
  
• China doesn’t need missiles to attack the United States. They’re already using hackers, spies, and meth engineers.
  Two New Indictments Illuminate China’s Unconventional War Against The U.S.

  HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE

• Vancouver Coastal Health, the taxpayer-funded government health authority that operates Vancouver General Hospital under Canada’s single-payer healthcare system, told The B.C. Catholic that its hospital’s “staff may consider bringing up MAiD based on their clinical judgment, provided they possess the necessary knowledge and skills to do so.”
  Canadian Priest Says Hospital Asked Him To Consider Assisted Suicide Twice After Broken Hip
  
• Importing the failed drug policies of countries that ration care and limit treatment options is no solution at all.
  Rare Disease Patients Deserve Cures, Too

  ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY

• Though Isaacman is pushing hard to speed up the launch cadence of the entire Artemis program, reality is once again proving stronger.
  Next Artemis mission will be later than promised
  
• According to a real estate agent in Louisiana, there is credible but unconfirmed evidence that SpaceX is in the process of buying a 136,000 acre plot of land owned by Exxon on the coast of Louisiana west of New Orleans, near the unincorporated town of Pecan Island.
  Is SpaceX buying a 200-plus square mile patch of Louisiana?

  FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY

• Despite an impending federal ban on using Medicaid funding to cover genital mutilation of children, some doctors may still be able to get away with it.
  Doctors Can Fraudulently Code ‘Trans’ Child Genital Mutilation To Bypass Bans: Report

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• “Christianity was just one more iteration of the monomyth...War was an act of providence...Inmates were cruelly forced to labor in biodynamic plantations...Guénon’s despair for the modern West led him to convert...Blavatsky turned the Wheel of Dharma.”
  How Occultists Remade the World
  
• A timely new essay collection offers rich subjects for reflection.
  What Historians Make of America’s 250th Anniversary
  
• Christian Toto: Colbert, Fallon, Fey and Michaels can't fess up about partisan yuks
  Why Do Comedians Lie About their Liberal Bias?

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