The Morning Report — 5/ 5/26

Good morning kids. Lots of ground to cover today so let's dive right in. Well despite the repeated attempts on our President's life most recently less than couple weeks ago this still happened yesterday:

Gunshots were fired near the White House complex and the Washington Monument Monday, prompting the Secret Service to lock down nearby locations.

United States Secret Service confirmed that law enforcement shot one individual at 15th Street and Independence Avenue during the incident, and a bystander was struck; both are alive, authorities confirmed at a press briefing Monday. Agents reportedly engaged in a heated confrontation with an armed man near the White House and National Mall before President Donald Trump’s event in the East Room of the White House began, RealClearPolitics national correspondent Susan Crabtree first reported... The suspect is currently in custody and no Secret Service agents were harmed. He is reportedly recovering from his gunshot wounds at George Washington Hospital, and Secret Service agents recovered his firearm.

You may well ask, given the fact that President Trump and his entire cabinet and really all of us who support and voted for him have a big fat (literal, not Mark Kelly imaginary) target painted on them, how could something like this happen, yet again?! Well how about this for starters?

Secret Service Agent Arrested for Alleged Public Masturbation in Miami. John Spillman, age 33, had been in Miami to work exterior security for President Donald Trump’s appearance at the PGA Tour’s Cadillac Championship on Sunday, per CNBC: The incident involving Spillman occurred at the DoubleTree by Hilton Miami Airport & Convention Center on Sunday night, according to WSVN-7 News Miami, which cited an arrest report by the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office.

Well, that's bad enough but if we want to talk about root causes, let's get down to brass tacks:

Joe Biden, the last Democrat to occupy the White House, said it was “time to put Trump in the bull’s-eye.” Five days later, Thomas Matthew Crooks evaded the Secret Service and fired seven shots, one wounding candidate Trump in the ear. Jump ahead to April 25, 2026.
By all indications, Joe Biden issued no post after Cole Thomas Allen aimed to assassinate Trump. Take Obama’s post as another admission that, as David Samuels acknowledged in “The Obama Factor” in 2023, the hapless Biden was a puppet and the “fictional character” created in Dreams from My Father was still running the country and “responsible for the disaster that we are living through now.”
For all but the willfully blind, leading Democrats are now all-in on political violence. Obama serves as a pro-bono attorney for assassins like Cole Thomas Allen and jihadists like Nidal Hasan. The mass murderer was sentenced to death in 2013 but remains alive at this writing.

And that's how someone like Spillman gets to spill his seed while on duty. But the institutional rot predates even Obama/Biden. As horrendous as this creep may be, how is it that a known and avowed communist like John Brennan was able to become a CIA agent let alone was able to rise to become its director? I will never understand that one.

Elsewhere, and in a not necessarily unrelated story, President Trump is disrupting and dismantling the global order. With all eyes still on Iran, there are still rumblings about potential moves to at long last liberate the tropical island gulag 90 miles to the south of Florida.

Trump Goes All In On Regime Change In Cuba: The Trump administration just slammed the door on an effort by Cuba’s communist government to secure an economic lifeline while appearing to embrace reform. A May 1 executive order expands and sharpens longstanding American sanctions on Cuba, and appears to deliberately target a recent gesture at partially opening the Cuban economy. “All property and interests in property that are in the United States,” the order says, are barred from operating “in the energy, defense and related materiel, metals and mining, financial services, or security sector of the Cuban economy, or any other sector of the Cuban economy,” under the penalty of economic sanctions.

Fresh off the exposure of the Great Somalian Simoleon Swindle real journalist Nick Shirley is once more entering the breach:

If you'll remember, in March, a group of far-leftist folks from the U.S. and Europe — including members of Code Pink, commie activist Hasan Piker, and Ilhan Omar's daughter — flew into the crumblingly communist country and stayed in five-star hotels, enjoyed fancy meals, held concerts, and recorded podcasts, all while the Cuban people starve and live without electricity or water much of the time. They took photos with "president" Miguel Díaz-Canel and came back declaring that all was well on the island. 

This crew spent some of their time riding around the city and viewing the Cubans as if they were on some sort of poverty safari, and Piker said the people just had an "island mindset" and that's why they just hung around in the streets all day. They came back reporting that things were just groovy down there and would be even better if Trump and Rubio would stop bullying them. 

Well, independent journalist Nick Shirley recently visited Cuba and attempted to do the same thing... but he wanted to tell the real story of what's happening after decades of failed and corrupt communist rule. As you can imagine, he didn't get quite the welcome the others did. Not only that, but according to him, his equipment was seized, "spies" followed him around, and he barely escaped without being "kidnapped." 

It is my fervent hope and prayer that Nick Shirley is not a one-off and that there are growing numbers of millennials and the younger generations that while not perhaps as open and brave as to put themselves in direct danger at least will become the next literal "Silent Majority" that will reject the insanity of Democrat/Leftism and once again secure America's future as the shining city on a hill.

On that unusually positive note for me . . .

Have a good day!

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS
• The federal government built a system that let unvetted ‘experts’ feed partisan analysis directly into ‘domestic terror’ work products.
  SPLC Indictment Shows Partisan Activists Were Running The FBI Domestic Terror Program
  
• Shirley has put himself in some precarious situations in the past, but this one may have been the most dangerous. Thankfully, he did make it out alive, but here's exactly what happened, according to him.  . .
  Nick Shirley Went to Cuba. He Almost Didn't Make It Home
  
• Victor Davis Hanson: The Iran war didn’t just break Tehran—it shattered old alliances, exposed Europe’s weakness, checked China and Russia, and accelerated an American-led geopolitical realignment.
  The Global Ripples from the Iran War

AMERICA & ISRAEL STRIKE IRAN!
• Central Command (CENTCOM), the U.S. military formation responsible for operations in the Middle East, moved to dispel a claim by Iran that it had landed a blow on one of its warships on Monday morning. The unequivocal response from CENTCOM noted the assertion of a successful attack on a U.S. warship and stated: “No U.S. Navy ships have been struck. U.S. forces are supporting Project Freedom and enforcing the naval blockade on Iranian ports.”
  Iran Claims Two-Missile Strike on U.S. Warship, CENTCOM Denies
  
• Belmont Club/Richard Fernandez: If Project Freedom succeeds, the Strait will essentially be controlled not by Iran, but the United States.The USN will essentially turn Iran’s ultimate weapon, a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, against it. This is a feat that both Britain and France have long declared as physically impossible.
  The Horns of Hormuz
  
• Daily Caller that the U.S. has cleared an “effective pathway” through the strait. Two U.S. ships have passed through the strait in the last 24 hours. Following the exchange of fire, Cooper declined to speak about whether the ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran was now over.
  US Destroys Six Iranian Ships In Straight Of Hormuz During ‘Project Freedom’
  
• An Islamist system built on anti-Americanism and export of terrorism will not abandon the very tools that sustain it.
  In Iran, Behavior Changes Only When The Regime Does
  
• Iran’s shifting peace proposals, escalating Strait confrontations, and nuclear defiance point to a crisis diplomacy cannot contain and only force can resolve.
  Iran Proposes Peace but Provokes War
  
• “you can’t have an unarmed population against people with AK-47s and stand there, even if you have 250,000 people.
  Trump: Iranian People Need Guns, ‘I Think They’re Getting Some’ and Will ‘Fight as Good as Anybody’ When They Do

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

• United States Secret Service confirmed that law enforcement shot one individual at 15th Street and Independence Avenue during the incident. Agents reportedly engaged in a heated confrontation with an armed man at the White House before President Donald Trump’s upcoming event began and wound up shooting him, RealClearPolitics national correspondent Susan Crabtree first reported.
  Gunshots Fired Near White House
  
• The shooting led to heightened security measures in the area, including a White House lockdown, underscoring the ongoing challenges of maintaining security in the nation’s capital. Notably, an event involving President Donald J. Trump and small business owners took place as planned, although journalists at the White House were taken to a briefing room for safety.
  Secret Service Shoots Man Near Washington Monument, White House Locked Down.
  
• Grace Carol Brown was arrested Jan. 22 by the New Braunfels Police Department on suspicion of arson and burglary after employees at the Comal County Republican Party headquarters discovered the building had been broken into and a small fire had been set on Jan. 14, according to a Jan. 23 release. A Comal County grand jury added the terrorism charge on April 15, the San Antonio News-Express reported.
  Woman Charged With Terrorism For Allegedly Setting Fire To Texas GOP Office
  
• A road paved by Barack Hussein Obama.
  From DC Hilton to Fort Hood
  
• Heather Mac Donald: In a now-notorious video, play-acting revolutionaries celebrate stealing and normalize political violence.
  The New York Times’s Latte Logic of Social Collapse

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

• What should we do with subhuman humans?
  Migrant from Sierra Leone molested a child, but gets to stay so he can remain on disability benefits
  
• This coincides with the reality that President Donald Trump has one of his highest approval ratings on the issue of immigration, clocking in at 47 percent. For greater comparison, former [so-called quote-unquote] President Joe Biden’s approval on immigration stood at 34 percent in January 2025, prior to Trump beginning his second term.
  Poll: Most Americans Believe Democrats Are for Open Borders
  
• When a toddler threatens to scream and cry while out to dinner, it’s easier to throw a phone or tablet at them to stop the chaos. However, all you are teaching them is that they’ll get their way if they make a big enough scene. Now, every time you are out in public, and they don’t get what they want, they will resort to the behavior that gets them the reward. Children need structure and clearly defined rules. If you allow them to be disruptive, you’ve relinquished your control and ability to take care of the family.
  DHS Should Use Age-Old Parenting Tactic While Conducting Deportations

  
  THE GREAT SOMALIAN SIMOLEON SWINDLE

• It’s Minnesota all over again. And this one might actually be worse.
  Massive Medicaid Fraud Exposed in Ohio

  TRUMP ASSASSINATION ATTEMPTS AFTERMATH

• “At a minimum I should be apologizing to him. We are obligated to make sure he’s taken care of. Mr. Allen, I’m sorry that things have not been the way they are supposed to.”
  Judge Apologizes, Says Alleged Trump Assassin Treated Worse Than Jan. 6 Defendants
  
• Investigate him. Impeach him. Indict him. Demonize him. When none of it works — what comes next?
  The Dangerous Endgame of "He Must Be Stopped"
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• John Spillman, age 33, had been in Miami to work exterior security for President Donald Trump’s appearance at the PGA Tour’s Cadillac Championship on Sunday, per CNBC: The incident involving Spillman occurred at the DoubleTree by Hilton Miami Airport & Convention Center on Sunday night, according to WSVN-7 News Miami, which cited an arrest report by the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office.
  Secret Service Agent Arrested for Alleged Public Masturbation in Miami

  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE

• The Community Development Block Grant is meant to revitalize low-income areas, but it does little to help communities in need.
  Congress Should Repeal This Wasteful, Failed Program
  
• “Our investigation found that State Farm delayed, underpaid, and buried policyholders in red tape at the worst moment of their lives,” Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara said in a statement. “That is unacceptable, and we are taking decisive action to hold them accountable.” (
  California Regulators Seek to Suspend State Farm License for Mishandling Los Angeles Wildfire Claims (Suspend Bass and Newsom from a lamp post first - jjs)

  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

• What could go wrong with letting the jackals into the hen house?
  Canada: When a Government Stops Defending its Citizens

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

• An overwhelming accumulation of evidence can sometimes force CNN to reassess these conclusions, but nothing can ever dislodge the prejudices that produced them.
  LOVE TO SEE IT: Dying CNN still crying over Paramount's takeover
  
• "I'm pro-stealing from big corporations."
  The New York Times Finds a Glamorous Backer of Theft and Murder
  * * * * *

• Patel: “The FBI uses all tools to do our mission.” The bureau is buying detailed profiles of American citizens from their movements, habits, and associations from commercial data brokers. No warrant necessary, no judge, no probable cause—just a purchase order made by some low-level staffer. What seems to be a clear violation of the 4th Amendment is a Washington problem, one that has been festering for years across administrations on both sides of the aisle.
  Our Data Is For Sale To An Unexpected Buyer

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID

• Affordability is just the Democrats’ latest excuse for giving out free stuff to their supporters, paid for by you and me.
  Now I Get It: Affordability is a Con
  
• Democrats simply cannot be trusted with power.
  Make The Midterms The Spirit Airlines Election
  
• Revenue losses from a billionaire exodus will overshadow initial gains.
  California’s Wealth Tax Will Backfire
  
• "I think that every idea, as long as it's reasonable and makes some amount of sense, should be entertained and should be discussed."
  Why Hitting The Gym Could Soon Cost You More Under Dem Governor

  RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,

• Cooper lavished Boviet Solar with millions of dollars in taxpayer funds
  Trump Forces Departure of Chinese Solar Firm Roy Cooper Lured to North Carolina With Tax Incentives

  
  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

• “A third of the crime doesn’t happen here, so we’re taking 1,500 of those folks and moving them out. Every state is getting a plus up,” Patel said.
  FBI Shifts Agents Out of DC in Major Overhaul

  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• Public schools survive what no business could: monopoly protection, union entrenchment, and taxpayer bailouts—proof that education works best when government gets out of the way.
  It’s Time to Abolish Public Schools
  
• Examples in the complaint, filed with the EEOC, include union members laughing and clapping at the mention of an 82-year-old Jewish woman killed in a terror attack
  ‘Threatening and Intimidating’: Largest Teachers’ Union in United States Hit With Federal Antisemitism Complaint
  
• Georgetown's Bridge Initiative has promoted terror-tied imams featured in Qatar’s 'educational videos'
  Georgetown 'Islamophobia' Initiative Required To 'Consult' With Qatar on Guest Speakers, University Contract With Qatari Regime Reveals
  
• “I'm here to smash White supremacist capitalism, not defend civil society.”
  Academic Assailant: Dwayne Dixon, UNC-Chapel Hill

  ABORTION

• The order signed by Justice Samuel Alito temporarily allows women seeking abortions to obtain the pill at pharmacies or through the mail, without an in-person visit to a doctor.
  Supreme Court restores access to abortion pill mifepristone through telehealth, mail and pharmacies
  
• Leftism forces us to look at things only from the woman’s viewpoint, but the baby’s life is equally important, no matter the circumstances of its conception.
  I Was Not Really Pro-Life (And What Changed My Mind)

  THE 2020 AND 2022ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH

• Not a single Democrat in the Senate is willing to support the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act, and a new op-ed from The Washington Post might just explain why.
  WaPo Admits Many Democrat Voters Can’t Prove They’re Citizens
  
• The charges highlight the Trump administration’s focus on voter fraud, particularly involving noncitizens, which undermines election integrity. The penalties for such offenses can be severe, including up to 10 years in prison for false statements leading to citizenship. Election integrity proponents say such cases prove the need for voter identification laws, such as the SAVE America Act.
  Multiple Immigrants Charged with Voting Illegally.

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

• Cognetti, running in Pennsylvania swing district, touts herself as a champion of 'transparency'
  Dem House Candidate Paige Cognetti Owns Secret Second Home at ‘Fairy Tale’ Ski Resort
  
• Moore didn’t report to basic officer training for nearly seven years, local Maryland news outlets report
  Wes Moore Shirked His Military Obligations for Years, Investigation Finds, Barely Showing Up Despite Army Paying Tuition: Democrat’s Service Record Again Under Fire

  POLITICS

• The question is no longer whether Republicans can redistrict, but IF they will.
   SCOTUS gave the GOP a generational opportunity with redistricting—will they take it?
  
• “Signed, Sealed, and Delivered.”
  DeSantis Signs New Florida Congressional Map
  
• Democrat Illinois Gov. and billionaire JB Pritzker has been quietly throwing his political weight and checkbook around, bankrolling major campaign committees, senior leaders, and 2026 congressional election challengers viewed as critical to the Democrat Party.
  Meet The Heavy Hitter Quietly Bankrolling Democrats Ahead Of Possible Presidential Run
  
• The stakes are particularly high because the invalidated map had been drawn under pressure to include an additional majority-Black district, a change widely expected to benefit Democrats.
  Republicans Poised to Outmaneuver Democrats in Redistricting Fight
  
• Republicans are hoping to snag the seat of Democrat Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA), who was first elected in 2021 and has been dubbed the “most vulnerable” Democrat up for reelection.
  Poll Shows Rep. Mike Collins Leading Georgia GOP U.S. Senate Primary
  
• Seattle used to be a place where the arts were bigger than Antifa, food culture was bigger than fentanyl, and where hardworking citizens were prized above homeless addicts. With every utterance or move she makes, however, the humorless, public school teacher–like scold telegraphs her communist priorities for what once was a great American city. These priorities boil down to more homeless, more crime, and fewer jobs.
  Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson: A Dumber and More Unlikeable Version of Commie Mamdani

  
  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• One report suggested that Rubio, who is a Cuban-American Catholic, will also address the dire situation that the Caribbean island is facing after nearly 70 years of communist devastation.
  Vatican Confirms Marco Rubio Will Meet Pope Leo XIV on May 7
  
• The Trump administration just slammed the door on an effort by Cuba’s communist government to secure an economic lifeline while appearing to embrace reform. A May 1 executive order expands and sharpens longstanding American sanctions on Cuba, and appears to deliberately target a recent gesture at partially opening the Cuban economy.
  Trump Goes All In On Regime Change In Cuba
  
• This is not the first time Amsterdam has served as a site for far-left social engineering programs. In early January, an investigation revealed that students living with asylum seekers as part of an integration experiment in Amsterdam reported years of sexual assaults, violence, and harassment.
  European Capital Outlaws Ads for Burgers, Gas Cars, and Cruises.

  ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS, HEZBOLLAH . . . AND LEFTISTS

• Horrors! The latest atrocity in Gaza, reports Al Jazeera, is a wave of “luxurious” cafes and restaurants that have sprung up, “revealing a new genocidal reality.” (Table for two, right here by the mass grave! - jjs)
  Luxurious Gaza cafes poke quite the hole in the ‘genocide’ narrative

  DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS

• ...the President ordered the withdrawal of 12,000 troops from Germany, citing the country’s insufficient NATO contributions. The new withdrawal allows the U.S. to shift its military resources to other zones of interest.
  Trump Plans Further Troop Reductions in Europe.

  AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS

• Naomi Wolf: Buried documents expose a haunting and disturbing tale.
  The Shocking Story of NIH Secretly Funding COVID

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• “Trouble reached my door...“I would also not be able to say that I was in the program...“‘Sex worker’ is what you have to say now...“Writers have no problem censoring other writers.
  The Wrong Kind of Black
  
• ‘Relied heavily on enslaved labor and the displacement of indigenous peoples’
  Philadelphia Museum Marks America’s 250th By Dwelling on Its Faults
  
• Christian Toto: No one apparently wanted a re-imagined take on George Orwell classic
  5 Hard Lessons from ‘Animal Farm’s’ Box Office Debacle
  
• A new documentary tries to justify one of the most depraved television shows of the medium’s history.
  A Whitewash for Jerry Springer

  HITHER & YON

• Daniel Greenfield: Bigger isn’t always better.
  Should We Cap America’s Population?
  
• Alarmed, our principal pleaded with the Ministry of Health. “These are eighth‑grade children,” she insisted. The response was immediate and categorical: there was zero danger.
  40 Years Since Chernobyl: ‘May Day’ and Radioactive Spinach
  
• Turley is equally concerned about the state of higher education, where the ingredients for populist rage abound.
  review of Jonathan Turley’s new book, Rage and the Republic

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