The Morning Report — 5/ 11/26

Good morning kids. While no doubt President Trump and Israeli PM Netanyahu do not view the situation with Iran as such, it certainly seems by all outward appearances that for sure these "negotiations" with the Mullahs or whoever the Mullah du Jour may be, resemble Kabuki theatrics. Despite the absolute necessity of denying and depriving the Armageddon-seeking Dark Age death cult of Islamic controlled Iran of acquiring nuclear weapons as well as exporting terrorism around the globe and brutalizing their own citizenry, what is the end game here, or what acceptable end game can we expect? With the divisions at home not only from the usual America and Trump-haters on the Left but popping up from the right, the battered regime in Tehran may actually survive an onslaught that we had expected and hoped should or would have crushed them. Echoes perhaps of the 1968 Tet Offensive...

Where foreign policy issues are concerned, such as with Iran, a sign of political division always creates a weakness for diplomatic efforts to resolve the conflict. This has been underscored not only by Kimmel’s jokes but by the comments of various leaders of the Democrat party, like those of Senator Mark Kelly and former Vice President Kamala Harris. The latter, as a presidential candidate in 2024, said all options were on the table to prevent Iran from becoming nuclear armed—only now to criticize the option Trump selected. Ultimately, it was political division and an uninformed anti-war movement that forced an end to the Vietnam war, leaving millions of Vietnamese subject to communism.

And yet, President Trump remains adamant. . .

President Trump on Sunday appeared to reject Iran’s latest proposal in ongoing negotiations over a peace deal, calling the Islamic republic’s offer “totally unacceptable.”

“I have just read the response from Iran’s so-called ‘Representatives.’ I don’t like it — TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE!” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

The president also warned the country against “playing games” after Tehran refused to discuss its nuclear program in its latest response to America’s peace proposal through Pakistani mediators.

Trump slammed the rogue Mideast country for delaying negotiations historically, ranting on the social platform.

“Iran has been playing games with the United States, and the rest of the World, for 47 years (DELAY, DELAY, DELAY!” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform.

Yet between his mixed signals as well as the treasonous behavior of the Left and their media/culture allies, the Mullahs perceive, and perhaps not mistakenly, that time is on their side. Especially with a crucial midterm election approaching and the final months of President Trump's term that could see his political will and power on the wane as he departs office, with no guarantee that a successor will carry on his agenda should whoever the GOP candidate is come out on top in 2028.

If only the President and really the GOP were to treat the Democrat Left and its record of political and physical terrorism against the American people as “totally unacceptable.”

Because that is what the Democrats look upon America as founded as well as any setback they endure in the quest for absolute power as.

As night follows day, progressives’ response to the Virginia Supreme Court’s tossing of Gov. Abigail Spanberger’s outrageous gerrymander is to demand an instant court-packing move to undo it. To lefties driving today’s Democratic Party, it’s not “democracy” unless it’s hard-wired to let them run roughshod — and when their power-grab schemes run afoul of the rule of law, their only answer is a fresh scheme. Specifically, progs want to ram through a law instantly dropping the retirement age for the Virginia court to 54, which would allow the legislature to replace enough justices to restore the gerrymander. Spanberger’s already caved to the left in pushing an outrage she’d promised to oppose; will she find the spine to say no now? Wiser minds would call off the madness — but then again wiser minds would’ve avoided this mess in the first place. .. Nationwide, even moderate Dems are now talking about seizing their next available chance to pack the US Supreme Court, grant statehood to DC and Puerto Rico simply to gain them four safe Senate seats and abolish the Senate filibuster — and so lock in progressive power forever. Anyone paying attention should realize these lunatics need to be kept out of power until the party comes to its senses.

The Democrat party will never "come to its senses." This is akin to expecting Islam to have a reformation wherein it rejects its goal of the domination of humanity for all time.

Have a good day!

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS
• Roger Kimball: Failed regimes are faltering while political and military reality is asserting itself with unmistakable force.
  No News Is Good News—Except When It Isn’t: Labour’s Rout, MAGA’s Surge, and Iran’s Slow Surrender

AMERICA & ISRAEL STRIKE IRAN!
• “For 47 years the Iranians have been “tapping” us along, keeping us waiting, killing our people with their roadside bombs, destroying protests, and recently wiping out 42,000 innocent, unarmed protestors, and laughing at our now GREAT AGAIN Country. They will be laughing no longer!” he said.
  Trump rejects Iran’s latest peace offer after Tehran refuses to negotiate its nuclear program: ‘TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE!’
  
• In a post on X, Barak Ravid, a global affairs correspondent for Axios, shared that he had a phone conversation with Trump, in which Trump said he did “not like” the response from Iran regarding a “draft agreement to end the war.” Trump also reportedly shared with Ravid that he had a “nice conversation” with Netanyahu.
  Trump to Netanyahu on Iran Deal: Israel a ‘Great Ally,’ but Deal Is ‘My Business Not Anyone Else’s’
  
• The United States and Israel launched military strikes against Iran on Feb. 28 after talks regarding the Islamic regime’s nuclear program broke down. Netanyahu told CBS News reporter Major Garrett that, while the campaign had achieved “a great deal,” he believed there was still “work to be done.”
  Netanyahu Insists Iran War Is ‘Not Over,’ Says Trump Wants To ‘Physically’ Remove Uranium
  
• Qatar and Kuwait said that no casualties were reported from either attack. The events marked the latest threats to a month-old ceasefire, which the Trump administration says remains in effect.
  Iran Ceasefire Tested as Cargo Ship Catches Fire in Reported Drone Attack of Qatar
  
• Thad McCotter: History shows regimes can turn mere survival into victory; America must ensure Iran cannot repeat Mao’s Korean War playbook.
  Will the Yalu River Run through the Strait of Hormuz?
  
• The U.S. media has tabled a question that warrants examining two 20th-century historical events.
  Iran War: Insubordination Stands To Snatch Defeat From The Jaws Of Victory
  
• There are moments in American foreign policy when the warning signs are flashing so brightly that failing to act becomes its own form of negligence.
  Ignoring Iran’s Expanding Proxy Network

• The WSJ: “Israel built the installation, which housed special forces and served as a logistical hub for the Israeli air force.”
  Israel Built Secret Iraq Airbase Ahead of Iran Strike
  
• The consequences of the Emirates’ departure from OPEC
  The UAE doubles down on Israel and America

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

• In a court brief filed last week, authorities say a forensic review of his computer showed Jonathan Rinderknecht searched “Free Luigi” and “reddit lets kill all billionaires” in December 2024.: (Hat tip to commenter MTF - jjs)
  Suspected arsonist behind Palisades fire looked up to Luigi Mangione as hero, prosecutors say
  
• The indictment alleges Brown attempted to set fire to a building that houses two commercial businesses in addition to the county’s GOP headquarters on January 14. Justin R. Simmons, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Texas, announced the indictment on Friday.
  Texas Woman Indicted for Attempted Arson of Republican Party Headquarters
  
• Washington, D.C., doesn’t just lean left. It rules a country it doesn’t represent—and the tools to change that do exist.
  Washington DC. Is Not America
  
• ...Dr. Sebastian Gorka, Deputy Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Counterterrorism, talked about intelligence...“It’s commonsense counterterrorism based on reality, not fake threats, not the political perversion of counterterrorism.”
  Exclusive: White House Counterterror Expert Says Trump Dismantling Anti-MAGA Intel Apparatus
  
• A nation cannot survive by endlessly relitigating grievance; it endures by reclaiming its civilizational inheritance and choosing reconciliation, unity, and stewardship over division.
  What Choice, Americans?
  
• Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) tried to turn the American Revolution into a left-wing lecture about billionaires, and somewhere in the great classroom beyond, even the great fabricator Howard Zinn probably winced.
  Titty-Caca AOC Gives 1776 the Howard Zinn Treatment

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

• The case has reignited national debates over immigration enforcement, with President Donald J. Trump criticizing the former Biden regime for allowing Joachin to remain in the U.S.
  Prosecutors Seek Death Penalty for Haitian Hammer Killer.
  
• Illinois’ decline is rooted in sustained out-migration and mass immigration that have reshaped its population and undermined its historic trajectory.
  Replacement Migration and the Slow Death of Illinois (1/2)
  
• The San Diego Padres have lost one of their top prospects, under very, very unusual circumstances. . .
  Padres Prospect Self-Deports to Mexico After Pleading Guilty to Human Smuggling

  THE GREAT SOMALIAN SIMOLEON SWINDLE

• Muckraking journalists have uncovered massive child care fraud schemes in Minnesota, hospice fraud schemes in California, and a bustling “home health” care racket in Ohio.
  Which State Is Next In The Medicaid Fraud-O-Rama?

  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE

• The Supreme Court’s chief justice seems to have something other than the Constitution as his top priority.
  The Spine of Justice Roberts
  
• The misuse of the EITC, a program designed to support low-income workers, not only drains taxpayer funds but also undermines trust in government oversight. In 2025 alone, the IRS estimated $21.1 billion in erroneous EITC payments, with both fraud and unintentional errors contributing to the problem. This ongoing issue highlights the need for improved interagency cooperation and data-sharing to prevent future losses.
  IRS Erroneously Awarded Millions in Tax Breaks to Noncitizens.

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

• It seems that prosecuting while Jewish is subject to certain conditions, something unimaginable if a prosecutor were black or gay.
  In California, a pro-Israel prosecutor is kicked off a pro-Hamas vandalism case
  
• We’ve cracked the case.
  The Jew-Hatred Pandemic No Longer a Mystery
  
• But the ADL is trying to take the credit.
  Trump College Crackdown Cut Anti-Semitism by 66%

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

• But it's not the threats to Shirley and his team that caught my attention. It's the responses from the Cuban people he was able to talk to before the regime began harassing him. Many of them refused to speak, fearing for their own safety. Some spoke but with their faces blurred. Others spoke but got quiet when he asked them certain political questions. And some, you could tell, just didn't give a flying flip anymore and were ready to share with the world what their lives are like. They're tired and losing their fear. 
  Nick Shirley Shares More About His 24 Hours in Cuba and... You Just Need to See This
  
• The weird and radical shift.
  Video: Whatever Happened to Tucker Carlson?

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

• Fewer people won’t save the planet—how we live, build, and innovate matters far more than how many of us there are.
  Depopulation Won’t Save the Planet (unless it's fewer Muslims and Leftists; Net Zero for both will save us - jjs)
  
• This project is a leaner, faster, and more litigation-resistant project that reuses idle pipe, threads existing corridors, avoids reservation land, and is racing the clock to lock in steel-in-the-ground before the next Democratic administration can once again sacrifice North American energy security to green ideology.
  Keystone XL Rebranded as “Keystone Light” in Trump’s Push for North American Energy Security
  
• A deep dive into the Federal Judicial Center’s climate guide scandal reveals its authors’ left-wing partisanship.
  Meet The Left-Wing Activists Behind The Guide Meant To Advise Judges On ‘Climate Science’

  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

• “All 56 FBI field offices and U.S. Attorneys, offices around the country participated in the coordinated takedown effort, including the Buffalo FBI Field Office and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of New York,” the press release said.
  DOJ: ‘Operation Iron Pursuit’ Nets 350 Child Sex Predators as Officials Warn Others ‘We Are Coming for You’
  
• Lenient judges and offenders who know how to game the system are a major problem.
  Pritzker Lied Defending the SAFE-T Act, Now a Chicago Police Officer Is Dead
  
• The public still has unanswered questions about Democrat North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein securing early release for an untold number of criminals before his term. Former Democrat Gov. Roy Cooper drew criticism since 2021 for the COVID-19-inspired inmate releases that Stein’s office negotiated while he was Cooper’s attorney general. Stein’s office played a crucial role by capitulating to leftist criminal reform groups who sued in 2020 over the pandemic’s effect on prisons, but he skated to the governor’s mansion in the 2024 elections without enduring as much controversy.
  We May Finally Get Answers On COVID-Era Mass Prisoner Release Deal
  
• “Maybe a part of me was just like, I don’t want to put another black man in jail, but, you know, at some point, if you are a criminal, you’re a criminal, and he was scary, he was a scary guy.”
  Woman’s Toxic Empathy Blamed for NYC Retiree’s Murder in Vicious Subway Attack

  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• Despite the loan caps not taking effect until July 1, some schools have already taking steps to lower tuition because of the rule.
  Democrats Are Trying To Repeal Trump Admin’s College Affordability Protections
  
• Even after SCOTUS’ landmark 2023 decision curbing race-based admissions, many universities have sought ways to preserve similar practices.
  Congress Targets DEI In Federal Contracts, But Is There More To Address In College Admissions?
  
• The investigation could lead to significant changes in how LAUSD and other districts nationwide handle allegations of educator misconduct, potentially resulting in stricter enforcement of Title IX requirements. The case also highlights broader concerns about the rise of sexual misconduct in schools, with reports of educator offenses doubling in recent years, according to studies.
  Trump Admin Investigates LA Schools for Protecting Predatory Teachers.

  ABORTION

• The new website is a direct rebuke of the Biden junta, which used a federal website to push abortion.
  EXCLUSIVE: White House Launches Moms.Gov, A Win For Pro-Life And MAHA Movements

  THE 2020 AND 2022ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH

• Monica Crowley, the U.S. government's chief of protocol, dropped a significant claim on Wednesday: hard evidence that Donald Trump won the 2020 presidential election is coming, and it's coming soon. "He did win in a landslide, and we will soon be able to give evidence about that," Crowley said.
  Bombshell Evidence About the 2020 Election Is Coming
  
• How dare you take away our right to take away your rights!
  Virginia Dems Complain Blocking Their Effort to Disenfranchise Voters… Disenfranchises Voters
  
• The discovery of uncounted ballots comes during the nationwide scramble to redistrict states ahead of the midterms in November. Redistricting measures favoring the incumbent party have been pursued in several other states, including Texas, Florida, and Virginia.
  California Election Integrity Questioned as HUNDREDS of Uncounted Ballots Discovered Post-Certification.
  
• It can be done if Republicans have the political courage to listen to almost 80% of American voters.
  ow to Get the SAVE America Act Over the Finish Line

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

• They are just diapers. But they have landed California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) into messy accusations of corruption for dumping $20 million in taxpayer money into a nonprofit led by an executive who sits on the board of his wife’s organization.
  Report: Newsom’s $20 Million Diaper Deal Reveals Sweetheart Relationships Using Taxpayer Dollars
  
• “Confederate states are rushing through rigged maps to erase Black districts off the map,” Newsom wrote above a map demonstrating the possible effects of redistricting in Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, and North Carolina.
  Gavin Newsom Tees Up For Likely Presidential Run By Belittling Entire Region Of Country
  
• House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) gets asked about a phone call with Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) after he said Johnson wasn't willing to sit down for a conversation about a possible government shutdown. Jeffries responded in a way you just can't make up.
  Hakeem Jeffries Get Owned...By Hakeem Jeffries
  
• Adam Hamawy’s plastic surgery practice has been the subject of scathing and furious online reviews going back almost a decade.
  This Doctor and His Staff Are Horrible!’ Democrat House Hopeful Under Fire for Terror Ties Denounced as ‘Creep’ Who Left Patients Scarred, Disfigured, According to Complaints
  
• David Harsanyi: At this point, what could a progressive say to be shunned by Democrats?
  Nazi Tattoo? Hamas Defender? No Problem, Says Chuck Schumer
  
• Robert Allerton Cushman III, the son of a Harvard-educated Canadian public health official, has flown under the radar as Platner casts himself as a blue-collar commercial fisherman
  Meet 'Working-Class Mainer' Graham Platner's Oyster Farming Business Partner, an Elite Boarding School Graduate Who Drinks 'Foraged Spring Water' and Owns the Island Where the Farm Is Based

  POLITICS

• “My ambition is to change this country. … Presidents come and go; Senate, House seats, elected officials come and go, but single-payer healthcare is forever.
  Titty Caca AOC on 2028 Buzz: ‘My Ambition Is Way Bigger Than That’”
  
• . . . Justice Alito’s meticulous majority opinion merely prevents the VRA from being abused to dictate “proportional representation”—that is, racial quotas—contrary to the express language of Section 2, which states that “nothing in this section establishes a right to have members of a protected class elected in numbers equal to their proportion in the population.” (hat tip to author Mark Pulliam - jjs)
  Justice Alito Cleans the Augean Stable of Faux Voting Rights Precedents
  
• ‘This is not politics. This is a con. We fully expect Burbank to follow through on her own stated plan and disappear the moment the primary is called.’
  ‘This Is A Con’: Democrats Use Nebraska Senate Primary To Boost ‘Fake Independent’

• As night follows day, progressives’ response to the Virginia Supreme Court’s tossing of Gov. Abigail Spanberger’s outrageous gerrymander is to demand an instant court-packing move to undo it. To lefties driving today’s Democratic Party, it’s not “democracy” unless it’s hard-wired to let them run roughshod — and when their power-grab schemes run afoul of the rule of law, their only answer is a fresh scheme.
  Dems scheme to ‘fix’ their Virginia gerrymander fail is a WORSE outrage
  
• If Republicans are wise, Louisiana v. Callais could be the kind of once-in-a-century Supreme Court decision that returns America to its constitutional roots.
  Louisiana v. Callais and the Long Run
  
• This earthquake likely won’t occur in most states during the midterm, though it may in Louisiana. But it can be by 2028.
  Republican victories on redistricting could change the composition of the US House for a decade
  
• Virginia Democrats’ motion urging the state supreme court to temporarily halt its order against the 2026 gerrymandering referendum appears to include two major typos. The joint motion’s first page misspells “Virginia” in the section identifying the plantiff and, just below it, misspells “senator” when identifying the defendants. 
  Virginia Dems Make Glaring Errors In Rushed Court Motion To Save $64,000,000 Gerrymandering Scheme
  
• The Supreme Court needed to explain what the definition of an ‘election’ is, so that Democrats could understand.
  Virginia’s Pro-Gerrymander Dems Argued Election Is Single Day After Forcing 45-Day Vote
  
• "First three weeks, signs up across the city: 'No more nakedness, no more drug use, no more robbing
  Spencer Pratt Promises To Bring In CDC To Rid City Of ‘Medieval Diseases’
  
• These pocketbook priorities align perfectly with the cultural audiences conservatives need to activate to win the midterm elections.
  America’s forgotten conservatives MUST mobilize for midterms

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• If successful, this case would strip Rocha of his U.S. citizenship. Warnings about Rocha’s activities date back decades, with intelligence suggesting that communist Cuba had a “super mole” inside the U.S. government as early as 1987. This is not the first time in recent years that a Western government official has been caught spying for a communist country. Earlier in May,
  U.S. Moves to Revoke Citizenship of Diplomat Who Spied for Cuba.
  
• The review comes after two American officials working for the CIA, died alongside two Mexican investigators during a counter-narcotics operation in northern Mexico.
  State Department reviews ALL 53 Mexican consulates in US amid cartel tensions
  
• This operation eliminates a potential nuclear security risk and demonstrates renewed international cooperation with Venezuela. The processed uranium is likely to contribute to U.S. energy independence and nuclear innovation.
  U.S. Completes Transfer of Venezuela’s Enriched Uranium to South Carolina.
  
• The knives are out for Prime Minister Starmer, who is now embroiled in a desperate fight to extend his political life after a historically poor performance in the rough British equivalent of a midterm election this week.
  Over 100 Labour Politicians Call on Prime Minister Starmer to Resign After Election Disaster
  
• Sharing “campaign lessons from Labour’s victory with Democrats.”
  UK Labour Party, Used as Inspiration by Dems, Wiped Out
  
• Repression, slander and libel, panicked labeling campaigns to smear whole parties and movements as dangerous extremists, surveillance and fake intelligence dossiers, victory. Political conflict isn’t the same across the world, but it often rhymes.
  Europeans Are Also Tired Of Dumb Leftists Ruining Everything They Touch
  
• Britain's leaders have no navy. And no will.
  The U.K. Royal Navy is royally screwed, as is Britain
  
• It’s hard for Americans to fathom the horror of what goes on every day in North Korea.
  Kim Jong-un Is Not Our Friend

  THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"

• Speaking to reporters in Moscow amid Victory Day celebrations, President Putin suggested that a resolution with Kyiv and its Western partners is possible, even going so far as to say he would be willing to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in a third country after a peace framework is agreed.
  Putin Says He Believes Ukraine War May Be Coming to ‘Completion’ Amid Trump-Brokered Ceasefire

  DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS

• The two soldiers were on a recreational hike during African war games exercises with NATO allies.
  Body Of One Soldier Recovered After War Games Accident, One Still Missing

  HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE

• Artificial intelligence is poised to disrupt how U.S. doctors detect and treat cancer, according to experts.
  This New Technology Is Transforming Cancer Screening

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

• Raw Egg Nationalist: Declining testosterone is eroding the biological foundation of courage, virtue, and civilization.
  Christian Conservatives Find It So Hard to Understand the Importance of Testosterone Decline?
  
• A young liberal woman refused to cooperate with prosecutors after violent recidivist Rhamell Burke attacked her on the subway five weeks before he allegedly pushed a retired NYC teacher to his death on Thursday.  Now the 23-year-old woman has regrets. “Maybe a part of me was just like, I don’t want to put another black man in jail,” she told The Post.
  Miranda Devine: The left is weaponizing women’s misplaced empathy — and it threatens all of us

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• America is based on English culture and Christian civilization — a heritage that came before our civic creed and upon which our ideals rest.
  Neil Gorsuch Is Wrong, America Isn’t A ‘Creedal Nation’
  
• Though a liberal by creed, Ted Turner embodied conservatism in practice—creating wealth through risk, restoring ecosystems through ownership, and building shared national culture.
  Ted Turner: Voting Left and Living Right
  
• Christian Toto: 'Late Show' host pushed Russian Collusion hoax harder than some journalists
  Goodbye, Stephen Colbert: The C*** Holster Crack

  HITHER & YON

• “I can’t confirm or deny whether we have kamikaze dolphins,” grinned Pete Hegseth, “but I can confirm they don’t.
  Are ‘Kamikaze Dolphins’ Real? The Daily Wire Investigates”

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