The Morning Report — 5/ 13/26

Good morning kids. As we discussed with disgust yesterday, after getting their naked power grab of a gerrymander scheme shot down by the Virginia State Supreme Court, the reaction was surprisingly mellow for the Leftists - move to sack the entire bench, as opposed to the typical Democrat reaction which would be to lynch the Jurists who dared oppose them. All seriousness aside, among the most execrable Leftists around who has done more in service of Anti-Americanism over the course of his miserable existence is one Marc Elias:

As most others of his ilk continue to rub garlic on their bullets, here Elias is with his response:

The party considered all kinds of responses — including a scheme to force the retirement of every sitting justice on the Virginia Supreme Court. That's a perfectly normal reaction from a political party that claims they respect democratic norms, right?

But they weren’t done.

Marc Elias, the left's go-to power lawyer for all things election-related, took the rhetoric to a genuinely alarming place. Elias responded to the ruling by invoking language from the Virginia Constitution itself. Not to make a legal argument, but to suggest that the current Virginia government has lost its legitimacy and therefore can and should be abolished.

I assure you that I am not joking.

And no they are NOT joking either, as the past 70-200 years have shown!!!

Have a good day.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• Marc Elias, the left's go-to power lawyer for all things election-related, took the rhetoric to a genuinely alarming place. Elias responded to the ruling by invoking language from the Virginia Constitution itself. Not to make a legal argument, but to suggest that the current Virginia government has lost its legitimacy and therefore can and should be abolished. I assure you that I am not joking.
  Democrats Now Want to ABOLISH the Virginia Government

AMERICA & ISRAEL STRIKE IRAN!
• The rising financial burden of the Iran war and heightened nuclear threats from Tehran underscore the fragility of the ceasefire, which Trump called “unbelievably weak” on Monday, and raise questions about the U.S. administration’s strategy in the Middle East.
  Iran War Cost Hits $29 Billion as Tehran Threatens to Enrich Uranium to Weapons-Grade.
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• Safeguarding our military secrets remains a solemn duty. Senators should know this better than anyone.
  How many ships will Mark Kelly’s loose lips sink?

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

• The Democrats are no longer a party with policy ideas.
  Running On Rage
  
• Fundamental transformation of the Democrat Party.
  From Ballots to Bullets
  
• Federal elections are no longer about which party gets to appoint SCOTUS justices, but how many justices there will be.
  Any Vote For Democrats Is Now A Vote For Their Plan To Overthrow SCOTUS
  
• The Evanston, Ill. Reparations Committee has doled out at least $6.36 million in payments through a constitutionally suspect program.
  It’s Time For Reparations For Taxpayers Forced To Pay Reparations

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

• Investigators found empty buildings with locked doors where hundreds of foreign students were said to be working.
  ICE Makes New Major Fraud Discovery Involving 10,000 Foreign Students

  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE

• The Department of Justice (DOJ) has filed criminal charges against two foreign companies and an Indian superintendent for their alleged roles in the 2024 Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse in Baltimore, Maryland.
  DOJ Charges Foreign Firms, Indian Worker Over Fatal Baltimore Bridge Collapse.
  
• "Everybody wants that job," President Trump said to reporters.
  Embattled FDA Chief Marty Makary Resigns Amid Mounting Criticism
  
• Dogs sold for drugs, puppies found alive in trash cans - and other Democrat-run horrors.
  PragerU Video: The Animal Crisis in L.A. that City Hall Doesn’t Want You to See
  
• Golden State politicians are bowing to the Teamsters and choosing higher transportation costs over productivity-enhancing technology. (So, union thugs, robots or drunken wetbacks behind the wheel? - jjs)
  California’s War on Autonomous Trucking

  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

• My scars are not Israeli propaganda.
  Megyn Kelly’s New Gaslight: Blame Israel for Islam’s Victims

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

• The synagogue hosted “an event promoting real estate in Israel and the West Bank.”
  NYC Police Arrest Three After Anti-Israel Mob Ambushes Synagogue

  TRUMP ASSASSINATION ATTEMPTS AFTERMATH

• President Trump is in a league of his own.
  Major Presidential Assassination Attempts Compared

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

• Newly released depositions confirm Federalist reporting that ‘Get Trump’ lawfare in Georgia was based on a misinterpreted and illegally recorded phone call.
  Phone Call Used To Impeach Trump Over GA Election Was Illegally Recorded, Testimony Confirms

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

• It’s a banner month for Jew-hating propaganda at The New York Times, where libel against the state of Israel is normalized and celebrated. Last week, jaws dropped  everywhere when the so-called Newspaper of Record won a Pulitzer Prize   for the 2025 work of a Gaza-based contributing photographer best known for a picture so misleading, fraudulent, so useful in the quest to ramp-up antisemitism, the paper was forced to issue a correction.
  New York Times’ libelous campaign against Israel continues apace
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• The case highlights growing concerns over the potential for AI platforms to provide unverified medical advice, raising questions about liability and the need for stricter safeguards. It also underscores broader debates about the role of AI and whether teenagers, the mentally ill, and other vulnerable people should have unsupervised access to it.
  Parents Sue OpenAI After Son Fatally Overdosed Following ChatGPT Drug Advice.
  
• AI giant Anthropic rebuffed an attempt from a Chinese think tank to gain access to its newest AI model, Claude Mythos, during a private meeting in Singapore, The New York Times reported Tuesday.
  REPORT: AI Giant Resisted CCP Infiltration As US Extends Tech Lead Over China
  
• The 615-acre Fayetteville-based data center campus, codenamed “Project Excalibur,” was found to have one water connection installed without the knowledge of the Fayette County water system, and another that was not linked to its developer’s account and therefore was not being billed, according to the outlet.
  REPORT: Blackstone-Owned Data Center Drained 30 Million Gallons Of Water From Atlanta Suburb

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID

• The most corrupt states are the loudest about taxing the rich.
  Tax the Rich and Steal the Money
  
• The president needs Congress to act. There's no guarantee it will. GOP lawmakers, including Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), quickly promised legislation, but Senate Majority Leader John Thune was noncommittal.
  Trump Faces Uphill Climb to Suspend Federal Gas Tax
  
• If passed, the bill could significantly alter the housing market by reducing corporate ownership of single-family homes.
  Trump Pressures House GOP to Stop Stalling Anti-Wall Street Housing Bill.
  
• The report does not prove that inflation is spiraling. One month never proves that. But it does show that the comforting version of the inflation story has taken a serious hit. The best hope is that April was a storm month: war-driven energy prices, seasonal quirks, and shelter noise combining to make the report look worse than the underlying trend. But the Cleveland Fed’s numbers make that hope harder to hold. The whole point of median and trimmed mean CPI is to see through the storm. In April, we got the downpour. May had better bring flowers.
  The April Inflation Report Was Even Worse Than It Looked

  
  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• Then again, it’s not always Democrat states that have this problem, because teachers around the country tend to be woke activists who support child grooming. Last May, for instance, I highlighted child-grooming educators from Florida to Tennessee to California.
  Seattle Teachers Union’s Brand-New President on Leave for Abuse Allegations
  
• A “leading scholar of the theory and practice of sabotage.”
  Academic Assailant: R.H. Lossin, Harvard University
  
• “Have you looked at the impact that this decline will have on the teacher retirement system?”
  Public School Exodus Hits Texas

  
  ABORTION

• It is malpractice to prescribe antibiotics through a cursory telehealth call.
  The party that can't define what a woman is must not have the final say on chemical abortion access

  SECOND AMENDMENT

• Harmeet Dhillon, head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, recently announced a new legal offensive against states and localities with gun laws that clearly run afoul of the Constitution. Her office just filed very strategic lawsuits against the city of Denver over its ordinance prohibiting so-called assault weapons, and against the state of Colorado over its ban on selling standard capacity magazines. 
  Trump Admin’s Recent Pro-Second Amendment Moves Are Good for Lawful Gun Owners

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

• The Senate Special Committee on Investigations announced Monday that it had subpoenaed Abrams, as well as New Georgia Project leaders Lauren Groh-Wargo and Nsé Ufot. They are expected to appear at the State Capitol at 10:00 a.m. on Friday, Fox News reported. 
  Georgia Senate Committee Subpoenas Tank Abrams in Campaign Finance Violations Probe
  
• A pattern of misusing - and accepting - funds in violation of the law.
  Bro-Fo Omar’s Latest Scandal

  POLITICS
  

• “The poll finds registered voters closely split in their partisan preference ahead of the midterms, with 45% saying they’d support a Democrat candidate for Congress, 42% a Republican candidate, and 14% neither,” the CNN article said. “Polling on congressional preference this year, including previous CNN surveys, has largely given Democrats the advantage. Voters who aren’t sold on either party’s economic message tend to prefer the Democrats on the generic ballot, the CNN survey finds.”
  Poll: Support for Democrats Slides as Critical Midterms Approach
  
• If successful, the petition could bring back party-specific primaries, ensuring each party has a candidate in the election for governor. The effort indicates a sudden change of heart among Democrats, given that the system has, up until recently, worked to their benefit. Back in early April, President Trump endorsed Steve Hilton. Hilton is an ex-advisor to former British Prime Minister David Cameron and a former Fox News host.
  California Dems Scheme to Alter Election Rules, Block All-GOP Governor’s Race.
  
• The U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for Alabama to implement a new race-neutral congressional map ahead of the 2026 midterms on Monday.
  Supreme Court Clears Way For Alabama To Scrap Affirmative Action Districts
  
• The first poll placing Rubio ahead of Vance signals a potential turning point in the race to succeed President Trump.
  New Poll Throws Major Curveball In Race To Succeed Trump
  
• Perhaps the most striking takeaway from the Democrat primary polling is that former Vice President Kamala Harris … has fallen to fourth place with just 13%.
  Titty-Caca AOC, Rubio Surging in New 2028 Primary Polls from Top-Rated Pollster
  
• Term limits don’t drain the swamp—they empower the permanent bureaucracy by forcing out the only elected officials experienced enough to challenge it.
  Trump May Wish to Reconsider Supporting Term Limits
  
• Acton, who is running against Republican Vivek Ramaswamy in Ohio, worked for less than two years as grants manager at the Columbus Foundation, a major 501(c)(3) charitable organization that administers donor funds and distributes grants.  (Acton's a Shabbyfail Spandexburglar - jjs)
  Ohio Democrat Running for Governor Poses as Moderate Despite Overseeing Millions in Grants to Radical Left-Wing Groups
  
• You don’t need a federal task force to tell you that rats, refuse, and unchecked human misery are a breeding ground for disease. You simply need the political will to stop pretending this is normal.
  Spencer Pratt Vows to Bring in CDC to Rid Los Angeles Of ‘Medieval Diseases’
  
• Sorry, Hillary. Or congrats?
  Confirmed: Kamala Harris Is America's Worst Politician
  
• Still lecturing. Still dividing.
  Why Won’t Barack Obama Go Away?

  
  BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS

• “The Republican senators say the records — which include text messages between Hunter Biden and the women — show that the government had significant evidence of potential Mann Act violations allegedly committed by Hunter Biden from as early as October 2020,” the article read. “For example, the messages show that Biden, whose father is former President Joe Biden, appeared to have purchased a flight from Los Angeles to an unknown destination for an unidentified woman in 2018.”
  GOP Senators: Joe Biden’s DOJ Buried Newly-Released Texts of Possible Hunter Biden Prostitution Crimes

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• The historic results for the upstart party have apparently convinced some voters that Reform is a future worth backing, with the YouGov survey finding that 28 per cent of voters now back the Farage party, an increase of three points over just last week. Meanwhile, the Tories remained static at 17 per cent, the Greens gained one point to reach 16 per cent, Labour declined by two points to fall to 16 per cent, and the Liberal Democrats shrank by one point to 13 per cent.
  Reform Rising: Farage’s Party Surges in Polls Following Historic Local Election Results
  
• Mohammad Baghdadi Khan responded to criticism online by writing, "Who said councillors can’t drive cars like this?"
  UK Green Party councillor Mohammad Baghdadi Khan posts video of himself cruising around in gas-guzzling Lamborghini
  
• "If you don't know, now you know."
  Marco Rubio Is Actually Wearing Nicolas Maduro’s Nike Sweatsuit On Air Force One
  
• "None of them are communist. They get rich and exploit the people." (perfect definition of Democrats - jjs)
  ‘Worst Thing To Exist’: Cuban Man Blasts Communism On Streets Of Havana

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

• Among the worst crimes described by survivors were labeled “kinocidal sexual violence” — designed to torture entire family units.
  Hamas forced sex between family members as part of Oct. 7 torture campaign, probe finds: ‘You hear the screams’

  DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS

• There's big news about the new Trump-class battleship, but there's even bigger and more important news about what's going on in the Pentagon under reform-minded Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth. But first — some things never change — I must nerd out on the battleship news.
  How to Make the Trump Battleship Even Deadlier With This 1 Weird Trick
  
• The review could lead to significant changes in how the U.S. funds and manages overseas biolabs, especially those handling gain-of-function research. The investigation could potentially end risky experiments that threaten U.S. biosecurity.
  DNI Gabbard Targets Secretive US-Funded Foreign Biolabs.

  ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY

• Space exploration advances fastest when entrepreneurs—not bureaucracies—drive innovation, risk capital, and compete to lower costs and expand human ambition.
  Book Review: ‘New Space Capitalism’ Explores the Power of Market Economics in Spaceflight

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• White smoke, red agenda.
  The Chicago Pope
  
• Christian Toto: Pete Davidson's crack captures comedy in the post-woke era
  That Charlie Kirk Roast Joke Wasn’t Out of Line

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