The New York Times, a Voice of the Crust.

“An” original? How does that work?

Bought for $27.50 after World War II, the faint, water stained manuscript in the library of Harvard Law School had attracted relatively little attention since it arrived there in 1946.
That is about to change.
Two British academics, one of whom happened on the manuscript by chance, have discovered that it is an original 1300 version — not a copy, as long thought — of Magna Carta, the medieval document that helped establish some of the world’s most cherished liberties.
It is one of just seven such documents from that date still in existence.
“I never in all my life expected to discover a Magna Carta,” said David Carpenter, a professor of medieval history at King’s College London, describing the moment in December 2023 when he made the startling find.

Not a “copy” but a “version”? What is the distinction?

What they found was a contemporary copy, not an original. The original would have the royal seal attached, with signatures. This is a copy of one of the confirmations issued by subsequent monarchs, in this case Edward I.

I wish these people would go back to school and maybe get some training.

Nor is there any reason to.

Watch it.

Saying the quiet part out loud.

Daily Record (UK).

Which he could hav avoided by, you know, not trying to smuggle cocaine.

The ‘news organization’ in question obviously wants you to sympathize with the perp, hence the use of ‘dad’ and ‘hellhole’.

I suspect that there is a correlation between people with tattoos and the attitude that My Wants Beat Your Rules.

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When it comes to AI, the spotlight tends to shine on the dramatic: Models that ace medical exams, write like seasoned authors, or spit out images indistinguishable from real photos. But while those headlines grab attention, the real transformation is happening quietly, behind the scenes in the form of micro-automations.

These are not all-competent copilots. They’re surgical, single-task automations that chip away at the inefficiencies baked into our everyday workflows. And done right, they shift the productivity curve without anyone noticing.

You can’t make this shit up.

Archisuit consists of an edition of four leisure jogging suits made for specific architectural structures in Los Angeles. The suits include the negative space of the structures and allow a wearer to fit into, or onto, structures designed to deny them. The project points at architecture as an arm of the law, a form that uses the built environment to police and control raced, classed and gendered bodies. Archisuits suggest a wearer might resist by not only being present but being present comfortably, leisurely.

Designed to allow you to sleep where you’re not supposed to.

Designed to allow you to hang out on somebody else’s property whether they want you to or not.

Designed to allow you to hang out on somebody else’s property whether they want you to or not.

Designed to allow you to hang out on somebody else’s property whether they want you to or not.

The Foundry.

The Biden administration issued billions in taxpayer-funded green grants—many to large multinational corporations. Now the Trump administration’s Energy Secretary Christopher Wright ordered a review of 179 recipients to save $15 billion.

Meanwhile, some recipients of the Biden-era green grants told The Daily Signal they plan to proceed with the projects.

One of the biggest sources of green grants under the Biden administration was the Energy Department’s Industrial Demonstrations Program. The program was slated to dole out $6.3 billion to 29 taxpayer-funded projects.

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The surprise is not that he did it; the surprise is that he got any kind of pushback.

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The surprise is not that he did it; the surprise is that he got any kind of pushback.

Newsbusters.

The View’s racism was on full display during the Thursday edition of the unfortunately popular ABC News program. Staunchly racist Sunny Hostin bitterly lashed out at the white South Africans fleeing persecution and parroted the South African president’s denials. And while they denounced America as a racist and sexist country, moderator Whoopi Goldberg defended her and Hostin’s racism.

Hostin kicked off her racist ranting by whining that they had yet to mention President Trump taking in those South African refugees, getting tired groans from the liberal audience fed up with him. Without going over the evidence, Hostin parroted the denials from President Cyril Ramaphosa:

The Washington Poop, a Voice of the Crust.

I’ll bet you didn’t know that there was a ‘war on higher ed’ going on. Possibly because there isn’t. No college campus is being strafed or carpet-bombed, no tanks are prowling the streets, no artillery are trashing the library (student protesters have got that covered), no armored personnel cariers are machine-gunning students in their dorms, although that’s the impression that The Usual Suspects are attempting to suggest.

Look, if you took 10 random coaches who each had a history of losing games and got them all together to bloviate about how there is a ‘war on football’, how seriously would you take it? I suspect Not Much.

Education, especially ‘higher ed’, in this country is crap. Everybody knows it. Everybody writes about it. Everybody pretty much believes it. Is this Trump’s fault? I’m sure some people would like to think so, but that’s obvious nonsense.

The reason that ‘higher ed’ in this country is crap is the doing of people like these ‘we ran 10 flagship colleges’ people. They are the reason education sucks at the college level – and people like them are the reason that it sucks all the way down to kindergarten. And yet the Poop points the finger everywhere but where it belongs. Inconceivable.

Newsbusters.

They’re not event pretending to objectivity any more.

RFK Jr.: ‘I don’t think people should be taking medical advice from me’ (Sudiksha Kochi/USA Today)

Sen. Wicker Critical of Qatar Gifting $400M Boeing Jet

Tulsi Gabbard Fires Top Intelligence Officials Who Contradicted Trump (Nikki McCann Ramirez/Rolling Stone) Proglodytes in ‘journalism’ appear to believe that anybody with a government job is entitled to keep that job no matter what they say or what they do.

Judge arrested by Trump administration cites Trump immunity ruling in defense (Jordan Rubin/MSNBC)

Bruce Springsteen Calls Trump Administration ‘Corrupt, Incompetent, and Treasonous’ (Jem Aswad/Variety)  And of course we all ought to take political direction from Woke musicians.

The Road to Trump’s Embrace of White South Africans (New York Times)  All you need to do is look at the crime statistics for South Africa to see what whites there are going through.

Judge: DOJ Canceled Bar Association Grants to Retaliate

Trump’s New Tax Cuts Could Shower Americans With Cash, for Now (Andrew Duehren/New York Times)  An odd expression regarding allowing people to keep more of their own money. Of course, for proglodytes, all your money belongs to the government except for whatever they graciously let you keep.

Trump’s sanctions on ICC prosecutor have halted tribunal’s work (Molly Quell/Associated Press)

Anti-Israel Rutgers Center Teaches Students How To Thwart ICE

Trump is attempting to reform federal regulatory criminal law

The Trump Administration Leaned on African Countries. The Goal: Get Business for Elon Musk. (ProPublica) Unlike Hunter Biden, Musk can actually provide useful services.

Trump just granted asylum to a man who posted ‘Jews are dangerous’ (Benyamin Cohen/The Forward)

Playing with Economic Fire

GOP tax bill on track to add more than $2.5 trillion to U.S. deficit (Jeff Stein/Washington Post)

Perks now, pain later: 12 ways Trump’s megabill pushes tradeoffs beyond Election Day (Jennifer Scholtes/Politico)

The MAGA-World Rift Over Trump’s Qatari Jet (The Atlantic) MAGA is the New Nigger.

She covered human rights for VOA in Azerbaijan. Now she’s in jail. (Kelly Kasulis Cho/Washington Post)

GOP Tax Bill Seen Masking More Than $1 Trillion Hit to US Debt (Bloomberg)  The only time the Narrative Media give a shit about the debt is when they can smear Republicans.

‘A Moral, Ethical, Legal, Constitutional Travesty’ (Ankush Khardori/Politico)

Another Reason Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Order is Unlawful (Just Security)

Fox anchor Bret Baier said media should “100%” scrutinize Trump’s family the same as Biden’s. He hasn’t come close. (Harrison Ray/Media Matters for America)

Senators predict passage of bipartisan crypto bill ??? without language targeting Trump (Eleanor Mueller/Semafor)

The white rural reckoning (Tom Schaller/Public Notice) Anti-white racists at Public Notice are putting all their bile in a book.

Leslie Jones Goes On Profanity-Ridden Rant Against ‘Evil’ Trump Administration

The left tries to claim white South Africans aren’t worthy of refugee status (Miranda Devine/New York Post)

Don Jr.’s Axel to Grind (Oliver Darcy/Status)

Trump Wants His Corruption to Be Public (William Kristol/The Bulwark)

Lessons From the Newark Debacle (Paul Krugman)  Paul Krugman–reliably wrong 100% of the time.

‘Deeply creepy’: Enormous brooding banner of Trump now hangs next to Lincoln outside Department of Agriculture (Oliver O’Connell/The Independent)

Top Sexual Assault Hotline Drops Resources After Trump Orders (Maggie Astor/New York Times)  Because, as we all know, sexual assault hotlines are TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal government–and the Federal taxpayer.

As Trump Declares “Golden Era” in the Arab Gulf, Gaza Burns and Netanyahu Threatens to Wipe Palestinians Off the Map (Jeremy Scahill/Drop Site News)  But not a word about Hamas and the PLO threats to wipe Israeli’s off the map.

Trump White House Sharpens Its Knives for Politico’s Owner (Will Sommer/The Bulwark)  Works for me.

Now ICE Barbie Wants Her Own Brand New $50M Private Jet (Julia Ornedo/The Daily Beast)

Democratic Senators Remove Trump-Targeting Provisions In Push To Pass Stablecoin Bill

CBS Admits Trump’s Argument Against National Injunctions Has Merit

‘Most Transparent’ White House In History Keeps Majority Of Trump’s Remarks Secret (S.V. Date/HuffPost)

Replacing US military support in Europe would cost $1T (Giovanna Coi/Politico)  But not to U.S. taxpayers, who would obviously save that amount.

Wisconsin Judge Pleads Not Guilty After Grand Jury Indictment, Claims ‘Judicial Immunity’ For Hiding Illegal From ICE

Why The Qataris Are Happy To Dump Their 747 On Trump (Jeremy Bogaisky/Forbes)

Why The Qataris Are Happy To Dump Their 747 On Trump (Jeremy Bogaisky/Forbes)

Judge Dismisses ‘Trespassing’ Charges Promoted by Trump in Border ‘Defense Area’ (New York Times)

House Dems open investigation into Trump’s acceptance of $400 million jet from Qatar (Fox News)  Which hasn’t actually happened. But Democrats are never slow to investigate CrimeThink.

Stephen Miller re-emerges as an ‘untouchable’ force in Trump’s White House (NBC News)

Trump’s ‘Emergencies’ Are Pretexts for Undermining the Constitution (Ilya Somin/Default)

The quiet crisis facing immigrant families once protected by the Biden administration (Politico)  Quiet? With the Narrative Media shouting it from the housetops?

Rutgers Law School Center Hosted Seminars on Avoiding ICE  Training future lawyers on how to break the law. Sweet.

The rampant federal fraud that DOGE is largely ignoring (Ken Dilanian/NBC News)

The New Neo.

First I’d like to deal with the concept of “mentally ill.” It’s an old-fashioned term that originated as an effort to medicalize the treatment of the insane/psychotic/crazy. The idea was that, by listing clusters of symptoms and giving each cluster a name, the problems could be addressed much like physical diseases were addressed. That dream turned out to have been untrue – at least so far – although it bore fruit for certain problems such as schizophrenia, which seems to have a strongly (although not entirely) physical cause and can be greatly helped (although not cured) by medication. Other problems conform more or less to the medical model, mostly less, but it’s been somewhat helpful in a lot of cases and less so in others.

In addition, “mental” illnesses and such diagnoses persist very powerfully in part because insurance coverage is based on them.

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The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Thursday on whether nationwide injunctions violate the Constitution, after lower courts have issued 40 nationwide injunctions against the second Trump administration.

“Universal injunctions exceed the judicial power granted in Article III which exist only to address the injury to the complaining party,” Solicitor General D. John Sauer argued.

The case, Trump v. CASA, concerns nationwide injunctions that lower court judges have ordered, pausing President Donald Trump’s order interpreting the 14th Amendment as not guaranteeing what is known as “birthright citizenship,” the idea that if someone is born in the U.S. to alien parents (who are not foreign diplomats or enemies in a hostile occupation), they are immediately a citizen.

The American Mind.

In 2006, James C. Ho wrote an article titled “Defining ‘American’: Birthright Citizenship and the Original Understanding of the Fourteenth Amendment.” Since his appointment to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in 2018, his article has gained greater attention and authority than it otherwise might have done. Judge Ho was nominated by President Trump as an adherent of original intent jurisprudence, and the president’s confidence in Judge Ho’s fidelity to the Constitution seems to have been amply borne out by some of his early opinions. In one concurring opinion, he wrote that “it is hard to imagine a better example of how far we have strayed from the text and original understanding of the Constitution than this case.”

“Text and original understanding” are, indeed, the reliable touchstones of constitutional jurisprudence. But Judge Ho did not live up to those standards in his attempt to uncover the meaning of the Citizenship Clause of the 14th Amendment, even as he has recently indicated he understands the high stakes involved. He did write that “under our Constitution, the people are not subjects, but citizens.” While Judge Ho provides no acknowledgment, this is a close paraphrase of a statement made by signer of the Declaration and the Constitution and Supreme Court Justice James Wilson quoted in chapter two. “Under the Constitution of the United States,” Wilson wrote in 1793, in the case of Chisolm v. Georgia, “there are citizens, but no subjects.”

There are crucial differences. Justice Wilson was criticizing Blackstone and the common law as providing no legitimate ground for republican government. Judge Ho, however, argues that the holding in Wong Kim Ark is correct—that the Citizenship Clause of the 14th Amendment rests on the English common law, despite the fact that the principal architects of the Citizenship Clause clearly argued that it did not. It would be difficult, then, to argue that Judge Ho was an original intent jurisprude on the issue of citizenship.

ZMan says the quiet part out loud.

The professional commentators and amateur experts have been highly critical of the Trump foreign policy, but despite his unorthodox approach, Trump seems to be making progress that those experts claimed was impossible. The recent trip to the GCC countries is the most recent example. Lost in the shuffle is Iran stating they are ready to do a deal with Trump on their nuclear program. Today, the Russians and Ukrainian will meet in Istanbul to talk peace.

This meeting is remarkable mostly because a key element to Project Ukraine from the start was that there could be no negotiations with Russia. Without saying it, the Biden admin and the Europeans would only accept the unconditional surrender of Russia and even then, the terms would be harsh. The Ukrainians were happy to say the quiet part out loud, going so far as to declare it unlawful to deal with the Russians. In a few months Trump has them talking in Turkey.

It may be dumb luck that has got Trump to this point. A week ago, the Europeans were scheming with Zelensky on a set of ultimatums. The Russians either surrender and withdraw from Ukraine or else. On top of that, Keith Kellogg was peddling his scheme to insert Western troops into Ukraine as part of a peace keeping force. The Russians offered to meet with the Ukrainians in Istanbul and Trump seized on this to pressure Zelensky to agree to talks with the Russians.

Newsbusters.

Well, here’s a surprise: NPR’s “On Point” podcast, hosted by Meghna Chakrabarti and transmitting out of NPR member station WBUR in Boston, featured, on its May 5 show, an interview with author David Zweig highly critical of the hysterical and harmful reaction by the liberal “public health” establishment to the COVID pandemic.

What’s more, around the 26-minute mark, Chakrabarti herself revealed that an NPR higher-up cut off her pitch to do a story on 2020’s Great Barrington Declaration. That brief manifesto became a target of anti-science liberal hysterics for arguing against lockdown and social distancing as “producing devastating effects on short and long-term public health.” An unidentified colleague told Chakrabarti, “We cannot talk about it” for fear of spreading misinformation.

The Great Barrington Declaration was coauthored by Jay Bhattacharya of Stanford University (now head of the National Institutes of Health under Trump, replacing Dr. Francis Collins, who sought to undermine Bhattacharya as “fringe”). Bhattacharya was notoriously targeted for censorship by Collins and the Biden Administration for his efforts to tamp down COVID fear and hysteria — a crusade that, according to Chakrabarti, NPR joined as well.

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An Israeli pregnant woman who was on the way to deliver her baby was killed in a shooting attack in the West Bank on Wednesday night.

The Israeli military said that a terrorist fired on cars next to the settlement of Bruchin in the northern West Bank. The pregnant woman, named in Israeli media as Tzeela Gez, was wounded and rushed to a hospital, where she died of her injuries. Her husband was lightly wounded.

Medical professionals delivered the baby, the couple’s fourth, who is reportedly in serious condition.

Imagine how peaceful the world would be if the Religion of Peace didn’t exist.

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The Dutch government could be forced to pay more than €100 million in compensation to asylum seekers after a recent ruling by the European Court of Justice (ECJ), sharply reducing member states’ freedom to manage migration pressures on their own terms.

The ruling, issued on May 8th in the Zimir case, drastically narrows the conditions on which governments can delay asylum decisions, leaving the Dutch government legally exposed—and politically cornered. While public services are overwhelmed, Brussels punishes an EU member state for not giving absolute priority to people who are not even European citizens.

The decision directly affects around 18,000 asylum seekers who have been waiting between six and fifteen months for a resolution, far exceeding the six-month deadline established by EU law. If each of them claims the maximum compensation—€7,500—the total could easily surpass €100 million. This comes on top of nearly €37 million already paid out in similar penalties last year. Brussels shows little concern for the strain on Dutch public services—its main concern, it seems, is protecting the procedural rights of foreigners.

The ECJ made it clear that only a sudden and large-scale crisis—such as an armed conflict or an unforeseen influx—justifies extending the time limits. Gradual increases in asylum claims or a lack of staff are not acceptable reasons.

Daily Record (UK).

A man met a gruesome end in Yellowstone Park when he decided to take a dip in one of its renowned hot springs.

Tragically, Colin Scott’s death was inadvertently filmed by his sister on her smartphone, unknowingly capturing her brother’s last moments.

Think of it as evolution in action. Natural Selection works every time. A Darwin Award candidate for sure.

The New Neo.

Nearly two hundred illegal aliens have been arrested in DC. Read some of their criminal histories; it’s astounding that Democrat authorities previously refused to cooperate with ICE about these people, but it seems to have been standard operating procedure.

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A student arrested last week for storming a Columbia University library—during which radicals distributed pro-Hamas propaganda and injured two security officials—was once hosted by New York City mayor Eric Adams, who lauded her commitment to peace and dialogue.

You can’t make this stuff up.

The Federalist, founded by people I know.

Among the ways Democrats are trying to stop hemorrhaging men voters is apparently by elevating guys who exhibit some comically stereotypical sense of “masculinity,” but who otherwise champion all the effete Democrat policies that the party loves and real men hate. Who knows! Maybe it’ll work!

Three such strapping lads come to mind of late, first and foremost being David Hogg, the lithe twink who is currently a vice chairman of the Democrat National Committee. (Though, some party officials are challenging his election on the grounds that he’s not DEI eligible — he’s apparently not gay). In an interview last week on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, Hogg proposed that Democrats are losing the support of young men, who “would rather vote for somebody who, even if they don’t completely agree with, they don’t feel judged by, than somebody who they do agree with, that they feel like they have to walk on eggshells around constantly because they’re going to be judged or ostracized or excommunicated.” He said young people more generally “should be able to focus on what young people should be focused on, which is how to get laid and how to go and have fun.”

Newsbusters.

The Israeli war in Gaza is almost 2 years old and yet there are pockets of American media that insist on reporting as if they are still in the throes of the early Israeli response. Namely, CBS News which has been the most consistently pro-Hamas of the legacy nightly newscasts.

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The Trump administration has escalated its battle with Harvard University, freezing all future grants and threatening to strip the school’s tax-exempt status. In response, Harvard has adopted some conciliatory measures— rebranding its DEI office and cancelling its racially segregated graduation ceremonies—but, behind the scenes, the university’s discrimination machine continues to operate at full capacity.

We’ve obtained a trove of internal documents that reveal Harvard’s racial favoritism in faculty and administrative hiring. The university’s DEI programs are more than “unconscious bias” training. They are vectors for systematic discrimination against disfavored groups: namely, white men. As one Harvard researcher told us, “endless evidence” suggests that the university continues to discriminate against the supposed oppressor class in hiring and promotions.

Associated Press, a Voice of the Crust.

A former FBI agent and Pentagon contractor has sued the founder of a conservative nonprofit known for its hidden camera stings over secretly recorded videos showing the contractor criticizing President Donald Trump to a woman he thought he had taken on a date.

Jamie Mannina says in his lawsuit that he was misled by a woman he met on a dating website who held herself out as a politically liberal nurse but who was actually working with the conservative activist James O’Keefe in a sting operation designed to induce Mannina into making “inflammatory and damaging” remarks that could be recorded, “manipulated” and posted online.

Clips from their January conversations were spliced together to make it appear that Mannina was “essentially attempting to launch an unlawful coup against President Trump,” and articles released online with the videos defamed Mannina by painting him as part of a “deep state” effort with senior military officials to undermine Trump’s presidency, according to the lawsuit filed Wednesday in federal court in Washington.

Mannina does not deny in the lawsuit making the comments but says his words were taken out of context, edited and pieced together in a manner designed to paint him in a false light, including in a written description on YouTube that accompanied the publication of one of the recordings.

Be careful out there.

The Harvard Crimson, a Voice of the Children of the Crust.

Government lawyers said the Trump administration plans to deport Kseniia Petrova, a Harvard Medical School researcher detained by Customs and Border Protection officials in February, back to Russia at a Wednesday hearing.

According to The New York Times, the lawyers said at the hearing — held in Vermont — that the government would move to deport Petrova to Russia despite concerns that it would be dangerous for her to return to the country, where she was arrested in 2022 for protesting Russia’s war in Ukraine. Gregory Romanovsky, her attorney, said returning to the country would be “suicide” for Petrova in a March interview with The Crimson.

Two days earlier, on Monday, the government filed criminal smuggling charges against Petrova in federal district court in Massachusetts. The smuggling charges in Massachusetts were unsealed by a judge on Wednesday, the same day as the Vermont hearing.

CBP officials arrested Petrova at Boston Logan airport in February for allegedly failing to declare frog embryos she was attempting to bring back into the country from a trip to France for her research. She has been detained at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Louisiana since.

You would think that people whose presence in this country was on fragile ground would take the obvious precauttion of not making waves. But proglodytes can’t help themselves.

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Maryland’s tax-and-spend Democrats—obsessed with a far-left progressive agenda, ranging from condoms for kids to gender identity to reparations to climate change to criminal illegal aliens—have pushed the state closer and closer to the brink. The self-created financial mess unfolding in the state predates President Trump’s second term and derives from leftist activists who have seized power in recent years and squandered taxpayer funds.

Now, Maryland’s financial credit profile is deteriorating—for the first time in decades—after Moody’s downgraded the state’s creditworthiness to Aa1 from AAA, according to Fox Baltimore.

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Six months after Missouri voters approved an abortion-rights amendment, Republican state lawmakers on Wednesday approved a new referendum that would seek the amendment’s repeal and instead ban most abortions with exceptions for rape an incest.

The newly proposed constitutional amendment would go back to voters in November 2026, or sooner, if Republican Gov. Mike Kehoe calls a special election before then.

Republican senators used a series of rare procedural moves to cut off discussion by opposing Democrats before passing the proposed abortion-rights revision by a 21-11 vote. The measure passed the Republican-led House last month.

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A very California thing to do.

Time to leave.

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Ben Cohen, the “Ben” of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, was arrested on Wednesday by Capitol Police in Washington after authorities say he disrupted a congressional hearing as Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was testifying.

The entitlement is strong in this one.

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Though details remain limited, the Houthis got worryingly close to downing a U.S. F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, and reportedly several American F-16 Vipers, during a surge in airstrikes on targets in Yemen this spring. Houthi air defense capabilities are largely rudimentary, but this also makes them a unique and vexing challenge for American combat aircraft. Made up of mainly mobile systems, they can appear virtually anywhere, disrupting carefully laid mission plans. Many of them are also improvised, leveraging non-traditional passive infrared sensors and jury-rigged air-to-air missiles that provide little to no early warning of a threat, let alone an incoming attack.

Last month, TWZ published a deep dive feature on the Yemeni militants’ air defense arsenal that you can access here. You can also get up to speed about what is known about the Houthis’ attempted intercepts of U.S. crewed combat jets earlier this year in our initial reporting here.

Houthi air defenses appear to have prompted an increased use of stealthy aircraft like the F-35, especially for direct strikes on targets in Yemen, as well as costly standoff munitions, in recent months. The U.S. military launched its expanded campaign of strikes against Houthi targets in Yemen, dubbed Operation Rough Rider, in March. Last week, the U.S. government announced a ceasefire with the militant group, which authorities in Oman had helped broker.

Long-time readers will recall that I think that the F-35 is a flying piece of shit that costs too much and does too little, and that badly.

Elon Musk’s AI Chatbot Thinks Trump’s Hilarious ‘Fat’ Businessman Story Was All About Him (Leigh Kimmins/The Daily Beast)

House Democrat moves to force Trump impeachment vote (Elizabeth Elkind/Fox News)

DOJ ‘weaponization’ group will shame individuals it can’t charge with crimes, new head says (Ryan J. Reilly/NBC News)

DOGE’s Second Act

Haley Snipes at Trump Over Proposed Qatari Plane Gift

First judge approves Trump invoking Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelans (The Hill)

Elon Musk’s apparent power play at the Copyright Office completely backfired (Tina Nguyen/The Verge)

AOC: DHS Will Have ‘Problem’ If House Dems Get Arrested

How Trump Is Disappearing Migrants (Katherine Hawkins/Default)

Trump’s ICE Used a Woman’s Kids and Grandchild as ‘Bait’ To Arrest Her (Rolling Stone)  Well, if she’s here illegally, then she’s a criminal.

Judge Backs Trump on AEA, OKs Venezuelan Deportations

Trump’s Habeas Corpus Threat (William A. Galston/Wall Street Journal)

The Wild West of Presidential Pardons in Trump’s Second Term (Wall Street Journal)

Gabbard fires top National Intelligence Council officials (The Hill)

A Free People Need a Free Press (A.G. Sulzberger/New York Times) Well, they certainly aren’t getting it from the New York Times, a Voice of the Crust.

Dems privately rage over “utterly selfish” Trump impeachment vote (Andrew Solender/Axios)

In rare move, Congress pushes back on Trump over Library of Congress (Washington Post)

I Planned a Lecture About Freedom. Then Trump’s D.E.I. Police Intervened. (Joseph E. Stiglitz/New York Times)

Chasing Tax Cuts, Trump and Republicans Want to Make States Pay (Tony Romm/New York Times) Dunh dunh DUNHHHHHHH….

James Carville Names 1 Trump Train Democrats ‘Need To Jump On’ And ‘Never Get Off Of’ (Marco Margaritoff/HuffPost)

Republicans Raise Concerns Over Trump’s Plane Gift as He Heads to Qatar (Wall Street Journal)

How Qatar Bought America (The Free Press)  Exaggerate much?

Robert De Niro attacks Trump in Cannes speech: ‘This isn’t just America’s problem’ (Catherine Shoard/The Guardian)

Trump’s maximalist agenda finds its limits (Politico)  They hope, they hope, they hope….

The End of Rule of Law in America (J. Michael Luttig/The Atlantic)

Trump’s Middle East visit comes as his family deepens its business, crypto ties in the region (Will Weissert/Associated Press)

NATO Plans to Mandate 5 Percent of GDP to Keep Trump Happy

The World Is Wooing U.S. Researchers Shunned by Trump (Patricia Cohen/New York Times)  Good. Let them pay for it.

Qatar-a-Lago — With help from Eli Okun, Garrett Ross and Bethany Irvine — This is Jack Blanchard. (Politico)

DNC Plans to Fly ‘Qatar-a-Lago’ Banner over Mar-a-Lago

Multiple Trump White House officials have ties to antisemitic extremists (Tom Dreisbach/NPR)

Carville Lectures Dems on How to Go After Trump for $400m Grift (Ewan Palmer/The Daily Beast)

Inside Marco Rubio’s meteoric — and precarious — rise in Trumpworld (Washington Post)

Ben Shapiro is cracking under the pressure to shill for Trump (Amanda Marcotte/Salon)  Amanda Marcotte loses her shit.

Trump Leadership: If You Want Welfare and Can Work, You Must (New York Times)  The horror! The horror!

House Dems seethe over Trump impeachment move (Punchbowl News)

Trump’s Third-Term Ambitions Are Very Revealing (Richard Primus/The Atlantic)  Yes, revealing how gullible and fearful the Narrative Media are.

What has Elon Musk’s Doge actually achieved? (Financial Times)  A lot of entertainment, at least.

Trump To Scrutinize Pardons Biden Issued Before Leaving Office

Trump Welcomes White South African Refugees as He Shuts Out Afghans and Others (New York Times)

Conduct oversight on Trump’s graft — or censure James Comer (Philip Bump/Washington Post)  Philip Bumb loses his shit.

Trump: Chuck Schumer Has ‘Become a Palestinian’

Martin’s Out. Pirro’s In. Incompetence Reigns. (Liz Dye/Public Notice)

Half of American Jewish voters believe Trump is antisemitic, poll finds (Grace Gilson/The Forward)  Listening to Left-wing media will do that to you.

Among the problems with Trump’s ‘free’ luxury jet from Qatar: It’s not actually free (Steve Benen/MSNBC)

Colbert Warns Vance: Pope Will ‘Go Inquisition On You’  Colbert is such a clown.

Trump Tariff Fiasco Worsens as Brutal New Reports Expose a Fresh Scam (New Republic)

Trump Gushes with Envy Toward the House of Saud (Andrew Egger/The Bulwark)

An Agency Tasked With Protecting Immigrant Children Is Becoming an Enforcement Arm, Current and Former Staffers Say (ProPublica)

Due Process Is a Right, Not a Privilege You Get for Being Good (Adam Serwer/The Atlantic)

Scoop: Trump impeachment called “idiotic” in House Dem meeting (Andrew Solender/Axios)

Musk Adviser May Make as Much as $1 Million a Year While Helping to Dismantle Agency that Regulates Tesla and X (Jake Pearson/ProPublica)

We Study Fascism, and We’re Leaving the U.S. (New York Times)

Hypocrisy on Parade: ABC Scrutinizes Trumps, Ignored Biden Family Deals

Ocasio-Cortez Warns: Trump Admin Will Have a ‘Problem’ if More Democrats Arrested (Paul Bois/Breitbart)

‘What the holy hell?’ MAGA has a meltdown over House GOP post written in Spanish (Jennifer Bowers Bahney/Raw Story)  The only people ‘melting down’ are the journalists who have got their panties in a wad.

MAGA Melts Down Over House GOP Post Written in Spanish (Isabel Van Brugen/The Daily Beast)  MAGA is the New Nigger.

Trump’s casino rococo White House and the politics of ornamentation (Edwin Heathcote/Financial Times)

Washington Post editorial board says Pirro not ‘qualified’ to be DC attorney (Dominick Mastrangelo/The Hill)  As of course they would–she’s not a Democrat.

Mike Johnson Just Wrecked Trump’s Ugly “Working-Class GOP” Scam (Greg Sargent/New Republic) Greg Sargent loses his shit.

Democrats troll Trump over ‘Qatar-a-lago’ (Ashleigh Fields/The Hill)

10 Terrible Policies in Trump and the GOP’s Bill to Cut Taxes for the Rich (Rolling Stone)

Trump’s egg price fiction has suddenly become reality (David Goldman/CNN)

Rich vs. Poor: Who Gets What in the GOP Tax Bill (Richard Rubin/Wall Street Journal)  Lenin’s “Who? Whom?” is alive and well in the Crust.

Border Patrol Applications Highest in US History Under Trump

Michigan Lawmaker’s Bid to Impeach Trump Draws Pushback From Fellow Democrats

Lord Buffalo Forced to Cancel European Tour After U.S. Border Police Detained Their Drummer (Hesher Keenan/MetalSucks)

They Were Waiting for Trump All Along (Jamelle Bouie/New York Times)

Trump’s Legal Strategy Has a Name (Andrew O’Donohue/The Atlantic)  What would these people do all day if they didn’t have Trump to bash?

Why the MAGA economy is thriving (The Economist)

Judge blocks DOJ from canceling grants to American Bar Association for suing Trump administration (Annabella Rosciglione/Washington Examiner)

Kamala Could Have Won ??? She was poised to claim the presidency, but Joe Biden and a disastrous campaign defeated her. (Stanley B. Greenberg/American Prospect)  The farce is strong in this one.

WATCH: RFK Jr Senate hearing disrupted by screaming protesters: ‘RFK kills people with hate’ (Alec Schemmel/Fox News)

Babylon Bee.

You think it’s a joke but it’s not.

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Over the past nine months, “rogue communication devices” not listed in product documents were found in solar power inverters and batteries from several Chinese suppliers, according to sources familiar with the matter who spoke with Reuters. The undocumented devices were found after U.S. experts disassembled the renewable energy equipment to check for security issues, prompting officials to review the potential dangers of the Chinese-made devices, according to the publication.

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Well, maybe they are, and maybe they aren’t.

The days of rogue district court judges hijacking executive authority may finally be numbered. On Thursday, the Supreme Court is set to hear arguments in a consolidated case, Trump v. CASA, which challenges lower court rulings that blocked President Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship for children born in the U.S. to illegal immigrants. Despite the constitutional authority granted to the executive branch on immigration matters, three district judges issued sweeping nationwide injunctions halting the order.

Now, the highest court may have the chance to rein in judicial overreach and restore balance between the branches of government.

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U.S. energy officials are reassessing the risk posed by Chinese-made devices that play a critical role in renewable energy infrastructure after unexplained communication equipment was found inside some of them.

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“President Trump and Republicans are protecting Medicaid—and that starts with kicking 1.4 million illegal immigrants off the program to prioritize the Americans who need it,” White House spokesman Kush Desai said in a statement to The Daily Signal.

The markup removes “people without verified citizenship, nationality, or satisfactory immigration status who would be covered in state-only funded programs under current law.” That’s estimated to be 1.4 million by 2034.

Last month’s budget resolution tasked the House Energy and Commerce Committee with slashing $880 billion in spending. Since then, swirling rumors—especially about Medicaid cuts—have stirred chaos on Capitol Hill.

Democrats have accused Republicans of cutting Medicaid for Americans, failing to note that Republicans are actually cutting coverage for illegal immigrants.

“Republicans are rushing the markup and hoping to pass the bill in the middle of the night because they don’t want people to realize what’s in it, or how many Americans are going to lose their health care as a result,” a spokesperson for Energy and Commerce Committee Democrats said in a statement.

CBS News, a Voice of the Crust.

A former Michigan Army National Guard member is accused of attempting to carry out a mass shooting at a U.S. military base in Warren, Michigan, on behalf of the terrorist organization ISIS.

Ammar Abdulmajid-Mohamed Said, 19, of Melvindale, Michigan, was arrested Wednesday after officials foiled his alleged planned attack at the U.S. Army’s Tank-Automotive and Armaments Command facility at the Detroit Arsenal.

According to a criminal complaint, Said reportedly told two undercover officers of his plans for a mass shooting at the base. Officials say that in April 2025, those two undercover officers agreed to carry out Said’s plan under the direction of ISIS.

Said allegedly provided armor-piercing ammunition and magazines for the planned attack, surveilled the base by flying a drone over it, trained the undercover officers on firearms and how to build Molotov cocktails, and instructed the officers on how to enter the base and what building to target.

Said was arrested on May 13 — the scheduled day of the planned attack — after he traveled to an area close to the base and launched a drone.

Imagine how peaceful the world would be if the Religion of Peace didn’t exist.

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A small Swiss village of 600 inhabitants is demanding the closure of its asylum centre after one of the migrants, a 23-year-old Egyptian man, set fire to a popular forest hut and later broke into a house.

The centre was opened about an hour’s walk from the village, Les Verrières, because it had been hoped that the rural environment would provide less of an opportunity for the mostly young men to endanger public safety and order.

However, six years after it opened its doors to asylum seekers, the village has had to endure drunken men roaming the streets, break-ins into cars and houses, and harassment.

The municipality has written an official letter to the federal government, stating its desire to close the centre.

As Swiss daily Tages-Anzeiger puts it, the case of Les Verrières shows that even a very small number of uncooperative people can cause havoc.

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A high-security Israeli Independence Day celebration inside the British Museum was confronted by a ‘pro-Palestine’ protest outside, on Tuesday, May 13th.

Hosted by Israeli ambassador and target of the Left, Tzipi Hotovely, the event marked Israel’s 77th year and commemorated the heroism of Aner Shapira, the 22-year-old who was murdered with an RPG while fighting off, with a broken bottle, some of the Nova music festival’s attackers.

Outside the building, protestors chanted “Zionists out,” which to many ears sounds like “Jews out.” A plucky counter-demonstration initiated by Our Fight UK responded with “Zionists In!” placards.
The soft-touch approach of the London Metropolitan Police was criticised online, again, as some ‘pro-Palestine’ demonstrators appeared to be getting away with incitement to violence.

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It appears there is no act of terror serious enough to convince Brussels officials that Israel’s aim of destroying Hamas is correct.

Since his release on Monday, it has emerged that American-Israeli hostage Edan Alexander was held in a cage and repeatedly tortured by Hamas terrorists.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldier told officials that he was shackled by his hands and feet for long periods and was kept mostly in a tunnel with no light. Alexander was also reportedly given only starvation rations, other than in the last few weeks when Hamas will have been mindful of his condition in the international public eye.

The American Mind.

A recent report in the New York Times revealed that the pilot of the UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter that knocked American Airlines flight 5342 from the sky in January made several errors. The pilot ignored a warning to change direction and collided with the plane, killing everyone on both aircraft. This information was not released by the U.S. Army nor the Department of Defense, even though the official policy of both is maximum disclosure, minimum delay. But in this and countless other cases, the military’s actions are hostile to official DoD policies.

The Army took unprecedented actions to delay releasing the pilot’s identity, as all traces of her online persona were wiped from the web. Once the public learned that former Biden White House aide U.S. Army Capt. Rebecca Lobach piloted the helicopter on that tragic night, they had virtually nothing to use to evaluate her. We were assured she was a stellar soldier, but we have heard nothing from those who served alongside her.

Was Lobach allowed multiple retry attempts for repeatedly failing required check rides? Was her entire unit threatened not to speak with the press? We don’t know. But I do know from 20 years of experience as a military public affairs officer that there is ample precedent for commanders breaking regulations by ordering troops not to talk with the media. This often happens when there is a chance that the truth would be embarrassing to the military, or when a senior officer lied and the force feels it’s better to perpetuate that lie than to come clean.

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Iran has some of the cheapest electricity prices in the world. The average cost of electricity in the United States per kilowatt hour is $0.181.

In Iran it’s $0.004.

A country where electricity is vastly cheaper than America isn’t looking to lower power costs.

Iran joins Libya, Kuwait, Iraq, Oman, Qatar and other oil-rich countries as having some of the cheapest electricity prices in the world. Countries with vast energy reserves and production don’t need nuclear energy the way that Germany or France, which depend on imports, do.

Saudi Arabia, with $0.053 electricity, did not begin pursuing a nuclear program because it needed to lower its energy costs. Neither did the UAE. The Saudis and Emiratis became interested in developing a “civilian” nuclear program only as Iran’s nuclear program took off.

If Iran were developing a nuclear program to lower energy costs, it would have long ago dropped the program after sanctions cost its economy an estimated $1 trillion. Losing $1 trillion to shave a few more fractions of a cent off the average cost of a kilowatt makes no sense.

Iran is not interested in peaceful applications of nuclear energy, but in nuclear weapons. That’s why it’s been willing to lose $1 trillion and go to war to protect its nuclear program.

But you knew that.

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Ex-CNN host Don Lemon had a total meltdown over Trump resettling a small number of white South African refugees in America, calling it “the most racist shit ever.”

More racist than Don Lemon? Inconceivable.

A mere 59 Afrikaners arrived at Dulles International Airport outside Washington on Monday, prompting widespread derision and demonization from leftists and the media, who claimed they were not real refugees while also monstering them as white supremacists.

The backlash to the refugees arriving in America was so vociferous that it became a stunning mask off moment in proving that anti-white hatred is still mainstream.

Zman peers behind the curtain.

President Trump has wrapped up his trip to Saudi Arabia and the Western media is trying hard to ignore it. The main reason is they hate Trump, of course, but a secondary reason is they do not understand the importance of the trip. To them, it just looks like another foreign trip by a president. In reality it is a glimpse of how the large share owners of America Inc. are restructuring the company. The deals signed in Saudi Arabia are the first step in that restructuring.

For fifty years, the United States and Saudi Arabia had an agreement primarily centered around oil trade and the use of the U.S. dollar. The formal part of the agreement committed the Saudis to investing their profits from energy into U.S. Treasuries in exchange for American military commitments. The result was the Saudis priced everything in dollars, which led all other OPEC members to work in dollars, thus establishing the petrodollar concept.

The reason the dollar is the world’s reserve currency is it is backed with energy, the one thing everyone needs. The gold bugs like to say the dollar is “fiat currency” and is just colorful bits of paper, but that was always false. The dollar, like all real money, represents power. From the 1970’s to the present, the dollar represented the power of the United States and the power of hydrocarbons. Instead of money backed by shiny bits of metal, the dollar was backed by energy.

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How are the guards supposed to be sure the “protesters” aren’t preparing a “jailbreak”?

I have not seen this asked in any news reports or commentary, but the question sticks in my mind.

The “protests” at the Delaney Hall ICE Detention Center in New Jersey seem to be expanding and getting more violent after the Newark mayor was arrested when he rushed into the facility.

Much of the media and other supporters of the mobs assembling at the gates of the Delaney Detention Center assert that the mobs are mere “protesters” or that they are just trying to “inspect” the facility. But how can the guards be sure of that? How do the facility guards know that, once inside the facility, the “protesters” or “inspectors” won’t try to release the detainees, or to slip contraband or weapons to the detainees?

An argument I hear from people who oppose private ownership of guns is that homeowners should never shoot burglars because a burglar’s life is more valuable than a homeowner’s material “stuff.” A common response to that argument is to point out that, as the burglary is beginning, the homeowner has no way to know what the invading person intends. Does the intruder intend “merely” to take “stuff”? Or does the intruder intend to kidnap or rape or murder? What if the intruder who plans to “merely” take stuff changes his mind during the action?

On what basis are the guards at the Delaney Hall supposed to be sure that the mayor, the clergy, and the mob at the facility’s gate are “merely” protesting, and not intent on entering the facility to release the detainees? Especially since the guards at the center now have experience with the mob rushing into the facility when the guards opened the gate for an authorized vehicle?

The potential for a “jailbreak” seems to be a realistic possibility. Therefore, basic facility security would seem to call for the guards to use full force against a mob that is assembling at the gates.