SHE’LL FIT RIGHT IN: New WH Press Secretary Kept Alleging Trump/Russia Collusion Conspiracy, Called Trump Racist.

PJ MEDIA VIP ROUNDUP: Don’t forget that VODKAPUNDIT promo code if you’ve been thinking of joining us.

Matt Margolis: Democrats Hate Science. ” We’re not having a national discussion about transgender issues, we are being force-fed transgender ideology, and anyone who isn’t willing to deny science is being treated as a bigot.”

Megan Fox: Here’s the Evidence I’d Need to See Before I’d Believe Amber Heard Is Not a Lying Psycho. “Even one corroborating medical record — just one would do.”

Margolis Part II: Trump Builds Walls but Burns Bridges. “Once again, we’ve seen how Trump’s ability to turn allies into enemies is putting him on defense.”

Yours Truly: Russia Victory Day Celebration: Doomsday Averted, Putin Tired, Timid, and Out of Ideas. “It was the kind of by-the-numbers address you’d expect to hear at the peacetime dedication of the new People’s Red Army Memorial Mess Hall at an army base somewhere in Siberia.”

OUTLINING POSITIVE ID CASE: It’s Day Two on HillFaith of Casey Luskin’s series on what is Intelligent Design and why it’s a legitimate tool for scientific analysis.

THIS IS CNN? REALLY? CNN Fact Checker Calls Out Biden for Claiming Credit on Deficit Reduction. “The $2.8 trillion deficit in fiscal 2021, when Biden was in office for more than eight months, was $360 billion lower than the $3.1 trillion deficit of fiscal 2020, Trump’s last full year in office. Dale called that ‘certainly substantial,’ but added that the CBO, ‘had estimated at the beginning of Biden’s tenure that the fiscal 2021 deficit would be a decline of more than $870 billion if the Biden administration did not implement new policy.’”

Left unsaid: Biden tried, and has so far failed, to add trillions more in deficit spending.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Dem Abortion Meltdown Isn’t Slowing GOP Midterms Momentum. “Americans in the heartland are no doubt more concerned with the fact that we’ll all be eating cheap ramen if Biden’s economy keeps spinning out of control. People still vote with their checkbooks (Google it, younger readers) more than their genitals, much to the chagrin of the Democratic elite.”

OLD KLEPTOCRAT YELLS AT CLOUD: Russian Space Agency Head Threatens Elon Musk Over Starlink In Ukraine.

Dmitry Rogozin, the head of Roscosmos, posted a message to his Telegram channel, condemning Musk for expanding Starlink’s service to Ukraine, which is facing an ongoing invasion from Russia.

In the message, Rogozin accused Musk of supplying the Starlink dishes to the Ukrainian military, which he described as “Nazis.”

“Elon Musk is thus involved in the supply of fascist forces in Ukraine with military communications,” Rogozin added. “And for this you will have to answer in an adult way, Elon, no matter how you play the fool.”

On Sunday, Musk noticed the menacing message, which prompted him to tweet back: “The word ‘Nazi’ doesn’t mean what he seems to think it does.”

In a separate tweet, Musk also wrote: “If I die under mysterious circumstances, it’s been nice knowin ya,” a likely reference to how Russian President Vladimir Putin has been accused of poisoning his political enemies.

Time to beef up security and hire a taster.

TO BE FAIR, THEY WERE ACTING TERRIFIED BEFORE THE POLL: This New Post-Supreme Court Leak Poll Should Terrify Democrats.

FROM DAVE FREER:  Save the Dragons.

#CommissionEarned

Blundering through a series of fantasy world populated by dragons, dwarves, vampires, werewolves and worse, our hero, an inept alchemy student finds himself caught up in a heroic quest to save the dragons from tooth-hunting poachers, that threaten not only Zoar, a world of swamps and dragons, but all the worlds. He’s not built to be a hero, but someone has to do it.

BACK WHEN WORLD’S FAIRS WERE HONKIN’ BIG DEALS:  On this day in 1876, the Centennial International Exhibition—celebrating the 100^th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence—opened in Fairmount Park in Philadelphia.  President Ulysses Grant, accompanied by Brazilian Emperor Dom Pedro II, gave the opening address.  Thirty-seven countries and 14,420 businesses participated.

Among the many amazing new inventions one could view was Alexander Graham Bell’s telephone.  Upon being shown how it works, Dom Pedro is said to have exclaimed, “My God, it talks!”

Steam power was king in 1876, so a rock drill, grinding machines, screw-making machines, and a whole host of other steam-powered wonders were on display.  But so were recently introduced consumer products like Hires Root Beer, Heinz ketchup, and a funny yellow fruit that comes in a bunch from Central America.  And popcorn!

Don’t underestimate how important international expositions like this one were to the dissemination of knowledge about technology and the arts.  In a day before the various 20^th and 21^st century methods of mass communication we’ve come to know, these events mattered a lot.  Almost 10 million people attended the Centennial International Exhibition in 1876.  The most recent census (1870) had put the American population at only 39 million.

Just as important, the event was an opportunity for the United States, having just recently shaken off its war weariness, to shine on the international stage.  The government of the people, by the people, for the people had not perished from the earth.  And her highly inventive and entrepreneurial citizens were prospering and optimistic about their future.

ARE WHORES. INCOMPETENT ONES:  STATE SUPPORTED ARTISTS…

TRUE FACT. REALITY IS IN COLLUSION AGAINST “SCIENCE”, THE KIND THAT PEOPLE F*CKING LOVE:  Global Warming Was Going to Destroy Skiing, Then the Snow Fell.

AND THINKING IS INDEED REQUIRED:   Words to think about…

NO!  Belieeeeeeeeeve.

IT WAS ALWAYS MAD:  Political correctness and gender “neutrality” gone mad!

GO READ:  Taiwan – The Map Is Not The Territory.

WELL, NO BOOM YESTERDAY:  Putin’s VE day speech: “he’s got a lot to say, he’s got a lot of nothing to say”; Russian media hacked with anti-war messages; Sweden to decide on NATO membership May 15.

GOOD:  Pushback: Lawsuit forces Rhode Island to let oral surgeon to reopen his practice.

QUELLE SURPRISE:  White House: Suddenly SCOTUS Protests No Longer Justified.

I AM SHOCKED SHOCKED, SHOCKED:  Covid Relief Funds Spent On Critical Race Theory In Schools.

WELL, COLOR ME PURPLE AND CALL ME EDNA:  Is censorship on social media a First Amendment issue after all?

You don’t say?

WELL, THEY’RE ACCOMPLICES IN THE SCHIFF SHOW:  What The Media Still Isn’t Telling You About Russiagate.

GO ASK SRI LANKA:  Inspired Utopian Food-Production Fantasies”.

OPEN THREAD: Where’s your head at?

OCEANIA HAS NEVER BEEN AT WAR WITH EURASIA: For the first two years of World War II, Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia were allies; Hitler and Stalin secretly planned and jointly began the war that inflicted such horror and destruction.

There is no denying that a vast number of Soviet citizens lost their lives in World War II. Without the Russian people’s appalling suffering and sacrifice, the Allies might not have triumphed in the end.

But there is also no denying that Moscow was Nazi Germany’s partner in unleashing the war, the deadliest in human history, in the first place. Victory Day is a good opportunity to review the record of Russian culpability in plunging the world into war — a record the Kremlin’s propagandists have been trying to obscure for decades.

World War II is commonly said to have started on Sept. 1, 1939 , when German forces invaded Poland. But it would perhaps be more accurate to date the start of the war nine days earlier. On Aug. 23, 1939, German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop and Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov signed a treaty of non-aggression, whereby their governments agreed to conquer and divide Poland and the rest of Eastern Europe. It was under the terms of this pact that the Nazi Wehrmacht moved into western Poland on Sept. 1 and Josef Stalin’s Red Army invaded Poland from the east 16 days later.

Read the whole thing.

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NEW CIVILITY WATCH: CNN’s Jarrett: Screw ‘Civility,’ Protests Outside Justices’ Homes Are Fine.

On this morning’s New Day, CNN reporter Laura Jarrett, daughter of former top Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett, supported pro-abortion protests outside the homes of conservative Supreme Court Justices. She claimed that a conversation about civility “misses the mark.”

Substitute host John Avlon actually tried to frame the conversation around where the line should be drawn when it comes to protests, but Jarrett would have none of it.

“I think for a lot of people, a conversation about civility feels like it misses the mark when constitutional [sic—Ed] rights that you believe that you had for over 50 years are about to be overturned.”

“The Justices have security,” she sniffed. This sounds similar to her mother Valerie Jarrett saluting the “energy” of protests that erupted in Ferguson back in 2014 after Michael Brown was shot after reaching inside a car window for a cop’s gun. They were focusing on the “post-Ferguson anger.”

Related: Based on this headline at The Hill, they’re down for plenty of Alinsky-approved home protests as well: Abortion battle moves to homes of Supreme Court justices.

As Glenn wrote last year when Democrats stripped Marjorie Taylor Greene of her committee assignments, “Just as when Harry Reid got rid of the filibuster, they think the worm will never turn.”