NEED TO KNOW: Pfizer Knew of COVID-19 Vax Risks to Breastfeeding Babies in April 2021.

CHANGE: ‘I guess we need a conservative:’ LI trained student wins campus vice presidency.

CRISIS BY DESIGN: Southwest border detention facilities have reached full capacity, says DHS.

Migrant detention facilities along the U.S.-Mexico border have reached full capacity as the number of migrants attempting to cross into the nation continues to increase ahead of the expiration of Title 42, according to an official with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

More than 20,500 migrants are currently in the custody of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection along the southwest border as of Saturday, the official said, adding that the actual number of migrants in custody varies every day.

As of Friday, Border Patrol in the Rio Grande Valley sector currently has around 7,500 migrants in custody, despite having a holding capacity of only 4,000 migrants.

“I want to say the first two weeks of April, we were averaging about maybe 1,700 Venezuelan nationals entering illegally into the country through that particular area in Brownsville,” said Gloria Chavez, Border Patrol Chief for the Rio Grande Valley Sector. “And then two weeks later, towards the end, here the last eight days, we saw an uptick of over 15,000 Venezuelans.”

More to come…

LIGHTNING DEAL: Cyxus Large Blue Light Glasses Black Computer Glasses for Men. #CommissionEarned

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Will Trans Madness Weariness Play a Big Role in 2024? “The radical leftists don’t have the numbers on any issue, they merely have volume.”

NOT ENTIRELY WRONG, JUST INSUFFICIENT:  “Protecting Free Speech Is the Wrong Strategy.” We have to talk back.  Smiling politely and looking for somebody else to listen to isn’t the right strategy.

PROF. JACOBSON: With Each of These Hits, Tucker Grows In Stature – “Leak” To Media Matters Actually Makes Him Look Great.

So your big bombshell leak is Tucker Carlson complaining about the layout of the Fox Nation website? That really the best you can do lmfao https://t.co/DFwyCdS32B

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) May 1, 2023

Well, it’s Media Matters.

HOW IT STARTED: Next mayor wants NYC to be even more of a ‘sanctuary’ for illegal immigrants.

Every single one of the eight Democrats running for mayor vowed to protect illegal immigrants from deportation, solidifying the Big Apple’s often infamous status as a “sanctuary city.”

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Entrepreneur Andrew Yang, the son of legal Taiwanese immigrants, said, “I appreciate anyone who comes to this country or New York City for a better life.”

And Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams said migrants were his neighbors growing up in Queens.

“My mother worked two jobs to provide for the six of us and we had a group of undocumented residents that lived in our community,” Adams said.

The other candidates — city comptroller Scott Stringer, former Obama housing secretary Shaun Donovan and nonprofit leader Dianne Morales — also voiced their support for the Big Apple as a sanctuary city.

—The New York Post, June 2nd, 2021.

How it’s going: Adams plays race card, accuses Abbott of hurting ‘Black-run cities’ with migrant buses.

—The New York Post, yesterday.

This isn’t who we are. Adams clearly needs to reread the words on the Statue of Liberty — and his own promise that New York is a sanctuary city.

Earlier: Sanctuary Cities Seethe as Illegal Immigrants Actually Arrive.

The surest sign that public policies are simply virtue signals is when the messages don’t cost anything. The easiest way to tell when that signal starts to fail is to watch politicians flounder as the costs start to rise and voters demand relief.

It was free—and meaningless—for progressive churches to post banners calling themselves “nuclear free zones” during the Reagan era. Their dwindling congregations loved it. It was free, after George Floyd‘s murder, to post woke catechism signs on your front lawn, proclaiming “In this house, we believe: Black Lives Matter, women’s rights are human rights, no human is illegal” and so on. Maybe the neighbors gave you high-fives. And for years it has been free for deep-blue cities to proclaim themselves “sanctuaries” for illegal immigrants. That’s changing now that voters want some sanctuary for themselves.

Changes like this happen when voters realize the old virtue signals actually entail serious costs—and that they will have to pay them. That is exactly what’s happening in New York City and Washington D.C. now that Texas governor Greg Abbott is sending those cities a few busloads of illegal immigrants from his state.

These progressive bastions were silent when the Biden administration flew planeloads of illegal immigrants to suburban airports in the middle of the night. TV coverage was prohibited, and the arrivals were secretly dispersed. Abbott’s buses, by contrast, arrive downtown greeted by local TV crews. Now you can hear the politicians screech.

Why, it’s as if: Democrats Discover Only The Federal Government Can Solve The Border Crisis.

And if you believe Karine Jean-Pierre, they have! “When it comes to illegal migration, you have seen it come down by more than 90%, and that’s because of the actions that this president has taken.”

That’s some off-the-charts gaslighting, right there.

HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF; FIRST AS TRAGEDY, SECOND ON PURPOSE: The Biden Administration’s Loan Level Price Adjustment and a Repeat of the Housing Crisis. “This time, the Biden Administration is attempting to play with mortgages, in an effort reminiscent of the pre-2007 federal follies that gave us the housing crisis and the Great Recession. The rule violates the federal government’s constitutional powers; it violates the dictates of fairness; and it violates the most basic tenets of financial prudence. At best, it would punish those who have saved diligently and managed their money carefully. At worst, it would place the individuals it is designed to help in a precarious position, saddling them with mortgages that many will not be able to service. Then, of course, there are potential unintended consequences for the economy.”

Luring people into mortgages they can’t afford — what could possibly go wrong?

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Illegal Alien Accused Of Murdering 5 Neighbors In Texas Was Deported 5 Times: Report.

BRENDAN O’NEIL: Why they hate Tucker Carlson.

This is the irony of Tucker Derangement Syndrome: the very people who fear the rise of Carlson created the conditions for the rise of Carlson. You think you can condemn the masses as a ‘basket of deplorables’, as imbeciles who ‘cling to guns or religion’, as gammon and Karens, as lizard-brained lowlifes, as gullible white trash led astray by Trump and Brexit, as transphobic, Islamophobic, xenophobic creatures in urgent need of re-education, and that there won’t be consequences? Get real. Carlson is the consequence. If he’s a monster – calm down, he isn’t – then he’s a monster of your making. Carlson’s ‘power’ among the white working class is directly proportional to the elites’ visceral derision for the white working class. Dehumanise people for long enough and they’ll look high and low for someone who treats them as human. Carlson did that, at least: he treated his viewers as human.

Following the end of Carlson’s relationship with Fox, the liberal elite has doubled down on its contempt for Fox viewers. Carlson’s rhetoric was ‘dangerous’, they say, not least because he had a ‘very impressionable audience’. There it is. The class hatred masquerading as media theory that underpins the elite disdain for Tucker in particular and right-wing media more broadly. Tuckerphobia is underwritten by a bourgeois dread that the TV-watching plebs will be driven mad by demagogues like Carlson. It’s Carlson they bash, but it’s the masses they fear. There has been much talk in recent days about Carlson’s ‘paranoid style’, à la Richard Hofstadter. And it’s true he bent towards paranoia at times. But it was the liberal establishment’s paranoid dread of the deplorable working-class that not only made Tucker possible, but which will ensure that, soon, someone will take his place.

And right on cue, as if to prove O’Neil’s point about class hatred: Jimmy Kimmel Tries to Dunk on Tucker Carlson, Thoroughly Beclowns Himself Instead.

MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Conservative Supreme Court justice hit pieces: We are being lectured on ethics by scoundrels.

WELL, HE’S RIGHT: Shout It Out Loud: KISS Guitarist Calls Transitioning Kids a ‘Dangerous Fad.’

WELL, ADULT MORONS, MAYBE: Climate Activists Who Smeared Paint on Priceless Sculpture Insist ‘We Are Adults.’

But I’m for punishing them like adults.

BOTTOM STORY OF THE DAY: Hollywood writers to go on strike, slam ‘gig economy.’

Television and movie writers declared late Monday that they will launch an industrywide strike for the first time in 15 years, as Hollywood girded for a walkout with potentially widespread ramifications in a fight over fair pay in the streaming era.

The Writers Guild of America said that its 11,500 unionized screenwriters will head to the picket lines on Tuesday. Negotiations between studios and the writers, which began in March, failed to reach a new contract before the writers’ current deal expired just after midnight, at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday. All script writing is to immediately cease, the guild informed its members.

The board of directors for the WGA, which includes both a West and an East branch, voted unanimously to call for a strike, effective at the stroke of midnight. Writers, they said, are facing an “existential crisis.”

Maybe wait and see if the film industry itself survives its own existential crisis before hitting the sidewalks with placards?

Could there be a small screen existential crisis as well? Writers’ Strike Might Be Late-Night TV’s Death Blow. Bee, Noah, Corden are gone … will Colbert, Kimmel and Fallon follow?

One can hope.

MICHAEL WALSH: “One of the hallmarks of Leftist methodology is to assert blatant falsehoods as real and then act on them—with the fierce urgency of now!—as if they were true. At first dismissed as too absurd to take seriously, this approach has proven highly successful.”

PRIORITIES: Colorado Dems vote against harsher penalties for indecent exposure to kids because it could ‘ban drag shows.’

CDR SALAMANDER: Humility & Hard Questions Win Wars: The War Gods of the Copybook Headings are not happy with us.

Good leaders with sound ideas and well developed plans will welcome hard questions and informed challenges.

Bad leaders with weak ideas and compromised plans will be defensive, flinty, and more often than not will resort to appeals to authority or credentialism. Those are your warning signs.

True in almost every area.

Plus: “As the West runs around the planet trying to scrape up all the artillery rounds they can find and start to understand why the ‘easy’ button does not seem to be working for new production, let’s check in to what helped us get here. . . . This was unknown? No, it was known, it was just inconvenient to someone’s pet project. Oh, and yes, it is a crisis.”

WHERE’S HUNTER, FAT? In Court, Hunter Biden Cries Poor to Reduce Child Support Payments. President’s son says he slept ‘on cot’ in father’s room in Dublin, had his Porsche repossessed.

Biden, wearing a tight-fitting dark navy suit, appeared dejected as he walked into the county court room in small-town Batesville, Arkansas, as a passing train whistled down the street. He was flanked by D.C. super lawyer Abbe Lowell, who recently joined Biden’s legal team in the custody case.

Lowell said Biden is paying Lunden Alexis Roberts $20,000 per month in child support under an agreement they reached in 2020, shortly after President Joe Biden launched his presidential campaign. Lowell said Biden has paid Roberts at least $750,000 over the past few years.

The hearing came days after Arkansas Circuit Court judge Holly Meyer ordered Biden and his child’s mother, Roberts, to appear for all future court dates, arguing that their absences are needlessly delaying the case. “I expect this case to get done,” Meyer said on Monday. “I will run herd on you ladies and gentlemen until that happens.”

Biden’s lawyers objected to attempts by Roberts’s team to frame him as privileged and wealthy, arguing that he has only traveled on Air Force One one time and “stayed on a cot in his dad’s room in Dublin” during their recent Ireland visit. Biden no longer owns a Porsche, and his lawyer Brent Langdon indicated it was repossessed. Biden now drives an unspecified car given to him by celebrity lawyer Kevin Morris.

His lawyers did not respond to a Washington Free Beacon request for more information on the Porsche.

During the hearing, Biden’s lawyers said his only income is a percentage of his art sales from a New York gallery and that Biden is unable to provide a list of who has bought his paintings and how much they are worth. Lowell said Biden doesn’t know the names of any of the buyers under an agreement with the gallery, which is intended to avoid political influence-peddling.

Oh, about those paintings: Hunter Biden sells more paintings for up to $225,000 to anonymous buyers.

ROGER KIMBALL: Another Progressive Fusillade Goes Awry.

Rufo’s critics face two huge hurdles.

One, CRT and allied ideologies are every bit as toxic as Rufo says.

To describe CRT is to discredit it, and Rufo describes it in patient, if not exactly loving, detail.

Two, those attacking Rufo seem to believe that by saying he represents an assault on “progressive” sentiment they have landed a damaging blow.

They don’t understand that, like Br’er Rabbit, he glories in being tossed into the Briar Patch of anti-progressive reaction.

The latest, inadvertently amusing, instance of this phenomenon, was vouchsafed us by a truly obtuse opinion piece in our former paper of record.

One of Rufo’s highest-profile interventions to date has been at New College in Sarasota, Florida.

That failing college attracted the attention of Gov. Ron DeSantis partly because it was floundering, hemorrhaging students and financial stability, partly because it was a safe haven for every toxic element of the CRT roadshow.

DeSantis brought in several new board members, including Rufo, and they instantly began shaking things up.

His statement that he wanted to help transform New College into “the Hillsdale of the South” was particularly galling to the woke mandarins in the media because Hillsdale, probably the best liberal arts college in the country, is calmly but conspicuously and determinedly non-woke.

Hillsdale is interested in education, not indoctrination.

That is its real tort: It refuses to be part of the “progressive” assault on independent thought and genuine learning.

The hilarity of the New York Times piece begins with its title: “This Is What the Right-Wing Takeover of a Progressive College Looks Like.”

We are meant to shudder at that phrase “Right-Wing.”

It’s true that most conservatives cower in the corner when accused of being “right-wing,” “racist,” “homophobic,” etc.

That cowardice is part of what’s wrong with contemporary conservatism.

But Rufo outflanked the machine by embracing the charge.

He linked to the NY Times column on Twitter and proudly assented to the charge: “Yes, this is what the right-wing takeover of a progressive college looks like,” he said. “And we’re just getting started.”

Oh no, narrative disruption!

Rufo continued: “My critics believe that the ‘progressive college’ is the only natural and legitimate form of the university.

“But we won’t play that game. Conservative voters deserve conservative institutions. In a republic, the people, through their elected representatives, get to decide.”

What a novel idea!

I (almost) felt sorry for the NY Times columnist.

Reading her column was like watching a toddler having a meltdown.

So crazy that it might just work.

OH: Tucker Carlson Goes Full Rogue, Muses About Building 7 Collapse. “Do buildings actually collapse? No, they—maybe they do. I don’t know. But, like, why can’t I ask questions about that?””

ALEX BERENSON: On Friendship with Self-Righteous Cowards. “Three years in, the bell has rung. No, I don’t expect Covidians and vaccine fanatics to apologize. But the ones so deluded as to think THEY still should be judging US – I’m done with them. Forever.”

FROM M. C. A. HOGARTH, JIM CURTIS, KELLY GRAYSON, CEDAR SANDERSON AND OTHERS, IT’S THE SPITE BOOK:  Space Marines.

The description, from Cedar Sanderson:

 The story behind this anthology is the Games Workshop attack on the use of Space Marines, MCA Hogarth’s stand for her story Spots the Space Marine, and then the SFWA crowd’s candyass sidestepping of including her stories in the anthologies they ran to ‘celebrate’ her win of batting down the GW overstep. Ian found out about all of those things and this is his thumb in a lot of eyes…
Spite. It gets stuff done!

THEY’RE DOING WELL. YOU CAN TELL BECAUSE THE ENEMY WANTS TO STOP THEM:  Musk press conference on Starship/Superheavy launch.

A PROCESS MAKES CREATING EASIER:  Designing a way to design.