SQUAD GOALS: The Squad stands alone on Jordan Neely’s death.

Tensions ran high this week after Jordan Neely, a homeless street performer with a record of violence, was killed by Daniel Penney, a twenty-four-year-old Marine. Penney placed Neely in a chokehold on a New York City subway train. The usual suspects, such as Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ayanna Pressley, swung into action, calling the incident “murder” and a “lynching” respectively. Conservative media was alive with dire warnings of potential violent protests in response to this death of a black man at the hands of a white man. But a funny thing happened on the way to the riots: they didn’t occur.

So what makes this situation so different from incidents of racially tinged violence in the recent past? For one thing, notwithstanding the one-note Squad and its acolytes who see abject racism in everything, cooler heads on the left prevailed. Mayor Eric Adams in the wake of the incident sounded downright reasonable, asking New Yorkers to wait for the facts. There is little doubt that his predecessor, self-described communist Bill de Blasio, would have been manning the barricades by now, explaining that Molotov cocktails are the language of the oppressed.

Much of the mainstream news media too seems to have learned a few lessons from its embarrassing embrace of outrage in cases like Jussie Smollett’s hoax assault and the supposedly racist Covington Catholic kids. This time around, even left-leaning legacy outlets like the New York Times and CNN took a much more careful approach. This is all for the good — but there is another reason why reactions to Neely’s death, in New York and across America, are causing more circumspection than calls for violent action.

That hasn’t stopped some people from trying to make Neely into George Floyd Mark II:

https://twitter.com/xenophonrocks/status/1654817664991100928?s=42&t=BjJOEFpw2mIu9Pvww6utZQ

And “unexpectedly:” Sharpton: Failure to charge Marine in choke-hold death of Jordan Neely will encourage vigilantes.

GIVEN WHAT’S COMING, IF I WERE A SMALL POOR COUNTRY I’D BE STRENGTHENING TIES: Snub to King Charles III as Jamaica, Belize announce plans to ditch monarch.

KING CHARLES III AND QUEEN CAMILLA ARE CROWNED IN ELABORATE CEREMONY.

WILL THERE BE A FLYING SUB? PLEASE LET THERE BE A FLYING SUB. Joint venture announced to build ‘underwater space station of the ocean.’

TRUNALIMUNUMAPRZURE! British public sours on Biden after coronation snub, says former Thatcher aide.

As President Biden takes flak both at home and across the pond for his decision to sit out the coronation of King Charles this weekend, a former aide to Margaret Thatcher says the British public has soured on the embattled American leader who promised European allies, “The U.S. is back.”

“Certainly the British press, I think, have turned very strongly against Biden,” said Nile Gardiner, who served as an adviser to Britain’s transformative Conservative prime minister. “There’s been a lot of condemnation in the U.K. of Biden’s decision not to attend. I would say he’s becoming a very unpopular president in the eyes of the British public. I think this is just the latest snub of America’s closest friend and ally.”

King Charles III is to be officially crowned king on May 6. It will be the first crowning of a monarch in Great Britain since 1953.

Also in Trunalimunumaprzure news, Biden says that his former boss should not be president again. To be fair, it’s tough to argue about that:

Q: "You talk about fighting for the soul of America, but…hate crimes are on the rise, random acts of gun violence, women are under attack—"

Biden's staffer interrupts, but he answers anyway by starting to say "we can't let Obama" be president again. pic.twitter.com/bue27GSz1S

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) May 6, 2023

Don’t argue with the man. After all, “I have acquired a hell of a lot of wisdom and know more than the vast majority of people.”

WHY WE SHOULD HAVE YEAR-ROUND DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME: Fall time change associated with rise in sleep disorders.

RAND PAUL SAYS DEMOCRATS KNOW THE ‘CONSENSUS IS SWITCHING’ ON FAUCI:

“They still don’t want to be part of it because Fauci’s the leader of the Democrat party now for them,” Paul told Kibbe. “He’s this icon and they don’t want to do anything that tarnishes him. And they see it as a partisan effort.”

Paul continued, “They’re coming quietly to me and saying, ‘well, we probably would work on a bill to maybe regulate gain-of-function research, how taxpayer dollars are spent on this.’”

Kibbe observed, “Arrogance isn’t a strong enough word for this kind of central planning, manipulating human existence itself. I can’t think of a strong enough word to explain how insane that sounds.”

Rand Paul replied, “There’s a healthy dose of arrogance and elitism in all of this, of any kind, sort of central planning. In several of the exchanges with Fauci I would say ‘show some humility, man.’”

At age 82, having crashed the American economy and gotten his party’s president elected, why would he start now?

IF THEY DON’T WANT PEOPLE TO SEE IT, IT’S BECAUSE IT’S POLITICALLY DAMAGING FOR THEM: Why are they hiding the manifesto? “Remember the Covenant school shooting in Nashville? You are not supposed to. It is supposed to fade quietly into the background because, well, the facts are inconvenient to the Narrative™. Immediately after the horrific events we learned that there was a ‘manifesto’ left behind by the shooter making it abundantly clear why she committed the act. In her last message to a friend, she also indicated that she left behind writings about why she committed evil acts. So far that manifesto has been withheld from public scrutiny. The powers that be don’t want you to see it.”

UPDATE: I hear from an insider source that a lot of Tennessee legislators are furious with Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee over not forcing the manifesto to be released. Some people are saying that if the manifesto isn’t released, they’ll try to block what he wants in the special session.

MATT WALSH: “I’m not sure if most people fully appreciate the significance of this Bud Light stuff. We made an iconic American brand toxic, virtually overnight, because it endorsed gender ideology. This is a pivotal moment. A map to follow going forward.”

Is Smirnoff going the Bud Light route? Trans activist appears to tout Smirnoff relationship, company denies partnership.

THE CORBYNIZATION OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY CONTINUES APACE: Neera Tanden, Biden’s New Adviser, Has A History Of Trashing Political Opponents And Israel.

THE POWER LINE WEEK IN PICTURES: No Energy in the Executive Edition.

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY, BIDEN NATIONAL SECURITY EDITION: As China’s aggression grows, US allies reassess security in the Indo-Pacific region.

Possibly related:

General Liu Yazhou, a senior officer of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, has recently been purged by Xi Jinping. In addition to being personally detained and processed, a document has been issued throughout the entire military demanding the eradication of his ideological…

— 王丹 (@wangdan1989) May 6, 2023

WIKIPEDIA’S ROBESPIERRE:  On this day in 1758, the bloodthristy Maximilien Robespierre was born in the French province of Artois.  Weirdly, Wikipedia has an almost hagiographic entry for him.  It emphasizes all the wonderful causes he endorsed–such as universal manhood suffrage (even for “people of color, Jews, actors, and domestic staff”) and the abolition of French involvement in the Atlantic slave trade.  His central role in the Reign of Terror is downplayed to a remarkable degree.

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Wikipedia is dominated by leftists, and leftists’ Robespierran sympathies grow increasingly apparent.

RELATED:  The Babylon Bee on Hitler.

NOW OUT: Heather Mac Donald’s new book, When Race Trumps Merit: How the Pursuit of Equity Sacrifices Excellence, Destroys Beauty, and Threatens Lives. #CommissionEarned

CHANGE: Go figure: Joe Manchin’s seat shifts to “safe Republican.”

AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: Hitler Exonerated After Footage Discovered Of Him Moonwalking On Subway.

UNSURPRISING: Florida ranked #1 for higher education.

DEAL OF THE DAY: ComfiLife Gel Enhanced Seat Cushion. #CommissionEarned

FOLLOWING IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF LIZ WARREN: The University of Wisconsin-Madison paid $5,000 to a woman who faked her Native American ancestry so that she could help develop ‘a toolkit and curriculum around cultural appropriation.’

At least she has experience in the field.

COVID IS OVER, NOW OFFICIALLY: W.H.O. Declares Global COVID-19 Public Health Emergency Over: It’s been over for most Americans for a long time already.

Related: Surgeon General Vivek Murthy Refuses To Acknowledge the Government’s Misrepresentation of Mask Research.

A TRUTH TOO OBVIOUS FOR BLUE-CITY POLITICIANS: “We can’t have a subway system that’s both a system of transportation and housing for the homeless. Those are incompatible goals.”

HMM:

MACROCOSM

"In 2021, you needed a 1099 if you paid someone $20K. Now it’s $600 … All these gig workers are suddenly being forced to apply for jobs, and the BLS is interpreting this as record entrepreneurship and business formation."@profplum99 to @KeithMcCullough#HedgeyeLive pic.twitter.com/AFd9dHa6cF

— Hedgeye (@Hedgeye) May 5, 2023

BUT OF COURSE: EXCLUSIVE: Latin Mass Churchgoers Witnessed Suspicious Activity After FBI’s ‘Radical-Traditional Catholic’ Memo.

WATCH: Sen. Kennedy Lights up Biden Energy Official With Question We’d All Like an Answer to on Climate Agenda.

[Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA)] was questioning Biden Deputy Energy Secretary David Turk. He was asking the questions that you should ask about budgeting, spending, and the Biden team’s nonsensical climate agenda.

“If we spend $50 trillion to become carbon neutral in the United States by 2050,” Kennedy asked, “Give me your estimate of how much that is going to reduce world temperatures.” Great question — what are we going to get if the Biden team spends all of that money from us, the American taxpayers, this way? What’s going to be the result?

Turk, of course, couldn’t answer the question. He looks like it never even occurred to him that that should be a question to which he should have an answer. But that’s the problem of the Biden administration, and the Democrats, right there. Because ultimately, that’s not how they think, and I don’t think they care. I think it’s about the money and the control the regulations give them. The “crisis” is secondary. They think the money is never ending—and they never have to justify what they’re doing with it.

Here’s the clip:

“If we spend $50 TRILLION on Global Warming how much will it reduce the world’s temperature?”

Avoids the question. pic.twitter.com/5ZJdA00ktI

— T (@Rifleman4WVU) May 3, 2023

DON SURBER: “I call this fascism because that is what it is, the use by the government of business to control the people. That the media is in bed with the government — which is run by unelected and unfireable Civil Service lifers — is unassailable.”