I’LL TAKE “WHAT IS THE DEFINITION OF A SUNK COST FALLACY” FOR $500, ALEX:
Bill Maher just brought up some of Gavin Newsom’s biggest failures right to his face — including California’s DISASTROUS high-speed rail project, to which Maher said:
“I say this as a friend, you got to let that train go!”
Thus proving it’s possible to crash in a fiery train wreck despite no track ever been laid.
GOODER AND HARDER, SEATTLE:
Staffers for Seattle Socialist Mayor Katie Wilson abruptly end an interview with KOMO News Senior Reporter Chris Daniels when she can't answer basic questions
Wilson has been criticized for dodging the press & being unable to answer basic questions since she came into office pic.twitter.com/eJnFtg6CLy
Around the time the SPLC began the litigation campaign, it launched a project called Klanwatch to monitor and report on KKK activities. Klanwatch ultimately grew into “the broader-based Intelligence Project, which tracks extremists and produces the S.P.L.C.’s annual hate-group list,” Mr. Moser wrote.
According to the indictment, between 2014 and 2023 the field sources contributed information to at least three SPLC publications: Intelligence Report, “a magazine-like periodical”; Hatewatch, a blog; and Intelligence Project Dispatch, “a monthly online publication issued by the Hatewatch Staff.” This seems to have been the informants’ main function in recent decades. The SPLC’s principal activity has been gathering information and presenting it to the public in printed and online media. That is known as journalism.
Here’s what SPLC journalism looks like: The indictment alleges that “a high-level SPLC employee” used the documents F-9 stole from the National Alliance as the basis for a Hatewatch story. A former chairman of the same group, F-42, “was featured on the SPLC’s ‘Extremist File’ webpage.” The center denounced F-42 as an extremist with one hand and paid him $140,000 with the other, according to the indictment.
To observe that the SPLC practices journalism isn’t to give it a seal of approval. To the contrary, it is to insist that the center’s work be judged by the ethical standards of journalism. In America at least, respectable journalists don’t pay sources for information—much less hire sources to obtain information illegally, as the SPLC allegedly did with F-9. We don’t deliberately deceive our readers, as the SPLC allegedly did by attributing F-9’s theft to F-39 and by publishing an exposé of F-42 that concealed the most interesting and pertinent fact about him—that he was on the SPLC payroll.
It’s also a financial scandal as well:
Extremely detailed, high-quality post about the SPLC fraud case. Explains why the SPLC is almost certainly in deep trouble, but even more importantly, it describes at length how the SPLC became a de facto bank regulator, exercising quasi-governmental power over who was given… https://t.co/8gGRxWQhVW
Reminder that the NC May Day protesters were bused in by lavishly funded tax exempt entities aligned with the NC teachers union. pic.twitter.com/jpBsFIYfdV
Platner’s de facto primary win is dark, depressing, and sad. You can make a compelling argument that antisemitism was actually Platner’s biggest strength in the short-lived Democratic Senate primary:
On another occasion, he promoted a social media post from the neo-Nazi Holocaust denier Stew Peters, and he also sat for a lengthy interview with antisemitic conspiracy theorist Nate Cornacchia, claiming he was a longtime fan. He has also described the U.S.-Israel relationship as “shameful” and praised a violent Hamas attack on Israel in 2014.
But there’s also something absurd about the rapid rise of Platner after the revelation in October that he had a death’s-head tattoo of the Nazi Schutzstaffel (SS) on his chest for 18 years.
“It was not until I started hearing from reporters and D.C. insiders that I realized this tattoo resembled a Nazi symbol,” Platner said when the controversy emerged. “I absolutely would not have gone through life having this on my chest if I knew that — and to insinuate that I did is disgusting.” That is not how all of Platner’s old acquaintances remember it, and his former political director said he had told her he had a “problematic” tattoo in the summer of last year.
His life has been one enormous kampf struggle:
Graham Platner claims to be "working class"
The reality? His dad bought him a house, sent him to the Hotchkiss School in Connecticut where where tuition runs $70,000+ a year, and sent him on a European backpacking trip after high school. https://t.co/7SrHpniW6K
Spirit Airlines is reportedly set to cease operations at 3am on Saturday after a bailout from President Trump has failed to materialize.
The airline, which began air operations in 1990, had been hoping for a $500 million lifeline from the federal government, but the deal has not been finalized in time due to financial complications, reports the Wall Street Journal.
Sources told the outlet that the budget airline has failed to get sufficient support from bondholders and the government to secure the funding before running out of cash.
Passenger Taylor Gonzalez, 27, told the Detroit Free Press that she fears being stranded in Los Angeles with her three-year-old son on Friday night, saying she ‘didn’t know about this until just now.’
Despite the reported end of its operations, Spirit’s website is still allowing customers to book flights before the 3am deadline.
The carrier previously filed for bankruptcy twice between November 2024 and August 2025, and it currently remains under Chapter 11 protection.
This tweet aged very poorly. Sen. Elizabeth Warren & the Biden Administration essentially bankrupt Spirit Airlines by preventing a merger with JetBlue that would have saved the airline. Elizabeth Warren was very very very wrong about this. https://t.co/0t9hqKBwbA
Look, parents with advanced STEM degrees just aren’t smart enough to homeschool their kids.
You have to let fat retarded communist women with a BA in interpersonal communication and a Masters in uptalking handle education. https://t.co/3eZfW1mgjh
In his address to Congress on Tuesday, King Charles emphasized the common roots and unusual endurance of the English and American systems. Unlike France, where everyone expects the Fifth Republic to go the way of the previous four quite soon, the Anglophone constitutions remain the same while the political regime shifts beneath them. The high-immigration, high-welfare, multiculturalist regime that is now breaking down in Britain was created in 1997. If the leading party in the polls, Nigel Farage’s Reform UK, wins the next election, it might be able to start laying the ground of the next British regime. It will restrict immigration, reassert the centrality of English culture, shrink the welfare state, and face serious opposition from the institutions through which it must govern.
Yookay Britain isn’t like Nazi Germany in the 1930s. It’s more like Tsarist Russia in the 1880s. A state that can’t reform itself indulges the anti-Jewish violence of Britain’s urban peasantry as a safety valve. Commissioner Rowley looked no more surprised than the police officer in “Fiddler on the Roof” who warns Tevye that a pogrom is in the offing. But British Jews aren’t isolated. While the Labour prime minister Keir Starmer wrings his hands and the Green Party leader Zack Polanski winks at Islamists, Mr. Farage demands action to protect Britain’s Jews. So does Kemi Badenoch, who leads the Conservative opposition. To Mr. Farage and Ms. Badenoch, securing the future of British Jews is part of restoring law and decency to British life.
Speaking of the Greens, question asked and completely dodged:
JOHN PODHORETZ REVIEWS THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA 2: For the sequel to a beloved working-girl comedy, everybody forgot to find a plot.
You might enjoy The Devil Wears Prada 2 if you love dresses. I don’t know about or care about dresses, so I can’t really comment on the value of the fashion platery here, but the original did find a way to echo the emotional resonances of Working Girl and Pretty Woman as it converted Andy from a nerdy shlub to a radiant neo-Audrey Hepburn. Since Hathaway is gorgeous from the outset and has maintained her knowledge of how to dress well from the original movie, there’s no transformation here to make you ooh and ahh.
I have nothing against sequels, or legacy sequels, or fluffy movies that only seek to entertain. But Rule 1 is they need a story that makes sense. And Rule 2: They do need to entertain.
The friendly fire theory just got buried — on video.
For days, questions swirled about whether a Secret Service agent wounded at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner had actually been hit by fellow agents in the chaos. U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro put that narrative to rest Thursday night.
Pirro released new, high-quality security video from the Washington Hilton Hotel showing 31-year-old Cole Allen charging through a Secret Service checkpoint during the April 25 dinner, where President Trump was scheduled to speak. The footage, she noted, had already been submitted to U.S. District Court.
“Today, we are releasing video already provided to U.S. District Court showing Cole Allen shoot a U.S. Secret Service officer during his attempt to assassinate the President at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner,” Pirro said in her X post. “There is no evidence the shooting was the result of friendly fire.”
Today, we are releasing video already provided to U.S. District Court showing Cole Allen shoot a U.S. Secret Service officer during his attempt to assassinate the President at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.
The Mandalorian and Grogu box office projections are continuing to trend in the wrong direction, with new estimates suggesting the film could deliver the lowest opening weekend in the history of the Star Wars franchise.
According to the latest tracking data, the film is currently eyeing an $80 million-plus four-day Memorial Day debut. While that might sound respectable on paper, it would fall well below previous Star Wars theatrical releases—and even trail 2018’s Solo: A Star Wars Story, which opened to $103 million over the same holiday frame.
Solo holds the distinction of being the first Star Wars movie to actually lose money at the box office (but seemingly not the last).
For Star Wars, a franchise that once dominated the global box office, that’s a stunning shift.
Far more so than Spinal Tap, Kathleen Kennedy spent the last ten years working extremely hard to make Star Wars’ appeal increasingly selective:
Turns out when you attack fans, destroy legacy characters, prop up the message, blacklist actors for political differences, soften content till it’s unrecognizable, ignore widely accepted lore, hate your primary customers, write slop etc etc – people don’t want to support you 🤷🏻♂️ https://t.co/prXWbcaahe
A former JPMorgan staffer who sources identified as Chirayu Rana has been accused of making fabricated sexual-harassment claims against a high-ranking executive at the bank after an internal investigation found no evidence of wrongdoing, The Post has learned.
Multiple sources told The Post that 35-year-old Rana, now a principal at investment firm Bregal Sagemount, is the man who brought the bombshell lawsuit against Lorna Hajdini earlier this week.
Rana’s suit, filed on Monday under the pseudonym John Doe, accused the 37-year-old executive director of turning him into her “sex slave” by drugging him with Rohypnol and Viagra and threatening to slash his bonus if he did not comply.
The story as originally reported was likely doing wonders for JPMorgan’s recruiting:
Incidentally, what is up with the photo of Rana in the Post’s article? It looks like it’s either AI-generated, or massively Photoshopped and processed. When the story first broke, I thought it was bound to soon become a “ripped from the headlines” Law & Order episode. But perhaps Pixar is getting the jump on buying the rights:
UPDATE (FROM GLENN):
All it took was this guy's photo for everyone to go from "wow this is a spicy story" to "ok this is total bullshit" https://t.co/YmXZA3xgtl
UPDATE (From Ed): They don’t call it “The Daily Fail” for nothing:
The daily mail should be getting a lot of shit here, like congrats on your cool scoop that ruined a woman’s life, based on redacted court documents. https://t.co/W8eL3fVor6pic.twitter.com/0N532LKv5t
We just had astronauts go further into space than ever before, piloted by a black astronaut and Democrats openly argued that he was only there because of affirmative action. White progressives don't understand how belittling it is to black voters to claim all their success came… https://t.co/O5klEfVruW
Tweet continues, “White progressives don’t understand how belittling it is to black voters to claim all their success came from white progressive handouts, not their own capabilities and achievements.”
JUST THINK OF THE MEDIA AS DEMOCRATIC PARTY OPERATIVES WITH BYLINES, AND IT ALL MAKES SENSE:
It was very funny to watch all those (Dems and media) who claimed Hegseth's Jerusalem Cross was a racist, fascist symbol of white supremacy, then a month later when the symbol was used in Jimmy Carter's funeral, those same people were oddly silent. pic.twitter.com/ysZzDLZxNt
After a record-breaking opening weekend, Michael Jackson’s biopic, Michael, starring Jaafar Jackson, will receive a sequel, Michael 2, as revealed by Lionsgate chairman Adam Fogelson.
Speaking on The Town, Fogelson confirmed that development on the sequel is underway after the film secured the biggest opening ever for a biopic. The original biopic, directed by Antoine Fuqua (“Training Day”), details the King of Pop’s rise from child star to global superstar.
Jaafar Jackson has received rave reviews for his acting debut, playing his uncle. According to Fogelson, the years that follow offer expansive material for continuation.
“There is a massive amount of music and life experiences, separate from allegations, that could fill more than a second movie,” Fogelson said.
Michael 2 In The Works With Director Antoine Fuqua Returning After The Success of Michael, Starring Jaafar Jackson[.]
Jennings pointed out that African American members of Congress have been winning in majority-white districts across the country, which tells us that the justifications for majority-minority districts are no longer valid.
That set off another round of crosstalk, with Neera Tanden jumping in and Ana Navarro noting that the four black Republican members of Congress were all leaving — as if that matters or negates the point.
“Well, they ran for other offices,” Jennings pointed out.
Then Avlon, perhaps sensing the argument slipping away from him, reached for a historical data point. “We haven’t had an African-American Republican governor since Reconstruction,” he said, throwing it out like a trump card.
But Jennings was ready.
“Republicans tried to elect one in Virginia,” he shot back.
Avlon, clearly flustered, was practically speechless.
But then Jennings came in with the kill shot: “Then you got a white Democrat who gerrymandered the state.”
Everyone knew that Jennings had nailed him, and so Sara Sidner, who was guest-hosting the show, cut to a break, declaring, “Everything is crumbling clearly at this table.”
Not a single person crying about how the Supreme Court has made it impossible for black people to get elected supported Winsom Sears over the affluent white lady.
Susan Collins, the incumbent, is the very definition of a moderate Republican. Collins isn’t making Schumer back the Nazi Tattoo Guy; Collins is, in fact, a great excuse not to back the Nazi Tattoo Guy. Not that Chuck Schumer should need an excuse to decline to back Platner. This one’s easy.
Platner certainly hasn’t toned down the Jew-baiting or conspiracist pronouncements about Israel controlling America to siphon taxpayer money away from working families. It’s his whole brand. And one can expect it to continue now that Schumer is approving of that brand.
One need not be Jewish to understand that Nazis are bad. The moral failure here is the Democratic Party’s, not a single constituency.
That’s not to say there are no Democrats who know right from wrong. For example, Platner recently characterized Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania as “the bane of my existence”—the latest in a long line of reasons to admire Fetterman, who has made no secret of his disdain for Jew-baiters with Nazi tattoos.
There are the rare progressive activists with a conscience as well. Gun-control advocate Shannon Watts, who has been railing against the left’s support for Platner and its giddy embrace of anti-Semitic influencer Hasan Piker, tweeted today to remind everyone that Piker praised Platner by saying: “He was pro-Hamas. He was giving Hamas credit in 2014. What more do you f**king want?”
Apparently many in the party were convinced by that argument—made by a guy who, by the way, said America deserved 9/11 and is enthralled by political violence more generally.
Listen, everyone makes mistakes, though perhaps something less drastic than permanently inking Nazi imagery on their chest. Platner keeps apologizing for every new comment that pops up, and there will almost certainly be more. What if the man has shown terrible temperament and judgment, little intelligence, and exhibited no perceptible skill that makes them right to serve in the most important deliberative body in the country? No problem.
A few years back, then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) dismissed the influence of socialists like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as largely irrelevant, noting that their influence extended to “like, five people.” Well, since that time, Democrats have abetted the rise of the unhinged Left at every turn, from communists to cultural wackos, and those preaching revolutionary violence. The Democratic Party has become such a big tent these days that unapologetic terror-shilling communist Hasan Piker, who tells his millions of followers to “soak the streets in capitalist blood,” has been invited into the movement by popular personalities on the mainstream Left such as Ezra Klein and Jon Favreau. Unsurprising coming from fans of Zohran Mamdani, a devotee of “globalizing the intifada” or, rather, the global violent targeting of Jews. These positions, it seems, only lift your stock on the contemporary Left. Ocasio-Cortez is quickly becoming a centrist in her party.
At this point, what could a progressive say to be shunned by Democrats? What sin could precipitate the party abandoning a candidate? It’s difficult to think of anything. And please, don’t bring up former California gubernatorial candidate Eric Swalwell, who is now dealing with multiple accusations of sexual assault and rape. Democrats lose nothing by abandoning a primary candidate in a deep-blue state.
Come to think of it, the only offense that could conceivably turn the progressive Left against you is openly supporting Israel, as Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) has found out. Otherwise, you’re good.
No word yet if Platner will be self-funding his campaign:
While Janet Mills ran out of money, Graham Platner has several priceless works of art and gold bars stored away. https://t.co/kGcTOsw9xh
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