BEEGE: Keir Starmer Should Have Looked in the Harbor Before Signing Those Ukraine Loan Papers.

X has been full of reports of the Russian shadow fleet running fearlessly close to UK shores, basically with impunity.

Then off went the Prime Minister to Armenia this past weekend, to hobnob with his globalist European Union masters and see what he could do to bend the knee to earn further favor. It turns out that it only takes money.

The Bond villainess running the show wants £1B-a-year dues to join the EU club, and Starmer agreed to sign the UK up for the debt pool to finance the Ukrainian war and defense effort.

That little collective note will be setting its borrowers back by some £78B.

‘Where, oh, where,’ some observers of this off-site profligacy wondered, ‘will we ever find the money for OUR OWN DEFENSE if we’re paying for theirs?’

Suspicions were already high that the defense of the British Isles was not high on Starmer’s to-do list, and that came shockingly into public confirmation yesterday.

Much more at the link.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Let’s Hope Georgia Voters Realize 2021 Was One Big, Stupid Mistake. “Chris’s post has a laundry list of reminders about all that has hit the fan regarding the Southern Poverty Law Center recently. It’s no surprise that Ossoff has been remarkably mum about it all thus far. That won’t be easy to do once it’s general election time. Again, that all depends on whether the National Republican Senatorial Committee and the likely nominee Rep. Mike Collins play their cards right. That’s never a given with Republicans, but at least we know that Collins knows how to win an election.”

REDISTRICTING: Gov. Hochul eyes redistricting after NY loses residents, House seats.

Gov. Kathy Hochul said New York has been losing residents to other states because of a failure to build enough housing. She said that loss also cuts into the state’s representation in Congress.

“We’ve been losing too many New Yorkers, as I said, to other states because of our failure to build housing,” Hochul said.

Hochul said fewer residents make New York “more vulnerable” when Republicans in other states redraw districts to keep control of the House.

She said she planned to meet with Congressman Joe Morelle to discuss redistricting in New York and how that process could move forward after what she described as changes in the legal landscape following a Supreme Court ruling on the Voting Rights Act.

Hochul said any change in New York would not be done only by lawmakers and would instead have to go before voters.

“And I want to make sure that New Yorkers have a chance to vote on this — this will not just be done by the Legislature,” Hochul said.

There’s so much more than housing behind New York losing residents, but “affordable housing” is a lot like homelessness — it’s a longterm opportunity for graft, not a problem to be solved.

UPDATE (FROM GLENN):

Actually, you did start it. New York did mid-decade redistricting last cycle and tried again this cycle. This is your fourth attempt at partisan gerrymandering since becoming governor. https://t.co/f6pB8n6TqO

— Mike Lawler (@lawler4ny) May 5, 2026

ICYMI: It’s Official: The Climate Scam Was a Scam All Along.

BODYCAMS WERE A HUGE SELF-OWN FOR THE LEFT, AND A HUGE COMFORT FOR EVERYONE ELSE:

There’s a reason some leftists are calling for bodycams to stop being used.

“They have been a propaganda tool.”

Meaning, bodycams are a tool that have been very inconvenient to their narratives.pic.twitter.com/UWqITGgfU7 https://t.co/6JtSWgbXMG

— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) May 4, 2026

2020: Fulton County challenges DOJ subpoena targeting 2020 election workers.

The Fulton County Board of Registrations and Elections is now asking a federal court in Atlanta to quash the grand jury subpoena from federal agents, which requested the names, addresses, phone numbers and emails for any staff member who worked the 2020 election.

“Its purpose is to target, harass, and punish the President’s perceived political opponents; it is grossly overbroad and untethered to any reasonable need; it cannot yield any evidence that could result in a criminal prosecution,” lawyers for the Fulton County officials said in the motion filed Monday with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.

The subpoena appears to escalate the Trump administration’s pressure on Fulton County amid an ongoing federal investigation into purported irregulates [sic] in the 2020 election.

Driven in part by Trump allies who unsuccessfully sought to use debunked theories to overturn the election, federal agents in January seized all the ballots and records from the 2020 election.

Debunked, eh? Well, I guess we’ll see about that if the investigation is allowed to continue.

NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU DESPISE THE MEDIA…:

Muslim girl gets murdered at home by her Muslim parents and they forced her to wear a hijab covering up the abuse

Daily Mail – "Use another stock pic of a white girl" pic.twitter.com/ysFRDfwbxr

— Basil the Great (@BasilTheGreat) May 5, 2026

Or the government, for that matter, which seems to think the issue is home-schooling.

MEN IN DRESSES: All-Female Smith College Under Investigation for Admitting Men.

WELL, HE IS: Ron DeSantis brands NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani ‘realtor of the year’ for driving taxpayers to Florida.

COMMIES RUIN EVERYTHING: Chernobyl Wasn’t a Nuclear Disaster—It Was a Communist Disaster.

The world’s worst nuclear disaster began 40 years ago at 1:23 a.m. on April 26, 1986, when Unit 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power generation facility experienced an explosion and meltdown. Ironically, the explosion was caused by a botched safety test.

The point of the test had been to see what would happen if the power plant lost its main electrical supply: Could spinning turbines generate enough power to run the coolant pumps until emergency backup diesel generators could kick in? The experiment had failed three times previously, but never as catastrophically as it did that night.

Before the meltdown, Soviet officials had bragged regularly about the safety of their nuclear power plants and disparaged those in the West. In 1983, state-sponsored news agency Novosti reported that Soviet scientists had estimated the probability of a nuclear accident involving a radioactive discharge at one in 1 million. In 1984, Minister of Power and Electrification Petr Neporozhny called the country’s nuclear plants “totally safe.” Just two months before the disaster, the English-language propaganda magazine Soviet Life claimed: “Even if the incredible should happen, the automatic control and safety systems would shut down the reactor in a matter of seconds. The plant has emergency core cooling systems and many other technological safety designs and systems.”

Soviet officials initially tried to hide the disaster, but it was detected in the West two days later when an employee’s contaminated shoes triggered radiation alarms at Sweden’s Forsmark Nuclear Power Plant.

Read the whole thing.

PROGRESS:

Promises made, promises kept. The DOJ just sued the City of Denver over their AR-15 ban. pic.twitter.com/4TrDTFVDG1

— Hannah Hill (@hannahhill_sc) May 5, 2026

GOOD: A Property Tax Rebellion Is Emerging in America.

PRIORITIES:

Think about this…

Mayor Karen Bass took the time and paid $280,000 to put up anti-ICE signs while only ~28 of ~13,000 homes have been rebuilt from the Palisades Fire.

Insane. pic.twitter.com/LY9EAV74MV

— C3 (@C_3C_3) May 5, 2026

AND ANOTHER ONE: Dell Technologies latest to redomesticate to Texas.

In response, Gov. Greg Abbott said, “Welcome home, Dell. For over 40 years, Texas has been where Michael Dell built and innovated. Now, Dell Technologies is bringing its legal home to Texas. This is what happens when job creators and innovators are welcomed, not punished. More businesses are sure to follow.”

Dell is the latest company to announce its redomiciling its legal headquarters to Texas.

ExxonMobil Corporation announced its Board of Directors unanimously recommended its shareholders approve changing its legal domicile from New Jersey to Texas in March, The Center Square reported.

The main reason companies are citing is Texas’ new business court and regulatory framework.

Previously: Elon Musk Didn’t Just Leave Delaware — He Started a Stampede.

ANALYSIS: MOSTLY TRUE.

the purpose of a city run grocery store isn't to serve the public, its to drive out private industry so that the public will be dependent on the government – for food. https://t.co/ccL6J5WV6R

— varifrank (@varifrank) May 5, 2026

City-owned grocery stores are also about graft.

SARAH ANDERSON: Nick Shirley Went to Cuba. He Almost Didn’t Make It Home.

I LOVE A HAPPY ENDING: North Philly Homeowner Responds to Home Invader Who Ignored Orders to Leave. “One of the residents fired multiple rounds at the home invader who won’t be invading any more homes again. Ever.”

ONLY THE POLICE SHOULD HAVE GUNS, THEY TOLD ME:

NEW: Classes are canceled at an Arlington Heights school after a POLICE OFFICER LOST HIS GUN.

The School Resource Officer at the Forest View Educational Center says he removed his gun from its holster while using the bathroom. Shortly after school was out, he realized the gun… pic.twitter.com/dOchmHcrvl

— Marcus Leshock (@marcusleshock) May 5, 2026

LESS THAN THEY’LL INSIST ON: How Much Oversight of AI Does the Government Need to Ensure Our Safety?

NO SURPRISE HERE: Ability grouping helps top students, and doesn’t hurt weak students.

Strong students learn less math in mixed classes, concludes a new Education Endowment Foundation study of English middle schools, reports Richard Adams in The Guardian. Weaker students, as judged by prior math achievement, do about the same whether they’re in mixed classes or lower-track classes, University College London (UCL) researchers found. Furthermore, students placed in lower-track classes were more confident of their math abilities than those in mixed classes.

The “big and important” results “support achievement grouping in maths,” said John Jerrim, a UCL professor who has studied mixed-ability classes but wasn’t part of the study, Adams reports. Jerrim added, “It wasn’t long ago that some educational researchers in the UK and Ireland were calling ability grouping ‘symbolic violence’.”

High achievers grouped by prior achievement made two months more progress on average than similar students in mixed classes, the study found.

Not that long ago, this was common knowledge and common practice.

REMARKABLE, ISN’T IT?

About five thousand years have unfolded in the decade since this tweet – and despite the impeachments, indictments, and assassination attempts, “Happy Trump” still shows up. https://t.co/SoFDrdLfna

— Spencer Brown (@SpencerBrown) May 5, 2026

CHANGE? Minocqua’s Loudest Brewer Wants Wisconsin’s Biggest Job.

THAT SEEMS LIKE A ROOKIE NUMBER: Nancy Mace Names 6 House Lawmakers Allegedly Involved In Sex Scandal Cover Up. “Mace’s post names six lawmakers including former Republican Louisiana Rep. Rodney Alexander, former Republican Texas Rep. Blake Farenthold, former Republican Pennsylvania Rep. Patrick Meehan, former Democratic New York Rep. Eric Massa, former Democratic Michigan Rep. John Conyers, and the office of former Democratic New York Rep. Carolyn McCarthy.”

MEN AND WOMEN ARE DIFFERENT, EXHIBIT #1,000,006:

Update: The women lost. https://t.co/AwzsZd40IF

— Brandi Kruse (@BrandiKruse) May 5, 2026

IT’S OFFICIAL: The Climate Scam Was a Scam All Along.