ROBERT SPENCER: A Man Plowed His Car Into a Crowd in Italy, but He Has a Perfectly Good Explanation. “Yes, okay, Salim El Koudri did drive his car into a crowd in Modena, Italy, last Saturday, maiming a couple of people for life (they both had to have their legs amputated) and injuring five others. But these are the days of compassion, the days when we know that the perpetrator of a crime has to be understood as articulating a grievance that we all must rush to assuage, and the era of empathy, when we don’t care nearly as much for amputated legs as we do for hurt feelings, if the legs are not attached to the right person and the feelings are.”
Author Archive: Stephen Green
May 22, 2026
More than 3 million illegal aliens have left the US or been deported since President Trump took office, the Department of Homeland Security has revealed.
Of those 3 million, 2.2 million have opted to self-deport through a program that allows migrants to turn themselves in via a DHS app in return for a cash stipend and free flight home.
Another 900,000 have been deported since Jan. 20, 2025, and as of this month, DHS has arrested 900,000 illegal aliens, according to agency figures.
It’s a marked shift from the Biden administration, which let an estimated 5 million to 6 million migrants into the country, according to the Cato Institute, under the less-than-watchful eye of then-border czar Kamala Harris.
I’ll remind you again that Democrats mocked Mitt Romney for suggesting self-deportation — but incentives work.
CORN, POPPED:
Not only does the NYT response fall woefully short — it actually strengthens Israel's legal case against it.
1. Kristof minimizes Euro-Med's chairman as someone whose views "can't be taken lightly" — while failing to note a documented record that includes an Israeli… https://t.co/KxfmA67HpS
— Eitan Fischberger (@EFischberger) May 22, 2026
Five points:
1. Kristof minimizes Euro-Med’s chairman as someone whose views “can’t be taken lightly” — while failing to note a documented record that includes an Israeli anti-terrorism order against Abdu personally, and a brother-in-law who was a senior Hamas military commander.
2. Kristof cited peer-reviewed medical literature as scientific validation for the dog rape allegation. But that literature documents human-initiated bestiality and one accidental pet incident. Not one paper describes a dog trained to assault a human on command.
3. One of his only two named sources filed a petition with the Israeli Supreme Court after his detention, with lawyers, complaining about the food. He never mentioned rape. The Times calls this “additional details over time.” That’s not how things work.
4. Former PM Olmert accused Kristof of misrepresenting his words in the original column. The Times response doesn’t mention him once.
5. The Times confirmed its legal team reviewed the column before publication. Those internal communications now potentially exist for discovery.
Stay tuned…
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Now That Colbert Is Gone, Can We Start the Clock on Kimmel? “Jimmy Kimmel will no doubt use Colbert’s absence as an excuse to become more execrable than ever. ABC can keep him afloat for a while. The network is still a for-profit business, though, and not a weeknightly charity for the Democratic National Committee. ABC execs will almost certainly take a cue from their counterparts at CBS. Kimmel’s petulant attitude won’t do him any favors, either.”
ANALYSIS: TRUE. Cambridge Progs Would Rather Have More Crime Than Arrest Protected Class Criminals. “Fighting crime and protecting the law-abiding population are secondary considerations.”
BLUFF, CALLED:
Ilhan Omar, in April: “Please investigate all you want."
She did ask nicely. https://t.co/9tjM6UFu4u pic.twitter.com/PmyXraKxvU
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) May 21, 2026
Corn popped, too.
THE LEFT PROTECTS ITS OWN, ALWAYS:
I started to ask why Democrats would be upset about a communist dictator being indicted.
But then I realized that’s a really dumb question. https://t.co/ZimnVpuBYh
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) May 21, 2026
ED MORRISSEY: DNC Autopsy ‘Paints Dismal Picture’ While Burying the Biden Cover-Up and Harris’ Incompetence.
What about the report itself? People can directly access the 192-page report, but it’s not easy to parse, thanks to the lack of effort in finishing the product. It’s unfinished in another sense, too: there is apparently no mention of Joe Biden’s cognitive decline or the effort to cover it up in the autopsy. The words “cognitive,” “dementia,” “senile,” and “mental” make no appearance in this document. The June 2024 debate barely gets a mention at all, and the report completely ignores its impact and what it revealed about Democrats’ attempts to sell a sick old man as “Sharp As A Tack™”:
Before the candidate switch, the pollsters never reviewed ad copy or content – and commented how they did not see ads until after they were airing, in some instances reading about the ads in the media. They also reported they had little insight into the data provided to leadership from the analytics team.
As the June 2024 debate neared, there were discussions about polling around the debate and after the convention. The polling team was informed the plan was for them to poll three times during the general election, and the post-convention polling would count as one of those three polling waves. They attributed this minimalist approach to research to members of the media team not believing polling data was essential to decision making.
The debate obviously changed many things. The dial-testing during the debate demonstrated the weakness of the President’s performance, and a post-debate survey was scrapped.
Whoever wrote this passage must have majored in Passive Voice Deflection while attending Progressive U. “The debate obviously changed many things,” the author(s) write, without ever explaining what changed or why, even though the necessity of that switch was the single biggest problem Democrats faced.
The autopsy never addresses the “candidate switch” in detail either, choosing to ignore the back-room “switch” that took place and the option Democrats had in using the convention to choose their nominee by a representative vote. This literally never gets discussed in the report, despite it being the single biggest DNC process issue in the 2024 cycle.
If the first step is admitting you have a problem, for the DNC the second step is going back to ignoring it.
NOVEMBER PREVIEW:
Democrats are currently running 3.1pts ahead of where they were on this day in history back in 2018, a 9.2pt swing from 2022.
After South Carolina redistricts, Democrats will need to win the U.S. House vote by ≈5pts to ensure they secure the majority.https://t.co/b5ycDSw9H4 pic.twitter.com/NSDXb5ICSy
— Rich Baris THE PEOPLE'S PUNDIT (@Peoples_Pundit) May 21, 2026
Almost left unsaid: Don’t get cocky.
May 21, 2026
SARAH HOYT’S SHOCKED FACE IS IN FULL REMISSION: Austin Spree Shooter Is Illegal Alien. “Democrats also claim to be against “gun violence,” yet when their precious felons do commit crimes with guns, soft-on-crime blue city prosecutors quickly turn them back out on the street to re-offend. Mondragon should have been held and/or deported after his first gun theft.”
GODSPEED:
On track for today’s Starship flight test. The launch window is from 5:30 p.m. CT – 7 p.m. CT and live coverage starts ~45 minutes before launch https://t.co/vwvur0GZdD
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) May 21, 2026
COOKING WELL IS NOT HARD, NOR DOES IT HAVE TO BE EXPENSIVE:
An entire generation of burnt out narcissists raised by TikTok who think the world owes them something – a car, a house, Jeff Bezos's money.
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) May 21, 2026
A SHAME IT DIDN’T INCLUDE A PUBLIC FLOGGING: Minnesota Fraud Mastermind Gets Over 40 Year Jail Sentence.
AND ANOTHER ONE: Eli Lilly says next-generation weight loss drug clears crucial obesity trial. “The highest dose of retatrutide helped patients lose 28.3% of their weight — or 70.3 pounds — on average over 80 weeks.”
UNHOLY, BUT YES:
HOLY FUCK https://t.co/7WwbBLcVyZ
— RBe (@RBPundit) May 21, 2026
“Rehabilitation” is a funny way to say, “Keep on rapin’.”
NOVEMBER PREVIEW: Mike Collins Has Momentum, Muscle, and a Runoff Lead in Georgia.
MUCH MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE: Trump to roll back Biden-era refrigerant rules in push to lower grocery costs.
MUCH MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE:
🚨🚨 Today – 15 individuals have been indicted for over $90 million in an alleged massive healthcare fraud scheme in Minnesota, after a sweeping FBI investigation with @TheJusticeDept and our Interagency Partners.
These charges involve the two LARGEST Medicaid fraud cases ever…
— FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) May 21, 2026
This is what Democrats defend and enable: “In one case, defendants even developed a scheme worth over $40 million to target the Early Intensive Developmental and Behavioral Intervention (EIDBI) – an autism healthcare program – paying kickbacks to parents who fraudulently used autism centers to diagnose children with autism regardless of medical necessity, and billing for services not actually provided.”
THAT’S (D)IFFERENT BECAUSE SHUT UP:
Democrats have been doing it for years, and you gave them a pass. Remember the Strzok settlement? 1000 times more dirty. The man claimed a right to privacy ON A GOVERNMENT PHONE when he was texting his girl-toy about how much he hated the subject of his investigation. Any lawyer… https://t.co/kRyHzqAVaK
— (((Aaron Walker))) (@AaronWorthing) May 21, 2026