EPIC FURY: Dear Mr. President: Just Finish The Mullahs Already.

THEY ALWAYS SAY THAT: Modest Cuts in DOJ Grants Jeopardize Progress in Reducing Violent Crime… Allegedly.

CHANGE INCENTIVES, CHANGE BEHAVIOR:

I did not have this one on my Bingo card. pic.twitter.com/6Ls4pOXpiz

— Corey A. DeAngelis, school choice evangelist (@DeAngelisCorey) May 11, 2026

HMM: Russia Picks Up a Military Win in Our Backyard — Why Isn’t Anyone Talking About It? “Back in September 2025, Russia and the Ortega-Murillo regime in Nicaragua agreed to increase their already strong alliance by signing a major military cooperation agreement. Russia’s Federation Council approved it last week, and Vladimir Putin signed the ratification on May 2.”

CHANGE: Trump budget targets ‘valley of death’ with new military contractor accountability model.

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth told the House Armed Services Committee that funding alone will not solve the problem – the procurement system itself must change.

“The historic, generational, and transformational changes we implement will move us from the current prime contractor-dominated system defined by limited competition, vendor lock, cost-plus contracts, stressed budgets and frustrating protests – to a future powered by a dynamic vendor space that accelerates production,” Hegseth said.

At the center of that shift is a new multi-year procurement model – contracts lasting up to seven years for critical munitions – designed to give manufacturers the certainty needed to build new facilities rather than add shifts to existing ones. Under the model, contractors fund their own capital expenditures up front and face financial penalties if they fail to meet agreed-upon production ramp rates.

Jules “Jay” Hurst III, performing the duties of Under Secretary of War Comptroller, said the previous approach, in which the government financed capacity expansion, had produced marginal results.

“We’re making them put skin in the game,” Hurst said at an April 21 Pentagon budget briefing. “We’re giving them a multi-year order, and we expect them to meet the ramp rates that they agree to, and if they don’t, there’ll be penalties for them.”

Accountability in procurement would be a helluva legacy.

SOME SMALL MEASURE OF ACCOUNTABILITY (GROOMER EDITION): Rutherford County Library ‘Book Ban’ Investigation: Books Moved, Director Fired.

MORE DETAILS: Scenes From The Labour Party Wipe Out.

Nigel Farage’s Reform went from two council seats to 1,453. Labour, by contrast, lost 1,446 seats. But the conservative also lost council seats, 563 of them, which now puts them behind the Liberal Democrats, something that hasn’t happened since, well, ever.

Indeed, as this Sky News video notes, this is the first time since they started keeping track in the 1970s that the combined Labour/Tory share of these seats fell below 50%, and is now down to 35%.

Well, Britain’s establishment parties haven’t done very well by Britons in recent decades.

REMEMBER, IT ISN’T GENOCIDE OR ETHNIC CLEANSING WHEN THEY DO IT: We Warned This Might Happen: Al-Qaeda’s Long-Forecasted Assault on Mali.

NORM FOR THE WIN… AGAIN:

Norm Macdonald made a joke on Weekend Update back in the 90s when Giuliani was running for mayor of NY that he campaigned on cracking down on muggers, squeegee men and aggressive panhandlers which proved popular with voters but that his opponent was counting on huge support from… https://t.co/bqCye49XMH pic.twitter.com/xcklAenZHu

— Covfefe Anon (@CovfefeAnon) May 11, 2026

THOSE DON’T EVEN REGISTER AS ROOKIE NUMBERS: Germany deports 135 Iraqi migrants in first three months of 2026.

In January 2025, the German parliament approved a controversial migration bill aimed at tightening enforcement measures. The legislation included provisions to curb illegal immigration, accelerate deportations, remove foreign criminals, detain individuals facing removal orders, and restrict family reunification.

Official data released to the Left Party faction in October last year showed that 328 Iraqis, including 18 minors, were deported during the first half of 2025.

Kurds from Iraq and Turkey have also been affected by Germany’s broader immigration crackdown, which saw more than 8,200 refugee residence permits revoked over the past year. The stricter policies have coincided with a sharp decline in asylum applications, which fell to their lowest level in a decade.

That new law needs much more tightening.

DON’T GET COCKY: Um… Did the GOP Just Win the Midterms?

I FOLLOW THESE THINGS FOR A LIVING AND THIS STORY FLEW RIGHT UNDER MY RADAR UNTIL NOW:

Remember last week when Gretchen Whitmer's best friend was indicted on 16 felony charges for allegedly stealing $20 million from the state??

That story disappeared pretty fast…

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) May 11, 2026

WDIV-4 News called her “an Oakland County woman” in its lede.

IT’S COMPLICATED: Russia said to be sending Iran drone parts via Caspian Sea, bypassing Hormuz blockade.

According to the sources, who spoke to the American outlet on condition of anonymity, the long-overlooked trade corridor is helping Iran rebuild its military capabilities in the wake of the US-Israeli bombing campaign that ended last month in a tenuous ceasefire.

If shipments from Russia continue at their current pace, Iran could quickly restock its drone arsenal, US officials said, some 60 percent of which was lost during the recent war.

The Caspian Sea acts as a bridge, connecting the two countries which do not share a border but both have long coastlines on the massive inland sea. It allows Russia and Iran to trade openly, without fear of interdiction by US or other countries for evading sanctions, the New York Times reported.

According to the news outlet, Russia is sending goods that would normally pass through the Strait of Hormuz, which has been blockaded for weeks now by both the US and Iran. Goods transiting the Caspian Sea include grains, animal feed, sunflower oil and other staple products.

Previously: Ukraine war briefing: Distant strike on Russian missile ship in Caspian Sea.

Who knows what Kyiv might do if somebody slipped them some drone parts cargo ship targeting data.

FUN IS CONTAGIOUS:

There will be a class on this one day. These ads will be mimicked for decades to come. pic.twitter.com/i3LF2vcCoq

— Joe Concha (@JoeConchaTV) May 10, 2026

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: We’ve Finally Found Something That United America. Sort Of. “So, why do I say it’s the first thing to unite Americans in quite a while? Because every single person I know mentioned it to me this weekend. And I’m pretty sure even some people I don’t know mentioned it. I saw it all over social media. I saw it from Democrats and Republicans and Independents. I saw it from skeptics and believers. I saw it from X-Files-obsessed dads and conspiracy theorist grandmas and aviation nerds who spend all their time on Reddit and FlightRadar24.”

FRAUD ALL THE WAY DOWN: Ohio gov candidate Vivek Ramaswamy sounds alarm about Medicaid fraud — after 288 companies found registered to same address. “I think the right answer is any instance of waste, fraud, abuse … deserve[s] to be prosecuted, and we intend to investigate them aggressively, as well as to prosecute aggressively, to send a deterrent signal that our government is not a piggy bank, the taxpayer is not a piggy bank to be bilked.”

VERBING WEIRDS LANGUAGE: ‘You’ve Been Candaced’: It’s Time to Make Candace Owens a Verb.

MEANWHILE, IN LOS ANGELES:

What the YIMBY folks may not yet understand is that I’m their pathway to actually getting 100K new housing units. Imagine what we can do with 55 blocks on Skid Row, once it’s clean and useable for the first time… https://t.co/NCZq2nys8k

— Spencer Pratt (@spencerpratt) May 10, 2026

You don’t have to choose decline, L.A.

TRUMP: US Will Obtain Iran’s Enriched Uranium.

In an interview released Sunday on “Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson,” Trump said the U.S. is closely surveilling Iran’s nuclear facilities through capabilities developed under Space Force and warned Tehran that any movement involving the uranium would immediately trigger a response.

“We’ll get that at some point, whatever we want,” Trump said. “We have it surveilled. You know, I did a thing called Space Force, and they are watching.

“If somebody walked in, they can tell you his name, his address, the number of his badge.

“If anybody got near the place, we will know about it, and we’ll blow them up.”

After seeing what US/IDF forces were able to accomplish before the ceasefire, Tehran ought to believe him.

Still, Trump should have named it Starfleet.

THE NEW SPACE RACE:

SpaceX just stacked Starship for the first time on Pad 2. Booster 19 and Ship 39 have formed a full V3 stack on the new pad, smashing the record once again as the tallest rocket on Earth! @NASASpaceflight pic.twitter.com/9V4dle0qUG

— Ceaser G (@CeaserG33) May 9, 2026

No announcement yet from SpaceX, but the FAA still has launch slots listed for May 12 and 13.

THE SOONER THE BETTER: Starmer’s End: Will Labour Exit With Him?

A BIGGER PAYCHECK THAN HE COULD HAVE GOTTEN IN SOME SERVICE INDUSTRY, TOO:

Last Friday my son’s buddy, a 19-year-old kid walked off a drilling rig with his first real paycheck in his life.

Sweat on his shirt, dirt on his boots, and a look on his face like he just became a man.

That’s not a “policy win.” That’s what America First actually feels like…

— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) May 10, 2026

PASSING THE SAVE AMERICA ACT WOULD HELP, TOO, SEN. THUNE:

A reminder that decades of a.) lopsided pro-Democrat gerrymanders b.) flawed censuses c.) the illicit inclusion of noncitizens for apportionment and d.) districts illegally drawn based solely on race, the Democrats have enjoyed a cushion of at least 40 extra improper house seats.

— Stephen Miller (@StephenM) May 10, 2026

BRYAN CRANSTON, EXPERT ON THE BLACK EXPERIENCE:

When an interviewer asked Miles Davis if black music came from black suffering, he said “my father’s rich and my mother’s good looking, I never suffered”

Shitlibs are completely retarded, their view of history, and of race, is a two dimensional caricature https://t.co/hyz6vh22n0

— Rogue Scholar Press (@RogueScholarPr) May 10, 2026

WHEN THEY TELL YOU WHO THEY ARE, BELIEVE THEM:

Doing things illegally and against the Constitution is the only chance Democrats have. https://t.co/7In0oLHlrB

— Nick Searcy, Actor/Director/Producer/Author (@yesnicksearcy) May 9, 2026