CHANGE:
Leftists feel despair because their patronage networks are being dismembered piece by piece. Trump supporters feel despair because they were locked out of career development by DEI racial discrimination and suffered 18 years of decline since 2008. That's what's driving this. https://t.co/7glEYUZ6JW pic.twitter.com/n7D6s5nGWY
— Fugitive Caesar (@ThomBrady5) May 8, 2026
Peaceful change, too, unlike what we’ve seen from some lefty groups.
FASTER? PLEASE! NASA Pushes Next-Gen Mars Helicopter Rotor Blades Past Mach 1. “The rotor blades that will carry NASA’s next-generation helicopters to new Martian heights broke the sound barrier during March tests at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. Data from the tests, which took place in a special chamber that can simulate environmental conditions on the Red Planet, indicate that the fastest traveling part of the rotor blade, the tips, can be accelerated beyond Mach 1 without breaking apart. Data gathered from 137 test runs will enable engineers to design aircraft capable of carrying heavier payloads, including science instruments.”
STILL A BIG MESS: Rabbi Michael Barclay’s Iran War Updates for May 7 and 8.
YOU DON’T SAY: Wealth Tax Author Admits: Not a One-Time Tax.
“I’m not here to pretend that it’s once and never again.”
The main author of the California asset seizure ballot measure is a Marxist Berkeley professor from France who replied “so be it“ when asked about residents fleeing the tax.
And on Tuesday night he admitted it isn’t a “one-time tax” as proponents try to claim.
Wealth tax author and Berkeley professor Emmanuel Saez said: “I don’t think it’s going to be a one-time tax. Because you can’t surprise billionaires more than once.”
Make the tax permanent because billionaires won’t stick around to pay it? Is this guy drunk?
A SMALL MEASURE OF ACCOUNTABILITY:
BREAKING: Utah Supreme Court Justice Diana Hagen has resigned #utpol #utleg pic.twitter.com/u2C5OEua9c
— Katie McKellar (@KatieMcKellar1) May 8, 2026
Background: Utah leaders to probe relationship between Supreme Court justice, redistricting lawyer.
THAT WOULD BE NICE, YES: We Need to Stop Letting Democrats Casually Commit Felonies With No Consequences.
NOW THIS IS WHAT I VOTED FOR:
Another jobs report, another report on shrinking the federal government.
The federal bureaucracy is down 345,000 since Trump took office 🔥 pic.twitter.com/L4xYQtizh3
— Richard A. Stern (@RichAStern) May 8, 2026
UNSUSTAINABLE: U.S. deficit projected to hit $2 trillion, double fiscal target.
Will McBride, the Tax Foundation’s chief economist, said the numbers show Congress isn’t taking action to address financial warnings about the U.S. debt.
“It indicates Congress and the administration are still ignoring the dangers of an unsustainable debt trajectory and actively making it worse rather than addressing it,” McBride told The Center Square. “The effect is to make a crisis more likely to happen sooner rather than later.”
The projections come from Treasury’s quarterly refunding presentation to the Treasury Borrowing Advisory Committee, a panel of bond market participants that advises the department on debt management, making them among the most closely watched fiscal disclosures in financial markets.
Milei showed the way, and it involves a chainsaw, not vague promises.
THEY AREN’T JOURNALISTS…:
He burned an elderly woman so severely with a homemade flamethrower that she died of her injuries. What kind of journalists would fail to include that murder in this headline?? https://t.co/lObyi0VrUi
— Kristin Reid (@KristinMReid11) May 8, 2026
…they’re narrative enforcers.
I hope this helps.
FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: Thrilla With a Drilla. “It’s time for your much-needed break from the serious news, and this week, we’ll learn which fashion accessory doesn’t go with speeding, which drill bit goes best with trespassing, and how they promote awareness in Britain these days.”
NO LAUGHING MATTER:
I am not joking when I say VA Supreme Court justices should get stepped up security from the Commonwealth. https://t.co/pzRhEcmomd
— Benjamin Domenech (@bdomenech) May 8, 2026
ANY JUSTIFICATION TO BAN RIFLES: Don’t Expect the Persistent Mismatch Between Perception and Reality to Affect Gun Policy or Politics.
WELL, YEAH — HOURS BEHIND THE PRESS:
No doubt some political scientist is currently hard at work on the following take: “When right-wing populists lose an election in a smallish Central European country, that shows the death of populism, but when right-wing populists win crushingly in the UK, that shows nothing at… https://t.co/AaSE9sNDlA
— Adrian Vermeule (@Vermeullarmine) May 8, 2026
HEH:
Say you’re sorry for blackpilling right now. pic.twitter.com/D8xiBiQbBG
— Seamus 🐗🗿 (@huss_john_83) May 8, 2026
Related:
Republicans might actually win what would have been otherwise bleak midterms because they used power correctly
I’m as shocked as anyone https://t.co/NXvwzBJuK0
— Auron MacIntyre (@AuronMacintyre) May 8, 2026
Play the game as hard as Dems do, and you win.
A TRILLION HERE AND A TRILLION THERE…:
Blue states have bled $2 trillion in wealth to red states in the last decade — and New York leads the pack.New York had the biggest fall in cumulative adjusted gross income (AGI) — losing $660 billion between 2012 and 2023.
California came next with $503 billion in the same time period.
In contrast, Florida gained $1.3 trillion, and Texas gained $371 billion between 2012 and 2023.
It comes as billionaire bigwigs are beginning their Big Apple exodus as a result of Mayor Mamdani’s wealth-bashing agenda.
Hedge fund titan Ken Griffin and Marc Rowan both announced recently that they will move jobs out of New York in response to Mamdani’s calls to “tax the rich.”
Gooder and harder.
INDOCTRINATED, NOT EDUCATED:
What do colleges require students to take to graduate in 2026?
In one study of 120 prominent schools, 0 require economics & only 18 require US government or American history.
By contrast, 61 required a DEI course for graduation. pic.twitter.com/PXR7pE5c07
— The Missing Data Depot (@data_depot) May 8, 2026
ANALYSIS: TRUE.
Virginia Democrats have done more to deliver seats for Republican voters than Indiana Republicans have. https://t.co/hZTvSNqmhs
— Elle Reynolds Purnell (@_ellepurnell) May 8, 2026
JAYAPAL IS A COMMIE: Democrats’ Shadow State Department? Jayapal Is Sabotaging U.S. Foreign Policy.
#METOO:
When I hear someone being dismissed as "far right" these days, I think, oh, you mean normal https://t.co/AZBMR1GqUI
— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) May 8, 2026
COLONIZATION, STRAIGHT UP: Despite mayor’s cancellation, ‘Globalize the intifada’ event proceeds in Sydney.
The event, which was officially canceled on Monday after fears that it would spark violence, attracted just about 150 people and was held without major incident, according to local news reports.
‘It’s a must that we globalize the intifada,” local political figure Ahmed Ouf told the crowd. “We have to break the internal chains and invite others.”
The forum was intended to defend the phrase against efforts to ban it, and had drawn strong criticism from politicians and Jewish leaders. Australian lawmakers have sought to proscribe the slogan in public debate since the deadly terror shooting targeting a Hanukkah celebration at the city’s Bondi Beach in December, which killed 15.
In a statement on social media yesterday, Mayor Clover Moore said the event risked “contributing to hostility and fear.”
The size of the event isn’t the important detail; it’s Ouf establishing dominance over the mayor.
NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU DESPISE THE MEDIA…:
He just opened fire, eh?
Nothing else happened? https://t.co/rMEGzTW5Ce
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) May 7, 2026
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