CONSTITUENT SERVICE:

🚨🚨SCOOP: A taxpayer-funded California nonprofit with close ties to @XavierBecerra is working to keep illegal immigrants convicted of assault with a deadly weapon — even when it involves domestic abuse and aggravated felony cases — from being deported.

It even recommends… pic.twitter.com/60ZAvES6j9

— Susan Crabtree (@susancrabtree) May 29, 2026

UNEXPECTED HEADLINES: Russia to task bankers with shooting down Ukrainian drones. “The draft legislation, which would see banks across Russia install electronic jamming systems while selected employees would shoot down incoming unmanned aircraft, passed in its third and final reading in the lower house Duma on Tuesday, according to the state-run TASS news agency.”

I’VE READ BETTER HEADLINES, BUT NOT MANY: The Democrats’ Greatest Fear: The GOP Will Turn James Talarico Into a Creepy, Unmanly Weirdo

DON’T HOLD BACK NEXT TIME, JD:

🚨 HOLY CRAP! VP JD Vance just UNLEASHED on Democrats for their violent rhetoric against ICE and law enforcement, calls out Gavin Newsom BY NAME.

"YOU CAN GO STRAIGHT TO HELL, and you have NO PLACE in the political conversation in the United States!"

"Because HERE'S WHAT… pic.twitter.com/FnkPcedCll

— WWG1WGA🇺🇸♥️ (@WWG1WGA_QQ) May 29, 2026

WE NEED AGE LIMITS: Absent 83-Year-Old Democrat Frederica Wilson Announces Retirement From House. “Wilson previously committed to running for reelection despite missing several consecutive votes while she recovered from eye surgery. After consistently missing House votes and committee hearings, Wilson told the Miami Herald it was time for her to retire.”

Previously: One of Our Congresscritters Is Missing. “My attempts to reach her office via phone and email received no response. Whatever happened, it looks like Wilson’s staff is in lockdown mode.”

FIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHT TO PARTY:

Yinz guys I feel like there is a solution to this problem; there are hundreds, likely thousands of fearless musicians & rappers out there in the country, hungry to be able to have an opportunity to showcase their music and celebrate the country–the kind of musicians that… https://t.co/RM6GuxkUol pic.twitter.com/7Z8Iovjreb

— ZitoSalena (@ZitoSalena) May 29, 2026

FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: Keep it in Your G-String, Gramps. “It’s time for your much-needed break from the serious news, and this week, we’ll learn that your rights of free expression end at your g-string, what not to drink before driving across a golf course, and how to pack serious heat in Connecticut.”

COME SEE THE VIOLENCE INHERENT IN THE LEFTISM:

As Democrats demand the removal of the masks of ICE agents, a protester was shown yesterday yelling at an agent, "I've got your face. I'll kill your whole f**king family. You whole f**king family is dead. Your child, your wife, and all are dead. I have your face mother f**ker.…

— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) May 29, 2026

BETTER GET TO WORK: Trust But Verify: ATF Director Says He Wants to Rebuild Trust After Biden Era Abuses.

GOOD QUESTION:

If E. Jean Carroll had a $7,000,000 litigation bill covered by Reid Hoffman, that is taxable income.

She SHOULD have paid roughly $2.5M in tax fees.

Does @SecScottBessent and the @IRS know whether she "forgot" that too?

— Good Lawgic (@TheFollowingPro) May 29, 2026

THAT SUCKS. HAS RUSSIA CONSIDERED NOT OCCUPYING TERRITORY?

Russian channels are complaining that Ukraine has begun active remote mining of rear roads in occupied territory. #Ukraine pic.twitter.com/FPXjtVMIXU

— NOELREPORTS 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 (@NOELreports) May 29, 2026

And as Trent Telenko noted, “Mining roads by air & rocket was late Cold War NATO doctrine after all.”

IT’S TIME FOR VICTORIA TAFT’S West Coast, Messed Coast™: Oregon Is a Step Closer to Outlawing Hunting and Gathering “his is the place where residents of other states come to verify that they don’t have it so bad, and where lawmakers could, if they bothered to look, find out that their great idea of the week has already been tried and failed. Indeed, in reading the West Coast, Messed Coast™ weekly update, you’ve arrived at the land where proof of concept has no expiration date and where money for every cockamamie idea is in endless supply.”

A POSTMORTEM: Cornyn’s Slaughter. “It’s pretty rare that a four term incumbent senator gets primaried out of office. Indeed, I think you’d have to go back to Alfonse D’Amato defeating Jacob Javits in 1980 for the last time it happened, back when New York was still capable of electing Republicans statewide. So it’s worth taking a deeper look at why John Cornyn got slaughtered by Ken Paxton in Tuesday’s runoff.”

DISPATCHES FROM BLUE SAN DIEGO:

$13.4 million.

That's what the proposed County budget spends on lawyers for illegal immigrants fighting deportation.

For that same amount, San Diego County could fund hundreds of sheriff's deputies. Dozens of psychiatric beds. Pothole repair across every district. Real help for…

— Supervisor Jim Desmond (@jim_desmond) May 29, 2026

“A county is not the State Department. A county is not an immigration court. A county exists to keep streets safe, roads paved, and the most vulnerable residents cared for.”

THIS IS NOT A BABYLON BEE HEADLINE: Boston Kicks Off ‘Pride’ Month With Monkeypox Outbreak.

GOOD IDEA: Don’t make us reteach middle-school math, say STEM profs at ‘test-free’ UC.

Bring back the SAT/ACT testing requirement for University of California admissions, says an open letter signed by more than 360 STEM professors. Would-be STEM majors are being admitted with “preparation gaps so severe that instructors must reteach middle-school mathematics while simultaneously teaching the material students need for sciences, engineering, economics, and other quantitatively demanding fields.”

The number of incoming students with very low math skills has increased nearly thirtyfold, a UC San Diego report warned the Board of Regents. All the UC campuses are seeing many more unprepared students, including those who want to major in technical fields, the letter states. “Failing to measure preparation gaps does not remove barriers; it moves them into the classroom, where they become harder to overcome.”

Why not? Yale did it.

IT SEEMS TO BE ACCELERATING:

Weird. But that is what they were doing in East Germany not too long ago.

Europe has always seen itself as a font of liberal freedoms and sophistication. In fact, Europe has always been plagued by repressive thuggishness. Rears its head now and then. https://t.co/1Cgr9ri9Jo

— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) May 29, 2026

I NEVER THOUGHT THE BIDENS COULDN’T SOMEHOW GO LOWER: Just When You Thought the Bidens Couldn’t Go Any Lower, They Grab a Shovel and Dig Straight to Hell.

“BOOTS ON THE MOON:” Report urges Space Force deployment to counter China.

The Space Force must plan to deploy troops on orbiting space stations and at bases on the moon to prevent China from winning the new space race and controlling outer space, according to a report by an aerospace think tank.

The report by the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies warns that a sustained human military presence in space is needed to counter China’s growing space efforts that are run by the People’s Liberation Army, including plans for a moon base by 2030.

“China is poised to achieve positional advantage in setting norms, standards, and legal frameworks for lunar habitation and lunar economy,” states the report, made public May 22. “This condition is unacceptable for U.S. national security.”

Military troop deployments in space are needed to defend American interests over the long term and to prevent Chinese dominance in the region of low-Earth orbit to the moon in the 21st century, the report states.

Using unmanned drones for military operations or limiting space presence to civilians under the direction of NASA poses national security risks, based on China’s current designs on space, the report said.

A human military space presence is imperative because of the growing likelihood of a high-stakes competition for control of lunar access and resources.

How long before Space Force has its own version of the Navy’s Marine Corps? A “Mobile Infantry,” if you will.

MORE ON THAT BLUE ORIGIN RUD:

WOW! Remarkable video from 5 miles from the launch pad in Jetty Park. Watch that fireball, and listen around 35 seconds into the video for the massive audible explosion.

📸: John Concilus pic.twitter.com/5Ow9Q6Dd3L

— Noah Bergren (@NbergWX) May 29, 2026

My original item is now updated with damage estimates and how long this sets back the New Glenn program.

THEY KEEP DOING THIS: James Talarico Is Playing to a National Audience That Won’t Be Voting for Him.

FRAUD ALL THE WAY DOWN: Former Minnesota employee reveals suspected fraud scheme of ‘fake injuries’ at Somali businesses.

Balsimo spent her last years at the Department of Human Services (DHS) in the Tort Recovery Unit as a tort specialist.

She said that she wanted to blow the whistle on workers’ comp cases after what she noticed the last couple of years at her job—as hindsight and the exposure of fraud throughout Minnesota provided even more perspective.

Balsimo explained how she “recovered taxpayer dollars where another party should have been paying for the bills. For instance, like auto accidents or work comp. So we would get cases from attorneys representing the client.”

“And then when the case would settle, we would get paid, the attorney would get paid his fees. DHS would get paid our portion. And then the client would be awarded whatever type of injury that they had back, usually got more awards than neck or arm. So they would get anywhere from $20,000 to $150,000 for their award for their injuries,” Balsimo explained.

However, she noticed a strange trend emerging in her normally routine work. “About a year ago, I can remember my caseloads of Somalian cases were going way up. They were going up so much I even confided in another coworker. She had noticed it as well,” Balsimo said.

And then nobody seems to have done anything.

YES:

The argument that Spencer Pratt can’t be mayor because he’s a reality TV star is hilarious. Los Angeles has been run into the ground by people with impeccable resumes, elite endorsements, and decades of political experience. At some point, the “qualified” candidates need to… pic.twitter.com/qsg8TX41QZ

— Chef Andrew Gruel (@ChefGruel) May 29, 2026

You could do much worse than a reality TV star, Los Angeles — in fact, you already have.

VIDEO AND MORE: Blue Origin’s Earth-Shattering Kaboom. “So that was a big badda-boom — very nearly a Wickwick Event. I’ll explain that last part in just a moment, but first the big news.”

CHANGE: ExxonMobil shareholders approve plan to redomicile to Texas.

In March, ExxonMobil Corp., based in Spring, Texas, announced its board unanimously recommended its shareholders approve changing its legal domicile from New Jersey to Texas, where its leadership and core operations have been based since 1989. The board hadn’t held a meeting in New Jersey for more than 40 years, and 30% of ExxonMobil’s global employees are located in Texas. Seventy-five percent of its U.S. employees live and work in Texas.

ExxonMobil said the reason for changing the legal domicile was Texas’ legal and regulatory environment, including its modernized business statutes and new Texas Business Court, The Center Square reported.

Not soon after, the New York City comptroller; Glass, Lewis & Co., and Institutional Shareholder Services recommended ExxonMobil and Chevron investors vote against their boards’ position on the shareholder proposals, including ExxonMobil’s plan to redomicile.

Looks like a shareholder win — Texas, too.