CHANGE YOU CAN BELIEVE IN: Promise made, promise kept: Trump administration had full year of zero border releases.
Author Archive: Stephen Green
May 22, 2026
THE VIOLENCE INHERENT IN THE LEFTISM:
Wife of 'Trump House' owner speaks out after vicious attack https://t.co/tEdKHwVuLO pic.twitter.com/AjtnZyAc7c
— California Post (@californiapost) May 22, 2026
SOMETHING TO HIDE? Lawyer claims Wisconsin ‘desperately’ trying to keep voter list secret. “The Wisconsin Elections Commission has received about $77 million over the last two decades from the federal government to maintain its computer systems, which includes the statewide voter registration database. The feds now just want the opportunity to inspect what they are largely paying for,” Lennington told The Center Square. “They do this all the time in other areas like Medicaid, unemployment, and other federally funded areas.”
FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: It’s the Every Man but Florida Man Edition. “It’s time for your much-needed break from the serious news, and this week, I have so many reports lined up from seemingly every state except for Florida, that I figured maybe he deserved a break this once.”
DON’T DO THE CRIME IF YOU CAN’T PAY THE FINE: Trump Admin Looks to Charge Some Immigrants $18k to Deport Them.
The Trump administration is considering tripling the amount some immigrants are fined if they miss court hearings and are later deported.
According to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the amount immigrants currently pay is not enough to cover the cost of U.S.Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents locating, detaining and deporting them.
The proposed change comes amid a sharp rise in people failing to appear for immigration court hearings, which experts say is a result of multiple factors, including fear of detention.
“The move to 18K for in absentia orders, where it is not clear if the recipient even knew about the hearing is extreme,” Claire Trickler-McNulty, a former senior ICE official, told Newsweek.
That’s the point, Claire.
IT’S TIME FOR VICTORIA TAFT’S West Coast, Messed Coast™: Oh, Now We See Why Democrats Love Homeless Drug Addicts “Welcome to the West Coast, Messed Coast™ update, where this week, Oregon voters spanked Democrats. Not a typo. Washington leftists coined a new type of ‘refugee,’ and taxpayers discover that they’re underwriting the cosmetic surgeries of prison inmates. Spencer Pratt takes the lead in fundraising in the Los Angeles mayor’s race — and in political ads. And I discovered this week why there’s an incentive for Democrats to keep drugged-out zombies on the streets.”
BLUE CITY BLUES: Bears reiterate Chicago stadium options are ‘exhausted.’ “The Bears reiterated Thursday that they plan to leave Chicago as they continue to look at building a stadium in suburban Illinois or Hammond, Indiana.”
MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE: Treasury Sanctions Hezbollah Jihadis Embedded in Lebanese Government.
YOU DON’T SAY: Leftist Seattle mayor admits Starbucks criticism ’caused more harm than good.’
Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson is walking back earlier comments urging consumers to boycott Starbucks, as tensions grow over Seattle’s relationship with major employers and the coffee giant expands its footprint outside Washington state.
Wilson, a democratic socialist elected last year on a progressive, labor-backed platform, told The New York Times this week that comments she made during a Starbucks worker strike last fall were not productive.
“Those comments were not productive in the sense that they caused more harm than good,” Wilson told the outlet.
The remarks marked a notable shift in tone from comments Wilson made shortly after winning Seattle’s mayoral race in November, when she joined Starbucks workers on a picket line outside the company’s former Reserve Roastery on Capitol Hill and urged residents to boycott the hometown coffee chain.
Not much of an apology, really, and her anti-business policies likely won’t change, either.
OF COURSE THEY TRIED TO DESTROY THE GUY WHO GOT TOUGH ON CRIME: The Left Tried to Destroy Kash Patel. Crime Data Just Vindicated Him.
CHANGE: Jamie Dimon says JPMorgan will hire more AI brainiacs, fewer bankers.
Artificial intelligence is poised to drastically shrink the workforce at the nation’s largest bank, but the transition will happen without the pain of mass layoffs, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon said Thursday.
In an interview in Shanghai, the renowned money man told Bloomberg that AI will make his employees vastly more productive.
While the technology will ultimately reduce the need for certain jobs, Dimon said the bank will manage the shift through “natural attrition” — simply not filling the positions of the 25,000 to 30,000 workers who quit or retire each year.
Left unsaid: What happens to the young people just entering the workforce who would have replaced those 25,000 to 30,000 workers.
HOMELESS, INC.:
NEW: One day before a PATH worker was federally arrested in LA on fentanyl distribution charges, mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt told me in a 1-on-1 interview:
“The same people giving out needles are also giving out drugs.”
Pratt also claimed “arrests are coming.”
Today,… https://t.co/5rhXJ7VO8q pic.twitter.com/ztvxO7DBEp
— Matthew Seedorff (@MattSeedorff) May 22, 2026
What’s the point of giving away clean needles (paid for with other people’s money), if the poors don’t have any drugs (paid for with other people’s money) to inject?
ANALYSIS: TRUE. David Letterman Sowed the Seeds of Late-Night Television’s Demise.
I called it almost 20 years ago.
THAT OTHER SUMMIT: Putin, Xi signal unity but fail to reach deal on pipeline sought by Russia. “Amid the elaborate ceremony of a visit to Beijing, Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday failed once again to persuade Chinese leader Xi Jinping to sign off on a major new gas pipeline, underscoring once again the importance — and limitations — of Russia’s growing dependency on China for energy sales.”
“Growing dependency” is a good description of Russia’s relationship with China for a lot more than energy sales.
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.”
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.