KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: GOP Needs More Than Investigations and Outrage to Combat Voter Fraud. “The Democratic elites use all of their imagination concocting schemes like this. I don’t like giving them any compliments, but they are very good at this sort of thing. I am convinced that there are people at the Democratic National Committee who never sleep and devote all of their time to coming up with new ‘anomalies’ that they can introduce into the election process.”

EVEN A FLATWORM IS SMART ENOUGH TO TURN AWAY FROM PAIN:

Dem who welcomed socialist mayor’s ‘change’ now sounding alarm over billionaire exodus: ‘Gravely concerned.’Now, less than five months into Wilson’s term, Seattle Democratic Councilmember Rob Saka admitted to the New York Times, “I am gravely concerned,” telling the outlet, “This is real.”

Saka previously welcomed Wilson after she defeated incumbent Bruce Harrell, saying in a statement, “The voters have spoken, calling for change and a renewed focus on affordability, community, and fighting back against a resurgent Trump agenda.”

He praised the “energy she brings to leadership,” and said he was “look[ing] forward to partnering with her to build a thriving, inclusive Seattle that uplifts working families, expands universal preschool for all, ends food deserts, and creates safer, more connected neighborhoods across our city.”

Translation: Saka hasn’t learned a damn thing that matters.

ICYMI: Russia and Ukraine Trade Blows in Huge Night of Drone Strikes.

THEY CAN’T TAKE THE SKY FROM HIM:

Maybe the reason Elon wants to create AI data centers in outer space is not so much to get above the atmosphere as to get above political permission. He doesn't want to escape gravity. He wants to escape the environmentalists.

Gravity is more easily escaped than red tape. https://t.co/6ePJRyOqKJ

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) May 18, 2026

CHANGE? New Bill Would Ban Radical Religious Leaders From Entering the United States.

Rep. Chip Roy introduced the Inhibiting Militant Adversarial Mullahs (IMAM) Act on Monday, which would bar radicalized leaders of certain religious denominations from being admitted into the United States.

“The United States should never roll out the red carpet for foreign clerics who preach anti-American hatred, celebrate terrorism, or serve as mouthpieces for radical regimes,” the Texas Republican told the Daily Signal in a statement.

If passed, the simple two-page bill would amend Section 101(a)(15)(R) of the immigration code to prevent nonimmigrant religious worker visas for “an alien with the title of Imam, Grand Imam, Shaykha, Mufti, Grand Mufti, Ayatollah or Grand Ayatollah from entering the United States.”

Roy, a co-founder of the congressional Sharia Free America Caucus, introduced the legislation following reports that some Muslim clerics have promoted hostility toward the United States.

That’s been going on for at least 30 years.

WELL, GOOD: Justice Department Announces ‘Anti-Weaponization Fund’ to Fight Government Injustice.

UPDATE: Shooting at California Islamic Center; Three Victims Killed.

JOANNE JACOBS: Zombifying the universities.

AI use on college campuses “threatens to turn a generation of promising young Americans into a class of drooling morons,” writes Owen Yingling, a University of Chicago philosophy major, in The Great Zombification. “It will grotesquely disfigure, if not destroy, the university as an institute in every way that it is imagined — as a sacrosanct humanist project, as a moral training ground, or even as a vulgar sweatshop for job training,” he argues in The New Critic.

Elite universities are spending millions of dollars to figure out how to “integrate” AI in the classroom, Yingling writes. What it really means is substituting AI “for learning, teaching, and conversing.”

Some will wait for the university system to crumble, hoping to build something new from the ashes, he writes. The ivied halls “will remain, to be observed and treated respectfully — like old cathedrals, mainline Protestant churches, and most of the European continent.”

Harsh, but fair.

THIS:

As Trump has said, wars don't need to be "popular" when the goal is sufficiently important.

Denying Iran nuclear weapons is about as important a goal as you can have given the apocalyptic nature of the regime.

If Iran gets functioning nukes, it will use them because they would… https://t.co/9pk2EE6c9r

— Shipwreckedcrew (@shipwreckedcrew) May 18, 2026

THERE THEY GO AGAIN: LA Woman Pleads Guilty in Federal Court to Doing That Thing That Never Happens… in Voter Scam.

SPACE: NASA’s Psyche spacecraft just got an assist from Mars on the way to its asteroid namesake. “Scientists think that Psyche, the largest known metallic asteroid in our solar system, could be part of the iron-rich core of a planetesimal. That’s the solid building block of a planet formed in the early days of the solar system. As such, it could offer us insight into the core of our own planet and show us how it formed.”

And it appears to be a treasure trove of raw materials that aren’t stuck in Earth’s gravity well.

DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES:

Libs:

Better 100,000 go without healthcare than one kid not be transed.

— Political Sock (@politicalsock) May 18, 2026

DISPATCHES FROM THE FIFTH YEAR OF PUTIN’S INCREASINGLY STUPID WAR: Russia & Ukraine Trade Blows in Huge Night of Drone Strikes.

SHUT UP, THEY EXPLAINED: UK Censoring Reform UK Videos as Hate Speech. “Zia Yousef is Reform UK’s Shadow Home Secretary, and the video that TikTok yanked at the request of the British government was there to lay out Reform’s agenda if and when they win Parliamentary elections. Labour doesn’t want the British people to hear Reform UK’s case, so…they silenced it.”

IT SHOULD TICK EVERYBODY OFF:

This will tick the Arabs off. https://t.co/Khn3a5vNbG

— John The Main Guy (@JohnTheMainGuy1) May 18, 2026

ROBERT SPENCER: A Cautionary Tale That No One Will Heed. “What would make someone switch sides and join America’s enemies? It’s easy to envision an America-hating leftist doing such a thing, but it’s much harder to understand when the defector in question was, to all outward appearances anyway, a patriot who was devoted to the service of her country.”

HEH: Spanberger’s Signing Statement Laid the Groundwork for Overturning Virginia’s ‘Assault Weapons’ Ban. “The governor’s acknowledgment that the law covers common hunting models will likely be cited in Second Amendment challenges. If the law is not amended, she could prove the main witness against her own signed legislation.”

GEORGIA REVISITED:

Some people may not be "hip" to this because it was 6 years ago…

But in Georgia the Freedom Caucus people sued the state to recount and audit the ballots. The judge never threw out the case so the ballots were held in evidence for over 6 years, and just recently it was found… https://t.co/BDTyzbjqi3

— bumbadum (@bumbadum14) May 18, 2026

AUSTIN: Abbott Urges Adult Charges for Teens Who Committed 12 Shootings.

YOU’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BLOG: AOC’s Poor Understanding of America.

Ms. Ocasio-Cortez has little, if any, awareness of where money comes from—no knowledge of finance, of savings and investment, of creating a product or conceiving an invention that adds value to the economy. She operates in a stark and static universe without consequences and trade-offs, without growth or mobility. There are only victims and victimizers. And according to the RealClearPolitics polling average, she’s in fourth place in the 2028 Democratic primary.

Socialists have been getting economics wrong since at least 1848. There are several reasons. The link between individual effort and reward isn’t always clear. State action is visible; the operations of the market are not. Government takes dramatic steps, while the invisible hand—division of labor, specialization, comparative advantage, accrued interest, mankind’s natural tendency to truck and barter and innovate—improves our condition gradually. The unintended consequences of a policy, no matter how well-meaning, can be worse than the problem the policy is meant to solve.

Economics is counterintuitive. Few secondary schools teach it (they might want to start here). Most Americans learn the value of work, thrift and initiative—as well as the costs of taxation, regulation and inflation—through experience. That’s why Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, a celebrity since she was elected to Congress at age 29, can’t distinguish between minimum-wage increases and overpriced croissants.

To be fair, she’s never had to.

2028 PREVIEW:

After @PeteButtigieg lies about modernizing Air Traffic systems and reducing highway fatalities he explains what he did with the $2 Trillion congress gave him:

“Magnificent” Baggage claim areas for airports nobody cares about, Wildlife tunnels (that still aren’t finished) across… pic.twitter.com/lLZfeiAhBP

— John Ʌ Konrad V (@johnkonrad) May 18, 2026

OH MY: Multiple 2020 Election Fraud Investigations in Georgia and Arizona Are Underway.

IT ISN’T THE BIAS SO MUCH AS IT’S THE LACK OF LAUGHS: 91% of SNL’s political Weekend Update jokes this season targeted Trump, conservatives.

FOR A FEW YEARS IN THE ’90S, WILL SMITH DEFINED SUMMER BOX OFFICE:

Hollywood was full of enormous incandescent black Movie Stars right up until the moment activists decided the movie business was broken and racist and needed to be “fixed” and now we’re stuck hoping for Will Smith’s redemption because we aren’t making movie stars at all anymore https://t.co/zlMglBGPDR

— George MF Washington (@GMFWashington) May 18, 2026

IT’S WHAT THEY DO: The AP Goes Manic Panic Over Muskets?