UNEXPECTEDLY: Democrats ask the Supreme Court to halt a Virginia ruling blocking new congressional districts.

I expect SCOTUS to tell them to pound sand, but you never know.

IT’S NEVER OVER:

PSA: Now that the Virginia plan has failed, keep in mind the last time Democrats were equipped with so few options they leveraged their access to the FBI and CIA to manufacture a false Russian conspiracy to try to unseat a President. So buckle up…

— Margot Cleveland (@ProfMJCleveland) May 11, 2026

MAKE EVERYTHING A WEAPONS PLATFORM: U.S. Air Force Plans to Deploy Cruise Missiles from Cargo Aircraft by 2027.

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

PASSING TUCKER OFF AS A CON TO OWN THE CONS:

another Tucker segment on SNL & another careful avoidance of *any* of the topics Tucker currently obsesses over. They even threw in a joke (“the left has finally gotten what they always wanted: the Statue of Liberty in a burka”) that’s the antithesis of his current pro-Islam kick https://t.co/QJZZnSusvY

— Jerry Dunleavy IV 🇺🇸 (@JerryDunleavy) May 10, 2026

I miss Norm.

VICTORIA TAFT: Confused About Iran? Here’s What U.S. Victory Looks Like.

IF YOU CAN’T WIN, CHANGE THE RULES: Democrats Reportedly Float Plan To Boot Entire Virginia Supreme Court After Losing Redistricting Case.

THE NEW SPACE RACE REALLY IS SPACEX VS THE WORLD:

Starship’s cargo bay delivers 1,000+ cubic meters of usable volume

The entire International Space Station has a pressurized volume of 1,005 m³
It took 42 assembly flights and over $150 billion across 13+ years to build
Starship can deliver more volume than the entire ISS in a… pic.twitter.com/7A8cy8yVzb

— X Freeze (@XFreeze) May 11, 2026

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.