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

YES: There Must Be a Reckoning for Gender Transitioners Who Destroyed the Lives of Thousands of Children.

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

GOOD LORD: Disney Lectured America About Morality While CSAM Suspects Worked on Its Ships.

ALLIES: Poland could host US troops Trump pulled from Germany, Nawrocki says.

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

BREAKING: Virginia Supreme Court Strikes Down Gerrymander, Dems to Take a Hit in the Midterms.

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

ROBERT SPENCER: The New York Times Interviews Tucker Carlson, and It Gets Worse From There. “The fact that the New York Times would interview Tucker Carlson in the first place is an indication of how much the former Fox host has gone off the rails. The Times only interviews people who support its far-left worldview, including its endless vilification of Israel for alleged war crimes in Gaza, and Carlson was ready with the good. In his interview, which was published Saturday, Carlson adopts the pose of a moral philosopher to attack the Jewish state, and Judaism as well, from a new angle.”

THE BINGO CARDS GET WEIRDER EVERY YEAR:

Anybody have Iran seizing Chinese tanker for loading Iranian oil on their Bingo card? https://t.co/zCLhfkY2Ts pic.twitter.com/nEod0PmPzB

— Sal Mercogliano (WGOW Shipping) 🚢⚓🐪🚒🏴‍☠️ (@mercoglianos) May 8, 2026

DID MARKETWATCH MEAN TO MAKE HIM SEEM SO BAD-ASS? The ‘SpaceX mafia’ is here. Elon Musk’s big IPO could launch a constellation of new companies.

During the past two decades, SpaceX has hired thousands of staff and granted them boatloads of restricted stock units, incentive stock options and nonqualified stock options that have vested over time. With the IPO milestone reached, employees can soon sell their equity in the company and pocket the proceeds in cash.

Some former SpaceX employees have already gone on to create their own companies, such as reusable-rockets company Relativity Space and Base Power, which owns and operates home batteries.

SpaceX alumni have created at least 150 companies that have collectively raised $12.6 billion from investors and created more than 8,000 jobs, according to AlumniFounders, a website that tracks projects created by people who have worked at the company for at least a year. The website also helps connect SpaceX employees-turned-founders to discover investors with their own ties to SpaceX, including staff at more than a dozen venture-capital firms.

“There are a lot of companies out there that were founded by people who left SpaceX but took the engineering practices and know-how to get things done,” Garrett Reisman, a former astronaut and former director of space operations at SpaceX, told MarketWatch. “It’s kind of cool because you see this whole ecosystem of startups and space experts that are doing some amazing work and are leading to kind of a whole renaissance of very dynamic business activity.”

Musk might already be the most productive human being in history. What his alumni might do with all that capital… wow.

MINNESOTA NOT-SO-NICE:

SOMALI FRAUDSTER FACES ZERO JAILTIME

Said Awil Ibrahim pleaded guilty to carrying out massive Medicaid fraud, and will receive NO JAILTIME after taking a plea deal from MN Attorney General Keith Ellison.

Ibrahim will instead be given 5 years probation with a requirement to help… pic.twitter.com/ihisXpXytr

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) May 7, 2026

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Here’s an Idea — Let’s Just Redistrict Democrats Out of the U.S. “I do want to provide you with a list of some of the dumb things Democrats have done or said in just the last 48 hours or so. Keep in mind that it’s not a comprehensive list — it’d take me at least five days just to compile two days of Democrat idiocy, and ain’t nobody got time for that.”

SAD: I De-transitioned. My Body Will Never Be the Same.

The men in my family recognized I was gay, and treated me cruelly. My brother forcibly shaved my head when I decided to let my hair grow long. My grandfather told the parents of a kindergarten friend that I was a faggot, and it was contagious. In a town that small, his words spread quickly, and I lost friends who didn’t want to touch me in case they caught whatever I had. My uncle changed the channel whenever a gay character came on the TV.

By the time I was 12 and hitting puberty, I hyper-fixated on every small change in my face and body. Every new hair. Every shift in my jawline. I was becoming a man, and that felt catastrophic. I was desperate for a way out. And the internet delivered an answer.

I discovered trans influencers.

What happened next was far worse than the family or school bullying.

PEOPLE WHO CAN’T BE TRUSTED WON’T BE TRUSTED:

AKA: The US move from a high trust society to a low-trust society.

— Brian Doherty (@BDOH) May 4, 2026

CUBA: Rubio Issues a Major Blow to the Regime’s Military Empire with Much More to Come.

IT DOESN’T LOOK GOOD:

I’ve never rooted for a movie to bomb harder than this disgrace.

It’s not just a badly casted film. It’s an intentional subversion of one of the most foundational stories of our civilization.

There is nothing worse than the act of destroying something beautiful. https://t.co/3YevwHQs9b

— Jackson Rowell (@JacksonRowellFL) May 7, 2026