SISTER TOLDJAH: Washington Post Tells on Itself in Hit Piece on Conservatives Allegedly ‘Exploiting’ Nashville Mass Shooting.

Within just a few hours of the Nashville Christian elementary school mass shooting incident Monday where six people including three children were murdered by a 28-year-old “he/him”-identifying former student named Audrey Hale, the mainstream media were, unfortunately, already portraying the female shooter and her fellow LGBTQers in a sympathetic light while pointing fingers at conservative politicians who support gun rights and who oppose so-called gender-affirming care for minors.

As we reported at the time, the Washington Post was among the worst offenders in the bunch, publishing a despicable story that tried to tie Republican Rep. Angy Ogles, whose Congressional district is where the school is located, to the mass shooting because he is a proponent of the Second Amendment and once tweeted a Christmas photo of him, his wife, and children holding firearms.

The press has had a hell of a time trying to settle on a narrative for the Nashville shooter so they’ll probably just do their best to memory-hole her.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: America’s Real Domestic Terrorists Are Hiding Behind Pride Flags. “Members of the trans mob are a protected species. They can be as out of control as they want because of their permanent victim status, according to the lefties. It’s OK to be violent if they’re feeling put out by the rightwing nutjobs.”

CHANGE (IT BACK): ‘Restorative’ backlash: Legislators propose tougher school discipline.

BUT THEY’RE UP ON ALL THE LATEST DEI BUZZWORDS: Federal Judges Are Refusing to Hire Stanford Law Grads as Clerks. “Judge James C. Ho of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit made news last year when he announced during a speech at the Kentucky Federalist Society that he would no longer hire Yale law school graduates to clerk for him. Joining him in this boycott was Elizabeth Branch, a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.”

I MISS THE DAYS OF “DRILL, BABY, DRILL”: OPEC+ makes shock million-barrel cut in new inflation risk. “It’s a significant reduction for a market where — despite the recent price fluctuations — supply was looking tight for the latter part of the year. Oil futures weren’t trading when the cut was announced on Sunday, but the inevitable price reaction could add to inflationary pressures across the world, forcing central banks to keep interest rates higher for longer and crimping economic growth.”

THEN YOU SHOULD PROBABLY BET THE OTHER WAY: Gen. Milley Claims Threat of Number-One U.S. Enemy China Is Exaggerated.

I’M SO OLD, I REMEMBER WHEN DENYING SOMEONE’S PREFERRED GENDER WAS DOUBLEPLUSUNGOOD: CBS News reportedly barring staff from using term ‘transgender’ to reference Nashville shooter.

FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: The Burglary Story Guaranteed to Make Your Skin Itch. “This week we have a bomb threat with extra cheese, the trespasser with a shiny rear end, and a California Man just dying to prove his state is even crazier than Florida.

BULLIES: Chinese War Ships, Cutters Still Sailing Near Philippine Holdings in South China Sea.

BANANA REPUBLIC: Dershowitz on Trump Indictment: ‘Worst Case of Prosecutorial Abuse I Have Ever Seen.’

RIGHTS, HOW DO THEY WORK?

MATT MARGOLIS: There’s Something Suspicious About Trump’s Indictment. “So, in a week’s time, the grand jury went from being unconvinced to indicting Trump, despite few opportunities to hear more evidence after Costello’s testimony?”

THE DISINFO WARS: A Guide to Understanding the Hoax of the Century.

Step one in the national mobilization to defeat disinfo fused the U.S. national security infrastructure with the social media platforms, where the war was being fought. The government’s lead counter-disinformation agency, the GEC, declared that its mission entailed “seeking out and engaging the best talent within the technology sector.” To that end, the government started deputizing tech executives as de facto wartime information commissars.

At companies like Facebook, Twitter, Google, and Amazon, the upper management levels had always included veterans of the national security establishment. But with the new alliance between U.S. national security and social media, the former spooks and intelligence agency officials grew into a dominant bloc inside those companies; what had been a career ladder by which people stepped up from their government experience to reach private tech-sector jobs turned into an ouroboros that molded the two together. With the D.C.-Silicon Valley fusion, the federal bureaucracies could rely on informal social connections to push their agenda inside the tech companies.

In the fall of 2017, the FBI opened its Foreign Influence Task Force for the express purpose of monitoring social media to flag accounts trying to “discredit U.S. individuals and institutions.” The Department of Homeland Security took on a similar role.

Read the whole thing.

HANS A. VON SPAKOVSKY: Stanford Law School — EXPOSED. “It is no wonder that Stanford Law School is producing such boorish students, with no understanding of the First Amendment, when you examine the curriculum of the law school. Its website says that it is ‘committed to enhancing its focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion’ but it is obvious that ‘diversity’ does not include diversity of thought or hearing from anyone who disagrees with the prevailing political orthodoxy of the law school.”

This is the second in a ten-part series on America’s law schools.

COLD WAR II: Nearly 200 Dems join Republicans in blocking China from buying rural land.

ROBERT SPENCER: Iran Has Attacked American Forces 83 Times Since Biden Regime Took Power.

IT’S BAD FOR BUSINESS: China Seeks to Reassure CEOs as Worries Swirl Over Potential War. “Underscoring the risks are fears that China may one day act on threats to seize Taiwan by force. A recent survey from the American Chamber of Commerce in China shows the country is no longer one of the top three investment priorities for US firms, with almost half of them already in the market planning no new investments.”

On the flip side, maybe Xi will figure he has less to lose.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Trump Gets the Green Light to Take a Flamethrower to the System. “The Democrats are so terrified of running against Trump next year (the ‘IT DOESN’T MATTER BECAUSE IT’S ALL RIGGED AND WE’RE DOOOOOOMED!’ crowd can just skip ahead to the comments and begin the rending of garments now) that they couldn’t wait until next year to begin their election tampering.”

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Financial world legend sounds alarm over ‘biggest bank that’s going down.’ “The biggest bank that’s going to go down is Bank of Japan.”

CORN, POPPED: Florida Files FOIA Request for Info About Disney’s Reedy Creek Maneuvers. “The new board for the renamed Central Florida Tourism District — which DeSantis handpicked and put in place — worried that the actions neutralized the board’s authority, but Disney forgot who it was messing with.”

THE NEW SPACE RACE: First piloted flight of Boeing’s oft-delayed Starliner astronaut ferry ship slips to mid-summer.

The first piloted flight of Boeing’s Starliner astronaut ferry ship is slipping from late April to at least July 21, officials said Wednesday, to allow more time to close out paperwork and to carry out an additional test of the spacecraft’s parachute deploy system.

Running years behind schedule, the Crew Flight Test, or CFT, mission will carry two veteran astronauts — Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Sunita Williams — to the International Space Station to verify the ship’s readiness to begin regular service ferrying crews to and from the lab complex, alternating with SpaceX’s already operational Crew Dragon.

NASA Commercial Crew Program manager Steve Stich said there’s nothing wrong with Starliner’s parachute system and “when we look across the vehicle, the Starliner spacecraft is in really good shape. … The Atlas Launch vehicle is ready for flight.”

But reviewing the paperwork needed to officially clear the spacecraft for flight, along with the addition of another ground test and fitting the flight into a busy East Coast launch schedule, combined to push the long-awaited mission from spring to the mid-summer timeframe.

It doesn’t sound serious, but yet another delay doesn’t look good.

KEVIN DOWNEY JR: Scaredy-Brat AOC Backs Down to Libs of TikTok Creator, Flees in Fear. “Chaya Raichik, the creator of Libs of TikTok — who is hated by the trans-pansexual grooming gang — met Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) in the Capitol, and it didn’t go well for the supposedly tough Bronx denizen.”

BREAKING: Insurrection Underway at Tennessee Capitol.

CHANGE: That’s not a human talking to you in the fast food drive-thru. “Wingstop has become the latest fast food restaurant to start using AI bots to take customers’ orders. It is joining the likes of some of the most famous fast food chains around, including McDonald’s, Taco Bell, Chipotle, Popeye’s and Domino’s. The AI voice bots are mostly being used for drive-thru services and for taking orders over the phone. However, I wouldn’t be surprised if these fast food chains start incorporating the technology for taking orders at the counter as well.”

What we’re really seeing is the end of traditional entry-level jobs and the real-world education they provide.

COLD WAR II: Russian Court Orders Wall Street Journal Reporter to Be Held in Custody.

Russia’s main security agency said Thursday it had detained Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich for what it described as espionage.

Mr. Gershkovich, a U.S. citizen and member of the Journal’s Moscow bureau, was detained in the city of Yekaterinburg on Wednesday while on a reporting trip.

The Federal Security Bureau said Mr. Gershkovich, “acting on the instructions of the American side, collected information constituting a state secret about the activities of one of the enterprises of the Russian military-industrial complex.” Mr. Gershkovich is accredited to work as a journalist in Russia by the country’s foreign ministry.

Authorities took Mr. Gershkovich to Moscow, where he appeared in court with a state-appointed defense attorney and was ordered held in custody until May 29, said the press service of the court according to TASS.

In Russia, espionage trials are often conducted in secret and it is rare for a court to acquit a defendant. Trials can take months to unfold.

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