RELIGION OF PEACE UPDATE: ‘Loyalty to Allah’ Prompts a Muslim to Murder a Christian.

COME SEE THE VIOLENCE INHERENT IN THE LEFTISM: Pro-Abortion Extremists Threaten To Burn Down, Storm Supreme Court, Murder Justices, Government Memo Reveals.

BLUE ON BLUE: Pop Some Popcorn: Dems in New York Begin to Eat Their Own After Gerrymandering Failure.

HERE COMES STAGFLATION: Weekly mortgage demand from homebuyers tumbles 12%, as higher interest rates take their toll.

HE’S RIGHT. BUT TO BE FAIR, BIDEN IS EMINENTLY MOCKABLE: Alberta Premier Mocks Biden for Refusing Canadian Oil: ‘You Don’t Need the U.S. Navy’s Fifth Fleet to Patrol the Great Lakes.’

NO, IT’S OUR BURDENS THAT ARE GROWING: Biden’s burdens grow: Sagging global economy adds to US woes.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: DeSantis Verbally Groin-Kicks a Reporter and It Is GLORIOUS. “DeSantis knows that he’ll never have a friend in the MSM. He not only doesn’t care, but he also embraces the fact.”

UKRAINE: Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, May 18.

Russian occupation authorities announced plans to destroy the Azovstal Steel Plant and turn Mariupol into a resort city, depriving Russia of some of the most important economic benefits it hoped to reap by taking the city in the first place. Head of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR) Denis Pushilin stated that DNR authorities are planning to level Azovstal after completing its capture.[1] Azovstal was a major element of Mariupol’s economy before the war because of its unique function as a full-cycle metallurgical complex, the 10,000 jobs associated with production at the plant, the billions of dollars of foreign exchange earnings and taxes it generated, and its production output of 7,000 tons of steel, 6 million tons of iron, and 4.5 million tons of rolled metal, according to the Mariupol City Council.[2] Pushilin stated that the DNR intends to rebuild Mariupol to be a “resort city,” while admitting that 60% of the structures in Mariupol have been destroyed to the point where they cannot be rebuilt.[3] The announced plan to turn Mariupol into a center of tourism and leisure following the complete destruction of a major center of economic activity in Mariupol, is indicative of the damage that Russian troops have inflicted on themselves through the destruction of Mariupol. Russia does not need another resort town on the Black Sea. It does need the kind of hard currency that a plant like Azovstal had generated.

Russia — assuming they keep Mariupol — also can’t afford to let Azovstal stand as an unofficial monument to resistance to Russian aggression.

Much more at the link.

MATT MARGOLIS: In College? You’re About to Lose Your Due Process Rights.

DOG BITES MAN: ‘Squad’ Members Introduce Anti-Semitic Resolution.

IT’S A REAL MYSTERY: Say, where have all the public-school students gone? “Over one million students have evaporated from public school rolls over the last two years, the New York Times reported late yesterday. ‘No overriding explanation has emerged yet for the widespread drop-off,’ writes reporter Shawn Hubler.”

Plus: “To be fair to Hubler, she offers at least two obvious explanations, but seems more concerned about the impact on public schools from them rather than the students.”

KEVIN DOWNEY JR: White Privilege? Young Black Man Who Brutally Assaulted Elderly Vet in Nursing Home Won’t Have to Stand Trial.

BY DESIGN: Green Delusions Bring Chaos And Death.

MIDTERMS: Embattled Rep. Madison Cawthorn Defeated in N.C. Primary.

THAT ’70S SHOW: This ETF Says Inflation Is Just Getting Started. “Instead of slowing down, being transitory or tapering off, the move higher in inflation may just be getting started. At least that’s what the action in the Energy Select Sector SPDR Fund (NYSE:XLE) ETF could be telling us. It looks to be on the verge of a long-term breakout.”

VICTORIA TAFT: Durham Trial: You Can’t Unsee All the Potential Conflicts of Interest in the ‘Russia Collusion’ Case in D.C. “It feels like all of the people connected with the Russian Collusion hoax are old buddies, and a striking number of those are connected to the Michael Sussmann trial. Small world. Things are so incestuous in the swamp that you wonder why these elites consider themselves better than the hill people who live not too far away.”

RED-PILLED: Elon Musk Doesn’t Think He’s Ever Voted Republican. He Says He Will In 2022.

ACTUALLY, THE WARNING IS FOR US: Obama’s Fed Chief Has Dire Warning for Biden.

FIRE AS MANY AS IT TAKES UNTIL THE SURVIVORS, IF ANY, GET THE MESSAGE: While Iowa law bans CRT in campus trainings, it’s still taught inside the classroom.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Gen. Michael Flynn Punches Back at His Government Tormentors. “Flynn was tragic collateral damage in the Obama/Clinton jihad against Trump. It’s a shame that they can’t be locked up for what they facilitated.”

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY:

Maybe I need to start headlining these stories with “THE HUNGER GAMES.”

JOE BIDEN DID THAT: Historic! Gas Prices Are Over $4 a Gallon in All 50 States for the First Time Ever.

SPOILER: HE DIDN’T. Tucker Carlson Responds to Claims That He Inspired Buffalo Shooter.

OH: Putin on Sweden and Finland: Never mind.

Most of the Russian saber-rattling over Finland and Sweden applying to join NATO seemed to come to a halt this morning. After threatening “military-technical” action in response to any further expansion of the alliance along Russia’s western border, Vladimir Putin executed what appears to be an about-face on the topic while addressing a meeting of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO). Rather than talking about expanding the war beyond the borders of Ukraine, Putin said Russia has “no problem” with those states being accepted as members. He added some caveats after that which could produce additional tensions in the region, but for the most part, it sounded as if he has made his peace with the new state of affairs. Of course, we should keep in mind that Putin says a lot of things, only to turn around the do the exact opposite later.

He already had more on his plate than he could handle.

THEN THROW AWAY THE FORK: Put a Fork in Portland.

Portland use to be one of my favorite towns to visit. It had fun bars and groovy thrift stores. Now it looks like Detroit on a bender.

The difference between my hometown, the Motor City, and Portland is that Portland’s death was intentional. Whereas Detroit was murdered by a perfect storm of crotch-kicks from the auto industry and a racist, corrupt mayor, Portland was killed by its own citizens and the Democratic Party.

I should have seen what the future of Portland would look like. The last time I was there was in 2010. Everything seemed fine except for the huge homeless population. Note to self: when you have hundreds of drugged-out homeless people living wherever they want in a town, death is nigh.

As I was walking through a park to get to a comedy club I suddenly realized I was hip-deep in homeless people (situational awareness was not a strength of mine). It looked like I was walking through the set of The Walking Dead.

Judging by the “aroma,” I assumed I was treading through their lavatory.

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