Instapundit

May 5, 2026

THE MATH IS BRUTAL:

10k a year of drone interceptors when Russia is building 200 Shaheed clones a day is ~13% that drone’s production rate. 🤦‍♂️ https://t.co/mD1NH28n3C

— Trent Telenko (@TrentTelenko) May 3, 2026

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HMM: Inside the Quiet Republican Effort to Flip Fetterman.

If Fetterman does flip, according to officials who were given anonymity to talk about sensitive matters, it will be thanks in large part to his deepening friendship with a pair of senators and their high-profile spouses: Sen. Dave McCormick (R-Pa.), and his wife Dina, and Sen. Katie Britt (R-Ala.), and her husband, Wesley.

But the first-term Democrat — who’s infuriated his party with his harder line on immigration and staunch support for Israel, Trump nominees, government funding bills and most recently the president’s ballroom — isn’t yet persuaded.

“I’m not changing,” Fetterman told me in an interview Friday when I asked if he was ruling out both becoming a Republican or turning independent. “I’m a Democrat, and I’m staying one. “

Yet, at least in private, he’s not totally rejecting dropping his “D.”

When one senior Republican recently brought up the idea of becoming an independent to Fetterman, he absorbed the suggestion and didn’t embrace or reject the overture, according to a GOP official familiar with the conversation.

In our interview, Fetterman said bluntly: “I’d be a shitty Republican.”

That’s certainly my impression, although to be fair, maybe not all that much worse than a few current GOP senators you could name.

Still, while he seems unlikely to flip, it’s easy to see him dropping the (D) for an (I).

THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE:

Police bodycam ended the entire BLM grift

This might be the greatest backfire in history pic.twitter.com/63JhiOGKa5

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) May 4, 2026

Now they want to remove bodycams 😂

The irony is amazing. pic.twitter.com/JhmpRryAMC

— 🇺🇸 Bull Moose American 🇺🇸 (@BullMooseMemes) May 4, 2026

THE RAMPANT POLITICIZATION OF THE JUDICIARY IS RAMPING UP:

Sounds like this magistrate needs to be taken off this case. And sent back to, I dunno, judge school. Or just disrobed.

Any kind of equivalency between a would-be presidential assassin and a trespasser, even a J6 trespasser, indicates gross prejudice and a grossly distorted view… https://t.co/7R4V3lvF4Z

— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) May 4, 2026

THIS IS BIG:

https://t.co/7V1oWKxuWZ

— Luke Rosiak (@lukerosiak) May 4, 2026

Read the whole thing, but this stands out: “As people have realized the United States government will pay them to hang out with their own families, northeast Columbus has seen its economy replaced by businesses that bill Medicaid. And Columbus, a city with the second largest Somali population in the country, has become, on the surface, the most unhealthy city on the planet.”

A BRIEF COMPARISON OF NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM:

The link between Nazism and Socialism used to be well-understood. This is from a widely circulated newspaper column in 1937: https://t.co/1LrCzJYwRT pic.twitter.com/Nwy2YAUUNS

— Phil Magness (@PhilWMagness) May 4, 2026

With free healthcare and workers' rights. It's hard to tell the difference between the Nazi party platform of 1933, and any recent DNC platform. Plus, Hitler was a vegetarian, and anti-smoking.

— Not-So-OK Boomer (@Rand_Simberg) May 4, 2026

Flashback: The Nazi Party Platform.

And then there are the artists and architects of the 1930s: Philip Johnson. Walter Gropius. Mies van der Rohe. Le Corbusier. Ezra Pound. H.G. Wells. Salvador Dali. Why did so many pioneering modernists know all the lyrics to “Springtime for Hitler?”