May 19, 2026

FALLOUT:

Posted at 3:33 pm by Stephen Green

PRIMARY PREVIEW: Nancy Pelosi endorses Connie Chan to succeed her after 40 years in Congress.

California Rep. Nancy Pelosi has made her choice for who should succeed her in Congress.

The longtime congresswoman endorsed San Francisco Supervisor Connie Chan on Monday in the race for the former House speaker’s seat.

Pelosi gave the nod to Chan over progressive Saikat Chakrabarti and California state Sen. Scott Weiner.

“I know this district, I know the Congress, and I know Connie,” Pelosi said in a short clip showing her seated next to Chan. “I’m proud to endorse Connie Chan, and I ask you to join me in electing her to Congress.”

I can’t help but think that voters there will go for Weiner.

Posted at 2:47 pm by Stephen Green

CHRISTIAN TOTO: Mandalorian and Grogu Sinks Star Wars to Kiddie-Level Lows.

This is kiddie entertainment from start to finish, a parade of new creatures, mediocre CGI and cuddly characters who would make the Minions blush.

The fact that Jon Favreau (“Swingers!” “Elf!” “Iron Man!”) co-wrote and directed this slop is tragic. He gets little out of his cast. Pascal, who previously made his presence felt while behind a mask, has zero arc or character to play.

He’s Protagonist 101. That’s it.

Sigourney Weaver walks through her role as a New Republic commander. She’d be Razzie worthy if she had more screen time.

The new villains barely have a pulse, from Coyne to a crimelord (Hemky Madera) who couldn’t threaten a toddler with his theatrics.

On the other side of the big pond, the London Times’ film critic concurs, giving the movie one star and concluding, “Fold the companies, cancel the forthcoming movies and close the theme park. You wouldn’t leave a dying dog like this. But that’s what Star Wars has become. Putting it down would be a mercy killing. Oh, and Martin Scorsese provides the voice of a four-armed capuchin monkey called Hugo. So that’s nice.”

Posted at 2:35 pm by Ed Driscoll

THE ACTORS CHANGE BUT THE MISSION REMAINS THE SAME:

Once more to Orwell: “It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers-out of unorthodoxy.”

Posted at 2:32 pm by Stephen Green

ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: Civil war brewing at New York Times following publication of column alleging rape of Palestinians.

Nicholas Kristof’s column in The New York Times continues to reverberate a week after publication, and has created an internal rift between the newspaper’s newsroom and its opinion section.

The column, titled “The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians,” includes allegations of systematic sexual abuse by Israeli prison guards and soldiers against Palestinian detainees. It cites testimony from 14 Palestinians alleging the use of batons and carrots, threats to rape family members and dogs used for sexual assault while prison staff laughed and filmed the incident.

The article drew widespread reactions around the world, including protests and calls to cancel subscriptions. On Thursday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar threatened to file a defamation lawsuit against the newspaper for libel against the State of Israel. Israeli officials and the Israel Prison Service have completely denied the claims, and Netanyahu called them baseless.

Earlier: The Big Tell: NYT Not Reporting Kristof Accusations on its News Pages.

Think about that: the journalists who would run with allegations from the Steele Dossier and make a two-year crusade out of proving it are too ashamed to touch Kristof’s accusations.

That’s how absurd this story is.

Thus the kerfuffle between the Gray Lady’s “news” and opinion departments:

UPDATE:

Posted at 2:22 pm by Ed Driscoll

AIR FORCE ACADEMY BLUES: Why Is My Alma Mater USAFA Allowing Professors Who Undermine The Commander-In-Chief? “If any cadets or recent graduates reading this article have sat through one of Dr. Burke’s classes, and have information on additional subversive comments, please contact us at .”

Posted at 1:45 pm by Stephen Green

CHANGE?

Posted at 1:29 pm by Stephen Green

#DAILYFAIL:

Posted at 1:22 pm by Ed Driscoll

WELL, WHEN YOU PUT IT THAT WAY…:

Posted at 12:33 pm by Stephen Green

GOODBYE, STEPHEN COLBERT: Bringing ‘Very Fine People’ Hoax Back.

A media hoax unlike any other was born. And boy, did it have legs. Future President Joe Biden used the lie to launch his 2020 campaign.

It took the progressive Snopes seven years to set the record straight on the matter. Seven. Years.

Better insanely late than never. Gee, why would Snopes drag its feet on this particular fact check?

Either way, anyone with a healthy news diet knows it’s a lie, and a despicable one at that.

Does that explain why Colbert repeated it … LAST YEAR?

“For the record, Trump did not come up with ‘America first.’ ‘America first’ was the motto of Nazi-friendly Americans in the 1930s … Trump wasn’t Nazi-friendly until 2017,” Colbert said, before mimicking the president’s voice saying, you guessed it, “very fine people.”

No lie is too big, apparently, for the far-Left host. It’s one more reason Colbert won’t be missed on late-night TV.

Remember on the original Star Trek, there were maybe a dozen shots of the USS Enterprise flying in space that were repeated over and over and over again throughout the series? In 1960s Hollywood, those shots were expensive to produce, and Desilu/Paramount wanted to squeeze every last drop out of them. The SPLC production expenses to manufacture Charlottesville were similarly costly to produce. But like the 1960s TV franchise eventually running in perpetuity in its various forms, the initial investment was equally profitable in the long run:

Earlier: So, the Premise Behind Biden’s 2020 Run Was Built on a Lie Paid for By the SPLC?

Posted at 12:00 pm by Ed Driscoll