Flotsam and Jetsam - Pubs Pounce as Platner Problems Proliferate

From Driscoll at Insty, THE NIGHT PORTER: Graham Platner’s Wife Flagged Sexually Explicit Texts to His Senate Campaign. "The previously unreported deliberations last year over sexually explicit texts discovered on Platner’s phone come as the veteran has exploded onto the national political scene, kindling Democratic hopes that they can unseat Republican Sen. Susan Collins and gain control of the Senate." Clay Travis @ClayTravis, "So Graham Platner had a Nazi chest tattoo for 20 years, rooted for military members to get killed, lied about being poor — he went to a rich boarding school and he was ending nudes to multiple women and his wife caught him and told the campaign per @wsjFrom wsj.com." Quote Clay Travis @ClayTravis, "I’m starting to think Graham Platner’s campaign might be a total and complete disaster for Democrats, guys. You can also toss in that the only customer for his “oyster farm” was his mom’s restaurant. This is a trust fund kid cosplaying a normal guy. He’s a less authentic Tim Walz." From Twitchy, Platner Campaign Posts Video of Dem Candidate's Wife Making a Fresh 'Clean Up in Aisle UH OH' Statement and Atlantic Drops 'Do Better Than Platner' Bomb as Shipwreckedcrew Warns: DNC Prepping Another Primary Heist. John Sexton at Hat Hair, Graham Platner Has a New Problem. Joe Chalfant at TownHall, Platner Maintained Sexually-Suggestive Profile on 'Predator's Paradise' App Known For Child Exploitation. News Wax, Platner Campaign Knew of Explicit Texts Before Senate Bid Gained Momentum. More from Driscoll, IT’S JUST A BLITZKRIEG OF OPPOSITION DUMPS: Platner Maintained Sexually-Suggestive Profile on ‘Predator’s Paradise’ App Known For Child Exploitation. Tim Rice @TimRiceDC, "Platner’s Kik profile features a photo of him topless in a towel, showing off his infamous tattoos. His username is. Early identical to the one he uses on his Instagram and Reddit accounts, the latter of which has caused a lot of problems for this campaign." Tim Rice @TimRiceDC, "Platner joined Kik four months *after* the New York Times published an expose on the app’s popularity among sexual predators, who used Kik to distribute child pornography and facilitate abuse, kidnapping, and murder." Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius, "Graham Platner is about to get Bidened. Janet Mills is about to get Kamalaed. But Collins will still win. Sit back and watch. The Nazi tattoo, port-a-potty domain mastering and the sex texts have become too much, even for Democrats. Book it." Shipwreckedcrew @shipwreckedcrew, "This is getting very curious. These influential voices are coming out on this point VERY LATE. The primary is June 9. I do not think anything will happen in advance of the primary, and Platner is going to win with no real opponent still in the race. BUT, under Maine law, if Platner were to drop out after winning the primary, he could be replaced by the Dems on the General Election ballot ONLY IF: 1. He drops out prior to the 2nd Monday in July, and 2. His replacement is named by the 4th Monday in July..." Quote Josh Kraushaar @JoshKraushaar, "Democrats Can Do Better Than Graham Platner - The Atlantic" 

Mark Hemingway @Heminator, "Platner has called Gaza a “genocide,” which even if you oppose Israel’s actions, is an outrageously inaccurate and inflammatory thing to say. So, yes he’s still exhibiting anti-semitism." Quote John Harwood @JohnJHarwood, "the tattoo Platner got years ago is very bad. if there are any present-day signs in his life or campaign that he actually sympathizes with Nazis or is motivated by antisemitism, that would be disqualifying." Jason Cohen @JasonJournoDC. "NEW: CNN’s Michael Smerconish *SLAMS* Graham Platner over Nazi tattoo “He didn’t cover it until October of 2025 — 18 years after getting it — and only when it became a political problem.” “Think about that for a moment. 18 years of getting out of the shower, 18 years of looking into the mirror — and seeing the Totenkopf.” “That’s not a drunken mistake in Croatia — that’s a daily choice sustained for nearly two decades.” Clay Travis @ClayTravis, "So Graham Platner had a Nazi chest tattoo for 20 years, rooted for military members to get killed, lied about being poor — he went to a rich boarding school and he was ending nudes to multiple women and his wife caught him and told the campaign per
@wsj."

Capt. Ed cites Axios: Texas Senate Race Now An 'Ultimate Test' of GOP's Anti-Woke Playbook (UPDATED). Breitbart News @BreitbartNews, "James Talarico says if you advocate for "private school vouchers," you're a Christian Nationalist." Northern Barbarian @xnoesbueno, "I'm beginning to think this trans vegan DEI Senate campaign in Texas is actually an Andy Kaufman-like stunt to make a mockery of the left." Quote James Talarico @jamestalarico Mar 18, 2021, Replying to @jamestalarico, "I’m co-authoring legislation to explicitly teach “diversity, equity, and inclusion” in our schools. I’ve also filed House Bill 4111 which would require school districts over a certain size to hire a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer."

Hannah Einbinder

Driscoll at Insty is enjoying PRATT SUMMER: Variety @Variety, "#HannahEinbinder says it's important to "resist" Spencer Pratt's campaign for LA mayor: "Spencer shouldn't, and neither should I! I'm with Lisa Rinna. That's not what we want."" Joel Engel @joelengel, "@latimes endorsed Bass over Rick Caruso four years ago in large measure because "Caruso doesn't have a climate plan." This is morbidly funny if you consider that the worst conflagration in the city's history, caused by her incompetence, released 1.5 million tons of carbon." Quote Ian Miller @ianmSC, "Jimmy Kimmel says Spencer Pratt shouldn’t win the LA mayoral election because he doesn’t believe in “climate change” after his house burned down Meanwhile the fire was started by an arsonist and destroyed his house because of widespread LA incompetence." At NYPo word is that Spencer Pratt leads Karen Bass in LA mayor’s race, California Post poll reveals. "Pratt now leads the field with 30.1% support, compared with 29.5% for Bass, setting up a razor-thin race heading into next week’s primary." I don't dare believe it. Driscoll, NITHYA RAMAN: BIKE LANE LEFTIST. Mickey Kaus @kausmickey, "Have bike lanes ever been a success? Anywhere in LA? It was a nice idea, but ... Yet its what urban planning bureaucrats talk about." Quote Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt, "Nithya thinks this election is just about bike lanes. This election is about saving our city from rampant fraud, drug addicts destroying our streets, and moms feeling unsafe everywhere they go. Nithya is a deeply unserious person and she doesn’t have it in her to do this job. x.com/nithyavraman/s…" Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt, "When President Obama had Osama bin Laden killed, Americans all celebrated. But for Nithya Raman, it felt strange." 

RedState's Rusty Weiss hears CA Union Hits Gavin Newsom With Unbelievable Excuse to Dodge Return-to-Work Order, it's bad for the climate! PJM's Matt Margolis thinks Ruben Gallego Sure Is Acting Guilty of Something ""Without, I guess, getting too graphic, there is a woman that allegedly is coming forward with attorneys, wants to go on record about an incident that occurred between the two of them at the same time, and the event was sexual in nature, allegedly,” Luna told CBS News’ Major Garrett last month." From the Free Bacon, Far-Left House Candidate Backed by AOC and Hasan Piker Said Corporate CEOs ‘Should Fry,’ Called for ‘Frequent and Swift’ Death Penalty for CEO ‘Gangs’. "Chris Rabb, who won the Democratic primary in an overwhelmingly blue Philadelphia congressional district, said CEOs are ‘far more devastating’ than the Crips and Bloods." At Da Wire, Girl Math: Democrat Gov Says Party Doesn’t Need Any Male Voters "“If women, Democratic women, just show up and vote, we’re good.”" Hat Hair's Salena Zito presents Pennsylvania Primary Results Unpacked: Democrats Go Far Left, While GOP Centers. At PJM, Tim O'Brien thinks it's time for A Massive Troll: It’s Time for Trump to Endorse Democrats in the Primaries. That would be fun!

Sundance at CTH observes U.S. and Mexico Conclude First Bilateral Round of USMCA Review, Mexican Security Minister Announces Arrest of Cuautla Mayor, Jesús Corona Damián, on Extortion and Bribery Charges and Mike Steger Recaps Current State of “Fortress America” – President Trump’s American Manufacturing Surge. PJM's Sarah Anderson looks at The New Monroe Doctrine: Coups and Elections. Elections and Coups. Roger Kimball at Da Spec thinks Trump has Iran over a barrel.

Stacy McCain sees What $100,000,000 Buys. "Do I want to pick a fight with Erick Erickson? No, I do not. Erick has done yeoman’s work for the conservative cause for more than 20 years, and 99 days out of 100, I have no problem with him. But his reaction to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s victory in Tuesday’s GOP primary runoff against John Cornyn is a reminder of something most people never think about — there are professional campaign operatives who earn a lucrative living from politics. Erick Erickson is close friends with a lot of Republican operatives and, it seems obvious to me, some of Erick’s friends were getting paid by Team Cornyn. It’s estimated that the Cornyn campaign (including allied super PACs, etc.) spent upwards of $100 million on his doomed reelection bid, and no doubt many of the people who got paid by Cornyn are very bitter over their defeat." And Trump Derangement Syndrome: Some Historical Perspective on Political Manias.

From Shooting News Week, Virginia State Police Running Background Checks on Private Gun Sales in Violation of Court Order. So now we just ignore court orders? Good to know.

Twitchy calls it Just Another Dem-Funded Riot: A Signal Message Exposed the Organized Machine Behind NJ ICE Facility Chaos. bitchuneedsoap @bitchuneedsoap, "I sent one message on Signal asking how to help the Delaney Hall protesters. Within minutes I had a Venmo link and a supply list. The supply list wasn’t water bottles. I followed the Venmo. Then I pulled the 990s. Then it all started to unravel. One message unraveled the entire NJ anti-ICE network. More soon." Insty calls it INSURRECTION! Ari Fleischer @AriFleischer, "The Democrats do a January 6th every day, every week. Their target is ICE. J6 was a riot. THIS is in insurrection." Quote Nick Sortor @nicksortor, "BREAKING: MAJOR clashes underway between NJ police and anti-ICE rioters in Newark SUPER physical fights."

Da Feds Breccan Thies reports the Trump Admin Targets Big Immigration’s Legal Industrial Complex, "by cracking down on immigration lawyers who file fraudulent asylum claims." Carter Stewart at the Chronic has The Untold Immigration Story.

At CBN, Belgian Court Rules 'Factually Correct' Remarks Can Be Hate Speech "The judge, however, in his ruling, said, "Even if all of the statements made by Van Langenhove are based on scientific evidence and statistics, it makes no difference to the criminal intent. Van Langenhove is not charged with spreading false information. He is charged with presenting facts in a way that incites hatred against persons on the grounds of one or more of the protected criteria in the Anti-Racism Law.""

RedState's Becca Lower sees A Satisfying Coda to the CBS-Paramount-Colbert 'Late Show' Tale, and Leftists Will Despise It "Byron Allen's Comics Unleashed officially took over CBS's 11:35 p.m. late-night slot on Friday, May 22, under a new "time buy" deal with the network. Under the arrangement, Allen Media Group pays CBS for the time period, handles all production costs itself, and controls the advertising inventory. This means that CBS doesn't have to spend a dime ... "With this 'time buy' model, we have shifted an hour that was losing roughly $40 million annually to $15 million in profit — a $55 million swing," the spokesperson said, calling it "a new business and programming model for late night that proactively addresses a network daypart that was cost prohibitive to continue."" Matt Margolis hears CBS Torches Stephen Colbert After His Exit.

Stacy McCain, Our Sudden Alaska Road Trip. Because I’d never visited a Bass Pro Shops location before, this was an eye-opening experience. Have you guys ever been to one of these? It’s not just a store, it’s like a sporting goods museum — something you’d take a school bus full of fifth-graders to see. There’s all kinds of stuffed animals (including a seven-foot-tall Kodiak bear) and more outdoor gear than you could ever imagine. It occurs to me that Bass Pro Shops might be the most American thing ever, combining the frontier spirit with the glories of capitalism in a way that makes you start humming Brooks & Dunn: Only in America, Where we dream in red, white, and blue." We have a big Bass Pro way up the road, and yeah, it's pretty amazing if you're into fishing and hunting. 

Insty, WHOM THE GODS WOULD DESTROY, THEY FIRST MAKE RIDICULOUS: UMinn bias report: Someone said ‘mothers’ instead of ‘lactating individuals.’ "They must really be out for U. Minnesota." At State of the Day, State of Thursday: DUMB AND DUMBER.

Theo Jordan @Theo_TJ_Jordan, "Just to make it clear what we're seeing here... Since 2008, the entire pro sports and Hollywood terrain marched in loud ideological compliance with the DNC. Back in 2020, they ran the BLM scam together. Harris campaigns used nonstop celebrity. But Trump can't be introduced? why? Answer the question to yourself logically. What would be the basis? So your candidates forever end hate but our are hate? This is innate for... ever? This is Repressive Tolerance. the way the Liberal guard is required to fawn and praise over it is so repulsive. Remember Vince Vaughn had to apologize for shaking a president's hand? When Ellen did for sitting next to one? Who do these self-absorbed idiots think they are? No one I give one shit about." Quote, "SNY Giants @SNYGiants, "9 Abdul Carter says he will only address Jaxson Dart introducing Donald Trump one time: "Some things are bigger than football, and this is one of those things." Matt Vespa on Why the Washington Nationals Just Fired One of Their Executives. Hint: It's Woke Nonsense. "The Washington Nationals fired an executive on Friday after James O’Keefe exposed him for blackballing pitcher Trevor Williams for being Catholic."

Palm Sunday

 with more Anastasia Rine:

Northeast News, Kansas City, Vandals Steal 15 Palm Trees, Impacting Independence Avenue Beautification Project

Over the past several weeks, the Independence Avenue Urban Street Ambassadors have been hard at work beautifying the Independence Avenue corridor with new landscaping installations, colorful flowers and decorative palm trees intended to brighten the community for residents, visitors and local businesses alike.

But overnight, in the early morning hours of Friday, May 22, at least 15 palm trees planted along Independence Avenue were stolen. Security cameras captured footage of a person in a white sedan stopping at Independence Avenue and Brooklyn at 12:23 a.m., removing a palm tree from a planter, placing the tree in the back seat of their vehicle, and driving away.

These trees, purchased as part of ongoing beautification efforts by the Independence Avenue Community Improvement District (CID), had recently been installed by the Urban Street Ambassadors, who maintain the corridor year-round through landscaping, litter removal and streetscape improvement projects.

I would have thought Kansas City winters would be too harsh for palms. Maybe they bring them in in winter. 

Forget It Jake, It's Baltimore

 Akshually, it's a positive story about Balmer at the Freep, Why Did the Murders Stop in Baltimore?

... the levels of crime Baltimore now experiences were seen as inconceivable just a few years ago. And the numbers keep falling. In April, Baltimore had four homicides, the lowest total for any single month since at least 1970. So far this year, there were 38, compared with 51 in the same period last year. At the current rate, Baltimore would end 2026 with fewer than 100 homicides. There were 323 just four years ago.

How did we get from a city in which the question was how high can crime rise, to one where the question is how low can it go? The answer might be linked to the nationwide decline in murder, spurred by a restoration of policing as the excesses of the George Floyd years recede. But that begs the question of what cities across the country are doing right. And it skips over how Baltimore has bucked nationwide murder trends at times, with homicides in the city staying high as violence fell elsewhere in the 1990s and 2000s.

When you look closely and talk to the people on the front lines, some strong patterns emerge, with two competing stories coming into focus. One is the return of a program focused on deterring the small fraction of offenders in Baltimore who commit the large majority of violent crimes. The other is the election of a new tough-on-crime prosecutor, who replaced a scandal-plagued “progressive.”

Which story you prefer has increasingly become a partisan matter, producing unnecessary political feuding. The bigger lesson is that intelligently targeting the most violent offenders, both through deterrence and incapacitation, can yield large, durable reductions in murder. Baltimore’s success shows that its homicide problem was, in reality, just the result of its past leaders’ failure to take violence seriously enough.

As they say, read the whole thing.  

Flotsam and Jetsam - Some Saturday Slop

 I'm having trouble identifying an important breaking story in this mess:

At RCP, Cornyn's Defeat and the Remaking of the GOP. "In a Wednesday appearance on The Hugh Hewitt Show, Thune described the GOP’s newfound advocacy for Paxton. “Obviously, we are making the pivot,” Thune said. “He’s all-in, ready to go for the fall election, and not taking any time off, already on the phone raising money and all the things you’re going to have to do to be successful.”" From Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog, Cornyn’s Slaughter: A Postmortem, "No, the reason that Cornyn lost was because Texas Republicans were finally well and truly tired of him. Cornyn’s playing footsie with illegal alien amnesty while claiming he was against amnesty was one of the biggest reasons voters rejected him."

Marc J. Randazza @marcorandazza, "Its funny how the highest ranking gay man to ever hold office is a Republican, and he's more a damn based motherfucking bad ass than the "straight" guys the Democrats got to try to "relate" to us." Quote Rapid Response 47 @RapidResponse47, "Reporter: "You wrote 'resilience' on your Cabinet meeting notes... why did you write all those notes?" @SecScottBessent: "So people could look over my shoulder, photograph them, and think they got a scoop."" Sundance at CTH hosts Secretary of Treasury Scott Bessent Delivers Economic and National Security Remarks to Reagan Economic Forum.

TownHall's Matt Vespa notes Trump's Physical Went Off Without a Hitch, but the Liberal Media Tried to Stir Up Controversy Over This. At Althouse, "[Jill] Biden is a longtime English professor who casually uses the correct group noun for starlings ('murmuration')." So writes Alexandra Jacobs in "Jill Biden’s New Memoir Shows Off a Sharp Eye, if Not a Sharp Elbow/Beyond a few pointed digs at her husband’s successor, 'View From the East Wing' largely sticks to the head-spinning details of first lady-hood" (NYT)." Alexandra Jacobs is wrong about murmuration. It is not just a collection of starlings, which on the ground would be a flock, but an aerial mass movement of starlings, where they swirl together. That's what happens when literary folk attempt to feign knowledge of biology. It's not clear from the quote how Jill used the word, so I won't cast aspersions there. Amy Curtis at TownHall sees The Media Have Cracked the Case on Who's Paying to Clean Up D.C. Bonchie @bonchieredstate, "Kind of wild to call the restoration of American monuments a “vanity project.” I mean, Democrats didn’t have to let fountains dry up, the reflecting pool turn to sewage, and monuments be covered with “free Palestine.”" Quote Headquarters @HQNewsNow, "New reporting reveals the Trump admin has used $67,000,000 of National Parks entrance fees to fund Trump's vanity projects in DC. This includes the painting of the Reflecting Pool, which he doled out to a MAGA contractor for $7,000,000." Beege Welborn at Hat Hair has the Outrage Du Jour: No Female Admirals Selected Last Year - I Yawn in Your General Direction.

Beege Welborn again, The Canadian Carney-Val Continues: I Spy With My Little Eye a Syrupian Recession. Sundance reports Canada Officially Enters a Recession After Two Consecutive Quarters of Negative GDP Growth.

John Sexton at Hat Hair, Ukrainian Drones Put Russia Under Pressure. NOELREPORTS @NOELreports, "Russian channels are complaining that Ukraine has begun active remote mining of rear roads in occupied territory. #Ukraine." Aljazeera reports Russia to task bankers with shooting down Ukrainian drones.

Sundance, President Trump Updates on “Final Determination” of Iran Negotiations. I'm not holding my breath. Capt. Ed at Hat Hair hears IRGC Warn We Will Bring 'Utter Ruin' If Blockade Continues. Their military may suck, but they have great bluster. Paul Sperry at RCI, GOP Battles Sharia: Is Islamic Law a Threat or Dog Whistle?

At the Free Bacon, Don't Take Medical Advice from Jill Biden. Ace, No One Believes Jill Biden's "Gaslighting" Campaign -- Especially Not the Leftwing Media Operatives and Democrats Who Conspired to Cover This Up, and Now Have Pretend They Were "Fooled" by a Conspiracy They Were Always Part of. Matt Margolis hears Jessica Tarlov Accidentally Admits the Democrats’ Biggest Dirty Secret "It feels unfair, essentially, at this point, to the party, that if you want to cement any piece of your husband's legacy, let people move on from this and win some more elections, and then they can point to things and say, like, we're building on the successes that we saw under the Biden administration. That's why we're adding X, Y, or Z thing."

Scott Pinsker at PJM hears The Democrats’ Greatest Fear: The GOP Will Turn James Talarico Into a Creepy, Unmanly Weirdo. Turn him into? Tom Bevan @TomBevanRCP, "Um, because he's on tape bragging publicly about running a "meatless" campaign to help fight climate change. The amount of water the media is going to carry on behalf of Talarico will set records." Puck @PuckNews, "Republicans gleefully seize on Talarico’s “six sexes” comments while Trump says Democrats want “transgender for everybody.” Can the party defuse the G.O.P.’s “they/them” playbook before it trips them up again in November?" Republicans seize, when they don't pounce! Texas Monthly @TexasMonthly, "Republicans have pounced on an old statement as they seek to make gender politics the focus of the Senate campaign." Twitchy outs Talarico's Mystery Vegan Gal Pal: Ex-Chief of Staff, Gay Bar Dancer, and the Most Convenient Reveal Ever. Lena @Lena178159, "That's his neighbour with a uterus." Stephen Kruiser at PJM thinks James Talarico Is Playing to a National Audience That Won't Be Voting for Him.

Ace hears The Soldier Who Was Mocked by Unemployed Nazi Gerald Platner Speaks. "Flannel shirt and all, Graham Platner is Tim Walz on steroids. An entitled brat who campaigns with socialist Bernie Sanders. A real man by the lights of the Democratic Party, he presents himself as "relatable" to working-class Americans, but in reality he's a typical elitist who believes blue-collar, hardworking, salt-of-the-earth rural Americans are stupid and racist. I couldn't care less about the comments he made about me, but they are a reflection of his character. I never thought I'd see the day when Democrats would even consider backing a candidate like this." At Twitchy, SO MANY Idiot Dems Are Trying to Dunk on Susan Collins for 'Sending Platner to War,' Here Are the DUMBEST The Maine Wire @TheMaineWire, "Senator Collins responds to the scurrilous claim from Graham Platner that she sent him to "die in Iraq." "That was Platner's decision to serve. He was not drafted."" Betsy Stauffer at LI informs us the MI Senate Frontrunner ‘Struggles’ With Israel’s Right to Exist as a Jewish State. "It appears that the more incendiary El-Sayed’s rhetoric becomes, the more he rises in the polls. … It’s hard to say whether that is despite his antisemitic remarks or because of them."

Nick Arama at RedState says Boom: New Spencer Pratt Ad Leftist Calls 'Deeply Insulting' May Be the Best One Yet. It's good, but not the best IMHO. Also at RedState, Jen O'Connell calls it Savage: One Advocacy Group's Viral Campaign Delivers Homelessness to LA Mayor Candidate's Doorstep. From Ace, Spencer Pratt, Donald Trump, and the Democrat (and GOP Establishment) Taboo Against Simple, Direct Honesty. "They have built an Empire of Lies and demand we all pledge our fealty." Western Lensman @WesternLensman, "The threaded NBC clip exemplifies exactly what Pratt said here about being honed for debate by constant battle with hostile media hacks — Unlike his Democrat opponents: “Every interview I do it's opposition. When Bass or Raman talk to the media, they can just lie." Chef Andrew Gruel @ChefGruel, "The argument that Spencer Pratt can’t be mayor because he’s a reality TV star is hilarious. Los Angeles has been run into the ground by people with impeccable resumes, elite endorsements, and decades of political experience. At some point, the “qualified” candidates need to answer for the results. Chatting @spencerpratt on @Gutfeldfox." John Sexton at Hat Hair wonders Could Spencer Pratt Actually Pull This Off? I hope so, but then, I root for Bigfoot, too.

Susan Crabtree @susancrabtree, "SCOOP: A taxpayer-funded California nonprofit with close ties to
@XavierBecerra is working to keep illegal immigrants convicted of assault with a deadly weapon — even when it involves domestic abuse and aggravated felony cases — from being deported. ...." The Orange County Register registers A bipartisan effort to reform California’s top-two primary system is underway – Orange County Register. If you don't like how the election is going, change the rules! Insty says HOW ABOUT A 100% FEDERAL TAX ON BENEFITS PAID TO ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS? Newsom says he wants 100% tax on Californians that get money from Trump’s J6 compensation fund.

Victory Girls report No Zohran Mamdani For The Israel Day Parade. Omri Ceren @omriceren, "It's because he hates Jews. That's why. That's the reason." Quote Fox News @FoxNews "Mayor Zohran Mamdani defends his decision to skip the Israel Day Parade, making him the first New York City mayor to bypass the historic event since 1964. "I said on the campaign trail that I wouldn't be attending the parade, and I've made my views on the Israeli government abundantly clear...” At NYPo, NYC already spent $1.3M on controversial new East Village homeless shelter — as neighbors desperately try to stop it.

TownHall's Joe Chalfant is outraged Mary Peltola Caught Trying to Plant Fake Candidate in Alaska Also Named ‘Dan Sullivan,’ to siphon votes from her opponent. From Ace, Seattle's Communist Woke Wallflower Mayor Says She Refuses to Investigate Medicaid Fraud In Her City Because That Would Hurt Our Precioius Nomadic Pirates, "The Post-Millennial..." Alpha News, Former Minnesota employee reveals suspected fraud scheme of ‘fake injuries’ at Somali businesses. "With the benefit of hindsight, Janeen Balsimo thought, "wow, so the fraud went as far as the employee was a fake employee, probably with fake injuries, because there is no people at these places."" They saw a vulnerability, and they exploited it.

Beege Welborn, Some of the Congressional Performative Theater at Delaney Hall Is Suddenly Explained UPDATE. WWG1WGA @WWG1WGA_QQ, " HOLY CRAP! VP JD Vance just UNLEASHED on Democrats for their violent rhetoric against ICE and law enforcement, calls out Gavin Newsom BY NAME. "YOU CAN GO STRAIGHT TO HELL, and you have NO PLACE in the political conversation in the United States!" "Because HERE'S WHAT HAPPENS! When Democrats like Gavin Newsom say these people are 'part of an authoritarian government.' When they lie about who they're arresting...what they're doing is encouraging crazy people to go and commit VIOLENCE." "You don't have to agree with our policies. But if your political rhetoric encourages violence against our law enforcement, you can go STRAIGHT TO HELL!" WOW!." A Larry vid at Hat Hair, Anti-ICE Rioters Arrested As Loser Dems Roasted Outside Detention Center. Jonathan Turley @JonathanTurley, "As Democrats demand the removal of the masks of ICE agents, a protester was shown yesterday yelling at an agent, "I've got your face. I'll kill your whole f**king family. You whole f**king family is dead. Your child, your wife, and all are dead. I have your face mother f**ker. You re dead." Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby, "Amazing and quick work by the FBI." Quote Nick Sortor @nicksortor, "BREAKING: FBI has just RAIDED and ARRESTED the man who I caught on video threatening the lives of an ICE agent and his family outside ICE Newark Nicholas Scelfo is facing FEDERAL FELONIES." 

Supervisor Jim Desmond @jim_desmond, "$13.4 million. That's what the proposed County budget spends on lawyers for illegal immigrants fighting deportation. For that same amount, San Diego County could fund hundreds of sheriff's deputies. Dozens of psychiatric beds. Pothole repair across every district. Real help for the homeless veteran sleeping under the overpass tonight. Instead, the Board majority wants to nearly triple a program that started at $5 million just three years ago. A program the County itself confirms has represented dozens of clients with criminal grounds in their case. A county is not the State Department. A county is not an immigration court. A county exists to keep streets safe, roads paved, and the most vulnerable residents cared for. This is not our job. It never was." Matt Vespa thinks House Dems Thought This Tweet Was a Banger. It Backfired Epically.

The Virginia Pilot reports a Judge says Kennedy Center board broke law putting Trump’s name on building, blocks closure. "The judge, who was nominated to the bench by Democratic President Barack Obama, ordered the defendants to remove Trump's name from the institution's façade and any “official materials,” such as digital or physical signs, within two weeks." Sundance, Judge Blocks Kennedy Center Restoration Effort – President Trump Directs the Commerce Dept to Give Congress Management. Let it fall apart, I don't care. At Althouse, "A federal judge in Miami reopened President Trump’s... case against the I.R.S.... saying that she wanted to investigate 'grievous allegations' that the hasty deal to resolve it was 'premised on deception.'..." "Judge [Kathleen M.] Williams’s decision came in response to court papers filed on Wednesday by a bipartisan group of 35 former federal judges who urged her to bring the case back to life and dig into the details of the agreement to settle it.... From: "Judge Reopens Trump’s I.R.S. Suit and Questions His ‘Weaponization’ Fund/The ruling was a blow to both President Trump, who had voluntarily dismissed the suit last week, and to the Justice Department, which used the suit to establish a fund likely intended for Trump allies" (NYT).

Matt Vespa says Uh Oh: E. Jean Carroll May Have Committed Perjury. Good Lawgic @TheFollowingPro, "If E. Jean Carroll had a $7,000,000 litigation bill covered by Reid Hoffman, that is taxable income. She SHOULD have paid roughly $2.5M in tax fees. Does @SecScottBessent and the @IRS know whether she "forgot" that too?

Dave Strom has hopes a US Investigation of UNRWA Could Lead to Its Being Labeled a Foreign Terrorist Organization.

Northern Barbarian @xnoesbueno, "Weird. But that is what they were doing in East Germany not too long ago. Europe has always seen itself as a font of liberal freedoms and sophistication. In fact, Europe has always been plagued by repressive thuggishness. Rears its head now and then." Quote PeterSweden @PeterSweden7, "Germany just BANNED a political activist from leaving the country because he could be spreading "far-right extremist ideas". Stopping people from leaving the country because of political opinions."

At Campus Reform, a ‘Silver lining’: NYU praised for rapid response after swastika flag raised on campus.

PJM's Stephen Kruiser says Hide Your Kids — Pride Month Is Almost Here.

Still more at the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 05.29.26 (Normal Evening Edition).

Rule 5 Saturday - Anastasia Rine

At VIP Nightlife, Anastasia Rine, Model Anastasia Rine hosted the 2022 Maxim Los Angeles Halloween Party at Doheny Room in West Hollywood.

Los Angeles based Celebrity Model and Dancer Anastasia Rine is too famous on Instagram with over 265k Followers who love to see her dance video and glamorous pictures. She keeps sharing her dancing videos, modeling photo shoot pictures, travel moments on her timeline which entices more and more social media fans to follow her. Anastasia never disappoints the aspirations of her followers by upgrading the level of photography in each picture.

Anastasia doesn't shy off in showing off her beautiful curves and glam body in bikini photo shoots; which is evident in viral social images. She poses as a photo model for brands like Revolve, LPA Fashion Companies. She has been named as one of the best Revolve Models on Social Media. See more of Anastasia Rine on her Instagram at @anastasirine.