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🚨 NOW: Scott Jennings CALLS OUT Democrat Rep. Seth Moulton for suggesting SecWar Pete Hegseth needs to be "executed" for "WAR CRIMES"
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) May 1, 2026
Even Anderson Cooper didn't believe Moulton said that on CNN — BUT HE DID, ROLL THE TAPE!
"I saw Seth Moulton...suggest [Hegseth] needed to be… pic.twitter.com/El5OSIvTXo
"I saw Seth Moulton...suggest [Hegseth] needed to be executed for war crimes!"
COOPER: "I don't think he said that."
JENNINGS: "He did!"
Ed: Democrats are getting desperate in their campaign to kill Trump administration officials. Even Anderson Cooper seems surprised by it.
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Free Beacon: Louisa Loveluck, a former Al Jazeera correspondent who most recently wrote for the Post from London, posted a note on X marking "Termination day." ...
Loveluck, one of many Al Jazeera veterans who populated the Post's foreign desk, has a long and documented history of publishing false information that portrays Israel in a negative light and Hamas in a positive one. In August, Loveluck wrote a story headlined, "Palestinians mourn Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif, crew in Gaza," who had been killed in a targeted Israeli strike. The Israel Defense Forces, though, discovered documents that identified the Al Jazeera "journalist" as a leader in a Hamas rocket-launching squad and a member of the commando unit behind the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks.
Loveluck was one of four reporters on a story from last June that accused Israel of killing "over 30" Gazans near a U.S. aid site without making clear that the claim came from Hamas and without giving equal weight to claims from Israeli officials. After changing the story without affixing a correction note to its website, the Post eventually released a statement saying that Loveluck's story "fell short of Post standards of fairness and should not have been published in that form."
Ed: Perhaps accountability is finally coming for narrative-cookers in the Protection Racket Media. From what we have seen, Loveluck's reporting fell firmly within the standards that the Post has exemplified for the last couple of decades, including in its "award-winning" Russiagate coverage.
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Wild clip: Abby Phillip presses Meidas Touch’s Adam Mockler about Graham Platner.
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) May 1, 2026
Mockler says that a literal tattooed Nazi being the face of the Democrat Party in Maine happens because “we're entering a new era…”
Abby Phillip: “If this were a Republican candidate who had had… pic.twitter.com/HtjwirXLrr
Abby Phillip: “If this were a Republican candidate who had had a Nazi tattoo, covered it up when he was running for something and had said all the things that he had said about black people, about women, about rape, etcetera. Do you really think there's a world in which Democrats would be like, let's just let bygones be bygones. That's the past, today's the present.”
Adam Mockler: “I think we're entering a new era and we'll see what the base wants. We'll see who wins when the actual election happens. But for the past decade, Democrats have been unified by our opposition to Donald Trump. And now, Grant Platner has a forward-looking message. So, if Donald Trump or if another Republican had a Nazi tattoo, I don't know. Donald Trump has dinner with Nazis. It's not that far from, you know, it's happening. But there's also plausible deniability regarding Grant Platner's tattoo. We don't know if he knew, we don't know what he knew.”
Ed: When you lose both Abby Phillip and Geraldo Rivera, you've really lost the thread. I'm not sure who Mockler is, but the Left is clearly not sending its best and brightest to push the "Platner is a misunderstood Nazi" narrative.
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Shipwreckedcrew: There is a debate online now, with the lefty legal beagles leading the charge, that the failure to include in the text of indictment an allegation that Comey subjectively knew his posting of the image would be seen as a threat — based on an accepted understanding of what “86” was meant to convey — means that the indictment “fails to state an offense” and will be dismissed.
To me, this is simply substituting their unhappiness over any indictment being pursued in place of what they simply do not know — whether there is or is not evidence the government has for use at trial to meet the Counterman standard. They assume no such evidence exists, therefore the case will fail, therefore the case should not have been filed, therefore it will be dismissed prior to trial and seen for what it really is — more illegitimate lawfare by Trump’s DOJ against his enemies.
Having been the person who took weeks and months and years to accumulate evidence before drafting an indictment and presenting it to a room full of 20+ grand jurors, I’m reluctant to just assume the government is holding a “Cool Hand Luke” special — “Sometimes nothing is a real cool hand.” I don’t know what they have — and neither do any of the critics.
What I do know is that the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure stack up in such a way that forcing the Government to show that hand before a trial is almost certainly not going to happen.
Ed: I'm on record for thinking this is an insane case to push, so I am happy to include this from my friend Ship as an opposing point of view. Read the whole thing. Two things: First, I think a federal district court judge will be more than happy to push the rules enough to force the DoJ to explain itself before trial as a way to throw this case out, but Ship was an actual federal prosecutor, and I just stay at Holiday Inn Expresses on occasion. Second, there are multiple common interpretations for what "86" means, and that alone is enough for reasonable doubt as to what Comey's intent was in sending that message. But again, read Ship's essay – and subscribe to his Substack, because he does amazing work.
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When the guy with the Nazi tattoo calls his political opponents “fascists” and the legacy media ignores it, something is wrong https://t.co/6GPJPXJ8HB
— Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee) May 1, 2026
Ed: In re the media, something is very consistent, which is that it's (D)ifferent when Democrats do it.
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John Hinderaker at Power Line: Prediction markets are obviously not infallible, but they are worth paying attention to, if only because they are an environment in which people are investing their own money, not merely spinning as is usual in the press. So these data, via Stephen Moore’s daily Unleash Prosperity Hotline should be concerning for Republicans:
According to an update by political [Republican] analyst Bruce Mehlman:
Six months ago prediction markets gave Democrats a 58% chance of capturing the House and 27% chance of winning the Senate. Today the quoted odds are 86% (House) & 50% (Senate).
Why has the GOP’s position eroded? Because of the war in Iran. Not because voters are unhappy with crushing the mullahcracy, but because the price of gasoline has risen. President Trump is taking the long view, doing what is best for our country’s future regardless of political consequences. But that doesn’t mean there won’t be political consequences.
Ed: I tend to take a more optimistic view, but this is a concern – at the moment. If the IRGC collapses in Iran and the Strait of Hormuz reopens, Trump's right that oil prices will crater and prices at the pump will plummet. Plus, the benefits of finally ending Iran's 47-year war against the US will become readily apparent. Trump may need to accelerate that process to get any midterm benefits, however.
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Meet Graham Platner.
— Dustin Grage (@GrageDustin) May 1, 2026
The guy @Tim_Walz is flying across the country to go campaign for. pic.twitter.com/HrKxfSftMz
Ed: The RNC needs to start flooding the zone with Platner's track record, and not just in Maine. This needs to be an issue in every Senate race this year, and I'd suggest in every House race as well. "Do you support the cuddly Nazi?" is a question every GOP candidate should ask of their Democrat opponents this year. Akinize Platner.
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Campus Reform: The boyfriend of a college athlete who recently assaulted a conservative journalist has now launched an online fundraising campaign for his illegal immigrant father.
Lorenzo Garcia, the boyfriend of Paige Ostroushko, recently launched a GoFundMe to benefit his father, who he says was “taken by ICE.” Ostroushko, a University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point athlete, was recently caught on camera assaulting TPUSA journalist Savanah Hernandez at an anti-ICE protest, Campus Reform reported.
Garcia was seen interfering with officers attempting to arrest Ostroushko. He was reportedly arrested for gross misdemeanor obstruction with force, though Trisha Pohland, his lawyer, said that charges have yet to be filed against him and that she is “hopeful about the case.”
Ed: Could this story get any juicier? I wonder if Harmeet Dhillon and the FBI are looking into this.
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Tim Walz was in meltdown mode likening Elon to a Nazi.
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) May 1, 2026
Guy with an actual Nazi death camp tattoo? No problem.
Campaigning with him tomorrow. https://t.co/tfqJU5ciro pic.twitter.com/AQwJOXCaLO
Ed: It's fun to go after Walz, and easy too. Walz' career is already over, though. We need this level of visibility on every Democrat officeholder that endorses Platner and especially those who campaign for him.
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Breitbart: Anwar Gargash, a top adviser to United Arab Emirates (UAE) President Mohammed bin Zayed (MBZ), cast doubt on the success of peace talks with Iran on Friday by warning, “No unilateral Iranian arrangements can be trusted or relied upon following its treacherous aggression against all its neighbors.” ...
Gargash unloaded on the UAE’s Gulf Arab allies at a conference in Dubai on Monday, chastising them for timidity in the face of Iranian aggression, and advising them to start taking Tehran seriously as a threat.
Gargash pointed out that the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states have mutual defense agreements, but none came to the UAE’s aid when it bore the brunt of Iran’s mad-dog missile and drone strikes.
“I was not surprised by the weakness of the Arab League, but what surprised me was the stance of the Gulf countries,” he said.
Gargash dismissed Iran’s perpetual complaints about the U.S. presence in the Middle East, noting that in March and April, “the missiles that were launched came from Iran, and the air defenses were American. This is a reality.”
Ed: The UAE has awoken to the true nature of the threat in the region. The rest of the Arab world is getting there, slowly, with the exception of Egypt, it seems.
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Pritzker on Trump: "I think the man has dementia."
— POLITICO (@politico) May 1, 2026
The Illinois governor sharpened his criticism of the president in a new interview with our @jmart for his "On the Road" series — out May 5.
Subscribe: https://t.co/uAyPbYng4s pic.twitter.com/16eY150GBD
Ed: Pritzker's deep insight into gerontology seems to have only emerged after June 27, 2024. He seems to have missed the Dementia Administration, better known as the Biden Regency, which came to an effective end on that date. He knew damned well that Biden was incompetent to hold office, and instead of acting responsibility, Pritzker helped spread the Sharp As A Tack™ fraud on the American electorate. He's entirely corrupt.
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WSJ: Spirit Airlines is preparing to cease operations.
The ailing budget airline had been hoping to finalize a $500 million lifeline from the government before running out of cash. The discount carrier hasn’t been able to get sufficient support between certain bondholders and the government to secure the funding to keep it in business, people familiar with the matter said.
Spirit had been in talks with the Trump administration about a deal that would have provided a cash infusion in exchange for warrants that could convert into a stake of up to 90% of the company.
But there had been disagreements inside the Trump administration over whether and how to fund the bailout. And some Spirit bondholders dug in their heels against the deal, convinced it would have hurt them economically, the people said. Meanwhile, the airline is facing relentless cost pressure from higher fuel prices.
Ed: No bailouts! If Spirit can't sustain itself, let bankruptcy run its usual course so that capital and assets can be put to more productive use.
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Jerusalem Cross: A Christian symbol dating back to the 11th century and painted on the floor of the National Cathedral. Totenkopf: The official symbol of the Nazi SS units who ran the death camps. Guess which tattoo Democrats think should disqualify you for public service.
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) Apr 30, 2026
Ed: Yup. Made that point yesterday and today.
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