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May 4, 2026

Sunrise, with moon.

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Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Live at Met Gala 2026 With Vogue link; 5/4/26, 6:08 PM
john mosby said...: Katy Perry is wearing a dress with a bodice that completely flattens her, plus a thing on her head that's a mix of a fencing mask and a 1950s android's face. CC, JSM; 5/4/26, 6:38 PM
john mosby said...: The magistrate handling the WHCD shooter apologized to him for being on suicide watch at the DC Jail. Actually said Cole is "“being treated differently than anyone I’ve ever observed." Um, judgie, maybe because he's the only attempted presidential assasin you've ever observed?

If I was in the DC Jail, I would love to be on suicide watch. Dude is literally in his own padded cell, and is escorted everywhere by the jailers. Much better than what the average customer gets there. CC, JSM; 5/4/26, 6:42 PM
john mosby said...: Jon Batiste showed up in a down greatcoat that could probably have fit Andre Leon Talley. Looks good on him, but has to be boiling in it - it's 65 degrees outside in Manhattan, and who knows how hot it is inside the Met. CC, JSM; 5/4/26, 6:49 PM
john mosby said...: Olivia Wilde has exposed bustle ribs on her butt. Interesting deconstruction, I guess. She's anorexic enough to need a bustle, anyway. CC, JSM; 5/4/26, 6:51 PM
Aggie said...: They are all grimacing as if they're in terrible pain. Except for Nicole Kidman, who looks awesome.; 5/4/26, 6:56 PM
Saint Croix said...: How fucked up is it to run a 1984 "down the memory hole" on Animal Farm?

"Communism has never been tried." You dishonest, lying fucks are an embarrassment to art and humanity.; 5/4/26, 6:56 PM
john mosby said...: Heidi Klum looks like one of those seaside performers that doesn't move until you give them money. Her dress makes her look like one of those virtuosic 19th century marble statues carved to look like cloth - to include cloth over her face.

Colman Domingo is surprisingly conservative. Sort of looks like a Harlequin - a Picasso tribute? CC, JSM; 5/4/26, 6:59 PM
Mason G said...: "Never been tried"? Somebody misspelled "never succeeded".; 5/4/26, 6:59 PM
john mosby said...: Stevie Nicks is dressed like Stevie Nicks. CC, JSM; 5/4/26, 6:59 PM
john mosby said...: Lots of nude dresses. I guess they can say they're trying to look like classical sculptures. CC, JSM; 5/4/26, 7:00 PM
john mosby said...: Had they invited me, I'd show up dressed like a kouros. CC, JSM; 5/4/26, 7:01 PM
narciso said...: Orwell is not supposed to be a how to manual; 5/4/26, 7:10 PM
john mosby said...: Since the theme is art, I'm sure someone is going to show up dressed like the Obama library. CC, JSM; 5/4/26, 7:10 PM
narciso said...: They are really hanging on the hunger games

60 minutes does a slander worthy of president snow

To the relief workers; 5/4/26, 7:12 PM
narciso said...: In north carolina; 5/4/26, 7:13 PM
narciso said...: There is no excuse for this
https://x.com/mattvanswol/status/2051292351658697064; 5/4/26, 7:20 PM
MadTownGuy said...: Matt Van Swol:

"Out of every disgusting, dishonest piece of filth the mainstream media has produced about Hurricane Helene...

This is the worst.

60 Minutes has NEVER done a story on the families FEMA denied.

They NEVER mentioned the Amish, who are STILL in the mountains rebuilding homes 550 days later.

They NEVER mentioned Jake Jarvis, who has worked 550 days STRAIGHT FOR FREE for Hurricane Helene victims.

Instead, they dug up some fringe conspiracy angle to smear the people who actually showed up as White Nationalists.

I'm so angry."

More at:
https://x.com/i/status/2051291630880071859; 5/4/26, 7:21 PM
narciso said...: No 3 by a narrow margin; 5/4/26, 7:22 PM
Eva Marie said...: via CFP:
Eric Swalwell Sent Women ‘Videos of Him Masturbating’ and Other Perverted Messages After Joining Snapchat to Restore ‘Faith’ in ‘Democracy’: Report
https://www.mediaite.com/politics/eric-swalwell-sent-women-videos-of-him-masturbating-and-other-perverted-messages-after-joining-snapchat-to-restore-faith-in-democracy-report/; 5/4/26, 7:23 PM
Eva Marie said...: wait a minute, my theory was that Dems were going after the male votes; 5/4/26, 7:24 PM
Mason G said...: "There is no excuse for this"

What else might one expect from The Left?; 5/4/26, 7:25 PM
The judge said...: While this ridiculous display goes on at the Met, our President continues to his incredible leadership on the World Stage.; 5/4/26, 7:26 PM
narciso said...: If bari weiss was serious she would allow this tripe; 5/4/26, 7:27 PM
The judge said...: No “to”; 5/4/26, 7:28 PM
Gospace said...: If you haven't read coffeeandcovid today- do so posthaste. You'll find why it's important to follow the unwritten rules of life in FL. Like if you ask for a cup for water- fill it with WATER, not SODA! I will mention I think pulling out a gun was a little bit of overreaction.; 5/4/26, 7:29 PM
Mason G said...: " I will mention I think pulling out a gun was a little bit of overreaction."

I'd agree, but then again- one that could have been avoided.; 5/4/26, 7:31 PM
narciso said...: Yeah that was way over the top, plus apologies before hand i dont like mountain dew; 5/4/26, 7:38 PM
Saint Croix said...: the killer is inside the news room!; 5/4/26, 7:40 PM
john mosby said...: Food, even fast food, has a thin profit margin. Soda theft could tip that franchise into unprofitability, it could close, and my man could lose his job. And the closing could start a chain reaction in that neighborhood. And even in Florida, the police probably don't show up for soda theft calls. My man is a political prisoner! CC, JSM; 5/4/26, 7:40 PM
john mosby said...: St Croix, was that an April 1 story? CC, JSM; 5/4/26, 7:41 PM
john mosby said...: The Florida Taco Bell story sharing a thread with the Met Gala gave me an idea: The NRA Gala. Set a theme, and the guests show up with weapons and accessories according to that theme. So like the 'Art' theme could have people arming themselves to look like famous works. Maybe even some cubist, Constructivist, etc, custom guns. People dressed like Vauban-style star-shaped fortresses. Heidi Klum got up like a big brass and copper walking cartridge. And of course Guernica just does itself. &c. CC, JSM; 5/4/26, 7:47 PM
narciso said...: Butterfly effect with devastating resultd; 5/4/26, 7:49 PM
narciso said...: One is reminded the director of this skin suit called animal farm andy serkis has played af leasr three villajns; 5/4/26, 7:53 PM
Shouting Thomas said...: Good O’Reilly tonight. First half, he discusses the “talking past one another” dispute between Trump and the Pope. And, then, he says for the first time that the Iran War is threatening to destroy Trump’s presidency, both because there appears to be no quick and easy way out, and because of gas prices. O’Reilly isn’t exactly a Trump supporter, but he does give Trump a fair hearing.

https://youtu.be/1k4HJg98IhM?si=hIGDvjrIBfsLfEbt; 5/4/26, 7:54 PM
narciso said...: But why did angel studios disgrace themselvds; 5/4/26, 7:54 PM
Lazarus said...: Stevie Nicks is partying like it's 1979.

Will she be able to make top hats fashionable again?

Nicole Kidman and Lena Dunham are Laurel and Hardy in red sequins and feathers. Neither looks quite like she used to.; 5/4/26, 8:00 PM
john mosby said...: Cher came dressed like Cher. CC, JSM; 5/4/26, 8:04 PM
john mosby said...: Beyonce looks like she's wearing a fish skeleton. CC, JSM; 5/4/26, 8:05 PM
narciso said...: Teh horror; 5/4/26, 8:06 PM
Enigma said...: That tiny little moon confirms how powerful the moon illusion can be. In the photo (a wide camera shot), it's small despite being low on the horizon. To humans, it often appears much larger when low down. Once when I was driving along a highway over undulating hills, the moon seemed to be 10x or 20x larger than that.

People have spent decades trying to understand the moon illusion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_illusion; 5/4/26, 8:09 PM
john mosby said...: Laz: "Stevie Nicks is partying like it's 1979. Will she be able to make top hats fashionable again?"

Maybe once, maybe twice. CC, JSM; 5/4/26, 8:12 PM
narciso said...: https://youtu.be/yuOfod0dUKI?si=iyjrT8--z7XmB6e9; 5/4/26, 8:17 PM
narciso said...: On a lighter note; 5/4/26, 8:25 PM
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Lem Vibe Bandit said...: 😂 Saint Croix said... @7:40 PM; 5/4/26, 8:29 PM
boatbuilder said...: ...because there appears to be no quick and easy way out...
Maybe getting out is not the plan.
Maybe establishment of permanent control of the Strait is the plan.
A U.S. base. a defanged Iran.
What's wrong with that?; 5/4/26, 8:31 PM
Saint Croix said...: St Croix, was that an April 1 story?

It might be an AI gag, not sure. The look on her face is priceless.; 5/4/26, 8:33 PM
JK Brown said...: Happy 555 timer IC day [5/5/2026] introduced 55 years ago

The 555 timer IC is a highly versatile integrated circuit used for timing, pulse generation, and oscillator applications, originally introduced in 1971 by Signetics. It operates in three primary modes: astable (continuous oscillation), monostable (single pulse trigger), and bistable (flip-flop/latch).; 5/4/26, 8:39 PM
Original Mike said...: I did a lot with 555s back in the day.; 5/4/26, 8:43 PM
narciso said...: https://x.com/nicksortor/status/2051352565456031884?; 5/4/26, 8:48 PM
Shouting Thomas said...: “Maybe establishment of permanent control of the Strait is the plan.
A U.S. base. a defanged Iran.
What's wrong with that?”

Trump has a strange ability to completely redraw the stage. He routinely surprises me.; 5/4/26, 8:53 PM
Peachy said...: Mad Town Guy - WE don't hate the Democrat Soviet media enough.; 5/4/26, 8:59 PM
narciso said...: Oh yes you can, you must; 5/4/26, 9:04 PM
Eva Marie said...: Supposedly, if the moon looks huge and you look at it upside down, it becomes small again.; 5/4/26, 9:06 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Alex Jones Info Wars is no more and the people that acquired it suck big time.; 5/4/26, 9:06 PM
Original Mike said...: "Supposedly, if the moon looks huge and you look at it upside down, it becomes small again."

It looks pretty big in New Zealand.; 5/4/26, 9:08 PM
Original Mike said...: You'll want to keep an eye on What's going on with shipping? over the next few days. He's been very informative the entire war.; 5/4/26, 9:41 PM
Valentine Smith said...: There’s enough Botox at the Met gala for a genocide; 5/4/26, 9:53 PM
imTay said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 5/4/26, 9:57 PM
Valentine Smith said...: I wonder how many Special Forces A detachments are on the ground in Iran. If the CIA are doing their jobs out there I reckon about 15 along with a commensurate number of B teams.
Trump isn’t going to allow his victory to morph into a stalemate. It takes time to arm and train cadres. This should have been in the works before we bombed the shit out of them; 5/4/26, 10:09 PM
Eva Marie said...: @Original Mike: lol; 5/4/26, 10:13 PM
Eva Marie said...: “the Iran War is threatening to destroy Trump’s presidency, both because there appears to be no quick and easy way out, and because of gas prices.”
Knowing zero about Iran or military tactics let me give you my opinion anyway -
The war is over. It’s all timing now.; 5/4/26, 10:20 PM
wildswan said...: I'm trying to find the best book to reaf about the Declaration of Independence in honor of its 250th anniversary? Any body have any thoughts?; 5/4/26, 10:54 PM
Hassayamper said...: @WILDSWAN: "I'm trying to find the best book to reaf about the Declaration of Independence in honor of its 250th anniversary?"

You don't need to read a whole book about it to understand its importance. Read what Calvin Coolidge, one of our most underrated Presidents, said about it a hundred years ago.

The key paragraph:

About the Declaration there is a finality that is exceedingly restful. It is often asserted that the world has made a great deal of progress since 1776, that we have had new thoughts and new experiences which have given us a great advance over the people of that day, and that we may therefore very well discard their conclusions for something more modern. But that reasoning can not be applied to this great charter. If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction can not lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient, than those of the Revolutionary fathers.; 5/4/26, 11:03 PM
Ampersand said...: Paul Johnson's A History of the American People does a great job of providing context that is often absent from works that focus solely on the document.; 5/4/26, 11:28 PM
Jimmy said...: wildswan said...
I'm trying to find the best book to reaf about the Declaration of Independence in honor of its 250th anniversary? Any body have any thoughts?

American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence Kindle Edition
by Pauline Maier

'The best' is pretty subjective. Maiers books are very good.; 5/4/26, 11:29 PM
gadfly said...: The King we were warned about; 5/5/26, 1:08 AM
wendybar said...: Brandon Gill
@realBrandonGill
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10h
If all cultures were the same, there would be multiple Americas across the globe.

But there's only one.

And it's a culture we have to defend at all costs.

https://x.com/realBrandonGill/status/2051423767314796890?s=20; 5/5/26, 3:19 AM
wendybar said...: Vince Langman
@LangmanVince
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10h
I don't remember a federal judge apologizing to any January 6th detainees who were held in solitary confinement for months on end with no charges filed against them!

https://x.com/LangmanVince/status/2051424845318013258?s=20

https://legalinsurrection.com/2026/05/judge-apologizes-says-alleged-trump-assassin-treated-worse-than-jan-6-defendants/; 5/5/26, 3:24 AM
wendybar said...: Jennifer Sey
@JenniferSey
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6h
This is the worst one at the Met Gala.

Sarah Paulson’s dollar bill mask is some sort of protest against the 1% of which she is a part. If you want to protest the rich don’t go to an event that costs $100k per ticket. And give your $12m net worth away.

https://x.com/JenniferSey/status/2051477857059409983?s=20; 5/5/26, 3:25 AM
wendybar said...: Time for these critters to pay their fair share...or better yet...audit the hell out of them to see where all this money came from....It's not like they produce anything but hot air and bull shit.

Gunther Eagleman™
@GuntherEagleman
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8h
🚨 SWAMP CREATURES EXPOSED:

Nancy Pelosi: $223K salary → $202 MILLION net worth

Mitch McConnell: $200K → $95 MILLION

Chuck Schumer: $210K → $75 MILLION

Elizabeth Warren: $285K → $67 MILLION

Yeah… totally normal.

Nothing suspicious here. Just hard-working public servants “serving” their country.

SHOULD THE IRS AUTOMATICALLY AUDIT every politician whose wealth explodes while in office?

https://x.com/GuntherEagleman/status/2051458429621788682?s=20; 5/5/26, 3:30 AM
john mosby said...: Wendy: "I don't remember a federal judge apologizing to any January 6th detainees"

To be fair, there were audits done by the Biden admin and the DC city auditor that found lots of stuff wrong at the DC Jail while the J6ers were there. Not out of any love for the J6'ers of course - the conditions also affected homegrown DC criminals:

https://davisvanguard.org/2025/06/dc-jail-death-rate-spike/

https://www.foxnews.com/us/400-detainees-moved-from-dc-jail-after-investigation-finds-water-supply-shut-off-and-standing-human-sewage?msockid=16f420a0def76dbd3ac03137df6e6cd1

CC, JSM; 5/5/26, 4:13 AM
john mosby said...: But ref Cole: if I were in the DJ Jail, I would love to be on suicide watch. You get your own cell, and the jailers escort you every time you're let out of it. Much better than economy-class DC Jail. CC, JSM; 5/5/26, 4:16 AM
Humperdink said...: It is downright frightening to think Minnie Gov.Tim Walz was an actual VP candidate. He was, is, and will always be a bumbling fool. And could have been a heartbeat away from the presidency.; 5/5/26, 5:25 AM
Leland said...: “Maybe establishment of permanent control of the Strait is the plan.
A U.S. base. a defanged Iran.
What's wrong with that?”

Consider at the start of Trump’s second presidency, China controlled the Panama Canal and businesses paid to go through it. Now the Panama Canal is back under US control and at the moment, the Strait of Hormuz is under US control.; 5/5/26, 5:27 AM
Robert Marshall said...: In the annals of government incompetence, this may not stand out so boldly (due to the strong competition), but really: Assassin scores 1 hit, the Secret Service/police 0 hits (out of 5 shots)? A guy with a shotgun and pistol, shooting and running loose only one stairway from almost the entire US government line of succession, and he walks away unscathed! He certainly didn't expect that himself; he told his family goodbye before doing this. Yet somehow he not only survives, he ends up having the judge apologizing to HIM for the jail conditions he had to endure (which were of course deserved conditions for the J6 defendants, the judge thought).

And yet, nothing but kudos for the Secret Service (again, just like after Butler)!; 5/5/26, 5:47 AM
rehajm said...: Yet somehow he not only survives, he ends up having the judge apologizing to HIM for the jail conditions he had to endure

I say he walks...then retires to some tony place he couldn't afford on his teacher of the month salary...; 5/5/26, 7:06 AM
Humperdink said...: “I say he walks...then retires to some tony place he couldn't afford on his teacher of the month salary...”

Probation is on the horizon.

I heard but can’t confirm the judge and Pakistan were used in the same sentence.; 5/5/26, 7:29 AM
Humperdink said...: With Maine Gov. Janet Mills, a normal far left (ha) candidate withdrawing from the Dem senate primary race, the path is clear for a Nazi to run as the Dem standard bearer. Platner it is!

Chief Walking Eagle (so full of crap she can’t fly) Elizabeth Warren quickly jump on the train ….. er …. bandwagon.

This will be a great race to observe.; 5/5/26, 7:51 AM
imTay said...: Lt Colonel Daniel Davis was MAGA, so MAGA that he was nominated by Trump to work in this administration, so you can write this off as liberal bed-wetting if you like…

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3hFux59b16A&pp=ugUHEgVlbi1VUw%3D%3D&ra=m

But I suggest that anyone who wants to understand the current state of the world economy and the impact of Trump’s minor incursion, watch this. It’s not good, and let’s just say that Pirate Trump brings the Iranian government down tomorrow, they will take the whole Persian Gulf with them, as those countries have supported Trump’s war to seize control of, and destroy Iran.; 5/5/26, 8:07 AM
narciso said...: Dutchboy just stop alright davis is not maga; 5/5/26, 8:12 AM
NKP said...: Love a duck. Even #3 wins admiration in spite of my bias against display of the orb.; 5/5/26, 9:01 AM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...: Hegseth ends press conference after snapping at question about Netanyahu's 'pull' on Trump ~ Raw Story

"At the end of a brief and subdued Pentagon press conference on the Iran war, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth cut off a reporter from Zero Hedge for suggesting that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu will “pull” Donald Trump back into escalating the conflict.

Toward the end of a long question from a reporter identifying himself as being from Zero Hedge, the former Fox News personality was asked, “Netanyahu put this on Twitter, Israel's head of Mossad said Israel's goals are not finished until the Iranian government collapses,” followed by “… how can you ensure America doesn't get roped back into a war if that comes? And secondly, with Netanyahu comfortable tweeting something like that out? And also, Netanyahu has continued bombing Lebanon despite President Trump"

"I would say your —your question is based on the false premise that somehow President Trump is being pulled in by Prime Minister Netanyahu to any of these actions, and that's where you're going,” Hegseth snapped.; 5/5/26, 9:44 AM
Jamie said...: Re: gad's Substack link - every once in a while the piece admits that Trump isn't actually trampling the rights of his "subjects," only that he could and of course probably wants to.

The rest of it is framing: Trump's mean tweets about judges' actions presented as equivalent to firing the judges and dissolving the courts, suspending certain EPA regs presented as his "refusing his Assent to Laws, the most necessary and wholesome for the public good" without acknowledgement that the "public good" being "protected" by these regs is purely a matter of opinion, using EOs as "open contempt for legislative constraints" instead of a utilitarian SOP for modern presidents to enable them to enact their agendas - on which they were elected - while Congress fiddles.

So, business as usual. "No Kings! (Except the ones we like.)"; 5/5/26, 10:00 AM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...: Zerohedge has press credentials at the Pentagon?; 5/5/26, 10:05 AM
Rustygrommet said...: Poor Tim.
Trump has upset your status quo. Your beloved Europe and Russia are no longer relevant.; 5/5/26, 12:10 PM
Bruce Hayden said...: “ Zerohedge has press credentials at the Pentagon?”

Why wouldn’t they? Under Trump, press credentials aren’t just for leftists anymore. And if it were just Zerohedge, they probably wouldn’t need to be escorted at all times anymore.; 5/5/26, 3:21 PM
Enigma said...: Zerohedge was the most important and accurate news organization in the country for both COVID-19 and the Biden censorship complex. They were months and years ahead of other sources.

Some really good news came out of Japan too (e.g., The first Italian COVID outbreak followed from Chinese guest workers stationed in Italy. This was done so they can stamp "Made in Italy" on products.) This was buried in the US per TDS and the risk of harming luxury brands.; 5/5/26, 8:20 PM