TODAY'S NEWS, May 16-18, 2026

HEADLINES: AG says "criminal charges are coming" for the 2020 stolen election; Sen. Cassidy given the boot in a primary; FCC goes after MN fraud

IN POLITICAL NEWS

1) I sure hope that new acting AG Todd Blanche isn’t just pushing wind. He says they have “criminal charges coming soon” in the 2020 election fraud where it is clear Trump “won multiple more states.” We’ll see. But he even used the “R” word, as in “There’s a ton of evidence the election was rigged.”

2) Republicans are surging in early voting in CA. That’s great. But also consider the Kollyfornia DemoKKKrats are down net at least 1 million in voter roll purges; have been out registered by Rs by several hundred thousand; and that deportations probably removed about 400,000 DemoKKKrat “voters” from the landscape.

3) A UN-backed Hoax Climate Change group, the IPCC, backed off its doomsday predictions and President Trump took a victory lap.

4) Trump delivered a big lesson in party discipline in LA, as Julia Letlow defeated Wild Bill Cassidy in the Senate primary there. Let’s hope Masshole is next. According to the latest poll, Masshole is down 7. I hope so, but predict he’ll eke it out by under 1.

5) President Trump secured a commitment from Chy-na to purchase $17 billion in farm goods.

6) Finally, CO governor Jared Polis has commuted the sentence of election worker Tina Peters, who was wrongfully jailed for five years already for demanding honest elections.

7) This is part of the all-out offensive to utterly eliminate the DemoKKKrat Party, as the administration has targeted the liberal dark money infrastructure. On top of destroying USAID, the SPLC, and wounding ActBlue, this continues to ratchet up the pressure. In a related story, I told you months ago that the Trump admin was going full bore on MN. So far, DOJ, DoED, HHS, and the IRS are all investigating and have made arrests. Now here comes the FCC for a special rate the feds got for MN schools with their internet, which, naturally, they used for fraudulent purposes. Meanwhile, the DOJ wrapped up its second straight week of billion dollar fraud enforcement.

8) DemoKKKrats in Porky Pritzker’s Illinois lost track of hundreds of violent criminals.

9) One of our most reliable House members, Cong. James Comer of KY, will resign to run for governor in 2027. I think his district is safe.

10) Shocked. Homelessness is increasing in Groomer City as normies are leaving and as benefits increase. Gee, I wonder what author could have predicted that? Maybe Adam Smith?

11) In a single park in Santa Monica, where the county has encouraged druggies to go by giving them free needles, no fewer than eight bodies have been found in less than a month. Is this the county’s plan? To encourage all the druggies to have overdoses?

12) A VA prosecutor has refused to enforce Gov. Spanxburger’s new anti-gun law.

13) In a setback to the Amazing Moron Zohran, a federal judge blocked his bankruptcy sales of rent-controlled apartments.

14) GOP chairman Joe Gruters announced 130 lawsuits across 32 states in an attempt to preempt DemoKKKrat fraud.

15) Leftoid billionaires are paying the full salaries of over 80 Hoax News “journalists.”

IN ILLEGAL CRIMINAL ALIEN NEWS

16) Border Patrol seized over 100 million lethal doses of fentanl.

IN UFO NEWS

17) A researcher claims four different types of ETs have been pulled from craft. So a) are they all horrible pilots? Why do they crash so much? b) Are they on some DEI kind of sponsorship? Do they get along? Why can’t any of them restore Matta’s Mexican Restaurant, killed by Covid, in Phoenix?

IN CULTURAL NEWS

18) Higher school spending actually reduces math scores. See the data here, and the article, here.

19) One of the most important events of the last 100 years appeared at the Rededicate 250 National Prayer event, where President Trump read from the Bible urging people to turn to God and humble themselves before him.

IN ECONOMIC NEWS

20) Amazon is making new efforts to drive out brick-and-mortar retailers by expanding its 30-minute delivery.

21) Transpo Secretary Sean Duffy announced that new air traffic control systems will be rolled out at 8 airports.

22) Kollyfornia’s self-imposed refinery problem is a national security issue.

23) Book publishing is undergoing a possible ELE with the arrival of AI. One Korean author “published”9,000 books last year with AI. For authors, this means constant marketing-—a burden that used to fall on publishers. One international author (not myself) said that he now spends 85% of this time on marketing.

24) The booming U.S. LNG industry gets another boost with a new LA facility that will ship almost 10 million tons a month

IN INTERNATIONAL NEWS

25) The Euro press learned from the American Hoax News to always conceal the race and/or political affiliation of violent thugs if they are immigrants or certain people of color. This attack in Italy is a case in point, where they are investigating it as a “terrorist” attack, but won’t give details on who.

26) Sall Grover in Australia, who founded a women’s only social media app, was fined $120,000 for refusing to platform a man.

27) Iran is facing a daily gas shortage. Too bad, so sad, kick the evil mullahmoochers OUT.

28) Toyota to expand its TX production, investing $2 billion and employing 2,000.

28) Get this, as even the libtoids admit it: Beutiful young women are now the face of the so-called “far right.” Oh? You mean along with all whites and all elderly terrified by Labour tyranny and all disaffected miniorities who actually believe in freedom? You mean other than that? But yeah, we’ll take beautiful women as our spokesdudes. Always works in marketing.

29) While all eyes are on Iran, Cuba has run out of oil because it no longer is subsidiezed by Venezuela.

30) Quietly the U.S. took out the top ISIS leader in Africa, removing him from breathing Nigerian air.

31) Rutabaga reportedly pardoned Manuro Maduro’s drug man back in 2023, but now he’s headed back to U.S. justice. Alex Saab, not Rutabaga.

32) In their In the Camp of the Saints moment, the French government admitted it could not stop incoming immigrant boats. Well, yeah, they could. They just don’t wanna do what it takes. You want non-lethal? Easy. You snag them with grappling cables, tow them back to Africa, force them out of the boats, and take the boats back to France.

33) Nor are the insaniacs giving up easily on “Climate Change,” now blaming Boomers. This Danish toejam crueller wants to limit the protein intake of the elderly to two ounces per week! She wants to “punish” Boomers cuz that generation has “screwed us up the most.” Wait a minute, there, ya little cheese-eater. If that was actually true, then YOU OWE US for making you aware of this stuff in the first place. Goofball commie pigmentarians.

34) Meanwhile in Euroland, high energy prices could derail the Continent’s AI progress. Dumb headline. Already has. With AI, if you’re early, you’re on time. If you’re on time, you’re late. And if you’re late, you’re done.

35) A cartel-linked Mexican senator was arrested in San Diego on conspiracy charges.

36) Coming to your nation if you don’t stop Muslim immigration: 41% of Austria’s Muslim youts say religious law trumps civil law.

IN ENTERTAINMENT NEWS

37) Dennis Locorriere, front man for the band Dr. Hook, dead at 76.

38) Michael Jackson’s older brother Jermaine was forced to pay $6.5 million after a woman won a suit in which she said he raped her in 1988.

39) Filming for “Survivor Greece” was temporarily halted when one of the diving contestants who was spearfishing, failing to use a marker buoy, was hit by a passenger boat and required partial amputation.

40) My co-author on Patriot’s History just put out a new FREE book on the Mississippi River Valley. It’s comprehensive. Get it here: https://www.iastatedigitalpress.com/plugins/books/135/

41) I watched the first two episodes of the “Yellowstone” spinoff, “Dutton Ranch.” Rip and Beth see their MT ranch burned up in a lightning fire, and the only available ranch is in TX, so they move. In episdodes one and two-—all that’s out-—it’s a little slow going. Lost are the iconic Beth scenes where she belittles some tourist at a bar. I understand they will have to take some time with the reset. By the way, did you know Kelly Reilly is a Brit and has a British accent? Really strange listening to her in interviews.

42) And although it’s not free, my friend James Best, who wrote the best (no pun intended) fictional account of the Constitutional Convention, called Tempest at Dawn, has just released his fictional account of Lincoln and Jeff Davis in the Civil War, called Maelstrom.

AND FINALLY. . .

43) President Trump posted an AI image of himself and a six-foot alien in chains. I know this is AI because I saw a newspaper 30 years ago that showed Rush Limbaugh meeting with this alien.

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