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Handre @HandreThe Plymouth Pilgrims accidentally ran the first documented socialist experiment in America three centuries before Marx scribbled his manifesto. Governor William Bradford's "common storehouse" system from 1620-1623 delivered textbook collectivist results: mass shirking, crop failures, and near-starvation.Bradford recorded the disaster in detail. Young men "complained that they were oppressed" when forced to work for others without reward. Productive colonists watched lazy neighbors receive equal rations despite contributing nothing. The system "was found to breed much confusion and discontent" because it violated basic human incentives. People starved while fertile Massachusetts soil lay underworked.The turnaround came swiftly in 1623 when Bradford...

MS NOW's Morning Joe descended into juvenile innuendo on Wednesday, May 6, 2026, as host Joe Scarborough repeatedly mocked Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) over U.S. policy on the Strait of Hormuz by hammering the homophone “strait/straight.” In a segment criticizing the Trump administration’s handling of the Iran conflict, Scarborough launched into a repetitive riff while adopting his signature faux-folksy persona: “You know, Lindsey goes, ‘It’s all about the Strait. Everything’s about the Strait. We’re doing this, it’s all about the Strait. Say it’s all about the Strait.’” This isn’t Scarborough’s first time using this kind of Beavis & Butthead personal...

The Daily Signal@DailySignal·22hVictor Davis Hanson: This Isn't the Democratic Party Anymore—It's the Jacobin Party@JamesCarville and Susan Rice have already noted the plan: pack the court the moment they get back in—no amendment, no Congress. Just do it.Add D.C. and Puerto Rico for four Senate seats. Kill the Electoral College. Kill the filibuster.Look at the 1992 and 1996 Democratic platforms under Clinton—secure borders, deportations, teens who commit murder tried as adults, balanced budget. Today, that platform would be called racist and fascist by the very party that ran on it.Thirty years ago, a Nazi tattoo would have been disqualifying in the...

Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh·1h 🚨 UPDATE: The US military has just STRUCK another Iranian oil ship that tried to go through President Trump's Strait of Hormuz blockadeFAFO. They can't conduct ANY business. 🔥CENTCOM: "After Hasna’s crew failed to comply with repeated warnings, U.S. forces disabled the tanker’s rudder by firing several rounds from the 20mm cannon gun of a U.S. Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet launched from USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72). Hasna is no longer transiting to Iran."May 6, 2026

Citizen Free Press repostedBreitbart News@BreitbartNews·2hRep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) announces she has been working with foreign countries to supply oil to Cuba, in defiance of President Trump.She says Trump's economic sanctions against the Communist regime are equivalent to illegally bombing the nation's infrastructure.May 6, 2026

Explanation: What does it mean for Saturn and Neptune to be in retrograde? Featured is a composite of images taken over 34 nights from May 2025 to February 2026 tracing Saturn (brighter, foreground) and Neptune (dimmer, background). Over that time, the two planets exhibited retrograde motion, meaning they appeared to move backward in the sky. This apparent backwards motion occurs when Earth overtakes the slower outer planets as they orbit the Sun. Imagine the Solar System is a running track. Earth "runs" faster along the inside of the track compared to the outer planets. As Earth approaches, aligns, and then...

Shane Kidwell@shanerkidwell·5hWashington just became the first state in U.S. history to terminate a public employee pension plan.The plan belongs to retired police officers and firefighters. LEOFF Plan 1 was 160% funded as of June 2024 per the state's own actuarial valuation. It had not required a single contribution in 25 years. By 2029 it was projected to reach 200% funded with a $4.3 billion surplus.The legislature terminated the plan, swept $3.9 billion, and is using $880 million of it to refill a rainy day fund it already drained to cover a deficit it created.Days ago, retired first responders including former...

DL H repostedDralone&_DR145@draloneboyMask off moment.Speaker Mike Johnson QUESTIONS whether Senate Republicans actually read the bill they passed to the House before heading on recess.Johnson then turned to the cameras and read a jaw-dropping section aloud for the media.JOHNSON: “This gambit that was done last night is a JOKE.”“I’m quite convinced that it can’t be that every Senate Republican read the language of this bill, and I’m going to just read you one excerpt of it, because it’s pretty alarming, and it says everything that you need to know.”“In section four…this is on page two of the bill….”“It says, ‘The contents...

Terms such as "historic" and "game-changing" were used by to describe the outcome of the nationally watched Republican primaries for state Senate in the Hoosier State. No less than five of the Trump-backed challengers unseated incumbents. Only two GOP senators have been defeated in primaries in the last 40 years. The outcome of the primaries will not affect the shape of Indiana's U.S. House districts until 2027.

SOUTH CARIBBEAN — A couple trapped on a hantavirus-infected cruise ship reportedly have declined to be rescued by a nearby Carnival cruise, saying they'd rather take their chances with hantavirus instead. "We appreciate the offer, we really do," cruise passenger Arthur Pendleton shouted down to rescue workers through a megaphone while wearing a hazmat suit. "But we've weighed our options. On one hand, we have fever, severe muscle aches, potential respiratory failure, and death. On the other hand, we have the deafening DJ deck, a hundred guys on board named Chaz, and the inevitable all-out violent brawl ending in death....

Heather Honey runs an organization called Verity Vote in Pennsylvania. She is a walking encyclopedia of information on how elections are actually run in this country. In the aftermath of the 2020 election in Pennsylvania, Heather began to hear some very disturbing things. Put simply, she began to acquire information that in counties around the state, more votes had been counted than the number of voters who voted. I’m not a math whiz, but I think we all understand that this is a big problem. Those two numbers – the number of people who voted and the number of votes...

President Trump has issued a statement on the passing of CNN founder Ted Turner, and it is quite different from other deaths of noted rich liberals. As The Gateway Pundit reported, Turner, the left-wing billionaire who founded CNN, died today at the age of 87. In addition to founding CNN, Turner was a prominent philanthropist who once donated $1 billion to the United Nations. Turner also gave $1.3 million to Democrats and Democratic causes throughout his life. No cause of death has been revealed yet, but Turner announced in 2018 that he had Lewy body dementia, a progressive brain disorder....

The history of the Trojan horse is probably one of the most famous stories ever told. A gigantic wooden horse is loaded with Greek soldiers and presented to the Trojans as a gift. Unsuspecting, they swallow the bait and pull the horse into the city. Under cover of darkness the Greeks slip out of the horse and open the gates to their comrades. Only hours later the mighty Troy goes up in flames. But what if the myth of the horse is not true at all? New, groundbreaking findings show that one of the most famous stories of all time...

Hahn’s office has officially requested that L.A. County District Attorney Nathan Hochman launch an investigation into the Turner’s Outdoorsman store on Hawthorne Boulevard in Torrance – and the seven other Turner’s Outdoorsman locations across the county. The store in Torrance is where Cole Tomas Allen, the alleged White House Correspondents’ Dinner gunman, purchased the shotgun used in the April 25 attack in Washington, D.C. “Turner’s Outdoorsman’s practices demand investigation,” Hahn wrote. “Every day, guns sold at Turner’s locations in L.A. County turn up at crime scenes. These guns are used to kill, to injure, to rob and to intimidate. They...

Tennessee lawmakers on Wednesday unveiled a proposal for a new congressional map that would heavily favor Republicans this November by splitting up the state’s sole Democratic district. The map would put a target on Rep. Steve Cohen, who represents the state’s only majority-Black district and is the lone Democrat among Tennessee’s nine House members. Memphis, which is currently contained in Cohen’s district, would be divided into three parts under the proposal. The proposal comes amid a renewed push from President Trump for GOP state lawmakers to move forward with mid-decade redistricting. Trump and Republicans scored a victory last week when...

Given the offensive activities and destructive effects that GSA clubs have in schools, it’s not a surprise that many school officials, parents, and community members don’t want them in their sschools. GSAs – now variously called “Gay Straight Alliance” or “Genders & Sexualities Alliance” clubs – actively push both sexual orientation and transgender identity propaganda on schoolchildren from elementary school through high school. But when the existence of a GSA in a public school is challenged, the aggressive answer by LGBT movement’s legal groups, including the ACLU, is that the 1984 Equal Access Act (20 U.S. Code § 4071 –...

Note also that Abdou calls for Virginia Tech students to “study what our mujahideen did.” To get an idea of how deep the rot is in American universities, consider the fact that this malignant jihadi is invited to speak at Virginia Tech, but that the same university would never, ever host a foe of jihad violence and Sharia oppression of women. Or if it did, that speaker would be vilified for weeks in the campus paper, and menaced during the event, if it took place at all and didn’t get canceled altogether. “Virginia Tech speaker calls for ‘end of US...

The University of Washington's women's soccer team were humiliated last week after losing to a group of 14-year-old boys. Last season the Washington Huskies finished as the sixth-ranked team in women's college soccer following an impressive run to the Elite Eight stage of the playoffs, with their 15-3-7 record going down as the best in program history. Yet despite their incredible year in 2025, the Huskies were brought crashing down to earth after suffering an embarrassing defeat to Crossfire under-14 boys last Thursday. The scrimmage took place in Seattle on April 30, and ended in a 2-1 victory for Crossfire...

Communists killed 148 million people in the last century. The Cold War ended Soviet Communism. Communist China still oppresses hundreds of millions. How can America – founded on individual liberty, “land of the free and home of the brave” – now be awash in Communist rhetoric? Shockingly, that is where we are. From Colorado and Minnesota to New York and Maine, rudderless, dependent, and often violent Communists push class warfare, property taking, and far-left ideology. Last week, on May 1, 600 Communist-affiliated groups took to the streets. The network – worth $2 billion, partly financed by an American in Beijing...

He also allegedly ran over Vallecillo's right foot, and drove away without saying anything to the student activists while Vallecillo yelled: 'You just rolled over my f***ing foot, oh my God.' The president of an Ivy League university has been accused of backing his car into a student and running over a second student's foot following an on-campus debate. The students involved in the debacle had attended a debate between supporters of Israel and backers of the Palestinian cause at Cornell University on Thursday night. After the event, the two followed University President Michael Kotlikoff to his car and grilled...