Roundup
(1) Could Spencer Pratt become mayor of LA? Conventional wisdom says “no,” but there’s nothing conventional about Pratt. If he motivates turnout among LA voters unhappy with Democrat rule, I think there’s a remote possibility he could win.
Meantime, is this anti-Pratt ad for real? There’s a lot of online discussion about that. It’s hard to believe it is real, because it’s so tone-deaf:
? NOW: Leftists are being brutally mocked for DROPPING THIS “attack ad” on LA Mayor candidate Spencer Pratt — which says he opposes rampant homelessness and supports the police
LMAO — and they’re spending hundreds of thousands to blast this everywhere! ?
“Pratt says it's time… pic.twitter.com/VYLB2QSUPD
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) May 10, 2026
It was apparently released by the LA County Federation of Labor.
(2) Virginia Democrats floated a plan to retire all the Virginia Supreme Court justices by passing a special bill with a new retirement age of 53, retroactive. This has been nixed; among other things, they ran out of time. But even thinking of it for a single moment shows what Democrats are prepared to do if they ever get control of the federal government again. I’ve written about that many times – getting rid of safeguards of voting security, statehood for Puerto Rico and DC (the latter through various arcane machinations), open borders again, amnesty – in order to solidify their own power.
(3) Keir Starmer says he isn’t going anywhere, and in fact plans to stay for ten years if possible. Guy can’t take a hint, like a stalker:
Keir Starmer has said he wants a decade in Downing Street and will fight anyone who challenges him for the Labour leadership.
The prime minister described his government as a “10-year project of renewal”. Asked whether he would definitely lead his party into the next general election and serve a full second term, he said: “Yes, I will.”
(4) More grift by NGOs.
(5) Terrible airplane death – a man trespasses onto the tarmac into the path of a flight in the process of landing. Fortunately, no one on the airplane died.
That’s a good link from Ace on the Virginia mess. I found one also at Hot Air, where Ed Morrissey summarizes much of the same material, calling the wild Dem plan “schizo hopium.” There is no time to do this. The VA primary is August 1, with early voting beginning in mid-June under their crazy 45-day early voting regimen. With a voting system under renovation but currently old and creaky, there is just no way to get all the precincts reassigned to a new map and ballots ready to go in four weeks. Plus some Dem operative pointed out that removing all the Justices would involve canning the Chief Justice, the first-ever black woman in the position. Oops.
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2026/05/11/new-virginia-dems-retreat-balk-at-gutting-scova-n3814822
And on the anti-Pratt ad in your post, Neo, yes, it’s hard to believe the unions thought this would persuade people not to vote for Pratt.
I assume the guy on the tarmac was some sort of suicide?
You can’t shame people who have no shame.
What we have in this country—and, apparently, the West in general, is a shame deficit.
A case in point, fake black woman Rachel Dolezal–who now goes by the name Nkichi Diallo–has announced that she is now trying to set herself up as a “sex coach” on a new “OnlyFans” account.*
* See https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/05/infamous-race-faker-rachel-dolezal-back-news-new/
Given that it’s LA, the anti Pratt ad is probably quite effective.
(1) Unhoused neighbors? If they are unhoused, then they are not neighbors.
(4) I hope some group get some traction with reining in the NGO mess.