News roundup
(1) Nick Kristof of the Times writes a poorly-sourced article accusing the IDF of rape. It is cleverly timed to coincide with an enormous and well-documented report on Hamas sexual violence against Israelis:
The commission on Hamas sexual violence against Israelis “has examined over 10,000 photographs and videos of the attack totalling more than 1,800 hours of visual analysis.”
Conversely, someone told Nick Kristof that Zionist dogs are trained to rape Arabs, so he wrote that. https://t.co/d2sVSwz7cZ
— Seth Mandel (@SethAMandel) May 12, 2026
Governor Kay Ivey on Tuesday celebrated the United States Supreme Court’s decision to vacate the court-ordered congressional map, allowing for the use of the 2023 Alabama-drawn congressional map.
“I will continue to say: Alabama knows our state, our people and our districts best. The United States Supreme Court’s decision is plain common sense and enables our values to be best represented in Congress,” said Governor Ivey. “For years, we have fought for this outcome, and I am proud to celebrate this win for Alabamians.”
Following last week’s successful special session and this victory at the U.S. Supreme Court, Governor Ivey is now taking the next step by calling a Special Primary Election for the affected congressional districts, the 1st, 2nd, 6th and 7th.
(3) AOC has “way bigger” ambitions than merely running for president:
“What’s funny about that is that they assume my ambition is positional; they assume my ambition is a title or a seat. And my ambition is way bigger than that,” she said, speaking to the students in the audience. “My ambition is to change this country.”
“Presidents come and go. Senate, House seats, elected officials come and go, but single-payer healthcare is forever. A living wage is forever. Workers’ rights are forever. Women’s rights, all of that,” the congresswoman, 36, added.
If you don’t think she could be the nominee in 2028 or 2032, think again.
(4) Trump would like to cut the federal gas tax, but he has to get it through Congress.
(5) A mayor in California, Eileen Wang, pleads guilty to being a Chinese agent.
(6) Fraud – of a familiar type – uncovered in the student visa program.
AOC
“If you don’t think she could be the nominee in 2028 or 2032, think again.”
Oh, Dear Lord, Hear my Prayer. Thank you for your gift.
Ace originally misstated OPT as a program where government pays the salaries of the student workers. That is not actually true, and good on him for the correction.
Employers hire them at a big discount, for several reasons:
1) They don’t have to pay benefits
2) They don’t have to pay payroll taxes
3) The salary does not have to be competitive
The fraud here seems to be that some of these employers don’t actually have real OPT positions, just fake ones that let foreign students stay in the US longer than they could otherwise. I’d imagine there’s some kind of bribe from the student involved.
For legitimate purposes, what’s in it for the student is job experience, longer time in the US, and a higher chance of getting H1-B.
Kristof has been a slithy tove before in the hatfill case, but this another level of blood libel from the Times
Will the possums do something positive in self interest (magic eightball says maybe
Honestly ocasio cortez makes my head hurt, she is so ignorant (and evil)
Are the justice democrats still running her, with the founder of the subhanda bose cult
She was certainly part of the hamas caucus in the house
As someone else put it’ why does the times get a white house press pass platforming these lies
1) Hoorray for Alabama. The South continues its rise.
3) AOC thinks she is the 2nd coming of Barack Hussein Obama, but surprise! The hoi polloi are slow but not stupid. She is in it for the bucks, that’s all. A pig at the trough.
4) As to reducing the federal gas tax, our government cannot continue on debit financing forever. We will all eventually have to cough up the bucks to pay for federal largesse.
Turnabout. They say…
https://x.com/seanmdav/status/2054318213408714894
Certainly a twist
https://x.com/SaysSimulation/status/2054217216350921071
I wasnt expecting in the urban milieu of baltimore
The plot thickens as it were