More than half of those who voted for Democrat Kamala Harris in the 2024 election say it’s justified to gerrymander in one state to retaliate against other states that gerrymander, results of a new national survey of U.S. adult citizens reveal. Fully 92% of citizens agree that it’s a problem when states draw legislative districts that intentionally favor one political party, including 73% who say it’s “a major problem” and 19% who deem it a minor problem, according to a national poll by The Economist/YouGov conducted May 9-11. Democrat citizens (89%) and Independents (74%) are more likely than Republicans (57%) to think gerrymandering constitutes a major problem. Similarly, 89% of those who voted for Harris label it a major problem, compared to 60% of Trump voters. Democrats also voiced much more support for retaliatory district-drawing when asked the following question: “If one state redraws its congressional districts to advantage a political party, are other states justified in retaliating and redrawing their districts to benefit the other party?” Here, 56% of Harris voters and 51% of self-identified Democrats feel that retaliatory gerrymandering is justified, compared to just 33% of Trump voters and 32% of Republican citizens. Among Independents, 31% support redrawing districts in one state in order to retaliate against other states that redraw their districts. Men are more likely than women (44%-30%) to approve of retaliatory district-drawing. By race, Blacks (81%) are more likely than either Whites (72%) or Hispanics (68%) to think gerrymandering is a major problem and nearly half (45%) say it’s justified to retaliate in kind, compared to 38% of Whites and 29% of Hispanics. Taken together, 37% of all U.S. adult citizens say it’s justified, 27% say it isn’t and 36% are “not sure.”

The New York Times’ coverage of the fatal shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego got off to a bad start by using “New York activist” Linda Sarsour as the sole source to a story by Adeel Hassan that purported to inform readers “What to Know About San Diego’s Islamic Center.” When Linda Sarsour, a New York activist, saw on social media that the Islamic Center of San Diego had been attacked on Monday, she immediately texted Imam Taha Hassane. Ms. Sarsour, one of four national co-chairs of the Women’s March on Washington in 2017, has crisscrossed the country speaking at mosques and community centers. Shortly after the shooting, which killed three people, she said that the Islamic Center of San Diego was “a model for the rest of the country.” …. Ms. Sarsour said the mosque’s diversity is its most striking aspect. “People from African Americans to African immigrants to Arabs to white converts to Eastern Europeans to Latinos,” she said. “It’s literally the most diverse mosque that I’ve ever been to in my whole life.” Ms. Sarsour has been a prominent advocate for Islamic causes, championing the rights of Palestinians. She gained prominence as a voice for the rights of Muslims after 9/11, and more recently has become a target for supporters of President Trump — and for Russian trolls. Her activism has taken her across the country, including to San Diego. The Islamic Center there, she said, does a lot of community service and mobilizes parishioners to go to pro-immigrant rallies. It hosts open houses for the general public. Just as it has in previous other favorable profiles, the Times omitted Sarsour’s radical and hateful past, like her disgusting social media attacks on Ayaan Hirsi Ali (author of Heretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now) and Sarsour’s support for Sharia law, her inflammatory anti-Israel rhetoric, public appearances with convicted terrorists, conspiracy mongering about Islamist terrorist threats, and her support for the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement. The Times prefers to present her as a cool “Brooklyn homegirl in a hijab.”   More dubious sourcing appeared in “San Diego Mosque Shooting Comes Amid Rising Reports of Islamophobia in the U.S.” by Bernard Mokam, which found a pattern of so-called Islamophobia (from the same paper proudly spreading anti-Semitic tropes like “dog rape” of Palestinian prisoners). “San Diego Mosque Attack Comes Amid Rising Reports of Islamophobia -- The Council on American-Islamic Relations said complaints about bias against Muslims are at levels unseen in decades.” The killings Monday at San Diego’s largest mosque are being investigated as a hate crime, touching off concerns about rising Islamophobia in the United States. “Islamophobia endangers Muslim communities across this country,” Zohran Mamdani, New York City’s first Muslim mayor, said in response to the shooting, which left three people dead, in addition to the two shooters. “We must confront it directly and stand together against the politics of fear and division.” Islamophobia has been an intractable problem in the United States for decades. Hate crimes against Muslims surged following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, according to F.B.I. data. More recently, the war in Gaza, which set off protests across American college campuses, has contributed to a steady increase in anti-Muslim sentiment and inspired violence against a range of religious institutions, including synagogues and churches. Antisemitic incidents also skyrocketed following the start of the conflict in 2023, according to the Anti-Defamation League. The Council on American-Islamic Relations received 8,683 civil rights complaints in 2025, the most the group has recorded since 1996, according to its most recent report. CAIR has no business as a reputable source either, given its sordid anti-semitic history. PS:

Associated Press science writer Seth Borenstein traveled over to the fact-checking section on Monday to condemn President Trump for taking a victory lap on behalf of all people who do not subscribe to theories of apocalyptic climate change after the United Nations’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ruled a 2011 study’s “worst case scenario — called RCP8.5 — was implausible.” The problem for Borenstein was that in 2026, he said Trump was ignoring other, more likely scenarios, but in 2011, he willingly went along with the worst-case scenario. Trump posted on social media, “GOOD RIDDANCE! After 15 years of Dumocrats promising that ‘Climate change’ is going to destroy the Planet, the United Nations TOP Climate Committee just admitted that its own projections (RCP8.5) were WRONG! WRONG! WRONG!”” Borenstein began his reply, “Trump was referring to a set of projections from 2011 from a group of scientists associated with the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that were updated in a study published in a scientific journal this spring. The update found that the old worst case scenario — called RCP8.5 — was implausible.” He also wrote, “Even when it was created 15 years ago, that worst case scenario was unlikely — there were other scenarios that were considered more likely. But the most extreme scenario was still possible if the world went on a fossil fuel heavy binge, in particular continuing to use coal, the most dirty fossil fuel, in a big way. It projected an end of the century warming of about 8 degrees Fahrenheit (4.5 degrees Celsius) compared to the mid 1800s.” However, 15 years ago, Borenstein wrote, “The report does say scientists are ‘virtually certain’ — 99 percent — that the world will have more extreme spells of heat and fewer of cold. Heat waves could peak as much as 5 degrees hotter by mid-century and even 9 degrees hotter by the end of the century.” Sure, Borenstein said temperatures “could” rise nine degrees by 2100, but the words “implausible,” “unlikely,” and “worst-case scenario” do not appear anywhere in his 2011 article. Borenstein wants to condemn Trump for what he himself did. American Enterprise Institute climate policy researcher Roger Pielke Jr. summarized the problem: Tens of thousands of research papers have been — and continue to be — published using these scenarios, a similar number of media headlines have amplified their findings, and governments and international organization have built these implausible scenarios into policy and regulation. We now know that all of this is built on a foundation of sand. Pielke also disagrees with Borenstein’s characterization as a worst-case scenario. Instead, he argued it was “characterized as ‘business as usual.’” Pielke also notes that SSP3-7.0 has also been retired, which predicted a roughly six-degree Fahrenheit increase. The problem for Borenstein is that even if he is right and Pielke and Trump are wrong about RCP8.5’s demise, there is still the fact that, according to alarmists, New York City was supposed to be overwhelmed with floods in 2015, milk was supposed to be $12.99 per carton (it was $3.39), and gas was supposed to be over $9 a gallon (it was $2.75). Perhaps Borenstein should look back at those predictions instead.

Season 51 of NBC’s Saturday Night Live concluded with Weekend Update anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che hitting all the usual beats, including people loathing Vice President JD Vance so much that they want him or themselves dead, suggesting the country is racist, and Jeffrey Epstein. Earlier in the season, Jost raised the possibility of Second Lady Usha Vance killing herself to get away from JD, but this time Jost claimed that President Trump wants Vance himself dead, “According to a senior official, President Trump keeps a letter in the Resolute Desk addressed to Vice President JD Vance in the event he dies or is assassinated. The letter reads simply, ‘I wish it had been you.’”   SNL's season finale included the usual bits, including some JD Vance-death bits from Colin Jost, "According to a senior official, President Trump keeps a letter in the Resolute Desk addressed to Vice President JD Vance in the event he dies or is assassinated. The letter reads… pic.twitter.com/YbzfPHNKbA — Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) May 19, 2026   Recently, Che suggested the Supreme Court had turned the clock back to the days of segregation and that Kamala Harris lost in 2024 because she is a black woman. Now, he lamented that Uncle Sam won’t give him reparations, “President Trump has rejected Iran's latest demands to end the war, including recognition of Iranian sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz and U.S. war reparations. You want reparations from America? Get in line, honey.” Like the other late night comedy shows, SNL loves some Trump-Epstein jokes. The show has accused Trump of starting the war with Iran to distract from the Epstein files, and on Saturday’s show, David Austin Johnson’s Donald Trump character asked Epstein’s ghost (Will Ferrell) what heaven is like. When Weekend Update rolled around, Jost quipped, “Texas Senator John Cornyn has introduced legislation to rename a state highway ‘Trump Interstate’ because for some reason people associate Trump with traffic across state lines.”  Routines like that are how Jost and Che ended up telling 91 percent of their political jokes about conservatives throughout the whole season, but that does not necessarily convey how nasty Weekend Update can be. SNL may be seen as an American institution, but from an unhealthy obsession with deaths in the Second Family to unfounded allegations of racism, SNL is just another outpost of late night liberalism. Here is a transcript for the May 16 show: NBC Saturday Night Live 5/17/2026 12:18 AM ET COLIN JOST: According to a senior official, President Trump keeps a letter in the Resolute Desk addressed to Vice President JD Vance in the event he dies or is assassinated. The letter reads simply, "I wish it had been you." MICHAEL CHE: President Trump has rejected Iran's latest demands to end the war, including recognition of Iranian sovereignty over the strait of Hormuz and U.S. war reparations. You want reparations from America? Get in line, honey. JOST: Texas Senator John Cornyn has introduced legislation to rename a state highway “Trump Interstate” because for some reason people associate Trump with traffic across state lines. 

The incendiary and stochastic terrorist rhetoric of ABC and Disney’s The View took on its darkest and most dangerous form yet. During their Behind the Table podcast on Monday, co-host Sunny Hostin called for an open “rebellion” to fight President Trump and Republicans. Her inspiration was Disney’s Andor, a live-action Star Wars show about the early days of the Rebel Alliance and their violent and clandestine efforts to overthrow the Galactic Empire. WARNING: There will be spoilers. They’re necessary to give an idea for the type of “rebellion” Hostin was calling for. Hostin’s open call for a rebellion was the climax of her reaction to recent election related news items. First, she echoed her previous false suggestion that only Republicans were gerrymandering and played dumb about why party gerrymandering was legal while racist gerrymandering wasn’t (party affiliation was not a protected class) (Click “expand”): HOSTIN: Look, I mean, we're seeing after the Supreme Court decision-- TETA: In Virginia. HOSTIN: In Louisiana. TETA: Oh, Louisiana. I'm sorry you're right. Yes. HOSTIN: The Louisiana decision that you can gerrymander based on political party and not race. TETA: Right. HOSTIN: Apparently, if you gerrymander on race, it's illegal, but an unconstitutional, but fine to do it for political party.   An open call for violence? On The View's Behind the Table podcast yesterday, Sunny Hostin called for an Andor-style "rebellion" to fight Trump and Republicans: SUNNY HOSTIN: And we are felling the result of not having a resistance. A valuable resistance. BRIAN TETA: You do… pic.twitter.com/bG8qvEg4uU — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) May 19, 2026   She proceeded to claim blacks were a monolith and only voted Democrat. She then regurgitated the liberal talking that America was experiencing “Jim Crow” again and that the Voting Rights Act was “decimated” (Click “expand”): HOSTIN: And we know that the majority of the Democratic Party of black voters are in the Democratic Party, something like over 95 percent of women, over 70 - 80 percent of black men. And so race and the Democratic Party are sort of synonymous. TETA: They're linked. HOSTIN: They're linked. And so what we're seeing after that is that Tennessee gerrymandered black representation, we're seeing-- it's going to happen in Florida. We're seeing it just all over the south, so it feels a lot like the new Jim Crow, right? Black voters are under-- our voting rights are under attack. The Voting Rights Act has been basically decimated, it's been gutted. “And so for me, it just seems to me like the Democrats need to understand that there are new rules afoot. And when there are new rules to a game, you play by those rules and you play to win (…) I'm friends with some high-profile Democrats, and I can't say that they get it yet,” she whined. Apparently, that solution she wanted Democrats to adopt was a “rebellion.” While she was struggling to finds the words to use to describe what she wanted, executive producer Brian Teta mentioned Andor and the Rebellion. It resonated with Hostin: HOSTIN: You can't, you know, you want to lead by example, and you want to be above the fray. That is not how this Republican, Trumplican party works, and we are feeling the result of not having a resistance. A valuable resistance. TETA: You do really have to watch Andor. Let me tell you. It's all about the resistance. HOSTIN: I know! You've been telling me about Andor! We're both such sci-fi and fantasy fans, TETA: It will change your life. It's all about forming a rebellion. HOSTIN: I'm going to start - We need to form a rebellion. A true resistance. In the Disney show, Casian Andor (played my Diego Luna) experienced the rise of the oppressive Galactic Empire and got recruited to take up arms. The plot had Andor and his comrades steal money from the Emipre to fund the rebellion, turn protests in the streets into shootouts and slaughter, attempt to assassinate high-ranking government officials, partner with extremist elements even other rebels wouldn’t work with, and shoot up the building that housed the Galactic Senate to extract a sympathetic Senator. That’s what The View was inspired by and openly called for. The transcript is below. Click "epxand" to read: ABC’s Behind the Podcast May 19, 2026 00:52 (…) BRIAN TETA (executive producer of The View): Today, we discuss Trump getting payback on Republican Senator Bill Cassidy and knocking him out of the race. You said today, the Republicans are trying to take away the black vote. SUNNY HOSTIN: Yeah! TETA: What's your message to Democrat leaders right now? And how do you-- and extrapolate a little bit about how that's happening. HOSTIN: Look, I mean, we're seeing after the Supreme Court decision-- TETA: In Virginia. HOSTIN: In Louisiana. TETA: Oh, Louisiana. I'm sorry you're right. Yes. HOSTIN: The Louisiana decision that you can gerrymander based on political party and not race. TETA: Right. HOSTIN: Apparently, if you gerrymander on race, it's illegal, but an unconstitutional, but fine to do it for political party. And we know that the majority of the Democratic Party of black voters are in the Democratic Party, something like over 95 percent of women, over 70 - 80 percent of black men. And so race and the Democratic Party are sort of synonymous. TETA: They're linked. HOSTIN: They're linked. And so what we're seeing after that is that Tennessee gerrymandered black representation, we're seeing-- it's going to happen in Florida. We're seeing it just all over the south, so it feels a lot like the new Jim Crow, right? Black voters are under-- our voting rights are under attack. The Voting Rights Act has been basically decimated, it's been gutted. And so for me, it just seems to me like the Democrats need to understand that there are new rules afoot. And when there are new rules to a game, you play by those rules and you play to win. And I think that's the opportunity, but also the disconnect between the Democratic Party and Democratic voters. It seems-- and, you know, I'm friends with some high-profile Democrats, and I can't say that they get it yet. You know, I always say when they go low, you go to the Earth's crust, you know? You meet the energy, and the Democrats are still trying to be sort of the party of -- I don't even know how to describe it, like the gentlemanly or gentlewoman from New York. You know, they're trying to do this sort of gentle, politicking, and they're bringing knives to gunfights, and it's not working. And I think Americans are sick of it, and they want their representatives to stand up. I do think there's going to be a backlash. I think with this sort of partisan gerrymandering, I think Democrats are going to come out in full force, especially the young voters. They are angry about this. TETA: And you think this is going to lead to more progressive wins for the Democrats? HOSTIN: I really do. I think Mamdani, people thought that that win was sort of an anomaly. I think he is the playbook. I do. TETA: All right. HOSTIN: Even in places like the South. TETA: That's different at the table too. I think we have to talk more about that, because I think there's- HOSTIN: There's disagreement there. But I'm right. TETA: It's interesting. HOSTIN: I’m not wrong. TETA: Well, I remember because there was a time where you weren't at the Earth's crusted, and you've been consistently there for a while. HOSTIN: I've been there for a long, long time, but I have. I don't believe in this - TETA: Michelle Obama. HOSTIN: I don't. I don't believe in- I think you meet energy with energy. TETA: I wonder if Michelle Obama still believes in it. I feel like she might not any more either. HOSTIN: I don’t think she does. You can't, you know, you want to lead by example, and you want to be above the fray. That is not how this Republican, Trumplican party works, and we are feeling the result of not having a resistance. A valuable resistance. TETA: You do really have to watch Andor. Let me tell you. It's all about the resistance. HOSTIN: I know! You've been telling me about Andor! We're both such sci-fi and fantasy fans, TETA: It will change your life. It's all about forming a rebellion. HOSTIN: I'm going to start - We need to form a rebellion. A true resistance. (…)