Welcome to this, your weekend edition of the 5QT, brought to you in part by excessive outrage and also by excessive wine. No, I will not explain. Anyhoo, on with the show… 1. Missives From Gov. Go-F**k-Yourself An interesting legal drama is brewing due to the state of Louisiana’s efforts to stamp out chemical abortions through the off-label use of mifepristone and other abortion drugs. The state has attempted to charge out-of-state doctors who are offering themselves as prescription-by-mail operators for those drugs in violation of a new Louisiana law making such prescriptions illegal (I’m oversimplifying it a bit because I’m racing toward the juicy stuff), and asking that those other states extradite the violators to stand trial in the Bayou State. (RELATED: ‘Dr. Maggie,’ Notorious Abortionist) That effort, made by Louisiana’s Attorney General Liz Murrill, didn’t get very far when she went after a doctor in New York. But that state’s reaction was a bit less performative than the one California Gov. Gavin Newsom threw back at Murrill this week when Louisiana demanded the extradition of a California doctor doling out abortion pills like a Pez dispenser. This was Newsom’s rather unfriendly reaction: Louisiana plans to sue me because I won’t extradite a doctor for providing an abortion.@AGLizMurrill: Go fuck yourself. California will never help you criminalize healthcare. pic.twitter.com/1CPMAWwCNU — Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) February 6, 2026 The effort to prosecute out-of-state doctors for prescribing substances that are illegal neither in the state in which they reside nor in federal law is admittedly a bit of a reach. And the reality of a state claiming that the long arm of its law should extend even into hostile territory isn’t altogether a positive one — I can easily envision a scenario whereby a state like California might criminalize political satire of various kinds, for example, and then seek to prosecute non-Californians for perceived transgressions simply because their offerings might be consumed by Californians over the internet. In that scenario, I would want Louisiana’s governor, Jeff Landry, to take a similar stance against California’s efforts to extradite me and drag me in front of a kangaroo court full of Guatemalans or public employee union members or Women’s Studies faculty — or whoever is left in California. I’m not sure I’d require Landry to post “Go F[*]ck Yourself” on X on my behalf, though. There’s a certain element of fake masculinity — beta-male bravado, for certain — inherent in Newsom telling a female attorney general to do the anatomically impossible. Would he say that to Landry or to Greg Abbott or to Ron DeSantis? Perhaps. Murrill’s response was a bit more genteel… Bless your heart, @GavinNewsom. Killing Louisiana babies isn’t healthcare, nor is shielding California drug dealers. The sovereign State of Louisiana will defend life. See ya soon. ⚜️ https://t.co/RmovpXzU29 — Attorney General Liz Murrill (@AGLizMurrill) February 6, 2026 And she picked up a bit of a defense team among Louisiana’s politicos and others… Just to be clear: this doctor shipped high-risk drugs across state lines, at the request of a man who coerced his girlfriend into an unwanted abortion. I miss the days when governors knew drug trafficking isn’t “healthcare” & the F-bomb isn’t dialogue. Carry on, @AGLizMurrill. https://t.co/cXcV8iJ8Pj — Kristen Waggoner (@KristenWaggoner) February 6, 2026 You’re defending a so-called doctor who sent abortion pills to a MAN so he could coerce his girlfriend into aborting their baby that she wanted to keep. That is not health care, it’s drug dealing. You should be ashamed of yourself for facilitating this behavior. https://t.co/ULGunklKzY — U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (@SenBillCassidy) February 6, 2026 Keep fighting! Louisiana AG Will Sue Gavin Newsom and Kathy Hochul for Allowing Illegal Mail-Order Abortions https://t.co/lfVrFpXBWS — LifeNews.com (@LifeNewsHQ) February 6, 2026 I know protecting criminals is your thing, @GavinNewsom, but at least try to be polite. Not a good look for your no chance presidential aspirations. https://t.co/iWoefqmzxJ — Governor Jeff Landry (@LAGovJeffLandry) February 6, 2026 We’ll see if this escalates. Newsom is looking for a fight because his camp has perceived that mean-girl spirit and its performative manifestations are the political currency of today’s Democrat Party, and so engaging in verbal pugilism with high-profile red-state conservatives is how he can burnish his street cred for 2028. (RELATED: Gavin Newsom’s New Low) Murrill has her own political ambitions. Some think she’s positioning herself for a run at governor of Louisiana in 2031 after Landry is termed out. So it’s in her interest to keep this fight moving as well. It remains to be seen whether she’d go beyond those lawsuits and into a true war footing against all things California. It should be recognized, of course, that two of Murrill’s political allies are Mike Johnson and Steve Scalise — the two most prominent members of Congress. One wonders if Newsom realizes how much trouble an all-out political war with the folks in Louisiana’s backwaters could make for him and his pals. Worth watching. 2. The Prophet Muhammad and Immigration, in the Words of New York’s New Prophet You probably saw this. Everybody has by now. NEW: NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani calls on America to look to Islam and the “Prophet Muhammad” to support migration “I consider my own faith, Islam, a religion built upon a narrative of migration.” “The story of the Hijrah reminds us that Prophet Muhammad, was a stranger too, who… pic.twitter.com/RHG5JfW5yA — Unlimited L’s (@unlimited_ls) February 6, 2026 I said it at X, and I also said it in the first segment of The Spectacle Podcast this week: Zohran Mamdani is a New Yorker but not an American, and this is a status it wasn’t possible to hold not long ago. (RELATED: The Spectacle Ep. 322: Commie Trouble: King Mamdani’s Kingdom Rubbled in Snow) Mamdani might hold American citizenship, though he shouldn’t, as he clearly lied on his naturalization forms about the ideologies he adheres to. But his cultural, economic, and political beliefs can only be described as anti-American in every way that matters. That said, he’s certainly a New Yorker. The New Yorkers obviously think so; they made him mayor of the place. And the Epstein files, which prove that Mamdani’s mother was very well connected not just to Jeffrey Epstein but the mob of Big Apple sophisticates Epstein ran with, make it obvious that Zohran Mamdani is no outsider to the in-crowd in that city. And it used to be that the things Mamdani is talking about in that clip — essentially that bringing in large numbers of people from diverse backgrounds added to a city’s dynamism — were understood to have a modicum of truth to them. New York offered a window into that truth, it’s true. Except this was when New York was still very much an American city. And that diversity and cultural dynamism fit within the box of an American culture and heritage that New York helped to shape, but was still governed by. It wasn’t long ago that, after the Twin Towers were brought down by people who believed a lot of the same things Mamdani believes, America rallied behind New York because New Yorkers still fundamentally adhered to the same worldview the rest of the country does. Nobody really thinks that’s true anymore. It started to not be true when Bill de Blasio served two terms as New York’s mayor, and now, under Mamdani, it’s unquestionably false. It’s mind-blowing that a generation after 9/11, this would be the man ruling New York, but that’s the reality. And in that sense, it is very possible to be a New Yorker and not an American. 3. The Chinese Cultural Revolution Comes to Corporate Yoga Who are the worst people in America? This is beginning to stand out as an important question. Certainly, the metropolitan elite being outed in the latest batch of dispatches from the Epstein files — the folks whose perversions and appetites the public have suspected but not quite known until now and have only accentuated their deliberate failure to preserve and advance the institutions they control — are one class of nominee. The criminal class of barbarians destroying the low-end areas of our cities, in concert with the crooked machine pols ruling from City Hall, is another group. But increasingly the leading villains in America are these people… Another private business targeted as activists aggressively confront employees for not taking a public stance against ICE