So lift your eyes if you feel you can, click on a tab and I’ll show you a plan …
New Mexico Democrat Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham says Democrats don’t need men’s votes:
“If women, Democratic women, just show up and vote, we’re good. We don’t need any of the men.” pic.twitter.com/btgZ3JijS1
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) May 28, 2026
Ed: How is this different from Democrats’ strategy in 2024? 2020? 2016? At least they’re being honest about it.
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WSJ: The U.S. and Iran are within reach of an agreement to wind down the war, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told reporters Thursday, but President Trump has yet to sign off on it, and the White House wants a deal that satisfies several key conditions.
“We perhaps have the makings of a deal here,” Bessent said from the White House, noting both sides have been swapping proposals. “Everything depends on what the president wants to do, and President Trump is not going to make a bad deal.”
Ed: We’ve had “perhaps the makings of a deal” for almost two months now. The “makings” are obvious. The deal is equally obvious. The question is whether the terrorist regime in Tehran will ever abide by it, verifiably and fully, or even for more than a couple of days before reneging in the same manner they did with the ceasefire and the Strait of Hormuz.
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CNN’s Abby Phillip obliterates Jill Biden for her new interview about Joe Biden’s disastrous 2024 debate with Trump:
“It’s the first time that we’ve heard her express any concern about that debate that ultimately ended Joe Biden’s 2024 campaign. But that stands in stark contrast… pic.twitter.com/IWfwWRH4Px
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) May 28, 2026
Ed: This isn’t a “stunning admission,” it’s a modified limited hangout. Jill Biden literally went out immediately after the debate with the supposed stroke victim to hold a campaign event. Kudos to Phillip and the CNN panel here for not buying into the baloney.
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CBS News: The former first lady said her husband’s performance in the debate “scared me to death.” She also told CBS News he was “slowing down” as he ran for reelection, although she said she never saw signs he was in cognitive decline. But her comments at the time did not reflect what she now says were her concerns. …
Speaking to supporters after the debate, Jill Biden said, “Joe, you did such a great job. You answered every question, you knew all the facts,” and she joined the crowd in chanting “four more years.” The couple then made a stop at a Waffle House, where the then-president said “I think we did well” and said he had a sore throat.
In the days following the debate, the Biden family gathered at Camp David, where a source told CBS News at the time that they encouraged him to stay in the race and keep fighting. When a Vogue Magazine cover story on the first lady came out days later, an editor’s note detailed how Jill Biden told the magazine from Camp David that the then-president “will not let those 90 minutes define the four years he’s been president.”
“We will continue to fight,” she said, adding the president “will always do what’s best for the country.”
Ed: Jill Biden’s memoir should be given all of the credibility that this claim deserves. She didn’t write a book to tell the truth; Jill Biden wrote a book to maintain the cover-up that took place over the entire four years of the Biden Regency. That’s because Jill played an integral role in perpetuating that fraud on the American people – and tried to extend it for another four years.
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And then went to Waffle House instead of the hospital! https://t.co/qawgm3mnm7
— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) May 28, 2026
Ed: Maybe Joe thought the Waffle House was an ER with food service.
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The Atlantic: As she watched President Biden stumble through the most cringeworthy portion of his disastrous June 2024 debate, First Lady Jill Biden wondered if her husband had unknowingly ingested drugs or was having a medical episode on live television. “Is he short-circuiting?” Jill Biden thought. “Is this a stroke? I felt like we were watching an AI hologram of the man we knew, and the hologram was glitching. Has he been drugged?”
Her mind then wandered to a more personal anxiety, considering how his nonsensical word salads—one of which ended with “we finally beat Medicare”—might implicate her as the person best positioned to know if the man who appeared to disassemble onstage was privately prone to incoherence. “Oh God—will people watching assume this is how he is all the time?” she writes in her new memoir, View From the East Wing, a copy of which The Atlantic obtained ahead of its June 2 release date.
Ed: Yes, this is exactly how he was all the time, in public, and obviously. Joe’s handlers sent the Easter Bunny to corral the Leader of the Free World off a rope line lest he expose his senility, and that was in April 2022. The comms-team aide had to physically block Biden, waving her arms in front of him, to order him back to his handlers, in one of the most humiliating displays in presidential history. Jill may think she’s fooling people, but not even the media is buying this now. Except The Atlantic, it seems from this report, but they’re at least acknowledging the issue.
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Sorry but this is such BS. If she genuinely was “frightened” that he was having a stroke then any rational wife would have insisted he go straight to the hospital. Instead she dragged him off to a Waffle House and patronized him on stage like a baby: “Joe – you did such a great… https://t.co/3d9V04xGnX
— Miranda Devine (@mirandadevine) May 28, 2026
Ed: Exactly. The entire White House infantilized Biden, making his cognitive decline even more obvious, starting with that Easter Bunny incident. They coddled him, they scripted him (to varying degrees of success), and they invented new ways to gaslight people by pretending Joe was Super Gramps … Sharp As a Tack™! Runs rings around aides twice his age! All while Biden couldn’t find his way off a stage or handle the stairs to Air Force One. Jill’s here to prop up the failed narrative. And isn’t it interesting that Joe Biden isn’t around to do that himself…
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Daily Mail: But sources who worked in that White House don’t think what Dr Biden claimed adds up.
‘If she felt he was having a stroke, she should have taken him to Walter Reed instead of directly to supporters to tell us all what a great job he did,’ one former Biden official said.
Another added: ‘I just do not believe it. It seems fake and rehearsed.’ …
‘The idea that Jill Biden spent the day with him and then he somehow had a stroke mere seconds later just doesn’t make sense to me. All of his most senior advisers were there,’ the official said.
‘They didn’t see any signs of a stroke while he was getting mic’d up? During final touches? While wishing the boss luck,’ the former White House official continued.
The accidental drugging claims also didn’t make sense to the ex-official.
Ed: Jill’s story isn’t even selling to her co-conspirators in the fraud. And frankly, why would they back this up? The Bidens are entirely washed up in politics. No one has any reason to cover for Biden Inc any longer.
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A lot of Democrats including several former Biden aides I talked to just simply don’t believe Jill Biden.
Given how she behaved post-debate, several Biden aides said that if she really believed he was having a stroke, that’s not how she would act.
Talking w/ @brikeilarcnn pic.twitter.com/CcFHEHjWHf— Alex Thompson (@AlexThomp) May 28, 2026
Ed: Thompson and Tapper were among the first to explore the Now It Can Be Told literary genre as soon as Biden checked out of the 2024 election and Kamala Harris bungled it instead. The time for modified limited hangouts are over, but at least Jill can cash out for Biden Inc one more time with this memoir. After that, she’ll be lucky to live in a benign oblivion rather than the alternative, which should be as a person of interest in a constitutional fraud perpetrated on the American electorate.
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New York Post: Acclaimed, Oscar-winning actress Helen Mirren was branded an “evil Zionist b—-” by an anti-Israel thug while she was walking in London, shocking video shows.
The 80-year-old was accosted while she was walking in the East London neighborhood of Tower Hill with her husband, Taylor Hackford, 81, on Wednesday night, according to the clip shared by London & UK Street News.
“There is Helen Mirren, the avowed Zionist. You said Israel should last forever because of the Holocaust,” the yob shouted, referring to the actress’s 2023 remarks about the Jewish state.
“F–k off,” Hackford, an acclaimed, Oscar-winning film director, shouted back.
Ed: I’m suddenly an even bigger fan of Hackford. And of Mirren, although I’ve been a fan of hers for a long time. If you’re not familiar with Hackford as a director, you’ve seen his movies: Ray, An Officer and a Gentleman, Against All Odds, Everybody’s All American, The Devil’s Advocate, and more. One of his more interesting films was Blood In Blood Out, about the rise of the Mexican Mafia in prisons as part of the real life of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca. A very young Benjamin Bratt nearly stole the show. This was the movie that Danny Trejo made instead of American Me, which the Mexican Mafia did not want made.
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“I will not be one of them in 2028…”
Governor Whitmer on possible presidential run in our one on one from Mackinac. pic.twitter.com/6vjZrJvI0R— Roop Raj (@rooprajfox2) May 28, 2026
Ed: That’s surprising. Whitmer could compete against Buttigieg and Newsom, especially for a party that – according to Lujan Grisham – wants to be a women-only party. Other than Harris, what other woman will seriously compete for the nomination?
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Jonathan Turley: Ending standardized testing had an obvious secondary purpose: to frustrate new legal challenges to the use of race in college admissions. Last November, Californians rejected a resolution to restore affirmative action in college admissions.
We have also seen the dismal decline in standards at elite universities like Harvard, where faculty have been compelled to teach high school-level math classes to students.
Various schools have now reversed this ridiculous move pushed by faculty and administrators in the cause of racial diversity. The proponents of the change, such as Napolitano, have said little after they decimated the academic integrity and standing of their schools.
The UC faculty cited the UC San Diego Senate–Administration Workgroup on Admissions report, which found that 70 percent of these students are performing below a middle-school level.
Like Harvard, faculty are now teaching high-school-level math.
Ed: Academia stopped using standardized tests because Asians inevitably topped the outcomes, and that made it harder to discriminate against them. In the past week or so, Yale and the UC system have reinstated standardized admissions testing after years of failure, and Harvard is now experimenting with a cap on As.
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Anyone who thinks the Apostle Paul was a free-wheeling, gender expansionist is a few epistles short of his teachings https://t.co/h5TMX5WcEW
— Caitlin Flanagan (@CaitlinPacific) May 28, 2026
Ed: Also a few verses short of a book. I laughed when I first saw Talarico’s response because my whole life, feminists have argued that Paul warped Jesus’ teachings when it comes to sexual roles and responsibilities. Paul is also the sole New Testament source for prohibitions on homosexuality, in Romans, 1 Corinthians, and 1 Timothy. What seminary did Talarico attend, anyway?
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Last night’s Final Word lyric: “Shut Up And Dance With Me” by Walk the Moon.
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