The story behind the jokes is true, well-documented, and strange.  From X:

Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones has a secret strategy… pic.twitter.com/XXu8qMl912

— Nick Freitas (@NickJFreitas) May 10, 2026

Comedy is funniest when it is based on an underlying truth.  Frietas offers a hilarious satire. 

Attorney General Jay Jones is lit up by Mr. Frietas for actual typos.   Virginia (Virgnia) and Senator (Sentator) were misspelled in a court filing seeking a delay in the certification of the Virginia Supreme Court’s decision finding the recent redistricting process illegal under the Virginia Constitution.  He also lampoons Jones for the misspelling of Attorney (Attoney) on his official website and Lucas for misspelling Senator (again, unaccountably, Sentator) in her press release about her recent arrest.

The satire is funny because it is so well done and true.  A fascination for the audience that makes it funnier is that the errors are so inexplicable in the modern era.  This author has been forced to override his spell checker to let him even quote each of the misspellings.  

What is not funny is Jay Jones’ ongoing struggles.  Before his election, he made a terrible error in an infamous early morning text that revealed extremely dark thoughts – he expressed a wish for the death of a political opponent’s children.  

Now this.  Were the embarrassing errors that were the subject of the Frietas lampoon committed again in the early morning?  

For those supporting the appeal to the Virginia Supreme Court, having it laughed at is not what they wanted.  Those opposing it know that SCOTUS will reject an appeal of the Virginia Supreme Court’s decision as not its business – a matter of interpretation of a state constitution by a state supreme court, whose job it is to do so.  So it ultimately will not matter to the outcome.

But this author retained Jay Jones’s services once while he was in private practice, likes him personally, and wishes him well.  The man I knew so briefly back then, after an error like the filing, might have laughed at himself publicly to defuse the situation.  It would have been a great response. 

The infamous email exposed during the campaign was certainly no laughing matter. He is now the Attorney General of Virginia.  With this fiasco, all Virginians, especially those with his personal best interests in mind, have to ask: What is causing what is now an emerging pattern of strange and unforced errors?  

 We sincerely hope he will find out what it is and address it.  

Republished with permission from Bacon’s Rebellion.

The Biden administration may have failed to convince Congress to double Medicaid spending on home healthcare in 2021, but the funding increase occurred anyway.

This article originally appeared at RealClearInvestigations on May 13, 2026

An RCI analysis of federal data has found that spending on the program, which pays health aides and family members to act as caregivers for elderly and disabled adults, nearly doubled between 2019 and 2024, to $46.4 billion a year—an amount nearly identical to the $50 billion per year Biden wanted. As a result, American taxpayers paid more than $217 billion for home-based care under the program during that five-year span.

Lacking congressional approval, policymakers simply moved the initiative out of Washington and down to the state Medicaid agencies.

Although the expansion was promoted as a way to reduce reliance on more expensive nursing homes, federal data show that did not happen. Medicaid spending on nursing facilities rose by nearly $5 billion in the same five years, to $46.3 billion. In addition, the sprawling home care program has become the subject of a growing set of fraud probes and prosecutions involving the billing codes at the center of the new spending.

The data suggest that the complex landscape of healthcare offers myriad ways for states and providers to access large amounts of federal funding.

Promises

The spending boom traces back to a March 2021 White House proposal. As part of its American Jobs Plan, the Biden administration called for $400 billion in new federal spending over eight years to expand home and community-based care under Medicaid. "President Biden believes more people should have the opportunity to receive care at home, in a supportive community, or from a loved one," the White House said in its rollout.

Advocacy groups had long sought a vast expansion of home care. AARP told policymakers that home- and community-based services would "prevent or delay frail seniors and persons with disabilities from being admitted to nursing homes," and that the cost would be a fraction of facility-based care—about $1,300 per person per year for community support against $25,000 to $37,000 per year for a Medicaid nursing-home bed. Justice in Aging, a national legal advocacy organization focused on older adults, said nursing home care was four times more expensive than community-based services and that older adults without home-care access were five times more likely to enter a nursing home.

The federal government put a number on the projected savings. The Department of Health and Human Services' Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation projected that for every additional dollar Medicaid spent on home care, nursing-home spending would drop by about 26 cents. Those were the figures used to make the case to Congress and to the public.

Justice for Aging and the Department of Health and Human Services did not respond to requests for comment.

Congress Unconvinced

Congress was not convinced. The home-care expansion was cut to $150 billion in the Build Back Better Act, which did not win passage and then dropped entirely from the Inflation Reduction Act, which Biden signed into law in 2022.

Much of the money was spent anyway. When federal legislation stalled, the mechanism for delivering funding shifted from Congress to state Medicaid agencies. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services worked with state programs to expand existing waivers, raise reimbursement rates paid to home-care providers, and build out programs that pay family members to act as caregivers. States that wanted to grow their spending pulled the regulatory levers they already had. States that hesitated were offered federal matching dollars, technical assistance, and a steady drumbeat of CMS guidance encouraging them to expand.

By 2024, Medicaid spending on the home-health bundle—personal-care services, home health aides, skilled nursing in the home, and the related billing codes that capture the bulk of the dollars—was $22 billion higher per year than in 2019. That increase amounted to roughly 44% of the annual expansion the Biden White House had originally sought from Congress, achieved without Congress ever approving the program.

Blue State Windfall

Most of the dollars were accessed by Democratic-controlled states. New York alone reached $15.67 billion in Medicaid home-health spending by 2024—roughly a third of the national total—through its Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program, which allows beneficiaries to hire a relative as the paid caregiver. Massachusetts, New Jersey, Illinois, California, and Pennsylvania all rank in the top tier of absolute spending growth. Pennsylvania's home-health bill grew more than twelvefold over five years.

The fastest percentage growth between 2019 and 2024 came in Republican-controlled states with smaller base programs. Texas grew its Medicaid home-health spending by 330%. Arkansas grew by 352%. Alabama, 250%. Spending rose in every state in the union.

These numbers may grow due to lengthening waiting lists for people seeking home-care services. According to a Kaiser Family Foundation analysis of state Medicaid agency data, the number of Americans on waiting lists for Medicaid home- and community-based services has risen rather than fallen since 2019, despite the $217 billion expansion. Advocates say this is a reflection of the growing need for such services.

As the home-care proponents predicted, the number of Medicaid beneficiaries actually living in nursing homes did fall during the five-year period. Unique Medicaid nursing home users went from 1.57 million in 2019 to 1.29 million in 2023, a 17.7% decline. Most of the drop happened during the pandemic, when COVID-19 swept through nursing facilities and prompted admissions freezes at many homes in 2020 and 2021. Since 2021, the Medicaid nursing home population has been climbing again.

Rising Prices

But this did not produce savings, as states sharply increased the rates they paid to facilities. Medicaid spending on nursing homes grew from $41.4 billion in 2019 to $46.3 billion in 2024. The cost per resident per day at Medicaid-certified nursing facilities climbed from $313.66 in 2019 to $401.98 in 2024, a 28% increase.

The same dynamic occurred with reimbursements for home care. State Medicaid agencies raised home-care reimbursement rates sharply during and after the pandemic—15% to 30% in many states—and most of those increases were never rolled back.

The official justification was a workforce shortage. The claims-level data show a different pattern. While Medicaid spending on home health grew 91% over five years, the number of providers billing Medicaid for these services barely grew, and the number of unique beneficiaries grew only modestly. What climbed each year was the price per claim and the price per beneficiary.

The larger share bought expanded eligibility—programs designed to enroll people who would not otherwise have entered a nursing home. The clearest example is New York's Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program, which allows the Medicaid beneficiary to hire a relative as the paid caregiver. According to a claims-level analysis of CMS Transformed Medicaid Statistical Information System (T-MSIS) data, the New York program grew from a niche state option into the single largest line item in Medicaid home-care spending nationally.

The total number of people involved in the program is hard to discern because federal claims data do not separate individual family caregivers from agency providers. In a self-directed Medicaid program such as home-care, the beneficiary—not an agency—picks and hires the caregiver, and the state pays that caregiver directly. The caregiver is most often a family member, a friend, or a neighbor. In states with large self-directed programs, the count of paid family caregivers is likely to be in the tens of thousands of individuals. State enrollment standards for self-directed and family caregivers were also relaxed during the pandemic, with documentation requirements reduced and licensing barriers lowered to expand the workforce.

Fraud Magnet

The expansion has become a documented vehicle for fraud. The U.S. Department of Justice and the HHS Office of Inspector General have brought a growing number of prosecutions involving the T1019 personal-care billing code—including fraudulent hours never worked, billing for deceased beneficiaries, and family-member billing schemes in which the care was either never delivered or was billed at a fraction of the claimed hours.

In December 2024, Pennsylvania Attorney General Michelle Henry announced charges against a suburban Philadelphia home-care agency, its owner, and 18 other people in a scheme that allegedly defrauded the state's Medicaid program out of millions of dollars. The Department of Justice's Health Care Fraud Unit listed multiple home-health prosecutions in its 2025 national case summaries.

The Daily Wire's recent investigation of Ohio's multi-billion-dollar home-care industry found a lack of oversight. "Since the services are performed inside private residences, there is no way to know whether the workers went at all, or what they're actually doing in exchange for taxpayer funds," Luke Rosiak reported. "An infinite number of small black boxes inside a black box. Multiple signs said the service provided, and billed to the government, was sometimes just 'companionship & conversation.'"

Even as Ohio says it has ongoing probes into its home-care spending and Vice President JD Vance announced he's directing the federal Fraud Task Force he heads to examine the Buckeye State, RCI's analysis suggests a deeper problem—the extent to which massive federal dollars can flow without congressional approval.

Budget hawks say fraud must be addressed, but even that does not address the underlying mechanisms—massive funding with relatively little oversight—that invite runaway spending and abuse. The recent history of home-care funding also highlights the often false premises on which many government programs are sold to the American people.

Walter Curt is a Senior Fellow for Restoration News, independent investigative journalist, podcaster, and Townhall columnist. His work focuses on accountability reporting, culture, policy, and political analysis. Follow his work at WCDispatch.com and on X @WCDispatch.

This piece is republished with permission from Restoration News.

🚨 Jim Jordan asks Steve Descano why he removed his policy from his website saying he gives preferential treatment to illegal aliens.

Descano: "I can't believe people are so obstuse that they don't recognize the difference between a campaign statement and office policy." pic.twitter.com/fJ7C0F4jnc

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) May 14, 2026

Apparently that’s a promise you need to make to get elected in that far-left Northern Virginia enclave.

Descano was first elected in 2020 and is beginning his second term in office. He’s now being investigated by the Departmet of Justice for civil rights violations because he gives preferential treatment to illegals.

The two were torched for their laissez faire treatment of violent criminals. Both basically shrugged, saying they’ll turn a criminal over to ICE only when presented with a federal judicial warrant. Problem is, federal judges don’t issue warrants for state crimes, like murder, rape and kidnapping. This is Gov. Abigail Spanberger’s gift to illegal criminals, by the way. She’s trying to force all prosecutors to adopt a similar policy.

Every policy Steve Descano advocates for is in favor of releasing criminals back into our community time and time again.

Abdul Jalloh should have never been released back onto the streets to kill.

WATCH Chairman @RepMcClintock’s full Q&A ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/r5AIeP5mST

— House Judiciary GOP 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 (@JudiciaryGOP) May 14, 2026

Present also was the mother of Stephanie Minter, the 41-year-old woman who was murdered - ooops, allegedly murdered - by an illegal with more than 30 prior criminal charges.

Minter was killed in February. Descano finally apologized to her grief-stricken mother yesterday.

All in all it was a bad day for Fairfax’s top prosecutor and his ineffective sheriff sidekick.

They made excuses, noise and insincere apologies. They’re a disgrace. They don’t care about the law or public safety.

MUST WATCH: @RepKnott calls out Steve Descano's deadly sanctuary policies.

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 pic.twitter.com/bj4FmUuJI7

— House Judiciary GOP 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 (@JudiciaryGOP) May 14, 2026

The voters should toss Descano and Kincaid out and demand actual law enforcement in Fairfax. Of course, Spanberger is on their side, yapping stupidly about judicial warrants, while knowing they are not available in state crimes.

Build the wall. Don’t let anyone out of Fairfax until they fix their criminal illegal alien problem.

by Shaun Kenney

“If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer.”

I’ll start with WTKR 6 in Richmond.

Just last week, Governor Abigail Spanberger (D-VA) signed a bill that would mandate that businesses provide 12-week paid family medical and parental leave to each and every Virginian beginning in 2028.

Here’s the headline:

I’ll be honest — this is a good bill which focuses on families. This isn’t socialism; this is insurance. For myself, as a committed pro-life Catholic, we do a lot of talking about babies and it is high time we took just as much time talking up and taking care of mothers and families.

Now contrast this headline with one from last year when Governor Glenn Youngkin (R-VA) announced several signatures promoting small business development:

Notice the difference between the two? On the former, the headline is rather positive precisely because it is a good bill. No questioning, no fanfare, no shade.

Yet when a Republican governor signs common sense legislation promoting business growth? It’s not fact, it’s a claim. Youngkin says it will do this. But will it? That’s the implication — it might. Youngkin might be lying. In fact, to as if to confirm the suspicion, then-State Senator Ghazala Hashmi is allowed to get her digs in:

"Paid family sick leave, raising the minimum wage, assuring that there are child care options and protections for so many working families. We didn't hear anything about affordable housing," Hashmi said. "The issues that are facing working families, and the governor never speaks to those concerns."

Never you mind that economic growth is precisely how you pay for all of these things big and small. You can do an awful lot with economic growth, ladies and gentlemen. Nothing that Hashmi mentions offers us even a path towards those things — and nothing suggests that her viewpoint ought to be critiqued in turn.

Yet in the Spanberger piece? Is there even one quote from a critic asking the question how much will this policy cost, what is the impact to businesses large and small, does this policy actually have the effect of helping families?

That right there is where the institutional media bias lies. It is also the reason why alternative media — Substack among them — is so popular on the political right. Because the conservatives are locked out of the institutions, we are forced to build parallel institutions. When we ask for alternative viewpoints to be exposed to the light of day, we are politely but firmly told to go perform an anatomically impossible act.

The Virginia Public Access Project (VPAP) is the epicenter of this hive of nonpartisan activity, deciding what is newsworthy, which opinions should be considered, and which publications are in fact news.

Yet the artful way it presents and selects what is and what is not — editing headlines in their morning roundups, selecting which ones are prominent, excluding others, and presenting facts just-so under the promise of “nonpartisanship” — is indeed the problem. In fact, there is nothing more partisan than nonpartisan anything, precisely because nonpartisanship nearly always defends the status quo.

Thumbs and Scales: The Myth of Nonpartisan Viewpoints

At the heart of this — and by way of example — is a writeup by the former head of VPAP presenting facts just-so regarding the insinuated political tilt of members of the Supreme Court of Virginia:

With no registration by party in Virginia, one of the best indicators of political allegiance is a voter’s history of participating in primary elections.



By that measure, a review of the primary voting history of the justices of the Supreme Court of Virginia suggests that last week’s 4-3 decision fell along partisan lines.

The full write up is here. Of course, there was at least one critical quote — right? Someone presented the other side of the argument for the sake of integrity? Of course they did, because they included the foll—

Holsworth said the redistricting case could forever change the way the public perceives the Supreme Court of Virginia.

“The court’s going to look more like states that elect judges,” he said. “If one party has control, there’s not going to be any doubt where the judges stand.”

The politics of the 4-3 decision should be on full display next winter when the Democrat-controlled General Assembly decides whether or not to reappoint D. Arthur Kelsey, the justice who penned the majority opinion.

Of course, this is the real aim of the missive. Nothing to do with political donations, nothing to do with partisan leanings, but everything to do with finding some reason — any reason — to hang a man in public.

What this article didn’t tell you about Justice Kelsey’s donor history is that it consists of two donations — one made in 1997 and the other in 1998 — made nearly three decades ago and long before he was a justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia.

There’s even this line:

None of the three dissenting justices have been political donors since 1997, according to VPAP.

Which somehow absolves them but doesn’t involve Kelsey as he managed to squeak in that one donation in 1998. What sort of artificial barrier exempts the three dissenting justices from the implication of bias in 1997 that magically applies in 1998?

This right here is the lie of nonpartisan anything, because in their own defense, the argument is that what is presented is merely factual. Is there anything untrue about the form of these claims? Yet if function follows form, the implication here is quite clear, the goal is even formally stated, and the nonpartisan packaging of the information belies a most assuredly partisan point.

This is the spirit of VPAP.

Democracy? Diversity? Viewpoints? Or Is It Just Stomping Out Conservatives?

Part of the problem with VPAP is that their criteria for inclusion is designed to drive out independent media and conservative opinion writers. Sure there are ones-and-twos, but only of the permissible sort of opinion — those who don’t criticize the nonpartisan machine and take the crumbs as offered.

But it is high time we look this problem in the face. When half of Virginia is willing to disenfranchise the other half of Virginia in order to grab 91% of the power, is it too far of a stretch to argue that this same half of Virginia with a disproportionate aggregation of the media might also think of themselves as entitled to a near-monopoly on information and debate?

This, I think, is the problem writ large with our friends on the Democratic side of the aisle — even the well-intentioned ones. That the gerrymandering referendum was even close shocked just about every left-leaning observer. That the reaction to the result was so sharp and divisive shocked just about every left leaning observer. The very idea that half of Virginia deserved 91% of the representation in Washington as being unfair is met with blank stares or a regurgitation of equivocation and dissimilitudes. Never you mind that New England which votes 40% Republican has precisely zero Republican representatives in the U.S. House of Representatives — this is normal. This is nonpartisan. Precisely because it is a monopoly — and it is perfectly normal for Democrats to behave like Democrats and maintain these nonpartisan monopolies that drive Republicans out, provided that Republicans never behave like Democrats and do likewise.

If there was some fraction of my mind that I could drop into the ears of well-intentioned men and women on the center-left, it is that diversity of viewpoints is a positive good for the democratic experiment. That nonpartisan gatekeepers aren’t protecting free speech but rather insisting on managed speech. That this managed approach to ideas not only locks out the good and sincere but allows the bad to virtue signal because it too is locked out. That those who are on the inside lump both the good and bad together precisely because if they were “good” then they wouldn’t be locked out. That true liberalism means an open public square where ideas rise and fall on their merits and not by taking the shortcuts of invoking magic words such as racism! or bigotry! or sexist! or Nazi! or whatever trope of the day serves as a shortcut to thought or a barrier to consideration.

Julia Graef writes an excellent little book entitled The Scout Mindset where she argues that one can either approach new ideas and other people with a “soldier mindset” where every new or different thing is treated with suspicion, where lead is put on the target until it goes away, and the only friends we have are those who are like us. By contrast, the “scout mindset” sees the world in a different way — where new things are interesting, where new ideas are engaging, where new people are opportunities to learn. Does this provide a magic wand to make everyone in the world good? Of course not — but it does allow the space for the things good, beautiful, and true to flourish rather than aggressively hit everything with Roundup.

Until the political left sees the problem in gifting and grifting half of our political life near total control over the institutions — bureaucracy, education, universities, media, entertainment, religion, military and first responders — we aren’t going to fix the fundamental problem that is rocking the pendulum in Virginia or elsewhere.

If Hannah Arendt is any authority on the matter, totalitarianism rarely takes the form of a jackboot or a commissar, and it is why a truly free press matters so deeply to a good and decent public square:

“The moment we no longer have a free press, anything can happen. What makes it possible for a totalitarian or any other dictatorship to rule is that people are not informed; how can you have an opinion if you are not informed? If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer. This is because lies, by their very nature, have to be changed, and a lying government has constantly to rewrite its own history. On the receiving end you get not only one lie — a lie which you could go on for the rest of your days — but you get a great number of lies, depending on how the political wind blows. And a people that no longer can believe anything cannot make up its mind. It is deprived not only of its capacity to act but also of its capacity to think and to judge. And with such a people you can then do what you please.”

-- Hannah Arendt, interview with the New York Review of Books (1974)

VPAP branding itself as “nonpartisan” doesn’t make the institution any more or less totalizing when the gatekeepers lie to the public through insinuations and just-so reasoning. They did it then, they do it today, they do it in ways big and small, others learn from this so-called standard, we make it normal, and then we brand it as nonpartisan.

If the standard is totalitarian and the complete eradication of conservative thought, then pity the liberals who will become the new targets of their own left-wing as the ever-increasing drumbeat to drive out dissent acquires new targets. We are already seeing this effect nationally as even U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) — no wallflower of the left — finds himself under increasing pressure to do more, be more, and if not, be replaced by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY). Surely we have seen this effect as the old liberals in Richmond have been weeded out and replaced by the Portsmouth Way. When the so-called nonpartisan institutions are superseded with the new nonpartisanship — what will the gatekeepers do then? Retire?

Whatever the answer is, one cannot help but think that Virginia’s public square isn’t better served with all of us at the table talking — not just a carefully curated handful which gives the impression that 51% is really 91% of the public discourse. Surely that isn’t good for democracy. Surely that isn’t good for the public square.

The public admission that there is a prejudice in the Fourth Estate against those of us who are not on the left isn’t required — the fact is self-evident. What will be required is the re-establishment of what the Fourth Estate was supposed to be when journalists and columnists were interesting and valued in the public eye.

Like Jacob to Esau, trading the estate for the porridge of clickbait and half-truths isn’t worth the trade. It is damaging to the public and encourages the opinion that nothing is to be believed, which opens the door to a litany of horribles we claim we don’t want, yet feed them every day.

Do better.

SHAUN KENNEY is the senior editor for The Republican Standard. This piece is republished with his permission.

The racist comments proudly endorsed today by Jen Kiggans warning House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries to ‘Get your cotton-picking hands off of Virginia’ are disgusting and beneath any elected official. I grew up in the South. I know what these racist dog whistles mean.

— Elaine Luria (@ElaineLuria) May 11, 2026

This, from a woman who proudly hobnobs with Ralph Northam, the guy they called “coonman” in college and who was photographed in black face. (Or was that him in the Klan robe, I can never remember.)

Luria also supported a man for attorney general who wanted to put “two bullets” in the head of a political opponent and also wanted his little children to die.

And there are lots of photos of her with Louise Lucas, which may prove problematical should indictments rain down on the Portsmouth Democrat.

I must say, Luria and the rest of the Democrat theater kids in Congress gave peak performances yesterday. They were SO indignant, SO offended, SO miffed. They couldn’t believe how “vile” and “racist” the term “cotton picking” is.

They clearly got their talking points from the DNC and obediently began banging away on X.

It was the moment they’d been waiting for and right on cue, they began chanting “RACIST” and demanding that Rep. Jen Kiggans resign from Congress.

Performative. And stupid.

Here’s what supposedly triggered them:

During a Monday interview with Rich Herrera on “Richmond’s Morning News” Kiggans was asked about the midterm elections and Democrats’ redistricting efforts in Virginia. The conversation went something like this:

Herrera: “If Hakeem Jeffries wants to be involved in Virginia politics then I suggest he do what a bunch of New Yorkers are doing. Leave New York, move down here and run for office and represent us. Otherwise, keep your cotton picking hands off Virginia.”

Kiggans: “That’s right. Ditto. Yes, yes to that.”

Ooooh. She might as well borrow Northam’s Klan hat. How dare she not object to a hackneyed colloquialism that’s been used as a stand-in for cuss words for decades?

Kiggans responded this way:

This is precisely what's wrong with Democrats. Every lie and distortion is intended to distract from getting their hats handed to them and the Virginia Supreme Court's clear message: stop trying to rig our elections.

The radio host should not have used that language and I do not…

— Jen Kiggans (@JenKiggans) May 11, 2026

Luria, who was beaten by Kiggans in 2022, was absolutely giddy when she heard the recording. As of this writing, she’s Tweeted about how shockingly racist Kiggans is eight times.

Luria knows Kiggans is not a racist. And Luria knows this is much ado about nothing.

She doesn’t care.

Elaine Luria is a transactional politician who will say or do anything to win.

Virginia Democrats are making a lot of noise right now because they’re going through a rough patch. This cotton picking dust-up is a diversion from their obscenely expensive redistricting debacle, from the Louise Lucas FBI raids and from Attorney General Jay Jones misspelled court pleadings. Oh, and let’s not forget that Virginia Democrats can’t agree on a budget. They’re looking more and more like a rudderless crowd that can’t shoot straight.

And hold on one cotton picking minute: It’s worth noting that plenty of white people picked cotton. The first recorded use of the term “cotton picking” - according to Merriam-Webster - was in 1917, long after slavery had been abolished, so it’s unclear how this expression came to be considered racist.

You do you, Democrats.

But the party that embraces Ralph Northam and Jay Jones doesn’t have the moral authority to lecture Jen Kiggans about anything.

It’s too dang dangerous down there.

As a public service, we asked the listeners of “The Kerry and Mike Show” to call in with their suggestions for some slogans to lure tourists back to the Beach, to augment the millions the city is spending on public relations.

Here are a few of the best:

Virginia Beach. Bring The Gang!

Virginia Beach. We Aim For Tourists!

Virginia Beach. Give It A Shot!

Virginia Beach. Not As Bad As Chicago!

Virginia Beach: There’s a Level 1 Trauma Center Nearby!

Let’s hear yours.

No, the court did not “block the peoples’ choice” neither did it “toss out the new congressional map.” The court tossed out the referendum that would have created the new congressional districts because Democrats in the General Assembly violated the state constitution to hastily bring it to a vote.

Low IQ people were screaming and gnashing their teeth on Friday, wondering why Florida and Tennessee could simply redraw their congressional maps while the courts blocked Virginia from doing so.

How hard is it to understand that this is Virginia? Not Florida, Texas or Tennessee.

We have a beautiful state constitution that makes it arduous to amend the constitution. A process that should take years not months. That’s intentional, by the way.

There are rules regarding timing, notice and intervening General Assembly sessions that govern when a proposed amendment can be placed before the public. There are requirements that the language of a ballot question be clear and neutral. Those constitutional provisions were created to stop precisely what Democrats just tried to do: They wanted to ram through an amendment without giving the people adequate time to consider it. Additionally, early voters had no opportunity to consider where their representatives stood on the amendment before casting their ballots.

The Democrats, lead by Louise Lucas -whose businesses were raided last week by the FBI - flashed their middle fingers to the Constitution. They were not about to let that fine document stand in the way of disenfranchising millions of Republican voters.

Democrats so thirsted for those additional congressional seats that they were willing to break laws to get them.

Shame on the party for putting Virginia through this. The illegal referendum cost Virginia roughly $14 million to stage. Pity the court didn’t order the party reimburse the taxpayers.

As insane as that power grab was, it doesn’t compare to the deranged reaction from the sore losers after Friday’s ruling.

Democrats lost in court and immediately set about plotting to take a blowtorch to the rule of law.

The New York Times reports that Hakeem Jeffries is so desperate to be Speaker of the House that he’s been noodling with other Democrats about whether Virginia could immediately lower the mandatory retirement age of Supreme Court justices to 53, forcing all seven members to resign - they range in age from 70 to 54 - then fill their spots with justices who will do the bidding of the party. The new court could toss out Friday’s ruling, a move that would destroy the independence of the state Supreme Court.

Sure, Dems, give the first black female chief justice the boot and see how that plays with the base. I dare you.

During a private discussion on Saturday that included Democratic House members from Virginia and Representative Hakeem Jeffries of New York, the minority leader, the lawmakers vented anger at their defeat at the Virginia Supreme Court, spoke about a collective determination to flip two or three Republican-held seats under the existing map and discussed a bank-shot proposal to redraw the congressional lines anyway, according to three people who participated in the call and two others who were briefed on it.

The conversation reflected the desperation and fury that have gripped the party after the state Supreme Court struck down a favorable map that had been ratified by voters. The most dramatic idea they discussed — which would involve an unusual gambit to replace the entire state Supreme Court, with a goal of reinstating their gerrymandered map — drew mixed reactions on the call, said the people, and it was not clear that it would even be viable,

One key to the plan would be having Democrats in Richmond lower the mandatory retirement age for state Supreme Court justices, an idea that began circulating among state lawmakers and members of Congress after a column proposing a version of the idea was published on Friday night in The Downballot, a progressive newsletter.

Sounds unhinged - and no doubt illegal - but Dems are already lining up behind it.

Desperation and fury are no way to govern. Sane Democrats ought to urge their fellow travelers to calm down, accept the decision of the court and look to the future. They’ve blown enough of their political capital on this chicanery.

Fat chance of that happening. There are simply too few sane Dems left in Virginia to force the party to act rationally.

by James C. Sherlock

This is a real-life horror story.  

One hundred and two serious incidents with injuries reported since 2019 by a single provider of community-based residential services whose tiny houses host a maximum of 24 intellectually and developmentally disabled adults at a time. Not counting those who died.  

This is the story of Lucas Lodge, a Portsmouth provider of community-based services. It is a story of that provider’s repeated inability to run its program in compliance with the law, and the consequences, including deaths and serious injuries to the people it is paid to protect.  

And it is the story of the state regulator, which inspected, found serial violations of safety and health regulations, read the reports of injuries and deaths, and did virtually nothing.

Legal Jeopardy for the Commonwealth

The executive branch of the Virginia government has, for at least 40 years, violated the letter, the spirit, or both of state and federal laws intended to protect the health and safety of the less fortunate. This author has reported on those issues regarding nursing homes for a decade.  

But successive Virginia administrations have, as with nursing homes, repeatedly cited both institutional providers and providers of community-based services for persons with developmental and intellectual disabilities (DD/ID) for violations of state and federal laws without imposing significant sanctions. That is a more consequential legal matter than with nursing homes.  

The 1999 Supreme Court Olmstead v. L.C. decision (527 U.S. 581) ruled that unjustified segregation of people with disabilities in institutions is unlawful discrimination under the ADA. It established that states must provide community-based services when appropriate, desired by the individual, and reasonably accommodated.

The Commonwealth has twice (in 2012 and 2020) been sued by the Justice Department for violating Olmstead and subject to orders from Senior Judge John A. Gibney Jr. of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia requiring compliance. Since January of 2025, Virginia has been permanently enjoined by that same court to comply with the specific settlement agreement criteria certified in the 2020 order and enshrined in Virginia law and regulations since August of that year.  

The evidence presented here raises questions about whether the state has ever tried to comply with those orders.

The Commonwealth

• The Department of Behavioral Health and Disability Services (DBHDS) is the state regulator. It licenses providers, investigates complaints, inspects licensees’ compliance with the court-approved settlement agreement, and imposes sanctions. Code of Virginia § 37.2-419. Human rights, licensing enforcement, and sanctions; notice and 12VAC35-115-240. Human rights enforcement and sanctions are but two of the references.  

• The General Assembly tabled a bill in 2026 to strengthen DBHDS’s ability to impose the strongest sanctions. See Betrayal, the first article in this series, for the details.

• The Virginia Department of Health inspects institutional DD/ID settings for Medicaid certification, but it does not inspect Medicaid waiver community-based services.  

• DMAS continues to spend Medicaid dollars for every provider in the program.  

• Portsmouth is funded by the state and federal governments to screen clients for providers. Its community services board, operating as a city department, serves as the single point of entry into publicly funded developmental disability services. Given the deaths and injuries, the Portsmouth police department and rescue squads surely responded to Lucas Lodge.

Lucas Lodge

As president pro tempore of the state senate, L. Louise Lucas, D-Portsmouth, is perhaps the most powerful legislator in Virginia. She is chair of the Virginia Senate Finance & Appropriations Committee, which oversees the state’s budget, taxation, and spending. She also serves on the Education and Health Committee, which oversees the Departments of Medical Assistance Services (DMAS), Behavioral Health and Developmental Services (DBHDS), and Health (VDH).

Lucas’s primary business, Lucas Lodge, LLC, is regulated by DBHDS and has been funded by Medicaid since 2005. It provides residential, transportation, and day-support services to individuals with intellectual disabilities in the City of Portsmouth. She serves as CEO and President of Lucas Lodge and owns the properties in which it provides services.   

Sanctions directed under 12VAC30-122-120. Provider requirements: D. Providers with a history of noncompliance can result in the mandatory initiation of proceedings to terminate the provider’s Medicaid participation agreement for serial violations of plans of correction. Lucas Lodge records show 46 citations for failure to implement corrective action plans in only five years. That seems to qualify it as a serial violator.  

The financial impact statement (FIS) to House Bill 1380 (HB 1380) in the 2026 General Assembly raised claims that DBHDS is understaffed, restricting its ability to pursue license termination. It authorized three new FTE’s to address it. It was tabled in the House Appropriations Committee.

This author cannot vouch for the implication in the FIS that the department is helpless without more staff, but Lucas Lodge has been “sanctioned” only to attend mandatory online training.

Inspection results

Since 2021, DBHDS inspectors have cited Lucas Lodge for 217 violations of Virginia law and regulations enacted in 2020 to comply with the court settlement. Most disturbingly, Lucas Lodge has been cited repeatedly for “systemic non-compliance,” including repeated failures to comply with mandated plans of correction for previous violations. 

The company has operated three services under the Lucas Lodge LLC brand under separate DBHDS service numbers:

• 341-02-006 DD (Developmental Disability) Center-Based Day Support Service for Adults;

• 341-01-001 DD Residential Group Home Service for Adults; and

• 341-01-011 DD Residential Supervised Living Service for Adults (not currently available online but downloaded in advance of its deletion).

Online records of state inspections of Lucas Lodge by DBHDS date only to 2021, after the new court-mandated regulations took effect. The citations are all directly linked to violations of state laws and regulations designed to protect the health and safety of disabled individuals in its care. As noted in the previous article, the inspection records for 341-01-001 are no longer available, but the author-curated Lucas Lodge Inspection Results spreadsheet captures them.  

Inspection Results is designed to be sorted by the criteria in columns M through Q. Those sorts give interesting results. For example,

• 44 instances in five years of provider non-compliance in the domain of Safety, and Freedom From Harm;

• 112 citations that were repeated from previous inspections, thus, by DBHDS definition, “non-compliant systemic.”

• 69 citations for provider non-compliance related to serious incidents; and

• 171 related to risk and quality.

All of that in only 5 years from a single provider.

(Note: To research the inspections personally, go here, type Lucas Lodge as Provider Name, click “submit,” then click on the provider name link presented, then select one of the two service licenses, then select “inspections” and work your way through them.) 

Death and Serious Incident reports

Then there is the Lucas Lodge Death and Serious Incident reports spreadsheet (go to sheet one).

• Nine deaths. We know from a December 2025 report by the disAbility Law Center of Virginia that most deaths in these circumstances are badly reported and not autopsied.

• Not counting the nine deaths, there were 143 serious incidents with injuries reported since 2019. Of those, 102 were in Lucas Lodge’s DD Residential Group Home Service for Adults, which has only a maximum of 24 residents at a time, four in each of six houses.  

Bottom line

The author has never seen anything remotely like this. Those numbers cannot be explained away.

Bacon’s Rebellion contacted Lucas Lodge and DBHDS separately via email to get their perspectives on the issues raised and to invite them to comment on the record for this series.  No responses were received. The offer stands.

The DBHDS inspectors did their jobs. In five years, they recorded that Lucas Lodge violated 217 state regulations written to comply with the 2020 court settlement.  The records of deaths and injuries were, in many respects, predicted by the inspection results. 

What happened, or rather did not happen, after that is the issue.

Just how serious did the suspected fraud have to be for Biden’s politicized DOJ to investigate a Democrat?

The Washington Post reported, The specifics of the probe remain unclear, though the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss details of the investigation, said it involved allegations of bribery related to the cannabis dispensary. One of those officials said the investigation began during the Biden administration.

Once Trump is taken out of the equation, Lucas’ allies will inevitably pivot and claim the investigation is racially motivated.

Let them. The search warrants were signed by a federal judge. Ten separate locations were reportedly raided yesterday.

While the media is focusing on Lucas’ cannabis business, her bigger problem may be with Lucas Lodge LLC her Medicaid waiver service for the disabled. Investigative reporter Jim Sherlock has been reporting on widespread corruption in Virginia’s nursing home and home health industry on baconsrebellion.com. We plan to run his series beginning this weekend.

Last time we checked, Lucas had not been arrested. Right on cue, she issued a defiant statement vowing to keep fighting for the people of Portsmouth.

Laughable.

Lucas is best known for fighting for jobs for her family members.

She resisted the urge to spew vulgarities on X as is her custom. This was from earlier this week:

I was out partying my ass off all weekend long, where the hell were you? https://t.co/u11X9E0UjC

— L. Louise Lucas (@SenLouiseLucas) May 5, 2026

This isn’t Lucas’ first brush with the law. During the George Floyd hysteria, this happened.

Just reading through the Louise Lucas archives surfaced during this news cycle and you gotta appreciate her being refuted by body cam in a lawsuit over a 2020 protest that destroyed a monument and injured a man. Very “those words never left my lips.” pic.twitter.com/JeRznwzeyI

— Mary Katharine Ham (@mkhammer) May 6, 2026

Various news organizations on Wednesday described Lucas as a “close ally” of Gov. Abigail Spanberger. Some Dems dispute this and there have been rumors this week of sniping between the Spanberger camp and the Lucas team as they worry that the Virginia Supreme Court is about to declare the recent redistricting referendum that Dems spent upwards of $60 million on illegal.

But the fact is, Spanberger sought out and accepted Lucas’ endorsement and relied on her to ram through much of the Democrats’ radical agenda in the recent General Assembly session.

Asked to comment yesterday, the governor demurely refused, clearly distancing herself from the tainted senator.

Republicans were not reticent. Fox reports that “After news of the raids broke, Virginia state Delegate Wren Williams, a Republican and major opponent of the Spanberger-backed redistricting plan, told Fox News Digital that ‘Rumors of corruption and pay-to-play politics have long surrounded the Democratic Party’s infrastructure in Virginia. However, no one has been willing to do anything to hold these power brokers accountable’.”

It looks like federal law enforcement may be getting ready to do just that.

The typical Dominion Energy Virginia electric bill could rise another $22 this summer to cover the rising cost of the fuel it uses and the cost of its purchased power, according to the company’s latest filing on its fuel chargewith the State Corporation Commission.

The utility’s costs of fuel and purchased power are collected in a direct pass-through charge designated Rider A on bills, and for residential consumers it is one of the charges still visible on their monthly invoice. Right now, a consumer using 1,000 kilowatt hours per month is paying $29.68 for the current fuel charge and another $2.91 to slowly pay off the fuel cost spike that resulted from the war in Ukraine.

Dominion’s application projects its fuel costs for the 12 months beginning July 1 as $2.7 billion and seeks recovery of over $1 billion for the costs it did not anticipate during this current 12-month period. If collected all at once starting July 1 the charge for 1,000 kwh would reach $51.47 month, plus the $3 bucks in deferred costs.

It wasn’t that long ago that $50 a month would cover the whole electric bill in many households. At the beginning of 2026 here in Henrico a 1,000-kwh residential bill totaled $171.51, including the local taxes. The full fuel cost would be almost a 13 percent increase.

It has been a busy time over at the SCC with Dominion filings. The only newspaper that even pretends to cover the SCC, the Richmond Times-Dispatch, chose to ignore the fuel filing and instead wrote this week about an SCC decision on solar customers who use net metering. That’s about 65,000 customers. All 2.7 million Dominion customers care about the fuel charge, which is often an even larger portion of an industrial customer bill. 

The media in Virginia is also still ignoring the flashing red warning light about the coming costs of compliance with the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. The futures market price that was the basis of this Bacon’s Rebellion post, $41 per ton, started this morning instead at $52 per ton.

As it did with the fuel cost surge coming out of the Russia-Ukraine War, Dominion is also seeking to spread out some of the cost surge that has resulted from the U.S. war on Iran. It wants to take a large portion of the arrearage and spread that out over several years in a process called “securitization.”

Legislation to allow that was appended to that 2026 hodgepodge “affordable energy” bill (you have to just laugh) that Governor Abigail Spanberger (D) sought to amend. Several of her amendments were rejected so she might veto it. This will give the utility another argument to use with her to get her final approval on the whole package.

Dominion’s proposal is that it raise the fuel charge Rider A only $7.97 as of July 1, to about $37.65 per 1,000 kwh. The deferred charge it proposes, which would live on the bill for multiple years, would add another $1.80. The monthly all-in fuel costs would still reach $42.65, almost $5 of that for delayed payments.

As was established the last time Dominion did this, putting the fuel bill on this long payback schedule (think “credit card”) doesn’t save ratepayers money. And it is a moneymaker for whatever entity issues the bonds and earns a nice market interest rate. But in this age of pretend affordability, appearances are more important that economic truth. 

Republished with permission from Bacon’s Rebellion.

Under the guise of health care, Ohio pays people to go to Medicaid beneficiaries’ homes to perform “homemaking” and “chores” like cooking and cleaning. The people performing these “personal services” tasks don’t even have to be health care workers — and in many cases, are actually relatives of the Medicaid recipient.

According to a Daily Wire data analysis, Ohio spent a billion dollars on home health care in 2024, the last year for which data is available.

Since the services are performed inside private residences, there is no way to know whether the workers went at all, or what they’re actually doing in exchange for taxpayer funds. An infinite number of small black boxes inside a black box. Multiple signs said the service provided, and billed to the government, was sometimes just “companionship & conversation.”

As people have realized the United States government will pay them to hang out with their own families, northeast Columbus has seen its economy replaced by businesses that bill Medicaid. And Columbus, a city with the second largest Somali population in the country, has become, on the surface, the most unhealthy city on the planet.

“Well if the government is going to pay you to do it,” one home health operator told me. “People see it as lucrative, so they just jump on it.

That’s the spirit! Why integrate into a society that has taken you in when you can rob its citizens blind with your cunning schemes?

Pick the owner of a Columbus home health care company at random and look him up in public records, and you are likely to go down an endless rabbit hole: years of unpaid taxes and debts, sometimes criminal records, and an astonishing number of LLCs created in other industries, as if the millions they make from Medicaid are just a side gig.

We went down several of those rabbit holes. In the coming days, you’ll meet:

A politician who founded an $11 million home health care company that he appeared to run part-time — without even mentioning it in his political biography — who funded his campaign with donations from other home health care owners.

A woman who reinvented her janitorial LLC as a “health” provider, then billed Medicaid nearly $100,000 the first month.

A landlord who bought airplanes after renting space to hundreds of home health care companies that billed Medicaid a quarter of a billion dollars.

A million-dollar Medicaid business owned by a couple with repeated fraud, violence, and theft convictions.

A man who went to prison for Medicaid fraud but told the government he was too broke to pay restitution, while his neighbors and associates preside over a poverty-program empire.
An accountant who lost his license for stealing public funds, then opened a $7 million home health company using the address of a convicted money launderer’s teenage son.

These are not business geniuses, nor even people with any training or specialty in the health field. They have often failed at a variety of businesses before suddenly becoming millionaires in home health care.

The problem is, America is considered a relatively high-trust country. We have strong social cohesion and most Americans will act honestly even without the threat of laws or punishment. 

Somalia, on the other hand, is considered one of the most corrupt nations on earth. Based on the 2025 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), South Sudan and Somalia are generally ranked as “the most corrupt countries in the world, often tying for the bottom spot…These nations struggle with severe public sector corruption, lack of institutional oversight, and ongoing conflict.”

Import thousands of people from corrupt-third world hellholes and this is what you get. President Trump is correct, we don’t need any more immigrants from Somalia. We need to deport the ones who have been bilking taxpayers.

Somalian migrants in Ohio quickly saw an opportunity to scam taxpayers with a Medicaid system that is devilishly hard to monitor.

The government cannot be meaningfully monitoring all the people it writes million-dollar checks to in Columbus. They all share combinations of just a few names, like Ahmed Mohamed and Mohamed Ahmed. Documents reviewed by The Daily Wire show individuals will spell their own name multiple different ways within a single document. And many of them list their birthday as January 1, because their birthdates are unknown.

The business model is simple: a 40-year-old Somali immigrant gets paid for spending time with, and maybe cooking for, his own 65-year-old mother. The middleman is one of thousands of “home health” firms that have the “NPI” number necessary to bill Medicaid.

The 40-year-old becomes an “employee” of that company, but has no clients other than his mother. There is no way to verify whether he actually even provided the “services” — unless his own mother is willing to testify against him.

A perfect set-up for thieves.

Let’s hope Rosiak’s reporting leads to indictments, deportations and an end to immigration from Somalia. 

American taxpayers are sick of the grift.

Host: "You campaigned with Graham Platner… you said, 'He's your kind of man.' … This is a guy who had a chest tattoo with a N*zi symbol… It's a guy that reportedly wrote 'people concerned about r*pe should take some responsibility for themselves and not get so f*cked up that they end up having s*x with someone they don't mean to.' … I'm just curious why you think he's your kind of man?"

Warren: "He has apologized… I'm there to stand with him and to help in that fight."

Nice guy. I can see why Warren’s smitten.

Now, about Spirit Airlines. In 2022 the troubled airline attempted to merge with Jet Blue. JetBlue offered $3.8 billion in cash to buy Spirit. Shareholders and unions endorsed the move. The combined company would have held 9% of the U.S. market against the big four airlines that already owned 80%.

Hardly a monopoly.

That move was blocked largely at the urging of Warren. She pressured the worst Transportation Secretary in history, Pete Buttigieg, to join her in pressuring Biden and Attorney General Merrick Garland. Biden’s DOJ sued to block the merger and a federal judge killed the deal in January 2024.

Here they are, bragging about their efforts.

Blocking the JetBlue–Spirit merger didn’t protect consumers from a monopoly. It protected the actual giants, Delta, American, United, and Southwest, from a stronger low-cost challenger. A combined JetBlue-Spirit could have pressured the incumbents on price and forced real… pic.twitter.com/kIjKXKcTRr

— Election Wizard (@ElectionWiz) May 2, 2026

Here's Biden Department of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg bragging about blocking the Spirit Airlines merger with JetBlue that would have saved the airline from bankruptcy. I don't think America has ever had a more incompetent Secretary of Transportation than Mayor Pete. pic.twitter.com/Pgdjf5Ng6U

— Izengabe (@Izengabe_) May 1, 2026

As result of the work of these two economic illiterates, Spirit Airlines ceased flying at 3 a.m. Sunday. An estimated 17,000 workers lost their jobs. Beyond Spirit employees, however, catering employees will lose their jobs, so will baggage crews, gate agents. Hotels and car rental companies in the 70 cities Spirit serve will suffer.

All because one lying member of Congress, who doesn’t understand business and in fact hates capitalism, got her way.

Warren was tap dancing on Sunday, trying to blame Donald Trump and higher gas prices for the bankruptcy. Nice try, but a JetBlue/Spirit airline would have weathered this short storm.

Thanks, Massachusetts, for sending this belligerent loon back to the U.S. Senate over and over again.

Physicians are suing to block a ballot question they say conceals the true scope of the legislation.

A group of physicians and other medical professionals along with a local voter have filed a lawsuit challenging an abortion related constitutional amendment on Virginia’s ballot this November. The complaint alleges that the ballot question adopted by the General Assembly fails to inform voters about significant and potentially harmful provisions in the adopted legislation.

The amendment would overturn significant aspects of Virginia regulatory authority, including overturning parental consent requirements and abortion safety standards.

The Founding Freedoms Law Center (FFLC) filed the suit on behalf of the plaintiffs, the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, the Virginia Medical Freedom Alliance, and Meagan Kade, against the Virginia Department of Elections and others. The complaint alleges the ballot language fails to notify the voters of key aspects of the legislation.

The actual ballot question says:

Should the Constitution of Virginia be amended to (i) protect the freedom to make personal decisions about prenatal care, childbirth, postpartum care, birth control, abortion, miscarriage management, and fertility care; (ii) protect doctors, nurses, and patients from being punished for these decisions; and (iii) allow for restrictions on access to abortion during the third trimester of pregnancy except when the patient’s health is at risk or the pregnancy cannot survive?

The legal challenge alleges the ballot language “profoundly misleads by omission and misrepresentation.”

Another allegation in the lawsuit concerns Virginia Code 30-13, which requires the Clerk of the House of Delegates to present copies of the proposed amendment to the clerks of Virginia’s circuit courts to publicize so voters are aware. This was required to be done 3 months prior to the November 2025 general election. It didn’t happen.

The plaintiffs ask the court to declare and direct the amendment question invalid. Specifically, because the ballot language violates the Virginia Constitution and the proposed amendment did not get distributed and posted as required.

What’s Actually in the Legislation

The legal complaint outlines issues in the actual constitutional amendment that the ballot question omits:

Terminating Virginia’s statutory requirement for parental consent prior to a minor obtaining an abortion, and likewise removing notification requirements;

Ending Virginia’s ability to limit the performance of sexual sterilization procedures on consenting minors, removing potential parental consent or notice requirements;

Allowing any person—licensed or not—to perform abortions (currently, only licensed medical professionals can do so), by prohibiting the Commonwealth from penalizing any person who does;

Ending or severely limiting Virginia’s ability to set safety standards for the performance of abortions;

Ending Virginia’s criminal prohibition against adults engaging in consensual sex with minors of reproductive age (i.e., statutory rape laws);

Terminating Virginia’s ability to restrict sexual conjugal visits for prisoners; and

Ending or severely limiting Virginia’s ability to regulate the assisted reproductive technology industry, including the performance of in vitro fertilization, commercial surrogacy, human genetic engineering (e.g., the creation of “designer babies”), reproductive child cloning, etc.

A voter reading the ballot question would not know about any of these serious issues.

The question also implies there will be greater restrictions on third-trimester abortions. The opposite is true. The amendment would remove current restrictions on late-term abortions, such as requiring three doctors to sign off, or only allowing a third-trimester abortion due to a substantial risk to the mother’s life or health. It would, in fact, allow a third-trimester abortion for virtually any reason, with only the abortionist having to sign off on it.

Democrats love to use deceptive language—nothing new here. Their recent redistricting ballot question put before Virginia voters in April demonstrates that tactic. The deliberately confusing wording left voters uncertain about what they were voting on.

Are Democrats concerned the merits of the legislation won’t pass the scrutiny of voters?

Democrats Define Contraception to Include Sterilization

While the proposed constitutional amendment doesn’t define contraception, another law just adopted by Democrats does offer a definition. House Bill 6, signed into law by Gov. Spanberger (D-VA) dictates a “right to contraception” — defined as “the use of contraceptives or sterilization procedures.”

Restoration News previously reported concerns with HB 6, pointing out that it would establish a right to obtain contraceptives and sterilization with no age limit or parental consent required. The proposed constitutional amendment provides “a right to reproductive freedom” including contraception.

Virginia has a dark history of forced sterilizations of people with disabilities. In 1924 Virginia Democrat Governor E. Lee Trinkle signed into law the “Eugenical Sterilization Act.” The legislation allowed a state institution to sterilize a patient if it was determined the patient’s mentally deficient traits were hereditary. Among those the state could sterilize: someone deemed feebleminded or epileptic. From 1924 to 1979 nearly 8,000 Virginians in state hospitals were sterilized.

Untold Harm to Virginia with No Consequence

If the new constitutional amendment is adopted, it could harm vulnerable Virginians. The amendment prohibits prosecutions against anyone aiding or assisting someone exercising their “right to reproductive freedom.” While the legislative language indicates the patient would be required to give consent, there are vulnerable Virginians who may not have the capacity to consent. Could a doctor sterilize a mentally ill patient not competent to make their own decisions without any negative consequences?

While the legal complaint does not address the issue of sterilization of those deemed mentally ill, the filing does share concerns about the sterilization of minors without parental consent.

The legislation raises fundamental concerns about parental rights, medical standards, and the protection of vulnerable citizens. The lawsuit filed by FFLC argues that voters deserve full transparency before casting their vote on a life-altering constitutional amendment.

Republished with permission from Restoration News.

On April 21, when many Virginians were focused on the gerrymander election, the federal Department of Justice (DOJ) made a bombshell announcement: The innocuously-named Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), which for decades has posted a “Hate Map” where they targeted many right-wing individuals and groups, often including those holding pro-life, biblical, and/or conservative views, was charged with 11 counts of wire fraud, false statements to a federally insured bank, and conspiracy to commit money laundering.

In sum, the accusation from a grand jury claims the SPLC ran a kind of massive shell game. The SPLC portrayed themselves to the public and their donors as a left-wing group fighting what they branded as “hate,” but in fact they were funneling more than $3 million of their donor’s cash to the very right-wing groups they claimed to fight, so that those right-wing groups would become more visible, which would further frighten and outrage SPLC donors to give more money, so that the SPLC could then give to more right-wing groups, in a never-ending cycle.

One of the most high-visibility cases involves $270,000, which the SPLC allegedly paid to a member of the online leadership chat group that planned the 2017 so-called “Unite the Right” hate rally in Charlottesville.

The findings were made public by FBI Director Kash Patel and Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, who is in that position after the recent departure of former AG Pam Bondi.

Seeking clarification, a reporter asked Blanche: “You’re alleging that the Southern Poverty Law Center was paying the leaders of the KKK and other groups?”

Acting AG Todd Blanche: “I’m not alleging it. The grand jury returned an indictment that says that.”

Here is an excerpt from Blanche’s statement:

“Good afternoon. Today, a few minutes ago, in the Middle District of Alabama, a grand jury returned an 11-count indictment charging the Southern Poverty Law Center with six counts of wire fraud, four counts of bank fraud, and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering.

“According to the charges and the indictment, the SPLC is a non-profit entity that purports to fight white supremacy and racial hatred by reporting on extremist groups and conducting research to inform law enforcement groups with the goal of dismantling these groups.

“As the indictment describes, the SPLC was not dismantling these groups. It was instead manufacturing the extremism it purports to oppose by paying sources to stoke racial hatred.

“The indictment describes this conduct in detail. But one troubling example is that the SPLC was paying a member of the leadership group that planned the Unite the Right protest in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017, which resulted in the death of one person and injured dozens more.

“This particular person, being paid by the SPLC, allegedly received approximately two hundred and seventy thousand dollars over the course of eight years.”

One can understand this bizarre situation this way: To get the donations and exposure they wanted, the SPLC needed more racism in America than there actually is, so they had to pay to manufacture it. Simply put, the demand for racism in the US exceeded the supply, so more extremism had to be created, even if the SPLC had to commit fraud and law-breaking to do it. 

The rally not only worsened racial, political, and cultural divides in the nation and gave Charlottesville a public relations disaster that lingers to this day, but it also proved deadly. James Alex Fields Jr., a right-wing extremist who drove to Charlottesville from his native Ohio, on August 12 deliberately drove his car into a crowd protesting the “Unite the Right” rally, injuring 35 and killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer.

Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe ordered state police to monitor the situation, and one police helicopter crashed, killing two officers.

The deadly rally, coming in the first year of President Trump’s first year in office, put another black eye on his new administration, further hampering the launch of his efforts. Taking snippets of Trump’s comments wildly out of context, his opponents claim he said Neo-Nazis and white supremacists are “very fine people,” which even Snopes debunked.

Once these hoaxes take root in the public mind, they are very hard to dislodge, even after evidence to the contrary surfaces.

Many watching images from the 2017 rally suspected it was a hoax, in that it seemed to lack grass-roots authenticity. The “very fine people” misquote was the second hoax, and now the recent charges against the SPLC led podcaster Kyle Becker to exclaim, “So, this was a HOAX upon a HOAX upon a HOAX. An Unholy Trinity of Hoaxes.”

Also remarkable, Joe Biden, in his April 25, 2019, video on Twitter/X announcing his run for the presidency, said the rally in Charlottesville inspired him to run.

With supreme and tragic irony, a grand jury has charged that the key event launching the Biden presidency, which led to the premature deaths of three innocent people, was itself funded and fueled by some who claimed they opposed it.

Roanoke resident Scott Dreyer leads a team of educators teaching English and ESL to a global audience. This article is republished with permission from The Roanoke Star and Bacon’s Rebellion.

The King gifted the President a framed facsimile of the 1879 design plans for the Resolute Desk.

The President gifted His Majesty a custom facsimile of a letter written from John Adams to John Jay in 1785.⁰
The First Lady gifted Her Majesty six Tiffany’s English King Sterling…

— Libbey Dean (@LibbeyDean_) April 28, 2026

Dear Libbey, stop. Just stop, using “gift’ as a verb. I’m begging you. It’s a noun.

“Gifting” doesn't make you sound smart or sophisticated. No offense, but you sound like a pretentious grammar-class skipper.

Next time, try something like this:

The King gave the President a framed facsimile of the 1879 design plans for the Resolute Desk.

The President gave His Majesty a custom facsimile of a letter written from John Adams to John Jay in 1785.

The First Lady gave Her Majesty six Tiffany’s English King Sterling Silver Teaspoons and White House Honey.

The Queen gave the First Lady a Fiona Rae brooch.

Ah, the elegance!

It’s not just Ms. Dean. This past week, with all the royal gift-giving, was a festival of noun abuse.

There was this, from Politico:

King gifts Trump 1879 framed plans for the Resolute Desk
The president gifted King Charles a custom facsimile of a letter written from John Adams to John Jay in 1785 in which Adams promised to restore the US-UK friendship.

And CBS “gifted” us this:

King Charles gifted President Trump a British World War II relic with his name on it, delivered rousing remarks to Congress, and cracked quite a few historical jokes during his state visit to Washington, D.C., alongside Queen Camilla 

To its credit, the stuffy New York Times got it right:

King Charles III gave President Trump a framed, high-quality reproduction of the 1879 design plans for the Resolute Desk, which is still in the Oval Office. Trump, in return, bestowed the king a framed copy of a 1785 letter written by former President John Adams.

See how easy that is?

Memo to the media: We have plenty of verbs. We don’t need new ones.

Gift is a noun, by the way. Unless it’s being used correctly as an adjective, as in a “gifted pianist” or a “gifted liar.”

Gift is not a verb. Neither is it a gerund. You don’t gift someone. You give them a gift. And “gifting?” Hell, no.

Honestly, this assault on the English language has to stop. 

Before writing this and a similar post several years ago, I checked with Mignon Fogarty, AKA The Grammar Girl.

And if you have 11:02 minutes to spare, you can listen to her podcast where she discusses the new usages of the simple four-letter word, “gift.”

But who wants to spend that long listening to a grammarian? 

Here’s a summary: As it happens, “gift” has been used as a verb for about 400 years.

IN SCOTLAND.

Look around. Do you see the Loch Ness monster? Did you eat haggis for Thanksgiving dinner? Are you wearing a kilt? Do you hear bagpipes? Is your name Sean Connery? If you answered no to all five of these questions, you are not Scottish and you’re not in Scotland. You have no reason to misuse the word “gift.” 

So why the sudden outbreak of “gifting” far from the Highlands?

 
Forgarty blames a 1995 episode of “Seinfeld” called “The Label Maker.” In it, Jerry brags about a label maker he was given by a friend and Elaine says that she was the one who gave the label maker to the person who in turn gave it to Jerry.

“He’s a regifter!” Elaine exclaims.

And the next thing you knew, all of America was taking liberties with this workhorse word.

Ms. Fogarty also insists - although I believe she is wrong - that using gift as a verb is not wrong. It’s simply “grating.”

“Give” is still a much better choice,” concludes Grammar Girl.

I agree.

Potential map of the south without the VRA restrictions Per NYT

Current map:
🔴 Republicans: 65
🔵 Democrats: 24

Potential map:
🔴 Republicans: 77 (+12)
🔵 Democrats: 12 (-12) https://t.co/ZWCApvbpWX pic.twitter.com/aPkYI8iPfX

— OSZ (@OpenSourceZone) April 29, 2026

After all, the South just got the green light.

Yesterday the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that segregating voters based on race was unconstitutional, which means that Southern states that have been hamstrung by the archaic Voting Rights Act can finally get rid of insanely shaped districts that were created simply to lump blacks together.

The Federalist reported, “The U.S. Supreme Court released a bombshell ruling on Wednesday significantly curtailing states’ use of race in the redistricting process.

“Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 … was designed to enforce the Constitution — not collide with it. Unfortunately, lower courts have sometimes applied this Court’s §2 precedents in a way that forces States to engage in the very race-based discrimination that the Constitution forbids,” Associate Justice Samuel Alito wrote for the majority (6-3).

The court held that Louisiana’s black majority districts were the result of illegal racial gerrymandering. Now the state legislature can redraw the maps, which will likely result in two more Republican districts.

We’re long past the time when it was assumed that a black candidate couldn’t win in a majority white district. If I’m not mistaken, a black president was elected and re-elected for a second term in a majority white country.

The most delicious reaction to the Supreme Court decision came from a furious Barack Obama. Remember how hard he campaigned for the Virginia gerrymander? How little he cared for the poor whites in rural areas who were being disenfranchised? His hypocrisy knows no bounds.

Sorry for your loss. Here, have some lobster. https://t.co/e4CiDquBo6 pic.twitter.com/0VovbLWAG7

— Benjamin Domenech (@bdomenech) April 29, 2026

The Supreme Court decided the case on a snake-shaped Louisiana district. Look for Louisiana to quickly redistrict it into something resembling a normal, contiguous congressional district. Mississippi’s Gov. Tate Reeves announced last week that he was going to urge the legislature in Jackson to redistrict as well. And yesterday Florida’s House and Senate voted overwhelmingly to redraw its districts, presumably wiping out most Democrat seats. The bill is on the governor’s desk awaiting his signature.

Good.

If, as Hakeem Jeffries says, we really are engaged in a political war, let’s go. 

SCOTUS: You can’t draw Congressional districts based on the color of people’s skin.

Democrats: this is far-right extremism pic.twitter.com/ZUAnzfHbxD

— Geiger Capital (@Geiger_Capital) April 29, 2026

Oh, and while we’re at it, illegals must be excluded from the next census. Without those millions of aliens, several blue states - California and New York, for instance - will lose seats.

Turns out, rage can be useful.

Major Virginia Redistricting Case update:

The Virginia Supreme Court (#SCOVA) has DENIED the emergency request to stay the injunction of certification of last week's Gerrymandering referendum!

In the 'tea leaves' category, this is as positive a 'tea leaf' as one might imagine!… pic.twitter.com/fw0wedtbEu

— Ken Cuccinelli II (@KenCuccinelli) April 28, 2026

If the court had granted Jones’ wish, the Dems would be smugly doing their happy dance.

So today, I’m reading the tea leaves and dusting off my dancing shoes.

by John Lucas

Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger has just cemented her place in history as one of the most radical and dishonest governors in the country. She has a lot of competition for that title, but she is doing her best to surpass all rivals for the crown.

One of her latest anti-Constitutional scams is to evade the Constitutional process for electing the President by effectively abolishing the Electoral College, which has been a key part of our Constitution and republican system of government since 1789.

Like her efforts to amend the Virginia Constitution, Spanberger’s more recent abuse does not pretend to benefit Virginia voters. In fact, it has the opposite effect by trashing long-established constitutional rights.

Spanberger and her Democrat lap doggies in the General Assembly are attempting to deprive all Virginians of a fundamental right — the right to have a meaningful voice in the election of the President of the United States when they cast their ballots. If they succeed, Virginians will still be able to vote in future presidential elections but their votes will be diluted by over 150 million voters in the other 49 states and the District of Columbia. And Virginia and Virginians will have no say in policing the accountability of other states’ voter fraud and electoral theft.

They hope to accomplish this by entering into an illegal contract with other states. The contract was embodied an amendment to the Code of Virginia that added three new sections to § 24.2 of the Code of Virginia. Spanberger signed the new provisions into law on Monday, April 13.

The National Popular Vote Compact

The new law purports to discard the Electoral College. It adopts the National Popular Vote Compact. The Compact is a contract between the signatory states that will become effective when enough states have signed it to have their cumulative electoral votes control the outcome of presidential elections. When that 270 electoral vote threshold is met, the presidential electors in each signatory state will not be bound to vote for the presidential candidate who wins in their state. Instead Virginia’s (and the other states’) electoral votes will all be awarded to the candidate who garnered the most votes nationwide.

If, after seeing the line-up of presidential candidates or party nominees, a signatory state then has second thoughts about the wisdom of its decision, it may not withdraw from the Compact within six months of the end of the then-current presidential term on January 20 (or January 21 if January 20 falls on a Sunday).

Here is Virginia’s official summary of the changes:

Presidential electors; National Popular Vote Compact. Enters Virginia into an interstate compact known as the Agreement Among the States to Elect the President by National Popular Vote. Article II of the Constitution of the United States gives the states exclusive and plenary authority to decide the manner of awarding their electoral votes. Under the compact, Virginia agrees to award its electoral votes to the presidential ticket that receives the most popular votes in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The compact goes into effect when states cumulatively possessing a majority of the electoral votes have joined the compact. A state may withdraw from the compact; however, a withdrawal occurring within six months of the end of a President’s term shall not become effective until a President or Vice President has qualified to serve the next term. The bill also provides for the manner of appointing electors when such agreement does and does not govern the appointment of electors.

Ramifications and areas of concern

There are numerous undesirable ramifications and areas that should be of serious concern to persons of good faith in either political party. Democrats think that the Covenant favors them today but because they know that the provisions cut both ways, they are placing their bets on the chance that this and other devices will cement their objective of establishing one-party rule far into the future. Otherwise, like Harry Reid’s abolishment of the filibuster for judicial nominees, it could come back to bite them. Some of the concerns are:

• Timing designed to deprive states of flexibility when they need it most — The last three months before any election, especially a presidential election, are a crucial period. That is when many people who do not follow politics closely begin to pay more attention to political events and news. It is when many voters form opinions about the candidates and make their decisions. But during that critical time if a majority of citizens and legislators in a signatory state decide that a particular candidate is not acceptable, there is nothing that they can do to prevent their electoral votes from being cast for that unsuitable candidate despite the majority’s wishes. That is because a state cannot withdraw from the Compact within 6 months of the upcoming presidential inauguration.
  
  That means that irrespective of its voters’ desires, a state is wedded to the winner of the national popular vote by July 20 or 21, at the latest. [See Footnote 1.]
  
  Consider that in recent times the parties’ national conventions are typically held in late July, August, or even early September. That means that a signatory state’s electoral votes could effectively be bound to the winner of the national popular vote at least 3 1/2 months before election day and even before the states know who the nominees will be.

• Stealing one of Americans’ most precious rights — One of our fundamental and most precious rights is the right to cast a meaningful ballot to elect the leader of our country. That right, guaranteed by the Constitution, has essentially been stolen by Spanberger and the states that have adopted the Compact.

• Meaningless votes — The possibility that Virginia’s electoral votes could go to a candidate rejected by a majority of Virginia voters is real and undeniable. A candidate from either party could win in Virginia by a decisive margin, only to see that victory tossed onto the scrap heap when Virginia’s electoral votes went to the other candidate who has been thumped in Virginia but embraced by wide margins in, say, California or Florida. [See footnote 2.]

• Dilution of votes — Virginia’s presidential votes will be allocated, not by its citizens at the polls, but by millions of other voters with the greatest weight coming from the more populous states such as California, New York, Illinois, Texas, and Florida. That is true even if all those states have not entered into the Compact.

• Making it even more difficult to do anything about voter fraud and stealing elections — The compact contains no provisions for resolving issues of voter fraud or election abuse of any nature. So if Virginia authorities believe that vote tallies in another state are corrupted by the absence of any controls over over voter identification, or even suppressed by blatant voter intimidation such as club-wielding thugs at poll sites, they still have no choice but to combine Virginia’s electoral votes with those of a corrupt state.

• An anti-Constitutional scam — The Constitution clearly contemplates individual states making their own decisions and not submitting to governance by other states with different interests. That is why the Framers gave us a republic. The Compact discards that balance, treating Idaho’s interests as identical to New York’s.

• An end-run around the Constitution — The Compact seeks to make a radical change to the method of electing a president that is established in the Constitution. Its “progressive” proponents try to justify but do not hide the fact that they are trying to avoid the constitutional process for making amendments. Amendments cannot be proposed or ratified by popular vote. The amendment process in the Constitution requires 2/3 of both the House and Senate to approve any proposed amendment. A proposed amendment must then be ratified by 3/4 of all states, acting through their legislatures or a convention. Ratification typically must occur within a 7-year time frame. That process, requiring super-majorities of states, not of individual voters, for both proposing and adopting an amendment is a reflection of the Founders’ intent to prevent the “tyranny of the masses.” It is the opposite of the system proposed by Spanberger and the other proponents of the Compact.

The current status of the Blue States’ attempted revolution

With Virginia now on board, the Compact has been adopted by 18 states and the District of Columbia. The adopting states and other information is available here. The signers have a total of 222 electoral votes, leaving them just 48 votes shy of the 270 vote threshold needed to dictate the election outcome.

All of the signatory states voted for the Democratic ticket in the last three presidential elections. There is an agenda here.

There are five states that voted for Trump in 2016, but flipped to Biden in 2020, and then flipped back to Trump in 2024. They are Pennsylvania (19), Georgia (16), Michigan (15), Arizona (11), and Wisconsin (10). None have yet signed onto the Compact. But with a combined total of 71 electoral votes, any four of them could put the rebellion over the top.

If you live in any of those states you should expect a renewed push to pull them into the rebel camp before November 2028.

Even if you live in another state that has not yet joined the anti-Constitutionalist revolution, your state may still be targeted. For example, the state senates of both North Carolina (16 EVs) and Oklahoma (7 EVs) passed the Compact in 2007 and 2015, respectively, as did Arizona’s House in 2016. So those three states with their combined 34 electoral votes also could be prime candidates for a renewed push to add the additional 48 EVs and be able to control the presidential election with the magic 270 EVs. Those states plus either Michigan (15) or Pennsylvania (19) would do the trick.

Look for national money to pour into state legislative races in those states to accomplish the goal of the end run around the Constitution.

The Founding Fathers’ fear of unfettered democracy

If the Compact is fully adopted by the joinder of as few as four additional states, it would move us closer to a nationalized direct democracy. That would realize one of the Founders’ greatest fears. Here is a sampling of their views:

James Madison: “[D]emocracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security, or the rights of property; and have, in general, been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.”

John Adams: “Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.”

John Quincy Adams: “[T]he experience of all former ages had shown that of all human governments, democracy was the most unstable, fluctuating and short-lived.”

Gouverneur Morris, Signer and Penman of the Constitution: “We have seen the tumult of democracy terminate . . . as [it has] everywhere terminated, in despotism. . . . Democracy! savage and wild. Thou who wouldst bring down the virtuous and wise to thy level of folly and guilt.”

A nationwide popular vote for president does not ipso facto convert our democratic republic into a direct democracy. But the Founders established the electoral system to serve as a bulwark against the prospect of mob rule.

That bulwark is now under attack by the “progressives.”

1. I say “at the latest” because, as a practical matter, given the time that it would take a state legislature to decide to withdraw from the Compact, the decision to begin the process would have to begin weeks or months earlier.

2. Here and elsewhere I speak in terms of Virginia because that is where I currently live and we are now suffering under the Spanberger regime. But the concerns and problems stemming from the Compact affect and apply to many other states as well.

Richmonder John A. Lucas publishes the Bravo Blue blog. This column has been republished with permission from Bravo Blue and Bacon’s Rebellion.

Shut up.

Case in point, Gov. Abigail Spanberger.

After merrily campaigning with Jay “Two Bullets” Jones she’s suddenly against violence. This comes after a would-be assassin was stopped just outside of a DC hotel ballroom Saturday night where the president and most members of his cabinet were attending the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

You campaigned with TWO BULLETS. Why the sudden change of heart? https://t.co/ynpoGxKzr9

— kerry dougherty (@kerrydougherty) April 26, 2026

Pity she - and other Democrats - didn’t feel this way six months ago. If they had, Virginia might still have a competent attorney general who doesn’t want his political opponents dead.

No one who campaigned with Jones should be pretending to denounce political violence. They’re fine with it and they should have the decency to sit this one out.

Looking at you, too, Tim Kaine.

Anne and I are so thankful that the President and all other guests at the WHCD last night are safe and for the law enforcement officers who responded and continue to investigate the attack. Violence like this is far too common and deeply stains the moral fabric of our country.

— Tim Kaine (@timkaine) April 26, 2026

Back in June of 2024, the first time a would-be assassin came after Donald Trump and missed blowing off Trump’s head by a fraction of an inch in Butler, Pa., I begged the left to stop with the Hitler-Nazi-fascist-rapist-pedophile talk.

But they can’t help themselves. When it comes to leftists, their loathing of Trump is so deeply psychotic that they constantly goad their unhinged followers to take a shot at the president.

Cole Allen, Saturday’s would-be assassin, wrote a lengthy manifesto declaring he wanted to kill President Trump because he a was a rapist and a pedophile.

Congrats to the dishonest media and the Democrat Party who told these lies enough times that a seemingly intelligent 31-year-old from California decided to rid the world of Trump and members of his cabinet.

Shoot, here’s a reference to Hakeem Jeffries’ incendiary language last week. This guy wants to be Speaker of the House.

Didn't you call for foot soldiers to rise up just 5 days ago, Hakeem Jeffries? Cole Allen rose up, apparently. pic.twitter.com/mMXrDOOZPN

— Tara Servatius (@TaraServatius) April 26, 2026

And finally, here was the unfunny Jimmy Kimmel doing a tasteless spoof of the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. I’m sure his unhinged audience found it funny.

Jimmy Kimmel delivered a fake White House Correspondents Dinner speech, saying "Mrs. Trump, you have a glow like an expectant widow." pic.twitter.com/o4a59eYnZl

— Libby Emmons (@libbyemmons) April 26, 2026

As much as the left likes to rail about guns, they’re dangerously prone to violence and obsessed with death. From abortion to euthanasia to wanting their political opponents dead, the increasingly radical Democrat Party is warping the minds of Americans.

God protect our president, and our Republic, from this bunch.