May 2, 2026 at 9:47 AM EDT
Mike's Blog Round-Up

The lives of a misanthropic scientist and his daughter are going along just fine until a spaceship full of horny men show up and upend everything. Also, there's a robot that can produce unlimited quantities of excellent booze, and an invisible monster animated by veteran Disney artist Joshua Meador, who was on loan to MGM for this picture. Yes, in New York City, on this day in 1956, audiences were treated to the theatrical premiere of Forbidden Planet. This was a serious science fiction movie with a real budget, excellent special effects, and a stacked cast including Leslie Nielsen, Anne Francis, and Walter Pidgeon (and Robby the Robot). It used an early all-electronic soundtrack and drew on Shakespeare's The Tempest as plot scaffolding. All in all, it was a quantum leap in cinematic science fiction and directly inspired a number of later space-travel movies and television shows.

May 2, 2026 at 9:43 AM EDT
Huntington Beach Ordered To Pay $1M For Censoring Library Books

On Monday, an Orange County judge ordered Huntington Beach to pay $960,000 for legal work done by four legal organizations fighting the city's violation of the state's Freedom to Read Act. But the ruling is only tentative.

May 2, 2026 at 9:42 AM EDT
Steve Bannon Claims Voting Rights Act Of 1965 Was Racist Against Southern Whites

After the Kangaroo Supreme Court stripped away key sections of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, MAGA influencer and resident scumbag Steve Bannon said the South was the people who had been oppressed because of the Voting Rights Act, which tried to end racism at the voting booth. Bannon argued, using a dog whistle megaphone, that without racism, the GOP would not have captured the House and would not keep it in the future.

May 1, 2026 at 8:33 PM EDT
Voting Rights Are Out Of Order-in-the-Court

Open thread.

May 1, 2026 at 8:33 PM EDT
Hegseth Can't Defend Making It Easier For US To Kill Civilians

Whiskey Pete Hegseth looked a little less puffy-faced when he testified to the Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday than he had the day before, when he testified to the House Armed Services Committee. But that didn't make his testimony any more sober or fitting for a Secretary of Defense.

May 1, 2026 at 8:32 PM EDT
Fox & Friends Celebrate Workers' Day By Claiming It's 'Anti-American' To Tax The Wealthy

Friday morning, Fox and Friends celebrated May 1, which is International Workers' Day, by ignoring the working class and praising the very rich by describing attempts to tax the billionaire class as anti-American. As is their want, Fox News focused on one person, the mayor of Seattle, and used her to bash the entire working class of the country, in an effort to glorify the very rich.

May 1, 2026 at 8:00 PM EDT
Fox Host Pretends May Day Only Celebrated In Communist Countries

Someone tell this clown John Roberts that May 1 is a public holiday in 171 of the world's 199 countries and territories, making International Workers' Day the planet's most-shared day off. During a segment on this Friday's America Reports with Karoline Leavitt's underling, who's taking her place while she's on maternity leave, Anna Kelly, Roberts decided to use International Workers' Day as an excuse to attack the teachers' unions in Chicago for encouraging students to take the day off.

May 1, 2026 at 4:42 PM EDT
It's Not Trump's Fault: The Republican Copium Starter Pack

Georgia Rep. Buddy Carter joined Maria Bartiromo on her Fox Business Network show to display an alternate reality. Americans are prospering (LOL), and rising gas prices are the fault of Democrats. No, really. "Well, first of all, remember, President Trump promised he'd make us safer and more prosperous," Carter said. "He's made us safer. He's making us safer and making the world safer by assuring that Iran will never have a nuclear weapon."

May 1, 2026 at 2:52 PM EDT
Peter Thiel Starts A New Company To Punish Journalists

Peter Thiel, founder of Palantir and leader of the "PayPal mafia," has a new company designed to punish journalists! Seriously, Thiel is working overtime building new ways to make the world suck for all of us little people. Judd Legum's team over at Popular Information broke a stunning new story about Thiel's new company, Objection AI. Thiel's mass-surveillance company, Palantir, is in the news almost daily, but the billionaire's new venture is nightmare fuel. Popular Information reported:

May 1, 2026 at 2:12 PM EDT
Fox's MacCallum Calls Carving Out Black Congressional Districts 'Offensive'

Fox's MacCallum twists herself in knots defending the Supreme Court basically gutting the Voting Rights Act on this Thursday's The Five . As we already discussed here:

May 1, 2026 at 12:49 PM EDT
Scott Jennings Meltdown: 'Get Your F*cking Hand Out Of My Face!'

Just how is the Iran fiasco going? Not so well, judging by Scott Jennings' reaction. Someone needs a timeout for a while. Source: Mediaite

May 1, 2026 at 12:04 PM EDT
Trump Delusion Continues: Best Poll Numbers I've Ever Had

Donald Trump told Newsmax host Greta Van Susteren that if he was on the ballot for the midterms, Republicans would win in a landslide because he claims he has some of the best poll numbers he's ever had. The man lies so much I don't think he can tell what is true and what is not any longer.