Think More: Friday, May 1, 2025
Leibovitz on what grew Cole Allen, Devine on the Biden vaccine cover-up, the SCOTUS donor-privacy ruling, and more.
The Biden Admin’s COVID Vaccine Cover-Up and Lies Can No Longer Be Denied – or the Damage They Caused
Miranda Devine • New York Post
A new interim report from Sen. Ron Johnson’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations documents how Biden FDA officials buried Dr. Ana Szarfman’s data-mining analysis flagging cardiac death, Bell’s palsy, and pulmonary infarction as statistically significant safety signals. She was ordered to “cease and desist” in September 2021, the same month Joe Biden announced the federal vaccine mandates.
The Party With the Nazi Tattoo
Chuck Schumer and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee have committed millions to electing Graham Platner, a candidate with a Totenkopf tattoo, a record of Hamas apologetics, and a documented obsession with Jewish influence in American life. Mandel’s verdict: if this isn’t the bottom, the bottom doesn’t exist.
What Would It Take for Democrats to Abandon a Progressive Candidate?
David Harsanyi • Washington Examiner
With Janet Mills out and the institutional party rallying behind Platner, Harsanyi catalogs the disqualifications a self-described communist with an SS-skull tattoo can survive on the contemporary Left. The only true heresy left, he concludes, is openly supporting Israel, as John Fetterman has discovered.
DOJ Sues New Jersey Over Laws Giving Illegal Aliens In-State Tuition, Says Citizens Treated as ‘Second-Class’
The Justice Department’s ninth such lawsuit targets New Jersey’s policy of providing in-state tuition and financial aid to illegal aliens regardless of citizenship. Similar cases in Texas, Kentucky, and Oklahoma have already produced rulings striking down comparable laws; suits are pending in Illinois, Minnesota, Virginia, Nebraska, and California.
After Gavin
Chris Bray • Tell Me How This Ends
California’s high-speed rail cost has hit $231 billion against a $35 billion state deficit, with single-tracked sections that defeat the bullet-train premise. Bray’s verdict on the Newsom legacy: a historic accomplishment in the engineering of decline, the Ozymandias monument of one-party governance.
Twitter Files, Southern Poverty Law Center Edition: Hate Inflation?
Taibbi pulls SPLC correspondence from the Twitter Files showing the now-indicted nonprofit was an early collaborator on the same surveillance-and-misinformation architecture that produced Hamilton 68. When you are paid handsomely to find hate, you find it.
Unanimous SCOTUS Rebukes New Jersey for Intimidating Pro-Life Groups, Ignoring Precedents
A 9-0 Gorsuch opinion in First Choice Women’s Resource Centers v. Platkin slaps down former AG Matthew Platkin’s subpoena demanding donor lists from a pro-life pregnancy ministry, restoring federal-court access for First Amendment plaintiffs. Roberts’s First Amendment Court holds, even when ideologues across the aisle agree on the outcome.
Supreme Court Puts Big Brother on Trial — and Your Privacy Too
Betsy McCaughey • New York Post
McCaughey on Chatrie v. United States, the geofence-warrant case asking whether police can compel Google to surrender the location data of every device within a radius of a crime scene. Roberts: “What’s to prevent the government from using this to find out the identities of everybody at a particular church, a particular political organization?”
IRS Weaponized Johnson Amendment to Target Conservative Pastors While Ignoring Liberals, DOJ Finds
Steven Richards • Just the News
The Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias documents Biden IRS investigations into conservative churches over the content of their sermons, while liberal pulpits openly praying for Democrat candidates went unbothered. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche calls the contrast stark; the report ranges across 17 federal agencies.
No, Iran Is Not Winning, and Yes, There Is a Strategy
Strom argues that Operation Epic Fury has unfolded according to a coherent plan: degrade IRGC infrastructure, disrupt the regime’s internal workings, and squeeze the economy that funds them. In the resulting game of chicken over the Strait of Hormuz, Trump is driving a Mack truck and the mullahs a Yugo.
The Education of Tomas Cole Allen
Leibovitz reads the would-be assassin’s manifesto not as an unhinged screed but as standard Democratic talking points, the wholesome product of a moral crisis dressed in the language of Ted Lieu and Cory Booker. The remedy, he argues, is not civility lectures but a complete and resolute rejection of the elite incitement that grew Allen in the first place.
