https://hotair.com/greenroom/feed/HotAir is the leading conservative blog for breaking news and commentary covering the Biden administration, politics, media, culture, and current elections.en-usSat, 02 May 2026 00:15:04 -0400<![CDATA[I thought I knew what links were, what did I know? Those tabs are gone forever, I should just let them go, but ...]]>Fri, 01 May 2026 22:00:06 -0400<![CDATA[Ed Morrissey]]><![CDATA[Abby Phillip]]><![CDATA[Anderson Cooper]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[James Comey]]><![CDATA[Graham Platner]]>https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2026/05/01/fridays-final-word-n3814505<![CDATA[Last August when President Trump announced he was sending federal agents in to Washington, DC to help deal with crime, there an almost instant refrain which echoed from every news outlet in the country: Crime has already dropped in DC.]]>Fri, 01 May 2026 21:20:30 -0400<![CDATA[John Sexton]]><![CDATA[Crime]]><![CDATA[DOJ]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[House Oversight Committee]]><![CDATA[Washington]]>https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2026/05/01/investigation-finds-dc-police-officials-manipulated-crime-stats-n3814516<![CDATA[Graham Platner is a piece of work.]]>Fri, 01 May 2026 20:40:23 -0400<![CDATA[Beege Welborn]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[Maine]]><![CDATA[Military]]><![CDATA[Veterans]]><![CDATA[Graham Platner]]>https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/05/01/the-case-of-herr-platner-gets-curiourser-and-curioser-n3814519<![CDATA[Tyler Robinson's defense team has already tried and failed to have the prosecution team disqualified on the grounds that they had a conflict of interest.]]>Fri, 01 May 2026 20:00:33 -0400<![CDATA[John Sexton]]><![CDATA[Charlie Kirk]]><![CDATA[Crime]]><![CDATA[Utah]]>https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2026/05/01/tyler-robinsons-defense-team-wants-prosecutors-held-in-contempt-n3814515<![CDATA[When there is an inexpensive solution to a big problem, what do you think the Los Angeles City government will choose to do?]]>Fri, 01 May 2026 19:20:00 -0400<![CDATA[David Strom]]><![CDATA[California]]><![CDATA[Crime]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Karen Bass]]><![CDATA[Los Angeles]]>https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/05/01/los-angeles-want-your-streetlights-to-work-again-pay-up-n3814513<![CDATA[Politicians get hit with a lot of rhetorical shots from critics. It's part of the job. Some of those shots get ignored or deflected pretty easily and others really seem to stick and dog someone for a while. I think Joe Rogan's most recent comments about Gavin Newsom might be the latter type. Here's the clip that was circulating on X:]]>Fri, 01 May 2026 18:00:42 -0400<![CDATA[John Sexton]]><![CDATA[California]]><![CDATA[Gavin Newsom]]>https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2026/05/01/joe-rogan-blasts-newsom-as-cardboard-cutout-of-a-person-n3814504<![CDATA[Before the commies rose up and ruined everything, the first of May or the time around what would become the first of May, was a period of celebration.]]>Fri, 01 May 2026 17:20:22 -0400<![CDATA[Beege Welborn]]><![CDATA[Andy Ngo]]><![CDATA[Chicago]]><![CDATA[Communism]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Marxism]]>https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/05/01/happy-commie-day-n3814502<![CDATA[Some things are too on-the-nose to be believed immediately, so when Jonathan Turley read about the City of Ann Arbor, Michigan spending $18,000 to remove Community Watch signs in order to foster "inclusivity," he had to check whether it was a Babylon Bee story or if it was real.&nbsp;]]>Fri, 01 May 2026 16:40:01 -0400<![CDATA[David Strom]]><![CDATA[Crime]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Michigan]]><![CDATA[Woke]]>https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/05/01/peak-blue-governance-n3814494<![CDATA[This story is a ball of snakes that stretches back about 2 1/2 years and is still making news this week. I don't think it can be summarized very easily so, if you're not already familiar with it, you're going to have to just read along. I'm going to start at the beginning and work my way to the present because without some background the news this week won't make any sense at all.]]>Fri, 01 May 2026 16:00:00 -0400<![CDATA[John Sexton]]><![CDATA[Gaza]]><![CDATA[International Criminal Court]]><![CDATA[Israel]]><![CDATA[United Nations]]>https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2026/05/01/playing-dirty-pool-at-the-international-criminal-court-n3814498<![CDATA[Pete Hegseth floated this claim yesterday. Today, Donald Trump made it official ... or at least as official as he can make it.]]>Fri, 01 May 2026 15:20:00 -0400<![CDATA[Ed Morrissey]]><![CDATA[Congress]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Iran]]><![CDATA[Military]]>https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2026/05/01/trump-to-congress-war-is-over-if-you-want-it-n3814511<![CDATA[There is a reason why student performance in schools is tanking fast, particularly in Blue states. As Mississippi is zooming ahead in teaching kids to read because they dropped the stupid liberal methods of teaching and went back to phonics, teachers, administrators, and school boards in Blue areas are focusing their attention and their school funding on indoctrinating children and turning them into leftist activists.&nbsp;]]>Fri, 01 May 2026 14:00:30 -0400<![CDATA[David Strom]]><![CDATA[Chicago]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Education]]><![CDATA[Socialism]]>https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/05/01/why-johnny-cant-read-write-or-do-math-n3814497<![CDATA[Candace Owens was sued for defamation again yesterday. The plaintiff in this case is Brian Harpole, Charlie Kirk's former security chief. Harpole's attorney, Matt Sarelson, announced the lawsuit on X:]]>Fri, 01 May 2026 13:20:00 -0400<![CDATA[John Sexton]]><![CDATA[Charlie Kirk]]><![CDATA[Lawsuit]]>https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2026/05/01/candace-owens-sued-for-defamation-again-n3814476<![CDATA[What happens when you try to blockade an international waterway when you no longer have a blue-water navy? Iran learned the answer to that question the hard way. The question remains: will they wise up in time to salvage their economy, and possibly, what's left of their industrial infrastructure?]]>Fri, 01 May 2026 12:40:11 -0400<![CDATA[Ed Morrissey]]><![CDATA[Associated Press]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Iran]]><![CDATA[Military]]><![CDATA[Trade]]>https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2026/05/01/wsj-iran-learning-to-regret-pulling-pin-on-hormuz-strategy-n3814493<![CDATA[It took two days for a Florida special session to be called and for a new congressional district map be drawn, giving Republicans a greater electoral advantage in the state.&nbsp;]]>Fri, 01 May 2026 12:00:07 -0400<![CDATA[David Strom]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Florida]]><![CDATA[Gerrymandering]]><![CDATA[Redistricting]]><![CDATA[Republican Party]]><![CDATA[Virginia]]>https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/05/01/florida-redistricts-after-virginia-vote-democrats-outraged-n3814495<![CDATA[Make it make sense, Mommy]]>Fri, 01 May 2026 11:20:46 -0400<![CDATA[Beege Welborn]]><![CDATA[Antisemitism]]><![CDATA[England]]><![CDATA[Islamic Terrorism]]><![CDATA[Mental Health]]><![CDATA[Terrorism]]>https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/05/01/after-somali-knife-attack-uk-adds-extreme-right-wing-terrorist-to-natl-threat-level-increase-n3814491<![CDATA[Old and busted:&nbsp;Let's punch Nazis! New hotness: Let's hug Nazis!]]>Fri, 01 May 2026 10:40:10 -0400<![CDATA[Ed Morrissey]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[Chuck Schumer]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Maine]]><![CDATA[Graham Platner]]>https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2026/05/01/ygbkm-democrats-blast-schumer-for-not-embracing-nazi-tattooed-platner-n3814492<![CDATA[Mahmoud Khalil's case is, as Dan Linnaeus explains in the X post linked below, something of a dividing line in how people think about citizenship, the right to stay in a Western country, the limits of tolerance we must have for hatred from noncitizens, and most of all over whether we should see non-Westerners as everywhere and always victims, and Westerners as oppressors who deserve whatever we get.&nbsp;]]>Fri, 01 May 2026 10:00:02 -0400<![CDATA[David Strom]]>https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/05/01/stub-for-suicidal-empathy-n3814490<![CDATA[Technically speaking, time just ran out for Donald Trump's war with Iran. The War Powers Resolution of 1973 gives presidents 48 hours to notify Congress after military action begins, and then has to seek approval from Congress to continue hostilities. Today is Day 62. So will Trump begin to wind down operations over the next 30 days, the withdrawal period specified in the WPR?]]>Fri, 01 May 2026 09:20:00 -0400<![CDATA[Ed Morrissey]]><![CDATA[Congress]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Iran]]><![CDATA[Pete Hegseth]]>https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2026/05/01/hegseth-resets-war-powers-act-clock-n3814489<![CDATA[From the first days of Operation Epic Fury, critics have howled that Trump is losing the war, empowering Iran's extremists, and has no strategy for victory.&nbsp;]]>Fri, 01 May 2026 08:00:00 -0400<![CDATA[David Strom]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Iran]]><![CDATA[National Security]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]><![CDATA[Operation Epic Fury]]>https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/05/01/the-fundamental-misunderstanding-that-leads-elites-to-believe-iran-is-winning-n3814466<![CDATA[Well, another crazy day, you'll tab the night away, and forget about everything ...]]>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 22:00:56 -0400<![CDATA[Ed Morrissey]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[Chuck Schumer]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Graham Platner]]>https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2026/04/30/thursdays-final-word-n3814472