Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy 5/21

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Peep the Parade of Horribles Virginia Dems Were Ready to Foist on America

https://pjmedia.com/athena-thorne/2026/05/21/peep-the-parade-of-horribles-virginia-dems-were-ready-to-foist-on-america-n4953102

Rather, the Democrats who greedily gerrymandered Old Dominion saw the state as merely a stepping stone from which they could hoist a veritable freak show of far-left operatives onto the entire country. ...

ABC News ran a profile of some of the would-be U.S. House reps who have dropped out of the race, now that they would actually have run in districts where normal Americans can vote. But had the Supreme Court in Virginia not ruled the gerrymander attempt unconstitutional, these radicals would be in the U.S. Capitol come January, merrily making laws with nationwide effect.

First up is "Bree" Fram:

Col. Bree Fram, a transgender woman who came out and transitioned while serving in the Air Force and who had joined a lawsuit against the Trump administration over its ban on transgender individuals in the military, suspended her [sic] campaign for the proposed 11th District. ...

Imagine if we had been screwed by this Biden administration, "FU, traditional military" officer fashioning law at the national level:
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Virginia donks were also trying to shove an intensely partisan high-ranking member of former special counsel Jack Smith's lawfare squad into our federal legislation:

J.P. Cooney, who had launched a bid for the 7th District and was the top deputy for former special counsel Jack Smith, who led investigations into President Donald Trump's alleged interference in the 2020 election and alleged mishandling of classified documents, suspended his campaign last Friday.

Gun-grabber Dan Helmer is also giving up:

"Bold" text as in the article.

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Jamie Raskin Continues to Lie About President Trump's Charlottesville Remarks

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/amy-curtis/2026/05/20/jamie-raskin-continues-to-lie-about-president-trumps-charlottesville-remarks-n2676404

Today, the GOP House Committee on the Judiciary held another hearing on the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and revelations that the group used donations to fund and manufacture hate groups. The SPLC was indicted on 11 counts of various types of fraud for allegedly funneling millions of dollars to members of white supremacist and other hate groups while telling donors they were 'combatting hate.'
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Rep. Jamie Raskin took the opportunity to use the hearing to once again lie about the SPLC and Charlottesville, falsely claiming that President Trump praised 'very fine people on both sides.'

The Evil-Mustache-Man's propaganda tactic: keep repeating a lie and people will think of it as true. Actually, both Evil-Mustache-Men did this.

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Famed Author to Hollywood: Stop Lying About the 'Blacklist'

https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2026/05/21/famed-author-to-hollywood-stop-lying-about-the-blacklist-n3815162

Back in March, Mark Judge wrote about a new novel from best-selling author James Ellroy, whose novels Hollywood had made into films such as the James Woods thriller Cop, Brown's Requiem, The Black Dahlia, and most famously, L.A. Confidential. Mark noted the publication of Ellroy's latest novel, Red Sheet, set in Ellroy's favorite setting of 1950s Hollywood, only with a surprising and audacious twist. The novel takes the position that the so-called Blacklist was not only a Hollywood studio manipulation, but that the anti-Communists at the time were right about the Soviet influence operation targeting the American entertainment industry:

Red Sheet is an anti-communist novel. It stands foursquare in the tainted tradition of Ayn Rand and Mickey Spillane. Ellroy is out to scramble your long-held perceptions and force you into a state of jumped-up disavowal.

Red Sheet scorns the mock-martyred Hollywood Ten and ballyhoos the Blacklist and the ’47-’48 HUAC hearings. Red Sheet forces you to live within the twisted and oddly tender soul of Richard M. Nixon. Red Sheet spotlights the Spanish Civil War and atrocities committed by the commie-infested International Brigade, heretofore held as heroic. Red Sheet lionizes name-naming kingpin Whittaker Chambers and bestows kudos on ratfinks Elia Kazan and Budd Schulberg.

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Wonder no longer. The Hollywood Reporter sat down with Ellroy, who had no trouble setting the record straight from his perspective. He reminds Seth Abramovitch that the Hollywood blacklist was a studio-driven creation rather than a government mandate, and even then, a mainly corrupt filter that intended to duck responsibility for the infiltration of the industry. Ellroy explains that the real heroes of the so-called Blacklist Era were Whitaker Chambers, Richard Nixon, and Elia Kazan – who himself got blackballed by his own industry when the propaganda started:

The undiscovered Soviet-sympathizers scapegoated some open Soviet-sympathizers to maintain their cover - "you today, me tomorrow, and tomorrow might never come" (Gulag proverb).