Priceless Trump moment.

Yes, I voted for this.

https://connecticutcentinal.com/health/2026/05/07/sen-rand-paul-only-the-doj-can-act-now-on-indicting-fauci/

Virginia's top court on Friday threw out a new electoral map that was crafted to flip four Republican-held U.S. congressional seats to Democrats, handing President Donald Trump's party a major legal victory ahead of the November midterm elections.

Virginia voted last month in favor of a referendum to adopt a gerrymandered congressional map that would all but guarantee that 10 out of the state's 11 congressional seats go to Democrats in the upcoming midterm election.

Democrats — who blew over $60 million on this redistricting effort — were evidently premature in their celebrations.

'Justice has been served.'

To the likely chagrin of former President Barack Obama, Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger, and other Democrats who championed the gerrymandering initiative, the Virginia Supreme Court ruled on Friday that "the legislative process employed to advance this proposal violated Article XII, Section 1 of the Constitution of Virginia."

In its Friday ruling in Scott v. McDougle, the state's high court echoed the conclusions previously drawn by Jack Hurley Jr., the Tazewell County Circuit judge who initially heard the legal challenge advanced by Virginia state Sen. Ryan McDougle (R) and others.

The Virginia Supreme Court noted that the result of the vote was immaterial with regard to the analytics of its "judicial review of the constitutionality of the pre-election constitutional-amendment process" and underscored that the "Commonwealth submitted a proposed constitutional amendment to Virginia voters in an unprecedented manner that violated the intervening-election requirement in Article XII, Section 1 of the Constitution of Virginia."

This violation, according to the court, "irreparably undermines the integrity of the resulting referendum vote and renders it null and void."

RELATED: 'Not backing down': Top Virginia Democrat remains defiant after FBI and SWAT raid her office and marijuana dispensary

Billy Schuerman/The Virginian-Pilot/Tribune News Service/Getty Images

As a result of the Virginia Supreme Court's ruling, the 2021-era congressional maps will serve as the governing maps for the upcoming midterm elections.

The Virginia GOP said in response to the ruling, "Today, the Supreme Court of Virginia correctly ruled that Democrats violated the Virginia Constitution in ramming through their partisan gerrymandering power grab. Democrats thought that following the rules was optional. They were wrong. This process was corrupt from the very beginning, and now the court has corrected this injustice."

Former Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R), one of the most outspoken critics of the Democratic gerrymandering campaign, stated, "Justice has been served."

"Abigail Spanberger and Democrats in Richmond knowingly violated our constitution to disenfranchise millions of Virginians," continued Youngkin. "The Constitution prevailed, and Virginians will never forget this unlawful attempt to rob them of their voice in Congress."

Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

President Donald Trump's State Department is probing all 53 Mexican consulates across the United States following extensive coverage of Breitbart News Senior Contributor Peter Schweizer’s latest book, "The Invisible Coup: How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon," by Breitbart News, the New York Times reports.

The post NY Times: Breitbart News Coverage of Peter Schweizer’s ‘Invisible Coup’ Prompts Trump’s State Department to Probe Mexican Consulates in U.S. appeared first on Breitbart.

Tennessee Democrats' thin veneer of civility broke again, this time on Thursday amid state Republicans' successful efforts to pass a new congressional map.

Radical lawmakers not only attempted to obstruct the democratic process — screaming, dancing, blowing bullhorns at Republican legislators, and getting combative — but cosplayed as opponents of racial prejudice, barking lines popularized during the civil rights movement and working in real time to spin their party's likely diminution in power as the result of an imagined reversion to Jim Crow-style policies.

Quick background

The U.S. Supreme Court issued a hugely consequential 6-3 ruling in Louisiana v. Callais last week, striking down the Bayou State's 2024 congressional map as an unconstitutional racial gerrymander and making clear that redistricting should effectively be color-blind.

'My brother ain’t doing nothing to nobody.'

Tennessee state Republicans wasted no time applying the logic of the high court's ruling in their back yard with the aim — according to Republican Gov. Bill Lee — of ensuring that the Volunteer State's congressional map "remains fair, legal, and defensible."

After its easy passage by the GOP supermajority in the legislature, Lee signed a new congressional map into law on Thursday that will likely enable Republicans to secure all nine U.S. House seats in Tennessee.

The new map divides up the supposedly black-majority, Memphis-based 9th Congressional District represented by white Democrat Rep. Steve Cohen into three districts and also splits Nashville into five districts.

Cohen called it an "egregious result."

The madhouse

As the Tennessee Senate voted on the map, Democrat state Sen. Charlane Oliver — the radical who threatened riots in 2024 over the passage of a bill she didn't like — danced atop her desk in the chamber, yelling and holding up a banner that said, "No Jim Crow 2 Stop the Steal."

Footage shared online by WTVF-TV's Chris Davis appears to show Oliver fighting with the Senate sergeant at arms over control of her banner. After losing control of her banner, Oliver proceeded to stomp and sing on her desk while her peers voted to pass the bill, reported the Nashville Banner.

RELATED: Alito shreds Ketanji Brown Jackson's unhinged dissent to SCOTUS' demand that Louisiana immediately redistrict

During the voting process in the state House on Thursday, Tennessee Rep. Justin Jones — a Democrat who has previously evidenced a willingness to violate the legislature's decorum rules and was caught on film throwing a traffic cone at a driver during a 2020 Black Lives Matter blockade — walked around blowing a bullhorn in the faces of lawmakers and staffers while holding up a sign that said, "We shall overcome."

Jones also set on fire a printout of the Confederate flag and repeatedly accused Republicans of racism, calling them the "white sheet caucus."

Rep. Justin Pearson (D), who like Jones was briefly expelled from the Tennessee House of Representatives in 2023 for staging a disruptive protest on the House floor, lashed out at members of law enforcement who were working feverishly to keep the peace.

After state House Speaker Cameron Sexton (R) asked that the gallery be cleared, Tennessee Highway Patrol began ushering radicals out. Some, including Pearson's brother KeShaun, apparently refused to leave, reported WKRN-TV.

The prospect that his brother might face consequences for his actions evidently enraged Rep. Pearson, who yelled at THP troopers as they were executing their duties — calling one trooper a "stupid motherf**ker" and "boy" — and attempted to interfere with his brother's apparent arrest, which Pearson later suggested "is what white supremacy does."

"My brother ain’t doing nothing to nobody. Hey, hey, he’ll walk out by himself. Move the f**k back!" said Pearson.

THP Lt. Bill Miller told WKRN in a statement, "During today’s hearing, three individuals in attendance began disrupting the session of the House of Representatives. After repeated warnings, three individuals were taken into custody inside the gallery of the Capitol for suspected violation of TCA 39-17-306 (Disturbing an Official Meeting). The individuals were transported to the Davidson County jail for booking."

Democrats' theatrics were all for naught, as this is Tennessee's new congressional map:

Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

The Virginia Supreme Court just killed the state Democrat Party’s cynical attempt to rig the 2026 midterm election with a blatantly unconstitutional gerrymander scheme.

The post Nolte: Virginia Supreme Court Kills Democrat Gerrymander Scheme appeared first on Breitbart.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed this week that it was investigating the context of an image appearing to show one of its soldiers mocking a statue of the Virgin Mary by holding a cigarette to her mouth and smoking in her face.

The post Israel Confirms It Is Investigating Photo Showing Soldier Desecrating Virgin Mary Statue in Lebanon appeared first on Breitbart.

OpenAI confirmed it is doing roughly $2 billion a month in revenue as of April 2026, a $24 billion annualized run rate that would have been unthinkable just two years ago. Leaked internal projections suggest the company may burn as much as $17 billion in cash this year. Separate projections show it will still lose somewhere around $14 billion in 2026, even with revenue projected to climb past $28 billion.

The most valuable AI company on the planet, backed by Microsoft and basically every venture capitalist on earth, is running a cash burn rate that swallows most of what it brings in.

Here is what happens when the subsidy ends.

Anthropic is in the same boat. By early 2026, it hit a $30 billion annualized revenue run rate. And one analyst estimated the company is losing 200% to 3,000% of each customer's subscription fee on power users of its Claude Code tool.

But the money keeps flowing anyway. Big Tech is on track to spend $700 billion on AI infrastructure in 2026, up from about $400 billion the year before. Nvidia became the most valuable company in the world for a hot minute in June 2024. AI startups are raising at valuations that assume revenue will materialize out of thin air.

It will not. The gap between what is being spent and what is being earned was already $600 billion as of mid-2024, according to Sequoia Capital's David Cahn, who started asking this question back in 2023. That was before capex roughly doubled. The actual gap today is almost certainly larger.

Something has to give.

The subscription lie

Anthropic wants $200 a month for the highest tier of Claude Max. That sounds absurd until you look at what a power user actually costs them.

The Decoder reported that Anthropic's $200 Claude Code Max subscription can consume as much as $5,000 in compute per power user. Some analysts dispute the methodology and put the real cost closer to $500. Either way, Anthropic is subsidizing power users at scale.

OpenAI follows the same playbook with ChatGPT Plus at $20 a month and the $200 Pro plan, both priced to grab market share rather than make money on individual users.

This is the subscription lie. You are not paying for the product. You are getting a subsidized demo.

RELATED: A new phone hack can drain your bank account. Here's the fix.

NanoStockk/Getty Images

The playbook itself is not new. Amazon lost money for nine years after its 1994 founding, and Bezos called it his "famously unprofitable company" in a 2000 BBC interview while the stock kept climbing. Uber racked up close to $30 billion in operating losses before its first annual profit in 2023 by subsidizing cheap rides with investor cash and then jacking up prices once it owned the market.

The playbook works until the funding dries up, and when it does, the bill always lands on the customer.

The corporate firing spree

Tech companies have shed tens of thousands of jobs in 2026, with Oracle cutting thousands, Amazon laying off 16,000, and Meta cutting about 8,000 roles in April, all to fund AI infrastructure. Salesforce's CEO said AI agents replaced 4,000 customer support roles. Coinbase just announced that it is laying off 14% of its workforce to make way for AI "hubs."

But will these companies actually save money in the long haul? Nvidia is one of the leading suppliers of AI-capable computing hardware, and Bryan Catanzaro, Nvidia’s vice president of applied deep learning, told Axios that for his own team, "The cost of compute is far beyond the costs of the employees."

Not only can compute cost more than a human being, but the AI’s outputs have to be checked.

Amazon just learned it the hard way. The company laid off tens of thousands of engineers, triggering WARN filings across four states as Amazon shifted resources to AI. Then in March 2026, the company's own AI coding tool, Q, contributed to a production change that caused millions of lost orders.

Amazon SVP Dave Treadwell convened an emergency engineering meeting and instituted a 90-day code safety reset. Under the new rules, junior engineers must get senior sign-off on any AI-assisted changes, and internal memos called the problem "high blast radius changes" where AI-generated updates propagated too broadly.

You're already paying for it

AI is more than just software. It is steel, copper, and megawatts. AI models take massive quantities of computing power and electricity to operate. The tokens you rent for $20 per month are cooked in billion-dollar data centers that did not exist five years ago, and the power bill is not being paid by venture capital alone.

The scale is enormous. The International Energy Agency estimates U.S. data centers consumed 415 terawatt-hours in 2024, tripling by 2035. And you’re eating the cost.

Residential electricity prices have jumped roughly 30% since 2020, rising at twice the rate of inflation, and the increases are worse in areas where data centers are going up. Near those data centers, wholesale electricity prices have climbed as much as 267% over the past five years, according to a Bloomberg analysis.

In Virginia, regulators approved a 2026 rate increase that will add roughly $16 per month to typical residential bills while assigning more grid upgrade costs to data center operators. The company projects that average residential bills could rise by roughly 50% by 2039. In Columbus, Ohio, residential rates have risen by about $7.90 per month in 2026.

In most places, you are paying for the power plants and transmission lines that feed the data centers, not the tech companies.

A few states are trying to fix this. Ohio regulators approved a landmark tariff for AEP Ohio that forces large data centers to pay minimum demand charges instead of dumping costs on all ratepayers. Texas passed legislation requiring large data centers to cover their own infrastructure costs or pay equitably. Virginia is looking at similar measures. Most states have not caught up.

In March, President Trump secured volunteer pledges from tech companies to pay their own electricity costs and build their own power plants, but it remains to be seen if those pledges will be honored.

The dependency trap

Here is what happens when the subsidy ends.

Your company fired the customer support team and rebuilt the workflow around AI agents. The headcount budget became the API credits budget. Junior developers who used to review code got replaced by Claude. Senior engineers who could catch the mistakes are gone.

Then OpenAI and Anthropic have to raise prices to actual cost. Maybe they triple the API rate. Maybe the $200 Pro plan becomes $800. Maybe the free tier vanishes overnight.

You cannot rehire the workers. They found other jobs, retired, or left the industry, and the knowledge walked out the door. Meanwhile, your CRM, your code pipeline, your customer onboarding flow, and your reporting dashboards are all built around API calls to someone else's model.

Inside a Fortune 500, admitting the AI replacement was a mistake is politically impossible. The CTO who signed the deal is not standing up in a board meeting to say we should rehire 4,000 people because the math stopped working. The budget officer who cut the department and moved the money to AI subscriptions is not reversing that call. They will pay the tax forever.

Goldman Sachs' Jim Covello put the question bluntly in mid-2024: "Generative AI: Too Much Spend, Too Little Benefit?"

Covello's case was simple. AI is not built for the complicated problems that would justify the price tag. The cost is too high for the value delivered, and the payback is not coming soon.

He was right about the spend. What he underestimated was the dependency, because companies are not just buying AI but rebuilding their operations around it, firing the people who knew how work got done, and trapping themselves in a vendor relationship with suppliers losing billions every year.

That is the trap. AI has plenty of value, but the gap between spending and earning keeps widening, and the companies downstream are cutting off their own ability to walk away.

What survives

When the bubble pops, and it will, some things survive.

Local models running on consumer hardware are the hedge against the API tax. A single RTX 4090 can run large language models that required much more expensive hardware just a few years ago, and open source models from Alibaba, Google, and others give you a real alternative to renting access by the token.

Companies that bought their own hardware instead of renting from OpenAI will be in the strongest position.

Own your tools, your data, and your compute. If your entire business is an API call wrapped in someone else's model, you do not own anything. You are a middleman with a logo, and the model providers can change pricing, terms, or availability whenever they want while you cannot do a thing about it.

The AI companies burning billions right now will need to recoup those losses eventually, which means higher prices and tighter terms for everyone downstream.

The real winners are not the model builders. Nvidia sells picks and shovels no matter who finds gold. Chipmakers and infrastructure providers come out ahead and so do the cloud giants with multiple revenue streams. They are selling to both sides of every bet.

The dot-com bubble wiped out trillions in investor wealth, and the telecom bust that followed destroyed even more. But the internet survived, and so did the fiber in the ground.

AI will survive too. The question is whether the companies currently valued at hundreds of billions of dollars will be the ones standing when the dust settles.

History suggests they will not. This time, the victims will not just be the VCs who placed the bets. It will be every company that traded payroll for a loss-leader API, fired the people who knew how work got done, and discovered too late that the exit ramp had been bulldozed behind them.

Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., is calling for an immediate audit of the Secret Service following the alleged assassination attempt on President Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner.

U.S. stocks are rising toward records Friday following the latest sign that the nation's job market is doing better than economists expected.

A cruise ship is at the center of a deadly hantavirus outbreak after three of the ship’s passengers have died. Five more are believed to be infected with a rare strain of the disease that can be transmitted from person to person — though the disease is usually passed through rat urine, saliva, or feces.

BlazeTV host Stu Burguiere points out that a cruise ship is “already the least healthy environment possible” and isn’t surprised it’s where the disease manifested.

“You’re quarantined on a ship, and you have a pass for nonstop, unlimited food and drink at any time,” he tells co-host Dave Landau, who points out that there’s also a communal pool.

“This is where all the diseases manifest themselves, in that water that everyone’s sharing,” Stu says.

“Thirty-five percent death rate if you catch this thing. So really, really bad. A little higher than COVID,” he continues. “That’s how they made you feel about COVID. You watch the news, you thought it was a 35% death rate, but it was not.”

“You really only died if you were 90 in a nursing home, and then they filled it with gang members and people that had it,” Landau says.

“Oh, you mean the exact proposal by Andrew Cuomo during this period?” Stu laughs.

“That’s correct,” Landau says.

“Now, what do you do with this ship, Dave? Because if this stuff is being passed around, you can’t really let it to shore. These people are just out there in a petri dish,” Stu says.

“Well, I think we have to do the right thing,” Landau says, joking, “and have the Joker blow it up.”

Want more from Stu and Dave?

To enjoy more of Stu and Dave's lethal blend of wit, humor, and insightful commentary subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

Wearable health tech like the Oura ring tracks sleep, heart rate and stress. A cardiologist reveals how the data can drive real health changes.

From sunshades to clip-on fans and mini coolers, these budget-friendly picks make spring and summer driving more bearable.

President Donald Trump announced Friday that his administration has released what he described as the "first tranche" of government files related to unidentified flying objects and extraterrestrial life, calling the move part of an effort to provide "complete and maximum transparency" to the public.

There is reason for skepticism.