• Syrian air defenses repel 'Israeli aggression', down several 'hostile' missiles over Damascus
• HUGE cache of weapons made in US, Israel, Turkey & Gulf states abandoned by terrorists in recently liberated area of Syria
• Victory Day: It's time to think about finally winning WWII

• Genocide of the 'impure': Surge in Do Not Resuscitate orders for learning disabilities patients issued during UK lockdown
• Global Gestapo: UK police ask public to report on anyone who APPEARS to be breaching lockdown rules with new online tool
• "This is what a police state is like": UK's ex-supreme court judge lambasts policing, 'collective hysteria' and the lockdown

• Nearly $1 trillion for cash-strapped state and local governments
• A second round of $1,200 direct payments to individuals, with up to $6,000 per household
• $200 billion for hazard pay for essential workers
• $75 billion for Covid-19 testing efforts
• An extension of the $600 per week federal unemployment insurance benefit through January (it is currently set to go through July)
• $175 billion in rent, mortgage and utility assistance
• A 15% increase in the maximum Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefit
• Repeal of the $10,000 cap on state and local tax deductions for two years, which would help certain states' budget crunch but benefit higher-income taxpayers most
• Expanded mail-in ballot access, which Republicans oppose
• Relief funds for the U.S. Postal Service
• $10 billion in emergency small business disaster assistance grants
• Subsidies and a special Affordable Care Act enrollment period for people who lose employer-sponsored health coverage

Newt Gingrich weighed in claiming Pelosi's crazy $3T coronavirus spending bill may have a secret purpose and not to underestimate her. His first reaction:

"It would be dead on arrival in the Senate and the move made no sense. As we learned about the nuttier parts of the bill after it was introduced, it struck me almost as a joke. How do you explain a House Democratic Party so crazy that their new $3 trillion proposal has 68 references to Cannabis and only 52 references to jobs? Maybe Speaker Pelosi of San Francisco believes 'California Dreamin' could become the new national anthem."

There are a remarkable number of impossible-to-explain provisions in the bill. Some of them would:

• Provide money to people in the country illegally.
• Allow illegal immigrants to work when more than 30 million Americans are out of work.
• Provide taxpayer funding for abortion, even though Americans oppose taxpayer funding for abortions by 55 percent to 29 percent.
• Block voter identification laws - even though 80 percent of Americans favor such laws.
• Give state and local governments, which already collect your tax dollars, $1 trillion more of your tax dollars.
• Give a tax cut to the richest Americans in blue states.
• Impose a host of other liberal fantasies on Americans.

Republicans will hate the bill. Independents and moderates will find large parts of the bill totally unacceptable. There will be an entire series of issues in which 75 percent or 85 percent of the country will be deeply opposed to the Pelosi bill. It would probably guarantee a Republican landslide this fall.

After spending days trying to figure out why she would lead her party into such an exposed position, let me offer this three-part proposition:

From Pelosi's perspective, mobilizing the cannabis users and liberal investors is a useful move, too. They are as much part of the Democratic base as traditional small business owners are part of the Republican base.

Arousing the hardcore, pro-abortion activists helps Pelosi with turnout and donations. Disciplined repetition of the word "diversity" appeals to her ideological activists and - to a lesser extent - minority communities.

Appealing to the illegal immigrant community is a useful thing for Pelosi. And Democrats are working to make it possible for illegal immigrants to vote in a number of states.

Giving a tax cut to the richest people in the bluest states is a direct favor to her donor base and helps the public employee unions in those states by making state and local taxes more bearable.

Pouring extra cash into the worst-run blue states with the biggest pension debt (think Illinois and New Jersey) directly helps Pelosi's public employee union allies and the Democratic politicians in those states.

Pelosi's base will be fired up to elect former Vice President Joe Biden and Democratic majorities in the House and Senate so they can get the ideological and financial goodies she has woven into this bill.

• 'No excuse for this': House Dems' 1,815-page bill would bail out corporate lobbyists and the wealthy as first priorities

A number of Trump's critics emerged from the woodwork to suggest that fellow #Resisters crowdfund the ransom themselves, hoping to leak the information - apparently not grasping that the hackers vowed to do precisely that with no payment at all.

Some were more skeptical arguing the whole operation is a "brilliant" ruse to persuade gullible "liberals" to shell out millions in order to "get the goods on Trump."

Are the liberals desperate enough to 'buy in?'

The White House has made no comment, however with Trump consistently under intense criticism from his political rivals for more than three years straight - including accusations of high treason and cavorting with prostitutes - it's unclear what 'dirt' would compel him to pay up. If any at all.