US OUT OF THE UN. UN OUT OF THE US: “Carthage Must Be Destroyed” and the UN Dismantled.
May 28, 2025
FULL ON SOVIET STYLE: Journalist Claims Biden Aides Planned Second Term Where They Only Needed to Sometimes Show ‘Proof of Life’.
Or as mom used to say “he’s in the freezer” about this style of leader. Commies. so unimaginative. They always go back to the same thing.
IF THERE’S ANY HUNGER IN GAZA, IT’S HAMAS’S DOING: Israeli Military Sets Up Aid Distribution Centers In Gaza Despite Threats From Hamas.
I CONTINUE READING UP THROUGH THE SCIENCE FICTION COLLECTION THAT MADE ME A SCIENCE FICTION READER AND A WRITER: The Voyage of the Space Beagle – Reading The Future of the Past.
May 27, 2025
I’VE NOTED THIS TOO. HE’LL KEEP DOING IT UNTIL HE DOESN’T, OR UNTIL THE SUPREME COURT FINALLY FIXES THINGS:
🔥As I've noted many times before, Trump is going to great lengths to obey the letter of the orders entered against his administration even though judges are acting without jurisdiction and in violation of his Article II authority. We have further proof of that recently. 1/
— Margot Cleveland (@ProfMJCleveland) May 27, 2025
Related:
Same reason judges are entering orders against Trump even though they lack jurisdiction. https://t.co/n18PwfRz2s
— Margot Cleveland (@ProfMJCleveland) May 27, 2025
OPEN THREAD: Tuesdays’ Groovy.
CHANGE: Dawn Aerospace begins sales of Aurora suborbital spaceplane. “Dawn Aerospace is following a model from commercial aviation rather than spaceflight with Aurora, selling the vehicle to customers who will operate it rather than flying the vehicle on its own.”
THE PRESS PLAYS CATCH-UP: Jonathan Capehart Attacks Washington Post Colleague in New Book. “You get the impression Jonathan Capehart has very thin skin. He can be easily offended by any contradiction, public or private, even one that is undeniably correct.” Even? Try especially.
Mark Judge last month: Jonathan Capehart’s WaPo Hissy Fit. “Yet as one delves into the details of why Capehart walked, it’s Capehart himself who looks pretty bad. Imperious, while at the same time hyper-sensitive; self-righteous while morally confused; resentful while equally obtuse; ideologically brainwashed and thus incapable of independent thought, Jonathan Capehart is everything wrong with journalism in 2025. No wonder Jeff Bezos is scrambling to sweep out the stables at The Washington Post.”
Sweep faster and harder, Jeff.
HOW’S THAT SPACE PROGRAM COMING ALONG? A Serious Threat May Be Lurking in The Orbit of Venus, Says Study.
CHANGE: Shoe, Dropped: Trump ‘Pauses’ Student Visas Across the Board. “Universities and colleges across the country can thank Harvard for this latest development. If federal courts won’t allow the Department of Homeland Security to deal directly with Harvard on compliance for the Student Education Visa Program (SEVP), the administration can simply make it more difficult for everyone instead.”
THAT SEEMS RATHER . . . DRASTIC: 30% Weight Loss in a Week? The Metabolic “Kill Switch” Scientists Just Discovered.
STARSHIP FLIGHT 9:
Watch Starship's ninth flight test → https://t.co/Gufroc2kUz https://t.co/NYF0ZMyeGp
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) May 23, 2025
Watch the New Space Race live.
UPDATE (FROM GLENN):
Starship’s ascent burn is complete and is now coasting through space
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) May 27, 2025
ANOTHER UPDATE (FROM GLENN):
As if the flight test was not exciting enough, Starship experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly. Teams will continue to review data and work toward our next flight test.
With a test like this, success comes from what we learn, and today’s test will help us improve Starship’s…
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) May 28, 2025
Success through iterative failure!
STACY MCCAIN: May 27: A Date That Will Live in Hilarity. “I was trying to figure out if there could be some kind of innocent explanation, for example, the possibility that one of Weiner’s staffers, with access to his account, had accidentally sent the photo. And I remember calling up Andrew Breitbart to discuss this with him. Andrew’s response was blunt: ‘No, Stacy. Trust me — there’s more.'”
Plus: “June 6 was the big breakthrough, when the Texas woman, an Army veteran and single mom named Meagan Broussard, told her story on Breitbart’s site. The same day, Anthony Weiner announced a press conference in New York. Weiner was late to the press conference, but Andrew Breitbart was there on time, so the assembled media demanded that Breitbart answer questions — upstaging the congressman.” It was brilliant.
ANALYSIS: TRUE.
Multiculturalism is nothing more than disdain for Western Civilization.
It’s an ideology that must be eradicated if America and the West are to survive. https://t.co/v5o4VEU4EC
— Congressman Brandon Gill (@RepBrandonGill) May 27, 2025
RIP: Rick Derringer, who had a hit with ‘Hang On Sloopy’ and produced ‘Weird Al,’ dies at 77.
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): The classic video. The “Sloopy girl” now lives in Knoxville, I understand, although we haven’t met.
KEEP YOUR PET HEALTHY: Liquid Probiotics for Dogs of All Ages – Probiotics for Cats. #CommissionEarned
CHANGE: The UK is rolling out a world-first vaccine for gonorrhoea. What about the rest of Europe? Doesn’t sound especially impressive: “In studies, the vaccine was between 32.7 per cent and 42 per cent effective against gonorrhoea, the advisory group found.”
Plus: “Gonorrhoea is one of the most common STIs, with nearly 97,000 confirmed cases in 28 European countries in 2023 – up 31 per cent from the year before. . . . Cases have been rising among all age groups and among both women and men, with men who have sex with men accounting for 58 per cent of cases in 2023.”