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.”

ANSWERING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: What’s Going on With Mercedes-AMG?

DON’T TRUST CHINA. CHINA IS ASSHOE: Korea assessing China-made solar inverters after U.S. probe over undefined devices.

Korea is taking concrete steps to assess the potential security risks posed by China-made inverters, key in solar panels and batteries, following the launch of a probe into the devices in the United States after some unexplained communication components were found inside.

The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy said Tuesday it held a meeting last week with major domestic solar firms, including Hanwha Qcells, Hyundai Energy Solutions and Hyosung Heavy Industries, to review the current status of solar inverter deployment in the country and possible expected threats.

“The meeting aimed to gather industry input on potential cybersecurity risks associated with solar inverters,” the Industry Ministry said, adding that it currently has “no plans to conduct a comprehensive investigation into all inverters” distributed domestically.

That last bit might have to change, depending on what they find.

#JOURNALISM:

it's like someone training for a marathon and every day they go out for a run the media says they failed finishing a marathon

— Stan Beck (@stanbeckbjj) May 27, 2025

GET OUT YOUR MASKS: The Media Want Us to Panic About COVID Again.

CORN, POPPED: The Dems Declare War on the Obama Boys.

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CARGOLUX CARGO CULT:

I don’t do much on the covid front anymore, but every once in a while I’m reminded of how hysteria can spread & just destroy a civilization. https://t.co/MKUhPEvDze

— KC-10 Driver ✈️ 👨‍✈️ B-737 Wrangler (@MCCCANM) May 27, 2025

What would have have done without them? Because otherwise, if there was one thing that 2020 lacked, it was sufficient “Covid-19 awareness.”

REVIEW: Wilson Combat P1: The first offering from Wilson Combat’s “Skunk Works” is as sleek as an SR-71 Blackbird.

PAY ATTENTION TO THIS GUY:

3 million registered Republicans in Pennsylvania did NOT vote in the May 20th primary.

You have the power to win — let’s get everyone out to vote this November.

— ThePersistence (@ScottPresler) May 27, 2025

CHANGE: Bezos’ WaPo Gives Staff Ultimatum as It Pushes Them Out.

Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post wants to push dozens of staffers out the door, offering opinion staffers, staffers with 10 years’ experience, and some desks buyout packages to leave the paper. “Like the rest of our industry, we are adapting to changing habits and new technologies that are transforming news experiences,” executive editor Matt Murray told staffers in a memo obtained by the Daily Beast. “Even as we have begun creating new departments and welcoming new colleagues, to reach new audiences we must increase our staffing flexibility and expand in areas such as audience data and social video.” The entire video desk, the copy desk, and the sports copy desks were also offered buyout packages, which Murray stressed were voluntary. Staffers will have until July to make a decision.

And then do buyouts become non-voluntary?

MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: So This Latest Move Will Save the Democrats for Sure. “It isn’t easy being a Democrat these days, but don’t think for a moment they haven’t come up with a brand-new agenda — one that somehow isn’t any different from the old one going back to FDR. But it has a shiny new name, so they’ve got that going for them. Which is nice.”

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OUCH: At least 5 are dead and 19 injured after a chemical plant explodes in China, authorities say.

A huge explosion rocked a chemical plant in China ’s eastern Shandong province around noon Tuesday, killing at least five people and injuring 19, according to local emergency management authorities. Another six people were missing.

It was not immediately clear what caused the explosion.

The blast was powerful enough to knock out windows at a warehouse more than two miles (three kilometers) away, according to a video shared by a resident, who declined to give his name out of concern about retaliation.

The resident said his home shook. As he went to the window, he saw a column of smoke from the site more than seven kilometers (4.3 miles) away.

Video:

Today: Tragedy in Gaomi, China: May 27, 2025

A deadly blast at the world’s largest chlorpyrifos plant leaves:

– 5 dead, 6 missing,
– 19 injured.
The explosion at Shandong Youdao Chemical sent a fireball into the sky, shattering windows and lives. pic.twitter.com/Rhh7pa0zsr

— Weather Monitor (@WeatherMonitors) May 27, 2025

Developing…

HEY, IT’S GOT A GREAT BEAT AND YOU CAN REALLY DANCE TO IT: ‘Kill the Boer’ song just a ‘liberation chant’ — not a call for violence, according to South African president. 

The South African president rejected President Donald Trump’s assertion that the South African communist leader who leads chants about killing white farmers should be arrested.

President Cyril Ramaphosa met with President Trump last week in the White House, where he firmly denied the existence of a genocide or even targeted killings of white South African farmers known as the Boers.

During their meeting, Trump suggested to Ramaphosa that the South African government should arrest Julius Malema, a political leader who has led chants of “shoot the Boer” and “shoot to kill” to a stadium full of supporters.

Upon returning to South Africa, Ramaphosa spoke to reporters about the idea of arrests and asserted that his country is a sovereign nation with its own laws and processes. He also excused the racist chants as freedom of expression.

“We take into account what the constitutional court also decided when it said that, you know, that slogan, ‘kill the Boer, kill the farmer,’ is a liberation chant and slogan.”

“It’s not meant to be a message that elicits or calls upon anyone to go and be killed,” the president claimed. “And that is what our court decided. … We follow the dictates of our constitution because we are a constitutional state, and we are a country where freedom of expression is in the bedrock of our constitutional arrangement.”

Or as America’s Newspaper of Record reports:

THANK GOD FOR OZEMPIC: Scientists Find Jupiter Used to Be More Than Twice Its Current Size.

MATT MARGOLIS: The Most Hilarious Scheme yet for Democrats to Win Back Power.

Just when you think the Democratic Party couldn’t get more desperate or delusional, it manages to outdo itself. The latest scheme? Creating a “shadow cabinet” to challenge President Donald Trump’s agenda. And if that wasn’t absurd enough, wait until you hear who Democrats want to put in charge.

In fact, Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin pitched this laughable concept to Politico, suggesting that ranking committee members could lead this pretend government.

I’m not even kidding. Politico loved the idea, but not the part about using ranking committee members.

“Ranking members have their uses,” Politico observes. “They’re good at reclaiming their time and making motions to recommit. But they are not the fresh faces who can give the Democratic Party a sleek new look.”

“So how best to assemble a shadow Cabinet?” Politico asks. “Tap accomplished people with the ability to speak plainly and the credibility to puncture the Trump administration’s often Orwellian narratives. Don’t limit members to professional politicians. Pitch a big tent. Don’t draw rigid ideological lines.”

And this shadow Cabinet reads like a parody list written by The Babylon Bee. For Homeland Security Secretary, Politico wants — no joke — Gisele Fetterman. Why her, of all people? Because she was an illegal immigrant.

Why is the left pitting Fetterman against Fetterman? A Fetterman family divided against itself cannot stand!

Note that Politico is already calibrating their enthusiasm* slightly. The headline atop the article now reads:

It was worded a bit more positively in its first draft.

At RedState, Bonchie writes, “I know David Hogg didn’t write this piece for Politico, but if he had, what would be different? Every single person listed is the exact opposite of the direction Democrats should go if they want to regain the trust of the American people. If the 2024 election was anything, it was a repudiation of far-left ideologues being suggested for this ‘shadow cabinet.’ But as has been said many times, zero lessons have actually been learned. Democrats know nothing but doubling down.”

Exit quote:

* Classical reference.