NOW WE REALLY KNOW HOW THE LEFT PLAYED THE SBC: A deeply deceptive piece in the Texas Monthly illustrates how the Left uses sequential linking of otherwise unrelated entities to create a damaging narrative. How they did it to two giants of the SBC is examined in my guest column on Substack this morning.
May 17, 2026
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PREDICTIVE ACCURACY? How Well Does NOAA’s Hurricane Outlook Actually Perform?
DIPLOMACY: Trump Keeps His Friends Close, But China Closer. “Trump brushed off Xi’s veiled threats. Secretary of State Marco Rubio pointed out that the Chinese ‘always raise [Taiwan] on their side, we always make clear our position, and we move on.'”
SAVAGE:
These come from court transcripts https://t.co/fu2Zdq5WZX
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 16, 2026
DISPATCHES FROM AIRSTRIP ONE:
How the BBC was captured by taking over the official style guide.
1. The problem. A full natural language grammar generates an enormous (often infinite) set of possible sentences.
2. Solution: refine it. By pruning sentence production rules (e.g., forbidding certain embeddings,…— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) May 17, 2026
”It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words…Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.”
21ST CENTURY HEADLINES: 4 alien species have been pulled from crashed UFOs, ex-government researcher claims.
May 16, 2026
CLASS IS A HUGE PART OF IT:
In fact I am struck by the embarassing degree to which which snobbery plays a role in Left/Right politics. Progressives have by imperceptibly slow degrees become the party of respectability, toffs, dignity and propriety.
The real emotional fuel for Trump hatred is only partly…
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) May 17, 2026
OPEN THREAD: Smoke ’em if you got ’em.
SUCK IT, CHINA: Vast, Untapped Source of Lithium Found in The US Could Last 300 Years.
Actually, this just means they’ll have to fund some “environmental” opposition to mining here. That’s how this stuff works.
REPORT: My sources tell me Keir has decided to stand down, but he’ll do it on his terms.
If true:
Everyone who turned up today and behaved impeccably ended this tyrant . Thank you https://t.co/uIHDC9ViWe
— Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 (@TRobinsonNewEra) May 16, 2026
UPDATE:
Sir Keir reportedly standing down.
Sounds like a win for Team Britain.
Nothing on Starmer's X feed. I have to assume he'll have some self serving excuses. But the fact is, after he smeared these people repeatedly, they were the ones who showed and behaved like Englishmen… https://t.co/LaXxQFJ35k
— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) May 16, 2026
Tweet concludes, “Nothing on Starmer’s X feed. I have to assume he’ll have some self serving excuses. But the fact is, after he smeared these people repeatedly, they were the ones who showed and behaved like Englishmen today. And it was clearly a cross section of native Britons, to include those of non-native descent who have chosen to adopt the ways of Britain. And clearly it finally got through to him. May he come to understand how he has defamed them and injured them.”
FOLLOW THE SCIENCE: Scientists Say a 40-Year-Old Childhood Obesity Warning May Be Completely Wrong.
“KEIR STARMER BANNED FOREIGN JOURNALISTS FROM ENGLAND TO STOP A RALLY → IT PRODUCED THE LARGEST ANTI-GOVERNMENT MARCH IN YEARS:”
The UK just deployed a political weapon it's only used once before in modern history.
And nobody is talking about what it just backfired into.
🚨 🚨 🚨 KEIR STARMER BANNED FOREIGN JOURNALISTS FROM ENGLAND TO STOP A RALLY → IT PRODUCED THE LARGEST ANTI-GOVERNMENT MARCH IN YEARS… pic.twitter.com/foaKixfE4T
— 🇺🇸 Thomas A. Whitaker (@WhitakerTA_) May 16, 2026
Here you go, guys.
Found some people for you to prosecute. They aren't "right-wing," though. Hopefully, that's not an issue. https://t.co/bCz9jfZiWe pic.twitter.com/Df7LaozhRz
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) May 16, 2026
WE’VE DESCENDED INTO SOME SORT OF BIZARRE HELL-WORLD IN WHICH BILL MAHER IS A VOICE OF SANITY:
Bill Maher just delivered the most clear-eyed, no-bullshit monologue on Israel & antisemitism you’ll hear from any mainstream voice in 2026.
“Israel was founded on the idea that antisemitism made a Jewish state necessary … Can you honestly listen to this rhetoric and not see… https://t.co/dBOT1WPsaD
— Captain Allen (@CptAllenHistory) May 16, 2026
UPDATE:
If you want to get on Grandma Groyper's bad side, it seems like all you have to do is defend the Jews. And if you want to earn her respect, just do the opposite.
As for her criticism here, Bill is not a hypocrite for opposing wokeness while defending Jews/Israel. The Jews are… pic.twitter.com/sArvU8FtQZ
— Seth Dillon (@SethDillon) May 16, 2026
ITS ORIGINS AND PURPOSE, STILL A TOTAL MYSTERY: He struck pedestrians with his car, injuring eight, four seriously. “He was arrested on suspicion of manslaughter. The man is a 31-year-old Italian of Moroccan origin, who plowed into pedestrians [in Modena, Italy] at 100 km/h. He then attempted to flee, striking one person but was stopped by passersby. He had previously undergone psychiatric treatment….Salim El Koudri, a thirty-one-year-old Italian of Moroccan origin, was arrested on charges of massacre.”
English text via Google Translate; Western media likely to be calling for sensible car control in 3…2…1:
The cars are at it again. https://t.co/tzaVMOHyLz
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) May 16, 2026
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OOPS: Popular workout supplement may blunt heart benefits of exercise in women. If you want to boost nitric oxide levels, you’re probably better off with citrulline anyway.
STILL BLOWS MY MIND THAT $30K IS A CHEAP CAR NOW: Comparison Test: $30,000 Small Cars.
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CRY HAVOC AND LET SLIP THE RAPE DOGS OF WAR! Rape Dogs: The Laff Riot.
It's worse than you think. The IDF has trained dogs to pilot aircraft. Fully 25% of the sorties against Iran and Hezbollah have been carried out by Belgian Malinois. pic.twitter.com/WzuVTFXYFt
— Jerusalem of Iron 🇮🇱 עם ישראל חי (@jerusalemofiron) May 14, 2026
WE NEED TO BE RUNNING GUNS TO BRITONS, THESE DAYS: Brits Outraged to This Day That Any American Can Still Own a Flintlock.
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AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD:
New Seventh-Day Adventist Chick-fil-A Closed Saturday, Open Sunday https://t.co/JOLzx7uPND pic.twitter.com/Coc0YMFuuy
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) May 16, 2026
WE’RE NOT NOTICING THESE THINGS EARLY ENOUGH: Recently Discovered Asteroid Will Sweep Past Earth at Close Range on May 18 — Here’s What to Know. “NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory estimates that 2026 JH2 is somewhere between 15 meters and 35 meters (50 feet and 115 feet) wide; the higher limit of this estimate would be roughly equivalent to one-third the full length of an American football field.”
