THIS HAS HAPPENED BEFORE: NASA practically eliminates any Starliner flights before ISS retires.
May 25, 2026
GIVEN HOW CORRUPT THE ELECTIONS ARE IN BLUE CITIES, THAT “ELECTING” SHOULD BE IN QUOTES: Uh Oh: DC May Be Poised to Elect a Mamdani of Its Own.
MINOR NIT. THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN DEMOCRAT AND RANDOM NUT: Reset The “Days Since Last Trump Assassination Attempt” Sign Back To Zero.
I’M ON CHEVRON’S SIDE IN THIS: Chevron Launches New Sign Campaign Targeting Sacramento as California Gas Prices Hit New Highs.
TODAY IN PANDEMIC YEAR HEADLINES: Misleading Headlines, they attempt to imply it’s spreading and more than normal, hoping that you will panic and think the cruise ship case is spreading from person to person. In reality, the study was on RODENTS sampled in 2023. Hantavirus is gaining ground in the US, startling researchers: ‘Widespread and complex virus’
AT THE BASED BOOK SALE: Cedar Sanderson’s Possum Creek Massacre: A Paranormal Police Procedural (Witchward Book 2). For 99c. Till night on the 26th.
May 24, 2026
OPEN THREAD: Sorry, didn’t publish for some reason.
ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE: Scientists thought Jupiter’s moon Europa was ejecting water. Now they’re not so sure.
IT’S IN THE BLOOD: Your Blood Type Affects Risk of Early Stroke, Study Reveals. “The research suggests people carrying one specific group A blood type face a higher likelihood of stroke before age 60.”
Not sure how solid this is.
A TRACK-BY-TRACK GUIDE TO MILES DAVIS’S KIND OF BLUE, THE GREATEST JAZZ ALBUM EVER:
The critical reaction was sometimes baffled by the absence of easily graspable melodies, but it was mostly awe-struck. Benny Green wrote on the album’s liner that “Davis is the most delicately poised musician ever to use the jazz frame…classic severity is the hallmark of Miles’s painful sensitivity, as he devotes his attention to each single note.” Later it floated free from the jazz world to become, as Richard Cooke described it in the Penguin Guide to Jazz, “the hippest easy-listening album of them all”. Not everyone was ecstatic. Some missed the absence of jazz’s wonted driving energy, and Philip Larkin couldn’t stand the “passionless creep” of Miles Davis’s muted trumpet.
As with many classic albums, there was something miraculous about the birth of Kind of Blue. All the stars had to be aligned, and that wasn’t easy in such a volatile art as jazz, where everything depends on the musical chemistry between naturally headstrong individuals.
Well worth a read, but there’s a jarring “layers and layers of fact checkers and editors” moment in this London Telegraph article for even the most cursory of Miles Davis fans. It’s a sort of photographic Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect moment; as author Ivan Hewett notes, “Crucial to the album’s soft-edged, blurry sound was Bill Evans, also no stranger to heroin and booze.” So much so that Evans died in 1980 at age 51 of a “peptic ulcer, cirrhosis, bronchial pneumonia, and untreated hepatitis,” according to Wikipedia.
But the photo above that text is captioned, “Miles Davis (R) and saxophone player Bill Evans (L) performing on stage in Paris, 1982.” There was a second Bill Evans, born in 1958, who played and recorded frequently with Miles in the 1980s. But that’s not him in the photo, which based on Miles’ hairstyle and wrap-around sunglasses, is from the early 1970s. It’s Dave Liebman, who played sax with Miles in 1973.
Related: From me in 2019: The 60th Anniversary of Kind of Blue: Miles Davis’ Masterpiece.
ANTIVIRAL PROGRESS: A once-daily pill takes aim at measles, croup and other dangerous viruses.
AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD:
Platner Smooths Things Over With Democrats By Covering Nazi Tattoo With Hammer & Sickle https://t.co/ywnpCcjBsR pic.twitter.com/P47TIvWKas
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) May 24, 2026
The ghosts of Pete Seeger and Dalton Trumbo smile.
OLD AND BUSTED: Bitchy Resting Face.
The New Hotness Massive Warning Sign for Craziness Ahead:
"Resting septum face."
(Phrase courtesy of @TheHyland3r.)
You can pull off this face if you're a goth dressed in black at an alternative music venue. But not at an upmarket hotel full of normie men. https://t.co/ItzT3Vt7v3
— Hector Drummond (@hector_drummond) May 24, 2026
HOW DO YOU TYPE “PHONING IT IN” IN AUREBESH*?
It is highly irregular for stunt performers to share top billing with the lead actor/actress.
How often do you think Pedro was actually on screen during the film? pic.twitter.com/huFg36cSUy— Best of Star Wars (@bestofstarwar) May 24, 2026
Related: Mandalorian and Grogu Sinks Star Wars to Kiddie-Level Lows.
* Why yes, I am deeply ashamed that I know this word.
POWER WASH:
Spencer Pratt has launched a campaign where filthy Los Angeles streets are power washed using a stencil reading “imagine if the streets were this clean.”
Imagine letting the streets get so dirty under your leadership that your opponent can use them as a billboard. pic.twitter.com/yU0A56xCsd
— Right Angle News Network (@Rightanglenews) May 24, 2026
Drew Carey publicly slammed Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt in a social media rant on Friday.
The Price Is Right host, 68, proved he’s no fan, labelling Pratt a ‘serial scammer’ with no ‘moral compass,’ even though the former Hills star has received a surge in donations that places him close to incumbent mayor Karen Bass.
‘Anyone who votes for, or endorses Spencer Prattfall for Mayor of LA needs to get their head out of their a**,’ Carey wrote on Threads.
‘I understand being angry/unsatisfied, but at least get behind someone competent and not some serial scammer without a soul or moral compass.’
‘F*** this guy already,’ he concluded on a testy note.
I’m so old, I can remember Carey appearing in videos for the libertarians at Reason, before finally finding, in 2020, a presidential candidate who was “competent and not some serial scammer without a soul or moral compass:” “In 2016, Drew Carey backed the presidential campaign of libertarian Gary Johnson. This year, the long-time host of ‘The Price is Right’ has thrown his support behind the campaign of Biden, donating $25,000 to the Biden Victory Fund.”
UPDATE:
It’s like you guys learned absolutely nothing from Trump’s rise.
Want Spencer Pratt to not be a serious candidate?
Don’t turn significant parts of your city into a zombie horror show covered in trash and feces while sipping cocktails in Ghana as peoples’ houses burn down. https://t.co/1vz9viWxKE
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) May 24, 2026
AT AMAZON, Shop 3 hour delivery. #CommissionEarned
DISPATCHES FROM THE MEMORY HOLE:
Man, you could practically hear the collective groan in every newsroom across America.
For about 12 glorious hours, the San Diego mosque shooting was absolute catnip for cable news. Two teenage white boys attack a mosque, three innocent people dead … the “right-wing domestic…
— Flopping Aces (@FloppingAces) May 24, 2026
“Then the manifesto dropped,” the tweet continues, “And everything went dead quiet.”
Much more from Stacy McCain: Why Would Two Jew-Hating Teenage Incels Shoot Up a Mosque in San Diego?
GABBARD NOT GOING QUIETLY: Matt Margolis sees a month-worth of weekly revelations from departing Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard.
LIMITED TIME DEAL: High Pressure Rain Shower Head. #CommissionEarned
FREEDOM ISN’T FREE:
I always think of this quote on memorial weekend. pic.twitter.com/rJVHVJgl03
— Natalie F Danelishen (@Chesschick01) May 24, 2026
