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May 13, 2026
TIMUR KURAN IS RIGHT AGAIN:
The humanities were meant to illuminate the human condition and to participate in teaching how to think. They were popular when they delivered. Once they pivoted to social-justice activism, they became useless. Their existential crisis is entirely self-inflicted. https://t.co/QZzdsGeZHX
— Timur Kuran (@timurkuran) May 13, 2026
I’d really like to have a beer with this guy.
AND ACCUSE YOU OF FASCISM FOR WANTING TO ALLOW PEOPLE TO REBUILD:
Democrats will burn your house down with incompetence, not issue the permits to rebuild it, and raise your taxes in the meantime, while attacking you for having to go live in a hotel.
You can't imagine how depraved that is. pic.twitter.com/KxinQo4XuS
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) May 13, 2026
GREAT GIFT: Alpha Grillers Meat Thermometer Digital. #CommissionEarned
I’VE NEVER LIKED ICING: Cold comfort? Icing injuries may prolong pain and slow recovery, preclinical results suggest.
BLUE CITY BLUES: Starbucks cuts more jobs in Seattle.
Starbucks is moving forward with a new series of 61 staff reductions in its corporate headquarters in Seattle.
All the layoffs are in the company’s technology department and are a result of a reorganization within that group, according to a notice filed with the Washington State Employment Security Dept on May 8.
Starbucks officials did not respond to a request for comment.
Starbucks announced last month that it is moving some Seattle technology teams to Nashville as part of the opening of a regional office there. The company has said its main office will remain in Seattle.
Company officials have said that the new regional headquarters will employ 2,000 employees, but have not said how many jobs will be moved from Seattle to Nashville.
Starbucks has around 3,000 corporate employees in Seattle.
For now.
LIMITED TIME DEAL: Roadbox Mens UPF 50+ UV Sun Protection Shirts. #CommissionEarned
SAUL ALINSKY SMILES: LA Mayor Hopeful Hitting Dem Elites With Alinsky’s Favorite Weapon — Mockery.
https://t.co/B6iaMyCwrk pic.twitter.com/nw18BvfZqr
— Charles Curran (@charliebcurran) May 13, 2026
MARC ELIAS IS PANICKING: Democrats Now Want to ABOLISH the Virginia Government.
FROM THE HEART OF STONE DEPARTMENT: The Secretary of State Is Cool, and the MSM Is Having a Meltdown Over It.
GET HEALTHY: Swisse Wild Fish Oil Omega 3 Supplements for Women and Men. #CommissionEarned
THE NEW SPACE RACE: Blue Origin may need external funding to hit ambitious launch targets.
Chief Executive Dave Limp told employees at a recent all-hands meeting that the company would require outside investment if it were to significantly increase its launch cadence, according to details of the meeting from two people who attended.
He said it would “take a lot of capital” to achieve the number of rocket launches Blue Origin has targeted—more money than would be available with “just one investor,” the people added.
Blue Origin has set ambitious launch targets after reaching orbit with New Glenn, a 98-meter-tall heavy-lift rocket, for the first time in January 2025. It is competing with SpaceX for large commercial contracts and to develop a lunar lander for Nasa’s Artemis program.
Blue Origin is considering fundraising as SpaceX, which dominates the space launch market, gears up to list on the public market as early as June, with a valuation in excess of $1.75 trillion.
Limp told employees Blue Origin would have to demonstrate strong economics but that external funding was one option “on the table,” the people added.
Where’s Jeff Bezos?
IS THIS END OF GOPRO? GoPro Is Considering Selling the Company.
HANG IN THEIR KEIR, JUST LONG ENOUGH TO DRAG ALL OF LABOUR WITH YOU: The Starmer Drama Continues. “A rift is actively tearing the Labour Party to pieces. CNN reports that some 100 MPs signed a letter warning against a leadership contest — which Downing Street swears it didn’t organize. Yeah. Sure.”
WHY DOESN’T THIS EVER HAPPEN TO ME? (CONT’D): A Couple Renovated Their Kitchen—and Stumbled Upon Buried Treasure From the 17th Century.
DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: Colorado’s one-party rulers steadily chip away at democracy.
If democracy is truly hanging by a thread, then surely Colorado’s Democrat majority is heroically defending it. I mean, they say that’s their job one, next to banning ketchup packets (Senate Bill 146, seriously).
Which leaves me confused.
Because from my tiny little “just-a-citizen” brain perspective, they seem to spend an awful lot of time removing voters’ power, hiding meetings, dodging taxpayer consent and nullifying ballot initiatives.
Maybe I’m missing the advanced theory of democracy taught only in elite government seminars and overpriced Aspen retreats.
Take Senate Bill 150. It strips away two-thirds of RTD’s publicly elected board seats and replaces them with appointees.
Silly me. I thought democracy involved electing people.
But apparently true democracy is when insiders choose insiders to protect the public from the dangerous unpredictability of… the public.
Then there’s House Bill 1326, which exempts the all-powerful Public Utilities Commission from open meetings laws.
Again, I’m sure there’s a sophisticated democracy-enhancing explanation for this.
Perhaps democracy works best when the public cannot actually watch government decisions being made. Sort of a “trust us you peasants” model of self-government.
Read the whole thing.
HERE’S HOPING/PRAYING THAT “STUDENT LEADERS” AT ELITE (HAH!) COASTAL UNIVERSITIES ARE THE FUTURE LEADERS OF THIS COUNTRY:
WHY DOESN’T THIS HAPPEN TO ME? A Man Was Walking Through a Field—and Found a Massive Viking Gold Hoard.
THE WEIMAR REPUBLIC CALLED AND SAID CALIFORNIA MIGHT WANT TO DIAL BACK A NOTCH OR TWENTY:
It is comforting to know that the state of California is treating death row inmates (who will die of natural causes long before they’re executed thanks to endless appeals) just as well as the homeless population – which watches porn on the taxpayer dime in public libraries. https://t.co/6I0Xsb5vOP
— FischerKing (@FischerKing64) May 13, 2026
Much more at Rufo’s Substack: Watching Porn on California’s Death Row. Under Gavin Newsom, state prisoners are turning taxpayer-funded tablets into personal sex machines.
