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.”

AND THE ANSWER IS NONE. NONE MORE BAGEL: The world has officially reached peak bagel.

New York’s Citi Field has weathered its share of away-team blowouts over the years, but the crowd gathered on a brisk Sunday last fall was not prepared for the upset awaiting them.

At the sixth BagelFest, more than 2,000 devotees of New York’s most iconic breakfast food had lined up to try samples and schmears from local favorites and shops as far away as Denmark and Hawaii. When a panel of expert judges announced its pick for “Best Bagel,” the crowd erupted with a mix of elation and disbelief.

The winner? Starship Bagel, which is not based in New York—or even London or Montreal, cities with venerable bagel traditions of their own—but in Dallas, Texas.

For many bagel purists, the future should look like the past. True New York bagels today are made in much the same way they were when they were brought over by Jewish immigrants from Poland in the 19th century. Few had succeeded in replicating them outside the region until places like Starship Bagel came along and shattered New Yorkers’ long-held belief that great bagels could only come from their own backyard.

The View of the World from 9th Avenue strikes again:

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Knoxville’s own Potchke made the list.

EVERYONE HAS AMBITIONS: I want to live like Costco people.. I confess this has never been one of mine.

THAT’S OK, NEITHER CAN DYLAN: Paul McCartney Admitted He Sometimes Can’t Tell What Song Bob Dylan Is Playing Live.

YES:

This real-time 1948 article from The Economist completely destroys the modern “Nakba” narrative that was invented decades later as political propaganda.

Straight from British eyewitnesses in Haifa, October 2, 1948:

“Jewish authorities urged all Arabs to remain in Haifa and… https://t.co/WIcnerXMmQ pic.twitter.com/pifBTXIzey

— Captain Allen (@CptAllenHistory) May 16, 2026

FASTER, PLEASE: New targeted radiopharmaceutical therapy induces remission in pancreatic cancer model.

TO BE FAIR, MOST OF THE ADVICE WAS LIES: 57% of Americans Are Tired of Being Told What To Eat, New Survey Finds.

OLD AND BUSTED: “Don’t Be Evil.”

The New Hotness? Google Maps Just ‘Unburned’ the Pacific Palisades — and Infuriated Angelenos Noticed.

Angelenos have been noticing something strange: the Google Maps satellite imagery depicting the Los Angeles areas of the Pacific Palisades and Altadena now shows pristine neighborhoods untouched by the devastating fires of January 2025.

Of course, as we all know, those neighborhoods are in ruins. Why would Google pretend otherwise?

On Reddit, user TinyPinkSparkles asked, “Why is Google maps back to showing old satellite images of Altadena?” She continued:

Not too long after the fire, Google updated the satellite imagery to reflect the fire and thousands of lost structures. Now it’s back to pre-fire images of houses and businesses that are no longer there. Why?

Live look at Google maps of the area:

DECONSTRUCTING DECONSTRUCTION:

The virus is *non-falsifiable*. If you defend a norm, it’s because you’re the oppressor. If you deny being an oppressor, that’s proof of your unconscious privilege. If you cite facts, your facts are contaminated by the power that produced them. If you cite reason, reason itself is white, male, Western. There is no possible exit. The system is designed to make any objection inadmissible by definition. That’s exactly the structure of a cult.

And that’s exactly what has taken hold in universities, HR departments, media, administrations, and corporate boards for the past twenty years.

Read the whole thing.

THE MEMES ARE HERE, LET YOUR WEEKEND ROLL:  Meme and let your enemies cry.

LIZ WARREN STARTING TO LOOK NERVOUS: Oscar-winning folk singer Buffy Sainte-Marie stripped of honorary degree after faking Indigenous ancestry.

THE POWER LINE WEEK IN PICTURES: Viral Meme Edition.

YOUR OCCASIONAL REMINDER THAT ANYTHING THE LEFT CAN’T CONTROL, IT WILL DESTROY, AND IF IT CAN’T BE DESTROYED, THEY’LL DISCREDIT IT:

You get the game here, right?

They file an absurd motion asking the Supreme Court to rule on a case where it clearly has no jurisdiction. Then when it obviously refuses (w 0 dissents), they accuse it of corruption to justify trying to stack the court.

Shameful. https://t.co/VwUlPiF41l

— AG (@AGHamilton29) May 16, 2026

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MADE IT, MA! TOP OF THE WORLD! The Coolest Video Ever Shot on Everest. Ma Chunlin has created one of the best videos we’ve ever seen come out of the Himalaya.

This dude captures aerial footage taken by his drone above Mount Everest, the world's highest peak and it looks insane pic.twitter.com/VvRv4Nqf6l

— Dudes Posting Their W’s (@DudespostingWs) May 16, 2026

(Classical reference in headline.)