May 10, 2026

KURT SCHLICHTER: Democrats Say ‘Heil Platner!’

That’s Excuse Number One, that he’s a half-wit. Excuse Number Two is, “Well, I was in the military, and you know how they are, and I just kind of fell in with that bad crowd.” Yes, he’s blaming the military for his Nazi tattoo. The guy is adding blue falconry to his lengthy list of personal failures. I spent 27 years in the military and never met one single guy with a Nazi tattoo. Maybe I just didn’t get around as much. Maybe we didn’t run in the same circles. Or maybe he’s just That Guy, the problem child dirtbag that every single unit has, and who everyone wants to throw a blanket party for.

Now, there’s a third possibility, and it’s not really an excuse. It’s that he is lying. He totally knew what Der Tramp Stampen was and liked it and got it on purpose and only covered it when he got recruited for this Senate campaign, but before it became known. Being entirely consistent with his entire worldview, this explanation seems the most likely one. After all, he’s a big fan of Hamas, and Hamas feels about Jews like…well, Graham Platner feels about Jews. By the way, this is the first time I mentioned his name, yet you knew exactly who I was talking about—the guy with the Nazi tattoo.

Don’t be stupid, be a schmarty, and read the whole thing.

UPDATE: Today Maine, tomorrow the world? In a concentration of camp, the Bulwark sees an even bigger kampf for the totenkopf man: The Bulwark Floats the Idea of Graham Platner Running for President in 2028.

(The underlying article is behind a heavily guarded and barbwired paywall, appropriately enough.)

Posted at 3:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

IT DOES: Yes, Creatine Can Cause Weight Gain. This is How Much Is From Muscle Vs. Fat Mass.

The scale may tick up after you start taking creatine because the supplement can increase the total amount of water in the human body, explains Aubrey Grant, MD, director of sports and performance cardiology at MedStar Health in Washington, D.C. “This happens because creatine is stored in skeletal muscle, where it pulls water into the muscle cells through osmotic effects,” he says.

The result is usually a 1- to 3-pound weight gain in the first week or two of supplementation. “It is a predictable physiological response, and for most users, it is not harmful,” Dr. Grant says.

Again, he emphasizes that the extra pounds is not from fat.

Good to know.

Posted at 1:30 pm by Glenn Reynolds

THE UNLIKELY LINK BETWEEN NUREMBERG AND THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA:

Hungary is a country still feeling the long aftershocks of World War Two and the Holocaust. Those shocks seem clearer than ever after the years I have spent researching The Nuremberg Women, my new book on the trials. We all have an image of those trials in our head: the famous men judging and being judged in the courtroom, immortalized in photographs, or in Laura Knight’s painting, which is on permanent display at the Imperial War Museum. Women are pushed to the margins. But so many intriguing women played their part, from Knight herself to Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier, the French Resistance hero who gave the most devastating testimony of the trial.

Anyone who launches a new book is hoping desperately that no other big cultural event will come along and eclipse it. So imagine my horror when I checked the publication date of The Nuremberg Women – April 23 – and realized I was going head-to-head with the premiere of The Devil Wears Prada 2. A film about Vogue may not appear to overlap with a book about the first trial for international war crimes, but I have my fears.

That’s understandable. One story is about a ruthless totalitarian feared by all. The other is about Hermann Goering.

Speaking of whom: Judgement of Nuremberg and Russell Crowe as Hermann Göring.

Posted at 12:44 pm by Ed Driscoll

COME AND SEE THE VIOLENCE INHERENT IN THE LEFTISM:

Posted at 12:30 pm by Ed Driscoll

DIVERSITY WAS THEIR STRENGTH:

Exit quote: “Import the third world, get third world elections.”

As Ezra Levant tweets, “I think this is the first time a Liberal MP who brought in 5 million migrants has ever had those migrants affect his life.”

Posted at 12:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

DREW HOLDEN: A COVID Autopsy, Part 2: ‘Should coronavirus lock down protesters waive their medical care? Some medical ethicists think so.’

NBC was on the story, too: “Conservative activist family behind ‘grassroots’ anti-quarantine Facebook events: A family-run network of pro-gun groups is behind five of the largest Facebook groups dedicated to protesting shelter-in-place restrictions.” The takeaway was clear: rather than these protests reflecting the desire of real people to leave their homes for the first time in over a month, protests, to the media’s telling, were just a collection “of fringe activists and ardent Trump supporters.”

Stories like this (and there were many) from NBC make one wonder what today’s legacy media would’ve said about the American Revolution. Would that pursuit of freedom have gotten the same scare quotes: “Armed militia members, other protesters demand ‘freedom’ from Michigan Gov. Whitmer’s stay-home order”

Maybe protestors should be kicked out of hospitals if they get sick, so life-saving ventilators can be reassigned? The Philadelphia Inquirer asked and answered in what was billed as a straight-news piece, titled “Should coronavirus lock down protesters waive their medical care? Some medical ethicists think so.”

Despite this, liberal outlet The Nation went even further, alleging that the legacy press was in fact critical of lockdowns in a piece titled “The Press Is Amplifying a Dangerous Know-Nothing Ideology: The anti-lockdown protests aren’t the first time the media has been swindled into cheerleading an extremist faux libertarianism.” Merely talking about the protests, apparently, was a bridge too far. Repeating a now-common refrain, the outlet lamented that “While the absolute numbers involved in the protests are tiny, their effect—when amplified by the credulous, cheerleading tone of the coverage—is massive and dangerous.” As ever for the media, protesters weren’t just wrong, but evil.

This was all until protests were about something far more important to the legacy press than the separation of powers or individual freedom: racial justice. You probably don’t need much of a reminder how the press vouched for these lockdown-busting protests, but just in case:

Read the whole thing.

Posted at 12:00 pm by Ed Driscoll

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE:

Sad that the try-hard, pick-me leftists at places like Boise State are allowed to drag the institution’s reputation down with lame bullshit.

Posted at 10:11 am by Glenn Reynolds

TRUE:

Posted at 7:30 am by Glenn Reynolds

HOW IT’S GOING:

Posted at 7:10 am by Glenn Reynolds