May 20, 2026

RECYCLING: The Pentagon’s Next Critical Minerals Source Is Already in Its Own Warehouses. “A new generation of hydrometallurgical processing, including biosorption, can recover high-purity metals from end-of-life electronics at commercial scale without the footprint of a smelter. These facilities can be built in about 15 months for roughly $40 million each. They maintain full chain of custody from waste stream to refined metal. And the upstream supply chain already exists: some 900 certified e-waste recyclers operate across the country today. What’s missing is the domestic processing capacity to keep those metals here.”

Posted at 12:44 pm by Stephen Green

WORST. HITLER. EVER: Money Well Spent: ‘Moron’ Thomas Massie Joins Marjorie Taylor Greene on Ash Heap of History.

These fans of the soon-to-be-former congressman (and other lunatics) will now be tasked with determining which supernatural force bears more blame for Massie’s defeat—Donald Trump or the Jews? A rhetorical question, of course. As the antisemites have certainly realized by now, even someone as handsome and powerful as Trump is not impervious to Jewish influence. The real question is whether they will ultimately grasp the futility of waging a lame crusade against an omnipotent cult that controls the weather, the space lasers, and the White House.

“My people are smart enough to understand that this is Israel trying to buy an election,” Massie told Fox News on Tuesday. Alas, his constituents’ brains did not prove beyond the reach of the meddling globalists, who spent a small fraction of their towering net worth to defeat a man Trump once charitably described as a “complete and total disaster as a congressman and, frankly, as a human being.” Money well spent, in our opinion. His righteous defeat concluded what was arguably the most important primary of the 2026 cycle. His victory would have emboldened the antisemitic conspiracy mongers that exist on both sides of the political spectrum. The result is proof that Republicans are not willing to coddle these freaks and are willing to happily purge them from their ranks. It sends a strong signal that frothing Groyperism is not a winning message in GOP primaries, which is good for the long-term health of the party and the country. For that, we can thank the unyielding leadership of Donald Trump—and whatever forces are controlling his mind.

Related: “Meanwhile, on the Left, an antisemite like Hasan Piker is praised, mainstreamed, campaigned with, and sanitized. Someone who doesn’t believe Israel should exist as a Jewish state like Zohran Mamdani is lauded as the future. Accusing Israel of genocide is the cost of entry, and the word Zionist has become a slur. Being pro-Israel, as the vast majority of Jews are, is a non-starter. The two sides are not the same. The Right may have antisemites—but the party is easily and eagerly purging itself of them. The Left is plagued by antisemitism—because it is embracing its antisemites.“

Posted at 12:35 pm by Ed Driscoll

IF ONLY THERE HAD BEEN SOME SORT OF WARNING: “They built the cost structure of a growth company on top of a customer base that was mathematically guaranteed to shrink.”

Posted at 12:29 pm by Glenn Reynolds

DON’T MESS WITH TEXAS: Abbott Seeks New Crime Fighting Tools. “Texas is a law-and-order state, but soft-on-crime Democrats are hellbent on undoing public order in blue cities, so Texas Governor Greg Abbott is asking for new tools to correct the errors of their ways.”

Posted at 11:42 am by Stephen Green

DIGITAL DECOUPLING:

This one is a bit dry, but still important.

I’d say I was amazed that it took these firms so long to protect themselves from Beijing’s prying eyes, but I already spent the last three decades watching American firms give up their IP and trade secrets to the exact same Communists.

Posted at 11:26 am by Stephen Green

DO YOU KNOW WHAT IT TAKES TO OUST AN INCUMBENT DEMOCRAT BIG-CITY MAYOR?

Keisha Lance Bottoms is Lori Lightfoot levels of awful, and thinks she deserves a promotion.

Posted at 10:55 am by Stephen Green

KEEP IT REAL: Lies, Toxins, and Engineered Ticks: The Menu No One Asked For.

While Gates and the WEF have been pushing fake food as the future, Harvard-trained psychiatrist and nutritional researcher Dr. Georgia Ede has spent twenty-five years documenting what happens to the human body—and brain—when we stop eating real meat. Her conclusion is unambiguous: “Meat is the only food that contains every nutrient we need in its proper form and is also the safest food for our blood sugar and insulin levels.” Vitamin B12, omega-3 fatty acids, zinc, choline, iron, iodine—these nutrients are either impossible or extremely difficult to obtain adequately from plants. And the mental health consequences of removing them are measurable. Studies cited in her work show vegetarians have a 35.2% chance of developing major depression compared to 19.1% in meat-eaters. A 2022 survey of 14,000 Brazilians found that vegans were twice as likely to suffer from depression—even when consuming equivalent nutrients from plant sources. A 2020 meta-analysis of 160,000 meat-eaters and 8,500 meat-avoiders showed that those who excluded meat were significantly more likely to suffer from depression.

We are being sold sickness as wellness.

Many people seem to have a natural revulsion to unnatural foods, which probably serves as a strong evolutionary protection against eating unhealthy things and also against Bill Gates.

Posted at 10:40 am by Stephen Green

THAT’S NOT MUCH OF A COALITION:

Related:

This is how Massie chose to go out.

Posted at 10:24 am by Stephen Green

MORE MONEY: How China enables American domination.

Never has the gap in financial power between the world’s two largest economies been this wide. Follow the list of empires from the US down through Britain, France, the Netherlands and back to the 15th century. Usually, the emerging challenger built broad strengths from military to trade. China is typical in every way except finance. Unlike rival currencies past and present, the renminbi is far from fully convertible and has gained little traction as an international currency.

Normally after an empire gains economic might, its currency takes an increasing share of reserves held by central banks. With a 17 per cent share of global GDP, but only 2 per cent of central bank reserves, China is trailing 30 to 40 years behind previous superpowers at a similar stage of their ascents.

Likewise in trade, as an emerging power gains ground, the rest of the world accepts more payments in its currency — even if the new power is not directly involved in the transaction. Britain at its peak accounted for 40 per cent of trade, but 60 per cent of trade payments were in sterling. China by contrast has a leading 15 per cent share of global trade, but only 2 per cent of trade bills are invoiced in renminbi.

Much more at the link. But the TL;DR is that nobody trusts China — China is asshoe.

Posted at 9:38 am by Stephen Green

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Republicans Finally Get Serious About Purging the Squishes. “Rude and dishonest is required behavior for Never Trump Republicans, so Massie will fit right in when he inevitably becomes a CNN or MS Now contributor.”

Kruiser beat me to the column I wanted to write this morning — and he did not waste the opportunity.

Posted at 9:07 am by Stephen Green