IT ISN’T THE BIAS SO MUCH AS IT’S THE LACK OF LAUGHS: 91% of SNL’s political Weekend Update jokes this season targeted Trump, conservatives.
May 18, 2026
SOCIAL JUSTICE RUINS EVERYTHING, ARCHIVIST EDITION: “Archiving is about shaping memory, advancing justice, and ensuring access in a digital age. Our ARM students preserve the past and build ethical frameworks for the future…”
No, it’s not. Nobody wants this. The constituency of people who want archivists making decisions based on “shaping memory” (Orwell much?) or “advancing justice” is effectively 0% of the population. Not everything has to be politics. People are begging higher ed to stop being this way.
FOR A FEW YEARS IN THE ’90S, WILL SMITH DEFINED SUMMER BOX OFFICE:
Hollywood was full of enormous incandescent black Movie Stars right up until the moment activists decided the movie business was broken and racist and needed to be “fixed” and now we’re stuck hoping for Will Smith’s redemption because we aren’t making movie stars at all anymore https://t.co/zlMglBGPDR
— George MF Washington (@GMFWashington) May 18, 2026
IT’S WHAT THEY DO: The AP Goes Manic Panic Over Muskets?
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SpaceX could file publicly for the IPO as early as Wednesday, with a roadshow kicking off on June 4, the report said. The prior timeline put the IPO near the end of June.
The company had already filed confidentially and is seeking to raise up to $75 billion at a valuation of $1.75 trillion. That would surpass the current record holder for the biggest IPO ever: Saudi Aramco, which $29 billion raised at a $1.7 trillion valuation in 2019.
Since its founding in 2002, SpaceX has taken over the market. It claimed more than 80% of global rocket launches last year and has over 10,000 Starlink satellites in orbit, providing space-based internet connections to businesses and militaries.
SpaceX is a top launch provider for NASA and the Pentagon, which is also looking to the company to help develop President Donald Trump’s “Golden Dome” missile-defense shield.
“It’s a truly unique business with the deepest moat that exists today,” an investor told the Financial Times. “This company launches over 90% of Western payload into space each year. It’s like if you own the only undersea cable from the U.S. to Europe, it’s the only way you can get internet.”
Nobody has yet to beat Falcon 9 on price, and that’s before Starship undercuts Falcon 9.
ARRESTS AND EXPULSIONS ALL AROUND: Georgetown U. anti-Israel protesters disrupt senior convocation.
FANG FANG’S SISTER? Turns out, according to the Daily Caller, that California Treasurer/Candidate for Lt. Governor Fiona Ma has a history of meetings with Chinese intelligence
TAXES: Europe tried wealth taxes. Most gave up.
Economists Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman estimate the Sanders proposal would raise $4.4 trillion over a decade. Competing estimates from the Tax Foundation and the American Enterprise Institute project significantly lower totals of $3.3 trillion and $2.3 trillion, respectively.
Saez and Zucman’s estimate for Warren’s proposal has more than doubled since the legislation was first introduced in 2021, which the economists attribute largely to the rapid growth in billionaire wealth during that period.
Zucman has estimated that U.S. billionaires pay an effective tax rate of about 23%, though Magness disputed that figure, arguing broader accounting methods place the rate closer to 40%. A 2025 paper by IRS economist David Splinter estimated effective tax rates as high as 45% for top earners.
Wealth taxes have largely disappeared across Europe. Twelve European countries imposed wealth taxes in the 1990s, but only Spain, Norway and Switzerland still maintain them today.
“In practice, these measures have almost never delivered on their promised tax revenue,” Magness told The Center Square.
According to Magness, countries including Austria, France, Sweden, Finland and Denmark repealed their wealth taxes between 1994 and 2018 because of low revenue yields and concerns that high-net-worth residents would move assets or relocate abroad.
We’ll see if California voters figure this stuff out before or after they drive out even more wealthy taxpayers.
THE ENEMY WITHIN (ITALIAN EDITION):
Salim El Koudri, the terrorist who committed an atrocity in Modena had sent a job application in 2021 to the university he had graduated in Business Economics from:
"You have to hire me as an employee. Fucking Christian bastards.
You and your Jesus Christ on the cross, I'll… pic.twitter.com/BwEllEj8OQ
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) May 18, 2026
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: It’s Awesome to Have the Feds Focusing on Real Criminals Again. “In the Democrats’ morality-free, topsy-turvy world, you and I are the bad guys. When the drooling moron Joe Biden was doing his puppet thing in the Oval Office, his handlers tasked various federal law enforcement agencies with going after almost anyone except the actual bad guys. As I wrote on more than one occasion duing that dark time, I didn’t feel like a domestic terrorist, but the government kept insisting that I was one.”
BARBARIAN SAVAGES SHOULD BE PUT DOWN. INSTEAD THE WEST’S RULING ELITES CELEBRATE THEM:
When you understand that what ISIS did to its victims at Bataclan is almost identical to what Palestinians did on October 7, you will realize what Israel is up against but on a massive scale. If Israel ever loses, it will be a Bataclan-level massacre x 1000s. https://t.co/R8NAYwKvPt
— William A. Jacobson (@wajacobson) May 17, 2026
Related:
*Mobs of Hamas and Hezbollah terrorist supporters go after synagogues, block off roads, and assault people*
Mamdani: *Remains silent, and vetoes bill that would create buffer zones around places of worship that don't allow such "protests" within a certain distance*
*Muslim man… https://t.co/e1pe2m7WcJ
— Leftism (@LeftismForU) May 18, 2026
NICE WORK, FELLAS: Hamas commander who helped plan Oct. 7 attacks has been killed, Israel says.
A long-serving Hamas commander who replaced Mohammed Sinwar and helped plan the October 7 attacks in Israel was killed on Friday, Israeli officials said Saturday.
Izz al-Din al-Haddad was the head of Hamas’ military wing, the Israel Defense Forces said in a news release. The IDF said he “was involved in the holding of many Israeli hostages in Hamas captivity” amid the war in Gaza and “surrounded himself with hostages to prevent his elimination.”
A coward and a war criminal, and now a corpse.
JONATHAN TURLEY: Why Israel’s lawsuit against Times over ‘blood libel’ has a chance.
I BLAME — ER, I MEAN, CREDIT — GLOBAL WARMING: Why Are Bikinis Getting Smaller?
Modern bikinis leave 95% of a woman’s body bare, but men show respect by mostly staring only at the parts that are left covered.
MELT HARDER: Minnesota Dems Melt Down After Gun Ban Vote Fails.
TO BOLDLY GO WHERE P.J. O’ROURKE HAS GONE BEFORE: The far-right has got a new weapon: glamorous young women.
Flashback: “We’re not being sexist here…It’s not that looks matter per se. It’s just that beautiful women are always on the cutting edge of social trends.”
THEY’RE ALWAYS IMPORTANT, BUT YES:
I cannot stress enough how important local elections are going to become in the years ahead https://t.co/YioWkZixg9
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) May 16, 2026
The Left has played this game — particularly with Soros DAs — with impunity long enough.
LEFT TO THEIR OWN DEVICES: Review: ‘Blood & Progress: A Century of Left-Wing Violence in America’ by Noah Rothman.. “This is a book about the assassins, the vandals, the small-cell terrorists, and the lizard-brained mobs that mete out destruction, violence, and death in the name of political causes and in the pursuit of political outcomes.”
This happens because society tolerates it. Society tolerates it because the perpetrators are overwhelmingly children of the elite, or their peers.
GAS LINES IN AN OIL GIANT:
And there are still people saying the US Blockade of Iran is failing. 🤡 https://t.co/vzHQ7zbwOd
— Trent Telenko (@TrentTelenko) May 16, 2026
HELTER STELTER:
"I hope 60 Minutes remains 60 Minutes. There are very few things that have been around for as long as 60 Minutes has and maintained the quality that it has…" https://t.co/8C6oQFmwYT
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) May 18, 2026
Flashback to 2017: Stelter Skips Dan Rather Fiasco in 22-Minute Interview on the History of ’60 Minutes.’
CNN Reliable Sources host Brian Stelter routinely trashes President Trump for sticking to “his safe space” and doing interviews on Fox News. But on his show on Sunday, he provided the safest of spaces to 60 Minutes executive producer Jeff Fager. Both on CNN and in his 22-minute podcast, Stelter discussed the history of the CBS magazoine show without once mentioning Dan Rather or his phony-documents fiasco attacking President George W. Bush on 60 Minutes II in 2004.
That’s because for Stelter, Dan Rather became one of CNN’s ‘Reliable Sources.’
Stelter often invokes the importance of truth and facts in his run-up to bringing on Rather, whose reputation was shattered for ignoring those things in the defining episode of his career.
Rather reported on documents in 2004 purporting to show George W. Bush had been derelict in his duties and gone absent without leave from the Texas Air National Guard in the 1970s. The documents were almost immediately revealed to be forgeries. CBS and Rather initially stood by the report, but Rather was eventually forced to apologize, and the 60 Minutes producers of the segment were fired. Rather was forced out of the anchor chair in 2005.
However, Rather has long insisted his team was correct and reported the truth about Bush avoiding Vietnam service and shirking his responsibilities with the National Guard. He’s even gotten assistance from Hollywood in what came to be known as “Rathergate.”
A 2015 movie based on producer Mary Mapes’s memoir of the affair, called Truth, starred Robert Redford as Rather, portraying him and Mapes as flawed but heroic in their journalistic pursuits. It was a box office flop and tepidly received by critics, some of whom panned it as didactic, simplistic, and one-sided. The Atlantic called it a “terrible, terrible movie about journalism.”
60 Minutes’ quality control has been uniformly terrible, but as long as it leans hard in Stelter’s direction, all is well in his world.
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