May 15, 2026
DISHONESTY:
This overt racism would be bad enough in ordinary university admissions. It is made so much worse by the fact that it's a prestigious medical school that trains the doctors we will one day trust with our lives. pic.twitter.com/vffOlBt7Rs
— Colin Wright (@SwipeWright) May 14, 2026
#CommissionEarned
Kestrel’s land is scarred in ways its inhabitants cannot begin to understand, built on long-poisoned earth and menaced by twisted plants and animals. Farmers, hunters, and magic-users fight a long battle to create safe havens and reclaim lost ground, but their casualties mount over generations. Kestrel knows little and cares less about the patterns that shape her world. She’s a shapechanger and healer who has spent the handful of years since reaching womanhood cleansing the wildlife of her blighted land with medicine and magic. Sure of her place and confident in her skills, she takes care of her own and doesn’t poke at things that don’t concern her. But when she returns from a routine journey with her brother to find her home ransacked and empty, Kestrel must gather her remaining family and search for new allies before old magic and older hatred rob her kin of their freedom, their lives, and possibly their souls.
AND IT WILL HAVE THE SAME RESULTS: New York Following Cuba’s Strategy For Powering The Electrical Grid.
BEHOLD, MY SHOCKED FACE: Democrats Tell Pollsters They’d Happily Ditch Black Districts To Get More Power.
NOT ALL ‘STUDIES’ ARE CREATED EQUAL: Observation, Not Study.
DIDN’T THE SENATE PARLAMENTARIAN ASSURE US THAT OBAMACARE WAS REVENUE NEUTRAL? GOOD TIMES: Senate Parliamentarian Just Delivered Some Brutal News About the Reconciliation Package.
FAUX ARTISTES. TRUE LEFTY ACTIVISTS: Art World Antics: Virtual Signaling at the Venice Biennale.
No one will remember their names.
I HOPE OTHER RESERVOIRS ARE NOW BEING CHECKED AND GUARDED: ‘Unprecedented Threat:’ Routine Maintenance Found an IED at an Alabama Dam.
WE WON’T BE FOOLED AGAIN: CDC Official Dusts Off Familiar ‘Six Feet’ Playbook Regarding Hantavirus.
Or they’ll pull off a plague every time the left is likely to lose an election.
THAT’S BECAUSE SYSTEMIC RACISM IN THE US ISN’T REAL: Former BLM activist goes scorched earth on ‘scam’ group, insists systemic racism in US isn’t real.
EQUALITY IS NOT THE POINT. THE POINT IS TO HAVE EVEN THE POOR LIVE LIKE THE RICH OF OLD: The Gap Doesn’t Matter.
I HAVE ENJOYED POWERLINE IN THE PAST AND I’M SURE WILL IN THE FUTURE, BUT THIS IS SLOPPY, YELLOW JOURNALISM AND FRANKLY UNWORTHY OF THEM: Pope Leo makes a statement.
I’m sorry. I try not to write essays here, but this entire post is nonsense. The outrage of the “award” (Vatican’s “highest award” my feet!) being given to Iran to send a message is nonsense. The entire “Leo was bath-mouthing Trump” is not true. It was spun up by our press and Leo HIMSELF denied it, (which let me add was at considerable risk to himself, since the Euroweenies in the Vatican would be big mad at his saying this outright.)
As for the award to Iran, it is nonsense. It’s an automatic medal given to an ambassador who has served x amount of time. In fact, most of “Leo’s scandals” are nonsense. A brief list: Fact check: Did the Vatican Library open a prayer room for Muslims? (Spoiler. No.) Pope prays at mosque! Or, you know: Pope visits Istanbul mosque but, unlike predecessors, opts not to pray there. Keep in mind the man took the name Leo, our last strongly anti-communist pope. before John Paul II and also that he has said this: “Communism has penetrated even Christian circles disguised as solidarity. It is our pastoral duty to expose it.” – Pope Leo XIV . Now is he perfect? No. No man is. Is he doing everything right? No. but the Vatican has its own deep state around which he has to maneuver. HOWEVER so far, he’s making a lot of right moves. As I said often about Trump during his first term and still do sometimes: Give the man room to cook.
Before you say I’m saying all this because I’m Catholic, you should remember I’m the one Catholic who used to make “is the Pope Catholic” jokes about Francis. So, spare me. I know it’s lots of fun to indulge America’s oldest bigotry but it burns me to see you people fall for the left’s psyops.
He p*sses the left off by not liking commies. And they try to use him to beat Trump. But you? Think.
May 14, 2026
OPEN THREAD: Happy Thursday.
STARSHIP TEST TENTATIVELY SCHEDULED FOR MAY 19. Godspeed.
THE POISON IS IN THE DOSE: A Common Vitamin Has a Complicated Link to Cancer, Experts Reveal. More likely, as the article notes, unusually high B12 levels may be a symptom or a marker for cancer, not a cause.
COLOR ME UNSURPRISED: Mixing Edible Cannabis and Alcohol May Impair Driving More Than Scientists Expected.
Chris Gore wrote that Disney changing Star Wars (and Marvel) from a boys brand to a girls brand was the costliest mistake in entertainment history.
But they didn’t change it to a girls brand.
They changed it to a gay brand.
Pedro Pascal kisses Stephen Colbert during his interview. pic.twitter.com/vVyw7GjJCl
— Pop Crave (@PopCrave) May 13, 2026
Pedro Pascal Promotes The Mandalorian and Grogu by Kissing Stephen Colbert On The Mouth
"For many online, the moment immediately became meme material. But it also raised another question entirely: how exactly is this helping promote The Mandalorian and Grogu to mainstream Star… pic.twitter.com/umktjyWjww
— Geeks + Gamers (@GeeksGamersCom) May 14, 2026
What this says to me is that they know The Mandalorian and Grogu is going to be an absolute bomb and either don’t care any more or are looking to pre-emptively make excuses for the disaster. “The public is just too homophobic to accept a gay space bounty hunter!”
In more next-level marketing, Disney has decided that they should allow the fired, disgraced failure Kaffeine Kennedy to remind the public that she is responsible for this movie.
No wonder the movie is tracking at the same level that Soylo: A Soy Wars Soyry tracked at before becoming the first Star Wars movie in history to lose money.
Christian Toto adds: ‘Mandalorian and Grogu’ Faces Even More Box Office Woes?
Some influencers did get access to a 25-minute clip reel of the film and came away impressed. We’ve yet to hear of any early screenings for review purposes.
There’s more.
“Star Wars” legend Mark Hamill just posted, then deleted, an image of a dead President Trump. That ghoulish move got plenty of media attention, forcing him to post a quasi-apology.
Hamill isn’t featured in “The Mandalorian and Grogu,” but he’s an essential part of franchise lore and a brand ambassador.
At least he was.
From last week: Mark Hamill Posts Image of President Trump Dead in a Grave With Caption “If Only.”
As Spinal Tap manager Ian Faith might say, Disney seems determined to make the appeal of Star Wars as “selective” as possible.
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): If I were a chick, I still don’t think kissing Colbert would boost my appeal. I mean, ick.
CLAUDINE LONGET, CHANTEUSE AND ACTRESS WHOSE CAREER ENDED WHEN SHE SHOT HER LOVER, DIES AGE 84.
She played the female lead, opposite Peter Sellers, in Blake Edwards’s 1968 film The Party, but she was best known for her appearances on the weekly television show hosted by her husband, Andy Williams. She was, in Williams’s words, “a beautiful, athletic, slender, petite brunette with large doe eyes”.
From her spouse’s side, she radiated a mixture of glamour and wholesome domesticity. On the set of Williams’s famous Christmas specials, she would cast protective glances towards the couple’s young children as they unwrapped parcels under the studio tree.
But few stars have made the journey from idol to pariah quite so swiftly and irreversibly as Claudine Longet who, on the afternoon of March 21 1976, shot her lover, the champion skier Spider Sabich, with a .22 handgun at their chalet in Aspen, Colorado. The events of that Sunday afternoon shifted the emphasis so firmly from femme to fatale that even now, decades later, some residents of America’s most exclusive ski resort have yet to forgive her.
She inspired a mercilessly derisive song, “Claudine,” by the Rolling Stones. Originally destined for the 1980 album Emotional Rescue, it eventually appeared as a bonus track on the Some Girls re-release in 2011. “Now only Spider knows for sure,” one verse begins, “But he ain’t talkin’ about it any more/ Is he, Claudine?/ There’s blood in the chalet/And blood in the snow/[She] Washed her hands of the whole damn show/The best thing you could do, Claudine.”
In April 1976, before her case had even been heard, the first series of NBC’s satirical show Saturday Night Live featured a sketch called “The Claudine Longet Invitational” in which male skiers competed in a slalom competition, at the end of which they were “accidentally” shot by Claudine Longet.
As Doug Hill and Jeff Weingrad wrote in their 1986 history of SNL, “One of [Standards and Practices vice president Herminio Traviesas’s] biggest mistakes came from not seeing how a piece played in performance. The sketch in question was [Michael] O’Donoghue’s ‘Claudine Longet Invitational’ ski tournament, which aired when she was facing trial for manslaughter. Traviesas, to O’Donoghue’s complete surprise, let it pass on the basis of a reading over the phone, not realizing that it came across much tougher visually than it did in the script. NBC’s legal representative on the show also let it pass after consulting with an outside law firm. Almost as soon as it aired, Longet’s estranged husband, Andy Williams, was on the phone with NBC’s lawyers in Los Angeles, threatening to sue. To placate Williams, Don Pardo read an apology in a subsequent show. ‘It is desirable to correct any misunderstanding,’ Pardo said, ‘that a suggestion was made that, in fact, a crime had been committed.… This is a statement of apology if the material was misinterpreted.’ Not a very sincere apology, but it served to keep the show out of court.”
God speed Claudine Longet
— Danny Deraney (@DannyDeraney) May 14, 2026
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MARK JUDGE: Cops Are Cool People.
