May 26, 2026

THE END OF STATINS? Eli Lilly says Verve’s gene editor lowers cholesterol levels in early study. “Eli Lilly said Monday that a high dose of its gene-editing therapy reduced cholesterol levels by 62% in participants in a clinical trial, an early but encouraging test of whether a one-time treatment may one day help people seeking to lower their LDL, or ‘bad,’ cholesterol.”

Posted at 3:49 pm by Stephen Green

HE ISN’T VERY BRIGHT, IS HE?

Posted at 3:33 pm by Stephen Green

ASTROTURF ALL THE WAY DOWN:

Posted at 3:02 pm by Stephen Green

NAILED IT:

The cause is always the same: Other people’s money.

Posted at 2:31 pm by Stephen Green

GOODER AND… WAIT, WHAT? Mamdani Did the Right Thing on Crime and the Left’s Reaction Is Priceless. “What do you call it when a mayor does the right thing concerning policing, resulting in tangible results for his city’s most vulnerable? Well, this is New York City and the mayor is an avowed socialist, so you have to call it ‘mounting frustration’ from so-called reform advocates and the people who voted for him.”

Posted at 2:16 pm by Stephen Green

AND BLEND RULES, AND REFINERY CLOSURES, AND DRILLING BANS:

Posted at 1:30 pm by Glenn Reynolds

INCENTIVES MATTER: With no options left, a Venezuelan family living in Colorado walks into ICE custody, seeking to go back home.

Cecilia stood outside a federal immigration field office in Centennial, chewing her lip and weighing the few choices left to her. Behind her, piled in a car, was what remained of her family’s life in the United States.

It was early May, and a few feet away, her three sons took turns sticking their shoes into old prairie dog holes in the dirt, the youngest’s Crocs breaking through cobwebs. As the boys looked from the ground to their mother, she explained that if she returned to the office the next day, immigration agents had promised to detain the family and arrange their return to Venezuela.

The Centennial office building was similar to one into which her husband and the boys’ father had disappeared late last year. But unlike Ronald, who’d been arrested at what he thought was a routine appointment, Cecilia arrived that day hoping that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement would take them away.

She and her three children — ages 12, 9 and 6 — had walked for three months to get to the United States in 2024, crossing notorious expanses of jungle and mountains for the prospect of a stable future and a reunion with Ronald, who’d come earlier that year. But like other families split by the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, they now found themselves struggling to make ends meet in a single-parent household, with no regular paycheck and few options.

That was quite a struggle. Next time, do it without breaking our laws.

Posted at 12:43 pm by Stephen Green

BOMB CANADA, THE CASE FOR WAR:

(Classical reference in headline.)

Posted at 12:30 pm by Ed Driscoll

I DID NAZI THAT COMING:

Posted at 12:27 pm by Stephen Green

GREAT MOMENTS IN MULTICULTURALISM: AOC’s Former Chief of Staff ‘Threatens’ a Fellow Dem (Who’s Jewish) for Refusing to Back a Nazi *Popcorn*.

In a move that perfectly captures the modern left’s priorities, former Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez campaign manager Saikat Chakrabarti is melting down because Massachusetts Democrat Rep. Jake Auchincloss dared to call out a Nazi tattoo on Graham Platner as personally disqualifying—and suggested voters might feel the same way.

Well, maybe Nazi-adjacent or certainly willing to look the other way at those who were. Here’s a flashback to Chakrabarti’s sartorial excesses in 2019: AOC chief of staff criticized for wearing shirt touting Nazi collaborator:

Chakrabarti’s choice of apparel is receiving a fresh round of criticism after Ocasio-Cortez, a New York Democrat, positively quoted Nazi sympathizer Eva Perón, the former first lady of Argentina.

Saikat Chakrabarti, the chief of staff for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, came under scrutiny for having worn a T-shirt that featured Nazi collaborator Subhas Chandra Bose.

In December 2018, following his boss’s congressional victory, Chakrabarti did a video with NowThis News, titled “Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Chief of Staff on Acting Fast in Congress,” in which he wore a T-shirt with Bose’s face.

As I wrote last year, before Chakrabarti explicitly endorsed Platner, “If he wins and takes office at the beginning of 2027, I assume Chakrabarti would want to pack in as much legislating as possible before it’s too late (possibly working with potential Senator Graham Platner, another enthusiast of Germany’s post-Weimar era, if he’s elected as well). While Chakrabarti was serving as AOC’s ghostwriter, she assured us all that the world would be coming to an end in 2030.”

Related: Dave Portnoy EMBARRASSES Graham Platner’s Team for Thinking He Would ‘Play Footsy with a Nazi’ (Emails)

Posted at 12:00 pm by Ed Driscoll

ALLIES:

Translation: “Poland has received preliminary approval from the U.S. Department of State to produce PAC-3 missiles for Patriot systems in its domestic defense industry – Deputy Defense Minister Cezary Tomczyk announced. In addition to Patriot missiles, Poland plans to also produce missiles for HIMARS systems as well as Hellfire. The production is to be joint in nature, benefiting both Polish and American companies. This is an important step toward reducing dependence on foreign supplies.”

Posted at 11:25 am by Stephen Green