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THAT’LL BE THE DAY I GO BACK TO ANNANDALE: Doomsday for California as last barrel of oil from the Middle East arrives in Long Beach.

Hong Kong’s ship New Corolla, which loaded up on oil in February, will soon depart, and the state will have to figure out how to make up for 200,000 barrels of oil a day it got from the Middle East.

California is particularly vulnerable in this situation, as its status as an isolated energy island without gas pipelines has led it to increasingly rely on imports.

A few weeks ago, a number of Democratic and Republican state lawmakers sounded the alarm on the impending emergency — and blasted California’s energy authorities for not having a plan.

“We are demanding an emergency plan to deal with this fuel crisis,” Assemblymember David Alvarez (D) said at a press conference.

Have you tried allowing offshore drilling and maybe not driving the refineries out of business?

THIS STORY DID NOT GET THE ATTENTION IT DESERVED:

Ralper Prakazrel “Pras” Michel of the Fugees has reported to federal prison to begin a 14-year sentence. He was convicted for illegally funneling millions of dollars in foreign contributions to Barack Obama’s 2012 reelection campaign. https://t.co/Gr0eP41OLM

— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) May 3, 2026

MY WALL STREET JOURNAL COLUMN: Don’t Stand So Close to ChatGPT: The danger of AI isn’t destruction but seduction. Applying fiduciary duty may be the solution.

Archive version here. Book is here.

WELFARE SHOULD SUCK:

We need to stop EBT cards and electronic transfers of funds for public assistance programs.

Go back to physical manifestations of being on public assistance — standing in lines, dealing with govt bureaucrats in state and local offices, using a form of payment that requires… https://t.co/u3bPlmrjkl

— Shipwreckedcrew (@shipwreckedcrew) May 3, 2026

SCHRODINGER’S TOTENKOPF:

I think if one is trying to figure out if a candidate is sympathetic to Nazis, one of the most important tests is whether the candidate knowingly got a death’s head tattoo signifying an elite, brutal group of SS officers and kept it until the second he wanted to run for Senate… https://t.co/vRjQAQ2kIF

— Mary Katharine Ham (@mkhammer) May 3, 2026

Related:

The Totenkopf prominently appears in what is one of the most recognizable memes on the internet, literally everybody who spends time here knows what it looks like and who wore it https://t.co/iyNCTrvB4m pic.twitter.com/V5sZskAOOa

— Enguerrand VII de Coucy (@ingelramdecoucy) May 2, 2026

UGH: Erika Kirk is Paying a Price That’s Absurdly Unfair, and Now She’s Being Tortured for Clicks.

THE BABYLON BEE (AMERICA’S PAPER OF RECORD) IS BACK TO JUST REPORTING STRAIGHT NEWS AGAIN:  Homeless Declare Victory In Gavin Newsom’s Fight Against Homelessness.

ICYMI: A NICE PIECE ON MY FORTHCOMING SEDUCTIVE AI BOOK: Why AI’s biggest threat is actually its power to seduce us — and the computers are already winning: Prof. “The machines get better every year, but people stay the same.”

THE BRITS HAVE LONG HAD AN ANTISEMITISM PROBLEM, BUT THE MUSLIM IMMIGRANTS HAVE KICKED IT INTO OVERDRIVE:  I’ll say it if Starmer won’t. Islam is the cause of Jew hatred.

DEMS DON’T DO CONSISTENCY:  McMorrow Compares Trump to Nazis While Her Party Backs a Candidate With a Literal Nazi Tattoo.

THE MINNESOTA DEMS FUND-RAISING AND VOTER TURN OUT POLICIES RELY ON THE FRAUD:  In a State Rife With Fraud, This Is What Dems Focus on.

THE LEFT DOES EVERYTHING ‘FOR THE CHILDREN” … EXCEPT PROTECT THEIR RIGHT TO  BE BORN:  The Politicization of Motherhood.

SAME AS IT EVER WAS:  NYC Mayor Mamdani And the Fine Art of Flattery.

INTERESTING:  Is SpaceX buying a 200-plus square mile patch of Louisiana?

YES. BUT THE FRAUD HAS TO STOP:  The SPLC is going down. And that is almost certainly a good thing but it is going to have many ramifications.

WE CAN HOPE:  Last Days of the Regime?

INTERESTING:  Have LLMs improved patient outcomes? A new review suggests otherwise.

OVERDUE BY DECADES:   Europe ‘Rattled’ by Trump’s U.S. Troop Withdrawal From Germany.

BECAUSE OF COURSE THEY WERE:  NYC hospital mob was defending illegal migrant with alleged violent, drug past.

The protesters damaged several ICE vehicles and assaulted ICE officers, resulting in minor injuries to the officers,” the DHS representative said. “Assaulting law enforcement is a felony and crime.”

The protesters arrested included out-of-state agitators from as far off as Wisconsin and New Hampshire.

THIS IS MESSED UP:  A high school senior in Philadelphia made a video series asking fellow seniors to read a simple sentence written in english and they’re incapable of completing the simple task. If you go to his IG (handle on right side of the video) you’ll see he makes tons of seemingly humorous videos like this but this one went viral for obvious reasons and now the school is saying he may not be allowed to graduate from the charter school due to the videos. The school seems completely fine with students not being able to read but they’re not okay with the public seeing that they can’t read.

ON SUNDAYS i RUN A PROMO POST FOR (MOSTLY) INDIE AUTHORS:  Book Promo And Vignettes By Luke, Mary Catelli and ‘Nother Mike.

There is also a fun vignette challenge.

MY WALL STREET JOURNAL COLUMN: Don’t Stand So Close to ChatGPT: The danger of AI isn’t destruction but seduction. Applying fiduciary duty may be the solution.

Archive version here.. Book is here.

I GUESS NOT:

Guess your bitch asses should not have started a fight. https://t.co/4ltEGFSkuo

— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) May 3, 2026

OPEN THREAD: Ring out the weekend.