LET’S GO:  Artemis II Success Sets Up High-Stakes Mission Artemis III for Late 2027.

I DON’T KNOW. I THINK HAND GRENADES ARE BRIGHTER:  “KBJ has become the equivalent of a hand grenade that Joe Biden threw into the Supreme Court”.

AND THERE IS THAT:  The Hand That Rocks The Cradle. Is The Hand That Rules The World.

First mother’s day without my mother. Won’t lie. It was a little difficult.

WELL, NOW:  A researcher may have found a shortcut to Mars as NASA eyes red planet. Here’s what to know about the newly found possible shorter trajectory to Mars, and what it could mean ahead of future missions to Earth’s planetary neighbor.

AND WE NEED A LOT MORE CHILDREN:  First Lady Melania Trump: Mothers Are America’s Strength.

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

There’s also a fun vignette challenge.

STARMER STORMS OFF?

I assume we'll be treated to one of those exit speeches where it is explained to the electorate that they failed him.

Unless he's a bigger man than he has been thus far. https://t.co/ggs91Oidb9

— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) May 11, 2026

WHERE WE ARE: SOME THOUGHTS FROM COMMENTER “PORKYPINE:”

I’ve been saying for a while, the modern radical-left Dems have maybe 10% of the country as true-believer supporters. Maybe less. Then there are Blue-Bubble herd followers, who get them to maybe 35%. In a good Dem year low-info moderates who swallow the Dem lie du jour bring it to maybe 45%. Then if cheating can make up the rest, Dems once again control all that sweet grift. It’s been working for decades now.

The obvious conclusion is, the Dems are vulnerable on several of those points, and Trump is indeed working those angles hard. The longer-term conclusion is, the US system rewards two leading parties vying for the center, and punishes all others. But the Dems can’t compete for the center anymore (other than by lying) because any move that way is anathema to the lefties who’ve taken over.

So yeah, they now have to try everything, legal or otherwise, except centrism to win. And they’re desperate because they’re beginning to perceive their likely future as a rump radical 10% ignored and marginalized by some new two-centrist-parties national realignment. Desperate people steeped in violent revolutionary tropes… It’s gonna get ugly until they finally internalize that they’ve lost.

It’ll get far uglier if we do let them win — no tyrant worse than one who’s just had a good scare. Best we don’t let this crowd win national power again, ever.

Yep.

MY NEXT COLUMN TALKS ABOUT THIS:

The US mission in Iran is being judged by a standard in which only complete capitulation is victory for the US but mere survival is victory for Iran. This is nonsense as the post below makes clear. https://t.co/huVexJoSVx

— Brit Hume (@brithume) May 10, 2026

OPEN THREAD: Ring out the weekend.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Blue Origin tests 1st moon lander ahead of lunar launch later this year.

CHANGE: Half of Americans under 50 get wellness advice from influencers. Many aren’t medical professionals.

WELL, GOOD: New Pill Lowers Stubborn Blood Pressure and Protects the Kidneys.

L.A. DEMOCRATS MAKE SURPRISE IN-KIND CONTRIBUTION TO SPENCER PRATT CAMPAIGN:

Spencer Pratt will have to report this as an in-kind donation or he may run into campaign finance problems.

Perhaps that's what the game plan was all along. https://t.co/hLptEYSTl8

— Christian Heiens 🏛 (@ChristianHeiens) May 10, 2026

A BIGGER PAYCHECK THAN HE COULD HAVE GOTTEN IN SOME SERVICE INDUSTRY, TOO:

Last Friday my son’s buddy, a 19-year-old kid walked off a drilling rig with his first real paycheck in his life.

Sweat on his shirt, dirt on his boots, and a look on his face like he just became a man.

That’s not a “policy win.” That’s what America First actually feels like…

— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) May 10, 2026

INTERESTING BOOK: Born Lucky: A Dedicated Father, A Grateful Son, and My Journey with Autism. #CommissionEarned

WE DON’T EVEN HAVE A SOLID DEFINITION OF “ULTRA-PROCESSED.” Ultra‑processed food: Why the debate needs less fear and more clarity.

PASSING THE SAVE AMERICA ACT WOULD HELP, TOO, SEN. THUNE:

A reminder that decades of a.) lopsided pro-Democrat gerrymanders b.) flawed censuses c.) the illicit inclusion of noncitizens for apportionment and d.) districts illegally drawn based solely on race, the Democrats have enjoyed a cushion of at least 40 extra improper house seats.

— Stephen Miller (@StephenM) May 10, 2026

I LIKE WAGONS: Will Volvo Bring Back Wagons to the U.S.? Should it?

STEVE HAYWARD: The Sun Sets on Great Britain.

But it was the second aspect of Trump’s speech that contained multiple layers and triggered the Left even more:

The American founding was the culmination of hundreds of years of thought, struggle, sweat, blood, and sacrifice on both sides of the Atlantic…. Before we ever proclaimed our independence, Americans carried within us the rarest of gifts: moral courage, and it came from a small but mighty kingdom from across the sea. For nearly two centuries before the revolution, this land was settled and forged by men, women who bore in their souls the blood and noble spirit of the British. Here on a wild and untamed continent, they set loose the ancient English love of liberty and Great Britain’s distinctive sense of glory, destiny, and pride, and that’s what it is: glory, destiny, and pride. The American patriots who pledged their lives to independence in 1776 were the heirs to this majestic inheritance.

A conspicuous lack of courage, “glory, destiny, and pride” marks Great Britain’s current retreat from its historic confidence and greatness, as Trump has candidly declared in other settings recently. While he referenced Churchill in this speech, surely some listeners had to recall his recent remarks that when it comes to Kier Starmer, “We aren’t dealing with Churchill anymore.”

His reference to Churchill and his close cooperation with FDR in World War II contained a subtle point that verges on the esoteric. After a typically Trumpian recollection of his mother, who came from “the very serious Scotland…where they had their greatest of warriors,” he circled back to King Charles, noting he had been the longest-serving Prince of Wales in British history. What few listeners likely remembered was that Churchill and FDR launched their World War II grand strategy on the decks of a British battleship, Prince of Wales.

Here, perhaps, only World War II history geeks will recall that the Prince of Wales was ignominiously sunk off Singapore in the earliest weeks of the Pacific theater, rolling over to port (that is, its left side) before slipping beneath the waves. Today, Britain is listing heavily to port and is in danger of drowning on account of its lack of courage.

On Friday, Mark Steyn wrote “The Future Shows Up,” noting that despite gains made by Reform in last week’s UK elections, “Last time round, ‘independent Muslims’ won thirty-one council seats. Yesterday, they won 208. How many next time? As my former GB News colleague Colin Brazier observed:”

‘Muslim Independents’ projected to win more than 200 council wards. For future historians these elections may be a punctuation mark in our island story, after which the politics of mainland England more closely resemble the sectarian voting of Northern Ireland. https://t.co/jJLkWW13QS

— Colin Brazier (@ColinBrazierTV) May 8, 2026

“Unlike me, [Brazier] presents as very moderate and reasonable, but he takes demography seriously, and, unlike most of the British media, he knows what yesterday’s results are telling us about where we’re headed,” Steyn adds.

Exit quote: “To put it another way: for two decades now, we have been told — sotto voce — that the reason hundreds of thousands (likely millions now) of schoolgirls have to be gang-sodomised, urinated on and doused in petrol in towns up and down England is because the Labour Party needs the Muslim vote. Alas for the nominally ruling party, the Muslim vote no longer needs Labour.”

BRYAN CRANSTON, EXPERT ON THE BLACK EXPERIENCE:

When an interviewer asked Miles Davis if black music came from black suffering, he said “my father’s rich and my mother’s good looking, I never suffered”

Shitlibs are completely retarded, their view of history, and of race, is a two dimensional caricature https://t.co/hyz6vh22n0

— Rogue Scholar Press (@RogueScholarPr) May 10, 2026

RAGE AGAINST THE DEMOCRAT MACHINES:

This basically happened in Missouri. There was a statewide vote to force Kansas City to allocate at least 25% of its local budget to police funding. It passed, despite the city voting against it 66-34. So the rest of the state got to vote on and determine 25% of the KC budget. https://t.co/IrKfxKZSRv

— Aric Toler (@AricToler) May 9, 2026

This is an incredible tactic that Red states should be employing everywhere.

Honestly, just dissolve local governments at this point for most Blue cities. They've repeatedly proven that they can't govern themselves.

There's literally zero reason for cities like Memphis or St.… https://t.co/rsWA5CO2la

— Christian Heiens 🏛 (@ChristianHeiens) May 10, 2026

Tweet concludes, “There’s literally zero reason for cities like Memphis or St. Louis to still have city councils or mayors that serve as nothing more than patronage machines to prop up Leftism in a state where it would otherwise cease to exist. Dissolve the city councils, abolish the office of mayor, and have the Governor directly appoint a Viceroy to rule these cities with an iron fist.”

STAY HEALTHY: Grass Fed Colostrum Powder. #CommissionEarned

HOW IT STARTED: An Ecological Kristallnacht. Listen.

—Al Gore, the New York Times, March 19th, 1989.

How It’s Going: David Marcus: New York Times announces the end of the climate change hoax.

For almost the entirety of the half century I have lived on Earth, I have had experts, teachers, politicians and activists hectoring me about how climate change is going to destroy the planet. But this week, in The New York Times, of all places, is evidence that climate alarmism is finally cooling down.

“Democrats Do Not Have To Campaign On Climate Change Anymore,” blared the headline, this week, as author Matt Huber argues that voters are rather turned off by the subject. I would like to suggest that this is because it is the single most expensive lie in human history.

Of course, there’s two reasons for the change of heart by the left. One is that AI is Silicon Valley’s latest bright shiny object, replacing virtual reality in the late 1980s, and the World Wide Web during the next decade, and AI requires power and lots of it. And the other is purely tactical:

Hi could you be just a little more transparent about how every last one of your Causes is just a thin hypocritical pretext to mask your insatiable, instinctive, simian lust for power https://t.co/ZvnPRVuXrv

— Curtis Yarvin (@curtis_yarvin) May 10, 2026

I THINK IT’S A GREAT TIME: Denver Post: This Really Isn’t a Good Time for the DOJ to Challenge the City’s ‘Assault Weapons’ Ban.