EVERYONE HAS AMBITIONS: I want to live like Costco people.. I confess this has never been one of mine.
May 16, 2026
THAT’S OK, NEITHER CAN DYLAN: Paul McCartney Admitted He Sometimes Can’t Tell What Song Bob Dylan Is Playing Live.
YES:
This real-time 1948 article from The Economist completely destroys the modern “Nakba” narrative that was invented decades later as political propaganda.
Straight from British eyewitnesses in Haifa, October 2, 1948:
“Jewish authorities urged all Arabs to remain in Haifa and… https://t.co/WIcnerXMmQ pic.twitter.com/pifBTXIzey
— Captain Allen (@CptAllenHistory) May 16, 2026
WE’VE DESCENDED INTO SOME SORT OF BIZARRE HELL-WORLD IN WHICH BILL MAHER IS A VOICE OF SANITY:
Bill Maher just delivered the most clear-eyed, no-bullshit monologue on Israel & antisemitism you’ll hear from any mainstream voice in 2026.
“Israel was founded on the idea that antisemitism made a Jewish state necessary … Can you honestly listen to this rhetoric and not see… https://t.co/dBOT1WPsaD
— Captain Allen (@CptAllenHistory) May 16, 2026
TO BE FAIR, MOST OF THE ADVICE WAS LIES: 57% of Americans Are Tired of Being Told What To Eat, New Survey Finds.
OLD AND BUSTED: “Don’t Be Evil.”
The New Hotness? Google Maps Just ‘Unburned’ the Pacific Palisades — and Infuriated Angelenos Noticed.
Angelenos have been noticing something strange: the Google Maps satellite imagery depicting the Los Angeles areas of the Pacific Palisades and Altadena now shows pristine neighborhoods untouched by the devastating fires of January 2025.
Of course, as we all know, those neighborhoods are in ruins. Why would Google pretend otherwise?
On Reddit, user TinyPinkSparkles asked, “Why is Google maps back to showing old satellite images of Altadena?” She continued:
Not too long after the fire, Google updated the satellite imagery to reflect the fire and thousands of lost structures. Now it’s back to pre-fire images of houses and businesses that are no longer there. Why?
Live look at Google maps of the area:
DECONSTRUCTING DECONSTRUCTION:
The virus is *non-falsifiable*. If you defend a norm, it’s because you’re the oppressor. If you deny being an oppressor, that’s proof of your unconscious privilege. If you cite facts, your facts are contaminated by the power that produced them. If you cite reason, reason itself is white, male, Western. There is no possible exit. The system is designed to make any objection inadmissible by definition. That’s exactly the structure of a cult.
And that’s exactly what has taken hold in universities, HR departments, media, administrations, and corporate boards for the past twenty years.
Read the whole thing.
THE MEMES ARE HERE, LET YOUR WEEKEND ROLL: Meme and let your enemies cry.
LIZ WARREN STARTING TO LOOK NERVOUS: Oscar-winning folk singer Buffy Sainte-Marie stripped of honorary degree after faking Indigenous ancestry.
YOUR OCCASIONAL REMINDER THAT ANYTHING THE LEFT CAN’T CONTROL, IT WILL DESTROY, AND IF IT CAN’T BE DESTROYED, THEY’LL DISCREDIT IT:
You get the game here, right?
They file an absurd motion asking the Supreme Court to rule on a case where it clearly has no jurisdiction. Then when it obviously refuses (w 0 dissents), they accuse it of corruption to justify trying to stack the court.
Shameful. https://t.co/VwUlPiF41l
— AG (@AGHamilton29) May 16, 2026
MADE IN THE USA: Anti-Aging Face Moisturizer with Retinol, Collagen & Hyaluronic Acid. #CommissionEarned
MADE IT, MA! TOP OF THE WORLD! The Coolest Video Ever Shot on Everest. Ma Chunlin has created one of the best videos we’ve ever seen come out of the Himalaya.
This dude captures aerial footage taken by his drone above Mount Everest, the world's highest peak and it looks insane pic.twitter.com/VvRv4Nqf6l
— Dudes Posting Their W’s (@DudespostingWs) May 16, 2026
(Classical reference in headline.)
THE NEW VETTING: The broker standard of care after Montgomery. “The question is no longer whether brokers have responsibilities when selecting carriers. The question is what courts, juries, insurers, and the industry itself will consider reasonable in a modern transportation environment where enormous amounts of safety data are publicly available.”
Related: What’s next after Montgomery?
DIVERSITY PROBLEM: 6 to 1: Democratic speakers dominate 2026 commencement stages at Top 100 universities.
Also, these places are supposed to be “nonpartisan” 501(c)(3)’s.
The reason why leftists think everything on the right is fake is because everything they do is.
PORTENT OF PROBLEMS FOR SOCIAL MEDIA: A recent survey of congressional aides working on Capitol Hill for senators, representatives and committees find a big portion of them have in the past year either significantly reduced their social media scrolling or stopped it altogether. Check it out on HillFaith this morning.
SHERYL LONGIN: Spencer Pratt is Where It’s At.
TRUMP, XI AND THE THUCYDIDES TRAP: Few Americans these days have read “The Peloponnesian War” by Thucydides, so the significance of Chinese dictator Xi Jinping’s two references to the “trap” associated with the great Greek writer is undoubtedly lost on most, including especially the journalists covering President Donald Trump’s Beijing visit.
That said, Rod Martin lays out the amazing changes in the U.S./China relationship on the world stage in the two years since the Biden administration closed and the second Trump term commenced. Read it and you will quickly forget what the talking heads of the MSM are saying about Trump’s alleged Beijing failures:
“Xi is very aware of his own problems. Two years ago, he was on the verge of controlling the approaches to North America. Today, America has flipped that script. So isn’t it at least possible that Xi is recognizing how we’ve kicked his butt out of the Caribbean, humiliated his armaments industry in Venezuela and Iran, and locked down Malacca, Sunda, and Lombok with our new Indonesian defense pact(s)?
“And that’s not even mentioning Japan’s reassertion as both a major power and arsenal to our allies, South Korea’s and Australia’s nuclear submarine deals with the U.S., the defensive implications of the Taiwan arms deals, the growing forest of missiles in Luzon, and the recently announced $1.5 trillion Trump defense budget, up from under $1 trillion. If we obsess about China’s strengths, do we really think they don’t obsess about ours?”
And speaking of Thucydides, here’s a reading project that will both entertain and instruct the inquiring mind: Read his book on the great conflict between Athens and Sparta, then sit down with Shelby Foote’s masterful three-volume “The Civil War.” So many similarities among the combatants in both conflicts and innumerable lessons to be learned from the character portraits each author provides of the men leading each side.
NOBODY FIXES A PROBLEM THEY’RE BEING PAID TO MANAGE: The Fix for Homelessness? Get Rid of All the Big Money to ‘Fix’ Homelessness.
AT AMAZON: Up to 40% off at the Memorial Day Sale. #CommissionEarned
BILL KRISTOL FINALLY MAKES IT OFFICIAL:
It would just be refreshing if every other person employed by the bulwark expressed this level of professional honesty. You took the money so just admit it. https://t.co/xx4hrs4o6i
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) May 16, 2026
Saying you are a Democrat because you are "pro-limited government" is like saying you are vegan because you like bacon. https://t.co/VvmW7A1GeC
— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) May 16, 2026
THAT’S BECAUSE IT’S NOT NEWS, BECAUSE IT ISN’T TRUE: The Big Tell: NYT Not Reporting Kristof Accusations on its News Pages. He’ll always be Nick “Dog Rape” Kristof to me, though.
Or maybe Nick “Nazi Dad” Kristof: Times Columnist Kristof’s Father Fought on Nazi Side in World War II. Hamas prison-rape-dog propagandist’s dad also defended Vichy war criminal, then committed suicide after decades of nightmares.
As if we didn’t know this…you can call it gaslighting, denial, or just manipulation: it stinks, no matter what you call it.
“Former President Barack Obama ripped a page from the Pravda playbook with his recent appearance on Steven Colbert’s show on CBS, suggesting the Trump Justice Department’s crackdown on intelligence politicization and law enforcement abuses was somehow a “retribution campaign […] But the 44th president’s rhetoric can’t mask the growing body of evidence chronicling the direct role he played in shielding Hillary Clinton and concocting a false Russia collusion narrative that was designed to fool American voters during the 2016 election and hamper the start of Trump’s first presidential term.”
