May 29, 2026

UNEXPECTED HEADLINES: Russia to task bankers with shooting down Ukrainian drones. “The draft legislation, which would see banks across Russia install electronic jamming systems while selected employees would shoot down incoming unmanned aircraft, passed in its third and final reading in the lower house Duma on Tuesday, according to the state-run TASS news agency.”

Posted at 4:54 pm by Stephen Green

DON’T HOLD BACK NEXT TIME, JD:

Posted at 4:07 pm by Stephen Green

WE NEED AGE LIMITS: Absent 83-Year-Old Democrat Frederica Wilson Announces Retirement From House. “Wilson previously committed to running for reelection despite missing several consecutive votes while she recovered from eye surgery. After consistently missing House votes and committee hearings, Wilson told the Miami Herald it was time for her to retire.”

Previously: One of Our Congresscritters Is Missing. “My attempts to reach her office via phone and email received no response. Whatever happened, it looks like Wilson’s staff is in lockdown mode.”

Posted at 3:52 pm by Stephen Green

FIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHT TO PARTY:

Posted at 3:36 pm by Stephen Green

FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: Keep it in Your G-String, Gramps. “It’s time for your much-needed break from the serious news, and this week, we’ll learn that your rights of free expression end at your g-string, what not to drink before driving across a golf course, and how to pack serious heat in Connecticut.”

Posted at 3:21 pm by Stephen Green

COME SEE THE VIOLENCE INHERENT IN THE LEFTISM:

Posted at 3:04 pm by Stephen Green

GOOD QUESTION:

Posted at 2:43 pm by Stephen Green

THAT SUCKS. HAS RUSSIA CONSIDERED NOT OCCUPYING TERRITORY?

And as Trent Telenko noted, “Mining roads by air & rocket was late Cold War NATO doctrine after all.”

Posted at 2:34 pm by Stephen Green

OOPS: Mosquitoes can learn that DEET means dinner is served.

When I was in Alaska, I used the 100% DEET and just a few drops on pulse points kept me from getting a single bite, though to be fair, mosquitoes don’t particularly like me. But it was still scary. I woke up one night and there were two mosquitoes at the foot of the bed. “Do we eat him here, or should we take him home?” “We’d better eat him here — if we take him home the big guys will probably take him away from us.” Close scrape.

Posted at 2:30 pm by Glenn Reynolds

PRATT SUMMER:

Evergreen: Mollie Hemingway notes that “You’re not just having a debate with an opponent, but your most hostile and most rabid opponent:” 

Tweet continues, “If you understand that you’re not just having a debate with an opponent, but your most hostile and most rabid opponent; if you understand that they are propaganda and then you go into it, I think that’s one thing. If you’re just treating them like you still have this 1960s view of what the media are, that’s when you’re going to get in trouble.”

Posted at 2:22 pm by Ed Driscoll

IT’S TIME FOR VICTORIA TAFT’S West Coast, Messed Coast™: Oregon Is a Step Closer to Outlawing Hunting and Gathering “his is the place where residents of other states come to verify that they don’t have it so bad, and where lawmakers could, if they bothered to look, find out that their great idea of the week has already been tried and failed. Indeed, in reading the West Coast, Messed Coast™ weekly update, you’ve arrived at the land where proof of concept has no expiration date and where money for every cockamamie idea is in endless supply.”

Posted at 2:19 pm by Stephen Green

A POSTMORTEM: Cornyn’s Slaughter. “It’s pretty rare that a four term incumbent senator gets primaried out of office. Indeed, I think you’d have to go back to Alfonse D’Amato defeating Jacob Javits in 1980 for the last time it happened, back when New York was still capable of electing Republicans statewide. So it’s worth taking a deeper look at why John Cornyn got slaughtered by Ken Paxton in Tuesday’s runoff.”

Posted at 1:48 pm by Stephen Green

NAPALM GIRL: Witnesses in Nick Ut’s Defamation Trial Against Netflix Include ‘Napalm Girl’ Herself.

The film claims that Nghe was paid a miserly $20 by the Chief of Photos in Saigon, Horst Faas, for taking arguably the greatest news photo of all time. Miss Tu, who was in the AP office when the negative arrived, says she witnessed an excited Ut handing the film over to the darkroom technician, Jackson Ishizaki.

Not only that, but Miss Tu says she was the only person in AP who paid local stringers. She kept a record of all such payments, which were sent over to AP’s New York office. In her sworn testimony, Miss Tu dismisses the claims made in the documentary and also says that Faas would never have paid such a paltry amount for a photo like Napalm Girl.

Other testimonies include those by Peter Arnett and Fox Butterfield, who were also present and involved on that fateful day over 50 years ago. As well as the sworn statements, the filings also focus on Carl Robinson, the photo editor at the center of The Stringer who says he was the one who switched the credit on the behest of Horst Faas.

“Carl Robinson opposed publication of the photograph in 1972 and harbored longstanding resentment concerning the impact of the image and the broader consequences of the Vietnam War,” Ut’s lawyers James Hornstein and Martin Pradel argue.

“The submissions further state that Carl Robinson’s wife and family were Vietnamese and that the family suffered significant consequences after the fall of Saigon. The filings argue that Carl Robinson later directed bitterness and hostility toward Nick Ut.”

As Joseph Campbell, who has been writing about the “Napalm Girl” photo for years concluded last November, after attending a screening of The Stringer: More Likely Than Not, Nick Ut Took ‘Napalm Girl’ Photo.

Posted at 1:35 pm by Ed Driscoll

DISPATCHES FROM BLUE SAN DIEGO:

“A county is not the State Department. A county is not an immigration court. A county exists to keep streets safe, roads paved, and the most vulnerable residents cared for.”

Posted at 1:33 pm by Stephen Green

TRUNALIMUNUMAPRZURE! Don’t Take Medical Advice from Jill Biden.

Jill Biden, the former first lady and assisted caregiver to the president, has a memoir coming out next month. The publicity tour kicked off this week with a series of interviews and published excerpts. It’s safe to say the esteemed doctor maintains her abiding faith in the American public’s capacity to consume utter bullshit.

For example, Jill recalled how “frightened” she was watching her husband ramble on about beating Medicare on the CNN debate stage. “I had never, ever, seen Joe like that—before or since,” she told CBS News. “I don’t know what happened. I mean, when I, as I watched it, I thought, ‘Oh my God, he’s having a stroke.’ And it scared me to death.”

Is that so? In the book, which purports to “set the record straight,” Jill recalls her first interaction with Joe as he walked off the debate stage. He wanted to know if he had “really f—ed up,” and she agreed that he had. Granted, I don’t have the ex-first lady’s medical background, but that seems like a harsh way to speak to a loved one who might be having a stroke. Unless she’s lying, which she is.

Jill did not appear to be deathly worried about Joe’s health when she joined him after the debate and told supporters how proud she was that he “answered every question” and “knew all the facts.” She could have taken him to see a real doctor. Instead they made an appearance at a local Waffle House, where Jill looked on in terror as reporters asked Joe about his performance.

Elsewhere in the book, Jill describes being worried that Sleepy Joe had accidentally “drugged” himself with sleeping pills or cough syrup. That she presents this as a plausible scenario does little to dispel concerns that the president’s brain was not functioning and she knew all along.

As Jim Geraghty adds. “When every second counts, you don’t keep the president suffering an ongoing stroke up on the stage, waiting until the end of the debate and hoping for the best. What Jill Biden is unwittingly declaring in this implausible nearly-two-years-late spin is, ‘I thought my husband was suffering a medical emergency that risked permanent brain damage and possibly death, but I concluded that finishing the debate was more important.’”

UPDATE:

Posted at 1:22 pm by Ed Driscoll