APPARENTLY, THE FASTEST WAY TO BECOME AN ‘EXPERT’ ON CODDLING IS TO NOT READ IT. Coddling argues students are not spoiled snowflakes, but capable, resilient people being taught to confuse discomfort with danger.
May 26, 2026
NAILED IT:
Understand that these are tryouts for the NGO industry.
The folks up front monologuing are minor league non profit activists auditioning for a spot in the major leagues.
Six-figure revenue subawards recipients trying to join the 7-9 figure revenue prime award recipients https://t.co/5hjzpv6io1
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) May 26, 2026
The cause is always the same: Other people’s money.
I DIDN’T KNOW SKULLS COULD EVEN WRITE? THAT SOUNDS LIKE THE BIGGER STORY HERE. A Single Skull Just Rewrote What We Know About Stegosaurs.
ARE THEY TEACHABLE? Democrats Forced to Delete Their Disgusting Memorial Day Post.
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.”
I DON’T KNOW, BUT WHY TAKE CHANCES? Can Eating Meat Help You Live Longer?
IF SOME LEFTY PROFESSOR WROTE THIS FOR AL JAZEERA, MAYBE MY EARLIER IMPATIENCE WAS MISPLACED: The world urgently needs a US-Iran deal now.
AND BLEND RULES, AND REFINERY CLOSURES, AND DRILLING BANS:
Sir, you are literally the Governor of California, have you considered doing something about your state’s insane gas taxes?
— Will Chamberlain (@willchamberlain) May 25, 2026
THESE KIDS WERE RAISED RIGHT: High school students use outdoor skills training to make a makeshift stretcher to rescue hiker with a broken leg.
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.
BOMB CANADA, THE CASE FOR WAR:
They’re calling it the most Canadian news story ever written https://t.co/EILYFBvDTQ
— Enguerrand VII de Coucy (@ingelramdecoucy) May 26, 2026
(Classical reference in headline.)
I DID NAZI THAT COMING:
After years of insisting Republicans should oppose Trump out of principle, Democrats now think it’s inexcusable to not support a literal Nazi. https://t.co/nc8xzpb4q3
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) May 26, 2026
JUST ONE MORE MEMORIAL DAY ITEM: Tulsi Gabbard and Others Go Above and Beyond for a Gold Star Widow.
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT OVER THE HOLIDAY WEEKEND: ‘His Side’: New book debunks male privilege, gives platform to men in a women’s world.
The book is here.
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.
The 2026 Democrat Party is a place where people named Medhi, Hasan, and Saikat lecture an American Jew named Jake about why he needs to support a guy with a Nazi tattoo pic.twitter.com/ykz79Pw4nj
— Will Chamberlain (@willchamberlain) May 26, 2026
So, you're pro-Nazi. Got it.
— Blue State Snooze (@BlueSnoozeBlue) May 26, 2026
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.”
PRINT UP TWO TRILLION DOLLARS A YEAR WITH NO INDICATION OF EVEN A GLIDE-PATH TO SANITY, AND THIS IS THE INEVITABLE RESULT: Bond traders are surrendering to inflation fears. It’s raising the stakes for Washington.
ALLIES:
🇵🇱🤝🇺🇲 Polska uzyskała wstępną zgodę Departamentu Stanu USA na produkcję rakiet PAC-3 do systemów Patriot w krajowym przemyśle zbrojeniowym – poinformował wiceminister obrony Cezary Tomczyk. Oprócz rakiet Patriot Polska planuje też produkować pociski do HIMARS-ów oraz Hellfire.…
— Monitor Konfliktów (@Monitor807) May 26, 2026
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.”
I LOVE IT WHEN ALL THE RIGHT HEADS EXPLODE: Heads Exploded When Vox Published This Global Warming Report.
INTERESTING BOOK: Marketing Made Simple: A Step-by-Step StoryBrand Guide for Any Business.
21ST CENTURY DATING: The terrifying rise of schoolboys making AI girlfriends.
New research has revealed that one in five boys aged 12-16 is either in or knows of a boy their age who is in a romantic relationship with an AI companion. A report carried out by men’s organisation Male Allies UK and published last month spoke with more than 1,000 boys aged 12-16 in focus groups in 37 schools – public and state, grammar and comprehensive, and across a range of Ofsted ratings – up and down the country. Peer-to-peer focus groups were set up where boys could speak freely, with the aim of diving into their behaviour and attitudes, and it was the boys who wanted to talk about AI technologies. The findings make stark reading: eight in 10 boys (85 per cent) have had a conversation with a chatbot, with 43 per cent saying they talk to bots so they can ask questions without feeling embarrassed. More than a quarter (26 per cent) say they like the attention and connection over real-life equivalents, and (36 per cent) admitted that they prefer speaking to AI chatbots rather than to their family and friends at times.
The most popular apps for creating these AI “companions” are Character.AI (which has 50 million downloads), Replika (30 million downloads), Candy AI (tagline: “Your smart and emotionally aware AI companion”, with 50 million registered users) and OurDream AI (“Create your dream AI girl”; 36 million monthly visits).
This stuff isn’t for kids.
MAKES ME THINK OF PRINCE BEFORE HIS MIAMI HALFTIME SHOW: “CAN YOU MAKE IT RAIN HARDER?” These Tennessee high schools held graduation in the pouring rain and you gotta see it to believe it.
DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES:
How badly do you have to hate America, our people, and our culture to put a terrorist sympathizer in charge of a school? https://t.co/RqTUvgxi3w
— Bo French (@bofrench) May 26, 2026
CHRISTIAN JOSI: Put Your Clothes On: A Misogynist’s Tale. “Ultimately, this column is about respect. Respect for hotel workers. Respect for waiters. Respect for the person next to you when you are in an airport or a hotel — not blasting their mobile conversations for everyone to hear (there are things called earbuds, you morons). Respect for law enforcement. Respect for those who have served and, as I am writing this on Memorial Day, for those who have sacrificed.”
