A THOUSAND YEARS, REICH? How Much Longer Can Graham Platner’s Senate Campaign Survive?

UH-OH! WATCHDOG CAUGHT IN FLAGRANT FOIA VIOLATION: Hans Bader offers an illuminating illustration of how the Council on Inspectors General for Integrity and Efficiency (CIGIE) flagrantly violated the federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). The violations by CIGIE — representing the 72 statutory internal government watchdogs — are so obvious that they illustrate why no federal employee has ever gone to jail for violating the FOIA.

ICYMI: I’m Sorry, but California Is HOW Deep in the Hole? “What do you call a state absolutely flush with cash, with tax revenues booming more than 30% in just three years? If it’s California, you call it ‘Broke.'”

REMEMBER THE 1980S: Members Only Original Iconic Racer Jacket for Men. #CommissionEarned

I THOUGHT THE RIGHT WAS ON THE ROPES WITH VOTERS: Conservative Candidates Sweep Georgia Supreme Court Elections.

SNOWFALLS ARE NOW JUST A THING OF THE PAST: Kyle Smith on “Al Gore’s Long and of Persistent Record of Miserable Failure.”

In his 1992 book “Earth in the Balance,” Al Gore wrote, with what would become his customary hyperbole, “the evidence of an ecological Kristallnacht is as clear as the sound of the glass shattering in Berlin.” The then-senator claimed that “according to some predictions”—no specifics were offered—“in the next few decades,” “up to 60 percent of the present population of Florida may have to be relocated.”

It’s been a “few decades.” How is Mr. Gore’s prophecy working out? Did he even get the direction right?

Florida’s population in 1992 was around 13 million. Mr. Gore’s notional Flexodus would have reduced that figure below six million. Today, the state’s population has nearly doubled instead of more than halved. More than 23 million souls now call Florida home.

Yet there is a greater chance that all of them will be eaten by gators by next Friday than there is of Mr. Gore issuing an “Oops.” Hey, he was merely saying, “According to some predictions,” right? Maybe he was quoting a soothsayer he met in Reno. Maybe he did some research at the local facility for the criminally insane.

Maybe he was quoting that legendary soothsayer, Dan Rather, in 1982:

Rather was pivoting from another legendary soothsayer, Walter Cronkite, during the previous decade:

And now Gore is pivoting back! Al Gore invokes disaster film, warns of ice age within 25 years.

Former Vice President Al Gore warned a Hollywood audience Thursday that a Gulf Stream collapse could occur within 25 years, remarks that came 20 years after his climate documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” drew criticism for predictions that did not bear out.

Mr. Gore, 78, appeared at the inaugural Sustainability in Entertainment Honors, co-hosted by The Hollywood Reporter and the Sustainable Entertainment Alliance at Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles. He participated in a keynote conversation with actor Bradley Whitford of “The West Wing,” timed to the 20th anniversary of “An Inconvenient Truth.”

According to a Breitbart account of the event, Mr. Gore invoked the scenario depicted in the 2004 disaster film “The Day After Tomorrow” — though he repeatedly referred to it as “The Day After,” the title of a separate 1983 television film about nuclear war — saying a shutdown of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, commonly called the Gulf Stream, is “a very real threat within the next 25 years.”

“That movie that I mentioned, ’The Day After’ about the Gulf Stream shutting down, well, this morning in one of the English newspapers is a whole big article summarizing the recent dire warnings of the scientists who found yet more confirmatory information that this is a very real threat within the next 25 years,” Mr. Gore said, according to Breitbart.

Mr. Whitford raised a more compressed timeline, suggesting that a Gulf Stream collapse could put the world “in an ice age in, like, 10 years.” Mr. Gore pushed back, saying such a scenario would unfold more slowly, while acknowledging the consequences would be severe.

“It would be bad. It would be very bad and would be bad on a scale that is beyond our, anything we can compare it to today,” Mr. Gore said, according to Breitbart.

Exit quote from Smith: “But as the tone on climate change adjusts to reality, he risks joining Thomas Malthus and Paul Ehrlich to go down in intellectual history as one of the Three Stooges of man-caused global disaster.”

But that sweet, sweet Qatari money doesn’t spend itself, you know.

(Classical reference in headline.)

NOT ACCORDING TO THEIR ALLIES IN THE PRESS, THEY DON’T:

Sen Feinstein (D-CA) had a Chinese spy in her office.

Gov Cuomo & Lt Gov Hochul (D-NY) had a Chinese spy in their admin.

Rep Khanna (D-CA) had a Chinese spy volunteer.

Rep Swalwell (D-CA) dated a Chinese spy.

Mayor Wang (D-CA) is a Chinese spy.

Democrats have a big problem. pic.twitter.com/OXwK98ncr7

— Senator Jim Banks (@SenatorBanks) May 19, 2026

YEAH, MASSIE TURNED INTO A COMPLETE DISAPPOINTMENT:

I live in KY4 and that is exactly what happened

— Kirk (@kirk_bridgers) May 20, 2026

GOOD: East Texas Homeowner Stops Violent Attempt to Enter His Home. . . Decisively.

14 CALIFORNIA COUNTIES WITH GROWING POPULATIONS: There are 58 counties in the Golden State, and 44 of them have been losing population for years. But 14 of them are actually gaining new residents. Pacific Research Institute’s John Merline dug into the data to find out why those 14 counties have growing populations at the same time California leads the 50 states in net-out-migration.

CHRISTIAN TOTO: Goodbye, Stephen Colbert: The End of ‘Cheap Fakes’ Lie.

Late-night partisans like Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers, Jon Stewart, John Oliver and Jimmy Fallon ignored Biden’s decline. Sure, they told their fair share of “Biden’s old” jokes, but that’s where it stopped.

He’s ancient but “sharp as a tack.”

Stephen Colbert of “The Late Show” fame was a huge part of that misinformation campaign. Until, one day, he had to tell the truth.

Finally. Why?

Read the whole thing.

CHANGE:

Breaking news: Harvard faculty votes to cap the number of A's awarded in course grades, a big step in combatting the grade inflation that has been dumbing down our courses, conveying the wrong message to students, and making universities a national laughingstock.

— Steven Pinker (@sapinker) May 20, 2026

READ THE ROOM: Why This Veteran Political Journalist Thinks Spencer Pratt Could Win in Los Angeles.

THEY SHOULD BE ACCUSTOMED TO DISAPPOINTMENT BY NOW: ‘I Can’t Believe This Is the Field’ — California Dems Reel Over Mediocre Governor Candidates.

WHO? Gutfeld Torches Colbert’s Legacy on the Way Out the Door.

NOT REALLY A CHOICE: The Choice Facing California Conservatives: Despair or Fight.

“Take not counsel of your fears.” — George S. Patton

MADE IN THE USA: Anti-Aging Face Moisturizer with Retinol, Collagen & Hyaluronic Acid. #CommissionEarned

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Minnesota’s Gun Rights Battleground Moves From the Capitol to the Campaign Trail. “Rep. Stephenson admitted it — if DFL lawmakers win the majority, they intend to pass these bills into law in 2027. That means bans on commonly owned firearms, magazine restrictions and new burdens on lawful gun owners and firearm retailers are not hypothetical. They are already written and already waiting.”

HMM: Live chicks hatched from artificial eggshell, biotech company says.

SAME OLD, SAME OLD: The New York Times: What ‘Journalistic Standards?’

WHEN TRUTH IS NO LONGER PARAMOUNT. I don’t think it’s clear what a campus is supposed to be doing if truth-seeking is not primary to its mission, but plenty of folks on campus don’t agree.

YOUR RACE CARD HAS EXPIRED:

Not surprisingly, Ohio Dem tries to imply @lukerosiak's fraud investigation is RACIST:

DEM: "For you to imply the racist information…You're implying that most of the fraud is happening in communities of color."

LR: "I'm not implying it. I'm stating it." 🔥 pic.twitter.com/eeY70xoi0h

— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) May 19, 2026

PEOPLE LIKE HUNTING AND FISHING: Ancient Danes kept hunting and fishing for millennia even after farming spread, study finds.

THE CENSOR’S FAVORITE CLICHÉ HAS A BAD ALIBI: “Fire in a crowded theater” was born in a case upholding the punishment of anti-draft leaflets — which makes it a strange hero quote for anyone claiming to defend liberty.

NOVEMBER PREVIEW: Current polling shows Hilton and Becerra as top 2 in California governor race. “Under California law, the two highest vote getters in the June 2 primary, regardless of party affiliation, will go on to the Nov. 3 general election. The VOTER Index poll says that could be Hilton, a former Fox News host, and Becerra, a former California attorney general and congressman who served as secretary of health and human services during the Biden administration.”