WELL, ON THE UPSIDE, HE WON’T NEED THE VACCINE NOW: Kentucky Teen That Sued School For Mandating Chickenpox Vaccinations, Gets Chickenpox. On the downside, chickenpox is a lot more serious when you’re grown or nearly so.

BOOM: Facebook co-founder says Zuckerberg ‘not accountable,’ calls for government break up.

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MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: Mayor Pete Is the Golden State’s New Golden Boy. “So does a 37-year-old mayor of a not-major midwestern berg have real staying power? That’s the question donors don’t seem to be asking, at least not yet. Like Obama in ’08, Buttigieg is running less on policy & experience and more on biography & minority status. That proved twice to be a potent mix.”

COST CONTAINMENT, TRUMP ADMINISTRATION STYLE: New HHS rule to force drug companies to list prices in TV ads.

UGH: In Venezuela, The Arrests Of The Coup Leaders Have Begun. “Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro is sending out the goon squad this week to quietly begin rounding up the people who participated in the attempted coup last week. While he’s not yet going after the person who actually sent out the call to revolt, his secret police force started with someone very close to the top.”

NARRATIVE UBER ALLES: The Reason They Fictionalize Nuclear Disasters Like Chernobyl Is Because They Kill So Few People.

SPACE: The 15 Biggest Space Missions of the Next Decade. There will be at least one bigger one.

FACE, MEET PALM: Facebook auto-generates videos celebrating extremist images.

The animated video begins with a photo of the black flags of jihad. Seconds later, it flashes highlights of a year of social media posts: plaques of anti-Semitic verses, talk of retribution and a photo of two men carrying more jihadi flags while they burn the stars and stripes.

It wasn’t produced by extremists; it was created by Facebook. In a clever bit of self-promotion, the social media giant takes a year of a user’s content and auto-generates a celebratory video. In this case, the user called himself “Abdel-Rahim Moussa, the Caliphate.”

“Thanks for being here, from Facebook,” the video concludes in a cartoon bubble before flashing the company’s famous “thumbs up.”

I think maybe we’ve reached the point of diminishing returns on social media automation.

IT ISN’T ALWAYS NICE TO MAKE TWITCHY: Gun-control group Brady apologizes to students at STEM School Highlands Ranch for politicizing vigil.

THIS JUST PROVES TRUMP’S A RUSSIAN PUPPET BECAUSE REASONS: Trump administration forces China to sell the Port of Long Beach.

#LOVEWINS: London-based heir to Napoleon Bonaparte – who shares the Little General’s famous name – is set to marry the great-grand-daughter of Austria’s last emperor.

KRUISER: California Dems Legalizing Soviet-Style Reporting of Legal Gun-Owning Co-Workers.

Colorado, too.

ROGER SIMON: Mark Levin’s Latest Couldn’t Be More Timely.

Levin’s new book, Unfreedom of the Press, is due out May 21.

TYLER O’NEIL: Meet the Hero from the Robotics Team Who Died Rushing the Colorodo STEM Shooter.

DAVID HARSANYI: Everything Seth Meyers Said About Ilhan Omar Is Wrong. “Claiming Meghan McCain put the congresswoman in danger by criticizing her is just a way to bully Omar’s critics.”

The first part of this rhetorical question is setting up a destructive standard to undermine debate. For one thing, a public figure—an elected official, no less—has no dispensation from criticism merely because some nut sends her a death threat. Nor is there any indulgence for being a Muslim woman or black women or white middle-aged man, or anyone else. Omar is a 37-year-old educated woman who was elected to the U.S. Congress, not a middle schooler playacting in the Model U.N.

McCain condemned Omar’s words. She didn’t concoct a smear.

But for America’s protected classes, that is a smear.

HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT: Yale suspended male student because of condom accident.

WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Army Rapid Equipping Force Fast-Tracks Enemy Drone-Destroying Weapon.

The systems, called “Drone Busters,” use Electronic Warfare (EW) to interfere with the GPS signal or Command and Control technology of enemy drones, disabling them or throwing them off course.

“We are assisting currently deployed and front line forces to disrupt and deter drone operations on a much larger scale,” Col. Joe Bookard, Director of the Army’s Rapid Equipping Force, told Warrior in an interview.

The Drone Busters use various currently available technical innovations to help counter individual or massive swarming drone attacks.

I just love that they’re calling them Drone Busters.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Prof likens Trump and NRA to Nazis over UN arms agreement. When everyone is a Nazi, no one is a Nazi.

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STANDING UP FOR DECENCY: “Survivors of a Colorado school shooting walked out of vigil for their slain classmate on Wednesday night in protest of politicians and other groups using it as a platform for gun control, a local report said.”

LIZ SHELD’S MORNING BRIEF: Clowns Vote to Hold Barr in Contempt. “Nadler announced that America now has a constitutional crisis. Notably, he did not think we were in a constitutional crisis when Eric Holder was held in contempt of congress after refusing to turn over documents on Obama’s Fast and Furious operation. Obama’s Fast and Furious operation sold weapons to Mexican narco-terrorists and one of those weapons killed border patrol agent Brian Terry.”

HOW’S THAT LEFTY BOYCOTT GOING? Chick-fil-A Is Now America’s Third-Largest Restaurant Chain.