SAD: After Three-Month Absence, Dianne Feinstein Insists She Has Been in the Senate All Along.

CHRISTIAN TOTO: How Hollywood Made Russian Collusion Hoax a Million Times Worse. “Night after night, joke after joke, late-night satirists pummeled President Trump for allegedly stealing the election. When, in reality, Clinton’s dirty trick proved one for the ages. Some of the biggest stars in the industry rallied, over and again, to push the false narrative.”

A SIMPLE GLANCE AT “NEWSGUARD” WOULD TELL YOU THIS: Researchers find flaws in using source reputation for training automatic misinformation detection algorithms.

BREAKING: Rubio Releases New COVID Origin Report That Exposes Chinese Cover-up.

More here: ‘Beijing Hid the Truth.’

FASTER, PLEASE: An elusive mechanism of wasting syndrome cachexia revealed.

UGH: Young Americans Are Dying at Alarming Rates, Reversing Years of Progress.

For decades, advances in healthcare and safety steadily drove down death rates among American children. In an alarming reversal, rates have now risen to the highest level in nearly 15 years, particularly driven by homicides, drug overdoses, car accidents and suicides.

The uptick among younger Americans accelerated in 2020. Though Covid-19 itself wasn’t a major cause of death for young people, researchers say social disruption caused by the pandemic exacerbated public-health problems, including worsening anxiety and depression. Greater access to firearms, dangerous driving and more lethal narcotics also helped push up death rates.

Between 2019 and 2020, the overall mortality rate for ages 1 to 19 rose by 10.7%, and increased by an additional 8.3% the following year, according to an analysis of federal death statistics led by Steven Woolf, director emeritus of the Center on Society and Health at Virginia Commonwealth University, published in JAMA in March. That’s the highest increase for two consecutive years in the half-century that the government has publicly tracked such figures, according to Woolf’s analysis.

The planet is dying, racism is systemic, education is both pointless and unaffordable, you’ll probably catch Long COVID, gang-banging is cool… all these attitudes take their toll.

21ST CENTURY HEADLINES: Florida researcher breaks world record for living underwater. “Dubbed Project Neptune, Dituri’s undersea adventure began March 1 as a mission of the Marine Resources Development Foundation combining research and ocean conservation outreach. On Saturday, he broke the previous world record for living underwater of 73 days set in 2014 by two professors from Tennessee.” I guess we’ll have to send more Tennessee professors to reclaim the record. Where can we find some?

I still want my flying sub, though.

SAY ANYTHING: Corporate Media Runs With George Soros ‘Holocaust Survivor’ Lie.

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Rising inflation is increasing anxiety among Americans.

ELON UNDERSTANDS:

Perfectly said. Among other things, Soros astutely identified a massive arbitrage opportunity in district attorney elections, where a relatively small amount of money has outsized influence.

Soros’s instructions to his pet prosecutors were (essentially) to minimize prosecuting…

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 17, 2023

21ST CENTURY DATING: Sex workers are the unlikely beneficiaries of Twitter Blue.

WHY IS CNBC DEFENDING GEORGE SOROS? CNBC asks Musk: Why criticize George Soros rather than make money?

As Tom Cotton wrote in 2021: Recall, Remove and Replace Every Last Soros Prosecutor.

MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT [VIP]: Wearing Masks Can Cause ‘Substantial’ Harm, Even to Unborn Babies. “My own biases aside, it turns out that wearing masks can cause more harm than merely garnering funny looks from judgmental internet columnists.”

QUESTION ASKED AND ANSWERED: Daniel Cameron wins GOP nom for Kentucky governor and is called the black face of white supremacy:

C’mon guys, make up your minds — the L.A. Times assured me in 2021 that it was Larry Elder: “Larry Elder is the Black face of white supremacy. You’ve been warned.”

TEXAS: Death Star Update: Preemption Bill Closer To Passage. “Remember the ‘Death Star’ preemption bill designed to prevent left wing local governments from doing amazingly stupid things? Now it’s one step closer to Governor Abbott’s desk.”

For an alternate take, here’s Kurt Schlichter: Let the Blue Cities Die.

The Democrat cities are urine-soaked hellholes that reek of pot where criminals stalk unmolested while the full fury of what is supposed to be the law hangs over the head of any citizen who dares do something about it, and that’s good. The idiots who live there voted for turning their urban landscapes into petri dishes of social pathologies, and they should enjoy the full benefits of their decisions. We normal people should avoid these socialist wastelands and elect legislators to Congress who will starve them of the federal funds that enable their decline. In red states, our legislators should wage warfare on the blue tumors in their midst lest they metastasize outside the city limits. And we should ruthlessly point to them as the future Democrats want, which they are, a vision of a psychotic hobo taking a dump on the sidewalk out in front of your house forever.

Us normal people can’t help the cities and their moron populations because they don’t want to help themselves. We tried compassion. Now let’s try compression. Let’s squeeze them until they pop, like the pimple on America’s rear end that they are.

You can’t save people who don’t want to be saved and you can’t fix stupid.

SAY ANYTHING: Adam Schiff STILL Insists Trump Colluded With Russia Despite Durham Report.

Just because a narrative is completely discredited doesn’t mean it isn’t still useful to those who don’t mind lying and those who enjoy being lied to.

READER FAVORITES: Dockers Men’s Relaxed Fit Comfort Khaki Pants. #CommissionEarned

WHAT THE F IS AN NFT? What the Heck Is a Trump NFT? (VIP)

Yeah, that is the pre-Bowdlerized headline….

CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: Biden was briefed on Clinton involvement in Trump-Russia hoax.

Special Counsel John Durham on Monday published a 300+ page report on the origins of the Trump-Russia collusion investigation, representing the end of a years-long investigation.

Included in the report are the details of a White House briefing on Aug. 3, 2016, during which then-CIA Director John Brennan met with President Barack Obama, then-Vice President Biden, FBI Director James Comey, and other senior administration officials to discuss Russian efforts to interfere in the election.

The report further highlights that Brennan specifically informed the group of then-candidate Hillary Clinton’s approval of a plan to paint Trump as being in league with Moscow.

“According to Brennan’s handwritten notes and his recollections from the meeting, he briefed on relevant intelligence known to date on Russian election interference, including the Clinton Plan intelligence,” Durham wrote. “Specifically, Director Brennan’s declassified handwritten notes reflect that he briefed the meeting’s participants regarding the ‘alleged approval by Hillary Clinton on 26 July of a proposal from one of her [campaign] advisors to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by the Russian security services.'”

The real collusion to rig the 2016 election was between the Clinton campaign, the Obama White House, and the FBI.