THERE HAVE BEEN PEOPLE SAYING THIS FOR YEARS: Robert F. Kennedy: It Looks Like Almost Every Mass Shooter Is On SSRI Drugs. “Anecdotally, it appears that almost every one of these shooters were on SSRIs or some other psychiatric drug… and NIH will not study that because it will offend the pharmaceutical industry.”

UNSURPRISING:  Study Shows that Teachers’ Race Does Not Affect Students’ Outcomes.

OPEN THREAD: Expatiate freely.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Tianzhou-6 cargo spacecraft reaches China’s Tiangong space station.

RICHARD FERNANDEZ:

There's a quality of mindlessness about the Washington coalition's determination to run through their agenda laundry list heedless of the consequences. Ordinarily a president might have a fkash of thought but an octogenarian running off punch cards like a Hollerith machine won't.

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) May 12, 2023

I CHOOSE TO BELIEVE THIS, BECAUSE I HATE COLD WATER: Cold Water Therapy Might Do More Harm Than Good. An Expert Explains.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. The Daily Wire is on fire.

BAD PROSECUTORS ABOUND TODAY: Kim Gardner’s final act in office, refusing to prosecute a crime caught on video.

Related: The Government’s War on Order and Self-Defense.

Remember, making ordinary people’s lives worse isn’t a byproduct of their preferred policies, it’s the goal.

HEY, THEY WOULDN’T INDICT BERNARD GOETZ: Bob McManus: Alvin Bragg didn’t trust a grand jury to do his bidding in Daniel Penny subway chokehold case.

In less bizarre times — that is, before America lost its bearings on matters of crime, criminals, and simple justice itself — the case wouldn’t be complicated: A vagrant was menacing subway passengers, a straphanger reacted, the vagrant died — and a grand jury could be trusted to do the right thing.

But those days are history.

While true justice demands context, that doesn’t seem to matter to Bragg — nor to those activists determined to define everything in racial terms.

Penny is white; Neely was black.

That’s all the activists needed.

I remember when meting out justice based on racial prejudice was supposed to be bad. Now it’s “progressive.”

MEH, SCREW THE CCP. Former NBA star Dwight Howard sparks backlash in China after calling Taiwan a ‘country.’ “Taiwan is a self-ruled democracy with its own military, currency, constitution and elected government, although it is not officially recognized as an independent country by most governments in the world.”

The reality: A country. Diplomatic fictions are fictions.

MOVE YOUR MUSCLES: Brilliant Research Reveals How Exercise Boosts Brain Health With Chemical Signals.

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Treatment-resistant ringworm infections seen in U.S. for first time.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: No More “Girl” Pushups.

READER FAVORITE: MyPillow Premium Bed Pillow Queen. #CommissionEarned

THEIR TRACK RECORD WOULD BE WORSE IF THERE WEREN’T SO MANY ACTUAL CONSPIRACIES: Study: Conspiracy theorists may not always think rationally, but they don’t generally believe contradictory claims.

OH MY: Journo Fight at White House Correspondents’ Dinner After Party. “Jim VandeHei, cofounder and CEO of Axios, berated Matt Kaminski, editor in chief of Politico, during a White House Correspondents’ Dinner after party at the Swiss ambassador’s residence in Washington, D.C.”

FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY: That Last Round of Candy Crush Sent Him to Jail. “This week we have the most expensive smartphone game ever, a low-rent T.J. Hooker bad guy, and the Tennessee Hilton where the guests should sleep with their shoes on.”

WELL, GOOD: Texas university rescinds $28,000 charge to conservative students after legal threat.

WE USED TO LIVE IN A GOLDEN AGE OF MUSCLE: Maserati to Stop V8 Production At the End of This Year.

HMM: Whoa! Elizabeth Warren Is Vulnerable in 2024!

TEST: Toyota Prius Prime: A Fun, Efficient Middle Finger to All-Electric Vehicles.

DON’T GET COCKY: ‘Full-Throated F-cking Panic’: Yet Another Report Details How Dems Are Privately Fretting About Biden’s Reelection Chances.

HEAVENLY WATERS: Images from NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover show evidence of ancient deep rivers.

LINCOLN BROWN: The Death of Women and the Death of Men. “As I exited the men’s room, the door directly across from me, the one to the women’s room, opened. And out walked a guy. And by guy, I mean a guy. He was dressed almost identically to me, minus the blazer. And for that matter, he needed a shave. He smirked and walked back to another office in the building. At first, I thought to myself, ‘Dude, at least try. Put on a skirt or something. If nothing else, shave.’ After he was gone it occurred to me: This guy, who was clearly a man, was using the women’s room because he could. And his smirk was a dare to me to say something about it. “

THE DISEASE FORMERLY KNOWN AS MONKEYPOX: WHO: Mpox no longer global health emergency.

Was it ever? Also, what does the “M” in “Mpox” stand for?