Archive for 2025
May 27, 2025
PAY ATTENTION TO THIS GUY:
3 million registered Republicans in Pennsylvania did NOT vote in the May 20th primary.
You have the power to win — let’s get everyone out to vote this November.
— ThePersistence (@ScottPresler) May 27, 2025
CHANGE: Bezos’ WaPo Gives Staff Ultimatum as It Pushes Them Out.
Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post wants to push dozens of staffers out the door, offering opinion staffers, staffers with 10 years’ experience, and some desks buyout packages to leave the paper. “Like the rest of our industry, we are adapting to changing habits and new technologies that are transforming news experiences,” executive editor Matt Murray told staffers in a memo obtained by the Daily Beast. “Even as we have begun creating new departments and welcoming new colleagues, to reach new audiences we must increase our staffing flexibility and expand in areas such as audience data and social video.” The entire video desk, the copy desk, and the sports copy desks were also offered buyout packages, which Murray stressed were voluntary. Staffers will have until July to make a decision.
And then do buyouts become non-voluntary?
MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: So This Latest Move Will Save the Democrats for Sure. “It isn’t easy being a Democrat these days, but don’t think for a moment they haven’t come up with a brand-new agenda — one that somehow isn’t any different from the old one going back to FDR. But it has a shiny new name, so they’ve got that going for them. Which is nice.”
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OUCH: At least 5 are dead and 19 injured after a chemical plant explodes in China, authorities say.
A huge explosion rocked a chemical plant in China ’s eastern Shandong province around noon Tuesday, killing at least five people and injuring 19, according to local emergency management authorities. Another six people were missing.
It was not immediately clear what caused the explosion.
The blast was powerful enough to knock out windows at a warehouse more than two miles (three kilometers) away, according to a video shared by a resident, who declined to give his name out of concern about retaliation.
The resident said his home shook. As he went to the window, he saw a column of smoke from the site more than seven kilometers (4.3 miles) away.
Video:
Today: Tragedy in Gaomi, China: May 27, 2025
A deadly blast at the world’s largest chlorpyrifos plant leaves:
– 5 dead, 6 missing,
– 19 injured.
The explosion at Shandong Youdao Chemical sent a fireball into the sky, shattering windows and lives. pic.twitter.com/Rhh7pa0zsr— Weather Monitor (@WeatherMonitors) May 27, 2025
Developing…
HEY, IT’S GOT A GREAT BEAT AND YOU CAN REALLY DANCE TO IT:
The South African president rejected President Donald Trump’s assertion that the South African communist leader who leads chants about killing white farmers should be arrested.
President Cyril Ramaphosa met with President Trump last week in the White House, where he firmly denied the existence of a genocide or even targeted killings of white South African farmers known as the Boers.
During their meeting, Trump suggested to Ramaphosa that the South African government should arrest Julius Malema, a political leader who has led chants of “shoot the Boer” and “shoot to kill” to a stadium full of supporters.
Upon returning to South Africa, Ramaphosa spoke to reporters about the idea of arrests and asserted that his country is a sovereign nation with its own laws and processes. He also excused the racist chants as freedom of expression.
“We take into account what the constitutional court also decided when it said that, you know, that slogan, ‘kill the Boer, kill the farmer,’ is a liberation chant and slogan.”
“It’s not meant to be a message that elicits or calls upon anyone to go and be killed,” the president claimed. “And that is what our court decided. … We follow the dictates of our constitution because we are a constitutional state, and we are a country where freedom of expression is in the bedrock of our constitutional arrangement.”
Or as America’s Newspaper of Record reports:
THANK GOD FOR OZEMPIC: Scientists Find Jupiter Used to Be More Than Twice Its Current Size.
MATT MARGOLIS: The Most Hilarious Scheme yet for Democrats to Win Back Power.
Just when you think the Democratic Party couldn’t get more desperate or delusional, it manages to outdo itself. The latest scheme? Creating a “shadow cabinet” to challenge President Donald Trump’s agenda. And if that wasn’t absurd enough, wait until you hear who Democrats want to put in charge.
In fact, Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin pitched this laughable concept to Politico, suggesting that ranking committee members could lead this pretend government.
I’m not even kidding. Politico loved the idea, but not the part about using ranking committee members.
“Ranking members have their uses,” Politico observes. “They’re good at reclaiming their time and making motions to recommit. But they are not the fresh faces who can give the Democratic Party a sleek new look.”
“So how best to assemble a shadow Cabinet?” Politico asks. “Tap accomplished people with the ability to speak plainly and the credibility to puncture the Trump administration’s often Orwellian narratives. Don’t limit members to professional politicians. Pitch a big tent. Don’t draw rigid ideological lines.”
And this shadow Cabinet reads like a parody list written by The Babylon Bee. For Homeland Security Secretary, Politico wants — no joke — Gisele Fetterman. Why her, of all people? Because she was an illegal immigrant.
Why is the left pitting Fetterman against Fetterman? A Fetterman family divided against itself cannot stand!
Note that Politico is already calibrating their enthusiasm* slightly. The headline atop the article now reads:
It was worded a bit more positively in its first draft.
At RedState, Bonchie writes, “I know David Hogg didn’t write this piece for Politico, but if he had, what would be different? Every single person listed is the exact opposite of the direction Democrats should go if they want to regain the trust of the American people. If the 2024 election was anything, it was a repudiation of far-left ideologues being suggested for this ‘shadow cabinet.’ But as has been said many times, zero lessons have actually been learned. Democrats know nothing but doubling down.”
* Classical reference.
COME SEE THE VIOLENCE INHERENT IN THE LEFTISM: The Online Left Is Encouraging and Inspiring Murderers and Terrorists.
WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: AI model pinpoints sources of driver stress, paving the way for smart driving assistants.
‘KILL THE ADMISSIONS ESSAY.’ “A longstanding college-application genre is hampering the pursuit of merit.”
Yup.
A THREAD:
"The President of the University of Virginia was justifying the marginalization of students on Grounds—and doing nothing about it. At that moment, I knew that man should not be sitting behind the desk in Madison Hall."
The Jefferson Council’s president, Joel Gardner, doesn’t… pic.twitter.com/qHtL5RPVJh
— The Jefferson Council (@TheJeffersonC) May 26, 2025
Exit quote: “He warns that DEI has morphed into ‘a quasi-religion’ — ‘a catechism that, if not dutifully followed, results both figuratively and literally in having your knuckles wrapped.’ Fear of speaking freely, he says, is widespread — ‘It’s shocking and it’s heartbreaking at Mr. Jefferson’s university.'”
DECOUPLING: China Criticises Plan To Return Darwin Port To Australian Ownership.
China’s ambassador to Canberra has criticised the Australian government’s intention to return Darwin Port to local ownership, saying the Chinese company running the strategically located northern port should not be punished.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said in April during the election campaign that his government was working on a plan to force the sale of Darwin Port from its Chinese owner on national interest grounds.
Australia sold the commercial port on a 99-year lease to Chinese company Landbridge in 2015, a move that was criticised by the U.S. president at the time, Barack Obama. Around 2,000 U.S. Marines exercise for six months of the year in the northern city.
Ambassador Xiao Qian said Landbridge Group had invested in the port and contributed to the local economy, according to a statement on Sunday by the Chinese embassy.
If Beijing is unhappy then I presume it’s good for Australia.
PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE TRUNALIMUNUMAPRZURE:
Buried 2007 video of Senator Joe Biden discussing troop removal from Afghanistan. It would be a REAL SHAME if everyone saw this…
"And you leave those billions of dollars of weapons behind I promise they're going to be used against your grandchild and mine some day" – The Big… pic.twitter.com/kptwzUjjCo
— Gain of Fauci (@DschlopesIsBack) May 26, 2025
Besides the creepiness of Bad Touch Biden getting in a female voter’s face, 2007-era Biden has got a point about all those weapons being left behind. Too bad the “Politburo” that was running the White House in his name from 2021-2024 didn’t seem to care: Taliban parade US military vehicles, weapons to celebrate 3 years in power, AP reports.
It’s quite a bit of gear, actually: US left behind $7 billion of military equipment in Afghanistan after 2021 withdrawal, Pentagon report says.
And not just machinery: Millions of Dollars, Classified Information, and Biometric Data: Inside What the Biden-Harris Admin Left Behind in Afghanistan.
I DON’T HAVE DIABETES, WHICH IS GOOD BECAUSE I ALSO DON’T HAVE A SPLEEN: Spleen-based islet transplantation restores glycemic control in type 1 diabetes without full immunosuppression.
SO FAR: This Might Be the WORST Revelation About the Biden Health Cover Up.
Still not treason, but I’d open the bidding at “seditious conspiracy” (18 U.S.C. § 2384).
MICHAEL WALSH: Minding Our Own Business.
Regarding Taiwan, America needs to find another option to the Taiwanese Semiconductor Manufacturing Company and other Taiwanese chip manufacturers, who account for about half of chip production worldwide. (Rebuilding the U.S. chip industry is one purpose of the tariff regimen, and should be clearly explained as such.) There’s not much the Navy can do to stop the mainland’s invasion of Taiwan short of dragging the U.S. into a shooting war with the CCP, and the loss of the island would not be a crushing blow to American military interests in East Asia.
As for Russia, the current mess can be directly laid at the feet of Bush 42’s predecessor, his father George H.W. Bush, on whose watch the American victory in the Cold War was squandered. Russia could have been bought for pennies on the dollar and brought into the West with timely investment and political reform. Instead, sensing a vacuum, it was taken over by KGB ronin like Putin and mercantile gangsters who had already been feasting on the corpse of the USSR even before it was dead. The only beneficiary of America’s failure to capitalize on the triumph of its primary foreign policy objective of the forty years between 1949 and 1989 has turned out to be George Soros.
Washington concluded his address with these words: “In offering to you, my countrymen, these counsels of an old and affectionate friend, I dare not hope they will make the strong and lasting impression I could wish—that they will control the usual current of the passions, or prevent our nation from running the course which has hitherto marked the destiny of nations. But if I may even flatter myself that they may be productive of some partial benefit, some occasional good, that they may now and then recur to moderate the fury of party spirit, to warn against the mischiefs of foreign intrigue, to guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism—this hope will be a full recompense for the solicitude for your welfare, by which they have been dictated.”
By George, he’s right.
Read the whole thing.
“ANYONE WHO IS OPPOSED TO SHUTTING PEOPLE UP BY FORCE IS BOUND TO BE FACED WITH ARGUMENTS THAT SUPPRESSING SPEECH ISN’T SO BAD AFTER ALL. But these arguments were considered and rejected decades ago, and The War On Words is a perfect handy guide on how to answer them, by a hero and heroine of free expression.” – Steven Pinker
AN EXISTENTIAL THREAT TO THEIR POWER, MONEY, AND SELF-IMPORTANCE MAYBE:
I don’t want to hear about “norms” ever again. https://t.co/nA3fvPlhpS
— Emma-Jo Morris (@EmmaJoNYC) May 27, 2025
I’D MISSED THIS FROM BEEGE YESTERDAY: On Serving Your Country: Gratitude. “Years later – it doesn’t matter how many – the tears still come. The memories flood back, the choking starts, and dear God, if only you could see them for one second more.”
THAT’S CRAZY TALK: American Universities Should Put America First: Trump’s moves force all of us to ask: Who is higher education for? And what is its purpose? “Elite American universities are reluctant to be seen as American, or to prioritize American interests, even as they happily accept American taxpayer dollars.”
ANALYSIS: TRUE.
Fact Check: According to our polling, True https://t.co/MeE5zP6ETo
— Rasmussen Reports (@Rasmussen_Poll) May 27, 2025
Republicans have a little more than a year to accomplish what they were sent to DC to do, before they return home to campaign for reelection.
“But campaign on what?” is the question they seem happy not to ask themselves.
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