SECURITY & CIGARS: So You’ve Got the Gear… Now What? Training, Practice, Preparedness, and Mindset.

CHANGE: Trump Administration Forcing Big Changes to $1.7 Billion in Biden-Era Auto Grants, Scaling Back Electric Vehicle Production and Boosting Hybrids.

YOU MEAN AN ARMY OF DAVIDS, I BELIEVE: “[A]n army of fans [are] now competing to produce the catchiest and most outrageous videos supporting [Spencer Pratt’s] campaign.”

THIS GUY IS SUCH A TWO-FACED JERK:

Tillis voted for a $500,000 per senator fund for senators who were illegally spied on by the Biden. It wasn’t available to any normal Americans whose rights had been violated—just senators. But now Tillis is mad that actual American citizens might receive restitution. What a… https://t.co/M5GZER43yI

— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) May 21, 2026

THE SUICIDE OF EXPERTISE (CONT’D): Trust the Experts. “Some Experts™ are worse than others, because they not only believe they know everything, but they work assiduously to destroy those who actually have good ideas about the way things work in the real world. They aren’t bad engineers; they are cult leaders who think they know everything. Such was the case with the economists who campaigned to destroy Javier Milei and prevent him from becoming President of Argentina. Milei was a dangerous crank, they said, and would destroy the already sputtering economy of Argentina. What the country needed wasn’t more capitalism, but more socialism.”

Economists endorsing socialism is like chemists endorsing Phlogiston.

Related:

This is one of the keys of his campaign. Nonprofits pay a lot of people to not solve the problem they claim to be solving. Remember when Mr. Beast went to Africa and built two clean water wells, and the NGO nonprofits over there criticized him for it, as some white savior complex… https://t.co/m8z8wKDlwR

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) May 21, 2026

SET FOR 5:30 AM TOMORROW: Watch Rocket Lab launch private Japanese Earth-observing satellite early on May 22.

OPEN THREAD: Do your best.

SIGNS IN THE SKY: Manhattanhenge 2026 is coming this month: Here’s when and where to see the sunset spectacle.

THEY’RE GETTING SMARTER: A Beluga Whale Showed a Sign of Intelligence Once Thought Unique to Humans.

SCRUBBED FOR TONIGHT:

Standing down from today’s flight test

— SpaceX (@SpaceX) May 21, 2026

GOOD ENOUGH TO SUCCESSFULLY REPRODUCE: The Human Body Isn’t Perfect – It Was Improvised by Evolution.

“GENOCIDE:”

The best ׳genocide׳ ever!

The number of Arabs from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea has grown tenfold over the last 80 years. That's true for Gaza, that's true for Israel, and that's true for the West Bank.

And here's another surprising fact that nobody talks about:… pic.twitter.com/g3MLmxeuzu

— Traveling israel (@travelingisrae1) May 21, 2026

DIVERSITY PROBLEM:

The most striking part of this chart is how much bluer the bluest occupations are than the reddest are red. Progressives & liberals are far likelier to live in a monopartisan/monocultural bubble. pic.twitter.com/ZO4DlKzQjp

— Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank) May 19, 2026

THE REAL NIGHTMARE IS RUNNING OUT OF CHEESE: Scientists confirm cheese can really cause nightmares — and one type is the worst offender.

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE:

BREAKING!!!

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has just now Ordered the convictions the Oath Keeper and Proud Boy defendants be vacated, and that the cases be remanded to the District Court in anticipation of a motion by DOJ To Dismiss. pic.twitter.com/0xMHoAwG22

— Shipwreckedcrew (@shipwreckedcrew) May 21, 2026

HMM: Is Our Yearlong 2026 Honda Passport Trailsport Elite Good Off-Road?

YES. Focusing on Gun Control Rather Than Criminal Control Forces Armed Citizens to Act in Self-Defense.

SEDUCTIVE AI: Figure AI’s 24/7 livestream showcases human soft spot for humanoid robots.

WE SHOULD PRIVATIZE THE TSA: What is TSA Gold+ and how will it affect your summer travel plans?

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Astronauts to begin training in replica of Blue Origin’s lunar lander.

LET A HUNDRED FLOWERS BLOOM: Time to Settle the Free Weight Versus Machines Debate.

IF ONLY SOMEONE HAD POINTED THIS TREND OUT OVER A DECADE AGO:

😬 https://t.co/iIkfl464nz pic.twitter.com/zYmXLJtpSU

— Paul Schofield (@pschofie79) May 20, 2026

AID AND COMFORT: Augsburg University mobilized campus-wide response to ICE by expanding support system for immigrant students.

FASCISM ON PARADE: Michigan State U. Democrat trustees demand ‘loyalty’ from peers, threaten dissenters.

THIS GUY IS SUCH A TURD: Graham Platner Smeared Murdered ‘American Sniper’ Chris Kyle in Podcast Rant, Claiming Navy SEAL Shot Innocent Civilians ‘To Get High Numbers.’