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Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
May 27, 2025
CHANGE: Dawn Aerospace begins sales of Aurora suborbital spaceplane. “Dawn Aerospace is following a model from commercial aviation rather than spaceflight with Aurora, selling the vehicle to customers who will operate it rather than flying the vehicle on its own.”
THE PRESS PLAYS CATCH-UP: Jonathan Capehart Attacks Washington Post Colleague in New Book. “You get the impression Jonathan Capehart has very thin skin. He can be easily offended by any contradiction, public or private, even one that is undeniably correct.” Even? Try especially.
Mark Judge last month: Jonathan Capehart’s WaPo Hissy Fit. “Yet as one delves into the details of why Capehart walked, it’s Capehart himself who looks pretty bad. Imperious, while at the same time hyper-sensitive; self-righteous while morally confused; resentful while equally obtuse; ideologically brainwashed and thus incapable of independent thought, Jonathan Capehart is everything wrong with journalism in 2025. No wonder Jeff Bezos is scrambling to sweep out the stables at The Washington Post.”
Sweep faster and harder, Jeff.
HOW’S THAT SPACE PROGRAM COMING ALONG? A Serious Threat May Be Lurking in The Orbit of Venus, Says Study.
CHANGE: Shoe, Dropped: Trump ‘Pauses’ Student Visas Across the Board. “Universities and colleges across the country can thank Harvard for this latest development. If federal courts won’t allow the Department of Homeland Security to deal directly with Harvard on compliance for the Student Education Visa Program (SEVP), the administration can simply make it more difficult for everyone instead.”
THAT SEEMS RATHER . . . DRASTIC: 30% Weight Loss in a Week? The Metabolic “Kill Switch” Scientists Just Discovered.
STACY MCCAIN: May 27: A Date That Will Live in Hilarity. “I was trying to figure out if there could be some kind of innocent explanation, for example, the possibility that one of Weiner’s staffers, with access to his account, had accidentally sent the photo. And I remember calling up Andrew Breitbart to discuss this with him. Andrew’s response was blunt: ‘No, Stacy. Trust me — there’s more.'”
Plus: “June 6 was the big breakthrough, when the Texas woman, an Army veteran and single mom named Meagan Broussard, told her story on Breitbart’s site. The same day, Anthony Weiner announced a press conference in New York. Weiner was late to the press conference, but Andrew Breitbart was there on time, so the assembled media demanded that Breitbart answer questions — upstaging the congressman.” It was brilliant.
ANALYSIS: TRUE.
Multiculturalism is nothing more than disdain for Western Civilization.
It’s an ideology that must be eradicated if America and the West are to survive. https://t.co/v5o4VEU4EC
— Congressman Brandon Gill (@RepBrandonGill) May 27, 2025
CHANGE: The UK is rolling out a world-first vaccine for gonorrhoea. What about the rest of Europe? Doesn’t sound especially impressive: “In studies, the vaccine was between 32.7 per cent and 42 per cent effective against gonorrhoea, the advisory group found.”
Plus: “Gonorrhoea is one of the most common STIs, with nearly 97,000 confirmed cases in 28 European countries in 2023 – up 31 per cent from the year before. . . . Cases have been rising among all age groups and among both women and men, with men who have sex with men accounting for 58 per cent of cases in 2023.”
ANSWERING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: What’s Going on With Mercedes-AMG?
#JOURNALISM:
it's like someone training for a marathon and every day they go out for a run the media says they failed finishing a marathon
— Stan Beck (@stanbeckbjj) 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
THANK GOD FOR OZEMPIC: Scientists Find Jupiter Used to Be More Than Twice Its Current Size.
WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: AI model pinpoints sources of driver stress, paving the way for smart driving assistants.
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.
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
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.”
RATHER A LOT, REALLY: What Could A Hostile Federal Government Do To Law Schools?
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Former Cornell professor, climate protesters deface university founder statue at graduation.
THIS SEEMS TO HAPPEN A LOT: Self-described ‘social justice advocate’ prof arrested on child pornography charges.
MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Courts are infected with ‘injunctivitis’ — and tempting Trump’s defiance.
SKYNET SLOUCHES TOWARD THE BAY AREA TO BE BORN:
From the model card. Again, thank you @AnthropicAI for sharing these findings publicly instead of pretending they don't happen like the other companies – it's REALLY important.https://t.co/QxHi6PlVSe pic.twitter.com/RnZB4xfcPg
— AI Notkilleveryoneism Memes ⏸️ (@AISafetyMemes) May 26, 2025
AI researchers are essentially doing gain-of-function here, without much in the way of supervision or clear consequences.
ILYA SHAPIRO: The Rubio Update of the Monroe Doctrine: What an America First foreign policy in Latin America looks like.
Is there any Trump candidate who has overperformed expectations more than Marco Rubio?