NOW OUT FROM ANDREW WAREHAM: Nothing New on the Land.

CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: Foreign Aid Official Who Resisted DOGE Took Secret Payments After Steering Africa Money To Friend: African Development Foundation CFO told the White House he would not acknowledge a Trump appointee as agency head.

CRUSH. KILL. DESTROY. IDF Destroys Airport Used for Weapons Shipments in Devastating Strike on Houthis. And I’m fine with it all.

CDR SALAMANDER: We Must Not Let the F/A-18 Line Go Cold. Losing one is an accident; three starts to look like carelessness.

MAYBE THIS WAS TRUMP’S INTENT ALL ALONG: Mark Carney Could Tear Canada Apart. “The youth were not the only group the Liberals failed to win over. In Western Canada, Trump’s threat to make Canada the 51st state provoked little concern, and Alberta and Saskatchewan remained Conservative strongholds. In fact, voters in these provinces were far less fearful of Trump than they were of Carney’s green agenda. The Trudeau government – in power since 2015 – had already done its best to alienate the Canadian West with its unpopular federal Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act 2018, more commonly referred to as the carbon tax. As the biggest oil-producing provinces in the country, Alberta and Saskatchewan were most affected by this. Although Carney scrapped the carbon tax ahead of the election, he has shown every indication that he intends to continue with every other aspect of Trudeau’s Net Zero agenda. After all, in 2021, Carney said he believed that half of the world’s oil reserves need to stay in the ground.”

Maybe Trump dissed Trudeau specifically to cause the liberals to win, leading to a breakup. Then we get the oil, gas, and grain-producing provinces and the remnant-Canada gets angry Frenchmen.

HE’S RIGHT, YOU KNOW: Roger Kimball: Beaujolais is the ideal summer wine: It is light, flowery, full of pleasing acidity and fruitiness, satisfying by itself and notably food friendly.

OPEN THREAD: Disport yourselves.

RE-ENTERING SATELLITES — AN OVERRATED PROBLEM? Scientists chased a falling spacecraft with a plane to understand satellite air pollution: “The event was fainter than we expected.”

Unclear at this point.

WELL, GOOD: New Molecules Target Root Cause of Chronic Pain Without Opioids.

WAR AND RUMORS OF WAR: India fires missiles into Pakistani territory in response to Kashmir militant attack.

STAY HOME? How cruise ship passengers can stay safe from the latest version of norovirus.

I LIKE TIM SCOTT, BUT YEAH:

Oh, Kemp gets plenty of blame for being, but Tim Scott had a job and he hasn’t got it done. I don’t care about excuses. I don’t care about reasons. You either get it done, or you suck.

If you’re satisfied with excuses, that your problem https://t.co/F2U6NbG04t

— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) May 6, 2025

HIPSTER MOMS AS URBAN HEALTH HAZARD? New salmonella outbreak is linked to backyard poultry, CDC says.

MEANWHILE I’M HORRIFIED THAT A FREE COUNTRY WOULD HAVE A “GUN CONTROL INDUSTRY:” Gun Control Industry Horrified by Removal of ATF’s ‘Gun Violence’ Exhibit.

FASTER, PLEASE: Scientists edge closer to affordable superconductors: Novel materials could eventually power electric vehicles and more.

NOT AN IMPOSSIBLE SHOT: SpaceX pushed “sniper” theory with the feds far more than is publicly known.

As part of my book on the Falcon 9 and Dragon years at SpaceX, Reentry, I reported deeply on the loss of the Amos-6 mission. In the weeks afterward, the greatest mystery was what had precipitated the accident. It was understood that a pressurized helium tank inside the upper stage had ruptured. But why? No major parts on the rocket were moving at the time of the failure. It was, for all intents and purposes, akin to an automobile idling in a driveway with half a tank of gasoline. And then it exploded.

This failure gave rise to one of the oddest—but also strangely compelling—stories of the 2010s in spaceflight. And we’re still learning new things today.

The lack of a concrete explanation for the failure led SpaceX engineers to pursue hundreds of theories. One was the possibility that an outside “sniper” had shot the rocket. This theory appealed to SpaceX founder Elon Musk, who was asleep at his home in California when the rocket exploded. Within hours of hearing about the failure, Musk gravitated toward the simple answer of a projectile being shot through the rocket.

This is not as crazy as it sounds, and other engineers at SpaceX aside from Musk entertained the possibility, as some circumstantial evidence to support the notion of an outside actor existed. Most notably, the first rupture in the rocket occurred about 200 feet above the ground, on the side of the vehicle facing the southwest. In this direction, about one mile away, lay a building leased by SpaceX’s main competitor in launch, United Launch Alliance. A separate video indicated a flash on the roof of this building, now known as the Spaceflight Processing Operations Center. The timing of this flash matched the interval it would take a projectile to travel from the building to the rocket.

The FBI investigated, but with the FAA concluded there was no gunman.

BOOM: Megaquake could trigger land drop, spike flood risk along West Coast, study says.

SCIENCE: Kissing won’t pass gluten, new findings show.

MICHAEL WALSH: Make Universities Great Again.

DEADLY SINS: Columbia Journalism Review editor fired after insisting on ethics, deadlines: report.

RENAME: Harvard rebrands DEI office as Office of Community and Campus Life.

THROUGHOUT WESTERN CIVILIZATION, PEOPLE WHO USED TO BE PILLARS OF NORMAL HAVE BEEN TURNED INTO SHOCK TROOPS OF CRAZY: Unbelievable: British Head Teachers ‘In Turmoil.’

If somebody from 2005 teleported 20 years into the future, they would beg to go back home.

Sure, there are lots more cool toys to play with now, and the televisions are mega huge, but it seems our basic grasp of reality disappeared somewhere along the way. It’s kinda like that Ryan George series of videos where the time-traveling reporter keeps begging to go back home to the 90s.

What got me thinking about this trend is this article explaining how the NAHT–which used to be called the National Association of Head Teachers until it was rebranded–can’t figure out what to do now that the UK Supreme Court ruled that boys and girls are different. . . . The NAHT is deeply confused by the ruling that boys are boys and girls are girls, and are asking for guidance from the government on how to deal with this newfangled idea regarding sexual dimorphism.

Kooks on parade.

I THINK IT’S MORE A SIGN THAT CANCEL CULTURE HAS RUN ITS COURSE: How The Shiloh Hendrix Case Killed Cancel Culture.

MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Will Gen Z Reverse the Baby Bust?

IT WOULD BE A START, BUT IT WON’T HAPPEN:

They can start with begging for forgiveness for a decade+ of attacking checks on separation of power, delegitimizing the courts, and celebrating the executive abuses of Biden and Obama. https://t.co/kkhUkyrjSf

— David Harsanyi (@davidharsanyi) May 5, 2025