THE “RIGHT WING FEVER SWAMP” HAS A PRETTY GOOD TRACK RECORD AT THIS POINT: “But I think the meta text of why it was so shocking was all of the people that were waved off as conspiracy theorists. Right wing fever swamp people were completely right.”

OPEN THREAD: Ring in the weekend.

CRAZY. WHERE DID THEY THINK OF THAT? China’s Astronstone raises early funding for stainless steel rocket with “chopstick” recovery.

YOU CAN GET SOME OF THIS BENEFIT BY JUST DONATING BLOOD OR PLASMA: Human trial finds therapeutic plasma exchange reduces biological age. For free. You can even get paid for plasma.

CRAWL BACK OUT: They Crawled Out of the Cave – And Into Your Mattress: The 60,000-Year Reign of Bed Bugs.

HUH. I ALWAYS ASSUMED IT WAS LIKE A HARD RESET: Electroconvulsive therapy’s ‘hard reset’ effect: Brain wave discovery challenges long-held assumption. “ECT, or electroconvulsive therapy, uses brief, noninvasive electrical stimulation of the brain to induce a seizure. Despite an outdated pop culture moniker (electroshock therapy) that often paints the treatment in a negative light, ECT has been proven to be a safe and highly effective treatment, offering rapid relief from severe symptoms when medications have failed.”

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest did a lot of damage.

But not all cinematic depictions were as sinister:

ALL THE BEST PEOPLE ASSURED ME THAT WEED WAS HARMLESS: Smoking weed and consuming THC-laced edibles linked to early heart disease, study finds.

GEORGE COSTANZA VINDICATED: Double-dipping may seem gross, but it’s not as risky as you think.

FLASHBACK: TRUMP AND THE RESPONSE OF THE “MERITOCRACY.” “Occasionally the real force behind a political ideology is the subconsciously held desire that a certain group of people should not be allowed to rise in relative status.”

ABOUT TIME: NASA astronauts Butch and Suni emerge from recovery after long Starliner mission. “Wilmore and Williams, who last year set off for an eight-day Starliner test flight that swelled into a nine-month stay in space, have had to readapt their muscles, sense of balance and other basics of Earth living in a 45-day period standard for astronauts returning from long-term space missions. The astronaut duo have spent at least two hours a day with astronaut strength and reconditioning officials within NASA’s medical unit while juggling an increasing workload with Boeing’s Starliner program, NASA’s space station unit in Houston and agency researchers.”

IT’S VERY IMPORTANT TO ILLUSTRATE THESE STORIES WITH PICTURES OF HOT WOMEN IN SKIMPY WORKOUT CLOTHES: Study: Weight loss in middle age might add years to your life.

And I approve.

SHOCKING NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF SCIENCE: Pizza, soup, chicken among biggest sources of sodium for Americans.

YES.

The waning of public opinion matters, but wokeness is a non-electoral politics of institutional capture that focuses on controlling institutions insulated from the popular will. Only an organized faction capable of either reaching inside the redoubts where wokeness is endemic or… https://t.co/TPGlnuT0aX

— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) May 29, 2025

JULIE KELLY CORRECTS THE RECORD:

Dozens were denied release following armed predawn FBI raids including those accused of non violent offenses such as the unlawful 1512c2 count and those without any criminal record.

J6ers were then hauled—some cross country stopping at 4-5 other prisons along the way to add to… https://t.co/iALADn1DyU

— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) May 27, 2025

THEY HAVEN’T LEARNED THEIR LESSON YET: Columbia investigates student for criticizing transgenderism on social media: ‘Being Catholic in public is not an offense on Columbia’s campus,’ free speech expert says.

Are you sure?

CHANGE: Rubio announces intent to ‘aggressively’ pull Chinese student visas: This comes as information continues to surface revealing ties between American higher education and the Chinese Communist Party.

MARK JUDGE: Robert Novak and the Problem of Contemporary Conservative Media. “I’m going to be leaving journalism this year, so in reflecting on this decision and the state of our media, particularly conservative media, I found myself recalling the work of Robert Novak. While conservative media has exploded since Novak’s death in 2009, his tenacious style of reporting has not expanded along with it. As revealed in his 2008 autobiography The Prince of Darkness, Novak was conservative, but one who insisted on digging for new stories and not just spouting off in response to stories reported by the liberal media.”

SAD BUT PLAUSIBLE: Colorado Springs’ First Black Mayor Implicated In Hate-Crime Hoax At Federal Trial: A black radio host convicted of staging burning cross to help sway the election testifies that mayor was in on it.

I now start with the presumption that this sort of thing is a hoax and I’m seldom wrong.

THE STANDARDIZATION OF DEMORALIZATION: Mark Judge: An interview with Jennifer Hofmann.

DON SURBER: It’s Democrat policies, stupid.

IS THIS THE MOMENT WHEN THE ZEITGEIST SHIFTS? The NYT asks: “What would make you want to have more children?” They’re even worrying about the impact of society’s treatment of men!

Welcome to the party, pal!

Related: Harrison Butker, Harbinger? Life during and after the coming Demographic Winter.

I’D LIKE TO SEE AN IRS RULE ON TREATMENT OF EXCESSIVE UNRECOUPED ADVANCES:

Do publishing houses next. Find out where the advances come for the leftist politician books! https://t.co/OT4blXbM84

— Sarah A. Hoyt (@SarahAHoyt) May 29, 2025

MAKE THEM PAY: Florida Appellate Court to Pulitzer Board: Stand Up And Take Your Medicine in Trump Defamation Case. “Talk about desperation. Why would the Pulitzer board try to get out of a trial with a claim of executive privilege? Are they that afraid of losing at trial? They should be, given what Senior Judge Robert Pegg had to say in his ruling on their initial motion for dismissal.”

AN INDICTMENT IN ONE PHOTO:

“The gold standard for expertise.” https://t.co/y2Bxpaphvv pic.twitter.com/kzjHWKoomL

— Jesse Kelly (@JesseKellyDC) May 29, 2025

Related: The Suicide of Expertise.

OPEN THREAD: Because I love you and want you to be happy.