HUH. YOU’D THINK THEY’D TREAT HER BETTER. Caitlin Clark’s impact on the WNBA could eclipse ‘a billion dollars.’ “Clark was responsible for a staggering 26.5% of all WNBA economic activity last season, including revenue from merchandise, ticket sales and television.”

CHANGE: Universities brace for endowment tax hike as GOP’s ‘big beautiful bill’ heads to Senate. “While some reports indicate administrators have hired lobbyists to try and water down the proposal, observers say some sort of tax hike is likely in the offing for these institutions. Rather than a flat rate, House Republicans seek to increase taxes on private university endowments ranging from 1.4 percent to 21 percent, according to the legislation.”

LASH BACK HARDER: University faces backlash for anti-Israel speaker as part of ‘Holocaust and Genocide Studies’ lecture series.

IT’S A CLASSIC BLOG AND GOOGLE NEEDS TO FIX THIS: The Blog “No Pasarán” Has Been Locked and Removed; Google: Put an End to the Censorship.

IT’S ALWAYS LIKE THIS:

This is perfect. When you read the headline about defunding cancer research you think it involves doctors and scientists, instead it involves a DEI "statistician" who’s mostly famous for being incompetent at statistics https://t.co/gmSZSatimo

— Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry (@pegobry_en) May 28, 2025

STATE VS. CHURCH: New Jersey Town Seeks to Condemn Church to Build a Park and Pickleball Courts.

ELON’S DISAPPOINTED, BECAUSE AS HARD AS ROCKETRY IS, POLITICS IS HARDER:

Did my best

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 26, 2025

I mean, he’s not wrong to be disappointed and disgusted with the GOP, but making deep political change is really hard, since you’re threatening so many rice bowls. If you want people to act differently, you have to make it in their interest to act differently. Carrot, stick, whatever. You need incentives that will offset the power and stickiness of the Blob.

DON SURBER: Democrats have a BO problem: The Donald offers the young hope and change from Obama.

Obama was the ultimate Boomer fantasy president. Naturally, he sucked.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: China launching Tianwen-2 mission today to snag samples of a near-Earth asteroid.

THE PURPOSE OF A SYSTEM IS WHAT IT DOES:

The point of a system is what it does. Clearly Roberts and Barrett were fine with Biden's "parole" BS.

— Dan Warner (@dwboston1) May 27, 2025

NOBODY SAW THAT COMING: Gen Z Is Rebelling—by Getting Religion.

MAKE THEM PAY: California College Disciplinary Officer Sued Over Censorship: Golden West College threatened students with discipline for statements calling illegal immigration a “cancer” and Hamas “a terrorist organization.”

When truth-telling becomes a crime, make an example of the censors.

INDEED:

The last president told me his patience with me was “wearing thin”, tried to have me fired for not taking a fake vaccine, and then told the entire country I was a threat to the very foundations of democracy.

You don’t ever get to call anyone else “divisive.” It’s on now. https://t.co/77P1JjEgoP

— Jesse Kelly (@JesseKellyDC) May 27, 2025

Plus:

Joe Biden gave a speech in front of a blood red background flanked by Marines basically calling half the country dangerous fascists. https://t.co/E6sLWRQGjH

— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) May 27, 2025

HEATHER MAC DONALD: The Blatant Lie of Germany’s Elite: Parties opposed to the Alternative for Deutschland (AfD) continue to block it from exercising its rights—all in the name of stopping “fascism.”

CHANGE: Movin’ on Up: Consumer Confidence Does a BOINK!

Related: Trump’s Poll Numbers Rise, Resistance 2.0 Flops.

It’s especially impressive given that the legacy media and the entire establishment has been trying to push them in the other direction.

I’VE NOTED THIS TOO. HE’LL KEEP DOING IT UNTIL HE DOESN’T, OR UNTIL THE SUPREME COURT FINALLY FIXES THINGS:

🔥As I've noted many times before, Trump is going to great lengths to obey the letter of the orders entered against his administration even though judges are acting without jurisdiction and in violation of his Article II authority. We have further proof of that recently. 1/

— Margot Cleveland (@ProfMJCleveland) May 27, 2025

JUDICIOUS: Readers of today’s opinion in Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr LLP v. Executive Office of the President (which i think got it largely right in its substantive analysis), might notice that it included 26 exclamation points. . . . I appreciate that the author is a federal judge, and I’m not, but my sense is that the exclamation points do more to detract from the persuasiveness of the opinion than to advance it.”

Related:

Same reason judges are entering orders against Trump even though they lack jurisdiction. https://t.co/n18PwfRz2s

— Margot Cleveland (@ProfMJCleveland) May 27, 2025

OPEN THREAD: Tuesdays’ Groovy.

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