Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
May 17, 2025
THEY GAVE HIM THE NUCLEAR BUTTONS AND THEY KEPT SECRET HOW BAD HE WAS:
🚨BREAKING: Audio from Biden’s 2023 interview with Special Counsel Robert Hur has dropped.
He forgets names, dates, and stumbles through every single answer.
He was completely checked out.
pic.twitter.com/3LdlKfQbem— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) May 16, 2025
THERE’S A LOT OF THAT STUFF GOING AROUND: Matching Teens to “Groomers” Was Once Part of This Company’s Business: A major antitrust trial takes an “ancillary” detour to a chilling tour of online life.
The idea that FB/IG had “work to do” on “grooming,” and that certain kinds of underfunding were “deliberate,” became more explicit when an exhibit was introduced, an internal study from the next year, 2019, titled “Inappropriate Interactions with Children on Instagram.”
Hmm.
May 16, 2025
THE NEW SPACE RACE: China launches first of 2,800 satellites for AI space computing constellation.
MORE DIE OF HEARTBREAK: Men Are Dying From ‘Broken Heart Syndrome’ at Twice The Rate of Women.
JUSTICE:
🚨BREAKING: Former FBI Director James Comey is reportedly under Secret Service escort to the Washington Field Office for questioning by investigators. pic.twitter.com/JvmW3FSYzy
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) May 16, 2025
“JUSTICE:” SCOTUS to CASA to A.A.R.P.: In Case Of (Perceived) Emergency, Ignore The Rules, And Make Stuff Up: None of the usual rules will apply when the ACLU says there is an emergency.. The ACLU sees itself as part of the judicial system, not as a party. Some of the courts see it the same way.
The past 24 hours have been something of a Rorschach Test for the Supreme Court. In the birthright citizenship case, the Court made clear that in emergencies, the judiciary must retain the power to enter universal injunctions, even if Article III does not otherwise permit such injunctions. And in A.A.R.P. v. Trump, the Court made clear that in emergencies, the court should certify a class without going through Rule 23, and grant an ex parte tro without considering any of the usual TRO factors.
What lesson should lower court judges take away? In cases of perceived emergencies, forget all the rules and make stuff up. When the executive branch takes such actions we call it an autocracy. When the courts do it, they call it the “rule of law.”
Krytocracy is not stable.
WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: World’s first patient treated with personalized CRISPR gene editing therapy.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: The armed citizen needs to know more than just defensive tactics and how to shoot. “Not long ago, I went to an area gun show and, of course, took a couple of guns to trade. At the safety table were two middle-age deputy sheriffs, nice guys. I handed one a double-action Smith & Wesson revolver and gave the other a double-action Colt revolver. The first deputy held the gun and just stared at it; he clearly didn’t know how to open it. I told him to push forward on that little button right there. He did, and the second deputy started pushing forward on the cylinder release on the Colt. No sir, you have to pull back on that one. The first deputy, with an embarrassed grin, said that you learn something new every day.”
SCIENTISTS BAFFLED: Scientists don’t actually know why period cramps hurt. Maybe because they’re cramps? Just spitballing here.
Also, if you’re talking about “menstruating people,” are you really talking about science?
EVERYTHING OLD IS NEW AGAIN: The Motorola RAZR is back. But, like everything these days, with “too much AI.”
FASTER, PLEASE: Drug said to be effective against early migraine symptoms.
WE NEED TO SUBJECT THEM TO A STEADY ONSLAUGHT OF UNANTICIPATED ACCOUNTABILITY: Politico: Democrats Realizing Their Biden Nightmare Is Just Beginning.
And by we, I mean America.
WHEN TWO-TIERED JUSTICE COMES TO AN END. UNEXPECTEDLY!
🚨BREAKING: President Trump goes scorched earth on James Comey for the assassination threat, says he knew exactly what “8647” meant:
“You're the FBI director.. You know that meant assassination. He wasn't very competent, but he’s competent enough to know what that meant..” pic.twitter.com/sFwoRHRFMw
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) May 16, 2025
🚨BREAKING: Associate Deputy AG Ed Martin says James Comey is going to prison over Trump assassination threat — Either lie to the jury or admit he knew what "8647" meant:
“He knew… He’s got a problem. Perjury traps are next. Going to jail on one or the other.” pic.twitter.com/VYA6cYe2dM
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) May 16, 2025
🚨BREAKING: The DOJ set to announce charges against Democrat Rep. LaMonica McIver as early as today for assaulting law enforcement at a New Jersey ICE facility, according to New Jersey Globe.pic.twitter.com/v6KdaJgp88
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) May 16, 2025
I don’t understand why anyone feels that they have to default to assuming either good intentions by Comey or that they must somehow explain that we are overreacting to his childish, wink, wink, nudge, nudge, murder the president post.
It is essential that we treat this creep,…
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) May 16, 2025
As science has proven, “tit for tat” is the only way to ensure honesty in repeat-player interactions.
JUST SAW THIS AND IT’S KINDA PROFOUND:
A lot of being “trans” has to do with males wishing they were the objects of sexual desire, and females wishing they weren’t.
— J🇺🇸 (@The_Feminist_TM) July 7, 2024
ANOTHER WAY OF SAYING “UNFOUNDED:” Racial slur charges dropped against Yale conservative leader – ‘cannot be proven.’
It’s not 2020 anymore.
I’M BAACK! Returned home last night. Regular service will gradually resume today, with help from my loyal team. Thanks to them for keeping the lights on while I got some much needed R&R.
THIS SEEMS RIGHT:
The entire federal bureaucracy in DC was built to elevate unimpressive but impeccably credentialed sociopaths like Comey. These are products of elite institutions who mistake conformity for wisdom & status for merit. The system is rigged to exclude those with courage, conviction,… https://t.co/GzCqCcCEWX
— Gavin M. Wax (@GavinWax) May 16, 2025
DON SURBER: No one is above the law, but.
MAYBE DELIBERATELY BREAKING THE LAW AND LYING ABOUT IT WAS A BAD APPROACH:
Harvard officials now fear that their discrimination machine might expose them to criminal liability. Justice is coming. https://t.co/Yok54vyyDl
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) May 16, 2025
May 8, 2025
HAHA, IT’S NOT ACTUALLY “YOUR MONEY” IN ANY MEANINGFUL SENSE, RUBE:
I’d like to withdraw my money from this terrible investment, please. https://t.co/dBg3XA6ftb
— Ilya Shapiro (@ishapiro) May 8, 2025
CHANGE: I Don’t Need Ozempic. But I Want It. GLP-1s are looking more and more like a miracle drug. Are we ready for miracles? “The side effects are different for everyone, but for me, I’m prettier, happier, more confident, my clothes look better, and more men take notice of me.”
As I’ve said from the beginning, my question is whether being slim will be less cool once everyone can do it — or a taken-for-granted necessity since everyone can do it.