MY LATEST SUBSTACK ESSAY: Harrison Butker, Harbinger?

OPEN THREAD: Make it your own.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Lithuania 40th nation to sign Artemis Accords.

IF YOU LIVE IN THIS WORLD, YOU’RE FEELING THE CHANGE OF THE GUARD: Abbott Issues Full Pardon to Army Sergeant Convicted of Murder at BLM Protest.

WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: New Breakthrough Paves the Way for Vision Implants That Can Restore Sight.

DAVID BARON, CALL YOUR OFFICE: Gray wolf found dead in Colorado likely killed by mountain lion.

WHEN YOU GO OUT OF YOUR WAY TO APPEASE LEFTIST ANGER: KC mayor apologizes for city’s ‘inappropriate’ message about Chiefs’ Harrison Butker.

Not everyone’s buying the apology:

“We now realize that it’s bad to dox people with the Kansas City X account. Rest assured that there will be no consequences for this action moving forward.”

— Garrett Henson (@GarrettHensonKS) May 16, 2024

Related: Missouri AG Andrew Bailey Demands Accountability From the City of KCMO After X Account Doxxes Chiefs Kicker Harrison Butker. “As video of the full speech (below) shows, Butker received an enthusiastic standing ovation from graduates and other attendees at the Catholic college after his remarks.”

Plus: Outrage: Harrison Butker Shared Catholic Views At A Catholic University.

Why the city thought it had to weigh in on a graduation speech by someone who doesn’t even live there is unclear, except that leftist regard any disagreement as a personal attack.

UPDATE:

BREAKING: KC Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker's jersey surges to best-seller category amongst both genders: pic.twitter.com/VvW02IrqkK

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) May 16, 2024

WELL: Mystery in the Alps: A Chinese Family, a Swiss Inn and the World’s Most Expensive Weapon: Switzerland agreed to buy F-35 jet fighters to park on a remote runway. Then the U.S. zeroed in on the Wangs, who owned the rustic hotel next door. “The truth of whether the Wangs were small-time innkeepers or a secret weapon in Beijing’s decadelong effort to capture one of America’s most closely protected military secrets may never be known. The case boils down to whether the family was interested in the view from the hotel’s front, or its back.”

21ST CENTURY WORKPLACES: ‘Help! Our DEI Trainer Won’t Stop Talking About Kink.’

But a terrible solution is offered: “Mostly, it made me think that what your organization needs isn’t outside DEI consultants. Your organization needs … a dedicated in-house DEI manager!”

No, it needs to move on from DEI stuff, which is so 2020 anyway.

YOU CAN’T TRUST: Driving Dystopia: Eight Automakers Accused of Lying About Customer Data Protections.

LONG TERM REVIEW: 2023 Genesis G90 Yearlong Review Verdict: Can We Keep It?

THE END OF HOLLYWOOD: Google unveils Veo, a high-definition AI video generator that may rival Sora.

WELL, GOOD: Study reveals immunotherapy’s potential in boosting immune systems of older individuals.

THE ELECTION DRAWS NEAR: Avian flu virus detected in New York City wild birds.

IS THERE ANYTHING IT CAN’T DO? Study: Low-calorie keto diet may help clear up acne.

I CARRY A SQUIRT GUN FULL OF HOLY WATER FOR JUST SUCH EVENTUALITIES:

You’re in the basement changing a fuse and you see this. What’s your next move? pic.twitter.com/0cMV02cMJL

— Seán Ono Lennon (@seanonolennon) May 15, 2024

My second action would be to replace my fusebox with a breaker box because come on.

YOU DO REALIZE THAT HAMBURGERS WERE INVENTED IN GERMANY, AND ARE NAMED FOR A GERMAN CITY, RIGHT? Teaching my White Boyfriend to eat “Ethnic Food.” “When you are eating a burger in Germany, you are not eating a burger, you are fully cognizant of the fact you’re eating a bun stacked on lettuce stacked on a beef patty.”

Eating a burger when you’re not from Germany is literally cultural appropriation. Stay in your lane, bigot!

THAT’S HOW IT USUALLY WORKS: DEI consultant gets most of nursing school’s ‘racial healing’ grant.

THE PURGE: Cornell president steps down after seven years, becomes latest leader to resign amid Ivy League anti-Semitism epidemic.

DAVID BARON, CALL YOUR OFFICE: Heart-stopping moment nine-year-old girl and her terrified mom come face-to-face with mountain lion after it chased their pets toward house.

A NEW HOPE:

Full stack of Flight 4 Starship pic.twitter.com/TPprnj0zC4

— SpaceX (@SpaceX) May 16, 2024

PROF. CARRINGTON, CALL YOUR OFFICE: The Sun’s Most Powerful Flare in Seven Years Just Erupted. “That’s the most powerful solar flare of the current cycle, absolutely the most powerful since 2017, and comfortably within the top 20 solar flares ever measured.”

FRUITS OF CRITICAL RACE THEORY: Look Who Threatened to ‘Erase’ All White People. “A black man from New Jersey has been federally charged with threatening to mass murder white people in a genocide-scale shooting rampage. The would-be shooter wanted to “erase…all of them”—that is, eradicate the white race, according to the FBI.”

Maybe he can get a professorship at Harvard or Penn.

THEY SHOULD KNOW, THEY’LL BE DOING IT: US intel officials warn Congress that election interference will be ‘more complex than ever.’

MARK JUDGE: My book launch.