WELL, YES: Gun Control Politicians Don’t Just Hate Guns, They Hate You.

THAT’S MOSTLY CHANDLER’S DOING: Neural network trained on ‘Friends’ can recognize sarcasm.

DAN MCLAUGHLIN: Let Harrison Butker Be Himself.

The worst response came from the NFL, which insisted on distancing the league from Butker’s opinions. Notably, unlike Colin Kaepernick, Butker did not use the NFL’s property or airtime to spread his opinions; he did so in his free time. There’s already a long and inconsistent record of the NFL and other sports leagues attempting, and failing, to come up with a consistent approach to punishing non-game-related things done by athletes off the field. The league wasn’t nearly this quick in the past to denounce violent crimes committed by its players. Nobody actually believes that it has been, or will in the future be, vigilant about making statements every time a player says or does something politically or socially controversial from the left. The point of this is to send a message that people who believe what Butker believes are apt to face discipline in the workplace for their faith and opinions. (That’s not just private action, either, given that the NFL is an association of franchises, one of which is publicly owned by the government of Green Bay, Wis.) And it is, to boot, a misreading of the NFL’s fan base: Do we really think that pro football fans are overwhelmingly left-leaning on cultural matters?

Plus: “So, let Harrison Butker be himself. His opinions are outgrowths of virtues in short supply today: faith, fidelity to the traditional family, and respect for the different, complementary, and mutually supporting roles played by husbands and wives. These are mostly opinions that were not even controversial until a few decades ago, and it should alarm us to see so little tolerance for their mere expression in the public square.”

Everyone must genuflect to the pieties of the Gentry Class, even though the Gentry Class itself doesn’t really live by them.

The richer you are, in general, the more conservative your life choices are. Most left wingers talk left but live right. They live in gated communities, put kids in private schools, maximize tax avoidance, have stay at home wives, pay attention to what they do not what they say.

— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) May 18, 2024

Not one single NFL player has criticized Harrison Butker for what he said. You know why? Because almost all of them agree with him. The gap between what players — and coaches — believe and what the sports media who covers them believes is seismic.

— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) May 18, 2024

#JOURNALISM:

You see, the mattresses under which the wealthy hide their money have magical money-multiplying properties.

— Neal McCluskey (@NealMcCluskey) May 19, 2024

THE 21ST CENTURY ISN’T TURNING OUT AS I’D HOPED: Brixham, England, residents forced to boil water after contamination.

THE EXODUS IS HERE: At OpenAI. Some of my friends are convinced that OpenAI has a much more sophisticated unreleased AI that it is using to generate the versions that are being released to the public. If so, why would people bail?

HEATHER MAC DONALD: California’s Looming Crime Catastrophe: Recent legislation makes it easier for felons to claim racial bias—potentially putting them back on the streets in large numbers. This is all by design, of course.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Columbia has more full-time employees than undergrads, including an Earth Observatory DEI director.

NOW OUT FROM ANDREW WAREHAM: Part 1 of a new series, The Half-Bred Heir.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Shameful Northwestern president must own up to his cowardly ineptitude at Congressional hearing.

JOHN LUCAS: Los Angeles County Officially Celebrates an American Traitor’s Contribution to the Communist Defeat of South Vietnam.

Remembering this history, today’s leftist support for Hamas atrocities is no great shock.

WHITE HOUSE REPORT CARD: White House Report Card: Biden 2.0 promises tax hikes, illegal immigration.

Related: Biden floods the swamp with record tally of regulations.

PRO-CRIME: Dozens of House Dems Vote Against Measure Condemning Calls to Defund Police.

#JOURNALISM:

“His pregnancy” pic.twitter.com/UbhMEmDtvp

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) May 19, 2024

#JOURNALISM: AP: GOP POUNCES On Non-Citizens Voting When It’s Already Illegal.

#LEADERSHIP:

Joe Biden inspires Black graduates at Morehouse College by telling them that they’re victims and America hates them.pic.twitter.com/ofxa90Zo5F

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) May 19, 2024

IT’S AS IF THE “PUBLIC HEALTH” STUFF HAS ALL BEEN A LIE:

Extremely concerning https://t.co/ybkTCYiOLu

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 18, 2024

OPEN THREAD: Ring out the weekend.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: NASA and ESA complete agreement for cooperation on Mars rover mission.

WHERE’S IT COMING FROM? Whooping Cough Is Surging in The UK, And This Could Be Why.

DELICIOUS: Astronomers Uncover a Baffling “Cosmic Mystery” – A Giant Planet As Fluffy as Cotton Candy.

HMM: Cognitive decline rates higher among older Native Americans.

DOES THAT REALLY COUNT AS A “RETURN?” Chevy Camaro Could Return as a Fun-to-Drive Electric Car, GM President Says.

ICYMI: Ex Marine Arrested For Planning Murder Spree in ‘Gun-Free’ Zones ‘In the White Community,’

His motivation comes straight out of Critical Race Theory: “I want to cause mayhem on the white community. The reason i specifically want to target white people is because as a black male, they will NEVER understand my struggles. Same way I will never understand their struggles, but I don’t care to. I want to erase them. All of them really, but in this case as many as I possibly can.”

This kind of thinking comes directly out of our universities, the toxic output of a toxic industry.

IT’S JUST ONE MORE SCIENCELESS ECO-FAD: There’s little science behind ‘No Mow May.’. One more of many.