“CLEVER”:
We're now at the part where the press squee over a dude wearing a mumu-looking soccer jersey. https://t.co/coh9eWKUEW
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) May 28, 2026
WAPO implies that there’s a problem with Americans “scrutinizing his every move,” but the real problem is that New York voters didn’t.
Either that, or they did — and approved.
CUBA FALLING: Desperate Times Call for Desperately Attacking Rubio.
SHARKS GOTTA SWIM, BATS GOTTA FLY: Maryland Governor Wes Moore Signs GLOCK Ban Bill Into Law.
Maryland becomes the second state to enact such a gun ban after California. For now at least, existing owners can keep their firearms. Violations carry fines up to $5,000 and up to three years in prison. Anticipating the all-too-predictable move by Governor Moore, the National Rifle Association, Second Amendment Foundation and Firearms Policy Coalition have already filed a lawsuit challenging the law.
GLOCKs are among America’s most common pistols due to their simplicity, durability, and widespread adoption by civilians and law enforcement. Critics of the ban call it symbolism intended to burden lawful gun owners while being ignored by criminals. It’s akin to locking up shampoo and deodorant in stores instead of locking up shoplifters.
Despite some well-documented problems he’s had with the truth and falsifying his resume, Governor Moore is rumored to have presidential aspirations.
More to come…
DEMS ARE ALSO ABOUT TO NOMINATE A NAZI FOR SENATE:
Remember when @nytimes & @TheAtlantic would write breathless stories about how radical some GOP senate candidates were? How come El-Sayed is not getting that treatment? He's truly kooky…and I'm not sure how being unsure of Israel's existence doesn't disqualify him. https://t.co/aaxzbn0u0q
— Brad Todd (@BradOnMessage) May 27, 2026
ROBERT SPENCER: Afghanistan’s Top Dog Thinks He Can Make His Country Prosperous With This One Weird Trick. “Whether he really exists or not, Amu.tv reported Sunday that he issued a message for Eid al-Adha in which he called on the Afghan people, who have already suffered many hardships, to suffer more.”
FACE, MEET PALM: Uber burned through its entire 2026 AI budget in four months. Now its COO is questioning whether it’s worth it.
In a recent interview on the Rapid Response podcast, Uber president and chief operating officer Andrew Macdonald said it’s hard to draw a connection between the company’s rising use of Claude Code and innovations meant to serve consumers.
“That link is not there yet,” he said. “Maybe implicitly there’s more that is getting shipped, but it’s very hard to draw a line between one of those stats and ‘Okay now we’re actually producing like 25% more useful consumer features.’”
The comments follow reports that the firm had already burnt through its entire 2026 AI coding tools budget in just four months after incentivizing employees to adopt the technology through an internal leaderboard ranking teams by total AI tool usage. It’s the latest development in a complex quandary arising in enterprise AI adoption: increasing AI use comes with higher costs, even as per-unit AI pricing falls.
“If you’re not actually able to draw a direct line to how [many] useful features and functionality you’re shipping to your users, that trade becomes harder to justify,” Macdonald said.
Do I understand this correctly? Uber incentivized employees to burn through AI tokens regardless of outcome, and wonders four months later how the company wasted so much money?
THE ENEMY WITHIN:
I can't believe my eyes. Hundreds of Hamas supporters wearing Palestinian keffiyehs were chanting, “Every cop, every fed, shoot yourself in the head.”
These are literally terrorists in America.pic.twitter.com/FpDrRXesNP
— Vivid.🇮🇱 (@VividProwess) May 28, 2026
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: The Bidens Really Need to Shut Up and Go Away. “Jill Biden and the rest of the Democrats aren’t going to stop trying to do retroactive damage control on the unmitigated train wreck that was Joe Biden’s unfortunate occupation of the Oval Office. Perhaps they figure that, if given enough time, a lot of people will forget what a bumbling moron Biden was while he was pretending to be president. Dr. Jill’s decades in public education have greatly contributed to making America dumber, so it just might work.”
NO. WAY.
BREAKING: Sylvia Sims Bolton, a Democrat Councilwoman for Waukegan, IL, was just arrested for allegedly illegally casting a mail-in ballot in her dead mother's name.
The thing Democrats say never happens, happened again! pic.twitter.com/vBTeLktWHV
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) May 27, 2026
That thing that never happens sure seems to happen a lot.
STUART BROTMAN: Eisenhower’s D-Day Lesson for America at 250: Make the Problem Bigger.
This month, American moviegoers will watch Oscar-winner Brendan Fraser as Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower in “Pressure,” alone in a storm-lashed Portsmouth headquarters in June 1944, weighing weather reports, casualty estimates, and the fate of the free world. The film’s power lies in what Eisenhower refuses to do: Narrow the decision, delegate the doubt, or pretend the problem is smaller than it is.
Eighty-two years later, as America approaches its 250th birthday, we are doing precisely the opposite.
In Philadelphia this spring, interpretive panels describing the enslaved people who labored in George Washington’s President’s House were quietly removed, then partially restored, then contested again. A few blocks away, a school group’s history tour was canceled after parents on both sides objected to what their children might hear. In Washington, D.C., two federal commissions, each claiming authority over the semiquincentennial, are issuing competing guidance on how the nation should commemorate its 250th birthday.
A republic anchored in the First Amendment cannot agree on how to talk about itself.
The instinct, on every side, is to make the argument smaller: Strip the panel, cancel the tour, narrow the commission, silence the other camp. Eisenhower would have recognized the impulse and rejected it. “Whenever I run into a problem I can’t solve,” he told his staff. “I always make it bigger. I can never solve it by trying to make it smaller, but if I make it big enough, I can begin to see the outlines of a solution.”
Eisenhower’s enlargement principle has never been systematically applied to free expression. It should be.
Indeed. And do read the whole thing.
FERTILITY, ANDROIDS, SPACE COMPUTE, AND MORE IN THIS WEEK’S THURSDAY ESSAY FOR OUR VIP SUPPORTERS: We’re in the Endgame Now… Unless…
TURNAROUND: Boeing CEO says company met requirements to increase 737 Max production to 47 jets per month.
In Boeing’s most recent earnings report last month, Ortberg said he expected the company to ramp up the production of its bestselling aircraft to 47 a month this summer. On Wednesday, he said Boeing is “highly confident” that it’s ready to meet that rate.
While Boeing has previously seen production as high as 57 aircraft a month, Ortberg said he doesn’t believe the company can currently sustain that rate with its safety and quality processes.
“We’d like to get someday to a 63-a-month rate, and so we’re looking forward to that,” Ortberg said. “The market will support those higher rates.”
Still, he acknowledged Boeing has “work to do” to get to a point where the company can further ramp up its production rates of the 737 Max aircraft. As the company looks toward reaching a 52-per-month production rate, Ortberg said that process could take at least six months, if not longer, if the newly approved rate goes into effect in July or August.
Progress is slow, but at least it appears to be real.
WEIRDO: Remember How Talarico Called ‘White Skin’ ‘Immunity’ From Deadly ‘Racism’? “‘White skin gives me and every white American immunity from the virus. But we spread it wherever we go,’ Talarico sniffled in 2020. ‘The virus kills our black neighbors.’ Why would Democrats ever have thought Texans would go for this joker?”
Beto’s the hell out of me.
BILL SCHER: Janet Mills Should Unsuspend Her U.S. Senate Campaign.
Polls aren’t votes. And on June 9, the day of Maine’s primary, Democratic voters deserve to have a say before rolling the dice on a candidate who has been a controversy magnet. It may be that Maine Democrats still want Platner as their nominee, but that should be a choice they make, not a fait accompli foisted upon them.
As Mills is still on the ballot, she can—and should—unsuspend her campaign and give Mainers a real choice.
That’s silly, you might understandably say. Platner’s checkered social media history and covered-up Nazi-themed tattoo have already attracted tons of media coverage. Yet he remains ahead of Susan Collins, the Republican incumbent U.S. senator, in general election polling. The obvious conclusion: Maine voters don’t care. Platner weathered the political storm and is in a strong position to deny Collins a sixth term. Why inject fresh intra-party division now?
That is a reasonable argument, and Maine Democrats should avoid any move that risks a permanent schism. Two weeks from now, Platner likely will be the official nominee, and the party will need to unify around him to maximize its chances of capturing not only Collins’s seat but control of the U.S. Senate.
That’s an awful lot of words to tell Democrats to vote for the Nazi in November.
CHANGE YOU’D BETTER BELIEVE IN: John Cornyn Survived 42 Years in Politics — Until MAGA Changed the Rules.
CHRISTIAN TOTO: ‘Daily Show’ Host Justifies Violence Against Trump? “I think that there has been a co-opting of non-violence to the point of almost being a psyop. You can only take away so much from a person before they have no options left, other than to scream in the street — sort of riot or something like that … Or before they pinpoint certain individuals that they see as the perpetrators of all these crimes against making a way of life.”
CHRIS QUEEN: Powerhouses, Snubs, and Sub-.500 Cinderellas: Welcome to College Baseball’s Postseason. “Here are some storylines that lead up to the postseason in college baseball. I’m looking forward to some interesting matchups, maybe some upsets, and loads of great baseball all the way around.”
NICE WORK, FELLAS: Hamas military chief Mohammed Odeh killed by Israel, 11 days after predecessor slain. “’The fourth commander of the Hamas terror organization’s military wing in Gaza was eliminated yesterday and sent to meet his partners in the depths of hell,’ he said in a post on X, praising the Israel Defense Forces and Shin Bet for their ‘brilliant execution.’”
CHINA IS ASSHOE: Analyst on China’s spent rocket stages: ‘Things only continue to get worse.’
In the early decades of spaceflight, the Soviet Union, the United States, and other spacefaring species paid little heed to these upper stages, also known as “rocket bodies.” They were ejected into all manner of orbits, there to remain for decades before ultimately succumbing to the slow pull of Earth’s gravity at higher altitudes.
But in the last 20 years or so, most countries (and the private companies operating within their borders) have taken a more responsible attitude toward disposing of these upper stages. This is because, as it turns out, having large, multi-ton blocks of metal spinning uncontrollably around low-Earth orbit becomes a problem over time.
The Soviet Union, and later Russia, is the biggest offender, with about 800 metric tons of rocket bodies in long-lived orbits between 600 km and 2,000 km above the Earth’s surface, according to data from the European Space Agency’s Space Debris Office as well as Jonathan McDowell’s General Catalog of Artificial Space Objects. The United States, by comparison, has about 57 metric tons of spent upper stages in these orbits. However these numbers are more or less holding steady or, in the case of Russia, slowly declining as stages fall out of orbit.
By contrast there is striking growth in China’s rocket body mass. In the past five years, the mass of Chinese rocket bodies in long-lived orbits has risen from less than 100 metric tons to 252, according to a new analysis by Space Domain Awareness expert Jim Shell.
“China… continues to abandon many rocket bodies in high low-Earth orbit,” Shell wrote on LinkedIn early Monday. “The total mass of orbital debris is a key variable influencing the long-term sustainment of space. There is broad agreement that abandoning rocket body upper stages in long-lived orbits is not a best practice. In fact, all the major space-faring nations have acknowledged this.”
That’s an awfully expensive junkyard Beijing is putting up there.
POTUS 47 KEEPS HAVING MORE FUN THAN THE LEFT CAN STAND:
Trump: "Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. Central casting. He loves war." pic.twitter.com/lQZ2qm0BAr
— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) May 27, 2026
NOT SURE IF IT’S “A NEW PHASE,” BUT MOSCOW CAN’T BE HAPPY RIGHT NOW: Ukraine War Enters ‘A New Phase’
CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Critics blast scope of Colorado’s semi-auto gun licensing list.
In the run-up to Colorado’s semi-automatic gun licensing scheme, going into effect on August 1, the Colorado Department of Revenue released guidelines which includes approximately 900 firearm makes and models that will be heavily regulated by the looming new law, many of which have gun-rights advocates calling foul.
As previously reported by Complete Colorado, the Democrat-backed Senate Bill 003, passed during the 2025 legislative session, heaps a long list a list of new burdens on potential gun buyers prior to purchasing a semiautomatic firearm.
Among other things, the law requires Coloradans complete a 12 hour, in person, firearms course through their local sheriff’s office, after a background check and application fee is collected. A final exam must be completed with a 90% minimum passing score.
After course completion, all personal information will be uploaded into a course record system granting them five years of eligibility to purchase a semiautomatic gun.
Earlier this month, The Colorado Department of Revenue released their ‘Specified Semi-Automatic Firearms Guidance’ which included 152 pages worth of firearms regulated under SB-003.
Plus: “Kopel continues that the gun rights prohibitionists behind this law lied about its regulatory reach.”
Well, yeah.
I’d just add that when it comes time to renew, previously law-abiding CCW holders might decide that it’s “better to be judged by 12 men than be carried by six” rather than comply with the new law’s time-wasting rules and high compliance costs.
Or just move elsewhere, which is what’s on my radar.
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