THE MOVIE LOOKS UNFORGIVABLY BAD (AND ANTI-WESTERN), AND I’M A BIG ENOUGH NOLAN FAN THAT I FORGAVE “TENET” ITS FLAWS:
To understand Nolan's Odyssey, you have to know that academic historians spent the last 20 years writing about how movies like Troy and Gladiator reinforced White nationalism.
They really hate that you thought Achilles and Maximus were cool. They will never let it happen again. pic.twitter.com/DVAuwyUwFB
— Roman Helmet Guy (@romanhelmetguy) May 21, 2026
ANALYSIS: TRUE.
The bottom 3 candidates were endorsed by the NAACP…
The top 3 candidates WERE NOT!!
NAACP is into partisan politics NOT black representation.
DON'T LET THEM LIE AND SAY ANYTHING DIFFERENT!! pic.twitter.com/zmTfCV49mm
— SaltyGoat (@SaltyGoat17) May 21, 2026
SACRAMENTO LOOKS AFTER ITS OWN: Bill that tried to kill secret agreements with your tax dollars now faces its own silent death.
It’s costing taxpayers at least $1.1 billion, but there’s only so much lawmakers are allowing the public to know about the California Capitol Annex Project.
The project has been shrouded in secrecy for years due to thousands of nondisclosure agreements (NDAs) preventing people from talking about the project. Now a bill attempting to invalidate those secrecy agreements is set to die behind closed doors without any discussion, debate or public input.
Assemblyman Josh Hoover, R-Folsom, introduced Assembly Bill 2445 in February. Three months later, the same lawmakers tasked with running the Capitol Annex Project never assigned AB 2445 to a committee. The bill never received a hearing and is scheduled to automatically die on May 27.
Hoover said the irony is not lost on him; his idea to kill secret agreements is scheduled to be secretly killed rather than publicly debated, approved or voted down on the merits.
“It would seem odd to me that there’s so much passion to kill this bill,” Hoover said. “But, certainly, someone is pressing to keep this from getting heard.”
And preventing people from seeing where the money went.
CRUEL, BUT TRUE:
Pretty much the only prominent historical figure who died sobbing and begging for his life was Che Guevara https://t.co/zz4jojV6WB
— Bovril-Gesellschaft (@BovrilG) May 21, 2026
NOT OFTEN A FAN OF BAY’S MOVIES, BUT I’LL WATCH THIS ONE FOR SURE: From Benghazi to Epic Fury: Michael Bay, Two Downed Airmen, and a Rescue Worth Filming.
STILL THE PRESUMPTIVE DEMOCRAT NOMINEE FOR SENATE:
If Graham Platner's day wasn't bad enough… here he is talking about Thai prostitutes.
“Spend your leave banging hookers in Thailand instead of getting b*tched at by the wife back home, and you could sell it as avoiding federal income tax.”https://t.co/gLPBH4zo66
— Sarah Gallagher (@sgallz_) May 20, 2026
THE ENEMY WITHIN: Palestine Chronicle editor-in-chief admits cousin was top Hamas commander who carried out suicide attack. “Ramzy Baroud, editor-in-chief of the US-based nonprofit The Palestine Chronicle, openly admitted during a recent interview that his cousin was a senior Hamas commander who later carried out a suicide attack in Gaza, revelations that surfaced as his organization is facing a federal lawsuit accusing it of aiding a Hamas operative, who was one of its journalists, that was holding Israeli hostages captive in his family home after the October 7 attacks.”
“Non-profit” seems to cover a multitude of sins these days.
WELL, WHEN YOU PUT IT THAT WAY…:
"We must elect the misogynistic nutjob with a Nazi death squad tattoo who hangs around with raging antisemites, in order to defeat the unacceptable radical that is Susan Collins"
Clown show. Never take those people seriously again. They should be laughed out of every room.
— Sunny (@sunnyright) May 21, 2026
THE NEW SPACE RACE: SpaceX stacks Starship V3 rocket, completes major fueling test ahead of debut launch.
The rocket’s two halves, the Super Heavy booster and Ship upper stage, were stacked yesterday (May 19) at the newly-built pad at SpaceX’s Starbase facility in South Texas. Starship V3 is scheduled to launch no earlier than 6:30 p.m. EDT (2230 GMT) on May 21.
It’s the second time the two stages have been mated in the last several days, as SpaceX has rolled Ship to and from its Starbase hangar for extensive prelaunch checkouts and tests. Super Heavy has undergone its own assessments in recent weeks, including test firings of the booster’s 33 Raptor 3 engines.
Starship Flight 12 will be a suborbital launch, with soft landing splashdowns in the Gulf of Mexico and Indian Ocean for Ship and Super Heavy, respectively, rather than a return to Starbase for recovery and reuse. Ultimately, SpaceX has designed Starship for full reusability, and has successfully recovered Super Heavies using the launch tower’s “chopstick” arms to catch the booster in midair, but has not yet attempted a catch of the Ship upper stage.
Faster, please.
YES:
The SAVE America Act should not be controversial.
The only people terrified of it are those invested in fundamentally transforming America into a country where citizenship no longer matters and questioning it gets you smeared, censored, and called every name in the book.
This… pic.twitter.com/pHgUB9o5cw
— Wesley Hunt (@WesleyHuntTX) May 21, 2026
Exit quote: “A nation that cannot verify who is voting is a nation that is slowly surrendering the meaning of citizenship itself.”
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Texas Soy Boy Talarico Is Giving Dems Premature Electoral Elation. “Talarico’s moderate shtick means little in the context of 2026 Democratic Party politics. It just means that he’s more boutique Eurotrash socialist than full on Castro Cuba Commie. He’s trying to pass himself off as a Texas normie all the while yammering on about needing to stop eating meat to save the planet.”
SO WHAT’S THERE LEFT TO TALK ABOUT?
🚨 JUST IN: Iran supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei ORDERS near-weapons grade uranium to be kept inside Iran — Reuters
Iran is also “reviewing” President Trump’s latest proposal, per Fox
47 is prepared for FIRE AND FURY if it’s clear to him they’re not making a deal! 🔥
The… pic.twitter.com/7ODi25WbwR
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) May 21, 2026
UGH: Soros Redirects $300 Million to US, Targeting Trump Policies.
The New York-based organization announced the initiative Tuesday after years concentrating much of its activism overseas, including in Africa and the Middle East.
OSF now says the U.S. has become a frontline political battleground.
“We certainly believe that civil society is essential and must stay on the playing field,” Laleh Ispahani, OSF’s managing director for the U.S., told The Guardian.
Ispahani, previously senior policy counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union, compared current conditions to countries where “autocratic administrations” targeted civic groups.
Soros has donated more than $32 billion to his Open Society Foundation, which funds progressive legal groups, voting-rights organizations, and left-leaning policy initiatives worldwide.
Well, Elon?
CHANGE: Schlitz beer discontinued after 177 years.
UPDATE AND BUMP (FROM GLENN): Schlitz was once one of the top brands in America. Then the bean-counters got involved, cutting corners to save production costs. Customers noticed it didn’t taste the same, switched brands, and never came back, even when Schlitz ran a series of ads saying they’d fixed the problem featuring their master brewer.
A cautionary tale for other companies, and for political parties.
IT’S MY THURSDAY ESSAY FOR VIP SUBSCRIBERS: Which Way Russia? Nixon Knew.
THE ENEMY WITHIN:
Read @ncri_io's new expose on Medea Benjamin of CODEPINK's ties to Iran. These are the 'left-wing populists' some on the right are suggesting an alliance with. They're foreign agents. https://t.co/4bQwmnbIY0
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) May 20, 2026
THE NEW SPACE RACE: NASA’s Psyche Mission Aces Mars Flyby, Targets Metal-Rich Asteroid.
NASA’s Psyche spacecraft completed its close approach of Mars on May 15, coming within 2,864 miles (4,609 kilometers) of the planet’s surface. This flyby used a gravity assist from Mars to provide a critical boost in speed and to adjust the spacecraft’s orbital plane without using any onboard propellant, sending it on its way toward the metal-rich asteroid Psyche.
The spacecraft is now headed directly toward the asteroid, located in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. After the Mars flyby, the flight team analyzed radio signals between the spacecraft and NASA’s Deep Space Network (DSN), the agency’s global system for communicating with interplanetary spacecraft, to confirm that Psyche was on the correct trajectory.
“Although we were confident in our calculations and flight plan, monitoring the DSN’s Doppler signal in real time during the flyby was still exciting,” said Don Han, Psyche’s navigation lead at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. “We’ve confirmed that Mars gave the spacecraft a 1,000 mile‑per‑hour boost and shifted its orbital plane by about 1 degree relative to the Sun. We are now on course for arrival at the asteroid Psyche in summer 2029.”
It’s almost impossible to overstate how important/exciting this mission is.
SPOILER: IT DID LESS THAN NOT HELP.
We've already run this experiment. In 2000, NYC spent about $10k per student on education. That's about $20k per student in 2026 dollars.
This year NYC will spend over $40k per student on education.
So we've already doubled spending on education. Did it help?
Bezos is right. https://t.co/qWQjAABkVY
— Harry Heymann 🥑 (@harryh) May 20, 2026
PORTION CONTROL? Why meat-eating dinosaurs like T. rex evolved tiny arms. “The researchers suggested that the increasing size of prey, in the form of gigantic sauropods (long-necked, long-tailed plant-eaters) and other large herbivores, may have resulted in a shift to hunting using jaws and head instead of claws.”
WE ARE NOT THE SAME:
Republicans lost Massie but the Dems gained a guy who said the Bondi Beach Massacre was a Zionist false flag, so it’s really sort of a wash https://t.co/U6oYuMin1x
— Danny Gold (@DGisSERIOUS) May 20, 2026
Still, that’s one bitterly funny post.
ICYMI: I’m Sorry, but California Is HOW Deep in the Hole? “What do you call a state absolutely flush with cash, with tax revenues booming more than 30% in just three years? If it’s California, you call it ‘Broke.'”
NOT ACCORDING TO THEIR ALLIES IN THE PRESS, THEY DON’T:
Sen Feinstein (D-CA) had a Chinese spy in her office.
Gov Cuomo & Lt Gov Hochul (D-NY) had a Chinese spy in their admin.
Rep Khanna (D-CA) had a Chinese spy volunteer.
Rep Swalwell (D-CA) dated a Chinese spy.
Mayor Wang (D-CA) is a Chinese spy.
Democrats have a big problem. pic.twitter.com/OXwK98ncr7
— Senator Jim Banks (@SenatorBanks) May 19, 2026
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