PERSPECTIVE:

🚨 Trump vs Obama: Reflecting Pool Renovations

OBAMA (2010-2012):
💰 $34M
⏰ 2+ YEARS
⛽ $5.85/gallon
🇦🇫 Afghan War – 10th Year

TRUMP (2026):
💰 $13M
⏰ 2 WEEKS
⛽ $4.50/gallon
🇮🇷 Iran – 10th Week

Guess which one the media CRIED about? pic.twitter.com/6iWl2fPTvG

— Alec Lace (@AlecLace) May 12, 2026

BEWARE THE HELPFUL CHATBOT: ‘Will I be OK?’ Teen died after ChatGPT pushed deadly mix of drugs, lawsuit says.

“It disguises danger through language that borrows trappings of authority and indicia of expertise—dosages, measurements, references to chemical processes and derivatives, etc.—even promising ‘complete honesty’ and ‘no-BS answer[s]’—to tell [Nelson] exactly what he wanted to hear: that he was safe enough to continue using,” the lawsuit alleged.

Chat logs shared in the complaint paint a stark picture. Over time, ChatGPT logged context that should have made it clear that Nelson was struggling with drugs, his parents alleged, such as noting that the “user has a major substance abuse and polysubstance abuse problem” and mentions that they “love to go crazy on drugs.”

As Nelson’s drug interests expanded, the chatbot explained how to go “full trippy mode,” suggesting that it could recommend a playlist to set a vibe, while increasingly recommending more dangerous combinations of drugs. The teen clearly feared taking lethal doses, “often” prefacing “his messages with ‘will I be ok if’ or ‘is it safe to consume,’” the lawsuit noted.

Chatbots tell users what the models expect they want to hear.

IT’S CUTE THEY STILL THINK WE CARE ABOUT THEIR MEANINGLESS CREDENTIALS:

"he won two Pulitzers writing for the NYT"

::laughs in Walter Duranty::

The fact that you think this is a flex is one of the funniest things I've ever seen.

— Physics Geek (@physicsgeek) May 12, 2026

THE CLASSICS NEVER GO OUT OF STYLE: A Good Man With a Gun Proved the Second Amendment Still Works in Cambridge.

21ST CENTURY ENTERTAINMENT:

THIS GUY BUILT AN ENTIRE WIKIPEDIA THAT IS 100% AI HALLUCINATIONS AND IT'S OPEN SOURCE ON GITHUB

it's called Halupedia.

nothing on the site existed before you clicked. every article was generated the second you arrived.

the site has one rule: the universe only exists when you… pic.twitter.com/PbtRzxlQch

— Nav Toor (@heynavtoor) May 12, 2026

Here’s the link.

ICYMI: We Get Greenland! (Sort Of).

THEY’RE DELICIOUSLY CINNAMONY? James Webb telescope zooms in on a black hole that could reveal the truth about ‘little red dots.’

DISPATCHES FROM AL-BRIṬĀNIYĀ:

My restaurant might get shut down by authorities.
Reason – not selling Halal food
For years, we’ve worked hard to build our restaurant. We are now facing ongoing harassment, nuisances outside the restaurant, and repeated complaints to the local council aimed at shutting us down… pic.twitter.com/eCarnGm1dE

— Harman Singh Kapoor (@kingkapoor72) May 12, 2026

POWER, UNLIMITED POWER! How to Make the Trump Battleship Even Deadlier With This 1 Weird Trick.

CORRECTION: YOU’LL TOTALLY BELIEVE WHAT SHE JUST FOUND.

You are not gonna believe what I just found

The California Mayor who admitted to being a Chinese spy donated to the Democrat Senate Campaign Committee

Democrat Senators are being funded by Chinese spies

If it was the other way around, it would be front page news for weeks pic.twitter.com/wlHyLYzdub

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) May 12, 2026

“The only problem with tainted money is there taint enough of it.”

HANG ON AND BRING THE WHOLE PARTY WITH YOU, KEIR: UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer faces growing calls to quit.

SAME, BUT THE C-IN-C DISAGREES, SO WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO?

Trump: No Need to Rush Anything With Iran

Frankly, I would rather see action rather than talk

I would like to see oil prices and inflation back down

And I am sick and tired of Iran poking us in the eye on the world stage, and making it look like we're desperate for some sort…

— John Betts (@JohnFromCranber) May 12, 2026

DON’T GET COCKY: Democrats Running for the White House: A Parade of Long Shots.

HEH: A Thought Experiment Based on Flawed Assumptions is a Recipe for… Legacy Media Column Inches.

IT ALSO HELPS THAT HE SECRETLY WANTS TO BE DUPED:

Nick Kristof doesn't think Palestinians lie to him because he thinks he is above them and is incapable of being duped by a poor. It's a common theme in Western parroting of third world lies.

— Noam Blum (@neontaster) May 12, 2026

DON’T LOOK AT ME, I’M ONLY 57: Happy 80th Birthday to the Greatest Alcoholic Who’s Ever Walked on Planet Earth!

NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU DESPISE THE MEDIA…:

The commission on Hamas sexual violence against Israelis “has examined over 10,000 photographs and videos of the attack totalling more than 1,800 hours of visual analysis.”

Conversely, someone told Nick Kristof that Zionist dogs are trained to rape Arabs, so he wrote that. https://t.co/d2sVSwz7cZ

— Seth Mandel (@SethAMandel) May 12, 2026

…it will never be enough…:

Here's the sickest part about the NYT / Kristoff lies:

All the other "journalists" know it's bullshit. All of them. They know.

Notice the absolute silence. Notice how they're not all out there condemning what Kristoff did.

All in service to the cause. No matter how vile.

— RBe (@RBPundit) May 12, 2026

…just to cover their modus operandi.

HE CAN’T GO TOO SOON: Dead Starmer Walking? “The Mirror‘s current count has at least 75 Labour MPs calling for Starmer’s ouster from Number 10 Downing Street. While far short of a majority, it does show that there seems to be no fear of of declaring opposition to Starmer, which suggests he’s in a perilously weak position. And in truth, it’s hard to think of any leaders bouncing back from such an electoral disaster.”

IT’S (D)IFFERENT WHEN THEY DO IT: AOC Takes the Pulpit at Ebenezer, and Suddenly Nobody’s Worried About ‘Christian Nationalism.’

ALEXANDER MUSE: Captain Kelly Strikes Again, The Benedict Arnold Arc Reaches Its Predictable Final Chapter.

Last November I argued in these pages that Senator Mark Kelly had crossed a structural threshold that earlier American history identified with one name, Benedict Arnold. The comparison was not designed for shock. It was designed to isolate a pattern. A decorated warrior earns public trust, then spends that trust against the lawful authority of the nation that conferred it. Kelly had recorded a vertical TikTok video, in coordination with five colleagues, instructing junior enlisted troops that the Commander in Chief was issuing illegal orders and that disobedience was a duty. I called that an opening move in a domestic color revolution. Many readers thought the framing was too strong.

Yesterday on Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan, Senator Kelly removed any remaining doubt.

Read the whole thing.

IMPRESSIVE. MOST IMPRESSIVE:

SpaceX is only ~200 satellites away from having launched as many satellites as the rest of the world combined

(despite giving the rest of the world a 61-year head start) pic.twitter.com/JaCufLDn6T

— Christian Keil (@pronounced_kyle) May 12, 2026

200 satellites is roughly eight Falcon 9 launches for Starlink — or about three weeks’ worth of missions at SpaceX’s current cadence.

WINNING: We Get Greenland! (Sort Of).

JUST WHAT THEY ALWAYS WANTED, A NEW POGROM:

Congrats to The New York Times and Nicolas Kristof. https://t.co/sG1w2uopck

— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) May 12, 2026

MEMORY-HOLED FOR BACKDATED WRONGTHINK: Swarthmore scrubs professor’s name from hall due to ‘Indigenous grave excavation’.

Swarthmore College plans to unveil new names for its former Trotter Hall and Trotter Lawn this fall after campus leaders discovered that their namesake, natural history Professor Spencer Trotter, excavated a Native American grave site and removed human remains.

President Val Smith plans to review the renaming taskforce’s recommendations, submitted last week, and announce a final decision about the names in the fall, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports.

Taskforce Chair Cat Norris told the Swarthmore Phoenix that the recommendations are based on feedback from the community as well as research to ensure the new names are not problematic.

“It turns out individuals are really complicated,” Norris told the student newspaper. “Their histories have been really complicated.”

You’re supposed to understand — and develop the ability to cope with — people being “really complicated” before you go to college.

HE ALSO HELPED GIVE US BIDEN IN 2020:

Amen.

For more than 33 years, Jim Clyburn has gotten more powerful in his DEI district.

Yet he opposes school choice, child-support enforcement, anti-crime measures, and other crucial reforms to help his poor black constituents escape poverty.

Good riddance, Jim. https://t.co/8Ytgv5WOn2

— 🇺🇸 Mike Davis 🇺🇸 (@mrddmia) May 11, 2026