MY WEEKLY ESSAY FOR VIP SUBSCRIBERS: Europe Invented Modernity — Now They’re Dismantling It.

COMPANY TIME: Microsoft bars employees from using words ‘Palestine,’ ‘Gaza’ and ‘genocide’ in internal emails.

Microsoft has barred its employees from using the words “Palestine,” “Gaza” or “genocide” in its internal email system as the tech giant looks to crack down on unrest within its ranks following protests of the company’s ties to Israel.

The company has quietly implemented a filter on its internal Exchange email system that blocks messages containing the politically charged words without notifying the sender or recipient, according to a report by Dropsite News.

“Sending unsolicited email to large numbers of employees at work is not appropriate,” a Microsoft spokesperson told The Post.

And criticizing your employer to large numbers of employees isn’t very smart.

DUCK AND COVER: Ilhan Omar Looks for a Rock to Crawl Under When Asked About the D.C. Murders.

IMAGINARY PRONOUNS, REAL TORNADOES:

This is St. Louis CEMA Commissioner.

As a tornado with 152mph winds arrived, Sarah (they/them) and her staff was not available to activate the tornado siren.

5 kiIIed, 38 injured. pic.twitter.com/qTXYR5JDR6

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) May 22, 2025

Next time, the tornadoes should be thoughtful enough to line up during business hours.

SOMETIMES, ONLY THE DEATH PENALTY WILL DO:

In the charges against Rodriguez, we now know Sarah Milgrim tried to crawl away, heavily wounded.

He walked after her and shot her again ans again until he had to reload, and she was dead.

Monster. pic.twitter.com/1nncTNAUr7

— 𝗡𝗶𝗼𝗵 𝗕𝗲𝗿𝗴 ♛ ✡︎ (@NiohBerg) May 22, 2025

IT’S MY THURSDAY ESSAY FOR VIP SUBSCRIBERS: Europe Invented Modernity — Now They’re Dismantling It.

CHRISTIAN TOTO: Jon Stewart Ignores His Critical Role in Biden Cover-Up.

Tapper had it coming. So, too, does Stewart, except he’s pretending otherwise.

Late-night TV, along with “Saturday Night Live,” did all they could to hide Biden’s sad decline. Hosts like Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers, Stephen Colbert and John Oliver either ignored the countless Biden gaffes or actively spun reality to pretend he was just an old man, not one battling a dementia-like condition.

Stewart is considered the dean of late-night political humor. And, on occasion, he puts his liberal blinders down to speak straight to his audience.

And yet he did very little of the kind when it came to Biden’s cognitive state.

Read the whole thing.

HMM: Target’s Sales Dented by DEI Boycott.

The retail company said a laundry list of problems dragged down its quarterly sales, including a boycott by shoppers who disagreed with its decision this year to end some diversity programs.

Target’s sales have been tepid for years.

Did anyone stop and wonder if maybe Target’s sales have been tepid because the company went all-in on DEI, woke, and “pride” — even in the children’s clothing department?

HMM: Syria’s new leader ‘open’ to joining Abraham Accords, normalizing relations with Israel, US reps who met him say.

Syrian leader Ahmed al-Sharaa has privately expressed openness to joining the Abraham Accords and normalizing relations with Israel in a move that would dramatically shake up the Middle East, according to two congressmen who met with him last month.

In exchange, al-Sharaa wanted assurances that Israel would stop bombing Syria, stop fomenting sectarian divisions and reach a renegotiated arrangement regarding the Golan Heights, Reps. Cory Mills (R-Fla.) and Martin Stutzman (R-Ind.) told The Post.

“He said, ‘We’re open to not only recognizing Israel, but also to try and join the Abraham Accords, but they must stop bombing within our nation,’” Mills recounted.

Previously: Syria faces renewed sectarian violence as government fails to deliver inclusivity.

al-Sharaa has to clean up his act before the bombings can stop.

NOW WHY WOULD THEY WANT TO DO THAT?

The same people who told you that Joe Biden was perfectly fine are also telling you that the people who want to murder you don’t really want to murder you https://t.co/pqwUcC8TaY

— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) May 22, 2025

WATCH: Jake Tapper Accidentally Proved He’s Still Part of the Biden Cover-Up

MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE: ICE makes major TdA arrests in Chicago.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have arrested the men they believe to be responsible for a mass shooting at a December Chicago house party – members of the foreign terrorist organization Tren de Aragua.

The first major arrests were made in January and February in Chicago and Raleigh, N.C. Over the last few weeks, 16 TdA members and associates of the shooters were arrested in Chicago by ICE HSI Chicago on immigration charges, ICE announced Tuesday.

On Dec. 2, eight people were shot, three fatally, at a house party primarily attended by Venezuelan nationals in the Chicago Lawn neighborhood. Chicago Police said they’d been called to the home multiple times before the shooting occurred but no arrests were made, ABC 7 News reported.

Exit quote: “Under the Biden administration, federal agents were instructed not to apprehend illegal foreign nationals solely based on illegal entry and implemented a ‘catch and release’ policy.”

IF CANADA WANTS THEM, THEY CAN HAVE THEM: Illegal Aliens Look to Northern Border to Avoid Trump Crackdown.

VIDEO: Ukraine Hits Another Russian Semiconductor Fab. “Irrespective of whatever actually process equipment was damaged or destroyed, this fab is clearly toast. Even if they decided to rebuild (doubtful), it will be months and months to clean things up, repair the walls, floors, etc. And then you need to decontaminate everything and requal the machines, which is a huge pain in the ass.”

CHRIS QUEEN: Michael Ledeen, 1941-2025.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Starfish Space announces plans for first commercial satellite docking. “Starfish Space is hoping to prove the concept of being able to dock to unprepared satellites for repair, refueling, or repositioning in orbit.”

THEY SEEM TO THINK THAT ANONYMOUSLY AND BELATEDLY TELLING SOME OF THE TRUTH GETS THEM OFF THE HOOK:

A lot of this. No names. pic.twitter.com/mPeXVjmf7V

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) May 22, 2025

MORE OF WHAT I VOTED FOR: Trump Tells a Reporter What He Thinks of Him, and It’s a Beautiful Thing to Watch.

THAT SEEMS WISE: FDA plans to limit COVID shots to those over 65 or with high-risk conditions. “The COVID-19 public health emergency has officially ended, and we are entering a new phase in our response to the virus. A rubber-stamping approach to approving COVID boosters in perpetuity without updated clinical trial data under the Biden administration is now over.”

LINCOLN BROWN: Europe’s Death Spiral Picks Up Speed. “A cruise up the Seine sounds tantalizing. Spending time in a foreign ER with a subdural hematoma or being forcibly relieved of all my valuables does not.”

NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU DESPISE THE MEDIA…

…it isn’t enough.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Tragedy In DC as Two Israeli Embassy Staffers Assassinated. “It has been reported that the shooter yelled, ‘Free Palestine,’ which isn’t surprising at all. What I was originally leading off with was a story about Secretary of State Marco Rubio going off on Hamas/terrorism sympathizer Rep. Pramila Jayapal from Washington. Jayapal was grilling Rubio about one of the foreign national Gaza/genocide loons who had her student visa revoked.”

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: They’ve Learned Nothing: Dems Still Pushing the Same Failed, Unpopular Gun Control That Got Them Where They Are Today.

Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), for instance, has lately introduced the so-called “Assault Weapons Ban of 2025,” while an Illinois Democrat has proposed a bill to ban semiautomatic “convertible pistols.” The American public, meanwhile, still isn’t buying it.

Dr. John Lott, Jr., the president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, recently described the results of a poll that the CPRC commissioned last December on crime and gun control. The poll asked general election voters in America which of three approaches, in their opinion, was most likely to reduce crime: enacting more gun control, stricter enforcement of existing gun control laws, or having law enforcement arrest violent, repeat offenders and ending cashless bail reforms.

Less than one in five respondents felt the answer was more gun control.

To be fair, Democrats don’t want to learn anything. They just want gun control, and lots of it.

OPTIMUS: Musk’s ‘Biggest Product of All Time’ Will Do Your Dishes.

PUNCH BACK TWICE AS HARD: Democrats Compared Parental Rights Groups to the KKK While Passing a Transgender Law. Now, Those Groups Are Suing.

The parental rights groups Defending Education, the Colorado Parent Advocacy Network, and Protect Kids Colorado teamed up with the medical watchdog group Do No Harm and a medical doctor, Dr. Travis Morrell, to file the lawsuit Monday, challenging HB 25-1312, which Polis, a Democrat, signed Friday. The law amends the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act, which bars discrimination on the basis of “gender expression,” specifically stating that refusing to use a person’s “chosen name” will constitute discrimination.

The lawsuit claims this violates the First Amendment by compelling Coloradans to speak to promote transgender issues, in violation of their free speech. It also claims that requiring staff at places of public accommodation to use a transgender person’s “chosen name” is unconstitutionally vague and subject to arbitrary enforcement, violating the 14th Amendment.
…
The groups are suing Colorado because they “believe that sex is immutable and fixed at birth, and they oppose the spread of controversial gender ideologies among Colorado’s youth,” according to the lawsuit. “They do not want to be forced to affirm—through the use of pronouns, names, or other language—that a biological man is actually a woman or vice versa. Yet that is precisely what HB 25-1312 requires.”

That must be more of Polis’s “light regulatory touch.”