HMM: The Vestibular Catastrophe: Ozempic, Mounjaro, and the Destruction of Balance and Sensory Systems.

OPEN THREAD: Tuesday’s Groovy.

VOTERS TO CORNYN: WELL, BYE.

Decision Desk HQ projects Ken Paxton wins the TX US Senate Republican Runoff#DecisionMade: 9:00 PM EDT pic.twitter.com/CcwFD9kZQv

— Decision Desk HQ (@DecisionDeskHQ) May 27, 2026

This is bigger than Trump’s endorsement…

Voters don’t want amnesty. That era is over. https://t.co/3wMZtuAh8R

— Geiger Capital (@Geiger_Capital) May 27, 2026

MARTIANS’ WORST NIGHTMARE: Scientists want to send a roly-poly robot filled with ‘dandelion drones’ to investigate hidden tunnels on Mars.

MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Bye-bye, HR — Let’s hope Bolt Financial CEO Ryan Breslow starts a trend.

FOLLOW THE SCIENCE: We Were Wrong About Fasting, Massive Study Finds.

LEARN TO CODE: Scientists Discover Grapes Can “Reprogram” Your Skin Against Sun Damage.

I prefer them in liquid form.

MAKE THEM PAY:

Christian McGhee was suspended from Central Davidson High School in Lexington, NC for using the term Illegal Alien in English class.

Just FYI… Illegal Alien is a longstanding U.S. legal terminology used in federal statutes

So his family sued the school board and WON!!

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— SaltyGoat (@SaltyGoat17) May 25, 2026

SOMETIMES A BANANA IS JUST A BANANA, ANNA: Freud’s century-old ideas are colliding with modern brain science in ways that could change how minds are treated.

IT DOESN’T LOOK BAD, BUT IT LOOKS LIKE A 1990 PLYMOUTH LASER: 2028 Ferrari Luce First Look: Ferrari’s First EV Revealed—So Long, Comfort Zone.

I HAVE AN AUTOLOADER FOR MY BODYGUARD 2.0: .380 Got Ya Stumped? Meet XTech’s New LDR2000 B1 Loader.

Its magazines are hard to load, as are the mags for my Sig P365. I have a loader for that too.

I DIDN’T KNOW SKULLS COULD EVEN WRITE? THAT SOUNDS LIKE THE BIGGER STORY HERE. A Single Skull Just Rewrote What We Know About Stegosaurs.

I DON’T KNOW, BUT WHY TAKE CHANCES? Can Eating Meat Help You Live Longer?

AND BLEND RULES, AND REFINERY CLOSURES, AND DRILLING BANS:

Sir, you are literally the Governor of California, have you considered doing something about your state’s insane gas taxes?

— Will Chamberlain (@willchamberlain) May 25, 2026

THESE KIDS WERE RAISED RIGHT: High school students use outdoor skills training to make a makeshift stretcher to rescue hiker with a broken leg.

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT OVER THE HOLIDAY WEEKEND: ‘His Side’: New book debunks male privilege, gives platform to men in a women’s world.

The book is here.

MAKES ME THINK OF PRINCE BEFORE HIS MIAMI HALFTIME SHOW: “CAN YOU MAKE IT RAIN HARDER?” These Tennessee high schools held graduation in the pouring rain and you gotta see it to believe it.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Columbia College Chicago cuts student work hours amid federal funding reductions, students warn they may need second jobs to stay enrolled.

SEDUCTIVE AI: The terrifying rise of schoolboys making AI girlfriends.

Related: Asking AI for personal advice is a bad idea, Stanford study shows. “A new study in the journal Science found that AI models are far more sycophantic than a human friend or stranger. . . . ‘People who interacted with this over-affirming AI came away more convinced that they were right and less willing to repair the relationship, whether that meant apologizing, taking steps to improve things or changing their own behavior,’ Cheng said. Participants also preferred sycophantic AI, judging it to be trustworthy, no matter their age, personality or prior experience with the tech.”

If only there had been some sort of warning.

Related: AI and the Screwfly Succession.

DON SURBER: Ti-i-ime is on Trump’s side: The artist of the deal negotiates with the American people and Iran.

The Iranians are getting weaker, America is taking a minuscule number of losses, and the war is out of the headlines. Why rush things?

WELL, BYE: This Alabama sheriff who wouldn’t participate in 287(g) to aid immigration enforcement lost reelection after nearly three decades in office.

IT’S LIKE SOMETHING OUT OF A KURT SCHLICHTER NOVEL: ‘Culturally Specific Corrections Counselors,’ a ‘Construction Diversity and Equity Fund,’ and Race-Based Shelter Referrals: Portland Proposes Budget Larded With Racially Discriminatory Programs.

JOEL KOTKIN: SpaceX IPO will bolster America’s tech supremacySpaceX IPO will bolster America’s tech supremacySpaceX IPO will bolster America’s tech supremacy.

HONESTLY, I FEEL LIKE PEOPLE ARE BEING TOO HARD ON THIS WOMAN: NBC reporter dragged for clueless on-camera reaction to shots fired at White House.

She didn’t panic and drop to the ground or run away. But the shots were “distant’ and she was told at first that they were fireworks. Honestly, I don’t see anything to criticize here, really.

OPEN THREAD: Ring out the long weekend.