I THOUGHT SOUTH CAROLINA WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A RED STATE: South Carolina State U. disinvites GOP commencement speaker after students protest.

A NICE PIECE ON MY FORTHCOMING SEDUCTIVE AI BOOK: Why AI’s biggest threat is actually its power to seduce us — and the computers are already winning: Prof. “The machines get better every year, but people stay the same.”

AT LEAST THEY’RE LEARNING ABOUT MARKETS: Harvard hosts OnlyFans ‘model’ to lecture students.

Hey, it’s honest work. At least she doesn’t work for McKinsey.

WHAT A JERK HE IS, AND WHAT A TRAGEDY HE WAS GIVEN POWER AND USED IT TO DAMAGE THIS COUNTRY: Obama’s gaffe about WHCD shooter Cole Allen is just the latest in the former president’s legacy of lies. “Barack Obama’s tacky, hyperpartisan post-presidency is welcome insofar as it serves to remind the public of his tacky, hyperpartisan leadership style.”

THAT’S BECAUSE THEY’RE INCREASINGLY MONEY LAUNDRIES AND ACTIVIST FARMS FOR THE LEFT: Schools Received More Money Than Ever. Parents Aren’t Seeing The Results.

THIS IS WHY IT’S DROPPING OUT OF THE NEWS:

The Iran war is a complete win, possibly becoming the most comprehensive victory of most of our lifetimes. I say this as someone who leaned toward diplomacy before it began.

Do not believe analysts whose only horizon is a 24-hour news cycle and who would be delighted by defeat. https://t.co/IXtp8KJnQ7

— Joel Pollak (@joelpollak) May 1, 2026

LOL: Democrats Pounce on Supreme Court Voting Rights Ruling, Demand ‘Term Limits for Justices,’ Impeachment.

THAT’S THE ONLY KIND THEY PLAY THERE: Playing Dirty Pool at the International Criminal Court. The story is described as “a ball of snakes,” but that’s also a pretty good description of the ICC itself, along with most of the other international institutions and bureaucracies.

LEFTISTS ARE GARBAGE (CONT’D):

I’m not sure there a more vivid illustration of these dirtbags’ depravity than them screaming “shame” at a *children’s cancer hospital* because they hate its donors. https://t.co/bvxi6sdI4N

— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) May 1, 2026

AN EARTH-SHATTERING KABOOM: Trump drops a narco-trafficking nuclear bomb into Mexican politics. “Imagine if Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), both close partners of President Donald Trump, were suddenly indicted for taking huge bribes from an international drug cartel operating out of Texas. That’s essentially what just happened with the Justice Department indictments issued against the Sinaloa drug cartel on Wednesday.”

OPEN THREAD: Ring in the weekend.

WELL, GOOD: ‘This is going to be what makes the Earth secure.’ How one California company plans to protect us from dangerous asteroids.

I BLAME THE NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE: UK Healthy Life Expectancy Has Fallen by More Than 2 Years, Study Warns.

HMM: Bowel and Ovarian Cancers Are Dramatically Rising in Young Adults and Scientists Aren’t Sure Why.

THAT WOULD BE NICE: End of black box AI? Scientists develop blueprint for transparent system that reveals how it learns and makes decisions.

AFTYN BEHN, TENNESSEE’S ANSWER TO AOC: VIDEO: Left Wing Liberal Aftyn Behn Goes on Unhinged Rant.

I’M NOT SURE I WANT A “SOFTWARE DEFINED VEHICLE.” Hyundai Previews Next-Generation Infotainment System for Software-Defined Vehicles.

Actually, I’m pretty sure I don’t want one:

We’ve grumbled about this in the past but the push toward software-defined vehicles is effectively to make automobiles into smart devices. Vehicle features will be gatekept behind subscriptions and will likely need to be purchased via connected services.

We’ve seen this in modern cars via companies forcing customers to purchase things like remote start using a subscription and making activation exclusively available via a phone app. This not only has you paying more for hardware that has already been equipped to the vehicle, it also creates additional avenues for the manufacturer to harvest information about you. Exactly how far the industry plans on going with this isn’t clear. However, the assumption is that it will be as far as possible because that’s been the trend thus far.

Yuk.

ONE RICH GUY WHO HAS LOTS OF PUPPETS DANCING TO HIS TUNE: Federal Gun Control Fraud: The ‘Virginia Plan’ is the California Plan…is the Bloomberg Plan…

JAMES LILEKS: Packing everything but Polly Pocket’s Plastic Shoe.

WE’LL BE JOINING THE U.K, AUSTRIA, SPAIN, AND CANADA IF SO, BUT THIS IS SOMEHOW TRUMP AND RFK, JR.’S FAULT: US may lose measles elimination status after outbreaks spread to 45 states.

UPDATE: Second link was wrong before. Fixed now. Sorry!

FOLLOW THE SCIENCE: AI Slop Is Flooding Academic Journals. A Top Journal Measured It.

I BLAME SYSTEMIC RACISM: Africa Is Splitting Apart Faster Than We Thought, Forming a New Ocean.

I WOULD PREFER FLYING CARS FOR MY 21ST CENTURY INNOVATION, PLEASE: So, Can You Really Store Your Own Fat and Inject It At a Later Time?

ONCE AGAIN THE “CONSPIRACY THEORY” WAS CORRECT:

A leaked 2004 Home Office memo to the Telegraph shows Tony Blair’s team admitting mass migration was a growing concern for people, so they hatched a secret plan to make it more “popular.”

Blair’s team pushed a different PR approach, to reframe dissent as racism… in order to… pic.twitter.com/5d0fT1MFOP

— Bernie (@Artemisfornow) May 1, 2026

IT’S FRAUD ALL THE WAY DOWN, AND “NEUTRAL” INSTITUTIONS ARE HELPING WHENEVER AND WHEREVER THEY CAN:

Democrats cheat…a lot.

The US Census openly admits it stole 7 US House seats from Republicans.

And when Democrats lose, despite cheating, they quintuple down and try to cheat even harder! https://t.co/VjVVVFJd5D pic.twitter.com/zG6nAsyb52

— Andrew Follett (@AndrewCFollett) April 30, 2026