OPEN THREAD: Party on.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: China’s Tianzhou 10 freighter delivers 7 tons of cargo to Tiangong space station.

WITH NUCLEAR WEAPONS, ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE: The World’s First Nuclear Explosion Forged an ‘Impossible’ Crystal.

SORBITOL DANGERS: Popular Sugar-Free Sweetener Linked to Liver Disease, Study Warns.

It’s going to turn out that cyclamates were the only safe artificial sweetener, isn’t it?

HMM: Caffeine may influence the way the brain responds to touch.

MILLISECONDS SAVE LIVES: Tesla Says Its Vision AI Software Can Deploy Airbags Prior to Impact: Using its external cameras, the system can reportedly see when a crash is about to happen and start prepping the airbags a fraction of a second sooner.

HAHA:

BBC Pidgin sticks the knife in pic.twitter.com/M1xxTLOfXs

— Bovril-Gesellschaft (@BovrilG) May 11, 2026

It’s a hoax, but it’s still funny. Somewhere Joseph Conrad is smiling.

Related (not a hoax): There’s a Laboured Stench of Desperation Hanging in the Air Around No. 10 This Morning.

I PREFER .458 WINCHESTER: Safety Tip: Don’t Bet Your Life on Bear Spray.

THE NECK TATTOO ALONE GUARANTEED THE CONVICTION: Michigan groom will spend decades in prison for killing his best friend on his wedding night.

THEY’RE ALWAYS IN THE LAST PLACE YOU LOOK: Physicists Found the Ghost Haunting the World’s Most Famous Particle Accelerator.

CAN I TELL MYSELF TO BUY GOOGLE IN 2004: Physicists say it’s possible to send messages to the past.

A FEMALE FRIEND COMMENTS, “IF I LOOKED LIKE HER THERE WOULD BE NOT CLOTHES EVER!” ‘Euphoria’ faces backlash after Sydney Sweeney’s most X-rated episode yet.

I haven’t watched a single episode, but from what I hear this season’s writing sucks, and Sydney Sweeney is the only reason to watch. Sounds plausible. But I feel like the writers, or at least Sydney, have their fingers on the nation’s pulse:

An off-camera voice responds, “You sound like a Democrat.” Cassie laughs before replying with a derogatory slur: “I’m not r——-.”

In another clip, Cassie adds, “I just feel like American men have been treated like second-class citizens.”

“In the past, men used to be hunters, gatherers, and protectors. Now, they’re being forced to walk around on their tippy toes. It’s not natural,” she continues.

You could write a book on that.

THEY’RE ALWAYS IN THE LAST PLACE YOU LOOK: Tiny parasitic wasp found in drawer at Natural History Museum turns out to be entirely new genus.

I THINK THIS IS RIGHT:

Setting it up for Todd Blanche.

I mean, if you think she was keeping the DOJ paralyzed for a year, and Blanche "unfroze" all this and got this all done with the clock starting once Bondi left?

You REALLY don't know how this works.

You haven't seen a real transfer of… https://t.co/gvBGSDuLDD

— Brian Cates – Political Columnist & Pundit (@drawandstrike) May 12, 2026

BIG NEWS: CDR Salamander: We Have a Shipbuilding Plan.

DEGRADED: Professor quantifies ‘curriculum degradation’ at University of Chicago.

MAKE THEM PAY: Family who allegedly attacked TPUSA reporter indicted on federal charges.

THE ETERNAL FEMALE FRUSTRATION: Sergey Brin’s ‘MAGA girlfriend’ denies pushing Google co-founder right: ‘If I could control him, I’d be married with a baby right now.’ “The Democrats red-pilled him. I didn’t have to do anything.”

MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: How Trump’s ‘anaconda’ tactics put the squeeze on Iran and China.

And the Democrats.

#JOURNALISM IN THE TRADITION OF WALTER DURANTY:

The reason the antisemitic @NickKristof column got through the NYT publishing process is because the NYT is filled with antisemites.

Their coverage of everything involving Israel, which for them is everything because Jew-hatred is pathological, is done by the same people. https://t.co/EC41tciUfJ

— Omri Ceren (@omriceren) May 12, 2026

CHANGE: Supreme Court Clears Way for Alabama Redistricting Effort Ahead of Midterms.

THIS REMOVES THE WHOLE POINT FOR A LOT OF PEOPLE: No Drinks At Sea? The New Crackdown On Cruise Ships. “Vacationers were not thrilled to hear the news.”

Ya think? It seems to me like the Bahamas are going out of their way to be less hospitable lately.

BUT WILL THE JUDICIARIES BE SMART ENOUGH TO DECLARE BACK? Hakeem Jeffries Declares War on Every Judiciary in the Country. “The defenders of Democracy™ and Norms™ are in full Banana Republic mode.”

JOHN LUCAS: Enough Already!

Personally, I think jerking the Iranians around with negotiations that never go anywhere is fair turnabout.

PEOPLE WHO ARE POCKETING THE CASH USUALLY ARE: Northwestern’s President Says He’s ‘Positive About the Relationship’ Between the University and Hamas-Friendly Qatar.