MAKE INDIANA GREAT AGAIN:

🚨BLOODBATH IN INDIANA🚨

Weak Republican Indiana State Senators who refused to redistrict are dropping like flies. Trump-endorsed candidates winning in LANDSLIDES

The scorecard:

SD 19 – WIN
SD 39 – WIN
SD 1 – WIN
SD 6 – WIN
SD 41 – WIN
SD 11 – WIN
SD 21 – WIN
SD 23 – TOSSUP pic.twitter.com/6C4a07EY3p

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) May 6, 2026

Flashback: Trump Seeks Total Revenge in Indiana Tonight.

UPDATE:

The base isn't stupid. Rule #1 of being a Republican officeholder: do not weaken your own voters' electoral power.

Some Indiana State Senators thought they were clever and didn't have to obey this rule. They will be private citizens shortly. https://t.co/7Ba7AYJIZ3

— Will Chamberlain (@willchamberlain) May 6, 2026

MORE:

The Pence coalition in Indiana is getting crushed by MAGA tonight.

Make no mistake about it…

Pence was involved in every anti-Trump move in Indiana. pic.twitter.com/xSECT40c9U

— C3 (@C_3C_3) May 6, 2026

OPEN THREAD: Tuesday’s groovy.

WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: SpaceX sends 45 satellites to orbit in nighttime launch from California (video).

EPSTEIN-BARR VIRUS: Scientists Develop New Antibody For Virus That Infects 95% of People.

THAT WOULD BE NICE: Scientists Just Built a Quantum Battery That Charges Almost Instantly.

PROPAGANDA IS PROPAGANDA:

The majority of women voted for male-only conscription in referendums in Austria and Switzerland.

— cherry_blossom (@blossom77520) May 5, 2026

NOT THAT I’VE NOTICED: The GLP-1 paradox: Weight loss drugs may lead to stigma.

TRUE:

The reason commies so desperately need everywhere to be run by commies like them is because if there’s a place for people to flee to that isn’t run by commies all of the productive people will flee to it. Free markets can operate fine with Communist places around, Communism… https://t.co/e4oqKncEf4

— Enguerrand VII de Coucy (@ingelramdecoucy) May 5, 2026

ASTROTURF SELDOM BLOOMS: For All the EU and USAID Machinations to Install It, Romanian Government Collapses. “And is it any wonder? What Romanians have seen happening since the annulled election has sincerely alarmed them. They want their democracy back.”

THE E.V. BUBBLE CONTINUES TO DEFLATE: Why Automakers Are Turning Back to Hydrogen as EV Plans Shift: Facing uncertain EV demand, major automakers are shifting capital to hydrogen and synthetic fuels to secure their future, despite steep infrastructure hurdles.

Not sure why this would secure their future, given the ready availability of oil nowadays.

WELL, THEY’RE BEING OBSOLETED BY THE PHASED PLASMA RIFLES: Are Sub-Machine Guns Really Becoming a Thing of the Past?

BOTTOM STORY OF THE DAY: Yawning should be seen as healthy, not rude, research suggests.

DR. EVIL FORESEES ALL: Shark lasers could help save vulnerable species. “Sharks with frickin’ laser beams attached to their heads!”

I would have thought an ill-tempered mutated sea bass would have been more useful in this application.

WE COULD HAVE HAD ENERGY INDEPENDENCE DECADES AGO IF OUR LEADERS HAD ACTUALLY WANTED IT: Operation Epic Fury is highlighting the utter brilliance of ‘Drill, baby, drill.’

I MEAN, HE’S NOT WRONG: Barney Frank, entering hospice care, embarks on a final act: Taking on the left: The former Massachusetts lawmaker says progressives in his party have “embraced an agenda that goes beyond what’s politically acceptable.”

GAY MEN? What is the P-Shot? Learn the risks and rewards of the ED treatment popular with gay men. A doc friend of mine used to run a clinic that did these, and his clientele was decidedly straight. (They also did the “O Shot” for women.) He claimed great results, but I have no first, er, hand experience.

Plus: “Some people also get the injections in the hopes of enhancing the size of their penis, but Goel says that while it can help with girth, if you’re looking for dramatic results, you’re better off getting penis filler.” Penis filler.

There’s also a procedure called the “Jennifer Aniston,” where they inject filler into a woman’s nipples to give them that perky, Rachel-from-Friends look.

What a time to be alive, eh?

K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE:

The public school system is a jobs program for unemployable adults. https://t.co/DwNpy1waNn

— Bethany S. Mandel (@bethanyshondark) May 5, 2026

WHENEVER WAR LOOMS THEY START SLAPPING MORE GUNS ON THE SHIPS: Yes, Reality Demands More Guns, Larger Guns, Everywhere.

MARK PULLIAM: Justice Alito Cleans the Augean Stable of Faux Voting Rights Precedents.

GOOD: Missouri State U. shuts down Bias Response Team amid First Amendment lawsuit.

THE JUDICIAL BRANCH’S SELF-MARGINALIZATION CONTINUES:

The attempted assassin’s lawyer tried to cancel this hearing because the issue was solved but the judge REFUSED to cancel it because he wanted to put this performative show on where he apologized to a guy who tried to kill the President last week. That’s how crazy Democrats are. https://t.co/iLip2w39HP

— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) May 5, 2026

HIGHER EDUCATION PRIORITIES: Proposed California bill would require community college health centers to provide abortion pills to students.

ICYMI: MY WALL STREET JOURNAL COLUMN: Don’t Stand So Close to ChatGPT: The danger of AI isn’t destruction but seduction. Applying fiduciary duty may be the solution.

Archive version here. Book is here.

NOW, THIS IS MORE LIKE THE 21ST CENTURY I WAS PROMISED:

There are rumors that Elon Musk may be exploring a takeover of the bankrupt Spirit Airlines, with ambitious plans to revolutionize the air travel experience.

Imagine the possibilities: Optimus humanoid robot flight attendants, seamless Starlink connectivity, AI-powered travel… pic.twitter.com/CrxcgobUDQ

— Robert Lufkin MD (@robertlufkinmd) May 4, 2026

I’m not at all confident that it’s true, but I hope it is.

EVERYBODY WHO WAS ANYBODY IN WEST AFRICA WAS COMPLICIT IN THE SLAVE TRADE FOR CENTURIES:

The most Green Party story I’ve ever read.

The Greens reparations officer, Antoinette Fernandez, who supports the idea of Britain paying trillions of pounds in slavery reparations, is descended from a Nigerian royal family that traded slaves.

One of them owned 1,400 slaves. pic.twitter.com/K3nfZdW7o5

— Chris Rose (@ArchRose90) May 5, 2026

Flashback: My Nigerian Grandfather Sold Slaves. “Nwaubani Ogogo lived in a time when the fittest survived and the bravest excelled. The concept of ‘all men are created equal’ was completely alien to traditional religion and law in his society. It would be unfair to judge a 19th Century man by 21st Century principles. Assessing the people of Africa’s past by today’s standards would compel us to cast the majority of our heroes as villains, denying us the right to fully celebrate anyone who was not influenced by Western ideology.”

There’s a mythology that white slave traders ran around the bush kidnapping Africans, but that’s bunk, of course — they’d pretty much all have died. They bought African slaves from Africans. My brother talked to people in Ghana about that some years ago, and they reflected little guilt: Back then if you lost a war, you either died or were enslaved. That’s just how it worked.

One of the reasons Zora Neale Hurston’s Barracoon couldn’t get published when she wrote it was that the black literary community didn’t like that it portrayed the extent of African complicity in slavery. But history is history, despite efforts to rewrite it.