Friday, May 29, 2026
History for May 29
History for May 29 - On-This-Day.com 
Patrick Henry 1736 - Prominent figure in the American Revolution, known for his "Give me Liberty, or give me Death!" speech, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States
- 1912 - Fifteen women were dismissed from their jobs at the Curtis Publishing Company in Philadelphia, PA, for dancing the Turkey Trot while on the job.
- 1916 - U.S. forces invaded Dominican Republic and remained until 1924.
- 2001 - In New York, four followers of Osama bin Laden were convicted of a global conspiracy to murder Americans. The crimes included the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa that killed 224 people.
- 2015 - The Obama administration removed Cuba from the U.S. terrorism blacklist. The two countries had severed diplomatic relations in January of 1961.
- 2018 - Starbucks closed thousands of stores for part of the day for a training session on unconscious bias.
Thursday, May 28, 2026
U.S. Supreme Court refuses to deal with 'disturbing phenomenon of illegal-alien truck drivers causing fatal accidents,' Clarence Thomas erupts * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh
U.S. Supreme Court refuses to deal with 'disturbing phenomenon of illegal-alien truck drivers causing fatal accidents,' Clarence Thomas erupts * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh:
Justice Clarence Thomas erupted in a dissent that was joined by Justice Samuel Alito.
"We cannot refuse to hear suits between states," Thomas wrote, after the majority did exactly that.
He explained the result of the actions in California and Washington have been "the disturbing phenomenon of illegal-alien truck drivers causing fatal accidents on the road."
𝐕𝐃𝐇 𝐎𝐍 𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐕𝐀𝐑𝐃’𝐒 𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐃𝐄 𝐂𝐀𝐏: ‘𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐘 𝐀𝐑𝐁𝐈𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐑𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐁𝐄𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐘𝐄𝐃 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐌𝐒𝐄𝐋𝐕𝐄𝐒 — 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐍 𝐋𝐄𝐓 𝐈𝐍 𝐏𝐄𝐎𝐏𝐋𝐄 𝐌𝐎𝐒𝐓𝐋𝐘 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐃𝐄𝐈’
𝐄𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐨𝐫 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐩 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦. 𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐯𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐩𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐝 𝐨𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: 𝐚 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐰𝐚𝐥𝐤𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤. - M.A. Rothman@MichaelARothman
Harvard faculty just voted to limit A grades to 20 percent of underclassmen marks.
Harvard faculty just voted to limit A grades to 20 percent of underclassmen marks.
- Victor Davis Hanson, on Daily Signal, said out loud what every honest academic has been saying privately for years.
The data:
- 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝟔𝟎 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐭 𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐯𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐀’𝐬.
- Yale was running 80 percent.
- Stanford the same.
- Twenty years ago the A-share at the same schools was about 30 percent.
Hanson’s anatomy of the collapse, on camera:
𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘴𝘦𝘵 𝘶𝘱 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘴. 𝘛𝘰 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘢𝘯 𝘐𝘷𝘺 𝘓𝘦𝘢𝘨𝘶𝘦 𝘴𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘰𝘭, 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 750 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘈𝘛 𝘴𝘶𝘣𝘫𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴, 𝘢𝘵 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘵 1,500 𝘵𝘰𝘵𝘢𝘭, 𝘢 3.9 𝘎𝘗𝘈, 𝘢 𝘭𝘰𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘈𝘗 𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘴. 𝘖𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘸𝘦 𝘢𝘥𝘮𝘪𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘸𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘶𝘱 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘶𝘮, 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘣𝘰𝘥𝘺 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘥𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘸𝘪𝘴𝘦. Then the rupture: 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘢𝘳𝘣𝘪𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘭𝘺 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘺𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘷𝘦𝘴. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘴𝘢𝘪𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 — 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘥𝘰𝘯’𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘰 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬. 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘭𝘦𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦, 𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘋𝘌𝘐.The result is the bold(‘T-ball mentality’) inside the most selective universities in the world.
- Everybody is a winner.
Nobody is hurt.
𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐧𝐨 𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐲𝐞𝐫𝐬...
Tragic update in brutal attack on devoted Trump supporter in San Diego | Blaze Media
Tragic update in brutal attack on devoted Trump supporter in San Diego | Blaze Media:
A crowd gathered on Memorial Day in Escondido, California, to pay their respects to a proud American, MAGA supporter, and Army veteran who was viciously assaulted outside his "Trump House" last week — and has since died.
HOST: “You were previously hinting at a vision where it keeps human control over this singularitarian future.”
ELON MUSK: “I don’t think humans will be in control of something that is vastly more intelligent than humans.” - The Vigilant Fox @VigilantFox
HOST: “It sounds like you’re like a doomer…”
HOST: “It sounds like you’re like a doomer…”
MUSK: “I’m just trying to be realistic here. Let’s say that there’s a million times more silicon intelligence than there is biological. I think it would be foolish to assume that there’s any way to maintain control over that.”
American Bar Association Deals Major Blow to DEI in Sweeping Change to Law Schools Across the Country
American Bar Association Deals Major Blow to DEI in Sweeping Change to Law Schools Across the Country:
The council of the American Bar Association, which oversees law school accreditation in the United States, moved to scrap a rule forcing colleges to support diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Reuters reported that the move, which occurred on Friday, reversed a decades-old requirement that law schools increase the number of women and racial minorities attending their institutions.
Zohran Mamdani's City-Run Grocery Store Just Got Even Worse
That brings the total projected cost of the city-run grocery store to roughly $55 million, compared to the typical cost of opening a private grocery store, which is around $3 million.: - Dmitri Bolt
- The first of five city-run grocery stores in New York City, La Marqueta, may carry a price tag nearly double the already outrageous $30 million Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced last month.
- The East Harlem site selected for the store was reportedly approved for a $25 million upgrade years ago in 2017, yet it still sits vacant and run-down...
Exclusive: Key Biden DOJ official raised red flags about FBI’s Mar-a-Lago raid, memo shows - JustTheNews
A recently disclosed email shows that top Garland associates raised the issue of declassification before the morning raid. - By John Solomon and Jerry Dunleavy
Patty Stemler, a decades-long DOJ veteran who was reportedly picked by Garland in 2022 to help consult on Trump-related cases, sent an email just two days after the bureau’s Aug. 8, 2022 raid of Trump’s Florida resort home, where Stemler said she had “a few concerns.”...
- Although the memo requested that lawyers check whether Trump had the authority to declassify documents, Garland personally approved the August 2022 raid, which included searching Melania Trump's underwear drawers.
Patty Stemler, a decades-long DOJ veteran who was reportedly picked by Garland in 2022 to help consult on Trump-related cases, sent an email just two days after the bureau’s Aug. 8, 2022 raid of Trump’s Florida resort home, where Stemler said she had “a few concerns.”...
Dem City Gave Muslim Group $35k and Didn't Track How It Was Spent
Dem City Gave Muslim Group $35k and Didn't Track How It Was Spent:
The city government of Atlanta, Georgia, reportedly gave a $35,000 donation to the Inner-City Muslim Action Network, which it then failed to track.
This was in addition to $250,000 in federal grants, according to The Center Square.
The outlet released a report on Monday detailing its continuing investigation into the issue.
We asked people on a California beach simple military history questions… and instantly regretted it
These answers get worse every second: - Jesse Watters@JesseBWatters
- “Memorial Day is….America’s birthday”
- “America fought ALBANIA in WWII”
- “They had DINOSAURS in the Civil War”
History for May 28
History for May 28 - On-This-Day.com 
Thomas Moore 1779 - Lawyer, social philosopher, author
- 1863 - The first black regiment left Boston to fight in the U.S. Civil War.
- 1928 - Chrysler Corporation merged with Dodge Brothers, Inc.
- 1995 - An earthquake in the Russian town Neftegorsk killed at least 2000 people. It had a magnitude of 7.5.
- 1996 - U.S. President Clinton's former business partners in the Whitewater land deal were convicted of fraud.
- 2002 - Russia became a limited partner in NATO with the creation of the NATO-Russia Council.
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