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Saturday, May 23, 2026

Could A Simple Lab Mistake Lead Scientists to Overestimate Microplastics? | Extremetech

While microplastics are a very real issue, one new study suggests that the numbers might not be quite as bad as we've feared. - Graham Templeton

Researchers from the University of Michigan recently published a study presenting evidence that nitrile gloves could significantly affect readings of microplastics, donating particles that are virtually indistinguishable from substances like polyethylene.

Nitrile gloves, by the way, are the standard gloves recommended for use by microplastics researchers...
There are new headlines about microplastics coming out every day.

Just yesterday, a study of airborne contaminants in dense urban areas found significant quantities of microplastics—and now, we have to wonder whether those results could be adjusted downward in the future.

You're either "on the team" or you're a RINO obstructionist.

Ilhan Omar suggests Trump is responsible for massive fraud in Feeding Our Future! * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh

Ilhan Omar suggests Trump is responsible for massive fraud in Feeding Our Future! * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh:

Ilhan Omar, the Somali-born member of Congress representing a Somali immigrant-majority district in Minnesota, is caught up now in investigations of multiple scenarios that could involve massive fraud.

Victor Davis Hanson: Democrats Never Complain About the System When They’re in Power

I want to ask the Democrats: You had power for eight years with Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.

Why didn’t you get rid of the Electoral College then?
Why didn’t you bring in two states then?
Why didn’t you pack the court?

And the answer is that as long as they have power, they put those things off.

Then when they get out of power, the system’s not fair...

AM Fruitcake

History for May 23

History for May 23 - On-This-Day.com

Drew Carey 1958 - Actor, game show host

1618 - The Thirty Years War began when three opponents of the Reformation were thrown through a window.
1785 - Benjamin Franklin wrote in a letter that he had invented bifocals.
1900 - Civil War hero Sgt. William H. Carney became the first African American to receive the Medal of Honor, 37 years after the Battle of Fort Wagner.
1922 - "Daylight Saving Time" was debated in the first debate ever to be heard on radio in Washington, DC.
1934 - In Bienville Parish, LA, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were ambushed and killed by Texas Rangers. The bank robbers were riding in a stolen Ford Deluxe.
1949 - The Republic of West Germany was established.

Friday, May 22, 2026

Christopher Rufo Says California Fraud Is Stealing Taxpayer Money on a Scale That Makes Minnesota Look Like 'Child's Play'

Christopher Rufo Says California Fraud Is Stealing Taxpayer Money on a Scale That Makes Minnesota Look Like 'Child's Play':

The fraud scandal that resulted in billions being stolen from American taxpayers in Minnesota is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to fraud on a national scale, a conservative author and activist said in a podcast released Wednesday.

And while revelations about Minnesota’s scandal ended the political career of Gov. Tim Walz, another Democratic governor making national headlines is far worse, the Manhattan Institute’s Christopher Rufo said.

“The scale of it in the state of California is just another level entirely,” he said, according to the New York Post. In fact, he said, it makes Minnesota’s massive fraud look like “child’s play.”

The way we were----- Indy 500 Pioneer Janet Guthrie Savors The Day She Made History - YouTube

(39) Indy 500 Pioneer Janet Guthrie Savors The Day She Made History - YouTube

UPS Flight 2976 Crash: New Footage and Transcripts Released - YouTube

(39) UPS Flight 2976 Crash: New Footage and Transcripts Released - YouTube:

Instapundit - RUBIO TO CUBA: “The reason you are forced to survive without electricity is not an oil blockade by America. It is because the people who control your country have plundered billions.”

Instapundit - Ed Driscoll

In sharp contradistinction:

America: The Real Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

One American view of China – now increasingly popular on the Left and the Right alike, especially among the hate-Trump crowd – is that the communist colossus will be forever ascendant, with continued astonishing levels of food production, ship construction, and industrial output. - Victor Davis Hanson

In this pessimistic view, China will soon replace America as the world's predominant power...

Yet even Beijing's miraculous 30-year leap out of poverty into first-world affluence and Westernized power is hardly the same as parity with the U.S...

China has roughly four times the population of the U.S., but produces only about 60 percent of our total GDP.
A crude way of looking at this asymmetry is that one U.S. citizen accounts for 40 percent more goods and services than his four Chinese counterparts.
Americans enjoy a per capita GDP (roughly $95,000) over six times higher than China's (roughly $15,000)...

'PURE FIRE': School district lashes out at student who wrote poem supporting life * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh

'PURE FIRE': School district lashes out at student who wrote poem supporting life * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh:

A school district in Colorado already known for its leftist agenda – it's being sued right now for imposing its transgender ideologies on young students by trying to force students of the opposite sex to share beds on school trips – has delivered another enhancement to its reputation for crackpot ideas.

Now a teacher has censored, banned in fact, a student from reading an assignment to her class.

It's because the poem written at the directions of a 7th-grade teacher, who is unidentified as this point, promoted life.

Dealer Demands More Money After The Sale - Then Takes His Truck When He Refused - YouTube

(39) Dealer Demands More Money After The Sale - Then Takes His Truck When He Refused - YouTube:

Soros-backed shadow group coordinated 109 buses of out-of-state activists for Saturday's Montgomery rally - Yellowhammer News

Protests against redistricting were held in Montgomery over the weekend, but, to the surprise of no one, George Soros’ fingerprints were all over the event. - Yaffee

Leftwing activists showed up to Alabama’s capital city Saturday for the “All Roads Lead to the South” rally.

Speakers there took turns calling state leaders “racists” over the new congressional map approved by the Legislature in the recent special session.

Riders were bussed in from Oregon, Ohio, and points across the country.
The national progressive coalition’s lead coordinator has been bankrolled by George Soros to the tune of $7.61 million..

Lunch video----- Victor Davis Hanson: Why America Keeps Proving the Experts Wrong - YouTube

(39) Victor Davis Hanson: Why America Keeps Proving the Experts Wrong - YouTube:

Noon-toon

Former Maduro Attorney Orders Destruction of Dominion Evidence | Election Crime Bureau

Former Maduro Attorney Orders Destruction of Dominion Evidence | Election Crime Bureau:

The legal landscape surrounding the 2020 U.S. election and international narcoterrorism has reached a critical juncture, characterized by unprecedented judicial actions and high-profile military interventions. At the center of judicial actions related to these events is DC Magistrate Judge Moxila Upadhyaya.

He was RIGHT!

Just a reminder--if you need one--on why we're at war with Iran...

As a life-long student of both history and geopolitics, our current war with Iran is THE MOST IMPORTANT AND JUSTIFIED WAR EVER FOUGHT IN THE HISTORY OF THE HUMAN RACE. - Jacques Voorhees

What part of: "Iran can't be allowed to have nuclear weapons" do people like Megyn and Tucker not understand?

Talk about a bipartisan issue.

What OTHER issue has there been where eight, count them EIGHT, successive US presidents have drawn the same red line: "Iran can't be allowed to have nuclear weapons."
Meanwhile, despite 50 years of lying about it, Iran has been marching inexorably towards full atomic-weapons capability, getting closer every day, no mater what silly pieces of paper they might sign with silly people like John Kerry.

MI SOS allowing criminal aliens to vote!

Michigan State University board amends code of conduct to restrict trustee speech

One section states, “We shall not divulge to an unauthorized person, confidential information acquired in the course of trustee service in advance of the time prescribed for its authorized release to the public.” - Kyle Davidson

The amendment also bars trustees from representing their personal opinions as that of the university, and states that trustees will not undermine decisions made by the majority...
Trustees who do not sign a statement of acknowledgement agreeing to follow the code of conduct’s terms will face sanctions including public censure, loss of privileges such as complimentary access to university sporting events, and removal from any leadership position on the board.

Members will have until 5 p.m. May 24 to sign.