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May 23, 2025
MIDDLE EAST: IDF control of Gaza Strip jumps over 50%, on the way to vast majority. “Israel’s primary goal is to seize territory to separate the Gaza civilian population from Hamas and control food distribution, IDF’s recent updates indicate.”
SKY CANDY [VIP]: Sky Candy: The Seen and Unseen.
Lots of new frequencies here.
THAT’S DIFFERENT BECAUSE SHUT UP:
Tim set up a hotline during the lockdowns so neighbors could tattle on one another to the government.
That’s pretty authoritarian, Tim. https://t.co/yOMfrEdxj3
— The🐰FOO (@PolitiBunny) May 23, 2025
The music had been bad, all afternoon. I didn’t feel like listening to anything that my own device was serving up, since it’s in that mood where it thinks I only want chamber music, like it’s Sunday morning at home and I’m buttering a croissant and the music is dialed down low to indicate that we are cultured people who appreciate the finer things, even if they’re an indistinct stream of rote Baroque cliches turned out by the yard by some bewigged guy who was probably dosing his syphillis with mercury. But this meant listening to the execrable pop krep on the gym speakers. And here I thought: this is it, the sign that my brain has gone over, something’s wrong, a wire snapped, a lobe died.
It was Wild Thing by Tone Loc. But it was different. I don’t know how to describe it. The guitar part was . . . wrong somehow, and the fill that followed was correct but thicker. The vocals were meaner. The whole thing was darker and abrasive, like the original, except after five years in jail. When I looked it up I saw that it was indeed Wild Thing, but a re-recorded version.
Whew. If someone had said “say, you have a look of sudden relief,” I would have said “I just realized that Tone Loc’s producer had intentionally fuzzed up the guitar, and that this was not a sign of a stroke.”
We are at a cultural dead-end when people are re-doing those old songs, just playing with the knobs.
The original “Wild Thing,” from 1988, of course sampled Eddie and Alex Van Halen’s guitar and drums from “Jamie’s Crying.” I assume this is the remix that Lileks is referring to:
It’s just sludge, made by slicing up Ton Loc’s “original” version on a DAW, editing the daylights out of the drums, adding some additional synths and percussion, and reprocessing the guitars and vocals through some outboard effects boxes. It’s a tuned-up copy of a copy of a copy; the aural equivalent of the fourth Michael Keaton in 1996’s Multiplicity:
IT’S WAY UP ON THE LIST: Trump’s Kneecapping of Harvard May Be My Favorite Thing in the History of Trump. “Perspective is everything, and I’ve changed mine in recent weeks. I’ve begun to greatly enjoy the daily tizzies that the president and his administration send the Dems’ flying monkeys in the mainstream media into because I know that it means Trump is over the target with his agenda.”
21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: OnlyFans’ Annie Knight Gives Update Amid Hospitalization After Sleeping With 583 Men in 6 Hours. That’s less than one minute per man.
SARAH HOYT’S SHOCKED FACE IS KICKING BACK WITH A BOOK AND A GLASS OF WINE: Crime Rates of Illegal Migrants Underreported.
“Immigrants commit crimes in this country at a rate lower than natural-born citizens,” added Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy. “So, if you want a safe town or a safe neighborhood, you are better off if you have immigrants.”
Speaking on the Senate floor last year, Murphy added, “Whether you choose to want to believe the facts or not, that is not my decision, it’s your decision, but…but it is the truth.”
This tenet is incessantly parroted by the legacy news media. Sample headline, this one from ABC News: “No, migrants are not driving a surge in violent crime as Trump claims.” ABC asserted that crime in this country is declining despite an influx of illegal immigrants.
This barrage has achieved its intended goal: A McLaughlin & Associates survey commissioned by the Crime Prevention Research Center on April 29, 2025, reveals that 41.6% of voters believe illegal immigrants commit crimes at lower rates than U.S. citizens, compared to 33.3% who think otherwise.
Like most issues, U.S. public opinion on this question has a demographic and partisan component. Only men, Republicans, conservatives, whites, and those aged 41 to 55 believe illegal immigrants commit more crimes. The majority of young voters (18-29), Democrats, liberals, and African Americans most strongly assert that illegal immigrants commit fewer crimes.
But is this “the truth”? Are these “the facts”?
The data suggests that the answer is pretty clearly “no.”
These claims usually conflate legal and illegal immigrants. Legal immigrants tend to follow the law, but illegal immigrants are a different story.
Every illegal alien’s first act on American soil was to break the law. Democrats conflate illegals with legal immigrants for various reasons — all political — and the result is more crime.
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INSERT GOMER PYLE GIF HERE: Ex-Obama Aide Makes Bombshell Admission About Biden’s Health Cover-Up.
But then they might have to find real jobs.
GLEICHSCHALTUNG: House budget bill effectively halts US clean energy boom. “The House budget bill that narrowly passed in an early morning vote on Thursday would effectively put the brakes on a clean energy production boom in the United States spurred by subsidies enacted in 2022.”
Here’s a tip for Reuters: It’s not a boom if it’s financed by tax dollars and summoned into existence by mandates. It’s just another boondoggle.
MAKING AMERICA GREAT AGAIN: Oscar Mayer Wienermobiles to Race on the Oval Ahead of Indy 500. The “Wienie 500” will see six of the hot-dog-shaped promotional vehicles race on the famous oval, each one representing a regional U.S. hot-dog style.
Billy Blazejowski smiles:
EUROPEANS TREATING JEWS BADLY, GO FIGURE: ‘Hypocrisy’: University cancels Jewish student event, allows pro-Palestinian speaker.
The leftwing media has argued for a clampdown on rightist rhetoric claiming that it’s “stochastic terrorism.” The idea is that right is “demonizing” some people and thereby increasing the odds that an unhinged person will take the rhetoric as a “permission slip” to shoot the people right-wing people are criticizing.
Viva Frei talks about the left’s endless discussion of “stochastic terrorism” — until a fellow leftwinger cashes in their “permission slip” to shoot up a Republican softball team, in which case stochastic terrorism doesn’t exist and is all just Russian Disinformation, Bigot.
Drew Holden has a question. Given that a left-wing assassin just gunned down two young, beautiful, completely-innocent people by shouting “Intifada!” and “Free Palestine,” where are the screaming headlines about Stochastic Terrorism today?
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After the shooting, the CNN anchor’s main concern is the optics against anti-Israel protesters, not the safety of Jews. Her guest pushes back. It’s an incredible moment of television. pic.twitter.com/8iBFbQgNAA
— Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 (@MarinaMedvin) May 22, 2025
Norm Macdonald, call your office!
COMMIES LYING IS NOTHING NEW; SADLY, NEITHER IS WESTERN ANALYSTS PARROTING THEIR LIES: China Is Hardly the Economic Juggernaut That Many Western Analysts Believe.
THE PRESS CRIBS FROM THE BIDEN PLAYBOOK WHICH WAS CRIBBED FROM THE OBAMA PLAYBOOK WHICH IS ’60S RADICALISM IN A NICE SUIT:
We had yet another left-wing domestic terrorism attack so that means the press need to tell us about “white nationalism.”
It’s their safe space. https://t.co/Ax2vIByKCE
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) May 23, 2025
Related:
GM, fellow "domestic violent extremists" pic.twitter.com/uor7P0UMyr
— Young Americans for Liberty (@YALiberty) May 23, 2025
NO. NEXT QUESTION? Is ADHD an excuse for punching classmate and a teacher?
“New York City’s public schools routinely flout federal rules designed to prevent schools from removing children from class for long periods due to behavior related to their disabilities, reports a Chalkbeat investigation. If Tristan’s disability had been considered a factor in the fight, the hearing office ruled, he could have been suspended for only one week.
Students with disabilities are far more likely to be suspended than non-disabled peers. In part, that’s because behavioral and emotional issues such as oppositional defiant disorder are disabilities.
The federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) requires schools to educate disabled students with non-disabled students when possible, writes Zimmerman. If a student’s misbehavior is related to a disability, “the student is supposed to return to class immediately, and the school is required to conduct a behavior assessment.” There are exceptions for “extreme violence, drugs, or weapons possession.”
How does that promote the education of the vast majority of kids without behavioral issues?
EDUCATION POLICY:
You had a chance to fix your garbage institution. You didn’t take it. Now we’re going to fix it for you and it’s going to hurt. https://t.co/qUgDV0pLt8
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) May 23, 2025
I love the people who think Harvard should suffer no penalty for blatant violations of civil rights laws just because it’s Harvard. You can throw the book at those redneck bible-thumpers at Bob Jones University, but Hahhvahhd is a Title of Nobility and above the rules for the lower orders.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Here’s Hoping Trump Crushes the Intifada and Its Enablers in Academia. “Leftists rally around slogans and talking points, largely because their mobs are comprised of easily-manipulated simpletons who need pithy phrases to achieve peak frenzy. They’re also incurious and easy prey for propagandists. All of this came together and led to the tragedy in Washington, D.C.”
“ANTI-WAR” SURE SEEMS TO MEAN “PRO-MURDER”:
BREAKING: The Bronx "Anti-War" Coalition just called Elias Rodriguez’s execution of two innocent people in D.C. the “highest expression of anti-Zionism.”
This group leads the pro-Palestinian rallies in NYC. Don’t ever try to tell me this movement isn’t fundamentally violent. pic.twitter.com/D7zzkHQHNx
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) May 22, 2025
Or, “Not anti-war, just on the other side,” to coin an Insta-phrase.
CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: ATF Issues a Statement Announcing That It Has Ushered In a ‘New Era of Reform.’ “The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) is ushering in a new chapter—marked by transparency, accountability, and partnership with the firearms industry. This is not the same ATF of the last four years. We are fundamentally changing course with a renewed focus on rebuilding trust with federal firearms licensees (FFLs), gun owners, and the public by prioritizing public safety and collaboration.”
Much more at the link.
