Tuesday Links - 26 May

William Teach at Pirate's Cove starts us off with Good Grief: Masculinity, Eating Meat, And Climate Doom

I thought the age of this type of Woke wackadoodle crap was over. But, hey, it’s the uber-Leftist UK Guardian

Busted Knuckles - I grew up listening with my parents to CBS News Radio, can’t say I am not gratified to hear it is gone.

Once you cease to be useful to the Black Rider, you will be thrown from the high horse. And if CBS News Radio was a part of holding the country together, it was doing so for the benefit of the ruling elite.

Chant du Départ - The Mowing ...

I am giving serious thought to finding someone else to do it, you know, for cash money. As Danny Glover might have put it ...

Clayton Cramer - Capitalist Meets Astronomer Need

Results: magnificent.

Miguel Gonzalez - Let Darwin be the teacher for others.

We have seen this crap going on for ages. More than one Hollywood movie has a version of the subway surfing probably dating back to silent movies.

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 23 May 2026: Peak Three Edition

Spotify is focusing on AI to deliver everything except what it is paid to deliver. (Tech Crunch)

Spotify wants to become an "everything audio" app, only it's all AI. Audiobooks read by AI; podcasts read by AI; your daily schedule... Read to you by AI.

Want to listen to music? Well, sure, that's in there too. Somewhere. Probably.

Wombat-socho - FMJRA 2.0: Writing Until Dawn

I wrote a thing. Maybe not as good as Ralts Bloodthorne’s Behold! Humanity (and certainly not as long) but you may find it entertaining. As the post title says, it kept me up until dawn for most of last week.

The Other McCain - ‘Crash Out Kylie’: How a Queer Feminist Became Famous (Not in a Good Way)

Lecturing the world about politics at age 24? Never crossed my mind circa 1984, and I can’t imagine why Kylie Brewer or anyone else would imagine the world needs such lectures.

Gates of Vienna - Justice, Belgian-Style

Mr. Bakkali was sentenced in France, but he is serving his sentence in a Belgian prison. Under Belgian penal rules, he is eligible for furloughs from prison after serving only one-third of his sentence.

Jews Can Shoot - CPRC: FBI Active Shooter Reports Undercount Armed Citizens Who Stop Attacks

The Crime Prevention Research Center report claims the FBI’s active shooter reports from 2014 through 2023 badly undercount armed citizens who stopped attacks. According to the CPRC, the FBI listed only 14 active shooter incidents stopped by defensive gun use during that period, while the CPRC found 180 such cases.

Again from The Other McCain - Congo: ‘The Horror! The Horror!’

Joseph Conrad famously used the Belgian Congo as the scene for Heart of Darkness, with the madman Kurtz dying of fever, his final words being: “The horror! The horror!” The situation has not much improved lately, as the State Department warns: “Do not travel to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) due to crime, civil unrest, and health. Some areas have increased risk due to armed conflict.”

And then there’s the deadly ebola outbreak

Hunter Shoots Charging Grizzly Bear

Some predators walk on 4 legs, and you are only an apex predator when you are armed. Hunter shoots charging grizzly bear in defense of life near Cave Falls Road | Idaho Fish and Game

A hunter and his son were hunting black bear in the Caribou-Targhee National Forest, near Ashton, Idaho, when a Grizzly charged them.

The hunters were sitting on the edge of a meadow when a grizzly began crossing it and seemed to pick up their scent. The grizzly then changed direction and headed directly toward the two hunters. As the hunters attempted to alert the grizzly to their presence, it began to charge directly toward them. The man fired at the charging bear with his sidearm before quickly switching to his hunting rifle, killing it within 5 yards of where he was standing.

Ashton, Idaho, is near West Yellowstone. It is about 220 miles north of Salt Lake City, Utah, or about 110 miles south of Bozeman, Montana.

The Idaho Fish and Game department has determined that the grizzly was shot in self-defense.

After conducting a thorough investigation, it was determined that the hunter acted in defense of life, as he and his son were being charged by a bear from a close distance.

Click thru for details, and info about how to deal with things in bear country.

Can You Stop a Home Invasion With a Cellphone?

The short answer is, "No!"

This is the story of a Home Invasion in Los Angeles.

Here is the tl:dr version of the video. A Man Tried To Stop A Home Invasion With His Cell Phone. This video is 90 seconds.

Here is the longer video: Los Angeles Built The Perfect City For Criminals

So, a man tried to stop a home invasion with his cell phone. You see, I'll let you guess how that worked out.

This was LA, so they didn't need to be armed. There were 2 home invaders, and they nailed this guy, a neighbor with a cellphone, with a can of bear spray. He is lucky that they didn't have a firearm, but then crooks in Los Angeles don't really need firearms.

The perfect ecosystem for predatory criminals.

This is the full video from Colion Noir; it is 10 minutes.

Another Homemade Gun from Brazil

Impro Guns bring us the story in Brazil capture

The Left is going crazy over 3D printed guns, but long before 3D printers, there were sheet-metal guns.

A seized DIY sheet metal auto pistol which may have been reworked to at least chamber .38 spl.

Click thru for a photo of the gun, and a link that should take you to some build plans, and other photos.

The Criminal Justice System Is Broken - Seattle Edition

Michael Austin, The Western Journal, at The Gateway Pundit, we get another story of how the Criminal Justice System has given up on Public Safety. Seattle Homeless Man Who Allegedly Kidnapped and Raped Girl Had 28 Prior Arrests

I miss living in a civilized society, where the government spends at least some money trying to combat crime, and support law and order.

A Seattle homeless man who allegedly kidnapped and sexually assaulted a 15-year-old girl already had 28 prior arrests and 46 warrants.

He had to commit a heinous crime before they would take action, even though he had a history of ignoring court orders, court dates, etc.

Kowalczewski indeed had 28 arrests and 13 convictions, as well as 46 lifetime warrants and nine active warrants,

But then the people of Seattle keep voting for the same soft-on-crime politicians, so maybe this is what they want.

Eye Of The Storm

I love knowing about new music. Between social media, the streaming services, and the internet, it isn't hard to know about new music from bands you like.

This song is "Eye Of The Storm" by Five Finger Death Punch. It was released May 15th as a single ahead of their upcoming album.

Remember Why You Have a Three Day Weekend

It isn't just to mark the start of summer.

San Diego Shooters Seem Confused

The Other McCain asks a question. Why Would Two Jew-Hating Teenage Incels Shoot Up a Mosque in San Diego?

If what you’re looking for is logic and rationality, homicidal adolescents probably aren’t the first place you’d look.

The media, predictably is not interested in this story.

It has been noticed, by the way, that once the identity of the San Diego killers was determined, their background examined, and the contents of their “manifesto” widely available for scrutiny, the mainstream media lost interest in this story. The 24/7 coverage on CNN ended abruptly, without explanation. A full understanding of the factors involved simply doesn’t fit the preferred narrative.

Then there is the schools' role in radicalizing kids.

Beyond that, however, is the possibility that mandatory “ethnic studies” courses in high school may have played a role in radicalizing these weirdos. Last year, San Diego journalist Amy Reichert interviewed Cain Clark’s mother who “said her son was mandated to take an Ethnic Studies class to graduate from [high school]”:

That "ethics course" focused on "Whiteness," and Cain's mother worried that the course was actually teaching hate against his white family. (Cain was multiracial.)

Click thru for the rest. The details on the crime, the ethics course, the short-staffing of the cops, and how that played into the crime, etc.

I miss living in a civilized society.

People You Know Can Be a Threat

While it doesn't say, I'm assuming that since they were neighbors, this is the result of an ongoing conflict. One dead after Midwest City home invasion - News9

The gun-hating part of the Left loves to go on, at length, about how if you own a firearm you are more likely to shoot someone you know, than a complete stranger. While those statistics may be changing, shooting someone you know is not always a tragedy.

Authorities say a man entered a neighbor’s house unannounced and began assaulting the homeowner.

The suspect was shot during the confrontation according to police.

He was taken to a local hospital, but he did not survive his wounds.

Midwest City, Oklahoma, is a suburb of Oklahoma City. It is about 5 miles east of downtown. More or less.

The investigation is in early days, but this sounds like self-defense to me, and while I am not a lawyer, it is my understanding that Oklahoma has a fairly robust version of the Castle Doctrine.

Self-defense is a human right.

Chicago's Criminal Justice System's Electronic Monitoring Is Broken

Another aspect of the Criminal Justice System in Chicago and Cook County that is not getting the job done. 300 Lost in Cook County’s EM Program

Officials are now admitting that Cook County's pathetic and dangerous electronic monitoring system, a program that is supposed to make sure convicts are properly serving their home-based criminal sentences, has lost track of more than 300 people.

According to the Chief Judge, that is about eight percent of the population on electronic monitoring.

Burke added the data "clearly demonstrates how current safeguards are falling short, particularly when [electronic monitoring] is available to those charged with the most threatening and heinous crimes."

These are people charged with serious crimes. The people missing are as follows:

• 21 convicts charged with murder
• 13 charged with attempted murder
• 173 charged with aggravated assault
• 29 people charged with aggravated criminal sexual assault

Click thru for more.

In That Place Where Great Britain Used To Be

The UK is toast, and Europe is probably mostly toast as well. The UK doesn't deserve to survive. - Flopping Aces

I’ll bet you know the name George Floyd. He couldn’t breathe.

I’ll bet you don’t know the name Henry Nowak. He couldn’t breathe either.

Henry Nowak was a white, 18-year-old university student in England. His was stabbed. The guy who did the stabbing claimed Nowak was being "racist," so the cops handcuffed him, and when he told them he had been stabbed, the cops said, "I don't think so." He died in handcuffs, while cops accused him of being racist. I think the cops might be projecting their anti-white racism.

Prosecutor Nicholas Lobbenberg KC said Digwa "was carrying an extremely large knife in a sheath openly displayed over his clothing" which he used to stab the first-year Southampton University accountancy and finance student. [Ref. Sky News]

He denies the video evidence.

There are a lot of stories on this incident. Not too many were in the "legitimate media," until the publicity blew up around the trial, because The Narrative must be protected. There are a lot of accusations of two-tiered policing. The cops believed the statement "He was being racist" and didn't believe the statement "I've been stabbed." You figure it out.

The killing was in December of last year.

Keep Your Dogs Under Control

People get upset when dogs are shot, but this case seems justified. UPDATE: Dog shot by neighbor dies from injuries, owner facing charges

Sometimes you need to defend yourself, and your family, from four-legged threats.

Bangor Police Lt. Brent Beaulieu says their investigation, aided by video evidence, shows the dog was untethered and ran “aggressively” towards the neighbor and his children, who were in a small play area in their driveway. He adds the dog leapt over a small barrier and continued running towards the family when the homeowner shot the dog. The dog then ran home.

The dog was euthanized later in the day.

The dog is identified only as a Staffordshire Terrier, though the photo looks more like a Staffordshire Bull Terrier, than an American Staffordshire Terrier. Either way, it is one of the breeds usually lumped under the heading of Pit Bull.

On Wednesday, The owner of the dog was charged with dogs at large, a civil offense, according to police.

The shooter has apparently not been charged with a crime, because self-defense is a human right.

Not All Explosions in Russia Are Due to War

Who doesn't love a good explosion? As long as it is on video, and a long way away, that is.

BLEVE = Boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion. This is why I don't like propane. Even when it is not under high pressure, things can go wrong.

It isn't really funny, as 6 people were injured, one of them seriously. The manager of the gas station has been detained under a criminal investigation.

This is the StacheD video LPG Tanker Explosion: Routine Delivery to BLEVE! This took place at a gas station in Pyatigorsk, Russia, which is in southern Russia, roughly 110 miles east of the Black sea, and about 65 miles north of the border with Georgia.

When you're unloading a tanker, there's well established safety protocols for a reason. When those protocols get skipped or the equipment isn't up to standard, you don't get a second chance to fix it.

The video is about four and a half minutes. (I love StacheD videos; they are entertaining and I learn stuff.)

Volvo EV Fire Risk

From the Daily Mail: Fire-risk Volvo EV owners told not to fully charge for 5 months

More than 10,000 electric Volvo owners have been stuck for months with family cars that barely manage to cover 150 miles before running out of charge - after the manufacturer imposed strict charging restrictions on safety grounds.

Volvo said DO NOT charge beyond 70% full, because this could cause batteries to overheat and catch fire. The owners were also told to not leave the car unattended while on charge. That means you can't hook it up in your garage (assuming you have one) overnight. Oh, and don't charge your car in your garage, because there is too much chance it will burn your house down.

The cars were originally advertised to have a 280 mile range.

Furious drivers have told This is Money the problem has become a 'constant inconvenience' - with some already considering a return to petrol or diesel.

There is more. Volvo offered customers £200 vouchers for public charging costs, but after 5 months, those are mostly gone.

There are a number of statements made by Volvo owners.

The hat tip goes to MGUY Australia and his video GRIM: Volvo EV owners STUCK with HALF their range

Saturday Roundup of Link Roundups - 23 May

The Right Way is up first with Top of the News

Put a Nuke in It and make it AWESOME - Right Angle - Theo Spark
Devil's Food Cake - Evi. L Bloggerlady

Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 05.20.2026

Don Surber: Democrats are blowing it
First Street Journal: Amy McGrath Henderson goes 0-for-3!

EBL - Justice for Henry Nowak

Henry Nowak (a student) was the innocent victim of a stabbing, but police in the UK arrested and handcuffed Henry and he bled out (without getting treatment).

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 22 May 2026: Oof Edition

Google accidentally leaked details of an unpatched Chromium flaw. (Bleeping Computer)
Unpatched since December.
December 2022.

The Glibertarians - Thursday Afternoon Pinch Hitter Links

PEG MA TIGHT: Appalachia is blessed with huge untapped deposits of lithium in the form of the mineral pegmatite. Exploiting this resource could free us from dependence upon foreign sources, particularly China.

Political Hat - Quick Takes – Pushing Euthanasia: No Adequate Care In Canada; Hospices Collapsing In The U.K.; Denies Disability Support In Australia

In the U.K. the vaunted NHS will happily see you dead, and hospices have no funds.
In Australia, they don’t support the disabled, unless its to support patients dying.

Again from Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 05.21.26

Gates Of Vienna: “Show No Mercy. Kill Them All.”
The Geller Report: Justice at Last: Cuban Communist Dictator Raul Castro Indicted for Killing American Humanitarian Pilots

Gates of Vienna - News Feed 5/22/2026

Bowser Reimposes DC Curfew Amid Surge in Juvenile Delinquency
Washington, D.C., Democratic Mayor Muriel Bowser on Friday imposed a juvenile curfew in the nation’s capital, following several disturbances

Vlad Tepes - Comrade Carney and the real state of law in Great Britain: Links 1 for May 21, 2026

A migrant, dunno yet if it was a Muslim, stabbed a British person. The migrant told the police that the British stab victim had said hurty words to the migrant. The police arrested the British person. The British person died bleeding out in custody.

Gates of Vienna - News Feed 5/21/2026

Airbus and Air France Convicted Over 2009 Rio-Paris Crash
A Paris appeals court has found Air France and Airbus guilty of involuntary manslaughter over the 2009 crash of flight AF447, which killed all 228 people

Small Dead Animals - Friday On Turtle Island

The Democratic Party’s America: The Panda Express. Victor Davis Hanson – We’ve heard this before.
Davos Carney’s Canada: Muslim values are Canadian values. Bread and circuses.

A View from the Beach - Flotsam and Jetsam - Congress Rests on its Laurels, DNC "Autopsy" Reveals Dems Too Nice to Trump, Indictments in Minnesota Fraud

Vince Dao @VinceDaoTV, "AIPAC has fought Thomas Massie for years, actually. That’s a shock to his supporters who started following politics 2 seconds ago, but Google is free. Notice how he didn’t lose his primary until he voted against funding ICE

Wombat-socho again - In The Mailbox: 05.22.26

Don Surber: Thune joins the Resistance
First Street Journal: I’m waiting on yet another effort by the left to censor things they don’t like

Flopping Aces - The Week in Radical Leftism, 05/22/2026 – More Cope from the Economist!

America’s submarine dominance is under threat
Nice angle to suggest America is distracted by the war in Iran and neglecting other elements. That just isn’t the case.

Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog - LinkSwarm for May 22, 2026

“Left’s election fraud denials crumble as DOJ exposes two-decade-long California cheating scheme. FBI Director Kash Patel says prior administrations looked the other way on election cheating but ‘those days are over.'”

Maggie's Farm - Thursday morning links

Prepare for an Earth-Shattering Kaboom As Starship V3 Finally Takes Flight
Babylon Bee Goes on Rampage Mocking Anti-Gun Media, Politicians

J.J. Sefton at Ace of Spades HQ - The Morning Report — 5/ 22/26

“Today, we are onboarding the largest immigration judge class in agency history."
Trump Takes Massive Step To Keep Americans Safe

Doug Ross - Larwyn’s Linx: Thomas Massie's Ouster Is More Proof of the GOP's Ongoing Commitment to Purging Antisemitism

• Weaponized Lawfare: Finally Somebody Might Pay a Price - David Strom
• 171 Countries Out of 204 Do NOT Use ANY Form of Mail-In Voting; It Is Time for Us (U.S.) to Jettison the Widespread Use of It - FoxyHeterodoxy (Debra C)

Anonymous Conservative - News Briefs – 05/22/2026

Big Country makes a decent case the Gangstalking Brigade, US domestic surveillance, may be the US Military’s Signature Reduction crew. Maybe. If it was, I would advise the US Military to prepare for a 99% reduction in their budget

I leave you with Wednesday Memes … from MaddMedic, Midweek Memes from Granite Grok, Thursday Meme Drop from Midwest Chick's Place, and Friday's gifs from Wirecutter.

Don't Open the Door

Make sure you know who is outside that door, before you open it. UPDATE: Homeowner confronts, shoots intruder on Trenton Road in Clarksville - ClarksvilleNow

Clarksville Police detectives have learned the woman had been awakened by her dogs barking and believed someone was trying to break into her home. She heard someone at the front door and thought it was her husband trying to get inside. After unlocking and opening the door, an unknown man entered the townhouse, and a struggle began. The woman, who was armed, fired her weapon.

The guy who got shot was airlifted to Nashville in serious condition.

Clarksville, Tennessee is about a 45 mile drive northwest of Nashville.

You can call through the door. You can install a peephole. You can install a doorbell camera. You don't need to open the door without some idea of who is on the other side.

Why Movies and TV Are Horrible Today

Real Life Fake Wizard is a critic of popular culture, and I am coming to appreciate his point of view. Take this short summary:

The problem IS the people making the stuff.

Hollywood writers used to come from everywhere. They were veterans, or had real careers before they ended up in LA. Today Hollywood writers come from a handful of coastal universities. They have no life experience. They haven't read classical literature. (That was written by dead, white men.) They have no life experience. They haven't even struggled with anything, more difficult that sobering up enough to attend classes on Monday.

This is the Real Life Fake Wizard video Hollywood Writers Hate The Audience

The American entertainment industry pulls almost exclusively from the same narrow funnel. A handful of MFA programs, in a handful of coastal cities, a handful of online taste maker circles where you have to say the right things to get the right gigs. The people who get hired share a world view before they ever write a single line of dialogue. The selection pressure runs on social connections and ideological alignment. Who you know and what you say in public matters more than whether you can write a story a stranger in Ohio will pay to watch.

Inside that funnel, a very specific worldview gets absorbed by everyone. Tradition is suspect. Religion gets recoded as hypocrisy. Working-class life is bigotry waiting to be exposed. Romance gets deconstructed into a power dynamic. Heroism is naive at best and complicit at worst. Beauty gets called regressive. Patriotism is embarrassing. The writers spend years marinating in this view of the world before they ever sit down to write a script for a mass audience.

The video is 20 minutes, but worth the time.

The Clouds Breathe For You

I haven't featured anything by The Glitch Mob in a very long time. This is low-key enough it shouldn't be jarring while the caffeine is kicking in.

The Glitch Mob is an electronic music duo from Los Angeles, California. They are putting on a couple of live shows this weekend in Bakersfield. Unlike some electronic bands, they are supposed to put on a lively show, though I have never seen them in concert.

This is "The Clouds Breath For You" by The Glitch Mob from their 2015 EP Piece of the Indestructible.

Friday Links - 22 May

William Teach at Pirate's Cove starts us off with Doom: Hotcoldwetdry Will Make Mediterranean “Hurricanes” Worse Or Something

Did you know that the Med has Bad Weather? And that you are making it worse?

Chicago Contrarian - Chicago Mayor Misses the Bus

Mayor Brandon Johnson is heading to Rome to visit the Pope, because apparently what Chicago desperately needs right now is another taxpayer-funded photo opportunity overseas while the city continues to slide deeper into dysfunction.

Andy Ngo at Ngo Comment - WATCH: Andy Ngo Discusses Massive Tommy Robinson Rally in London

The London rally, attended by up to 60,000 people, featured several American speakers, including Glenn Beck and Nick Shirley. The speakers were critical of mass migration, Islam, and Keir Starmer’s unpopular Labour government.

Professor Yamane at Light Over Heat - I May Have Undercounted

How many gun cultures are there, anyway?

Miguel Gonzalez - Politeness and the lack of it.

I grow very cross now when somebody is impolite just because he can or is their imported behavior from where they used to live and refuse to be part with it because silly reasons, more than likely not wanting to look weak or be a redneck.

Clayton Cramer - Where Madness Leads

Multiple news reports indicate that the mass murderers at Islamic Center of San Diego hated Jews so they attacked a mosque.

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 20 May 2026: Unpossible Edition

Google search is dead, says... Google. (Tech Crunch)

Professor Plum in the library with a lead pipe? / Or just Google being Google.

Anyway, the plan is, now that Google has killed its premier product through years of malign neglect, to force you into an AI "experience" any time you want to look something up.

Again from William Teach - NC GOP Looking To Pass Constitutional Amendment Limiting State Taxes

Obviously, Democrats are against keeping taxes low for NC citizens

The Price of Liberty - Defending free speech?

We defend anyone’s right to speak (write, publish, record, etc.) freely on any subject. Whether right or wrong. But we defend our own God-given right to challenge, contest, disagree, and point out when what they say is wrong.

Echo Chamberlain - The Return of Gravity: Why the Bond Market Is Starting to Frighten Governments

The cheap-money age that quietly underwrote much of modern politics may be ending.