red carpet treatment for a war criminal, a war monger, a pedophile, a rapist, and China looks like a fucking paper tiger once again,
May 13, 2026
A photo is worth a fucking hundred more years of 1984, Brave New World, Lord of the AI Flies, Handmaid Tale, Animal Farm, Farenheit 451, and Gomer Pyle for Prez:
[U.S. President Donald J. Trump, Tesla and SpaceX’s CEO Elon Musk, and Nvidia President and CEO Jensen Huang, are greeted by China’s Vice President Han Zheng as they arrive at the Beijing Capital International Airport on May 13, 2026.]
But Mearsheimer and The Judge and the rest of the lackeys like Wolff and Hudson, all clammoring to be on Danny Haiphong’s shit show to discuss how China is Number One.
Trump was accompanied by Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, along with a number of tech executives, including Elon Musk of Tesla, Tim Cook of Apple, and Jensen Huang of Nvidia. The U.S. recently sanctioned several Chinese firms it accused of assisting in Iranian oil shipments and supplying satellite imagery allegedly used in Iranian military operations. China condemned the measures as “illegal unilateral sanctions.”
PAPER fucking TIGERS:
The Trump administration’s recent suggestion that Venezuela could become the fifty first state of the United States is so legally and logistically absurd that any serious observer would normally dismiss it as a stray comment from a reality television producer rather than a geostrategic signal. Yet the very farfetched proposal demands a closer look, especially given what it reveals a hidden truth of US geoeconomics in the midst of the well documented Venezuelan quiet surrender and its subsequent forced detente with Washington. To recap the Venezuelan government did not fight to the bitter end but instead negotiated a managed transition that handed over Nicolás Maduro himself while allowing the Delcy Rodriguez faction to remain in nominal control, all in exchange for a gradual relaxation of US sanctions. That relaxation has been incomplete and deliberately staggered, meaning that the Venezuelan state now operates under a kind of conditional US oversight, catering to US demands on a range of issues from oil shipments to diplomatic alignments, yet without receiving the full sanctions relief that Caracas desperately wants.
More pissing in the wind Substack shit: Trump Indifferent To Americans Struggling, Epstein Network, Kash Patel Cringe Hearing, And More . . . Links to the livestream special for MAY 13, 2026.
Yeah, the glory gory AI: Hey Paul,
A couple of weeks ago I heard from a software developer who reached a breaking point with AI. He felt pressured to use it, but after months of trying he realized that LLMs frustrated him and eroded the coding skills he’s developed throughout his career. It only took a little bit of looking at discussions between software developers online to see that this was a common sentiment. For my story today I talked to a number of developers who are being pressured to use AI to code. It doesn’t matter if they want to or if the AI tools even improve their work. The goal is to use them no matter what, and developers told me they worry about how this will impact their industry.
-Emanuel
Something about Trump LLC in disarray? ICE Agents Have List of 20 Million People on Their iPhones Thanks to Palantir
The comments made by a senior ICE official at a trade show highlight how Palantir is increasing the speed at which ICE operates. Most people detained by ICE have no criminal conviction.
Yet, oh, yet, more Jew News, and who the fuck cares about Albert Oppen-Monster Eisnstein: His views on Israel and Zionism were concealed and distorted for decades
A few weeks before the creation of the State of Israel, Shepard Rifkin, a New York-based representative of the Stern Group, a Zionist paramilitary organization founded in Mandatory Palestine, requested that representatives of the group meet with Albert Einstein in the United States, “the greatest Jewish figure of the time” according to journalist I.F. Stone. Einstein’s response was unequivocal:
When a real and final catastrophe should befall us in Palestine the first responsible for it would be the British and the second responsible for it the terrorist organizations built up from our own ranks. I am not willing to see anybody associated with those misled and criminal people.
Einstein said that his “life was divided between equations and politics.” Yet, among his biographers—there are hundreds of them—and in the mainstream media, his extensive political writings on Israel and Zionism have been, at best, swept under the rug, or at worst, completely distorted, identifying him as a supporter of the State of Israel.
He’s the Che of Jews? Fuck Jews.
I can’t stop the fucking Jews cluttering my email box:
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More Einstein Jew news: That’s right, the Jewish State of Murder is losing (NOT): U.S. Army awards Elbit Systems $212M for night vision goggle systems.
That Jew News: More student-loan borrowers will face shrinking paychecks when Trump’s collections pause lifts
[A holy site home to a 29-foot-tall limestone statue of Jesus Christ is in the crosshairs of President Trump’s border wall construction plans.]
Yep, Trump LLC is losing in the polls. Border wall lawsuit seeks holy site land in New Mexico
[Police use water cannon to disperse ultra-Orthodox Jewish men blocking a street during a protest against the country’s military draft in Jerusalem, April 29.]
Yikes, NPR, which is basically Jewish Public Radio outfit: Israel’s government is expected to collapse over ultra-Orthodox military draft
Real Jew News, but you have to work a bit to connect the dots: Nearly 50,000 Lake Tahoe residents have to find a new power source after their energy source looks to redirect lines to data centers.
Fire Sale with the White Man’s House and the Minyan! The interior department is canceling a rule that put conservation on equal footing with development, as Donald Trump’s administration eases restrictions on industries and seeks to boost drilling, logging, mining and grazing on taxpayer-owned land.
A tale of TWO fucking AMericans:
Bobby McEnaney with the Natural Resources Defense Council said repealing the rule “means less protection for the clean drinking water, less protection for endangered wildlife that depend on healthy habitat, and less accountability when corporations leave these landscapes damaged and degraded”.
Industry groups and their Republican allies in Congress strongly opposed the rule and had lobbied to repeal it. They said the change under Biden violated the “multiple use” mandate for interior department lands by catapulting the “non-use” of federal lands – meaning restoration leases – to a position of prominence.
“This action provides greater clarity and predictability for independent oil and natural gas producers – many of whom rely on consistent permitting and leasing processes to operate efficiently and invest in domestic energy supply,” Dan Naatz with the Independent Petroleum Association of America said in a statement.
Quasi DEI — Asians and Jews: Notable Researchers Join $4 Billion Effort to Build Self-Improving A.I. – The New York Times
And so the lobotomies continue: A supermajority of Arab Israeli 12th-grade students support volunteering for non-security-related national service, a study by the Moshe Dayan Center’s Konrad Adenauer Program for Jewish-Arab Cooperation found.
The study was presented at the Tel Aviv Conference of Tel Aviv University in collaboration with the Kadar Foundation on Tuesday.
The study surveyed male and female students, 75.8% of whom supported volunteering for national service unrelated to the military draft. Further, 46.9% of these students expressed “strong support” for the idea.
Almost 60% of Arabs believe that the current state of relations between Arabs and Jews is “not good,” the study found.
However, slightly more, at 63.7%, indicated that they believe in a political partnership between Jews and Arabs. A far lower figure, at 39.7%, believes that there is support for such a political partnership within Israel’s Jewish population.
Fucking Psychotic People now in that land of genocide, rape, murder, starvation! Largest majority of Arab society support joining Knesset coalition, study finds
The study also investigated support for Arab parties in the upcoming Knesset elections, as well as for their joining a potential ruling coalition.
Goddamn, this is a fucking strange, surreal, lobotomized, and calcified cunt of a country! We focus on the, err, little stuff (important, but why not name the school after a Native AMerican word for Sunrise?)
The Portland School Board unanimously approved the renaming of Jason Lee Elementary School in East Portland to Sunrise Elementary School on Tuesday night.
The board first authorized the renaming process in March 2024 following advocacy from people at the school who said Lee’s values were inconsistent with theirs. At the time, a petition circulating for a name change had amassed about 70 signatures.
Lee was a Methodist Episcopal missionary known in Oregon for founding its capital city, Salem, alongside Willamette University as he led a mission to bring Christianity to Indigenous people in the region. The Willamette Heritage Center notes Lee’s vision for Oregon was to fill the state with “white, American, Christian settlers,” and that even some of his fellow ministers saw his work as a “colonization scheme,” one that subsequently displaced Indigenous peoples.
“That history doesn’t represent our diverse, inclusive school, and it doesn’t represent who we’re raising our kids to be,” says Gabrielle Haber, a parent at the school.
A committee of parents, staff, students and community members selected seven finalist names, and a larger voting process saw Sunrise receive 111 of 483 votes cast for a new name. (Officials say 446 people participated in the voting, and that some voted for multiple names.)
Top of mind for many on the committee was honoring the people who were in the region ahead of Lee’s arrival. An accompanying presentation notes that in developing the new name, the committee learned that in Indigenous tradition, important places are not often named after individuals, something that is more of a Western tradition.
In a staff memo, district officials estimate the name change will cost about $30,000 as the school upgrades signage, communications materials, and other materials. The school community, officials note, have agreed to find ways to cover and lower these costs.
“We felt the name ‘Sunrise’ captures both our community and our hopes for our kids’ futures,” Haber says. “We’re literally one of PPS’s easternmost schools, but we’re also a school and a neighborhood that’s growing, blossoming and ready to take on a new day.”
More calcified fucking way of reporting on and see the world: Eurovision Song Contest gets off to a tense start, overshadowed by Gaza.
The Eurovision Song Contest got off to a tense start in Vienna on Tuesday as Israel competed in the first semifinal amid a boycott by five countries over the Gaza war.
The contest, traditionally a good-natured celebration of pop music and high camp now in its 70th year, has become mired in crisis over Israel’s military offensive in Gaza in response to the Hamas-led attack of October 7, 2023.
[War criminals singing, FUCK. Noam Bettan, representing Israel, performs “Michelle” during the first semi-final of the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest, in Vienna, Austria, May 12, 2026.]
The public broadcasters of five countries – Spain, the Netherlands, Ireland, Iceland and Slovenia – are boycotting this year’s event, making it the smallest since 2003 with 35 entries. That will also most likely reduce viewership from last year’s estimated 166 million, more than the Super Bowl’s 128 million.
That’s Entertainment. And the Lobotomies, err, Show Must Go ON!
The show must go on, the (un)secret dementia of Donald TrumpUnderstanding instead of speculating – Trump’s psyche and political impact
Finally, this is what we celebrate? Another damned lawyer, a tax lawyer for the fucking criminal class? Mississippi, Goddamn. Another John Roberts, SCOTUS, in the making!
A Mississippi teenager recently became one of the youngest people ever to graduate from law school after gaining admission in 2023 at age 15.
James “Jimmy” Chilimigras, 18, graduated on Sunday with highest honors from Loyola University New Orleans’ law school, a little more than three years after he earned national news headlines with an entrance exam score that was the highest in a region encompassing his home state, Alabama to the east, and Louisiana to the west.
On Monday, Chilimigras was vacationing on a cruise ship, a Loyola spokesperson said. He then intends to pursue a master of laws (LLM) degree in taxation from Northwestern University’s Pritzker School of Law in Chicago.
You can watch the Celebrity Jew, go ahead. I have to get ready for my blue collarr $17 an hour job, motherfuckers.
All fucking JUNK:
Ambassador Chas Freeman discusses Trump’s visit to China, after the U.S. defeat in Iran – the greatest strategic defeat in U.S. history.
Ambassador Freeman was a former Assistant Secretary of Defense, earning the highest public service awards of the Department of Defense for his roles in designing a NATO-centred post-Cold War European security system and in reestablishing defence and military relations with China. He served as U. S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia during operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm.
Paul Haeder, Author 