5NYC.COM https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html TRADITION: Making sake the hard way [nytimes] THE PROBLEM WITH THE MAGA MOVEMENT IN ONE STORY (AND IT’S BEEN THIS WAY FOR 10 YEARS): Top MAGA influencer revealed to be AI — created by Indian scammer who says ‘The MAGA crowd is made up of dumb people — like, super-dumb people. And they fall for it’ [wired] BE THE FALSE FLAG RACISM YOU WANT TO SEE IN THE WORLD: SPLC charged with defrauding donors over paid extremism informant program, “manufactured the extremism it purports to oppose by paying sources” [wapo] NO ONE CARES NEWS: There was some kind of a redistricting election in Virginia…Rs lost [nbcnews] TACO TUESDAY: Trump declared ‘no more mister Nice guy’ and then extended the ceasefire [cnn] BY EXTENDING THE CEASEFIRE, DID TRUMP BLINK? ‘Iran’s leaders believe that they can withstand an enduring standoff longer than President Trump’ [nytimes] SEIZURE: Iran attacks 3 ships — seizing 2 cargo ships — in the Strait of Hormuz as Trump extends ceasefire [CNBC] Attribution Home *NEW* SAM HYDE TAKES ON THE BOOMERS: They Lived the Dream, We Got the Bill [yt/samhyde] FLORIDA: SNAP recipients will no longer be allowed to purchase some common foods with their benefits, including soda, candy, ultra-processed desserts [mynews13] CATCHING UP ON 2008’S ‘INVENTION OF THE YEAR’: What’s 23andme up to these days? [michael girdley] REMEMBER WHEN PEOPLE BURNED THEIR MONEY FOR JPEG ‘ART’: The catastrophic collapse in value of the over-hyped NFTs [cold fusion] WHO IS HE TALKING ABOUT? Children’s books author Roald Dahl once said ‘never before in the history of man has a race of people switched so rapidly from being much-pitied victims to barbarous murderers’ [nytimes] JEWISH VALUES: Israeli soldier in Lebanon takes a sledgehammer to statue of Jesus Christ [nbcnews] BALLROOM BLITZ: Trump seems really obsessed with his latest pet project, a $400 million addition to the White House [wapo] WE DISABLE YOUR BATTLESHIP: U.S. seizes Iranian ship trying to slip by Strait of Hormuz blockade, ‘The Iranian crew refused to listen, so our Navy ship stopped them right in their tracks by blowing a hole in the engineroom. Right now, U.S. Marines have custody of the vessel.’ [wapo] WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT R3TARDED: When 5NYC calls Eric Swalwell a ‘Tard, we say that not to be mean but because he genuinely looks mentally handicapped (and we’re a little surprised beltway Dems didn’t see this) [politico] DUH: Psychology says kids of ’60/70s didn’t have ‘better parenting’, but they did have ‘enough daily neglect to learn to self-regulate, solve problems on their own, and develop a resilience that modern comforts make difficult to build [ecoticias] BEATS STARTING AN ONLY FANS: 44-year old Iranian woman with a green card busted at LAX for trafficking arms on behalf of Tehran, brokering $70M deals for Iranian drones, bombs, and millions of rounds of ammunition bound for Sudan [nypost] REVERSING BRAIN ROT: Nasal spray can turn back the clock in aging brains, heal inflammation, restore memory and reshape the future of brain age-related therapies.[texas a&m] FUTURE DOCTORS GET INTO BRAWL: 5 injured during a shooting near University of Iowa campus [kwwl] SHREVEPORT: 8 children killed in Louisiana mass shooting [nbcnews] EVERYONE HATES THIS ONE COUNTRY WE CAN’T TALK ABOUT: Favorability of I5rael is dropping amongst Republicans [asmongold] FBI DIRECTOR, KASH PATEL, CAN’T HOLD HIS LIQUOR: But this also sounds like an anonymously-sourced hit-piece to psy-op Trump into getting rid of him; Atlantic cites ‘hospitality-industry workers’ in the article [the atlantic] WE’LL SINK YOUR BATTLESHIP: During the first 48 hours of the U.S. blockade of Iranian ports, American warships issued warnings to nine vessels, prompting them to turn around [nbcnews] ARE YOU A REPUBLICAN OR A REPUBLICAN’T? Trump has MAGA confronting its devotion to God and its devotion to power [rollingstone] AY YO DAWG, IF WE SEND BACK IMMIGRANTS, WE FINNA MISS OUT ON THIS PAKISTANI CHOPPED CHEEESE!! Selling out America for chopped cheese in NYC [msn] IT’S WEDNESDAY AND ONCE AGAIN TRUMP IS THREATENING TO FIRE JEROME POWELL: If Chair Jerome Powell Powell stays on as a Fed governor after his successor is confirmed, Trump said he’ll have him removed from office [cnbc] CLOWN MAYOR: Boston Mayor Michelle Wu funds new program giving ‘queer and trans’ migrants up to $500 for massages, yoga classes and creative healing; city running $50 million deficit [nypost] DEMOCRAT SHOOTS HIS DENTIST WIFE: Embattled former Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax killed his wife and then shot himself inside their home early Thursday amid the throes of a ‘messy divorce’ [nypost] CHIMPS HAVE BEEN NIGGING OUT: Infants torn from mothers, testicles ripped off, ‘They started to scream, shout, chase each other.’ [nbcnews] LONE SURVIVOR: The story of the Air India survivor and how to increase your odds of making it through a plane crash [neo] PUT THE WORD OUT THERE THAT WE BACK UP: Iran declared the Strait of Hormuz open to all commercial ships during the 10-day ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon [cnbc] EUROPE HAS ‘6 WEEKS’ OF FUEL LEFT: Flights in Europe could start to be cancelled from the end of May ​due to a lack of jet ‌fuel [reuters] DO YOU REALLY WANT A NIGERIAN OPERATING ON YOUR HIP: NY Times lays out stories of foreign born MDs who have to Go Back to their sh*tholes, including Nigerian surgeon who was performing knee and hip operations in NY [nytimes] JD TAKES ON THE POPE: Vice President JD Vance said Tuesday Pope Leo XIV should “be careful” when he talks about theology, rebuking the pontiff over his criticisms of U.S. foreign policy [nbcnews] AMERICA’S FAVORITE HOT SAUCE CONDIMENT: The rise and fall of Sriracha [michael girdley] WAS IT SOMETHING HE SAID? Johnny Somali’s lame trolling gets him sent to South Korean prison for kissing a statue honoring tens of thousands of women forced into wartime sexual slavery by Japan [black pigeon speaks] 9/11 FOR GEN-ZERS AVERTED: Clavicular hospitalized after possible overdose, reported to be in stable condition: ‘Just got Home. That was brutal’ [variety] TRUMPED UP CHARGES IN KANGAROO COURTS: DOJ asks federal court to dismiss Jan. 6 convictions against former Proud Boys and Oath Keepers, dismantling final remnants of Jan6 probe [cbsnews] NOT A FAN: RW influencers have not been on board with Trump’s Iran conflict, ‘The online right wasn’t supportive and there wasn’t anything that was going to change that.’ [wired] THE WORK CONTINUES: U.S. military destroyed two drug-smuggling vessels and killed five traffickers in the eastern Pacific Ocean [the epoch times] QUITTER: Everyone’s favorite ret*rded-looking flatulent congressman, Eric Swalwell, ends his political career [cnbc] GENERATIONAL AURA: In a post-Kirk world, Nick Fuentes, is all the rage with the kids [nytimes] BANNON: Uncle Steve stokes talk of 3rd term for Trump, calls the Don a ‘moderate’, warns POTUS ‘The Middle East is a side show and Israel is a side show to a side show’ [dailybeast] TIM POOL IS FAKE AND GAY: Beanie boy won’t stop crashing out and humiliating himself [2lazy2try] HOW DO THESE PEOPLE SNEAK INTO THE REPUBLICAN PARTY? Some in the GOP — Maria Elvira Salazar and 20 other Rs — are backing new Amnesty Bill and calling it the ‘Dignidad Act’ [justthenews] WEIRD: Trump FBI will look into odd pattern of deceased U.S. scientists – mysterious deaths, murder, suicide, and disappearances [newsweek]