The honey badger is a solitary animal that can be active at any time of day, depending on the location. It is primarily a carnivorous species and has few natural predators because of its thick skin, strength and ferocious defensive abilities. Adults maintain large home ranges. The honey badger is best known as an aggressive, intelligent animal that is fearless and tough in nature.

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Hang the rest.

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I think most of you reading this post will agree that Donald Trump is an insecure, toxic narcissist, but he posted a flurry of posts on Truth Social on Monday that sealed the deal. This is not normal behavior. For those of you not familiar with current slang, G.O.A.T. stands for Greatest Of All Time.

Here is the complete list of the 12 Truth Social posts (original posts and reposts) made by President Donald J. Trump between 10:24 PM and 10:30 PM ET on May 10, 2026 that triggered me. This was part of a much larger evening posting spree (over 40–55 posts total that night) focused on self-praise, election-related claims, and supporter-generated memes. Most items in this narrow 6-minute window were rapid reposts of flattering content from supporters rather than original long-form text from Trump. Instead of focusing on Americans who are paying soaring prices for gasoline, diesel and food — all a consequence of Trump’s boneheaded, dangerous policy gambits — Trump pretended he was the wicked Queen in Snow White and asked the mirror, Who is the Greatest Of All Time:

Continue reading Sonar21 …

This is the kind of delusional nonsense that would get the average person locked up in a mental ward of a psychiatric hospital. Instead, Trump is now somewhere over the Pacific Ocean enroute to a meeting with President Xi of China. This is a long way to travel for a photo op.

Trump demanded Iran’s unconditional surrender. If Trump accepts Iran’s demands it would appear that the Trump will be the one surrendering unconditionally. FAFO.

Al Jazeera correspondent Ali Hashem has listed the following five conditions that it sees as the basis for reentering talks:

1. Ending the war on all fronts, including Lebanon
2. Lifting all sanctions
3. Releasing frozen Iranian assets
4. Compensation for war damages and losses
5. Recognition of Iran’s sovereign rights over the Strait of Hormuz

Again, all this according to Tehran must be agreed to while at the same time Iran is pushing back against nuclear negotiations.

Continue reading Zerohedge …

$100 oil change incoming?

For the second time in as many months, neocon godfather Robert Kagan has penned an urgent denunciation of Trump’s ill-fated Iran war.

This latest written for the Atlantic is particularly damning as Kagan makes the argument that the unprecedented loss to Iran is the US’s worst military defeat, essentially, in history—eclipsing that of Vietnam for several key reasons he outlines.

Read Simplicius …

Even one of the leading neocons and chief architects of the war in Ukraine doesn’t believe the US military can defeat Iran.

Read Vox Popoli …

From Imperium Press: Folkishness is not another word for identitarianism.

On the one hand it is far more precise than identitarianism, because it commits us to the interests of the in-group, without committing us to “a homeland for all.” On the other hand it is far broader, because it is not just about loving our own, but also about taking ancestry seriously in all ways, including our ancestral imperatives, whether moral or biological.

Since this paradigm has begun to be articulated in recent years, it has brought many people home because they rightly recognize it as the cure for modernity. It is what all right-wing paradigms have been building toward. But it has also angered many people. It has angered people on the left who think modernity is great and want more of it. It has also angered some people on the right, though, who have advanced solutions that at best are partial, and that at worst deepen the problem of modernity because they laid the foundations for modernity.

It is important to understand folkishness because it is everything your enemies fear. We urge everyone who wants to understand folkishness to watch this video. We at Imperium didn’t make it—someone else did, and they have understood it completely. We called attention to this video a month ago, but it is so good that it’s worth posting again for those who missed it.

From Grok:

In plain terms: The market looks “healthy” on the surface (indices near highs), but underneath it’s fractured. This isn’t immediately catastrophic—markets can climb a “wall of worry”—but it raises the odds of choppiness or a sharper reset if the narrow leadership breaks. Watch oil prices, upcoming CPI data, and whether breadth improves in the coming sessions. Long-term investors might see value in some of these discounted names, but the setup warrants caution on overall exposure.