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April 20, 2026
ALSO, THE TRAILER MADE IT LOOK HEAVY HANDED AND POORLY DONE:
America’s left is facing a critical shortage of right wing terrorists so they have to invent them https://t.co/IHBEOT0TPY
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) April 19, 2026
A HUNDRED MILLION HERE AND A HUNDRED MILLION THERE…: Putin losing $100M a day from Ukrainian drone strikes on Russia’s oil infrastructure.
Ukrainian drone strikes targeted Russian oil refineries overnight into Saturday, hitting four important sites.
Fire raged at the Novokuybyshevsk and Syzran oil refineries in the Samara region, as well as at an oil terminal in Leningrad and the Tikhoretsk oil pumping station in Krasnodar Krai, Ukraine’s Armed Forces said.
Ukrainian drones also hit oil storage sites in the occupied Mariupol region.
Russia, meanwhile, launched 219 drones across Ukraine, killing at least one and wounding 26 others.
The worst attack was in Zaporizhzhia, where drone and missile strikes that lasted for hours injured 10 civilians. A multi-story apartment building and nine houses were destroyed.
It comes as Russia’s top diplomatic envoy said Saturday peace talks with Ukraine are not at the top of Putin’s to do list.
Moscow’s spring offensive has yet to accomplish much, and casualties remain high.
QUOTE OF THE DAY:
Straight from the horse's mouth
“When I was a Revolutionary Marxist, we were all in favour of as much immigration as possible. It wasn’t because we liked immigrants, but because we didn’t like Britain.”
—Peter Hitchens pic.twitter.com/KG41rDWVKl
— The Knowledge Archivist (@KnowledgeArchiv) April 19, 2026
REMINDER:
Back in 2006, freshly divorced San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom — then a slick 38-year-old — was schtupping 19-year-old Brittanie Mountz.
When the press caught wind of photos showing his teenage girlfriend guzzling alcohol at public events, Newsom kinda lost it. Cornered by a… https://t.co/J5OlOdqFdW
— Mike Netter (@nettermike) April 19, 2026
DON SURBER: Even Electricity is Leaving Blue States.
BEIJING SUMMIT PREVIEW: Trump’s China Squeeze: Follow the Money, Not the Oil. “China can afford to pay world-market oil prices for a change, but the country can’t afford to lose its export markets.”
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE:
The smallest number of humanities degrees awarded since 1991 https://t.co/gw3EZN7SRI
— Marc Porter Magee 🎓 (@marcportermagee) April 18, 2026
College students are now “speed-running” through higher ed:
“It takes most college students at least four years to earn a bachelor’s degree. Christie Williams finished in three months.” pic.twitter.com/snKYzr0b3s
— Marc Porter Magee 🎓 (@marcportermagee) April 19, 2026
HMM, WITH A CHICAGO TWIST:
I'd like to know how they got to him.
It's not just that, being from Chicago, he suddenly remembered all Chicago pols are rat bastards.
They got to him. Something subtle. Can't have been the Catholic Charities thing, that predated Pope Leo XIV's inauguration as a Chicago pol.… https://t.co/PSNJtXnFkx
— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) April 20, 2026
HEY, BIG SPENDER: Massachusetts paid out $1 billion in improper SNAP payments while 75% of able-bodied recipients didn’t work, new report finds.
The report, released Thursday and authored by visiting policy analyst Hayden Dublois, found that the Commonwealth now carries a SNAP error rate of 14.1 percent — significantly higher than the national average of roughly 11 percent, and the worst of any state in New England. New Hampshire, by contrast, ranks among the best in the country.
SNAP enrollment in Massachusetts has surged 40 percent over the past decade, climbing from just under 785,000 recipients in 2015 to more than 1.1 million in 2024. The study found that between 65 and 75 percent of able-bodied recipients are not working, while state policies continue to allow individuals to bypass federal asset limits and remain eligible for benefits regardless of accumulated wealth.
A whistleblower cited in the report described fraud within the system as “rampant” and “unabated,” along with a workplace culture that actively discourages basic verification of eligibility.
If the workplace culture “actively discourages basic verification of eligibility,” then fraud is the desired result.
#JOURNALISM:
What does an arch mean? If Trump, fascism. If Mamdani, warmth and friendliness.
They love the commies. Love love love.
WELCOME TO YOUR OVERTLY ANTISEMITIC, TERRORIST-SUPPORTING MICHIGAIN DEMOCRATIC PARTY: Weeks after a Hezbollah-linked terrorist tried to murder dozens of Jewish children in Michigan, the state party recently nominated a Hezbollah supporter for the University of Michigan Board of Regents over an incumbent targeted because he’s Jewish.
SOME OF US WERE SAYING THIS BEFORE HE WAS SWORN IN:
I think what we've learned since Obama left office is that, as his critics argued, at heart we was always a radical leftist and his apparent moderation was more a tactic than his sincere self. https://t.co/uqFLhLJEVm
— David Bernstein (@ProfDBernstein) April 19, 2026
GOOD QUESTION: 
On a wide range of issues, the long tail of East Bloc Cold War propaganda has much more of a foothold in American politics, both left and even more surprisingly, right (I’m looking at you, Tucker Carlson), than it ever had during the Cold War.
Two reasons come to mind, though they are at best partial explanations. One is our elite universities, which have long been home to domestic radicals, but now also house a large contingent of Third World Communists and Islamists, such as Mamdani’s father. A second is the popularity of Bernie Sanders, who had a long career as a Communist fellow traveler before pretending to moderate to become a Vermont senator, and whose increasingly radical rhetoric on everything from greedy bankers to “Palestine” is right out of the wrong side of the Cold War playbook.
IF YOU DON’T LIKE IT… DON’T WATCH IT: Monty Python’s John Cleese nails the core principle of a free society in this conversation on comedy, cancel culture, and letting humor breathe.
COLD CIVIL WAR:
This is insane. One can make a very reasonable argument that some prominent people hoped for a justice to be assassinated in order to change the Dobbs ruling. That’s the dark truth. https://t.co/fTDu4UHRbu
— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) April 19, 2026
TRUE:
Define poverty in America. It’s not starvation. It’s not dying in the elements. It’s not failing to get medical care. Most people who are under the poverty line have cell phones. Many have cars. Most are fat.
You throw out the word “poverty” as if we’re supposed to react as if… https://t.co/41aAyoB0Wz
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) April 19, 2026
And from the replies: “The poverty line in America is top 5% in the world. Hell the UK just realized it would be the 51st poorest state if they became a state.”
SPEAKING OF THE GEN Z AWAKENING: We are hearing a lot these days about the growing interest among Gen Zers, and especially the guys, in Christ, Bible reading and church attendance. But when was the last time you encountered someone who says it was a book on Quantum Physics that led him to faith?
MY FORTHCOMING NEW YORK POST COLUMN IS ON THIS TOPIC: Your Local College Is Running Out of Cash.
Though fortunately the University of Tennessee is flush with cash. That’s in no small part because enrollment is booming, with students coming here from all over to experience a normal, non-PC college life.
ALMOST EVERYTHING CALIFORNIA DOES NOW IS CONCERNING: Why California’s ‘Stop Nick Shirley Act’ Should Worry Gun Owners. “What should concern everyone is what will likely follow AB 2624—what industry California Democrats will decide next needs a shield from public scrutiny, and what states will follow with their own similar legislation.”
IS THERE A LEFTIST MOVEMENT THAT ISN’T FULL OF SEXUAL ABUSE? Lefty love boat: Greta Thunberg’s freedom flotilla rocked by sexual misconduct allegations.
PROBABLY:
Want some truth?
If the Democrats get a 53 vote majority in the Senate they will pass Amnesty and laugh at the Republicans that wouldn’t pass election integrity with a 53 vote majority.
(Both will be happy)
— C3 (@C_3C_3) April 19, 2026
ROBERT SPENCER: Iran’s New Supreme Leader Surfaces (Sort of) With a Chilling Message. “It was peculiarly fitting: the threat of a phantom navy from a supreme leader who may very well not be alive at all.”
