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March 20, 2026

LIMITED TIME DEAL: Apple 2025 MacBook Air 15-inch Laptop with M4 chip. #CommissionEarned

ICYMI, IT’S MY THURSDAY ESSAY FOR VIP SUBSCRIBERS: There’s Something Weird Going on in Ukraine.

THE ENEMY WITHIN:

🚨 Pamela Whitten is the president of Indiana University. Her yearly salary is $900,000, with an annual performance bonus of $175,000.

The university's "Muslim Philanthropy Initiative" hosted several events for a phony "charity" that was shoving money into the hands of Hamas.… https://t.co/jv2b9kx1SA pic.twitter.com/LfcxE4e7Vp

— NizNellie3 (@NizNellie3) March 19, 2026

EVERYBODY LOVES THE FA, BUT SO FEW PLAN FOR THE FO:

Dear Kathy Hochul,

Thanks to some kind and benevolent conservatives, I was able to learn what a computer is and type this out to you. I had to resist the urge to stop at a liquor store while sitting and learning, but I made it.

Anyway, back in 2022, you made comments where you… https://t.co/rrmN3lgebw

— Zeek Arkham 🇺🇸 (@ZeekArkham) March 19, 2026

Anyway, back in 2022, you made comments where you urged conservatives to leave New York and go to Florida. We did. We took our money with us as well, because that’s how those things work. Now you want us back? Nah…

See, you’re in the “FO” stage of “FAFO.” It’s pretty glorious to behold. Good luck with all your social justice programs without the capital to fund them.

Don’t blame me, I voted for Lee Zeldin.

Heh.

NASTY: Iranian cluster munitions pose additional challenge for Israel’s air defenses.

Iran has launched dozens of missiles with cluster munition warheads at Israel since the start of the war, posing a challenge for Israel’s missile defense shield as they need to be ‌hit before they split and disperse into smaller explosives.

Israel failed to intercept one of the cluster missiles overnight, and its small bomblets scattered into civilian areas in Tel Aviv. A couple in their 70s was killed, and one of Tel Aviv’s main train stations suffered damage.

Israeli military spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Nadav Shoshani told reporters that the couple was killed in their apartment by a single, cluster munition bomblet.

“This cluster bomb was fired by the Iranian regime towards a center of mass population, firing dozens of rockets towards the civilians, deliberately targeting civilians,” he said. “This is a ⁠war crime by the Iranian regime.”

Cluster munitions have their uses, but not like that.

TO BE HONEST, THE HUMAN INTELLIGENCE ON THE BENCH IS LOOKING IFFY THESE DAYS: Congress moves to scrutinize AI use in federal court.

REDUNDANCY AND INVENTORY LOOK LIKE INEFFICIENCIES… UNTIL YOU NEED THEM:

All of this⬇️ https://t.co/DDui24l1I9

— Trent Telenko (@TrentTelenko) March 20, 2026

ALL THE NEWS THAT’S FIT TO MEMORY HOLE AN INCONVENIENT HISTORIC LEFTIST ICON:

The @nytimes is being lavished with praise by the virtue-signaling brigade, but there are very basic problems with their Cesar Chavez story…

-The “evidence” doesn’t come close to the threshold for such a devastating claim, especially against a man who has been dead for 33 yrs

-We don’t know for sure that the 2 children who are now claimed to be his, via 2 “rapey” encounters, are biologically his, partly because his accuser had 4 kids with his BROTHER, which the NYTimes somehow left out of the story (along with the fact that she had at least 11 children with at least 4 men)

-We somehow don’t even know the names of the two kids that were allegedly fathered by Cesar -The NYTimes ignored the numerous very positive recent public statements by Dolores Huerta about Cesar, including a YouTube video created during the #MeToo panic where she praised him for his protection of women against sexual harassment

Read the whole thing.

Earlier: Why Cesar Chavez Suddenly Became Politically Inconvenient to the Left.

RELIGION OF PEACE UPDATE: The ‘Holy Month’ of Ramadan Is Ending, and Here’s the Death Toll.

FROM JESSICA SCHLENKER: Excessively Attentive.

Elizabeth Bennet harboured few expectations for her trip to Kent. Primarily, she was to see her dear friend Charlotte, which necessarily entailed tolerating the odious Mr. Collins. Perhaps, if she were truly fortunate, she might even gain an introduction to the great Lady Catherine — whether she wished it or not. She promised to fill her letters home to her father with faithful recountings of any absurdities thus encountered; he almost promised to write back.

But when a revelation prompts Mr. Bennet to arrive in person, Elizabeth is drawn into the center of a long-buried family mystery. A single portrait holds the key, and the truth it unlocks threatens to upend everything she understands about her past and her expectations for her future.

Excessively Attentive is a Regency-set reimagining of Pride and Prejudice that remains faithful to Jane Austen’s wit, social precision, and moral insight. Thoughtful, character-driven, and richly grounded in period voice, this novel asks what it means to belong — not by birth alone, but by character, courage, and choice.

OR WORSE. LEFTIES WILL EXCUSE AND PROTECT ANYTHING UNTIL SUDDENLY THEY WON’T.

JOEL! That’s it! I was wondering why this stuff was coming up more than 20 years after Chavez died and you have hit on it: EPSTEIN! All the talk about the Epstein scandal stirred this up! https://t.co/IJYzcA7Nz3

— The Patriarch Tree (@PatriarchTree) March 18, 2026

BEWARE: Utilities Efforts Would Undermine President Trump’s Ratepayer Protection Pledge.

YES: Rama Duwaji Is A Jew-Hating, Lover Of Terrorists.

TAKING OFFENSE IS THEIR WAY OF GOING ON OFFENSE – IT’S WEAPONIZING VICTIMIZATION: If Muslims are desperate to take offence, why disappoint them?

THE IDEA IS TO BURY COMPLAINTS, NOT ADDRESS THEM (CAN’T LET PEOPLE REALIZE THEIR AREN’T ALONE): BBC’s ludicrous defence of its self-serving complaints system.

VIVA LA LIBERTAD, CARAJO! Argentina Formally Withdraws from the World Health Organization.

WHAT HE SAID: On The Manufactured MAGA “Schism”. (Video.)

I SAY WE BEAT THEM INTO RUBBLE AND WALK AWAY: Special Follow On.

I MEAN YOU COULD UNDERSTAND WHY THEY WORRY WE MIGHT DEPORT FRAUDSTERS: Almost 200 House Dems vote against deporting people who commit welfare fraud.

PERHAPS THEY LOOKED ACROSS THE OCEAN AT CANADA? Life wins: Scotland votes no on assisted suicide bill.

IRAN WAS A MAJOR BITCOIN MINER: How Iran Turned Sanctions Into a Bitcoin Gold Mine, and Why It Just Collapsed. Iran Mined Bitcoin in Secret for Years, and the US Just Blew Up the Operation.

That probably explains why Israel bombed its gas field and why the IRGC was so upset that they did.

FOR THE LOVE OF BOB (HEINLEIN) SOMEONE EXPLAIN 4CHAN TO THE BRITISH: Ofcom Fines 4chan £520,000, Lawyer Responds With Picture of Giant Hamster.

They’re lucky the giant was neither masturbating nor committing cannibalism!

SERIOUSLY? 10–18 Days Until Australia Runs Dry. The Clock has already run out and Australia Is Running on Empty.

WORTH CONSIDERING: Trumping Everyone on Iran. This is not a gas, or a blast, but I’m going to drone on about it at mine own pace.