IT’S A MIRACLE! THE WINE TURNED TO WATER!  Remember Ilhan Omar’s Winery? Something Very Peculiar Just Happened to It.

SHOCKED, SHOCKED, SHOCKED. THIS IS MY SHOCKED FACE:  Undercover Videos Expose Biden Admin Manipulating UAC Reports to Protect ‘Reputation’.

BECAUSE IT’S GLARINGLY UNCONSTITUTIONAL:   Appeals Court Just Smacked Down CA’s New Anti-ICE law for a Simple Reason.

SOME DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE:  Isaacman before Congress: Speaking the truth to power.

SO, A FRIEND OF A FRIEND:  I don’t know if anyone here is familiar with Kat Ainsworth Stevens, but she’s fighting breast cancer. She had a double mastectomy earlier this week. A friend set up a Give Send Go fundraiser, and Foxtrot Mike via Firearms Insider has added a giveaway to help encourage donations.  KAT’s Fundraiser. Donated by Foxtrot Mike Products.

THE US NEEDS TO MAKE ITS OWN RUBBER GLOVES:  Exclusive: Blue Star NBR CEO Calls on Trump Admin to Help Critical Glove Industry — or Rely on China.

INTERESTING:  FAFO | The Numbers Are Out & Dems Are SCREWED After VA Ballot Rigging… Wait Till You See The SHIFT. (Video.)

PRECISELY THIS:  They put out propaganda because it works.

THIS:  Reality Versus Hardwired Brains.

JAPAN IS A SERIOUS COUNTRY:  Ibaraki Prefecture’s Plan On Giving Rewards For Reporting Illegal Foreign Workers To Take Effect On May 11.

THE MAKING OF LIES: This is the polar opposite of reality. Here’s how the fake news gets manufactured…. For years the Pentagon has been canceling big ship and aircraft orders and diverting the cash to think tank studies and consultants. “Experts” with PhDs hate the battleship because actually building ships kills their contracts for producing studies on why America can’t build ships.

X-cancel.

DEAR BISHOPS THE HORSE HAS NOT ONLY LEFT THE BARN: He’s so far out of the barn, you can’t see him. Once you put the government in charge of life and death, the result is always “and things get worse.”  Bishops call on Canadians to contact MPs now.

KIND OF LIKE MY BELOVED COLORADO:  I wish I didn’t have to keep writing these posts on Washington State, but the depressing news just keeps coming.

THE WORLD CUP IS GOING TO BE A DISASTER:  EMERGENCY: $150 for a 15-minute train ride at the World Cup. NJ Transit is a case study on government price gouging and an imminent public safety risk that must be stopped before it gets people hurt.

WHERE TO LOOK NEXT:

Groups like the ADL (which tracks "hate" and pushes deplatforming while accused of overreach on critics), Media Matters (drives ad boycotts against conservative speech), and CCDH (reports targeting platforms for censorship) operate on similar models: identifying enemies to fuel…

— Grok (@grok) April 23, 2026

GOOD LUCK, I WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT WE’RE ALL COUNTING ON YOU: Fernando Mendoza, the No 1 pick of NFL Draft to the Raiders, tasked with returning a legacy franchise to glory.

YEAH, YEAH, ANOTHER STUPID OPEN THREAD: Points to anyone who can remember the early-blogosphere roots of this headline.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: NASA still confident that Artemis astronauts will land on the moon in 2028 despite spacesuit delays.

SPACE CONTAMINATION: This Fungus Can Survive Deep-Space Conditions – And Could Hitch a Ride to Mars.

ACTIVIST BULLIES:

Rusty [Harris, editor of the 30,000 circulation Oceanside Blade-Citizen in San Diego County in the early 1990s] patiently explained that we’d already given this quite a bit of thought, and we stood by our position.

Then things turned ugly. It would be unfortunate, the SPLC rep told Rusty, if the SPLC had to add a newspaper of all things to their hate watch list! That they would name our editorial board members as well, let the world know that we supported hate!

Rusty had grown up with severe deafness as a child (and later came out as gay) in Kansas in the 1950s and ’60s, and he was not a man to be bullied. Nor did I ever see him intimidated.

He paused for half a minute or so, then quietly told the SPLC rep, “Well, why don’t you do that, then? That should be quite interesting.”

We never heard from them again, and so far as I know, neither Rusty nor I was added to the hate watch list.

But it sure left a sour taste in my mouth.

Read the whole thing.

(Via Jim Treacher, who writes, “And that was in the early ‘90s. So they’ve been doing this stuff for a long time. They amassed all that money and all that power, and they used it to threaten their political opponents. They might have even committed bank fraud to do it. Allegedly.)

UPDATE: “The Feds need to investigate the Southern Poverty Law Center’s finances,” Jim Tharpe, former managing editor of the Montgomery Advertiser wrote in the WaPo in 2019:

More than two decades ago, I was managing editor of the Montgomery Advertiser, which was located one block from the SPLC in downtown Montgomery, Ala. I proposed an investigation into the organization after ongoing complaints from former SPLC staffers, who came and went with regularity but always seemed to tell the same story. Only the names and faces changed. The SPLC, they said, was not what it appeared to be. Many urged the newspaper to take a look.

We were, at the time, anything but adversaries with the center. Like other media outlets, we generally parroted SPLC press releases. We also became friends with SPLC staffers, occasionally attending the center’s parties. Some of my reporters dated staffers at the center.

That relationship, however, suddenly soured when reporters Dan Morse and Greg Jaffe (both of whom now work for The Post) began making serious inquiries about the SPLC’s finances and the treatment of black employees.

SPLC leaders threatened legal action on several occasions, and at one point openly attacked the newspaper’s investigation in a mass mailing to Montgomery lawyers and judges. Then they slammed the door.

“Accommodating your charade of objectivity simply takes too much of our time,” center co-founder Joseph J. Levin Jr. wrote the Advertiser in 1993. “Our patience in this matter is exhausted, and we will not respond to further inquiries of any sort.”

In February 1994, after three years of research, the Advertiser published an eight-part series titled “Rising Fortunes: Morris Dees and the Southern Poverty Law Center” that found a litany of problems and questionable practices at the SPLC, including a deeply troubled history with its relatively few black employees, some of whom reported hearing the use of racial slurs by the organization’s staff and others who “likened the center to a plantation”; misleading donors with aggressive direct-mail tactics; exaggerating its accomplishments; spending most of its money not on programs but on raising more money; and paying its top staffers (including Dees and Cohen) lavish salaries.

Racial slurs? A plantation-like atmosphere? Those claims certainly hit different after Tuesday night: Corrupt Business Model: SPLC Funded the White Supremacists It Claimed to Despise.

EVERYBODY LIKES A NICE MASSAGE: Why Are Giant Ants Letting Tiny Ants Crawl All Over Them?

ENTITLED LEFTISTS ARE A SOCIAL CANCER:

The way that we’re going to frame our descent into a low trust society is that it’s ‘anti capitalist,’ that anti-social, low-grade criminality perpetrated by narcissists is somehow a remedy for the *problem* of capitalism. https://t.co/ad6FGNBoLr

— Coddled Affluent Professional (@feelsdesperate) April 23, 2026

READER FAVORITE: Ensure Max Protein Cafe Mocha Nutrition Shake. #CommissionEarned

GOOD NEWS: Low-dose triple-pill cuts risk of recurrent stroke by about 40%, global trial shows.

WHY ACT BLUE’S NOOSE IS TIGHTENING: If you haven’t read Rod Martin’s in-depth analysis of the interim congressional report on the Democratic fund-raising Goliath, you are missing an opportunity to see in brutal, frank terms just how comprehensively this money machine’s operators broke election law.