March 31, 2026
WORSE, THEY AREN’T EVEN LOYAL TO THEIR OWN INTERESTS…:
It turns out the whole Iran conflict is a loyalty test for the Europeans and everybody failed. 😂
— Steve Hou (@stevehou) March 31, 2026
…although that’s been increasingly true for two decades or more.
SAVE GIRLS’ SPORTS: DOJ sues Minnesota, state high school league for allowing boys to compete in girls’ sports.
According to the DOJ, the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) and the Minnesota State High School League (MSHSL) have engaged “in sex-based discrimination by requiring girls to compete against boys in athletic competitions that are designated exclusively for girls and allowing boys to invade intimate spaces designated exclusively for girls.”
In doing so, MDE and MSHSL have openly defied Title IX, which prohibits sex-based discrimination in any education program or activity that receives federal funding, the DOJ said in a press release.
“The Justice Department cannot ignore a state’s brazen defiance of federal antidiscrimination law,” said Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon of the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division. “In service of radical gender ideology, Minnesota’s actions violate Title IX and deny female athletes their hard-earned trophies, records, dignity, and safety.”
The lawsuit highlights the story of Marissa Rothenberger, a biological male who pitched for the girls’ varsity softball team as a junior at Champlin Park High School.
Rothenberger threw multiple shutouts, including a complete-game shutout in the Class 4A state championship game, leading the Rebels to the 2025 title.
Previously: “Never been hit so hard in my life”: Angela Carini Quits Boxing Bout After Punch By Male Opponent.
HMMM: Trump “is priming the the public (and world) with a new mental frame: the Strait of Hormuz is not Iranian sovereign territory anymore:”
This post by Trump is pre-framing what's to come. Read along and you'll start to see it too.
When Trump tells the UK to "go to the Strait and just TAKE IT," the surface read is that he's venting at allies who didn't show up.
But the deeper move is priming the the public (and… pic.twitter.com/wXEFOesNYy
— American Debunk (@AmericanDebunk) March 31, 2026
And at the moment, it seems to be moving again:
BREAKING: Huge uplift in vessel traffic through the Strait of Hormuz today.
The regime has lost control.
pic.twitter.com/TFPmDEWEF1— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) March 31, 2026
Related: In other aquatic news:
imagine not knowing what "heavy water is" and reading the term "heavy water production plant" then being stupid enough to deduce that it's drinking water
— n (@Panegyrick) March 30, 2026
THE NEW SPACE RACE REALLY IS SPACEX VS. THE WORLD:
🚀 The Q4 Rocket Report just came out, with a record breaking surge in launch activity.
SpaceX had 97% share of U.S. launch, and 83% globally. China was 8%, Russia 4%, all other U.S. 3%, Korea 1%, Japan 0.6%, Europe 0.2%, and India 0.1% pic.twitter.com/h6PFJiGXVt
— Steve Jurvetson (@FutureJurvetson) March 31, 2026
“IT’S REALLY HARD TO OVERSTATE JUST HOW BADLY CHINA’S MILITARY INDUSTRY HAS BEEN HUMILIATED IN THE PAST YEAR:”
Over the course of my research on Israel's deeper integration with China's regional rivals post-October 7th, I discovered something absolutely wild.
Thailand – who is NOT hostile to the CCP – has pivoted to Israeli air defense systems after seeing how much better their Israeli…
— come into my tent (@boom_tentpeg) March 30, 2026
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NEWS YOU CAN USE: Are you at risk for colorectal cancer? What younger adults should know.
BLACK-PILLING USUALLY IS: All The Gun Rights Black Pilling On the Trump DOJ’s 2A Record is a Massive Overreaction. “No other administration has filed lawsuits (let alone multiple) to vindicate gun rights. And besides a lone amicus brief in Trump’s first term, no prior admin has filed amicus briefs to fight against state ‘assault weapons’ bans, magazine bans, ammo background checks, sensitive places, etc.”
ALL THE DEMOCRATS HAVE TO DO IS NOT BE CRAZY, AND THEY CAN’T EVEN DO THAT:
Voters may not love Republicans, but increasingly, they fear Democrats.
A new @YouGov deep dive shows support for Democrats slipping across almost every demographic.
The AOC/Mamdani takeover is driving voters away! pic.twitter.com/fzaKTW4Uhg
— Stephen Moore (@StephenMoore) March 31, 2026
4-D CHESS:
In January I asked, did Trump capture Maduro to choke China's oil?
3 months later the answer is becoming clearer.
🇻🇪 Venezuela now selling at FULL market price (Rubio confirmed) China's discount: gone. Forever.
🇮🇷 Iran at war. Kharg Island threatened. 4.6M bpd to China… pic.twitter.com/qh9ZBCT5Ql
— Jack Prandelli (@jackprandelli) March 30, 2026
Left unsaid: Dragging Venezuela (and perhaps even Iran) away from the China-Russia Axis undercuts their efforts to undermine the petrodollar system that underwrites the dollar as the world’s reserve currency.
So there’s more to it than just making Beijing pay the global market price for oil.
In Atlanta, FBI agents have sifted through thousands of paper ballots confiscated from the main election office there. Federal officials have also seized voting machines in Puerto Rico, locking them in a basement of an intelligence campus in Bethesda, Md., at the behest of the office of Trump’s intelligence chief, Tulsi Gabbard, according to current and former officials familiar with the matter.
At the center of many of the efforts is Kurt Olsen, a campaign lawyer who was heavily involved in Trump’s failed “Stop the Steal” fight in 2020 and was tapped to lead the new push at the White House last fall. In recent weeks, Olsen has briefed Trump on a range of allegations, pushed the president to declassify a swath of documents, and asked for up to $10 million in funding to pursue his mandate, administration officials familiar with the efforts said. He has traveled to Florida to meet with Jason Reding Quiñones, the U.S. attorney in Miami.
The probes into alleged improprieties in the 2020 election range from foreign interference to duplicate, fraudulent and missing ballots in states Trump lost. Olsen spends much of his time at the Justice Department, according to administration officials, as prosecutors pursue criminal investigations on the topic in Atlanta, Phoenix and elsewhere, according to people familiar with the matter.
The biggest news here is that the WSJ is treating election fraud as a serious story, instead of just dismissing it out of hand.
YOU WON’T BELIEVE IT’S REAL UNTIL YOU SEE IT IN ACTION: War Is Crazy: The Return of the Giga Turtle Tank.
A BRIGHT NEW DAY IS COMING:
‼️PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU SIGNALS DIRECT COOPERATION WITH SAUDI ARABIA AND OTHER GULF STATES
Netanyahu: Post-war plans include energy and economic cooperation with Saudi Arabia, including pipelines to bypass the Strait of Hormuz.
“Iran must be stripped of this leverage.”
He… pic.twitter.com/pU7gGPt8GA
— Mossad Commentary (@MOSSADil) March 31, 2026
ED MORRISSEY: Hegseth: ‘Decisive’ Days Ahead for Iran; Regime ‘Fractured?’
Trump sounds like he wants to abruptly leave; Hegseth wants to go the full Curtis LeMay; Rubio wants to talk with rational alternatives. Either this is the most incoherent winning side of a war in human history, or there’s a strategy in place.
Eli Lake argues vociferously for the latter. Trump and his team are waging “psychological warfare” against the Iranian regime, Lake declares, and it’s working:
Trump is waging psychological warfare with the remnants of a battered regime. Israel has killed 16 top regime leaders since the fighting began on February 28. These include Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, national security adviser Ali Larijani, and minister of intelligence Esmaeil Khatib. Then there are the lower-level commanders in the Revolutionary Guard Corps and Basij state militia who have perished in drone and missile strikes. The current supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, has not been seen in public since he ascended to the post held by his father.
“If you are sitting in Tehran, you are underground if you are in the leadership tier,” Joel Rayburn, former U.S. Army colonel and senior diplomat in Trump’s first term, told me. “You know if you can be located you will be killed. Your command and control is severely disrupted, and now you see the United States is a few days away from having a half a division worth of ground forces in the Gulf region and you can offer no resistance. Your leverage is waning.”
In such an environment, who wants to be the leader of a “new and more reasonable regime”? For the true believers left, like the recently promoted Ahmad Vahidi, who now heads Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps after the former chief was killed, negotiations with Trump are tantamount to capitulation. For the unlucky Iranian president, Masoud Pezeshkian, who is stuck with managing an economy that’s ground to a halt, Vahidi’s escalations are national suicide.
As Ed concludes, “Stay tuned.”
NOT FOR THE FIRST TIME: John Lucas: Obama Lies to Sway an Election: More proof that there is no reason to believe anything that Obama says.
UPDATE: Link was bad before. Fixed now. Sorry!
THE ENEMY WITHIN: She uncovered a terrifying lab hidden in California, with alleged ties to China.
Inside the sprawling building on I Street in Reedley, code enforcement officer Jesalyn Harper found vials filled with liquid — some marked in English or Chinese, others with just a code — that bore frightening labels such as “Malaria,” “COVID-19” and “HIV.” Refrigerators, lined up in columns along a wall, had labels that read “blood” and “Ebola.”
As she walked deeper into the warehouse, passing lab workers filling pregnancy test kits, she located the source of the smell that had brought her there — droppings from 1,000 lab-tested mice, she told The Times during a recent interview. The workers were nice enough, she said, but when she started asking questions she could feel the mood change.
“I realized I’m in trouble, and I need to get out of this building without tipping them off that I’m scared,” Harper said.
Her discovery blew open an elaborate criminal case with ties to California, Las Vegas and China. The investigation in Reedley found that the lab was part of an elaborate scheme to import COVID tests from China and pass them off as American-made.
But there are some who fear the operation was much more complex than that. A congressional committee uncovered payments topping $1 million made to the operator of the Reedley business from banks in the People’s Republic of China.
The defendant in the case, Jia Bei Zhu, a Chinese national, has not been charged with running an illicit biolab and his attorney has denied it. The vials discovered in Reedley were never tested.
Well, why weren’t they tested?
One clue might be that this story broke last week, but has gone largely ignored.
TO BE FAIR, SHE ISN’T A BIOLOGIST:
The court's first and only opinion for the day is in Chiles v. Salazar, on whether a Colorado law barring conversion therapy violates free speech. The opinion is from Justice Gorsuch and the vote is 8-1, with Justice Jackson dissenting.
— SCOTUSblog (@SCOTUSblog) March 31, 2026
Brutal:
Wow.
Justice Kagan's concurring opinion attacks the dissent of her fellow liberal Justice Jackson. pic.twitter.com/FhSy6Pk2lz
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) March 31, 2026
More to come, I’m sure.
TERM LIMITS NOW: Fifty-seven Members of the House of Representatives are either not seeking re-election in November or leaving Congress to pursue another elective office. That’s the highest total for departing representatives in recent memory (as I report in The Washington Stand).
The average tenure of the 36 Republicans is 9 nine years (four terms plus a year), while the average tenure of the 21 Democrats is 14 years (seven terms). The re-election rate for the current Congress is 95 percent. The average tenure of a representative prior to the Civil War was less than two terms.
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BY TODAY’S STANDARDS, IT WOULD MEAN THE WAR WAS ALREADY LOST — FOR THE ALLIES:
I'm trying to imagine the alternative history of WW2 if it looked like this war, and what the coverage might look like
"It's January 11th, 1942, one month after Hitler declared war on the United States. Hitler, Goering, Bohrmann, and Himmler were all killed in an allied bombing…
— Will Chamberlain (@willchamberlain) March 31, 2026
WELL, YES: Iran’s internet blackout hiding strike damage and suppressing dissent, Israeli officials say. “Multiple Israeli sources told Fox News that the blackout is not only restricting information from leaving Iran but also preventing citizens from organizing internally, at a time when pressure on the regime is mounting. Attempts by civilians to access the internet through satellite services such as Starlink have been disrupted through jamming, according to Israeli officials, while hundreds of individuals suspected of using such terminals have been detained.”
Iranians need internet. But they also need rifles.
