LIMITED TIME DEAL: Airmoto Tire Inflator Portable Air Compressor. #CommissionEarned
March 18, 2026
A HUNDRED MILLION HERE AND HUNDRED MILLION THERE, AND SOONER OR LATER, YOU’RE TALKING ABOUT REAL MONEY: California’s unfinished wildlife ‘bridge to nowhere’ tops $100M.
In 2022, California Gov. Gavin Newsom broke ground on the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing (WAWC), a project featuring an overpass for animals atop ten lanes of the 101 Freeway in Southern California.
At the ceremony, Newsom boasted that the state had committed $54 million. He promised to “complete the job within another $10 million,” before seeming to hedge on whether that final sum would do the trick.
Officials projected a 2025 completion date for the overpass, and estimated that the entire project — which includes the bridge and other ancillary developments — would cost $92 million, some of it coming from private philanthropists.
Nearly four years after the ceremony, the bridge is past due and the project some $21 million over budget. What was supposed to be the world’s largest wildlife crossing has become a jobs program for environmentalists, with taxpayers on the hook for what WAWC leader Beth Pratt told us is an overpass “for everything from monarch butterflies to mountain lions.”
Pratt, a cougar-sweater-wearing environmental activist who serves on WAWC’s Partner Leadership Team, is the program’s public face. She is also a regional executive director of the national Wildlife Federation. In 2021, the group received a $25 million grant from “Wallis Annenberg and the Annenberg Foundation” for the bridge that bears the late philanthropist’s name.
Related: Bridges and Cougars and Butterflies, Oh MY! Chris Rufo Exposes Yet ANOTHER Gavin Newsom Boondoggle. “If you are asking yourself why butterflies could possibly need a bridge, then you are a sane person who is in no way qualified for elected office in California…Now we know why his cringy social media team is so mad at Nick Shirley.”
THANKS, FELLAS:
Ukraine has deployed roughly 200 personnel across the Middle East to aid gulf countries in shooting down Iranian drones
Ukrainian teams are already in the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Saudi Arabia, and are on the way to Kuwait -Zelensky to the British Parliament
— OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical) March 18, 2026
GUN RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS: If You Need a Lesson in the Value of Gun Rights, Just Look at Iran.
SAY ANYTHING:
Raskin: "Thomas Paine was an undocumented immigrant."
Jordan: "How was he an illegal immigrant? He was born in the UK and came to America, then a British colony."
Raskin: "I didn't say he was an illegal immigrant. He was an undocumented immigrant." pic.twitter.com/3H6fDV02rf
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) March 18, 2026
Kyle Becker summed it up best in the replies: “These people are absolute freaking morons.”
JOANNE JACOBS: Why teachers quit: ‘It was the wild West.’ “Another complained that behavior expectations kept changing. Instead of automatic punishments for disrespect, insubordination and violence, teachers were told to ‘have a buddy role.'”
DON’T GET COCKY:
Eugene is great. Best thing to happen for the state party Democrats in 15 years.
But the emphasis on this just as emphasis are on all special elections are often overblown.
Per the great Kyle Kondik there have been nearly 300 U.S. House special elections since the mid-1950s more… https://t.co/pfQldkO96f pic.twitter.com/jDPBtINJxO— ZitoSalena (@ZitoSalena) March 18, 2026
I DUNNO, ASIDE FROM A TEMPORARY SPIKE IN OIL PRICES, SO FAR THEIR FREE-RIDERSHIP SEEMS TO BE WORKING FOR THEM: Trump Wonders if Crushing Iran Would Wake Up U.S. ‘Allies.’
Maybe this might wake them up: What are the odds that Trump puts a tariff-like “security fee” on all oil transiting the Strait of Hormuz? . . .
MUCH MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE:
A federal court revoked the U.S. citizenship of a man who orchestrated a massive $3.8 million COVID-19 relief fraud scheme, ruling he obtained naturalization through lies while actively committing fraud. The defendant submitted numerous fraudulent loan applications using false… pic.twitter.com/K9o80N2tPP
— US Attorney Reding Quiñones (@USAO_SDFL) March 17, 2026
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CHRISTIAN TOTO: Trump Effect? Oscar Ratings Crater in Second Term.
These celebrity galas often feast on anti-Trump lectures, be it those “ICE out” pins or mocking the First Family. The messages may differ, but the target is typically the same.
President Trump.
And, as a result, Hollywood, Inc. watched awards show ratings slump.
Their ratings stabilized somewhat during the Biden years, but with Trump back in office, the ratings decline resumed. Just look at the just-released Oscar numbers.
Also, Hollywood largely stopped making (and awarding) movies people want to see. Trump or no Trump, why tune in to see which movie you never even heard of won Best Picture?
OLD AND BUSTED: Russian Election Interference.
The New Hotness? US intel hid Chinese 2020 election meddling from Trump because they opposed his policies, memo says. “Dr. Barry A. Zulauf, a member of the Senior National Intelligence Service reported that others in the intelligence community said ‘I don’t want my intelligence going to the White House where it will be used by that vulgarian in the Oval Office to support policies against China with which I personally disagree.’”
IT WOULD TAKE A HEART OF STONE NOT TO LAUGH:
Today in this episode of “Twitter is not real life,” Ro Khanna’s supposedly immense influence resulted in every single one of these socialists losing. https://t.co/vbwap6nGad
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) March 18, 2026
IN THE WORDS OF CURTIS LEMAY, IF YOU KILL ENOUGH OF THEM, THE REST STOP FIGHTING: Iranian Intelligence Minister Who Led Assassination Plots Against US Officials Eliminated In Israeli Strike, IDF Says. “Israel on Wednesday killed Iran’s intelligence minister, Esmaeil Khatib, during an airstrike in Tehran, according to the Israel Defense Forces. Khatib orchestrated the violent crackdown on protesters earlier this year and ran an agency that attempted assassinations against U.S. officials.”
UM…:
Amazon received 10,044 H-1B approvals in 2025, the most of any company in America, while laying off 14,000 American employees. They are the single largest H-1B sponsor in the country. https://t.co/f1SRUXm68l
— bitchuneedsoap (@bitchuneedsoap) March 17, 2026
THEY’RE THE POWERHOUSE OF THE CELL: Mitochondria identified as key players in a rare disease causing microcephaly.
HMMM: American Diner Gothic.
You’re not hallucinating the great weirding of America. The visual evidence is everywhere. Start with what you can see.
You’re in a small town in Wisconsin, the heart of Normal America. The transgender assistant manager at CVS has a septum piercing, a wolf cut, and a nametag that reads “Finn.” A block away, the 4channer construction worker in the Sam Hyde shooter shirt listens to Bladee and plots his impending virality. At Target, the anime section has metastasized from one shelf to an entire aisle.
These aren’t random weirdos and they aren’t teenagers in a phase. Walk through any office park and you’ll find the same aesthetic bleeding through the cubicles: anime stickers on laptops, Discord running on second monitors. They’re a new American type, young but trans-generational, as distinctive as the organization man or the valley girl once were. I call them dinergoths: what you get when economic mobility dies, suburbs become psychic deserts, and Discord becomes more real than your cul-de-sac.
The term came to me when I was trying to identify what had, over the past decade, silently washed over the 95 percent of America that lived outside of the superstar cities. Placelessness without cosmopolitanism and with complacent downward mobility. A post-subcultural “alt” aesthetic with a post-nerd fandom orientation that’s become a new mainstream. Queerness but casual and prole-ified. Dinergoth: “diner” for provincialism, “goth” as lazy shorthand for alternative aesthetics.
These tendencies are correlated. Something is making them happen together in the places previously considered to be the most normal. A new quirk of 2020s America is that geek equals goth equals left-behind American.
Dinergothdom exists as both a concentrated archetype and a mass-cultural wave. The dinergoth core is the pierced-up, gender-fluid Amazon warehouse worker who streams on Twitch, writes fanfiction, wears a furry tail to raves, runs an OnlyFans, and dreams of voice acting while working nights at the fulfillment center.
While we’re on the topic: I’m a Furry. My Community Has a Violence Problem. An insider’s account of how online fandom culture can spiral toward extremism. “Within insular online communities, political narratives can spread quickly and go largely unchallenged. Friend groups often reinforce those narratives rather than question them. Over time, identity politics and extreme ideological positions have become increasingly common in certain parts of the fandom. Criticism of those beliefs is often interpreted not as disagreement but as a direct attack on personal identity. And that reaction makes sense if you understand how identity works within furry culture.”
FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF EARTH-SHATTERING KABOOMS: Seven-ton meteor that fell from the Cleveland sky could be seen several states away.
Related: Meteor identified as likely cause of boom heard across Ohio.
BREAKING: Rolling Stone has Mild Disagreement with Trump’s FCC Chairman, Forgets Mild Disagreement with Trump’s First Term FCC Chairman:
Immensely proud to have progressed in the eyes of a publication called Rolling Stone from “History’s Greatest Monster, Even Worse Than Hitler and the Plague” to . . . forgotten. Grateful for the honor! pic.twitter.com/aCb4A9NUaD
— Ajit Pai (@AjitPai) March 17, 2026
RABBI MICHAEL BARCLAY: Iran Shows That It Is Truly Evil and Must Be Stopped.
WHEN YOU LOVE THE HOSPITAL SO MUCH: Florida hospital sues patient who is refusing to leave.
BLUE STATE BLUES: Virginians At More Risk Thanks to Soros-Funded Prosecutors. “At the exact moment Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger and a Democrat-majority legislature are ramming through additional gun control measures restricting the Constitutional rights of law-abiding Virginians, those responsible for putting bad guys who break the law behind bars are instead going easy and putting peaceful Virginians at risk. That includes the risk of getting murdered.”
More details at the link than I would have imagined.
