April 20, 2026
AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD:
Ilhan Omar Assures Public Her Finances Were Handled Honestly By Professionals At 'Quality Accouting Center' https://t.co/9ez5dvIrlT pic.twitter.com/VHvu0jkLQM
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) April 20, 2026
IT’S PROBABLY A GOOD IDEA: What’s Going on at Ford? A Shakeup That Could Change Everything.
COUNTER-TERROR OPERATIONS: IDF unveils map of forward defense line in southern Lebanon amid ceasefire. “The military says five IDF divisions, alongside naval forces, are operating south of the line to dismantle Hezbollah infrastructure and prevent threats to northern Israeli communities.”
AND IT’S A UNION THAT SHOULDN’T EVEN EXIST:
One union spends more on political contributions in Washington than the entire tech industry. pic.twitter.com/9050zkyiel
— Pedro Domingos (@pmddomingos) April 20, 2026
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PRIORITIES: Harvard investigates Republican club for filming Muslim event on campus.
On April 4, the Harvard Republican Club posted a short video and one photo on its X account of an Eid al-Fitr event hosted by the school’s Islamic Society.
“Today, students were interrupted from their midterm studies for several hours by loud music and prayers outside their windows,” the group wrote on X.
“Harvard’s historic Quincy Courtyard had been turned into a bazaar selling Hijabs, Burqas and Qurans for an Eid Mubarak celebration hosted by Harvard’s Islamic Society,” the club wrote.
The group also said the university had been “captured.”
Someone filed a complaint against the club for filming and taking photographs at the even that occurred out in the open, which has prompted a school investigation.
But no investigation of the disruptions, got it.
COLLEGE ATHLETES NOW GET PAID. IS UNIONIZATION NEXT? Maybe, but it doesn’t work that well with the NIL money scheme. Will the big stars really strike (and lose games) so they can give some of their money to the benchwarmers?
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SPARE THE ROD…:
There was a massive DOJ study done decades ago that among people in Federal custody, the single trait career criminals had most in common was that they had all gotten caught as a teenager and the case resolved in a way that left them feeling like they 'got away with it.'
More in… https://t.co/3Mhfi2Tvg8
— J.T. Alexander (@JTAlexander) April 20, 2026
I HAD BEEN ASSURED THAT MAMDANI WOULD MAKE EVERYTHING CHEAPER THAT HE DIDN’T MAKE FREE: FDNY plans to hike cost of ambulance rides by 29%, increase on-site emergency treatment by 42%. “The FDNY is considering hiking ambulance and emergency medical bills by double digits — blaming the squeeze on patients’ pockets on inflation and coming pay increases for union workers.”
KILL ‘EM ALL, LET PALPATINE SORT IT OUT:
The impressive part is that The Force Awakens managed to make the death of 155 billion people dull and forgettable https://t.co/TH39Rjs0Cl
— Godot (@GodotIsW8ing4U) April 19, 2026
On Friday, I finally saw Project Hail Mary. Its efforts at detailed SF worldbuilding and distinct lack of a “Mary Sue” character stand in stark contrast to the Kathleen Kennedy-era Star Wars movies. Speaking of which, I wonder how Solo: A Star Wars Story would have turned out if Kennedy hadn’t fired its co-directors — who went on to make Project Hail Mary.
THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY I WAS PROMISED: I’ve fired one of America’s most powerful lasers—here’s what a shot day looks like. Okay, this part isn’t quite what I expected: “On a typical shot day, the target might be a piece of metal foil thinner than a human hair, a jet of gas or a tiny plastic pellet.”
YOU GET LESS OF WHAT YOU PENALIZE:
Another battlefield in the ongoing war against men.
When you relentlessly attack the people, ok, let's just call them men, who fight the wars, drive the ships and trucks, drill the oil, build the stuff, etc., you'll find you're losing wars, and can't have the stuff that didn't… https://t.co/Hpgud2SJcw
— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) April 20, 2026
Rep. Elise Stefanik took Jake Tapper to the cleaners… just one look at his pouty, cranky, smug little face while she was going off about his claims that Trump had called for genocide against Iran, and you know she had him where she wanted him.
And where he did not want to be.
Watch this:
Rep. Elise Stefanik just DOG WALKED Jake Tapper on his own show: “This is TYPICAL CNN!”
Tapper tried to claim Trump was calling for genocide against Iran — Stefanik shut it down instantly.
TAPPER: “Is calling for wiping out an entire civilization bad or good?”
STEFANIK: “Of… pic.twitter.com/qm6Vlz4Mye
— Overton (@overton_news) April 19, 2026
As Stefanik tells Jake, “President Trump effectively brought the Iranians to the table. He effectively delivered a ceasefire.”
Would that be a bad thing from CNN’s leftist point of view? CNN’s Man in Iran Tacitly Admits He Had a ‘Minder’ Who Informed Regime.
To answer that question, it’s worth noting:
It’s still astonishing that anyone listens to a word Jake Tapper says, especially when he pushes claims like this that are completely made up. He was the one who first laundered the dossier into the public bloodstream. Before that, even the fake news wouldn’t cross the line of… https://t.co/igXddtjydY pic.twitter.com/4hLIsEcRUf
— Hans Mahncke (@HansMahncke) April 19, 2026
MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: Want to Steal an American Job? There’s an App for That.
I DUNNO, IT’S HARD TO TRUST ANYTHING THAT COMES OUT OF CHINA: China Is Starting to Pull Ahead of US in AI Race.
THIS IS THE OBAMA YEARS FINALLY SNOWBALLING:
Fetterman does not hold a single position that wasn’t mainstream in the Democratic Party in 2020. Not one. That’s how fast the party embraced Islamo-Marxism. Stunning. https://t.co/SsocHIQhHk
— David Marcus (@BlueBoxDave) April 20, 2026
But as Salena Zito noted in the replies, “He votes with his party for the majority of the time.” If Fetterman wants to actually do something about his party’s radicalization, maybe he could try costing them hard votes. Until then, it’s hard to take his protests very seriously.
And this, now more than ever:

FALLOUT: Ruben Gallego’s Political Career May Be Toast.
For Democrats, Gallego wasn’t just a senator from Arizona; he was the future of the party.
That was before Eric Swalwell.
Last week, Swalwell resigned his House seat and withdrew from the California gubernatorial race following a wave of sexual assault allegations, and Gallego has been caught in the fallout. They were close friends, and he chaired Swalwell’s 2020 presidential campaign and publicly backed his gubernatorial run. When the Swalwell allegations broke, the questions about Gallego’s proximity followed almost immediately. What did he know? When did he know it? His answers have satisfied almost no one.
He held a press conference on Tuesday, attempting to distance himself from Swalwell. “I fell for it,” he told reporters, saying Swalwell “lied to all of us.”
Unfortunately, it didn’t go so well for him.
Democratic strategist Anthony Coley, a Capitol Hill veteran who once worked for the late Sen. Edward Kennedy, didn’t even try to sugarcoat it.
“If Gallego’s press conference was meant to reassure potential voters, donors and activists, it failed,” he said. “Folded arms and incomplete answers don’t shut down a story, they extend it. The party faithful will want real clarity on his relationship with Swalwell before he gets serious consideration for higher office in 2028.”
Swalwell is toxic, and was from the start.
NEWS YOU CAN USE? Skunk Works Is Looking for a U-2 Pilot.

When I was a kid, I never thought so many of the Air Force planes of my youth — the C-130, the U-2, the Warthog, and of course the B-52, would still be flying well into the 21st century.
PULL IT ALREADY:
.@SecDuffy: 53% of Commercial Driver's Licenses issued to foreigners in New York were issued illegally.
We gave them FOUR MONTHS to comply with the law. They refused, so we had no choice but to pull funding — and if they still refuse, we can pull their ability to issue CDLs. pic.twitter.com/Y34iGN0U2Z
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) April 19, 2026