BE CAREFUL OUT THERE: BBB warns of surge in sophisticated tax scams ahead of April 15 deadline. “Tax scammers are using AI to be even more convincing, realistic and effective… In just a few minutes, a phony website or scam email can wipe out your bank account. Fraudsters are hoping people will be so rushed to file their taxes on time that they will disregard key red flags. Ignoring these is dangerous to you and your family.”
April 1, 2026
CHRISTIAN TOTO: Supergirl Adopts Insane ‘Lady Ghostbusters’ PR Push.
The finished film even included a scene where the Lady Ghostbusters deal with online trolls.
Perhaps the key players realized they had a turkey on their hands, and it was time to do some creative marketing to deflect that sad truth? Or, they figured the Victimhood Card would rally progressives to movie theaters nationwide.
Are you sure about that?
The film dramatically underperformed. Sony later re-rebooted the franchise with modest success.
The “Supergirl” rollout feels very similar. But this isn’t 2016. Movie fans smell this desperation a mile away, and it’s already building bad buzz on the project.
…and the audience just left the building. Gotta get your stars to stop talking like this. https://t.co/EH4lGxVVz5
— Joseph Kahn (@JosephKahn) March 31, 2026
She…expects a backlash for being a female…in “SuperGIRL”??? https://t.co/Jo2lBjXOnr
— Brad Slager: CNN+ Lifetime Subscriber (@MartiniShark) March 31, 2026
This film exists in Superman’s corner of the DC universe, but Alcock’s strategy sounds awfully reminiscent of a line spoken Batman’s nemesis Bane at the beginning of The Dark Knight Rises: “Crashing the plane — with no survivors!!!”
WHY IS HIGHER EDUCATION SUCH A CESSPIT OF RACISM? ‘Invidious discrimination’: U. Wyoming offers illegal race-based scholarships, complaint alleges.
BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP ON THE FRONT BURNER:
The birthright citizenship case this morning is really more about politics than it is the law.
If the Administration loses nothing of substance will change. But the debate has been joined, and taken to the very highest level of discourse.
Two years ago no one would have even…
— Shipwreckedcrew (@shipwreckedcrew) April 1, 2026
“Two years ago no one would have even imagined this issue would be before the Supreme Court. But Pres. Trump FORCED it there.”
Turns out, you can just do things.
BUT WILL THEY LISTEN? Europe Needs to Hear This Harsh Truth. “The self-styled sophisticates in Brussels and Europe’s capitals remain remarkably provincial in their outlook, and that’s why today we will speak some harsh truths to our friends in Europe — not because the truth is harsh, but because they believe that we naive Americans don’t recognize it.”
ANALYSIS: TRUE. Republicans Would Rather Cede Power To Democrats Than Their Own Voters.
While the SAVE America Act continues to languish, the Department of Homeland Security (including ICE and Border Patrol) remains unfunded, and dozens of Trump nominees await confirmation, Senate Majority Leader John Thune did what any typical Republican would do. He sent the upper chamber home on a two-week vacation.
The entirely predictable scenario came about after Senate Republicans agreed with Democrats to pass a DHS package devoid of ICE and Border Patrol funding in the early hours of Friday morning. The GOP maintained that the latter two agencies would be funded via reconciliation to overcome Democrats’ procedural blockade.
To their credit, House Republicans rejected that swampy proposal. The lower chamber instead passed a short-term continuing resolution (CR) that temporarily funds DHS — including ICE and CBP.
But rather than force senators to stay in session to consider that measure, other proposals, or debate the SAVE America Act (that is, actually put up a fight), Thune sent everybody home.
It would be far too kind to say that Thune has been a disappointment.
MORE NUKES IS GOOD NUKES:
🚨BREAKING: Because of the oil price crisis and the situation in the Strait of Hormuz, Austria has decided to open its only nuclear power plant in Zwentendorf on the Danube, which was completed in 1978 but never connected to the grid due to a negative referendum the same year. ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/xt99cnyqAv
— Michael Martens (@Andric1961) April 1, 2026
Also, determining national energy policy by referendum is stupid.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Yeah, We Totally Should’ve Let Germany Have France After WWII. “Emmanuel Macron is one of the biggest weasels on the international stage. He’s also one of those European leaders who doesn’t grasp that his country and continent are vestigial shadows that have very few things to contribute to the free world. France could have been useful here, but Manny Mac opted to flush harder as his country swirls down the toilet.”
EVERYTHING. IT SAYS EVERYTHING.
What does it say about American media that I hear about this from my Japanese friends and not Americans?
— Bernadette (@princessbernie) April 1, 2026
VDH: The Two Wars for Iran: The War in a Historical Context.
The administration needs to counter left-wing and far-right hysteria about the supposedly undue influence of Israel.
Israel and the U.S. have many shared agendas—not all, but many—and weakening Iran in this operation is certainly at the top of their shared list. We realize that because we are powerful and at a distance from Iran, while Israel is nearer and more vulnerable, it will, from time to time, have different views of and solutions to Iran’s existential threats and must operate for its own national self-interest, as we do for our own.
But when our national interests dovetail—no terrorist entity has killed more Americans in the last half-century than has Iran—then we are proud and lucky to partner with Israel, a democracy and free society with a formidable record of military competency and a larger air force than any of our NATO partners—including Turkey, France, the UK, and Germany.
Despite the frenzy, the military side of the operation has gone particularly well, often conducted in brilliant fashion. But the hysterical politics of the war have been dangerous to the degree that it now threatens the very mission itself.
That’s the real Vietnam Syndrome, and we have yet to find an effective counter to it.
WHAT IF THE GREENLAND CAPER WAS ACTUALLY ABOUT SMOKING OUT HOW WILLING — AND EVEN EAGER — OUR “ALLIES” WERE TO GO TO WAR WITH US?
In January, Iran had a stronger Navy than Canada.
Now Iran’s navy has been sunk.
I hope everyone now understands how completely full of 💩 Mark Carney is. https://t.co/bgMaQ9mkMr
— John Ʌ Konrad V (@johnkonrad) April 1, 2026
WHY IS HIGHER EDUCATION SUCH A CESSPIT OF ANTISEMITISM? As Yale’s Jewish Population Declines to 1940s Quota Levels, University Leaders Say Jewish Community is ‘Thriving.’
To be fair, “university leaders” lie a lot.
TO BE FAIR, THEY’RE ALWAYS OUTRAGED WHEN WE’RE WINNING:
General Caine casually says the air campaign in Iran is shifting to "dynamic targets". What does this mean and why should we care?
Dynamic targets are unplanned or unanticipated objectives that have become known in near-real time to the intelligence surveillance and…
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) April 1, 2026
JOHN ONDRASIK BRINGS THE HAMMER OF TRUTH:
Your terrorist pals impose the death penalty for selling land to Jews. Why does that not bother you?
— John Ondrasik (@johnondrasik) March 31, 2026
DISPATCHES FROM EURABIA:
Sorry but what the heck is going on with this?
Why is the UK media suddenly fixated on dogs, seemingly to get people to question having them?
The UK is a solidly dog-loving place. British people have worked with them and kept them as companions for ever. This is so weird pic.twitter.com/bjONWXubRH
— Elisheva Abramson 🇮🇱🌴 (@ElishevaSays) March 31, 2026
It isn’t weird. It’s the inevitable result of increasing Islamification, which the UK press is happy to bend over backwards to accommodate. Lest they get blown up or beheaded, I suppose.
CORRECTING THE IGNORANT:
There’s literally a chair set up at SCOTUS for our presidents to sit in for oral argument. Your separation of powers nonsense is more imitation pearl-clutching hauteur. https://t.co/unVfZPgD9v
— AAGHarmeetDhillon (@AAGDhillon) March 31, 2026
To be fair, Ms. Watson is a reporter for CBS, so you can’t expect her to know much. Worse yet, she likes candy corn. No, really, check her profile page. So what can you expect?
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CITY GRABS ANKLES, PREPARES TO VOTE: Shocking poll says half of Angelenos want a democratic socialist for mayor: ‘Holy Zohran Mamdani.’
The poll, conducted by Loyola Marymount University from February 11 to March 16, also puts incumbent Karen Bass second in the upcoming mayoral race at 17% of the vote, after progressive councilmember Nithya Raman, a member of the hard-left Democratic Socialists of America, listed at 32.5%.
About 47.7% of voters wanted a socialist in charge ahead of other listed types of candidates, such as a “moderate, business-oriented Democrat” and “conservative political outsider,” according to the poll.
The reaction from pundits and others: surprise and skepticism.
“Holy Zohran Mandami,” exclaimed Mike Madrid, an anti-Trump Republican strategist who co-founded the Lincoln Project.
Fernando Guerra, director of LMU’s Center for the Study of Los Angeles, told KPCC that the poll took an unusually different tactic in asking voters questions.
“Most polls, they just give the name,” Guerra said. “We kind of educated the voter before we asked, ‘Who would you support?’”
“Educated” is doing a whole lot of work in that sentence.
RIGHT?
For a bunch of people who flew Ukrainian flags for years and claimed to support immigrants the left sure erased the mural of a murdered Ukrainian immigrant pretty fucking fast.
— The Drunk Republican (@DrunkRepub) March 31, 2026
NONSENSE, LOTS OF UNFAMILIAR ACCOUNTS ON X TELL ME IRAN HAS ALREADY WON: Iranian Missile Strikes Fall to Lowest Level Seen During War As ‘Widespread Desertions’ Squeeze Regime’s Fighting Force, Hegseth Says.
“URGENTLY ROLL OUT RENEWABLES”:
🚨 BREAKING: The European Commission has urged people to work from home, drive and fly less, and for EU countries to urgently roll out renewables, as it warned of a prolonged energy crisis as a result of the conflict in the Gulf.
Full story: https://t.co/0IU3HD1E8u pic.twitter.com/nWOXcCVGGl
— POLITICOEurope (@POLITICOEurope) March 31, 2026
Since sending warships to the Strait of Hormuz is out of the question, I suppose pricing their manufacturers out of existence with ever-higher “renewable” energy costs is the next best thing.
FLASHBACK: Remembering the 2002 AOL/InstaPundit merger April Fool. The only April Fool I’ve done here, and probably the only one I ever will do, but it was fun — complete with a changed header to AOL/InstaPundit — and a surprising number of people bought it.
I would have enjoyed owning a Boeing, I think.
