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April 2, 2026
These are extremely capable electronic warfare platforms, and are coming into service mostly on time and on budget. That’s a rare enough feat that I figured it deserved a shout-out.
NASA’S RETURN TO THE MOON IS THE REBOOT WE NEED RIGHT NOW:
The mission, which launches today, even follows the playbook that governs Hollywood reboots. While not challenging Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’s near-final form of ‘diversity’, with virtually no men of recognisably European extraction at all, the lunar mission will return in a gender swap for the ages: Apollo has been replaced with Artemis, the Graeco-Roman god’s girl-boss twin sister. Artemis is Rey to Apollo’s Luke, Galadriel to Apollo’s Aragorn, Nahla Ake (captain of the USS Athena, funnily enough) to Apollo’s Kirk.
In some regards, the NASA mission is not quite as eccentric as Hollywood. DEI considerations are clearly visible in the four-strong squad actually riding in the warhead, but all are well qualified in traditional terms and, on the ground, NASA is at least still staffed by top scientists and engineers. And unlike the new Lord of the Rings proposal, which will adapt scenes from the books that didn’t appear in Peter Jackson’s trilogy, Artemis is at least intended to retell the whole story, and then start layering in sequels.
Faster, please; the surviving men who walked on the moon during the Apollo program aren’t getting any younger:
The last five surviving astronauts to be anywhere this close to the moon
Buzz Aldrin (96) – Apollo 11
David Scott (93) – Apollo 9 and 15
Charles Duke (90) – Apollo 16
Harrison Schmitt (90) – Apollo 17
Fred Haise (92) – Apollo 13, never walked pic.twitter.com/S9y8ZzBPeC— Tsar Apu II Apustayevich (@tsarlet2) April 2, 2026
SECURITY ‘N’ CIGARS: The Poison-Antidote/Poison-Antidote Loop: Chemical Warfare Training in the Cold War.
CITY JOURNAL: “Gavin Newsom’s Empire of Fraud.”
IT’S FRAUD ALL THE WAY DOWN: The $196 Billion Question: Where Did California’s Medi-Cal Money Go? “Spending under Gavin Newsom might make more sense if you think of Medi-Cal as a benefit program for crooks that occasionally provides healthcare to those in need.”
DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES:
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The Colorado Court of Appeals confirms what we’ve said for years:
Mesa County District Court Judge Matthew Barrett illegally persecuted Tina Peters for her First Amendment-protected political views.
9 years in prison.
For a 69-year-old woman.
Because Barrett didn’t like…
— 🇺🇸 Mike Davis 🇺🇸 (@mrddmia) April 2, 2026
KEEP ‘EM SCARED AND RUNNING:
To understand why Saudi Arabia and Israel are urging Trump not to relent on Iran it is important to understand the military term "pursuit phase".
Pursuit is the phase which follows a breakthrough designed to catch or cut off a hostile force that is attempting to escape…
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) April 1, 2026
MORE ON BONDI’S OUSTER: Pam Bondi Fired, Todd Blanche to Replace Her as Acting Attorney General.
HMM: Reserve Sheriff’s Deputy Sues VW After He Was Fired for Having His Service Weapon in His Car.
Luis Rivera worked for Volkswagen at the company’s Chattanooga, Tennessee plant for 14 years. He was a production team leader there. Rivera is also a reserve deputy in the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office. Last June Rivera stopped at the VW plant after some training to pick something up and had his service gun in his car. That, VW says, violated the company’s no-weapons-in-the-workplace policy and the German auto maker fired him.
However…Tennessee is one of the most gun-friendly states in US of A. Volunteer State law — Section 39-17-1313 — permits lawful gun owners to store firearms in their vehicles as long as the firearm is kept out of sight. Rivera has now sued Volkswagen for violating Tennessee law and he’s seeking at least half a million dollars.
He seems to have a strong case.
REPORTS: Bondi out, replacement on the way.
HOWARD WOLOWITZ SMILES: NASA’s No. 1 priority: Artemis II toilet fixed before trip to moon.
DON’T BE SURPRISED IF THAT FIGURE TURNS OUT TO BE LOW-BALL:
I’m not a blackpiller but the web of corruption that extends between the Democratic Party, the public sector, NGOs, and various connected cronies is worse than anyone can imagine.
We’re probably talking about hundreds of billions $ stolen nationally each year. https://t.co/BmmUkNnQmp
— Coddled Affluent Professional (@feelsdesperate) April 2, 2026
UPDATE (FROM GLENN):
A bombshell NYT report on the major legal jeopardy ActBlue is facing! ActBlue allegedly failed to investigate potentially illegal foreign political contributions and then misrepresented its safeguards to Congress.
As a former FEC Chairman, I can tell you this is a big deal. https://t.co/Wc1I2bFbKv
— Sean Cooksey (@SeanJCooksey) April 2, 2026
ANSWERING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Should you microdose Ozempic? Experts are split on risks vs benefits.
GAVIN NEWSOM’S EMPIRE OF FRAUD:
California is a cash machine. The state collects some of the country’s highest income, business, and fuel taxes, and now spends more than $300 billion per year. And yet, everywhere you look, California seems to be falling apart.
The roads are crumbling. Mismanaged wildfires have turned neighborhoods into ash. Drug addiction and homelessness have metastasized, turning parts of Los Angeles and San Francisco into no-go zones. And the cost-of-living crisis is pricing middle-class taxpayers out of basic necessities like groceries and gas, even as the state spends billions on welfare programs that never seem to lift anyone out of poverty.
Californians are beginning to ask: Where is all this money going? On paper, it funds hospitals, universities, schools, prisons, infrastructure, and other public services. But beneath the surface, something else is happening that California Governor Gavin Newsom does not want you to see: massive, systematic, brazen fraud.
We conducted interviews with public officials, fraud experts, and political figures, and reviewed hundreds of pages of government reports, state audits, criminal indictments, and other public records on California fraud. From unemployment insurance and Medicaid to failed homeless initiatives and welfare programs, seemingly every state program has been compromised by criminals. The best estimates suggest that, on the governor’s watch, fraudsters, scammers, and organized crime rings have stolen at least $180 billion from taxpayers.
Welcome to Gavin Newsom’s empire of fraud.
Read the whole thing.
OH, IT’S SO MUCH WORSE THAN THAT: Gavin Newsom, ‘The Celebrated Jumping Fraud King of Calaveras County.’
ABORIGINAL RIGHTS!
Few people understand this historical nuance, but the indigenous people of the Moon are the “Americans”, a scrappy minority tribe from planet earth that first arrived on this desolate rock in earth-year 1969.
We must respect these original settlers and their right to the land. https://t.co/ZS9hGwjB4n
— John Loeber 🎢 (@johnloeber) April 2, 2026
I want Canadians to land on the moon just so that their first words on the surface are forced to be a land acknowledgment to the native indigenous people of the United States.
— The Archdude (@The_Archdude) April 2, 2026
JUST ANOTHER WELL-TO-DO RED-DIAPER GRIFTER:
Extremely underrated Hasan Piker moment was when he went on a five minute rant about how the streets should run red with the blood of landlords and like five days later everyone found out his mom owns and manages commercial real estate
— Swann Marcus (@SwannMarcus89) April 2, 2026
2026 IS NOT ONLY STRANGER THAN YOU IMAGINE, IT IS STRANGER THAN YOU CAN IMAGINE: I Did Not Have ‘Everest Guides Poisoning Climbers’ on My Bingo Card.
ONCE AGAIN I SAY, LET IT ALL OUT, KURT:
This retard is going to get destroyed in the Macron lawsuit and she’ll get destroyed in an Erika lawsuit.
If you think she’s like some kind of genius, you’re wrong. She’s a malicious halfwit. Everything she says is wrong, and if you believe her, you are a sucker. https://t.co/wCLKL0Qih6
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) April 2, 2026
CULTURES REQUIRE NURTURING: ProudOfUs.UK Reminds British (and Anglophiles Everywhere) of Untaught Past Glories.
FINALLY: Trump Trounces Tucker.
President Trump posts an article by Douglas Murray that highlights Tucker Carlson's extremism, embrace of Islamists, and America Last:
The article is titled: "Deranged Tucker Carlson backstabs Trump"
Several of the top lines in the piece include:
-"While the president has… pic.twitter.com/FffUxE491w
— Ryan Saavedra (@RyanSaavedra) April 2, 2026
Trump posted a link to Douglas Murray’s piece, which absolutely eviscerated Tucker, within about half an hour after his speech to the nation. Obviously, it was top of mind, and the two events are obviously linked directly in his mind.
Trump is at war, and Tucker is a traitor to both the President and the nation. That is the message, and I have to say that everybody I know, at least, believes it.
Murray didn’t hold back, and by extension, Trump isn’t either.
In politics, it is often the people who you think have your back who end up stabbing you there.
Nobody knows that better than Donald Trump, who has been stabbed in the back more times than Julius Caesar — yet has still survived.
This week, part of the noisy right-wing online podcast-sphere again turned on the president.
Leading the virtual charge, again, was Trump’s one-time cheerleader, Tucker Carlson.
By not addressing Tucker directly and allowing Murray to do so, Trump is sending a second message: you are dead to me.
Perhaps Trump could “award” Tucker an Iron Cross, as FDR did to a reporter with the New York Daily News in 1942 when he disapproved of his journalism.
COLLAPSING IRAN: Signs are everywhere that the Mullahs and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) are at loggerheads amid the steadily growing piles of rubble creating at will by American and Israeli aircraft and missiles. Richard Pollock surveys the wreckage and looks ahead.
SCOTUS OR NOT, THIS HAS GOT TO STOP: HUNDREDS of companies provide BIRTH TOURISM for foreign moms who want US citizen babies.
During oral arguments before the Supreme Court regarding birthright citizenship, the Trump administration noted the prevalence of “birth tourism,” or the action of an expecting foreign national traveling to the United States with the intention of giving birth to their child on American soil, granting them US citizenship.
Kayleigh McEnany said on Fox News as the Supreme Court was in session, “There are more than 500 firms in China that facilitate people coming from the Chinese Communist Party to give birth here in the United States. Obama enabled this through loopholes dating back to 2009, and what that could mean is 1 million new voters by 2030. Imagine that, Communist Party voters.”
Over the years, a number of companies across the US and its territories have catered to mothers from countries such as Russia and China. Recent reports have revealed companies operating in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, a US territory in the Pacific.
Insane and self-destructive, just like the rest of Obama’s legacy.
