April 7, 2026

A VERY PUBLIC EDUCATION:

Posted at 10:23 am by Stephen Green

YOU STILL DON’T HATE THEM ENOUGH:

Posted at 10:08 am by Charlie Martin

NEW WAYS TO BOOST DHS DEPORTATIONS: Official claims of 600,000 deportations to date by Department of Homeland Security under the Trump administration lack credible backup, but new DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin has multiple new tactics at hand for speeding things up, according to experts interviewed by The Washington Stand’s S.A. McCarthy.

Posted at 9:58 am by Mark Tapscott

TO BE FAIR, PERFORMATIVE OUTRAGE IS TAPPER’S ENTIRE SCHTICK:

Maybe Tapper’s schtick would be less tiresome if it weren’t entirely one-sided.

Posted at 9:52 am by Stephen Green

HEY, BIG SPENDER: OpenAI doesn’t expect to be profitable until at least 2030 as AI costs surge.

Spending on AI training will be staggering. In 2028, OpenAI projects spending $121 billion on computing power for its AI research. The estimate for 2029 is slightly higher, before AI model training costs dip back below $100 million in 2030. (This year, for perspective, the company expects to spend just over $25 billion on AI model training.)

Anthropic’s totals are smaller but still climb steadily, surpassing $30 billion in 2029.

These losses come despite an expected surge in revenue at both companies. OpenAI’s revenue is projected to nearly double annually, reaching roughly $275 billion in 2030. Anthropic expects to approach $150 billion in 2029.

YOY revenue doubling is in line with OpenAI’s growth since the company debuted OpenAI, so we’ll see.

Posted at 9:37 am by Stephen Green

MEANWHILE, DOWN UNDER…:

Posted at 9:21 am by Stephen Green

IN COMMON USAGE, “WAR CRIMES” IS JUST A TERM FOR THINGS THE UNITED STATES OR ISRAEL ARE DOING THAT ARE WORKING AGAINST OUR ENEMIES:

Posted at 9:19 am by Glenn Reynolds

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Marco Rubio Is the Reason I Gave Up on Political Purity Tests. “There was a time when I was pretty exacting about purity tests for other conservative activists and, to a lesser extent, Republican politicians. Marco Rubio long ago made me abandon them completely for politicians. President Trump reinforced that.”

Posted at 9:06 am by Stephen Green

UGH.

It’s very important to defeat Trump, you see, because he’s an “authoritarian.”

Posted at 8:57 am by Glenn Reynolds

THEY OUGHT TO BE ASHAMED:

Posted at 8:50 am by Stephen Green

HMM: Trump confirms U.S. sent guns to Iranian people, but says intermediary kept them.

“We sent some guns,” he said. “They were supposed to go to the people so they could fight back against these thugs. You know what happened? The people that we sent them to kept them.”

“So, I am very upset with a certain group of people and they’re gonna pay a big price for that,” he added.

Trump previously told Fox News’s Trey Yingst that he believed Kurdish groups had kept the guns intended for the Iranian people. Kurdish militia forces had been the subject of speculation over a possible role in a ground operation against Iran.

Plan A failed. What’s Plan B?

Posted at 8:35 am by Stephen Green

BOB GRABOYES: Eating Jeff Bezos: Senator Elizabeth Warren proposes a wealth tax on “ultra-millionaires.” Note that in 1913, the federal income tax was sold as a tax on the richest of the rich in America.

It seems clear that the money collected by government on the pretense of helping people mostly goes to line the pockets of the connected. Get rid of the fraud and there will be plenty of money to do good. But the do-gooders are more about doing well than doing good.

Posted at 8:03 am by Glenn Reynolds

THE GOAL OF LEFTIST MEDIA IS TO GIVE PEOPLE A FALSE PICTURE OF THE WORLD THROUGH REPETITION AND DRAMATIZATION:

Posted at 8:00 am by Glenn Reynolds

BLUE STATE BLUES: The California Exodus Grows as Affordability Crisis Pushes Residents Out.

“The region recorded the largest population drop of any in the nation between July 2024 and July 2025, according to newly released estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau,” the New York Post reported. “The data, published March 26, shows roughly 54,000 residents left the county during that one-year period. The losses mark a continuation of a steady slide for the nation’s most populous county.”

LA County’s population dropped below 10 million for the first time since 2020. It appears that outlying regions have particularly benefited from the departures, including Las Vegas, which saw a population increase of 20,000.

As more than a few noted on social media, it’s remarkable that people want to leave Southern California. But the high cost of living, crime, poor governance, and general disorder are making it intolerable for many.

While there are many reasons an area can experience a sudden population drop, LA’s precipitous one coincides with a general trend for the Golden State. Much of the state has been bleeding residents (particularly middle-class ones) for over a decade. The numbers stabilized due to immigration, but now that is petering out, too.

California used to be expensive but well-run. Now it’s even more expensive, but to give just one example, has the worst roads in the nation.

Apparently, people don’t like that.

Posted at 7:33 am by Stephen Green

UP FOR PRE-ORDER, THE SEQUEL TO WITCHFINDER, (BUT ALSO A STAND ALONE) FROM SARAH A. HOYT:  Witch’s Daughter (Empires of Magic Book 2).

Some letters come from the living. Some come from the dead. This one comes with a formula that turns a rowboat into a miracle.

Seventeen-year-old Lord Michael Ainsling — youngest brother of the Duke of Darkwater, builder of mechanical marvels, survivor of fairyland — receives a letter from a man sixteen years dead. The inventor Tristram Blakley has not perished; he has been imprisoned by his own genius and begs the one mind in all of Avalon brilliant enough to understand his work to set him free. All Michael has to do is find seven missing brothers first and walk a magical path..

Fifteen-year-old Albinia Blakley has spent her whole life under her mother’s iron thumb — and her mother is a witch. The day Al finally escapes down a rope of knotted sheets, she lands in a world she doesn’t recognize, with no money, no magic kit, and no idea that the stranger who catches her is about to become her greatest ally.

Together, a girl with more secrets than she knows and a boy who builds machines that try to murder him must outwit a sorceress, navigate the treacherous courts of Fairyland, and unravel an enchantment years in the making — before a family is lost for good.

Witch’s Daughter is a gaslamp fantasy brimming with wit, warmth, and wonder, for readers who love their magic wrapped in velvet and their adventures served with morning tea.

Posted at 7:32 am by Sarah Hoyt