THE NONPROFIT SECTOR IS SHADIER THAN THE FOR-PROFIT SECTOR: Investigation: UPMC jet frequent flier to Florida city where CEO owns condos.

And much less regulated and scrutinized.

BLOCKADE HARDER THEN:

One of the Israeli generals said the blockade will do more damage to the IRGC than every bomb we dropped on them for the last month. https://t.co/eFtZZBrjpt

— Dandalf (@DanTalks1) April 19, 2026

NOVEMBER PREVIEW: Abdul El-Sayed Gets More Brazen As New Michigan Primary Polls Show Him Surging.

Establishment Democrats view El-Sayed, who is backed by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), as unelectable, and fear a primary win for him would torpedo their chances of retaking the Senate, where they need four seats to flip it.

Most polls have shown Stevens ahead, but within the margin of error. But the most recent two have shown shifts in favor of El-Sayed, with one showing a three-way tie between the three candidates and one even showing El-Sayed and McMorrow were tied while Stevens trailed significantly.

It is perhaps with the knowledge in mind that his association with Piker and his anti-Israel, anti-AIPAC views don’t appear to be hurting him with Democratic voters that El-Sayed has gotten even more brazen, with him dragging the Vance family into his Senate primary battle, and “joking” with podcaster Brian Allen over their private life. He also disgustingly suggested that Vice President Vance didn’t love his children in a way he’d love white children.

It’s almost impossible to believe that this is Michigan.

ON SUNDAYS I RUN A PROMO POST FOR (MOSTLY) INDIE AUTHORS:  Book Promo And Vignettes By Luke, Mary Catelli and ‘Nother Mike.

There is also a fun vignette competition.

ROGER KIMBALL: The Geopolitics of Epic Fury.

I don’t mean to single out the paper that President Trump accurately, if impolitely, calls “the failing New York Times.” About all things Trump, The Wall Street Journal is just as bad. Between February 28, when Operation Epic Fury began, and last week, when President Trump allowed Iran to lift its head out of the water briefly in order to surrender, the WSJ has run countless stories explaining how, despite appearances, Iran was actually winning the conflict. On Saturday, the Journal greeted Iran’s braggadocio about the Strait of Hormuz just as enthusiastically as did the Times. If your version of those papers came with a magic subtext mood reader, you would have been able to hear the excited Molly Bloom-like cries wafting off the page: “Yes! Yes! Yes! Please let it be so! Please let something bad happen to US forces so we can wipe that grin off Trump’s face! Please!”

It’s so obvious.

YEP:

"Feminization equals wokeness."

That single sentence from Helen Andrews at NatCon 5 stopped me cold.

She argues that everything we call wokeness — empathy over rationality, safety over risk, cohesion over competition and hierarchy — is simply the downstream result of… pic.twitter.com/DGWtbm5Xt4

— Camus (@newstart_2024) April 19, 2026

Related:

The voting gap is driven primarily by single women who see their interests as inherently at odds with families and single men. That’s what the data tell us. pic.twitter.com/j7eJ8tKtlM

— Inez Stepman ⚪️🔴⚪️ (@InezFeltscher) April 19, 2026

TODAY IS HITLER’S BIRTHDAY, FOR THOSE WHO STILL CELEBRATE:

The dude with the nazi tattoo is now doing nazi salutes??

Where’s the outrage from @CNN @MSNBC @nytimes @AP??

The media were more upset at @elonmusk doing a hand gesture from his heart than they are at this pic.twitter.com/0Im0uKlMRj

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) April 19, 2026

JOSH BLACKMAN REPEATS HIS CALL: John Roberts is no leader and should resign as Chief Justice. “Why would I tell Roberts–someone I agreed with about 90% of the time–to step down? The answer was a failure of leadership that was visible through publicly available information.”

NICE WORK, FELLAS: U.S. Arrests Iranian Arms Trafficker at Los Angeles Airport.

CUTE:  Discovering Earth. Inspired by a post by Eric S. Raymond (@esrtweet) on X.

A SWEET STORY: Elon Musk fulfills teen’s last wish in touching X post after she was too weak to take his call.

GOOD:  Cracks Appear in Climate Consensus as Germany’s Energy Minister Admits Renewable Energy is Ruining the Country.

COMMUNIST DISPLAYS:  Wheels On The Marxist Bus: Obama And Mamdani Meet Using Toddlers As Props.

PRECISELY THIS:  In the Beginning, America’s Democrats and the Europeans Alike Strongly Supported Israel; What Happened? The Jews Had the Gall to Stop Acting Like Communists.

WELL, THAT’S ONE WAY TO BECOME A BESTSELLER:  Gavin Newsom Published a Book, and Guess Where the Majority of Its Sales Came From.

THIS IS QUEASY-MAKING: Abdul El-Sayed Gets More Brazen As New Michigan Primary Polls Show Him Surging.

CAN EUROPE QUELL ITS INTERNAL DISSIDENTS:  How Far Right Can You Get?

DEMOCRAT PRIVILEGE, THAT’S WHAT HAPPENED:  Politico Had Swalwell Dead to Rights in 2019. What Happened?

WHAT HE SAID:  UBI is a subscription to existence, paid by a central authority that retains control of the infrastructure you depend on to live. You do not own the AI. You do not own the compute. You do not own the network. You receive an allowance calibrated to keep you functional as a consumer and quiet as a political subject.

X-cancel.

THE JAPANESE ARE FEELING THEIR OATS:  Japanese Destroyer Transit through Taiwan Strait Rattles China.

AS THEY SHOULD:  DOJ sues six states for refusing to turn over voter registration rolls, warns ‘open defiance’ of federal law. Delaware, Maryland, New Mexico, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington accused of violating federal election laws.

IT’S WHO THEY ARE. IT’S WHAT THEY DO:  Disgusting, Deranged, Deplorable Democrats.

ALWAYS WERE:  Intellectuals are F*cking Idiots. Why the Smartest People Get Trapped by Their Own Minds.

LET’S NOT DISAPPOINT THEM:  Speaking as someone inside Iran who stayed connected through Starlink during the total internet blackout, I want to say this loud and clear: President Trump’s recent video on Truth Social — showing Iranian protesters writing “President Trump please help” on walls, waving Lion and Sun flags alongside American flags, replaying raw footage of the revolution and saying “I’m with you, I will fight for you and I will win for you” — is music to our ears.

X-cancel.

ONE CAN HOPE:  The Tape That Just Ended Mahmoud Abbas. He thought nobody was listening. The Saudis heard everything. And the Palestinian Authority will never recover.