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April 19, 2026
THE CEASEFIRE WILL LAST JUST LONG ENOUGH FOR THE NAVY TO RELOAD:
The Wall Street Journal reports that the U.S. Navy is preparing to start boarding and seizing Iranian-linked sanctioned oil tankers in international waters across the world.
The operations would start over the next couple of days if the ceasefire ends without a deal. pic.twitter.com/9chXLLo6Qo
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) April 19, 2026
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Colgate faculty hold teach-in to discuss ‘resistance’ to ICE, police.
YOU LOST ME AT “BERKELEY SOCIOLOGY.” UC Berkeley sociology names transgender activist and AI researcher as commencement speaker.
JUDGE THEM BY THE COMPANY THEY KEEP:
Liz Warren runs through a parade of elected Socialists, culminating with Maine’s National Socialist contender pic.twitter.com/QZ2aY1HmRJ
— Tom Shattuck (@tomshattuck) April 19, 2026
JOHN LUCAS ON VIRGINIA’S SPECIAL ELECTION: Scrapping the Work of the Founding Fathers: Crafting a revolution with an end-run around the Constitution.
SALENA ZITO: Dr. Helen Smith’s newest book His Side is a fresh look at male alienation. “Noted forensic psychologist Dr. Helen Smith’s newest book, His Side: Men Speak Out on Dating, Marriage and Life in America, is a provocative look at the male experience. Smith uses interviews to examine how straight men are forced to navigate shattered norms in a turbulent society. Smith, who has long studied the human experience, takes the conversation outside of clinical data and brings the reader into the living rooms, workplaces, and communities of everyday men. There she uncovers the cultural fraying of the male experience in this country, one that has often been narrowed, stereotyped, and viewed with hostility. She uncovers a deep-seated ‘connective tissue’ that has been unraveled by a culture that often views the male experience through a narrow, and sometimes hostile, lens. . . . Smith’s book is a central guide for both men and women who are eager to understand navigating our modern world. The book offers great insights into men’s needs and a perspective that is clear-eyed and useful for both genders.”
You can read the book here.
HAPPY PATRIOT’S DAY:
Patriots Day. Marking April 19, 1775. When Americans took up arms against their king, and bled, at the crack of terrible dawn.
It's a holiday in Massachusetts and Maine, which was then part of Massachusetts. Should be a national holiday.
July 4 marks the day they published a… pic.twitter.com/K39h8fwSTZ
— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) April 19, 2026
YES:
Trump saying he will hit the refineries and power plants in Iran is a threat to China, not Iran.
— Matthew Marsden (@matthewdmarsden) April 19, 2026
SANITY REAPPEARING? Democrats turn on Spanberger over plummeting popularity amid redistricting.
THE NYT BESTSELLER LIST HAS BEEN AN OBVIOUS SCAM FOR A WHILE NOW: New York Times Puts Gavin Newsom on Best Sellers List Despite ‘Bulk Sales’ It Has Used To Disqualify Conservatives: Nearly three-fourths of the copies Newsom sold around the time he landed on the list came from his campaign.
CHANGE:
rich people getting tattoo removal is one of the biggest cultural rugpulls of all time https://t.co/ObNxmiUkpb
— doomer (@uncledoomer) April 18, 2026
In 2017, Mark Hemingway wrote at the Federalist, “We All Need To Admit That America Has A Tattoo Problem.”
Sooner or later, it was obvious that the most visible members of pop culture would shift in the other direction, leaving everyday people who got inked up following their lead begin to look silly. Especially: New evidence undercuts Senate candidate Platner’s claims that he didn’t know tattoo was Nazi-linked.
Deleted social media comments and an interview with an acquaintance undercut Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner’s claims this week that he only recently learned that a tattoo on his chest had Nazi origins.
A KFile investigation has uncovered mounting evidence that Platner — a Marine veteran— was aware of and defended the use of Nazi symbolism that had come to be embraced by some members of the military.
In one thread from 2019, Platner weighed in on a conversation about the “Totenkopf” — the skull-and-crossbones emblem worn by Nazi SS units that his own tattoo would later draw scrutiny for resembling — to note that many US service members had adopted similar imagery, such as the Punisher skull used by some Navy SEALs.
Using his longtime Reddit handle P-Hustle, the former Marine infantryman and future Democratic Senate hopeful also argued in a 2020 online discussion that “SS” lightning-bolt tattoos were a “culture” marker within Marine Scout Sniper units, not an expression of White supremacist ideology.
Earlier: Far Left Maine Senate Candidate Compares U.S. Marines to Nazi Party.
UPDATE:
About last night… pic.twitter.com/OhKNRO0FbF
— The Maine Wire (@TheMaineWire) April 19, 2026
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WHY LEFTISTS ARE ANTI-SPACE: In Space, No One Can Whine About Inequality.
YEAH, PRETTY MUCH:
— Magamind (@McRick4Now) April 16, 2026
April 18, 2026
OPEN THREAD: Make it special.
A LOT OF OLD CASES ARE FALLING APART:
The Proud Boys just went around beating up violent communist terrorists.
That’s it. They just beat up communist domestic terrorists.
And that made them public enemy number one, because Antifa’s whole organizing strategy fails if CIVILIANS bash them up instead of police. https://t.co/pDvcw6PnCS
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) April 18, 2026
IT’S A CLOWN SHOW WITH THE IRGC, THOUGH A DEADLY ONE:
The Indian tanker captain in the Strait of Hormuz explodes in anger over the radio, confronting the Iranian Revolutionary Guard boats:
“You gave me clearance to pass!
My name is listed as number 2 in your papers!
Now you’re firing on me?!
Give me a chance to turn around and go… pic.twitter.com/hASNAxvFUM— سيف الدرعي| Saif alderei (@saif_aldareei) April 18, 2026
I HAVE TO PEE. Why You Keep Waking Up at 3 am According to Sleep Science.
A VERY NICE REVIEW OF RANDY BARNETT’S MEMOIR, FELONY REVIEW: TALES OF TRUE CRIME AND CORRUPTION IN CHICAGO.
It’s a great story. I read the book, liked it, and gave it a blurb, which you can read at the link.
SEEMS LIKE IT WAS OVERSOLD: Largest-Ever Study Finds Medicinal Cannabis Ineffective for Anxiety, Depression, PTSD.
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LEFTY LOVE BOAT: Greta Thunberg’s freedom flotilla rocked by sexual misconduct allegations.
They’re going to need a bigger boat!
Greta Thunberg’s freedom flotilla, which set sail from Barcelona Sunday for another anti-Israel voyage to Gaza, has been rocked by scandal after one of its woke leaders was accused of “sexual misconduct” with at least three volunteers.
“A senior leader within the flotilla — a member of the steering committee, the highest governing body of the organization — engaged in sexual relations with multiple activists while on the boat heading to Gaza. Not one person. Not two. Three different individuals,” claimed Palestinian group Heart of Falastin in a social media post earlier this week.
“To do it on the boat, while heading to a nation undergoing genocide, with volunteers who are under your authority . . . is a clear violation of ethics and power.”
One Brazilian group named the alleged horndog as activist Thiago Avila.
“On a ship carrying humanitarian aid, a Brazilian shows up with his d–k swinging and the only thing he manages to do is f–k and get arrested,” Anti Esquerda Esquerda Club, a group that describes itself as criticizing the left from the left, wrote on X Tuesday, pointing the finger at Avila — and referring to the Israeli Navy intercepting the flotilla and taking activists into custody.
It’s a shame that Saturday Night Live is no longer a comedy/satire show — a parody of the Love Boat with Greta Thunberg as “your cruise director,” alongside extras shouting “death to America” would be loads of fun.
