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April 25, 2026

IS UNFAIR, UNJUST, IMMORAL AND IN ANY HONEST LIGHT UNCONSTITUTIONAL: Connecticut House Bill 5468.

WHAT HE SAID: This Isn’t Politics. It’s a Clinical Disorder.

UNFORTUNATELY: Woke Mathematics in Education- Part 1. While the last few years have witnessed growing “fatigue” regarding woke and DEI policies, they are still prominent fixtures in our society, especially (and unfortunately) in our STEM fields.

April 24, 2026

OPEN THREAD: Ring in the weekend.

THEY’VE BEEN WATCHING OUR GILLIGAN’S ISLAND RERUNS FOR YEARS. Making contact with ET? Aliens may already know we’re here.

THIS:

The reality is that stoking hate was incredibly lucrative for the SPLC.

That’s why they did it. Incentives explain outcomes. https://t.co/TjF1Ml1iRd

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 25, 2026

WELL, GOOD: Scientists Created a Plastic Film That Physically Rips Viruses Apart.

WELL, GOOD: Forgotten Medicinal Plant Shows Promise in Fighting Dangerous Superbugs.

BIG WOW FOR HUNG CAO: New Navy Secretary, Hung Cao, ‘Grabbed on to the American Dream.’

At his confirmation hearing, Cao said, “Take it from this warrior. War must be the last resort, but if war comes, let it be swift and decisive. … To our enemies and those who mean to do us harm, you can run but you’ll only die tired.”

Read the whole thing.

(Headline via Power Line.)

THE WRAP-UP SMEAR IN ACTION:

The SPLC orchestrating the Charlottesville event and then pivoting to "endorse" the narrative that Trump coddles white supremacists is the definition of a classic democrat false-flag operation.

They manufacture the crisis, weaponize the media to lie about the "fine people"…

— Spicey Bits (@SpiceyBits) April 22, 2026

"Wrap Up Smear" in action:
SPLC set-up the hoax rally → Media selectively edited Trump’s “very fine people” clip → Biden and Democrats repeatedly recycled the lie via the media to damage Trump and manipulate the American people. pic.twitter.com/DWHm5kJ34c

— Bennetta Elliott (@belliott123) April 22, 2026

IT’S TIME FOR VICTORIA TAFT’S West Coast, Messed Coast™: Newsom’s Billion Dollar OP to Replace Californians With Illegals. “This week, your humble correspondent brings you the latest spasms and utterances from the leaders of Washington, Oregon, and California. The destruction of the West Coast, Messed Coast™ didn’t happen by accident. It was planned, vision-boarded, war-gamed, and paid for, as you’ll see. We take you now to the latest imaginary meeting of the Western States Coalition, where individual freedoms are ritually sacrificed for power.”

WHEN MEMES HIT HARD:

Democrats are the party of racism.

Slavery — Democrats
Jim Crow — Democrats
Internment Camps — Democrats
Affirmative Action — Democrats
DEI — Democrats pic.twitter.com/PdcmWH6ENm

— The Rabbit Hole (@TheRabbitHole) April 22, 2026

RIDE THE SOUTHERN POVERTY MOBIUS LOOP!

Kamala Harris falsely accusing Trump of coddling the Charlottesville white supremacist rally exactly one month after she was endorsed by the SPLC—the group that planned, organized, & paid for the Charlottesville white supremacist rally. pic.twitter.com/Gw6jDaWe6y

— Tony Kinnett (@TheTonus) April 22, 2026

Scott called it https://t.co/8IJ6gNJMrQ

— Jack Posobiec (@JackPosobiec) April 24, 2026

GET YOUR VITAMINS: Ensure Max Protein Chocolate Shake. #CommissionEarned

UM, I’VE SEEN THAT MOVIE: 24,000-year-old zombie worm gets thawed, immediately starts reproducing.

IS JESSICA JUST REALLY PAID A LOT? This Screaming Match Between Greg Gutfeld and Jessica Tarlov on ‘The Five’ Was Brutal.

Or this this some weird kink?

REVIEW: 2027 Kia Telluride Hybrid Is the High Point of the New Lineup.

TO BE FAIR, EDUCATION IS INHERENTLY CONSERVATIVE, OR AT LEAST IS SUPPOSED TO BE: Classical ed — Great Books and George Washington — is coded conservative.

FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: Meet Mayor McDUI. “It’s time for your much-needed break from the serious news, and this week, we’ll learn that you’re always the mayor of Naples, how to dress for a night out at Jensen Beach, and how to have a cow in upstate New York.”

TRIM YOUR NAILS: Ergonomic Long Handle Toenail Clippers with Catcher. #CommissionEarned

OH, TO BE IN ~~ENGLAND~~ AIRSTRIP ONE:

BBC have turned the comments off because everybody wants to know why a WHITE MAN raping a SIKH is rightfully life in prison

Yet a MUSLIM raping a WHITE GIRL can get as little as FOUR YEARS https://t.co/RgFlfYZEEs

— Basil the Great (@BasilTheGreat) April 24, 2026

As Wikipedia notes:

The head of BBC history, Robert Seatter, has said George Orwell in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), “reputedly based his notorious Room 101 from the novel “on a room he had worked in whilst at the BBC.”^[52]

On 7 November 2017, a statue of Orwell, sculpted by the British sculptor Martin Jennings, was unveiled, outside Broadcasting House. The wall behind the statue is inscribed with the following phrase: “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear”. These are words from his proposed preface to Animal Farm and a rallying cry for the idea of free speech in an open society.

Serious question: Why doesn’t “the right to tell people what they do not want to hear” work both ways in 21st century England?

GOOD: Final Rule Drives a Stake Through Anti-Gun Left’s De-Banking Strategy.

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Final Rule Drives a Stake Through Anti-Gun Left’s De-Banking Strategy.

Ultimately, this final rule eliminates reputation risk as a means of injecting politics into banking regulation by prohibiting examiners from using this subjective assessment to pressure or penalize banks. It also prohibits regulators from pushing banks to close accounts or deny services based on their ill-conceived aversion to the lawful firearms and ammunition industries, which are vital to supporting our constitutional rights.

This rule helps to mitigate unjustified biases against these business sectors left over from the Obama-Biden Administration and importantly helps to prevent future efforts in the same vein. In 2013, the U.S. Department of Justice, in coordination with regulators such as the FDIC, began pressuring banks to cut ties and services to industries they considered to be “high risk,” which under the anti-gun Obama-Biden administration unsurprisingly included firearm and ammunition-related business.re

The program, billed Operation Choke Point, encouraged broad financial “de-risking” and led to banks freezing or terminating services to lawful businesses based on “reputation risk,” instead of any proven misconduct or illegality. Guidance documents provided to banks at the time specifically listed firearm and ammunition sales as high-risk activity, although they are some of the most highly regulated industries in the country.