PEOPLE HAVE BEEN SAYING THIS ABOUT THE THYMUS SINCE I WAS A KID: Scientists Say This Overlooked Organ Could Hold the Key to Longer Life.
April 20, 2026
CHRISTIAN TOTO: Logan’s Run at 50: Dystopian Classic Never More Relevant.
When the system turns on Logan, as it does for John Anderton in the similar “Minority Report” (2002), Logan basically takes Anderton’s two-word advice: Everybody Runs.
On the glittery surface, this sci-fi hit is very of its time but, even at its silliest (arguably the snow-crusted scene that bridges the second and third acts), “Logan’s Run” never lacks spectacle and, more importantly, rich ideas.
Anderson’s film is among the many futurist dramas with actors in jumpsuits, obvious special effects and a tendency to be campy. “Logan’s Run” is no different in that respect, as the crowd scenes resemble a ’70s-themed costume party.
However, the third act is so smart and surprising, it elevates everything that came before it and manages to keep this soaring until the end.
Given its underlying themes of overpopulation, famine, and zero population growth to explain why mankind was reduced to people under 30 living in bio-domes, Logan’s Run was the last of the 1970s films were sci-fi is used as a metaphor to explain all the woes that seventies-era doomsday leftists imagined awaited us on the road to the 21st century. While not ecology-oriented, George Lucas also had a leftist theme for Star Wars, but he was smart enough to bury it deep in the film’s subtext, and a result, his movie revolutionized Hollywood. After Star Wars, every major studio had movies with miniature spaceships filmed in front of green-screens for the next six years.
Exit question asked and answered:
Because all the Malls are closed. https://t.co/kiCSwg3zNJ
— varifrank (@varifrank) April 20, 2026
MAY HAVE:
New Release: FBI Agent Deeply Involved In Get-Trump Lawfare May Have Crossed Criminal Line https://t.co/dXuAxn7bTq
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) April 20, 2026
THE INEVITABLE 4/20 MEME:
Marco Rubio on 4/20 😭 pic.twitter.com/pThZV0KjSZ
— Gizmo Memes (@GizmoMemes) April 20, 2026
EFFECTIVE SEPT. 1: Tim Cook Steps Down as Apple CEO.
WARTHOG FOREVER:
In consultation with @SecWar, we will EXTEND the A-10 “Warthog” platform to 2030. This preserves combat power as the Defense Industrial Base works to increase combat aircraft production.
Thank you to @POTUS for your unwavering support of our warfighters and quick, decisive… pic.twitter.com/zn1l3OshdY
— Office of the Secretary of the Air Force (@SecAFOfficial) April 20, 2026
GET YOUR VITAMINS: Ensure Max Protein Cafe Mocha Nutrition Shake. #CommissionEarned
SHOCKING NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF SCIENCE: Teen cannabis use rose after California legalization, reversing years of decline.
AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD:
Ilhan Omar Assures Public Her Finances Were Handled Honestly By Professionals At 'Quality Accouting Center' https://t.co/9ez5dvIrlT pic.twitter.com/VHvu0jkLQM
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) April 20, 2026
IT’S PROBABLY A GOOD IDEA: What’s Going on at Ford? A Shakeup That Could Change Everything.
COUNTER-TERROR OPERATIONS: IDF unveils map of forward defense line in southern Lebanon amid ceasefire. “The military says five IDF divisions, alongside naval forces, are operating south of the line to dismantle Hezbollah infrastructure and prevent threats to northern Israeli communities.”
AND IT’S A UNION THAT SHOULDN’T EVEN EXIST:
One union spends more on political contributions in Washington than the entire tech industry. pic.twitter.com/9050zkyiel
— Pedro Domingos (@pmddomingos) April 20, 2026
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PRIORITIES: Harvard investigates Republican club for filming Muslim event on campus.
On April 4, the Harvard Republican Club posted a short video and one photo on its X account of an Eid al-Fitr event hosted by the school’s Islamic Society.
“Today, students were interrupted from their midterm studies for several hours by loud music and prayers outside their windows,” the group wrote on X.
“Harvard’s historic Quincy Courtyard had been turned into a bazaar selling Hijabs, Burqas and Qurans for an Eid Mubarak celebration hosted by Harvard’s Islamic Society,” the club wrote.
The group also said the university had been “captured.”
Someone filed a complaint against the club for filming and taking photographs at the even that occurred out in the open, which has prompted a school investigation.
But no investigation of the disruptions, got it.
COLLEGE ATHLETES NOW GET PAID. IS UNIONIZATION NEXT? Maybe, but it doesn’t work that well with the NIL money scheme. Will the big stars really strike (and lose games) so they can give some of their money to the benchwarmers?
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SPARE THE ROD…:
There was a massive DOJ study done decades ago that among people in Federal custody, the single trait career criminals had most in common was that they had all gotten caught as a teenager and the case resolved in a way that left them feeling like they 'got away with it.'
More in… https://t.co/3Mhfi2Tvg8
— J.T. Alexander (@JTAlexander) April 20, 2026
I HAD BEEN ASSURED THAT MAMDANI WOULD MAKE EVERYTHING CHEAPER THAT HE DIDN’T MAKE FREE: FDNY plans to hike cost of ambulance rides by 29%, increase on-site emergency treatment by 42%. “The FDNY is considering hiking ambulance and emergency medical bills by double digits — blaming the squeeze on patients’ pockets on inflation and coming pay increases for union workers.”
KILL ‘EM ALL, LET PALPATINE SORT IT OUT:
The impressive part is that The Force Awakens managed to make the death of 155 billion people dull and forgettable https://t.co/TH39Rjs0Cl
— Godot (@GodotIsW8ing4U) April 19, 2026
On Friday, I finally saw Project Hail Mary. Its efforts at detailed SF worldbuilding and distinct lack of a “Mary Sue” character stand in stark contrast to the Kathleen Kennedy-era Star Wars movies. Speaking of which, I wonder how Solo: A Star Wars Story would have turned out if Kennedy hadn’t fired its co-directors — who went on to make Project Hail Mary.
THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY I WAS PROMISED: I’ve fired one of America’s most powerful lasers—here’s what a shot day looks like. Okay, this part isn’t quite what I expected: “On a typical shot day, the target might be a piece of metal foil thinner than a human hair, a jet of gas or a tiny plastic pellet.”
YOU GET LESS OF WHAT YOU PENALIZE:
Another battlefield in the ongoing war against men.
When you relentlessly attack the people, ok, let's just call them men, who fight the wars, drive the ships and trucks, drill the oil, build the stuff, etc., you'll find you're losing wars, and can't have the stuff that didn't… https://t.co/Hpgud2SJcw
— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) April 20, 2026
