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.

More like this, please.

FRAUD ALL THE WAY DOWN…:

Ilhan Omar Accused Of Trying To Steer $1.4M To Nonprofit With Somali Restaurant For Address https://t.co/oDvMr1TALH

— zerohedge (@zerohedge) April 24, 2026

…and she also married her brother.

A LAWYER READER MESSAGES: “I have not seen any updates from Lucas or anyone else on your blog, but the for your benefit, the Supreme Court of Virginia is going to hear argument on the redistricting fight Monday, April 27th, this coming Monday at 9AM. There is a link on the Supreme court of Virginia’s web page. Thanks.”

The link for the oral argument is here.

GOOD ADVICE: Eliminate Toxic Masculinity, Ladies — Marry Men and Have Kids.

GET IN SHAPE: Brooks Men’s Glycerin Flex Neutral Running & Walking Shoe. #CommissionEarned

OUCH: Meta to cut 8,000 jobs, Microsoft offers buyouts to to staff as AI spending costs hit Big Tech workers.

Meta (META) on Thursday became the latest Big Tech company to announce layoffs as the ballooning costs of the AI build-out and efficiencies continue to hit workers in the industry.

The company says it will cut 10% of its workforce, or about 8,000 employees.
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Microsoft (MSFT) will also offer voluntary buyouts to some employees as the company joins many of its Big Tech peers in seeking ways to control costs amid their AI spending sprees.

According to a source familiar with the matter, roughly 7% of Microsoft’s US employees, senior directors or below, can take part in the buyouts if their years at the company plus their age add up to at least 70.

How big are those AI build-outs? This big: “Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft alone will spend some $650 billion on capital expenditures in 2026.”

TWO-TIER KEIR:

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

AN EARTH-SHATTERING KABOOM: What would happen if Yellowstone’s ‘supervolcano’ erupted today?

2027 PREVIEW: Democrats Already Looking to Impeach Trump on ‘Day One’ If They Take Control of Congress.

KEEP HAMMERING ON THIS, DATA R:

I am going to keep repeating this until people understand this.

Karen Bass was not only a Castro operative and Communist, but she got elevated to Vice Chair of National Endowment for Democracy, which is the center of soft power operations in the US government. She is not a "DEI… https://t.co/Kh7wMQvwgZ

— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) July 7, 2025

VITAMIN D UPDATE: Vitamin D may help prevent diabetes, depending on genes.

HEH: So When Are The ‘Punch A Nazi’ Sorts Going To Punch SPLC Donors? “Meanwhile, what are all those angry leftists who based their identity on ‘punching Nazis’ going to do now that it’s been revealed that their side were the ones funding the Nazis all along?”

I figure the ones with big enough names that you saw them on CNN or M-SNOW were likely in on it.

PRETTY MUCH, YEAH:

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— Sean Ryan (@aglanceaskance) April 24, 2026

RELEASE THE — WELL, YOU KNOW: Giant ‘kraken-like’ octopuses ate dinosaurs.

REAGAN WILBANKS: I’m Part of America’s ‘Most Stressed’ Generation. But A Growing Movement Gives Me Hope.

MONITOR YOUR HEALTH: KardiaMobile 1-Lead EKG Monitor. #CommissionEarned

PUBLIC EDUCATION THAT DOESN’T SERVE THE PUBLIC’S INTEREST DOESN’T DESERVE THE PUBLIC’S FUNDS…:

“State universities are public institutions that must reflect the values of the public,” Chris Rufo correctly points out. But as the headlines below suggest, that is currently not happening in one of the reddest states in America.

Neurosurgeon speaks out against DEI in Oklahoma… pic.twitter.com/a0J1XhXd2f

— Brandon Dutcher (@brandondutcher) April 23, 2026

…or is representative government dead, despite all the left blather about “Our Democracy?”

IS THERE ANYTHING IT CAN’T DO? Coffee has positive impacts to your gut health — even when it’s decaf.

HONEST GRADING IS RACIST: It’s ‘racially harmful’ to reform grade inflation at Harvard, student petition argues. “The lobbying comes as a Harvard faculty consider capping the number of A grades they give out in each class. That proposal came after a report published last fall found that 60 percent of all undergraduate grades are now As.”

CONTAINMENT WALL BREACHED:

Bombshell CBS News segment on the Southern Poverty Law Center indictment where the SPLC lied to donors, paid violent extremists millions, and “manufactured racism” for its own purposes

“The SPLC was not dismantling these groups. It was instead manufacturing the extremism it… pic.twitter.com/KpQFzWdvzN

— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) April 23, 2026

It’s good to see the SPLC bombshells making CBS News, but let’s give credit to America’s Newspaper of Record for being particularly succinct in covering the story:

Should You Donate To The KKK? A Helpful Flowchart: pic.twitter.com/pIwd1gsr85

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) April 22, 2026

HMM:

JUST IN: Iran just pulled a thirty-year-old empty supertanker out of retirement and began towing it toward Kharg Island. She is moving so slowly that a voyage that should take a day and a half is taking four days.

Her name is NASHA. IMO 9079107. Built 1996. A two-million-barrel… pic.twitter.com/Y2bRmcAwla

— Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ (@shanaka86) April 24, 2026

More:

The reason she is moving at all is that Iran is running out of places to put the oil.

Kharg Island handles roughly ninety percent of Iran’s crude exports. Its onshore tanks had about thirteen million barrels of spare capacity when the US blockade began on April 13. Net inflow since has been running at one million to one point one million barrels per day because exports have collapsed to single digits of vessels while upstream production continues. The math is mechanical. Roughly twelve days of spare capacity. The calendar says that window closes this week.

NASHA is not a strategy. NASHA is what you do when you have run out of strategy.

A two-million-barrel floating storage vessel buys Iran approximately forty-eight hours of continued upstream production. After that, either the wells get shut in or the crude goes somewhere else. The parallel options being pursued, ship-to-ship transfers in the Riau Archipelago, AIS-dark transits, sanctioned VLCCs returning home through the blockade line, are not enough. Lloyd’s List Intelligence has tracked roughly twenty-six Iran-linked vessels evading since April 13. That cannot absorb a million barrels a day.

The wells will shut in. The question is which wells, for how long, and whether they come back.

Bringing those wells back takes months, at least.

This is exactly what Trump meant yesterday when he said time was on his side.

BECAUSE OF COURSE: Democrats Defend Non-English Truckers as Safety Questions Grow.

OFT EVIL WILL SHALL EVIL MAR:

truly one of the most amazing developments in trans-Atlantic tech policy over the past 20 years is the way that Europe set out to regulate US tech giants into the ground, but only made them more dominant as a result.

This Economist headline really says it. https://t.co/6KGiMYCqvu pic.twitter.com/OHsCWFKCdR

— Adam Thierer (@AdamThierer) April 24, 2026

TOMORROW’S UCLA LAW GRADS:

Absolutely appalling statement by @UCLA_Law , which should have included the line “we will pursue academic discipline against the disruptive attendees, who have shown that they lack the character and fitness to be lawyers” https://t.co/T7iJ1AyG4K pic.twitter.com/gsqavap0zM

— Stephen E. Sachs (@StephenESachs) April 23, 2026

I HOPE YOU WENT LONG ON POPCORN FUTURES: Prominent civil rights activist warns bombshell Southern Poverty Law Center indictment is just ‘tip of the iceberg.’

Bob Woodson, an 89-year-old civil rights champion who faced jail time for his advocacy in the Jim Crow South, condemned the SPLC and admitted he wasn’t “surprised at all” that the nonprofit allegedly funneled more than $3 million to “field sources” to infiltrate extremists groups between between 2014 and 2023.

“This is just a more obvious expression of the contradiction of people who say they are fighting for civil rights, and as a consequence, they are corrupt,” Woodson charged on Fox News’ “The Will Cain Show.”

“This is just the tip of the iceberg. These are people who are supposed to be fighting for civil rights.

“They ask which problems are fundable, not which ones are solvable. So you get this kind of corruption that you’re witnessing,” the octogenarian declared.

More to come — lots more, apparently.