SMOKE FILLED ROOMS: Meet the California Millionaire Funding Anti-Oil Lawsuits—And the Columbia Academics Working To Influence the Judges Handling The Cases.

USA TODAY: Democrats’ growing credibility gap may cost them the midterms | Opinion.

Well, it should.

I AGREE: Only Prosecutions Can End Dems’ DOJ Weaponization, But Media Pretend That’s Not Obvious.

Well.

OH, I NOTICED: You May Not Have Noticed, But Tulsi Is Doing a Great Job.

HOW DO YOU STALL FOR TIME WHEN YOUR ASSETS HAVE BEEN DECIMATED?

The regime in Iran's every decision is based on this following sentence:

"We just need to stall for time until Trump is out of office, and after that, we can do whatever we want"

— 𝐍𝐢𝐨𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠 🇮🇷 ✡︎ (@NiohBerg) April 13, 2026

Monty Python’s Black Knight plans to wriggle around on the ground limbless until January of 2029?

MELONI IS USUALLY SMARTER THAN THIS:

This hurts Italy. Doesn’t matter for Israel. https://t.co/3y6CMoM8Fl

— Eli Lake (@EliLake) April 14, 2026

ICYMI: Another Red State, Fully Californicated.

LIMITED TIMED DEAL: TurboTax Deluxe Desktop Edition 2025, Federal & State Tax Return. #CommissionEarned

THAT SOUNDS ABOUT RIGHT: Eric Swalwell Wanted To Be President And Nancy Pelosi Fed His Delusion To Make Use Of Him In Pursuit Of Her Ends. A no-talent local pol from a one-party area of a one-party state who a national political power player used to do her dirty work — the ego and hubris that resulted is remarkable.

MARK JUDGE: Eric Swalwell and the Brett Kavanaugh Karma Train.

THE IRGC THOUGHT THEY COULD PARTY LIKE IT’S 1979 FOREVER:

The IRGC developed its Strait of Hormuz strategy with 1970s data and didn't update it.

Devastating miscalculation. pic.twitter.com/DaUth18xTI

— Pierre Rochard (@BitcoinPierre) April 12, 2026

BARBARIC ENEMIES OF CIVILIZATION:

I could not love this more. The Obama Bro tries so freaking hard to sanitize Piker's love of terrorists, only to have it revealed that Piker is exactly who the Right says he is. The absolute state of the Democratic Party in one glorious 20-second clip. https://t.co/tK73dgQWCi

— Batya Ungar-Sargon (@bungarsargon) April 13, 2026

VIELFALT IST UNSERE STÄRKE: Migrants Overrepresented in German Violent Crime Data.

Germany’s latest police crime statistics (PKS) have reignited the migration debate, with new data showing a stark overrepresentation of foreign nationals in violent offences.

According to the figures, non-German suspects—particularly from Syria and Afghanistan—feature disproportionately in serious crimes. While foreign nationals account for around 15% of the population, their share of violent crime suspects is significantly higher.

The imbalance is especially visible at regional level. In several federal states, including Bavaria, Berlin, and Baden-Württemberg, roughly half of all suspects in violent crimes are non-German nationals, highlighting a widening gap between population share and crime involvement.

The disparity sharpens further when broken down by nationality. In Bavaria, data cited by the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) shows Syrians with a crime rate approximately 16 times higher than that of German citizens, with Afghan nationals at around 14 times higher. Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann attributed the trend directly to “high levels of immigration in recent years,” particularly among asylum seekers and individuals without legal residency status.

“Overrepresented” is such an understatement, it’s practically English — where they have enough similar trouble of their own.

I’M AMAZED THAT SO MANY PEOPLE AREN’T GETTING THIS:

The dots that only a few seem to connect is that the Venezuela+Iran double tap was a headshot aimed at China, who's saying goodbye to cheap oil.

Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz thinking it was holding the West hostage. But in reality, 90 percent of the oil that flows through… pic.twitter.com/SdgbtpKTfs

— Jesús Enrique Rosas – The Body Language Guy (@Knesix) April 13, 2026

So what’s Trump’s next step in his strategy? I’m guessing he will circle back to Greenland. The Iran affair has also demonstrated the toothlessness of European countries who might be inclined to try to block this. He’ll make them an offer they can’t refuse, and it will be a good one.

And, almost unnoticed, he’s nailing down the Straits of Malacca to boot.

DISPATCHES FROM THE WAYBACK MACHINE: The Internet’s Most Powerful Archiving Tool Is in Peril.

This month, USA Today published an excellent report that revealed how US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement delayed disclosing key information about the impacts of its detainment policies. The authors used the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine to compile and analyze detention statistics from ICE and track how the agency had changed under the Trump administration. The story is one of countless examples of how the Wayback Machine, which crawls and preserves web pages, has helped preserve information for the public good. It was also, Wayback Machine director Mark Graham says, “a little ironic.”
USA Today Co., the publishing conglomerate formerly known as Gannett that runs both its namesake paper and over 200 additional media outlets, bars the Wayback Machine from archiving its work. “They’re able to pull together their story research because the Wayback Machine exists. At the same time, they’re blocking access,” Graham says.

A number of other major journalism organizations have also recently moved to restrict the Wayback Machine from archiving their stories, including The New York Times. According to analysis by the artificial-intelligence-detection startup Originality AI, 23 major news sites are currently blocking ia_archiverbot, the web crawler commonly used by the Internet Archive for the Wayback project. The social platform Reddit is too. Other outlets are limiting the project in different ways: The Guardian does not block the crawler, but it excludes its content from the Internet Archive API and filters out articles from the Wayback Machine interface, which makes it harder for regular people to access archived versions of its articles.

USA Today Co. spokesperson Lark-Marie Anton emphasized that “this effort is not about specifically blocking the Internet Archive” but instead part of the company’s broader efforts to block all scraping bots. Robert Hahn, the Guardian’s director of business affairs and licensing, says that it has been in conversation with the Archive over “concerns over potential misuse by AI companies of content sets crawled for preservation purposes.”

Now, individual reporters are pushing back on this trend. This week, advocacy organizations including the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Fight for the Future rallied journalists around the Wayback Machine’s cause. The coalition collected more than 100 signatures from working journalists who recognize the tool’s value and presented a letter of support to the Internet Archive. Signatories range from television mainstay Rachel Maddow to independent reporters like Spitfire News’ Kat Tenbarge and User Mag’s Taylor Lorenz.

While Lorenz wants to keep the Wayback Machine open as a tool, ironically enough, she herself is an unperson there:

Here’s a working link, and it does indeed show Lorenz as “excluded from the Wayback Machine.”

OUR MAN GAVIN IS MORE ABOUT TALKING ABOUT MORALS AND DUTIES THAN HE IS ABOUT EXERCISING EITHER OF THEM: Gavin Newsom Said He Had a ‘Moral Duty’ To Release His Tax Returns Every Year He Served in Office. He Hasn’t Since 2022. Newsom has kept his returns private as his wife rakes in hundreds of thousands of dollars from her charity, which is funded by corporations that do business with Newsom’s California.

THAT’S WHAT COMMIES DO: Comrade Mamdani Gets to Work on His Cult of Personality. “Zohran Mamdani is not a head of state. He can’t go all-in on his socialist inclinations. But he is anxious to show, during his tenure as mayor of the nation’s largest city, that socialism works, and that means he has been busy from his first moments in office implementing as much of it as he possibly can. That includes the cult of personality.”

AS ALWAYS, EVERYTHING DEPENDS ON WHAT IS USEFUL TO DEMOCRATS AT THE MOMENT: What is Left of “Believe Women”? from Rolling Stone’s Jackie to Sam Altman’s sister, the rules shift and definitions strain.

Of course, two things can be true at once: Eric Swalwell can be a scumbag, and Democrats are orchestrating this to get rid of him now that he’s inconvenient.

…I have been one of Swalwell's most persistent critics through the years. He has always been shielded by the Democratic establishment and the media. Now, he is persona non grata without a friend in the world.

— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) April 13, 2026

Of course, they don’t ever want a Republican governor in California. But they really don’t want one when people are already sniffing around their truly Brobdingnagian levels of fraud. We’re talking fraud that exceeds the GDP of many countries.

REMEMBER, IF YOU EVEN HINTED AT THIS IN 2021 YOU WERE AT RISK OF PROSECUTION OR BEING SUED INTO OBLIVION: The Biden Admin Knew of COVID Vaccine Stroke Risk and Covered It Up. “New details emerging from a Senate investigation confirm that Biden administration officials at both the FDA and CDC knew about a significant stroke risk tied to Pfizer’s bivalent COVID-19 booster in people over 65. They knew. And they said nothing.”

OPEN THREAD: Monday, Monday.

TO SERVE MAN: The Left’s Favorite Food Is Other Leftists.

Sabrina Carpenter is just another industry elitist who checked almost every leftist box she could on the way up the fame ladder. She puts on hyper-sexualized displays during her concerts, consistently degrading and hating on men, and is constantly curating leftist support. You’ll recall she “bravely” stood up to the Trump administration when they used her song in a post showing off ICE’s success.

Something that the White House turned around and used to promote ICE further.

Yet, during one of her concerts, Carpenter made the mistake of disliking someone doing the Arabic zaghrouta, which is the celebratory sound you hear Islamic women make whenever an Islamic terrorist successfully kills Israelis or Westerners. You’ll recall that sound being heard quite a bit in videos after 9/11.

Someone was doing that at Carpenter’s set during her Coachella performance, which Carpenter didn’t like at all. Even after someone told her that this was a part of her culture, Carpenter responded by saying she didn’t like it.

As you can imagine, the piranhas have begun to swarm.

I’m in a complete shock. I used to be a huge sabrina carpenter fan and now she’s mocking my culture and calling me “weird”, this is so racist and inappropriate and it made me feel uncomfortable. this white blonde racist woman should be cancelled. pic.twitter.com/8jG9IoFwzo

— Kevin (@maxlldr) April 11, 2026

But the damage is done.

I don’t think it’s going to destroy her career, and I’m pretty sure there are going to be industry reps and their friendly outlets working overtime to sweep it under the rug, but as it stands, Carpenter’s being roasted alive, and there will be a solid chunk of her audience that doesn’t forget or forgive. They can’t, because they have too much to gain by hating on her for her “racism.”

As Steve spotted earlier, in a post headlined, “Now That’s One Well-Played Historical Reference,” there was another path for Carpenter:

> Making loud noises is our cultural custom

Be it so. But my nation has also a custom. When people loudly interrupt concerts, we physically remove them from the audience. Let us all act according to national customs. pic.twitter.com/6sNTbgBmil

— 𝖘𝖆𝖕𝖎𝖊𝖓𝖘 𝖛𝖎𝖗𝖌𝖎𝖓𝖎𝖆𝖓𝖆 (@Ortho_Dixie) April 12, 2026

PROF. CARRINGTON, CALL YOUR OFFICE: A worst-case solar storm could knock out satellites, GPS and power grids, report warns.

I don’t want to live in a William Forstchen scenario.

BAD NEWS: Alarming study reveals the universe will end much, much sooner than previously estimated.

It’s the end of the world as we know it — a lot sooner than we think.

A team of researchers have drastically scaled back the going estimate of how long it will be until the universe ceases to exist.

Previously, scientists believed it would be 10¹¹⁰⁰ years until the very last objects in the cosmos would disappear forever — that’s a 1 followed by 1,100 zeroes, in layman’s terms.

But a new study published in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics by a trio of researchers at Radboud University in the Netherlands posits the real figure as closer to 10⁷⁸ years, or a 1 followed by just 78 zeroes, Science Aim writes.

Make no mistake, 10⁷⁸ years is a long, long, long time. But the difference between 10⁷⁸ years and 10¹¹⁰⁰ years is so enormous that it’s unfathomable to the human mind.

Some exceptions, such as Alvy Singer, apply:

GOP REP. TONY GONZALES QUITS CONGRESS AFTER AFFAIR, LEWD TEXTING SCANDAL WITH STAFFER WHO FATALLY SET HERSELF ON FIRE.

THE FUTURE OF LAW ENFORCEMENT – ROBOCOP ROBODOG! Robot Police Dogs Powered by AI Take Over Atlanta’s Streets.

Four-legged robot dog, powered by AI have been patrolling the streets, apartments, parking lots and construction sites in Atlanta as a move to up security. However, the addition of this automated security has raised concerns about the increasing use of private technology by law enforcement agencies.

A video of one such surveillance robot dog walking in Atlanta has gone viral on social media, leaving onlookers in awe as they drive past it.

When someone honks, the robot stops immediately and looks at the person recording it, producing noise that resembles a dog. The robot dog then waves, something that the car’s occupants find adorable.

The caption suggests that the robot dog has been developed by Undaunted, a company that offers such autonomous security to various industries. The robot dog follows a predetermined route for surveillance, judging its path through cameras.

This isn’t creepy or dystopian at all (language alert if you’re playing the video in public):

Think about every incentive, visible and obscured, that has brought this situation into being.

Think about the normalization of antisocial behaviors that necessitate it, the cost-benefit analysis by the management company that determines teleoperation wins, all of it.

Amazing https://t.co/MUba0SaA5K

— Rick DeVos (@RickDeVos) April 13, 2026