April 1, 2026

ICYMI:

Posted at 12:36 pm by Stephen Green

INSIDE EVERY “PROGRESSIVE” IS A TOTALITARIAN SCREAMING TO GET OUT:

(Classical reference in headline.)

Posted at 12:30 pm by Ed Driscoll

NEW CIVILITY WATCH: ‘F*ck Him To His Face:’ Democrat Lawmaker Deletes Unhinged Late-Night Post About Trump.

Rep. Susie Lee (D-NV) deleted a profane X post about President Donald Trump after it drew backlash online.

Lee made the comment early Wednesday in response to reports that Trump planned to attend Supreme Court oral arguments in a high-stakes birthright citizenship case.

“So f*cking f*cked up. I’ll pray they f*ck him to his face,” Lee wrote at around 1 a.m. Eastern Time Wednesday in the replies to an Associated Press story about the visit. “Sorry, I say f*ck a lot these days.”

The post was later deleted, but she appeared to defend herself in a subsequent post on Wednesday morning.

“Clearly my language touched a nerve — my nerve was touched by the attacks on our Constitution and its separation of powers. I took an oath to protect and defend it,” Lee wrote.

The posts were both made from her personal account, where the banner touts a claim that she is “America’s #1 Most Bipartisan Member of Congress.”

Past performance is no guarantee of future results:

Posted at 12:00 pm by Ed Driscoll

AN IMPORTANT REMINDER:

And Hitler was an animal-loving vegetarian bohemian artist.

Posted at 11:57 am by Stephen Green

GOOGLE: Quantum frontiers may be closer than they appear.

Google’s introducing a 2029 timeline to secure the quantum era with post-quantum cryptography (PQC) migration.

Last month, we called to secure the quantum era before a future quantum computer can break current encryption. This new timeline reflects migration needs for the PQC era in light of progress on quantum computing hardware development, quantum error correction, and quantum factoring resource estimates.

As a pioneer in both quantum and PQC, it’s our responsibility to lead by example and share an ambitious timeline. By doing this, we hope to provide the clarity and urgency needed to accelerate digital transitions not only for Google, but also across the industry.

Quantum computers will pose a significant threat to current cryptographic standards, and specifically to encryption and digital signatures. The threat to encryption is relevant today with store-now-decrypt-later attacks, while digital signatures are a future threat that require the transition to PQC prior to a Cryptographically Relevant Quantum Computer (CRQC). That’s why we’ve adjusted our threat model to prioritize PQC migration for authentication services — an important component of online security and digital signature migrations.

On a long enough timeline, everything gets hacked.

Posted at 11:42 am by Stephen Green

AMAZED? REALLY?

Posted at 11:26 am by Stephen Green

PRIORITIES:

Posted at 10:55 am by Stephen Green

BE CAREFUL OUT THERE: BBB warns of surge in sophisticated tax scams ahead of April 15 deadline. “Tax scammers are using AI to be even more convincing, realistic and effective… In just a few minutes, a phony website or scam email can wipe out your bank account. Fraudsters are hoping people will be so rushed to file their taxes on time that they will disregard key red flags. Ignoring these is dangerous to you and your family.”

Posted at 10:40 am by Stephen Green

CHRISTIAN TOTO: Supergirl Adopts Insane ‘Lady Ghostbusters’ PR Push.

The finished film even included a scene where the Lady Ghostbusters deal with online trolls.

Perhaps the key players realized they had a turkey on their hands, and it was time to do some creative marketing to deflect that sad truth? Or, they figured the Victimhood Card would rally progressives to movie theaters nationwide.

Are you sure about that?

The film dramatically underperformed. Sony later re-rebooted the franchise with modest success.

The “Supergirl” rollout feels very similar. But this isn’t 2016. Movie fans smell this desperation a mile away, and it’s already building bad buzz on the project.

This film exists in Superman’s corner of the DC universe, but Alcock’s strategy sounds awfully reminiscent of a line spoken Batman’s nemesis Bane at the beginning of The Dark Knight Rises: “Crashing the plane — with no survivors!!!”

Posted at 10:35 am by Ed Driscoll

BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP ON THE FRONT BURNER:

“Two years ago no one would have even imagined this issue would be before the Supreme Court. But Pres. Trump FORCED it there.”

Turns out, you can just do things.

Posted at 10:24 am by Stephen Green

BUT WILL THEY LISTEN? Europe Needs to Hear This Harsh Truth. “The self-styled sophisticates in Brussels and Europe’s capitals remain remarkably provincial in their outlook, and that’s why today we will speak some harsh truths to our friends in Europe — not because the truth is harsh, but because they believe that we naive Americans don’t recognize it.”

Posted at 10:09 am by Stephen Green

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Republicans Would Rather Cede Power To Democrats Than Their Own Voters.

While the SAVE America Act continues to languish, the Department of Homeland Security (including ICE and Border Patrol) remains unfunded, and dozens of Trump nominees await confirmation, Senate Majority Leader John Thune did what any typical Republican would do. He sent the upper chamber home on a two-week vacation.

The entirely predictable scenario came about after Senate Republicans agreed with Democrats to pass a DHS package devoid of ICE and Border Patrol funding in the early hours of Friday morning. The GOP maintained that the latter two agencies would be funded via reconciliation to overcome Democrats’ procedural blockade.

To their credit, House Republicans rejected that swampy proposal. The lower chamber instead passed a short-term continuing resolution (CR) that temporarily funds DHS — including ICE and CBP.

But rather than force senators to stay in session to consider that measure, other proposals, or debate the SAVE America Act (that is, actually put up a fight), Thune sent everybody home.

It would be far too kind to say that Thune has been a disappointment.

Posted at 9:38 am by Stephen Green

MORE NUKES IS GOOD NUKES:

Also, determining national energy policy by referendum is stupid.

Posted at 9:22 am by Stephen Green

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Yeah, We Totally Should’ve Let Germany Have France After WWII. “Emmanuel Macron is one of the biggest weasels on the international stage. He’s also one of those European leaders who doesn’t grasp that his country and continent are vestigial shadows that have very few things to contribute to the free world. France could have been useful here, but Manny Mac opted to flush harder as his country swirls down the toilet.”

Posted at 9:07 am by Stephen Green

EVERYTHING. IT SAYS EVERYTHING.

UPDATE (From Ed): At X, Grok auto-translates the above text as “It seems that there was indeed a fairly large-scale demonstration in Washington by anti-Iranian regime, pro-Trump Iranians. However, compared to the ‘No Kings’ demonstration, the media has hardly reported on it at all. It’s the same everywhere, huh.”

Posted at 8:36 am by Glenn Reynolds

VDH: The Two Wars for Iran: The War in a Historical Context.

The administration needs to counter left-wing and far-right hysteria about the supposedly undue influence of Israel.

Israel and the U.S. have many shared agendas—not all, but many—and weakening Iran in this operation is certainly at the top of their shared list. We realize that because we are powerful and at a distance from Iran, while Israel is nearer and more vulnerable, it will, from time to time, have different views of and solutions to Iran’s existential threats and must operate for its own national self-interest, as we do for our own.

But when our national interests dovetail—no terrorist entity has killed more Americans in the last half-century than has Iran—then we are proud and lucky to partner with Israel, a democracy and free society with a formidable record of military competency and a larger air force than any of our NATO partners—including Turkey, France, the UK, and Germany.

Despite the frenzy, the military side of the operation has gone particularly well, often conducted in brilliant fashion. But the hysterical politics of the war have been dangerous to the degree that it now threatens the very mission itself.

That’s the real Vietnam Syndrome, and we have yet to find an effective counter to it.

Posted at 8:36 am by Stephen Green

WHAT IF THE GREENLAND CAPER WAS ACTUALLY ABOUT SMOKING OUT HOW WILLING — AND EVEN EAGER — OUR “ALLIES” WERE TO GO TO WAR WITH US?

Posted at 8:35 am by Glenn Reynolds