THAT’S BARELY A DOWN PAYMENT ON OUR NEEDS: The Pentagon wants a 188 percent bump for missile procurement. Can industry deliver?
April 14, 2026
REPORTERS AND HEALTH BUREAUCRATS ARE PRETTY MUCH ALLIED AGAINST PEOPLE DOING THE RIGHT THING: Reporters and health bureaucrats attack Dr. Jay Bhattacharya for doing the right thing (again).
NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG:
A California news team finds a left-wing group, “Build a Better California,” paying homeless people $5 a signature to sign petitions for ballot measures using other people’s names. This transpired in the Tenderloin area of San Francisco. The man became violent when the reporter… pic.twitter.com/75MdhInVCM
— Doreen Linder (@DorLinder) April 13, 2026
THIS IS EXCITING: Gentlemen, Start Your Stills — America’s Next Craft Boom Begins.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: The Truth About “Non Toxic” Cookware.
A REMINDER THAT NOT EVERY GOVERNMENT IN EUROPE HAS LOST ITS DAMN MIND:
Israeli and Czech foreign affairs ministers hold a joint press conference, announcing the establishment of a joint commission between Israel and the Czech Republic.
The body will serve as a formal channel to coordinate policy, expand cooperation in defense, trade, and…
— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) April 14, 2026
CREEPY: Meta is reportedly building an AI clone of Mark Zuckerberg.
Picture this: You’re a senior Meta employee looking for feedback from the CEO. But, instead of hearing from the real Mark Zuckerberg, you get a response from a Zuckerberg AI character. As absurd as that sounds, it could eventually be a reality.
Meta is reportedly working on such an AI character, training it on Zuckerberg’s mannerisms, tone and publicly available statements, according to the Financial Times. The character is also learning about the CEO’s thoughts on recent company strategy, with the idea that it could offer advice to Meta employees.
The company has reportedly, for some time, been working on creating photorealistic, 3D animated AI characters that can manage interactions. However, it now appears to be focusing on this Zuckerberg AI character, which would interact with employees when the CEO can’t or doesn’t want to.
Clippy, only it’s the CEO?
No thanks.
THE FALLOUT FROM HISTORY’S GREATEST MONSTER:
Everything happening today is downstream from Jimmy Carter backstabbing the Shah of Iran.
Absolutely everything. pic.twitter.com/FtC32DVxEv
— 𝐍𝐢𝐨𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠 🇮🇷 ✡︎ (@NiohBerg) April 14, 2026
HE’S RIGHT:
It is in the best interests of the Roman Catholic Church, the USA and the world that the Vatican publicly release details as to the subject matter of the recent meeting between Pope Leo XIV and Obama's political strategist, David Axelrod.
This incident is harming the Church in…
— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) April 14, 2026
So is Sunny:
Hey while you’re there honoring the people who violently drove Catholics from the country, if you find the time in between that and condemning us for killing genocidal Islamist leaders, could you swing by and lecture the people currently massacring Christians in Africa? https://t.co/UfClk3BZBj
— Sunny (@sunnyright) April 14, 2026
THE FUTURE BELONGS TO THOSE WHO SHOW UP:
The childbearing gap between liberals and conservatives is absolutely exploding and has now reached 2 to 1 among women 25-35. In 1980, there was hardly any difference.
Conservative fertility actually increased over 40 years, showing the power of pronatal culture on one side! https://t.co/JQapX2ya7P pic.twitter.com/KGVUNDQnAO
— More Births (@MoreBirths) April 11, 2026
This, of course, is why they depend on importing voters and indoctrinating other people’s children.
PODCAST:
"Why Should We Care if China is Building its Biggest Island Yet in the South China Sea?"
At the start of 2025, Antelope Reef was little more than a sandbar in the Paracel Islands. Months later, it's on track to become China's largest artificial island in the South China Sea. In… pic.twitter.com/rgM8AQpILp
— Why Should We Care: Indo-Pacific Pod (@IndoPacPodcast) April 11, 2026
Lots to chew on here.
COMPLIANCE COSTS: Taxpayers to spend $477 billion on tax season.
Taxpayers are expected to spend 6.93 billion hours and more than $477 billion to be in compliance with the 2026 tax filing season, according to a new report released Monday.
Tax Day is Wednesday. The National Taxpayers Union Foundation released a report with estimates on how much time and money Americans are expected to spend.
The report estimated the average American will spend 12 hours and $290 to complete their tax return. The report anticipated a decrease in compliance burdens from its peak of 7.93 billion hours in 2023.
The report estimates that tax compliance costs include $319.7 billion in lost time and at least $157.1 billion in out-of-pocket expenses, including tax software and professional services.
“Time is money,” said Damien Brady, vice president of research at NTUF.
The Founders assembled an army following much smaller impositions.
PEOPLE MAKE DECENT MONEY SPOUTING GIBBERISH ON X:
45K likes because people don't understand the blockade is of Iranian ports, not the Gulf states. pic.twitter.com/n1NwVSJDhi
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) April 14, 2026
THERE’S ONE BORN EVERY MINUTE: A Surprising Supply of Communist Dupes.
I have some related thoughts here.
THE BIG PICTURE: All in All, It’s Just Another Brick in the Wall Around China. “Last year, Chinese Communist Party boss Xi Jinping played the rare earths card, forcing President Donald Trump to slow his roll on decoupling from the Middle Kingdom. This year, Trump played the oil card against China — first in Venezuela, then in Iran — and he just slapped it on the table again in Indonesia.”
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THAT’S RIGHT, WHEN YOU GO TO THE MOON, YOU GET TO NAME STUFF:
Amazing things are happening on Threads pic.twitter.com/Q0xqMYyJbm
— Natalia Antonova 🇺🇸🇺🇦 (@NataliaAntonova) April 14, 2026
According to her website, Halligan “has independently researched systems theory and the neurological basis for cycles of collapse, mapping how consciousness, trauma, and non-linear time affect human systems, identity, and the evolution of intelligence in form,” and now “writes, teaches, and consults on the evolution of intelligence and the design of future-conscious systems.”
But still can’t figure out how naming stuff works.
I DON’T HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THIS: House Republican: ‘Rapists should be hung, period.’
Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) said Monday that “rapists should be hung” in the wake of Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) recently facing sexual assault allegations, but he insisted he wasn’t talking about the California Democrat.
“Rapists should be hung, period. No questions. And so — now I’m not — I don’t want the Secret Service to come, I’m not talking about Eric Swalwell, I’m not threatening a member of Congress,” Ogles told conservative influencer Benny Johnson on his show when asked about the allegations against Swalwell.
“But the point is, is we got to say enough is enough, we can’t allow this type of behavior,” he added.
The word Ogles left out is “public.”
Also, public hangings for rape and other high crimes might make a nifty alternative for those term limits we can never seem to get.
QUESTIONS ASKED: “I would have to ask his holiness very frankly: You had 30,000 people gunned down in Iran just a few weeks ago, we heard nothing from the Vatican on that at all…You have a terror, a government, close to a nuclear weapon. Is it acceptable for the Catholic church to look away from that?”
Bill O’Reilly just put Pope Leo on the spot with the one question no one in the media will ask him.
And with it, he completely exposed the Pope’s double standard in the feud with President Trump.
O’REILLY: “I could mediate a settlement between the Pope and Donald Trump, I could… pic.twitter.com/RUFRoDNJbg
— Overton (@overton_news) April 14, 2026
THAT KIND OF DENIAL PRETTY MUCH NEVER HAPPENS: Indiana U. professor says he was denied emeritus status after posting about male IQ.
As Ann Althouse says, it’s perfectly fine to talk about inherent sex differences, but you must always do so in a way that portrays women as superior.
“DEMOCRACY” MEANS WHATEVER DEMOCRATS NEED IT TO MEAN:
ABSOLUTE CHAOS
With 4 minutes to midnight the Speaker RAMS the Voting Rights Act through with NO DEBATE from the Republicans who were all standing to be recognized!
This bill will give minorities in the state a right to sue their county if they don't like the outcome of their… pic.twitter.com/FE3EcZueHn
— Maryland Freedom Caucus (@MDFreedomCaucus) April 14, 2026
RIDE THE PAPAL RECURSION!
Excuse me. He's supposed to kiss the ring of a medieval hierarchy the left despises. To satisfy the left. OK https://t.co/jrzYJjx8M1
— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) April 14, 2026
THE DARK NIGHT OF FASCISM IS ALWAYS DESCENDING IN TRUMP’S AMERICA AND YET LANDS ONLY IN BLUE STATES: California Democrats Find a Way to Shut Up Investigative Journalists and Cover for Illegal Aliens.
