April 12, 2026

April 11, 2026

OPEN THREAD: Party on.

Posted at 9:30 pm by Glenn Reynolds

PUNCTUALITY IS WHITE SUPREMACY, GOOD MANNERS ARE WHITE SUPREMACY, ORIGINAL WRITING IS WHITE SUPREMACY, MILK IS WHITE SUPREMACY — IF THEY AREN’T CAREFUL PEOPLE WILL DECIDE WHITE SUPREMACY IS A GOOD THING:

Posted at 7:00 pm by Glenn Reynolds

SCIENCE: Terror-adjacent socialists habitually lie about how tall they are, analysis finds. “An extensive Washington Free Beacon analysis found ample evidence to suggest that El-Sayed and Piker are lying about their actual size. In September 2015, Piker was photographed alongside former NFL wide receiver Drew Carter, who was officially listed at 6’3″ throughout his career. A visual analysis determined that Piker was at least 1-2 inches shorter than Carter. However, because Piker’s feet were not visible in the photo, we were unable to rule out the possibility that he was wearing lifts or standing on a box.”

Heh.

Posted at 6:00 pm by Glenn Reynolds

QUESTION ASKED ABOUT ASKING QUESTIONS: How does a BBC interviewer “run out of questions when you’re sitting across from [Elon Musk,] the guy who wants to make humanity multi-planetary, built Tesla, and bought Twitter because he believes free speech is existential for society?”

Posted at 5:45 pm by Ed Driscoll

FAR LEFT MAINE SENATE CANDIDATE COMPARES U.S. MARINES TO NAZI PARTY:

(The tattoo doesn’t “resemble a Nazi symbol” it is one: My Little Totenkopf.)

Posted at 5:30 pm by Ed Driscoll

WORLD ENDS; WOMEN, MINORITIES, SAME-SEX COUPLES HARDEST HIT:

 

Posted at 5:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

BOMB CANADA, THE CASE FOR WAR:

(Classical reference in headline.)

Posted at 4:45 pm by Ed Driscoll

GOODER AND HARDER, CALIFORNIA:

Posted at 4:30 pm by Ed Driscoll

FENWAY PARK VIDEO SHOWS THE AMERICA WE LOST: “After receiving almost 10 million views, the video was so flooded with pointed comments that Fenway had to lock it. The message was clear: The America in the video exposed the unmistakable decline of our current nation. Millions of viewers saw it and immediately understood why.”

Predictably, the first instinct of critics on the left was to cry racism over these heartfelt reactions to a lost America. It is true that the crowds in the footage were overwhelmingly white. Therefore, the argument goes, any longing that scene stirs in people must be rooted in racism and xenophobia, rather than a recognition of the defects of our current cultural reality.

This is a lazy, intellectually dishonest dodge. Race is not the point; assimilation is. The people in that 1950s footage were, in many cases, themselves first- or second-generation Americans—Irish, Italian, Polish, Jewish, among others. They were people whose parents or grandparents had arrived here through Ellis Island. They did not come to recreate the old country on American soil, transforming it. They came to become American—to transform themselves. They learned the language, embraced the civic norms, cheered on the same teams as their neighbors, and played by the same unwritten rules that made public spaces safe and orderly. Baseball was not merely entertainment. It was a sacrament of a shared American identity.

That unifying force is precisely what is missing today. Boston Mayor Michelle Wu—who was booed loudly along with Governor Maura Healey on the field at Opening Day—recently declared that “you cannot talk about any achievement that the city of Boston has had … without talking about the Somali community that has lifted our city up.” The Fenway video is a devastating rebuttal to her. There are no Somalis visible in those 1950s stands—nor could there have been, given the timeline.

Boston was already a thriving, safe city then—long before the mass migration waves of recent decades. Wu’s historically inaccurate boast is not just pandering, but a symptom of our so-called elites’ refusal to acknowledge that America’s greatness was built by those who bought into its culture, not by those who were imported to transform it.

Make America this again:

Posted at 2:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

AN INCONVENIENT SHARKNADO: Why Adam McKay’s Thrash Drowns in Climate Fearmongering.

There are two distinct signs that Climate Change fearmonger Adam McKay produced the shark thriller “Thrash.”

The creative team gave him a shout-out with a McKay-themed tanker that spills its cargo early in the film. And the story never stops reminding us that we helped make the movie’s signature storm a reality.

Where’s that Al Gore cameo when you need it?

“Thrash” is still an unabashed B-movie, and it works best by leaning into those genre tics. The story simply doesn’t know whether to let loose or keep reminding us why we need to reduce our carbon footprint, and stat.

(Except China can do what it pleases…)

In the last decade, I’d ask when will Hollywood lower its own carbon footprint by cutting its output? Fortunately for all concerned, 2020 and Gavin Newsom has forced them to do just that. If it saves just one person from the eco-apocalypse…

Posted at 1:44 pm by Ed Driscoll