April 10, 2026

OUCH: USPS suspends contributions to employee pensions after warning of ‘cash crisis.’

The USPS contributes about $400 million a month to its employee pension plan, the agency said in a statement on Thursday. The postal service said it will continue to send worker contributions to the retirement plan and will also transmit employer automatic and matching contributions, as well as employee contributions to the Thrift Savings Plan, another retirement program for federal workers.

The temporary halt in contributions to the USPS program comes after Postmaster General David Steiner warned Congress last month that the postal agency is heading for a financial crisis without a course correction. Those changes could include raising the cost of a first-class stamp to 95 cents or reducing delivery from its current six days per week schedule to five or fewer, he said.

Without such changes, Steiner said, the USPS could run out of cash within 12 months, which could result in a stoppage of mail delivery.

There’s FedEx for important mail, UPS for packages, and USPS for junk, mostly.

Posted at 10:42 am by Stephen Green

JIM TREACHER: We Need to Talk About the MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+ Community.

It’s Thursday, April 9, 2026. I’m allegedly Jim Treacher. And I just learned a new acronym. You just heard it.

Okay, let me try this: MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+.

That stands for: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, Two-Spirit, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, Intersex, Asexual, and additional identities.

Again, that’s MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+. I find it helps to go three letters at a time. Like when you’re giving your account number to the customer service guy, who says his name is Steve but he has an Indian accent.

The speaker there is named Leah Gazan. (Oops. There’s a warning sign right there.) Who is a member of Canadian Parliament. She’s in the NDP, whatever that is. No offense, Canada, but you don’t matter.

I can’t wait to see what the updated Gay Pride flag looks like in 2026. I’m sure it’s moved far beyond the stripped-down minimalism of its 2022 design:

I think that’s the interstellar wake the USS Enterprise produces, just after the warp drive has engaged.

Posted at 10:35 am by Ed Driscoll

“IF YOU HAD SHOWN THIS OUTCOME TO EVERY PRESIDENT SINCE BUSH, THEY ALL WOULD’VE GIVEN THE ORDER:”

Posted at 10:22 am by Ed Driscoll

THEY’RE NOT EVEN PRETENDING THAT IT’S ABOUT ANYTHING OTHER THAN SQUASHING POLITICAL OPPOSITION:

Actually, they haven’t pretended for a while. I mean at first I thought this was satire but there’s no sign of it.

Posted at 10:08 am by Glenn Reynolds

THIS IS A RESURFACED CLIP FROM 2022, BUT IF THAT’S HOW LEFTIES WERE TALKING WHEN THE DEMS HELD THE WHITE HOUSE AND CAPITOL HILL…:

Posted at 9:55 am by Stephen Green

THIS LOOKS ABOUT RIGHT, BUT IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE:

Posted at 9:24 am by Stephen Green

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Comrade Mamdani Is Getting Smacked Around by Reality. “Like all leftists, Mamdani is a cop-hater, so this ought to get ugly. He prefers police who can’t do any real policing. His wish list for the department looks to weaken it wherever he can. The NYPD is still reeling from the Defund the Police attack in 2020. There might not be any cops left in New York by the time Mamdani’s one term is up.”

Posted at 9:09 am by Stephen Green

KEIR STARMER’S REGIME WOULD BE A CLOWN SHOW IF IT WEREN’T FOR ALL THE RAPES AND STABBINGS:

Posted at 9:00 am by Glenn Reynolds

HE HAS MUCH TO RUN FROM:

Posted at 8:57 am by Glenn Reynolds

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Why Doesn’t Andy Beshear Think Young Adults Deserve to Exercise All of Their Civil Rights? “’While he claims to be a ‘different kind of Democrat,’ Gov. Beshear has revealed himself to be just one more anti-gun-rights politician adhering to the party’s increasingly far-left dogma,’ said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. ‘He has shown his true colors by preventing a provisional license for 18- to 20-year-olds to carry a concealed handgun in public, amounting to a direct attack on young women, especially young women of color, who are frequently in need of protection. The late, great First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, who was one of the first women in New York State to have a full carry license, is probably spinning in her grave.'”

Posted at 8:38 am by Stephen Green

“THE LEFT KNOWS THEY CAN’T GET CONSERVATIVE CATHOLICS’ VOTES, SO THEY’RE TRYING TO POISON THE WELL:”

Related: “Dems are so terrified of the Catholic vote becoming a permanent fixture of the Republican Party that they’ll continue making up fake stories like Trump declaring war on the Vatican:”

Related:

 

Posted at 8:35 am by Ed Driscoll

DOOM AND GLOOM AND… A BOOMING TOURISM INDUSTRY?

Posted at 8:22 am by Stephen Green

SPRING FASCISM PREVIEW:

(Classical – and NSFW – reference in headline.)

Posted at 8:22 am by Ed Driscoll

TODAY TRUMP SETTLES ALL FAMILY BUSINESS*: Trump goes off on ‘NUT JOBS’  Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens, Alex Jones over Iran war criticism.

President Trump lashed out at four right-wing critics of the Iran war Thursday, describing them as “NUT JOBS” and “losers” who will say anything for attention.

“I know why Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens, and Alex Jones have all been fighting me for years, especially by the fact that they think it is wonderful for Iran, the Number One State Sponsor of Terror, to have a Nuclear Weapon — Because they have one thing in common, Low IQs,” Trump wrote in a lengthy Truth Social post.

“They’re stupid people, they know it, their families know it, and everyone else knows it, too!” the president raged. “Look at their past, look at their record. They don’t have what it takes, and they never did!

“They’ve all been thrown off Television, lost their Shows, and aren’t even invited on TV because nobody cares about them, they’re NUT JOBS, TROUBLEMAKERS, and will say anything necessary for some ‘free’ and cheap publicity.”

* Rather than a Godfather callback, maybe I should have gone with a Return of the Jedi reference:

Posted at 7:45 am by Ed Driscoll

UNSUSTAINABLE: U.S. added $1.2 trillion to national debt in six months.

The U.S. government added $1.2 trillion to the national debt over the past six months, borrowing $163 billion during March alone, the Congressional Budget Office reports.

At the current rate of borrowing, federal deficits are on track to top $2 trillion by October, the end of the current fiscal year.

But the president’s recent budget request – which lawmakers will use as a blueprint for the 12 fiscal year 2027 appropriations bills – calls for $2.1 trillion in discretionary spending alone, without touching entitlement program spending.

“Both Congress and the President continue to ignore the urgent need to get our borrowing under control,” Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, said in a statement.

“As lawmakers consider the budget process for the upcoming fiscal year, we hope that they come up with plans to reduce deficits from the too-high 6% of GDP to a more sustainable 3% of GDP; secure our nation’s ailing trust funds for Social Security, Medicare, and highways; and ultimately fix the broken process that got us into this mess.”

That would be nice, yes, but unlikely under a GOP Congress and impossible under a Democrat one.

Posted at 7:36 am by Stephen Green