LET THEM FREAK SO LONG AS THEY FEAR:  Trump Says Strait Of Hormuz Is Opening And Iran Freaks Out. 

THE REGIME NEEDS TO FALL, OR WE’LL BE BACK HERE IN A YEAR OR TWO:  After 21 Hours of Negotiations, Vice President JD Vance Provides an Update. It’s Not Shocking.

DEMOLISH AND SALT THE EARTH?  How to Handle Your Out-of-Control Ivy.

SO GLAD THEY CAME HOME SAFELY:  Artemis II Concludes Successful Mission with Splashdown off San Diego’s Coast.

WHATEVER THE PRESS WANTS TO MAKE YOU BELIEVE:  Iran shot their bolt, and missed.

GOOD:  Rubio Strips Green Card of ‘Screaming Mary’s’ Son.

NOT MUCH NEW, BUT VERY STARK:  Newly Released Search Warrants Reveal Damning Details About Alleged Charlie Kirk Assassin.

I SAW SPOTTY LITERACY WHEN I WAS A LECTURER ALREADY… THIRTY ONE YEARS AGO:  Declining educational standards are now “a civilizational catastrophe”.

STUFF THAT MAYBE YOU CAN USE:  Women’s Self Defense. Let’s get this party started.

GIGGLE:  Nirit Weiss-Blatt has been doing indispensable work documenting the dark, disturbing history of the rise of extremism among anti-AI forces. ​As you will see below, she has all the receipts going back over time ​regarding how their rhetoric has grown more violent and threatens to spawn acts of violence, as we saw this week.

X-cancel.

EXPAND YOUR READING:  Writers who don’t hate you, Extraordinary Promo Post 3.

OPEN THREAD: Party on.

HMM: Scientists May Have Found a New Cause of High Blood Pressure, And a Way to Treat It.

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:

We live in a world of morons… pic.twitter.com/7Jh0KKhpHf

— Matt Couch (@RealMattCouch) April 10, 2026

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.

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?”

Konstantin Kisin watched the BBC’s tech editor interview Elon Musk and came away stunned.

Not because of the tough questions — but because the interviewer ran out of questions.

Kisin asked the obvious: How do you run out of questions when you’re sitting across from the guy who… pic.twitter.com/MjIcn9mPsf

— Camus (@newstart_2024) April 11, 2026

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

In response to controversy surrounding a tattoo resembling a Nazi symbol and comments he made previously on Reddit, Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner says "much of it was because of the culture I had come out of."

"When I left the military, I came out of a… pic.twitter.com/C069CLxuDb

— CBS News (@CBSNews) April 10, 2026

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

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

Public radio at its finest https://t.co/66IBcCdzSH

— Marc Thiessen 🇺🇸❤️🇺🇦🇹🇼🇮🇱 (@marcthiessen) April 11, 2026

WOULD THAT BE ALL OF THEM? These Are the New Car Features That Can Be the Most Expensive to Repair in 2026.

BOMB CANADA, THE CASE FOR WAR:

The Soviets/DDR built a wall. It worked for 38 years, keeping East Germans from fleeing communist authoritarianism and poverty for the free, prosperous West.

Then it came down. When everything finally, irrevocably went to shit on that side of the wall. https://t.co/7O5MKRZAKo

— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) April 11, 2026

(Classical reference in headline.)

GOODER AND HARDER, CALIFORNIA:

One of the greatest community notes of all time.

Never deleting this app. pic.twitter.com/ntcdyU0gJ1

— Tim Young (@TimRunsHisMouth) April 10, 2026

STAY SAFE: aosu Security Cameras Outdoor Wireless, 2 Cam-Kit, No Subscription Required. #CommissionEarned

THE WEIMAR REPUBLIC CALLED, AND SAID YOU MIGHT WANT TO DIAL THINGS BACK A NOTCH OR 20: It Was Worse Than We Thought: Kristi Noem’s Husband Saga Gets Darker.

THE 21ST CENTURY ISN’T TURNING OUT AS I HAD HOPED: Did ChatGPT Help a Killer Plan a Mass Shooting at Florida State University?

G Gradual Men’s Running Shorts with Zipper Pockets. #CommissionEarned