HIGH SPEED RAIL:

Every north american commuter rail project completed in the past 50 years went 200-300% over budget and has ridership less than half of what was forecast

Its shocking how little concrn there is about this massive waste pic.twitter.com/oeYsyHWJnQ

— s_mo (@smo841603557184) April 3, 2026

“ELIMINATING CONSIDERABLE ARTERIOSCLEROSIS,” THEN AND NOW:

Poor General George C. Marshall. If you think the SECWAR criticism is unique, it's not. Marshall had to defend his actions powerfully and without apology:

“Most of our senior officers on such duty are deadwood and should be eliminated from the service as rapidly as possible.”… pic.twitter.com/Zv3lxEiCBc

— InfantryDort (@infantrydort) April 4, 2026

Related: “The US Army’s ‘Spiritual Fitness Guide’ reads like it was written by John Lennon and Yoko Ono on a bender—not a word of encouragement for a soldier’s faith, but pages upon pages of New Age nonsense that makes Universalism sound like rational thought and really does imagine no religion:” 

So SecWar Pete Hegseth just fired Maj. Gen. William Green Jr., the US Army’s (now former) Chief of Chaplains.

I have zero insider information on this, but I have my own theories as to why it happened.

Green’s most important event as the Chief of Chaplains was to produce the…

— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) April 3, 2026

CHANGE:

All the Jews who have been driven out of places like Columbia have been going to places like Vanderbilt.

As universities like Columbia have changed their values over the last 15 years, their student quality has declined.

Hopefully institutional reputations will catch up. https://t.co/BROunwwBoc

— Daniel Friedman (@DanFriedman81) April 3, 2026

CHARMING:  ID10T Errors. In which Donnal the apprentice wizard helps with tech support.

YOU NEED THIS. NO. I MEAN, YOU REALLY NEED THIS:  Geronimo for Hope!

IT SURE SEEMS LIKE:  America’s first foreign war on “the shores of Tripoli” has apparently never ended.

DON’T GET COCKY, THAT DOESN’T MEAN THEY’LL VOTE REPUBLICAN:  New CNN Poll: Even Democrats Are Done With Democrats.

WE KNOW THEY DON’T BELIEVE THERE IS ANY RISK IN DISRESPECTING THIS PRESIDENT (UNLIKE WITH HITLER, STALIN OR WILSON):  ‘The View’ Panel Thinks It’s Reckless to Do What in Trump’s America?

OH, LOOK, IT’S MY SHOCKED FACE AGAIN:  Dem fundraising giant ActBlue rocked by allegations it misled Congress about foreign donations.

SHOCKED, SHOCKED, SHOCKED:   Parents of MacDill bomb suspects are illegal immigrants, DHS warns of birthright citizenship dangers. Trump administration argues the case underscores national security risks as birthright citizenship heads to Supreme Court.

NOT PEACEFUL. ON THE OTHER SIDE:  France Joins China, Russia in Blocking Gulf Nations’ Bid to Use Force to Open Strait of Hormuz.

TO BE FAIR PEOPLE WHO DON’T SPOT THE FAWNING AND THE FAKERY  ARE AT RISK FOR SO MANY OTHER PSYCHOSIS:  Chatbot-Linked Psychosis and Delusional Spiraling.

APRIL FOOLS? TELL ME IT’S APRIL FOOLS!  Rep. Tim Burchett chose NOT to refute Matt Gaetz’s comment about a military alien-human breeding program, then said “the people that know are dying”.

WHAT HE SAID:  If you are a non-elected member of the US federal government (i.e., civilian GS employee, career SES, contractor, military) and you are “resisting” or “slow-rolling” lawful initiatives of the Trump Administration, let me tell you what you are actually doing.

X-Cancel.

THE TURTLE MOVES!  US ICE detains Islamic Society of Milwaukee President Salah Sarsour.

ME NEITHER:  I Did Not Have ‘Everest Guides Poisoning Climbers’ on My Bingo Card.

YEP:  They should be terrified, they’ve given people damn good reason to drop a dime on them.

A DIFFERENT KIND OF:  Bleeding Heart.

OPEN THREAD: Ring in the weekend.

THIS IS MORE LIKE THE 21ST CENTURY I WAS PROMISED: Elon Musk’s SpaceX set to be worth $1 trillion with planned public listing.

IT’S DIFFERENT WHEN DEMOCRATS AND LEFTISTS DO IT:

Wait. Wait. Wait.

I thought everyone knew about the chaplain corps move. Based on my DMs, maybe not.

Navy Chaplains assigned to the Marine Corps were resistant to the cultural revolution happening across the force.

So… Admiral Gilday, the avowed defender of Ibram X. Kendi,… https://t.co/mvWWapY5d3 pic.twitter.com/d7AKs8TPyy

— John Ʌ Konrad V (@johnkonrad) April 3, 2026

THE NATIONAL GOP APPARATUS REMAINS PRETTY USELESS.

Attention: @realDonaldTrump @DonaldJTrumpJr @StephenM @JDVance
The RNC is MIA.
Do something quick! https://t.co/LDXzMkM2BN

— The Patriarch Tree (@PatriarchTree) April 3, 2026

It’s like they don’t really care.

FASTER, PLEASE: Breakthrough Alzheimer’s Drug Rewires the Brain Instead of Just Clearing Plaques.

HMM: US Cardiologists Have Just Published New Guidelines For Managing Cholesterol.

SOCIALISM IN ONE LESSON:

🇪🇸🇪🇺 Spain passes Romania and becomes the EU country with the highest risk of child poverty. pic.twitter.com/YxDpbfdJnU

— Azat (@AzatAlsalim) April 3, 2026