THIS SCAM LONG PREDATES GAVIN NEWSOM:

🚨 HOLY CRAP! Gavin Newsom has just been caught spending $1.5 MILLION of his OWN PAC money to buy his OWN book, artificially boosting sales

He then USED those sales to ask for donations 🤡

A whopping TWO THIRDS of his book sales came from himself

You can't make this crap up 😭 pic.twitter.com/fwtr934m2H

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) April 17, 2026

I’m not sure exactly when the political memoir industry turned into another lefty grift operation, but it’s hardly anything more than that now.

Seriously, does anyone read these things?

CHANGE: Gov. Lee signs joint resolution to change ‘Pride Month’ to ‘Nuclear Family Month’ in Tennessee.

The WBIR News 10 report by Kaitlin Riordan in the link is one helluva smear-job.

MAKE THEM PLAY BY THEIR OWN RULES:

Neve deleting this app 🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/OFPNjXvsAS

— Yanky 🇺🇲 (@Yanky_Pollak) April 16, 2026

We need to have a talk about flight and electricity, too.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Chuck Schumer Is Now Driving His Own Clown Car. “Eric Swalwell’s protracted exit from politics has preoccupied the Democrats of late, which has pushed Schumer and his troubles into the background. One of my longstanding beliefs about Schumer is that, despite having risen to the top of Dem leadership, he’s one of the dumbest people in the Senate — think East Coast Mazie Hirono.”

WHAT’S HOBBLING HIGHER-ED REFORM? There is a real (though nascent) effort from within higher ed to try to save the sector and make it something we can be proud of again. Rick Hess lays out some of the issues tripping them up.

PERHAPS THEY NEED TO BE TREATED AS AN “EXISTENTIAL THREAT” TO OUR DEMOCRACY:

Democrats are discussing plans after retaking power to change the system so they never lose it again. Carville (curiously on a national podcast) told Democrats to keep the plans quiet: “Don’t run on it. Don’t talk about it. Just do it.” … https://t.co/LA7lKwbGOQ

— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) April 17, 2026

Isn’t that the phrase we’ve heard since 2016?

SO LONG, CITI BIKE:

A Citi Bike ride shouldn’t cost a penny more than a subway or bus ride. We’ve got a bill to cap e-bike fees at $3 and end Citi Bike-flation. pic.twitter.com/LpVv5SmPDE

— Lincoln Restler (@LincolnRestler) April 16, 2026

When the bikes lack maintenance and eventually start disappearing, it will be just another case of “bad luck.”

Unexpectedly, of course.

TO BE FAIR, IT’S A THREAT TO PEOPLE ANYWHERE: Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas blasts progressivism as threat to America.

CHANGE IS HAPPENING, ALL OVER THE WORLD:

The old banzai banner in China's face.

Xi's having a really bad week.

The Japanese rising sun war flag. Back in the news. OK, it's not the End Times. It's not a simulation. It's like some kind of Back to the Future Alt History. https://t.co/IWpwj8lye1

— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) April 17, 2026

THE VATICAN’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD:

Giant Cloud Of Dust Emerges From Vatican As Pope Opens His Bible https://t.co/13coY2JmTc pic.twitter.com/nNbVmwOqvn

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) April 16, 2026

ZONE OF DESTRUCTION: Wingman Woes: Gallego Caught in Swalwell Storm: Few believe the Arizona senator’s claim to have been ‘shocked’ by allegations against his ‘closest friend in Congress.’

KIND OF GIVING AWAY THE GAME HERE:

Spot on from @JasonBordoff:

"… Others should prepare for a world in which energy crises are less of a brake on American power than they once were…"https://t.co/Tq7YESRGHV

— Javier Blas (@JavierBlas) April 17, 2026

WELL, THEY ARE:

You actually don't have to treat people who suggest that there was a genocide in Gaza as serious, reasonable people. You really just can call them retarded.

— Will Chamberlain (@willchamberlain) April 16, 2026

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ICYMI: Sorry, Britain, but You’re Just Another Europoor Country Now.

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Don Surber: Brits poorer than Mississippians. But the British refuse to believe they are poor.

If the Brits ever admitted what has been done to them, they’d have to do something about it.

YES:

The Palestinian destruction of Christianity in Lebanon does not get enough attention in general, and gets zero attention from the newly-minted radical Jew-blaming Catholic and Islam-simping influencers. https://t.co/XqzYGappqi

— William A. Jacobson (@wajacobson) April 16, 2026

HOW IT’S GOING:

The first frontrunner for CA governor poured hot mashed potatoes on her husband. The second frontrunner turned out to be a sexual predator. The third frontrunner wants to arrest ICE agents.

In case you're wondering how the Democratic Party is doing.

— Brandi Kruse (@BrandiKruse) April 16, 2026

NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU DESPISE THE MEDIA…:

Still blows me away the press held this until he wasn’t needed anymore. Really tells you how completely cooked we are as a country that it’s all this corrupt and fixed. https://t.co/PlnCUMkhhe

— EducatëdHillbilly™ (@RobProvince) April 16, 2026

…it’s never enough.

HMM: Trump to sign executive order on psychedelic drug used abroad to treat PTSD.

The White House is drafting an executive order that would signal the Trump administration’s willingness to further U.S. research into a drug called ibogaine.

Ibogaine, a naturally occurring compound from a shrub native to Africa, is used to treat depression, anxiety, addiction, post-traumatic stress disorder and brain trauma.

Because it’s illegal in the United States, Americans have been traveling to unregulated clinics, often in Mexico or the Caribbean, to take the drug.

The Trump administration doesn’t plan to reclassify the drug for medical use at this time — it will remain a Schedule I drug.

President Trump intends to sign the executive order as soon as this week, two of the sources said.

Almost anything might be an improvement. There hasn’t been a PTSD drug approved by the FDA since Paroxetine (Paxil) in 2001.