SO I’VE SOMETIMES WONDERED IF THE SECRET SERVICE ISN’T TRYING ITS HARDEST TO PROTECT TRUMP, BUT IT’S ALSO POSSIBLE THAT THEY ARE JUST MORONS: Secret Service Agent in Jill Biden’s Detail Shot Himself in Negligent Discharge Incident.
March 27, 2026
EXPERTS AREN’T ALWAYS WRONG: Experts Say Weight Lifting Is The Fountain Of Youth. Here’s How To Get Started At Any Age.
BEEGE WELBORN HAS A TWOFER OF GOOD STUFF FROM THE ANTIPODES TODAY.
From NZ: Nut Zeroes: Kiwis Are Up a Creek in 3 Weeks and Nearly No Diesel in the Land Down Under. “In New Zealand, fascist former Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, besides taking away every last firearm in the country and locking up every living soul as she indulged her dictatorial COVID powers during the pandemic, also set the island on its merry way to net zero and disaster by declaring a ‘global climate emergency.'”
You’ll never guess what happened next.
And a related item from Australia: You Can Still Hum ‘Leavin’ on a Jet Plane’ From Anywhere…But Australia. “Neither does the fact that successive Australian governments have never once maintained fuel reserves at the level needed in case this very thing happened, even as they marched into a climate cult Kool-Aid event.”
20 years ago, there was talk of the Anglosphere as a loose alliance of like-minded peoples bringing peace and prosperity to the world. But aside from the US — and us only barely — the rest of the English-speaking world seems to have lost its damned minds.
NASA — and especially the contractors — hope so. But even a “successful” mission won’t fix the absurd and unsustainable costs of this vehicle.
I expressed my concerns here.
PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS:
This is one of the most perfect things the internet has ever created.
— Dave Rubin (@RubinReport) March 27, 2026
BEST SECSTATE SINCE SCHULTZ, HANDS DOWN: Rubio Mic Drop: Epic Fury Is a Favor for the World. ‘Step Up and Deal With It.’
SUPREME COURT BLOCKS MUSIC INDUSTRY’S PUSH TO CUT MILLIONS OFF THE INTERNET OVER PIRACY CLAIMS:
The Supreme Court has unanimously refused to let the recording industry turn internet providers into copyright enforcers with the power to cut millions of people off from modern life.
The ruling, handed down Wednesday in Cox Communications v. Sony Music Entertainment, kills a legal theory that would have given ISPs one rational choice when they received a copyright complaint: sever the connection first, figure out the truth later.
We obtained a copy of the order for you here.
All nine justices thankfully agreed that Cox Communications bears no liability for the piracy of its subscribers.
Justice Clarence Thomas, writing for the majority, stated: “Under our precedents, a company is not liable as a copyright infringer for merely providing a service to the general public with knowledge that it will be used by some to infringe copyrights.”
The real significance of the ruling isn’t what it means for Cox’s balance sheet. It’s what prevents it from happening to everyone who depends on an internet connection to live, work, and communicate, which in 2026 is functionally all of us.
Consider what the recording industry was actually proposing. Sony Music Entertainment and more than 50 other labels, representing artists like Sabrina Carpenter, Givēon, and Doechii*, wanted courts to hold ISPs financially liable for not disconnecting users accused of piracy.
Not convicted. Accused.
The accusations themselves came from an automated system paid for by the Recording Industry Association of America, which hires an anti-piracy company to blast notices at internet providers whenever its software detects possible infringement. Nobody reviews these notices with any care. Nobody checks whether the flagged activity was actually illegal, whether it fell under fair use, or whether the person named on the account was even the one responsible.
Under the legal standard the labels wanted, an ISP that received enough of these automated complaints and didn’t disconnect the account could face catastrophic financial liability. A Virginia jury bought that theory in 2019 and hit Cox with a verdict of over $1 billion.
The incentive structure that kind of liability creates is terrifying if you think it through for more than a few seconds. When an ISP faces billion-dollar exposure for not cutting people off, the only financially rational response is to start cutting people off aggressively.
Exit quote: “A family of five loses their connection because one teenager allegedly downloaded a song. A hospital serving hundreds of patients and their families goes dark because someone on the guest Wi-Fi triggered an automated flag. A university campus gets throttled or disconnected because students were doing what students have always done. ‘That notion turns Internet providers into Internet police and jeopardizes Internet access for millions of users,’ Cox told the Court.”
* Evergreen:
EXCLUSIVE: Top Trump Official Sheds Light On ‘Mess’ Lying Under Hood Of Illegal Trucker Crisis.
After investigating the circumstances that led to the fatal crash in Florida, the DOT in September handed down severe restrictions against non-domiciled CDL holders and identified state governments that were purportedly issuing licenses to foreign truck drivers unlawfully. The DOT in February doubled down with more rules to keep illegal migrants away from big rigs, rolling out new screening processes and eliminating a loophole that previously allowed foreigners with bad driving records to obtain trucking licenses.
Labor groups closely aligned with the Democrat Party quickly sued to squash the new regulations, claiming that the rules would harm hundreds of thousands of foreign nationals.
Barrs argues that the rules are solely intended to keep American highways safe.
“No one wants to lose good, qualified drivers,” Barrs told the DCNF, speaking about the number of migrant drivers expected to be taken off the roads over the next several years due to the tighter regulations. “To me, this is the safety aspect — we have to always bring it back to that piece.”
“I am not willing, in the role I have at FMCSA, to compromise safety just to put someone in the seat of a truck,” he continued.
His job would be a lot easier if certain blue states didn’t hand out CDLs like Halloween candy.
THE ENEMY WITHIN/DIVERSITY IS OUR STRENGTH:
He was given the keys to the Cathedral by the priests. They put him in charge of locking up and gave him verger duties. After he set it on fire, destroying the organ and organ loft, Fr Maire offered him a safe haven in his home to await trial.
He proceeded to murder Fr Maire. https://t.co/e0aRVDraVS
— Wanjiru Njoya (@WanjiruNjoya) March 27, 2026
TurboTax Deluxe Desktop Edition 2025, Federal & State Tax Return. #CommissionEarned
WHEN THERE’S NO CREDIBILITY LEFT TO SQUANDER:
The media of 2026 no longer has the “Cronkite effect”. They’ve cried wolf so many times that whenever they tell us something, we now firmly believe the opposite. https://t.co/7Wr1SIaQGc
— InfantryDort (@infantrydort) March 27, 2026
PROBABLY FOR THE BEST: OpenAI “indefinitely” shelves plans for erotic ChatGPT.
Insiders told FT that OpenAI mulled scrapping the “adult mode” plan entirely, as even its own advisors warned that ChatGPT users could form unhealthy attachments, which might harm their mental health. One advisor chillingly suggested that the tweak risked turning ChatGPT into a “sexy suicide coach.”
Advisors weren’t the only ones seeing red flags, the report said.
Staff began questioning whether sexy ChatGPT aligned with OpenAI’s mission to make AI that benefits humanity. For staff working on developing “adult mode,” it apparently wasn’t worth the effort to overcome technical challenges for the feature. They faced “difficulties,” sources told FT, “training AI models that previously avoided such conversations for safety reasons to produce explicit content.” It was also hard to keep illegal behavior out of outputs, like bestiality and incest, when using datasets that included sexual content, sources said.
Maybe more LLM companies should think twice before rushing new services out the door.
THE CRITICAL DRINKER: The Ensh*ttification Of Lord Of The Rings.
Meanwhile, at America’s Newspaper of Record:
Jimmy Kimmel To Write Script For New 'Godfather' Sequel https://t.co/MZ8VxlfKpV pic.twitter.com/iJ7yRDd6Wq
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) March 26, 2026
PROGRESSIVE SCHOLARSHIP: Scholars push for forced abortions on minors with ‘restraint’ if needed in U. Chicago journal.
NEXT!
🚨🇮🇷BREAKING: General Ahmad Vahidi who was appointed as commander-in-chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on March 1, 2026, reporadaly has been ELIMINATED in U. S. & Israel strikes. pic.twitter.com/7wuxWVRV6X
— Eli Afriat 🇮🇱 (@EliAfriatISR) March 27, 2026
HOW IT STARTED: Gov. Newsom courts touts California as the ‘freedom state.’
—The L.A. Times, August 3rd, 2022.
How It’s Going: Gavin Newsom floats idea of mandatory national service.
During a taped interview at John’s Grill in San Francisco, Politico’s Jonathan Martin asked Newsom whether the US should adopt compulsory military service or some form of volunteer obligations.
“I think we have to look at ways we can frame a responsibility to serve for a year, 6 months minimum — year, 18 months,” said Newsom, who did not serve in the US military.
He added: “This notion of shared experiences — I don’t know how else you get this country back together.”
—The California Post, yesterday.
While Martin raised the topic of compulsory military service, perhaps Newsom has another kind of shared service in mind. Flashback t0 2019: Marianne Williamson wants a national mandatory service for people ages 18-26 to combat climate change.
In any case, perhaps Newsom needs to recheck his polling data on this issue:
Related: VDH on GCN:
Victor Davis Hansen gives a brutal rundown of Newsom's history and how he has destroyed California
– Never had a private job that he got on his own
– A creation of the Getty family and his well-connected parents
– Been in office for 30 years
– Overseen disastrous programs like… pic.twitter.com/R5Rh2yFBZq— jay plemons (@jayplemons) March 27, 2026
DEAR JIMMY KIMMEL: YOU’RE GARBAGE. YOU’RE NOT FUNNY, AND YOU’RE NOT EVEN A GOOD POLITICAL PROPAGANDIST.
Jimmy Kimmel tried to clean up his comments about Markwayne Mullin being a former plumber, but he tried to have it both ways. First he doubled down ignoring Mullin's management experience with his plumbing company "[Trump's] apple polishers are all in a tizzy because I made light… pic.twitter.com/3zqd1AG6r9
— Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) March 27, 2026
You do a decent job of retailing class-snobbery for downwardly mobiles, though, which is what most of your audience is actually there for.
THIS IS A BIG DEAL, ACKSHULLY: No Biggie, Just Drone Swarms Shutting Down Our Nuclear Strike Command.
LIGHTNING DEAL: Rechargeable Flashlights High Lumens. #CommissionEarned
MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE: Blanche says DOJ, FBI has ‘cleaned house’ of agents, employees who assisted in Trump prosecutions.
Blanche told an audience at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Grapevine, Texas, that approximately 200 DOJ employees have either left or been fired under the Trump administration for working on the high-profile cases.
He also commented that FBI Director Kash Patel has removed a string of agents who were connected to the Trump investigations but did not state how many agents have been fired so far.
“There is not a single man or woman at the Department of Justice who had anything to do with those prosecutions,” Blanche said. “Director Patel has cleaned house there too. There isn’t a single man or woman with a gun — federal agent — still in that organization that had anything to do with the prosecution of President Trump.”
Banana republic antics require punishment.
MUSLIM PUBLIC AFFAIRS COUNCIL TRYING TO INTIMIDATE MY COLLEAGUE ADAM MOSSOFF: There is nothing racist about the image in question (actual picture of her included below for reference), MPAC is wildly hypocritical about freedom of expression as they try to silence Adam, and this nonsense deserves to be Streisand effect-ed.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: International Olympic Committee Hits Back at the Rainbow Mafia Bullies. “Given that the Olympics are such a long-term goal, this is a phenomenal win for female athletes. If radical leftists had their way, any young girl who spent her life training for the Olympics could have her dreams crushed by a mediocre male athlete who decided to “identify” as female. They wanted a wholesale disenfranchisement of young women for the sake of nonexistent woke tolerance.”
BLUE STATE BLUES: Washington’s ‘Millionaire Tax’ sends luxury home listings surging 65% overnight.
Following the enactment of the new 9.9% income tax (known as the “Millionaire Tax,” or SB 6346), there’s been an increase in home listings in Washington State. Data from the Northwest Multiple Listing Service shows that the number of homes priced at $2 million or more jumped by 65% the day after Democrats passed the bill compared to the same data last year.
While the total number of high-end homes is relatively small, realtors previously told The Center Square that several clients listed their properties specifically because of the new tax.
The data shows that on March 12, the day after the tax bill passed, there were 53 high-value listings compared to just 32 on that same day in 2025. When the bill was first introduced in February, the number of listings was also higher than the previous year.
The numbers aren’t huge, but neither are the number of people in Washington’s new tax bracket.
It’s an easy call that SB 6346 will cost Washington revenue — but, hey, they’ll have fewer of those nasty high-earners.
