MARCO RUBIO, VICEROY OF VENEZUELA: State Department on Venezuela: No Trust, Just Leverage.. and a Plan for Elections?

SPELING IS HARD:

You can't tell me that this is a legitimate system of government

I don't care if you're the silliest libtard on earth, there's no way you really believe this woman should govern a city of 6 million people https://t.co/Ljktqkm2Aa

— Bennett's Phylactery (@extradeadjcb) April 17, 2026

TRIM YOUR NAILS: 360° Rotating Toenail Clippers. #CommissionEarned

ON NOTICE: The DOJ Has Warned Virginia About Its Anti-Gun Jihad.

SPOILER: THE COUNTERPRODUCTIVE YAPPING WILL CONTINUE.

Every foreign policy genius who spent a decade collecting paychecks to tell us Iran was untouchable just watched a real estate developer from Queens reopen the waterway that moves a third of the world's oil.

The credential class should be embarrassed into silence. pic.twitter.com/HjKVfZq5T5

— Mehek Cooke🇺🇸 (@MehekCooke) April 17, 2026

WELL: What’s the deal with Alzheimer’s disease and amyloid? For decades, scientists have concentrated on what now looks to be a blind alley.

A CONSERVATIVE GOES BEHIND ENEMY LINES: What I Saw at Kamala’s Book Tour Talk.

AND YET I DO BELIEVE IT:

You are not going to believe this

Utah Supreme Court ruled against a Republican-led amendment tied to a redistricting effort… just TWO weeks after a judge attended a party at the home of the lawyer who fought against it

She’s now UNDER INVESTIGATION for allegedly having a… pic.twitter.com/VwgSoQ0SYl

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) April 17, 2026

HMM: Missing general, scientist deaths tied to secret US work prompt White House probe.

HMM: Netflix stock slides as forecast misses, co-founder Reed Hastings announces departure from board.

BRAVO, WELL PLAYED, SIR:

I mean this probably is the best tweet ever produced. It’s perfect like a diamond pic.twitter.com/AJsJSVAm8P

— BoiltOwl (@nealjclark1) April 17, 2026

HMM: These Are the 4 Most Overlooked Signs of Declining Health, According to Aging Experts.

OUCH: Check Nancy Pelosi’s Back for Tire Marks Because Kevin McCarthy Just Pulled a Swalwell Hit and Run.

If THERE’S ANYONE LEFTIES DON’T DESPISE (ESPECIALLY THEMSELVES, DEEP DOWN), I DON’T KNOW WHO IT MIGHT BE:

For the DSA Left the ‘working class’ is a theoretical abstraction that is invoked to justify the self entitlement and prerogatives of a class of affluent (but downwardly mobile) professional and creative elites. https://t.co/b0LsOzleWb

— Coddled Affluent Professional (@feelsdesperate) April 17, 2026

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Tartar Sauce Always Has To Be Refrigerated, And It’s All Because Of One Ingredient.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. AI Isn’t the Future of Our National Security. It’s the Present.

I covered just a small fraction of what AI already does for the military (in Operation Epic Fury) a couple of weeks ago, and it is impressive.

FREE CHAPTERS OF BOOK ABOUT TO DROP:  A Small Pause For Self Promo.

THE CORRECT ANSWER IS, “EVERYTHING BUT HORSESHOE”:

Which is it?

— Kosher (@koshercockney) April 17, 2026

WELL, THEY’RE GRIFTERS:

Giffords supported Justin Fairfax, Jay Jones, and Eric Swalwell.

Maybe they aren't the best judges of character? https://t.co/4wd5ZnaAn1

— Kostas Moros (@MorosKostas) April 16, 2026

WELL, HE’S RIGHT: Greg Dolezal’s Blunt Warning About Sharia Law Is Turning Heads in Georgia.

CULTURE OF CORRUPTION:

Gavin Newsom just used his own PAC to buy $1.5 million worth of his own book. Even more comically, that accounts for 2/3 of the entire print sales. pic.twitter.com/ZvHJqScCB4

— Kevin Dalton (@TheKevinDalton) April 16, 2026

CAUSE AND EFFECT, WHICH ORDER DO THEY GO IN?

The timing on this story is interesting because Trump *actually* canceled this contract with CC two weeks ago, before the kerfluffle with the pope took place.

Kinda makes it seem like the kerfluffle is a *response* to Trump taking steps to stop the flow of "refugees" https://t.co/vJOy8q00ws

— Theophilus Chilton (Scots-Irish Supremacist) 🇺🇲 (@Theo_Chilton) April 16, 2026

We don’t just have the worst media; we have the worst of all possible media.

21ST CENTURY PROBLEMS: How Dangerous is Mythos? Why Did Anthropic Decide Not to Release the New Model?

Anthropic’s Mythos has been able to independently complete a whole set of attack processes. From discovering zero-day vulnerabilities, writing exploit code, to linking multiple steps to access core systems, tasks that originally required top hackers to collaborate for long periods have been compressed to hours or even minutes.

This is also why, at the moment the model was disclosed, Scott Bessent and Jerome Powell would convene Wall Street firms to ask them to conduct ‘self-checks.’ When the ability to discover vulnerabilities is released on a large scale, the financial system faces not sporadic attacks, but continuous scanning.

The deeper change lies in the supply structure. In the past, vulnerability discovery relied on the experience accumulation of a few security teams and hackers, which was slow and non-replicable. Now, this capability is beginning to be output in bulk by models, lowering the threshold for both attacks and defenses. A metaphor from an insider is very straightforward: giving the model to an ordinary hacker is akin to equipping them with special operations capabilities.

Developing…

THE SAME COULD BE SAID ABOUT THE ENTIRE SOUTHERN AND EASTERN PARTS OF THE MED, SAVE ISRAEL — AND THERE’S A LESSON IN THAT:

In 1955, Algeria had 1 million Catholics and 140,000 Jews. Today there are 8,000 Catholics in Algeria and fewer than 200 Jews.

Christians and Jews had lived in Algeria since Roman times. Now they’re gone.https://t.co/BvwwQ15dYk

— Daniel Greenfield – "Hang Together or Separately" (@Sultanknish) April 16, 2026

JOURNALISMING: WaPo Mystified About Why No One Ever Noticed That Swalwell Was a Creeper. “One thing that modern ;journalists; do very well is blame other people for their propaganda-fueled derelictions of duty. The Jake Tappers of the world insisted that they were kept in the dark about Biden’s condition by his staff and the Democratic National Committee. Apparently, none of them owned televisions or had internet. Tapper even wrote a book about it. Bonus money for being awful at his job, then lying about it — not a bad gig if you are free from the burden of integrity.”

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