#JOURNALISM: As Regime Executions Mount, NYT Laments Trump’s War Is Preventing Iranians From Cherishing Nature.

DOOM AND GLOOM AND… A BOOMING TOURISM INDUSTRY?

In 2004, the BBC warned the Maldives were "soon to be uninhabitable," claiming sea levels were rising 0.9 cm per year and that 80% of the islands could vanish within a century.

More than two decades later though, reality says otherwise.

The Maldives haven't sunk, they've… pic.twitter.com/im8GNHlx4l

— Electroverse (@Electroversenet) April 9, 2026

SPRING FASCISM PREVIEW:

Every single elected Democrat has made clear what they intend to do with power should we ever allow them back into power. They’re not hiding who they are anymore.

We should probably focus REALLY hard on not letting that happen. https://t.co/v8DzSaqzKG

— Jesse Kelly (@JesseKellyDC) April 9, 2026

(Classical – and NSFW – reference in headline.)

ICYMI: Elon Musk Didn’t Just Leave Delaware — He Started a Stampede.

TODAY TRUMP SETTLES ALL FAMILY BUSINESS*: Trump goes off on ‘NUT JOBS’  Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens, Alex Jones over Iran war criticism.

President Trump lashed out at four right-wing critics of the Iran war Thursday, describing them as “NUT JOBS” and “losers” who will say anything for attention.

“I know why Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens, and Alex Jones have all been fighting me for years, especially by the fact that they think it is wonderful for Iran, the Number One State Sponsor of Terror, to have a Nuclear Weapon — Because they have one thing in common, Low IQs,” Trump wrote in a lengthy Truth Social post.

“They’re stupid people, they know it, their families know it, and everyone else knows it, too!” the president raged. “Look at their past, look at their record. They don’t have what it takes, and they never did!

“They’ve all been thrown off Television, lost their Shows, and aren’t even invited on TV because nobody cares about them, they’re NUT JOBS, TROUBLEMAKERS, and will say anything necessary for some ‘free’ and cheap publicity.”

* Rather than a Godfather callback, maybe I should have gone with a Return of the Jedi reference:

I made Trump's takedown of podcasters he doesn't like into the opening credits of Star Wars… because it fit perfectly.

This is pretty incredible. 🤣🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/dxvtWBjltP

— Tim Young (@TimRunsHisMouth) April 10, 2026

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UNSUSTAINABLE: U.S. added $1.2 trillion to national debt in six months.

The U.S. government added $1.2 trillion to the national debt over the past six months, borrowing $163 billion during March alone, the Congressional Budget Office reports.

At the current rate of borrowing, federal deficits are on track to top $2 trillion by October, the end of the current fiscal year.

But the president’s recent budget request – which lawmakers will use as a blueprint for the 12 fiscal year 2027 appropriations bills – calls for $2.1 trillion in discretionary spending alone, without touching entitlement program spending.

“Both Congress and the President continue to ignore the urgent need to get our borrowing under control,” Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, said in a statement.

“As lawmakers consider the budget process for the upcoming fiscal year, we hope that they come up with plans to reduce deficits from the too-high 6% of GDP to a more sustainable 3% of GDP; secure our nation’s ailing trust funds for Social Security, Medicare, and highways; and ultimately fix the broken process that got us into this mess.”

That would be nice, yes, but unlikely under a GOP Congress and impossible under a Democrat one.

IS THERE NOTHING LIBS WON’T DESTROY IN THEIR EFFORT TO BRING TRUMP DOWN?  NATO Secretary General Had This to Say About His Meeting With Trump. Libs Will Hate It.

TIMES CHANGE:

If the remainder of Spain in the 8th Century was ruled by weak men like Pedro Sanchez, it would have neever been able to decolonise.

It would have been a fully islamic nation today, indistinguishable from Morocco.

Spain fought 800 years against the forces it now bends over for. pic.twitter.com/3YvoDlMhPE

— 𝐍𝐢𝐨𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠 🇮🇷 ✡︎ (@NiohBerg) April 9, 2026

I liked Spain better before the Counter-Reconquista.

GOOD:

It's incredible the extent to which the social sanctioning engine has simply seized up. Hit pieces that would have been 5-alarm fires 5 years ago now come and go with no notice. Nobody cares, it's over.

— Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 (@pmarca) April 9, 2026

RIGHT?

BBC says that like it's a bad thing. Fact is, the whole refugee dodge has been abused throughout the first world, by third worlders who want in.

"Since October 2025, 4,499 refugees were resettled in the US, according to the Refugee Processing Center. All, except three from… https://t.co/q3mZDPpFr0

— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) April 10, 2026

Related thoughts here.

HELL, NOBODY CAN SEEM TO AGREE WHICH COUNTRIES ARE EVEN INVOLVED IN THE CEASEFIRE: Who’s in Charge in Iran? A Splintered Government Makes Negotiations Nearly Impossible.

IT’S GOTTA AT LEAST BE TOP 3:

Contender for the best community note of all time.

Descendent of slavers accidentally whines about the British trying to end the slave trade.

If anything she should be paying reparations to us. https://t.co/bKtTeW8Npy

— Tom Harwood (@tomhfh) April 9, 2026

Flashback: My Nigerian Grandfather Sold Slaves. “Nwaubani Ogogo lived in a time when the fittest survived and the bravest excelled. The concept of ‘all men are created equal’ was completely alien to traditional religion and law in his society. It would be unfair to judge a 19th Century man by 21st Century principles. Assessing the people of Africa’s past by today’s standards would compel us to cast the majority of our heroes as villains, denying us the right to fully celebrate anyone who was not influenced by Western ideology.”

There’s a mythology that white slave traders ran around the bush kidnapping Africans, but that’s bunk, of course — they’d pretty much all have died. They bought African slaves from Africans. My brother talked to people in Ghana about that some years ago, and they reflected little guilt: Back then if you lost a war, you either died or were enslaved. That’s just how it worked.

One of the reasons Zora Neale Hurston’s Barracoon couldn’t get published when she wrote it was that the black literary community didn’t like that it portrayed the extent of African complicity in slavery. But history is history, despite efforts to rewrite it.

WE KNOW:  The ‘Leading UK Scientists’ Letter Urging Abandonment of North Sea is Ideology Masquerading as Science.

YEP. THAT:  Only Prosecutions Can End Dems’ DOJ Weaponization, But Media Pretend That’s Not Obvious.

YEAH. LIKE MARYLAND MAN:  Texas Man?

THIS IS ONE CAMPAIGN PROMISE THEY’RE SURE TO KEEP:  The Democrats Are Already Punishing Their Political Opponents.

PRAY THEY COME HOME SAFELY TO GREEN HILLS OF EARTH:  Urgent Prayer Request.

SORRY, NOT ENOUGH:  America’s Retribution’: Operation Epic Fury Destroyed 80 to 90 Percent of Iran’s Weapons Factories, Air Defenses, Naval Fleet, and Nuclear Infrastructure, Pentagon Says.

We finish the job or we’ll be here again in a couple of years.

AGREED:  Trump on Tucker: “Perhaps he should see a good psychiatrist!”

A BLESSING OF OPEN BORDERS:  Los Angeles Battles Record Typhus Cases as City Prepares to Host 2028 Games.

ALAS COLORADO!  Colorado’s latest Supreme Court loss adds to growing string of culture war defeats.  Kaley Chiles, a faith-based counselor in Colorado Springs, challenged the state’s 2019 law on talk therapy for minors.

THIS PREDATED THE COVIDIOCY:  The Prior Factory. How Disney accidentally radicalized a generation before they could read.

THE LEFT IS SO OFFENDED AT THIS: And gets sniffy at the fact these people faced violence.  US has let in 4,499 refugees since October – all but three were South African.

NOT ALL HEROES WEAR CAPES:  Oklahoma principal takes bullet to the leg while tackling school shooter.