THE E.V. BUBBLE CONTINUES TO DEFLATE: Court Blocks Attempt to Force BMW and Mercedes to Stop Selling Gas Cars.

PEOPLE LIKE MULLIN BUILT THIS COUNTRY:

When Markwayne Mullin was 20 his dad's health took a turn. He dropped out of college to run the family business. He built it from 6 people into a multimillion dollar HVAC company with 150+ employees.

He's a pillar of his community, and @jimmykimmel can't even tell a funny joke. https://t.co/yVfsqzpRgh

— Benjamin Domenech (@bdomenech) March 25, 2026

ICYMI: If ‘Lord of the Rings’ Isn’t Quite Dead, This Guy Can Finish It Off.

RELIABLE: 2027 Mercedes-Maybach S-Class First Look: Exactly What We Expected.

NOW THAT’S MOBILE WARFARE: Lockheed launches Hellfire missile from 10-foot cargo container.

GUNS: The Narrative Uber Alles: Gun-Related Injuries and Juvenile Mental Health.

In a recent medical journal report the authors find that a firearm injury to an adult is associated with a child in the family receiving a psychiatric diagnosis. They imply that distress related to the injury leads to the emergence of psychiatric difficulties and subsequently a psychiatric diagnosis. On its face, this seems plausible.

The authors note some limitations, including relying exclusively on commercial health insurance to obtain data regarding injuries and psychiatric diagnoses. While they utilize a large sample it is perhaps only about 13 percent of the US population. As they note, it excludes families covered by Medicaid, which may be different in important ways from those whose health insurance tends to be through an employer. Additionally, they point out that an alternative explanation for an association between injuries and children’s receiving a psychiatric diagnosis is that the injury prompted a set of interactions with the medical community, thus increasing the likelihood that psychiatric difficulties would be identified and diagnosed in these children. This seems plausible as well.

However, the conclusion that an adult’s injury leads to a child’s diagnosis is undercut by the graph they present showing diagnoses both before and after the injury. While the graph indicates that indeed children’s psychiatric diagnoses increased following the injury, they were on an upward curve before the injury. This might suggest that situational factors led to both the diagnosis and the injury.

Much more at the link, but these days it pays to be extra-skeptical of anything published in medical journals — particularly when it involves firearms.

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— Joey Jones (@Johnny_Joey) March 25, 2026

SOME DAYS I FEEL IT MORE THAN OTHERS: 50 Years Since Star Wars Began, and Yes, We’re All Old Now.

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HEY, DOES THIS THING HAVE A HEMI? Why, yes it does: 2026 Dodge Durango R/T 392 Launch Edition Is a 475-HP Family SUV. The 6.4-liter Hemi V-8 is back! And this time, Dodge is offering it in the Durango at a substantial discount.

FANTASY INDEED: When a ‘Common Sense’ Gun Control Measure Depends on the Fantasy of Competent Government.

ZERO EFFS TO GIVE: ‘Get Down! Get Down! They’re Gonna See Us!’: Six Months of Hiding From ICE.

Legal residents and citizens don’t have this problem, so go someplace where you’re one of those.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Your Field Guide to Observing the Seasonal ‘No Kings’ Display on Saturday.

PROF ALLOWS STUDENTS TO USE AI FOR ESSAY; THEY MOSTLY DECLINE. And (at least the honest ones) had some fairly thoughtful reasons why:

Anxiety was one dominant theme. Students reported choosing the traditional assignment because they feared they would mess up using AI and get punished for cheating. Students also said they were nervous that AI would give them wrong information or lead them to fail to meet the assignment’s expectations or make them sound robotic. “I feel like AI gives me ideas and phrases that sound too fake,” as one student put it.

NEXT!

BREAKING: A senior member of Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence, Sayed Yahya Hamidi, responsible for “Israel Affairs” and accused of leading terrorist activities targeting Jews worldwide, has been killed in an Israeli strike in Tehran. pic.twitter.com/zeZK8Cd6CA

— Baba Banaras™ (@RealBababanaras) March 25, 2026

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CHRISTIAN TOTO: Mark Normand Forced Netflix to Admit This Inconvenient Truth?

The sly stand-up comic traffics in the kind of stereotypes that can get a fella canceled. Or, at the very least, chase mainstream streaming platforms far, far away.

Yet “Mark Normand: None Too Pleased” just bowed on Netflix March 17, and there’s no Cancel Culture-type effort to punish him or the streaming giant.

It helps that Normand has an agreeable nature and cherubic face, both of which defang his incendiary gags. Plus, he expertly toys with stereotypes in ways that are uplifting, even fun.

His intent is always clear. He’s riffing on us without pushing anyone away, and the material is relentlessly first class. Normand works on a level few comedians can touch.

He’s that good.

The comic podcaster has another trick up his sleeve. He understands the power of cultural outrage and corporate cowardice.

Read the whole thing.

AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD:

Airport Wait Times Eliminated After TSA Checkpoints Taken Over By Chick-Fil-A https://t.co/aOaGRhtVZQ pic.twitter.com/WTELY0f6ph

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) March 24, 2026

BULLIES GONNA BULLY UNTIL THEY GET PUNCHED IN THE MOUTH:

This is the most remarkable example of a country thwarting China's bullying tactics.

Chinese vessel illegally trespassed in Argentinian waters, Argentinian Navy simply sunk the boat!

Giving a befitting reply could be as simple as that. pic.twitter.com/payWMT8c6H

— Nguyen Ho (@NguyenHo1096438) March 25, 2026

IF EXERCISE WERE A DRUG EVERYONE WOULD TAKE IT: Exercise can lower Alzheimer’s risk. Scientists may have discovered why.

IT’S AMAZING WHAT A NEW SHERIFF IN TOWN CAN ACCOMPLISH:

1. "Palestine" sucked the air out of everything else; and 2. protests were led disproportionately by foreign students, and few such students are coming to the US, they are being screened for being hostile to the US before being given visas, and they understand if they violate the… https://t.co/s4xNgVgdFs

— David Bernstein (@ProfDBernstein) March 25, 2026

Tweet continues, “if they violate the law the Trump DHS will send their butts back home.” Much more like this, please. 

“SHOCKING” ONLY TO A MEMBER OF THE PRESS WHO’S SUPPOSED TO BE AWARE OF THIS KIND OF THING:

Talking to Iranians who have fled to Armenia, I have heard largely the same. One a few days ago told me: "I don't know anyone who was killed in the strikes. I know 22 people who were killed by the regime in January." https://t.co/JqZz0LjcNk

— Neil Hauer (@NeilPHauer) March 25, 2026

WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: NASA’s ‘1st nuclear powered interplanetary spacecraft’ will send Skyfall helicopters to Mars in 2028.

BATTLESWARM: Iran Strikes Day 25. “The Iran war continues, with attacks on energy grids and refineries across the Persian Gulf, (maybe) another bunker buster strike, serious regime confusion, countries reporting impending shortages, and part of the 82nd Airborne moving into the theater.”

IN THE MAIL: From Larry Correia: American Paladin: Dust Sacrifice.