IT APPEARS THAT EARLY MEDIA REPORTS OF ITS FAILURE WERE MISTAKEN:  Trump admin live updates: Prez warns Iran’s electric power plants could be next target.

THAT’S WHICH IS REWARDED IS THAT WHICH INCREASES:  Pathological narcissists have taken over the political left.

THE REAL PROBLEM IS THAT THE DEMS’ IDEA OF A ‘STRAIGHT, WHITE, CHRISTIAN MALE’ IS TIM WALZ:  The Dem Operative Class Is Risking Death Threats With This 2028 Advice.

GEORGIA REPRESENTATIVE HANK JOHNSON ASKED ABOUT THE RISK OF GUAM TIPPING OVER IN 2010: He is still serving in congress. You can’t embarrass the dems.  Watch CNN’s Scott Jennings Shred This Dem’s Take on Iran. It Was Embarrassing.

BECAUSE IT’S ALL SO TIRESOME:  Ballroom Blitz: Judge Orders Halt to Construction, Trump Not Amused.

CASTS JAUNDICED LOOK AT LI. SIDE EYES CALENDAR. UM… THEY PUT THIS UP YESTERDAY:  Former CNN Employee Don Lemon Signals He’s Open to Running for President.

But it might be true. After all he’s Netflix recast Pete Buttigieg. And Pete Buttigieg — Alfred E. Neuman’s less plausible twin — thinks he’s running for president.

IT WOULD BE ALL SO TIRESOME IF IT WEREN’T SO HORRIFYING:  Communist games, kings, and the lack thereof.

BY ANY AND EVERY MEANS, WE MUST LEAVE THIS OUR CRADLE AND REACH FOR THE STARS:  Going above and beyond.

SOME PEOPLE BELIEVE IN NONSENSE ON STILTS:  Cry Harder.

IT’S A CONSIDERATION:  Owning, Or Being Owned?

IT’S THE IRANIAN MONEY, STUPID:  This fact: “Oil revenue collapsed to roughly 5% of the national budget, down from 32% the prior year. Taxes increased over 60%. Food prices climbed at least 50%. ATMs across major cities are running out of cash.” Underlines a major point of mine.

X-cancel.

FASCINATING:  Ok, long legal autism explanation time, strap in this is going to be a wild ride: In 1934 the National Firearms Act was passed. The primary goals were to ban machine guns (especially the Thompson) and pistols (which could be concealed and used to ambush politicians), because FDR and his ilk were being wildly tyrannical at that time and certainly had cause to fear.

X-cancel.

BECAUSE IT’S TRUE:  America Points At Corruption Anew As Barrier To Trade And Investment With The Philippines.

PERSPECTIVE:

If you're under 53 years old, you have never once been alive while a human was farther than 250 miles from Earth. Tonight, four astronauts are heading 252,000 miles out. That's a thousand times farther than any person has gone in your lifetime.

The 250-mile ceiling is where the… https://t.co/h6fatOEsl9

— Anish Moonka (@anishmoonka) April 1, 2026

My concerns about the Artemis mission are real, but this is still something.

OPEN THREAD: Hump Day.

THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY I WAS PROMISED: Individual Investors Could Get a Rare Shot at Buying Into SpaceX From Day One.

CHANGE:

Positive development. Headsup, Sir Keir, it'll be pitchforks by torchlight shortly.

(FYI Britain, in America, the traditional corrective on official abuse is tar and feathers. A little goes a long way. Do one, the others notice. Regrettably we've moved away from this practice.… https://t.co/xn5O1A6Tib

— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) April 2, 2026

TOO MANY PEOPLE LOST IT OVER TRUMP:

I find it fascinating that the three guys responsible for the vast majority of "professional election analysis" in this country over the last 40+ years – Charlie Cook, Larry Sabato, and Stu Rothenberg – all had their brains utterly broken by Donald Trump. pic.twitter.com/OYiTh3XEtk

— Tom Bevan (@TomBevanRCP) March 30, 2026

MICROBIOME NEWS: Giant Study Reveals Why Some Viruses Hide Inside Your Body For Life.

HMM:

The Woodrow Wilson Foundation did a 50-state survey of Americans' civic knowledge in 2019.

Men out-performed women in every state by a large amount. pic.twitter.com/YnljZw4Tvk

— Marc Porter Magee 🎓 (@marcportermagee) March 31, 2026

WAR:

Since Clausewitz, the West recognized "war as an extension of politics."

The corollary of that is "politics is an extension of money."

Iran doesn't have any money, thanks to hyper-inflation and now an 84% reduction in oil revenue.

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— Trent Telenko (@TrentTelenko) April 1, 2026

JAPAN IS INCREASINGLY BASED:

With this Japan-America lovefest prompted by Trump's Pearl Harbor joke and Musk's X translation thingy, worth noting, Nihonjin might not know. Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto, architect of the attack on Pearl Harbor, admired America, and thought attacking the US was a really bad idea.… https://t.co/ObaNJc97Sd

— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) April 1, 2026

WARM AND WET IS GOOD: New Research Reveals Ancient Mars May Have Been Warm, Wet – and Possibly Alive.

BREAKING: NASA investigates potential battery issue ahead of lunar launch.

NASA engineers are reportedly investigating a possible battery issue Wednesday evening, as the space agency counts down toward its first lunar mission in over 50 years.

The possible battery issue is related to Orion capsule’s launch abort system, which could cause problems during the final minutes of the countdown, when a computer takes control of the Space Launch System rocket, according to NBC News.

Engineers are working to determine whether the issue was with a sensor or a battery itself, after one of the two batteries for the launch abort system was “out of temperature range.”

Standing by…

UPDATE:

Engineers investigated a sensor on the launch abort system’s attitude control motor controller battery that showed a higher temperature than would be expected. It is believed to be an instrumentation issue and will not affect today’s launch. https://t.co/3z3kjdp620

— Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex (@ExploreSpaceKSC) April 1, 2026

Godspeed.

ANOTHER UPDATE: NASA launches 4 astronauts to the moon on historic Artemis 2 voyage, a lunar leap for the 21st century.

NOW THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY I WAS PROMISED: Terraforming Mars: Modeling engineered aerosols to warm the planet.