NEXT!

PARTY OF YOUTH UPDATE:

“No Kings,” but a gerontocracy is just fine, apparently.

TO BE FAIR, EVERYBODY SHOULD GIVE GAVIN THE FINGER: Chevron gives Gavin Newsom the middle finger with dramatic move that could help California drivers.

Oil giant Chevron will begin purchasing oil from Sable Offshore Corp., the Houston-based company announced Tuesday. The dramatic move comes amid a legal battle between California and the Trump administration.

The petroleum corporation plans to purchase an initial 20,000 barrels of oil per day from offshore platforms near Santa Barbara, just weeks after the federal government approved the restart of production, Bloomberg reported.

The move is a boost for Sable, which has faced strong environmental opposition to resuming operations in California waters.

“We’re going to run Sable’s crude at El Segundo in April,” Chevron executive Andy Walz told the outlet, adding that the Los Angeles-area refinery — which can process about 269,000 barrels per day — is set to handle the supply.

Sable announced on March 16 that it had restarted production at its Santa Barbara offshore platforms, sending oil through the region’s controversial pipeline for the first time since 2015.

The restart came after Donald Trump signed an executive order invoking the Defense Production Act, a Cold War-era law that allows the federal government to accelerate production of critical materials, including oil and gas.

I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, we really can’t afford to lose any refining capacity. On the other, Californians deserve absolutely zero relief from the disasters they continue voting for.

THIS FACTOID OUGHT TO RED-PILL SOME PEOPLE, BUT ALAS:

IRAN IS WALKING DEAD: Richard Pollock reports that signs abound that, while the surviving elements of the Iranian regime continue to compete with Baghdad Bob for the Most Ridiculous Official Statement Ever Award, reality is rapidly catching up with them.

SAY ANYTHING:

TERRORISTS GOTTA TERRORIZE: Group claiming Europe antisemitic attacks tells CBS News it will target “U.S. and Israeli interests worldwide.”

A group that has claimed responsibility for a series of attacks targeting Jewish institutions across Europe told CBS News it will continue targeting U.S. and Israeli interests a day after three men were captured by security cameras torching ambulances used by a global Jewish medical organization in London.

Hours later, the little-known group claimed responsibility for another attack, in which a car was burned in a Jewish neighborhood in Antwerp, Belgium.

“We’ll keep threatening U.S. and Israeli interests worldwide until we’ve avenged every child in Gaza, Iran, Lebanon, and the resistance nations,” a person representing the Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamia group (which translates as: The Islamic Movement of the Companions of the Righteous) told CBS News late Monday. “We urge people to stay away from Zionist and American interests and individuals to keep themselves safe.”

Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamia first announced its existence in early March, after the U.S. and Israel launched the ongoing war on Iran. In the 25 days since, it has claimed a series of antisemitic attacks across Europe.

Stay alert.

PUTIN’S STUPID WAR:

It’s a fascinating thread with eye-popping numbers — even for people who have followed this war closely for four-plus years.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Sound GOP Strategy for November — Let Dems Keep Getting in Their Own Way. “There aren’t any Democrats who are going to be moving towards the center in order to appeal to moderate voters. James Talarico in Texas is being touted as a great moderate hope in his race for the United States Senate but he’s one of those climate change hysterics who thinks that we have to stop eating hamburgers in order to save the planet.”

ISAACMAN IS PROVING TO BE ANOTHER ONE OF TRUMP’S “SURPRISINGLY” SMART HIRES:

Exit quote: “It’s a new era. I’m not sure everyone realizes this, but Isaacman and his team have eyes wide open to a lot of the major challenges facing NASA and they’re trying to fix them. They’re working long days. Weekends. It’s inspiring to see our government work like this, especially in an era when so much seems broken. I don’t know what will happen. Maybe this Moon base all will fade away. But I do know that NASA’s chance for success in the next couple of decades is a lot higher today than it has been for a long, long time. What we were doing was decidedly not working. This has a chance.”

I LOVE A HAPPY ENDING: Mamma Mia! Italian Anarchist Couple Blow Themselves Up While Trying to Engineer Mass Casualty IED. “If you don’t find this case nauseating enough on its own, take a look at how Pakistan TV, that nation’s official state-owned English news and current affairs channel, framed it. We often rail against our Democrat propagandist mainstream press, but this is truly special: it was a ‘tragic accident’ that just so happened to strike a lovely couple who were just ‘preparing a protest.'”

“Play stupid games, win stupid prizes” is the proper framing.

GOOD NEWS:

UNRWA is a wholly owned subsidiary of Hamas.