THE ELECTION OF BARACK OBAMA WAS A TRAGEDY FOR THE NATION ON MANY LEVELS:

An ex president has three choices

1. Retire from the public stage

2. Speak only in unifying terms

3. Stay engaged as a partisan, with the dishonesty or selective truth that demands

It's a tremendous shame that President Obama has chosen the last path. https://t.co/ZnyCl4VPqA

— Gregg Nunziata (@greggnunziata) April 29, 2026

ANOTHER NOD TO THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR: EXCLUSIVE: Biden DOJ Lawyers Fantasized About Prosecuting Catholic Nuns, Emails Show. “I’d like to prosecute any nun who still wears the head habit,” one Biden lawyer wrote another.

WELL, GOOD: Biden-Era ‘Gun Dealer’ Rule Dead.

Decisions by decision, the Trump47 Administration is sweeping away un-American Biden regulatory overreach. A lot of us may be frustrated by the pace of change, with things that should have been overturned in 2025 still lingering on into this year. But the aircraft carrier of state can take quite a while to turn.

Case in point: A Biden-era ATF proposal to make ordinary American citizens register as gun dealers if they want to sell a single gun, a rule the Department of Justice finally stopped trying to defend.

The administration doesn’t always start off on the right foot on gun policy, but they usually come around.

K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE:

At its height, the NYC public school system educated 1.2 million kids a year. Ten years ago that dropped below 1 million. The current estimates are about 880,000. Ten years from now it could be only 700,000. And yet the budget just keeps going up. https://t.co/0tu5Re0Jlb

— Marc Porter Magee 🎓 (@marcportermagee) April 29, 2026

CORN, POPPED:

🚨 HOLY CRAP! No WONDER Gavin Newsom is suing to block Trump's executive order requiring barcode tracking for mail-in ballots

CA vote fraudster Shakir Khan had 71 NAMES and 41 COMPLETED MAIL-IN BALLOTS at his single house

They want to protect fraud. pic.twitter.com/9eUmr2UEwQ

— Pascal Najadi (USSF)🇺🇸 (@JfkPascalNajadX) April 29, 2026

DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: Sanctuary Oregon Releases Newlyweds’ Killer and ICE Seeks Custody of Machete Attacker.

YEP: Don’t Lose Your Nerve: Free Societies Facing Ideological Violence.

DON SURBER: Iran is losing. Comey is losing. And America is having a great week.

DEMOCRATS HOLD RACISM AND SEXISM SACRED: EXCLUSIVE: In Cities Across America, Homeless Services Are Doled Out Based on Race and Sexual Identity.

NOW THAT A GRAND JURY HAS INDICTED THE SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER FOR FRAUD:  You may find my Dissenting Statement  to the Commission on Civil Rights’ Hate Crimes Report interesting. The Statement is a few years old, but the discussion of the SPLC (starting on p. 12 of the pdf) is still pretty topical.

LIMITED TIME DEAL: Ninja 12-Cup Programmable Coffee Brewer. #CommissionEarned

THE LAW OF UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES REIGNS SUPREME: How U.S. Electric Vehicle Industrial Policy Created A New ‘Rust Belt.’

The United States once viewed the electric vehicle (EV) industry as a pivotal lever for both a manufacturing renaissance and a green transition. The Biden administration promoted it, where an intensive series of policies centered on the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) were rolled out in an attempt to fulfill the dual political promises of energy transformation and industrial reshoring within a condensed timeframe. However, since the beginning of 2025, this highly anticipated industry has shown clear signs of cooling or even stagnation across multiple regions. Progress on several projects has been obstructed, the pace of investment has decelerated, and employment expectations have fallen short, effectively creating an “EV Rust Belt.”

According to reporting from Reuters, on March 30, 2026, General Motors’ Detroit-based electric vehicle plant Factory Zero announced an extension of its production halt until April 13, with the plant manager citing aligning with “market dynamics” and initiating temporary layoffs for approximately 1,300 workers. Furthermore, in December 2025, Ford Motor Company announced a USD 19.5 billion capital impairment charge related to its electric vehicle operations and cut roughly 1,600 jobs at its BlueOval SK battery plant in Kentucky. Ford simultaneously announced it would cease production of the all-electric F-150 Lightning and abandon its production plans for the next-generation T3 electric pickup and electric vans. Media reports also indicate that Magna’s factory in St. Clair, Michigan, a supplier of EV components to General Motors, now sits nearly vacant; as the automotive industry recalibrates its electric vehicle investments, the plant has suffered a significant blow and is essentially in a state of shutdown or large-scale dormancy.

What once was heralded as the “hope for revival” of the American automotive industry is now facing a rapid decline.

Stop. Helping.

IT’S HARD TO ARGUE WITH THIS:

Tennessee is MORE Republican than Massachusetts is Democratic. If it's ok for Massachusetts to be 9-0 Dem then it's ok for Tennessee to be 9-0 Rep. Late primary, fully justified and Cohen isn't even black. Get it done. https://t.co/7laL5ddP2w pic.twitter.com/jdSSlsnEW1

— Tim in 🇺🇸 (@MrNOVApolitico) April 29, 2026

TIT FOR TAT IS HOW THEY LEARN:

Straight from the Comey playbook. What feds have always done. If anyone deserves it, it's this treasonous douchebag. He and all the others who pushed that Russia bullshit at Obama's behest, plus all of you in the media who regurgitated it, deserve more than that. https://t.co/ujPTQ1fmOb

— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) April 29, 2026

THAT’S NOT LEGAL:

NEW: Blue jurisdictions are rationing homeless services based on race.

In Portland, a non-white, non-native English speaker who is LGBT would get priority over a domestic violence survivor with a 6 yr old child who's been homeless for 12+ months.

The policies are shocking.🧵 pic.twitter.com/pgd9HyF2PW

— Aaron Sibarium (@aaronsibarium) April 29, 2026

Must-read thread, but this part stands out:

Let’s start with Multnomah County, OR, home of deep blue Portland, where deaths of homeless people quadrupled between 2019 and 2023. The county’s screening tool for housing services is designed to “prioritize … BIPOC households, LGBTQIA2S+, [and] people with disabilities.”

Read the whole thing.

NEW RULES NOT APPLYING UNIVERSALLY JUST YET:

"There's one way of life for the liberal justices and another for the conservatives," Mollie Hemingway noted.

While the liberals could "appear on a Broadway play" or "travel all over the world," the conservatives can't go to dinner with their families "because they might get… pic.twitter.com/SvKmYQrciM

— The Federalist (@FDRLST) April 29, 2026

(Classical reference in headline.)

BOB GRABOYES: Dems and the Wood Chipper or Dems in the Wood Chipper?

WELL, GOOD — BUT IT LOOKS LIKE WE MIGHT NEED TO AMEND THE CONSTITUTION: Texas Attorney General Sues Chinese ‘Birth Tourism’ Center.

GOOD: Rubble and Ruin: Epic Fury Now Pushing Iran Into Economic Free-Fall.

I THINK THIS BEHAVIOR MAKES UCLA LAW’S ADMINISTRATION COMPLICIT:

Appalling behavior by @UCLA_Law https://t.co/noHvOvE6SI

— Ilya Shapiro (@ishapiro) April 29, 2026

THE OIL BLOCKADE IS PUTTING PRESSURE ON ALL THE CORRUPT ONE-PARTY STATES: Vacations under threat as California’s oil stockpile hangs on by a thread. “California’s in-state oil production peaked in the mid-1980s, specifically around 1985 at approximately 424 million barrels annually. Since then, production has experienced a long-term, steady decline, with current production falling significantly to about 285,000 barrels per day.”

CHANGE:

Six years ago today, the most egregious headline of Covid was published. pic.twitter.com/0tFhY3hP0s

— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) April 29, 2026

OPEN THREAD: Hump Day.

THERE IS NO ESCAPING WOKE RACISM:  “In Cities Across America, Homeless Services Are Doled Out Based on Race.“

JERRY POURNELLE WROTE SOMETHING ABOUT THIS, I THINK: Could the moon ever be blockaded? Experts predict cislunar space could be the next Strait of Hormuz. “Just as the Strait of Hormuz is a narrow waterway, cislunar space, though seemingly large, actually contains a few unique and exclusive points of transit through which all lunar travel must pass.”