MILE MARKERS ON THE ROAD TO DETROIT: Why justice keeps failing Asian hate victims in San Francisco.

The preferred storyline demanded framing every incident through the lens of systemic racism, mental health, or “root causes” rather than straightforward criminal accountability. So the hour-long interview with my terrified 14-year-old son sat on the shelf and never aired.

Even harder is exposing what happens inside the San Francisco Superior Courts themselves. For years, the courts have shielded ideological judges by refusing to submit required criminal disposition data to the California Judicial Council, as mandated by state law. They spent five years claiming their case management system was “too new” to produce disposition numbers, yet somehow found ample time and resources to build their own public judicial dashboard filled with conveniently skewed metrics. What we do know is that the vast majority of crimes in San Francisco are diverted, reduced, or delayed for years, with few, if any, receiving timely trials. On an annual basis, Alameda County averages 11 trials per judge, while San Francisco manages just one.

Read the whole thing.

ACCOUNTABILITY? YOU KEEP USING THAT WORD. I DO NOT THINK IT MEANS WHAT YOU THINK IT MEANS: Katie Porter’s Brand of Accountability Faces a Test She Didn’t Expect.

ANSWERING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Did the Artemis II spacecraft protect the crew well enough? NASA races to find out.

CHANGE (IT BACK): Miss America Changes Eligibility Rules to Clarify Transgender Stance Following Florida AG Letter.

BBC LAYOFFS TO IMPACT 2,000 JOBS AS PART OF MAJOR COST-CUTTING PLAN:

The BBC is to cut as many as 2,000 jobs, affecting 10% of its 21,500 employees, in what is being described as the biggest scaling back in 15 years.

According to The Guardian, staff at the broadcaster were to be informed of the cuts on Wednesday afternoon in an all-staff meeting, with interim director general Rhodri Talfan Davies expected to announce the redundancies.

News of the cuts — representing the biggest job cuts at the BBC since 2011 — come before top Google exec Matt Brittin takes the reins as director general in May.

Live look at the reaction of one former BBC employee:

Related: Learning to code ‘will seriously change your life.’

—The BBC, March 25th, 2021.

As Kier Starmer looks to violate Brexit and reintegrate Britain with the EU, I’m sure its jet-setting president will applaud the reduced energy output of the shrinking Beeb:

🇪🇺Ursula von der Leyen regarding the energy crises in Europe:

“The cheapest energy is the one you don't use. Stay home, don't drive, don't use electricity.” pic.twitter.com/unbXMHnFUM

— Megatron (@Megatron_ron) April 14, 2026

ANSWERING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Why Sex Exists.

(HOPEFULLY NOT A ) NOVEMBER PREVIEW:

“I’m going to sit out the midterms to teach the republicans a lesson.” pic.twitter.com/NKpAytYaDH

— RusticLagers (@ArtisanAles1) April 15, 2026

THE BETTER MAN:

Senator Fetterman slams members of the Democrat party for associating with Hasan Piker.

“I mean, my God, you have many in my party, they're proud to do events with Hasan Piker. This is the individual that said that America deserved 9/11.” pic.twitter.com/DBpXQyAt6S

— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) April 15, 2026

In accordance with the prophecy:

CUBA: When ‘If We Need to Die, We’ll Die’ Doesn’t Quite Mean What He Says It Does.

A MODEST TAX-DAY PROPOSAL: There they go again, those rebellious minds behind Issues & Insights, thinking thoughts contrary to the accepted wisdom on just about any and every issue of which you can think. Today’s thoughts concern getting rid of the current tax code, lock, stock and barrel, and replacing it with either a Flat Tax or a Fair Tax (i.e. a national sales tax on consumption).

ANSWERING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Do I Need a Vibration Plate?

ONE MAN IS ANGRY ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED IN 1945, THE OTHER IS ANGRY ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED IN 1991:

Why is Piker treated like an A-list celebrity crossed with a high minded intellectual? https://t.co/X1Qxq5HBqn

— PoIiMath (@politicalmath) April 15, 2026

But here’s the difference: You don’t see Fuentes invited to speak at Yale. The fact that so many of the left are willing to mainstream Piker is disgraceful https://t.co/HGcM3We4p6

— Marc Thiessen 🇺🇸❤️🇺🇦🇹🇼🇮🇱 (@marcthiessen) April 15, 2026

UPDATE:

I'm not sure abandoning millions of women to a medieval theocracy, arming the Taliban with billions worth of US equipment, turning out the lights and leaving with bombs killing your people, and Afghans falling off the landing gear is the best example of ending a war, Mehdi

Hence… https://t.co/od1domBXfk

— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) April 15, 2026

LIMITED TIME DEAL: DEWALT 20V MAX Cordless Drill and Impact Driver. #CommissionEarned

ALSO KNOWN AS A GOOD START: Two Slimeballs Depart Congress.

CAROLYN GORMAN: “Why Is the Media Promoting Polyamory?”  Anything to push Western Civilization into oblivion, I guess.

THIS:

Property ownership gives people a share in the status quo and is a material interest that supports a critical baseline of reactionary political sentiment.

‘Cea Weaver-style’ housing policy is an insidious and purposeful effort to shift that political power to the state and make…

— Coddled Affluent Professional (@feelsdesperate) April 15, 2026

More:

‘Cea Weaver-style’ housing policy is an insidious and purposeful effort to shift that political power to the state and make people dependent on the state either directly through more public housing OR indirectly through price controls that make housing ‘affordable.’ Either way this policy seeks to effectuate a huge power transfer from individuals (homeowners) to the state who ‘provides’ or ‘ensures’ housing.

That’s why I generally think blue states are fine with no housing being built and real estate prices being out of control: the more desperate people are for housing and the more dependent they are on the state for housing, the more power government can arrogate.

Creating a permanent underclass of reliable Democrat voters is what Democrats do best.

THE COUNTER-RECONQUISTA: With Amnesty Passed, Is This the End of Spain?

THE PRESS ATE IT UP, OF COURSE:

A Jussie Smollett-esque hoax.

Sundas ‘Sunny’ Naqvi of Skokie, Illinois claimed she was held in ICE custody for nearly two days after returning from a trip to Turkey.

Democrats in Illinois and mainstream media instantly latched onto the story given Naqvi’s status as a US… pic.twitter.com/60orDMJGAr

— Thomas Hern (@ThomasMHern) April 15, 2026

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Collateral Damage: States’ 3D Printed Gun Code Bans Squelch Innovation, Research, Speech. “The rapid expansion of regulations targeting 3D printed firearms is increasingly raising justifiable concerns apart from the Second Amendment community. As lawmakers venture beyond tradition gun control efforts into the realm of limiting digital code and hardware functionality, the collateral impact on others, including across various facets of computer culture, is obviously being felt. Case in point: World of Software’s April 7 article: Lawmakers want to restrict 3D printing to stop ghost guns. Critics say it won’t work, which notes, ‘the discomfort reaches beyond the right to bear arms.'”

THAT WAS TAME, REALLY, CONSIDERING THE THINGS HE COULD HAVE SAID:

BEASTMODE: Israel's ambassador to the U.S. addresses France's exclusion from peace talks with Lebanon.

"We'd like to keep the French as far away as possible from pretty much everything, but particularly when it comes to peace negotiations. They're not needed." pic.twitter.com/KapFbhZAY4

— Washington Free Beacon (@FreeBeacon) April 15, 2026

USUALLY IMAGINED: When ‘Racism,’ Real Or Imagined, is a More Egregious Crime Than Murder.

READER FAVORITE: The Preparation: How To Become Competent, Confident, and Dangerous. #CommissionEarned

“THE TIMING IS SUSPICIOUS”: Intel IG Admitted Under Oath He Changed Whistleblower Rules For Anti-Trump Ukraine Op In 2019.

Former Intelligence Community Inspector General (ICIG) Michael Atkinson admitted under oath that he personally ordered a secret rewrite of the whistleblower complaint form in August 2019 that was used as the basis for a phony impeachment operation against President Donald Trump, going so far as to admit changing the form looked “suspicious.”

Newly unveiled testimony from October of 2019 shows that Atkinson conceded the change he ordered to the whistleblower complaint form “looks suspicious” but said the timing was merely “unfortunate.”

“So the timing is unfortunate. It looks suspicious, I get that,” Atkinson testified. Atkinson said that after several media inquiries highlighted that the then-current form required first-hand knowledge of wrongdoing in order for a complaint to meet the urgency threshold to be sent to Congress, he ordered his staff to secretly change the rules so that second-hand hearsay complaints could be a legitimate basis for expedited processing.

“What I should have done was I should have explained when we changed the form why we were changing it,” he said. “I should have been more transparent about the reasons and the motivations for the change in the forms.”

The admission vindicates years of reporting by The Federalist that exposed the “suspicious” change that conveniently coincided with the first impeachment inquiry into the president — reporting that was attacked as a conspiracy theory but is now confirmed by the IG’s own testimony.

Read the whole thing.

Previously: Dershowitz Says Trump Should Move to Expunge 2019 Impeachment.

GEORGETOWN WANTS THAT SWEET, SWEET QATARI MONEY: Georgetown must drop investigation into College Republicans’ anti-Muslim post: free speech group.

SAD:

This is obviously the play, and when you understand that 65% of revenue from Catholic Charities comes from the government, you will understand why the US bishops want the Democrats back in power. https://t.co/qHW7rXB1wa

— Michael Sebastian (@HonorAndDaring) April 14, 2026