April 24, 2026

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Final Rule Drives a Stake Through Anti-Gun Left’s De-Banking Strategy.

Ultimately, this final rule eliminates reputation risk as a means of injecting politics into banking regulation by prohibiting examiners from using this subjective assessment to pressure or penalize banks. It also prohibits regulators from pushing banks to close accounts or deny services based on their ill-conceived aversion to the lawful firearms and ammunition industries, which are vital to supporting our constitutional rights.

This rule helps to mitigate unjustified biases against these business sectors left over from the Obama-Biden Administration and importantly helps to prevent future efforts in the same vein. In 2013, the U.S. Department of Justice, in coordination with regulators such as the FDIC, began pressuring banks to cut ties and services to industries they considered to be “high risk,” which under the anti-gun Obama-Biden administration unsurprisingly included firearm and ammunition-related business.re

The program, billed Operation Choke Point, encouraged broad financial “de-risking” and led to banks freezing or terminating services to lawful businesses based on “reputation risk,” instead of any proven misconduct or illegality. Guidance documents provided to banks at the time specifically listed firearm and ammunition sales as high-risk activity, although they are some of the most highly regulated industries in the country.

More like this, please.

Posted at 3:52 pm by Stephen Green

FRAUD ALL THE WAY DOWN…:

…and she also married her brother.

Posted at 3:36 pm by Stephen Green

A LAWYER READER MESSAGES: “I have not seen any updates from Lucas or anyone else on your blog, but the for your benefit, the Supreme Court of Virginia is going to hear argument on the redistricting fight Monday, April 27th, this coming Monday at 9AM. There is a link on the Supreme court of Virginia’s web page. Thanks.”

The link for the oral argument is here.

Posted at 3:31 pm by Glenn Reynolds

OUCH: Meta to cut 8,000 jobs, Microsoft offers buyouts to to staff as AI spending costs hit Big Tech workers.

Meta (META) on Thursday became the latest Big Tech company to announce layoffs as the ballooning costs of the AI build-out and efficiencies continue to hit workers in the industry.

The company says it will cut 10% of its workforce, or about 8,000 employees.
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Microsoft (MSFT) will also offer voluntary buyouts to some employees as the company joins many of its Big Tech peers in seeking ways to control costs amid their AI spending sprees.

According to a source familiar with the matter, roughly 7% of Microsoft’s US employees, senior directors or below, can take part in the buyouts if their years at the company plus their age add up to at least 70.

How big are those AI build-outs? This big: “Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft alone will spend some $650 billion on capital expenditures in 2026.”

Posted at 2:50 pm by Stephen Green

TWO-TIER KEIR:

Posted at 2:34 pm by Stephen Green

KEEP HAMMERING ON THIS, DATA R:

Posted at 2:03 pm by Stephen Green

HEH: So When Are The ‘Punch A Nazi’ Sorts Going To Punch SPLC Donors? “Meanwhile, what are all those angry leftists who based their identity on ‘punching Nazis’ going to do now that it’s been revealed that their side were the ones funding the Nazis all along?”

I figure the ones with big enough names that you saw them on CNN or M-SNOW were likely in on it.

Posted at 1:48 pm by Stephen Green

PUBLIC EDUCATION THAT DOESN’T SERVE THE PUBLIC’S INTEREST DOESN’T DESERVE THE PUBLIC’S FUNDS…:

…or is representative government dead, despite all the left blather about “Our Democracy?”

Posted at 1:01 pm by Stephen Green