CLEAN YOUR HOUSE: roborock Qrevo CurvX Robot Vacuum and Mop. #CommissionEarned

COLONIES USUALLY HAVE TO TRADE WITH THEIR RULING COUNTRY: Welcome? Canada Opens the Door to Chinese-Made Vehicles.

TEACHERS WHO TEACH? Train teachers to teach — not to be guides on the side. “For 30 years, teachers were trained to be ‘guides on the side,’ helping students ‘construct understanding,’ writes Chris O’Brien on Never Stop Learning. They weren’t trained to teach. Now teachers fear being replaced by robots who will explain, model and assess. Humans may be allowed to stick around as counselors.”

BREAKING: Woke Minnesota DA Charges ICE Agent With Assault.

MOVING AT THE SPEED OF GOVERNMENT:

You could open 46 Aldi grocery stores for this amount of money and much, much quicker.

Government sucks.
It has no business opening a grocery store because it can't … government creates nothing.

It only takes. https://t.co/3rdPBaNHk5

— The🐰FOO (@PolitiBunny) April 16, 2026

If you’re going to spend $30 million just to not open one grocery store for three years — assuming no delays! — then the money isn’t going to a grocery store.

THE 21st CENTURY IS NOT TURNING OUT AS I HAD HOPED: Women are getting boob jobs made from cadavers — why an NYC doc worries it could lead to cancer scares.

ICYMI: Trump’s Iran Blockade Just Got Bigger.

LIMITED TIME DEAL: GOOTOP Bug Zapper Outdoor, Mosquito Zapper. #CommissionEarned

MARK FELTON: Bombing Saddam’s Nukes — Joint Israel-Iran Attacks, Iraq 1980-81.

OUCH:

The rial is at its weakest ever: 1.6M to the dollar — on track for 2M, faster than expected.

Hyperinflation. Mass unemployment. War damage above 40% of GDP. $13B lost every month under blockade (see @FDD @miadmaleki @ElaineDezenski Dan Swift).

The regime is staring at economic…

— Mark Dubowitz (@mdubowitz) April 15, 2026

DO BETTER, GUYS: The Trump Administration Has a Consistency Problem Where Gun Rights are Concerned.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: The race to Shackleton Crater is on—will Jeff Bezos or China get there first? “The two landers will arguably be the most ambitious robotic missions ever sent to the Moon. The Endurance spacecraft, built by Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin, will become the largest lunar lander in history, exceeding the size of NASA’s Apollo lunar module that ferried crews to and from the lunar surface more than 50 years ago. China’s Chang’e 7 mission will feature a smaller lander, but the project also includes an orbiter, rover, and a hopper drone to scout for hidden ice deposits.”

FACE, MEET PALM:

‼️🇪🇺 The EU's new Age Verification app was hacked with little to no effort.

When you set it up, the app asks you to create a PIN. But that PIN isn't actually tied to the identity data it's supposed to protect. An attacker can delete a couple of entries from a file on the phone,… pic.twitter.com/kqaC7rfFwa

— International Cyber Digest (@IntCyberDigest) April 16, 2026

But other than that, how’s the security on your app, Mrs. von der Leyen?

MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: Sorry, Britain, but You’re Just Another Europoor Country Now.

REQUIRED READING:

⚡️The thing underneath all of this that nobody will touch is that society decided men were the problem and then acted surprised when men started disappearing.

For thirty years the cultural message aimed at men has been some version of you are the issue. Toxic masculinity. Male… https://t.co/1jqRHTZ0Cm

— SightBringer (@_The_Prophet__) April 15, 2026

Make men men again.

TREAT THE PAIN: 2 FlexiKold Gel Ice Packs. #CommissionEarned

AMERICA’S OLDEST NAVY PILOT RETURNING TO DUTY: Top Gun 3 Officially in the Works With Tom Cruise Returning.

Tom Cruise is returning for “Top Gun 3,” Paramount announced during its CinemaCon presentation in Las Vegas, as is producer Jerry Bruckheimer.

The sequel to director Joseph Kosinski’s 2022 blockbuster “Top Gun: Maverick” was first revealed to be in the works back in 2024 with scribe Ehren Kruger, who co-wrote “Maverick” with Eric Warren Singer and Christopher McQuarrie.

“Top Gun: Maverick” became a blockbuster hit when many theaters were still shuttered during the COVID-19 pandemic. It grossed $1.5 billion at the global box office from a $170 million budget, giving movie theaters the jolt they needed when times were tough.

It certainly gave the left a jolt back then as well: Top Gun Hits Over $1 Billion and the Left Is Going Crazy: Here’s Why.

UPDATE:

Maybe this time they can come up with a way of naming the country we're attacking. https://t.co/6t6ddt9iod

— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahDispatch) April 16, 2026

Heh, indeed. Although in retrospect, it was pretty obvious:

GAS: Sixth day with a drop in fuel costs over the last seven days. “Fuel costs were a little more than 1 cent per gallon cheaper compared to Wednesday’s price of $4.108 per gallon. Gas prices were over seven cents per gallon lower than a week ago, when regular gas cost $4.166 per gallon, according to AAA. This week marks the first time since February that the national average price for a gallon of regular gas was less expensive than the previous week.”

THE GOLDEN STATE IS A BANANA REPUBLIC:

The California Supreme Court sent a clear and terrorizing message:

If attorneys represent disfavored political candidates who challenge disputed elections, California will disbar them.

While this happens in failed third-world countries, this should never happen in America. https://t.co/AuMtAULoIy

— 🇺🇸 Mike Davis 🇺🇸 (@mrddmia) April 15, 2026

A CRIMINAL DISGRACE: What’s the deal with Alzheimer’s disease and amyloid? For decades, scientists have concentrated on what now looks to be a blind alley.

TO ASK THE QUESTION IS TO ANSWER IT: Why Won’t Jon Ossoff Condemn Hasan Piker?

“MEN DON’T READ!” NO, WE JUST DON’T READ WHAT PROGRESSIVE WOMEN PUBLISH:

What the NYRB article about Passage leaves out is that the publishing industry has become utterly DOMINATED by women and leftist sensibilities.

Any meaningful correction to that is going to look reactionary to the people swimming in the fishbowl (NYRB’s editors, eg). https://t.co/mKXiqRM2bK pic.twitter.com/ckeda0eK1k

— Lomez (@L0m3z) April 16, 2026

THE NEW SPACE RACE: 73 moon landings? NASA’s ‘Moon Base User’s Guide’ reveals the agency’s ‘most ambitious space project’ will be fraught with challenges.

IT CERTAINLY OUGHT TO: Vulcan woes will “absolutely” be a factor in Pentagon’s next rocket competition.

The US Space Force is still dealing with the near-term implications of the second grounding of United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rocket in less than two years. The experience is likely to influence how the Pentagon buys launch services in the future, a three-star general said Tuesday.

The Vulcan rocket is one of the two primary launch vehicles the Space Force uses to put satellites into orbit, alongside SpaceX’s Falcon 9. Despite a backlog of nearly 70 launches, ULA’s Vulcan has flown just four times since debuting in January 2024.

On two of those flights, the Vulcan launcher suffered anomalies with one of its solid rocket boosters. One of the booster’s exhaust nozzles blew off in the first incident in October 2024. The same problem appeared to occur again during a Vulcan launch in February of this year. The rocket continued flying after both incidents, ultimately reaching each mission’s targeted orbit.

But the nozzle malfunctions suggest something is seriously amiss at ULA and its booster supplier, Northrop Grumman. The Vulcan rocket is many months from returning to flight for the US military. One industry source told Ars that the Space Force may not fly another mission on Vulcan before the end of the year.

Lt. Gen. Philip Garrant, head of the Space Force’s Space Systems Command, said the Vulcan rocket’s reliability woes are top of mind among the military’s space leadership. On Tuesday, Garrant told Ars the experience with Vulcan “absolutely will shape” the military’s thinking the next time the Pentagon buys launch services.

The Pentagon shouldn’t have to lean too hard on any single supplier, but there’s also nobody delivering like SpaceX.

NEWS YOU CAN USE? Guide to How to Voluntarily Give More to Government.

Flashback: ‘Patriotic millionaires’ demand higher taxes, but unwilling to pay up.