I HAD MISSED THIS: A Good Day for the Navy. “Has the U.S. grown ashamed of its military victories? There are reasons to believe this is true.”
April 30, 2025
REAL CHANGE: Terraforming Mars: A Quick Q&A with … Edwin Kite and Robin Wordsworth on designing a new home beyond Earth. “As the prospect of human settlements on Mars draws closer to reality than we could have realistically imagined pre-SpaceX, so does the concept of terraforming, or shaping alien landscapes beyond Earth to suit human needs. The idea of an interplanetary species was first conceived in the 1890s. Not so long after, the idea of modifying the topography and natural resources of planets and asteroids arose as early as the 1940s, before being picked up by imaginative writers like Carl Sagan and Isaac Asimov.”
THE TIES THAT BIND: Ukraine says it hopes to sign U.S. minerals deal within 24 hours.
SOMEBODY SET US UP THE BOMB:
CANCEL CULTURE VS. MCCARTHYISM: THE DATA IS IN — Cancel Culture is happening on a historic scale, Part 5
CHRISTIAN ADAMS: David Horowitz Cracked the Leftist Code.
David shattered their central premise: The institutional Left – and their partners in the Democratic Party – didn’t really exist to help people like they claimed. They did not exist to do good, he said.
In reality, David Horowitz would repeat, the Left hurt people. The policies of the Left resulted in carnage – carnage on the streets, in the American family, and in the culture. They left victims in their wake.
He insisted we stop using the term “liberals.”
“The only things they are liberal about,” he retorted, “are sex and drugs. Everything else they are totalitarian.”
The slogan that was eventually adopted at his Frontpage Website was perfect: Inside Every Liberal Is a Totalitarian Screaming to Get Out.
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NO THANKS, I’M STILL SOCIAL DISTANCING: Dems In Disarray: Meet the Sketchy, Beagle-Abusing Politician Looking to Impeach President Trump.
It speaks volumes that Rep. Shri Shanedar (D-MI) has a history that he would rather stay under wraps by keeping his head down and going about his job duties, but instead is now begging for the spotlight – seemingly uncaring about the shadow that creates.
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But there is another deeply bothersome pockmark on his CV, a Doctor Fauci-level of scandal involving animal testing. In 2010 he ran another company, Azopharma, and it had a subsidiary testing facility in New Jersey, AniClin Preclinical Services. When Azopharma went bankrupt, it led to the abrupt closure of that testing lab. This meant that they shuttered the facility, with over 100 beagles still locked in cages, as well as dozens more lab monkeys.
The Oxford, N.J., research facility where the dogs lived, had gone bankrupt and locked its doors. The animals’ caretakers had reportedly climbed fences to provide food and water until more solid arrangements were made.
Eventually a pair of dog rescue groups were able to get in and care for the beagles, getting them adjusted to a normal life, having never seen daylight prior or touched grass, eventually setting them up to all become adopted. Thanedar, whenever challenged on this disturbing lack of action taken for the animals’ welfare, has passed it off as something that was to be the responsibility of the bank(s) following the bankruptcy.
This is someone so focused on self-promotion that he cares little what that notoriety will uncover, and as he postures before the cameras no one in his party has thought to rein in what some have previously recognized to be a problem within their ranks. Locally he is at least rankling some Democrats. After gaining reelection, mostly due to his biggest challenger having to drop out of the primary, Thanedar is already facing a challenger for next year’s primary race.
Exit quote: “This is the type of character the Democrats have standing front and center for their party today? It is just another sign of the disarray seen from them of late, with no sign of repair on the horizon.”
ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Should Your EDC Be A Throw-Away Gun? “The police are just doing their job, and one of their tasks is to collect evidence; ergo, your gun ends up in an evidence bag. Typically, the police will hold your firearm for a specified period until the investigation is completed. If you are cleared and no charges have been filed, you can expect to get your gun back. Maybe. There is no set timeframe for returning your gun to you. Every state is different. But your gun will be logged as evidence.”
WELL, GOOD: IBM Rolls Back DEI, Commits To Political Neutrality. “IBM’s track record on corporate bias and activism is notorious. The company was a member of the Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM), a group created by the World Federation of Advertisers that worked to keep ad revenue away from conservative news sites like the Daily Wire to free speech-centric platforms like X. And that’s before all the DEI concerns surfaced. After IBM CEO Arvind Krishna was caught on a hot mic discussing how the company uses quotas of ‘underrepresented’ minorities in determining their executive pay — in Krishna’s words, execs have ‘got to move both [race and gender] forward by a percentage point’ in order to get a higher bonus. That means DEI. That means quotas. Following these snafus, the reputational, ethical, and (in the case of the Missouri AG who sued IBM) legal scrutiny was swift in coming.”
ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: What Is Going on With the Virginia GOP?!
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HEADLINE OF THE DAY: Rubio Took the Reins Down in Africa and Got Truce Talks Humming.
THE GALACTIC EMPIRE’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: Media Says No Evidence Demon-Horned Man With Sith Tattoos And Red Lightsaber A Member Of The Sith.
PATHETIC PERFORMANCE, CHRIS, AND ON SO MANY LEVELS, PAST AND PRESENT:
NEW: Former CNN reporter Chris Cillizza says journalists were *not* covering up Biden's mental decline but were rather just too trusting of the Biden White House.
"I think it was an inherent and sort of unconscious bias more than a conscious bias."
The clowns in the media never… pic.twitter.com/xXq0WkLrQw
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) April 28, 2025
BEEN THERE, DONE THAT: What does ‘remastering’ an album actually mean?
My own philosophy of mastering/remastering is along “less is more” lines, but you can do a lot of “flavor enhancing” without changing the fundamental sound if you know what you’re doing.
21st CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Is Subaru turning me into a lesbian?
IT’S THE LAW, WHICH, LAST I CHECKED, JUDGES ARE SUPPOSED TO CARE ABOUT: Hey, Man, We Didn’t Write the Rule Book About What Should Happen to Those Two Outlaw Judges.
THEY NEED AN IPHONE ATTACHMENT: Synchrotron in a closet: Bringing powerful 3D X-ray microscopy to smaller labs.
FINALLY, AN EARTH-SHATTERING KABOOM: Iran Port Blast Was Massive.
The shipment was reportedly carrying sodium perchlorate, which is indeed pretty spicy stuff if handled improperly.
Now we have footage of the blast and, holy crap, was it massive and devastating.
Impressive video at the link.
TIM WALZ: Kamala Picked Me For Being Pretty Fly For a White Guy.
What’s mystifying is why Walz would admit publicly that Harris was pursuing a race-based calculation in her running mate rather than, y’know, finding the best person for the job. And not just in the one-heartbeat-from-the-presidency sense either, but also in the ability to campaign and to compete against J. D. Vance.
Speaking of which:
Walz had good reason to fear Vance, who easily outclassed him in the debate. The question is why Harris didn’t pick someone who didn’t need to fear a debate. Harris had Josh Shapiro, a confident and charismatic governor in a state she desperately needed to win, who had easily beaten his Republican opponent by appealing to the demo she needed. Harris could have selected Gavin Newsom, or Gretchen Whitmer, or practically anyone else than the bumbling Walz.
That’s not the worst aspect of this admission. It exposes Democrats’ cynicism about white male voters in general by just assuming that they needed a “permission structure” for their choice at the voting booth. What kind of thinking is that? It reminds me of the dumb Harris/Walz ad with Julia Roberts that was premised on the idea that white women weren’t empowered to vote for Harris unless they got secret signals from celebrities that assured them their ballot choice would be secret. It’s insanely infantilizing and practically sneers at these women as mindless idiots who desperately need progressives to remind them of what they already know.
Walz makes it worse by claiming that he could “code talk to White guys,” which (a) is terribly patronizing as well, and (b) not at all what Walz accomplished on the campaign trail. Walz came across as a progressive elitist who thought he could fake his way through the campaign as an outdoorsy dad, having trouble loading his own shotgun during a media photo op.
Oh sure, you say all that. But at the end of the day, the man could sure run a mean Pick Six.
HALFWAY THERE:
What do you call half the lawyers resigning from the Civil Rights Division of the DOJ?
A start. https://t.co/hmBfJ57cwU
— Randy Barnett (@RandyEBarnett) April 29, 2025
NICE WORK, GOVERNOR:
Per capita debt trends — federal vs Florida
Florida’s per capita debt is declining and the per citizen share of the state debt is less than $500.
The per citizen share of the federal debt: $105,000. pic.twitter.com/UN39n3c7UQ
— Ron DeSantis (@GovRonDeSantis) April 30, 2025
As somebody on X noted, it’s amazing what a growing population, a friendly business climate, and competent governance can do.
ALEX BERENSON: The New York Times “investigates” the DC jet crash – and buries the truth it finds.
The most important question here is the one the Times never found the time or space to ask in its 4,000-word investigation: why [Chief Warrant Officer Andrew Loyd] Eaves didn’t act more aggressively? Did he fear annoying or angering [Black Hawk pilot Capt. Rebecca] Lobach, who outranked him?
The fact that Lobach’s errors were clearly responsible for the accident raise another set of uncomfortable questions the Times also didn’t ask: Had Lobach ever had any other problems flying? How was she chosen to be trained for this mission, involving a night flight along the Potomac in airspace crowded with civilian jets?
The article is a perfect example of why so many people now distrust the legacy media. Nothing the Times wrote is untrue, and yet the story the paper offered is recognizably false, as false as “mostly peaceful rioting” or “cheap fake Biden videos” or “flatten the curve.”
Even after the disasters of the last few years, the Times and its peers can’t figure out how to course correct.
The good news is that the legacy media no longer controls what people read or see. When I saw that piece yesterday, I posted a 280-character critique to X.
That simple post has now been viewed more than 6.4 million times and received more than 1,200 comments. It has also sparked a wave of similar posts and quote-posts that have been seen many millions of times more.
Collectively, the comments have no doubt drawn far more viewers than the original article. They’ve rewritten the politically palatable narrative the Times prefers in real time. And they’ve brought the world closer to the truth, painful as it might be.
When will the Times learn it can’t play these games anymore?
Considering that virtually the entire DNC-MSM is currently pretending that they couldn’t see Biden’s precipitous mental decline over the last five years, I wouldn’t hold my breath waiting for the industry to change or reform itself.
