YOU MEAN THE “REID OPTION:” Republicans trigger ‘nuclear option’ to speed Trump nominees. “The nuclear option — a change of the Senate rules by a simple majority — gained its name because it was seen as an explosive maneuver that would leave political fallout for some time to come. But it’s now been deployed three times in just six years amid continuous partisan warfare over nominations.”

People warned Reid that this would happen, but he didn’t care because he thought the GOP would never control the Senate again. His confidence turned out to be misplaced.

FLASHBACK: The New York Times’ Fictitious Image of Gun Carriers.

GOP SENATOR PUTS TWITTER CEO JACK DORSEY ON NOTICE: Time for a ‘Third-Party Audit’ of De-Platforming Policies.

CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: AOC and her Chief of Staff hit with another FEC complaint. Well, maybe not in this case.

JERRY BOWYER: Putin Got What He Wanted. “No, I’m not talking about installing a Russian puppet in the White House. I’m talking about Putin’s actual goal: undermining faith in American democracy. And in this his most helpful, if unwitting allies have been most of the mainstream media. . . . Putin got what he wanted, not from Mr. Trump but from his irresponsible critics.”

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TENNESSEE STATE SENATOR: If you’re going on about multiculturalism, then respect our damn culture.

Sen. Frank Niceley, R-Strawberry Plains, strongly objected to the bill and chided colleagues over outsiders moving into the state who are critical of state traditions.

Citing the book “American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America,” which examines geographical cultural differences, Niceley noted Tennessee is a part of “Greater Appalachia.”

“Now, it’s the 21st Century and we have a lot of that multi-culturalism. That’s all we hear — multi-culturalism. ‘Oh that culture, oh, they’re a little different. They have strange, weird, obnoxious, scary habits,” Niceley said. “But that’s their culture. So we got to respect that culture.”

But Niceley said, “it bothers me when people from outside Greater Appalachia move into Greater Appalachia and they don’t respect our culture. I don’t know hardly how to put this so I probably won’t put it. In this age of multi-culturalism, everybody does something different. We’re supposed to look the other way. We’re supposed to tolerate the other culture.

“But,” Niceley said, “I get tired of people moving into Greater Appalachia and not respecting our culture.”

I love him.

MY LOCAL PAPER UNDERWENT MANAGEMENT TURNOVER, AND IT’S BECOME MUCH MORE WOKE:

Thus, a story about private religious adoption agencies wanting to be able to follow their religious precepts the way they always have becomes one about “infusing religion into the public sphere.”

My local paper is also dying, and I don’t think this will help turn it around.

GOOD: Over-the-Counter Birth Control Bill Launched by Senate Republicans. I’m not actually a fan of hormonal birth control, but I don’t think that making people get a prescription does anything to promote safety.

As with the services I mentioned earlier, this is a move toward what a friend of mine calls The Patient as CEO.

ME: One Day There May Be a Drug to Turbocharge the Brain. Who Should Get It? “Enhancement is not inherently evil.”

BREAK THEM UP: Just two weeks after admitting it stored hundreds of millions of its users’ own passwords insecurely, Facebook is demanding some users fork over the password for their outside email account as the price of admission to the social network.

BOOK SIGNING IN HOUSTON THIS COMING SATURDAY: This coming Saturday (April 6) from 3 pm to 5 pm I’ll be signing books at the River Oaks Bookstore in Houston. The address is 3270 Westheimer (the corner of Westheimer and River Oaks Boulevard). The bookstore’s an independent and has been in business for years. Click the link for more information. Embrace The Suck will be available as well as Cocktails From Hell.

RELATED: Four reviews of Cocktails From Hell. (1) Glenn Reynolds in USA Today. (2) James Carafano in National Interest. (3) Joseph Bottum in The Washington Free Beacon.(4) Richard Fernandez on his Belmont Club blog.

#METOO COMES TO TENNESSEE: Democratic Rep. Rick Staples faces allegations, investigation of sexual misconduct.

Knoxville Democratic Rep. Rick Staples is facing disciplinary action after an internal investigation determined he violated the legislature’s sexual harassment policy, according to multiple sources aware of the inquiry.

As a result, Staples is expected to be removed from the House Ethics Committee, to which Speaker Glen Casada appointed him in January. . . .

A woman who recently interacted with Staples while visiting the legislature told the USA TODAY NETWORK – Tennessee the actions come after she brought forward her concerns that the lawmaker inappropriately touched her.

The woman, who is not being identified by the USA TODAY NETWORK – Tennessee because she is a victim of harassment, alleged that Staples grabbed and held on to her waist while standing behind her after he had made inappropriate comments about her appearance.

The woman is involved in Democratic politics in the state and said Staples had made inappropriate remarks to her on previous occasions. But she decided to move forward with a complaint most recently since she said Staples touched her inappropriately.

“My first day doing anything in politics, one of the very first things I heard was not to be alone in a room with Rick,” she said in an interview.

After the recent incident, she reported details about the encounter to House Democratic Caucus Chairman Mike Stewart, D-Nashville, though she said she had to follow up with his office before receiving a reply.

All this weaponized-feminism stuff that failed to bring down Trump and Kavanaugh sure is wreaking havoc in the Democratic Party. Well, except in Virginia, where the press just made the story go “poof” when it looked like it might lead to a GOP governor.

Props to the Tennessean, though, for mentioning his party affiliation right up front.

ALSO, HAVE GREAT GENETICS: Eat raw food, try ‘oil pulling’ and cook EVERYTHING in a dehydrator: Supermodel Elle Macpherson shares the secrets behind her body as she celebrates turning 55. She does look good.

AT LEAST IT WASN’T DURING CONCEPTION: Cameras secretly recorded women in California hospital during childbirth and surgery, lawsuit says.

JAMES LILEKS REVIEWS THE NEW NETFLIX MOVIE, THE HIGHWAYMEN, a look at the lawmen who put bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde out of business in 1934, three decades before Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway made them radical chic superstars in 1967. In a 2008 interview with Reason magazine to promote his then-new book Nixonland, Rick Perlstein, the leftwing author and former JournoList member, said that he viewed [the movie] Bonnie and Clyde as “the most important text” of the ‘60s era New Left:

Reason: You like to mix cultural history with political history. Bonnie and Clyde is one of the central texts in the book.

Perlstein: My theory is that Bonnie and Clyde was the most important text of the New Left, much more important than anything written by Paul Goodman or C. Wright Mills or Regis Debray. It made an argument about vitality and virtue vs. staidness and morality that was completely new, that resonated with young people in a way that made no sense to old people. Just the idea that the outlaws were the good guys and the bourgeois householders were the bad guys—you cannot underestimate [sic] how strange and fresh that was.

As Lileks writes in response to another leftwing critic who similarly wants to believe that Bonnie and Clyde were cool:

Well, they weren’t. They were sociopathic assholes. Random Wikipedia moment: “Bonnie and Clyde’s next brush with the law arose from their generally suspicious— and conspicuous — behavior, not because they had been identified. The group ran loud, alcohol-fueled card games late into the night in the quiet neighborhood. The men came and went noisily at all hours, and Clyde discharged a Browning Automatic Rifle in the apartment while cleaning it.”

Read the whole thing.

Related: Kevin Costner Rehabilitates a True American Hero in ‘The Highwaymen’ — and the Social Justice Warriors are Furious.

TALES OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY (CONT’D): Cree musician won’t withdraw album with Inuit throat singing from the Indigenous Music Awards.

THANK YOU:  The 1967 film Bonnie and Clyde glorified two-bit killers.  Kyle Smith now reviews The Highwaymen, starring Kevin Costner and Woody Harrelson, which sets the record straight.

In 1967, many of the victims’ friends and family were still alive and had to watch as America swooned over merciless killers (played by gorgeous actors Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway) .  I hope some of them are still around to watch this story of the ex-Texas Rangers who stopped the Barrow gang’s rampage.

I send a giant “Thank You” to director John Lee Hancock and screenwriter John Fusco.  Score one for decency.

GREAT MOMENTS IN OBJECTIVITY: CNN’s Amanpour Asks Comey Why the FBI Didn’t Censor ‘Lock Her Up’ Chant as ‘Hate Speech.’

Flashback: CNN’s Christiane Amanpour Formally Comes Out as Pro-Hillary, Anti-Journalism.

WELL, GOOD: 67 Nonprofit Leaders Urge Media to Drop ‘Anti-Christian and Morally Bankrupt’ SPLC.

PROGS GONNA PROG: Great News! Driving in New York City Is About to Become Way More Expensive.

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BLUE CITY BLUES: Socialists now outnumber Republicans on Chicago’s city council.

As Glenn noted earlier today, newly elected Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot is “one of Rahm Emanuel’s people.” So my guess is despite being the Chicago’s First-This/First-That mayor, her main concern will be not to rock the boat too much, and to make sure the right people get keeping getting all the — let’s put this delicately — city services they’re used to paying for.

All the new socialists on the city council might prove to be a problem, or at least an expensive distraction.

YOUR DAILY TREACHER: Stephen Colbert Knows What the #Resistance Needs: Orange Puns. “An entire roomful of comedy writers put their heads together and came up with… that. A string of food-based puns. Who do they think they are, a bunch of bloggers?”

For Colbert, clapter is the best medicine — the hard left bias of the network late night TV hosts are what the networks consider the best way to keep what’s left of a inexorably shrinking audience.