JOEL KOTKIN: Trump is right to take on the free-trade fundamentalists: The old order of globalisation and industrial decline has failed working-class Americans.

Kotkin emails: “Trump is weird, but maybe a weird genius.”

ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: Anderson Cooper gets brutal woke fact check live on-air while introducing civil rights attorney.

Anderson Cooper suffered an embarrassing moment as he hosted a town hall event for Bernie Sanders where he misgendered a civil rights attorney.

It came as the CNN host readied activist Grace Thomas to ask the Vermont Senator a question, saying in his introduction: ‘She’s a local civil rights attorney, she’s a democrat, Grace?’

‘It’s they/ them pronouns, actually,’ Thomas responded.

Anderson quickly responded ‘oh’, before Thomas got on with their question about why young men of varying demographics are fleeing the Democratic Party.

After a clip of the misgendering faux pas went viral, some viewers felt that Thomas’ question answers itself.

‘Who’s going to tell her?’ one X user said.

‘It is exactly because of people like her and their behavior that people are turned off and turned away from the Democratic Party.’

Another observer disagreed, saying: ‘Ironically this highlights exactly how easy this should be. Lol see how he didn’t melt into 1000 pieces.’

Earlier: White House Uses Reporters’ Pronouns, Just Not the Way They Intended. “When confronted about this practice, [White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt] delivered a devastating response: ‘Any reporter who chooses to put their preferred pronouns in their bio clearly does not care about biological reality or truth and therefore cannot be trusted to write an honest story.’ Fact check: True.”

UPDATE:

https://t.co/zd71v6NFgC pic.twitter.com/1cHGBReNlV

— Logan Dobson (@LoganDobson) April 10, 2025

I’LL NEVER UNDERSTAND THE APPEAL: Joy Behar and the Left’s Self-Fulfilling Prophecy.

SLOW IS GOOD, REVERSE WOULD BE BETTER: Experimental drug shown to slow multiple sclerosis disability.

THE MOST CORRUPT ADMINISTRATION IN AMERICAN HISTORY:

🚨🚨And here it is,

King Solomon Reports:

Whistleblower emails CONFIRM: a criminal conspiracy between the Biden White House, the FBI Washington Field Office, prosecutors from the U.S. Attorney’s Office – Washington D.C., and Jack Smith to plan, approve, and execute Arctic… https://t.co/IB52mTmMkv pic.twitter.com/MBRIOCyvz3

— 🇺🇸RealRobert🇺🇸 (@Real_RobN) April 9, 2025

Then again, since Biden’s administration was more or less a continuation of Obama’s, the corruption comes as no surprise. I suppose having a figurehead allowed it to truly fester, though.

RUE BRITANNIA:

More people were sentenced in Rotherham for the summer riots than for decades-long rape gangs in the town.

Starmer’s called for countless national inquiries – but not one into rape gangs.

It’s two-tier justice. The fight for answers and accountability must go on. pic.twitter.com/JLEVa6JtjP

— Robert Jenrick (@RobertJenrick) April 9, 2025

WHEN YOU REALIZE THAT ENVIRONMENTALISTS BASICALLY WANT TO MAKE LIFE WORSE FOR NORMAL PEOPLE, EVERYTHING MAKES SENSE.

🚨#BREAKING: Environmentalists are now SUING the Trump Administration for allowing timber companies to clear forest floors of fallen trees in Western North Carolina.

The lumber from the trees could be used to rebuild homes cheaper…

…AND greatly decrease wildfire risk pic.twitter.com/G3SObfevVW

— Matt Van Swol (@matt_vanswol) April 9, 2025

MARK JUDGE: Tall Tales and the End of #MeToo.

OK, WHO’S BRINGING THE POPCORN? Reuters is reporting that Sarah Palin and the New York Times are headed back to a courtroom where the former Alaska governor and Republican vice presidential candidate will try convincing a second jury the newspaper defamed her in an editorial about gun control.

My sentiments here.

CLEAN YOUR CAR: Solareye Compressed Air Duster – 180000RPM Electric Air Duster. #CommissionEarned

MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT, MUCH VENTING OF SPLEEN: Chuck Todd Finally Confesses but There’s a Catch. “Dinosaur legacy media has-been Chuck Todd finally admitted that he helped hide Joe Biden’s decline because he didn’t want to help Donald Trump. But there’s one little problem with Todd’s confession: He doesn’t understand that he’s guilty of anything.”

COLONIALISM, STRAIGHT UP:

Bishop Athanasius Schneider speaks very clearly: "They are not refugees, they are invaders who want to Islamize Europe. They want to destroy historical culture in Europe. Unfortunately, many Europeans have not yet understood this or have profited from it. pic.twitter.com/wAbqLreoAd

— RadioGenoa (@RadioGenoa) April 10, 2025

NIFTY: New Design Means SpaceX Can Launch More Starlink Satellites at a Time.

In 2024, SpaceX typically launched 20 to 23 Starlink satellites per launch. But last month, it increased the number to 27 and 28 per flight while using the same Falcon 9 vehicles. This comes after it made a design change to the V2 Mini Starlink satellite, which can deliver 96Gbps of network bandwidth each.

The V2 Mini satellites debuted in early 2023, with the goal of delivering even higher quality broadband on the older V1.5 satellites. Since then, SpaceX has improved the design, resulting in the “V2 Mini Optimized.”

I’m excited to see what the bigger and faster V3 brings once Starship comes into service.

YOU HATE TO SEE IT. OR NOT: Scott Jennings Demolishes Former MSNBC Host to Her Face: ‘You Got Fired From Your Job.’

PRIORITIES: Sanctuary Cities Shielded Over 20K Criminals, Expert Testifies.

YES. NEXT QUESTION? Does Social Security have a dead beneficiary problem after all?

Millions of invalid numbers don’t exist for no reason:

Your tax dollars were going to pay fraudulent unemployment claims for fake people born in the future!

This is so crazy that I had to read it several times before it sank in. https://t.co/U5qqcyUgzo

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 10, 2025

Previously: Democrats are absolutely terrified of Elon looking into Social Security.

GEORGE MF WASHINGTON: All The President’s Men and the End of Objective Reality.

Much of the blame for this situation lies with Hillary Clinton. Hillary, whose ego was so broken by her surprise loss to Donald Trump in 2016 that she concocted a conspiracy theory in which Trump was a Russian mole “installed” in the White House as part of an election “stolen” by Vladimir Putin so that America could be delivered into the clutches of the Russian oligarchy, and who then demanded that America’s press and “elite” institutions avenge her loss and personal humiliation on the basis of that entirely made up conspiracy theory.

And oh, how well it worked. Huge majorities of Democrat voters believed it then and continue to believe it now. And once you believe that the President is literally a foreign agent actively working to destroy the country, well, you are obliged to act… and when I think about the assassination attempts in Butler and West Palm Beach, the phrase “by whatever means necessary” comes to mind. But for mainstream Democrats as a party, the belief in this conspiracy has forced them into an official policy of Oppositional Defiant Disorder. Which is to say, anything that Trump says, does or supports must be resisted (sometimes violently) because, by definition, he is an agent of a foreign government bent on destroying the country.

Is Trump a brilliant political strategist? I don’t know, but I would submit that he doesn’t have to be. He has recognized the fact pattern I’ve outlined above and has been able to maneuver Democrats and their most rabid Resistance voters into a series of unpopular positions simply by taking the 80% side of a series of 80/20 issues and daring the Left to take the 20% side. And they have obliged him, because they have left themselves no other choice.

Conspiracy theories are dangerous that way, and not just to the body politic. They are corrosive, lethal even, to our own minds and to the way we see the world.

Except, of course, when they turn out to be true. But George MF takes readers on a deep dive into Watergate with this one, and it’s fascinating reading.

SO LONG AS THEY USE THEIR COLLECTIVE WALLETS TO REPLACE YANKED FEDERAL FUNDS: Faculty should use ‘collective power’ to resist Trump’s DEI directives: UMich webinar.

YOU STAY CLASSY, DEMS: Jasmine Crockett Calls Trump a Name We Can’t Put in a Headline.

LOSER: ‘F*** YOU’: Flustered protester caught ‘running away’ from Riley Gaines at University of Arizona.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Chinese Lunar Rocks Suggest a Thirsty Far Side of the Moon.

Back on Earth with the Chang’e-6 samples in hand, the researchers sought mare basalts, or hardened grains of lava that erupted from within the lunar mantle. Some of these basalts, as much as 2.8 billion years old, contained olivine, a crystal that formed as ancient magma inside the moon cooled, preserving information about the composition of the mantle early on in lunar history.

The amount of hydrogen trapped in the olivine allowed the scientists to deduce the amount of water present in the mantle back then: between 1 and 1.5 grams of water for every million grams of lunar rock.

Prior measurements from samples collected on the near side of the moon — by the United States, the Soviet Union and more recently China — were as much as 200 times as wet.

The stark difference in the ranges of water content derived from lunar near and far side samples could suggest that the part of the moon invisible to us on Earth is much drier overall, Dr. Hu said.

Or maybe that’s what Beijing wants us to think.

INFLATION FALLS:

Incredible news. Inflation even lower than expected! https://t.co/QBeHSYhldb

— JD Vance (@JDVance) April 10, 2025

Prediction: Near-instant pivot from “Trump promised to lower inflation, where’s progress?” to “Ackshually, low inflation is bad.”

That said, a tip-over to actual deflation would be bad, since deflation hurts debtors more than creditors, and the United States is the world’s biggest debtor.

NO ROGUE RULINGS: House passes bill restricting district court judges from issuing nationwide injunctions.

HOLLY MATHNERD: Idea for Graduation Season Consideration: Don’t send your kids to college. I have a nephew who’s 22. Went to welding school instead of college. Now making close to six figures, and heading for nuclear-welding training where he’ll make well into six figures. Likes the work, likes the people, has a good reputation for quality and punctuality, and a delightful fiancee.

HUH. I WONDER WHY THAT WOULD BE?

Democrats are absolutely terrified of Elon looking into Social Security https://t.co/VjdTkp5K4o

— Jeff Carlson (@themarketswork) April 10, 2025