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April 30, 2025
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.
WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: First ‘smart,’ wearable, pediatric soft exoskeleton provides mobility for children with motor difficulties.
HISTORICAL IGNORANCE IS PART AND PARCEL OF LEFTISM: Republican Slams Dem’s ‘Disgustingly Ignorant’ Holocaust Comparison in Battle Over Immigration Bill.
TO BE FAIR, WITH THAT PENCIL NECK HE’S JUST BARELY THE LATTER: Democrats May Kick Out David Hogg Because He Is a White Male. “Semafor has the scoop on an upcoming meeting of the Credentials Committee that will consider a complaint about the election of Hogg not complying with DNC rules about race, gender, and sexuality regulations the party uses to ensure “equity” in the party. Hogg, who is a heterosexual (I think) white male, won his slot as DNC Vice Chair of the party, doesn’t qualify–they say–to win his slot despite having received the votes to win. You do have to admit that it is pretty funny that the most racially obsessed political party in the Western world managed to elect two white men to lead the party–and not just white, but marshmallow white at that. So it shouldn’t surprise anyone that a rainbow coalition of race-baiters wants Hogg thrown out of his leadership position. . . . The DNC poobahs may seize this opportunity to overturn the election of the candidate the voters chose and install a more pliable Vice Chair. Which, when you think of it, is on-brand. For three election cycles in a row, they did the same thing with their presidential candidates. “
TO BE FAIR, THIS KIND OF THING KEEPS HAPPENING: Europe Just Proved Trump Right About NATO. “In a shocking-not-shocking exclusive report in The (UK) Times, Europe ‘would struggle to put 25,000 troops on the ground in Ukraine’ as part of a postwar peacekeeping force. Defense Editor Larisa Brown ‘was given a rare insight into conversations between Europe’s defence ministers and military chiefs as they thrashed out plans for a ‘coalition of the willing’ force,’ and the results are as disappointing as they are sobering.”
DEMOCRATIC “JUSTICE:”
The Obama administration literally had an (unannounced) policy that it would not take cases in which the victims of civil rights laws violations were white. It stacked DOJ's CRD with lawyers who were on board with this. Good riddance. https://t.co/ciMtzADQKv
— David Bernstein (@ProfDBernstein) April 29, 2025
WHAT THE ACTUAL… YOU KNOW… IS GOING ON WITH THE DEMS?
It's funny how this is now just an unremarkable committee tweet at this point https://t.co/4jOA247pqb
— Benjy Sarlin (@BenjySarlin) April 29, 2025
They’ve been dropping f-bombs in Congress for a couple months now and it isn’t by accident.
I’m just not certain about the design.
MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE: Trump’s Department of Education Investigates Chicago Schools’ Racist Policies.
WINNING: China Caves to Trump on Tariffs Again.
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DECOUPLING: What we can VERIFY about Port of Seattle ‘ghost town’ rumors.
According to both sources, three international cargo ships were docked Monday in the Port of Seattle. One is registered in Portugal, one in Singapore, and the third in Hong Kong.
The Northwest Seaport Alliance told KING 5 that 15 more cargo ships are expected to pass between the Port of Seattle (nine for Seattle) and the Port of Tacoma over the next week. Twelve of those ships are expected to contain goods from China.
The Seaport Alliance said port traffic in Seattle is up 7.3% in the last 30 days. The port saw an 18.4% increase in volumes in March, partially driven by shippers moving cargo before anticipated tariffs.
Northwest Seaport Alliance Port of Seattle Commissioner, Ryan Calkins, said the future does not look as good.“The last forecast I saw was forecasting out over the next three months, and each month was forecasted to be down around 25% per month,” Calkins said.
The Seaport Alliance said some ships are coming in with less cargo than anticipated. In some cases, it is 30% lower.
“Unfortunately, we are beginning to see a reduction in the total number of containers coming off any particular vessel when they come in,” Calkins said.
Exit quote: “The Northwest Seaport Alliance said the Port of Seattle is not a ‘ghost town,’ but it will be closely watching what happens in the next couple of weeks.”