BECAUSE HE NEEDS YOUR TAX DOLLARS WASTED, THAT’S WHY:   California Gov. Gavin Newsom Sues DOGE Over AmeriCorps Cuts.

SO WHEN IS A JUDGE DEMANDING THEY BE ALL FREED?  Virginia task force arrests over 500 illegal immigrants, including over 130 gang affiliates.

YES, INSURANCE SUCKS, BUT THE DEMANDS PUT ON IT BY OBAMACARE ARE INSANE AND BACK-BREAKING:  Hypocritical rage.

They were designed to bankrupt insurance and force us into single payer.

HECK, NOT EVEN FOR MINE:   AI is not coming for your job.

THE FANS AREN’T HAPPY:  Looking Marvel-ous? No, Not Really….

POLICING AND URBICIDE:  Thinking the Unthinkable.

YEP:  Cut RFK Jr. a Break.

AND THOSE OF US WITH FAMILY IN EUROPE GET THE WORST OF IT:  Dems getting even more unhinged.

OPEN THREAD: Tuesday’s groovy.

Sorry for the delay. This got accidentally sked for tomorrow night.

MORE OF THIS PLEASE:  U. Louisville Pays Almost $1.6M to Settle Case with Professor who Criticized Trans Ideology.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: DARPA requests proposals for water-prospecting lunar orbiter.

MICHAEL WALSH: Fight With Soldiers, Not Lawyers.

THIS SEEMS RIGHT:

Elon is doing applied political science. He had a hypothesis, and then he bet on it. And in being correct, we are learning empirically: The Professional Managerial Class has perfected a system of moral blackmail through which they convert third world suffering into personal…

— Justin Murphy (@jmrphy) February 5, 2025

WELL:

Whether it was intentional or fortuitous, the media press in haring after the Signal leaks, had very little reportage about the Houthi campaign, treating it as the mindless spasm of an idiot administration. The Iranians of course knew something was afoot.

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) April 22, 2025

HEH. THIS IS SO TYPICAL.

They're freaking out because Israelis look like they are Middle Eastern (they are in fact Middle Eastern).

What an unhinged post lol pic.twitter.com/udl2M0FdXI

— 𝗡𝗶𝗼𝗵 𝗕𝗲𝗿𝗴 ♛ ✡︎ (@NiohBerg) April 20, 2025

WHY FIXING EDUCATION IS IMPORTANT:

The left doesn’t have enough kids to win.

That’s why they’re so insistent on controlling your kid’s education.

So maybe…just don’t voluntarily hand over your kids, and we win this whole thing in a generation.

— Nick Freitas (@NickJFreitas) April 21, 2025

And at this point, “fixing” will require a lot of demolition work.

WHY, INDEED? Why Does The IRS Need Guns Act. “Disarming Americans is a sore subject around these parts, as it should be, considering the natural right to self-preservation recognized by our Constitution. But, something tells me today’s disarmament discussion may be better received, as this time it is focused on the federal government, specifically the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Republican Representative Barry Moore from Alabama has introduced a bill that seeks to disarm the agency aptly named the Why Does The IRS Need Guns Act.”

Also disarm the EPA and a host of other agencies.

THAT’S SOMETHING: Gilead says its therapy delayed growth of tumors in aggressive form of breast cancer. “The results from a randomized Phase 3 study called ASCENT-04 could lead to a new treatment option for patients with newly diagnosed, metastatic, triple-negative breast cancer.”

BOTTOM STORY OF THE DAY: Top Producer of 60 Minutes Quits, Saying He Lost Independence.

CBS News entered a new period of turmoil on Tuesday after the executive producer of “60 Minutes,” Bill Owens, said that he would resign from the long-running Sunday news program because he had lost his journalistic independence.

In an extraordinary declaration, Mr. Owens — only the third person to run the program in its 57-year history — told his staff in a memo that “over the past months, it has become clear that I would not be allowed to run the show as I have always run it, to make independent decisions based on what was right for ‘60 Minutes,’ right for the audience.”

“So, having defended this show — and what we stand for — from every angle, over time with everything I could, I am stepping aside so the show can move forward,” he wrote in the memo, which was obtained by The New York Times.

“60 Minutes” has faced mounting pressure in recent months from both President Trump, who sued CBS for $10 billion and has accused the program of “unlawful and illegal behavior,” and its own corporate ownership at Paramount, the parent company of CBS News.

Don Hewitt, Dan Rather, Walter Cronkite, John Dickerson, Katie Couric and Scott Pelley ponder Owens’ reasons for leaving and smile: CBS’s Scott Pelley Loses A Fight Rigged In His Favor.

COULDN’T HAPPEN TO A NICER GUY: David Hogg Has Humiliating Meltdown on ABC News.

MICHAEL WALSH: Fight with Soldiers, Not Lawyers.

When a group of German saboteurs were caught in New York and Florida in June 1942, planning to blow up hydroelectric plants and other loci of American industrial power but ratted out by two of their fellows in Operation Pastorius, President Franklin D. Roosevelt knew exactly what he was not going to do. “I want one thing clearly understood, Francis,” he told his Attorney General, Francis Biddle. “I won’t hand them over to any United States marshal armed with a writ of habeas corpus. Understand?” Biddle understood: this was war. There would be no civilian “due process.” They would get what was coming to them.

* * * * * * * *

Now we’re fighting saboteurs and infiltrators from our own hemisphere, here on our home turf, “Maryland men.” After Pearl Harbor, FDR went before Congress to declare, “No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the American people in their righteous might will win through to absolute victory. I believe that I interpret the will of the Congress and of the people when I assert that we will not only defend ourselves to the uttermost but will make it very certain that this form of treachery shall never again endanger us. With confidence in our armed forces—with the unbounding determination of our people—we will gain the inevitable triumph—so help us God.”

Now, instead of the chair, our enemies get the best lawyers your money can buy, and laugh in your face.

Read the whole thing.

IT’S NICE HAVING A POTUS WILLING TO GO THERE: Trump Went There With the Sainted MS-13 Gangster: Check Out His Tats.

APOLITICAL PHOTOGRAPHY BLOG ASKS: Did Joe Biden Photoshop Himself Into an Easter Family Photo?

And the answer is a very likely…No! Joe Biden did not Photoshop himself into an Easter family photo — because Joe Biden’s brain is made of tapioca, and wouldn’t have a clue how to manipulate the program. But somebody in his immediate orbit likely did:

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Negligent Discharges Can Ruin More Than Your Day.

PRE-HISTORY: Human ancestors nearly went extinct 930,000 years ago.

Studying human evolution involves piecing together scattered clues about how we survived against tough odds. One of the biggest mysteries is understanding how large or small ancient human populations were. Typically, scientists rely on fossil records and ancient DNA to investigate these mysteries. But when it comes to periods as distant as the Pleistocene epoch—about a million years ago—such records become rare or nonexistent.

Now, a groundbreaking study published in the journal Science sheds new light on a dramatic event that nearly erased humans from existence. Researchers uncovered evidence that our ancestors survived a population crash that lasted over 100,000 years, leaving just around 1,280 individuals.

Just another reason to become multiplanetary at the earliest possible date.