IT’S GOTTA BE EITHER CLIMATE CHANGE OR RFK, JR.: What causes breakthrough measles infections? “3% of the identified cases are so-called breakthrough infections. People got sick despite being either partially or fully vaccinated with the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) shot.”
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April 21, 2025
THE DEMOCRATS’ DILEMMA: To regenerate a head, you first have to know where your tail is.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: NRO reaches milestone with over 200 satellites deployed in two years.
The NROL-145 mission lifted off Sunday on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California at 8:29 a.m. Eastern. This marked SpaceX’s 10th launch of satellites for the NRO’s proliferated architecture, which includes Starshield imaging satellites built by SpaceX and Northrop Grumman.
A proliferated architecture refers to the strategy of using numerous smaller satellites rather than fewer large ones, creating networks that are more resilient against potential threats and capable of providing more comprehensive coverage.
Impressive — both the cadence and NRO having enough imagination to take advantage of it.
NEED BLACK-HOLE DEODORANT: Astronomers confirm the existence of a lone black hole.
OBAMA’S ENDANGERMENT FINDING MAY DIE SOONER THAN EXPECTED: Steven Milloy has been fighting the environmental zealots of the Left for decades, so the man knows a thing or three about how confrontations are likely to turn out. In an important Issues & Insights column, Milloy explains his optimism about killing the Endangerment Finding (EF) from the Obama EPA, used to justify every major federal environmental initiative since 2009:
“Before the Trump administration’s shock-and-awe approach to shrinking government commenced in January, my colleagues and I imagined that the EF would be reversed more less in the same way that the Obama administration had promulgated it, through the cumbersome Administrative Procedures Act. There would be a proposal seeking public comment published in the Federal Register, mandatory consideration of the likely hundreds of thousands of public comments, a final decision and then years of litigation with an uncertain outcome.
“But that has all now changed.
“On April 9, President Donald Trump issued an executive order, “Directing the Repeal of Unlawful Regulations,” directing agencies to come up with lists of regulations that run afoul of recent Supreme Court decisions. Select illegal regulations, as determined by the Trump administration, will then be terminated without the notice-and-comment process of the Administrative Procedures Act. The rationale is simply that: (1) the regulations are illegal per the Supreme Court decision; (2) they are no longer operative; and (3) terminating them does not require any sort of due process, so to speak.”
In other words, forget about endless APA process, the EF could soon be no more, and, as Milloy further explains, those getting tax dollars under Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act — what Trump calls the ‘Green New Scam’ — would be well-advised not to count on such future revenues.
MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: The Battle Is on for the Soul of the Democratic Party… But SHEESH, Those Contestants…
DO TELL:
Heath is lying to you about what’s in that immigration bill. It allows 5000 legal aliens in a day. Trump shut the border by simply enforcing the law. Oh, and it sends all illegal alien litigation to the DC courts. Yeah, I wonder why. And it provides billions for grants to… https://t.co/aO6zpGE9XT
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) April 21, 2025
SMART: Taiwan Drone Alliance Quadruples Size, Fortifies Supply Chain.
Taiwan’s state-backed drone industry alliance has grown from 50 members at its September 2024 inception to more than 200 today and is expeditiously decoupling from China-based supply chains, Chairman Hu Kai-Hung tells Aviation Week.
Hu, who also serves as the chairman of Taiwan’s Aerospace Industrial Development Corporation (AIDC), says that the drone alliance is laser-focused on creating a “non-red supply chain”—the red referring to China—to align with the requirements of the U.S., which has flagged the security threats posed by Chinese drones.
Members of the Taiwan Excellence Drone International Business Opportunities Alliance (Tediboa) are required to prove the origin of their components, Hu says.
We should be doing the same.
Related: Drones now account for 80% of casualties in Ukraine-Russia war.
That’s remarkable. Artillery — the previous champ — topped out last century at 60-70% of casualties, depending on the war.
MARK JUDGE: Casting Off the Oppression of the Race Hustle.
MORE NUKES IS GOOD NUKES: This just in: Americans love nukes! “New Gallup data show attitudes toward nuclear energy doing a U-turn from negative views in the mid-teens to strongly positive views today. In less then 10 years, positive views have spiked by 17 points while negative views have plummeted by 19 points. That’s taken net support (favor minus oppose) from -10 to +27.”
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YES, EVERYONE KNOWS:
Everyone does know this is MK-1 MOD 0 Cloward-Piven, yes? https://t.co/VUtwqoR3s1
— cdrsalamander (@cdrsalamander) April 19, 2025
THE FAFO DECADE:
Life comes at you fast. pic.twitter.com/Q0TRXuqjdW
— Bad Hombre (@joma_gc) April 20, 2025
Background: George Mason PhD student asks ‘when must we kill’ Trump, his administration.
SCOTT PINSKER: It’s World War III… and the Democrats Are Siding With China.
HE’S APPARENTLY OVER THE TARGET: Is a Coup Against Pete Hegseth Brewing at the Pentagon?
LOUIS K. BONHAM: Trump Admin Should Unleash The False Claims Act To End Discrimination In Higher Education. “To its credit, the Trump administration is employing a wide array of sanctions on such recalcitrant schools. Billions in federal funding are being frozen or withdrawn, revocation of schools’ tax exempt status is being considered, and even their eligibility to enroll foreign students may be yanked. Yet the Trump administration has yet to use one of the most potent weapons in its arsenal – one that, if deployed, could represent an existential economic threat to all but the wealthiest universities that insist on continuing their discriminatory practices. This weapon is the federal False Claims Act, and it is time to unleash it on woke academia. . . . But while the government can bring such claims itself, the FCA has another important component: the ability for whistleblowers (i.e., people with inside information of the fraud) to bring FCA suits in the government’s name, and receive a reward of up to 30% the funds recovered. Such private prosecutions are known as qui tam actions, and the vast majority of the billions recovered annually under the FCA arise from them.”
NEW MEXICO: Doña Ana County judge resigns after feds arrest man at home.
“Working with each of you has been a very rewarding experience for which I will remain eternally grateful,” Cano wrote in a letter addressed to 3rd Judicial District Chief Judge Conrad Perea and court staff. The letter declared his last day as March 21, which dockets show was also the last day he had hearings scheduled in court.
Jose “Joel” Cano, a former police officer and Democrat, was first elected as a magistrate judge in 2010 and ran unopposed in three subsequent elections, winning his fourth term in 2022.
The details of Ortega-Lopez’s arrest and prior relationship with the Cano family are addressed in federal court motions seeking Ortega-Lopez’s detention. In New Mexico federal district court, prosecutors argue that Ortega-Lopez is a flight risk and a danger to the community due to an alleged criminal history, including alleged ties to the Tren de Aragua gang in Venezuela.
The sixth paragraph seems like an awfully long way down to explain that “man” in the headline was really “Tren de Aragua man.”
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Suck it, Commies, Easter Is BACK! “Last year, Joe Biden and the syndicate of human sewage we call ‘globalist trash’ celebrated March 31 as the ‘day of Transgender Visibility.’ I’m sure it was a coincidence that it happened to fall on the same day as Easter, when Christians worldwide celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ of Nazareth.”
MY LATEST SUBSTACK ESSAY: Learning to live with AI: Observations from a not-really-early adopter.
CHANGE: ‘Big Moves At The ATF.’
“The zero tolerance policy is one of the most egregious ways that the Biden administration weaponized the ATF.”
“They realized they couldn’t go after the individual right to keep and bear arms (I know, crazy. It’s almost like it’s in the fucking constitution). They would go after the people who were selling and manufacturing the guns, which is where they started weaponizing audits on mom and pop FFLs.”
“The ATF had a history of doing audits on FFLs, where basically they’ll they’ll come in they’ll make sure that you’ve got all the guns on the books that you’re supposed to have. And basically, they’re just making sure that you’re not hawking guns out the back of your gun store to the fucking cartel, because only the ATF can do that.”
“But instead of using these audits to actually catch people who are committing real crimes and selling to people they’re legally not supposed to, they started going after every little minor clerical error they possibly could.
Much more at the link.
ASTROTURF DOESN’T GROW ON ITS OWN:
USAID money is gone. https://t.co/6l24qGFgis
— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) April 20, 2025
TO BE FAIR, THIS BIT SHOULD APPEAL TO MORONS SO IT WILL BE POPULAR ON CAMPUS:
Why are there no Greeks, Assyrians or Armenians left in Turkey today? pic.twitter.com/6rwCPqvlUN
— 𝗡𝗶𝗼𝗵 𝗕𝗲𝗿𝗴 ♛ ✡︎ (@NiohBerg) April 21, 2025