Archive for 2025
April 25, 2025
CORN, POPPED: Unilever probes Ben & Jerry’s Foundation’s donations.
Unilever is probing the finances of Ben & Jerry’s charitable foundation with a focus on its grants to progressive and pro-Palestinian groups, including to an organization with ties to two of the foundation’s trustees, people familiar with the matter said.
It’s the latest escalation of long-running tensions between Ben & Jerry’s and its corporate parent over the creamery’s progressive bent. Unilever is spinning off its ice cream division, which includes Ben & Jerry’s, into a standalone company.
As part of that process, Unilever plans to audit the Ben & Jerry’s Foundation, according to a letter sent earlier this month to the foundation’s president, Jeff Furman, and seen by Semafor. The results “will inform decisions as to future funding of the foundation by Unilever and, post-separation, by” the new company, called Magnum.
Unilever has given the foundation between $1 million and $6 million annually since it bought Ben & Jerry’s in 2000. The nonprofit funds hundreds of left-leaning groups.
Hoist a pint of Blue Bell in celebration.
SURPRISE, SURPRISE, SURPRISE: Military Recruitment Numbers Are Breaking Records Under Trump and Hegseth.
CONAN, WHAT IS BEST IN LIFE? David Hogg’s future could include first male host of The View.
FOLLOW THE “SCIENCE:”
NYT obituary for former Harvard Medical School pathologist driven out of his job for insisting on a heterodox position on the risk factors of heart disease that clashed with Big Pharma orthodoxy in the service of its financial interests that later was proven to be correct pic.twitter.com/x1T1axXa9r
— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) April 24, 2025
ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER DISNEY CELEBRITY TANKING THEIR FRANCHISE: But Will Disney Fire Him? Pedro Pascal Posts Hateful Comment on Instagram About J.K. Rowling.
It’s kind of difficult to turn on a television or go to a movie these days without seeing Chilean-American actor Pedro Pascal. If we looked up ‘overexposed’ in the dictionary, we would probably see his face there, too.
In addition to starring in the abysmal sequel Gladiator II, Pascal is (or — spoiler alert — was) also the lead in HBO’s video game-based series The Last of Us. And he is a major part of TWO Disney tentpoles. He plays the Mandaorian in the series and the upcoming movie of the same name, and will be playing Reed Richards in Marvel’s Fantastic Four: First Steps. That movie is already off to a rocky start before it gets even released, with many of its stars promising that it will be ‘updated for modern audiences’ (and we all know what that means).
What Pascal may be lesser known for, but probably should be, is how often he spews hate on social media. He actually eulogized the horrible people who tried to kill Kyle Rittenhouse but wound up on the wrong end of that FAFO game. He has also compared the United States to Nazi Germany long before that became the left’s only argument.
Hypocritically, Disney fired fellow Mandalorian star Gina Carano for being critical of Nazi Germany (and they are about to pay dearly for that), but has never even reprimanded Pascal because, of course, he is on the right ‘team.’
So it will be curious to see the fallout from this banger:
So much losing, you’ll be sick of all the losing:
Related: The TERFs were right all along. Women had to face down cancellation, death threats, arrest and so much more to have their rights vindicated.
And once again, a Disney star is declaring a large portion of his audience racist/sexist/homophobic and/or transphobic. I’m not sure how that sells tickets, but then I’m also not sure why modern Hollywood allows its actors free reign on social media:
THE RESISTANCE IS REAL:
In the last 24 hours, rogue judges have held:
1. People who arrived in America illegally as unaccompanied minors cannot be deported even though you know they came here illegally.
2. Constitution says only legal citizens can vote but the federal government cannot require…
— Insurrection Barbie (@DefiyantlyFree) April 25, 2025
Full text:
1. People who arrived in America illegally as unaccompanied minors cannot be deported even though you know they came here illegally.
2. Constitution says only legal citizens can vote but the federal government cannot require voters to prove that they are citizens.
3. Trump cannot stop funds from going to sanctuary cities that blatantly violate federal immigration laws.
4. Trump may not put federal grants and contracts on hold when schools and colleges discriminate against people based on race AKA DEI.
5. Trump must reinstate the leftist-controlled Voice of America and rehire all the employees.
SCOTUS needs to put a stop to this judicial insurrection, but that seems highly unlikely.
RELIGION OF PEACE UPDATE: Pahalgam witness says headgear-wearing teens were among gunmen: ‘Took selfies.’
Sushil Nathaniel, a 58-year-old manager at the Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) in Madhya Pradesh’s Alirajpur, was among those 26 killed in Baisaran meadows, known as “mini-Switzerland.” He had visited the region with his family for a vacation.
Nathaniel’s son, Austin alias Goldie, said that his elder sister, Akanksha (35), was shot in the leg by the assailants. He and his mother, Jennifer (54), escaped unhurt, but the gunmen killed his father.
Explaining the attack, a grieving Austin told PTI, “The terrorists included underage boys around 15 years old. There were at least four of them. They were taking selfies during the attack and had cameras mounted on their heads.”
It’s no wonder India has run out of patience.
CAN CATHOLIC COLLEGES HELP STAVE OFF CIVILIZATIONAL COLLAPSE? Depends on the college. For example, I wouldn’t count on DePaul…
CRISIS BY DESIGN (12″ EXTENDED DANCE VERSION): Oregon Prosecutor: Immigration Status Doesn’t Bear on Attempted Murder Case.
READER FAVORITE: COOFANDY Men’s Cotton Linen Henley T-Shirts. #CommissionEarned
SKY CANDY GOES FOR BAROQUE [VIP]: Sky Candy Partita in the Stars.
WELL, GOOD: Trump to sign executive order targeting ActBlue foreign donation, fraud allegations. “The order will put the Justice Department as the lead in deciding whether any criminal charges or lawsuits should be filed against ActBlue, which has admitted it did not follow common anti-fraud protections for much of the 2024 election even as it processed hundreds of millions of dollars for Democrat-affiliated campaigns and cause.”
Previously: Dem Fundraising Platform in Turmoil as Top Officials Resign, Lawyer Alleges Retaliation.
AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD:
— Seth Dillon (@SethDillon) April 25, 2025
THAT’S NOT GONNA BUFF OUT:
💥/1. This morning, the deputy head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, Major General Yaroslav Moskalik, was passing by the Volkswagen Golf when the planted IED was triggered and explosion happened. Immediately after that, his… https://t.co/5GdHv5W7Lc pic.twitter.com/RpSo1t8ldn
— Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 (@bayraktar_1love) April 25, 2025
Moskalik was a legitimate target.
WATCHING THE HYDROGEN BOMB: James May And Jay Leno Review “The Future Of Motoring” (Top Gear segment from 2008).
Although, never say never: Is hydrogen the future for cars? Manufacturers haven’t given up on it yet.
MISSILE DEFENSE JUST GOT A YUGE BOOST: Trump Might Be About to Make Reagan’s Dream Come True.
OH NOOO — OUTRAGED DEMOCRATS: Trump to speak at Alabama commencement, sparks outrage from College Democrats.
IN A WORD: “BADLY.” How India’s Threat to Block Rivers Could Devastate Pakistan.
The agreement became necessary after 1947, when India and Pakistan became independent countries, although the treaty took a decade to negotiate and was signed in 1960, with the World Bank as a mediator. The treaty outlined the rights and obligations of both countries for “equitable use” of water flowing in the Indus river system.
India has unrestricted use of the waters of the three eastern rivers: the Ravi, the Sutlej and the Beas, two of which then flow into Pakistan. Pakistan has control of the Indus, the Chenab and the Jhelum, known as the western rivers, which pass through Indian-controlled territory but primarily reside in Pakistan. The treaty obligates India to let the waters of those rivers flow freely to Pakistan for its “unrestricted use.”
For decades, the treaty has been hailed as a landmark that could serve as a template for solving international water disputes. But in the past decade, India has threatened to weaponize the treaty during conflicts with Pakistan.
After Pakistani terrorists attacked an Indian Army base in the Kashmiri town of Uri in 2016, Mr. Modi told Indus Waters Treaty officials that “blood and water cannot flow together.” And in 2019, Indian government officials threatened to divert the flow of the eastern rivers away from Pakistan after a suicide bombing that killed dozens of Indian security forces in Kashmir.
It would put Pakistan in a tough spot. The country is arid and has been battling acute water shortages, partly because of extreme weather events. Last month, Pakistan’s water regulator warned that Punjab and Sindh, the country’s key agricultural provinces, could already face water shortfalls of as much as 35 percent during the final phase of the current crop season.
Upcoming monsoon rains also hold risks for Pakistan because India could choose to release surplus water from the eastern rivers without prior notification, potentially triggering floods, said Naseer Memon, an Islamabad-based policy analyst focusing on water governance.
Pakistan is in a tough spot, but maybe that’s something Islamabad should consider when deciding to support terrorist groups.
“UNBELIEVABLE?” YOU KEEP USING THAT WORD…:
Unbelievable. The day after a hero judge in Romania reversed The Blob's cancellation of its elections, the higher judicial body just now stepped in and announced a disciplinary probe against him. https://t.co/VaJalTd2u1
— Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) April 25, 2025
Allowing the people to only choose between two government-approved candidates used to be an element of Soviet oppression, but now it’s “democracy.”
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: They Say They Want a Revolution…but They’re Wusses. “Because the fetid funk of failure has made them toxically stupid, the Dems truly believe that they are the vanguard of an anti-Trump backlash that is going to spill into the streets of this great land and carry them back to power. It would seem that they may have been literally banging their heads against a wall for this past half-year.”
LIGHTNING DEAL: Monocular Telescope 80×100 High Power with Smartphone Adapter. #CommissionEarned
I’VE SEEN THE LOCKDOWNS AND THE DAMAGE DONE: Following the junk science: How a health crisis became an educational disaster.
In An Abundance of Caution, David Zweig explains why U.S. policymakers got it so wrong, and failed to correct their mistakes, doing grave harm to children’s mental, physical and academic health.
The father of two children, Zweig saw the cost of remote schooling and isolation, and began asking questions. He published The Case for Reopening Schools in Wired in May, 2020, pointing out that the U.S. was an outlier. A year later, his kids were still out of school, he tells Greg Toppo in an interview on The 74.
Toppo asks the key question: “By May 2020, schools in The Netherlands, Norway, Finland, France, Switzerland, Germany, Spain, and more than a dozen other nations had reopened, with evidence mounting that COVID wasn’t even a modest risk to children. At a European Union conference, researchers reported that reopening schools there brought no significant increase in infections. Why weren’t we in lockstep with Europe?”
Related [VIP]: Our Elites Owe Us More Than a Shrug and a Rewrite.