OH NO, NOT THE EPA MUSEUM, TOO! EPA Museum – Yes, One Actually Existed – Shuttered After Zeldin Calls Out Massive Funding, Lack of Visitors.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), under Administrator Lee Zeldin, has decided to close the National Environmental Museum and Education Center, a project launched during the Biden administration, Fox News reports. Despite its mission to “highlight environmental achievements,” the museum struggled to attract visitors leaving taxpayers with a hefty bill for a largely empty space. Even with free admission, relatively no one could find any desire to walk through the doors. Although the lack of visitors is likely not surprising anyone, the money being poured into the museum just might.

The museum, located at the EPA headquarters near the White House, opened in May 2024 with the goal of celebrating America’s environmental progress. Former EPA Administrator Michael S. Regan envisioned it as a space to honor bipartisan efforts to protect public health and the environment. However, the museum saw fewer than 2,000 visitors in its first nine months, which some may call pathetic.

Taxpayers had invested $4 million to bring the museum up to Smithsonian standards, with an additional $600,000 per year required for upkeep. That worked out to about $315 per visitor—a price tag that Zeldin and his team argue cannot be justified.

But what will fans of the Newseum do, now that they no longer have a museum they can look down upon?

(Found via Ace of Spades, who writes, “These people [are] demented space aliens. They have no conception of how actual humans think. Real humans do not go to Museums of Bureaucracy. I used to laugh at conspiracy theories about ‘the Reptilians.’ Now I want to know more.”)

HMM: Stroke risk from neck artery tears reported to be growing.

YES: Rubio Urges NATO Members To Increase Their Own Defense Spending To 5% Of GDP.

“I understand there’s domestic politics, after decades of building up vast social safety nets that maybe don’t want to take away from that and invest more in national security,” Rubio added. “But the events of the last few years … full-scale ground war in the heart of Europe as a reminder that hard power is still necessary as a deterrent. We do want to leave here with an understanding that we are on a pathway, a realistic pathway to every single one of the members committee, and fulfilling a promise to reach up to 5% of spending.”

Rubio stated the United States would also spend 5% of its GDP on defense as well.

“The majority of the 32 NATO members currently spend 2% of their nation’s GDP per previous NATO commitments, eight nations – Croatia, Portugal, Italy, Canada, Belgium, Luxembourg, Slovenia and Spain – have yet to meet their defense spending pledges,” Fox News noted. “Only Poland spends over 4% of its GDP on defense, while four other nations spend over 3% – Estonia, the U.S., Latvia and Greece.” The United States spent 3.38% of its GDP on defense in 2024.

We fell badly behind during the Biden years and it shows.

UPDATE (FROM GLENN):

Every single nation in this photo combined wasn’t enough to stop the Houthis from closing the Suez Canal

Together our navies are weak. That’s just a fact minister. And some (e.g. Canada) are straight up pathetic. https://t.co/J79JxvOdww

— John Ʌ Konrad V (@johnkonrad) April 4, 2025

Why are American taxpayers defending Europe rather than European taxpayers, defending Europe? pic.twitter.com/c7ZAdvvedf

— Steve Gill (@TheGillReport) April 4, 2025

CHRISTIAN TOTO: Bill Burr Executes Perfect ‘Clown Nose On’ Backpedal.

He also keeps saying “Free Luigi,” referencing the young man accused of shooting a healthcare CEO in cold blood. Naturally, two reporters pressed Burr about his recent comments on the red carpet.

So how did Burr handle the questions?

“Hey, I’m just a comedian.” He didn’t say those words, but he came remarkably close.

He refused to clarify his Mangione comments to one reporter. Doing so would give her the reporter the click-bait moment she craved, he said.

Later, he continued his backpedal when a second reporter pressed him on his recent comments.

“I don’t watch the news,” Burr said, adding he prefers watching goofy videos on Instagram. You can almost see him putting that clown nose on for the reporter in question, Nicholas Ballasy.

Burr began in a humorous manner but quickly turned serious. And a tad cruel.

“I don’t think you should be asking a comedian … you’re a journalist,” Burr said before Ballasy defended his line of questioning.

“Comedians are on top of current events,” Ballasy began to say.

“No, no. That’s weak. That’s you guys passing the buck,” Burr said, cutting him off. “You guys need to have balls again which you don’t. You guys always goes, ‘Should we be thinking this?’ Duh? You guys present stuff like that. You guys used to have balls. You need to get your balls back,” Burr added before moving on. “That’s not my job. I’m a dancing clown.”

The clip may become the ultimate “Clown Nose On” example for years to come. Burr couldn’t have scripted it any better, even if he lacks the self-awareness to see what he did.

“You guys used to have balls,” says the leftist comedian who doesn’t have the balls to defend his own inflammatory rhetoric and love of radical chic.

KRUISER: When Dems Don’t Like What They See in the Mirror, They Insist That It’s the Mirror’s Fault. “The Democrats are obviously struggling with coming to terms with the rejection they faced last November. They’re always bad at introspection and taking responsibility for anything, but this is like nothing I’ve seen in all of my years in politics. It’s gotten to the point where I have to read at least one or two of the 2024 post mortems in the mainstream media every day to get my fix. Yeah, it’s a blast watching them not get it. The real joy for me, however, is seeing the myriad ways that they are finding to not come to the proper conclusions about why they lost.”

SAY WHAT YOU WILL, TRUMP’S VISION HAS BEEN CONSISTENT:

It's amazing to see how consistent his vision has been for 35 years. In this video, Trump's net worth was 50x Oprah's and he had a firm grasp on global trade well before China became a superpower. Today's tariffs were not an overnight decision.pic.twitter.com/hp6gqoZNhE

— Vijar Kohli (@VijarKohli) April 3, 2025

I WON’T LIE, I’M LOOKING FORWARD TO THE EXPLANATIONS WHY THIS IS BAD: America Is Back! March Jobs Report Crushes Expectations.

FRAM2 IS NEARING SPLASHDOWN:

https://t.co/ERTGAPK49M

— SpaceX (@SpaceX) April 4, 2025

ROGER SIMON: Take Prescription Drug Ads off the Air Already: Only allowed in US and New Zealand.

MORE ON “ADOLESCENCE”: Netflix’s ‘Adolescence’ Has Heart But Doesn’t Understand Its Subject. “The show is designed and has been promoted in a way to scare middle-class white parents with the message, ‘Don’t get too comfortable; it could be your son [who murders a female classmate].’ However, that doesn’t bear out in reality. The show conflates incels with the manosphere, and Jamie’s profile doesn’t map onto known incel archetypes, let alone the most murderous ones. It’s being used to advocate for censorship and crackdown on content like Andrew Tate on the basis that it radicalizes young incels (a completely different camp) into murdering young women. While sexless young men have always posed a real danger for malevolence and violence, the majority of incels are more suicidal than homicidal. Young boys who watch Andrew Tate are more likely to grow up to be objectifying misogynistic douchebags obsessed with money and status than sexless murderers.”

And as Stacy McCain wrote in a post linked by Ed yesterday: “How many actual murders in England have been inspired by ‘incel subculture’ on social media? If it’s not zero, it’s pretty darned close. Which is to say, the plot of Adolescence is entirely fictional. No such teenage suspect as ‘Jamie Miller’ has ever committed a murder in England with a motive like the one dramatized in this series.”

Netflix race-swapped a murder — the kind that rarely happened in Britain before mass Third World immigration — but that is now commonplace enough to make a (heavily) fictionalized movie about it. That’s because the elites in politics and entertainment fear the reaction, justifiable as though it might be, if the popular culture reflected the reality of what the elites hath wrought.

So as Glenn noted on Monday, “Denial of that reality is the whole point.”

WELL, BYE: Yale ‘Fascism Professor’ Flees Country to Escape Trump’s Fourth Reich.

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IT’S DIFFERENT NOW BECAUSE REASONS:

1) 1996 Nancy Pelosi encourages all of Congress to back reciprocal tariffs

2) 2008 Bernie Sanders wants tariffs, says jobs are going overseas

3) 2018 Barack Obama calls for reciprocal tariffs

4) 1988 Donald Trump says foreign countries must pay tariffs

Only 1 hasn’t sold out pic.twitter.com/6jqXqaYALC

— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) April 4, 2025

HOW’S THAT SPACE PROGRAM COMING ALONG: NASA catches a glimpse of ‘city-killer’ asteroid before it disappears until 2028.

Astronomers are watching 2024 YR4 closely, trying to learn everything they can before it disappears from view by mid-April, Kelly Fast, a planetary defense officer at NASA, told ABC News earlier this year. Its unique elongated orbit takes the asteroid around the sun and into Earth’s vicinity before it ventures far out between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter and out of sight, Fast said.

NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies used the James Webb Space Telescope — the largest, most powerful telescope ever launched into space — to capture photos of the asteroid, the space agency announced on Wednesday.

New infrared observations indicate that the asteroid measures between 174 feet and 220 feet in diameter — about the size of the 10-story [sic] building, according to NASA. While it is not forecast to strike Earth in 2032, the asteroid now has a 1.7% probability of hitting the moon at that time, the space agency said.

Luna takes a lot of hits for Team Earth.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Fresno State U. lecturer under fire for posts wishing for death of Trump, Musk.

[VIP] REAL EXCITEMENT IN SCIENCE IS WHEN YOU SAY ‘THAT’S FUNNY…’: Sky Candy and the Globs of Mars.

If you live on the West Coast, the Fram 2 polar orbit mission will be splashing down off Oceanside California in a couple hours, 0915 Pacific Time.

I’M SHOCKED, SHOCKED TO FIND GAMBLING IN THIS ESTABLISHMENT: The ‘Mary Poppins of Disinformation’ Says There’s No ‘Censorship-Industrial Complex’ in America.

DARK WEB TESLA DOXXERS: Exclusive report from the Daily Caller News Foundation points to the use of data from a 2021 data breach of ParkMobile info that included the make of vehicle being parked in particular spots and names of the owner.

PRIORITIES: NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab Laid Off 900 Workers Due to Budget Cuts—But Hasn’t Fired Its Top DEI Officer.

HIGHER EDUCATION’S CULTURE OF VIOLENCE: ‘I F***ING HATE YOU’: Student gov candidate at UNC Asheville destroys pro-life table, yells at pro-lifers.

STANDING UP AGAINST BIGOTRY AND DISCRIMINATION: Twelve Discriminatory Scholarships At Penn College of Technology Challenged by Equal Protection Project.

WINNING: Trump Cancels Biden Grants to China-Tied Think Tank Behind War on Gas Stoves.

The Department of Energy canceled two climate grants the Biden administration awarded to the Rocky Mountain Institute, a left-wing climate think tank that has pushed for heavy restrictions on gas stoves and that has collaborated with the Chinese government.

The first grant was worth about $5.3 million and designed to fund the Rocky Mountain Institute’s pilot project retrofitting a 120-unit building in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with green energy technology. Then-energy secretary Jennifer Granholm said in March 2022 the grant funding proved the Biden administration was “in an all-out sprint to beat the climate crisis” while Sen. Ed Markey (D., Mass.) said it would help protect the country “from upheaval caused by the global fossil fuel market.”

The second was a $1.5 million grant to fund research into the viability of electric vehicle carshare programs. The research, according to the Department of Energy, would assess business models in the United States for resilience and “equity.”

Let lefty billionaires pay for their own BS.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: The World Is Suddenly Full of International Economics Experts. “I may not be an expert on the economy — domestic or global — but I do know that the mountain of messes that Trump inherited for his second term aren’t of the easy fix variety. Yeah, executive orders got the ball rolling on a lot of things, but there’s still a lot work to be done on every issue that those addressed. “

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BLUE STATE BLUES:

Roblox has filed to leave Delaware and reincorporate in Nevada. pic.twitter.com/5jXI0kA2Su

— Robert Anderson (@ProfRobAnderson) April 2, 2025

More:

This is becoming worrisome for Delaware, not only because this keeps happening, but also because the companies seem to be coalescing around Nevada. That will make it viable.

I think Delaware’s amendments made a difference, but they may have just come too late in the proxy season after companies had already gone through their processes. The decision to vilify Musk and explicitly deny him the benefit of the law his case inspired probably hurt as well.

Companies like Roblox leaving are the known costs. Then there are the companies that might have incorporated in Delaware but will do so elsewhere due to unknowns about its current business climate.