ANOTHER DISNEY ACTRESS SEEMS DETERMINED TO TANK HER MOVIE: Vanessa Kirby Confirms Fantastic Four: First Steps Explores Gender Politics With Sue Storm.

Kirby spoke with Entertainment Weekly saying, “If you played an exact ’60s Sue today, everyone would think she was a bit of a doormat. So figuring out how to capture the essence of what she represented to each generation, where the gender politics were different, and embody that today, was one of the greatest joys of this.”

The idea that Sue Storm was a doormat in the early Fantastic Four comics is ridiculous. In the second issue of Fantastic Four, she turns invisible and breaks herself free from a federal detainment facility.

Later in the issue she works with the team to take out the Skrulls who have been posing as them and framing them for various crimes.

As Michael Walsh tweets to the above headline, “Translation: Please don’t go see this movie.” And that’s too bad, because as I wrote in February, the Googie-inspired production design looked fun in the trailer. But hearing the words “Gender Politics,” instead of mindless summer popcorn superhero flick where everything blows up, does not promise a fun afternoon at the movies.

I PREFER REAL DIVES: Virtual dive will take explorers deep into unexplored waters off Hawaii. But it’s cool.

A CONFEDERACY OF CONFEDERATE DUNCES: Nancy Pelosi Helped Cover Up Biden’s Decline and We Now Have the Receipts

I really do think we should be calling the Democrats the Confederacy.

REMOVE YOUR MASKS, MEDIA: The Masquerade is over.

My new piece at Sarah Hoyt’s According to Hoyt.

SHHH — MANY OF TRUMP’S CURRENT POLICIES WERE THE DEMOCRATS’, UNTIL OBAMA CAME ALONG:

how have I never seen this clip this whole time Trump just ran on the same immigration policy Hillary Clinton did 😂 https://t.co/OwKyRKAK7S

— Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) April 11, 2025

yep https://t.co/6kSMBUSXjt

— Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) April 11, 2025

Flashback: “Donald Trump should televise this Bill Clinton speech from 1995 and then simply state ‘I’m Donald Trump and I approve this message:’”

EXCLUSIVE: FBI Whistleblower Slams Promotion of FBI J6 Warlord.

HMM. HOW GOOD IS THE AI? To promote drug safety, FDA to replace animal testing with AI-based experiments, other methods.

TODAY DAVE FREER’S BOOK IS LIVE. AS PART OF HIS BLOG TOUR, HE DID HIS FIRST VIDEO INTERVIEW: Presenting Author Dave Freer. Author of STORM-DRAGON!

His book Storm Dragon is now live and yes, there is a paperback edition.

HOUSTON, YOU HAVE A PROBLEM: Murderer City? “If true, the mind boggles. Houston had 320 murders in 2024, so that’s just under three years’ worth of alleged murderers walking the streets.”

SHAPING SOULS TO STAY AFLOAT. AI is going to be coming hard for educators’ jobs. Is humans teaching actual virtue the way to maintain some utility (and solvency)?

I AUTOMATICALLY WRITE DOWN ANYONE WITH PRONOUNS IN THEIR BIO OR EMAIL: David Mastio: She/her, He/him: Please keep your obvious pronouns out of my emails. “I think people in professions who want to be trusted by all comers should recognize that many on the conservative half of the political spectrum view the superfluous use of pronouns as the equivalent of putting a liberal political bumper sticker in your every email. Count me among them.”

2028 PREVIEW: Whitmer and Newsom Look Away From the Lunatic Fringe as They Gaze Toward 2028.

I’m sitting out on the speculation until 2027.

EUROPE’S ELITES DESPISE EUROPE:

Ireland is being plundered by a small group of Irish families, banks and foreign investors. They are making billions for housing migrants through a network of shadowy offshore companies.

This industry is backed up by an NGO complex that employs 200,000 people and also costs us…

— MichaeloKeeffe (@Mick_O_Keeffe) April 11, 2025

Full text:

Ireland is being plundered by a small group of Irish families, banks and foreign investors. They are making billions for housing migrants through a network of shadowy offshore companies.

This industry is backed up by an NGO complex that employs 200,000 people and also costs us billions. Its purpose is to dumb us down and convince Irish people that being replaced in our own homeland is normal.

The police and judicial system are also onboard. Enforcing illegitimate laws passed by compromised politicians who serve the EU. Foreigners even get special privileges under Irish law.

What’s happening to Ireland is completely unnatural. Dumping people from African and Islamic countries into an ancient and homogeneous society is the quickest way of causing that society to collapse.

Trust is low, cohesion is gone and people from the 3rd world are walking straight into our country without even so much as medical screening. HIV, typhoid and diphtheria are becoming more common in Ireland.

None of us are safe.

Plus the added strain these migrants place on our housing market, education and healthcare systems cannot be ignored.

Those of us older than 20 remember the old Ireland. An Ireland with a relaxed pace of life and high trust communities.

We have a responsibility to maintain that version of Ireland and hand it to the next generation.

Yes.

I CAN’T KEEP TRACK: White House clarifies new China tariff rate of 145%, not 125%.

Related: Apple airlifts 600 tons of iPhones from India ‘to beat’ Trump tariffs, sources say.

That’s around 1.7 million iPhones.

BREAKING:

BREAKING: The Council on American Islamic Relations is seeking to block Columbia from turning over records to Congress about the pro-Hamas group Students for Justice in Palestine.

CAIR is linked to the Muslim Brotherhood and was labeled a terrorist group by the UAE in 2014. pic.twitter.com/aEZYe5RvKF

— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) April 11, 2025

Developing…

NICE WORK: Trump Secures Freedom for Wrongfully Jailed Ballerina.

AN UNGUARDED RESPONSE TO A CRITIC: Velkyn1 offered an usually detailed and lengthy critique of a video on the HillFaith YouTube channel. Take his critique and my response, put them together and you have an insight into the depth and detail of the present state of apologetical discussion of one critical detail from the Easter story, who were the guards Pilate commanded to keep watch on the tomb of Jesus to prevent His disciples from stealing his body and [falsely] proclaiming His resurrection?

THE DEVIL’S IN THE DETAILS: Democrats Cheering MS-13 Gang Member’s Return Missed a Key Detail in SCOTUS Ruling.

NICE AIRPORT YOU’VE GOT THERE, BE A SHAME IF ANYTHING HAPPENED TO IT: ‘All kinds of scavengers’: Russia speeds up asset grab.

Russian billionaire Dmitry Kamenshchik last year was approached by people close to the government and security services with an offer they hoped he could not refuse.

But when Kamenshchik balked at gifting the state 25 per cent in Moscow’s second-largest airport, a person close to him recalled, he was met with the full force of the Russian legal system.

In January, the Russian prosecutor-general asked a Moscow court to order the nationalisation of Domodedovo airport, claiming that Kamenshchik and his business associate were part of western efforts to undermine the Russian economy because they held foreign passports. The case, which is being heard in closed-door hearings, is ongoing.

The episode is part of a string of nationalisations that have accelerated since Vladimir Putin started his full-scale war in Ukraine, even as he is also making overtures to western companies lured by the prospect of Donald Trump rekindling economic ties with Russia.

Strongarming billionaire oligarchs to feed the war machine doesn’t seem like a sustainable business model.

IT’S FRIDAY AND TIME FOR MORE SKY CANDY [VIP]: Sky Candy Near and Far.

CHANGE: New Catholic trade school mixes theology with technical skills to meet labor shortages.

OUR CALIFORNICATION IS NEARLY COMPLETE: Colorado Dems Just Drove Another Stake into the Bill of Rights. “The 2nd Amendment died in Colorado on a sunny spring afternoon in Denver, and Democrats murdered it. Yesterday, so-called ‘moderate’ Democrat Gov. Jared Polis put his signature on SB 25-003 — perhaps the most convoluted and restrictive gun control law anywhere in the nation. But don’t you worry, Democrats are gunning next for the 1st Amendment.”

REMEDIAL MATH AT THE IVY LEAGUE: Harvard’s math class problem shows why merit still matters.

HMM: Trump Order Would Force the ACLU to Put Its Money Where Its Mouth Is on Lawfare.

What if I told you that when federal district judges issue injunctions blocking President Donald Trump’s policies in a judicial insurrection, they were the ones breaking the law?

No, it’s not just because these judges are effectively usurping the authority of the president over the executive branch. It’s more clear-cut than that.

When Chief Judge James Boasberg of the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., issued an order demanding the Trump administration return reputed members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua to the U.S., he wasn’t just making immigration policy—he was violating a black-and-white rule laid down by the U.S. Supreme Court.

What does that mean? It means that when the ACLU files a lawsuit against the Trump administration and asks the judge to issue an order forcing Trump to turn around, in midflight, the planes deporting violent gangbangers, the ACLU has to put up or shut up.

The ACLU has to put down a “security” payment when asking for the court order, just in case a later judge strikes down the order after it already cost the government money to follow it.

This commonsense requirement isn’t a Trump wish list item. It’s a rule with the force of law.

If the administration were to demand that judges follow this rule, it could stop the judicial insurrection in its tracks—or, at the very least, make the activists think twice before assuming they can dictate federal policy.

Much more at the link.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: It’s Hard to Believe, but People Still Underestimate Trump. “It’s stunning to me that President Trump’s detractors still like to portray him as some sort of hot-headed buffoon who doesn’t know what he’s doing. Well, stunning and tedious at this point. You would think that they would eventually get tired of being wrong.”