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April 18, 2025
JIM TREACHER: America’s Greatest Astronaut: Gayle King.
The United States is the first and only country in the world to put human beings on the Moon. And until this week, it was America’s finest achievement in space.
Then came the six bravest women in the history of astronautation: Katy Perry, Jeff Bezos’ girlfriend, and… I dunno, a few other gals with the same hairstyle. Not to mention the most important person who has ever lived: Gayle King.
Move over, Neil Armstrong. Bad bitches in the house, by which I mean space!
“It is my pleasure to tell you, you’ve passed. Does that make you feel confident? Does that make you feel good?”
“It’s not about going to space. It’s about what we bring back.”
Finally, somebody remembered the real reason for all this.
If you’re a stupid man who hasn’t done the right thing and gone trans yet, you probably still think space exploration is about “science” and “adventure” and “expanding our knowledge of the universe” and other rhetoric of the patriarchy.
Wait, what is this “space” exploration you speak of?
Candace Owens has completely lost the plot, calls out Matt Walsh for thinking space is real. She says that space is completely fake and that humans have never been to space, and that NASA was invented to promote the “Antichrist belief” in science over faith.
“You must come to… pic.twitter.com/JF1shBI9OX
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) April 18, 2025
Just add it to the list from last year:
Or as America’s Newspaper of Record reported: Kanye West Starting To Think Candace Owens Might Be A Little Crazy.
EH? SPEAK UP, YOUNGSTER: New study reaffirms strong link between hearing loss, dementia in seniors.
REMARKABLE ONLY FOR HER SKILL AT THE GRIFT: The Remarkable Rags-to-Riches Story of Stacey Abrams. “Financial records show that when she first entered statewide politics in 2018, she reported a net worth of less than $109,000. By 2022, the last year she had to publicly file a financial report, it had grown to more than $3.2 million. Abrams is probably even better off than that, thanks to her latest venture: Rewiring America, which uses federal funds to provide low-income people with free electric appliances.”
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GRAUNIAD MUCH MAD AT MUTTS: Was This Written By Cats? The Guardian Hisses Dogs Are An ‘Insidious’ Climate Threat.
First it was the cow farts. Now it’s dog “shit.” Moral of the story: eco crazies will never be satisfied until people start seeing climate change threats in their soup.
Leftist newspaper The Guardian published an April 9 story that reeked of being desperate for attention, even if that meant making its writers look like cats that have been overdosing on catnip. “Pet dogs have ‘extensive and multifarious’ impact on environment, new research finds,” read the headline coughed up like a hairball from science writer Donna Lu.
The syntax read like a Babylon Bee special, “An Australian review of existing studies has argued that ‘the environmental impact of owned dogs is far greater, more insidious, and more concerning than is generally recognised.”
The equally nutty outlet Mother Jones reposted Lu’s story and made dogs out to be the antagonists of the supposed climate war in its re-written headline: “Bad News for Man’s Best Friend: Dogs Are Environmental Villains.”
And they’re right. Just look at all of the climate chaos that the four-legged beasts have caused over the years!
● “A secret report, suppressed by US defence chiefs and obtained by The Observer, warns that major European cities will be sunk beneath rising seas as Britain is plunged into a ‘Siberian’ climate by 2020.”
—The Grauniad, February 21, 2004.
● UN scientists warn time is running out to tackle global warming.
—The Grauniad, May 4th, 2007.
● President ‘has four years to save Earth.’
—The Grauniad, January 27, 2009.
● The Grauniad was particularly dogged in its eco-apocalyptic fear in 2019: ‘Pathetic alarmism:’ The Guardian ramps up ‘climate emergency’ reporting guidelines.
● Artists must confront the climate crisis – we must write as if these are the last days.
—Headline, the Grauniad, November 12th, 2021.
Incidentally, The “Siberian” climate was predicted just four years after the London Independent assured its readers that “Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past.”
(Doggone it.)
IT’S TIME FOR VICTORIA TAFT’S West Coast, Messed Coast™: City to Become ‘Sanctuary’ for Men Who Dress as Women.
YEP: Jacob Shell: academia must diversify or die. “Shell points out that US academia has become an ideological monoculture, with an overwhelming dominance of left-leaning faculty, especially at elite institutions. This imbalance, driven by extreme partisan ratios in fields like anthropology, leaves universities politically vulnerable and out of step with the broader public. He challenges the common view that this trend is due to self-selection, or the “pipeline problem,” suggesting instead that informal screening mechanisms discourage or exclude conservative scholars. Shell also argues that the grant system encourages conformity and limits academic freedom. More audaciously, he argues that some academics should be singled out by their peers, whether through their institution or professional organizations, when they engage in politically motivated misrepresentation of their scholarship. Ultimately, Shell insists that academia’s unique role in public life is to observe and understand the world, not to risk co-option as an arm of any political movement.”
I’m not sure that’s possible. Full essay is here.
CHANGE:
BREAKING: The Trump Administration has overhauled the https://t.co/pNDONQDetL website into a massive lab leak data center displaying scientific proof that COVID was man-made in Wuhan, China.
The official site now names Dr. Fauci as the criminal who covered-up COVID origins: pic.twitter.com/RF9fNzGOeG
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) April 18, 2025
This must be playing well at NPR:
SPACE: Strange Objects Are Flying Through Our Solar System — And Now NASA Wants to Chase Them.
Astronomers have confirmed that interstellar objects—cosmic bodies originating from other stars—are passing through our solar system, and now scientists are preparing to go after them. According to a report shared via Phys.org, objects like ‘Oumuamua and Comet Borisov may be just the beginning of a flood of alien visitors, and new technologies are being developed to intercept these mysterious travelers before they vanish into deep space once again.
These interstellar objects (ISOs) offer a unique chance to study material from other planetary systems without leaving our own. Formed from massive collisions and gravitational ejections around distant stars, these cosmic nomads could reveal clues about the chemistry, geology, and formation processes of exoplanets and even entire star systems.
Despite the staggering estimate of over 10 septillion ISOs in the Milky Way, only two have been confirmed passing through our solar system.
Remember, the Ramans do everything in threes.
I FEEL YOUR PAIN:
The police can forcibly take my blood at a traffic stop and there’s a $10 billion data center in Utah spying on everything I say.
The media is telling me I’ll lose my due process rights if we don’t allow a wife beating illegal alien gang member back into the US.
I’m tired. https://t.co/WhRVAET65V
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) April 18, 2025
THE ECONOMIC HEADLINES ARE MOSTLY DOOM AND GLOOM BUT THEN THERE’S THIS: U.S. Jobless Claims Dip, Signaling Trump Labor Market Remains Strong. “Weekly jobless claims, a key measure of layoffs, have consistently ranged between 200,000 and 250,000 over the past few years, indicating steady employment conditions. The four-week average of claims, which smooths out weekly variations, also decreased by 2,500 to 220,750, further confirming the labor market’s resilience.”
WOW, THE WHITE HOUSE WENT THERE, BIGLY: Lab Leak.
MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: Biden Just Discovered His True Worth and I Can’t Stop Laughing.
THAT WAS ONLY SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN TO REDNECK CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS LIKE BOB JONES UNIVERSITY: Harvard finds wingtip on the other foot as Trump moves to revoke its tax-exempt status.
WHILE EVERYONE IS FOCUSING ON MARGARITAS IN EL SALVADOR: US strikes on Yemen oil terminal kill at least 74, Houthis say. They’re probably exaggerating the number of deaths, but we can hope not.
JUDGE HO ON “A Recipe for District Judge Supremacy.”
By the way, how are Trump’s judicial nominations going? I’m not hearing much of anything.
THE PUBLIC HAS A BIGGER APPETITE FOR “FUNDAMENTAL TRANSFORMATION” THAN THE POLITICAL CLASS, THIS TIME AROUND: Americans’ ‘Appetite’ for Reforming Medicare May Be Bigger Than Pollsters – and Politicians – Insist.
WHAT CHOICE DO THEY HAVE? Israeli troops will remain in Gaza buffer zones indefinitely, Defense Minister Katz says.
On Wednesday, Hamas appeared to reject an Israeli-proposed ceasefire deal that would see the return of nearly a dozen hostages who have been held captive for more than 550 days. Israel resumed combat operations in the strip last month after a previous ceasefire agreement fell apart before Israel and Hamas could reach phase two.
“Unlike in the past, the IDF is not withdrawing from areas that have been cleared and captured. The [Israeli Defense Forces] IDF will remain in the security zones as a buffer between the enemy and Israeli communities under any temporary or permanent arrangement in Gaza — just as it does in Lebanon and Syria,” Katz said in a statement on Wednesday.
The buffer zones that Israel established along the Gaza border make up 30% of the strip, according to the Times of Israel. The outlet also reported that Israeli troops have been working to create the Morag Corridor, which would cut off the southern city of Rafah from Khan Younis.
Israel withdrew completely from Gaza in 2005 and Oct. 7 was the thanks they got.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Is There Any Question Which Party Is Fighting for Americans? “You won’t believe who else is ready to swoop in and save Abrego Garcia. Ok, maybe you will. It’s James Carville.”
Carville used to have better instincts.
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY? Is the Resurrection fact or fiction? The Colson Center’s latest video on HillFaith on this Good Friday provides three strong reasons why “yes” is the most logical conclusion, given the evidence.
OH, CANADA: Liberal candidate who replaced Paul Chiang attended Chinese military parade in 2015.
Peter Yuen, the party’s newly minted nominee in a Toronto-area riding, attended a massive military parade and show of martial strength in Beijing a decade ago at the invitation of a Chinese agency dedicated to influencing ethnic Chinese in other countries.
The former Toronto deputy police chief and about 75 other “overseas Chinese” from Canada were put up in a Beijing hotel, principally to watch a parade marking the 70th anniversary of the defeat of Japan in the Second World War, stories from Chinese-language media indicate.
Another Canadian invited to the event, who asked not to be named because of the issue’s sensitivity, confirmed in an interview that Yuen was among the attendees who stayed at the DoubleTree Hilton and sat on bleachers in Tiananmen Square to watch the parade pass by.
Is there anything left the CCP hasn’t infiltrated?