OPEN THREAD: Monday, Monday.

SPACE: ‘Guess I’ll be waiting a minute to surf again’: Artemis 2 moon astronaut Christina Koch shares her recovery journey. “A week after her historic moon mission ended, NASA astronaut Christina Koch struggled to walk in a straight line during a blindfold test. After posting a video showing her wobbling and nearly tipping over — nearly enough, in fact, that attendants jumped in ready to help — Artemis 2’s Koch joked about her recovery on Instagram: ‘Guess I’ll be waiting a minute to surf again.'”

METFORMIN UPDATE: After 6 Decades, One Drug Is Still Finding New Uses in Medicine.

I’VE HEARD THE SCREAMS OF THE VEGETABLES: Scientists Discover Plants “Scream” – We Just Couldn’t Hear Them Until Now.

CHANGE: The Iran war drops from the top screen of the NYT home page. “It’s not a dire emergency anymore. The war is over. We won. Iran just won’t admit it, and we’re not going to give them anything for holding out on admitting what is true.”

HMM: Mechanical forces from the beating heart may help prevent cancer cell growth.

TEACH WOMEN NOT TO RAPE! (CONT’D): A Kiss Exposed Her Crimes. Now Teacher Pleads Guilty to Abusing 2 Students. They let her off pretty light, though.

In exchange for her guilty plea to the two counts, prosecutors dismissed two counts of sexual assault against a child she was also facing, the district attorney’s office said.

Prosecutors have recommended that Lashombe be placed on deferred probation and fined $1,000.

She was facing up to 40 years in prison before she entered into the plea deal with prosecutors.

I very much doubt a male teacher would have gotten this deal.

THE FUTURE OF Autonomous Motoring.

AGREED: No Regulatory Agency Should Have the Wide Law-Making Latitude That ATF Does.

FORE! Meet The Octopus With Enough Venom To Kill 26 Humans. Hint: It’s The Size Of A Golf Ball.

HISTORY, UPDATED: Archaeologists Found 115,000-Year-Old Human Footprints Where They Shouldn’t Be.

HMM: This ‘Longevity Vitamin’ Has Puzzled Scientists for 30 Years — Now They May Have Answers: Researchers identified a gene that appears to help move this bacteria-derived compound — found in fermented foods like kefir and kimchi — into human cells. I do love kimchi.

I COOK WITH OLIVE OIL, EXCEPT I USE AVOCADO OIL WHEN I’M COOKING AT HIGH TEMPERATURES: We Asked 4 Dietitians to Pick the Healthiest Cooking Oil—and They All Chose the Same One.

#JOURNALISM:

DRIVE-BY MEDIA: The NYT published a 'bombshell' story that Trump awarded a secret no-bid contract to fix the fountains in Lafayette Park to the firm building the White House ballroom. The only problem? It wasn't secret, it was offered to EVERY eligible contractor, only one could… pic.twitter.com/HVTbuSjRtw

— @amuse (@amuse) April 27, 2026

INTELLECTUAL TOXIC WASTE: The ripple effect of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s ‘paying sources to stoke racial hatred.’

LEFTISTS DO THIS: Portrait of an American family: Reporter’s alleged assailants paint themselves as victims in wake of attack.

NEVER MIND THAT WE HAVE THE LOWEST VIOLENT CRIME RATE IN A CENTURY: Media Finger America’s ‘Gun Culture’ In Apportioning Blame for Latest Assassination Attempt.

The problem is leftist violence culture. We should probably subject that to strict controls.

CULTURE OF HATE: Suspected WHCD Shooter Boosted Bluesky Posts Saying Trump Should Be ‘Tried For High Crimes.’

ICYMI: A LAWYER READER MESSAGES: “I have not seen any updates from Lucas or anyone else on your blog, but the for your benefit, the Supreme Court of Virginia is going to hear argument on the redistricting fight Monday, April 27th, this coming Monday at 9AM. There is a link on the Supreme court of Virginia’s web page. Thanks.”

The link for the oral argument is here.

HISTORY:

After the Spanish Right won the 1933 elections, Communists in Asturias launched a revolution, killing thousands before the army was deployed to finally put an end to the chaos.

They did the same thing in Catalonia, and when that too was quelled, they engaged in a low-level… https://t.co/UNAaaWrxJa

— Christian Heiens 🏛 (@ChristianHeiens) April 26, 2026

AMERICA’S PROBLEMS START HERE:

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You cannot play around with this, Rob — education is the genesis of everything that’s gone wrong in the West. You can’t refuse to take control of the curricula at schools and universities and still expect things to work out. It won’t. You’re currently funding and… https://t.co/xtC03L7NjL

— Elia Polonia (@Elia_Polonia) October 6, 2025

TURNABOUT IS FAIR PLAY:

Every time a leftist professor defends students disrupting an event on campus as "free speech" or "no big deal," there should be an action squad that shows up to that professor's next class and disrupts it in similar fashion.

— David Bernstein (@ProfDBernstein) April 25, 2026

THEY’RE JOINED AT THE HIP TO THEIR OWN AGITPROP LIES NOW:

Yeah, they're not going to do that. Too invested. Alienate their base.

Some things to too false but true to be acknowledged as false.

You're asking pathological liars to admit they are pathological liars. Not gonna happen. https://t.co/23pxJYQnsf

— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) April 26, 2026

OPEN THREAD: Party on.

SHOOTER’S MANIFESTO RELEASED: He Believed All the Lies the Democrats Now Claim They Never Said.