“WHY AM I SO SLEEPY? I HAD MY COFFEE!” Brewing Trader Joe’s controversy: Customers allege they were misled about coffee’s low caffeine: Some customers have sued over the store-branded French Roast Low Acid whole bean coffee, saying it has significantly less caffeine than customers are led to believe.

We’ve been happy with Puroast, courtesy of Steve Gill.

OPEN THREAD: Ring in the weekend.

THEY’VE BEEN WATCHING OUR GILLIGAN’S ISLAND RERUNS FOR YEARS. Making contact with ET? Aliens may already know we’re here.

THIS:

The reality is that stoking hate was incredibly lucrative for the SPLC.

That’s why they did it. Incentives explain outcomes. https://t.co/TjF1Ml1iRd

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 25, 2026

WELL, GOOD: Scientists Created a Plastic Film That Physically Rips Viruses Apart.

WELL, GOOD: Forgotten Medicinal Plant Shows Promise in Fighting Dangerous Superbugs.

WHEN MEMES HIT HARD:

Democrats are the party of racism.

Slavery — Democrats
Jim Crow — Democrats
Internment Camps — Democrats
Affirmative Action — Democrats
DEI — Democrats pic.twitter.com/PdcmWH6ENm

— The Rabbit Hole (@TheRabbitHole) April 22, 2026

UM, I’VE SEEN THAT MOVIE: 24,000-year-old zombie worm gets thawed, immediately starts reproducing.

REVIEW: 2027 Kia Telluride Hybrid Is the High Point of the New Lineup.

GOOD: Final Rule Drives a Stake Through Anti-Gun Left’s De-Banking Strategy.

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.

AN EARTH-SHATTERING KABOOM: What would happen if Yellowstone’s ‘supervolcano’ erupted today?

VITAMIN D UPDATE: Vitamin D may help prevent diabetes, depending on genes.

RELEASE THE — WELL, YOU KNOW: Giant ‘kraken-like’ octopuses ate dinosaurs.

IS THERE ANYTHING IT CAN’T DO? Coffee has positive impacts to your gut health — even when it’s decaf.

OFT EVIL WILL SHALL EVIL MAR:

truly one of the most amazing developments in trans-Atlantic tech policy over the past 20 years is the way that Europe set out to regulate US tech giants into the ground, but only made them more dominant as a result.

This Economist headline really says it. https://t.co/6KGiMYCqvu pic.twitter.com/OHsCWFKCdR

— Adam Thierer (@AdamThierer) April 24, 2026

MASSIVE RESISTANCE: Another ASU staffer caught on undercover video admitting DEI practices persist.

POPPING THE HIGHER ED BUBBLE: New Education Dept rule could strip aid from low-return degrees.

WOE TO THEM THAT CALL GOOD EVIL, AND EVIL GOOD: Leftists Applaud for the Terrorist, Ban the Victim From Speaking.

I LIKE THE CUT OF HIS JIB: New Navy Secretary, Hung Cao, ‘Grabbed on to the American Dream’: ‘To our enemies … You can run but you’ll only die tired,’ immigrant from Vietnam warns.

THEY’RE LIKE FRIGHTENED SQUIDS EMITTING INK:

It says exactly that at the top of page 4 of the indictment, you illiterate buffoon. https://t.co/7zBB1bkhi6 pic.twitter.com/Y1efeAf56S

— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) April 23, 2026

TO BE FAIR, MEMBERS OF THE LAPTOP CLASS BELIEVE THIS:

NYT frames this as if USAID employees had a quasi-property right to high-paying, taxpayer-funded jobs.

In reality, this tells a darker story—we spent half-a-century debt-financing a managerial class of Leftists whose only qualifications were ideological. https://t.co/c6UEuewmTO

— Senator Eric Schmitt (@SenEricSchmitt) April 23, 2026

UPDATE:

The Vice President of the USA only earns $235,100.
The Speaker of the House earns $223,500.
Members of Congress make $174,000.

Thousands of USAID employees, contractors and "VP of non-profit" were living large on taxpayer funding and generating nothing of any value.

It was all… https://t.co/O36KoUFFcH

— FXHedge (@Fxhedgers) April 23, 2026

Related:

I don’t think liberal federal workers should be making 6x the national average when they can’t even pull $20 in any other job. https://t.co/YhbLFJXiv2

— EducatëdHillbilly™ (@RobProvince) April 23, 2026

WHERE TO LOOK NEXT:

Groups like the ADL (which tracks "hate" and pushes deplatforming while accused of overreach on critics), Media Matters (drives ad boycotts against conservative speech), and CCDH (reports targeting platforms for censorship) operate on similar models: identifying enemies to fuel…

— Grok (@grok) April 23, 2026

YEAH, YEAH, ANOTHER STUPID OPEN THREAD: Points to anyone who can remember the early-blogosphere roots of this headline.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: NASA still confident that Artemis astronauts will land on the moon in 2028 despite spacesuit delays.