DESTINED FOR DEFEAT: Behind the Democratic Disaster of 2024.

I GUESS IT’S TIME FOR RAINBOW STEW. Reader Bill Rudersdorf writes:

Somebody ought to remember the stanza from Merle Haggard:

“When a President goes through the White House door,

An’ does what he says he’ll do,

We’ll all be drinkin’ that free bubble up,

Eatin’ that rainbow stew.”

— Merle Haggard, 1981

OPEN THREAD: It’s that time again.

LET’S START WITH . . . ME! Golden Dome: who and what should it defend?

SPACE: New NASA Space Telescope Unveils Its First-Ever Images.

IT’S NOT REALLY ALL THAT SECRET: Reading the Sky: The Secret Science Behind Cloud Shapes and Weather Prediction.

FASTER, PLEASE: New study identifies antibodies to enhance whooping cough vaccines.

“I’M EMOTIONALLY PREGNANT WITH SECONDHAND EMBARRASSMENT.”

@gettothepointbro

I AM VERY CONFUSED HONESTLY

♬ original sound – get to the point bro

REVIEW: First Look: Smith & Wesson 10mm M&P FPC: Add a little oomph to your folding carbine.

I reviewed the 9mm version.

MOTION SICKNESS: Sound therapy effectively reduces motion sickness by stimulating inner ear.

DON’T GIVE THE CHINESE ANY IDEAS: DeepMind has detailed all the ways AGI could wreck the world.

SPACE: Amazon prepares to launch first full batch of Project Kuiper satellites.

VICTORY LAP: RFK Jr. to conduct celebratory ‘Make America Healthy Again’ tour next week.

CORRECTION:

She was arrested for throwing the baby in a dumpster, Jessica. Not for having a miscarriage. https://t.co/kFFzb3NomR

— The🐰FOO (@PolitiBunny) April 5, 2025

MAKE THE RUBBLE BOUNCE: After UMich leaders’ homes repeatedly vandalized with anti-Israel graffiti, they wiped DEI off the map. And fire all the campus staffers who are encouraging this stuff.

STANDING UP AGAINST HATE AND BIGOTRY: Trump admin to freeze $510M to Brown University over anti-Semitism, DEI on campus.

MY LATEST SUBSTACK ESSAY: Congress on Easy Mode: Get Into Gear, Please.

FLASHBACK: Nothing to see here, just the biggest global corruption scandal in history. I’d be interested in seeing someone tie together the Panama Papers and the new corruption that Doge is discovering.

ICYMI: New FBI chat logs reveal extraordinary ‘gag order’ senior leadership used to shut down any Hunter Biden laptop discussion.

BILL ACKMAN ON TARIFFS:

.@VDHanson makes a compelling case for the @realDonaldTrump tariff strategy, but gets one issue incorrect. He describes the Trump tariffs as reciprocal and proportional to those other nations have assessed on us.

In actuality, the Trump tariffs were set at levels substantially… https://t.co/WdKggDlVbD

— Bill Ackman (@BillAckman) April 5, 2025

WRONG RACIAL OPTICS: The Media Desperately Wants You To Ignore This Horrifying Story: A white 17-year-old high school junior named Austin Metcalf was stabbed to death by a black athlete at a championship track meet.

Watch Netflix turn it into a show with the races reversed.

I WANT A PRIVATE JET AND A FERRARI: Private Jets, Ferraris, and False Claims: Inside An Obscure Federal Program Rife With Fraud: Meet the Universal Service Fund, which doles out billions on behalf of the FCC. Especially paid for with other people’s money.

CORRECTION:

Actually Steve Davis, who works with Musk at DOGE, corrected it in the interview saying that the online survey was part of an $830 million contract by the Department of the Interior that DOGE stopped.  We saw the internal emails and contract that was stopped to back that up. https://t.co/RGtcefP2hE

— Bret Baier (@BretBaier) April 4, 2025

WE DON’T HAVE TO IMAGINE, BARRY:

He sued nuns, sent the IRS after conservative book groups, and droned an American citizen for saying the same things pro Hamas students are saying on college campuses today. https://t.co/T2xWw6r78X

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) April 5, 2025

THE TRUTH COMES OUT:

The dam is breaking:

Time is now openly stating what we've been saying for year — corporate ESG goals were a *knowing and willing* prioritization of a far-left political agenda over serving customers and fiduciary duty. pic.twitter.com/GTSptCocRZ

— Will Hild (@WillHild) April 4, 2025