YES: The NGO Complex Is Irredeemably Corrupt. We need a deep legislative cleanup.

I THINK WE SHOULD ELIMINATE NONPROFITS ENTIRELY: Bill Gates Foundation, Other Nonprofits Could Lose Tax-Exempt Status Over Anti-White Discrimination.

“DEMOCRACY” MEANS WHATEVER YOU WANT IT TO MEAN: “When Biden was President, ‘democracy’ meant gracefully accepting the result of the election and working on winning the next election. But with Trump as President, ‘democracy’ means stopping the duly elected President from doing what voters heard him promise he’d do.”

ONE HAND WASHES THE OTHER: Newsom’s California Has Sent Nearly $18 Million in Taxpayer Funds to Soros-Backed Tides Center: The Tides Center has a long history of funneling funding to radical anti-police and anti-Israel groups.

CHANGE: Fed Up With Situationships, Gen Z Is Ready to Commit: The vague relationships that rule the dating scene are hard to navigate, even well after they end, and zoomers have had enough.

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY IN GAVIN NEWSOM’S HOME STATE: SoCal Job Creation Drops 33%.

MARK JUDGE: The Stasi Left. “Nazi metaphors have become far too overused. To the Left, everything to the right of Chairman Mao Zedong is fascism. Such overuse of Nazi imagery is disrespectful to the unique evil of the Holocaust. It should stop. Still, a more modern and exact analogy can be applied to the modern American Left. It is the Stasi, the feared German secret police that terrorized East Germany from 1945 to the fall of the Berlin Wall. In a compelling new book, A State of Secrecy: Stasi Informers and the Culture of Surveillance, scholar Alison Lewis reveals that while dictators such as Hitler or Stalin sought to crush writers and other artists because they feared the freedom they represented, the German Stasi saw them as allies. While the Nazis and their counterparts, the Stalinists, attacked a wide range of artists as ‘degenerate,’ the Stasi worked with and supported entertainers and writers. The German communists had their own versions of people like Michael Moore, Stephen Colbert, the publishing industry, and Hollywood — useful idiots who echo whatever the leaders of the party tell them.”

We have Kimmel, Colbert, etc.

I’M NOW SKEPTICAL ABOUT IT ALL:

Fact Check: Possibly True https://t.co/gAnOdsMELm

— Rasmussen Reports (@Rasmussen_Poll) April 2, 2025

"The data I'm looking at is showing absentee ballots being fed into the system to keep liberal Susan Crawford ahead at a certain rate .. almost as if an algorithm was at work."

But that would be totally impossible. Right @CISAgov ? https://t.co/RIjVg6eEqL

— Rasmussen Reports (@Rasmussen_Poll) April 2, 2025

OPEN THREAD: Hump Day.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: JAXA institute studying Mars lander concept.

SPACE: Fram2 Polar Orbital Flight: First Inside Views.

SO I VAGUELY REMEMBER THIS “Nick Rockefeller” guy from law school. Who wasn’t a Rockefeller at all, as it turns out, but a conman named Spiro Pavlovich III. He faked out Harvard, too. Twice!

This is not as unusual as it sounds. A guy who started with my class at YLS turned out to be a fraud as well, and was booted after a year when he was caught, not by the law school but by the law firm he worked at as a summer associate.

MICHAEL TOTTEN: How to Write a Killer First Sentence.

HOLLY MATHNERD: Systemic Misogyny: A Theorem Disproved. What my feminist professors lied about. “Turns out, the oppressors were just guys. And the cage I thought they built? Feminism handed me the blueprints — and I helped weld the bars.”

CHANGE: FAA closes investigation into SpaceX Starship Flight 7 explosion.

CHANGE: Goodyear’s Retro Airship Graphics Celebrate 100 Years of Blimpin.’ The blimp, the blimp, the blimp is back, sporting throwback graphics as a matter of fact.

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Federal Measure Would Deregulate Short-Barreled Rifles, Shotguns, AOWs.

ALIENS: Alien Clues in Strange Martian Stone: Scientists Stunned by Rover Discovery.

THE LONELY LIVES OF SCIENTISTS: Scientists consider cross-breeding to save Australia’s orange-bellied parrot from extinction.

UGH: Implant-derived metals found in cerebrospinal fluid.

HMM: Fasting every other day outperforms calorie cutting, clinical trial indicates.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: A story about enrollment at Howard University, a leading HBCU founded in 1867, reveals that Howard’s student population is only 25% male. Apparently, this is not that unusual for HBCUs. “This very much seems like a problem worth addressing. As someone quoted in the story points out, it’s hard to achieve upward mobility in today’s world if you don’t go to college. But I also wonder if this isn’t a case where something has changed more generally and black male students are just a leading indicator. There have been plenty of recent stories about a gender gap among all students headed to college.”

THE PARASITES DON’T LIKE THE SUNLIGHT: Brown U. student journalist started looking into administrative bloat. Now he’s being investigated.

THIS SHOULD BE INTERESTING: 10 examples of outrageous spending on Florida’s campuses.

IT’S ALL THEATER:

After a few weeks of major excitement from the left akin to that time they beat Susan Collins in Maine but actually did not, and the Democrats did not take Mike Waltz’s seat in Florida.

Randy Fine did, well, fine. The Gaetz seat was no surprise. The hype from the left was just that — hype.

In Wisconsin, the Democrat-backed progressive won the state Supreme Court seat. Despite the GOP outspending her and having Elon Musk campaign for Brad Schimel, Susan Crawford trounced him. It turns out it is harder than progressives claimed to buy elections.

The left is now, yet again, trying to get Trump to oust Musk. They wanted to blame him for Randy Fine’s loss. They cannot do that. So they’ll do their best to pin Schimel’s loss on him.

Given how special elections go against parties in power, it is hard to pin this on Musk, particularly in Wisconsin, but they’ll try.

It is all theater.

The theater also played out in the United States Senate.

Well, that’s what happens when you put the theater kids in charge.