I STILL MISS MY VINCENT BLACK SHADOW: Norton Returns to the U.S. With 2026 Manx and Manx R Superbikes. The Black Shadow wasn’t great on the curves, but it was pure hell on the straights.

FASTER, PLEASE: The Post Office’s Anachronistic Ban on Shipping Handguns is Ending . . . But Not Yet.

Of course, the real question is whether anyone would entrust their gun to the post office nowadays.

TRUMP IS BREAKING OPEC: UAE To Leave Opec Next Month As Iran War Reshapes Oil Market. Also it’s hard for OPEC to set prices when the U.S. is outproducing Saudi Arabia and Russia combined, and has effective control of Venezuela’s production.

MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Did Chris Murphy Just Sign the Democrats’ Death Warrant?

DO HUMANOIDS DREAM OF BECOMING HUMAN? Humanoids seem to be evolving into a distinct form.

HONESTLY, I FEEL FINE: We’re still recovering from losing the woolly mammoth.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE:

You love to see it. https://t.co/dMiv0Kn9OE

— Wilfred Reilly (@wil_da_beast630) April 28, 2026

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Maryland astronaut named to SpaceX crew ahead of possible moon mission.

REALCLEARDEFENSE: Power Play: How Trump Is Running the Most Aggressive Geopolitical Play in a Generation—and Why It Has to Be This Way.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: 8 Easy, Unexpected Ways to Boost Your Libido in Just 30 Minutes.

THIS IS, IN FACT, THE CENTRAL ISSUE OF OUR AGE: Managerial Bureaucracy’s Threat to Democracy and Humanity.

One gets the sense that the honest view of our exasperated political elites is as captured in a Bloomberg News headline from last year which read: “2024 is a year of elections, and that’s a threat to democracy.”

In country after country, governments are moving to desparately tighten their grip over the people they rule, sharply curtailing freedom of speech and access to information, and using alleged threats to security and stability to justify granting themselves emergency powers, weaponizing the law, criminalizing dissent, and suppressing any meaningful political opposition.

They must be taught not to do that.

THINGS ARE HEATING UP: Breaking: FBI Raids ‘Quality Learning Center’ and 21 Other Locations in Somali Fraud Crackdown. I believe you mean “Quality Learing Center.”

A FIRST AMENDMENT WIN: Florida law school recognizes TPUSA chapter after attorney general’s pressure. “Barry University initially denied the chapter, stating ‘political advocacy and confrontation … is inconsistent with the University’s educational philosophy.’”

LET THE WHEELS OF JUSTICE GRIND:

A doctor and top assistant to Anthony Fauci has been arrested for destroying emails relating to the origins of Covid. Finally! Buckle up, more is coming. https://t.co/xdbeYMmuWM

— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) April 28, 2026

UPDATE: From the comments: “Nothing says ‘believe the science’ better than destroying evidence.”

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: TPUSA flyers vandalized with vulgar messages at PennWest California.

REMEMBER THIS GUY?

while we are on the free speech topic this is an actual thing that also happened under Barack Obama. A guy who had nothing to do with the Benghazi terrorist attack arrested. @jaketapper absolutely silent. Because he was not a millionaire late night comedian friend. pic.twitter.com/d7pny8mHCd

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) April 28, 2026

Politico: The Benghazi Patsy: “Nakoula Basseley Nakoula deserves a place in American history. He is the first person in this country jailed for violating Islamic anti-blasphemy laws. You won’t find that anywhere in the charges against him, of course. As a practical matter, though, everyone knows that Nakoula wouldn’t be in jail today if he hadn’t produced a video crudely lampooning the prophet Muhammad. . . . Very few people have been willing to stick up for Nakoula (with “Instapundit” Glenn Reynolds a prominent and dogged exception).”

MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Democrats’ rants confirm their enemies list is serious business.

THE RECORD SO FAR:

What we have are:
•The assassination of Charlie Kirk.
•Two assassination attempts on Donald Trump by known progressives, plus a third in Butler, PA, where the kid was clearly mentally ill.
•The attempted assassination of Brett Kavanaugh.
•The attempted assassination of Josh…

— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) April 28, 2026

Flashback: Bernie Bro James T. Hodgkinson, Attempted Assassin Of Steve Scalise, Already Being Erased From History.

SECURITY ‘N’ CIGARS: Patterns in Presidential Assassinations. “This post-1900 record does not mean every disturbed individual is politically motivated, nor does it excuse mental health failures or security lapses. But it does reveal an asymmetry: ideologically driven attacks on American presidents and candidates have overwhelmingly come from the radical left or been filtered through left-coded cultural influences. Acknowledging this pattern honestly, without dismissing the role of mental illness, is essential for understanding political violence in modern America — and for lowering the temperature in our bitterly divided times.”

FOR, LITERALLY, NOTHING:

The cost of High-Speed Rail is now estimated at $231 billion. Our country has never seen a fiscal disaster of this magnitude. https://t.co/wSnlA7gafk

— Kevin Kiley (@KevinKileyCA) April 27, 2026

But from the California Blue Machine’s standpoint, it’s not a failure. All of that money went somewhere.

WIKIPEDIA IS TRASH: Wikipedia Editors Refuse To Acknowledge New Yorker Writer’s Whole Foods Theft.

A GOOD RULE OF THUMB:

When violence is categorized accurately, this unequivocally true.

You know who the bad guys are, because they’re the ones who want censorship of free speech. https://t.co/Vb9l88ePQI

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 27, 2026

FORTY YEARS ON: Chernobyl reconsidered: The accident killed dozens. The political reaction was far deadlier.

SETH BARRETT TILLMAN: Trump-47 Judicial Vacancies and Trump-47 Judicial Nominations (UPDATED).

SAVAGERY: Andrew Weissmann’s Article in Just Security Shows Why He Was Reversed 9-0 By The Supreme Thereby Cratering His Career. He offers sophistry and duplicitous reasoning in stringing together red herrings that ignore basics of federal criminal procedure and substantive law in criticizing the indictment of the SPLC.