Author Archive: Stephen Green
April 21, 2026
WE CAN’T KEEP RELYING ON ONE GUY: The Space Launch Industry Is in Big Trouble… Except for You-Know-Who.
A VERY PUBLIC EDUCATION:
"Turns out, in both of their civics classes that day, taught by two different teachers in Fairfax County Public Schools, they were urged to go home and persuade their parents to vote yes on the measure to make Virginia’s maps 'as fair as they can be,' to 'stop Donald Trump at all… https://t.co/CkLCPT3sqq
— Peter J. Hasson (@peterjhasson) April 21, 2026
OUR ROADS SUCK, OUR SCHOOLS ARE WORSE, AND FRAUD IS RAMPANT, BUT AT LEAST COLORADO DEMS HAVE SOLVING THIS VITAL PROBLEM ON THE AGENGA: Colorado House advances bill restricting AI chatbots.
I’M EXPECTING AN EARTH-SHATTERING KABOOM… LOTS OF THEM, ACTUALLY:
U.S.–Iran talks stalled with no response from Tehran, NYT reports.
Vance’s Pakistan trip not canceled, but currently on hold as Iran has yet to respond to U.S. positions.
— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) April 21, 2026
If the Islamic Republic wants war, that’s what it’ll get.
THANK YOU, COSTA RICA: From Drug Busts to Deportations: How One Ally Is Helping Trump Secure Our Region.
EVEN SAN FRANCISCO CAN SELF-CORRECT… EVENTUALLY:
The degree to which every possible attempt has been made to abet social disorder in shared urban public spaces and immiserate normal, working people is reprehensible, outrageous, and permanently discrediting to the engineers of this permissiveness. https://t.co/fWK8ylrdZk
— Coddled Affluent Professional (@feelsdesperate) April 21, 2026
What a shame there will be no accountability for the people responsible for the mess now being cleaned up.
CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: New York’s New Budget Will Mandate 3D Printer Gun File Censorware.
A DATA REPUBLICAN THREAD ON THE COLOR REVOLUTION HERE AT HOME:
🧵 THREAD: The true reason Pete Hegseth is being targeted is because he's standing between President Trump and a coup@PeteHegseth named the institutions… CFR, Brookings, the general class… in 37 seconds in a video by @Liz_Wheeler . Within 72 hours of his nomination, a color… pic.twitter.com/DgWilvJlf8
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) April 21, 2026
Read the whole thing, but this part stands out: “The color revolution playbook has one tool for security forces: social pressure through professional networks to induce defection. Driscoll is embedded in those networks. He can be pulled away. Hegseth isn’t.”
Aside from Trump, Hegseth might be the most important individual in the entire executive branch, and for reasons most Americans can’t even imagine.
HMM: Are We Seeing the Makings of an Iranian Civil War? “So we see that when Iranian President Pezeshkian, who seems, as a rule, more pragmatic than the IRGC, signaled he’s ready to be reasonable and will negotiate, the IRGC didn’t follow along, but rather launched a war against Iran’s civilian government. It is the IRGC who have been working against every diplomatic channel that Pezeshkian has been trying to open.”
NICE WORK, FELLAS:
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 21, 2026
AID AND COMFORT? YOU MAKE THE CALL:
The word traitor gets thrown around too much.
But, uh, this is a United States senator openly cheering on Iran against American military forces. pic.twitter.com/TYVYGO44oR
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) April 21, 2026
UPDATE (Charlie): Regular readers know I’m suspicious of most cries of “treason” for all the reasons stated in Federalist 43 and various SCOTUS rulings. But then there’s ex Parte Bellmon (1807): “To constitute that specific crime [of treason] war must be actually levied against the United States.”
I think the current unpleasantness makes treason a colorable claim.
UPDATE (From Ed): In 2023, the local Fox affiliated reported “Murphy pushes back against Senate Republican resolution that targeted LGTBQ+ kids.” Today, he’s rooting for the side that hangs gay people from construction cranes. That’s one serious case of TDS running amok.
Also apparently Murphy approved:
BREAKING: The Islamic Republic is preparing to hang eight women.
Not a word from the international community or so-called human rights organizations. pic.twitter.com/aBKxkjbdym
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) April 21, 2026
MORE (From Ed): Predictably, Murphy falls back on the “botched joke” get out of jail free card:
First of all – it is "X" not Twitter. Secondly – you are blaming the "platform" for YOUR POST. If you meant it "sarcastically" you could have used or an emoji or simply said "(sarcasm)" . YOU made the post. YOU should own it and stop blaming "Twitter" for your TDS inspired,… https://t.co/mkMSpWrqY6
— Bo Snerdley (@BoSnerdley) April 21, 2026
BOMBSHELLS AREN’T WHAT THEY USED TO BE: It’s not just Apple News — left-wing bias rampant on Google News, Yahoo and Bing: bombshell study.
OBAMA MADE EVERYTHING WORSE. EVERYTHING:
Must-read article on how the Obama and Biden administration systematically purged right-wing lawyers from the Department of Justice, replacing them with barely-experienced Democratic Party hacks (many women).
Remember when the "Elite Human Capital" crowd kept crowing about how… https://t.co/f7BwSscM04 pic.twitter.com/6oWgNKapnA
— Matt Forney (@mattforney) April 21, 2026
CHANGE (IT BACK): ‘Killing the idea of a Palestinian state’: West Bank settlement of Sa-Nur reestablished.
Cabinet ministers, members of Knesset, local politicians, and hundreds of settler activists celebrated the reestablishment and repopulation of the settlement of Sa-Nur in the northern West Bank on Sunday, nearly 21 years after it was evacuated under the Disengagement Plan.
Samaria Regional Council Chairman Yossi Dagan, who was one of the residents evacuated from Sa-Nur in 2005, was one of the 16 families who took up residence anew in the settlement on Sunday.
Speaking at the ceremony, Defense Minister Israel Katz repeated previous promises that the government is working on legalizing 140 illegally established farming outposts around the West Bank.
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich described the reestablishment of Sa-Nur as a “national holiday” and a “historic correction” to the “sinful expulsion from northern Samaria,” in reference to the four settlements in the northern West Bank, including Sa-Nur, that were evacuated under the Disengagement, which also saw Israel dismantle all its settlements in Gaza and pull out of the Strip.
“On this moving day, we are honored to make a historic correction to the sinful expulsion from northern Samaria,” said Smotrich. “We are abolishing the disgrace of expulsion, killing the idea of the Palestinian state, and returning to the settlement of Sa-Nur. This is a day of celebration for the settlement movement and a national holiday for the State of Israel.”
The Arabs of Gaza and the West Bank rejected statehood in favor of terrorism, so this is what they get.
WELL, GOOD:
Japanese PM Sanae Takaichi decides to ease the country’s restrictive rules on arms exports.
The government has announced that the previous ban on exports had to be relaxed in order to stimulate the domestic defense industry.
The export of some defensive equipment, such as mine… pic.twitter.com/NP3Ahunju8
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) April 21, 2026
FAFO: Iran cargo ship seized by US could become ‘spoils of war.’
More: “Security sources tell Reuters the Iranian cargo ship M/V Touska, seized by U.S. Marines in the Arabian Sea, was carrying Chinese dual-use military components.”
Trump and Xi will have plenty to discuss next month.
SCRATCH A DEM, FIND AN AUTHORITARIAN DEMAGOGUE:
I appreciate the fact they're so open about. Their version of democracy involves rigging things so they never lose again. Plus persecution of the opposition.
It's kind of a fascio-democracy. https://t.co/PJVLpcmqTy
— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) April 21, 2026
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Tough Luck, Haters — The Glorious Warthog Gets Another Reprieve. “The A-10 has been a fixture in the Tucson sky since the mid-1970s. Even I was young then. When they take off from Davis-Monthan Air Force Base they fly right over my neighborhood. I get a great view of them when they are landing too, and could sit outside and watch them all day.”
MORE ON KASH PATEL’S DEFAMATION LAWSUIT:
Obama US attorney admits the DC courts are highly partisan. https://t.co/xMWFnnfejq
— Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) April 20, 2026
Well, if anyone would know…
BY DESIGN: How Much Will That College Cost You? Good Luck Figuring it Out.
Financial aid offer letters are supposed to tell families how much they will have to pay for college, which can be the deciding factor in where—or even whether—students go to college. But too often, the letters leave out important information and use terms that make it confusing to figure out the final cost.
Some student advocates say the letters are downright deceptive. Others believe the lack of consistent language causes confusion; each college has its own format with its own vocabulary. This can make it difficult to answer the critical question: How much will this cost me?
For over a decade, college access groups have been lobbying for a bill in Congress that would require all colleges to use the same, clearly labeled, standard form—kind of like nutrition labels on food—so families could accurately compare offers. But college associations and others have worked to block it.
If kids had a better idea of what a degree costs, they’d have a better idea if it was worthwhile.
MALICE:
And the fractures are already being seen.
For some reason @TheAtlantic felt the need to change the headline on the hitpiece.
Also, other outlets are unable to confirm any of the alleged details. https://t.co/CUZTQbuJlw pic.twitter.com/VTR96buvpP— Brad Slager: CNN+ Lifetime Subscriber (@MartiniShark) April 20, 2026
More:
They sent off the letter to The Atlantic, warning of impending litigation if they went forward, and this appeared to at least generate some changes. At The Daily Beast, they felt they had another “gotcha” moment, revealing a lack of cerebral processing heft when they breathlessly reported:
“Kash Patel’s legal team has revealed more allegations were leveled against him than were published in a bombshell report by The Atlantic—and said what they were. That means that the letter, which came from a personal attorney for Patel rather than from the FBI’s own counsel, effectively put what it describes as false and defamatory statements into public circulation.”
Allow me to help you folks out here. You see, after the lawyer contacted them with this letter, it is clear that Fitzpatrick, and/or her editors, pulled some items from the piece out of fear of further litigation. This was not a case of mistakenly exposing something; they were being transparent in showing the flawed reporting taking place.
Or as someone replied on X: “Gonna be bigger than Gawker.”
Stay tuned…