I’M (BARELY) OLD ENOUGH TO REMEMBER WHEN MAINE WAS REPUBLICAN AND RESPONSIBLY GOVERNED:

HOLY CR*P 🚨 Maine Governor candidate Bobby Charles exposes “There are more than 4,500 contracts that were non-compete, sole source, given to FRIENDS AND FAMILY OF DEMOCRATS”

The audit showed “$2.1 billion in questionable contracts”

Democrat money laundering is INSANE

“That is… pic.twitter.com/GLA8mgYZiA

— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) April 20, 2026

GOODER AND HARDER, COLORADO: Duo of tax measures dig deep into Coloradans’ pockets.

Initiative 195, the current iteration of the progressive tax measure that leftist groups hope to get on the 2026 Colorado ballot, would increase taxes by approximately $2.7 billion annually, with the proceeds directed to K-12 public education, health care, and early childhood and education services.

Additionally, the revenue raised by 195 would not be subject to revenue limits under TABOR, meaning the windfall of new tax dollars would not be counted toward the refund of overcollected revenue to taxpayers.

SB-135, if passed by the legislature and authorized by voters at ballot, is projected to allow the state to keep and spend approximately $1.1 billion in its first year that would otherwise be returned to taxpayers, with a little over $200 million of that directed to education and the rest a blank check for state lawmakers to spend as they wish.

However, because the new limit would depend on prior-year education funding, the state could theoretically retain anywhere up to $4.8 billion in the first year.

And the last thing our schools need is more tax dollars to piss away on administration and teaching fads.

SPOILER: THEY WILL NOT BE AT ALL UPSET.

Amazon just censored a book first published in 1973 that depicts the destruction of the west through third-world mass migration.

I'm sure all the people who whine about "book bans" when a school board prevents 6-year-olds from reading about gay sex will be just as upset. https://t.co/1jTVtE2k9H

— Theo Wold (@RealTheoWold) April 20, 2026

GEORGIA: Jon Ossoff Rails Against Billionaire Donors — While Taking Their Money.

THE INEVITABLE 4/20 MEME:

Marco Rubio on 4/20 😭 pic.twitter.com/pThZV0KjSZ

— Gizmo Memes (@GizmoMemes) April 20, 2026

EFFECTIVE SEPT. 1: Tim Cook Steps Down as Apple CEO.

WARTHOG FOREVER:

In consultation with @SecWar, we will EXTEND the A-10 “Warthog” platform to 2030. This preserves combat power as the Defense Industrial Base works to increase combat aircraft production.

Thank you to @POTUS for your unwavering support of our warfighters and quick, decisive… pic.twitter.com/zn1l3OshdY

— Office of the Secretary of the Air Force (@SecAFOfficial) April 20, 2026

AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD:

Ilhan Omar Assures Public Her Finances Were Handled Honestly By Professionals At 'Quality Accouting Center' https://t.co/9ez5dvIrlT pic.twitter.com/VHvu0jkLQM

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) April 20, 2026

COUNTER-TERROR OPERATIONS: IDF unveils map of forward defense line in southern Lebanon amid ceasefire. “The military says five IDF divisions, alongside naval forces, are operating south of the line to dismantle Hezbollah infrastructure and prevent threats to northern Israeli communities.”

AND IT’S A UNION THAT SHOULDN’T EVEN EXIST:

One union spends more on political contributions in Washington than the entire tech industry. pic.twitter.com/9050zkyiel

— Pedro Domingos (@pmddomingos) April 20, 2026

ICYMI: Trump’s China Squeeze: Follow the Money, Not the Oil.

PRIORITIES: Harvard investigates Republican club for filming Muslim event on campus.

On April 4, the Harvard Republican Club posted a short video and one photo on its X account of an Eid al-Fitr event hosted by the school’s Islamic Society.

“Today, students were interrupted from their midterm studies for several hours by loud music and prayers outside their windows,” the group wrote on X.

“Harvard’s historic Quincy Courtyard had been turned into a bazaar selling Hijabs, Burqas and Qurans for an Eid Mubarak celebration hosted by Harvard’s Islamic Society,” the club wrote.

The group also said the university had been “captured.”

Someone filed a complaint against the club for filming and taking photographs at the even that occurred out in the open, which has prompted a school investigation.

But no investigation of the disruptions, got it.

WATCH: U.S. Releases Video of Marines Seizing Iranian Ship.

SPARE THE ROD…:

There was a massive DOJ study done decades ago that among people in Federal custody, the single trait career criminals had most in common was that they had all gotten caught as a teenager and the case resolved in a way that left them feeling like they 'got away with it.'

More in… https://t.co/3Mhfi2Tvg8

— J.T. Alexander (@JTAlexander) April 20, 2026

I HAD BEEN ASSURED THAT MAMDANI WOULD MAKE EVERYTHING CHEAPER THAT HE DIDN’T MAKE FREE: FDNY plans to hike cost of ambulance rides by 29%, increase on-site emergency treatment by 42%. “The FDNY is considering hiking ambulance and emergency medical bills by double digits — blaming the squeeze on patients’ pockets on inflation and coming pay increases for union workers.”

YOU GET LESS OF WHAT YOU PENALIZE:

Another battlefield in the ongoing war against men.

When you relentlessly attack the people, ok, let's just call them men, who fight the wars, drive the ships and trucks, drill the oil, build the stuff, etc., you'll find you're losing wars, and can't have the stuff that didn't… https://t.co/Hpgud2SJcw

— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) April 20, 2026

MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: Want to Steal an American Job? There’s an App for That.

THIS IS THE OBAMA YEARS FINALLY SNOWBALLING:

Fetterman does not hold a single position that wasn’t mainstream in the Democratic Party in 2020. Not one. That’s how fast the party embraced Islamo-Marxism. Stunning. https://t.co/SsocHIQhHk

— David Marcus (@BlueBoxDave) April 20, 2026

But as Salena Zito noted in the replies, “He votes with his party for the majority of the time.” If Fetterman wants to actually do something about his party’s radicalization, maybe he could try costing them hard votes. Until then, it’s hard to take his protests very seriously.

And this, now more than ever:

FALLOUT: Ruben Gallego’s Political Career May Be Toast.

For Democrats, Gallego wasn’t just a senator from Arizona; he was the future of the party.

That was before Eric Swalwell.

Last week, Swalwell resigned his House seat and withdrew from the California gubernatorial race following a wave of sexual assault allegations, and Gallego has been caught in the fallout. They were close friends, and he chaired Swalwell’s 2020 presidential campaign and publicly backed his gubernatorial run. When the Swalwell allegations broke, the questions about Gallego’s proximity followed almost immediately. What did he know? When did he know it? His answers have satisfied almost no one.

He held a press conference on Tuesday, attempting to distance himself from Swalwell. “I fell for it,” he told reporters, saying Swalwell “lied to all of us.”

Unfortunately, it didn’t go so well for him.

Democratic strategist Anthony Coley, a Capitol Hill veteran who once worked for the late Sen. Edward Kennedy, didn’t even try to sugarcoat it.

“If Gallego’s press conference was meant to reassure potential voters, donors and activists, it failed,” he said. “Folded arms and incomplete answers don’t shut down a story, they extend it. The party faithful will want real clarity on his relationship with Swalwell before he gets serious consideration for higher office in 2028.”

Swalwell is toxic, and was from the start.

PULL IT ALREADY:

.@SecDuffy: 53% of Commercial Driver's Licenses issued to foreigners in New York were issued illegally.

We gave them FOUR MONTHS to comply with the law. They refused, so we had no choice but to pull funding — and if they still refuse, we can pull their ability to issue CDLs. pic.twitter.com/Y34iGN0U2Z

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) April 19, 2026

WHEN WAS SHE ON THEM? Marjorie Taylor Greene Has Officially Gone Completely Off the Rails.

VOTING WITH THEIR DOLLARS:

Chevron has now fully divested from Alberta’s oilsands.

It believes investing in Venezuela is less risky than investing in Mark Carney’s Canada. https://t.co/yGHNMkAR10

— Ezra Levant 🍁🚛 (@ezralevant) April 18, 2026

VIA JK ROWLING: Inside the feverish delusions of the professional arts class.

A few weeks ago, I ventured out to an arts event here in Belfast — something I do rarely these days. It was entitled Working Against the Clampdown: Who’s Afraid of the Arts?, and it was part of the Belfast Festival of Ideas and Politics.

I was there with Sara Morrison and Rosie Kay. Both are outcasts from the publicly funded arts sector in the UK — Rosie having been kicked out of her own very successful dance company — the Rosie Kay Dance Company – by her own dancers, who complained to her board alleging ‘transphobia,’ which led to the board launching an investigation into her, and ultimately, the dissolution of the entire company. Sara, as I have written about here and here, was similarly treated by her employer, the Belfast Film Festival, after she spoke in favour of women only spaces at one of Kellie Jay Keen’s Let Women Speak events in 2023.

On a rainy night in late March, sitting in the audience with these two women, l listened to salaried grandees discussing the challenges they faced while existing off the largess of the British taxpayer. It was an experience of cognitive dissonance so sharp it felt like a slap in the face.

Read the whole thing.

SCENES FROM THE COUNTER-RECONQUISTA:

SPAIN: Pakistani migrants are rushing to the consulate in Barcelona for their paperwork, as the government plans to regularize 500,000 illegals.

Notice they are all military-aged men, no women or children. They will soon be able to move freely across Europe. This won’t end well. pic.twitter.com/tSepsIqY55

— Dr. Maalouf ‏ (@realMaalouf) April 19, 2026

THAT’S BECAUSE HE’S XI’S STOOGE: Carney Tries To Redefine U.S. Ties as a Problem.