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.

YES, IT SHOULD:

The amount of fraud in education research at elite universities should get way more attention pic.twitter.com/aje0hoEAW8

— Alec Stapp (@AlecStapp) April 20, 2026

DO YOU SEE THOSE, TOO? I For One Welcome Our New Giant Melting Purple Neon Spider Overlords. “At the very least, hopefully we should get some good data on whether psychedelics like ibogaine are actually effective in treating PTSD and other disorders. Maybe they’ll help, and maybe they won’t.”

Early studies showed promise with MDMA, but not in a later, bigger study. Same with THC.

So my hopes aren’t high, but maybe one of these days…

HMM: Under the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, Archeologists Found What Could Be the Tomb of Jesus.

Related (From Ed): God and Man at Yale, and Fort Worth.

COME SEE THE ANTISEMITISM INHERENT IN THE LEFTISM:

The Michigan Democratic Party just endorsed a candidate for the University of Michigan Board of Regents who:

Called Jews “demons” who “lie, cheat, murder and blackmail.”
Shared an ISIS-origin slur about Jews.
Amplified calls to ban Jews from Congress.
Praised Hezbollah figures… pic.twitter.com/G3Nu2zjGW2

— Yehuda Teitelbaum (@chalavyishmael) April 20, 2026

ALSO, THE TRAILER MADE IT LOOK HEAVY HANDED AND POORLY DONE:

America’s left is facing a critical shortage of right wing terrorists so they have to invent them https://t.co/IHBEOT0TPY

— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) April 19, 2026

A HUNDRED MILLION HERE AND A HUNDRED MILLION THERE…: Putin losing $100M a day from Ukrainian drone strikes on Russia’s oil infrastructure.

Ukrainian drone strikes targeted Russian oil refineries overnight into Saturday, hitting four important sites.

Fire raged at the Novokuybyshevsk and Syzran oil refineries in the Samara region, as well as at an oil terminal in Leningrad and the Tikhoretsk oil pumping station in Krasnodar Krai, Ukraine’s Armed Forces said.

Ukrainian drones also hit oil storage sites in the occupied Mariupol region.

Russia, meanwhile, launched 219 drones across Ukraine, killing at least one and wounding 26 others.

The worst attack was in Zaporizhzhia, where drone and missile strikes that lasted for hours injured 10 civilians. A multi-story apartment building and nine houses were destroyed.

It comes as Russia’s top diplomatic envoy said Saturday peace talks with Ukraine are not at the top of Putin’s to do list.

Moscow’s spring offensive has yet to accomplish much, and casualties remain high.

REMINDER:

Back in 2006, freshly divorced San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom — then a slick 38-year-old — was schtupping 19-year-old Brittanie Mountz.

When the press caught wind of photos showing his teenage girlfriend guzzling alcohol at public events, Newsom kinda lost it. Cornered by a… https://t.co/J5OlOdqFdW

— Mike Netter (@nettermike) April 19, 2026

BEIJING SUMMIT PREVIEW: Trump’s China Squeeze: Follow the Money, Not the Oil. “China can afford to pay world-market oil prices for a change, but the country can’t afford to lose its export markets.”

HMM, WITH A CHICAGO TWIST:

I'd like to know how they got to him.

It's not just that, being from Chicago, he suddenly remembered all Chicago pols are rat bastards.

They got to him. Something subtle. Can't have been the Catholic Charities thing, that predated Pope Leo XIV's inauguration as a Chicago pol.… https://t.co/PSNJtXnFkx

— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) April 20, 2026

HEY, BIG SPENDER: Massachusetts paid out $1 billion in improper SNAP payments while 75% of able-bodied recipients didn’t work, new report finds.

The report, released Thursday and authored by visiting policy analyst Hayden Dublois, found that the Commonwealth now carries a SNAP error rate of 14.1 percent — significantly higher than the national average of roughly 11 percent, and the worst of any state in New England. New Hampshire, by contrast, ranks among the best in the country.

SNAP enrollment in Massachusetts has surged 40 percent over the past decade, climbing from just under 785,000 recipients in 2015 to more than 1.1 million in 2024. The study found that between 65 and 75 percent of able-bodied recipients are not working, while state policies continue to allow individuals to bypass federal asset limits and remain eligible for benefits regardless of accumulated wealth.

A whistleblower cited in the report described fraud within the system as “rampant” and “unabated,” along with a workplace culture that actively discourages basic verification of eligibility.

If the workplace culture “actively discourages basic verification of eligibility,” then fraud is the desired result.

SOME OF US WERE SAYING THIS BEFORE HE WAS SWORN IN:

I think what we've learned since Obama left office is that, as his critics argued, at heart we was always a radical leftist and his apparent moderation was more a tactic than his sincere self. https://t.co/uqFLhLJEVm

— David Bernstein (@ProfDBernstein) April 19, 2026

TRUE:

Define poverty in America. It’s not starvation. It’s not dying in the elements. It’s not failing to get medical care. Most people who are under the poverty line have cell phones. Many have cars. Most are fat.

You throw out the word “poverty” as if we’re supposed to react as if… https://t.co/41aAyoB0Wz

— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) April 19, 2026

And from the replies: “The poverty line in America is top 5% in the world. Hell the UK just realized it would be the 51st poorest state if they became a state.”

ALMOST EVERYTHING CALIFORNIA DOES NOW IS CONCERNING: Why California’s ‘Stop Nick Shirley Act’ Should Worry Gun Owners. “What should concern everyone is what will likely follow AB 2624—what industry California Democrats will decide next needs a shield from public scrutiny, and what states will follow with their own similar legislation.”

PROBABLY:

Want some truth?

If the Democrats get a 53 vote majority in the Senate they will pass Amnesty and laugh at the Republicans that wouldn’t pass election integrity with a 53 vote majority.

(Both will be happy)

— C3 (@C_3C_3) April 19, 2026

ROBERT SPENCER: Iran’s New Supreme Leader Surfaces (Sort of) With a Chilling Message. “It was peculiarly fitting: the threat of a phantom navy from a supreme leader who may very well not be alive at all.”