COLONIALISM, STRAIGHT UP: ‘Get over it’: Georgetown professor dismisses concerns about Muslim ‘rape gangs.’

The Alwaleed bin Talal Chair of Islamic Civilization at Georgetown University recently told social media users to “get over it” in response to concerns about a link between “rape gangs” and Islam.

Professor Jonathan Brown dismissed concerns about the crisis in the United Kingdom in two now-deleted X posts, the Daily Caller reported.

Rupert Lowe, an Independent Member of Parliament, wrote in a post on X, “There is a link between the rape gangs and one particular religion – we have seen it again and again and again at our inquiry.”

“That religion is Islam. As a country, we must have the courage to face up to that fact,” he wrote.

Brown replied, “get over it.”

He then wrote the same phrase in response to another user who called his remark “absurdly evil.”

The Alwaleed bin Talal chair was funded by a donation from Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal as part of a $40 million gift split between Georgetown and Harvard in 2005.

SOLDIERS ALWAYS KNOW WHO HAS THEIR BACKS AND WHO DOESN’T:

Disney needs to cast this guy to play Disgust in a live action Inside Out movie. pic.twitter.com/8cLXXmfuSW

— Rebecca Tucker (@RebeccaTucker85) April 9, 2026

TO BE FAIR, THAT’S HIS ENTIRE SCHTICK: Lawrence O’Donnell Gets the Vapors After Pete Hegseth Uses the Term ‘Man’ to Describe Rescued Pilot.

JONATHAN TURLEY: USC Bans Men from Gym Areas to Avoid Triggering Women and Non-Binary Students. “According to the New York Post, the University of Southern California has adopted a policy banning men from certain workout areas. The plan, pushed by an LGBTQ+ group, is designed to prevent the presence of males from triggering women or non-binary students. It may, however, trigger a major legal challenge.”

GOOD LORD: Ex-Delta Force Staffer Faces Charge of Leaking Classified Info to Reporter.

THERE ARE CERTAINLY TOO FEW TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE: There Are No ‘Moderate’ Democrats When it Comes to Gun Rights.

OOF:

Who better to advise on aiding and abetting mullahs? https://t.co/R9dUgZbzrw

— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) April 9, 2026

THIS DATE IN HISTORY: The Guns Fell Silent at Appomattox, and the Reconciliation Began.

OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY: Education is fond of fads: If it feels good, fund it. “Among other things, Pondiscio writes, change is how administrators show they’re leaders. The new superintendent” announces a bold vision, rebrands existing efforts, and introduces a new set of priorities. Three years later, often before results are fully visible, that leader departs,” and a new one comes in with bold new ideas. If the experiment is working, it’s hard to sustain the success.”

Too many administrators, not enough parental control and oversight.

WELL, THEY WOULDN’T WANT INELIGIBLE CANS GETTING COUNTED:

You need an id to return cans in CT. pic.twitter.com/JzUu3TjIpb

— Scott (@Thebigblackram) April 9, 2026

WHEN YOU’RE TOO FREE-SPENDING FOR ALBANY: Mamdani’s plan for free buses in NYC hits pothole, told by Albany ‘just not financially feasible.’

New York state Sen. Jeremy Cooney, who is chairman of the upper chamber’s Transportation Committee, said lawmakers want to make transit more affordable, but “making every bus in New York City free is just not financially feasible.”

“I would tell this to the mayor: I know you care about the most vulnerable,” Cooney said. “This is a way — working within the existing system — that we could increase support for the most vulnerable and start there, and then look to do an expansion of that.”

Cooney also said that while Mamdani has asked him for some things, he has not had a “direct ask” from the mayor about free buses.

Even Mamdani seems to know it’s a non-starter.

CRUEL BUT FAIR:

The Royal Navy is currently no match for the Russian Navy, which was defeated in the Black Sea by the Ukrainians, who do not have a navy. https://t.co/q4jXD29BMP

— Foster (@foster_type) April 9, 2026

GOOD LORD: Illegal Alien Pastor With Long Rap Sheet Abuses Teen in Church Office.

WELL, WHEN YOU PUT IT THAT WAY…:

People forget that Neil DeGrasse Tyson and Bill Nye never put a damn thing into orbit besides their own egos, meanwhile it was chainsmoking rednecks with bachelor's degrees and fighter pilot jocks who got us to the moon on less computing power than a Gameboy https://t.co/gFEmX6OqOL

— Coop LoPresto (@LCplLoPro) April 7, 2026

WHOSE STUFF IS IT, ANYWAY? John Deere to Pay $99 Million in Monumental Right-to-Repair Settlement. “The settlement also includes an agreement by Deere to provide ‘the digital tools ​required for the maintenance, diagnosis, and repair’ of tractors, combines, and other machinery for 10 years. That part is crucial, as farmers previously resorted to hacking their own equipment’s software just to get it up and running again. John Deere signed a memorandum of understanding in 2023 that partially addressed those concerns, providing third parties with the technology to diagnose and repair, as long as its intellectual property was safeguarded. Monday’s settlement seems to represent a much stronger (and legally binding) step forward.”

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: READ THE ROOM — 20 GOP Morons Sign Onto Bipartisan Amnesty Bill. “The first big hint that this bill is bad news is the fact that the official name of it is the ‘DIGNIDAD’ act. Opting for the Spanish version of ‘dignity’ is pretty much just a big middle finger to anyone who is truly concerned about border security.”

WELL, GOOD:

DeCarlos Brown is in federal custody on a federal indictment. The state proceedings, including any competency finding in those proceedings, are completely separate. https://t.co/yomEpaUPn4

— U.S. Attorney WDNC (@USAO_WDNC) April 8, 2026

HEY, BIG SPENDER: Intel Lands Musk’s $25 Billion Terafab: A Billion-Dollar Foundry Win in the Making?

Intel’s role centers on what it does best: design, fabrication, and packaging at scale. The company’s post explicitly ties its contribution to accelerating Terafab’s 1 TW per year target using its “ultra-high-performance chips.” In plain English, this isn’t Tesla or SpaceX building a rival fab from scratch. It’s an Intel Foundry expansion in Austin with Musk’s companies as anchor customers. That means Intel just landed a marquee, high-volume partner for its 18A and future nodes — exactly the kind of external validation the foundry has chased for years.

Let’s put the numbers in context. Intel’s full-year 2025 foundry revenue reached $17.8 billion, up 3% year-over-year. Q4 alone delivered $4.5 billion, also up 4%. Yet external customer revenue for the full year totaled just $307 million, including $222 million in Q4. The majority of the foundry’s business was internal production for Intel’s own CPUs. The unit still posted a $10.3 billion operating loss for 2025, driven by 18A ramp costs.

Terafab changes the math. A project of this scale could push external revenue into the billions annually once wafers start flowing.

We already know where SpaceX will get the cash: Musk’s SpaceX courts retail investors as it aims for record-breaking stock market flotation.

A BERLIN WALL MADE OUT OF RED TAPE:

A good barometer of “is my state well run” is definitely “are we considering taxing people for leaving” https://t.co/SZB15mz3o8

— Logan Dobson (@LoganDobson) April 9, 2026

IT’S MY THURSDAY ESSAY FOR VIP SUBSCRIBERS: Endgame, Iran… or the Start of Something Worse?

OH MY: A hacker has allegedly breached one of China’s supercomputers and is attempting to sell a trove of stolen data.

The dataset, which allegedly contains more than 10 petabytes of sensitive information, is believed by experts to have been obtained from the National Supercomputing Center (NSCC) in Tianjin – a centralized hub that provides infrastructure services for more than 6,000 clients across China, including advanced science and defense agencies.

Cyber experts who have spoken to the alleged hacker and reviewed samples of the stolen data they posted online say they appeared to gain entry to the massive computer with comparative ease and were able to siphon out huge amounts of data over the course of multiple months without being detected.

An account calling itself FlamingChina posted a sample of the alleged dataset on an anonymous Telegram channel on February 6, claiming it contained “research across various fields including aerospace engineering, military research, bioinformatics, fusion simulation and more.”

The group alleges the information is linked to “top organizations” including the Aviation Industry Corporation of China, the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China, and the National University of Defense Technology.

Elon, want to write these guys a check?

NOT BAD FOR THE GUY THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION DISMISSED AS “CHICKENS***”:

Netanyahu's legacy will be navigating Israel out of the incoherence of the Oslo Accords, across a dozen years of hostile American administrations, and into the most sophisticated air war in the history of humanity to eliminate the existential threat posed to the Jewish State by… https://t.co/4YBqhzszAv

— Omri Ceren (@omriceren) April 8, 2026

ROBERT SPENCER: Mamdani’s New York: ‘All I Know Is I Want to Start Terror, Bro.’ “Nobody got too excited about it, but there was an Islamic State (ISIS) attempted bombing in New York City a few weeks ago, and new details are emerging about exactly what happened. Now dashcam footage capturing a conversation between the two would-be jihad murderers has just emerged, and it further sets the record straight about one of the most wildly misreported events of our propaganda-laden age.”

STAND BY:

Channel 14 reports there could be a collapse of the ceasefire tonight on Iran’s part.

— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) April 8, 2026

THIS KIND OF DEATH WISH IS HOW YOU GET “DEATH WISH”:

Only societies with a death wish deem being insane as an excuse to murder people without real repercussions. https://t.co/l5HxpB9fEM

— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) April 8, 2026