CHRISTIAN TOTO: Can Judd Apatow ‘Comeback’ from Trump Derangement Syndrome?

Judd Apatow made better comedies than just about everyone for a good, long while.

Here’s just a sampling of films and TV shows he either wrote, directed or produced over the past 20-plus years.

“Anchorman”
“The 40-Year-Old Virgin”
“Knocked Up”
“Freaks & Geeks”
“Crashing”
“Bridesmaids”
“This Is 40”
“Step Brothers”
“Get Him to the Greek”

Now, that’s a legacy. And, for the past few years, said legacy has been stuck in neutral. His 2022 Netflix original, “The Bubble,” got hammered by critics. His attempt to make Pete Davidson a movie star, “The King of Staten Island,” got stung by COVID-19 and a lack of big laughs.

His last mainstream comedy hit? The 2013 Amy Schumer vehicle “Trainwreck.”

I bet you can guess what happened next.

MELANIA WINS: Melania vs. the Mean Girls.

NOVEMBER PREVIEW: The Republicans Announce Their 2026 Senate Targets. “The MSM has been endlessly hyping Democrat chances to win control of the Senate. But the central problem for them is that only two Republican seats – Maine and North Carolina – are in competitive states. The other 20 GOP seats are in states where the Republicans have a big edge, with Donald Trump winning them by double digits. That almost never happens in Senate elections, let alone twice. In the 2025 Virginia elections, the Democrats won a landslide, but they still didn’t carry a single district where Trump won with that margin.”

WHOSE STUFF IS IT, ANYWAY?

This is A NIGHTMARE. Amazon is bricking old Kindles, including my beloved Kindle 5 (with the side buttons). I hate the touch screen versions, I've tried them and I'm always accidentally flipping pages. pic.twitter.com/gJgUay16Z9

— Katie Notopoulos (@katienotopoulos) April 8, 2026

I miss the buttons, too — they were just the thing for reading lying on your side.

STILL PLENTY OF BIG BADDA-BOOMS: Rabbi Michael Barclay’s Iran War Update for April 8.

THE WORK IS THERE FOR ANYONE WILLING TO TAKE IT:

Take a look at this bill to introduce a new visa category, called H2C, that will bring in 500,000 construction workers

This explains why Mike Rowe was pushing people to go into the trades so hard "there's a shortage of workers, they're making $260k" he said https://t.co/fuoZAY1Gn3

— Stephen “The Yellow Dart” Schutt (@schuttsm) April 8, 2026

FRAUD ALL THE WAY DOWN: The most connected hospice doctor in California.

A CBS News Investigation found one Los Angeles County hospice physician’s name, Dr. Rajiv Bhuva, on Medicare claims for nearly 2,800 patients across 126 California hospices in 2024, according to the last full year of available data.

There are roughly 1,800 licensed hospices in Los Angeles County. Federal and state data show 742 of them — about 42% — have multiple indicators of fraud, as defined by the state of California.

No doctor in California is connected to more hospices than Dr. Rajiv Bhuva. In 2024, his name appeared on Medicare claims across 126 hospice companies in California — 115 of them in Los Angeles County alone.

Much more at the link.

HEH:

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YET SO MANY OF THEIR VOTERS EAT THIS STUFF UP: Democrats Playing With Fire by Embracing Hasan Piker.

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY (MINNEAPOLIS EDITION REDUX):

🚨 Minneapolis is looking to legalize sleeping in your car overnight in public spaces and create designated parking lots to sleep in.

Socialism is working great. pic.twitter.com/a9Gk01QBk5

— Dustin Grage (@GrageDustin) April 7, 2026

THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS ENOUGH MISSILES: US Navy seeks 1,200% increase in Tomahawk missile procurement for 2027. “In fiscal 2026, Congress granted the service $257 million for the purchase of 58 Tomahawk missiles. The Navy is now asking lawmakers to subsidize the production of 785 Tomahawk missiles for a little over $3 billion, including roughly $1.5 billion for Tomahawk missile modifications.”

WISH THEM LUCK: Nuns Sue New York, Say Its ‘Transgender Rights’ Law Violates the First Amendment.

STILL A FEW BUGS LEFT IN THE SYSTEM: Testing suggests Google’s AI Overviews tell millions of lies per hour. “Oumi began running its test last year when Gemini 2.5 was still the company’s best model. At the time, the benchmark showed an 85 percent accuracy rate. When the test was rerun following the Gemini 3 update, AI Overviews answered 91 percent of the questions correctly. If you extrapolate this miss rate out to all Google searches, AI Overviews is generating tens of millions of incorrect answers per day.”

AI is an amazing tool, but never mistake it for a trusted resource.

EXPERTS:

Yesterday many “experts” told you we were headed for nuclear war & spent the entire day losing their minds. Today the Dow opens up 1300+ points, S&P rises nearly 3%, & oil has dropped $20 a barrel. As always, it pays to be rational. Congrats to those who didn’t lose their minds.

— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) April 8, 2026

To be fair, does anyone outside the emotionally unstable Bluesky hivemind still pay attention to our credentialed class?

SNIFF: Jim Lovell’s Final Message to Artemis II Passed Apollo’s Torch to a New Generation.

THERE’S JUST NO PLEASING SOME PEOPLE:

Libs when Trump doesn’t wipe out an entire civilization pic.twitter.com/WMtL4U3tTe

— The Drunk Republican (@DrunkRepub) April 8, 2026

Especially this guy:

.@Pontifex is directly critical of the mere words of the President of the United States but he has never once specifically condemned the bloody slaughter of tens of thousands of protestors by the Iranian regime. Women. Children. Families, all shot down like dogs.

We Catholics… https://t.co/Eoz7dX9Frc

— Michael Caputo (@MichaelRCaputo) April 8, 2026

NIFTY: From folding boxes to fixing vacuums, GEN-1 robotics model hits 99% reliability.

Robotic machine-learning company Generalist has announced GEN-1, a new physical AI system that it says “crosses into production-level success rates” on “a broad range of physical skills” that used to require the dexterity and muscle memory of human hands. Generalist is also touting the new model’s ability to respond to disruptions by improvising new moves and “connect[ing] ideas from different places in order to solve new problems.”

GEN-1 builds on Generalist’s previous GEN-0 model, which the company touted in November as a proof of concept for the applicability of scaling laws in robotics training, showing how more pre-training data and compute time improve post-training performance. But while large language models have been able to effectively process trillions of words collectively written on the Internet as part of their training, robotic models don’t have a similar, readily accessible source of quality data about how humans manipulate objects.

To help solve this problem, Generalist has relied on “data hands,” a set of wearable pincers that capture micro-movements and visual information as humans perform manual tasks. Generalist now claims it has collected over half a million hours and “petabytes of physical interaction data” to help train its physical model.

This is important because replicating what the human hand can do — from wielding a hammer to separating an egg — is extremely difficult. Particularly at scale and affordability, which is exactly what Tesla wants to do with Optimus.

PERSPECTIVE:

Let’s flip the scenario for a moment.

Imagine Iran killed Trump in the first 5 minutes of the war, established air superiority over the US mainland, wiped out the entire US Air Force, US Navy, killed half the Cabinet, flattened the US military industrial complex, then started… https://t.co/V0Vgq39tdV

— Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 (@DrewPavlou) April 8, 2026

AN IDEA SO CRAZY IT ACTUALLY WORKED: San Francisco Solved Its Crime Problem With This 1 Weird Trick.

THEY TOLD ME THE REPLACEMENT THEORY WAS JUST RIGHT-WING PARANOIA:

An advert in Denmark shows a White Danish couple hugging on the sofa

An "expert" shows up out of nowhere and tells them not to date each other because it’s basically "inbreeding" for whites to have babies with other whites

He says they should have kids with non-Whites instead pic.twitter.com/ZnFGL9dWkP

— Basil the Great (@BasilTheGreat) April 8, 2026

Hard to dispute this from the replies: “Oh, so cousin marriage is ok, but white people having kids with white people is not. Got ya. They want everyone to be clinically retarded.”

The Danes could use that Viking spirit again.

IT’S JUST CATCHING UP TO NATO’S SUPPORT FOR THE US: Republicans’ Support for NATO Falls Sharply.

Thirty-eight percent of Republicans and GOP-leaning independents say the U.S. benefits at least somewhat from NATO, down from 49% last year.

At the same time, 60% now say the U.S. benefits not too much or not at all from the alliance, marking the first time a majority of Republicans have expressed that view.

The survey was conducted in late March, shortly before President Donald Trump said he was strongly considering withdrawing the U.S. from NATO.

Overall, 59% of Americans say the U.S. benefits from NATO membership, with support driven largely by Democrats and Democrat-leaning independents.

Democrats support NATO more than they did during the ’80s because the alliance — or at least the Western European members — is almost as anti-American as they are.

AN IMPORTANT REMINDER FROM DATA R:

So how was J6 going to end in overthrow?

Let me explain why J6 alarms your class so much.

It’s projection, nothing more. Your side has spent years engineering color revolutions abroad, so J6 resembled the final phase to you… crowds overrunning a key building to unseat a… pic.twitter.com/V1MJTyZmkv

— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) April 8, 2026

Takeaway line: “You cannot describe the actual mechanism through which J6 would have actually resulted in a coup or insurrection, because there was no planning at all involved. Unlike in actual color revolutions.”

NO SURPRISE THERE: Tucker Carlson? You Won’t Be Seeing Him Around the White House Anymore.

TO ASK THE QUESTION IS TO ANSWER IT: Why is it That So Little of the ‘Science’ Around ‘Gun Violence’ Can be Replicated? “Last week, NRA-ILA pointed to new research showing that the social ‘sciences’ exhibit woeful, and increasing, political bias. Compounding this problem, this week, a large team of researchers published another study showing that roughly half of social ‘science’ research can’t be replicated. Replication is vital to determining whether a study’s conclusions are in fact valid.”

Or to put a finer point on it, whether the researchers did anything approximating science.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Gavin Newsom’s Wife Is a Real Piece of Work Also Plus Maybe a Witch. “Oh, where to begin with this one. If California Governor Gavin Newsom and his wife Jennifer Siebel Newsom were starring in a reality television show, an apt title for it would be, The Worst White People in America. You could actually rotate quite a cast of pasty, privileged Democrats through various episodes, but California’s first fascist family would always be the most awful of the bunch.”