I DON’T EVEN KNOW HOW TO INTRO THIS ONE: What Do Kristi Noem’s Crossdressing Husband, U.S. Withdrawal From NATO, and Social Media Have in Common?
Author Archive: Stephen Green
April 2, 2026
THE CITY HAS PROGRESSED FROM THROWING MONEY AT THE PROBLEM TO THROWING MYSTERY MONEY AT THE PROBLEM: Chicago mayor announces homelessness plan with unclear funding sources.
The five-year blueprint features data, recommendations and insight into how the city might address the issue of homelessness. It contains seven pillars to address – emergency services, housing, health, education, employment, community cohesion and systems alignment.
Improvements to homelessness services have already been in progress according to Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, but the blueprint will provide guidance for initiatives. The report says it aims to effectively end homelessness, based on a framework called Functional Zero.
Sendy Soto, Chicago chief homelessness officer, was appointed to the position by the mayor in 2023 to lead efforts creating the five-year plan. Her departure from the position was announced by Johnson early this week.
During media availability Tuesday, Johnson said the reason Soto’s position is ending now is solely because her duties had been fulfilled early.
Neither Johnson, nor the report, give clear answers as to where funding would come from for initiatives.
Locking up criminals for a good, long time and aggressively treating drug addiction and mental illness — up to and including involuntary commitment for both — would likely solve almost the entire problem.
Much better instead then to make sure that Homeless Inc. makes a very expensive show of solving the problem.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Dear GOP — Let President Trump Lead the Way to Midterms Victory. “Trump has been showing them how to win. It’s a simple story they can tell on the campaign trail: Democrats want to keep murderers and rapists on the streets to imperil your families, and Republicans want to remove the threat. If the threat is in the country illegally, we want to send them home.”
IT’S GOOD TO BE THE NOMENKLATURA:
"Did you pay your federal taxes?"
"They're . . . delayed."
"They're delayed?"
"Yes."
"So you haven't paid them?"
"No."— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) April 2, 2026
From the linked report: “Rep. Eric Swalwell and his wife consistently brought in an income in the top 5% of Washington, D.C., households from 2021 to 2024 but made cash-raising moves anyway: drawing down retirement accounts, delaying federal tax payments and spending heavily on child care through campaign funds, according to tax returns and campaign finance filings.”
Swalwell has never held a private-sector job.
SCHLICHTER: Our Own Ruling Class Desperately Wants to Lose This War. “What’s more treacherous and treasonous than wishing your own country gets defeated in war, especially by a bunch of goat-molesting seventh-century pagan savages whose primitive mindset is matched only by their grotesque perversions? Well, the disgusting perversions part is merely a collateral reason why members of America’s donkey party seem to have such an affinity for Iran’s rulers – the mullahs, with their bizarre bestiality and grotesque handmaiden dogma, and the San Francisco Democrats, with their furry-friendly gender-spazz grossness, collectively share the worst figurative collective browser in the history of ever. Yet, it’s more than their joint commitment to degeneracy that binds them together in a desire for America to lose this campaign. The Democrats hate America, and they think it will help them politically if America can be humiliated. But more than that, seeing America lose also satisfies the evil lurking inside them.”
Let it all out, Kurt.
RANDO IS UNCHARACTERISTICALLY KIND IN HIS ASSESSMENT:
All this because Thune let Schumer renege on the appropriations deal, while still giving Democrats everything they wanted in the other appropriations bills.
Thune sucks. https://t.co/ikWwddHeqp
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) April 2, 2026
IT’S MY THURSDAY ESSAY FOR VIP SUBSCRIBERS: What in the Actual Hell Is Going on in China? “If you ever thought you had a handle on what in the actual hell is going on in China, it was probably interrupted by a story like the recent disappearance of Yang Wei, the 62-year-old designer of China’s top-of-the-line stealth fighter.”
IN A SENSE!
Peak moron
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) April 1, 2026
BECAUSE OF COURSE: Democrat-led states threaten to sue Trump over voter database executive order.
“I don’t know how it can be challenged. They’ll probably challenge it,” Trump said at Tuesday night’s Oval Office signing. “You may find a rogue judge – a lot of rogue judges. Very bad, bad people. Very bad judges. But that’s the only way that can be changed, and hopefully we’ll win on appeal if it is, but I don’t see how anybody can challenge it.”
Arizona, California, Maine and Oregon immediately vowed to sue the Trump administration over the executive order, Fox News reported.
“We’re challenging it,” California Gov. Gavin Newsom posted on X on Tuesday, sharing a clip of Trump signing the order. “See you in court.”
Arizona Democratic Secretary of State Adrian Fontes told The Associated Press: “It is just wrongheaded for a president of the United States to pretend like he can pick his own voters. That’s just not how America works.”
Please, let blue states sue Trump on the 20 side of another 80/20 issue.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT:
While NATO has proven to be largely a one-way street, with the US footing the bill to defend an ungrateful, obstructionist continent, the alliance still has value.
It allows the US to maintain a large armed presence on a continent lurching dangerously toward a dark age.
— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) April 1, 2026
April 1, 2026
BREAKING: NASA investigates potential battery issue ahead of lunar launch.
NASA engineers are reportedly investigating a possible battery issue Wednesday evening, as the space agency counts down toward its first lunar mission in over 50 years.
The possible battery issue is related to Orion capsule’s launch abort system, which could cause problems during the final minutes of the countdown, when a computer takes control of the Space Launch System rocket, according to NBC News.
Engineers are working to determine whether the issue was with a sensor or a battery itself, after one of the two batteries for the launch abort system was “out of temperature range.”
Standing by…
UPDATE:
Engineers investigated a sensor on the launch abort system’s attitude control motor controller battery that showed a higher temperature than would be expected. It is believed to be an instrumentation issue and will not affect today’s launch. https://t.co/3z3kjdp620
— Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex (@ExploreSpaceKSC) April 1, 2026
Godspeed.
ANOTHER UPDATE: NASA launches 4 astronauts to the moon on historic Artemis 2 voyage, a lunar leap for the 21st century.
WHEN HE’S RIGHT, HE’S RIGHT: Sen. John Fetterman bashes US media, says press is helping Iran with ‘selective coverage’ of Operation Epic Fury.
WELL: In Historic Settlement, NCLA Strikes Fatal Blow to State Department’s Censorship Industrial Complex.
The New Civil Liberties Alliance has reached a settlement in our The Daily Wire, The Federalist, Texas v. State Dep’t lawsuit against State Department-funded censorship of American media. The Department acknowledges that our clients engaged in constitutionally protected speech concerning Covid-19, sexual ethics, the biological reality concerning sex, and election integrity. Defendants agree they will not use, finance, or promote technology that suppresses or fact-checks the constitutionally protected speech of Americans and domestic media outlets. The settlement also bars the State Department from working with foreign governments or NGOs—formally or informally—for those purposes. Representing The Daily Wire and The Federalist, NCLA celebrates this important victory safeguarding American free speech and press.
NCLA’s lawsuit has revealed that the State Department used federal funding to promote some 300 “Countering Propaganda and Disinformation” tools, some of which mainly targeted domestic speech or press outlets. The Department actively encouraged private companies, government bodies here and abroad, and NGOs to use these technologies to target Americans’ speech and media outlets, pushing social media companies to ferret out what it deemed misinformation and disinformation on domestic policy topics like Covid-19 and vaccines.
Much more at the link.
JAMIE K. WILSON: Two Faces Speaking: When Language Barriers Disappear.
IT’S TOO DANGEROUS A WORLD FOR THE US NAVY TO HAVE JUST 11 FLATTOPS: USS Gerald R. Ford’s ‘record-breaking’ deployment could last 11 months, top admiral says/ “If the Ford and its crew end up spending 11 months away from home, it would mark one of the longest carrier deployments since the end of the Vietnam War. The USS Nimitz returned home in 2021 after spending 341 days at sea during the COVID-19 pandemic. Prior to that, the USS Abraham Lincoln deployed for 294 days between 2019 and 2020.”
Long deployments are hard on the crews and hard on the ships.
KIND OF SAD, ACTUALLY:
This is such a perfect example of how Trump broke the brains of so many on the Left. In the name of opposing "totalitarianism" and "defending democracy," DeNiro thinks there should be a body of elites who bar people from running for office, including someone who went on to win… https://t.co/H2eKWF5rv1
— Batya Ungar-Sargon (@bungarsargon) April 1, 2026
MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE: Nayib Bukele Just Went Nuclear on the UN and Rightfully So.
ALL OF THIS:
It reminds Democrats of how horrible they are.
That's why they don't like it. https://t.co/wGesbOf1Pj
— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) April 1, 2026
THIS IS NO TIME TO GO WOBBLY: Satellite images begin to show damage wrought across the region by Iran war.
ICYMI:
🚨 The decision is in—Artemis II is a go. Launch is scheduled for 6:24 p.m. ET tonight as NASA begins full fueling operations, with weather currently 80% favorable.
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) April 1, 2026
HE SHOULD FOCUS ON HIRING A DRIVER: Tiger Woods Steps Away From Golf to Focus on Recovery After DUI Crash.