RUNNING UNOPPOSED:

The judge who kept a criminal on the street — until he killed 26-year-old UT engineering grad Larissa Herold — was accused of sexually assaulting a 16-year-old Brazilian foreign exchange student living in her home.

In 2006, Chantal Eldridge gave the student alcohol and asked… https://t.co/JzJA02SEWM pic.twitter.com/Nl4qYvjSKv

— Austin Justice (@AustinJustice) April 18, 2026

FREEDOM OF NAVIGATION REQUIRES A FRIENDLY HEGEMON:

pic.twitter.com/eKCk6zdLHG

— David J Manley (@DavidJManley3) April 18, 2026

The world would be a much different — and much poorer — place today if it weren’t the the US Navy and, before it, the Royal Navy.

FRAMING:

Trump is going to frame this and put it in the Oval Office, isn't he? 😂 pic.twitter.com/x2reAQWl4Z

— Jesús Enrique Rosas (@Knesix) April 18, 2026

UPDATE: Sorry — messed up the embed earlier. Should be fixed now.

ANOTHER UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Heh.

Libs: “we need to make Trump look bad”

Journalist: “hey get a shot where he’s wearing royal purple and looks taller than a jumbo jet and has a 10 foot dick and everyone around him is kneeling or staring in awe” pic.twitter.com/4pK5znxeMT

— Lee (Greater) (@shortmagsmle) April 18, 2026

Has he lost weight?

THERE’S A LOT TO COVER: The New Monroe Doctrine: So… Here’s Everything That Happened. Yes, Everything.

21ST CENTURY SKILLSETS: 6,000 Apply as Air Traffic Controllers After DOT Secretary Duffy Proposes Recruiting Gamers.

WELL, WHEN YOU PUT IT THAT WAY…:

Average Mamdani scandal: High level staffer discovered to have anonymous account where he posted "Wallahi, we will wage jihad on the zionists of Crown Heights"

Average Eric Adams scandal: I approved a permit for a guy who gave me a free plane ticket upgrade https://t.co/042IIipXbs

— Habeas Corpus Linguistics (@HabCorpLinguist) April 17, 2026

New Yorkers wanted change. They’ll get it, good and hard.

PERSIAN GULF: Iran fires on tanker near Oman after re-closing Strait of Hormuz.

The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps fired on at least one ship in the waters near Oman after Tehran again closed the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday, according to the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Organization.

Two IRGC gunboats approached a tanker about 20 nautical miles northeast of the Gulf country around 1 p.m. local time — and opened fire unprovoked, the tanker’s master reported.

A second vessel was attacked by an “unknown projectile” some two hours later in the same area, the UKMTO said.

Looks like they don’t really want that ceasefire to hold.

Trump is probably OK with that.

THE ATLANTIC IS A RAG:

Hey @S_Fitzpatrick I was Kash Patel’s Sherpa on the transition. I spent nearly all day everyday with him for 3+ months and have been with him frequently since.

I have never seen the type of behavior that you’re describing from him.

Your anon sourced story is BS.

Oh and by the… https://t.co/hwWnUrYrKT pic.twitter.com/T0EUhyKbq0

— Clint Brown (@DissidentClint) April 18, 2026

And who is Sarah Fitzpatrick? Mark Judge reminds us that her byline graced this hit-piece from 2018: Kavanaugh accuser Julie Swetnick alleges he ‘spiked’ punch at parties so intoxicated women could be raped.

VOTING WITH THEIR DOLLARS: Blue State Gun Sales Reveal the True Will of the People. “Those figures show pent-up demand. For years, New Jersey’s subjective and burdensome “may issue” regime kept ordinary citizens from exercising a Constitutional right unless they could persuade the government they were special enough to deserve it. Once that artificial choke point was removed, tens of thousands of people responded. And keep in mind, crime rates all across the country — including in New Jersey — are at historic lows, all while millions more Americans lawfully purchase and carry firearms.”

AFTER CUBA, WHAT’S TRUMP GOING TO DO ABOUT CANADA?

“An RBC report released Tuesday confirmed that new investment in Canada has completely collapsed during the Liberals’ tenure in power”

Trudeau cost our Country 1 TRILLION DOLLARS in investments. Just a reminder, he was taking advice from the “master economist” currently running… pic.twitter.com/cunCyQlenf

— Ryan Gerritsen🇨🇦🇳🇱 (@ryangerritsen) April 17, 2026

IS ANYBODY IN CHARGE OVER THERE? Iran closes Strait of Hormuz again over US blockade.

MOVE ALONG, NOTHING TO SEE HERE: Ilhan Omar Says She Isn’t a Multimillionaire, Blames Accounting Error.

An Omar disclosure filed last year showed she and her husband held assets of between $6 million and $30 million, a massive rise in wealth from her previous annual filing. That jump triggered questions among Republicans eager to scrutinize a critic of the president.

Republicans pounce!

More:

An amended filing viewed by The Wall Street Journal shows the couple’s assets to be just $18,004 to $95,000. The forms don’t require exact values, only broad ranges.

Omar’s husband, the former political consultant Tim Mynett, is involved with a variety of businesses. Those include a venture-capital management firm in Washington, D.C., and a winery in Santa Rosa, Calif., her disclosure forms show.

Those businesses had previously been listed as worth between $6 million and $30 million. In the amended filing, they are shown as having no value once liabilities are factored in

Aides said that Omar looked at the form before it was filed in 2025, but that the error didn’t jump off the page for her because she isn’t involved with her husband’s businesses and she trusted the accuracy of the accountant who provided her husband’s figures.

Why would an additional six or 30 million catch anyone’s eye?

Previously:

🚨 HOLY CRAP! Somali Rep. Ilhan Omar MELTED DOWN when a reporter confronted her over her skyrocketing net worth and potentially FAKE "winery"

"The American people really want to know how you went from -$65,000 before coming into Congress to over $30 million dollars in just 7… pic.twitter.com/fW6o2EljyH

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) February 24, 2026

THIS FRAMING IS NOT OFF-BASE:

Helen Andrews dropped a blunt explanation for why wokeness proved so hard to kill:

It’s rooted in feminine patterns of conflict — where disagreement isn’t debated, it’s treated as emotional harm that must be punished or silenced.

Instead of open argument (like James Damore’s… pic.twitter.com/4BxnE0bGVd

— Camus (@newstart_2024) April 17, 2026

HR is the worst.

SO MANY OF OUR CURRENT ILLS STARTED WITH OBAMA:

Already popular among western elites for quite some time, but was mostly limited to university campuses until the Obama administration

— Plantation Scientist (@plantationdrip) April 18, 2026

TRUMP SEEMS TO BE HAVING A BLAST WITH THIS STUFF, TOO:

I'm almost 100% this is what's happening.

One regime figure had a meltdown and then deleted his X account. Others are calling for Araghchi to be impeached.

Ghalibaf is calling all of Trump's posts lies.

Regimi twitter in absolute shambles. https://t.co/CHNOo6rfei

— 𝐍𝐢𝐨𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠 🇮🇷 ✡︎ (@NiohBerg) April 17, 2026

LOL, DAVID FRENCH:

Allie, ever so gently but thoroughly, pressed French (heh)

She showed how French dishonestly claimed she was champion of political cruelty. How French could not rationally justify a vote for Kamala Harris.

And finally how French ignores heresy from Talarico because he’s… https://t.co/wqApjakIPY

— Political Sock (@politicalsock) April 17, 2026

GOOD LORD:

If true, this is the most significant corruption scandal in Australian history

Afghan villagers are PAID to testify against war hero Ben Roberts-Smith

The villagers are then coached

The government in return offers the villagers ASYLUM – which presumably is like winning the… https://t.co/6Jj5cKNUlK

— Lisa (@Lisa9Sophia) April 17, 2026

WELL, WHEN YOU PUT IT THAT WAY…

Imagine watching the Deep State torpedo Eric Swalwell in less than 7 days, and still thinking there's a magical career-ending bombshell they've had on Trump but not released over the past 11 years.

— Damani Felder (@TheDamaniFelder) April 17, 2026

INTERVIEW WITH VICTOR GLOVER, AMERICAN BAD-ASS: Artemis II pilot talks about what it was really like to fly and land in Orion.

The Lunar Science team won’t like it when I say this, but it’s the truth. If we had launched, done the rendezvous and proximity operations demo, and then had to emergency de-orbit, I would have considered us a massive success. Because that may be the only chance we get to test this really important capability.

We don’t plan to manually dock. It’s a crew interrupt. Boeing CFT (the Starliner Crew Flight Test in 2024, during which Butch Wilmore had to take control of the spacecraft during an emergency) has shown us when these things might need to be done. And Butch held position manually. He had to use his eyeballs to correlate where he was and just hold position. That was a critical moment for them to breathe, and for the team to collect themselves, because if they had tried to retreat or tried to continue docking with ISS, both of those would have been catastrophic.

So this capability, to me, was a huge milestone—now Artemis II gets to pass the baton to III and IV, whatever they are, docking, proximity ops again, landing. Those crews will have the peace of mind that the Artemis II test pilot said it was good to go. An engineer said it was good to go, and an F-18 pilot said it was good to go. That, to me, is unreal. We got so much juice for the squeeze on that.

Read the whole thing.

ALL THE VERY BEST PEOPLE ASSURED ME THIS NEVER HAPPENED:

🚨 JUST IN: HHS Sec. RFK Jr. CONFIRMS nearly ALL of the 1.4 million people purged from taxpayer healthcare are ILLEGAL ALIENS

Holy crap. We gave welfare to THAT MANY ILLEGALS?!

"They're almost ALL illegal immigrants!"

"We found ~1.5 MILLION illegal immigrants illegally… pic.twitter.com/5OlHdChfY1

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) April 17, 2026

IT’S TIME FOR VICTORIA TAFT’S West Coast, Messed Coast™” Newsom’s Free Chesticles for Illegals Helped Quadruple CA’s Medi-Cal Costs “This week your humble correspondent offers some advice for when Democrats pretend to give a rip about ‘affordability.’ Remind them that before the ‘excursion’ in Iran temporarily raised gas prices, President Donald Trump’s prices never reached the heights of the prices planned and in place for the poor saps living on the West Coast, Messed Coast™. Add in the cost of free body parts for illegal alien trans people, and whoa.”

MAKE AMERICA MALE AGAIN:

If they can eliminate low testosterone,

A Democrat would never win another presidential election.

This is a scientific study, and I’m not being facetious. https://t.co/U26PmfuYYf pic.twitter.com/nzKzQKmo03

— Dr Manhattva (@Manhattva) April 16, 2026

CALIFORNIA FORBIDS OFFSHORE PRODUCTION, FORCES REFINERIES TO CLOSE, AND YOU’LL NEVER BELIEVE WHAT HAPPENS NEXT: California ‘running out of fuel’ as imports dry up, Trump needs to act to prevent crisis: experts.

These problems will extend far beyond the state. Nevada gets about 80% of its gasoline from California, and Arizona gets nearly half of its supply from the state. California is also home to a dozen ports through which a large portion of U.S. exports and imports are transferred, and the state is home to key West Coast military bases. It’s also nearly 15% of the U.S. economy. Without fuel, operations at California’s businesses and industries, and these important ports and bases, will be severely impacted.

While the war in Iran has raised the risk level from stressed to dangerous, Mische explained that the end of the conflict won’t immediately avert the crisis. If the exports of petroleum began to flow normally today, it would be a couple of months before the shortfalls would be addressed. Tankers would need to ship the products across the oceans. Refineries would have to be restarted, and back orders would need to be filled.

“You’re two months out. It’s crazy,” Mische said.

Self-government has proven a one-party-state disaster for California and its neighbors.

Alternate headline: What would we do without experts?

WELL, WE’LL SEE:

NEWS President Trump tells me:

-No ground troops will be required to remove enriched uranium from Iran

-Iran has agreed to stop backing all proxy groups like Hezbollah and Hamas

-I asked if Iran has agreed to stop enriching uranium *forever.” He said, “They’ve agreed to…

— Weijia Jiang (@weijia) April 17, 2026

FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: The $700,000 Foot Bath Fraud. “It’s time for your much-needed break from the serious news, and this week, we’ll learn the freakiest way to rip off health insurers, yet another reason not to use Mugshots.com as a dating app, and how they’re exiting the courtroom in Colorado these days.”