HMM: Trump Administration Decides to Keep the Biden Era ‘Frame or Receiver’ Definition in Place. “The following month, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a disappointing decision upholding the ATF’s ‘Frame or Receiver’ rule, a relic of the Biden Administration. Rather than dismissing the appeal or withdrawing the Biden ATF regulation before the Court ruled, the Trump Administration chose to continue defending the gun control rule, allowing the Court to issue a decision that preserved President Biden’s regulatory overreach.”

HEH:

Peace talks be like… pic.twitter.com/jCo2TiOIxI

— Israel ישראל (@Israel) April 13, 2026

SUNLIGHT IS THE BEST DISINFECTANT: Maryland’s Wes Moore Gets the ‘Spotlight’ Treatment — and He’s None Too Happy About It.

THIS:

Thanks Joe, we voted for Trump the first time because we said no to Obama’s foreign policy.

We voted for Trump a second and third time for the same reason.

You are literally peddling Obama foreign policy. And if there’s anything we have all learned, it’s that him and you are… https://t.co/PcbLQ2SYQC

— Insurrection Barbie (@DefiyantlyFree) April 12, 2026

Previously: “This is where ‘Drill, baby, drill’ meets MAGA foreign policy, so to those America Only people still fuming that Trump isn’t (and never was) an isolationist, now do you get it?”

TO BE FAIR, IT SOUNDED A LOT LIKE YODELING: Sabrina Carpenter apologizes after mistaking Arab fan’s chant for ‘yodeling’ at Coachella.

The incident occurred Friday night on the main stage, when Carpenter paused between songs and heard a loud sound from the crowd. After finishing her song “Please Please Please” and sitting at the keyboard as the audience quieted, one fan continued shouting, prompting confusion from the pop singer.

“I think I heard someone yodel,” Carpenter said, leading the fan to repeat the sound. Carpenter then responded, “Is that what you’re doing?” before shaking her head and adding with a face of disgust, “I don’t like it.”

“It’s my culture,” the fan replied.

“That’s your culture, is yodeling?” Carpenter asked.

“It’s a call of celebration,” the fan said, to which Caprent joked, “Is this Burning Man? What’s going on? This is weird.”

Assimilation helps avoid this kind of confusion.

#RESIST:

🇮🇪 WOW! Hundreds of police officers across Ireland are calling in “sick” to work because they refuse to break up peaceful protests.

We are witnessing a major revolt against the Irish Government right now.

Respect to those brave officers for standing with the Irish public! 👏👏 https://t.co/0dXRMsJ9zK

— Cillian (@CilComLFC) April 12, 2026

FILL’ER UP: Trump’s Middle East Master Plan. “The thing about that Persian Gulf stranglehold is that, like the Sword of Damocles, it’s only effective until it’s played.”

IT’S FRAUD ALL THE WAY DOWN:

Elon Musk was right.

The federal government was just writing checks to anyone who asked for years on end.

ZERO Verification Requirements.

Today, I confirmed a pattern:

Dissolved business entities billing Medicaid at scale.

In just one small batch, I’ve verified over… pic.twitter.com/rDCtS3HrJS

— Walter Curt (@wcdispatch) April 12, 2026

“In just one small batch, I’ve verified over $15MM. One was dissolved in 2011, yet between 2020-2024 it billed medicaid over $1.8M.”

The purpose of a system is what it does.

DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: Fairfax County schools retain copious cultural observance days out of ‘diversity’ concerns.

Fairfax County Public Schools approved scant changes to the academic calendar this week despite a growing movement among parents demanding that the northern Virginia school district cut down on its exorbitant number of days off for cultural observances.

FCPS has the highest volume of days off in Virginia and among the largest public school systems nationwide. In fact, Fairfax County, a majority-white liberal suburb, dedicates more days off from school to cultural holidays than the demographically diverse city schools in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago.

That’s a whole lot of virtue signaling, but what about the education?

AND SO IT BEGINS:

Israel Hayom: The U.S. has begun enforcing a naval blockade on Iran, targeting all vessels entering and exiting its ports across the Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz.

The move is expected to inflict about $435M in total daily losses across Iran’s exports, roughly $13B per month,… pic.twitter.com/7Dli9ndh78

— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) April 13, 2026

Stay tuned…

THE UN IS AN UNFUNNY JOKE AND OUGHT TO BE ABOLISHED: UN Nominates Iran to Anti-Terror, Women’s Rights Committee.

THE SUN HAS SET ON THE BRITISH EMPIRE:

Well you would have to actually have ships that are able to do anything so that rules out the UK to begin with.. Pipp Pipp cheerio

— TheNegative1 (@the_negative01) April 12, 2026

THROW THE BASTARDS OUT: Swalwell scandal threatens cascade of House expulsion votes.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Eric Swalwell’s Gubernatorial Bid Gets Hit By the #MeToo Train. “Getting Swalwell completely out of politics seems like it would be overwhelmingly positive for the United States of America, but these are the 21st century Democrats we’re talking about here. As I have written on many occasions, the Democrats always have someone worse waiting in the wings. In this case, someone much, much worse.”

OOF:

The community note on this one is a doozy. pic.twitter.com/Amp1yLGSjU

— Juliegrace Brufke (@juliegraceb) April 13, 2026

There’s also this:

The question everyone should be asking is how this went on for so long. https://t.co/nfSWQbeGom

— IT Guy (@ITGuy1959) April 13, 2026

Partly because so much of government is made up of people like Swalwell and Porter — everybody has something on everybody.

But maybe mostly because Swalwell was useful, but now he isn’t.

EPIC FURY: This Is No Longer a Ceasefire — It’s a Strategic Pause.

The brief ceasefire announced on April 8 serves distinct strategic purposes. While Iran utilizes this window to recover from initial kinetic impacts, the U.S. decision to pause is a calculated combination of military, economic, and political factors:

• Stabilization and Battle Damage Assessment (BDA): Following successful strikes, military logic dictates a pause to secure achievements. This window allows U.S. intelligence to analyze material and personnel losses, assess remaining resistance capacity, and re-coordinate forces for the next phase.

• Managed Warfare: By demonstrating the ability to halt and restart operations, the U.S. signals that this is a “controlled war.” This was immediately reflected in the stabilization of global oil prices, mitigating market panic.

• Diplomatic Ultimatum: In high-level geopolitics, a pause initiated by the stronger side is a method of “Pressure Through Pause.” It allows Washington to present final diplomatic ultimatums while simultaneously finalizing logistics and ally coordination.

• Domestic Political Signaling: Internally, the pause reassures the American public that the administration is avoiding an open-ended entanglement, framing the conflict as a precise, results-oriented operation.

• Psychological Disruption of the Ruling Elite: President Trump’s repeated signals that current Iranian negotiators are viewed by Washington as part of Iran’s future governance add a profound layer of psychological warfare to this ceasefire. By engaging the “next generation” of leadership, the U.S. intentionally sows seeds of distrust and paranoia within the current hierarchy. This window is designed to trigger internal friction, suspicion, and potential fractures among the ruling elite, as they begin to question each other’s loyalty to the current order.

More to come…

IT’S A REGION WITH LONG MEMORIES:

Turkey is an illegal settler colony on stolen Greek land formed as a result of genocide and ethnic cleansing of millions of Greeks and Armenians. It's not a country, it's an ongoing crime.

— Uri Kurlianchik (@VerminusM) April 12, 2026

But, hey, if the Turks want to play the nationalist card, why not the Greeks, too?

COME SEE THE VIOLENCE INHERENT IN THE LEFTISM: Anti-ICE Protesters Violently Attack Conservative Journalist Savanah Hernandez.

WELL, TRUMP DID JUST KNEECAP A COMPETITOR:

This is the most America First shit I’ve ever seen https://t.co/TSHOqbDY45

— The Drunk Republican (@DrunkRepub) April 12, 2026

THE NEW SPACE RACE: The Artemis II mission has ended. Where does NASA go from here?

The biggest questions for Artemis III and Artemis IV involve the development of lunar landers by SpaceX and Blue Origin.

Ars recently interviewed NASA’s chief of exploration, Lori Glaze, and she said both companies are making a “real commitment” toward meeting NASA’s needs. But both companies have a long way to go from the prototype hardware they’re currently testing to specialized landers capable of safely landing on (and taking off from) the Moon.

Even for Artemis III, a simpler mission closer to Earth, there are serious challenges. SpaceX and Blue Origin must go through NASA’s extensive “human rating” process for their Starship and Blue Moon vehicles, respectively, before they can approach and dock with Orion.

Also, it is non-trivial for SpaceX and Blue Origin to integrate with Orion, which has fairly strict limits for thermal management and other issues. Even ensuring roughly equivalent cabin pressures between two vehicles is a significant task. Completing all of this within the next 12 to 18 months will be a difficult hill to climb.

Then, for Artemis IV, there are even greater hurdles. For SpaceX, the company must test and then become efficient at refueling Starship in low-Earth orbit for a trip to the Moon, and back. And Blue Origin, which has very limited experience in spaceflight operations, must develop a more capable version of its Blue Moon Mk. 1 lander, which is itself untested.

Both companies must also learn to operate in lunar orbit, and master landing their vehicles on the Moon and then subsequently lifting them off from the lunar surface.

There is no question that lunar lander readiness is the longest pole for both Artemis III and Artemis IV.

Starship development has been in a bit of a lull, but this looks promising:

Superheavy's evolution has been quite something to watch over the years! 😍
📸: @BocaChicaGal | @NASASpaceflight pic.twitter.com/mxirCwx42Y

— Niall Anderson (@INiallAnderson) April 11, 2026

“The best part is no part.”

NOAH SMITH IS ONE OF THOSE ENGAGEMENT FARMERS I USUALLY TRY TO AVOID:

I don't like braggadocious talk about this sort of thing, but we seem to have killed 7,000 Iranian troops and lost 15 people (albeit largely due to armor: 600 hurt). Iran's entire senior leadership is dead. Their nuke program is gone.

This is all being quite openly discussed,… https://t.co/lCtphThVDB

— Wilfred Reilly (@wil_da_beast630) April 12, 2026

EXACTLY WHAT I VOTED FOR: White House: ‘Era of Amnesty Is Over.’

VOTE WITH YOUR FEET, EH:

Your voting base stays but your tax base leaves?

Tells you something, eh?

— Hendrik Casimir – 'ihre Papiere, bitte' (@hendrik_casimir) April 12, 2026

It says that Canada is turning itself in a third-world nation.

If Alberta and Saskatchewan would like to put a stop to that, we could help.

ANALYSIS: TRUE.

Again… the press and the entire Democrat Party knew he was a rapist and a sexual predator and kept it a secret until he was in the way and needed removed. https://t.co/197MhysTln

— EducatëdHillbilly™ (@RobProvince) April 12, 2026

IF THE ISRAELIS WANTED A GENOCIDE, THERE’D BE NO GAZA. PERIOD:

Hitler killed 66% of European Jews. Under Netanyahu’s entire premiership the Palestinian population has grown.

The fuck you mean he’s “surpassed that of Adolf Hitler.” https://t.co/VZtnYhcgjp

— 𝔼𝕝𝕝𝕚𝕠𝕥 𝕄𝕒𝕝𝕚𝕟 (@ElliotMalin) April 12, 2026

And from the replies: “They want to exaggerate the crimes of Netanyahu, whilst simultaneously diminishing the crimes of the Nazis.”