IF IT’S DAMAGING TO AMERICAN INTERESTS, THE SAFE DEFAULT IS TO BELIEVE OBAMA PROBABLY DID IT:
There used to be a rumor floating around among Iranians: that as part of the Nuclear Deal, Obama quietly handed out 3,500 green cards to regime officials and their families.
At the time I thought it sounded crazy.
But now with so many children of top regime figures, professors,… pic.twitter.com/4LfkY98gKC
— Sana Ebrahimi Ledene (@__Injaneb96) April 12, 2026
THE FIX IS IN, PART II:
You want to know why?
Because he’s going to hand out permits for protests instead and then pretend that’s the organic response to the country on the anniversary. https://t.co/SSaUy8uqur
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) April 11, 2026
Previously:
World Trade Center and Tall Ships, New York City, Bicentennial Day 1976: pic.twitter.com/TTcGitM7c2
— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) September 11, 2024
DO THE NEW ONES, YOU KNOW, WORK? China plans to deliver air defense systems to Iran in coming weeks, US intelligence reveals. “Two sources informed CNN that there are signs Beijing is attempting to route shipments of the weaponry through third countries to conceal their true origin.”
THE FIX IS IN:
The court needs kangaroos https://t.co/EGhIA3Ka1h
— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) April 11, 2026
You get less of what you punish, and it looks like war heroes are no longer wanted in Australia.
HMM: Powell, Bessent discussed Anthropic’s Mythos AI cyber threat with major U.S. banks. “The surprise meeting between the bank chiefs and the two most powerful federal monetary regulators was a signal that the advanced capabilities of AI are a top concern in the Trump administration and could threaten the foundation of the U.S. financial system.”
FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: Sir, This Is a Wendy’s. “It’s time for your much-needed break from the serious news, and this week, we’ll learn how to get charged with pretty much everything, the worst excuse for speeding, and how they (almost) get home from the liquor store in Kentucky these days.”
CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: States consider expanding campus carry laws, reigniting college gun debate.
COLONIALISM, STRAIGHT UP:
This is Tehran now. They are not Iranians. They don’t speak our language. They are Hashd Al shabi jihadists from Iraq speaking Arabic.
Iran does not have a “government” that somehow kills “its own people”. Iran is under Arab-Islamic occupation for 47 years. The Ayatollahs just… pic.twitter.com/6JCxv1U4uu
— Gazelle غزاله شارمهد (@GazelleSharmahd) April 10, 2026
WHY IN THE ACTUAL HELL WOULD ANYONE GIVE THEIR RAW HEALTH DATA TO AN LLM? Meta’s New AI Asked for My Raw Health Data—and Gave Me Terrible Advice.
WELL, YEAH — BUT THAT WAS BEFORE ANYBODY CALLED THEIR BLUFF:
Call me crazy but wasn't that exactly what they were demanding just a few months ago on the steps of the Capitol?
— Jellenne 🇺🇸🌵🌞 (@Jellenne) April 10, 2026
IT’S TIME FOR VICTORIA TAFT’S West Coast, Messed Coast™: Hey, Where’d All That Money Go? “Here’s the truth. The insiders in Sacramento, Salem, and Olympia have been using social service non-profits, NGOs, and questionable charitable groups as passthroughs for their friends and pet constituencies for years. Billions have been gifted to insiders and friends. And now — at long last — actual taxpayers have gotten wise to the grift. You can thank independent journalists for highlighting these absurd expenses in a much simpler and understandable way than thick books or endless PDFs filled with intentionally confusing stats, opaquely written conclusions, and puffed-up executive summaries that don’t reflect the data can ever do.”
DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: Minneapolis Mulls Bathhouse Legalization.
NEW ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION DIRECTOR EXITS THE CLOSEST THING TO A FREE-SPEECH PLATFORM ON THE INTERNET:
The founder of the Electronic Freedom Foundation vs the current executive director of the Electronic Freedom Foundation. https://t.co/ucJMKPGTT1 pic.twitter.com/aHrc8cQwq8
— John Carter (@martianwyrdlord) April 10, 2026
Meet the new boss, not at all like the old boss.
THE DONROE DOCTRINE: Tracking China in the Americas: Adiós, Amigos.
A few years ago, I was on a road trip in Costa Rica with a friend who lives there — we were driving across the country from Tamarindo to Puerto Viejo — and we stopped at a gas station to get some drinks. He came out and handed me my Gatorade Zero and said, “Are there a lot Chinese businesses in Atlanta?”
It wasn’t something I’d thought much about, so I told him I wasn’t sure, and he told me they were popping up all over Costa Rica at rapid speed. He said something like, “I don’t know how they do it. It all just falls into place. It’s like they sold their souls to the devil. Everything works out for them.”
Later, he asked me what I thought of Chinese car brands. I told him we didn’t really have that in the United States, and he told me they were flooding the Costa Rican market, and the cars were awful. “Give me a Ford over a Chinese car any day,” he said.
Up until that point, I had no idea just how much China had infiltrated Costa Rica and/or Latin America, but after that I started learning. It was ugly. It’s what prompted this “Tracking China in the Americas” series that I began writing last fall.
But here’s the good news: The tides are turning in many places.
Read the whole thing.
THAT SEEMS BOTH WISE AND OBVIOUS: Don’t ask students to ‘discover’ math before they’ve learned fundamentals. “‘In many classrooms, students are encouraged to ‘discover’ math principles, come up with multiple problem-solving strategies and explore patterns before they’ve mastered core procedures, such as 6 x 8 = 48, she writes. ‘he intention is deeper understanding. But teachers frequently report student frustration, uneven mastery, and widening gaps between those who enter with strong background knowledge and those who do not.'”
So many of today’s teaching fads leave the weaker students even further behind that you have to wonder if that’s the intent.
OUCH: USPS suspends contributions to employee pensions after warning of ‘cash crisis.’
The USPS contributes about $400 million a month to its employee pension plan, the agency said in a statement on Thursday. The postal service said it will continue to send worker contributions to the retirement plan and will also transmit employer automatic and matching contributions, as well as employee contributions to the Thrift Savings Plan, another retirement program for federal workers.
The temporary halt in contributions to the USPS program comes after Postmaster General David Steiner warned Congress last month that the postal agency is heading for a financial crisis without a course correction. Those changes could include raising the cost of a first-class stamp to 95 cents or reducing delivery from its current six days per week schedule to five or fewer, he said.
Without such changes, Steiner said, the USPS could run out of cash within 12 months, which could result in a stoppage of mail delivery.
There’s FedEx for important mail, UPS for packages, and USPS for junk, mostly.
THIS IS A RESURFACED CLIP FROM 2022, BUT IF THAT’S HOW LEFTIES WERE TALKING WHEN THE DEMS HELD THE WHITE HOUSE AND CAPITOL HILL…:
Horrifying, listen to three professors from Virginia public universities discuss taking down the United States through violence.
“We actually need to crash the US—We must stand with the armed resistance.” pic.twitter.com/G9q9trSmwH
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) April 10, 2026
ALTERNATE HEADLINE: SPANBERGER ABOLISHES UNTOLD THOUSANDS OF STARTER JOBS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE. Spanberger raises Virginia’s minimum wage to $15.
THIS LOOKS ABOUT RIGHT, BUT IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE:
IRAN WAR 2026
What was achieved. What wasn’t.
The nuclear threat was pushed back. Not eliminated. Pushed back.
Iran’s ability to launch sustained mass ballistic missile barrages at Israel as an existential threat has been completely degraded.
The regime’s missile industry…
— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) April 10, 2026
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Comrade Mamdani Is Getting Smacked Around by Reality. “Like all leftists, Mamdani is a cop-hater, so this ought to get ugly. He prefers police who can’t do any real policing. His wish list for the department looks to weaken it wherever he can. The NYPD is still reeling from the Defund the Police attack in 2020. There might not be any cops left in New York by the time Mamdani’s one term is up.”
CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Why Doesn’t Andy Beshear Think Young Adults Deserve to Exercise All of Their Civil Rights? “’While he claims to be a ‘different kind of Democrat,’ Gov. Beshear has revealed himself to be just one more anti-gun-rights politician adhering to the party’s increasingly far-left dogma,’ said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. ‘He has shown his true colors by preventing a provisional license for 18- to 20-year-olds to carry a concealed handgun in public, amounting to a direct attack on young women, especially young women of color, who are frequently in need of protection. The late, great First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, who was one of the first women in New York State to have a full carry license, is probably spinning in her grave.'”
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