AS GOD AND SAM HOUSTON INTENDED: Texas continues cutting services for illegal immigrants.

A report by the Texas Tribune detailed the steps taken, which include tightening eligibility requirements for occupational licenses, restricting access to commercial driver’s licenses, and limiting who can qualify for in-state tuition at public universities. According to the report, more than 6,400 refugees and DACA recipients have lost their commercial driver’s licenses. Additional restrictions are expected to affect noncitizens working in licensed industries such as construction and medicine.

State officials are also examining the 1982 Supreme Court ruling Plyler v. Doe, which requires public schools to educate noncitizens.

“Benefits, licenses, and taxpayer-funded services should not be used to incentivize unlawful presence at the expense of hardworking Texans,” a spokesperson for Governor Greg Abbott said in a statement. “These steps ensure compliance with federal law, protect the integrity of our systems, and prioritize jobs and resources for legal residents and citizens.”

The efforts, however, have been met with backlash by activists.

Ignore them and move on.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Corrupt Legacy Media Hacks Are Stepping on Rakes All Over the Place. “President Trump is just fine, by the way. It’s his haters who are sick in their heads. This idiocy is really a lot to take after four years of the media commies pretending that the doddering idiot Joe Biden was the picture of mental and physical fitness. I’ve lost count of how many health crises they’ve concocted out of the ether in the past year regarding the president.”

HMM: China Reports Outbreak of Livestock Disease Near Russian Regions Hit by Mass Cattle Culling.

Chinese officials reportedly said the highly contagious strain, which is immune to vaccines that are currently available domestically, likely entered “from abroad.” Xinjiang borders Russia, Mongolia and Kazakhstan, including a narrow frontier with the Siberian republic of Altai, adjacent to the Altai region, where most of Russia’s recent cattle culling has taken place.

China’s agriculture ministry said last week that 219 cattle across two herds of 6,229 tested positive for a variant of foot-and-mouth disease. Officials have since ordered culling and disinfection measures in Xinjiang and the neighboring Gansu province, as well as stepped up patrols to prevent the disease from entering through smuggling or the illegal transportation of livestock.

The outbreak follows the culling of roughly 90,000 head of cattle across nine Russian regions since February, with analysts estimating that around 80% were in the Altai region. Russian authorities have attributed the losses to rabies, pasteurellosis and other unspecified illnesses.

The scale of the culling in Altai and other regions has raised suspicions that Russia may be concealing a more serious disease outbreak.

Ugh.

LOL, FRANCE: Macron’s Latest Comments Show France Hasn’t Learned a Thing.

THE NUMBERS DON’T LIE:

Imaging losing 1 plane for every 13,000 strike missions and thinking that America is winning the war in Iran 😂😭

At this rate, Iran can absorb 52,000,000 strikes to down the remaining 4,000 US strike aircraft.

America will lose.

— Rabbi Linda Goldstein (🇵🇸🍉I/P Commentary) (@realrabbilinda) April 5, 2026

Also: Heh.

OH, CANADA: Canada Going On Gun-Grabbing Spree.

Then-Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau introduced legislation known as C-21 to freeze handgun purchases and a “buy back” of military-style semi-automatic firearms in May 2022, with the bill receiving Royal Assent in December 2023. Conservative Member of Parliament Dane Lloyd of Alberta questioned Minister of Public Safety Gary Anandasangaree about the apparent large-scale refusal to comply from gun owners.

“Minister, the declaration period for firearms owners is scheduled to end next week. So far, only 2.5 percent of the estimated two million effected firearms have been declared and 98 percent [of] firearms owners haven’t made a declaration,” Lloyd said. “So, if they’re not declaring by next week, what’s your plan, Minister?”

The legislation contained an Australia-style “buyback” of so-called “assault weapons” after Trudeau’s government banned over 2,500 types of modern semiautomatic firearms following a 2020 mass shooting in Nova Scotia.

“The plan we have is as of March 31st, the time to complete the enrollment, will be, will be done and then the RCMP and other agencies will be available throughout the spring and the summer to do the collection,” Anandasangaree responded.

“Collection.”

CONSTITUENT SERVICE: Dem Senator Mourns Criminal ‘Asylum Seeker’ Who Caused Big Pileup While Fleeing ICE.

YES:

People underestimate how much third worldist anti-westerners have infiltrated western discourse. After a while, there are no excuses for not getting this. The demoralisation and destabilisation op didn’t start yesterday. pic.twitter.com/v1q9mpGExz

— Stelios Panagiotou (@Panagiotou90St) April 5, 2026

THE EUROPEAN MIND CANNOT COMPREHEND THIS:

>Rumors of the US planning to put a FOB with strategic airlift inside Iran to extract the uranium start circulating

>Frenchman says “hey you can’t do that”

> US puts a FOB with strategic airlift inside Iran to extract downed aircrew as the Frenchman speaks https://t.co/PsXpCGd96p pic.twitter.com/fbB5B4KaXQ

— Jack D Ripper (@d16b0lical) April 5, 2026

Or this, either:

But we don’t call it our “greatest military success of all time.” We call it “business as usual.”

If you want to know why the US & IAF have the best and most committed pilots/aviators in the world, it’s because they know we will do everything in our power to bring them home.

— Stephen Green (@VodkaPundit) April 5, 2026

I’d argue the worst failures we’ve suffered in the last 50 years were when we failed to do things like Americans.

YOUR DAILY DOSE OF SCHADENFREUDE:

The best part of this is obviously the return of our soldiers

The second best part is watching the Arab world mock the IRGC relentlessly https://t.co/5cRgJQn8cd

— Will Chamberlain (@willchamberlain) April 5, 2026

AN IMPORTANT REMINDER:

In the 1970’s, the KGB put together an operational plan for undermining America via informational warfare and ideological subversion:

“To change the perception of reality of every American to such an extent that no one is able to come to sensible conclusions in the interest of… https://t.co/ScCSYXqaie

— AG (@AGHamilton29) April 5, 2026

Exit quote: “Our enemies have spent decades creating an environment to try to bring about the destruction of America. Now they have a bunch of allies in America actively trying to assist, whether because they don’t like the current administration or because they want to undermine our current system. But what they are doing is obvious and no one should forget who is playing a role in it.”

IMPRESSIVE… MOST IMPRESSIVE:

It isn't so much that Iranians are that bad, it is just that Americans are that good. https://t.co/Tgrq2RqVcs

— cdrsalamander (@cdrsalamander) April 5, 2026

Related:

U.S. engineers were repairing and even building new airfields on Okinawa while the battle for the island was still ongoing. https://t.co/qlV1bOm2ra

— Stephen Green (@VodkaPundit) April 5, 2026

It’s how our guys have done things for a long time, and it’s great to see that they’ve still got it.

COVID IS SO OVER: ‘Humiliating’: Pfizer cancels COVID vaccine trial for lack of interest as global scrutiny mounts.

Five years after their wide deployment, first on a voluntary basis, then under threat of firing for nearly 100 million Americans at the direction of the White House, COVID-19 vaccines for at least low-risk groups may be on the way out amid higher regulatory requirements and indifference to the jabs by the vast majority of Americans.

Pfizer and its COVID mRNA vaccine partner BioNTech abruptly pulled the plug on their trial for healthy 50-64 year-olds, telling trial investigators in a March 30 letter they were coming up short on the 25,000-30,000 enrollment needed to generate enough data to evaluate the jabs, Reuters reported, citing a letter it viewed.

Friday was the last day that Pfizer was scheduled to monitor trial participants for signs of COVID illness, the letter reportedly said. “Two sources from companies” that manage 9% of trial sites told the wire service that Pfizer told them in writing weeks earlier to stop recruitment.

“This study is not ending as a result of any safety or benefit-risk concerns,” Pfizer and BioNTech told the wire service, citing their “inability to generate relevant post-marketing data” with lagging enrollment.

And yet there are still people wearing cloth masks.

THE NIGHT THE LIGHTS WENT OUT IN IRAN:

It doesn't get more straightforward than this from President Trump.
The gloves come off tomorrow against the Ayatollahs. pic.twitter.com/SXjk3fKnWj

— Jim Hanson (@JimHansonDC) April 5, 2026

BREAKING:

Good news for once.

F-15 WSO recovered alive. Was escaping and evading. Massive fire fight on tgt. Iranians were actively looking for him in the area.

— Jack Murphy (@JackMurphyRGR) April 4, 2026

Murphy is a reliable source.

HEH:

Remember when Jimmy Kimmel made fun of plumbers and then literal rocket scientists couldn’t fix the toilet https://t.co/bn8HJqF0cA

— Matt’s Idea Shop (@MattsIdeaShop) April 4, 2026

LET THE NAVY COLLECT TOLLS FOR SAFE PASSAGE, JUST LARGE ENOUGH TO FUND A 600-SHIP NAVY:

Everybody is already blaming the USA for the Strait of Hormuz being closed. Therefore, I propose that we mine the strait just for fun. It wouldn’t change anyone’s opinion of us, we don’t need the oil, Iran would immediately beg to open the strait, and it would be very funny.

— Roman Helmet Guy (@romanhelmetguy) April 3, 2026

PERSPECTIVE:

We survived this.

And now Democrats are complaining about 2.4% inflation.

Child, be serious. pic.twitter.com/XbumwZeTa0

— Mila Joy (@Milajoy) April 4, 2026

PAST PERFORMANCE IS MORE OR LESS A PERFECT INDICATOR OF FUTURE RESULTS:

When the US will have to deal with China—and even Russia—the Europeans would react in exactly the same predictable way. “We don’t like Trump” might fly in 2026, but it’s just a rerun of Reagan and Bush.

Europe has no problems justifying and going to war (ex, Libya 2011); it… https://t.co/Bnc9xNcitO

— David Reaboi, Late Republic Nonsense (@davereaboi) April 4, 2026

SOCIALISM IN ONE LESSON:

🇪🇸🇪🇺 Spain passes Romania and becomes the EU country with the highest risk of child poverty. pic.twitter.com/YxDpbfdJnU

— Azat (@AzatAlsalim) April 3, 2026

HEY, BIG SPENDER: Tech Media Propaganda Operation Makes It Official, Goes In-House At OpenAI. “On Thursday, OpenAI announced that it had acquired the Technology Business Programming Network (TBPN) show. The Financial Times reports that the recently de-Sorafied AI giant paid somewhere in the “low hundreds of millions of dollars” for the purchase. The deal immediately prompted a great deal of online handwringing about a nominal media operation selling out to one of the biggest companies in Silicon Valley, which is understandable but unwarranted. Nothing will have to change, as even the independent version of TBPN was already so dedicated to cheerleading for the rich and powerful people in tech as to have been indistinguishable from marketing.”

Maybe not all the interesting in itself, but OpenAI is expected to lose between $111 billion and $143 billion between 2024 and 2029 (OpenAI claims the lower figure, Deutsche Bank the higher one), and TBPN is believed to break even at the very best.

But what’s a few more hundred million between friends?

THIS LOOKS LIKE A JOB FOR AN A-10:

Extremely alarmed to see the scenes from Iran today of Iraqi proxy militias (PMF) entering Iran under the guise of “aid.”

These are forces that have a documented track record of slaughtering Iranians in the streets. The regime is literally importing foreign forces to kill… pic.twitter.com/rvzwIgGZ9N

— Emily Schrader – אמילי שריידר امیلی شریدر (@emilykschrader) April 3, 2026

FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: He Tried to Steal… an Election? “It’s time for your much-needed break from the serious news, and this week, we’ll learn the importance of leaving the scene of the crime, the stupidest way to save money on gas, and how to party like a shark in the Bahamas.”

DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: Naked bike ride organizer slapped with child sex crime charges in WA.

Zachary Elisha Robertson, 42, of Bellingham, was taken into custody on March 10 on two felony counts of possession of child pornography. Investigators located approximately 25 nude images of prepubescent and pubescent girls on his laptop upon the execution of a search warrant. He later allegedly confessed to downloading nude images of girls between the ages of 5 and 7 years old, according to court documents.

Robertson, a nudist and homesteader, was reported to authorities by his wife, who allegedly walked in on Robertson pleasuring himself to the images on his laptop on March 6. Police obtained a search warrant and arrested Robertson at his home days later. He was quickly released from jail on $2,500 bail, records show.

The defendant is the author and illustrator of the children’s book Norma Normal, which centers on a little girl who “lives naked” in the outdoors. Roberston alleged to investigators that the pornographic images of kids on his laptop served as references for his 2020 book; however, detectives rejected his claim, according to a probable cause affidavit.

Good lord.

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG:

France was the only Western country to vote 'NO' at the UN Security Council to authorize Arab nations to use force to open the strait.

France voted with China & Russia.
That was yesterday.
Today, French ships are passing through the strait.

I don't believe in coincidences. https://t.co/DPxmBJXNJK

— David D. Chapman (@DavidD_Chapman) April 3, 2026