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.

CHANGE? No Joke. Two GOP Candidates Are Ahead in the California Governor’s Race.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Prosecutors Who Refuse to Prosecute Gun Crimes Are a Clear and Present Danger to Their Communities.

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.

pic.twitter.com/ZiogMsBNPd

— 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.

AN IMPORTANT REMINDER:

Joseph Goebbels – PhD in linguistics

Joseph Mengele – PhD and medical degree

Kim Jong Un – Doctorate in economics

Bashar Assad – Ophthalmologist

So no, being educated does not stop anyone from being a bloodthirsty murderous tyrant like the butchers of the regime in Iran https://t.co/Ye1AfmeIZ3

— Neil Stone (@DrNeilStone) March 31, 2026

And Hitler was an animal-loving vegetarian bohemian artist.

GOOGLE: Quantum frontiers may be closer than they appear.

Google’s introducing a 2029 timeline to secure the quantum era with post-quantum cryptography (PQC) migration.

Last month, we called to secure the quantum era before a future quantum computer can break current encryption. This new timeline reflects migration needs for the PQC era in light of progress on quantum computing hardware development, quantum error correction, and quantum factoring resource estimates.

As a pioneer in both quantum and PQC, it’s our responsibility to lead by example and share an ambitious timeline. By doing this, we hope to provide the clarity and urgency needed to accelerate digital transitions not only for Google, but also across the industry.

Quantum computers will pose a significant threat to current cryptographic standards, and specifically to encryption and digital signatures. The threat to encryption is relevant today with store-now-decrypt-later attacks, while digital signatures are a future threat that require the transition to PQC prior to a Cryptographically Relevant Quantum Computer (CRQC). That’s why we’ve adjusted our threat model to prioritize PQC migration for authentication services — an important component of online security and digital signature migrations.

On a long enough timeline, everything gets hacked.

AMAZED? REALLY?

It continues to amuse me that Blueskyers abandoned twitter to avoid the toxicity, only to discover that they *were* the toxicity. https://t.co/8ZHlNlqQpA

— Andy Grewal (@ProfGrewal) March 31, 2026

ALLIES: Trump, Israel React to France Blocking U.S. Planes From French Airspace.

PRIORITIES:

Iryna should have crossed the border illegally, committed several felonies, preferably violent, instead of dying at the hands of a cold-blooded murderer on a bus if she wanted to be cared about in a blue city. https://t.co/LEDaASmBwR

— Mary Katharine Ham (@mkhammer) April 1, 2026

BE CAREFUL OUT THERE: BBB warns of surge in sophisticated tax scams ahead of April 15 deadline. “Tax scammers are using AI to be even more convincing, realistic and effective… In just a few minutes, a phony website or scam email can wipe out your bank account. Fraudsters are hoping people will be so rushed to file their taxes on time that they will disregard key red flags. Ignoring these is dangerous to you and your family.”

BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP ON THE FRONT BURNER:

The birthright citizenship case this morning is really more about politics than it is the law.

If the Administration loses nothing of substance will change. But the debate has been joined, and taken to the very highest level of discourse.

Two years ago no one would have even…

— Shipwreckedcrew (@shipwreckedcrew) April 1, 2026

“Two years ago no one would have even imagined this issue would be before the Supreme Court. But Pres. Trump FORCED it there.”

Turns out, you can just do things.

BUT WILL THEY LISTEN? Europe Needs to Hear This Harsh Truth. “The self-styled sophisticates in Brussels and Europe’s capitals remain remarkably provincial in their outlook, and that’s why today we will speak some harsh truths to our friends in Europe — not because the truth is harsh, but because they believe that we naive Americans don’t recognize it.”

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Republicans Would Rather Cede Power To Democrats Than Their Own Voters.

While the SAVE America Act continues to languish, the Department of Homeland Security (including ICE and Border Patrol) remains unfunded, and dozens of Trump nominees await confirmation, Senate Majority Leader John Thune did what any typical Republican would do. He sent the upper chamber home on a two-week vacation.

The entirely predictable scenario came about after Senate Republicans agreed with Democrats to pass a DHS package devoid of ICE and Border Patrol funding in the early hours of Friday morning. The GOP maintained that the latter two agencies would be funded via reconciliation to overcome Democrats’ procedural blockade.

To their credit, House Republicans rejected that swampy proposal. The lower chamber instead passed a short-term continuing resolution (CR) that temporarily funds DHS — including ICE and CBP.

But rather than force senators to stay in session to consider that measure, other proposals, or debate the SAVE America Act (that is, actually put up a fight), Thune sent everybody home.

It would be far too kind to say that Thune has been a disappointment.

MORE NUKES IS GOOD NUKES:

🚨BREAKING: Because of the oil price crisis and the situation in the Strait of Hormuz, Austria has decided to open its only nuclear power plant in Zwentendorf on the Danube, which was completed in 1978 but never connected to the grid due to a negative referendum the same year. ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/xt99cnyqAv

— Michael Martens (@Andric1961) April 1, 2026

Also, determining national energy policy by referendum is stupid.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Yeah, We Totally Should’ve Let Germany Have France After WWII. “Emmanuel Macron is one of the biggest weasels on the international stage. He’s also one of those European leaders who doesn’t grasp that his country and continent are vestigial shadows that have very few things to contribute to the free world. France could have been useful here, but Manny Mac opted to flush harder as his country swirls down the toilet.”

VDH: The Two Wars for Iran: The War in a Historical Context.

The administration needs to counter left-wing and far-right hysteria about the supposedly undue influence of Israel.

Israel and the U.S. have many shared agendas—not all, but many—and weakening Iran in this operation is certainly at the top of their shared list. We realize that because we are powerful and at a distance from Iran, while Israel is nearer and more vulnerable, it will, from time to time, have different views of and solutions to Iran’s existential threats and must operate for its own national self-interest, as we do for our own.

But when our national interests dovetail—no terrorist entity has killed more Americans in the last half-century than has Iran—then we are proud and lucky to partner with Israel, a democracy and free society with a formidable record of military competency and a larger air force than any of our NATO partners—including Turkey, France, the UK, and Germany.

Despite the frenzy, the military side of the operation has gone particularly well, often conducted in brilliant fashion. But the hysterical politics of the war have been dangerous to the degree that it now threatens the very mission itself.

That’s the real Vietnam Syndrome, and we have yet to find an effective counter to it.

TO BE FAIR, THEY’RE ALWAYS OUTRAGED WHEN WE’RE WINNING:

General Caine casually says the air campaign in Iran is shifting to "dynamic targets". What does this mean and why should we care?

Dynamic targets are unplanned or unanticipated objectives that have become known in near-real time to the intelligence surveillance and…

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) April 1, 2026

ICYMI: Stock Market Up! Hormuz to Open! Trump and Hegseth at Odds! CHAOS!

DISPATCHES FROM EURABIA:

Sorry but what the heck is going on with this?

Why is the UK media suddenly fixated on dogs, seemingly to get people to question having them?

The UK is a solidly dog-loving place. British people have worked with them and kept them as companions for ever. This is so weird pic.twitter.com/bjONWXubRH

— Elisheva Abramson 🇮🇱🌴 (@ElishevaSays) March 31, 2026

It isn’t weird. It’s the inevitable result of increasing Islamification, which the UK press is happy to bend over backwards to accommodate. Lest they get blown up or beheaded, I suppose.

CITY GRABS ANKLES, PREPARES TO VOTE: Shocking poll says half of Angelenos want a democratic socialist for mayor: ‘Holy Zohran Mamdani.’

The poll, conducted by Loyola Marymount University from February 11 to March 16, also puts incumbent Karen Bass second in the upcoming mayoral race at 17% of the vote, after progressive councilmember Nithya Raman, a member of the hard-left Democratic Socialists of America, listed at 32.5%.

About 47.7% of voters wanted a socialist in charge ahead of other listed types of candidates, such as a “moderate, business-oriented Democrat” and “conservative political outsider,” according to the poll.

The reaction from pundits and others: surprise and skepticism.

“Holy Zohran Mandami,” exclaimed Mike Madrid, an anti-Trump Republican strategist who co-founded the Lincoln Project.

Fernando Guerra, director of LMU’s Center for the Study of Los Angeles, told KPCC that the poll took an unusually different tactic in asking voters questions.

“Most polls, they just give the name,” Guerra said. “We kind of educated the voter before we asked, ‘Who would you support?’”

“Educated” is doing a whole lot of work in that sentence.