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.

“URGENTLY ROLL OUT RENEWABLES”:

🚨 BREAKING: The European Commission has urged people to work from home, drive and fly less, and for EU countries to urgently roll out renewables, as it warned of a prolonged energy crisis as a result of the conflict in the Gulf.

Full story: https://t.co/0IU3HD1E8u pic.twitter.com/nWOXcCVGGl

— POLITICOEurope (@POLITICOEurope) March 31, 2026

Since sending warships to the Strait of Hormuz is out of the question, I suppose pricing their manufacturers out of existence with ever-higher “renewable” energy costs is the next best thing.

SOME OF THESE NOVEMBER PREVIEWS ARE SURPRISINGLY FUN: Jon Ossoff’s ID Hypocrisy Was Begging for Mockery, and Mike Collins Delivered.

AYFKM? Judge Stops Trump’s Construction on White House Ballroom.

The East Wing is already gone.

What exactly is the plan here? To just leave a half finished ballroom because some lib group sued out of spite? https://t.co/7Xuob5bnWg

— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) March 31, 2026

Apparently, that’s exactly the plan.

ICYMI: War Is Crazy: The Return of the Giga Turtle Tank.

RILEY GAINES: Olympics finally picks biology over ideology to save women’s sports.

The International Olympic Committee finally did what so many of us have been demanding for years: it drew a clear, unambiguous line in the sand to protect women’s sports. Under its first-ever female president, Kirsty Coventry, the IOC announced a new eligibility policy that limits competition in the female category at the Olympics, Youth Olympics and all IOC-sanctioned events to females only. Novel concept, right? In today’s world, it is.

Starting with the 2028 Los Angeles Games, this will be verified through a simple, one-time SRY gene screening — a cheek swab, saliva sample, or blood draw — to confirm the absence of the male sex-determining gene. Chromosomes don’t lie. No more gray areas. No more pretending biology is optional.

This is a giant leap forward for women’s sports. They’ve done the right thing with a strong, clear policy. No equivocation, no tap-dancing, no pretense of “balancing priorities.” And they’ve backed it up with an objective, verifiable means of enforcement. Those responsible this time around deserve real congratulations.

We’re finally developing immunity to the social contagion.

SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH EUROPE, EXHIBIT #1,000,006:

The craziest discovery
from this war: Iran’s regime has
way more fans in Europe than in
the entire Middle East 😂

Europe.. what on earth
is going on with you!?

— Ahmed Khalifa (@_A_khalifa) March 31, 2026

IN WHICH I PROVIDE ANOTHER PRICELESS LESSON IN IGNORING THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Stock Market Up! Hormuz to Open! Trump and Hegseth at Odds! CHAOS!

BOTTOM STORY OF THE DAY: King Charles III to visit U.S. in late April, attend state dinner at the White House, Trump says.

CHANGE?

BREAKING: Alberta now projected to schedule a referendum to secede from Canada this year.

60% chance. pic.twitter.com/WNsIIdNQ7X

— Polymarket (@Polymarket) March 31, 2026

BIG BADDA BOOMS: Rabbi Michael Barclay’s Iran War Update for March 31.

EXALT THE CRIMINAL, IGNORE THE INNOCENT:

George Floyd, a drug addict who overdosed gets entire city blocks dedicated to him.

But murals to Iryna Zarutska, an innocent Ukrainian refugee who was brutally stabbed to death gets her murals removed.

Democrats are sick people.

— Dustin Grage (@GrageDustin) March 31, 2026

CHRISTIAN TOTO: Ex-Amazon Studios Head Slams Woke Hollywood.

Price stepped aside as head and founder of Amazon Studios, the company behind the Ryan Gosling smash, before it conquered Hollywood.

Price can still appreciate both the film and the message it hopes to share with major movie studios.

Audiences want to be entertained, not lectured. “Project Hail Mary” does the former oh, so well.

Price shared a jaw-dropping op-ed in, of all places, The New York Times, slamming Hollywood for losing the plot. It’s why the film industry is in big trouble, he argues. The only hope may be more movies like “Project Hail Mary.”

Smart. Uplifting. Original. Human.

Fun.

Fun sells tickets and popcorn. Lectures, not so much.

ALLIES:

Italy joins Spain: it has banned U.S. military planes from landing at a base in Sicily on their way to the Middle East (Reuters).

— Amit Segal (@AmitSegal) March 31, 2026

But there’s this from the full report: “Corriere della Sera added ‌that ⁠permission was not granted as the U.S. had not sought authorisation and Italy’s military leadership was not consulted, as required under treaties governing ​the use ​of U.S. ⁠military installations in the country.”

Bad communications, perhaps?

NICE: U.S. Pilots Shot Down Over Kuwait Are Back to Dropping Bombs on Tehran.

WORSE, THEY AREN’T EVEN LOYAL TO THEIR OWN INTERESTS…:

It turns out the whole Iran conflict is a loyalty test for the Europeans and everybody failed. 😂

— Steve Hou (@stevehou) March 31, 2026

…although that’s been increasingly true for two decades or more.

SAVE GIRLS’ SPORTS: DOJ sues Minnesota, state high school league for allowing boys to compete in girls’ sports.

According to the DOJ, the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) and the Minnesota State High School League (MSHSL) have engaged “in sex-based discrimination by requiring girls to compete against boys in athletic competitions that are designated exclusively for girls and allowing boys to invade intimate spaces designated exclusively for girls.”

In doing so, MDE and MSHSL have openly defied Title IX, which prohibits sex-based discrimination in any education program or activity that receives federal funding, the DOJ said in a press release.

“The Justice Department cannot ignore a state’s brazen defiance of federal antidiscrimination law,” said Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon of the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division. “In service of radical gender ideology, Minnesota’s actions violate Title IX and deny female athletes their hard-earned trophies, records, dignity, and safety.”

The lawsuit highlights the story of Marissa Rothenberger, a biological male who pitched for the girls’ varsity softball team as a junior at Champlin Park High School.

Rothenberger threw multiple shutouts, including a complete-game shutout in the Class 4A state championship game, leading the Rebels to the 2025 title.

Previously: “Never been hit so hard in my life”: Angela Carini Quits Boxing Bout After Punch By Male Opponent.

THE NEW SPACE RACE REALLY IS SPACEX VS. THE WORLD:

🚀 The Q4 Rocket Report just came out, with a record breaking surge in launch activity.

SpaceX had 97% share of U.S. launch, and 83% globally. China was 8%, Russia 4%, all other U.S. 3%, Korea 1%, Japan 0.6%, Europe 0.2%, and India 0.1% pic.twitter.com/h6PFJiGXVt

— Steve Jurvetson (@FutureJurvetson) March 31, 2026

MON DIEU: Air Canada’s CEO Forced to Resign Because He Can’t Emote in French.

BLACK-PILLING USUALLY IS: All The Gun Rights Black Pilling On the Trump DOJ’s 2A Record is a Massive Overreaction. “No other administration has filed lawsuits (let alone multiple) to vindicate gun rights. And besides a lone amicus brief in Trump’s first term, no prior admin has filed amicus briefs to fight against state ‘assault weapons’ bans, magazine bans, ammo background checks, sensitive places, etc.”

4-D CHESS:

In January I asked, did Trump capture Maduro to choke China's oil?

3 months later the answer is becoming clearer.

🇻🇪 Venezuela now selling at FULL market price (Rubio confirmed) China's discount: gone. Forever.

🇮🇷 Iran at war. Kharg Island threatened. 4.6M bpd to China… pic.twitter.com/qh9ZBCT5Ql

— Jack Prandelli (@jackprandelli) March 30, 2026

Left unsaid: Dragging Venezuela (and perhaps even Iran) away from the China-Russia Axis undercuts their efforts to undermine the petrodollar system that underwrites the dollar as the world’s reserve currency.

So there’s more to it than just making Beijing pay the global market price for oil.

YOU WON’T BELIEVE IT’S REAL UNTIL YOU SEE IT IN ACTION: War Is Crazy: The Return of the Giga Turtle Tank.

THE ENEMY WITHIN: She uncovered a terrifying lab hidden in California, with alleged ties to China.

Inside the sprawling building on I Street in Reedley, code enforcement officer Jesalyn Harper found vials filled with liquid — some marked in English or Chinese, others with just a code — that bore frightening labels such as “Malaria,” “COVID-19” and “HIV.” Refrigerators, lined up in columns along a wall, had labels that read “blood” and “Ebola.”

As she walked deeper into the warehouse, passing lab workers filling pregnancy test kits, she located the source of the smell that had brought her there — droppings from 1,000 lab-tested mice, she told The Times during a recent interview. The workers were nice enough, she said, but when she started asking questions she could feel the mood change.

“I realized I’m in trouble, and I need to get out of this building without tipping them off that I’m scared,” Harper said.

Her discovery blew open an elaborate criminal case with ties to California, Las Vegas and China. The investigation in Reedley found that the lab was part of an elaborate scheme to import COVID tests from China and pass them off as American-made.

But there are some who fear the operation was much more complex than that. A congressional committee uncovered payments topping $1 million made to the operator of the Reedley business from banks in the People’s Republic of China.

The defendant in the case, Jia Bei Zhu, a Chinese national, has not been charged with running an illicit biolab and his attorney has denied it. The vials discovered in Reedley were never tested.

Well, why weren’t they tested?

One clue might be that this story broke last week, but has gone largely ignored.