THE THREE R’S REALLY WORK: Focus on teaching kids to read — not fixing ‘root causes.’

YES:

Democrats “increase the temperature” until something excessively violent happens and then insist that Republicans “lower the temperature” by giving Democrats everything they want…lest more violence happens.

It's a political extortion racket.

— Nick Freitas (@NickJFreitas) April 28, 2026

SCOTT PINSKER: Jimmy Kimmel’s Blood Feud With Melania Trump: Why Disney Fiddles as Its Magic Kingdom Burns.

NEXT UP, FLORIDA: Supreme Court Greenlights Texas Redistricting Map.

SAY WHAT YOU WILL, BUT HIS CAMPAIGN IS CERTAINLY ENERGIZED:

BREAKING: Andrew Dezelan, a Democrat running for Indiana State Senate, was just arrested after allegedly campaigning door-to-door while HIGH ON COCAINE.

He also reportedly physically struggled against the police when they confronted him about having drugs.

Dezelan has received… pic.twitter.com/Afzddw4VdT

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) April 28, 2026

ANOTHER ONE? It Must Be Tuesday: Yet Another Seismic Event Shakes Up the Persian Gulf. “The Islamic Republic today offered to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and OPEC’s number three oil producer just said “Sayonara!” to the decades-old price-fixing organization.”

MEANWHILE, IN THE MIDDLE EAST…:

It’s important to note that the example below is not just a one time occurrence, but a daily thing.

Yesterday was a repeat. Lie posted by random account, spreading by Iranian TV, Anna Kasparian, and Mario.

Truth is out now but it’s already been spread to millions. Same large… https://t.co/Wcjpf9tgzE pic.twitter.com/8tEDO0Z5EI

— AG (@AGHamilton29) April 28, 2026

GUN GRABBERS GOTTA GRAB GUNS: Giffords’ Exec Director Misrepresents, Dissembles While Pushing More Gun Control After Assassination Attempt.

YEP:

Ordinary mainstream left of center position https://t.co/24YkS3YKYj

— Jarvis (@jarvis_best) April 28, 2026

LEFTISM. NEXT QUESTION? What Leads to the Assassination Mindset?

I CANCELED MY SUBSCRIPTION YEARS AGO:

When they started printing Hamas propaganda, I knew it was time to unsubscribe.

— Bygones_be_Bygones (@BygonesbeBygon7) April 28, 2026

I’M AGAINST WEAPONIZING THE IRS, BUT SICCING THE SERVICE AGAINST THESE PEOPLE WOULDN’T COUNT: Leftists are Refusing to Pay Taxes to Protest Iran War, Deportations.

MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE: FBI and DHS Raid Dozens of Minnesota Fraudsters, Including ‘Quality Learing Center.’

BRANDING: Trump backs idea of changing ICE’s name to ‘NICE.’

President Trump on Sunday endorsed the idea of changing the name of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to National Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which would give the agency the acronym NICE.

The idea was promoted by conservative influencer Alyssa Marie last month.

“I want Trump to change ICE to NICE (National Immigration and Customs Enforcement) so the media has to say NICE agents all day everyday,” Marie wrote in a March post on social platform X.

Late Sunday evening, the president publicly endorsed the switch.

“GREAT IDEA!!! DO IT,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post.

Democrats are usually so much better at this stuff. It’s, uh, nice to see Republicans playing the game.

IT’S (D)IFFERENT WHEN THEY DO IT:

Roseanne getting the axe over a joke was 100% the work of Obama & Co.
A good thing to remember when they start acting Outraged!™ over any criticism going the other way. https://t.co/a7zDW37nbL

— Cruadin (@cruadin) April 28, 2026

VICTORIA TAFT: Shorter Pritzker: Trump Deserved It, and I’ll Justify It by Completely and Hilariously Wrecking Myself.

CORN, POPPED: Grassley Demands FBI, DOJ Records On Clinton Foundation Probe. “The letter, accompanied by a 2016 FBI electronic communication, an FBI Little Rock PowerPoint presentation, and a March 2020 investigative update memorandum, outlines years of alleged pay-to-play schemes connecting the Clinton Foundation to favorable U.S. government actions for major donors across multiple countries.”

DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES:

In 2022 San Francisco progressives authored the Prop K "Amazon Tax". The way it was written taxed small businesses and restaurants.

Similarily the 2026 "Billionaire Tax Act", as written, allows politicians to raise taxes for everyone, not just billionaires, w/o asking voters. https://t.co/b29nYDYkFt pic.twitter.com/b7uqDMH1yc

— Kane 謝凱堯 (@kane) April 27, 2026

PENCIL IT IN: Iran Has DAYS Until This Crisis Hits. “The Islamic Republic is ‘scrambling’ to find places to put the oil that President Donald Trump’s blockade stops the regime from selling before suffering ‘irreversible’ damage to the country’s oil production.”

BACKGROUND: Tech titans Elon Musk and Sam Altman head to court in trial over OpenAI: What to know.

Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI claims that the company violated its founding mission as a nonprofit to develop AI for the benefit of humanity by creating a for-profit entity in 2019.

His suit seeks the removal of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and President Greg Brockman, as well as more than $150 billion in damages from OpenAI and Microsoft, which Musk has said he would provide to OpenAI’s nonprofit entity. Altman and Brockman were among OpenAI’s co-founders.

OpenAI is countering Musk’s claims by noting that the Tesla CEO pursued a merger with OpenAI and was involved with discussions about creating a for-profit entity for the company before his departure from its board of directors. They also view the suit as a tactic to boost his own AI startup, xAI, as a competitor to OpenAI.

The company’s 2019 creation of a for-profit entity governed by OpenAI’s nonprofit arm allowed the company to raise money from investors to scale up its computing capacity to facilitate AI research, which helped spur the launch of ChatGPT in late 2022.

OpenAI restructured again last fall, transitioning into a public benefit corporation in which its nonprofit arm as well as its other investors, including Microsoft, hold stakes. The nonprofit arm has a 26% stake with additional warrants if OpenAI’s valuation hits certain targets.

Musk’s legal team arrived at its estimate of damages owed to him by OpenAI by multiplying its valuation and a portion of the nonprofit’s stake that could be attributed to his contributions, claiming that between 50% and 75% of the OpenAI nonprofit’s stake can be attributed to him.

“Never before has a corporation gone from tax-exempt charity to a $157 billion for-profit, market-paralyzing gorgon – and in just eight years. Never before has it happened, because doing so violates almost every principle of law governing economic activity,” Musk’s suit claims.

Big tech, big money, big egos… this trial has it all.

GOOD QUESTION:

Can someone on the Left tell me what rules we're playing by?

If Donald Trump saying "March peacefully and patriotically" on January 6th is "inciting a violent insurrection"…

Then what is it when Hakeem Jeffries calls for "Maximum Warfare everywhere all the time"?

Because if… pic.twitter.com/v02oshuCvu

— Shawn Farash (@Shawn_Farash) April 27, 2026

Democrats have spent the last 10 years saying, “Will no one rid us of this turbulent priest, who also happens to be literally Hitler pedo rapist bent on murdering people and ending our democracy?” and have no intention of stopping until they get the desired result.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Hakeem Jeffries Isn’t Man Enough to Argue With Karoline Leavitt. “House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is one of the biggest ‘have his cake and eat it too’ crybabies among the Dems right now. He’s desperately trying to step out of Nancy Pelosi’s shadow, which he will never have the political chops to do. Like so many politicians, Jeffries spends a lot of time trying to talk over the fact that he’s not very bright. Absent the intellectual firepower to make a name for himself as a policymaker, Jeffries works on getting face time in front of the press so he can play tough guy.”

And in case you missed Kruiser last night, here it is again: If You Can’t Say Something Nice About Someone, You Must Be Talking About a Democrat.

KASH PATEL: Security protocol will look ‘completely different’ for White House media dinner redo.

“I think we are going to do it entirely differently,” Patel said on Fox & Friends. “You heard the president say on Saturday night that we’re going to do this again in short order, maybe in 30 days or so, and we’re going to be ready for that. The security posture, I imagine, is going to be completely different.”

Though the suspected gunman, a 31-year-old teacher from California named Cole Allen, was apprehended by law enforcement before making it into the event room, he did breach the security screening checkpoint within the hotel and came close to the entrance of the dinner. A Secret Service agent was shot by the gunman in his bulletproof vest, marking the only injury reported from the scene at the Washington Hilton hotel.

The incident has raised serious concerns about how a man armed with a shotgun, a handgun, and multiple knives was able to come so close to entering such a high-profile dinner.

As well it should.

Here’s a sneak peak at the redo: ‘I Was Gonna Really Rip It!’ Trump Promises New WHCA Address Will Be ‘Speech of Love’ Now.

What a guy.

COWARD:

Called it. And no, Jimmy… that wasn’t remotely the intent of your “joke.” https://t.co/IaCQbWWXbg

— Joe Concha (@JoeConchaTV) April 28, 2026

SHH, NOBODY TELL THE NYT WHAT THE NYT JUST REPORTED: Sorry, Media: China Is Not the Big Winner in the Iran War.