CHRISTIAN TOTO: Patti LuPone Is Huge Reason Why We Lack ‘Dissenting Views.’ “She’s right. We just saw comic legend Larry David call Maher Hitler for daring to disagree with him. Yet LuPone is blind to the problem on two fronts.”
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April 23, 2025
HEH:
UPDATE: Order stayed by DC federal judge https://t.co/yUVty1KBsN
— Ron Coleman (@RonColeman) April 23, 2025
JUST THE FACT THAT SOME SCHOOLS WANT TO IS A GREAT ARGUMENT FOR HOMESCHOOLING: Supreme Court will decide: Can schools mandate LGBT books?
More from Paula Bolyard: The Most Important Parental Rights Case in Years Is Before SCOTUS Right Now.
THE GREEN ERA IS ENDING:
Airbus has decided to halt the development of its hydrogen-powered “green” aircraft after spending nearly USD 2 billion on it pic.twitter.com/xThexViof8
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) April 22, 2025
To be fair, $2 billion is about 90% less than Airbus lost on the A380.
I FEEL CONFIDENT THE BIG GUY GOT HIS 10 PERCENT: Hunter Biden: Burisma’s Five Million Dollar Man.
TURNAROUND? Boeing to seek FAA approval this year to increase 737 Max production as losses narrow.
Boeing is preparing to ask for Federal Aviation Administration approval to ramp up production of its best-selling 737 Max jets to 42 a month later this year, CEO Kelly Ortberg said Wednesday, as airplane deliveries picked up this year and the company narrowed its losses.
Boeing reported a first-quarter net loss of $31 million, improvement from a loss of $355 million a year earlier, as revenue rose 18% to $19.5 billion, slightly ahead of analysts’ estimates.
The company’s cash burn of about $2.3 billion was an improvement over the nearly $4 billion it used in the first quarter of 2024, and was better than analysts expected.
“Less bad” isn’t the same as “good,” but it’s still a welcome improvement.
CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Gov. Polis signs new restrictions on gun shows, ammunition sales into law.
Polis gave his pen to House Bill 25-1133, Requirements for Sales of Firearms Ammunition, and House Bill 25-1238, Gun Show Requirements.
Polis previously signed Senate Bill 25-003, creating a lengthy and expensive licensing system in order to purchase a wide-range of semi-automatic weapons.
HB 1133 would mandate retailers lock up all ammunition, meaning customers cannot serve themselves off the shelves, and prohibits the retail sale of ammunition to a person who is younger than 21 years of age, while HB 1238 would place onerous new barriers on federal firearms licensees (FFLs) that would drastically change the way vendors do business at Colorado gun shows, as well as who can access the events, respectively.
Ray Elliott, president of the Colorado State Shooting Association called it an escalation of the assault on Second Amendment rights.
“This legislative session, Democrats have unleashed a brazen attack on our freedoms, and the Colorado State Shooting Association (CSSA) is fighting back,” Elliott said in a news release “We will not stand for this betrayal of our constitutional protections, and we call on every patriot to join us in this battle for justice, and retribution.”
Over at Reason, Nick Gillespie is all-too-belatedly catching on to Polis’s scam self-ID as a “libertarian Democrat.”
BEFORE THAT, THEY FAWNED OVER STALIN AND MUSSOLINI: Larry David Mocks Trump As Hitler in the New York Times Now, but the Paper Fawned Over Adolf in 1933.
SPOILER: IVANKA TRUMP DID NOTHING TERRIBLE. Did You Hear About the Terrible Thing Ivanka Trump Did?
DECOUPLING: China asks South Korea not to export rare earth products to US defense, warns companies could be sanctioned.
Beijing has asked South Korean companies to cease exporting products containing Chinese-originated heavy rare earth metals to U.S. defense firms, warning that Seoul could face sanctions.
China’s Ministry of Commerce sent official notices to at least two South Korean companies recently, the Korea Economic Daily reported on Tuesday, citing sources in the South Korean transformer industry.
The outlet said the letters did not specify what type of penalties South Korean companies could face if the industry continues to export equipment to the U.S. military or its contractors. The equipment in question can include power transformers, displays, batteries, electric vehicles, aerospace and medical equipment.
While the move is intended to retaliate against President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs on China, Beijing may start blocking sales of critical metals altogether, disrupting the global economy.
Nobody said decoupling was going to be easy.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Gosh, I’m Gone for a Few Days and the Democrats Have Gotten Worse. “Here is my main point in everything that is going on right now: the worst thing that the Democrats are lying about what President Trump is doing isn’t as bad as the least worst thing they are actually doing. These are not good people. Well, the people who are running the Democratic Party down through the circles of Hell aren’t, anyway. There is a wealth of ‘these people are mind-numbingly awful’ material out there.”
PEACE IN TRUMP’S TIME? Ukraine presses for ceasefire as Russia reported to offer concession. “Putin on Monday suggested bilateral talks with Kyiv for the first time since early in the war which is more than three years old. The U.S. has been pressuring the two leaders to show concrete progress toward a peace deal. Washington has threatened to walk away from the effort without tangible results soon.”
BLUE CITY BLUES: LA mayor: $800M deficit, layoffs coming, seeking bailout.
“Cities like ours are going through challenging economic times across the nation,” said Bass. “Turmoil and uncertainty from Washington and a slowing economy are causing lower revenue projections.”
With 61,455 employees, 1,647 layoffs equate to a workforce reduction of 2.7%. With just over $8.3 billion paid out in payroll last year, the city pays its employees an average of $135,355 per year, or more than double the median citywide salary of $57,247 per year.
This means the announced layoffs would only cover about a quarter of the at least $800 million deficit.
During her State of the City address Monday, Bass said she is traveling to Sacramento to seek a state bailout, but if the state is either unwilling or unable to fund such a bailout amid falling sales and corporate tax revenue and employment, more layoffs could be necessary.
“The city attorney and I will be in Sacramento this week to meet with legislative leaders and advocate for resources while also working to manage the increasing liabilities,” said Bass.
City Controller Kenneth Mejia has been warning the city is “going broke” since the middle of last year — the city’s budget was in crisis even before the January fires.
Related: LA mayor brags about ‘fastest recovery’ in CA history, home permits down by two-thirds. “Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass bragged about the city’s post-fire recovery being the ‘fastest’ in state history, but data from Hilgard Analytics shows home permitting is down by two-thirds since 2022, when the city passed a major transfer tax on all real estate over $5 million.”
But the city’s revenue problems are somehow Trump’s fault, according to Bass.
April 22, 2025
THAT’S SOMETHING: Gilead says its therapy delayed growth of tumors in aggressive form of breast cancer. “The results from a randomized Phase 3 study called ASCENT-04 could lead to a new treatment option for patients with newly diagnosed, metastatic, triple-negative breast cancer.”
IT’S NICE HAVING A POTUS WILLING TO GO THERE: Trump Went There With the Sainted MS-13 Gangster: Check Out His Tats.
PRE-HISTORY: Human ancestors nearly went extinct 930,000 years ago.
Studying human evolution involves piecing together scattered clues about how we survived against tough odds. One of the biggest mysteries is understanding how large or small ancient human populations were. Typically, scientists rely on fossil records and ancient DNA to investigate these mysteries. But when it comes to periods as distant as the Pleistocene epoch—about a million years ago—such records become rare or nonexistent.
Now, a groundbreaking study published in the journal Science sheds new light on a dramatic event that nearly erased humans from existence. Researchers uncovered evidence that our ancestors survived a population crash that lasted over 100,000 years, leaving just around 1,280 individuals.
Just another reason to become multiplanetary at the earliest possible date.
ALLIES: America’s NATO Allies Have Underfunded The Alliance By $827 Billion.
Article 3 of the North Atlantic Treaty requires NATO members to “maintain and develop their individual and collective capacity to resist armed attack.” There are legitimate concerns that many nations may not be fully capable of defending themselves, let alone aiding the collective capacity to support one another in conflict.
According to a recent analysis by the Heritage Foundation, America’s NATO allies have collectively underfunded their defense commitments by more than $827 billion. Notable shortfalls include Germany ($249 billion), Italy ($150 billion), and Spain ($150 billion). These shortfalls represent a decade of underinvestment in capabilities and maintenance. The end result is less-capable militaries.
During this period, the U.S. averaged defense spending equivalent to 3.42 percent of GDP, while the average NATO member spent 1.59 percent—less than half as much as the U.S. spent and well below NATO’s 2 percent benchmark first articulated in 2006 and reaffirmed by all members at the 2014 Wales Summit.
Poland, the Baltic states, and (increasingly) the Nordic countries are welcome exceptions.
RAYMOND IBRAHIM IS BACK WITH ANOTHER PODCAST: Oxford Caught Promoting Anti-Christian, Pro-Islamic Propaganda Through Fake History.