ENJOY YOUR STAY: Bukele Arrives in the U.S. as More Gang Members Are Deported to El Salvador.

CHINA IS ASSHOE: China is littering in LEO.

China’s construction of a pair of communications megaconstellations could cloud low Earth orbit with large spent rocket stages for decades or beyond, Space News reports. Launches for the government’s Guowang and Shanghai-backed but more commercially oriented Qianfan (Thousand Sails) constellation began in the second half of 2024, with each planned to consist of over 10,000 satellites, demanding more than a thousand launches in the coming years. Placing this number of satellites is enough to cause concern about space debris because China hasn’t disclosed its plans for removing the spacecraft from orbit at the end of their missions. It turns out there’s another big worry: upper stages.

An orbital time bomb … While Western launch providers typically deorbit their upper stages after dropping off megaconstellation satellites in space, China does not. This means China is leaving rockets in orbits high enough to persist in space for more than a century, according to Jim Shell, a space domain awareness and orbital debris expert at Novarum Tech. Space News reported on Shell’s commentary in a social media post, where he wrote that orbital debris mass in low-Earth orbit “will be dominated by PRC [People’s Republic of China] upper stages in short order unless something changes (sigh).” So far, China has launched five dedicated missions to deliver 90 Qianfan satellites into orbit. Four of these missions used China’s Long March 6A rocket, with an upper stage that has a history of breaking up in orbit, exacerbating the space debris problem.

Commies ruin everything.

RED TAPE: Here’s Why Some Unvaxxed Military Aren’t Taking Deal to Return. “They don’t care much about back pay, but they are not going to sign a false statement just to come back in.”

THIS COULD BE A BIG DEAL:

Hyundai Heavy Industries said that it can build five Aegis destroyers for the US per year and is ready to expand. It also said that it can provide one ship per year to the US using its current spare dock, and that it has more room and cost-effectiveness than its competitors… pic.twitter.com/y0MvJqCLOr

— ハク Mason (@mason_8718) April 3, 2025

American shipyards produce about two Arleigh Burke-class Aegis destroyers each year. That South Korea’s shipyards can kind of casually offer to add five more to their production runs for our use shows just how far we’ve fallen.

Still, we should take advantage because expanding domestic production takes time.

IT’S TIME FOR VICTORIA TAFT’S West Coast, Messed Coast™: Beware People Who Put This Dude on Their T-shirt—Edition.

EVEN IN TRADE WARS, THE OTHER GUY GETS TO SHOOT BACK: China increases tariffs on US imports to 125% from 84% amid ongoing trade war.

CORN, POPPED: If This Is What It Looks Like, NY AG Letitia James Is In a World of Trouble. “A word about my source for what you are about to read: Sam E. Antar was one of the biggest fraudsters of the 1980s. In his role as CFO of the ubiquitous Brooklyn, N.Y.-based electronics chain Crazy Eddie, Antar was convicted of multiple federal fraud-based felonies in 1991, although he scored a plea deal that kept him out of prison.”

IT SURE WOULD BE NICE IF THERE WAS JUST ONE GOVERNMENT PROGRAM THAT WASN’T BUILT FOR THEFT, FRAUD, OR GRAFT: California’s Disastrously Run College Financial Aid Program Is Filled With Fake ‘ChatGPT’ Students.

WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: MQ-9B Shown with Airborne Laser at Sea Air Space 2025. “The new laser is part of the General Atomics Laser Weapon Systems portfolio, centering around the scalable High Energy Laser (HEL) Weapon System. The laser is in the 25kW class and scalable to 300kW in both pulsed and continuous wave systems, capable of operating in all environments.”

WATCH: ICE Nabs Child Rapist Virginia Had Been Harboring for More Than a Year.

FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: Voted ‘Best-Dressed Drunk in the Applebee’s Parking Lot.’ “It’s time for your much-needed break from the serious news, and this week we have the best-dressed drunk trying to open the wrong car door in the Applebee’s parking lot, how not to ask for a free refill, and New Mexico man’s bologna smuggling operation.”

TRADE WAR: Trump Has Xi and China Over a Tariff Cliff.

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE:

Colorado lawmaker admits their new semi-automatic weapons ban (SB25-003) was passed to appease activists.

"That's what we voted on today…to honor our promises to them"

You should be honoring your promise to uphold the Constitution. These people are so unfit to govern. pic.twitter.com/uovziaIjcn

— Diver 41 (Expose Them) (@ExposeDarkDeeds) April 11, 2025

Crushing civil liberties to appease some noisy activists is quite the flex.

EXCLUSIVE: FBI Whistleblower Slams Promotion of FBI J6 Warlord.

HOUSTON, YOU HAVE A PROBLEM: Murderer City? “If true, the mind boggles. Houston had 320 murders in 2024, so that’s just under three years’ worth of alleged murderers walking the streets.”

2028 PREVIEW: Whitmer and Newsom Look Away From the Lunatic Fringe as They Gaze Toward 2028.

I’m sitting out on the speculation until 2027.

EUROPE’S ELITES DESPISE EUROPE:

Ireland is being plundered by a small group of Irish families, banks and foreign investors. They are making billions for housing migrants through a network of shadowy offshore companies.

This industry is backed up by an NGO complex that employs 200,000 people and also costs us…

— MichaeloKeeffe (@Mick_O_Keeffe) April 11, 2025

Full text:

Ireland is being plundered by a small group of Irish families, banks and foreign investors. They are making billions for housing migrants through a network of shadowy offshore companies.

This industry is backed up by an NGO complex that employs 200,000 people and also costs us billions. Its purpose is to dumb us down and convince Irish people that being replaced in our own homeland is normal.

The police and judicial system are also onboard. Enforcing illegitimate laws passed by compromised politicians who serve the EU. Foreigners even get special privileges under Irish law.

What’s happening to Ireland is completely unnatural. Dumping people from African and Islamic countries into an ancient and homogeneous society is the quickest way of causing that society to collapse.

Trust is low, cohesion is gone and people from the 3rd world are walking straight into our country without even so much as medical screening. HIV, typhoid and diphtheria are becoming more common in Ireland.

None of us are safe.

Plus the added strain these migrants place on our housing market, education and healthcare systems cannot be ignored.

Those of us older than 20 remember the old Ireland. An Ireland with a relaxed pace of life and high trust communities.

We have a responsibility to maintain that version of Ireland and hand it to the next generation.

Yes.

I CAN’T KEEP TRACK: White House clarifies new China tariff rate of 145%, not 125%.

Related: Apple airlifts 600 tons of iPhones from India ‘to beat’ Trump tariffs, sources say.

That’s around 1.7 million iPhones.

BREAKING:

BREAKING: The Council on American Islamic Relations is seeking to block Columbia from turning over records to Congress about the pro-Hamas group Students for Justice in Palestine.

CAIR is linked to the Muslim Brotherhood and was labeled a terrorist group by the UAE in 2014. pic.twitter.com/aEZYe5RvKF

— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) April 11, 2025

Developing…

NICE WORK: Trump Secures Freedom for Wrongfully Jailed Ballerina.

NICE AIRPORT YOU’VE GOT THERE, BE A SHAME IF ANYTHING HAPPENED TO IT: ‘All kinds of scavengers’: Russia speeds up asset grab.

Russian billionaire Dmitry Kamenshchik last year was approached by people close to the government and security services with an offer they hoped he could not refuse.

But when Kamenshchik balked at gifting the state 25 per cent in Moscow’s second-largest airport, a person close to him recalled, he was met with the full force of the Russian legal system.

In January, the Russian prosecutor-general asked a Moscow court to order the nationalisation of Domodedovo airport, claiming that Kamenshchik and his business associate were part of western efforts to undermine the Russian economy because they held foreign passports. The case, which is being heard in closed-door hearings, is ongoing.

The episode is part of a string of nationalisations that have accelerated since Vladimir Putin started his full-scale war in Ukraine, even as he is also making overtures to western companies lured by the prospect of Donald Trump rekindling economic ties with Russia.

Strongarming billionaire oligarchs to feed the war machine doesn’t seem like a sustainable business model.

OUR CALIFORNICATION IS NEARLY COMPLETE: Colorado Dems Just Drove Another Stake into the Bill of Rights. “The 2nd Amendment died in Colorado on a sunny spring afternoon in Denver, and Democrats murdered it. Yesterday, so-called ‘moderate’ Democrat Gov. Jared Polis put his signature on SB 25-003 — perhaps the most convoluted and restrictive gun control law anywhere in the nation. But don’t you worry, Democrats are gunning next for the 1st Amendment.”

HMM: Trump Order Would Force the ACLU to Put Its Money Where Its Mouth Is on Lawfare.

What if I told you that when federal district judges issue injunctions blocking President Donald Trump’s policies in a judicial insurrection, they were the ones breaking the law?

No, it’s not just because these judges are effectively usurping the authority of the president over the executive branch. It’s more clear-cut than that.

When Chief Judge James Boasberg of the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., issued an order demanding the Trump administration return reputed members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua to the U.S., he wasn’t just making immigration policy—he was violating a black-and-white rule laid down by the U.S. Supreme Court.

What does that mean? It means that when the ACLU files a lawsuit against the Trump administration and asks the judge to issue an order forcing Trump to turn around, in midflight, the planes deporting violent gangbangers, the ACLU has to put up or shut up.

The ACLU has to put down a “security” payment when asking for the court order, just in case a later judge strikes down the order after it already cost the government money to follow it.

This commonsense requirement isn’t a Trump wish list item. It’s a rule with the force of law.

If the administration were to demand that judges follow this rule, it could stop the judicial insurrection in its tracks—or, at the very least, make the activists think twice before assuming they can dictate federal policy.

Much more at the link.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: It’s Hard to Believe, but People Still Underestimate Trump. “It’s stunning to me that President Trump’s detractors still like to portray him as some sort of hot-headed buffoon who doesn’t know what he’s doing. Well, stunning and tedious at this point. You would think that they would eventually get tired of being wrong.”

RESISTANCE IS FUTILE: Colorado’s K-12 education department won’t comply with Trump’s DEI order.

The U.S. Department of Education sent a letter to state education departments on April 3 threatening to pull federal funding from public schools over such programs. States were given 10 days to sign and return the notice, but multiple states, including New York and Minnesota, have said they won’t comply with the order.

“The use of certain DEI practices can violate federal law,” the federal Education Department wrote in the certification, adding that it is illegal for programs to advantage one race over another.

Córdova said during a meeting of the Colorado State Board of Education on Thursday that she isn’t signing the certification letter and will not ask districts to do so. She added that Colorado schools already comply with federal anti-discrimination laws.

Not if they’re promoting DEI, they aren’t.