MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: This Private Spaceflight Is a Very Big Deal.

“EVIL PEOPLE”: Organized ‘Bankrupt Tesla’ Group Tied To Formerly USAID-Funded Disinfo Queen. “On Tuesday morning, former Biden administration ‘disinformation czar’ Nina Jankowicz repeatedly refused to disclose who’s funding her new gig – the ‘American Sunlight Project’ – which cropped up after a stint at the USAID-funded UK-based Centre for Information Resilience (CIR) – for which she registered as a foreign agent while serving as their Vice President.”

The American Sunlight Project has secret funding because of course it does.

DOUBLE STANDARDS ARE THE BEST STANDARDS BECAUSE YOU GET TWICE AS MANY: Cory Booker’s Fauxlibuster and the Mainstream Media’s Double Standard.

THIS:

If you support Trump’s agenda then you should be relentlessly codifying his policies and spending cuts into law before focusing on your pet projects.

Time’s running out. We don’t have time for this shit. We can buy curtains after we fix the foundation. https://t.co/JlqPfAY8pj

— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) April 2, 2025

Congresscritters need to stop showboating and get to work. But as I wrote a couple of weeks ago, Congress is now less a place to commit serious acts of lawmaking and more of a perch for launching lucrative social media side gigs and sweetheart stock trades.

SARAH HOYT’S SHOCKED FACE WAS LAST SEEN GLAMPING ON THE MEXICAN RIVIERA: Zuckerberg’s Right-Wing Metamorphosis Still Has A Long Way To Go.

As for censorship related to public health, a spokesperson for Meta told the Daily Caller that the company fully abandoned its previous policies around Covid-19 misinformation in response to 2022 guidance from its Oversight Board.

That guidance read, in part, “Given Meta’s insistence that it takes a single, global approach to COVID-19 misinformation, the Board concludes that, as long as the World Health Organization (WHO) continues to declare COVID-19 an international public health emergency, Meta should maintain its current policy.”

Despite Zuckerberg’s confession about truthful speech being banned under that policy, Meta’s community guidelines still contain a section on “harmful health misinformation” that covers non-Covid-related public health issues. The policy reads, “We consult with leading health organizations to identify health misinformation likely to directly contribute to imminent harm to public health and safety.”

Meta did not address a Daily Caller question about whether or not they are still working in conjunction with the same public health agencies they did during the Covid-19 pandemic or whether they’ve consulted more stakeholders.

Also still on the no-no list: questioning “election and census integrity.”

MAHA: Top FDA Vax-Monger’s Firing Sends Pharma Stocks Plummeting.

CORN, POPPED: Elon Musk reveals DOGE’s new target — members of Congress who got ‘strangely wealthy.’

One attendee at the town hall had asked Musk if DOGE had uncovered evidence of funds wired from the US Agency for International Development (USAID) to Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY).

“They’ll [the government] send the money overseas to one NGO [non-governmental organization], then they’ll go through a bunch of them, and then I’m highly confident that a bunch of that money then comes back to the United States and lands in the pockets of the people you just mentioned,” Musk replied.

“But it is a circuitous route. It doesn’t go directly, but let’s just say that there’s a lot of strangely wealthy members of Congress where I’m trying to connect the dots of, ‘How do they become rich?’”

Look into their stock market picks while you’re at it.

WE COULD USE A FEW MORE BILLIONAIRES:

With four other billionaires’ money. https://t.co/LT83FerlVN

— RBe (@RBPundit) April 2, 2025

BEFORE SOMETHING TRULY NASTY ESCAPES, PLEASE: Will the U.S. Government Finally Get ‘Gain-of-Function’ Research Under Control?

2028 PREVIEW:

Corey Booker is speaking for 24 hours straight because he’s upset that Elon is taking social security away from DEAD PEOPLE. Gotta admire his commitment to the Democrat base.

— Jimmy Failla (@jimmyfailla) April 2, 2025

To be fair, dead people are a rock-solid Democrat constituency — and Booker is looking forward.

If you don't understand what @CoryBooker is doing, let me help: He's running for President. And this is gonna help him move closer to the top of the list.https://t.co/NIegyKxZgu

— Tony Katz (@tonykatz) April 1, 2025

Between eight years of Obama’s ME! ME! ME! administration and the Biden cabal poisoning everything it touched, the field is wide open for 2028.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Now We Know — Flailing IS the Dems’ Strategy. “Booker wasn’t filibustering any proposed legislation, he was having a very expensive, taxpayer-funded public airing of his daddy issues. Once again, the American public had to foot the bill for a mentally unstable Democrat to be able to get his attention whore fix.”

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: New Colorado bill would penalize ‘misgendering’ in public places, use it as justification to take your kids away.

Here’s what’s at stake if this bill, called the Kelly Loving Act, becomes law:

“Deadnaming and Misgendering” as a discriminatory act
Using people’s biologically correct given names or accidentally using the wrong pronoun could now legally brand you a bigot: “Sections 8 and 9 define deadnaming and misgendering as discriminatory acts in the ‘Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act,’ and prohibit these discriminatory acts in places of public accommodation.”

Weaponizing custody battles

Parents who refuse to affirm gender confusion could see their rights stripped away in court: “When making child custody decisions and determining the best interests of a child for purposes of parenting time, a court shall consider deadnaming, misgendering, or threatening to publish material related to an individual’s gender-affirming health-care services as types of coercive control.”

Gender ideology forced into ALL schools

Public, private, and charter schools would have no choice but to comply with laws regarding “chosen names” and would be penalized for “deadnaming” or “misgendering” students.

Much more at the link and, I’m sure, much more to come from my Democrat-dominated state assembly.

THIS WOULD BE A GREAT TIME FOR TEHRAN TO BACK DOWN: Trump’s Latest Move Ought to Keep Iran Up at Night.

NIFTY: Ford carrier group equipped with new anti-drone weapons for possible Mideast deployment.

The strike group’s Arleigh Burke-class, guided-missile destroyers will deploy with the Coyote and Roadrunner systems, two interceptor-style drone systems that the Navy has spent the past year developing for ship-based launches, two service officials said. The Coyote and Roadrunner systems, which were modified from existing land-based technologies, are specialized drones designed to stop other drones before they reach their intended targets. The new weapons are intended to counter Houthi drones for a fraction of the price of a standard missile typically used by the Navy.

“Those two systems are part of that attempt to get after the cost curve, give our commanding officers more options to engage the threat and ultimately be more effective in defending a high-value unit,” Capt. Mark Lawrence, commander of Destroyer Squadron 2, said aboard the Ford as the aircraft carrier trained some 100 miles off the East Coast.

Six destroyers will support the Ford during its deployment, strike group leaders said. It is unclear how many of the destroyers will be Coyote and Roadrunner capable.

Maybe the real news here is that the Navy was able to take a land system and get it ship-ready and deployed in a year.

BUT IT’S FINE TO SHUN THEM: Apparently It’s Illegal to Tase Journalists Who Write Tell-All Books About Biden’s Dementia. “It’s very telling that these books are hitting the virtual and physical shelves so quickly. One might think that these intrepid journos would need some time to process what certainly must have been the shock of the century to them. Gosh, it’s almost as if they’d gotten started on them a long time ago.”

Previously: Stop the Presses: Joe Biden Had ‘Frailties’ Even BEFORE That Debate!

LIVE RESULTS: Special Elections in Wisconsin and Florida.

“REMEMBER THE WHIGS!” IS AN UNUSUAL RALLYING CRY:

They are intentionally destroying themselves. No one is stupid enough to fight people finding government fraud or deporting illegal criminals. pic.twitter.com/w6KJQc44L3

— Dennis Prescott (@DennisPrescott6) April 1, 2025

I dunno. The Occam’s Razor answer is probably that they are just that stupid.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: GITAI finalizes robotic arm study for Japan’s crewed lunar rover. “The rover is being designed to support crewed exploration of the Moon’s polar regions as part of Japan’s contribution to NASA’s Artemis program, providing astronauts with a mobile, pressurized habitat that allows them to travel, live and work on the lunar surface for up to 30 days.”

BREAKING: Truck Plows Into Pedestrians on Busy Boston Street.

THE 22ND HAS ENTERED THE CHAT: Trump Versus Obama? ‘I’d Love That!’ Says Trump.

PROMISE KEPT: Trump administration has arrested 113K migrants, deported over 100K since taking office. “Illegal crossings at the US-Mexico border have also fallen to levels not seen in decades — hitting a stunning new low in March — with DHS sources calling it ‘the Trump effect.'”

No word on self-deportations, not that there’s any reliable way to keep track of those. But you have to guess those are way up, too, as the crackdown continues.

GET OFF MY LAWN: Nanny State: NYC Will Start Digging Through Residents’ Trash Today.

CYNICAL PUBLIUS: Grifterism: The Economic Engine of Democrats.

It’s not socialism. It’s not capitalism. It’s not fascism. What, then, is the overarching label that explains the economic policies and priorities of Democrats and their leadership?

It’s Grifterism. (I did not invent that word, or at least that’s what Google tells me. However, I believe I am the first author to ever use that term to describe a formal system of national economic governance, so I’m going to run with it.)

Grifterism is, as the name suggests, a system run by and for the benefit of grifters. Webster defines the verb “grift” as “to acquire money or property illicitly.” Grifters have always been a part of human society, but it took the 21st-century Democratic Party to turn the idea into a comprehensive economic system. The best way to understand this system is to analyze the four classes of citizens upon which Grifterism relies, and into which all American citizens are divided one way or another: Billionaires, Productives, Dependents and, of course, Grifters.

(Before I explain these classes, I realize that there are some readers who will jump all over these categories and tell me I am being too absolute in describing them. Yes, Elon Musk is a good Billionaire. Yes, there are bad Productives who exploit the powerless. Yes, there are many entirely productive people in government who are not Grifters. Yes, the nice old blind lady down the street deserves the support given to the Dependent class. Yet, as the saying goes, these are the exceptions that prove the rule.)

On to the four classes of Grifterism.

Needless to say, read the whole thing.

POTUS: Trump Delivers Deadly ‘Either/Or’ to Houthi Terrorists.

WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG? New German government wants to ban ‘lies.’

The new German government coalition, which is likely to be the Christian Democrats (CDU) and the Social Democrats (SPD) is looking to ban “lies,” according to a working paper that emerged from the group “culture and media” between the two parties.

Bild newspaper received a copy of the working paper, which outlines the goal of combating “fake” news on social media, including restrictions on it.

The paper from the CDU and SPD indicates that “disinformation and fake news” threaten democracy.

In fact, the paper argues that freedom of expression does not apply in such circumstances.

Bild contacted a number of constitutional lawyers, and they are highly skeptical of the law.

At least German universities aren’t on board with censorship, unlike too many of ours.