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.

I’D SAY DON’T GIVE THEM ANY IDEAS, BUT THEY HAVE PLENTY:

A scary thought that will motivate more left wing loons: if Democrats take back the House then Speaker Hakeem Jeffries will be third in line to become president. There will be even more incentive for assassins to act.

— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) April 28, 2026

REPUBLICANS POUNCE: ‘Left-wing cult of hatred’: GOP goes on offense after Trump assassination attempt. “Republicans went on offense Monday in the wake of yet another assassination attempt against President Donald Trump, asserting that Democrats were fostering a ‘left-wing cult of hatred’ that drives adherents to violent outbursts.”

How do you go on offensive after “yet another” assassination attempt?

INDEED:

Good. After Virginia, I don't see any reason the GOP shouldn't do this in every red state. https://t.co/5CACv89gwO

— David Harsanyi (@davidharsanyi) April 27, 2026

THEY WON’T, BECAUSE THIS IS WHAT A SIGNIFICANT FRACTION OF THEIR BASE WANTS: Leavitt: Dems Need to Drop the Crazy Rhetoric, Fund DHS After D.C. Shooting.

KRUISER ON FIRE: If You Can’t Say Something Nice About Someone, You Must Be Talking About a Democrat. “Please bear in mind as you read this column that I took several breaths and hours before writing it because I wanted to bring down my internal rage temperature by several degrees. My reserves of Christian charity are, for the moment, completely tapped, and I apologize for that. This is what passes for calm here in the Kruiser Bunker this week.”

REMINDER:

The sitting Virginia Attorney General literally fantasized about kiIIing a Republican opponent and his kids

The mainstream Democratic Party want to kiII us and they’re open about it pic.twitter.com/bWJois4r5z

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) April 27, 2026

This was well known during the election. Dems voted him in, regardless.

Or was that because?

BREAKING: Charges Against Cole Allen in Attempted Assassination of Trump.

THE NEW SPACE RACE:

Starship V3 (Block 3) is a major redesign
Three years since the first flight, SpaceX has rebuilt Starship from the ground up to achieve true orbital capability

V3 now supports up to 48 hours of loiter time and in-orbit propellant transfers – a massive leap for future missions… pic.twitter.com/kh5xw49ydD

— X Freeze (@XFreeze) April 27, 2026

It’s supposed to fly early-to-mid May. Can’t wait

BYO2: NASA Planning to Set First-Ever Fire on the Surface of the Moon.

As part of an experiment appropriately dubbed Flammability of Materials on the Moon (FM2), the researchers are looking to challenge a standardized test, known as NASA-STD-6001B, which involves holding a six-inch flame to a material to evaluate its safety. If it burns more than six inches up or drips burning debris, it fails the test. The standard is required for the “evaluation, testing, and selection of materials that are intended for use in space vehicles and associated Ground Support Equipment,” according to NASA.

But there’s one glaring problem, as the scientists point out in their latest mission outline: the test is “conducted in normal Earth gravity, with the assumption that if a material passes the 1G test, then it is considered safe for spaceflight.”

However, the partial gravity on the lunar surface could throw our understanding of fire for a loop once again — a crucial question scientists are racing to understand, as an open fire inside a lunar habitat, let alone the tight confines of a spacecraft, could easily prove disastrous.

But the testing ought to be a blast.

THE NUMBER OF THINGS GLENN GREENWALD PRETENDS NOT TO UNDERSTAND IS LIKELY GREATER THAN THE THINGS HE UNDERSTANDS:

There is a huge difference here: nobody on the Right justified, rationalized, or celebrated the white supremacist in Buffalo. But many people on the Left, including in prestige media, have justified, rationalized, and celebrated left-wing violence, from BLM to the present. https://t.co/sjfX8Z86BB

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@christopherrufo) April 27, 2026

ICYMI: No Conspiracy Required.

OBAMA ALUM SAYS WHAT?

If we can’t laugh about another attempted assassination there’s a problem. Besides, it’s not like he wore American Eagle jeans or bought a Tesla.

— 🫃🏼💉🇺🇦🇮🇷🇨🇺Hollaria Briden, Esq. (@HollyBriden) April 27, 2026

CUE THE LAMENTATIONS OF THE LEFT’S WOMEN: Gov. Ron DeSantis unveils proposed new Florida congressional map giving GOP four extra seats. “Florida got shortchanged in the 2020 Census, and we’ve been fighting for fair representation ever since,” DeSantis said in a statement to Fox News Digital, which first reported on the new map. “Our population has since grown dramatically, and we have moved from a Democrat majority to a 1.5 million Republican advantage. Drawing maps based on race, which is reflected in our current congressional districts, is unconstitutional and should be prohibited.”

SHAME WORKS:

this is not a joke btw. psychopathic political influencers turned luigi mangione into a new heroic archetype. the image is rooted in "cool." shame is the only thing that can really do damage to these people now. what happens to them needs to be unimaginably mortifying.

— Mike Solana (@micsolana) April 27, 2026

SHE’S A CLASS ACT: ‘Political Sickness:’ Melania Trump Deplores Jimmy Kimmel’s Disturbing Shooting Jokes.

PARTY LIKE IT’S 1939:

Germany, 2026.

What a tragedy. pic.twitter.com/eVe1eGKmmD

— Luai Ahmed (@JustLuai) April 27, 2026

DOG BITES MAN: Media Finger America’s ‘Gun Culture’ In Apportioning Blame for Latest Assassination Attempt.

SETTING THEIR SOURCE OF DESPERATELY NEEDED HARD CURRENCY ON FIRE:

It's methane they're burning, not oil. But it's the last ditch effort to buy a little time before shutting down the wells and capping them.

But remember, all the Trump haters want you to believe Iran is winning. https://t.co/LcHmGVnmq8

— Duane Patterson (@Radioblogger) April 27, 2026