KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Chuck Schumer Is Now Driving His Own Clown Car. “Eric Swalwell’s protracted exit from politics has preoccupied the Democrats of late, which has pushed Schumer and his troubles into the background. One of my longstanding beliefs about Schumer is that, despite having risen to the top of Dem leadership, he’s one of the dumbest people in the Senate — think East Coast Mazie Hirono.”

SO LONG, CITI BIKE:

A Citi Bike ride shouldn’t cost a penny more than a subway or bus ride. We’ve got a bill to cap e-bike fees at $3 and end Citi Bike-flation. pic.twitter.com/LpVv5SmPDE

— Lincoln Restler (@LincolnRestler) April 16, 2026

When the bikes lack maintenance and eventually start disappearing, it will be just another case of “bad luck.”

Unexpectedly, of course.

TO BE FAIR, IT’S A THREAT TO PEOPLE ANYWHERE: Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas blasts progressivism as threat to America.

WELL, THEY ARE:

You actually don't have to treat people who suggest that there was a genocide in Gaza as serious, reasonable people. You really just can call them retarded.

— Will Chamberlain (@willchamberlain) April 16, 2026

ICYMI: Sorry, Britain, but You’re Just Another Europoor Country Now.

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Don Surber: Brits poorer than Mississippians. But the British refuse to believe they are poor.

If the Brits ever admitted what has been done to them, they’d have to do something about it.

NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU DESPISE THE MEDIA…:

Still blows me away the press held this until he wasn’t needed anymore. Really tells you how completely cooked we are as a country that it’s all this corrupt and fixed. https://t.co/PlnCUMkhhe

— EducatëdHillbilly™ (@RobProvince) April 16, 2026

…it’s never enough.

HMM: Trump to sign executive order on psychedelic drug used abroad to treat PTSD.

The White House is drafting an executive order that would signal the Trump administration’s willingness to further U.S. research into a drug called ibogaine.

Ibogaine, a naturally occurring compound from a shrub native to Africa, is used to treat depression, anxiety, addiction, post-traumatic stress disorder and brain trauma.

Because it’s illegal in the United States, Americans have been traveling to unregulated clinics, often in Mexico or the Caribbean, to take the drug.

The Trump administration doesn’t plan to reclassify the drug for medical use at this time — it will remain a Schedule I drug.

President Trump intends to sign the executive order as soon as this week, two of the sources said.

Almost anything might be an improvement. There hasn’t been a PTSD drug approved by the FDA since Paroxetine (Paxil) in 2001.

ANALYSIS: TRUE.

The "overlap" between Christianity and Islam is simply that Muhammad, in an attempt to give credibiilty to his degenerate "religion," appropriated some Biblical figures, often getting the key details wrong.

There is no actual overlap or spiritual relation between the two. https://t.co/HY8MkUwixD

— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) April 15, 2026

Claude Lévi-Strauss took a lot of heat when he described Islam as “a barracks religion,” but broadly speaking, he pretty much nailed it.

AT THE PRESIDENTIAL LEVEL, IN 1992: When Did America Quit Electing Adults? “Here are some examples. This is Wisconsin Secretary of State Sarah Godlewski, who’s in a panic because she never saw hail before, I guess.”

TEACHERS WHO TEACH? Train teachers to teach — not to be guides on the side. “For 30 years, teachers were trained to be ‘guides on the side,’ helping students ‘construct understanding,’ writes Chris O’Brien on Never Stop Learning. They weren’t trained to teach. Now teachers fear being replaced by robots who will explain, model and assess. Humans may be allowed to stick around as counselors.”

BREAKING: Woke Minnesota DA Charges ICE Agent With Assault.

MOVING AT THE SPEED OF GOVERNMENT:

You could open 46 Aldi grocery stores for this amount of money and much, much quicker.

Government sucks.
It has no business opening a grocery store because it can't … government creates nothing.

It only takes. https://t.co/3rdPBaNHk5

— The🐰FOO (@PolitiBunny) April 16, 2026

If you’re going to spend $30 million just to not open one grocery store for three years — assuming no delays! — then the money isn’t going to a grocery store.

ICYMI: Trump’s Iran Blockade Just Got Bigger.

OUCH:

The rial is at its weakest ever: 1.6M to the dollar — on track for 2M, faster than expected.

Hyperinflation. Mass unemployment. War damage above 40% of GDP. $13B lost every month under blockade (see @FDD @miadmaleki @ElaineDezenski Dan Swift).

The regime is staring at economic…

— Mark Dubowitz (@mdubowitz) April 15, 2026

THE NEW SPACE RACE: The race to Shackleton Crater is on—will Jeff Bezos or China get there first? “The two landers will arguably be the most ambitious robotic missions ever sent to the Moon. The Endurance spacecraft, built by Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin, will become the largest lunar lander in history, exceeding the size of NASA’s Apollo lunar module that ferried crews to and from the lunar surface more than 50 years ago. China’s Chang’e 7 mission will feature a smaller lander, but the project also includes an orbiter, rover, and a hopper drone to scout for hidden ice deposits.”

FACE, MEET PALM:

‼️🇪🇺 The EU's new Age Verification app was hacked with little to no effort.

When you set it up, the app asks you to create a PIN. But that PIN isn't actually tied to the identity data it's supposed to protect. An attacker can delete a couple of entries from a file on the phone,… pic.twitter.com/kqaC7rfFwa

— International Cyber Digest (@IntCyberDigest) April 16, 2026

But other than that, how’s the security on your app, Mrs. von der Leyen?

MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: Sorry, Britain, but You’re Just Another Europoor Country Now.

REQUIRED READING:

⚡️The thing underneath all of this that nobody will touch is that society decided men were the problem and then acted surprised when men started disappearing.

For thirty years the cultural message aimed at men has been some version of you are the issue. Toxic masculinity. Male… https://t.co/1jqRHTZ0Cm

— SightBringer (@_The_Prophet__) April 15, 2026

Make men men again.

GAS: Sixth day with a drop in fuel costs over the last seven days. “Fuel costs were a little more than 1 cent per gallon cheaper compared to Wednesday’s price of $4.108 per gallon. Gas prices were over seven cents per gallon lower than a week ago, when regular gas cost $4.166 per gallon, according to AAA. This week marks the first time since February that the national average price for a gallon of regular gas was less expensive than the previous week.”

THE GOLDEN STATE IS A BANANA REPUBLIC:

The California Supreme Court sent a clear and terrorizing message:

If attorneys represent disfavored political candidates who challenge disputed elections, California will disbar them.

While this happens in failed third-world countries, this should never happen in America. https://t.co/AuMtAULoIy

— 🇺🇸 Mike Davis 🇺🇸 (@mrddmia) April 15, 2026

TO ASK THE QUESTION IS TO ANSWER IT: Why Won’t Jon Ossoff Condemn Hasan Piker?

“MEN DON’T READ!” NO, WE JUST DON’T READ WHAT PROGRESSIVE WOMEN PUBLISH:

What the NYRB article about Passage leaves out is that the publishing industry has become utterly DOMINATED by women and leftist sensibilities.

Any meaningful correction to that is going to look reactionary to the people swimming in the fishbowl (NYRB’s editors, eg). https://t.co/mKXiqRM2bK pic.twitter.com/ckeda0eK1k

— Lomez (@L0m3z) April 16, 2026

IT CERTAINLY OUGHT TO: Vulcan woes will “absolutely” be a factor in Pentagon’s next rocket competition.

The US Space Force is still dealing with the near-term implications of the second grounding of United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rocket in less than two years. The experience is likely to influence how the Pentagon buys launch services in the future, a three-star general said Tuesday.

The Vulcan rocket is one of the two primary launch vehicles the Space Force uses to put satellites into orbit, alongside SpaceX’s Falcon 9. Despite a backlog of nearly 70 launches, ULA’s Vulcan has flown just four times since debuting in January 2024.

On two of those flights, the Vulcan launcher suffered anomalies with one of its solid rocket boosters. One of the booster’s exhaust nozzles blew off in the first incident in October 2024. The same problem appeared to occur again during a Vulcan launch in February of this year. The rocket continued flying after both incidents, ultimately reaching each mission’s targeted orbit.

But the nozzle malfunctions suggest something is seriously amiss at ULA and its booster supplier, Northrop Grumman. The Vulcan rocket is many months from returning to flight for the US military. One industry source told Ars that the Space Force may not fly another mission on Vulcan before the end of the year.

Lt. Gen. Philip Garrant, head of the Space Force’s Space Systems Command, said the Vulcan rocket’s reliability woes are top of mind among the military’s space leadership. On Tuesday, Garrant told Ars the experience with Vulcan “absolutely will shape” the military’s thinking the next time the Pentagon buys launch services.

The Pentagon shouldn’t have to lean too hard on any single supplier, but there’s also nobody delivering like SpaceX.

YES:

Exactly.

By raising the issue, it makes people look at what Pope Leo is saying and what Pope Leo is saying is leftist nonsense. https://t.co/1ZB9qbwOCc

— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) April 16, 2026

And here’s some additional perspective:

You are quote tweeting somebody who worked for an administration that sued Catholic nuns to try and force them to give contraceptives to their employees.

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) April 16, 2026

AMAZING HOW QUICKLY THEY WENT FROM “PUNCH A NAZI” TO “NOMINATE ONE”: The Man With the Nazi Tattoo Is Blowing up the Democratic Party.