TO ASK THE QUESTION IS TO ANSWER IT: Why Won’t Jon Ossoff Condemn Hasan Piker?
Author Archive: Stephen Green
April 16, 2026
“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.
YEP:
We can’t deport Haitians because then a Chinese meat packing cartel wouldn’t be able pay their federally subsidized foreign workforce less than a Sheetz cashier
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) April 16, 2026
WOW:
BREAKING: Lebanese TV displays the flags of Israel and Lebanon.
Truly unprecedented.
Real peace is on the horizon. pic.twitter.com/ef8PpshiVE
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) April 16, 2026
REALLY, ALL I NEED IS A CUP OF DECENT COFFEE WITH MAYBE A LITTLE CREAM: Starbucks’ ChatGPT experiment could quietly reshape how people order coffee.
Starting April 15, users will be able to turn to ChatGPT for help deciding on their next Starbucks order through a new integration with the coffee chain. To activate the feature, users simply tag @starbucks within a chat with the AI agent to trigger the new in-platform beta Starbucks app.
Users will be able to prompt ChatGPT to offer drink order advice based on mood, cravings, or even an image. For instance, a user might prompt ChatGPT with “@starbucks I’m looking for an iced pick me up,” with the LLM then suggesting an Iced Dragon Energy Drink alongside 5 additional options.
“Over the past year, one thing has become clear: customers aren’t always starting with a menu. They’re starting with a feeling,” Paul Riedel, senior vice president, digital & loyalty at Starbucks wrote in a blog post announcement.
A real boon for people who need help with this sort of thing, I suppose.
EPIC FURY: Trump’s Iran Blockade Just Got Bigger.
REMINDER: THE POINT OF OUR CURRENT ELECTION LAW ISN’T NECESSARILY TO STEAL EVERY ELECTION, BUT TO DISCREDIT THE SYSTEM:
Do no ID, no update of voter rolls, automatic mail-in ballots to everyone, ballot drop-boxes and "ballot harvesting" make our elections more secure or less secure?
And if fraud occurs under such rules, is it identifiable as such?
Perhaps the purpose of the ridiculously… https://t.co/M4J3ai4VcP
— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) April 16, 2026
MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE: Vance-led anti-fraud panel shutters 447 hospices in LA. “The figure includes 447 hospices and 23 home health agencies. Collectively, the facilities accounted for roughly $600 million in public funds fraud.”
BIDEN FORGOT THEM WHILE THEY WERE STILL GOING ON:
The liberal effort to forget the Biden years is kind of amazing. https://t.co/EAHEMWGVIR
— Tim Carney (@TPCarney) April 16, 2026
THE ENEMY WITHIN:
🚨 UPDATE FROM DEPAUL UNIVERSITY:
Due to relentless exposure and humiliation from American patriots on X, the Students for Justice in Palestine are now BANNED from operating on campus.
Last week, the SJP screamed their brains out during a campus rally for “Palestine,” calling… pic.twitter.com/BiEivn2PBG
— NizNellie3 (@NizNellie3) April 15, 2026
FOR DEMS, A WELL-PROSECUTED CAMPAIGN AGAINST A LONG-STANDING ENEMY IS A CRIME: Dems file 6 impeachment articles against Hegseth. “House Democrats will introduce six articles of impeachment against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday accusing him of abuse of power, war crimes and other serious wrongdoing.”
Have no doubt: With a few (very few) notable exceptions like Sen. John Fetterman, Dems chose a side — and it isn’t America.
THEY ONLY REPORTED ON SWALWELL WHEN THEIR DEMOCRAT PARTNERS-IN-CRIME DEEMED IT NECESSARY:
It was an open secret, by your own admission, for years. You guys have armies of investigative reporters.
Yet the mainstream press never published a single story until some Dem operatives spoon fed them opposition research.
Get off your high horse. You protected him. https://t.co/rIq6Y2SXcu
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) April 16, 2026
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Dems Still Trying to Ditch Stage 5 Clinger Kamala Harris. “All of the above, mixed with the leftist permanent state of aggrievement gives Harris a toxic sense of entitlement. Like Hillary Clinton before her, Harris believes that God, the world, and the American electorate owe her.”
WHY CAN’T WE DO THIS?
UAE executed while many in the west called it impossible. The UAE had no nuclear engineers. No regulator. No nuclear history. In 2009, it decided to build four nuclear reactors anyway.
By 2024, all four were operating. Delivered on time, on budget, and cleaner than almost… pic.twitter.com/tsPgUBkdjT
— James 🌸🏴🇦🇺 (@comical_engr) April 16, 2026
THE ANSWER IS, YOU’VE BEEN AT WAR FOR FOUR-PLUS YEARS WITH NOTHING TO SHOW FOR IT BUT 1.3 MILLION CASUALTIES, SANCTIONS, AND A BUSTED SOVEREIGN WEALTH FUND: Putin Demands Answers as Russia’s Economy Undershoots Expectations.
President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday demanded explanations from the government and Central Bank over why Russia’s economy is performing worse than expected this year, calling for urgent measures to revive growth in his second public complaint about economic weakness in a month.
According to the Economic Development Ministry, GDP in January and February was 1.8% lower than in the same period last year. The Russian Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Economic Forecasting (INP) estimated a 1.5% year-on-year contraction for the first quarter, while the Central Bank had previously forecast GDP growth of 1.6% over the same period.
The ministry attributed part of the decline to calendar effects, noting that January had two fewer working days and February one fewer than a year earlier. Adjusted for this, GDP was flat year-on-year in January and rose 0.3% in February.
Putin dismissed the explanation as insufficient.
Well, it is insufficient. But since he won’t end the war and keeps silencing his critics, it’s the best answer he’s going to get.
IT’S MY THURSDAY ESSAY FOR VIP SUBSCRIBERS: The Trump Doctrine, Defined. “What is the Trump Doctrine? My columns and essays in recent weeks have poked at it, hinted at it, but I never pulled it all together in one place — and not even President Donald Trump has fully explained it. So let’s do that now while the pieces still fall into place.”
THE FALLOUT FROM BIDEN’S BORDER CRISIS CONTINUES:
BREAKING: DHS confirms that the suspect arrested for attempting to rape a woman while she was waiting for a rideshare in Arlington County, VA is a Guatemalan illegal alien who entered the US as a gotaway & has at least 25 prior charges in the county going back to 2020.
Police… pic.twitter.com/6LifOjTG6R
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) April 16, 2026
CHANGE? Hungary’s prime minister-elect vows to suspend ‘propaganda machine’ state media.
Péter Magyar, whose landslide election victory on Sunday brought an end to Viktor Orbán’s 16 years in power, detailed his plans for the suspension as he gave two tense interviews to public radio and television on Wednesday.
The appearances marked his first invitation to take part in state media in 18 months, Magyar said, in sharp contrast to Orbán’s regular appearances.
The incoming leader used the interviews to confront the outlets over their coverage, accusing them of spreading fear and lies and comparing their coverage to propaganda from North Korea and Nazi-era Germany. “Every Hungarian deserves a public service media that broadcasts the truth,” Magyar told Kossuth state radio.
He said his government would pass a new press law and create a media authority with the aim of allowing state media “to actually do what it is meant to do”.
Better just to abolish it.