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.
COME SEE THE VIOLENCE INHERENT IN THE LEFTISM:
The last time a Democrat in Minnesota voted against Tim Walz, a Tim Walz appointee went to her house and shot her in the face. https://t.co/2L7qaOERjy
— Bad Hombre (@Badhombre) April 15, 2026
THIS IS NOT AN ACCIDENT:
Arab media are portraying Trump's demand regarding Iran giving up the proxies as a Gulf demand. Interesting. The alignment of Israeli and Arab interests in this operation is getting greater every single day.
— Zineb Riboua (@zriboua) April 15, 2026
WELL, WHEN YOU PUT IT THAT WAY…:
I think a left-wing appeal to Catholics would work better if the left stopped attacking nunshttps://t.co/eMvrDsn6lB https://t.co/DcYC6kZDYz
— PoIiMath (@politicalmath) April 15, 2026
CHRISTIAN TOTO: Here’s Only Excuse for Tim Dillon’s Insane Anti-Trump Rant.
REQUIRED READING:
As I remarked elsewhere, while most politicians deal with Christianity by ignoring it or uttering pieties they neither mean nor understand the exchange between Pope Leo and Donald Trump forces the thoughtful reader to understand the Just War theory, which underpins the mainstream…
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) April 15, 2026
TYPICAL:
Trump is the most libertarian president we've had in decades and libertarians will never forgive him for it https://t.co/WHPme4lwhB
— Matt Forney (@mattforney) April 15, 2026
NIFTY… I ASSUME: U.S. Navy Destroyer Equipped With New Launcher For Unknown Weapons.
A new and not immediately recognizable launcher has emerged on the U.S. Navy’s Arleigh Burke class destroyer USS Carl M. Levin. Last year, launchers for Coyote counter-drone interceptors appeared in the same general location on two other Burkes, the USS Bainbridge and the USS Winston S. Churchill. The Navy is currently known to be exploring several other options for integrating lower-cost anti-drone interceptors on various warships to bolster their defenses against this ever-growing threat. The new launcher could also be for deploying other kinds of munitions, drones, and/or decoys.
The Carl M. Levin and its new launcher can be seen in the background of a picture that the U.S. Marine Corps released on April 8, which is seen in parts throughout this story. The image was taken on March 29 at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. The Levin, also known by the hull number DDG-120, is homeported there. A Japanese-language blog called OSINFO was the first to notice the launcher in the image and posted it to social media.
“What the launcher fires and what purpose it serves are unknown,” and the Navy remains tight-lipped.
CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Now Comes the Gun-Grab: Rhode Island Dems Go for Full-On Confiscation. “At a recent House Judiciary Committee hearing, lawmakers pushed 18 gun control bills in a single slate. The package goes well beyond sales restrictions. It includes legislation aimed at unconstitutionally dismantling the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act through so-called ‘public nuisance’ liability schemes, along with gun rationing, ammunition background checks, mandatory training requirements and liability insurance mandates.”
INDEED:
Well it looks like the Pope’s interference in American politics is still top of the news cycle, so I want to repeat something.
The Democrat/Media Complex deliberately set this up so faithful Catholics would be forced to choose: Trump or your faith?
That’s a false dichotomy.…
— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) April 15, 2026
ACCOUNTABILITY? YOU KEEP USING THAT WORD. I DO NOT THINK IT MEANS WHAT YOU THINK IT MEANS: Katie Porter’s Brand of Accountability Faces a Test She Didn’t Expect.
(HOPEFULLY NOT A ) NOVEMBER PREVIEW:
“I’m going to sit out the midterms to teach the republicans a lesson.” pic.twitter.com/NKpAytYaDH
— RusticLagers (@ArtisanAles1) April 15, 2026
ALSO KNOWN AS A GOOD START: Two Slimeballs Depart Congress.
THIS:
Property ownership gives people a share in the status quo and is a material interest that supports a critical baseline of reactionary political sentiment.
‘Cea Weaver-style’ housing policy is an insidious and purposeful effort to shift that political power to the state and make…
— Coddled Affluent Professional (@feelsdesperate) April 15, 2026
More:
‘Cea Weaver-style’ housing policy is an insidious and purposeful effort to shift that political power to the state and make people dependent on the state either directly through more public housing OR indirectly through price controls that make housing ‘affordable.’ Either way this policy seeks to effectuate a huge power transfer from individuals (homeowners) to the state who ‘provides’ or ‘ensures’ housing.
That’s why I generally think blue states are fine with no housing being built and real estate prices being out of control: the more desperate people are for housing and the more dependent they are on the state for housing, the more power government can arrogate.
Creating a permanent underclass of reliable Democrat voters is what Democrats do best.
THE COUNTER-RECONQUISTA: With Amnesty Passed, Is This the End of Spain?
CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Collateral Damage: States’ 3D Printed Gun Code Bans Squelch Innovation, Research, Speech. “The rapid expansion of regulations targeting 3D printed firearms is increasingly raising justifiable concerns apart from the Second Amendment community. As lawmakers venture beyond tradition gun control efforts into the realm of limiting digital code and hardware functionality, the collateral impact on others, including across various facets of computer culture, is obviously being felt. Case in point: World of Software’s April 7 article: Lawmakers want to restrict 3D printing to stop ghost guns. Critics say it won’t work, which notes, ‘the discomfort reaches beyond the right to bear arms.'”
THAT WAS TAME, REALLY, CONSIDERING THE THINGS HE COULD HAVE SAID:
BEASTMODE: Israel's ambassador to the U.S. addresses France's exclusion from peace talks with Lebanon.
"We'd like to keep the French as far away as possible from pretty much everything, but particularly when it comes to peace negotiations. They're not needed." pic.twitter.com/KapFbhZAY4
— Washington Free Beacon (@FreeBeacon) April 15, 2026
USUALLY IMAGINED: When ‘Racism,’ Real Or Imagined, is a More Egregious Crime Than Murder.
“THE TIMING IS SUSPICIOUS”: Intel IG Admitted Under Oath He Changed Whistleblower Rules For Anti-Trump Ukraine Op In 2019.
Former Intelligence Community Inspector General (ICIG) Michael Atkinson admitted under oath that he personally ordered a secret rewrite of the whistleblower complaint form in August 2019 that was used as the basis for a phony impeachment operation against President Donald Trump, going so far as to admit changing the form looked “suspicious.”
Newly unveiled testimony from October of 2019 shows that Atkinson conceded the change he ordered to the whistleblower complaint form “looks suspicious” but said the timing was merely “unfortunate.”
“So the timing is unfortunate. It looks suspicious, I get that,” Atkinson testified. Atkinson said that after several media inquiries highlighted that the then-current form required first-hand knowledge of wrongdoing in order for a complaint to meet the urgency threshold to be sent to Congress, he ordered his staff to secretly change the rules so that second-hand hearsay complaints could be a legitimate basis for expedited processing.
“What I should have done was I should have explained when we changed the form why we were changing it,” he said. “I should have been more transparent about the reasons and the motivations for the change in the forms.”
The admission vindicates years of reporting by The Federalist that exposed the “suspicious” change that conveniently coincided with the first impeachment inquiry into the president — reporting that was attacked as a conspiracy theory but is now confirmed by the IG’s own testimony.
Read the whole thing.
Previously: Dershowitz Says Trump Should Move to Expunge 2019 Impeachment.
SAD:
This is obviously the play, and when you understand that 65% of revenue from Catholic Charities comes from the government, you will understand why the US bishops want the Democrats back in power. https://t.co/qHW7rXB1wa
— Michael Sebastian (@HonorAndDaring) April 14, 2026
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