A VERY PUBLIC EDUCATION:
Teenagers are sharing photos of their AP U.S. Government textbooks, and the sheer amount of indoctrination is wildly disturbing.
Apparently, Barack Obama is ideologically a right wing authoritarian.
Hillary Clinton and George W Bush are entirely indistinguishable politically.… pic.twitter.com/0lGn1acdqB
— Isabel Brown (@theisabelb) April 6, 2026
TO BE FAIR, PERFORMATIVE OUTRAGE IS TAPPER’S ENTIRE SCHTICK:
Obama prosecuted more leakers and whistleblowers than all previous presidents combined.
This was pointed out by CNN's Jake Tapper, confirmed by PolitiFact, and the ACLU criticized Obama for it.
Spare us your performative outrage. https://t.co/4KpRYszvfE pic.twitter.com/wgPt3QiZ0K
— Possum Reviews (@ReviewsPossum) April 7, 2026
Maybe Tapper’s schtick would be less tiresome if it weren’t entirely one-sided.
HEY, BIG SPENDER: OpenAI doesn’t expect to be profitable until at least 2030 as AI costs surge.
Spending on AI training will be staggering. In 2028, OpenAI projects spending $121 billion on computing power for its AI research. The estimate for 2029 is slightly higher, before AI model training costs dip back below $100 million in 2030. (This year, for perspective, the company expects to spend just over $25 billion on AI model training.)
Anthropic’s totals are smaller but still climb steadily, surpassing $30 billion in 2029.
These losses come despite an expected surge in revenue at both companies. OpenAI’s revenue is projected to nearly double annually, reaching roughly $275 billion in 2030. Anthropic expects to approach $150 billion in 2029.
YOY revenue doubling is in line with OpenAI’s growth since the company debuted OpenAI, so we’ll see.
MEANWHILE, DOWN UNDER…:
My uncle's name is on the wall in Canberra. That's what he died for? https://t.co/cULAdXXa73
— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) April 7, 2026
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Marco Rubio Is the Reason I Gave Up on Political Purity Tests. “There was a time when I was pretty exacting about purity tests for other conservative activists and, to a lesser extent, Republican politicians. Marco Rubio long ago made me abandon them completely for politicians. President Trump reinforced that.”
THEY OUGHT TO BE ASHAMED:
One of the more entertaining things to witness regarding the Iran conflict is to watch the "credentialed" class of milbloggers twist themselves into pretzels to laud the skill and courage of America's fighting men and women in accomplishing all of their assigned missions so…
— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) April 7, 2026
HMM: Trump confirms U.S. sent guns to Iranian people, but says intermediary kept them.
“We sent some guns,” he said. “They were supposed to go to the people so they could fight back against these thugs. You know what happened? The people that we sent them to kept them.”
“So, I am very upset with a certain group of people and they’re gonna pay a big price for that,” he added.
Trump previously told Fox News’s Trey Yingst that he believed Kurdish groups had kept the guns intended for the Iranian people. Kurdish militia forces had been the subject of speculation over a possible role in a ground operation against Iran.
Plan A failed. What’s Plan B?
BLUE STATE BLUES: The California Exodus Grows as Affordability Crisis Pushes Residents Out.
“The region recorded the largest population drop of any in the nation between July 2024 and July 2025, according to newly released estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau,” the New York Post reported. “The data, published March 26, shows roughly 54,000 residents left the county during that one-year period. The losses mark a continuation of a steady slide for the nation’s most populous county.”
LA County’s population dropped below 10 million for the first time since 2020. It appears that outlying regions have particularly benefited from the departures, including Las Vegas, which saw a population increase of 20,000.
As more than a few noted on social media, it’s remarkable that people want to leave Southern California. But the high cost of living, crime, poor governance, and general disorder are making it intolerable for many.
While there are many reasons an area can experience a sudden population drop, LA’s precipitous one coincides with a general trend for the Golden State. Much of the state has been bleeding residents (particularly middle-class ones) for over a decade. The numbers stabilized due to immigration, but now that is petering out, too.
California used to be expensive but well-run. Now it’s even more expensive, but to give just one example, has the worst roads in the nation.
Apparently, people don’t like that.
KEVIN DOWNEY JR: The J6 Pipe Bomb Update You Don’t Want to Miss.
I’M EXPECTING PLENTY OF EARTH-SHATTERING KABOOMS: Iran rejects 45-day ceasefire plan.
YOU’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BLOG: How Texas Kicks Europe’s Ass. “Through all of that, the Texas economy just kept climbing. The productivity gap tells the same story. Between late 2019 and mid 2024, labor productivity per hour in the Euro zone rose by 0.9%. In the US, it rose by 6.7%. Texas led that charge.”
AIR TRAVEL JUST KEEPS GETTING WORSE: United Tries to Offset Temporary High Fuel Costs With Permanent Fare and Fee Increases.
HMM:
"No, we shaved off votes in the red counties in the countryside where Trump was strong, and we left the blue counties untouched. We shaved off 10 percent in Douglas County (CO) and 10% in Mesa County (CO) and other red counties until Biden's count was over 50 percent statewide." https://t.co/BgnRmyjmL2
— Rasmussen Reports (@Rasmussen_Poll) April 5, 2026
WELL, IT’S TRUE: The European Mind Can’t Comprehend Why We’re Such Bad A****s.
LABOUR HAS A SEX PROBLEM:
One moment of perfect clarity can be devastating.
Orla Minihane has just exposed a number that should end any pretence:
Seventy-nine.
Seventy-nine Labour MPs and councillors with convictions or formal findings for rape, sexual assault, grooming, child sexual exploitation,… https://t.co/LoJddgXNQc
— Christian (@decorativeartt) April 5, 2026
Exit quote: “While Labour lectures the nation about protecting women and girls, they have quietly built one of the most predator-friendly environments in British politics.”
WELL, WHEN YOU PUT IT THAT WAY…: Artemis II is going so well that all we’re left to talk about is frozen urine.
By Friday night there was another problem. Urine is collected in a small tank, about the size of an office trash can. From there it is supposed to be vented into space, which is to say, dumped overboard to sail around the cosmos until the end of time. However, flight controllers noted that astronaut pee had frozen in the tank. There were no issues with using the toilet for no. 2, but no. 1 was a no-go.
To address the problem, Orion was maneuvered into an orientation such that the urine tank and vent lines received the maximum amount of sunshine to un-freeze the urine. This helped a little bit, but did not entirely solve the problem. So for now, the astronauts are continuing to pee into, essentially, bags.
During Saturday’s news conference, the chair of the Mission Management Team, a NASA engineer named John Honeycutt, was asked about the public fascination with Orion’s toilet.
He said he understood the interest. “I think the fixation on the toilet is kind of human nature,” he said. Honeycutt added that it is not a mission risk, but said if the astronauts were essentially camping out in space, the current setup makes the whole situation a little more difficult. “I know we’re in a good state, but I would really like it to be in the best state it can be,” he said.
It is worth noting that space toilets are difficult.
It’s been a good mission — let’s not jinx it.
SAME VIBE:
https://t.co/A8M5vzD5Qv pic.twitter.com/RSB5Qg1363
— George MF Washington (@GMFWashington) April 5, 2026
TRUMP FIRES UNDERPERFORMERS, BUT THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE A BAD THING: Here’s What Trump Has to Say About More Cabinet Shake-Ups.
JONATHAN TURLEY: We might need to amend the Constitution.
In my Supreme Court class, I call this a “default case” in which justices tend to run home. When a record or the law is uncertain, conservative justices tend to avoid expansive, new interpretations. That was precisely what Trump said he wanted in nominees.
These justices are not being “disloyal” to him, but rather loyal to what they view as the meaning of the Constitution. I have at times disagreed with their view of the law, but I have never questioned their integrity.
None of this means we should accept the expected outcome in this case as the final word on birthright citizenship. Justice Robert Jackson once observed that he and his colleagues “are not final because we are infallible, we are infallible because we are final.”
The final word actually rests with the public. We can amend the Constitution to join most of the world in barring birthright citizenship. There is no more important question in a republic than the definition of citizenship.
We are becoming a virtual mockery as we watch millions game the birthright citizenship system. China alone has hundreds of tourism firms that have made fortunes in arranging for Chinese citizens to come to U.S. territory to give birth and then return home.
No republic can last without controlling its borders and the qualifications for citizenship. We have allowed U.S. citizenship to become a mere commodity for the most affluent or unscrupulous among us.
One way or another, that has to change.
NOT ANTIWAR, JUST ON THE OTHER SIDE:
Dear college students who so fervently protested for months across America: Iran is hanging kids your own age for doing exactly what you did – protesting.
Why aren’t you standing up for Iranians who desperately want freedom?https://t.co/29Qe61RC71
— Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) April 5, 2026
BRUCE BAWER: A Taxonomy of Jihad: How Does Islam Conquer?
GOOD QUESTION: Why is Kweisi Mfume Funneling $245K in Federal Funds to Johns Hopkins for Gun Locks That Are Already Available for Free? “But maybe the prospect of the Bloomberg School, that’s named for America’s most prominent gun-grabber, handing out locks provided by the gun industry is more than anyone at Johns Hopkins can handle. Better, then, to have taxpayers foot the bill, right? Besides, the school has demonstrated that they’re more than happy to hoover up as many federal tax dollars as they can to further the cause of civilian disarmament.”
Or maybe the money went somewhere else — who knows?
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