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This is a report from Tehran by an Iranian who lives there. Decado is blowing through expensive VPNs to stay connected during the blackout. He's depicting life beyond the propaganda.

Stand with the real Iran.

Listen to REAL Iranian voices. https://t.co/3Ks1nl6h7v pic.twitter.com/xuVuC5qEn2

— 𝐍𝐢𝐨𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠 🇮🇷 ✡︎ (@NiohBerg) April 25, 2026

This is from Part 2: “Some still find VPN access, but only through expensive, unstable, dangerous scraps. Three to eight dollars per gigabyte for a window to the world, with legal risk hanging over anyone who helps others connect.”

“Legal risk” is a polite way of saying, “Abducted, jailed, beaten, killed.”

FOR THE CHILDREN™ WAS NEVER ANYTHING OTHER THE MARKETING HYPE FOR THE GULLIBLE:

The fact that ICE found HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of migrant children in 2025, many of whom were in forced labor on a farms, is somehow NOT the biggest story in America…

…tells you everything you need to know about the media

It's totally insane. pic.twitter.com/aowEAbiYF1

— Matt Van Swol (@mattvanswol) April 25, 2026

UPDATE ON THAT UCLA LAW DISRUPTION:

I have friends on the UCLA Law faculty, it may be the worst-governed elite US law school right now, the lunatics are running the asylum with the acquiescence of Dean Michael Waterstone. https://t.co/grpusDKWA5

— David Bernstein (@ProfDBernstein) April 24, 2026

STOP CODDLING THE MENTALLY ILL: Trans substitute teacher, 19, allegedly plotted chilling ‘murder spree’ at a Virginia school.

YES. NEXT QUESTION?

So … the SPLC revived a dead neo-Nazi group? https://t.co/3InO7813a9

— T. Becket Adams (@BecketAdams) April 24, 2026

UPDATE (From Ed): The SPLC allegedly made bank at Charlottesville:

SPLC got better returns than Nancy Pelosi and inverse Cramer combined! https://t.co/4AcSXEWLuo

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 25, 2026

THEY SAY HISTORY REPEATS, BUT C’MON — THAT’S A LITTLE TOO ON THE NOSE: Russia’s Communist leader warns a 1917-style revolution may be on the way.

THAT WOULD BE A START, I SUPPOSE: Senators Would Be Barred From Using Prediction Markets Under New Bill.

Senator Bernie Moreno, an Ohio Republican, introduced a bill that would prohibit sitting senators from participating in prediction markets.

Prediction markets are platforms that allow users to wager on the outcomes of real‑world events, including elections, economic data releases and geopolitical developments.

The proposal, introduced Friday, would amend Senate rules to bar members from entering into any financial agreement in which a payout depends on whether a specific future event occurs.

I concluded long ago that the assets of elected officials (and for any appointed position requiring Senate approval) should all go into the same blind trust. Any returns over the 7% that private investors hope to earn would go to deficit reduction.

It’s patriotic!

HEH:

I know Elon isn’t a Nazi because he wasn’t funded by the SPLC. https://t.co/auPhHvP6zk

— Rothmus 🏴 (@Rothmus) April 25, 2026

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Well, this is embarrassing: The Lunar Gateway’s primary modules are corroded.

How could both a module being provided by Northrop Grumman, a major US defense contractor, and I-HAB from Europe be corroded? It seems like a fantastic claim. However, half a dozen sources who worked on or near the Lunar Gateway program confirmed to Ars that the corrosion Isaacman mentioned was real and serious.

In a statement, Northrop confirmed the issue as well. “Using NASA-approved processes, Northrop Grumman is completing repairs to HALO after a manufacturing irregularity,” a company spokesperson told Ars. “We expect to complete repairs by the end of the third quarter. HALO can still be repurposed for any mission, and it’s the most mature technology to support a deep space or lunar habitat.”

By referring to a “manufacturing irregularity,” Northrop answered the central mystery here: how corrosion could appear in both modules. This is because a French-Italian space and defense company, Thales Alenia Space, built the primary structure of HALO for Northrop Grumman. The module was delivered from Italy to the United States about a year ago.

Not a good look, Thales.

MOVE THAT DECIMAL ONE DIGIT TO THE RIGHT: Minneapolis man sentenced to 8.5 years in prison over support for ISIS.

YOU OWE THE LEFT NOTHING:

"I will not thank Rufo for anything as long as his rhetoric salts the earth for rebuilding trust with the left."

IMO this is backwards. It is the left that needs to rebuild trust with us. The onus is on it, at least as far as academia is concerned. Rufo is not the problem there. https://t.co/WEmQLV7gdx

— Varad Mehta (@varadmehta) April 25, 2026

HMM:

It's really tempting to applaud that.

I'd rather have 84,000 US troops already forward deployed in Europistan, for when we need them there.

Because sooner or later, we will.

I'd say make nice with Europe. Don't even charge them, keep going. Just harden up the bases.

Make sure… https://t.co/wFp9Bb95ae

— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) April 25, 2026

IT’S TIME FOR VICTORIA TAFT’S West Coast, Messed Coast™: Newsom’s Billion Dollar OP to Replace Californians With Illegals. “This week, your humble correspondent brings you the latest spasms and utterances from the leaders of Washington, Oregon, and California. The destruction of the West Coast, Messed Coast™ didn’t happen by accident. It was planned, vision-boarded, war-gamed, and paid for, as you’ll see. We take you now to the latest imaginary meeting of the Western States Coalition, where individual freedoms are ritually sacrificed for power.”

TO BE FAIR, EDUCATION IS INHERENTLY CONSERVATIVE, OR AT LEAST IS SUPPOSED TO BE: Classical ed — Great Books and George Washington — is coded conservative.

FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: Meet Mayor McDUI. “It’s time for your much-needed break from the serious news, and this week, we’ll learn that you’re always the mayor of Naples, how to dress for a night out at Jensen Beach, and how to have a cow in upstate New York.”

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Final Rule Drives a Stake Through Anti-Gun Left’s De-Banking Strategy.

Ultimately, this final rule eliminates reputation risk as a means of injecting politics into banking regulation by prohibiting examiners from using this subjective assessment to pressure or penalize banks. It also prohibits regulators from pushing banks to close accounts or deny services based on their ill-conceived aversion to the lawful firearms and ammunition industries, which are vital to supporting our constitutional rights.

This rule helps to mitigate unjustified biases against these business sectors left over from the Obama-Biden Administration and importantly helps to prevent future efforts in the same vein. In 2013, the U.S. Department of Justice, in coordination with regulators such as the FDIC, began pressuring banks to cut ties and services to industries they considered to be “high risk,” which under the anti-gun Obama-Biden administration unsurprisingly included firearm and ammunition-related business.re

The program, billed Operation Choke Point, encouraged broad financial “de-risking” and led to banks freezing or terminating services to lawful businesses based on “reputation risk,” instead of any proven misconduct or illegality. Guidance documents provided to banks at the time specifically listed firearm and ammunition sales as high-risk activity, although they are some of the most highly regulated industries in the country.

More like this, please.

FRAUD ALL THE WAY DOWN…:

Ilhan Omar Accused Of Trying To Steer $1.4M To Nonprofit With Somali Restaurant For Address https://t.co/oDvMr1TALH

— zerohedge (@zerohedge) April 24, 2026

…and she also married her brother.

GOOD ADVICE: Eliminate Toxic Masculinity, Ladies — Marry Men and Have Kids.

OUCH: Meta to cut 8,000 jobs, Microsoft offers buyouts to to staff as AI spending costs hit Big Tech workers.

Meta (META) on Thursday became the latest Big Tech company to announce layoffs as the ballooning costs of the AI build-out and efficiencies continue to hit workers in the industry.

The company says it will cut 10% of its workforce, or about 8,000 employees.
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Microsoft (MSFT) will also offer voluntary buyouts to some employees as the company joins many of its Big Tech peers in seeking ways to control costs amid their AI spending sprees.

According to a source familiar with the matter, roughly 7% of Microsoft’s US employees, senior directors or below, can take part in the buyouts if their years at the company plus their age add up to at least 70.

How big are those AI build-outs? This big: “Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft alone will spend some $650 billion on capital expenditures in 2026.”

TWO-TIER KEIR:

BBC have turned the comments off because everybody wants to know why a WHITE MAN raping a SIKH is rightfully life in prison

Yet a MUSLIM raping a WHITE GIRL can get as little as FOUR YEARS https://t.co/RgFlfYZEEs

— Basil the Great (@BasilTheGreat) April 24, 2026

2027 PREVIEW: Democrats Already Looking to Impeach Trump on ‘Day One’ If They Take Control of Congress.

KEEP HAMMERING ON THIS, DATA R:

I am going to keep repeating this until people understand this.

Karen Bass was not only a Castro operative and Communist, but she got elevated to Vice Chair of National Endowment for Democracy, which is the center of soft power operations in the US government. She is not a "DEI… https://t.co/Kh7wMQvwgZ

— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) July 7, 2025

HEH: So When Are The ‘Punch A Nazi’ Sorts Going To Punch SPLC Donors? “Meanwhile, what are all those angry leftists who based their identity on ‘punching Nazis’ going to do now that it’s been revealed that their side were the ones funding the Nazis all along?”

I figure the ones with big enough names that you saw them on CNN or M-SNOW were likely in on it.

PRETTY MUCH, YEAH:

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— Sean Ryan (@aglanceaskance) April 24, 2026

REAGAN WILBANKS: I’m Part of America’s ‘Most Stressed’ Generation. But A Growing Movement Gives Me Hope.