I WONDER HOW MANY MORE OF THEM EXIST:  The Political Hall of Mirrors.

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THE LEFT’S DREAM OF THIS BEING SOMEONE ON THE RIGHT ARE DISAPPOINTED AGAIN:  Update: Gunman Stopped Before Reaching WHCA Dinner Named.

I AM SORRY, I WAS HOUSE CLEANING AGAIN:  Trump Evacuated to a Holding Room After Shots Fired at White House Correspondents Association Dinner.

A REVIEW:  REVIEW:  Battleborn Magazine #1. The boys at Iron Age Media are keeping the flame alive.

I HAVE NO LOVE FOR SWALWELL, BUT THIS WAS JUST THE PARTY GETTING RID OF HIM:  Some unkind thoughts on Swalwell!  … And his Accusers

BUSTED: “Anti-Hate” Group Gets Caught Funding Hate.

ROGER KIMBALL ON TONIGHT’S ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT:

Donald and Melania Trump entered the hall at 8:16 to cheers and applause. “Hail to the Chief” was followed by presentation of the colors and the National Anthem. We had a brief introduction from Weijia Jiang, this year’s president of the White House Correspondents Association, followed by dinner.

Two questions hovered in the background. One, how would President Trump treat the press? And two, would he, as had many presidents in the past at this event, treat the audience to a little self-deprecating humor? “Donald Trump” and “self-deprecation” are not words you often hear together, but who knows? The President is also a master communicator who reads his audience well.

We never found out. At about 8:35, four loud noises were heard from the back of the room. They were shots. . . .

“The First Amendment,” “Free Speech,” “A Free Media” are different ways of enunciating what the dinner is supposed to be all about. Not much mention, if any, will be given to the clamp down on free speech under the Biden administration or the liberating revolution sparked by Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter and his campaign to restore speech to the platform and hence to the wider media environment.

Donald Trump has probably given the media more access to his thoughts than any president in history. At least part of many of his Cabinet meetings are open to the media and he seldom boards or exits a plane without stopping to answer questions. If he thinks a question is stupid or ill-informed, he will say so. Fake news he treats as fake news. The media hates that, of course, but has anyone ever treated them more like adults?

Well, but they’re not. They’re middle school Mean Girls with a megaphone.

THE LEFT’S ASSASSINATION CULTURE HAS MAINSTREAM ENABLERS WHO SHOULD BE HELD STRICTLY ACCOUNTABLE:

OK, how many assassination attempts now? He must hold the record, or is getting close to it.

And by Monday, this story will be over. Just like all the other ones. They'll have found some new faux outrage to posture about. https://t.co/uyQdec6vn9

— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) April 26, 2026

UPDATE (From Ed):

They don't kill you because you're a Nazi.

They call you a Nazi so they can kill you. pic.twitter.com/Yg3IRG4TTt

— Matt Van Swol (@mattvanswol) April 26, 2026

THE SHOW WILL NOT GO ON: WH Correspondents’ Dinner to Be Rescheduled After Chaotic Night at the Gala.

UPDATE: Trump Says Authorities Have Apprehended White House Correspondents’ Dinner Shooter.

OPEN THREAD: Make it special.

SO MUCH POLITICAL VIOLENCE FROM THE LEFT: Shots Fired at Correspondents Dinner, Shooter Neutralized, Trump Evacuated. “The shooter who fired off multiple rounds at the White House correspondents’ dinner Saturday evening is reportedly dead, and Secret Service agents successfully took President Donald Trump off the stage to safety. Fox News announced around 9 p.m. EDT that Trump was going to return, and the dinner could go on as planned. . . . The mainstream media have, of course, been encouraging violent hatred against President Trump for years with their extreme rhetoric framing him as worse than Hitler and the KKK. Perhaps they will be less extreme in their language now that they themselves faced such a potentially deadly situation.” Don’t count on it.

WHAT JUST HAPPENED AT WHCD;

Trump was introduced with First Lady 15 mins ish ago

Five or so mins after he was seated shots range out: POP POP POP POP. Sounds like five to me where I’m sitting.

Everyone immediately hit the floor.

Secret Service immediately took POTUS out…

— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) April 26, 2026

UPDATE:

Man the sound of the "pop, pop, pop" shots took me instantly back to those moments in Butler.
A lot rougher than I ever anticipated. https://t.co/6PU7WFL9b8

— ZitoSalena (@ZitoSalena) April 26, 2026

Related:

More than half of Dems say it’s justifiable to kill Pres. Trump.

Another maniac tried to do it again tonight in DC.

This party, their allies, and their rhetoric draw blood. They’ve declared war.

Wake. Up. America. https://t.co/awwBKWoqk3

— BDW (@BryanDeanWright) April 26, 2026

This is still the case. And it needs to be addressed YESTERDAY. https://t.co/rYVz7ai8Ln

— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) April 26, 2026

UPDATE:

NEWS: The attempted shooter at the White House Correspondent's Dinner is 31 year old Cole Tomas Allen from Torrance, California and he is in custody.

— Karol Markowicz (@karol) April 26, 2026

MORE: White House Correspondents’ Dinner gunman ‘assembled long weapon in unsecured room’ before firing near ballroom, volunteer reveals.

WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENTS’ DINNER LIVE UPDATES: Shots fired at White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Trump evacuated as Secret Service yells ‘he’s down!’ after gunman taken out.

UPDATE:

Fox Business reporting two people. https://t.co/CSMGWTdiQ3

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) April 26, 2026

PROFESSOR CARRINGTON, CALL YOUR OFFICE: Sun unleashes 2 colossal X-flares within 7 hours of each other, knocking out radio signals on Earth.

YOU DON’T TUG ON SUPERMAN’S CAPE:

The day Obama regrets most. pic.twitter.com/ew4V5J0tOZ

— Everintrigued (@EverIntrigued) April 26, 2026

THIS IS CNN:

Find someone who loves you as much as Jake Tapper loves the Charlottesville Fine People Hoax.

SPLC must have been so happy with Tapper's coverage. pic.twitter.com/z9JKVhIZGn

— MAZE (@mazemoore) April 25, 2026

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WELL, ASIDE FROM AN EJECTION SEAT: The Most Efficient Way to Evacuate a Plane, According to Science.

#RULEOFLAW:

Between 2009 and 2017 the Obama DOJ used the Espionage Act against leakers and journalists' sources more times than every single president before him combined. Every president. Going all the way back to 1917 when they wrote the thing. A hundred years of presidents, and Obama beat…

— Apple Lamps (@lamps_apple) April 25, 2026

HISTORY:

Older than the Incas
Older than the Aztecs
Older than the Maori in NZ
Older than the Zulu in SA
Older than the Lakota
Older than Islam in India

But the English are not officially considered "native" to England. https://t.co/2w2dxe4qou

— Carlos That Notices Things (@QuetzalPhoenix) April 25, 2026

I’M GLAD THERE’S NOTHING LIKE IT ON EARTH: Monster Storms on Jupiter Unleash Lightning Beyond Anything on Earth.

SNACK SMART: Smartfood Popcorn, White Cheddar, 0.625 Ounce. #CommissionEarned

IT’S FAKE HATE ALL THE WAY DOWN:

Never Forget…

Chris Wray sent the FBI to a NASCAR event to investigate a garage pull down rope in order to push the fake White Supremacy narrative that the SPLC was feeding them.

As the SPLC was funding actual White Supremacists. pic.twitter.com/GKfW9Mg6qm

— C3 (@C_3C_3) April 25, 2026

WELL, GOOD: Targeting lost pleasure lifts depression and anxiety more than standard therapy, new study finds.

REQUIRED READING:

Please read this important post.

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.”