IT’S WHO THEY ARE. IT’S WHAT THEY DO:  Disgusting, Deranged, Deplorable Democrats.

ALWAYS WERE:  Intellectuals are F*cking Idiots. Why the Smartest People Get Trapped by Their Own Minds.

LET’S NOT DISAPPOINT THEM:  Speaking as someone inside Iran who stayed connected through Starlink during the total internet blackout, I want to say this loud and clear: President Trump’s recent video on Truth Social — showing Iranian protesters writing “President Trump please help” on walls, waving Lion and Sun flags alongside American flags, replaying raw footage of the revolution and saying “I’m with you, I will fight for you and I will win for you” — is music to our ears.

X-cancel.

ONE CAN HOPE:  The Tape That Just Ended Mahmoud Abbas. He thought nobody was listening. The Saudis heard everything. And the Palestinian Authority will never recover.

GOOD:  Pro-Life Activist Targeted By Biden Walks Away with Massive Lawsuit Payout.

THE REMARKS WERE PREPARED TWO WEEKS AGO, AND WERE IN CAMEROON WHERE I HEAR THROUGH MY CONTACTS, HIS APPEARANCE IS THOUGHT TO HAVE DONE A LOT OF GOOD:  Pope Leo says remarks about world being ‘ravaged by a ​handful of tyrants’ were not aimed at Trump: report. Vice President Vance later thanked the pope for clearing the record.

MOSTLY BECAUSE THEY DID:  ’60 Minutes’ accused of using left-leaning Cardinals to bait Trump into feud with Vatican. Raymond Arroyo labeled the media strategy ‘pope-a-doping,’ saying it was designed to provoke a White House-Vatican clash.

MEMES, MEMES, MEMES!  The Right To Keep And Bear Memes Shall Not Be Infringed.

ALITO NOT RETIRING:

The fact that you who are reading this care as much as you do about prospective SCOTUS vacancies is an indictment of how far afield our Constitutional system has strayed.  There was a time when the Republic did not wait with bated breath every summer to learn whether a justice… pic.twitter.com/A3OUe8ZT8B

— Margot Cleveland (@ProfMJCleveland) April 18, 2026

She’s right, But this still makes a win in the midterms more important than ever.

OPEN THREAD: Ring out the weekend.

WELL, GOOD: Artemis 2’s heat shield seems to have aced its trial by fire. The matter was not free from doubt.

LIFE DOESN’T ALWAYS HAVE TO BE EXCITING: Getting Stuck in a ‘Boring’ Conversation Could Have a Surprising Benefit.

ARTICLE III CONTINUES ITS SWAN SONG: “Unserious Leaders Are Unsafe,” Opines a Federal Judge About RFK, Jr. ‘That’s the opening line from yesterday’s Oregon v. Kennedy, by Judge Mustafa Kasubhai (D. Or.) (the only federal judge I’ve seen who includes pronouns.)”

Plus: “My tentative sense is that, whatever one might personally think about Kennedy’s seriousness, judges’ decisions are more credible when those decisions focus solely on the law, rather than deciding which of our leaders are serious.”

It’s theater kids all the way down.

METFORMIN UPDATE: After 60 Years, Scientists Uncover Unexpected Brain Effects of Popular Diabetes Drug Metformin.

UNEXPECTED HEADLINES: More Brave Cruise Ships Just Thumbed Their Noses at the IRGC in the Strait of Hormuz.

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LIFTING WEIGHTS CAN HELP: Osteopenia: Loss of bone mineral density affects millions of people. Here’s what you need to know.

BLOCKADE: Trump says US has ‘full custody’ of Iranian-flagged ship, ‘seeing what’s on board.’

“Today, an Iranian-flagged cargo ship named TOUSKA, nearly 900 feet long and weighing almost as much as an aircraft carrier, tried to get past our Naval Blockade, and it did not go well for them. The U.S. Navy Guided Missile Destroyer USS SPRUANCE intercepted the TOUSKA in the Gulf of Oman, and gave them fair warning to stop,” he wrote on social media.

“The Iranian crew refused to listen, so our Navy ship stopped them right in their tracks by blowing a hole in the engineroom. Right now, U.S. Marines have custody of the vessel. The TOUSKA is under U.S. Treasury Sanctions because of their prior history of illegal activity. We have full custody of the ship, and are seeing what’s on board!” he added.

Developing…

INNOVATION, PALESTINIAN-STYLE:

I thought this was a joke, but it isn't. https://t.co/DnTdTW2XwA

— Wilfred Reilly (@wil_da_beast630) April 19, 2026

NOW THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY I WAS PROMISED: GM Uses AI to Turn Hand Sketches Into Car Designs in Minutes Instead of Months: GM’s car designers are using AI to help them accelerate new car designs and visions.

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I OFTEN WONDER ABOUT THE HISTORICAL IGNORANCE OF PEOPLE IN THE UK WHEN THEY SUGGEST THEIR COUNTRY IS A PACIFISTIC MODEL OF HOW ISRAEL SHOULD BEHAVE WHEN CONFRONTED WITH ROCKET FIRE ON CIVILIANS:

STANDING UP FOR CIVIL RIGHTS: The DOJ Has Warned Virginia About Its Anti-Gun Jihad.

OOPS: AST Spacemobile BlueBird 7 Satellite Lost. “ASTS admits the satellite is too low and cannot be saved. Based on what the orbit appears to be. 20kg of fuel they can only raise it part of the way. During the New Glenn 3 mission, BlueBird 7 was placed into a lower than planned orbit by the upper stage of the launch vehicle. While the satellite separated from the launch vehicle and powered on, the altitude is too low to sustain operations with its on-board thruster technology and will de-orbited. The cost of the satellite is expected to be recovered under the company’s insurance policy.”

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