AN EARTH-SHATTERING KABOOM: Trump drops a narco-trafficking nuclear bomb into Mexican politics. “Imagine if Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), both close partners of President Donald Trump, were suddenly indicted for taking huge bribes from an international drug cartel operating out of Texas. That’s essentially what just happened with the Justice Department indictments issued against the Sinaloa drug cartel on Wednesday.”

OPEN THREAD: Ring in the weekend.

WELL, GOOD: ‘This is going to be what makes the Earth secure.’ How one California company plans to protect us from dangerous asteroids.

I BLAME THE NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE: UK Healthy Life Expectancy Has Fallen by More Than 2 Years, Study Warns.

HMM: Bowel and Ovarian Cancers Are Dramatically Rising in Young Adults and Scientists Aren’t Sure Why.

THAT WOULD BE NICE: End of black box AI? Scientists develop blueprint for transparent system that reveals how it learns and makes decisions.

AFTYN BEHN, TENNESSEE’S ANSWER TO AOC: VIDEO: Left Wing Liberal Aftyn Behn Goes on Unhinged Rant.

I’M NOT SURE I WANT A “SOFTWARE DEFINED VEHICLE.” Hyundai Previews Next-Generation Infotainment System for Software-Defined Vehicles.

Actually, I’m pretty sure I don’t want one:

We’ve grumbled about this in the past but the push toward software-defined vehicles is effectively to make automobiles into smart devices. Vehicle features will be gatekept behind subscriptions and will likely need to be purchased via connected services.

We’ve seen this in modern cars via companies forcing customers to purchase things like remote start using a subscription and making activation exclusively available via a phone app. This not only has you paying more for hardware that has already been equipped to the vehicle, it also creates additional avenues for the manufacturer to harvest information about you. Exactly how far the industry plans on going with this isn’t clear. However, the assumption is that it will be as far as possible because that’s been the trend thus far.

Yuk.

ONE RICH GUY WHO HAS LOTS OF PUPPETS DANCING TO HIS TUNE: Federal Gun Control Fraud: The ‘Virginia Plan’ is the California Plan…is the Bloomberg Plan…

JAMES LILEKS: Packing everything but Polly Pocket’s Plastic Shoe.

WE’LL BE JOINING THE U.K, AUSTRIA, SPAIN, AND CANADA IF SO, BUT THIS IS SOMEHOW TRUMP AND RFK, JR.’S FAULT: US may lose measles elimination status after outbreaks spread to 45 states.

UPDATE: Second link was wrong before. Fixed now. Sorry!

FOLLOW THE SCIENCE: AI Slop Is Flooding Academic Journals. A Top Journal Measured It.

I BLAME SYSTEMIC RACISM: Africa Is Splitting Apart Faster Than We Thought, Forming a New Ocean.

I WOULD PREFER FLYING CARS FOR MY 21ST CENTURY INNOVATION, PLEASE: So, Can You Really Store Your Own Fat and Inject It At a Later Time?

ONCE AGAIN THE “CONSPIRACY THEORY” WAS CORRECT:

A leaked 2004 Home Office memo to the Telegraph shows Tony Blair’s team admitting mass migration was a growing concern for people, so they hatched a secret plan to make it more “popular.”

Blair’s team pushed a different PR approach, to reframe dissent as racism… in order to… pic.twitter.com/5d0fT1MFOP

— Bernie (@Artemisfornow) May 1, 2026

IT’S FRAUD ALL THE WAY DOWN, AND “NEUTRAL” INSTITUTIONS ARE HELPING WHENEVER AND WHEREVER THEY CAN:

Democrats cheat…a lot.

The US Census openly admits it stole 7 US House seats from Republicans.

And when Democrats lose, despite cheating, they quintuple down and try to cheat even harder! https://t.co/VjVVVFJd5D pic.twitter.com/zG6nAsyb52

— Andrew Follett (@AndrewCFollett) April 30, 2026

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Penn State may cut 49 majors after closing 7 campuses.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: University of Kansas staffer faces backlash over ‘#DeathtoMAGA’ post amid pattern of campus rhetoric.

Maybe death threats to political opponents don’t go well with the job of . . . public affairs officer.

EPISTEMIC CLOSURE:

Expert class libs like Matt really thought Obama had solved politics and the country would just keep doing Obamism forever.

Much of the post Obama-era derangement is their psychic shock at realizing most people—outside their No Kings bubble—now regard him as an utter failure. https://t.co/o8CX7o70rM

— Lomez (@L0m3z) May 1, 2026

BEST NEWS I’VE HEARD TODAY: Pizza Hut has brought back its “Book It” Program.

MANY WITNESSES THINK THEY’RE SMARTER THAN THE LAWYER EXAMINING THEM. MOST ARE WRONG BUT:

🚨 Musk vs OpenAI's lawyer — the cross-examination exchanges

William Savitt — Wachtell Lipton's lead defense lawyer, Supreme Court clerk, trained to break witnesses.

Savitt opens with a misleading premise.
Musk: "You're being misleading. What you're saying is false."

Savitt… pic.twitter.com/VscVIq6Qvl

— NIK (@ns123abc) April 29, 2026

STARMER IS GARBAGE: Golders Green: Starmer Booed, Victim Says Jews Not Safe in London. He should have been removed ages ago.

ICYMI: REMEMBER, TRUMP IS A THREAT TO NORMALCY:

Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries just called the Supreme Court "illegitimate." That follows Democratic politicians and pundits calling for the packing of the Supreme Court. Nothing says Happy 250th Anniversary like tearing down the core institutions of the Republic.

— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) April 30, 2026

WHEN DEI IS YOUR ONLY COMPETENCY, ELIMINATING IT LOOKS LIKE WAR:

The thing to understand is that the Obama/Biden regimes were successful in training many senior generals and admirals that DEI is a core competency of the US military, and in many cases THE core competency of the military, over and above readiness and warfighting.

Thus, when… https://t.co/OKu2ZCTsAA

— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) April 30, 2026

THE POLITICS OF RACE:

This includes Obama who was bellowing yesterday that the Supreme Court decision was rooted in racism.

Obama made sure that the U.S. didn’t get the first black governor. pic.twitter.com/vSV65xNInj

— Savannah Insights 🎙️ (@BasedSavannah) April 30, 2026