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I wrote a column on this kind of thing over a decade ago and it’s gotten worse.

NOW OUT FROM RANDY BARNETT: Felony Review. I read it, I loved it, and I blurbed it. You can see my blurb at the link.

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YES:

Elon Musk reveals the deeper purpose of becoming a multiplanetary species:

“Having two planets that are both self-sustaining and strong is going to be incredibly important for the long-term survival of civilization

The goal is not just to visit Mars – it’s to ensure the light… pic.twitter.com/TyriZkCU7r

— X Freeze (@XFreeze) March 19, 2026

WHAT’S NOT SO AMAZING IS THAT HE ALSO APPEARS TO BE LYING:

kind of amazing that Trump argues the investigations into him & prosecutions of him were political & partisan, everyone tries to argue they weren’t & that the DOJ is apolitical, then this guy blows those defenses up by explicitly running on his anti-Trump role to win an election. https://t.co/wjUWxiMnWH

— Jerry Dunleavy IV 🇺🇸 (@JerryDunleavy) March 20, 2026

I just checked the "Service" list in ECF for all 3 Oath Keeper cases — there are probably 50 attorneys who made appearances of record in the cases for the two sides combined.

Your name doesn't appear. https://t.co/pJDxayB9hQ

— Shipwreckedcrew (@shipwreckedcrew) March 20, 2026

PRIORITIES:

It is morbidly funny that we take 25 years to build a transit station but we can get all the Cesar Chavez memorials down in 12 hours. https://t.co/ysW1tejMpy

— Dilan Esper (@dilanesper) March 20, 2026

WHAT IS THIS, 1989? UW-Madison vandals repeatedly throw stacks of students’ conservative magazine in trash.

LAME: UConn students launch petition urging university to declare ICE ‘unwelcome’ on campus.

IT’S NOT A POLITICAL PARTY IT’S A CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY:

This is absolutely insane

Journalist Angela Rose investigates Minnesota Rep Ilhan Omar’s consulting headquarters who claims to manage $60 billion in assets

She goes into the building, walks every floor

They DO NOT EXIST. (Holy Sh*t)

“We are going to be infiltrating Ilhan… pic.twitter.com/Gt4xxseUHp

— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) March 20, 2026

YES IT IS.

This threat is a call for civil war. https://t.co/GdmqRMR6rH

— Joel Pollak (@joelpollak) March 20, 2026

Also, damn, Pritzker’s hitting the Ozempic awfully hard. He’s running for Prez for sure.

THEY’RE PROBABLY HIDING FROM DRONES:

BREAKING: Saudi Arabia has reportedly asked Pakistan to repay a USD 6.3 billion loan after Pakistan failed to honor the bilateral defense pact, under which an attack on one is considered an attack on both. Saudi officials are reportedly unable to reach Pakistan’s PM & army chief. pic.twitter.com/0Q4cD5FE6N

— Baba Banaras™ (@RealBababanaras) March 20, 2026

Trump has pretty much the whole Muslim world against Iran and its allies now. Well, except for Britain and France.

21ST CENTURY WARFARE:

What a time to be alive https://t.co/mlar47msrq

— Scott Kominers (@skominers) March 19, 2026

SO IS AMERICA: Pete Hegseth Is Having a Good War.

NAILED IT:

The Left is a parasitic Borg that loots the public treasury on behalf of an army of public and NGO employees who exacerbate the problems they purport to address at an ever burgeoning price tag. There is no effective countervailing force anywhere in Blue America. https://t.co/z0bjOW0Qbu

— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) March 20, 2026

SUPER EASY:

To ensure Iran doesn’t get nukes
To debilitate its long range missiles
To destroy its navy
To disable it from supporting terrorism

This has been answered for weeks, for whatever reason, you just don’t like the answer. https://t.co/LxjbymahDl

— David Marcus (@BlueBoxDave) March 20, 2026

THE ENEMY WITHIN:

🚨 Pamela Whitten is the president of Indiana University. Her yearly salary is $900,000, with an annual performance bonus of $175,000.

The university's "Muslim Philanthropy Initiative" hosted several events for a phony "charity" that was shoving money into the hands of Hamas.… https://t.co/jv2b9kx1SA pic.twitter.com/LfcxE4e7Vp

— NizNellie3 (@NizNellie3) March 19, 2026

TO BE HONEST, THE HUMAN INTELLIGENCE ON THE BENCH IS LOOKING IFFY THESE DAYS: Congress moves to scrutinize AI use in federal court.

OR WORSE. LEFTIES WILL EXCUSE AND PROTECT ANYTHING UNTIL SUDDENLY THEY WON’T.

JOEL! That’s it! I was wondering why this stuff was coming up more than 20 years after Chavez died and you have hit on it: EPSTEIN! All the talk about the Epstein scandal stirred this up! https://t.co/IJYzcA7Nz3

— The Patriarch Tree (@PatriarchTree) March 18, 2026

SEE ALSO MLK, JR.

Considering that Chavez was in the limelight for so long, probably the subject of covert investigations, the subject of so many news stories, features and documentaries, it is astonishing that his feet of clay should have been ignored or concealed for so long.

He hid, I suspect,…

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) March 19, 2026

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