CDR SALAMANDER: I Hate Being Out-Innovated by the Portuguese Navy: Having centuries of a naval tradition shows up now and then.

DIVERSITY PROBLEM: 75% of Truman scholarship reviewers are Democrats, analysis finds.

BUT OF COURSE: Yale American Studies department trades its founding mission for identity politics.

MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Trump ignores the experts’ ‘war crime’ bluster — and we should, too.

IT’S A WILD RIDE, BUT A FUN ONE:

God, I am having way too much fun with this shit https://t.co/gmTAntRhKA

— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) April 8, 2026

Which Panican wants to hand me my “I told you so” award?

Trump has been running the same negotiation playbook forever. Pressure, escalation, chaos… then leverage a deal. We’ve watched it happen again and again. This wasn’t complicated. It was basic pattern recognition.

While…

— Dave Rubin (@RubinReport) April 8, 2026

COLOR ME UNSURPRISED: Fani Willis Hires Disgraced Ex-Judge as Prosecutor.

Background: Judge who jailed woman for ‘daddy issues’ steps down.

GEORGIA:

Clay Fuller (R) defeats Shawn Harris (D) in Georgia's 14th Congressional District special election – DDHQ projects

🟥 GOP HOLD — Seat remains Republican after Marjorie Taylor Greene’s resignation.
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District profile
(R) 2024: MTG +29
(R) 2024: Trump +37 pic.twitter.com/ESaWAaWbC1

— InteractivePolls (@IAPolls2022) April 8, 2026

What a terrible night for Marjorie. She gets to watch Clay Fuller win the special election to fill the seat she abandoned, and the nuclear war she was predicting doesn’t materialize.

— Bad Hombre (@Badhombre) April 7, 2026

I PREDICTED THIS: Yale Law School Loses Top Spot in US News Rankings After Scandals Tarnish Ivy League School.

RICH LOWRY: Why Trump’s huge $1.5T defense budget is worth every penny.

Si vis pacem, parabellum.

CAN’T FIND A HUSBAND, EH? UNDERSTANDABLE. Chelsea Handler Says Marriage is ‘Outdated,’ Says She Prioritizes Freedom Over Commitment.

OPEN THREAD: Tuesday’s Groovy.

IRAN BLINKS: Mullah’s: Let’s make a deal! “Jesse Watters reporting that China begged Iran to take the deal because it was cratering their already shaky economy.”

UPDATE: You’ll never guess what happened next.

You literally thought he was going to commit genocide this morning…

…and now you're mad he didn't

Cannot make this up, Leftists are seriously the stupidest humans on the face of the earth

Did you spend 20 years cheering the Iraq War?

Take a seat, Bill. pic.twitter.com/oALvWZLzQO

— Matt Van Swol (@mattvanswol) April 8, 2026

Other than losing their entire navy, air force, a few strata of political leadership, top military minds, over 1,000 senior IRGC and Basij commanders, air defense and radar sites, numerous scientists, ballistic missile stockpiles and most launchers, drone and missile factories,…

— David Harsanyi (@davidharsanyi) April 8, 2026

One of the main symptoms of Trump Derangement Syndrome is that Trump is anything you want him to be at any time.

In the morning he’s a genocidal lunatic, by the evening he’s a cowardly pussy.

Sadly, there is no cure… https://t.co/nNb60wNeaa

— Dave Rubin (@RubinReport) April 8, 2026

Earlier today Ro Khanna was claiming that Trump is a genocidal maniac akin to Hitler.

Now he is claiming that Trump is a cheese eating surrender monkey akin to France.

How do Democrats reconcile such irreconcilable thoughts inside their heads? There are only two possible… https://t.co/trwhpU8Dro

— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) April 8, 2026

Word is that one of the targets struck today was a collection of airplanes the mullahs had set up for fleeing the country. That may have had something to do with this.

HOWARD WOLOWITZ SMILES: The breakout star of NASA’s Artemis 2 moon mission isn’t an astronaut — it’s the space toilet.

WELL, GOOD: This Common Antidepressant Can Help Cut Back Methamphetamine Use.

WELL, GOOD: Scientists Uncover New Metabolic Effects Beyond Weight Loss of Mounjaro.

OLD AIRCRAFT, NEW MISSION: The A-10 “Sea-Hog:” Why the A-10 Warthog’s new maritime role could extend the life of a great aircraft — and give America badly needed littoral strike power at exactly the right moment. “That is exactly the sort of work for which A-10s are unusually, perhaps uniquely, well suited. They are being used where their strengths matter most: over cluttered littoral waters, against small, fast, exposed, hard-to-sort targets in an environment where persistence and discrimination matter more than glamour.”

WELL, GOOD: First-in-class molecules dial down inflammation without compromising immunity.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Great Vehicles to Own If You Want to Tow Behind an RV.

A SPIRIT OF REBELLION: Alberta and Saskatchewan Have a Message for Ottawa on Gun Confiscation: GFY.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: That tote bag could be wrecking your shoulders — here’s what experts say to carry instead.

FOR NOW: Artemis makes lunar flyby as moon mission breaks record for human distance from earth.

BUT OF COURSE!

Tune into CBSs “Marshals” where the only crime in Montana is caused white suprematists…. pic.twitter.com/c12hZOwIcM

— Reggie Dunlop (@puttinonfoil) April 6, 2026

FIRST BEARS, NOW THIS: Bahamian Sharks Test Positive for Cocaine & Painkillers in New Study.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: What Is The Oyster ‘R’ Rule? Food Safety Experts Explain.

HEED THIS LESSON:

Communists always lie until they no longer have to https://t.co/RduNnMxBez

— Alex Feinberg (@Alexfeinberg) April 5, 2026