THE E.V. BUBBLE CONTINUES TO DEFLATE: As electric truck demand craters, GM lays off workers and idles plant.

UM: New, more effective delivery method for eye cancer treatment is derived from pig semen.

LEFTOVERS: Scientists Discovered an Entire Island Made of Ancient Humans’ Leftover Food.

I COULD HIT THESE NUMBERS BEFORE I WAS 40 AND I CAN DO BETTER NOW: The Strength Standard Every Man Should Hit Before 40.

BEFORE THE ADVENT OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS, AMERICA WAS AMONG THE MOST LITERATE NATIONS ON EARTH:

One of the major blackpills is reading letters from soldiers during the Civil War who never received a formal education and realizing they could read and write much better than the vast majority of our society nowadays. https://t.co/J9J9Gd6RGS

— Logan Hall (@loganclarkhall) April 1, 2026

YOU KNOW, I’VE ALWAYS WONDERED ABOUT THIS MYSELF: Why is a pizza named after a German flying ace? No one’s making Field Marshal Rommel Pastry Pockets.

HMM: A Fifth Circuit Bait-and-Switch to Ignore Crime Victims’ Rights: In 2023 the Fifth Circuit denied the victims’ families challenge to the illegally negotiated Boeing DPA as being “premature”–but today the Circuit denied the families’ challenge as coming too late.

WHY IS HIGHER EDUCATION SUCH A CESSPIT OF RACISM? ‘Invidious discrimination’: U. Wyoming offers illegal race-based scholarships, complaint alleges.

STUCK IN 2020: UPenn wellness division hires official with ‘gender-affirming care’ background.

CDR SALAMANDER: Happiness is a Full Magazine: …empty VLS cells and naked hard points are a waking nightmare.

EVERYTHING. IT SAYS EVERYTHING.

What does it say about American media that I hear about this from my Japanese friends and not Americans?

— Bernadette (@princessbernie) April 1, 2026

UPDATE (From Ed): At X, Grok auto-translates the above text as “It seems that there was indeed a fairly large-scale demonstration in Washington by anti-Iranian regime, pro-Trump Iranians. However, compared to the ‘No Kings’ demonstration, the media has hardly reported on it at all. It’s the same everywhere, huh.”

WHAT IF THE GREENLAND CAPER WAS ACTUALLY ABOUT SMOKING OUT HOW WILLING — AND EVEN EAGER — OUR “ALLIES” WERE TO GO TO WAR WITH US?

In January, Iran had a stronger Navy than Canada.

Now Iran’s navy has been sunk.

I hope everyone now understands how completely full of 💩 Mark Carney is. https://t.co/bgMaQ9mkMr

— John Ʌ Konrad V (@johnkonrad) April 1, 2026

WHY IS HIGHER EDUCATION SUCH A CESSPIT OF ANTISEMITISM? As Yale’s Jewish Population Declines to 1940s Quota Levels, University Leaders Say Jewish Community is ‘Thriving.’

To be fair, “university leaders” lie a lot.

JOHN ONDRASIK BRINGS THE HAMMER OF TRUTH:

Your terrorist pals impose the death penalty for selling land to Jews. Why does that not bother you?

— John Ondrasik (@johnondrasik) March 31, 2026

CORRECTING THE IGNORANT:

There’s literally a chair set up at SCOTUS for our presidents to sit in for oral argument. Your separation of powers nonsense is more imitation pearl-clutching hauteur. https://t.co/unVfZPgD9v

— AAGHarmeetDhillon (@AAGDhillon) March 31, 2026

To be fair, Ms. Watson is a reporter for CBS, so you can’t expect her to know much. Worse yet, she likes candy corn. No, really, check her profile page. So what can you expect?

RIGHT?

For a bunch of people who flew Ukrainian flags for years and claimed to support immigrants the left sure erased the mural of a murdered Ukrainian immigrant pretty fucking fast.

— The Drunk Republican (@DrunkRepub) March 31, 2026

NONSENSE, LOTS OF UNFAMILIAR ACCOUNTS ON X TELL ME IRAN HAS ALREADY WON: Iranian Missile Strikes Fall to Lowest Level Seen During War As ‘Widespread Desertions’ Squeeze Regime’s Fighting Force, Hegseth Says.

FLASHBACK: Remembering the 2002 AOL/InstaPundit merger April Fool. The only April Fool I’ve done here, and probably the only one I ever will do, but it was fun — complete with a changed header to AOL/InstaPundit — and a surprising number of people bought it.

I would have enjoyed owning a Boeing, I think.

#RESIST:

Today in Barcelona the entire stadium was chanting:

“Pedro Sánchez, hijo de puta”

Which means, Pedro Sánchez, motherfucker.

This is how the majority of Spaniards feel about him.

pic.twitter.com/ZSo4xs99zY

— Ada Lluch (@AdaLluch) March 31, 2026

Thats the point

— Ada Lluch (@AdaLluch) March 31, 2026

They need a revolución.

OPEN THREAD: Excel.

BECAUSE THE SPACECRAFT ISN’T CAPABLE OF THAT MISSION: Why won’t NASA’s Artemis 2 astronauts land on the moon when they get there?

RANDY BARNETT: Trump Is Right on Birthright Citizenship: The 14th Amendment’s authors would exclude illegal and visiting aliens from U.S. ‘jurisdiction.’

The clause grants citizenship to persons who meet two conditions: birth in the U.S. and being “subject to the jurisdiction” of the U.S. The dispute is over the meaning of the latter term. Everyone agrees that it excludes at least three classes: children of diplomats, of soldiers from an invading army, and of American Indians maintaining tribal relations. In each of these categories, the status of the child depended on the status of the parent.

The constitutional debate is about the original concept embodied in the text that explains these exclusions and whether that concept embraces or excludes children born on U.S. soil to parents who are unlawfully or temporarily in the U.S. The court has never squarely addressed this question.

Before Mr. Trump’s executive order, what originalist scholarship existed on the original meaning of “subject to the jurisdiction” was sporadic and lightly tested if at all. The past year has produced an explosion of originalist scholarship on both sides. The justices are now in a good position to decide which side has presented the stronger originalist case. . . .

Sen. Lyman Trumbull (R., Ill.), who managed the Citizenship Clause in the upper chamber, explained that “subject to the jurisdiction” meant “not owing allegiance to anybody else,” whether to a tribe or a foreign power. Rep. John Bingham (R., Ohio), the moving force behind the 14th Amendment, used the same framework, referring after ratification to persons born in the U.S. “and not owing allegiance to any foreign power.” These statements, and others Mr. Lash identified, demonstrate how leading Republicans explained the concept the text was meant to capture: birth plus full political membership.

Opponents of this interpretation rely heavily on a statement by Sen. Jacob Howard (R., Mich.) that the clause would “include every other class of persons” besides children of diplomats. In isolation, Howard’s statement does support the challengers’ understanding. But it can’t be taken literally; otherwise it would include tribal Indians. Howard later said that the relevant “jurisdiction” was the “full and complete jurisdiction” that tribal Indians lacked. Republicans didn’t maintain that tribes lay wholly beyond federal power, but that tribal members maintained an undissolved allegiance to a separate sovereign political community.

Read the whole thing.

GOOD: Wisconsin judicial panel dismisses Democratic attempt to redraw congressional maps.

I’M A BIT WORRIED BECAUSE WE’RE A FEW MONTHS OUT FROM A MAJOR ELECTION: H9N2 Bird Flu Hits Europe as First Human Case Confirmed in Italy.

GOOD LUCK, GUYS: Artemis II moonshot enters final hours before launch with NASA engineers optimistic.