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April 6, 2026
LEFTISTS HAVE BEEN ENCOURAGING THIS FOR 50 YEARS: The troubling rise of family estrangement.
MICROBIOME NEWS: A Special Protein in Your Gut Has The Power to Neutralize Bacteria.
RIGHT?
For 40+ years, I have heard that Current President will not leave when his term ends Because of Reasons. The hysterical bleating about it has not gotten less stupid of those years. https://t.co/CeVAJXU296
— alexandriabrown (@alexthechick) April 6, 2026
THEY’RE LIKE AN ABUSIVE SPOUSE:
The biggest problem the Democrats have is their inability to love America when they are not in charge of it. https://t.co/nxiNtZG9Bh
— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) April 6, 2026
TO BE FAIR THEY’RE IN THE PROCESS OF AIRBRUSHING BIDEN OUT OF HISTORY:
Gee, was anyone else president in the interim? https://t.co/mlX6t1dpfz
— Joel Pollak (@joelpollak) April 6, 2026
HAHA, THIS IS JUST THE OLD “WHITEY ON THE MOON” SCHTICK. STUFF IT. Native American adjunct lecturer ponders โcolonial logicsโ of Artemis II moon launch.
SEDUCTIVE AI:
New MIT & Stanford studies just dropped: AI assistants like ChatGPT & Claude are dangerously agreeable.
When users express, harmful, deceptive or unethical beliefs, these AIs are 49% more likely to encourage their delusions.
Instead of correcting bad ideas, theyโre amplifyingโฆ
— Katie Miller (@KatieMiller) April 5, 2026
In fact, I literally address this phenomenon in my Seductive AI, coming out from Encounter Books in less than a month.
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HE’S NOT WRONG. BUT THEN HE SELDOM IS.
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Victor Davis Hanson opens with a claim that sounds hyperbolic until he backs it up: we are watching ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ ๐ซ๐๐๐ญ๐๐ฌ๐ญ ๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐ญ๐๐ซ-๐ซ๐๐ฏ๐จ๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐งโฆ pic.twitter.com/6gXd3bnYF6
— M.A. Rothman (@MichaelARothman) April 6, 2026
ANALYSIS: TRUE. Joel Kotkin: Newsom is Gruesome.
Gavin Newsom is hiring a New York PR firm to sell California โ ahead of his likely presidential bid โ at a cost to taxpayers of $19 million.
Why does California need outside help? After all, as Newsom likes to remind us, the state is one of the largest economies on earth.
But the governorโs actual record could be a problem for his presidential bid. Hence his familiar solution: To portray California as a vibrant economy, and to counter โmyths driven by misinformation and political rhetoric.โ . . .
US News places California, despite the tech boom, as 42nd in fiscal health among the states. The stateโs Legislative Analyst Office projects continued operating deficits through 2028.
The rich and ultra-rich โ many of whom are already leaving โ are all that stands between the state and fiscal disaster. Without their outrageous income, the whole system tilts toward failure.
One reason for this dependence lies in the sad fact that the income outlook for the rest of the population is far from bright.
Newsomโs neo-feudal California has hemorrhaged 1.6 million above-average-paying jobs in the past decade, more than twice as many as any other state. It has created five times as many low-wage as high-wage jobs.
And not enough of those.
THE ESTABLISHMENT IS GOING ALL MARGARET DUMONT, “WELL, I NEVER!” BUT:
Yes, I did in fact vote for a President who would call our enemies "crazy bastards" and threaten to send them to hell if they didn't take us seriously.
What's actually embarrassing is voting for someone to send them money.
— OutspokenSamantha (@Outspoken_Sam) April 5, 2026
AND YET I’M STILL SEEING LEFTIES POSTING THAT HEGSETH IS A DRUNK WITH NO CREDENTIALS:
We literally setup a temporary special forces base inside Iran and flew in 300 Army, Navy, and AF special forces troops and little bird gun ships. Then we fought a whole mini war and killed like 1500 Iranian soldiers in 6 hours.
And all we left behind was a pair of Americanโฆ
— Spitfire (@RealSpitfire) April 5, 2026
DEPENDENCY IS CORRUPTING.
NATO is in far bigger danger than anyone realizes. And the reason has nothing to do with defense budgets.
The real danger is psychological. Itโs cultural.
Europeans didnโt just free-ride on American security for 80 years. They built an entire identity around the idea that theyโฆ
— John ษ Konrad V (@johnkonrad) April 6, 2026
ICYMI: THAT WAS THE WEEKEND THAT WAS:
Moonshot. Soldier rescued. NYT doesnโt know what NATO stands for.
Glorious few days weโve had.
— Bryan O'Nolan (@BryanONolan) April 5, 2026
I MEAN, HE’S NOT WRONG:
It's absolutely absurd that the American military can literally set up an entire military command post behind enemy lines just to rescue 1 pilot…
…but the GOP in Congress cannot muster a single ounce of courage whatsoever to pass the SAVE Act
Tells you all you need to know.
— Matt Van Swol (@mattvanswol) April 5, 2026
ICYMI: HOW “COMPASSIONATE” GOVERNMENT WORKS:
Why don't they just put the scammers in jail? pic.twitter.com/FnTab9DGXO
— Bill Brown (@billbrown) April 3, 2026
It’s not like there’s just some fraud in the system, which might be reduced by sharper management. The fraud is the purpose of the system, and the system is explicitly designed to facilitate it.
When you understand that, all sorts of things become clear.
April 5, 2026
OPEN THREAD: Ring out the weekend.
AD LUNA PER ASPERA: NASAโs New Moon Base Plan Explains Why Itโs Going Back To The Moon.
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