OPEN THREAD: Have fun!

WE WHO ARE ABOUT TO FLY, SALUTE YOU: Artemis 2 astronauts arrive at Kennedy Space Center ahead of NASA’s historic launch around the moon. I wish them good luck, and Godspeed.

Flashback: NASA’s Artemis moon mission is flirting with disaster.

THIS IS WHAT THE DISPATCH IS LIKE IN 2026:

Come on. https://t.co/H6AvD40jdt

— The Man, The Myth, The Legend (@SixtySecDragon) March 27, 2026

The source denies saying this in thst article. You are pushing misinformation like a useful idiot pic.twitter.com/KUvJak5iID

— Cujo (@cccuuujjjooo) March 27, 2026

Imagine thinking this is a real story. Jesus Jonah.

— J.D. Haltigan, PhD 🏒👨‍💻 (@JDHaltigan) March 27, 2026

WHAT ARE THE DEEP SEVENS UP TO NOW? Scientists Uncover Unexpected Behavior Deep Inside Earth’s Mantle.

HEALTHSPAN IS IMPORTANT: Rethinking Aging: Why Healthspan Should Be The Goal.

ELECTRIC ACCELERATION: 2026 Porsche Cayenne Electric First Drive: Physics May Have Met Its Match.

MAKE THEM PAY: Petrolino Sues New Jersey State Police for Violating 1st and 2nd Amendments.

THINK HOW MUCH MORE EXCITING IT WOULD BE IF IT STILL HAD COCAINE IN IT: Brewers are turning Coca-Cola into a very boozy wine. It’s actually a mead, more technically a bouchet.

ROCKET REPORT: Rocket Report: Russia reopens gateway to ISS; Cape Canaveral hosts missile test.

STRANGE NEW RESPECT FOR FRANCISCO FRANCO:

SO I GUESS THIS MEANS GRAHAM PLATNER ISN’T JUST A NAZI AND A COMMUNIST, BUT “PRO-RAPE.” “Holy f—, how about people just take some responsibility for themselves and not get so f—ed up they wind up having sex with someone they don’t mean to?”

In posts first reported by The Washington Post, Platner responded to a Reddit commenter who wrote, “There’s always that story about the girl who gets raped because she drank too much and somebody took advantage of that.”

Platner responded, “Holy f—, how about people just take some responsibility for themselves and not get so f—ed up they wind up having sex with someone they don’t mean to? Men and women, you make a choice to consume enough of a substance to lose your self control. So if you don’t want to be in a compromising situation, act like an adult for f—s sake.”

Everyone knows that only men are responsible for what happens when they are drunk. What’s funny is that Platner’s position would have been seen as common sense by everyone a few decades ago.

TEACHING THEM MATH OR GRAMMAR WOULD BE MORE USEFUL: Campuses host trainings for students as young as 14 to become ‘abortion doulas.’

OUR RULING CLASS IN A NUTSHELL: An Unjustified Arrogance.

DIVERSITY PROBLEM: Long Island University faculty donations nearly unanimous for Democrats.

PEOPLE ARE HARD TO PLEASE, AND THE INFLUENCER CROWD LIVES TO COMPLAIN, AND LIVES BY COMPLAINING:

We're getting like 95% of all we ever wanted immigration-wise with this administration and nobody seems to give a shit https://t.co/2xewfTNojz

— aqualover420 (@aqualover420) March 27, 2026

RISE OF THE MACHINES: The Robots Are Coming.

THEY SHOULD ALL BE DEAD:

Hamas leaders, on October 7th, 2023, celebrated in Qatar while watching Hamas massacre 1,200 Israelis.

2.5 years later, most of them are dead, Gaza is in ruins, Hamas is destroyed, and Israel is stronger than ever.

Never forget how it all started.pic.twitter.com/TpEYwT1U0O

— Vivid.🇮🇱 (@VividProwess) March 27, 2026

THE IVY EXILE: The Decline and Fall of the Information State (For Now).

In the waning weeks of his administration, Obama conspired with senior Democrats to kneecap the Trump administration before it even entered office, and Obama personally ordered a bogus intelligence community assessment to advance the false narrative that Trump was working for the Russians. That it wasn’t true didn’t mean that control of both the social and legacy media echo chambers couldn’t generate enough hype to make it feel true to many millions for many years. “Russiagate was not a tragedy but a crime against the country,” Siegel writes. “Disinformation was both the name of the crime and the means of covering it up, a weapon that doubled as a disguise … By conflating the anti-establishment politics of domestic populists with acts of war by foreign enemies, it justified turning tools of war against American citizens.”

And yet that effrontery sowed the seeds of the regime’s downfall. Supercharging paranoia and undermining Americans’ shared sense of reality ultimately only undermined elite technocrats’ credibility and legitimacy. The dirty tricks only ensured the populists’ return. Trump wasted no time smashing the centralized information apparatus when he returned to office, but the technological capacity for control advances day by day, along with the temptation to use it. Siegel leaves readers with a warning: “From the rubble of the old information state, the outline of a new one takes shape.”

Well, good.

THE MEDIA IS THE ENEMY:

It’s insane to think back on the 90s.

Hardly any foreigners. And Democrats would send in a tactical team if a little kid tried to come here illegally.

And boomer Democrats are so helpless against media programming that they don’t even remember it. https://t.co/5EuDeATJfX pic.twitter.com/mDUQ4Xoi34

— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) March 27, 2026

ROGER KIMBALL: The Propaganda Press Cannot Stomach Victory And Its Mendacity Shows: Behind the unbridled hatred of Trump is the more abiding hatred of American and Israeli military prowess.

They’ve rooted for the US to lose every war from Vietnam on.

FLASHBACK:

The elites lost their mojo by becoming absurd. It happened on the road between cultural appropriation and transgender bathrooms.

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) February 17, 2017

“EVERYONE KNOWS THIS.” Ilhan Omar married her brother. “In February 2009, the future Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar married a man named Ahmed Nur Said Elmi. It was her first legal marriage. The marriage ceremony was conducted by a Christian ministesr. There is no dispute about these facts, which are recounted by the Post. All available evidence points to Elmi being Omar’s biological brother. No evidence points away from this fact.”

OPEN THREAD: Ring in the weekend.

CANADA IS HAVING A BAD YEAR: Canada cancels its 1st moon rover: ‘It’s hopefully not a lost cause.’

EVERYONE WHO’S READ A COMIC BOOK KNOWS RADIATION GIVES YOU SUPER POWERS: Chernobyl Fungus Seems to Have Evolved an Incredible Ability. I mean it’s just science.

Though a colleague at UT who researches arachnids and was bitten by a radioactive spider at Oak Ridge told me that she was very disappointed not to develop the ability to walk on walls.