Snubbed

Hot Air: "Hilarious: Leavitt Refused to Answer Journalists Who Specify Pronouns in Bio." 

Those kids are sneaky

PJ Media: "DOGE Uncovers Massive Unemployment Fraud Under Biden Administration."

• 24,500 people, allegedly over 115 years old, claimed $59 million in benefits.
• 28,000 supposed children between the ages of 1 and 5 claimed $254 million.
• 9,700 claims from people with future birth dates totaled $69 million

It's a start.

To be fair it was first class on JetBlue

NY Post: "AOC flies first-class to Bernie Sanders’ ‘Fight Oligarchy’ rally as critics pan lefty pol for battling inequality one ‘mimosa at a time’." 

It's a constitutional crisis!

Liberals Devastated As Stock Market Recovers https://t.co/m3MVBz2cPS pic.twitter.com/xGnz02iw9d

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) April 9, 2025

AYFKM?

Legal Insurrection: "Judge Orders Trump to Restore Associated Press Access to White House - “No, the Court simply holds that under the First Amendment, if the Government opens its doors to some journalists—be it to the Oval Office, the East Room, or elsewhere—it cannot then shut those doors to other journalists because of their viewpoints.”

According to this logic, the White House cannot refuse a pass to any person calling himself/herself a "journalist."

Also, if the White House press secretary calls on everybody but the Associated Press during a press conference, is that also a violation of this order?  Does the White House have any discretion at all or is it only ever under the thumb of compulsion by flighty judicial decisions?

I feel like this is a hill the White House should fight on and it should use press access during the Biden administration as a counterargument.  

Mann overboard

Daily Caller: "Court Delivers Massive Blow To Famed Climate Scientist Who Sued Critics."

Hawaii judges

Volokh Conspiracy: "Twice, SCOTUS Finds Coastal Courts Improperly Exercised Venue - In two consecutive orders, the Court signals that progressive litigants forum shopped to the wrong courts." 

* reference to title here among other examples of judicial YOLOing.

Seems like a big deal

Fox News: "Supreme Court grants Trump request to lift stay halting Venezuelan deportations - Justices on the high court ruled 5-4 to grant the administration's request to lift the stay, in a temporary victory for Trump and his allies."

This ruling gives an imprimatur to Trump's broad interpretation of immigration laws.

You did it. The crazy son of a bitch, you did it.

Fox News: "Women's pool tournament championship features 2 transgender players after beating female competition."

Well, this is terrifying

Red State: "Intel Sources Claim China Plans Attack on Taiwan in 'Next Few Months'." 

Now it can be told

Looking back on this Jim Geraghty article from August 2021 is amazing in light of all the tell-all books coming out now: "Something Is Wrong with the President." 

The Bud Light-ification of Hollywood

Federalist: "Snow White Bombing Was The Best Gift Hollywood Could Give Us."

I don't want to see Disney fail.  I like Disney.  But Snow White represents a larger ideological drift in Hollywood where Americans who just want to be entertained with a story are cudgeled with modern posturing.  Thus the downward spiral of movie viewership. 

You can blame the failure of Snow White on its main star dumping on 1) the original story, 2) Disney fans and 3) half the country.  But I think people would have still gone to see the classic story if it had remained the classic story instead of the "girlboss" trope so popular and ubiquitous in contemporary movies.

Recently there was a story in the paper that the art house cinema in the middle of Amherst, Massachusetts was facing financial pressure due to waning attendance.  For those of you who don't know much about Western Massachusetts, this is the perfectly ideal place for a boutique cinema, smack-dab in the middle of the Five College system.  My wife and I used to be regulars but we've gone less and less over the years; the last movie we saw there was "The Holdovers" (which was great!).  Now you need to look no further than Conclave and Emilia Perez to understand why we - and many others - have skipped the movie house.  Like Snow White, it's just a non-stop diminution of traditional values dressed up as entertainment and people aren't buying it anymore.

Watch this: the real reason the US is betting on tariffs

This is the way, part #2

Always - always - throw it back in their faces.  Red State: "Grab Some Popcorn: Amy Klobuchar Tries to Corner Witness on Attacking Judges, Gets Hit by Schumer Threat." 

Awesome way to start the weekend!

Townhall: "This Reporter Had Only Four Words for This Dem Rep After She Accused Him of Serial Sexual Harassment."

The words were: "See you in court."  This is the way.  $10 million libel lawsuit.

Stock up on avocados

NY Post: "Shoppers may need to buy these items quickly before Trump’s tariffs kick in."

I'm not a fan of these tariffs although I understand Trump's motivation.  But historically they're not the best tool and the libertarian in me says the government should stay out of this.

Mental illness

Fox Business: "Liberals admit to shoplifting from Whole Foods as a way to stick it to Jeff Bezos - 'If a billionaire can steal from me, I can scrape a little off the top, too,' one man confessing to theft said."

This is the same mindset leading to the keying of Teslas to stick it to Elon Musk and his American automobile company.  T.S. Eliot had it right:

"Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm; but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves."

 

They've learned nothing

Shot: "Cory Booker’s sad stunt epitomizes Democrats’ empty agenda."

Chaser: "Sad Trombone: Dems in Deep Disarray As More Bad Polling News Hits Them Where It Hurts."

Hangover: "Cory Booker’s Record 25 Hour Filibuster Overshadowed by Dem Party’s All-Time Low 21% Approval Rating." 

Extra - Outkick: "Cory Booker Finally Shuts Up Just In Time For Dems To Get Hit With An Embarrassing New Approval Rating." 

New focus group research has dropped

Twitchy: "'McCarthyism' Is the New 'Hitler': Sen. Markey Goes on CNN to Whine About Trump Withholding Harvard Funds." 

Won't somebody think of the poor Harvard students? 

Where were the Inspectors General?

Mark Tapscott: "Three Groups That Could Have Prevented the Stench Being Uncovered by DOGE - Where Were They While Fraudster Politicians and Bureaucrats in Both Parties Swam in Corruption and Waste of Your Tax Dollars and Mine?" 

Who watches the watchdogs?  I guess DOGE now.