April 18, 2025
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CORN, POPPED: Government Watchdog Files Ethics Complaint Against Sen. Van Hollen Over Trip to El Salvador to Meet With Alleged Gangbanger. “In a letter to Senate Majority Leader John Thune, Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) and Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.), the American Accountability Foundation demanded that the secretary of the Senate be instructed ‘not to foot the bill for Van Hollen’s trip’ and called for the Senate Ethics Committee to open “an immediate investigation.'”
It likely won’t amount to much, but keeping Van Hollen’s priorities front and center isn’t a bad idea.
Kevin Williamson, call your office: Bernie’s Strange Brew of Nationalism and Socialism.
You too, Chris Matthews! Chris Matthews compares Bernie’s likely victory in Nevada to the Nazis conquering France in 1940.
THIS IS BASICALLY WHY PEOPLE BUY METAL DETECTORS: Huge gold nugget found by metal detector enthusiasts set for auction.
GREAT MOMENTS IN ASTROTURF: LeBron James Endorsed Kamala Harris. Then She Paid His Company $50K.
The campaign paid tens of millions of dollars to celebrities who appeared at campaign rallies on her behalf. Harris’s team paid $165,000 to the production company of Beyoncé Knowles, who spoke for four minutes in support of Harris at a rally in Houston in October. The campaign paid the production company of Oprah Winfrey at least $1 million for a sit-down interview in Chicago, and nearly $100,000 to the shell company of Barack and Michelle Obama, who appeared at several campaign events for Harris.
Team Harris gave $58,000 to rapper Cardi B, who spoke at a rally for Harris in Milwaukee on Nov. 1. Cardi B shot down allegations at the time that she was paid for the stump speech.
“I didn’t get paid a dollar,” said the rapper. “I actually came out of pocket for glam and travel because it’s somewhere I wanted to be.”
The Harris campaign donated more than $5 million to liberal activist groups, including $500,000 to the nonprofit of MSNBC host Al Sharpton. The controversial preacher interviewed Harris weeks after the donation without disclosing it to MSNBC viewers, the Washington Free Beacon reported.
Campaign disclosures do not describe what James’s company did in exchange for the $50,000 payment. And it is unclear why the payment was made so long after the election. Campaign disclosures show Harris’s campaign also paid actress Jennifer Garner $35,000 for “campaign event production and travel” on Jan. 16. Garner, the ex-wife of Ben Affleck, appeared at several campaign events alongside Harris.
Still though, it was all worth it for the cornbread stuffing, if nothing else:
Flashback: Kamala Harris Campaign Aides Suggest Campaign Was Just Doomed.
BYRON YORK: Democratic passions catch fire over deported illegal immigrant.
With all that has happened since January, one issue that has received less and less attention is the flow of illegal crossers over the U.S.-Mexico border. That’s because there no longer is a flow of illegal crossers over the U.S.-Mexico border. President Donald Trump stopped it in a matter of weeks. What had been a national crisis under President Joe Biden, with 10 million to 15 million immigrants entering illegally while U.S. authorities did almost nothing, was fixed quickly by the new president. Democrats, of course, were on the wrong side of the issue, so they don’t talk much about Trump’s achievement.
But now, Democrats across Washington and their allies in the media are consumed with intense emotion over another immigration-related issue: the case of an illegal migrant and possible MS-13 gang member named Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whom the Trump administration recently deported to his native El Salvador. The Abrego Garcia affair has anti-Trump forces almost convulsed in a mixture of rage, self-righteousness, and political opportunism.
A sample? One anti-Trump organization recently published a piece headlined “Bring. Him. Home. Our cause is here; our time is now.” The article urged Democrats to undertake militant action. “They will have to act less like an American political party and more like Solidarity in Poland in the 1980s or Alexei Navalny’s People’s Alliance over the last decade,” it said. “But they should be under no illusions. The old American order is dead.”
Regardless of how the legal complexities play out, Democrats chose an odd hill to die on.
STANDING UP FOR THE ENVIRONMENT: US Interior secretary orders offshore wind project shut down.
JIM TREACHER: America’s Greatest Astronaut: Gayle King.
The United States is the first and only country in the world to put human beings on the Moon. And until this week, it was America’s finest achievement in space.
Then came the six bravest women in the history of astronautation: Katy Perry, Jeff Bezos’ girlfriend, and… I dunno, a few other gals with the same hairstyle. Not to mention the most important person who has ever lived: Gayle King.
Move over, Neil Armstrong. Bad bitches in the house, by which I mean space!
“It is my pleasure to tell you, you’ve passed. Does that make you feel confident? Does that make you feel good?”
“It’s not about going to space. It’s about what we bring back.”
Finally, somebody remembered the real reason for all this.
If you’re a stupid man who hasn’t done the right thing and gone trans yet, you probably still think space exploration is about “science” and “adventure” and “expanding our knowledge of the universe” and other rhetoric of the patriarchy.
Wait, what is this “space” exploration you speak of?
Candace Owens has completely lost the plot, calls out Matt Walsh for thinking space is real. She says that space is completely fake and that humans have never been to space, and that NASA was invented to promote the “Antichrist belief” in science over faith.
“You must come to… pic.twitter.com/JF1shBI9OX
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) April 18, 2025
Just add it to the list from last year:
Or as America’s Newspaper of Record reported: Kanye West Starting To Think Candace Owens Might Be A Little Crazy.
EH? SPEAK UP, YOUNGSTER: New study reaffirms strong link between hearing loss, dementia in seniors.
REMARKABLE ONLY FOR HER SKILL AT THE GRIFT: The Remarkable Rags-to-Riches Story of Stacey Abrams. “Financial records show that when she first entered statewide politics in 2018, she reported a net worth of less than $109,000. By 2022, the last year she had to publicly file a financial report, it had grown to more than $3.2 million. Abrams is probably even better off than that, thanks to her latest venture: Rewiring America, which uses federal funds to provide low-income people with free electric appliances.”
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GRAUNIAD MUCH MAD AT MUTTS: Was This Written By Cats? The Guardian Hisses Dogs Are An ‘Insidious’ Climate Threat.
First it was the cow farts. Now it’s dog “shit.” Moral of the story: eco crazies will never be satisfied until people start seeing climate change threats in their soup.
Leftist newspaper The Guardian published an April 9 story that reeked of being desperate for attention, even if that meant making its writers look like cats that have been overdosing on catnip. “Pet dogs have ‘extensive and multifarious’ impact on environment, new research finds,” read the headline coughed up like a hairball from science writer Donna Lu.
The syntax read like a Babylon Bee special, “An Australian review of existing studies has argued that ‘the environmental impact of owned dogs is far greater, more insidious, and more concerning than is generally recognised.”
The equally nutty outlet Mother Jones reposted Lu’s story and made dogs out to be the antagonists of the supposed climate war in its re-written headline: “Bad News for Man’s Best Friend: Dogs Are Environmental Villains.”
And they’re right. Just look at all of the climate chaos that the four-legged beasts have caused over the years!
● “A secret report, suppressed by US defence chiefs and obtained by The Observer, warns that major European cities will be sunk beneath rising seas as Britain is plunged into a ‘Siberian’ climate by 2020.”
—The Grauniad, February 21, 2004.
● UN scientists warn time is running out to tackle global warming.
—The Grauniad, May 4th, 2007.
● President ‘has four years to save Earth.’
—The Grauniad, January 27, 2009.
● The Grauniad was particularly dogged in its eco-apocalyptic fear in 2019: ‘Pathetic alarmism:’ The Guardian ramps up ‘climate emergency’ reporting guidelines.
● Artists must confront the climate crisis – we must write as if these are the last days.
—Headline, the Grauniad, November 12th, 2021.
Incidentally, The “Siberian” climate was predicted just four years after the London Independent assured its readers that “Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past.”
(Doggone it.)
IT’S TIME FOR VICTORIA TAFT’S West Coast, Messed Coast™: City to Become ‘Sanctuary’ for Men Who Dress as Women.
YEP: Jacob Shell: academia must diversify or die. “Shell points out that US academia has become an ideological monoculture, with an overwhelming dominance of left-leaning faculty, especially at elite institutions. This imbalance, driven by extreme partisan ratios in fields like anthropology, leaves universities politically vulnerable and out of step with the broader public. He challenges the common view that this trend is due to self-selection, or the “pipeline problem,” suggesting instead that informal screening mechanisms discourage or exclude conservative scholars. Shell also argues that the grant system encourages conformity and limits academic freedom. More audaciously, he argues that some academics should be singled out by their peers, whether through their institution or professional organizations, when they engage in politically motivated misrepresentation of their scholarship. Ultimately, Shell insists that academia’s unique role in public life is to observe and understand the world, not to risk co-option as an arm of any political movement.”
I’m not sure that’s possible. Full essay is here.
CHANGE:
BREAKING: The Trump Administration has overhauled the https://t.co/pNDONQDetL website into a massive lab leak data center displaying scientific proof that COVID was man-made in Wuhan, China.
The official site now names Dr. Fauci as the criminal who covered-up COVID origins: pic.twitter.com/RF9fNzGOeG
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) April 18, 2025
This must be playing well at NPR:
SPACE: Strange Objects Are Flying Through Our Solar System — And Now NASA Wants to Chase Them.
Astronomers have confirmed that interstellar objects—cosmic bodies originating from other stars—are passing through our solar system, and now scientists are preparing to go after them. According to a report shared via Phys.org, objects like ‘Oumuamua and Comet Borisov may be just the beginning of a flood of alien visitors, and new technologies are being developed to intercept these mysterious travelers before they vanish into deep space once again.
These interstellar objects (ISOs) offer a unique chance to study material from other planetary systems without leaving our own. Formed from massive collisions and gravitational ejections around distant stars, these cosmic nomads could reveal clues about the chemistry, geology, and formation processes of exoplanets and even entire star systems.
Despite the staggering estimate of over 10 septillion ISOs in the Milky Way, only two have been confirmed passing through our solar system.
Remember, the Ramans do everything in threes.
I FEEL YOUR PAIN:
The police can forcibly take my blood at a traffic stop and there’s a $10 billion data center in Utah spying on everything I say.
The media is telling me I’ll lose my due process rights if we don’t allow a wife beating illegal alien gang member back into the US.
I’m tired. https://t.co/WhRVAET65V
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) April 18, 2025
THE ECONOMIC HEADLINES ARE MOSTLY DOOM AND GLOOM BUT THEN THERE’S THIS: U.S. Jobless Claims Dip, Signaling Trump Labor Market Remains Strong. “Weekly jobless claims, a key measure of layoffs, have consistently ranged between 200,000 and 250,000 over the past few years, indicating steady employment conditions. The four-week average of claims, which smooths out weekly variations, also decreased by 2,500 to 220,750, further confirming the labor market’s resilience.”
WOW, THE WHITE HOUSE WENT THERE, BIGLY: Lab Leak.
