WHILE DEMS GO ALL IN FOR GANGSTERS IN GITMO:
Nearly two-thirds of voters back President Donald Trump’s effort to deport members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, and about half want to impeach the federal judge who ordered a halt to the deportations.
More At Rasmussen Reports:https://t.co/cFuj9uT7pS pic.twitter.com/Me375gXwRg
— Rasmussen Reports (@Rasmussen_Poll) March 30, 2025
OPEN THREAD: Ring out the weekend.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: Airbus wins contract for ExoMars lander platform.
“UPSETS:” Statham’s A Working Man upsets Snow White to take No. 1 at the box office. Complete with an “unexpectedly” moment in the lede from AP!
In an unexpected upset, the Jason Statham thriller “A Working Man” took No. 1 at the box office, besting the rapidly declining “Snow White,” according to studio estimates Sunday.
Even after a lackluster debut, the Walt Disney Co.’s live-action remake was predicted to remain the top film in U.S. and Canadian theaters over the weekend. Instead, “Snow White,” plagued by bad buzz and backlash, nosedived in its second weekend and dropped 66%.
As John Nolte writes: Weekend Two Delivers Even More Box Office Humiliation for Snow White. “It is now quite possible that Snow Woke could fail to hit $200 million globally. This means that after the theaters take their cut, Disney will see only $100 million in box office returns, which will add up to an incredible $270 million LOSS. Disney could conceivably lose more than a quarter of a billion — with a “B” — on this, making it the biggest box office bomb in history.”
WHAT ARE THE DEEP SEVENS UP TO NOW? NASA Is Watching a Huge, Growing Anomaly in Earth’s Magnetic Field.
MY LATEST SUBSTACK ESSAY: Three Small Items: On Political Passion in Trump’s Second Term.
DOMESTIC TERRORISM:
The Weather Underground terror group has been reborn. We must not make the mistakes we made last time by giving light sentences or no sentences at all. Those terrorists became thought leaders on the left because of it. We must be relentlessly punishing. No mercy can be shown. https://t.co/quwgdwHA2n
— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) March 30, 2025
THE SPAM AND TWINKIES WERE JUST FINE: Archaeologists Discover Forgotten Foods Hidden in 15,000-Year-Old Kitchens.
START THE GRILLING SEASON: Grilling Accessories – Stainless Steel Heavy Duty Grill Tools. #CommissionEarned
ANXIOUS PEOPLE BEWARE: FDA recalls thousands of pounds of ground coffee mislabeled as decaffeinated.
GREAT MOMENTS IN PROJECTION:
Democrats, 2022: “Republicans want to ban interracial marriage!”
Democrats, 2025: “Black republicans with white spouses have been whitewashed.” pic.twitter.com/HilgT6vQfR
— Flyer (@bama_flyer) March 30, 2025
HONESTLY, ISN’T IT A RELIEF WHEN HE TALKS LIKE THIS: Trump Is ‘Pissed Off’ at Putin and Here’s What He Plans To Do About It.
STAMP OUT BIGOTRY AND DISCRIMINATION: Megacorporation Is Hit by Shock Trump Probe Over Its DEI Policies.
IMPROVE YOUR SMILE: Crest 3DWhite Brilliance Deep Stain Remover. #CommissionEarned
READER FAVORITE: Apple AirPods Pro 2 Wireless Earbuds. #CommissionEarned
LEFTIST POLITICS EXPLAINED: Even atheists in secular countries show intuitive preferences for religious belief.
I REMAIN PUZZLED BY THIS: Why do LLMs make stuff up? New research peers under the hood.
The answer provided here doesn’t actually explain why the models make up fake articles with fake citations, for fake books with fake ISBN numbers. I’m also troubled that we didn’t completely understand this from the beginning.
HMMMM: “Signalgate” is a Masterclass in the application of Useful Idiots.
Last week, The Atlantic’s editor Jeffrey Goldberg discovered that he had somehow been added to a group chat (GC) on Signal titled “Houthi PC small group” by National Security Advisor Michael Waltz. This GC appeared to have top cabinet members of the Trump administration on its roster. Goldberg appears shocked to be included in this GC, especially as a journalist intensely critical of the current administration. His last article was titled, Trump: ‘I Need the Kind of Generals That Hitler Had’, so he probably wondered why he was added. At first, he doubts the veracity that the GC he’s been added to is genuine. He writes:
“After reading this chain, I recognized that this conversation possessed a high degree of verisimilitude. The texts, in their word choice and arguments, sounded as if they were written by the people who purportedly sent them, or by a particularly adept AI text generator. I was still concerned that this could be a disinformation operation, or a simulation of some sort. And I remained mystified that no one in the group seemed to have noticed my presence. But if it was a hoax, the quality of mimicry and the level of foreign-policy insight were impressive.”
Suffice to say, Mr. Goldberg stayed in the GC, only leaving it this past Sunday, March 23rd. He then wasted no time furiously banging out a 3500 word essay on his adventures in GC land, replete with accompanying screenshots of the chat. How he had time to do this between scheduling cable news interviews is a testament to this true American patriot. (sarcasm)
However, is that really the entire narrative? That a Progressive-Liberal journalist just happened to be accidentally added to a high-level chat group discussing policy positions and goals? One that includes some of the most powerful figures in the current administration? Which led to the inevitable story being leaked?
Occam’s razor
I lean towards a theory of “Signalgate” being intentional (1), starting with some of the members the chat.
Read the whole thing.
And now for this weekend’s latest attack on Hegseth: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Included Wife in Sensitive Meetings: Report.
The Edith Wilsons of the multiverse all smile.
KINDA MAKES YOU QUESTION THE VALUE OF ACADEMIC POLITICAL SCIENCE, DOESN’T IT?
So, @DOGE has been uncovering a vast network of Leftist activist financing that, for decades, has taken taxpayer money from govt bureaucracies through NGOs to fund Leftist causes & propaganda.
Meanwhile, for decades, thousands of 'political science' professors have been studying…
— Geoffrey Miller (@primalpoly) March 29, 2025
YES. NEXT QUESTION? Are Democrats Whitewashing Hitler with Lame Attacks on Trump?
I’m old enough to remember when Hitler personified incomparable, bottomless, merciless evil. These days he’s mostly used by the left as a cudgel to hammer, ineffectively, Donald Trump. In doing so, Democrats risk trivializing and even sanitizing Hitler.
What sets Hitler apart from other monstrous 20th century dictators — such as Mao Zedong and Stalin — was his all-consuming Jew hatred, his unprecedented Jewish murders, his factories of death and extermination that slaughtered 6 million Jews.
Mao and Stalin (himself an antisemite) each killed more people than Hitler, yet the German fuhrer is recognized as the worst tyrant. The reason is clear — the Holocaust.
There have been other genocides, such as those of Turkey against the Armenians and the Hutus against the Tutsis in civil war in Rwanda.
But in none was genocide as central to a regime’s core and purpose as in Hitler’s Germany. None of those other murderous campaigns erected a massive industrial complex of death camps devoted to the annihilation of one people.
You can’t separate Hitler from his pathological loathing and mass murder of Jews.
If someone is likened to Hitler, it’s inescapable that this person must be a rabid Jew hater.
To invoke Hitler without his murderous antisemitism is to homogenize him as another one of the 20th century’s dictators, just the most infamous.
In doing so, Democrats purge him of his singular crime against humanity.
President Trump is Hitler, shout progressives.
That would be the same Trump whose grandchildren are Jewish. The same Trump who is described by Benjamin Netanyahu, prime minister of the Jewish state, as “the greatest friend that Israel has ever had in the White House.”
Some Hitler.
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We should never forget who Hitler was.
Volumes have been written about him. Among the most intriguing was Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of his Evil by Ron Rosenbaum.
Rosenbaum examined many of the theories and explanations about Hitler.
After doing so, he cautioned that explaining Hitler can carry a potential downside.
We should remember, he said:
“To resist the way explanation can become evasion or consolation, a way of making Hitler’s choice to do what he did less unbearable, less hateful to contemplate, by shifting responsibility from him to faceless abstractions, inexorable forces, or irresistible compulsions that gave him no choice or made his choice irrelevant.
“To resist making the kind of explanatory excuses for Hitler that permit him to escape, that grant him the posthumous victory of a last laugh.”
Are the Democrats’ frivolous invocations of a Hitler without the Holocaust opening another avenue to grant him the posthumous victory of a last laugh?
Also trivializing Hitler is that these same attacks are made by the left whenever there’s a president with an (R) after his name in the White House. In 2003, Jonah Goldberg responded to the left’s unceasing “Bush=Hitler” attacks:
I don’t say this because I feel a passionate need to defend George Bush. I would make the exact same points if Al Gore were president. I would make the exact same points if anybody running for the Democratic nomination were president. This has nothing to do with partisanship. It has to do with the fact