SEND IN THE CLOWNS: Trump Ruthlessly Destroys Jasmine Crockett’s Phony Facade.
April 25, 2025
SHE ISN’T WRONG: Slotkin Rips Her Own Party As ‘Woke and Weak.’
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EXCLUSIVE: ‘The Mississippi Miracle Is Real,’ Gov. Tate Reeves Says Of Soaring Educational Outcomes.
The Associated Press in 2023 referred to the state’s skyrocketing test scores for fourth graders as the “Mississippi Miracle,” explaining, “Mississippi went from being ranked the second-worst state in 2013 for fourth-grade reading to 21st in 2022.”
An updated National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) report card from 2024 shows Mississippi leading the nation in demographic-adjusted 4th- and 8th-grade scores and it went viral on social media.
The chart also caught the attention of Vice President JD Vance, who tweeted, “This is pretty incredible. Smart education reform drastically improved Mississippi’s schools.”
“It’s truly remarkable, and it’s something I’m very, very proud of, and it’s something that even Vice President Vance has started tweeting about a time or two, and so it’s been kind of interesting,” Reeves told the Caller.
Much more like this, please.
OH, MY:
🇺🇸 MILWAUKEE JUDGE ARRESTED FOR HELPING ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT DODGE ICE
Federal agents thought they were chasing one guy—but ended up chasing their own tails inside a courthouse.
The FBI says Judge Hannah Dugan deliberately pointed them away from an undocumented immigrant they were… https://t.co/grgJhesRoW pic.twitter.com/p1GWfgifHa
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) April 25, 2025
The usual suspects say the arrest is a sign of Trump’s lawlessness because of course they do.
Developing…
GOOD NEWS: SOMEONE’S STILL DOING ACTUAL COLLEGE. In an abortion discussion, “the students exceeded my expectations. They were willing to share their own positions, admit when they weren’t sure of things, and disagree without rancor.” The fact that it is entirely reasonable for this to exceed expectations is a grave condemnation of campus life today. Glad that UNC is giving the old ways a shot at its School of Civic Life and Leadership.
VATICAN CITY’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD:
False Alarm: Smoke Coming From Vatican Just Cardinal Steve Accidentally Burning Toast Again https://t.co/gPqWlnB0av pic.twitter.com/KLC9kWZmeY
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) April 23, 2025
THIS DOES NOT SURPRISE ME: Young women show greater increase in past-month binge drinking than men.
EVERYTHING IS AWFUL: Tapeworm in fox poop that will slowly destroy your organs is on the rise.
THE SCIENCE IS NEVER SETTLED: New analysis casts doubt on ‘biosignatures’ found on planet K2-18b.
Jake Taylor of the University of Oxford, who studies the atmospheres of far-away planets with the James Webb Space Telescope, did a quick reanalysis of the starlight filtering through K2-18b’s atmosphere. He used a simple method to look for the tell-tale signals of gas molecules of any kind.
He was “agnostic” in his approach, and did not look specifically for the exciting sulfur-based gases that, on Earth, are primarily associated with life-forms such as marine microbes.
“I wanted to not ‘assume’ what molecules would be in the atmosphere,” Taylor told NPR in an email. “I directly analysed the transmission spectrum that they analysed, in order to have a similar comparison.”
The results he got suggested that there’s too much noise in the data to draw any conclusions.
“Agnostic” seems like the wise approach for pretty much any scientist to use, yes?
THE MAN, THE MYTH, THE LEGEND WHO FLEW TOO CLOSE TO THE SUN: George Santos Sentenced to 87 Months in Prison for Fraud, Identity Theft.
JOHNNY CAB CONFESSIONS: Tom Friedman Ditches Cabbies, Embraces Our Robot Overlords.
Friedman has always seen the future — this is a man who once revealed the world to be flat, but not before accurately predicting that McDonald’s would end armed conflict. And he is sounding the alarm bell once again with his newest shift: he’s moved on from cabs to the post-human future. Yes, Friedman has thrown in with the bots and declared himself a “Waymo Democrat,” adopting the name of the driverless cars that he claims are the bellwether technology of a better, more sensibly centrist future.
While respecting Friedman’s dogged adherence to the one successful rhetorical framework he has ever properly known — he will forever be the Man in the Backseat— we should be at least mildly amused and/or alarmed that he has cast his lot with our robot overlords. His answer to the question “How do we get more Americans making stuff again” is to become the country of “advanced manufacturing and AI.”
By this he means that a productive new generation of American manufacturing would see the United States winning the race to replace ourselves with machines that no longer require the use of human beings at all, save for mechanical upkeep or oversight. Why? Because Friedman drove in robo-taxis in China, Phoenix, and San Francisco and is convinced that this represents the automated future of all mankind.
From his point of view, that might be for the best, considering his rather misanthropic view of mankind: Benjamin Kerstein: Thomas Friedman is decadent and depraved.
There is a stunning amount that is wrong about this rant. In fact, there is everything wrong with it. But the key phrase is: “Ours is, for now, still a free country*, and if people aren’t engaging in violent acts, or harassing other students in or out of class, they should be free to say whatever they want, including advocating a Palestinian state of whatever size they want.”
But these people are universally engaging in violence, harassing students, and advocating for a Palestinian state not just of any size but one that replaces Israel entirely while slaughtering and/or expelling its Jewish population. Friedman, with the walls of privilege around him, feels free to ignore all of this, and this is a terrible and unforgivable dereliction. The reason is the human cost of his apologetics.
* Often much to Friedman’s chagrin: “Watching both the health care and climate/energy debates in Congress, it is hard not to draw the following conclusion: There is only one thing worse than one-party autocracy, and that is one-party democracy, which is what we have in America today. One-party autocracy certainly has its drawbacks. But when it is led by a reasonably enlightened group of people, as China is today, it can also have great advantages.”
FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: I’ve Been Drinking, Officer, and You Should, Too. “It’s time for your much-needed break from the serious news, and this week, we have the perfect time to buy a cop a (stolen) drink, a new rendition of ‘Get Me To The Church On Time,’ and Canada Man’s theme-park rampage.”
CORN, POPPED: Unilever probes Ben & Jerry’s Foundation’s donations.
Unilever is probing the finances of Ben & Jerry’s charitable foundation with a focus on its grants to progressive and pro-Palestinian groups, including to an organization with ties to two of the foundation’s trustees, people familiar with the matter said.
It’s the latest escalation of long-running tensions between Ben & Jerry’s and its corporate parent over the creamery’s progressive bent. Unilever is spinning off its ice cream division, which includes Ben & Jerry’s, into a standalone company.
As part of that process, Unilever plans to audit the Ben & Jerry’s Foundation, according to a letter sent earlier this month to the foundation’s president, Jeff Furman, and seen by Semafor. The results “will inform decisions as to future funding of the foundation by Unilever and, post-separation, by” the new company, called Magnum.
Unilever has given the foundation between $1 million and $6 million annually since it bought Ben & Jerry’s in 2000. The nonprofit funds hundreds of left-leaning groups.
Hoist a pint of Blue Bell in celebration.
SURPRISE, SURPRISE, SURPRISE: Military Recruitment Numbers Are Breaking Records Under Trump and Hegseth.
CONAN, WHAT IS BEST IN LIFE? David Hogg’s future could include first male host of The View.
FOLLOW THE “SCIENCE:”
NYT obituary for former Harvard Medical School pathologist driven out of his job for insisting on a heterodox position on the risk factors of heart disease that clashed with Big Pharma orthodoxy in the service of its financial interests that later was proven to be correct pic.twitter.com/x1T1axXa9r
— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) April 24, 2025
ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER DISNEY CELEBRITY TANKING THEIR FRANCHISE: But Will Disney Fire Him? Pedro Pascal Posts Hateful Comment on Instagram About J.K. Rowling.
It’s kind of difficult to turn on a television or go to a movie these days without seeing Chilean-American actor Pedro Pascal. If we looked up ‘overexposed’ in the dictionary, we would probably see his face there, too.
In addition to starring in the abysmal sequel Gladiator II, Pascal is (or — spoiler alert — was) also the lead in HBO’s video game-based series The Last of Us. And he is a major part of TWO Disney tentpoles. He plays the Mandaorian in the series and the upcoming movie of the same name, and will be playing Reed Richards in Marvel’s Fantastic Four: First Steps. That movie is already off to a rocky start before it gets even released, with many of its stars promising that it will be ‘updated for modern audiences’ (and we all know what that means).
What Pascal may be lesser known for, but probably should be, is how often he spews hate on social media. He actually eulogized the horrible people who tried to kill Kyle Rittenhouse but wound up on the wrong end of that FAFO game. He has also compared the United States to Nazi Germany long before that became the left’s only argument.
Hypocritically, Disney fired fellow Mandalorian star Gina Carano for being critical of Nazi Germany (and they are about to pay dearly for that), but has never even reprimanded Pascal because, of course, he is on the right ‘team.’
So it will be curious to see the fallout from this banger:
So much losing, you’ll be sick of all the losing:
Related: The TERFs were right all along. Women had to face down cancellation, death threats, arrest and so much more to have their rights vindicated.
And once again, a Disney star is declaring a large portion of his audience racist/sexist/homophobic and/or transphobic. I’m not sure how that sells tickets, but then I’m also not sure why modern Hollywood allows its actors free reign on social media:
THE RESISTANCE IS REAL:
In the last 24 hours, rogue judges have held:
1. People who arrived in America illegally as unaccompanied minors cannot be deported even though you know they came here illegally.
2. Constitution says only legal citizens can vote but the federal government cannot require…
— Insurrection Barbie (@DefiyantlyFree) April 25, 2025
Full text:
1. People who arrived in America illegally as unaccompanied minors cannot be deported even though you know they came here illegally.
2. Constitution says only legal citizens can vote but the federal government cannot require voters to prove that they are citizens.
3. Trump cannot stop funds from going to sanctuary cities that blatantly violate federal immigration laws.
4. Trump may not put federal grants and contracts on hold when schools and colleges discriminate against people based on race AKA DEI.
5. Trump must reinstate the leftist-controlled Voice of America and rehire all the employees.
SCOTUS needs to put a stop to this judicial insurrection, but that seems highly unlikely.
RELIGION OF PEACE UPDATE: Pahalgam witness says headgear-wearing teens were among gunmen: ‘Took selfies.’
Sushil Nathaniel, a 58-year-old manager at the Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) in Madhya Pradesh’s Alirajpur, was among those 26 killed in Baisaran meadows, known as “mini-Switzerland.” He had visited the region with his family for a vacation.
Nathaniel’s son, Austin alias Goldie, said that his elder sister, Akanksha (35), was shot in the leg by the assailants. He and his mother, Jennifer (54), escaped unhurt, but the gunmen killed his father.
Explaining the attack, a grieving Austin told PTI, “The terrorists included underage boys around 15 years old. There were at least four of them. They were taking selfies during the attack and had cameras mounted on their heads.”
It’s no wonder India has run out of patience.
