THIS IS HORRIFYING:  DOGE’s Antonio Gracias Says Massive Numbers of Illegal Migrants Who Received SSN’s Are on Taxpayer Funded Benefits.

FOR THE X-LESS: Here.

THE FULL PODCAST: Here.

THE FULL PODCAST FOR THE X-LESS: Here.

AND THIS IS HOW YOU DEFEAT RUSSIA:  Kremlin panics as Russian Urals crude oil price nears crucial $50 mark.

AND FOR THE XLESS: Here.

UH:  The Largest Workout in History.

WELL, BUT THINK ABOUT IT. ALL BLADED WEAPONS WOULD BE PRE-BANNED IN SPACE:   British MP proposes his government’s vast bureaucratic skills be given the power to regulate all space.

SOME GOOD NEWS:  Supreme Court Vacates Judge Boasberg’s TROs As To Tren de Aragua Under Alien Enemies Act.

AND SO THEY SHOULD. IT WAS A BIOLOGICAL ATTACK. OH, AND A PSY-OPS TOO:  Missouri AG Threatens to Seize China-Owned Assets to Enforce $24B Judgment for Covid Pandemic.

AID HARMS AFRICA, SO DO WESTERN INFLUENCED REGULATIONS:  How MrBeast is Keeping Africa Poor.

ALAS THE CHOICE IS NEVER BETWEEN CAKE OR DEATH. THAT WOULD BE EASY:  A Choice of Evils.

I’M NOT ACTUALLY WORRIED ABOUT A JURASSIC PARK SCENARIO: Colossal Biosciences Resurrects Long-Extinct Dire Wolf. We rendered them extinct with pointy sticks. In the age of firearms, big scary animals are not much of a threat.

THIS WILL PROBABLY GET BURIED: Many people have asked what was in the “manifesto” written by the “Covenant School Nashville transgender shooter.” Just the News has it:

“Being white sucks, but being black is so cool. Black people should rule. White people should fall, every white person who lived and died. I hate you all,” Hale wrote, per the New York Post. “I hate the American people. America is not the land of the free, it’s a land full of idiots. It will only get worse in this country, not near enough gods like me. America and its people all destined to soon be destroyed.”

It remains to be seen if legacy media bothers to report this at all…but I’m not holding my breath.

UPDATE (From Ed): Hannibal Lecktor*, call your office:

* That’s how the character’s name was spelled in his first onscreen appearance, played by Brian Cox, in Michael Mann’s chilling Manhunter from 1986.

OPEN THREAD: Monday, Monday.

NONSENSE, THE CHINESE ARE KNOWN FOR THEIR ENVIRONMENTAL CONSCIOUSNESS: China’s megaconstellation launches could litter orbit for more than a century, analysts warn.

MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Trump economic shake-up is a shock to the system — that could pay off big.

HMM: Scientists Discover a Simple Method to Reduce Mercury Levels in Tuna. “When tuna is immersed in water containing cysteine, the novel solution removed 25 to 35 percent of the mercury from the fish, according to lab tests.”

I take a cysteine supplement for anti-aging. I wonder if it does anything to mercury in my body?

A MODICUM OF SANITY PREVAILS: Supreme Court Overturns Lower Court’s Block on Venezuelan Deportations. “The Supreme Court ruled on Monday night that the Trump administration could continue to deport Venezuelan migrants based on a wartime powers act for now, overturning a lower court that had put a temporary stop to the deportations. The decision marks a victory for the Trump administration, although the ruling is narrow and focused on the proper venue for the cases, rather than on the administration’s use of a centuries-old law to justify its decision to send planeloads of Venezuelans to El Salvador with little to no due process. The justices did not address the question of whether the Trump administration improperly categorized the Venezuelans as deportable under the Alien Enemies Act, finding the migrants had improperly challenged their deportations in Washington, D.C. The justices determined that the migrants should have raised challenges in Texas, where they were being held.”

But if they hadn’t brought their challenges in DC, they wouldn’t have gotten Judge Boasberg.

Related:

But I was so reliably informed that the government‘s position in this case was simply lawless. Go figure. https://t.co/6tdRp4zk1D

— Adrian Vermeule (@Vermeullarmine) April 7, 2025

SPEAKING OF SUBSTACK: Richard Pollock’s latest is up and asks a probing question: “Will the World let the Palestinians Vote With Their Feet?“

JESUS’ LAST WEEK AS YOU’VE NEVER HEARD. IT: It’s “Countdown Jerusalem” by EKO on Substack. Ya gotta read this one!

FLASHBACK: Who can you trust? Did Robert Heinlein have the answer to deepfake photos and video?

21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Shocking sex trend ‘vabbing’ and other unexpected ways to attract love.

UNEXPECTED INSIGHT FROM UNEXPECTED SOURCE: Semafor Media’s Ben Smith Jr. looks at a National Press Club decision to reject a MAGA advocate’s membership application and offers an unexpected insight. He also appears to have muffed it on a related issue. See if you catch it. SCROLL DOWN TO “Journalism Organization’s Don’t Get it.”

YES:

She makes 1-2 points here, but – on a very basic data wonk level – the current rate of diagnosed mental illness and SSRI use for young white women today is 56%. That's 5x, maybe 10x, the house-wifey level in the 1950s.

Today's girl-bosses may objectively be the most depressed… https://t.co/Tttouu4L1A

— Wilfred Reilly (@wil_da_beast630) April 6, 2025

Related: “Actually, it’s very much an open question as to whether feminist interpretations of life make women happier. . . . Certainly, polls such as the General Social Survey suggest that women have become steadily less happy every year since 1972.”

WELL:

🚨 JUST IN: Treasury Secretary Bessent announces up to 70 COUNTRIES have now reached out to President Trump to negotiate on trade

IN LESS THAN A WEEK! 🔥

Trump “gave himself maximum negotiating leverage — and just when he has achieved the maximum leverage, he's willing to start… pic.twitter.com/DtEhFiPin5

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) April 7, 2025

Related:

The markets closed . The sky didn’t fall. The world didn’t stop. Maybe everyone can relax.

— Insurrection Barbie (@DefiyantlyFree) April 7, 2025

Democrats needed and hoped for a total market crash today, another Black Monday. They must be so disappointed. pic.twitter.com/KziigBFQzh

— William A. Jacobson (@wajacobson) April 7, 2025

ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Are SIG P320 Discharges Really About the Gun… or Just Overloaded Duty Rigs?

WHERE’S THE DOWNSIDE?

Look I've been as critical of tariffs as anyone but if the long term vision is domestic Nike sweatshops filled with fired DC bureaucrats, I'm willing to listen https://t.co/CmsJ7bx5vk

— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) April 7, 2025

HANG ON, THIS RIDE ISN’T FOR THE SQUEAMISH:

**AHEM**

Tariffs are where the interests of the Tech Bros financially diverge from MAGA. The globalists and multinational corps who know this, and specifically the EU team, will exploit this fracture point.

The EU will target U.S. Tech industry in their tariff avoidance… https://t.co/sHzUhcaiFw

— TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) April 7, 2025

Europe has been playing the protectionist/mercantilist game for a long time. They might have regulated innovation nearly out of existence, but these commercial games they still know how to play.