EVEN IN TRADE WARS, THE OTHER GUY GETS TO SHOOT BACK: China increases tariffs on US imports to 125% from 84% amid ongoing trade war.
April 11, 2025
CORN, POPPED: If This Is What It Looks Like, NY AG Letitia James Is In a World of Trouble. “A word about my source for what you are about to read: Sam E. Antar was one of the biggest fraudsters of the 1980s. In his role as CFO of the ubiquitous Brooklyn, N.Y.-based electronics chain Crazy Eddie, Antar was convicted of multiple federal fraud-based felonies in 1991, although he scored a plea deal that kept him out of prison.”
IT SURE WOULD BE NICE IF THERE WAS JUST ONE GOVERNMENT PROGRAM THAT WASN’T BUILT FOR THEFT, FRAUD, OR GRAFT: California’s Disastrously Run College Financial Aid Program Is Filled With Fake ‘ChatGPT’ Students.
STAY SAFE: Headlamp Rechargeable 50000 Lumens Super Bright LED Head Lamp for Adults. #CommissionEarned
WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: MQ-9B Shown with Airborne Laser at Sea Air Space 2025. “The new laser is part of the General Atomics Laser Weapon Systems portfolio, centering around the scalable High Energy Laser (HEL) Weapon System. The laser is in the 25kW class and scalable to 300kW in both pulsed and continuous wave systems, capable of operating in all environments.”
AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD:
Protesters Remain Unaffected By Trump’s Shower Head Deregulation https://t.co/nVWjdToW4U pic.twitter.com/0YUcX8KvSI
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) April 10, 2025
WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY: NASA nominee: ‘We will prioritize sending astronauts to Mars.’
FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: Voted ‘Best-Dressed Drunk in the Applebee’s Parking Lot.’ “It’s time for your much-needed break from the serious news, and this week we have the best-dressed drunk trying to open the wrong car door in the Applebee’s parking lot, how not to ask for a free refill, and New Mexico man’s bologna smuggling operation.”
GIFT FOR SKETCHERS: Mr. Pen- Metal Mechanical Pencil Set with Lead and Eraser Refills. #CommissionEarned
CHINESE OVERFISHING IS THE CULPRIT: Global fisheries’ nutrient extraction threatens ocean ecosystems and productivity, study finds.
TRADE WAR: Trump Has Xi and China Over a Tariff Cliff.
CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE:
Colorado lawmaker admits their new semi-automatic weapons ban (SB25-003) was passed to appease activists.
"That's what we voted on today…to honor our promises to them"
You should be honoring your promise to uphold the Constitution. These people are so unfit to govern. pic.twitter.com/uovziaIjcn
— Diver 41 (Expose Them) (@ExposeDarkDeeds) April 11, 2025
Crushing civil liberties to appease some noisy activists is quite the flex.
ANOTHER DISNEY ACTRESS SEEMS DETERMINED TO TANK HER MOVIE: Vanessa Kirby Confirms Fantastic Four: First Steps Explores Gender Politics With Sue Storm.
Kirby spoke with Entertainment Weekly saying, “If you played an exact ’60s Sue today, everyone would think she was a bit of a doormat. So figuring out how to capture the essence of what she represented to each generation, where the gender politics were different, and embody that today, was one of the greatest joys of this.”
The idea that Sue Storm was a doormat in the early Fantastic Four comics is ridiculous. In the second issue of Fantastic Four, she turns invisible and breaks herself free from a federal detainment facility.
Later in the issue she works with the team to take out the Skrulls who have been posing as them and framing them for various crimes.
As Michael Walsh tweets to the above headline, “Translation: Please don’t go see this movie.” And that’s too bad, because as I wrote in February, the Googie-inspired production design looked fun in the trailer. But hearing the words “Gender Politics,” instead of mindless summer popcorn superhero flick where everything blows up, does not promise a fun afternoon at the movies.
I PREFER REAL DIVES: Virtual dive will take explorers deep into unexplored waters off Hawaii. But it’s cool.
A CONFEDERACY OF CONFEDERATE DUNCES: Nancy Pelosi Helped Cover Up Biden’s Decline and We Now Have the Receipts
I really do think we should be calling the Democrats the Confederacy.
REMOVE YOUR MASKS, MEDIA: The Masquerade is over.
My new piece at Sarah Hoyt’s According to Hoyt.
SHHH — MANY OF TRUMP’S CURRENT POLICIES WERE THE DEMOCRATS’, UNTIL OBAMA CAME ALONG:
how have I never seen this clip this whole time Trump just ran on the same immigration policy Hillary Clinton did 😂 https://t.co/OwKyRKAK7S
— Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) April 11, 2025
— Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) April 11, 2025
Flashback: “Donald Trump should televise this Bill Clinton speech from 1995 and then simply state ‘I’m Donald Trump and I approve this message:’”
HMM. HOW GOOD IS THE AI? To promote drug safety, FDA to replace animal testing with AI-based experiments, other methods.
TODAY DAVE FREER’S BOOK IS LIVE. AS PART OF HIS BLOG TOUR, HE DID HIS FIRST VIDEO INTERVIEW: Presenting Author Dave Freer. Author of STORM-DRAGON!
His book Storm Dragon is now live and yes, there is a paperback edition.
HOUSTON, YOU HAVE A PROBLEM: Murderer City? “If true, the mind boggles. Houston had 320 murders in 2024, so that’s just under three years’ worth of alleged murderers walking the streets.”
SHAPING SOULS TO STAY AFLOAT. AI is going to be coming hard for educators’ jobs. Is humans teaching actual virtue the way to maintain some utility (and solvency)?
I AUTOMATICALLY WRITE DOWN ANYONE WITH PRONOUNS IN THEIR BIO OR EMAIL: David Mastio: She/her, He/him: Please keep your obvious pronouns out of my emails. “I think people in professions who want to be trusted by all comers should recognize that many on the conservative half of the political spectrum view the superfluous use of pronouns as the equivalent of putting a liberal political bumper sticker in your every email. Count me among them.”
2028 PREVIEW: Whitmer and Newsom Look Away From the Lunatic Fringe as They Gaze Toward 2028.
I’m sitting out on the speculation until 2027.
