Saturday Roundup of Link Roundups - 18 April

The Right Way is first with Top of the News

In The Mailbox: 04.14.26 - The Other McCain
Here’s How Much Trump’s Hormuz Blockade Is Costing Iran EACH DAY - Town Hall

Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 04.16.26

CDR Salamander: What are the details for 18 battle force ships and 16 non-battle force ships?
Don Surber: Trump orange-pilled the world

EBL - Believe The Women: Swalwell Accusers Come Forward

Feeling vindicated now
EBL: How is Eric Swalwell doing? and Fang Fang

Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog - LinkSwarm For April 17, 2026

Now is no time to let the Iranian regime weasel out of their complete surrender.
“Seven Myths About the Iran War.”

Gates of Vienna - News Feed 4/17/2026

Downtown Seattle Falters as Jobs and Businesses Exit City: Report
A new economic snapshot from the Downtown Seattle Association (DSA) is being framed as a story of recovery, but a closer look reveals a city on the brink of economic collapse.

Vlad Tepes - Identifying the various lines of operation to make North America communist: Links 1 for April 16, 2026

4. New Brunswick judge reduces man’s sentence so he won’t get deported from Canada
And the charges were for domestic violence.

A View from the Beach - Flotsam and Jetsam - The Blockade is Working

At Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog Two Slimeballs Depart Congress. the Victory Girls are happy about Tony Gonzales – Trash Finally Takes Itself Out. The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee, "With Swalwell Resigning, Just 534 Perverts Left In Congress "

Again from Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 04.16.26 (Evening Edition)

Shot In The Dark: Badly Managed Decline
The Political Hat: Not Leviathan’s Digital Device
This Ain’t Hell: ROTC Cadets on Col. Shah’s Heroism

Flopping Aces - The Week in Radical Leftism, 04/17/2026 – The Washington Post Continues to Die in Darkness!

Biden’s Save student loan plan is dead. Borrowers will have to quickly pivot.
It took a few years to catch up, but it’s time to start obeying the law again.

Small Dead Animals - Thursday On Turtle Island

The Democratic Party’s America: Savanah Hernandez. Moderate Muslims in NYC. The next Obama.
China Carney’s Canada: A Yukon garage. Panel shames college.

Don Surber - Trump orange-pilled the world

Flopping Aces, a pioneer blogger, tweeted, “Trump just wrapped his hands around China’s throat and started squeezing hard.

The Glibertarians - Wednesday Afternoon Linkages

This is the cyberpunk future we deserve.
The Irish are now just like the French.

Wombat-socho again - In The Mailbox: 04.17.26

This Ain’t Hell: Disenfranchised? You betcha, also, Valor Friday
Transterrestrial Musings: The Latest From Jared

Maggie's Farm - Wednesday morning links

Paying your fair share?
Mammalian ancestors laid eggs
Gerrymandering and the Tyranny of Big Cities

Doug Ross - Larwyn’s Linx: The CIA Tried to Remove a Sitting President

• Seven Myths About the Iran War - Michael Doran
• Fudge Jeb “Scumbag” Boasberg's Contempt Trap Snaps Shut - Julie Kelly

J.J. Sefton at Ace of Spades HQ - The Morning Report -- 4/ 16/26

Notice that events are developing. . .
Democrats Can't Update Their Script On The Iran War To Incorporate New Realities

Anonymous Conservative - News Briefs – 04/15/2026

Trump says to Maria Bartiromo, Iran war is ‘over’ as Vance prepares for second round of peace talks in Pakistan.
If they had not kicked him out of Congress he’d have kept his mouth shut

I leave you with Quick Hits Of Wisdom, Knowledge And Snark #3586 from 90 Miles from Tyranny, Wednesday Memes … from MaddMedic, Well Shucky Darn, It Must Be Libturd Thursday ~ PM from Woodsterman, Thursday Meme Drop from Midwest Chick's Place, and Friday night's gifs from Wirecutter.

Seattle Woman Charged in Attack on Journalist Outside ICE Facility

It was looking like no one would ever be charged in this attack. ANDY NGO REPORTS: Seattle woman charged 10 months after Brandi Kruse violently mobbed outside ICE facility | The Post Millennial

A Seattle-area woman has been charged with assault 10 months after journalist Brandi Kruse was violently mobbed during an Antifa direct action outside a federal immigration facility.

Fabiana Lucia Cantera-Silvestre (b. Aug. 15, 1995), 30, faces one count of fourth-degree assault and one count of disorderly conduct stemming from a June 14, 2025 incident in Tukwila, Wash., a suburb south of Seattle.

Hat tip to Andy Ngo himself at Ngo Comment:

Her assailants were masked and as the months went by with no arrests, it appeared the case would be closed as so often happens to journalists assaulted by Antifa. However, this week it emerged that prosecutors in Tukwila, Wash. quietly filed charges against a far-left Seattle radical named Fabiana Lucia Cantera-Silvestre.

Brandi Kruse was a reporter for Fox in Seattle during CHAZ and the riots. Since then she has been an independent journalist. These are often targeted by ANTIFA and the like, because they know, that unlike the legacy media, they are not controlled by the Progressive Left.

eBike Catches Fire and Causes Fatality

Not from the fire. From the carbon monoxide. A Small E-Bike Fire Inside a California Apartment Became Fatal Faster Than Anyone Expected

Inside a quiet apartment, an electric bike sits charging. At first, it feels perfectly normal; there is nothing unusual about that. Then a thin stream of smoke begins to rise. Within seconds, the situation shifts from normal to deadly.

Two people are inside. One senses the danger early and escapes. The other stays behind, trying to fight what appears to be a small fire. It is a decision that proves fatal.

He made it outside, but he had likely breathed in several times the lethal dose of carbon monoxide from the battery fire.

In a matter of seconds, the battery begins to release enormous volumes of toxic smoke. A single lithium-ion cell can produce about six liters of smoke. Multiply that across roughly 100 cells in a typical e-bike battery pack, and the result is around 600 liters of dense, poisonous gas flooding a room in under half a minute.

That smoke is not just thick. It is chemically dangerous.

The StacheD video below is a good overview of this incident.

This is the StacheD Training video He Tried to Put Out an E-Bike Fire… and It Killed Him

That's why I recommend evacuating immediately if an ebike, e- scooter, hoverboard, or any other large battery goes into thermal runaway. And I know how this sounds, because I see it in the comments all the time. "So, what? You just want my house to burn down?" Yeah, I kind of do, because the alternative could be your life. As a firefighter, I'd rather come to your house and fight a room and contents fire, or spend a couple hours putting out the whole house if I have to. What I don't want to do is put somebody in a body bag.

The video is 4 and a half minutes long.

Superhuman

I first heard of Charlotte Wessels when she was lead singer for Delain. The guy who is the lead composer for that group had "creative differences" with the rest of the band, and they all quit. I believe that was in 2019, but I would have to look to be sure.

Since then Charlotte Wessels has embarked on a solo career. She has released a few albums, and recently announced a tour for 2026. I think she has a beautiful voice.

This is "Superhuman" by Charlotte Wessels from her 2021 album Tales from Six Feet Under.

There is an official video; I find it very distracting. It is easy to find if you're interested.

Ibogaine in the News

From The Other McCain - Fear and Loathing at Mar-a-Lago? Freaky Friday Flashback to ‘Big Ed’ Muskie

Hunter S. Thompson brought up Ibogaine in relation to the 1972 Campaign of Ed Muskie.

For reasons that were never adequately explained at the time, and which seem ridiculous in hindsight, the media pundits and Democratic Party power brokers decided in advance of the 1972 campaign that Muskie was the front-runner, the man to beat. Thompson had other ideas.

Strange coincidence that Thompson, working for Rolling Stone, was covering George McGovern at the start of the campaign.

The very idea of Rolling Stone sending a correspondent to cover the presidential campaign was weird, at the time, and Thompson’s eccentricities were notorious enough that his hunch about McGovern’s chances didn’t get much credit from other reporters on the campaign trail, and yet in the end he was vindicated — especially in regard to his contempt for the “mainstream” consensus front-runner Ed Muskie.

That is (some of) the background. Click thru for more and the news from today.

There is apparently some use of Ibogaine to treat PTSD. Whether it actually works or not is the issue. The Other McCain has the details.

The Spotify Top 10 - "Other than that, it sounds great."

Rick Beato listened to these songs, so you don't have to. The Spotify Top 10 Got Even Worse

This is what he had to say about number 10 on the list.

There's just nothing interesting here.

The melody is not interesting, the lyrics are not interesting, and the chord progression isn't interesting. I don't think the production's that good.

Other than that, it sounds great.

Number 9 didn't do much better...

Honestly, that song had everything but what it needed.

There are a few songs that he can say good things about, and maybe even one song that is good, though it isn't a genre I like. (American country music.) Most of it is schlock.

The video is 15 minutes long. You can either laugh at popular music, or weep for the state of music in America.

Friday Links - 17 April

We start with Chicago Contrarian, and a critique of the Chicago political mess. How to Address Chicago’s Affordable Housing Needs

Mayor Johnson’s affordable housing plan is an expensive mirage that will do nothing to address the city’s housing crisis. A strategy that unleashes the housing market and caps housing costs is what’s needed

Wombat-socho - FMJRA 2.0: Grinding Forward

Another good week to be a Senators fan!

William Teach at Pirate's Cove - Today’s Yutes Still See Massive College Loan Debt As Pathway To “Purpose”

A college degree is worth what the degree is in, and, too many of the yutes are not looking for hard sciences, hard disciplines. It’s mostly squishy stuff, degrees ending in “Studies” and such. How many are getting degrees in installing solar panels, building hydo-electric dams, making wind turbines? Sciences in order to create actual cleaner energy sources?

The Silicon Graybeard - Three years from now...

So here's just an interesting look at April 13, 2029 - three years from now, but a Friday not a Monday, that we will get the closest known flyby of an asteroid in history, and of the biggest body to ever approach Earth.

The Other McCain - NY Times Keeps Lying About Everything, Including the Basic Facts of Life

The Upshot is a section of the New York Times that advertises itself as providing “analytical journalism in words and graphics,” which is to say, this is the part where they try to add the aura of statistical certainty to their dishonest propaganda: “See? Here’s a chart — numbers don’t lie!”

Sarah Anderson at PJ Media - When 'If We Need to Die, We'll Die' Doesn't Quite Mean What He Says It Does

That's what Cuban "president" Miguel Díaz-Canel said on NBC's Meet the Press on Sunday. He was talking about the fact that Cubans would defend their homeland should the United States invade militarily. (More on that interview in a moment.)

"What does he mean by 'we'?" has been the response of most of the Cuban people.

Bayou Renaissance Man - Points to ponder about small handguns

First, as a general rule small handguns are harder to shoot well than larger handguns. There are several reasons:

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 14 April 2026: Greasy Spork Edition

Sam Altman's home has been targeted by violent idiots for the second time in a week. (SF Standard)

That's not it, guys

Again from The Other McCain - Crazy People Are Dangerous

Say hello to Noemi Guzman and, while you’re at it, go ahead and say good-bye, because Omaha Police on Tuesday saved Nebraska taxpayers the cost of incarcerating Guzman forever:

And again from The Other McCain - Thanks to All the Tip-Jar Hitters!

That is a 200-gram firework “cake,” a multi-shot repeater that shoots 20 aerial bursts in about 24 seconds. We just ordered a case of 18 of those — $154.90 wholesale, but with the 25% Early Bird discount, we paid just $116.18 to add 360 shots into our Fourth of July finale.

Again from William Teach - LA Mayor Karen “Failure” Bass Has New Climate (scam) Plan Or Something

Does it involve failing to have the firefighting infrastructure in place, letting it burn, and screwing with homeowners, making it hard to rebuild, and then trying to get them to sell so they can build “affordable” housing, making sure NGOs, friends, and donors get a cut?

A Misleading Headline in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram

Does this make it sound like he was shot, while lying on the ground, under the car? Man shot in Arlington while stealing catalytic converter | Fort Worth Star-Telegram

He wasn't lying on the ground, under the car.

The shooter stayed at the scene, and police said they detained him for questioning. He told officers he’d heard a noise outside and found a man who was trying to cut and steal a catalytic converter from his vehicle.

“During their interaction, the shooter fired a shot, striking the man,” police said.

Police didn't arrest or charge the shooter, though the investigation is just beginning.

The would-be bad guy was taken to a local hospital.

If you think you can only read the headlines, and maybe the first paragraph of an article to determine what happened, you are kidding yourself. Even in Fort Worth, Texas, the Professional Journalists™ appear to be biased against guns and gun owners.

Do I need to say that Arlington, Texas is between Fort Worth and Dallas?

Self-defense is a human right, and this didn't take place in New York City.

Anti-ICE Liar Facing Defamation Suit

Good. Make it extremely expensive to fabricate evidence. Wisconsin sheriff sues Skokie woman for defamation in ICE detention claim | WGN-TV

A Wisconsin sheriff is now suing a Skokie woman and a Cook County politician for defamation after she claimed she was held at an out-of-state jail after being detained by immigration enforcement officials.

The stupidity is amazing. She apparently doesn't realize that there are security cameras in airports, or in hotel lobbies, or that if you use a credit card you leave a paper trail. She claimed she was held by the Dodge County Sheriff's office in Wisconsin. The Dodge County Sheriff, Dale Schmidt, launched his own investigation.

“At no point was Sundas Naqvi in the custody of the Dodge County Sheriff’s Office,” Sheriff Schmidt said. “This is not a misunderstanding or a minor discrepancy. This is not a violation of the constitutional or civil rights of Sundas Naqvi or those allegedly with her. The timeline being claimed is not physically possible based on the evidence we have, and that matters.”

She claims she was held by DHS, but security video shows her leaving the screening area by herself.

She claims she was held in Wisconsin, hotel records show Naqvi stayed at a Rosemont hotel.

Schmidt said Friday that while he has no evidence that Naqvi broke the law in Wisconsin, he would like to see charges filed in Cook County since Naqvi allegedly used someone’s credit card without their permission.

Cook County Commissioner Kevin Morrison is also named in the suit, because he jumped on the bandwagon, and held a press conference "denouncing" the situation.

Hat tip to Pirate's Cove: Sheriff Sues Women Who Falsely Claimed She Was Held In ICE Detention

Why did she do this and drag others into it? To demonize ICE? To add Islamophobia into it? Because liberal women are broken? Too bad all the news outlets who jumped on the story and ran with it instead of doing Journalism 101 can’t be sued, as well

Cops Save 3-Year-Old Kidnap Victim

This is a case of crazy people are dangerous. Woman who allegedly cut, tried to kidnap toddler at Walmart is fatally shot by police

Police fatally shot a woman who they said cut a 3-year-old boy in the face during an alleged kidnapping attempt at a Walmart in Omaha, Nebraska, Tuesday morning.

She took a knife from the store, threatened the child's "caretaker" and tried to leave with the child.

When she was confronted by police, she sliced the child across the face. Cops shot her.

The child was taken to a local hospital, and is recovering.

Hat tip to Miguel Gonzalez: Absolute Righteous Shooting.

Not the most Christian thing for me to say, but I hope it hurt her all the way to Hell. Yes, she was a mental case and she previously (2024) cut her own father and then tried to set him on fire only to go to a local church with the knife, break in and destroy property inside.

We need to stop turning people who cannot face trial free on the street to create more mayhem.

Atlanta Isn't What It Used to Be

Another story of people with blinders on... The Dumbest White Liberal in Georgia : The Other McCain

Because I’m a native of Atlanta, I’m old enough to remember when DeKalb County was nice — affluent, prestigious, even. But the DeKalb County of 40 or 50 years ago has ceased to exist, and the only white people who live there now are those too stupid to understand their imminent peril.

Pretending otherwise...

So what would you do, if you called 911, and no one bothered to respond to your situation?

This is the story of a woman caught in a "chaotic street takeover" in DeKalb County. Click thru.

It is probably worth quoting John Farnam's Rules of Stupid, even though nothing bad happened to her. Well, 45 minutes after her initial call, when she was "safe at home," she did get a text message from 911 asking if she still needed help.

“Don’t go to stupid places; don’t associate with stupid people; don’t do stupid things.”

That's by way of the The Bugscuffle Gazette

Now there are 2 things to note about the 911 call. The first is that she was scared when she called 911, and the situation was such that if the crowd turned violent, she would have been screwed. She was, however, not being attacked, so it wasn't a high-priority call. The second thing to note, is that 45 minutes is a really long time to wait if something bad happens, and if the crowd did break open her car window, she probably wouldn't have had time to call 911 back. So she would have been screwed, and been on her own.

Which brings me to the Graham Combat Killhouse Rules, because our whole modern world seems to be predicated on the idea that you are not responsible for your own safety.

The Graham Combat Killhouse Rules:

1. NOBODY IS COMING TO SAVE YOU.  Whether an event lasts a few seconds, a few hours, or even a few days – you have to work as though nobody is coming to save you.

2. You are your savior, so start working because EVERYTHING IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY.  You are your security, you are your medic, you are your rescuer.

3. You are your own best resource to SAVE WHO NEEDS TO BE SAVED.  Nobody wants to save your life more than you, so set yourself up for success by having the simple tools and knowledge to do so: do what you can with what you have.  Recognize that nobody is in a better position to start saving your life than you.

4. Sometimes saving lives means you have to KILL WHO NEEDS TO BE KILLED.  It has been almost 15 years since I first wrote “the more effective you are at taking a life, the more successful you’ll be at saving one” and nothing in the intervening time has changed my mind.  Be swift, be decisive, be final.

5. Mostly, ALWAYS BE WORKING.  There is always something you can be doing to improve your position.  Always.  Because nobody is coming to save you.

The Defender Didn't Need to Fire a Shot

The Bad Guy showed up with a gun, and the bad guy ran. Armed Suspect Robs Victims In Their Yard, Shots Fired: New Haven Police | New Haven, CT Patch

He showed up in a backyard, and tried to rob people who were outside the home.

When another resident of the house saw what was happening on their surveillance camera, he went outside with his own legally registered gun to challenge the suspect, who then fired two shots before fleeing on foot, police said.

No one was hit by gunfire.

Police arrested someone who was wearing the same clothing, at a nearby store the next day. He was detained, and searched. It was discovered that he had a gun.

[He] is charged with interfering with an officer, carrying a pistol or revolver without a permit, criminal possession of a firearm/ammunition, illegal possession of a controlled substance, and stealing a firearm.

The investigation is in early days. It still sounds like Good Guys 1, Bad Guys 0.

SWAT Raided Her Home Looking For Someone Already in Jail

Not only was he in jail, he had been in jail for 4 months. A simple Google search could have shown that. Atlanta Woman Sues Officers, U.S. Government for Wrongly Raiding Her Home in Search of Man Already in Jail - Institute for Justice

I have covered cops not knowing how to read a map. I have covered cops lying. This is perhaps the stupidest thing I have seen cops do. Perhaps.

Before the sun came up, Cathy George heard a loud pounding at her door. When she answered with her small, frightened dog in her arms, she found a heavily armed SWAT team of U.S. Marshals and DeKalb County sheriff’s deputies. After officers pulled her into the hallway and surged into her home, it became clear that they were searching for a man named Joshua Smiley.

But Smiley had been in jail for months, and the raid on Cathy’s home was both a terrible mistake and a violation of the U.S. Constitution and Georgia laws.

This doesn't even cover the fact that Cathy George had lived in her apartment for 3 or 4 years, and had never heard of Joshua Smiley.

So how did cops screw up so badly? All they will say is that they "made a mistake."

This is the Institute for Justice video He Was Already in Jail—So Why Did SWAT Raid Her Home?

And as stupid as this is, the record for the most useless SWAT team in America is still held by our friends from Uvalde, Texas. (Don't they look snazzy in their outfits?)

Who Benefits?

Mike Rowe asks the obvious question about Climate Science. Cui bono?

Paul Ehrlich was a distinguished evolutionary biologist who spent most of his career at Stanford University. He was also a highly respected environmentalist with all the proper credentials, and a media darling. (Johnny Carson alone had him on over a dozen times.) The Population Bomb was read by millions of people and reprinted no less than 20 times, making it one of the most consequential environmental books of the 20th century. And, just like An Inconvenient Truth, it was complete and total fiction.

Opportunists like Gore and Ehrlich have always been with us and always will be. The most charitable thing we can say about them today is that they were wrong, but I’m not feeling charitable these days. I’m looking instead, for the next grifter who wants to prosper by scaring me about the coming apocalypse, in whatever form it might take.

Are we shocked, that after 20 years, the doom and gloom from An Inconvenient Truth turned out to be wrong?

Sindarov Wins 2026 FIDE Candidates Tournament with Round To Spare

Chess is just something I am interested in. 2026 FIDE Candidates Round 13: Sindarov Clinches With Round To Spare; Women's Still Wide Open

Javokhir Sindarov, age 20, is an FIDE grandmaster from Uzbekistan.

GM Javokhir Sindarov has won the 2026 FIDE Candidates Tournament with a round to spare after a draw against GM Anish Giri in round 13. More important than the €70,000 prize, he will be the next challenger to GM Gukesh Dommaraju for the world title.

€70,000 is a pretty good payday.

FIDE stands for Fédération Internationale des Échecs, or in English, The International Chess Federation. It is the governing body for chess.

Sindarov doesn't have much time to celebrate or even to rest, as in two weeks he'll play in the Grand Chess Tour's Super Rapid & Blitz Poland. Not to mention the preparation for the most important match of his life.

As I type this, there is one more day left in the tournament, thoug Sindarov has won. The remaining players are playing to determine how the purse will be distributed. The timing and the venue for the World Championship between Javokhir Sindarov and Gukesh Dommaraju has not been announced.

Wednesday Link Roundup - 15 April

William Teach at Pirate's Cove starts us off with Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

Victory Girls Blog has Sunday morning cafe cocktails linkage.
Vlad Tepes has linkage.

Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 04.13.26

Upstream Reviews: Engines of Liberty
L’Ombre de L’Olivier: A Weekend In Geopolitics Is A Long Time

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 12 April 2026: Is It Real Edition

My [AI] baby deer plushie told me that Mitski's dad is a CIA operative. (The Verge)
Nobody ever expects the Butlerian Jihad.

EBL - How is Democrat Eric Swalwell doing?

Instapundit: Democrats forcing Swalwell out of CA Governor's race...
TOM: The Christine Blasey Ford Standard and the Sudden Destruction of Eric Swalwell

Don Surber - HIGHLIGHTS OF THE NEWS

ITEM 13: Morad Vaisi, a Senior Analyst at Iran International, reported, “52 senior Iranian officials and commanders killed in US and Israeli attacks.”
52 dead. Zero funerals or there would be more dead.

Vlad Tepes - The Pope, the Irish counter-revolution, and acid tests for how communist your polity actually is: Links 1 for April 14, 2026

2. I really wanted to address what is taking place in Ireland as a separate post, and even started one, but it looks like I won’t be able to manage it. So I’ll post a few data points and the thesis here.

Small Dead Animals - Saturday On Turtle Island

The Democratic Party’s America: California’s Barbie bigot. Victor Davis Hanson – NATO free riders. Douglas Murray – Crush Iran. Deluded Trump haters.
Conman Carney’s Canada: Ban on biblical truths. Muslim values are Canadian values.

Again from Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 04.14.26

Chicago Boyz: Worth Pondering, also, When David Met Leo
Da Tech Guy: Pintastic NE 2026 Video of the Day Some New Games
Don Surber: Rooting for Iran

Political Hat - News of the Week (April 12th, 2026)

‘A wow moment’: Democrats make big gains in key battlegrounds
They notched a landslide victory in Wisconsin and cut into the GOP’s margins in Georgia’s reddest House district.

A View from the Beach - Flotsam and Jetsam - Swalwell Rape Saga Breaks Out

Rod Martin notices Chinese Weapons Failed in Venezuela and Iran. Now Beijing Faces the Consequences. "Battlefield humiliation did more than embarrass the CCP. It exposed the rot in Beijing’s military model, badly set back its bid to become a major arms exporter."

Gates of Vienna - News Feed 4/14/2026

Disney to Eliminate 1,000 Positions
Walt Disney new chief executive Josh D’Amaro announced layoffs in an email to employees on Tuesday, as he looks to streamline the company’s operations.

The Glibertarians - Sunday Morning Financial Devastation Links

TACO Sunday. Which is not a Mexican dessert.
Commie Pope has opinions.

Flopping Aces - The most abusive President in the history of the United States

Joe Biden demonized Republicans, calling them a “clear and present danger.”
And as a means of dealing with that threat Biden chose censorship, in part by floating a Disinformation Governance Board, a thinly veiled plan to shut down the free speech

Bacon Time!!!! - Sunday Linkange

Pirates Cove Japanese Metal Fan, And PM, Squees Over Deep Purple Visit
Freedom Is Just Another Word.. .Saturday Memes…

Maggie's Farm - Saturday morning links

Foreign billionaires reportedly fund millions to groups that oppose American AI infrastructure
Jacobin Confusion on Social Security

Doug Ross - Larwyn’s Linx: Globalism is a Crime Scene: Iran is the Master-level Reset.

• Hormuz Update: U.S. Navy Clearing Mines in Strait David Blackmon
• Show Me the Money – The Trump Tax Cuts Benefit the Middle Class Stephen Moore

J.J. Sefton at Ace of Spades HQ - The Morning Report 4/ 13 /26

The Green Mountain State is a textbook case of how progressives employ social justice causes to drain the wallets and dreams of citizens.
How progressives rob working-class Vermonters

Anonymous Conservative - News Briefs – 04/14/2026

CIA Director John Ratcliffe: “Adam Schiff covertly conspired with the fake whistleblower Eric Ciaramella in an attempt to overthrow the sitting President.”

I leave you with Sunday Funnies For 04-12-26 from Stately McDaniel Manor, Sunday Memes … from MaddMedic, Sunday Meme Drop from Midwest Chick's Place, Monday Memes from Granite Grok, and Quick Hits Of Wisdom, Knowledge And Snark #3574 from 90 Miles from Tyranny.

Defensive Gun Uses During July 2025 - a List

A collection of stories from The Crime Prevention Research Center. Defensive Gun Uses By People Legally Carrying Guns: 35 Cases During July 2025 - Crime Prevention Research Center

Yes, the stories are from July of last year, but since there is more than one per day, I'm sure I missed some of them. While I haven't checked, I'm sure there is some overlap with what I did cover.

Take Public Transit? Maybe When It Is Safe

Didn't NYC just institute a tax for driving to force people onto transit? Exclusive | NYC train, bus robberies climb 21% from same period last year

There were 128 muggings on trains and buses as of April 5, a 21% surge over the 106 from the same period last year and experts fear it will get worse.

Felony assaults ticked down 6% in the same period, from 171 to 160, but that sum does not include the three horrific attacks on innocent straphangers Saturday by an unhinged, machete-wielding maniac. Assaults are up 60% when compared to pre-Covid 2019.

Mamdani's solution? Cut the NYPD budget.

Under former Mayor Eric Adams, the NYPD deployed 300 additional officers for train patrols in January 2025 to combat crime and improve the perception of safety. The cops specifically targeted overnight shifts with two officers per train.

Crime went down under that initiative, but overtime cuts in February under Mayor Mamdani’s new administration reduced those patrols.

Because things will magically get better on their own, or something.

Now I understand the NYC is broke, but maybe they should prioritize public safety a bit higher. I know the democrats won't do that.

Taxman

It is Tax Day in the USA. So here is something appropriate.

If you drive a car, I'll tax the street
If you try to sit, I'll tax your seat
If you get too cold, I'll tax the heat
If you try to walk, I'll tax your feet

This song is "Taxman" by Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble. It was released as a single in 1995. I can't find if this was ever a part of an album, aside from the 2014 Greatest Hits album. It is a song that was originally written and recorded by The Beatles.