Friday Links - 24 April

William Teach at Pirate's Cove starts us off with Bummer: Chicago Has Already Cancelled This Year’s Cinco De Mayo Celebration

I have to wonder: how many Mexicans actually celebrate this? It actually seems more of a holiday adopted by Americans as a reason to drink, as pushed by beer manufacturers

The Other McCain - IT’S ‘STOP THE LOBSTER’ DAY!

After I called it “Spanberger’s lobster” last week, many others have taken up that phrase to describe the crustacean-like shape of the district that Democrats would inflict on Virginia if today’s referendum passes.

Chicago Contrarian - Bizarro Chicago: Criminals Get a Pass, Police Get the Blame

In any rational society, the focus of government — and the concern of the public — would be on the people actually committing violence. The goal would be simple: stop the criminals.

But in Chicago, the obsession is different.

Alice Jones Webb at Take It Outside - Take It OutsideYou Just Can't Get There From Here

I headed out to the hunting property on Tuesday afternoon to pull down my treestands. Logging started on Monday, and there was heavy equipment parked everywhere. They’d cut right up to my first stand, opening the canopy in a place that’s always been thick, dark, and dank. The naked stumps and the harsh light cut wrong. It felt like walking into my house and finding someone moved all the furniture.

My Nerdy Home - Disney Reveals Snow White Resulted In $170 Million Dollar Loss [VIDEO]

They had to do so many re-shoots, that movie was completely dead on arrival. It was DOA from the first moment that Rachel Zegler opened her mouth.

The Gun Writer - Why the Trace has problems with guns, gun owners and the truth

Chip Brownlee’s recent story about Emergency Risk Protection Orders, known as ERPOs, which was published online by the Trace is actually well written. It’s completely wrong and chock-full of anti-gun propaganda, but it is well written.

Professor Yamane at Light Over Heat - What a Danish Newspaper Got Right About American Gun Culture

Guntubers — firearms influencers on YouTube and other social media platforms — are reshaping who gets into guns and how. That’s the story Danish journalist Anders Tornsø Jørgensen was chasing when he contacted me recently. It’s one I’d been thinking about already in my Substack post and video, “Did the New York Times Accidentally Discover Gun Culture 3.0?”

Peter Sweded - IT BEGINS: Court orders COMPENSATION for vaccine death

A Greek court has ordered the state to pay €300.000 compensation to the family.

Meep at STUMP - Congressional Mortality Update 2026: RIP, Rep. David Scott, 80

Rep. Scott was 80, and people had already been commenting on his health in 2024. His district is a lock. I doubt anybody will be screaming conspiracy.

The Silicon Graybeard - The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is complete

The NGRST is heading for the L2 Lagrange Point, currently the home of the James Webb Space Telescope, the European Union's Euclid infrared space telescope and a place for passing visitors, such as the Escapade mission on the way to Mars (bottom of that post).

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 22 April 2026: Fresh Baked Edition

Amazon meanwhile is investing $25 billion in Anthropic, as part of a deal where Anthropic spends $100 billion over 10 years with Amazon. (CNBC)

The money on the bus goes round and round...

Ace of Spades HQ - China Made a Ton of Risky Loans to Third-World Nations to Bring Them Under Its Sphere of Influence. Now Those Loans are Turning Bad. China Wants the US to Bail It Out.

This is such a disgusting demand to even make that I'm 90% sure that the "US" Congress will agree to to it.

Geller Report - THE MAMDANI ACT: Lawmaker Introduces Bill to Deport Immigrants With Extremist Ideologies

Mamdani may have served some good after all. Who’d a thunk it?