The Morning Report — 4/9 /26

Good morning kids. The situation with Iran and the ceasefire remains at the forefront of the news. And as the ceasefire begins, friend and friend of the blog, Middle East and Islam expert par excellence Robert Spencer declares, with tongue planted firmly in cheek:

Oh, Great, Peace in the Middle East Again — Hey, I’m as happy as everyone else, but I can’t help but notice those missiles raining down on Israel. . .

. . . A big day for World Peace! Iran wants it to happen, they’ve had enough! Likewise, so has everyone else! The United States of America will be helping with the traffic buildup in the Strait of Hormuz. There will be lots of positive action! Big money will be made. Iran can start the reconstruction process. We’ll be loading up with supplies of all kinds, and just “hangin’ around” in order to make sure that everything goes well. I feel confident that it will. Just like we are experiencing in the U.S., this could be the Golden Age of the Middle East!!! President DONALD J. TRUMP The Islamic Republic of Iran was likewise in a celebratory mood, and in its joyful exuberance, fired off a round or two of celebratory missiles and drones into Israel and the Sunni states that it has targeted since the beginning of this conflict. Fox News’ Trey Yingst reported that on “Ceasefire day 1,” Israel “took multiple waves of Iranian missile fire after the ceasefire was announced.

WELL, not to doubt our friend but Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has declared:

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth claimed Wednesday that Iran is under a new regime with a “new calculus” about negotiating with the United States, just a day after President Donald Trump threatened total destruction over the nation’s intractability.

That seals the deal for me, and yet we have all these doubting thomases.

When President Trump first struck Iran over a month ago, I took a “wait and see” approach. I wasn’t supportive of the foreign intervention, as it seemed unwise and reckless. But there was a possibility the blowback could be minimal. Trump had previously killed Qasem Soleimani and bombed Iran with hardly any consequences. History could repeat itself once again with the Khamenei assassination.
It’s clear now that this war was a grievous mistake. We did not achieve regime change, nor did we even get a more amenable leader to deal with Iran. The Islamic Republic isn’t going to give up its missiles or nuclear program. While Iran has lost many of its leaders and military installations, it’s still able to shut down the Strait of Hormuz and strike critical infrastructure throughout the Middle East. With these advantages, the Islamic Republic has upended the global economy and world oil supply. It’s more likely America and its allies will make serious concessions to open the strait than it is for Iran to meet Trump’s initial demands.

In all seriousness for the past 47 years, the regime in Iran has spilled oceans of innocent blood in its eternal jihad and quest to conquer the world in the cause of Islam. The fecklessness, acquiescence and surrender of prior American and western nations to Iran in not defending Western Civilization from this threat to the advancement of humanity and civilization is why we are facing an existential threat. In that regard, the attempt to take Iran down had to be done sooner or later. Trump bucked the tide of prior administrations that were at best indifferent/ineffective (Reagan, Busshes)at worst collaborationist and) (Carter, Clinton, Obama/Biden).

At this point it certainly looks as if President Trump has painted himself into a corner.

The world breathed a sigh of relief Tuesday night on news of a cease-fire in the Iran war, but this is certainly no time for President Donald Trump to go wobbly.

If he can’t work out a comprehensive deal to end the Iran threat for good, he needs to get the jets back in the air over Iran pronto — and let the bombs drop.

If not, he does risk that TACO label. Trump saw enough hope for a peace deal — and an “immediate” opening of the Strait of Hormuz — to hold off, for now, on the enormous additional devastation he threatened to inflict on the Iranian regime.

Fine.But it’s far from clear what, exactly, the Iranian leaders he’s dealing with (whoever they are) will ultimately agree to. And stick to.

That’s why any deal to be worked out over the next weeks must be absolutely air-tight.

It must cover all the bases, paving the way for a future Iran that can’t continue to threaten the world and wreak havoc, whether through actual violence or economic terrorism. . .Nor can Iran’s negotiators be allowed to drag out the talks indefinitely, spared of fresh airstrikes from the United States or Israel.

Trump must be prepared to resume bombing, including of infrastructure used by Iran’s military, if — as he would put it — he smells BS.

Indeed, he should warn publicly (and not just threaten but mean it) that he’s ready to restart the attacks, and even ratchet them up, if Iran refuses to meet his conditions.

Let’s face it: This is the world’s one chance to end the 47-year Iran nightmare once and for all — or at least to set conditions that can lead to its end.

It’s Trump’s chance to make good on his promise that Iran will never have nuclear weapons. Not in a year. Not in 10 years.

Remember, it took 47 years for any US president to confront the ayatollahs the way Trump has. No other leader will have the guts to do it again. Look at North Korea’s nukes if you doubt it.

Yet Trump himself may be less willing to prolong the war now: Oil prices fell the minute he announced the cease-fire. The markets shot up. .

Back here at home there are other things happening. On a related note we have a point counterpoint to contemplate:
POINT:

The Fall of Islam It will start here in Texas, and inspire others in America to stand.

To Colonel Allen West I would say "Unless and until Islam falls in Mecca and way too much of the rest of the western world and in the hearts nd minds of all its billion and a half adherents, we're merely trying to hold back the tide."

Counterpoint: with backstabbing blithering fools like this, we're going under.

Texas AG Candidate Tried To Force Towns To Greenlight Development Of Muslim ‘Sharia Cities’

Elsewhere we have madness from the courtrooms to contend with:

In an apparent effort to delay and thus perhaps permanently undermine justice for Iryna Zarutska's killer, prosecutors have accepted the assessment from Central Regional Hospital, leaving a judge to decide whether to reject the assessment and proceed with the April 30 hearing to delay 180 days as the hospital and prosecutors recommend. The new claim that Decarlos Brown is "incapable to proceed" on state murder charges became public in a motion filed April 7, according to the New York Post.
Decarlos Dejuan Brown Jr. already had 14 arrests on his record when he boarded a Charlottesubway train in August 2025 with violence on his mind. Brown did not know Iryna, who was also riding the subway and quietly minding her own business. But Brown suddenly and randomly approached Iryna and stabbed the young woman to death while most of the other passengers looked another way, refusing to intervene. Just before he got off the train, video of Brown shows him gloating to himself, "Got that white girl." 

Thankfully Gavin Newsom's concubine has words of wisdom to calm us down.

In a video clip resurfacing on social media, Gavin Newsom’s activist wife Jennifer Siebel Newsom is heard describing how she told a group of convicts in San Quentin about the childhood incident in which she killed her own sister with a golf cart — something she was never punished for because it was accidental. “Yours were probably accidents too…” she told the prisoners.

What an utterly evil filthy diseased pudenda! Makes Michelle Obama look like Dolly Madison by comparison. Or not.

Have a great day!

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS
• Victor Davis Hanson: Trump’s critics cry “war crimes” while ignoring decades of U.S. precedent—revealing less a legal argument than a reflexive, and deeply selective, political outrage.
  By All Means, Let the War Crimes Trials Begin!
  
• Critics argue the bill weakens freedom of expression and religion by removing the ‘good faith’ defense for religious texts.
  Canada Pushes Law That Would Classify Bible Quotes as Hate Speech.

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Daily Tech News 9 April 2026

Top Story

• Apple MacBooks slow down after 49 days due to a MacOS time bomb. (Notebook Check)
  
  Not just MacBooks. Anything running MacOS:

  This bug means that after exactly 49 days, 17 hours, 2 minutes and 47.296 seconds from the moment a Mac is switched on, network connections are no longer terminated correctly. This initially leads to an increase in CPU utilization, because after some time hundreds or even thousands of connections are managed that should actually have been terminated. As soon as the available ports, usually 16,384 in number, are used up, no more new connections can be established.

  49 days, 17 hours, 2 minutes, and 47.296 seconds?
  
  That number might ring a bell for the 29 year olds in the audience, because the same bug caused Windows 95 and 98 to crash outright when they were running for just shy of 50 days: It's a 32-bit unsigned integer counting milliseconds.
  
  Of course Windows 95 and 98 had the saving grace that they would usually crash for some other reason well before that time ran out.

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Wednesday Night ONT - April 8, 2026 [TRex]

Good evening Horde. The time has come for mid-week shenanigans.

Welcome to the Wednesday night ONT which means another edition of random overnight fun and games. Pull up a chair and sit a spell. Good will offerings of amusing puns are happily accepted. Pants are optional. Be nice to your fellow commenters and AoS contributors. This is a Tucker, Candace and Megyn free zone. Please.

[Top photo: Peek a boo. NASA Artemis II mission]

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Givers, Takers, and Fakers Cafe

The Chosen Fawn
Kristin Mae Photography

"Mummy said that monsters aren't real. But they are real."

Hypersocial pittie.

Humpdays.

Border collie keeping a balloon aloft.

These dogs are so happy just to touch grass.

Cute: Helping a lost dog find his way home in an apartment building.

Flat-Earthers cope and seethe over the Artemis II launch. They'll be on Tuq'r Qarlson next week.

A white otter.

Baby sea otter.

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Christopher Rufo Uncovers a New California "Fraud Magnet," Costing Us $30 Billion Per Year

You know how Somali Pirates claim to be "day care providers" for each other's kids? And get paid $150,000 per year for sitting on their asses at home?

Well here's another grift: "In-Home Support Care."

Does your Uncle Mohammad need "in-home support"? Is he willing to claim he does?

Well, here's $100,000 to provide that service. We promise -- we won't check up with you and won't even balk at your claiming to provide federally-compensated "in-home supportive services" to your spouse.

California Governor Gavin Newsom is embroiled in a national fraud scandal. Thus far, much of the coverage has focused on alleged schemes related to unemployment insurance, hospice care, and food stamps. In this exclusive investigation, we shine a light on one of California's largest initiatives: the In-Home Supportive Services Program, or IHSS, which pays family members and other individuals to provide home-based care for the elderly and disabled--at a cost of nearly $30 billion per year.

On the surface, IHSS presents itself as an instrument of compassion, directing billions to caregivers who help with cooking, personal care, laundry, and other daily needs inside recipients' homes. But a growing number of experts and critics argue that the program is rife with fraud, losing roughly an estimated $6 billion to $12 billion yearly to scammers. Meantime, the state's powerful home-care unions collect more than $149 million in membership dues, funneling money into the political network supporting Newsom and California Democrats.

This is the story of a government that has allowed compassion to become a mask for fraud, creating a self-reinforcing system that keeps the Democratic establishment in power.

In 1973, California created what became the IHSS program to provide in-home care to the elderly and disabled. The IHSS caseload exploded in the 1980s, prompting the state to impose hour caps on care providers. California offers the program through Medi-Cal, its version of Medicaid, and pays providers with a combination of federal, state, and county funds.

IHSS has long been considered a magnet for fraud. In 2009, then-Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger estimated that up to 25 percent of IHSS claims were fraudulent. A Sacramento grand jury report that year found that providers had "no meaningful oversight, no assessment of skills to meet client needs, no monitoring of the validity of service hours, and no background checks."

After growth of the program's rolls exploded in the early 2000s, Schwarzenegger signed legislation aimed at curbing abuse, requiring IHSS providers to undergo criminal background checks and introducing random claim reviews.

But soon after the law's passage, a state workgroup, teaming with representatives from "labor organizations," introduced a key loophole. Citing concerns about disruptions for "vulnerable members of the IHSS community," the task force barred regulators from conducting fully randomized, unannounced home visits, leaving the program more exposed to scammers.

Yes, they do this on purpose. Minnesota stopped all auditing and verification precisely to allow Democratic Somali Pirate voters to use Minnesota paperwork to defraud the taxpayers from other states.

They approve of this because they see it as Back-Door Reparations. Evil White Racists won't agree to provide reparations to Somalis -- a people we have virtually no historic connection to, for good or for ill, and so owe absolutely nothing to them -- so they deliberately blind the government to fraud. Let the Somalis pick whatever level of Unofficial Back-Door Reparations they think they're "owed."

It's barely even fraud -- it's the politicians like Ellison and Walz who are the criminals. They're the embezzlers.

Since then, the program has expanded dramatically again. "IHSS provider" has become the largest low-wage occupation statewide, with more than 800,000 taxpayer-funded caregivers offering everything from grocery shopping to personal care.

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The system operates largely on trust. Providers self-report their timecards and check-in records. In roughly 60 percent of cases, providers and beneficiaries live together, delivering care in private homes--typically without the threat of random, unannounced visits.

Just sign up for to provide "in-home supportive services" to your own f***ing spouse. California will pay you do to so, taking money from the federal government for the payments.

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California, in other words, is sending billions of dollars per year to a program that is easy to exploit, difficult to administer, and almost impossible to supervise.

In 2024, the federal government began a series of enforcement actions. As part of a nationwide crackdown on health-care-related crimes, the United States Department of Justice announced prosecutions for alleged IHSS fraud in California.

In one case, the DOJ alleged that San Dimas resident Giacomo Lorenzo Garbarino billed the state for more than $170,000 in fraudulent IHSS and Medi-Cal services over a five-year period. The patient in his care was reportedly hospitalized or living in a facility at the time and thus ineligible for IHSS reimbursement. In another case, Joseph Depiazza allegedly billed the state for more than $50,000 in fraudulent IHSS services. According to prosecutors, he kept submitting claims after the patient entered the hospital--and even after she had died.

Last year, federal officials announced another round of IHSS fraud prosecutions. In one case, prosecutors alleged that Maryam Erambakhsh falsely claimed payments for caring for her parents while they were outside the United States. In another, Cindy Lynn Fromm allegedly billed the program for more than a year of services while the recipient was incarcerated.

These cases may be the tip of the iceberg. Haywood Talcove, CEO of LexisNexis Risk Solutions for Government and a nationally recognized fraud expert, estimates that annual IHSS fraud could amount to 20 percent to 40 percent of total program spending. Applied to projected IHSS outlays for fiscal year 2025--26, that suggests roughly $6 billion to $12 billion in losses. Multiple senior officials at the Department of Health and Human Services have described a similar pattern, estimating that about 25 percent of the Medi-Cal budget is lost to fraud. The share is likely higher for IHSS, given the program's structure and its susceptibility to abuse.

Earlier this year, Mehmet Oz, head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, set off a firestorm of controversy with the claim that criminal networks, including the "Russian Armenian mafia," were running massive hospice and home care scams in Los Angeles. He suggested that Armenians in Los Angeles were disproportionately represented among the leaders of hospice fraud rings.

Read the whole thing, after you've taken your blood pressure medicine.

Even CBS is covering Democrat fraud.

A CBS News Investigation found one Los Angeles County hospice physician's name, Dr. Rajiv Bhuva, on Medicare claims for nearly 2,800 patients across 126 California hospices in 2024, according to the last full year of available data.

In one year, mind you. Even if she saw each patient just once and worked seven days a week, she'd have to see about 8 patients per day to rack up 2,800 patient visits.

Update: I made an error. I said she would have to see 40 patients a day.

No doctor in California is connected to more hospices than Dr. Rajiv Bhuva. In 2024, his name appeared on Medicare claims across 126 hospice companies in California -- 115 of them in Los Angeles County alone.

In 2024, Medicare paid out tens of millions in taxpayer dollars for care attributed to Dr. Bhuva -- a figure that surpassed nearly every other hospice physician in the state.

The average California hospice doctor cares for about 140 patients a year. In 2024, claims with Bhuva's name were submitted for 2,791 terminally ill patients.

Only one hospice doctor in California was identified as receiving more Medicare reimbursement than Bhuva in recent years: Dr. Domingo Barrientos. His reimbursements totalled $90.3 million. He is currently in federal prison for conspiracy to commit health care fraud.

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Dr. Kristina Newport, chief medical officer at the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, said the kind of numbers linked to Bhuva and other highly prolific medical providers in the industry raise an array of questions.

"They would have a superhuman schedule to do that in a meaningful way," Newport believes.

In a brief interview at the front door of his mid-century stucco home in a mountainside suburb of Los Angeles, Bhuva told CBS News he doubted the figures and said there was no statutory limit to the number of hospices any one physician can staff. But after a brief exchange, he declined to speak further.

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The data shows Bhuva's national identifier was tied to the one of the largest volumes of Medicare hospice reimbursements in California in 2024. The data does not establish whether Bhuva personally authorized the claims, whether his credentials were used without his consent, or whether there is another explanation.

CBS News found Bhuva's name among the physicians billing Medicare at several hospices that lost their Medicare certification for what regulators called an "abuse of billing" -- a pattern of submitting improper claims. Those hospices were banned from Medicare for a 10-year period.

California state auditors say that anytime records show a doctor working for more than three hospice providers at one time, it could be a hallmark of fraud and prompts reasonable questions about "whether they are actually participating in the operations of those hospices." More than 600 doctors exceed that threshold in California, according to Medicare data obtained and analyzed by CBS News.

On paper, those 600 doctors appear to be both incredibly busy -- and profitable to the businesses they serve. While they accounted for roughly 7% of California's hospice physicians, they generated more than half of the state's $4.2 billion in Medicare hospice reimbursements in 2024, the last full year of data available.

In state and federal records, certain names stand out. The ten busiest hospice doctors -- those whose names are linked to the most operators in California -- generated more in Medicare reimbursements than 90% of their peers in 2024.

The Democrats are not "asleep at the wheel" -- they are active co-conspirators in the greatest mass-looting in the history of the Earth.

The Party of Third-World Looters:

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DeCarlos Brown, the Racist Killer Who Slit Iryna Zarutska's Throat for No Reason Other Than Her Race, Found by Psychiatrists to be Too Mentally Incompetent to be Tried for Murder

The judge will now decide whether to accept this report.

If she does accept -- I assume it's a she because that's how these things I always go -- at some point, we're just going to "bypass" the judges and juries.

This will not be allowed to go on forever.

Justice will be done. Whether in an orderly way or a disorderly way -- justice will be done.

The deranged homeless man accused of savagely butchering Iryna Zarutska, a 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee, on a Charlotte light rail train has been found "incapable to proceed" on state murder charges.

According to a motion filed April 7, Decarlos Brown Jr. was evaluated Dec. 29 at Central Regional Hospital, and the subsequent report determined he was not competent to stand trial, according to WBTV.

This article is written vaguely, so I'm forced to guess at the procedural aspects here. What I'm guessing is that a defense "expert" found he was incapable of standing trial, just as the client, the defense, wanted.

I'm not sure though. This whole report is sketchy and, frankly, amateurish.

The results were previously sealed in state court, and were only revealed as the motion was filed.

A judge must now determine whether to accept the report's findings, and the case against him will likely be delayed until his capacity is determined to be "restored" by the court, the station reported.

In the motion filed by Brown's public defender, he claimed the court-required capacity hearing cannot take place with the accused killer in federal custody, and that the court also can't order to have his capacity restored.

Brown has been in federal custody in Chicago since a grand jury indicted him on Oct. 22 for violence against a railroad carrier and mass transportation system causing death.

He's been ordered to undergo a psychiatric evaluation pursuant to his federal case, but court filings viewed by the outlet last month show it hasn't been completed and that the evaluation period has been extended.

See? There the article says the evaluation hasn't been completed, but it also claims some report -- maybe this one, maybe another one -- was completed and found him too incapable to be tried.

This is why I'm forced to guess that there are two separate reports, the official one which is incomplete, and one performed by a psychiatrist hired by the defense, which, of course, found him incompetent.

The outlet reports that restoring competency can take a long time in North Carolina because of limited space in state psychiatric facilities, and said it's not uncommon for defendants to wait a year or more for a bed to open up.

Brown, 35, whose mother told The Post is schizophrenic, was arrested at least 14 times in North Carolina for crimes ranging from assault and firearms possession to felony robbery dating back to 2007.

At the time of the senseless attack in late August, he was free on cashless bail after a magistrate released him with a "written promise" to show up for court after placing a bogus 911 call.

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Trump to Megyn Kelly: "May She Rest in Peace"

I didn't even hear she was sick. Does she have blood coming out of her... whatever?

Megyn Kelly, the Norma Desmond of Podcasters, is raging about... Trump's tweets.

Yes, everything is 2015 again.

But let's face it -- this was Megyn Kelly's real position all along. She just goes to where she thinks the traffic is. From 2023 to 2025, the clicks were in pretending to be More MAGA Than Trump.

And now? The clicks from Pakistan are in attacking Trump as a madman and not a "normal person" and sucking up to Cavernous Nostrils and her army of lunatics spreading lies about Erika Kirk being a lesbian child sex trafficker and a murderess.

Megyn Kelly TORE into President Trump over his "completely irresponsible and disgusting" social media posts on Tuesday: "I don't know about you, but I am sick of this sh*t! I'm just-- I'm sick of it. Can't he just behave like a normal human? I mean, honestly, like the president--'3D chess'--just shut up! F*cking shut up about that sh*t! You don't threaten to wipe out an entire civilization. We're talking about civilians, just casually in a social media post."

"I am the first to try to understand Trump and his strategy and not freak out over his weird social media posts and language that is loose and incendiary. Truly, I've lived with it for ten plus years. I learned it the hard way, when I was on the receiving end of it for nine months, and truly I think that was a gift to me in many ways because it helped me really come to understand what he does with his social media. But this is completely irresponsible and disgusting. This is wrong. It's wrong. He should not be doing it."

"I don't care that it's a--his negotiation tactic is to kill an entire country full of civilians--men, women, and children-- an American president, so that the Strait of Hormuz will be opened? It's just wrong. It's not hard to say it, it's not hard to recognize it. I wish he would stop doing this. Like, he can't negotiate without doing this? What does that say about him?"

"What does that say about the position that our country is in right now in these negotiations? He's got to say this? He can't be a dignified, strong leader without threatening a bunch of war crimes? Like what is he, Genghis Khan? Like, what is he trying to do and why can't he do it with strength -- threats, sure, go for it -- that don't diminish and demean the United States of America in this way?"

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Republican Clayton Fuller Wins Marjorie Taylor Greene's Old Stank-Ass Seat in Rome, Georgia

This is technically a pick-up. Because Marjorie Taylor Greene quit mid-term in January-- on the exact date that her five-year congressional pension kicked in -- Rome, Georgia has been without a Representative for three months, and the GOP has been down a seat in Congress.

So yes, this is a win of a seat we had already won, but that seat was abandoned and has been unfilled for an entire season.

But now we've taken it back. Our slim congressional majority holds (shakily).

If you're sports nerd, we gained a half game in the playoff race.

The highlight from the left and the Woke Reich -- which is now just straight-up a Democrat voting block, like the NeverTrunpers before them -- is that the seat was won by only 12 points instead of 30 points as in 2024, so it's all because we won't agree to the left's and Islam's demands to just let them have Israel, serious you guys that's all we want, just Israel, you gotta believe me bro, we just want Israel and that's it, we don't want to force traffic to a standstill as we ostentatiously and conquerishly pray in the streets during rush hour, we do not want to raid your treasuries like the Barbary Pirates, we just want Israel, why won't you believe us bro?

I wouldn't call the change in margin of victory pure spin. Yes, the Woke Reich and their fellow travelers of the Islamocommunist Left are spinning the fact, but it is a fact, and a worrisome one.

But then -- it's also the case that the former winner of the seat has been running against the party she formerly belonged here. That has to have an impact on party cohesion.

Clayton Fuller won a Georgia special election to replace retired Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Tuesday night, growing the House Republican majority by one.

However, Republicans won by a slimmer margin than in years past, an ominous sign with just over half a year to go until the midterm elections.

Fuller, a District Attorney, defeated Shawn Harris, a Democrat whose website describes him as a "retired Brigadier General" and "cattle producer," by a 55.9 to 44.1% margin, with 99% of votes counted by 9:30 AM Wednesday.

The election's results mark a double-digit shift in favor of Democrats, as Greene won in 2024 by an almost 30-point margin.

Greene, once a staunch ally of President Donald Trump, retired in January after a falling out with the president, who called her a "traitor" for standing against him on foreign policy and economic issues.

The president had indicated his intention to support a primary challenger against Greene before her surprise retirement.

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DOJ Civil Rights Division Opens Investigation of Madison Cornbread for Perjury

The criminal airhead Madison Cornbread -- street name, "Cassidy Hutchinson" -- lied under oath and as you know, No one is above the law.

The Justice Department's Civil Rights Division has opened a probe into former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson, according to a news report Tuesday.

Hutchinson testified in 2022 before a special House committee on the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot that implicated President Trump.

The DOJ is looking into whether Hutchinson committed perjury during her testimony, unnamed sources told The New York Times, which is reporting the story.

The department assigning the case to the division appears unusual considering it focuses on potential civil rights violations -- not allegations of crime, which would include lying to Congress.

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A probe regarding perjury before Congress would typically be handled by the U.S. attorney's office in Washington, D.C., which is run by U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro.

However, she has also experienced several setbacks in her attempts to pursue criminal cases in federal court against Trump's political opponents.

DOJ leaders didn't offer Pirro the opportunity to open the probe into Hutchinson, instead giving it directly to Civil Rights Division chief Harmeet Dhillon, the anonymous sources also said.

Off to do the final (?) coat of varnish.

Update: Done. At least the upper-facing surfaces are. I only did two coats on the undersides and legs so at 6:30 I'll flip the desk over, give it a quick and sloppy sanding, and dump the rest of the varnish on the underside.

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Communist Dingbats Yesterday Until 7pm: Trump Is a Madman! He Will Nuke the World!
Communist Dingbats at 7:01pm: TACO! Trump Is a Huge Pussy Too Afraid to Do What Is Needed and LET THE NUCLEAR BIRDS FLY!!!!

Remember, the "smart people" are also the "thoughtful" and "responsible" people. They have all the answers, they'll tell you. They definitely do not simply spam out random disingenuous claims completely incompatible with each other as the day's news cycle might require.

David Strom wrote about this. I've seen it all over myself.

The "nuke" thing was absurd. Trump threatened to use a top-secret conventional weapon the world had never seen before. What was it? I dunno. Maybe some kind of non-nuclear EMP to take out the power plants without harming the child human shields Iran stuffed them with? At no point did he threaten or imply a threat to use a nuke.

Now I might think "Trump is making up some secret uber-weapon," but then again, Delta Force does seem to have unleashed absolute top-secret Sci-Fi weaponry in the Venezuela Snatch-and-Stash operation.

But he never hinted at a nuke.

But the "reasonable," "responsible," "thoughtful" people -- you know, the really "smart" people you can rely upon for their intelligence and probity and smooth emotional restraint -- all just went on twitter and did what they usually do, shriek lies that no one including themselves believes.

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Monkeyshines Open Thread

I need a little more time.

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Wednesday Morning Rant

Sadly Typical

With Trump's fairly blunt threat to start aggressively targeting Iranian power and transit infrastructure (at the time of writing, anyway - by the time this goes live, it might have started or been obviated with a "deal" of some kind), Iran is doing everything in its power to try to make Trump and Hegseth blink. As Ace covered and various Hordelings expanded yesterday, Iran appears to be leaning heavily on it's fifth column in this country. Such strikes would be evil, or war crimes, or inappropriate, or whatever else. These fifth columnists are always happy to help, but they - much to the chagrin of their masters - appear to have relatively little real influence at the moment.

But Iran is not resting on its laurels and putting all of its chips on its fifth column in isolation. They apparently hope to significantly amplify its Stateside allies and deal a PR blow to the Trump administration in the same way that Islamists always do: by putting people in harm's way. Unable to defend against the American-Israeli attacks due to the latter's air superiority, they will settle for making infrastructure attacks as bloody and graphic as possible. Islamists love human shields because the enemy is usually squeamish about slaughtering civilians, and various sources are awash with claims that Iran is gearing up to burn through a lot of them.

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

Nightlife
Archibald John Motley Jr

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The Morning Report — 4/8/26

Good morning kids. And so Peace is at hand in Iran. . . Or is it really? After threatening to obliterate Iran from the face of the earth the President Trump announced that a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz was reached that hinges on a two week ceasefire.

President Trump expressed optimism Wednesday that the Iran war cease-fire agreement will usher in a “Golden Age” in the Middle East. 

“A big day for World Peace!” Trump wrote on Truth Social following the two-week cease-fire announcement. “Iran wants it to happen, they’ve had enough! Likewise, so has everyone else!” 

The commander in chief said the US “will be helping with the traffic buildup in the Strait of Hormuz” and “loading up with supplies of all kinds, just ‘hangin’ around’ in order to make sure that everything goes well.” 

Trump indicated he felt “confident” the reopening of the key waterway, through which 20% of the world’s oil passes daily, would go well. 

“There will be lots of positive action! Big money will be made. Iran can start the reconstruction process,” he said. “Just like we are experiencing in the US, this could be the Golden Age of the Middle East!!!” 
Trump branded Operation Epic Fury a “total and complete victory” — more than a month after the first US strikes in a joint operation alongside Israeli forces on Feb. 28.

“100 percent,” he told Agence France Presse. “No question about it.”

Trump didn’t rule out strikes on power plants if the ceasefire collapsed.
“You’re going to have to see,” he said when probed.The exact terms of the cease-fire framework have not been released, but Trump described the proposal as “workable” and the temporary pause has been welcomed by Washington’s allies.

Iran’s embassy in India has since claimed the US is “fundamentally committed” to lifting all sanctions against the Islamic Republic, accepting enrichment and agreeing to Tehran’s control over the Strait of Hormuz.
“You started the war, but Iran will set the conditions for its end,” the embassy warned. ..

This came after Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif claimed the US, Iran and their allies agreed to a cease-fire everywhere, including Lebanon.. .

“In accordance with directives from the political echelon, the IDF has ceased fire in the operation against Iran, and is highly
prepared to respond defensively against any violation,”
IDFofficials said Wednesday. “Overnight, the IDF conducted a wide-scale wave of strikes targeting missile launch sites and
launchers across Iran, in order to significantly degrade its
launching capabilities. “Simultaneously, in Lebanon, the IDF is continuing to conduct targeted
ground operations against Hezbollah... Hezbollah chiefs are set to release a statement outlining their position on the ceasefire...

And so here we are weeks after the first bombs were dropped comment on the heels of the first wave of attacks that were designed to take out Iran's nuclear and missile capabilities.and collaterally hopefully take out the Mullahs and their evil regime and replace it with some minimally benign government that would no longer export global terrorism and persecute its own citizenry.

while Iran's nuclear and missile capacities have surely been degraded, considering that the same Armageddon-seeking Islamic ideologues are still in power and that they are whom we via their Islamic brothers in arms in Pakistan are who have been negotiating with and that Pakistan is a close ally of Red China, Can President Trump truly declare not only"Mission Accomplished" but that a new golden age is about to be ushered into the Middle East?!

Mr. President with all due respect that's not going to happen until Islam itself disappears either via a mass cultural shift among its over one billion adherents or some black swan event that brings about its utter defeat and dismantling and defanging.

At least the ceasefire brings a bit of positive news:

U.S. stock futures jumped higher and oil prices plunged after President Trump announced a two-week ceasefire and a potential longer peace deal with Iran on Tuesday night.
Futures indicated a two percent rise in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. S&P futures were up 2.3 percent and Nasdaq futures were up nearly three percent.
Oil prices fell sharply. Brent crude futures fell by around 13.5 percent to $94.50 a barrel. West Texas Intermediate futures dropped 14.7 percent to $96.40 a barrel. U.S. natural gas prices dropped by 3.6 percent. U.S. home heating oil futures dropped by more than 18 percent.

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Daily Tech News 8 April 2026

Top Story

• Anthropic has unveiled Claude Mythos, a version of its AI system aimed at security analysis. (Security Week)
  
  This is good and bad.
  
  Good because developers can use it to find security flaws in their code.
  
  Bad because so can everybody else.
  
  
  
• Meanwhile AMD's AI director has slammed Claude Code for becoming dumber and lazier. (The Register)

  'Claude cannot be trusted to perform complex engineering tasks' according to GitHub ticket.

  Neither can anyone attempting to use it that way.

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Tuesday Overnight Open Thread - April 7, 2026 [Doof]

From Monica

Howdy Hordelings! The Tuesday night ONT is upon us. Glad you could make it. Open thread, as always. What's on YOUR mind tonight?

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Deadline Cafe

Hickman Natural Bridge, Capital Reef National Park

The Hickman Natural Bridge has now been bombed.

Spoiled boxer demands his eye-mask so that he can nap.

In fairness, quality sleep is important. Otherwise you might just drag-ass all day.

This cat cannot abide your buffoonery.

Punch the Monkey getting frisky with his girlfriend.

Takeoff.

Pandas, the athletes of the bamboo jungle.

Elephant and baby.

The day after Easter.

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Trump Accepts Deal for Two Week Ceasefire, Saying Sides Are Very Close to a Permanent Deal

Ach.

Sorry I had to get out and do the sanding and varnishing before I lost the light.

I think this is Trump looking for an easy exit but it's possible he's just biding time.

The price of oil moves partly on information but mostly on speculation. Traders bid up the price of oil in anticipation of a shortage later, at which point they can sell for a big profit.

Trump has been playing games with oil traders letting them know: Do not get too far over your skis selling and buying oil for too high a price or I will claim that we are very close a deal or otherwise inject news into the headlines that will cause the price of oil to fall and you to lose money.

So... did he do this to send a shock to oil traders?

I don't know but Clay Travis says oil prices are plunging.

Clay Travis
@ClayTravis

1h

Trump and Iran agree to a two week ceasefire subject to the Strait of Hormuz being immediately opened. The price of oil and gas is plummeting. Yet again all the people losing their minds on Twitter today saying nuclear war was going to happen look like complete morons.

Iran began launching drones and missiles at both UAE and Israel.

Israel, of course, is permitted to fire back. So is UAE.

Tuq'r will find that "disgusting, actually," and will also attack Trump for abusing the poor oil traders.

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Quick Hits

Christian
@decorativeartt

One moment of perfect clarity can be devastating.

Orla Minihane has just exposed a number that should end any pretence:

Seventy-nine.

Seventy-nine Labour MPs and councillors with convictions or formal findings for rape, sexual assault, grooming, child sexual exploitation, possession and distribution of child pornography, and other vile sexual misconduct.

Not a handful of bad apples.
Not unfortunate mistakes.

This is a pattern.
This is a culture.

While Labour lectures the nation about protecting women and girls, they have quietly built one of the most predator-friendly environments in British politics.

The question is no longer how these men kept slipping in.

The question is why Labour feels like home to them.

A rotten ecosystem, thriving in plain sight.

Britain First. No Surrender.

That post here, linking another post containing the list of Labour MPs and councilmen who have raped or abused women.

Tim Soret
@timsoret

As a European, I apologize to Americans for all the idiocy coming from our side.

You save your pilots no matter the cost.
You send humans to the moon.
You fight authoritarianism head-on.
It's truly inspiring.

We're on the wrong side of the moral equation.

Tim Soret
@timsoret

Apr 5

Frankly I hope I can join your ranks one day.

I'm done with the morally smug, economically illiterate, declinist mindset here. We think we're so cultured & so smart, but it's mostly masturbatory.

Americans keep demonstrating their uniquely actionable & pragmatic intelligence.

Mark Penn
@Mark_Penn

War crimes?

Senator Merkley from Oregon said that taking out mixed use infrastructure like bridges and power plants would be war crimes and suggested as well that soldiers in the US Army need not follow orders such as that.

The Iranians have sent hundreds of missiles targeted at civilian centers in Tel Aviv and throughout Israel as well as towards hotels, plants and airports of UAE and other countries. The civilians are not collateral damage -- they are the primary target of hundreds and missiles and drones. And they massacred tens of thousands of their own people -- just machine gunned them down. By rulers who have no legitimacy whatsoever.

So where is his outrage at the real war crimes? Where is the urgency at stopping Iran from these illegal attacks and mass executions? Where are his threats of action to right these wrongs? We know where they are -- no where because he is too busy attacking his own country.

Jim Acosta says that now that his every deranged claim about Trump is proven true (cite?), he feels that maybe he "wasn't opiniated enough" when he had a real job in the real media.

No president should mock Islam, because they'll murder civilians if he does.

Nigeria Christians experienced another bloody Easter.

The country experienced three separate attacks on Christians on Sunday as Christians celebrated Jesus's resurrection.

The Nigerian military announced it has rescued 31 civilians kidnapped on Sunday morning during an attack on a church:

The attack occurred on Sunday morning in Ariko village, located in the Kachia area of Kaduna state.

Gunmen opened fire on congregants celebrating the religious holiday, leaving five people dead at the scene.

However, Caleb Maaji, chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria for Kaduna state, reported a higher toll, stating that two churches in the village were targeted and seven worshippers lost their lives.

"Findings are still ongoing," Mr Maaji told Reuters, noting that the precise number of those initially seized remained unclear.

"Regrettably, the remains of five victims already killed by the terrorists were also recovered at the scene," the army stated, as reported by The Washington Post. "The fleeing terrorists are believed to have sustained significant casualties, as evidenced by blood trails along their escape routes."

The residents said the terrorists operated "in the area for an extended period before encountering any resistance from security forces."

In another attack, the Mbalom community's residents told officials that terrorists slaughtered 17 people.

Remember, Tuq'r Qarlson says the Trump tried to "eradicate" Christianity by mounting a desperate now-or-never rescue operation to save a downed pilot on Easter Sunday.

Update: I listened to this Islamist asshole -- his objection was that Trump tweeted "open the fucking Strait" on Easter, which Tuq'r says in an assault on Jesus and an attempt to destroy Christianity. He was also offended that Trump would bully Iran into not attempting to sink trading ships as they peacefully sailed through the strait.

It's all the most despicable Communist inversion of reality. Iran attacking shipping is just their right, Trump's demand that they stop is a gross assault that Tuq'r cannot abide.

And meanwhile Tuq'r has said nothing about this demonic Muslim attack on a church on Easter. Trump using the f-word on Easter is an attack on Christianity, but his Islamist allies' literally massacring Christians at an Easter service is not an attack on Christianity.

Because he's a scumbag woke Islamist propagandist.

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Gavin Newsom Directs $19 Million in California Taxpayer Money to Madison Avenue to Improve California's Reputation -- Just as Gavin Newsom Is Running for President and Personally Needs California's Image to be Remade

Wow, a Democrat taking taxpayer money for his own personal benefit.

I gotta tell you guys, I did not see this one coming. It just snuck up on me.

Gov. Gavin Newsom is hoping to to boost California's tarnished image on the national stage -- so he's throwing millions in taxpayer money at a high-powered New York public relations firm to do it for him.

The governor's Office of Business and Economic Development awarded PR powerhouse Edelman a contract worth up to $19 million to burnish the Golden State's reputation, KCRA reported.

Edelman -- which also does work on behalf of mega-companies like Dove, Starbucks, eBay and Heineken -- will be tasked with combating "negative narratives amplified online and in partisan media" about California while promoting the state's economy and tourism.

...

The contract begins on April 6 and will run through then end of the year, which nearly coincides with end of the governor's term in early 2027.

Oh you mean January 2027, as the official primary season begins in earnest. How convenient.

The state agency previously told the outlet that the campaign wouldn't be about Newsom himself, but California.

"The campaign will tell the California story, not the Gavin Newsom story," the agency said. "The effort is about California's success, not about politics."

Uh-huh. You're just rebutting "partisan narratives" but not for any partisan purpose. Sure.

A Newsom spokesperson previously told the Los Angeles Times that California's business climatehas been "falsely and maliciously maligned for years," and that the "state has a right to tell the true story."

Weird that he didn't want to tell this "true story" in years when he wasn't running for president. People and businesses have been fleeing California for six years, you know.

...

News of the contract drew ample criticism.

"Gavin Newsom is giving 19 million California taxpayer dollars to a New York PR firm to promote California in a better light to the nation. Which does not at all sound like Gavin Newsom is making a presidential campaign ad for himself," Kevin Dalton, who ran for the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, wrote on X.

"Californians aren't being asked, they're being billed," added Republican congressional candidate Christine Bish.

Speaking of California politicians raiding the public fisc for their own benefit and to pay off their donors: Gavin Newsom's Obama-Biden boondoggle to spend tens of billions of dollars on a "high speed train" from LA to San Francisco -- when that route is well-serviced by planes and, well, a nice car ride if you have half a day to spare -- that even 60 Minutes noticed.

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