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This week, Planned Parenthood released its 2025 annual report. In recent years, these reports have taken on additional significance. That is because congressional Republicans have demonstrated their willingness to stop federal taxpayer dollars from going to Planned Parenthood. Indeed, this year’s report should bolster pro-life efforts to defund Planned Parenthood for the upcoming fiscal year. That is because, once again, this report provides very solid evidence that Planned Parenthood continues to prioritize abortion at the expense of real health-care services.
Bill Gates is officially preparing to testify in front of the House Oversight Committee as Congress continues to investigate sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes and powerful connections.
Gates, 70, will answer questions from members of Congress on June 10, according to multiple outlets, which note that the Microsoft cofounder is not being accused of any wrongdoing after he was named in the so-called Epstein Files.
The Wall Street Journal, which famously floats trial balloons for corporate behemoths, is carrying water for the poor AI companies who are so, so disliked:
OpenAI this week published a populist wish list of policy proposals that zero in on worries like job replacement and wealth concentration, floating such ideas as a four-day workweek and an AI-invested public-wealth fund distributed to citizens.
Those proposals come as its rival Anthropic has been signing partnerships and building tools for such sectors as consulting and software, where share prices have been whacked by investor worries that they will be replaced by AI. Anthropic’s efforts have helped push back up shares of tech companies including LegalZoom.com LZ 3.84%increase; green up pointing triangle.
Anthropic and OpenAI are each pursuing ventures to help private equity, a big owner of companies in sectors ripe for disruption, with AI transformation. (Those efforts could also yield lucrative new business customers.)
Women who aren’t married are throwing wedding themed birthdays. It’s almost like they’re trying to compensate for something. President Donald Trump has not enacted Power Plant and Bridge Day as the Iranians appear to want to make a deal. The Left reacts. Poorly.
We evolved for a linear world. If you walk for an hour, you cover a certain distance. Walk for two hours and you cover double that distance. This intuition served us well on the savannah. But it catastrophically fails when confronting AI and the core exponential trends at its heart.
From the time I began work on AI in 2010 to now, the amount of training data that goes into frontier AI models has grown by a staggering 1 trillion times—from roughly 10¹⁴ flops (floating-point operations‚ the core unit of computation) for early systems to over 10²⁶ flops for today’s largest models. This is an explosion. Everything else in AI follows from this fact.
Shippers looking to revive the passage of tankers through the Strait of Hormuz were seeking clarity on the logistics on Wednesday, while refiners inquired about new crude loadings, in response to a ceasefire deal between the U.S. and Iran.
Most stranded oil and gas tankers remained inside the Gulf, LSEG shipping data showed, hours after U.S. President Donald Trump announced the two-week ceasefire and said the U.S. would help with the traffic build-up.
“A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself within.”
Europe on the Verge of Surrender to Islam
April 7, 2026
Janet Levy
Explaining the decline
NASA’s Artemis 2 astronauts are capturing the future of human spaceflight on their iPhones.
Fifty-eightyears ago, NASA’s Apollo 8 astronauts photographed the famous Earthrise image. This image of our “pale blue dot,” as famed astronomer Carl Sagan referred to Earth several decades later, forever changed humanity’s relationship with both space and Earth. Today, astronauts are seeing Earth from space through a new lens: the iPhone.
Underscoring the precarity of the situation, Iranian state media announced fresh “missile and drone attacks” Wednesday on US-allied Gulf states UAE and Kuwait in retaliation for airstrikes against its oil facilities.
Kuwait said its oil facilities and power and desalination plants were damaged in “an intense wave” of strikes that lasted hours, and demanded Iran cease its attacks.
The UAE said it was intercepting Iranian attacks while Bahrain also said its capital Manama had been hit.
Republican Clay Fuller wins Marjorie Taylor Greene’s House seat in Georgia National Today
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SACRAMENTO — Rep. Eric Swalwell, a leading Democratic candidate for California governor, on Tuesday denounced online claims that he had inappropriate relationships with young congressional staff members.
“It’s false,” he told reporters after an evening town hall at the Scottish Rite Masonic Center in Sacramento.
When asked, Swalwell said he never behaved inappropriately with female staff members or had a sexual relationship with a staff member or an intern.
Swalwell, 45, added
Chinese Drone Deal Behind Downfall of Myanmar Junta’s Chief Propagandist The Irrawaddy
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ROME — Pope Leo XIV said Tuesday that U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat to destroy Iranian civilization was “truly unacceptable” and said any attacks on civilian infrastructure violate international law.
In some of his strongest comments yet against the war, Leo urged Americans and other people of good will to contact their political leaders and congressional representatives to demand they reject war and work for peace.
“Today as we all know there was this threat against all the people of Iran. This is truly unacceptable,” he said as he left his country house in Castel Gandolfo, south of Rome.
He was referring to Trump’s threat that a “whole civilization will die tonight” if Iran fails to meet his latest deadline to strike a deal that includes reopening the Strait of Hormuz.
If there is one country that can ill-afford a prolonged Strait of Hormuz closure, it is France, the Eurozone’s second-largest member country. Even before the Strait’s closure, France had unsustainable public finances. Those finances were proving difficult to correct in the context of its sclerotic economy, its fragmented politics, and its being stuck in a Euro straitjacket. The energy and fertilizer price spike resulting from the Strait’s closure will substantially exacerbate France’s public finance problem. In turn, that raises the real risk of another round of the Eurozone sovereign debt crisis, especially given the French government’s high dependence on external borrowing to finance its gaping budget deficit.
The Rundown: Gov. Pritzker calls for Trump’s removal from office WBEZ Chicago
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As Virginia voters take part in a closely contested redistricting referendum, Gov. Abigail Spanberger is heading toward the final tally with historically low approval numbers.
For the first time since the 1990s, a sitting Virginia governor is polling below historical norms.
According to Washington Post polling, Spanberger’s approval rating stands at 47%—13 points lower than the average approval rating for Virginia governors and below a majority.
UN says 28,000 displaced in Blue Nile as conflict spreads sudantribune.com
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Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said a large swath of the country’s farmers will be unaffected this planting season, despite the rising fertilizer costs stemming from the Iran war.
“The good news is that about 80% of our farmers, actually, last fall locked in their fertilizer,” Rollins said to reporters outside the White House on Monday. “So as we’re moving into planting season, it’s only about 20% to 25% of our farmers that didn’t lock that in. We are working directly to ensure that we can get them what they need and it won’t bankrupt them.”
As the war moves into its second month, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’s chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz has led not only to higher oil prices but also higher fertilizer prices, as Persian Gulf-based companies face difficulty exporting their supplies through the closed-off strait.
The final round of polls in Peru ahead of Sunday’s upcoming presidential election indicate that conservative former first lady and former Senator Keiko Fujimori is slated to win in the first round of the vote.
Peru, a country that has had nine presidents in the last ten years, will hold presidential and legislative elections on April 12 — the first such electoral event since 2021. The presidential race follows a series of impeachments that began with the removal of Marxist former President Pedro Castillo in December 2022, followed by the impeachment of Dina Boluarte in October 2025 and the ouster of interim President Jose Jerí in February.
Who could have predicted that California’s massive minimum wage hike would have “negative consequences?” Well, RedState certainly did, along with everyone else who wasn’t a hard-left progressive.
The law, which mandated a $20 per hour minimum wage for fast food workers at franchises that have more than 60 locations in the Golden State, went into effect in April 2024. But wait, there’s more! The law created the Fast Food Council — and gave it the green light to impose further wage increases yearly until 2029, when the council’s authority runs out.
What are the effects of the law, AB 1228? UC Santa Cruz Economics Lecturer Stephen Owen decided to find out, and surprise, surprise:
“Based on what we’ve found, I think this legislation is a classic case of ‘no good deed goes unpunished,’” Owen said. “There are unintended consequences and knock-on effects, and overall, I think the results have definitely not been as positive as policymakers had been expecting.”
Baruch Hashem. Forever united. Haters going to hate the good. That’s what real friends — real allies — do for each other. Juxta this to France who has been secretly aiding Iran and stabbing us in the back.
As details emerge about the extraordinary rescue of the American pilot deep inside Iran, the Telegraph reports how Israel assisted with during the operation.
🚨 BREAKING : Two Israeli commando units — Sayeret Matkal and Unit 5101 “Shaldag” — participated in the rescue of the American pilot near Isfahan, according to the latest reports.
•Sayeret Matkal is the IDF’s elite general‑purpose commando unit with deep‑penetration and… pic.twitter.com/aJuCxqizqr
— Mossad Commentary (@MOSSADil) April 5, 2026
Israel is our greatest ally.
Thank you, @israel for helping rescue our pilot.
“Israeli officials reportedly shared information with the US as the search-and-rescue operation unfolded.”
WASHINGTON, April 6 (Reuters)—The U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way on Monday for the Justice Department to move forward with dismissing a criminal case in which Steve Bannon, an influential ally of President Donald Trump, was convicted after defying a congressional subpoena.
Bannon was convicted by a jury in Washington in 2022 on two counts of contempt of Congress for failing to provide documents or testimony to a Democratic-led House of Representatives panel that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters. The Supreme Court on Monday threw out a lower court’s decision to uphold Bannon’s conviction.
President Trump gave the Iranian regime until 8 pm tonight to agree to a ceasefire deal. He made it very clear that Iran is either going to disarm and open the Strait of Hormuz, or he will bomb the regime into submission.
Tomorrow, 8:00 PM Eastern Time. pic.twitter.com/eGqbioePia
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) April 6, 2026
Of course, the Left is melting down over this, calling the legitimate targeting of infrastructure “war crimes,” while they spent the past three years turning a blind eye to the actual war crimes committed by Hamas and the past 47 ignoring the terrorism Iran has carried out around the globe.
Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger was the moderate democrat who was going to change the Democrat Party. She was such a moderate; not only was her being a moderate reported by the legacy media, but it was also fact-checked by independent fact-checkers. Her getting elected was a model for how Democrats are going to win the midterms by running as moderates. It’s why she gave the response to Trump’s State of the Union.
The rub is that, according to a recent Washington Post poll, she is the least popular Virginia governor of the 21st century. Because — and this is key — like most Democrats who claim to be moderate, it’s all malarky. As soon as she was sworn in, her true socialist colors shone through. And it would appear voters are having buyer’s remorse.
Dude. It’s been less than three months. Yet, here we are.
Like all “moderate” democrats before her, she is a lying liar who lies, and once getting elected, turned hard left. Boys are going back to the girls’ bathrooms and stealing their sports scholarships. A ton of taxes are on the table to make the middle class less affordable while giving elected officials a pay raise. And relevant to our current political comment, she turned Virginia into a sanctuary state by ending all cooperation with ICE. I believe that was the literal first thing she did.
U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has announced that U.S. troops will no longer attend graduate-level programs at numerous Ivy League and top-tier universities beginning in the 2026–27 academic year.
Fox News reports that a February memorandum reveals that the War Department canceled 93 fellowship positions across 22 elite institutions, including Harvard, MIT, Georgetown, Columbia and Princeton, arguing that “woke” ideology was weakening military education.
Citing the need for a “sacred trust between America’s institutions and our warriors,” Hegseth reiterated the requirement that our senior war fighters be trained as strategic thinkers and decried the fact that trust has been broken by a class of elite universities which have “utterly betrayed their purpose.”
For too long, the Ivy League and similar institutions have been subjecting our warriors to woke indoctrination—those days are over. pic.twitter.com/0xMC6BArDd
— Secretary of War Pete Hegseth (@SecWar) February 27, 2026
The mass mailing of mail-in ballots was a temporary emergency measure during the draconian COVID lockdown – another hoax. It was NEVER intended to be a permanent election fixture.
🚨 BREAKING: By stroke of pen, President Trump signs landmark executive order that CRACKS DOWN on mass mail-in voting and ensures citizenship
“That’s a BIG DEAL.”
The order:
– Requires DHS to create a list of US CITIZENS with the help of the Social Security Administration
-… pic.twitter.com/mEvICTudiQ— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) March 31, 2026
Muslims slaughtering mom-Muslims. No news. No coverage. Silent affirmation and sanction of Islamic brutality. Every day, the world shrugs.
🇵🇰 Horrific Islamic Terrorist Attack: Muslim Driver Intentionally Crashes Loader Truck into Easter Christian Procession in Mariamabad, Over 60 Injured Many of them are in critical condition.
Christian’s are not safe in Pakistan. pic.twitter.com/1382LjUpZb
— Faraz Pervaiz (@FarazPervaiz3) April 5, 2026
Survivors of the Easter Sunday terrorist attack are speaking out.
Islamic terrorists drove a truck into a crowd of Christian worshippers. Multiple dead. At least 57 injured.
“Christians have no rights in Pakistan. We had no security. No police. No help.”
But the West is silent pic.twitter.com/jI05HDs4j4
— Samantha Smith (@SamanthaTaghoy) April 5, 2026
Both President Donald Trump and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth invoked God Monday during a White House press conference detailing the rescues of two U.S. airmen whose F-15E fighter jet was shot down over Iran.
“God was watching us—amazing,” Trump said, noting that it happened around “Easter territory.”
The entire ordeal played out over Easter weekend, beginning with the traumatic shootdown of the fighter jet on Good Friday and concluding with the dramatic rescue of the second airman on Easter Sunday.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said his city has a history of “colonization, exploitation, and racial oppression.” To make up for it, he announced an equity plan that includes a lot of exploitation and racial oppression.
Democrat NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani is launching a “racial equity plan” designed to solve “decades of discrimination” by prioritizing resources for “black and brown” people.
Straight-up racism against White peoplepic.twitter.com/oqFgfC0lh5
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) April 6, 2026
The U.S. federal government has just given Bill Gates’s new company the green light to begin construction of a nuclear reactor, marking a major shift in America’s energy landscape.
Gates’s new nuclear reactor project is the first to win government approval in nearly a decade.
The move is raising fresh questions about the growing alliance between Big Tech, government regulators, and the future of America’s energy grid.