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• Questions About President Trump's WHCD Speech Can't Stop Party Added: Apr 25, 2026

  Questions About Trump’s White House Correspondents Dinner Speech Can’t Stop the Party

  Site: Variety

  Questions About Trump's White House Correspondents Dinner Speech Can't Stop The Party

  On Saturday night, attendees at the annual White House Correspondents Dinner will thrill to the antics of Oz Pearlman, a renowned mentalist who dazzles audiences with mind-reading tricks. On Friday night, they partied as if they were going to see Amber Ruffin. Ruffin, a popular comedian whose appearance at the 2025 WHCD was scotched after […]

  

• Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 on X: "The sides are clear." / X Added: Apr 25, 2026

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• Elon Musk on X: "Starship is the most powerful moving object ever made https://t.co/8FpSmjtPo2" / X Added: Apr 25, 2026

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• Elon Musk on X: "Incentives explain outcomes. Actually eliminating hatred would end the existence of “anti-hate” groups, so groups like SPLC amplified hatred instead to get more donations." / X Added: Apr 25, 2026

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• SpaceX Releases Three-Year Starship Documentary 'Test Like You Fly' / X Added: Apr 25, 2026

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• Democrats not seeing the ‘big picture’ on Iran war: Former DHS official | Fox Business Video Added: Apr 25, 2026

  Democrats not seeing the ‘big picture’ on Iran war: Former DHS official | Fox Business Video

  Site: Fox Business

  Former Trump DHS deputy assistant secretary Jonathan Fahey discusses CNN’s economic coverage of the Trump administration and the media’s framing of U.S.-Iran tensions on ‘The Evening Edit.’

  

• Jonathan Fahey on X: "Democrats not seeing the ‘big picture’ on Iran war: Former DHS official | https://t.co/72HbLEkIfO" / X Added: Apr 25, 2026

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• Jonathan Fahey on X: "Iran is back at the negotiating table because they know they don’t have many cards left to play. @JackieDeAngelis @EveningEdit https://t.co/hnfeN1dAbX" / X Added: Apr 25, 2026

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• Trump cancels envoys' trip to Pakistan for Iran talks Added: Apr 25, 2026

• The moral monstrosity of the New York Times podcast Added: Apr 25, 2026

  The moral monstrosity of the New York Times podcast

  Site: The Hill

  In its denial of transcendent values and rights, The New York Times podcast captures a fundamental danger to our republic.

  “It is so hard to live ethically in an unethical society.” That lament heard this week from New York Times opinion culture editor Nadja Spiegelman could well be the Democratic Party's epitaph. Spiegelman was interviewing two left-wing influencers about how everything from shoplifting to murder may be excusable today in light of the unfairness they see in society. The podcast, a product of the nation's newspaper of record, reveled in the moral relativism that has taken over the American left. It featured the ravings of the antisemitic Marxist streamer Hasan Piker, who calmly explained how the murder of United Healthcare executive Brian Thompson was perfectly understandable. His rationalization came from Marxist revolutionary Friedrich Engels, who had called capitalism "social murder." If capitalists are "social murderers," then why not kill them? The logic is liberating and lethal for some on the left looking for a license for violence. Mind you, this same newspaper had once condemned and effectively banned a U.S. senator for writing an op-ed advocating the use of the military to quell violent protests during the summer of George Floyd's death. The Times even forced out its own opinion editor for having the temerity to publish such an opinion. But glorifying murder? The suggestion of open hunting season on corporate executives did not appear to shock or repel Spiegelman. After all, we are living in "an unethical society." She explained that many felt that the murder of Thompson, the father of two, meant that "finally, someone can actually do something about health care." Even liberal comedians are practicing a literal version of slapstick. Margaret Cho this week declared that "we need a feral, bloodthirsty, violent Democrat." To be far, Spiegelman did concede that it might seem a bit "scary" for some to start murdering our way to social justice. She also explained that shoplifting can be justifiable because people are "stealing from Whole Foods — not just for the thrill of it, but out of a feeling of anger and moral justification." New Yorker writer Jia Tolentino also contributed to the podcast, titled “The Rich Don’t Play by the Rules. So Why Should I?” She immediately threw in her own experience with "microlooting" and explained why it is arguably moral: "I have, under very specific circumstances. I will say, I think that stealing from a big-box store [isn't] significant as a moral wrong, nor is it significant in any way as protest.” She detailed her own past thefts and added, “I didn’t feel bad about it at all, in part because the store was a corporation. And it certainly felt, in a utilitarian sense, I was like, this is not a big deal. Right, guys?” Not in the confines of the New York Times, where apparently you are entitled to all goods that are fit to pilfer. The bizarre exchange highlighted the moral chasm that is opening its maw on today's political left. In my book "Rage and the Republic," I write about how rage helps people excuse any offense or attack. It dismisses the humanity of others and provides a license to hate completely and without reservation. It is not really murder or theft if there are no real humans on the other side, is it? Other columnists have defended such property crimes. Washington Post writer Maura Judkis ran a column mocking shoplifting stories as the "moral panic" of a nation built on "stolen land." It is reminiscent of those who excused rioting in past summers "as an expression of power" and demanded that the media refer to looters as "protesters." Former New York Times writer (and now Howard University Journalism Professor) Nikole Hannah-Jones went so far as to call on journalists not to cover shoplifting crimes. At its core, it is a denial of transcendent values and rights. It is a decoupling of our society from a grounding in moral or universal truths. It is a trend that extends not only to attacks on individuals but also to attacks on our constitutional system. There is a growing denial of our founding based on Enlightenment principles of natural rights, which come not from government but from God. Some people seem to have forgotten this. In 2024, a celebrated political journalist memorably asserted that belief in God-given rights is a form of "Christian nationalism" — an odd claim about a concept the nation's founders literally wrote into our Declaration of Independence. Last year, Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) — a man who represents Thomas Jefferson's own state — attacked a witness in committee for espousing Jefferson's immortal assertion that human beings' natural rights are endowed by their Creator. Kaine disparaged this idea as something worthy of Iran's mullahs. The result is the type of moral free-fall and rejection of personal responsibility expressed on the New York Times podcast. Simply because they condemn our entire age as unethical, they feel justified in asserting a moral right to commit any offense, from microlooting to murder. This underpins the increasingly frequent justifications made for attacks against conservatives or law enforcement as a form of "defending democracy." Yet the feeling of "anger and moral justification" does not make an act moral. It is the morality of mayhem; a spreading decay within our society. History has shown us how democracies can become mobocracies. During the French Revolution, journalist Jacques Mallet du Pan observed that "like Saturn, the Revolution devours its children.” The sad fact is, it is not just the danger of fellow revolutionaries deciding that you are the next reactionary to be guillotined. It is the self-consumption of radicals who untether themselves from any higher order or purpose. It is the knowledge that all mortals carry the Saturn gene; all mortals share the capacity to become monsters. Jonathan Turley is a law professor and the New York Times best-selling author of “Rage and the Republic: The Unfinished Story of the American Revolution.”

  

• Enya — Rivers of Forever (Official Music Video) - YouTube Added: Apr 25, 2026

  Enya — Rivers of Forever (Official Music Video)

  Site: YouTube

  Enya — Rivers of Forever (Official Music Video)The official music video for "Rivers of Forever" by Enya.🎵 Stream & Download "Rivers of Forever" now: https:/...

  

• Enya - Perfect Luminous Silence (Official Music Video) - YouTube Added: Apr 25, 2026

  Enya - Perfect Luminous Silence (Official Music Video)

  Site: YouTube

  Enya - Perfect Luminous Silence (Official Music Video) | Rap & EnglishThe official music video for "Perfect Luminous Silence" by Enya.Stream & Download "Perf...

  

• Victor Davis Hanson: John Brennan’s ‘Rendezvous’ With Accountability Couldn’t Come Sooner - YouTube Added: Apr 25, 2026

  Victor Davis Hanson: John Brennan’s ‘Rendezvous’ With Accountability Couldn’t Come Sooner

  Site: YouTube

  The U.S. Department of Justice’s probe into the former CIA chief will hopefully lay bare John Brennan’s sins, which were years in the making.“We got to remem...

  

• Victor Davis Hanson: The Many Inauthentic Faces Democrats Try and Fail to Wear - YouTube Added: Apr 25, 2026

  Victor Davis Hanson: The Many Inauthentic Faces Democrats Try and Fail to Wear

  Site: YouTube

  Iran is losing resources but trying to survive by delaying negotiations while being resupplied via rail links to China and routes across the Caspian. Tighten...

  

• Southern Poverty Law Center Under Fire: Allegations of Funding Extremists, Plus Iran Strategy - YouTube Added: Apr 25, 2026

  Southern Poverty Law Center Under Fire: Allegations of Funding Extremists, Plus Iran Strategy

  Site: YouTube

  New allegations against the Southern Poverty Law Center this week raise serious questions about how donor money may have been used behind the scenes. Like fi...

  

• President Trump Delivers Remarks, Apr. 25, 2026 - YouTube Added: Apr 25, 2026

  President Trump Delivers Remarks, Apr. 25, 2026

  Site: YouTube

  The White House

  

• Why Are 90% Of Humans Right-Handed? An Evolutionary Biologist Explains Added: Apr 25, 2026

• Google DeepMind Introduces Vision Banana: An Instruction-Tuned Image Generator That Beats SAM 3 on Segmentation and Depth Anything V3 on Metric Depth Estimation - MarkTechPost Added: Apr 25, 2026

  Google DeepMind Introduces Vision Banana: An Instruction-Tuned Image Generator That Beats SAM 3 on Segmentation and Depth Anything V3 on Metric Depth Estimation

  Site: MarkTechPost

  Vision Banana: An Instruction-Tuned Image Generator That Beats SAM 3 on Segmentation and Depth Anything V3 on Metric Depth Estimation

  

• SPLC’s troubles mount as Republicans probe Biden administration ties Added: Apr 25, 2026

  SPLC’s troubles mount as Republicans probe Biden administration ties

  Site: The Washington Times

  The House Judiciary Committee expanded its investigation into the Southern Poverty Law Center’s relationship with the Biden administration after the left-wing civil rights group was indicted on fraud charges related to its use of paid informants within White supremacist groups.

  

• Emotional Touch Leaves a Permanent Mark on the Mind - Neuroscience News Added: Apr 25, 2026

  Emotional Touch Leaves a Permanent Mark on the Mind - Neuroscience News

  Site: Neuroscience News

  Why do we remember a hug forever? A new neurobiological model explains how "affective tactile memory" stores emotional touch deep in our brain and body.

  

• Your PC might have 16GB of RAM but run like it has 8 — this one setting is why Added: Apr 25, 2026

  Your PC might have 16GB of RAM but run like it has 8 — this one setting is why

  Site: MakeUseOf

  That speed boost was already inside your PC.

  

• Trump condemns Correspondents' Dinner shooter, says WH ballroom needed Added: Apr 25, 2026

• Could All Of Math Be Reduced To A Single Operation? This Theoretical Physicist Says Yes, And He's Found It | IFLScience Added: Apr 25, 2026

• The U.S. just expanded its territory by one million square kilometers - Earth.com Added: Apr 25, 2026

  The U.S. just expanded its territory by one million square kilometers

  Site: Earth.com

  The United States added one million square kilometers beneath the ocean, expanding its Extended Continental Shelf (ECS) boundaries.

  

• I tested the 3 most popular Linux distros of April 2026, here's how I rank them Added: Apr 25, 2026

  I tested the 3 most popular Linux distros of April 2026—here's how I rank them

  Site: How-To Geek

  Ubuntu and Fedora are no longer in the Linux top three — so which distros dethroned them, and are they actually worth using?

  

• Elon Musk on X: "Major" / X Added: Apr 25, 2026

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• US Homeland Security News on X: "🚨Update: Democrat inspires Trump assassin is named Cole Allen, a registered Democrat and liberal activist and Antifa operative! https://t.co/YbInjcF18K" / X Added: Apr 25, 2026

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• Alan Dershowitz Switches to Republican After 67 Years as Democrat / X Added: Apr 25, 2026

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• Reverend Jordan Wells on X: "🚨 DERSHOWITZ DROPS A NUKE: “The Democrat Party is THE MOST ANTI-AMERICAN PARTY IN HISTORY” 🔥 The legendary Harvard professor just walked away from the “anti-Semitic” and “pro-terrorist” Democrats — and he’s not holding back. You cannot love America and be a Democrat at this https://t.co/TT9N7WUnVg" / X Added: Apr 25, 2026

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• Mario Nawfal on X: "Elon summed up his entire philosophy in 3 words: “My philosophy is curiosity & adventure.” No corporate fluff. No mission statements. Just pure wonder + the balls to explore the universe He’s him. https://t.co/9iAQC2mKyr" / X Added: Apr 25, 2026

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• 0HOUR1 on X: "Racism was almost non-existent by the end of the 90s. It rose tenfold after Obama took office. This was all by design." / X Added: Apr 25, 2026

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• Victor Davis Hanson on X: "The U.S. Department of Justice’s probe into the former CIA chief will hopefully lay bare John Brennan’s sins, which were years in the making. “We got to remember that this is a man that went before Congress under oath as head of the CIA, and had the CIA under his direction" / X Added: Apr 25, 2026

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• AmericanUniTees on X: "@VDHanson I can remember when it was unfathomable that a POTUS would appoint a card carrying communist to any position, let alone to head the CIA. But then Obama *fundamentally transformed* our government. We shouldn't be the least bit surprised at how that turned out." / X Added: Apr 25, 2026

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• There's a Linux command that shows you exactly what any running process is doing Added: Apr 25, 2026

  There's a Linux command that shows you exactly what any running process is doing

  Site: MakeUseOf

  Within seconds, you can see which file it's waiting on or why it's stuck.

  

• Gemini Drops: New updates to the Gemini app, April 2026 Added: Apr 25, 2026

  Find out what’s new in the Gemini app in April's Gemini Drop.

  Site: Google

  Gemini Drops is our regular monthly update on how to get the most out of the Gemini app.

  

• The SCIF on X: "Cole Allen's Interesting Background "Hey SCIF, the man is definitely an op. Life of missile engineering, 2-year disappearance, quick stint at an education tech company that's used in LA schools, then he's a teacher. That Su-Kam system needs to be torn apart at the code..." – https://t.co/roLySJcD7f" / X Added: Apr 25, 2026

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• MJTruthUltra on X: "This is just too weird… An account on X named Henry Martinez has gone viral for apparently making only one post ever on their timeline in 2023 — “Cole Allen” Notice the PEPE profile pic? Cole Allen, the shooter tonight, worked as a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship https://t.co/s0S9PdptC8" / X Added: Apr 25, 2026

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• Dan Allison on X: "This might seem like a nonsequitur, but the reason blue always wins is the same reason why astrology is ~real. It’s not independently real (let’s assume). It’s only real once a critical mass of people believe it’s real and act in accordance with that belief such that the" / X Added: Apr 26, 2026

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• Tim Urban on X: "Everyone in the world has to take a private vote by pressing a red or blue button. If more than 50% of people press the blue button, everyone survives. If less than 50% of people press the blue button, only people who pressed the red button survive. Which button would you press?" / X Added: Apr 26, 2026

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• Wait But Why Added: Apr 26, 2026

  Homepage

  Site: Wait But Why

  A popular long-form, stick-figure-illustrated blog about almost everything.

  

• Harmonic Added: Apr 26, 2026

  Harmonic

  a social media platform for human agents, AI agents, and collective agents

  

• Dan Allison Added: Apr 26, 2026

  Dan Allison

  

• SPLC LIED About Tim Pool, Claimed He Went To Conference In Iran In Now Deleted Article - YouTube Added: Apr 26, 2026

  THEY LIED

  Site: YouTube

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• Gay Dad TAUNTS Baby, Makes Him Cry In Viral Video, Responds After MAJOR BACKLASH - YouTube Added: Apr 26, 2026

  Gay Dad TAUNTS Baby, Makes Him Cry In Viral Video, Responds After MAJOR BACKLASH

  Site: YouTube

  WATCH THE FULL EPISODE HERE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDkAPwo89fQSUPPORT THE SHOW BUY CAST BREW COFFEE NOW - https://castbrew.com/Join - https://www.y...

  

• Dr. Oz Fights Blue State Fraud - YouTube Added: Apr 26, 2026

  Dr. Oz Fights Blue State Fraud

  Site: YouTube

  Dr. Mehmet Oz joins Miranda Devine to share details of his fight to stop multi-billion-dollar healthcare fraud scams in New York, California, and Minnesota.P...

  

• NASA's Hubble Dazzles With Young Stars in Trifid Nebula - NASA Science Added: Apr 26, 2026

  NASA's Hubble Dazzles With Young Stars in Trifid Nebula - NASA Science

  Site: NASA Science

  This Hubble Space Telescope visible light image of the Trifid Nebula marks the 36th anniversary of the mission's launch on April 24.

  

• Largest 3D Map of the Universe Is Adding Serious Fuel to the Cosmology Crisis Added: Apr 26, 2026

  Largest 3D Map of the Universe Is Adding Serious Fuel to the Cosmology Crisis

  Site: Gizmodo

  The conclusion of DESI's first survey marks an important milestone for cosmology, which finds itself in a bind for the best reasons.

  

• APOD: 2026 April 23 – Large Scale Structure of the Universe Added: Apr 26, 2026

  ** APOD: 2026 April 23 – Large Scale Structure of the Universe **

  A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.

• Elon Musk on X: "SPLC got better returns than Nancy Pelosi and inverse Cramer combined!" / X Added: Apr 26, 2026

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• David Sacks on X: "SPLC invested $270k in Charlottesville and got $81 million in additional donations. Extraordinary returns. https://t.co/djYrpSA9Sd" / X Added: Apr 26, 2026

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