Rule 5 Sunday: Fresh From The Shower

Posted on | April 14, 2025 | No Comments

No deluge of Substackery this weekend so no Sunday linkagery.
This week’s appetizer courtesy of Rule5Texan, I think.
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ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five Self-Deporting Friday, and the Saturday Gingermageddon

EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, Julie Andrews, Noone Is Shocked By Lauren Boebert In Miniskirts, Willow, Real Genius, Unicorn Day, Winston Churchill Day, The Masters, Venus De Milo, Interesting Things, MAGA – Markets Continue To React To Trump, A Complete Unknown, Abba – “Waterloo”, and The Doors

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Kathi Mod?l, I Hope So, Now, About Those “Dire Wolves”, Fish Pic Friday – Tisha Rodrigues, Thursday Tanlines, The Wednesday Wetness, Zen, The Monday Morning Stimulus, Palm Sunday, and Watermen Still Not Happy With Striper Regs

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‘Clearly a Fanatic of Some Type’

Posted on | April 13, 2025 | 7 Comments

Robert Shawn Detherow

Flagler County, Florida, is a wonderful place with many wonderful people, including Sheriff Rick Staly, who is one of the most experienced law-enforcement officers in the entire United States. Sheriff Staly first became a cop in 1975 in Oviedo right out of high school, then spent a year with the Altamonte Springs Police Department before becoming a deputy in Orange County, where he rose through the ranks for more than 20 years before retiring as the No. 2 man in the department in 2001.

Staly formed a private security company, then sold it, and decided to return to law enforcement in Flagler County, where he has been elected sheriff three times since 2016. During his 50-year career, Sheriff Staly has probably seen a lot of crazy things, but perhaps none as crazy as the standoff last June in the town of Palm Coast. It began just after dawn on the morning of June 5, with “a disturbance call on Forsythe Lane in reference to an individual who had blocked the road with ‘junk’ and was playing loud music.” Forsythe Lane is a middle-class development just a mile or so inland from the beach. It’s a pleasant-looking neighborhood, and most people would consider themselves extremely fortunate to live there, with the palm trees and sunshine. But most people are not insane, which was the problem with 55-year-old Robert Shawn Detherow.

Video of the resulting incident has been uploaded to YouTube, and you can see a female deputy arrive to encounter this scene:

Detherow had apparently emptied out his house, strewing his possessions in the front yard and blocking the street. And as for the neighbor’s complaint of “playing loud music,” shortly after the deputy steps out of her vehicle, Robert Detherow’s stereo begins blasting the Hoyt Axton version of a very old song:

Oh, I’m a good old Rebel,
Now that’s just what I am.
For this Yankee nation
I do not give a damn.
I’m glad I fought against her,
I only wish we’d won.
I ain’t asked any pardon
For anything I’ve done.

That song was first published as a poem in 1867, written by Confederate Maj. James Innes Randolph. Far be it from me to disdain any expression of Southern pride, but if you’re a sheriff’s deputy responding to a disturbance call and hear that song? Not a good omen.

Robert Detherow was bonkers, berserk, demented, deranged, daffy, wacky, off his rocker, non compos mentis, nuttier than a Snickers bar, a few fries short of a Happy Meal and cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs.

The deputy wisely called for backup. There is some explanation of Detherow’s mental condition. He has claimed to be a military veteran suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), although this information was not verified. He had once been employed by Flagler County, but quit in 2021. And in March 2024, just three months before this incident, Detherow’s 22-year-old son had been arrested for stabbing a man in an argument about religion at a Circle K convenience store.

In a press release, the sheriff’s department said that, due to the prior investigation of the son’s crime, deputies knew that Detherow “had an arsenal of firearms in his home.” Furthermore, investigators “located disturbing videos Detherow made and posted to his Facebook profile and YouTube channel in the previous few days alluding to ‘suicide by cop’ and becoming a martyr.” The title of that video is “Come to my house and arrest me Rick Staley” [sic] and shows Detherow standing in his living room, wearing a Confederate cap and waving a Bible around while claiming that his Fourth Amendment rights have been violated.

What ensued was a five-hour standoff that, thank God, ended without anyone getting hurt. Afterwards, Sheriff Staly spoke to the media:

“I would describe [Detherow] as a religious fanatic, to some degree one of these ‘sovereign citizens.’ . . . He’s clearly a fanatic of some type and I’m sure that the neighborhood is glad that he’s been apprehended.”

At a court hearing about a week later, Detherow seemed sufficiently self-aware to admit he was crazy as a loon:

After his arrest, Detherow unleashed a string of verbal attacks on the arresting deputy.
“I don’t know what I said. I was having a psychotic break. Obviously I needed help,” Detherow said, after Assistant State Attorney Jason Lewis asked him if he’d threatened the life of Sheriff’s deputy Necole Marsan, if he’d threatened to dismember her, rape her and torture her for billions of years. . . .
“The allegations with regard to this incident describe behavior that’s not only dangerous, but completely irrational,” [Circuit Judge Terence Perkins] said. Detherow “chose to escalate the response by law enforcement for no apparent reason in ways that not only put the community in danger and the law enforcement officers specifically, but put him in danger, for reasons that relate to his post traumatic stress is what I’ve heard.” . . .
Perkins said he had no evidence regarding Detherow’s PTSD, his mental health history or any psychiatric issues. His attorney presented none. . . .
“My obligation is to keep the community, law enforcement and the defendant safe,” Perkins said. “I’m not going to risk this type of incident happening again . . .”

At that point, the judge denied bail for Detherow. Jail records indicate that Detherow was released in September on $34,000 bond, and so far there’s been no further news on the case. However, in the case of Detherow’s son — accused of stabbing a man at the Circle K — the charges were thrown out in a “startling” ruling under Florida’s “stand your ground” law. It turns out that there was no surveillance video of the incident, and after hearing testimony from everyone involved, the judge decided that the younger Detherow’s testimony was most credible, raising a self-defense claim that could not be disproven. That’s . . . crazy.

On the other hand, maybe “this Yankee nation” is not all bad. Maybe the “religious fanatic” and his son (who was reading his Bible on the picnic table next to Circle K before the stabbing happened) got some divine intervention. Maybe there is still hope for justice in America.

We could speculate on the cosmic implications of all this, but in the end we are certain of only one thing: Crazy People Are Dangerous.

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FMJRA 2.0: An Almost Perfect Week

Posted on | April 12, 2025 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Well, at least if you were a Senators fan. We began the week with two wins against Pete’s Brewers in Milwaukee, and then came home to sweep the New York Giants at RFK, with Spaceman Lee racking up his 10th win, Bob Johnson his 9th save, Carl Morton picking up his 6th & 7th wins (against 13 losses) and Dave Kingman teeing off on Giants pitching, hitting his 21st, 22nd, and 23rd dingers in each of the three games. With all of this winning, we’re still one game behind the A’s in the basement of our division at 40-49, but we’re up against the 34-54 Angels Tuesday (going to have to reschedule that one) and the 33-53 Yankees on Friday. We may escape the cellar yet.
Meanwhile, it’s been mysteriously slow in the tax mines so far this weekend, so much so that I’m taking a few hours off this afternoon.
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In The Mailbox: 04.11.25

Posted on | April 12, 2025 | 1 Comment

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Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
Four more days left in the Death March to April 15.
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OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: “Education” in Chicago, also Air Conditioning is Serious Business in Florida
EBL: Old Soldiers Never Die, They Just Fade Away, You’re Fired! Space Force Col. Susanna Meyers, Willow, and No one is shocked by Lauren Boebert mini dresses
Twitchy: Victor Davis Hanson – If One Wanted To Destroy The U.S., The Last Four Years Would Have Been The Blueprint, Colo. Dad Nukes School Board For Alienating His Daughter In The Name Of Trans Acceptance, and BBC Journos Aghast A Politician Bases Views On Reality Not Netflix Fiction
Louder With Crowder: Valor-stealing Democrat declares Trump guilty of insider trading, but then he’s asked to present proof, Millionaire celebrity Whoopi Goldberg tells YOU to “suck it up” and pay MORE in taxes, Jasmine Crockett rants that if you can’t afford your home, it’s totally because Trump is deporting illegal aliens, and Three Trump wins this week the media doesn’t want you to know about
Vox Popoli: Identifying Autism, The True Author of Shakespeare’s Plays, and AI vs Organic
According To Hoyt: A Choice of Evils, The City At World’s End, STORM-DRAGON, and The Masquerade is over
Upstream Reviews: The Legion of Space
Toni Airaksinen: Math Is Racist? Middle-School Curriculum Writer Has Opinions
Jim McCoy: Warner Brothers’ A Minecraft Movie
Gab: The Doom Loop Of Generational Greed

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American Conservative: Congress Hates Trade Wars—but Doesn’t Mind Real Wars
American Greatness: DNI Chief Tulsi Gabbard Confirms Electronic Voting Systems Are Vulnerable to Hackers; Calls For Shift to Paper Ballots, also, Paying a Heavy Cost for Going After a Tax Cheat Named Hunter Biden
American Thinker: The Left Achieves Peak Political Insanity
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Self-Deporting Friday
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For April 11
Behind The Black: China launches another technology test communications satellite payload, Vast signs three more customers to fly payloads on its first space station, Indian satellite thruster manufacturer opens American factory, New Trump executive order requires Pentagon to “prioritize commercial solutions”, and Is the Democratic Party even losing ground in their hardcore strongholds?
CDR Salamander: Brave Little Palau, also, Fullbore Friday
Chicago Boyz: Worth Pondering
Dana Loesch: The Faux-sassin Wanted To Shoot Down Trump’s Plane
Don Surber: Winning, winning, winning
Gates Of Vienna: A Prisoner Turns to Jihad
The Geller Report: Judge Rules Columbia Pro-Terror Jew-Hater Mahmoud Khalil Can Be Deported, China Isolated: Europe, Australia Will Not Partner With China, Iran Mulls Interim Nuke Deal With US to Buy Time, and Netanyahu Slams Canadian PM Carney For Promoting Blood Libel
Hollywood In Toto: Jesus Christ Is Winning at the Box Office, also, Road Trip Comedy Sacramento Runs Out of Gas
The Lid: Trump Admin Strips Benefits Biden Gave to Aliens on Terror Watchlist
Legal Insurrection: Twelve Stanford Students Charged With Felony Vandalism for Building Takeover, FDA’s Former “Top Vaccine Scientist” Forced Out after Denying HHS Secretary Unrestricted Access to Vaccine Injury Database, Rubio Repeats Student Deportation Policy at Trump Cabinet Meeting: ‘No One’s Entitled to a Student Visa’, NYU Tells Foreign Students to Avoid Spring Break Travel Amid Trump Policy Concerns, and Pennsylvania Judge Convicted of Trying to Kill Ex-Boyfriend
Matt Taibbi: America This Week – “We Did Get Fooled Again”, Burn It All Down, also, Activism Uncensored
Outkick: Tennessee QB Nico Iamaleava Doesn’t Show For Practice Amid Contract Talks, Travis Hunter Throws First Pitch At Savannah Bananas Game, Uh, That’s Not Good: Fernando Alonso’s Steering Wheel Falls Off During F1 Practice, Jennifer Aniston Strikes A Yoga Pose That Buckles Knees, New ‘Masters Girl’ ID’d & China Hates Snow White, Too, and Does Jameis Winston Care More About Football Or Being An Influencer?
Power Line: The Future of Foreign Aid, Keith Ellison responds, The Associated Press and Left-Wing Violence, and Thoughts from the ammo line
Shark Tank: Tracy Caruso Digs At Rep. Fine In Support Of DeSantis
Shot In The Dark: Just In Time To Start Another Audit
This Ain’t Hell: New CJCS Confirmed, DPAA Arlington, Stolen Valor Law in Arizona, Governor Tim Walz heckled by veterans at Minnesota State Capitol, and Valor Friday
Victory Girls: Will Netflix Really Twist Narnia Reboot With Stunt Casting Choices?
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Why Media Bias Matters

Posted on | April 11, 2025 | 39 Comments

Say hello to Noah Madrano and, while you’re at it, go ahead and say good-bye, because it’s highly unlikely you’re ever going to see him unless somehow you get sentenced to federal prison, where he’s going to be serving a 50-year sentence for “his heinous crimes”:

PORTLAND, Ore. — A Gladstone, Oregon man was sentenced to 50 years in federal prison today for abducting and sexually abusing a Canadian child he met through a music creation social media platform.
Noah Madrano, 43, was sentenced to 600 months in federal prison, a $5,000 fine, and a lifetime term of supervised release. The sum of restitution he must pay to his victim will be determined at a later date.
“The U.S. Attorney’s Office thanks the FBI special agents and Oregon City police officers who rescued the victim in Oregon and brought the defendant to justice,” said William M. Narus, Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Oregon. “This sentence is a result of the extraordinary efforts of the victim, the victim’s family, their community, and law enforcement here and in Canada.”
“The persistence with which Madrano pursued his heinous crimes — traveling internationally on multiple occasions to victimize a child he met online, and ultimately smuggling that victim across an international border, speaks to how predatory his actions genuinely were,” said FBI Portland Special Agent in Charge Douglas A. Olson. “Madrano will be in his mid-nineties when he is eligible for supervised release. His removal from our communities benefits everyone.”
According to court documents, Madrano met a child online whom he sexually exploited for more than a year. In May 2022, he traveled to Canada to meet the child in person, took the child to a hotel room, sexually abused the victim, and recorded his abuse. A few weeks later, on June 24, 2022, Madrano returned to Canada, where he abducted the child from outside a school and took the victim to another hotel room. At the hotel, Madrano sexually abused the child for several days and recorded videos of his abuse. On July 1, 2022, Madrano hid the child in the trunk of his vehicle and drove back to the United States. Once in Oregon, Madrano brought the victim to a hotel room, where he continued to sexually abuse the child.
In the early morning of July 2, 2022, FBI special agents and Oregon City police officers entered Madrano’s hotel room and found him inside with the victim. Madrano was arrested and the child was taken into protective custody, reunited with her parents, and returned to Canada.
On September 21, 2022, a federal grand jury in Portland returned a six-count indictment charging Madrano with sexually exploiting a child, traveling with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct, transporting a child with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity, and possessing child pornography.
On January 13, 2025, Madrano pleaded guilty to sexually exploiting a child and transporting a child with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity.

You may ask, what does this have to do with media bias? Well, I learned about the Noah Madrano case from Andy Ngo, who exclusive reported in 2022 that Madrano was involved with an Antifa-aligned radio station:

Following the disappearance of a Canadian child last month [i.e. June 2022], a 40-year-old Portland-area man and radio host on the left-wing station, KBOO, has been arrested for child trafficking and child rape. . . .
Madrano used male, female and nonbinary pronouns and the monikers, “Bud Jackson,” “NoMad” and “Noah Zark.” . . .
Until the publicity around Madrano’s arrest, he was a producer and co-host of the “Sub-Human Intellect Theater” (S.H.I.T.) monthly show at far-left self-described Antifa Portland radio station, KBOO-FM. The show’s other host is Karen Green, who has deleted all her social media accounts after the arrest of her co-host.
The Post Millennial can exclusively report that Madrano’s Twitter account has pro-pedophilia content. . . .
Portland left-wing radio station KBOO is one of three accounts that follows Noah Madrano on Twitter. The banner on his account appears to show a nude child. . . .
Madrano’s YouTube account under the username “Madnana42” also has content suggesting an interest in the violent sexual abuse of minors. A playlist on the account is titled, “Videos of teenagers literally getting raped.” The only video on the playlist is a Marilyn Manson music video of “Heart-Shaped Glasses.” Actress Rachel Evan Wood, who was 19 in the video, alleged this year that the sex in the 2007 music video was non-consensual. . . .
Outside of his disturbing personal social media accounts, Madrano had a long relationship with KBOO radio lasting over a decade. He was a program committee chairperson for the station from 2012–14. His show, which launched in 2012, uses the slogan, “Making radio sound like a child’s play.”
KBOO broadcasts far-left political content and one of its main membership programs is called the “Fight Fascism Power Pack” which gives donors a flash drive with access to content from violent group Rose City Antifa and Portland Antifa members, Alexander Reid Ross and Shane Burley. . . .
The last episode of his show, which has been deleted, featured a purported skit in which Madrano was having phone sex with an underage girl.

KBOO-FM is a “listener-supported, community radio station,” and you see what kind of values were “supported” by this “community.”

Now here’s where the media bias angle comes in. Because of Andy Ngo, you and I know that KBOO gave airtime to this predatory child rapist, who was not exactly secretive about his pedophilia. But guess what? In the Oregonian‘s article about Madrano being sentenced to prison, you’ll have to read down to the 28th paragraph before the reporter mentions Madrano’s association with KBOO radio. Many other media accounts don’t even mention Madrano’s connection to the “listener-supported, community radio station.” Just ask yourself how they’d play it if a similar crime was committed by someone with a right-wing MAGA connection. Daresay that would be mentioned in the first sentence of every article.

However much you hate the media, you don’t hate them enough.

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In The Mailbox: 04.10.25

Posted on | April 11, 2025 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Codex Comics just had their hard drive go splat, so they’re raising money by having a sale on their comics.
60% off storewide; I’d post an example but so far I haven’t found anything that wasn’t NSFW or real close.

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Gun from Gun Buyback Back on the Streets, also Lee Surrenders to Grant April 9th 1865 at Appomattox Court House
EBL: Winston Churchill Day, Unicorn Day, House passes a bill to restrict District Courts issuing national injunctions, Real Genius, and Ron Klain says Biden would have won – so why did Harris lose?
Twitchy: Sen. Schiff Upset That Trump Can Multitask, Labor Dept. Busts Fraud Wide Open And You Won’t Believe How Much There Is, and Rep. Crockett Says Trump Needs A Mental Test While Praising “Sharp As A Tack” Biden
Louder With Crowder: Rep. Jayapal (D-UH) declares deporting illegal immigrants is wrong because Americans can be just as bad, also, Woman gets shrill at CNN for calling her by the wrong pronouns… then wonders why Democrats are losing male voters
Vox Popoli: The Book is Always Better, He Could Not Be More Wrong, Claude Responds to Larry, and No One Ever Learns
Upstream Reviews: Galaxy Quest
Cedar Sanderson: Mysteries
L’Ombre de L’Olivier: The beatings will continue until morale improves
The Bugscuffle Gazette: And now, publishing stuff
Postcards From Barsoom: Roughly Translated From The Original Martian

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Substack – teaching Truth to Lies
American Conservative: Trucking Has an Immigrant Problem—and Trump Can Fix It
American Greatness: The Poverty of the Criticism of Trump’s Agenda, House Passes SAVE Act Requiring Proof of Citizenship to Vote, Trump Plans to Withhold All Federal Funding From Sanctuary City ‘Death Traps’, NC Court of Appeals Orders Recount of 65,000 Ballots in Contested 2024 State Supreme Court Election, and Rep. Greene Says DOGE Taking Aim at $10 Billion Wasted Annually On Empty Federal Buildings
American Thinker: There’s Nothing Free about ‘Free Trade’
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Red Thursday News
BattleSwarm: Murderer City?
Behind The Black: Juno enters and then recovers from safe mode, Lunar Outpost unveils its proposed “Eagle” manned lunar rover, Chinese scientists say the lunar far side appears dryer than the near side, Curiosity climbs into a new Martian canyon, and Congress: Let’s throw some more astronaut lives away so we can preen for the camera!
Cafe Hayek: How Protective Tariffs Work, also, Chatting with Drew Benson About Trade
CDR Salamander: All Hail The First Of Hopefully Many Maritime Orders
Chicago Boyz: Those Who Dare Not Be Named
Don Surber: World cheers Trump’s 10% tariff
First Street Journal: Throwing good money after bad
Gates Of Vienna: Infidels Must Drown in Their Own Blood!
The Geller Report: House Passes “No Rogue Rulings Act”, Colorado Passes Bill That Says Misgendering Your Child is “Child Abuse,” Allows State to Take Child Away, House Votes to Pass SAVE Act, Ayatollah Macron says France will Recognize a “Palestinian” State, and Whistleblower Tells Senate Committee that Meta (Facebook) Undermined US National Security to Collude with China
Hollywood In Toto: William Shatner Shreds Woke Mob Erasing History
The Lid: Where’s Moses?
Legal Insurrection: Gay Woman Vandalizes Pro-Life Display at Virginia Commonwealth U, Supreme Court Rules Trump to ‘Facilitate’ Return of Man Mistakenly Deported to El Salvador, Trump Signs Executive Order to ‘Make America’s Showers Great Again’, Maryland Delays Implementing Senseless, California-Style EV Mandate, and Florida Charges Trump Assassin Suspect With Attempted First Degree Murder & Terrorism
Matt Taibbi: Timeline – Panama Canal Politics, Policy & Tensions
Outkick: Nico Iamaleava NIL ‘Contract Negotiations’ Are Nothing New, But Making It Public Doesn’t Help The Situation, Auburn’s Bruce Pearl Named Chairman of U.S. Israel Education Association, Jack Nicklaus Takes Vicious Condescending Shot At Phil Mickelson At The Masters, Elizabeth Hurley Gives The Maldives All It Can Handle Modeling Bikinis, and Cubs Fans Go Viral For ‘Lady And The Tramp’-ing A Hot Dog, And Apparently Aren’t Even Together
Power Line: How Deep the Fraud, Voters Say Shut It Down, and How militant can you get?
Shark Tank: After House Approval, FL Senate Advances Fetal Wrongful Death Bill
Shot In The Dark: Ellison On Tape, also, Calculated Risk
STUMP: Congressional Mortality Has Consequences
This Ain’t Hell: Man who wished Kristi Noem agonizing demise, and threatened ICE agents, faces judge instead, also, Mixed messages from Washington
Victory Girls: Who Did Kash Patel Just Promote?
Watts Up With That: Kill Them All – Stop Wasting Our Money on Green Pipe Dreams, Genetic Scientists Mix Dire Wolf and Grey Wolf Genes, Producing Ethics Debates, and False, Axios, Atlanta’s Rainfall Increase Isn’t Attributable to Climate Change
The Federalist: Today In Republicans Being Useless: GOP Senators Salvage Democrats’ ‘Green’ Energy Bailouts, Here Are The Top 5 Factors Damaging Society By Killing Marriage, 208 Democrats Vote Against Legislation To Keep Noncitizens Out Of Elections, Look At Beef To Understand Why U.S. Trade Needs A Makeover, and The Laptop Class Disparages Manufacturing Because It Creates More Value Than They Do
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In The Mailbox: 04.09.25 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | April 10, 2025 | 8 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: You’re Fired: Navy Vice Admiral Shoshana Chatfield Canned, Road to Appomattox, Supreme Court Reverses Judge Boasberg, and Markets Rebound
Twitchy: Tulsi Gabbard Threatens CNN With Defamation Lawsuit, One Third Of California Community College Applicants are FAKE, Taking Millions In Aid, and Dear Leftists – No Still Means No
Louder With Crowder: Senator Kennedy savages Occasional Cortex with zinger after zinger, declares launch of “Operation Let Her Speak”, 104% tariffs? Massive brawl erupts at a Chinese restaurant, and there is a lot to unpack, WH press secretary has bad news for reporters who still have their pronouns in their bio in 2025, AOC Called Out For Flying First Class On Oligarchy Tour, and Sunny Hostin doesn’t only think Black people can’t figure out how to vote with ID, but women can’t either
Vox Popoli: Trump and the Vaccine, Mailvox: Vox D.AI Responds, Why China Can’t Win the Trade War, and Model or Reality
Upstream Reviews: King Kobold Revived
Cedar Sanderson: You’ve Made Good
The Bugscuffle Gazette: Mid-Week Thoughts

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Adam Piggott: Average Life Expectancy + Abortion
American Conservative: Death of a Company Man
American Greatness: GiveSendGo Fundraiser For Texas Track Meet Stabber Surpasses $230K, Chuck Schumer Refuses to Condemn Attacks Against Tesla Amid Increasing Acceptance of Political Violence Among Dems, Sen. Rand Paul on Trump’s Tariffs: ‘Taxes Should Not Be Enacted By One Person’, Trump Administration Pulls Funding From Maine Department of Corrections Over Trans Inmate, and Mike Johnson Says No Rogue Rulings Act Will Keep District Court Judges ‘Within their Constitutional Lane’
American Thinker: Wisconsin’s Supreme Court Election Screams for Department of Justice Criminal Investigation
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Pool Shark News, also, Animal’s Hump Day News
BattleSwarm: Democrats Deploy Disability Dodge, also, Paxton Runs Against Cornyn
Behind The Black: Russia launches three astronauts to ISS, Space Force gives SpaceX launch originally contracted to ULA, Firefly wins Space Force contract to test orbital maneuvers with its Elytra space tug, Astronomers say potentially dangerous asteroid 2024 YR4 originally came from main asteroid belt, and Isaacman’s nomination hearing reveals nothing of note
Cafe Hayek: The Winning Continues, also, Rob Atkinson Serves Up a False Narrative
CDR Salamander: Eight Commandants, One Message
Da Tech Guy: The “Were there no graves in Egypt?” Republicans
Dana Loesch: “1923” Features A Valiant Pro-Life Message
Don Surber: TDS is so tedious
First Street Journal: Why doesn’t The Philadelphia Inquirer report the whole truth about the city’s public schools?
Gates Of Vienna: The Flag Is Still There, also, 160 Years Ago Today
The Geller Report: Trump Raises Tariffs on China to 125% But Announces 90-Day Pause For Other Countries Who Reached Out to Negotiate, 70 Countries Line Up to Trade/Tariff Talks With Trump, US Stocks Soar, Trump Assassin Tied to Ukraine: Sought to Buy Military Weapons from Ukraine to Kill Trump, Supreme Court Upholds Trump’s Use of Alien Enemies Act, and Supreme Court Sides With Trump, Upholds Mass Firing of Federal Employees
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Dow Jones Gains Nearly 3,000 Points After Trump Deports Gay Makeup Artist

Posted on | April 9, 2025 | 15 Comments

Look, I’m not one of these All-Purpose Expert types who hangs around on social media all day pretending to know everything about whatever’s the big Democratic Party talking point at the current moment. Today’s economic “expert” was, just a few weeks ago, an “expert” on national security, and last October was an “expert” on election polling. Go back to 2014, and their area of expertise was the “campus rape epidemic,” but then in 2016, they suddenly acquired authoritative knowledge of Russian “election interference.” In 2020, they became experts on viral epidemiology before turning their attention to “systemic racism.”

So I don’t claim to know why the stock market suddenly boomed upward this afternoon, and I’m not sure the media does, either:

The stock market mounted one of its biggest rallies in history after President Donald Trump announced a pause in some of his “reciprocal” tariffs on the globe, causing a market that has been under extreme pressure for the past week to explode higher.
The S&P 500 skyrocketed 9.52% to settle at 5,456.90 for its biggest one-day gain since 2008. For the broad market index, it was the third-biggest gain in post-WWII history. The Dow Jones Industrial Average advanced 2,962.86 points, or 7.87%, to close at 40,608.45 for its biggest percentage advance since March 2020. The Nasdaq Composite jumped 12.16% to end at 17,124.97, notching its largest one-day jump since January 2001 and second-best day ever.
About 30 billion shares traded hands, making it the heaviest volume day on Wall Street in history, according to records that go back 18 years.
“I have authorized a 90 day PAUSE, and a substantially lowered Reciprocal Tariff during this period, of 10%, also effective immediately,” Trump posted on his Truth Social. Trump, in the same post, said he was raising the tariff on China higher again to 125%.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent later clarified that all countries except China would return to the 10% baseline tariff rate, down from the higher rates that previously shocked the markets, as negotiations take place.

OK, so the “experts” are telling us that this has something to do with tariff policy, and maybe they’re right. On the other hand . . .

A gay makeup artist who arrived in the US last year in search of asylum has been flown to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador.
Andry José Hernández Romero was one of 238 Venezuelan migrants deported by the Trump administration on 15 March, reports CBS News.
The news follows a deal brokered between President Trump and El Salvador’s president Nayib Bukele allowing the US to send deportees to the central American’s country maximum security Terrorism Confinement Center, known as CECOT, located in Tecoluca.
“Our client, who was in the middle of seeking asylum, just disappeared. One day he was there, and the next day we’re supposed to have court, and he wasn’t brought to court,” Lindsay Toczylowski, Hernandez Romero’s lawyer, told CBS’s 60 Minutes.
“It’s horrifying to see someone who we’ve met and know as a sweet, funny artist, in the most horrible conditions I could imagine.”
Lawyers and family members for the deportees say they have had no contact with the prisoners since they were deported. However, TIME photojournalist Philip Holsinger, who has been reporting from the ground at CECOT, has reportedly described hearing one young man say, “I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a stylist,” as he cried out for his mother, was slapped and had his head shaved.
Hernandez Romero’s crown tattoos are the only evidence US immigration officials have given in court to accuse him of being part of Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan gang Trump is campaigning to eradicate. . . .
Meanwhile Hernández’s mother, Alexis Dolores Romero de Hernández, has been quoted by The Guardian as saying: “Everyone has these crowns, many people. But that doesn’t mean they’re involved in the Tren de Aragua … He’s never had problems with the law.”
She furthermore added: “Let my son go. Review his case file. He is not a gang member.”

Oh, don’t worry, the “sweet, funny artist” should be very popular among his fellow inmates in the Salvadoran maximum-security prison.

Every Democrat in Congress will run for reelection next year promising to protect the rights of gay Venezuelan makeup artists. Why, I can hear Jasmine Crockett now, saying she’s “done picking cotton” — and done doing her own makeup, too! But what about the rights of gay American makeup artists, huh? When you start importing gay makeup artists from Third World countries, it drives down the wages of native-born gay makeup artists. Or at least, that’s what some “experts” tell me.

Correlation is not causation, except when it is, but I’m not claiming to be an expert on cosmetic artistry or economics, either. All I know is that (a) Andry José Hernández Romero is now in a Salvadoran maximum security prison and (b) things look a lot better for the 401(k) balance.

Post hoc ergo propter hoc, as experts in Latin would say.

In completely unrelated news, Britney Spears is still crazy.

What substances cause this kind of behavior?

I don’t understand how the world just continues to watch one of the most famous people in the world, Britney Spears deteriorate like this and no one can help her. pic.twitter.com/WvMD0oFyqu

— Defender of the Republic ?? (@realdefender45) April 9, 2025