TODAY'S NEWS, April 8-14, 2026

1) Unable to come to a settlement with the nutjobs running Iran,https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/ President Trump imposed a blockade on the Strait of Hormuz. Remember, this hurts us ZERO, but really hurts the Euros and the ChiCom. Check out this report of a massive fleet of empty oil tankers heading for the U.S. to pick up oil. https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/2042747418073034790 Right before shutting it down entirely, Trump ordered the U.S. Navy to clear mines in the Strait. https://blackmon.substack.com/p/hormuz-update-us-navy-clearing-mines It seems the Iranians actually forgot where they put the mines. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/10/us/politics/iran-mines-strait.html What's good for the goose . . . anyone remember when Iran used soldiers as human mine-detectors in Iran-Iraq War? https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/10/us/politics/iran-mines-strait.html Maybe take a lesson from them . . . . This is hysterical. Only Trump could say this. In his Truth message warning the Iranians better play nice, he stated that we had wiped out their navy and had eliminated their top leadership . . ."Praise be to Allah!" https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/ Now that's funny right there. We know the war is all about the "Joooooossss," right? Except it now surfaces that the Saudis wanted Trump to "finish the job" and are paying us enormous amounts of money to ensure Iran doesn't rise from the ashes. https://x.com/jess_ih_ka/status/2043340820607279572 The U.S. and Israel destroyed Iran's infant WMD program. https://www.defensenews.com/global/mideast-africa/2026/04/07/irans-other-would-be-wmd-program-lies-in-ruins-following-strikes-by-israel-and-the-us/

2) Just another example of the continued red-ward shift of the states, as even OR has lost net 41,500 DemoKKKrats since 2020 https://x.com/magapolling/status/2042984239491354848 and OR 5 is particularly competitive, as DemoKKKrats have lost 3,300 just since 2024. In AK, the third straight D-R state seat flip occurred in an Anchorage district Cackles won by 8.https://x.com/MichaelCasey_/status/2042048675858260426

Then there was the special election for Marjorie Taylor Greene's seat---won by a Republican. https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/04/07/trump-endorsed-clay-fuller-wins-georgia-special-election-mtg-seat/ In one bright spot for DemoKKKrats, the open seat on the Wi Supreme Court was won by a DemoKKKrat who got fewer votes in winning than the last Republican got in losing. WI has a major turnout problem. https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/democrats-expand-majority-wisconsin-state-supreme-court

3) People are fleeing New Azteca (LA), https://chrisbray.substack.com/p/giant-impenetrable-mystery-about with taxes skyrocketing and police and fire being cut, but the Los Angeles Slimes, of course, blames Trump's immigration policies. First, the hotel industry in New Azteca is crashing because of Mayor Karen Ass's policies. https://www.foxnews.com/media/los-angeles-hotel-industry-struggling-under-wage-mandate-signed-mayor-karen-bass-new-survey-finds Then homebuilding giant KB Homes has pulled up stakes and will relocate to Tempe, Az. https://nypost.com/2026/04/13/us-news/california-exodus-strikes-again-as-homebuilding-giant-pulls-out/

4) Kollyfornia DemoKKKrats pressured Farticus (Eric Swalwell) https://www.theblaze.com/news/democrats-dump-eric-swalwell-after-sexual-assault-allegations-implode-his-career to drop out of the governor's race because the DemoKKKrat vote is fractured and the top person in the polls is a Republican, as is the #3 guy, setting the possibility for Kollyfornia's governor's race to be all GOP No, this isn't the infamous Fang Fang, but a new sexual assault charge that caused several of his top peeps to resign. https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/10/swalwell-campaign-imploding-amid-sexual-assault-allegation-00867619 And one of the other candidates is the hideously ugly Fuller Brush Girl, Katie Porter, who issued a scathing tweet, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!GdgD!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4a55c1d5-fd91-41ba-a61a-0d39f5df8648_670x675.png only to be "community noted as someone who "allegedly poured scalding potatoes on her ex-husband's head." https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!GdgD!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4a55c1d5-fd91-41ba-a61a-0d39f5df8648_670x675.png Such love! Such wholesomeness. As Jeff Childers pointed out, Farticus then lied about having an NDA, which Politico found. https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/little-lost-mine-saturday-april-11

A funny story is here about how poor little Farticus holed up in a billionaire's $26 million mansion before he was thrown out. https://nypost.com/2026/04/13/us-news/eric-swalwells-billionaire-benefactor-stephen-cloobeck-details-last-conversation-with-disgraced-politician/ In fact, said billionaire donor quit the DemoKKKrat Party and became an "Independent-Republican." https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/2043968983368393097 Oh, and Farticus also resigned from the House, conveniently allowing Texas Congressman Tony Gonzolez to finally also resign admit sex allegations himself. https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/13/tony-gonzales-says-he-will-resign-from-house-00870140 They had to ensure the Rs didn't walk away with a net gain here.

5) Hollywood took a hit too, as a number of actors had shoveled thousands into Farticus's campaign, including little Bobby De Niro and Hanoi Jane Fonda. https://trendingpoliticsnews.com/woke-actors-humiliated-after-shoveling-thousands-to-swalwells-now-defunct-campaign-trin/

6) Likewise, CO has seen an exodus of business (nearly 100 since 2019), making things so bad that over 200 CO businesses wrote a letter to the Governor Jared Polis warning that the state has to cease attacking producers. https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/colorado-companies-leave-hundreds-business-leaders-calls-action/ And speaking of CO, a Judicial Watch lawsuit forced the state to clean 324,000 voters off its rolls. That's almost certainly a 60/40 D/R split, meaning the Rs just net gained about 100,000. https://x.com/i/status/2043697189055086968

7) Another major shift, as the middle of the U.S. used to receive freight from the coasts. Now that is flipping as the center of the country is becoming the primary source for domestic shipping. https://x.com/FreightAlley/status/2042779854039322791/photo/1

8) The KS legislature overrode Gov. Laura Kelly's veto of a school choice bill. This is the way. https://x.com/DeAngelisCorey/status/2042410248137253230

9) No one will hang, but still more evidence that the 2020 election was rigged, as massive internet traffic from Iran and China into U.S. key swing precincts occurred on election night 2020. Gee, why

10) Feeling the heat from the feds, the Kollyfornia DoJ has arreted five of the hospice fraudsters. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/california-fraud-crackdown-los-angeles-hospice-arrests/ Oh, little DemoKKKrat spoogies. This isn't going to deflect the big investigations coming. The fraudsters were approaching people on the street, offering them $300 a month to sign up for "hospice care" that they never received. Meanwhile, not satisfied with driving tens of thousands of people from the state, Kollyfornia is seeking a $30 minimum wage law, which would make a single Big Mac over $20. https://www.foxnews.com/media/california-advocates-insist-raising-minimum-wage-30-despite-research-showing-negative-outcomes The acting AG Todd Blanche says there are over 8,000 fraud investigations underway. That's an eight with three zeroes. https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/2041564666770362539

11) Melania Trump fired a shot across the media's bow for those seeking to say she had anything to do with Jeffrey Epstein,https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3ex07l1qvpo and urged a hearing for the victims---which DemoKKKrats in the past had once supported, but certainly not now. Melania was rich before she married Trump. She is about to get richer with the defamation settlements.

12) Trump issued a sequestration order that will begin to defund Medicaid, Medicare, and day care, saying the programs would shift back to the states. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/04/sequestration-order-for-fiscal-year-2027-pursuant-to-section-251a-of-the-balanced-budgetand-emergency-deficit-control-act-as-amended/ When combined with the Big Beautiful Bill, the cuts already will come to over 6%, a whopping number in government free money circles. This comes right as people are hearing about hospice and Medicaid fraud, and it will be impossible for the DemoKKKrats now to wheel out granny as a prop.

13) A major victory for "The Punisher" Pete Hegseth and the DoWar as a court said the government can indeed shut out anthropic from contracting. https://x.com/DAGToddBlanche/status/2042007295731622234 Speaking of the military, the lost flyer last week who didn't have a radio or tracker? He was found by a new CIA program called "Ghost Murmer" that can locate your heartbeat using AI from 40 miles away.

14) In a very important election, Salt River Project, which controls water and power for the metro Phoenix area, a conservative defeated the green for the top board seat. https://x.com/DAGToddBlanche/status/2042007295731622234 TPUSA had made this race a priority and won. TPUSA previously had dethroned a Mesa anti-Trump R who was in a massively red district.

15) President Trump has been remaking the judiciary with younger, whiter, and more conservative judges who are interested in immigration restrictions. https://x.com/derzum_/status/2043377940017160474

16) Despite a corruption probe and lagging student scores, the LA Teacher's union won a 14% pay hike. https://nypost.com/2026/04/12/us-news/teachers-earn-whopping-pay-raise-as-under-fire-lausd-folds-to-avert-strike/

17) Newly declassified memos show that the CIA analyst behind the 2019 impeachment was, of course, ridiculously biased against President Trump. https://justthenews.com/government/white-house/years-after-trump-impeachment-facts-ukraine-whistleblowers-bias-and-biden

18) Zero's codename "RENEGADE" was found on Iranian servers by Pam Bondi's team. https://x.com/shadowintel2/status/2043466968247029826 He transferred $1.7 billion to Hezbollah, and hand wrote a message to the CIA telling them to stand down during the Benghazi crisis.

19) The federal workforce has dropped by over 350,000 under President Trump. https://conservativebrief.com/federal-trump-2-100310/

20) Ahh, beautiful New Kabul (NYC) as a machete-wielding kookburger stabbed three at Grand Central Station. https://trendingpoliticsnews.com/machete-wielding-maniac-calling-himself-lucifer-stabs-three-at-nycs-grand-central-station-cmc/

21) Typical DemoKKKrat here: a long-shot candidate in FL threatened to kill two elderly victims, possibly his parents.https://www.theblaze.com/news/long-shot-democrat-candidate-in-florida-allegedly-threatens-to-kill-two-elderly-victims-possibly-his-parents-video

22) Another game-changer from President Trump, as a policy shift will now have any foreign aid go directly to governments, NOT through NGOs! https://x.com/RealDonKeith/status/2043721663376699749

23) New DOJ released evidence showed that Rutabaga's DOJ was weaponized against pro-lifers. https://nypost.com/2026/04/14/us-news/biden-doj-weaponized-federal-law-to-prosecute-pro-lifers-and-give-them-longer-prison-sentences/

24) Asylum grants plummeted from 50% under the Rutabaga administration to just 7% under Trump, an all time low. https://x.com/nicksortor/status/2042241243665617064

25) I thought ICE was "scaling back." No, arrests have increased by 5% and voluntary departures up 28x. https://x.com/derzum_/status/2042045948872757383

26) Several "British" hikers trying to come into the U.S. illegally through the ME forest had names "Ibrahim," "Mohammed," and "Ali." Yep, sounds British to me. https://wltreport.com/2026/04/11/several-british-hikers-apprehended-allegedly-entering-united-states/

;27) A new study has identified over 2,100 sex-based genes that affect muscle fiber in men and women differently. https://x.com/freespeech360/status/2041977263520895044 No, Butch, you ain't a girl and are not gonna play in women's sports. Meanwhile, this study found over 3,000 genes in kiddos' brains that differentiate sexuality. https://x.com/freespeech360/status/2041972918729527808

28) Producer inflation came in softer than expected. https://www.theepochtimes.com/business/us-producer-inflation-softer-than-expected-despite-iran-war-impact-6011677

29) LNG export projects are rapidly expanding under Trump, further adding to the reality that the U.S. will be the WORLD'S energy source. As I say, ChiComs, please show me how you will send a rocket to the moon on coal. https://blackmon.substack.com/p/lng-will-play-a-major-role-in-trumps

30) The latest sobering numbers from Stanford's Computer Science department, as of the 312 grads, only 18 have job offers (a rate of 5.8%) whereas in 2019 the placement rate was 94%.https://x.com/TechLayoffLover/status/2042388137658204375

31) The Fed just signed off on three major post-2008 compliance rebuilds. https://x.com/TheDebriefing17/status/2042554502138429941

32) AI is hitting a transformer crunch, and many data centers are being delayed. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-04-01/us-data-center-boom-relies-on-hard-to-find-electrical-equipment Meanwhile, there are 140 planned data centers in TX. You know, BYOW/BYOE https://www.jandrewcommunication.com/ (Bring Your Own Water, Bring Your Own Energy) Employees appear to be mixed on the use of AI.

33) When is a liberal not a liberal? When your Apple store tried to unionize then it is closed. https://www.theepochtimes.com/business/apple-to-shutter-its-first-unionized-us-store-in-maryland-6010481

34) This doesn't sound right: TX is probing Lululemon for toxic chemicals in its apparel. https://www.theepochtimes.com/business/texas-ag-probing-lululemon-over-potential-presence-of-toxic-chemicals-in-apparels-6011624

35) As David Blackmon explains, President Trump ordering a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz caused oil exports to explode, and created a "conga line" of empty container ships headed for U.S. ports. https://blackmon.substack.com/p/5-big-energy-stories-4142026-trump It also caused publications such as the Wall Street Urinal to ditch (for now) all discussions of "climate change' cuz dammit, we need oil and gas!

36) Hackers got into the major ChiCom top secret supercomputer to steal 10 petabyes (that's more than a flash drive) of data on missiles, schematics, aircraft, and bioinformatics. https://x.com/TheBritishIntel/status/2042161845809627142 The ChiComs are so screwed. And here is another indicator: Xi is carrying out a record number of punishments amidst a purge of generals https://justthenews.com/government/security/xi-jinping-carries-out-record-breaking-punishments-inside-ccp-amid-purge

37) Trump ally and savior of Hungary, Viktor Orban lost his election to a lefty Euro open border revolutionary. https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/2043409019876868145 And there goes Hungary. However, in Peru, two conservative candidates made the runoff. https://x.com/mattforney/status/2043729196858384481

38) The Trump administration has a new deal with Indonesia that will begin to move that nation and the key Strait of Malacca away from the ChiComs. https://x.com/DrJStrategy/status/2043854036332326960 Chy-na is a small goat being enveloped by a boa constrictor.

39( Another big EV battery fire, this time in Chy-na. https://x.com/TheInsiderPaper/status/2043983972737397006

40) ESPN laid off 30 in an "unexpected" revenue dip. https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2026/04/07/espn-dumps-30-employees-after-unexpected-revenue-dip/

41) The U.S. leads the world in every single cause of death, largely because Big Pharma and Big Medicine are in the treatment biz, not the cure biz. https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/little-lost-mine-saturday-april-11 [LOOKS LIKE LINK IS WRONG!] For example, Columbia researchers have created a 3D printable knee implant that replaces replacement surgery. And the BBC reports that it's like "science fiction," as a new wave of immunotherapy is eliminating cancers. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260410-how-a-new-wave-of-immunotherapy-is-eliminating-cancers

42) This is pretty funny. A court said Bobby Kennedy could not put his own people on the ACIP panel because they lacked sufficient vaccine creds, so he simply went through the cellar door to change the charter and purpose of the committee, without even appealing the goofball judge's little dictum. Anhttps://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/health/cdc-rfk-jr-vaccine-committee-ruling.htmld believe me, the judge has a little dictum. It now will focus on vax harms. As Jeff Childers notes, in a very Trump-like move, Bobby didn't appeal the ruling, thus giving the Deep State the ability to add new objections, or to amend their statements. Bobby just did an end run. https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/sequestered-friday-april-10-2026

43) Tip of the iceberg, as a MI jury awarded Lisa Domski over $12.6 million for being fired from Blue Cross/Blue Shield when she refused the vax on religious reasons. https://x.com/FarmGirlCarrie/status/2042037332208185814 Now consider the VAERs recent report on miscarriages and stillbirths in 2020-21 and you'll see the impact of the vaxxes. https://x.com/toobaffled/status/2043481744045990178

44) Dey jes kain't hep it. This winner of a $167 Million powerball lottery has been arrested for the fourth time for burglary. https://www.theblaze.com/news/powerball-lottery-winner-arrested-burglary-update

IN POLITICAL NEWS

1) Unable to come to a settlement with the nutjobs running Iran, President Trump imposed a blockade on the Strait of Hormuz. Remember, this hurts us ZERO, but really hurts the Euros and the ChiCom.

Check out this report of a massive fleet of empty oil tankers heading for the U.S. to pick up oil. Right before shutting it down entirely, Trump ordered the U.S. Navy to clear mines in the Strait.

It seems the Iranians actually forgot where they put the mines. What's good for the goose . . . anyone remember when Iran used soldiers as human mine-detectors in Iran-Iraq War? Maybe take a lesson from them . . . .

This is hysterical. Only Trump could say this. In his Truth message warning the Iranians better play nice, he stated that we had wiped out their navy and had eliminated their top leadership . . ."Praise be to Allah!" Now that's funny right there.

We know the war is all about the "Joooooossss," right? Except it now surfaces that the Saudis wanted Trump to "finish the job" and are paying us enormous amounts of money to ensure Iran doesn't rise from the ashes. The U.S. and Israel destroyedIran's infant WMD program.

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