The way things are going….we may eventually just need to build a new “New York City”, and let the old one implode on itself. Maybe rebuild it 10 miles up the road or so.
(Sarcasm intended).

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Eyal Yakoby
@EYakoby

Palestinian activist Aber Kawas is running for NY State Senate. She’s said 9/11 was America’s fault due to “capitalism, racism, white supremacy, and Islamophobia,” is endorsed by NYC DSA and Zohran Mamdani, and has worn a Hamas headband.

Video linked…

Overton
@overton_news

Scott Jennings just gave Pope Leo a HISTORIC path to peace — if he’s willing to take it.

He said if the Pope can rise above politics, he could have his own Pope John Paul II moment.

Jennings just laid out how Pope Leo could team up with President Trump to bring down the Iranian regime, just like Reagan and John Paul II did to the Soviets.

JENNINGS: “There’s a tremendous opportunity here for this Pope if he would look at it this way.”

“We’re in the middle of a ceasefire. This blockade is working. There are no bombs falling.”

“There’s diplomacy going on right now, and there is a real chance because of what Trump has done and the situation we find ourselves in, for the world to bring pressure, economic pressure and diplomatic pressure, just like what was done in the 80s to bear against this terrorist regime, just the way it was brought to bear against the Soviets in the 1980s.”

Cont and video….

“Scott Jennings just left 26-year-old left-wing activist David Hogg stumbling in his dust live on CNN.”….

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Saint Porphyrios, Bishop of Gaza in Palestine (+ 420)

and

Saint George the Holy Great-Martyr and Trophy-Bearer (+ 303)

please pray for and protect the remaining original Christians in the Holy Land and the Levant, especially the village of Taybeh, from the Evil One and his servants.

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Paschal Troparion

Christ is risen from the dead, by death hath He trampled down death, and on those in the graves hath He bestowed life. (Thrice)

“Any construction project that has cost overruns of almost 80 percent over the original construction budget deserves some serious review,” Pirro said in a statement. “And these people are in charge of monetary policy in the United States?”

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/jeanine-pirros-prosecutors-make-surprise-visit-to-fed-headquarters-86d9d4bd

AYAAN HIRSI ALI

Pope Leo is conspiring with Democrats to harm Trump… America will suffer the consequences:
A Pope who breaks bread with partisan operatives and emerges days later to attack a sitting president has ceased, in my mind, to function as a shepherd of souls. He has become, instead, a political actor—and a graceless one at that. And this fits a recent pattern for the Vatican.
When Hamas butchered 1,200 Israelis on October 7th, the condemnation of Israel came readily from Pope Francis, while the slaughter and kidnappings passed without an explicit condemnation of Hamas. 

Pope Leo has been conspicuously silent about the systematic persecution of Christians at the hands of Muslims in majority-Muslim countries. This includes the burning of churches and the slaughter of Christian communities across northern Nigeria—along with forced conversions in Pakistan and disappearances in Egypt

Each of these is a direct expression of a civilizational clash that Pope Leo refuses to name. I have said this for more than twenty years. I have paid for saying it. And I will say it again: the West is losing this war. Not on the battlefield, but in the cathedrals, the chanceries, and the press conferences of men who were elected to be shepherds and have chosen instead to be diplomats.

As I write this, Pope Leo is in Algeria bowing at the Great Mosque of Algiers, shoes removed, pen in hand at the Golden Book.

Pope Leo’s first major conflict with the Trump administration was over immigration enforcement, condemning policies on which that administration was explicitly, democratically elected. 

Ironically, immigration is also the most powerful strategic weapon in the arsenal of those who seek to advance Islamic civilization over the West. This is not my analysis alone. It is the explicit teaching of Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the most influential Islamist theologian of the modern era, a man who commanded the attention of millions. 

He told his followers not to waste their time with bombs. Conquer Europe through immigration, he said. Through settlement. Through the wombs of Muslim women.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-15736491/Pope-Leo-Trump-Iran-Immigration-AYAAN-HIRSI-ALI.html

From far left to far far left
The Radicalization of Calla Walsh
Five years ago, she was a teen wonder in Democratic politics. Now, she’s on a U.S. government watch list.

In the weeks since the U.S. and Israel launched their joint assault on Iran, perhaps no American has more aggressively and publicly rallied behind the Islamic Republic than Calla Walsh. From her new base in Lebanon, the 21-year-old Cambridge-raised activist has taken to social media and left-wing podcasts to incite her fellow countrymen and women to sabotage U.S. and Israeli defense contractors wherever they can find them.

On March 3, she mocked 4 US soldiers killed in an Iranian drone strike, posting: “They all died fighting for fascism, genocide, pedophilia, and cannibalism.” She attached pictures of the dead Americans. In recent days she reposted a list of missile-production sites inside the U.S.

https://www.thefp.com/p/the-radicalization-of-calla-walsh

Andrea Burkhart
@aburkhartlaw

The ATF Report in Tyler Robinson’s case is now available. It’s clearly a summary report that doesn’t provide great detail but it does have new information:

1 bullet jacket fragment and 4 lead fragments were recovered during Charlie’s autopsy, The jacket is identified as coming from a .30 caliber class bullet. The jacket fragment shared class characteristics with Tyler Robinson’s Mauser 98 rifle, so the rifle couldn’t be excluded as having fired the bullet. But the fragment lacks individual characteristics permitting identification of one rifle to the exclusion of all others in the class

Cont reading…

Trump takes a shot at the UN as he sends blunt ‘America First’ message to the world marking a major shift in the global order… and US businesses are expected to reap the benefits

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15737397/trump-sends-america-message-trade-global-aid.html

Good morning America, how are ya?

@MOSSADil
57m
SIGNS OF UPRISING? Gunmen shot dead three police officers in Iran’s southeastern city of Saravan, state media reported on Thursday. The officers, part of a police patrol unit, came under fire while carrying out a security mission, according to reports citing a provincial police statement. Police said efforts were under way to identify and arrest those responsible for the attack. No group immediately claimed responsibility. (Iran International)

https://nitter.poast.org/MOSSADil/status/2044685355266211910#m

@bdguan
Apr 14
just spent 2 weeks in china. went into it thinking we’re cooked. came back more bullish on america than ever.

here’s why: 1. chinese citizens are way more chronically online. on the subway, train, anywhere, literally everyone is glued to their phone. gaming, short form, wechat. “don’t walk and look at your phone, it’s dangerous!” announcements flood crowded areas. their tiktok isn’t any better, its still garbage, soft-core porn, etc.

2. everyone’s using AI — deepseek, kimi, doubao. but nobody’s afraid of losing their job to it. here it feels like there’s an existential crisis every week. in china, nothing. i think the CCP won’t let companies mass-layoff workers. great for short-term stability. terrible for long-term competitiveness on a global scale.

3. china doesn’t produce weirdos. i sat in on a class at tsinghua (china’s MIT). not one student spoke unless the professor read their name out loud. no questions. no debate. chinese education produces world-class executors, not contrarians. it does make it a safer place to live though.

4. china doesn’t have christianity but it has something america doesn’t have: a shared story everyone believes in. every person age 25-70 watched their country go from abject poverty to skyscrapers in one lifetime. that kind of collective proof has a deep unifying effect.

compare that to how divided we are right now. america has a huge meaning vacuum that needs to be filled.

nevertheless, i return back to my home in america reinvigorated. because everything i saw confirms one thing:

china optimizes. america innovates. and the innovators always win.

https://nitter.poast.org/bdguan/status/2044152873072615487#m

Pray for our brothers and sisters in the mid west….yesterday was brutal…

https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/dangerous-tornadoes-rip-across-midwest-261460037668

The quote comes from linked article at NY Post:, main article linked by our friends at TLD:

“An Ohio veterinarian, her husband and their 1-year-old son were killed in a fiery multi-car crash when a driver — who faces up to five years in prison — smashed into a backed-up traffic jam.
Lynnea Soposki, 36, her analytical chemist husband Luke 37, and baby Logan died at the scene,”

5 years? That is all?

The embedded video shows vehicle fires, plural…

Midwest…if the weather don’t get ya, the illegals will.

https://revolver.news/2026/04/another-midwestern-family-erased-from-existence-thanks-to-a-third-world-immigrant/

Dear PDJT,

After Iran do the European terrorist sponsor, Ukraine.

PSA,

a recall by the FDA, medication in question is ‘Xanax’.

“The FDA’s Class II recall generally requires pharmacies to remove the medication from their shelves.”

“A Class II recall, according to the FDA, involves a medication that “could cause temporary or medically reversible adverse health consequences or where the probability of serious adverse health consequences is remote.”

But if it is worthy of a ‘recall’ type of attention, then there is concern, just my opinion…

Check with your trusted health care provider and “trusted” pharmacist, if you are affected.

Linked by our friends at TLD:

https://ktla.com/news/california/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-nationwide-xanax-recall/

morning Treepers………………………….be well