The Alto singer has matched Mama Cass in sound. That is NOT easy to do, that range is way at the bottom of the usual female vocal range and normally woman sound breathy and quiet down there (short a few operatic Contraltos who have a totally different sound). An impressive display of singing.
Molly Hemingway, the author of a book on Justice Kavanaugh’s travails, is out with a new book on Justice Alito.
After interviewing about 100 people about Alito, including SCOTUS Justices, she’s declaring Justice Alito a conservative role model — not just for lawyers and judges — but for folks on the Right in general.
Hemingway praises Alito for blending topicality with lasting principles.
Going deeper, beyond the recent declarations by insiders that neither Alito or Thomas will resign in June, she speculates based only upon context dug up by her research, there may be a resignation by Chief Justice Roberts!
For us Court watchers here, this would be wonderful.
Between the months of Dobbs leak fiasco, which placed lives of Right-leaders on the Court in jeopardy, and other developments, Hemingway makes it clear that the argumentatively midget minded Leftists on the High Court are becoming obstructionist and destructive of everything Roberts hoped his court to be.
The surprisingly good news for us is more than welcome. But raises me to anticipate celebrations in the Right-minded world. Hopes that could be simply wrong, too.
Oh. and the long title I’m sure I’ll mess up is definitely celebratory: “Alito: How He Restructured the Supreme Court and Restored The Constitution.” Or some such.
Tregonsee314. I agree completely. Wow. It’s both a fantastic imitation of Cass Elliot and just a great performance. One of Cass’ best pieces. The rest of it is very good, but sort of pales in comparison to that vocal part.
The telescope will send 11 terabytes of data a day down to Earth, said Mark Melton, a systems engineer at Goddard Space Flight Center.
“In the first year, we’ll have sent down more data than Hubble will have for its entire life,” he told AFP.
Mike Plaiss, Thanks for the article on the “Roman” telescope. This is the kind of project that NASA should do instead of manned missions to the moon and mars. Those should be left to private enterprise. At least NASA will use a SpaceX rocket for the launch
“will be transported to Florida ahead of a launch into space aboard a SpaceX rocket planned for September at the earliest.”
Regarding the doomerism over 2026 and 2028, I invited neophiles to go back a litle over a year, to this same place. The comments then were all about the how the Dems were collapsing and so forth. Now the Dems have revived somewhat in the usual gyroscopic pattern, and Doom is in the air.
They were never as ‘down’ as they seemed in early 2025 and they are not as ‘up’ as is being portrayed or perceived right now.
2026 is worrisome, for the same reasons off-year elections usually are: the out-party is angry and frustrated and motivated and the party-in-power has always, 100% of the time, disappointed its supporters, because nothing else is possible.
But nothing is written in stone, either. Remember the Red Wave of 2022?
Possibly our biggest problem is that at heart, most rank-and-file GOP voters are
An anatomy of insanity (Matti Friedman):
“Introduction to Gazology;
“A new literary genre refashions the ruins of Gaza into a dark political parable with a familiar villain.”— https://www.thefp.com/p/introduction-to-gazology
H/T Powerline blog.
Mariner pitcher Logan Gilbert took a 108 mph line drive to the chest that went between two buttons on his shirt and got caught in his jersey. Ruled a base hit cuz you can’t catch the ball with your jersey. I’ve never seen that before.
Ok – that sent me scrambling to my MLB app. Incredible.
UPDATE posted on yesterday’s open thread on the DOJ charging the SPLC with crimes, and the deceptive defense implying innocence by Propaganda NBC News. Here’s the real news:
X.com, PoliMath posts:
“PoIiMath
@politicalmath
There is a pending community note on this, but it is infuriating that a huge newspaper will just flat-out lie about the news.
SPLC was not ‘indicted for paying sources.’They were indicted for wire fraud and making false statements. Just tell us the truth! It’s not that hard!”
Which newspaper? I have not yet checked, but undoubtedly it carried the same spin as NBC News.
SOURCE from a recent post at Instapundit.
Many thanks to Barry Meislin for his LINKS.
Author of thefp.com story, Matti Friedman gets this thanks in the comments— thanking him for reading trash books “so I don’t have to.”
TRUE for me.
After this at the bottom, there’s worthy humor in a sub- headline: “Baseball Saved Me”
‘Why am I doing this to myself?’ asks Mets fan Will Rahn. ‘Maybe it’s because baseball breaks my heart in a way I can handle.’”
Will Rahn — 04.22.26
But even setting aside the SPLC’s highly questionable intentions for the money it funneled into the very same hate groups it was fundraising over, and even dismissing the question of whether it defrauded its gullible donors or not, there still remains the 800-lb gorilla in the briefing room— the financial crimes.
Maybe the CIA can get away with using fake corporations to create bank accounts and launder money. For better or (probably) worse, the Central Intelligence Agency is allowed to do that for national security.
But I can’t do that. You can’t do it, either. Not without getting locked up in chokey.
And the Southern Poverty Law Center definitely can’t launder money through fake corporations and fraudulent bank accounts, not legally. Even though it made up a dumb fake company with the initials “CIA,” and probably wishes it were, the SPLC is not the CIA. Every single payment it made from a fake bank account is wire fraud. It might even be a conspiracy to commit crimes, like the Charlottesville murder, if an Alabama jury concludes the death was reasonably foreseeable.
All that to say: this indictment is very serious. If I had to bet Michelle’s Tahoe, I would bet the SPLC does not survive this case as an organization. It would probably be easier for progressives to just start over from scratch than to scrape the SPLC out of this jam.
But there’s 800 million reasons they will fight to save the SPLC.
? $800 million. Sitting in a bank account owned by the SPLC, waiting to be deployed during the midterm elections. That’s $800 million presumably flowing from progressive donors who didn’t know about all the SPLC’s sketchy funny-business, like paying Charlottesville neo-nazis a cool quarter-million —in normal-sized, pre-pandemic dollars— to hold a hateful riot that got people killed.
A criminal indictment from a grand jury directed at persons allows the government to hold them in custody until trial, unless the judge sets bail. But they can’t lock up a non-profit corporation. It just won’t work. The building is too big. It won’t even fit in an above-average prison cell.
But what federal law does allow under a criminal indictment is freezing fraudulently obtained assets pending forfeiture. In other words, the DOJ can now freeze some or all of the SPLC’s $800 million political war chest. Six months out from the midterm elections.
Let’s say you were advising President Trump. He asks you, “when do you think would be the best time, politically, to unleash all this judicial wrath?” He means all the arrests and prosecutions. ActBlue, SPLC, RussiaGate conspirators, 2020 election fraudsters, and possibly even more incredible indictments. What would your answer be? If you think about it, there are only two reasonable choices for maximum political effect: (1) right before the midterms or (2) before the 2028 presidential election.
Think: October surprises.
Between the two options, the midterms seem to loom larger. If the midterms go pear-shaped, then 2028 might be a lost cause anyway. It must be the midterms. It might even be both. Either way, if I’m right, things will soon get even more exciting than this.
And, in that lens, the fact of Todd Blanche —President Trump’s personal lawyer— replacing Pam Bondi looks a lot different. This doesn’t look like any unforced error, as the trad-media narrative suggests. It looks more like raising up a wartime consigliere on the eve of battle.
You’ll know our theory is on the right track if the DOJ soon also indicts ActBlue, and freezes its assets. What happens to the Democrats’ already-depleted midterm war chest then? With the SPLC sidelined and ActBlue on ice, it would be catastrophic. Depending on who else is involved, it could even be existential.
All the activity on social media over this indictment shows you just how politically thermonuclear it is. Not only is the SPLC institutionally at risk —the Democrat party’s political lawfare hub since 1971— but its $800 million is potentially in the wind as well. Even if DOJ ultimately loses the forfeiture counts, the money could remain tied up, off the table, till after the elections.
That’s all fun to think about, but at least we know now why the Atlantic just launched a badly sourced, zero-evidence hit job alleging FBI Director Kash Patel was a drunk. The timing strongly suggests they were trying to get ahead of the SPLC story.
They saw it coming. They had 800 million reasons to do … something. They just didn’t see it coming fast enough.
Maybe he’s right, or partially right, or completely wrong.
But you can’t say he doesn’t weave a good conspiracy theory.
“What’s the difference between a conspiracy theory and a conspiracy?”
About 3 days.
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The Alto singer has matched Mama Cass in sound. That is NOT easy to do, that range is way at the bottom of the usual female vocal range and normally woman sound breathy and quiet down there (short a few operatic Contraltos who have a totally different sound). An impressive display of singing.
https://althouse.blogspot.com/2026/04/its-discouraging-to-come-up-here-and.html
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The sheer arrogance of the bint presiding is what grates.
AWFL rules.
Molly Hemingway, the author of a book on Justice Kavanaugh’s travails, is out with a new book on Justice Alito.
After interviewing about 100 people about Alito, including SCOTUS Justices, she’s declaring Justice Alito a conservative role model — not just for lawyers and judges — but for folks on the Right in general.
Hemingway praises Alito for blending topicality with lasting principles.
Here’s here fresh 15 minute interview. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IW24Jdjf_X4
Going deeper, beyond the recent declarations by insiders that neither Alito or Thomas will resign in June, she speculates based only upon context dug up by her research, there may be a resignation by Chief Justice Roberts!
For us Court watchers here, this would be wonderful.
Between the months of Dobbs leak fiasco, which placed lives of Right-leaders on the Court in jeopardy, and other developments, Hemingway makes it clear that the argumentatively midget minded Leftists on the High Court are becoming obstructionist and destructive of everything Roberts hoped his court to be.
The surprisingly good news for us is more than welcome. But raises me to anticipate celebrations in the Right-minded world. Hopes that could be simply wrong, too.
Oh. and the long title I’m sure I’ll mess up is definitely celebratory: “Alito: How He Restructured the Supreme Court and Restored The Constitution.” Or some such.
Tregonsee314. I agree completely. Wow. It’s both a fantastic imitation of Cass Elliot and just a great performance. One of Cass’ best pieces. The rest of it is very good, but sort of pales in comparison to that vocal part.
https://archive.org/details/us-supreme-court
That is a new facility and one to bookmark, keeping to hand when you wish to read decisions past and present.
Meet the next great space telescope:
https://phys.org/news/2026-04-nasa-unveils-roman-telescope-universe.html
Mike Plaiss, Thanks for the article on the “Roman” telescope. This is the kind of project that NASA should do instead of manned missions to the moon and mars. Those should be left to private enterprise. At least NASA will use a SpaceX rocket for the launch
“will be transported to Florida ahead of a launch into space aboard a SpaceX rocket planned for September at the earliest.”
Regarding the doomerism over 2026 and 2028, I invited neophiles to go back a litle over a year, to this same place. The comments then were all about the how the Dems were collapsing and so forth. Now the Dems have revived somewhat in the usual gyroscopic pattern, and Doom is in the air.
They were never as ‘down’ as they seemed in early 2025 and they are not as ‘up’ as is being portrayed or perceived right now.
2026 is worrisome, for the same reasons off-year elections usually are: the out-party is angry and frustrated and motivated and the party-in-power has always, 100% of the time, disappointed its supporters, because nothing else is possible.
But nothing is written in stone, either. Remember the Red Wave of 2022?
Possibly our biggest problem is that at heart, most rank-and-file GOP voters are
An anatomy of insanity (Matti Friedman):
“Introduction to Gazology;
“A new literary genre refashions the ruins of Gaza into a dark political parable with a familiar villain.”—
https://www.thefp.com/p/introduction-to-gazology
H/T Powerline blog.
+ Related…
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/425934
NixonLeo goes toChinaAlgeria…“French-Algerian Author Kamel Daoud Sentenced to 3 Years by Algeria Over Novel”—
https://www.newsmax.com/world/globaltalk/france-algeria-writer-kamel-daoud-sentenced/2026/04/22/id/1253796/
Mariner pitcher Logan Gilbert took a 108 mph line drive to the chest that went between two buttons on his shirt and got caught in his jersey. Ruled a base hit cuz you can’t catch the ball with your jersey. I’ve never seen that before.
Ok – that sent me scrambling to my MLB app. Incredible.
Fortunately Gilbert was sideways to the hit, so it didn’t hit him flush in the chest, which could have been fatal (commotio cordis). As in this incident a couple of months ago (fortunately the kid survived).
https://www.newson6.com/tulsa-oklahoma-news/high-school-baseball-player-collapses-after-line-drive-to-chest-aed-saves-his-life
UPDATE posted on yesterday’s open thread on the DOJ charging the SPLC with crimes, and the deceptive defense implying innocence by Propaganda NBC News. Here’s the real news:
X.com, PoliMath posts:
“PoIiMath
@politicalmath
There is a pending community note on this, but it is infuriating that a huge newspaper will just flat-out lie about the news.
SPLC was not ‘indicted for paying sources.’They were indicted for wire fraud and making false statements. Just tell us the truth! It’s not that hard!”
Which newspaper? I have not yet checked, but undoubtedly it carried the same spin as NBC News.
SOURCE from a recent post at Instapundit.
Many thanks to Barry Meislin for his LINKS.
Author of thefp.com story, Matti Friedman gets this thanks in the comments— thanking him for reading trash books “so I don’t have to.”
TRUE for me.
After this at the bottom, there’s worthy humor in a sub- headline: “Baseball Saved Me”
‘Why am I doing this to myself?’ asks Mets fan Will Rahn. ‘Maybe it’s because baseball breaks my heart in a way I can handle.’”
Will Rahn — 04.22.26
TRUE again.
Jeff Childers cuts to the heart of the SPLC indictment, after having his fun eviscerating the organization itself:
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/800-million-reasons-wednesday-april
Maybe he’s right, or partially right, or completely wrong.
But you can’t say he doesn’t weave a good conspiracy theory.
“What’s the difference between a conspiracy theory and a conspiracy?”
About 3 days.