Posts on Wednesday, April 8, 2026

Happy Wednesday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. (Snip) Oh, where to begin with this one. If California Governor Gavin Newsom and his wife Jennifer Siebel Newsom were starring in a reality television show, an apt title for it would be, The Worst White People in America. You could actually rotate quite a cast of pasty, privileged Democrats through various episodes, but California's first fascist family would always be the most awful of the bunch. Mrs. Newsom has been popping up in the news a lot lately and, like so many prominent Dem women, the more I know about her, the more I dislike her. She likes to refer

By all available indications, the White House drafted a face-saving note and handed it, ready-made, to Islamabad.

The Times report was based on “a diplomatic memo understood to be based on American and Israeli intelligence and shared with Gulf allies.” The memo said Khamenei is suffering from a “severe condition” and is “unable to be involved in any decision making by the regime.” Qom is a provincial capital and one of the largest cities in Iran, located about 85 miles south of Tehran. The city has historic and religious significance to the Shia branch of Islam and boasts the largest Shiite madrassa (religious school) in Iran.

A recent poll found that a clear majority of Americans favor limiting politics in the classroom. This is bad news for teachers’ unions, who often advocate against that very thing. Consider the American Federation of Teachers (AFT). With 1.8 million members, the AFT is one of the largest teachers’ unions in the country. It has gained prominence less for advancing classroom outcomes and more for engaging in political activism far removed from instruction. This political activism has been evident recently, as illustrated by AFT president Randi Weingarten speaking at a “No Kings” protest in Minnesota and the organization’s increasing focus on anti-ICE efforts.

Over the last couple days, we’ve been hearing that, once the Dems take the midterms, they’ll immediately start preparations to try Donald Trump for war crimes in Iran. The loudest voice here – as is usually the case – is James Carville (actually, what he said was more like “We gone git that-theah Donal’ Trump for woah crimes roun’ heah.”), but he hasn’t been alone. Is there any truth to this? What they’re referring to, it seems, is Pres. Trump’s announcement that he intends to target infrastructure, particularly power generation and bridges,

The U.S. Supreme Court’s consideration of so-called “birthright citizenship” last week has rightly drawn many eyeballs to a high-profile subject involving the rule of law and judiciary. And while the issue is certainly important, there’s another newsworthy story related to the high court that isn’t receiving the attention it deserves. The New York Times published a seemingly under-the-radar piece on Friday titled, “Liberal Group Warns That Trump Could Have Two More Supreme Court Picks.” Authored by Times reporter Reid Epstein, the article disclosed plans by a far-left organization to disrupt potential Supreme Court nominations should they arise during President Trump’s second term.

The office of Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., offers internships “for college students to gain valuable work experience … [and] absorb the many functions of a Congressional office.” If the growing harassment allegations against the leftist lawmaker and leading Democrat candidate for California governor are true, Congress may want to put the kibosh on Swalwell’s tutelage program for young women. It seems the accomplice media has been too busy falling all over themselves in their absurd attempt to make Swalwell a martyr of President Donald Trump’s “weaponization of law enforcement” to pay much attention to the women coming forward accusing the swamp rat of inappropriate sexual conduct.

The past five years have seen a massive migration of Americans out of heavily Democratic counties and into ones where Donald Trump won majorities in each of the past three elections. That’s according to an exclusive analysis by Issues & Insights of the latest Census Bureau and election data. Most analyses of internal migration patterns look only at state-level data. And what they show is that blue states are losing population to red states, and have been for many years. I&I wanted to go deeper, so we used the latest Census data on migration between counties, and compared that with how these counties voted in the past three presidential elections.

President Trump expressed optimism Wednesday that the Iran war cease-fire agreement will usher in a “Golden Age” in the Middle East. “A big day for World Peace!” Trump wrote on Truth Social following the two-week cease-fire announcement. “Iran wants it to happen, they’ve had enough! Likewise, so has everyone else!” The commander in chief said the US “will be helping with the traffic buildup in the Strait of Hormuz” and “loading up with supplies of all kinds, just ‘hangin’ around’ in order to make sure that everything goes well.”

Iran has agreed to open the Strait of Hormuz and the United States and Israel will engage in a two-week ceasefire, President Donald Trump announced Tuesday. President Trump said that Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Field Marshal Asim Munir helped him orchestrate the deal. “Based on conversations with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Field Marshal Asim Munir, of Pakistan, and wherein they requested that I hold off the destructive force being sent tonight to Iran,

More than a year into the second Trump administration, the Republican chairman of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations says his staff is combing through nearly 11 million pages of documents to unmask the full extent of the Biden administration's "cover-up" of COVID-19 vaccine side effects to maximize shots in arms. "We're going to continue to dig, but I think [...] we're just scratching the surface in terms of what they covered up," Chairman Ron Johnson, of Wisconsin, told Just the News, No Noise this week. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is "trying to get the agencies to respond" to the committee's targeted document requests,

U.S. stock futures jumped higher and oil prices plunged after President Trump announced a two-week ceasefire and a potential longer peace deal with Iran on Tuesday night. Futures indicated a two percent rise in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. S&P futures were up 2.3 percent and Nasdaq futures were up nearly three percent. Oil prices fell sharply. Brent crude futures fell by around 13.5 percent to $94.50 a barrel. West Texas Intermediate futures dropped 14.7 percent to $96.40 a barrel. U.S. natural gas prices dropped by 3.6 percent. U.S. home heating oil futures dropped by more than 18 percent. Stocks in Asia rallied on the news.

The end of the mullahs’ civilization has been called off, at least for now and probably forever. President Trump is characterizing it positively: President Trump agreed to a two-week pause on military strikes on Iran in a dramatic pivot less than 90 minutes from his 8 p.m. deadline — saying it was subject to Tehran agreeing to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. In a statement on Truth Social, Trump said he spoke with Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Field Marshal Asim Munir, who urged him to hold off on what he described as a “destructive force” set to be unleashed on Iran.

Democrats and their media allies have worked overtime to paint President Donald Trump as reckless, unstable, and dangerously unfit to lead. The latest excuse for their hysteria came after Trump put pressure on Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, which has been effectively closed since February, cutting off roughly 20% of the world’s oil supply. They’ve been daring the United States to respond ever since, and Trump did respond. And that’s when the left completely lost it. On Tuesday morning, Trump issued a blunt warning on Truth Social. He demanded that Iran reopen the Strait of Hormuz. He set a deadline and made it clear he wasn’t bluffing. He warned

The Elitist Media are predictable because their Trump derangement pushes them into predictable patterns of conduct which then manifests on the air and in real time. This predictability extends to media reactions to the announcement of a two-week ceasefire in Iran, as demonstrated by CNN’s Erin Burnett. Watch as Burnett bemoans President Donald Trump not obliterating “a whole civilization” as proof evident of “Trump Always Chickens Out:” SO PREDICTABLE: Erin Burnett proclaims TACO after Trump announces a ceasefire with Iran pic.twitter.com/jnykqC9j7x — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) April 8, 2026 ERIN BURNETT: And then, of course, Max, then you get to the practicality

Welp. Guess the threat of Armageddon and Trump not backing down in the face of the world going nuts on him sent some shivers down the Iranian regime's legs. Spazz cases. But they're not the ones in the crosshairs who have to do the risk calculations. I had an inkling something had shivered mullah timbers when I saw this just a few hours ago. Like, 'Hey!' MAYBE THIS FLIPPIN' GUY'S FOR #REALZ!!! And they BLINKED The announcement has just come straight from the president. "I agree to suspend the bombing and attack of Iran for a period of two weeks." "This will be a double sided CEASEFIRE! The reason for doing so

Will Donald Trump follow through on his ultimatum to target and destroy Iran’s energy infrastructure if the Strait of Hormuz did not fully reopen? We are still about 90 minutes away from H-Hour on that demand. However, we have already seen this threat expose the hypocrisy, ignorance, and propagandizing of the American media – and not just from legacy media outlets, either. Initially, I began addressing this in my Final Word post, but it got so extensive that it clearly requires a more definitive rebuttal. The “war crime” narrative in relation to Trump’s threats to target Iranian energy infrastructure didn’t start with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres,

Just a quick post to update on whether the 8pm Eastern deadline issued by President Donald Trump for Iran to cave is real or not. Spoiler alert: It's real. After a Truth Social and X cross-post by the President that promised a civilization-ending demise coming to the Iranian military junta running the country, a couple of things happened. The anti-Trump fever swamp leapt to war crime accusations, fears of nuclear weapons being used, and calls for emergency impeachment and/or 25th Amendment measures against Trump being deployed to fill the timelines of the online world and cable news outlets leading up to the deadline. Simultaneously,

MADISON, Wis. — The board that runs the Universities of Wisconsin voted unanimously Tuesday to fire the system’s president, drawing the ire of Republican lawmakers who called it a “partisan hatchet job.” Jay Rothman had refused an offer from the board of regents to quietly resign, saying it never gave a clear reason why he should.//snip//Rothman brokered a deal with Republicans in 2023 that called for freezing diversity hires and creating a position at UW-Madison focused on conservative thought in exchange for the Legislature releasing money for UW employee raises and tens of millions of dollars for construction projects across the system.

Don't necessarily expect this to show up at the gas pump instantaneously, but there's good news on the oil price front following President Trump's announcement that a tentative ceasefire agreement had been reached with Iran. It's probably too soon to call this a done deal — lots of i's to dot and t's to cross before that can be said. And...this is Iran we're talking about. Still, following the President's announcement of the potential deal, oil prices took a precipitous drop, marking the biggest one-day nosedive since 1991 and the Gulf War. Crude oil prices dropped sharply Tuesday evening, falling well under $100