I have two stacks on my desk. The left stack is financial disclosure forms from members of Congress. The right stack is waivers for members who filed their financial disclosures late.
— Peter Girnus 🦅 (@gothburz) April 24, 2026
The right stack is always taller.
On Wednesday morning, I watched a soldier get arrested on…
Category Archives: Political Commentary
Better Late Than Never
No more Pell Grants for crap degrees. But the loan program still needs a massive overhaul, if not obliterated entirely.
The Latest From Jared
I understand some in the community have an affinity for specific hardware, but the focus should be on outcomes. With respect to SLS, the desired outcome is launching crewed Orion spacecraft at a reasonable cadence, rebuilding muscle memory, and buying down risk so we can land…
— Jared Isaacman (@rookisaacman) April 17, 2026
[Mid-morning update]
An interesting interview with him.
[Noon update]
ICYMI, from Jared’s X post: “I do not want to throw away billions of taxpayer dollars, and time we do not have, on a flavor of a rocket that is not necessary to return astronauts to the moon.”
[Thursday-afternoon update]
Bob Zimmerman has thoughts on his Congressional hearing.
[Bumped]
The SPLC
🧵🚨 THREAD: How the Charlottesville rally and SPLC birthed an entire billion-dollar-plus "democracy" ecosystem 🚨
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) April 22, 2026
11 federal counts. Wire fraud. Money laundering conspiracy. But here's what the SPLC headlines are missing:
• The indictment describes a paid informant in the… pic.twitter.com/iCQeu550kB
Is it possible that, after all these years, there will finally be consequences for this massive lawlessness and corruption?
[Update a while later]
Is anything the Democrats do not fraudulent?
With the organized-crime syndicate that is the Democrat party, it being fraudulent is always the way to bet.
The Real Reason Hegseth Is Targeted
🧵 THREAD: The true reason Pete Hegseth is being targeted is because he's standing between President Trump and a coup@PeteHegseth named the institutions… CFR, Brookings, the general class… in 37 seconds in a video by @Liz_Wheeler . Within 72 hours of his nomination, a color… pic.twitter.com/DgWilvJlf8
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) April 21, 2026
The “Palestinians”
Everyone is lying to you about them: A history.
The Chief Justice
He has been a disappointment, but then so was George W. Bush in general.
On The Iran War
Jeff Greason
I haven’t listened yet (it’s a two-hour interview), but I’m sure it’s interesting:
This has gone live now. Wide ranging; how I got in the field, what worthy goals are for the space enterprise, some of what we need, and of course, advanced propulsion. Gets a little emotional in spots. And 2 hours long ….https://t.co/CyO6dZPone
— Jeff Greason (@JeffGreason) April 16, 2026
Thanks to @tmro https://t.co/iIdePreSGP
Intelligence Versus Wisdom
Interesting thoughts. One of the purposes of the Senate was to be the wise house, to tamp down the impetuosity of the People’s House. We lost a lot of that with the 17th Amendment.
[Update a few minutes later]
Related: “An AI trained on engagement will optimize for engagement. An AI trained on profit will optimize for profit. An AI trained on wisdom would optimize for something else entirely, but we would have to know what wisdom looks like before we could train for it. And we have spent the last century systematically dismantling every institution that once tried to answer that question.”