You will not be surprised to learn that Turning Point USA CEO Erika Kirk was informed by the US Secret Service that there was no threat to her on the University of Georgia’s campus on during the Tuesday event she was to host with neckbeareded Vice President JD Vance but she still ghosted anyway, CBS News reports, adding that she’s not expected to appear at an upcoming series of rallies by her late husband’s organization either. Big W for Candace Owens in this round. Again.

TOM HOMAN: "They want masks off. Well, you know what? We'll consider taking masks off when you stop going on national TV and calling ICE racists, and Nazis, and secret police!" pic.twitter.com/WUHwktV5Jg

— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) April 16, 2026

An Idaho pilot who had a few too many wine coolers or Mike’s Hard Strawberry or something before he got behind the throttle of his SS-7 Super Sport single engine plane last November and then subsequently crashed it onto a local road was sentenced Thursday to 30 days in the clink, two years probation, and $50,730 in restitution to be paid in full by March 2028, the Idaho Statesman reports.

Well it’s not specified what 61 year-old Michael Verzwyvelt drank but “wine coolers or Mike’s Hard Strawberry” sounded funny. He blew a 0.213 BAC after the crash onto North Orchard Street in Twin Falls that injured himself and a passenger, that number closer to three times the legal limit for driving than just twice. In any event, and as mentioned, he was not driving but flying a plane, and in Idaho it’s illegal to operate an aircraft within eight hours of drinking any alcoholic beverage, or while having a BAC at or over 0.04… So really Verzwyvelt was at flying at roughly 5.3 times the legal limit.

“I just had excellent conversations with the Highly Respected President Joseph Aoun, of Lebanon, and Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu, of Israel. These two Leaders have agreed that in order to achieve PEACE between their Countries, they will formally begin a 10 Day CEASEFIRE at 5 PM EST.”

“On Tuesday, the two Countries met for the first time in 34 years here in Washington, DC, with our Great Secretary of State, Marco Rubio. I have directed Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Rubio, together with the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Dan Razin’ Caine, to work with Israel and Lebanon to achieve a Lasting PEACE. It has been my Honor to solve 9 Wars across the World, and this will be my 10th, so let’s, GET IT DONE!” posted convicted felon President Trump on Thursday and the “10th” means he’s almost certainly counting US vs Denmark. Fucking loser, lol.

Can’t help you if you don’t know what “white hat” means. Do your own research… *snicker*.

The University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, aka “Sabato’s Crystal Ball,” says that “while the result may not be the type of sweeping affirmation that Democrats got in last year’s elections, it would still be a surprise” if next week’s referendum on the redistricting ballot measure set to nuke four out of the five currently GOP-held US House seats ends up failing given the turnout patterns so far.

The measure still has to get past the state Supreme Court after the vote but that would be pretty goddamned lame of them to simply block something that had already been polled. “We could understand if judges on the court are privately hoping the ballot measure fails, if only so that this case is rendered moot,” Team Sabato writes and yes, that’s how judges should actually feel.

The restless, weary husk of a discount airline that drifts among the living may finally transition out of our realm into the eternal soon as CNBC reports that Spirit Airlines may liquidate any day now.

The ghastly, cursed wraith of a carrier declared bankruptcy twice in just the past year but the ferryman beckons them to save the two pence toll for the journey ‘cross Acheron and into the void, for the Orange God King’s call to war hath deprived them of treasure to fuel the fires of chariots!

Woe! So much toil! So much grief! Yet Poseidon cares not for thou pleadings nor bargains! Curse him, praise him, blind thyself to his wrath, it matters none! Fair Icarus plunged all the same!

Delivering remarks to the faithful gathered in Cameroon during his multi-country tour of Africa on Thursday, Pope Leo XVI proclaimed “woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth,” USA Today reports while stipulating there wasn’t any mention of specific names.

Still, saying the world is “turned upside down, an exploitation of God’s creation that must be denounced and rejected by every honest conscience” and “ravaged by a handful of tyrants” who “manipulate” religion for petty political and military gain, it’s hard to think of who else he meant.

Guess it’s on the two sick freaks in charge of the US military and/or their loyal cultists to respond to validate the Pope’s criticisms. Should be fun to see them completely lose their shit again.

A South African magistrate judge on Thursday slapped opposition party Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema with five years in the joint for a 2018 incident in which he got a little excited at a rally in the East Cape Province and fired a rifle into the air on stage, leading to the eight-year court battle that ended in his conviction on charges including unlawful possession of a firearm and discharging a weapon in a public place and now the fairly stiff sentence, Sky News reports.

“We hear daily, or weekly, of children playing in the front yards, in the street, who are caught in crossfire, random shots fired, killing people. It’s just the first time that we hear, it’s being called celebratory shots,” Magistrate Twanet Olivie told the 45 year-old, who was just reenacting the famous Congressional address scene from Idiocracy in which US President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Camacho fired a fully automatic M249 SAW Para into the ceiling to quiet rabble.

The five year bid, if it survives appeal, also comes with a lifetime ban from office for Malema.

Democratic former Virginia Lt Governor Justin Fairfax, who served under Gov Ralph Northam from 2018 to 2022, and his wife Cerina were found dead at their home in Annandale early Thursday after an apparent murder-suicide by Justin’s hand, NoVa Campaigns reports citing police dispatch records matching Fairfax’s publicly known address but with “names withheld pending NoK.” The couple, parents to two children, had been going through a divorce that Celina had filed recently.

Fairfax came in 4th in the 2021 Dem gubernatorial primary that Terry McAuliffe lost anyway.

The National Suicide Prevention Hotline in the United States is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week at 1-800-273-8255 or 988. Please call or text if you need to talk to someone. If you or someone you know is experiencing domestic abuse the National Domestic Violence Hotline is also 24/7 at 1-800-799-SAFE, via text by sending SAFE to 88788, or chat at thehotline.org.

Xanax prescribed and distributed between August 27, 2024 and May 29, 2025 was recalled by the FDA on March 17, 2026, People Magazine reported at 1:04 AM EDT on April 16, 2026 and then National Zero picked up and printed an article at 6:59 AM EDT on the same morning.

If you got those pills that the FDA says “Failed Dissolution Specifications” in your prescription then you shouldn’t take them. Or, far more likely, have taken them since Xanax typically isn’t the kind of drug that sits in people’s medicine cabinets and expires until they throw them out so much as whatever does not get ingested by a patient ends up simply being sold or given to friends without a prescription just so they can get a buzz. Or ground up and put in a Snapple bottle mixed with cheap vodka and Robitussin that an entrepreneurial fellow named “Alien Zack” sells for $50 each.

But you shouldn’t take the pills from that batch if you still have them. They’ve been recalled.

This week’s YouGov/Economist national survey asked respondents in a straight line “Which of these words would you use to describe Donald Trump?” and found that, among those who previously said they had voted for the Orange Tyrant in 2024, a slim plurality of 49 percent said “corrupt” does not describe him versus 8 percent who said yes it does describe him and, in that time-honored tradition for this pollster, 44 percent said they didn’t know, meaning “didn’t want to answer.” Overall it was 47 to 22 to 31 percent said yes, no, and don’t know if “corrupt” describes Trump, respectively.

On “racist,” just 52 percent of his voters could say he is not while 5 percent said he is, “intelligent” 66 percent said yes to 5 percent no. “Honest” was just 49 percent of Trump voters saying yes, 37 percent said no to “dangerous” – though the 16 percent saying yes on that one are probably seeing it as a positive. Same with “cruel” at 10 percent of the fat bastard’s 2024 voters saying yes to just 46 percent no. “Out-of-touch” was a rough one at only 41 percent of them saying he isn’t.

What makes these findings even more salient as to how Donald’s own voters view him is the contrast with the questions on his physical and mental health as pretty solid majorities still give him a vote of confidence on those metrics: 72 percent said “Trump is not suffering any cognitive decline” plus another 8 percent saying it’s just modest. On “physical decline” it was 62 percent none and 16 percent modest. Asked then “Is Trump too old to be President?” 77 percent of his voters said no.

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— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) April 16, 2026

Marjorie Taylor Greene for Speaker of the House.

— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) November 9, 2022

Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill “Fannie Man” Pulte showed convicted felon President Trump the meme of him healing a sick man last weekend at Mar-a-Lago prior to the fat bastard posting it, Axios reports while cautioning that it’s not clear whether Pulte actually sent to Trump or if he had merely showed it on his screen. “Everyone thought it was a joke,” a source said.

And it was. Then Trump posted it and it stopped being funny for him. That Pulte brought it to Trump’s attention and the leak to Axios tracks with internal hatred for Pulte as a uniquely venomous influence – even though Trump himself is a grown man with the agency to ignore him.

Peruvian fascist Ivanka Keiko Fujimori, daughter of former dictator Alberto Fujimori, took a lead in the ongoing count in the first round of the Andean country’s presidential election on Wednesday, pulling ahead of leftist congressman Roberto Sanchez’s 12.1 percent, right-wing former Lima mayor Rafael Lopez Aliaga at 11.9 percent and center-lefie ​Jorge Nieto in fourth at 11.1 percent, Reuters reports.

It’s not clear when Keiko will be arrested and imprisoned, but probably after she takes office.

Congratulations to Republican Policy Committee Chairman @JayObernolte! pic.twitter.com/MWs4kxMITS

— House Republicans (@HouseGOP) April 15, 2026

There’s just something off here. You could simply say the guy’s ugly, sure, but that doesn’t quite capture it. And look, Oregon Senator Ron Wyden is a weird looking man too. He’s also been around for a while so familiarity takes the edge off the weirdness. And this isn’t saying every man in Congress needs to look like Idris Elba. Schlubby men like Steve Scalise and James Comer are schlubby and it’s not their appearance that makes them detestable. Then there’s the deliberately unremarkable and neutral like Mike Johnson, Tim Scott, Alex Padilla or even the only marginally weird-looking like Jim Jordan, Adam Schiff, and Ted Cruz. Rick Scott’s reptilian-ism is creepy but again, the familiarity kind of takes the edge off. You know he’s only got some shapeshifting skills.

Jay Oberbnolte though. This dude’s just fucking weird looking and it’s vaguely unsettling.

“As the US war with Iran drives up gasoline prices, 65 percent of voters blame President Donald Trump either a lot (51 percent) or some (14 percent) for the recent rise in gasoline prices, while 34 percent blame Trump either not much (11 percent) or not at all (23 percent), according to a Quinnipiac University national poll of registered voters released today. Among Republicans, 22 percent blame Trump either a lot (9 percent) or some (13 percent) for the recent rise in gasoline prices, while 76 percent blame Trump either not much (23 percent) or not at all (53 percent).”

“Among Democrats, 97 percent blame Trump either a lot (91 percent) or some (6 percent) for the recent rise in gasoline prices, while 1 percent blame Trump not much. Among independents, 73 percent blame Trump either a lot (53 percent) or some (20 percent) for the recent rise in gasoline prices, while 25 percent blame Trump not much (10 percent) or not at all (15 percent),” says the toplines of this month’s Quinnipiac national survey that also finds the fat bastard 17 percent underwater on overall job rating at a dismal 38 to 55 percent approve/disapprove.

Kind of a poll design fail in that it could’ve made Trump fanboys look dumber by providing them options for who they do actually blame for it. Come on, give us some real embarrassment.