TODAY'S NEWS, April 25-27, 2026

Larry Schweikart
Apr 27
8 min read

Updated: Apr 29

HEADLINES: Another Trump assassination attempt; Appeals court upholds TX immigration law; MS now to redistrict to offset VA

The News of Today is the History of Tomorrow

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IN POLITICAL NEWS

1) A third attempt (that we know of) on President Trump's life was foiled at the White House Correspondents' Dinner when a "model student" from (where else?) Kollyfornia tried to run the metal detector gauntlet at the venue and was taken down by Secret Service. He literally ran by a couple of SS agents. Cole Allen had studied at Cal Tech and was viewed as extremely smart, well, til now. He is in custody and is charged with two felonies. If the descriptions of this guy are correct, he sounds entirely like someone who was "activated" from a cell. He referred to himself as the "Friendly Federal Assassin." His tweets show a total radicalized leftist who must have played Chuckie SpewMore speeches for bedtime. But was this guy a DemoKKKrat sleeper cell? Jeff Childers posted a single tweet from 2023 from a guy who worked with him with only the words "Cole Allen." I guess the, ahem, secret agencies behind this didn't feel it necessary to add, "YOU ARE ACTIVATED! CONTRATULATIONS!" As Jeff Childers pointed out yesterday, the three attempted assassinations had a lot in common, including apparent thorough understanding of all Secret Service security protocols, how to operate just outside of the security zone, and so on. Or, as he puts it, these random loners keep managing to show up at precisely the point where the security is thinnest. At least the New York Slimes noted "Again, a Gunman Got Perilously Close to Trump." And CNN managed to choke out that "It does appear the suspect was targeting members of the administration." Just as you do.

Cole was an ActBlue donor (shocked, I tell ya!) and his sister is a leftoid journalists in D.C. who well knew the layout of the building and the protocols. When the FBI raided his home, they found his stupid "Manifesto," which is replete with apologies while still trying to be a terrorist. As Jeff Childers observed, that the "Manifesto" reads "like a passive-aggressive, virtue-signaling email dispatched to a homeowners’ association." He worried about "inconveniencing" people before he killed them. ("It rubs the lotion on its skin, it does it when it's told").

. Soon, he may be sharing a cell with the other failed Trump shooter, Ryan "Baby" Routh. Cole did not reach the ballroom, where President Trump on stage was hustled off along with Melania and J.D. Vance. In the audience, RFK, Jr. sat straight up and defiant, while Stephen Miller covered his wife with his body. The brave correspondents otherwise all obeyed the directions to "get down," much like the squidpickles in the Capitol on Patriot Day, J6, when they cowered under their desks. Trump wanted to return and finish the event. Trump noted that one SS agent was shot, but was wearing a vest and "is doing great." By the way, you do know that this was the same location (well, outside) where Ronald Reagan was shot in 1981? Fetterman Massacre, who increasingly seems like perhaps one of the only uncorrupted people in D.C., says "build the damn ballroom" (meaning Trump's ballroom) because the Hilton wasn't built for these kinds of events. Meanwhile the grotesqueness of the Hoax News media, whose stupid profession was to be celebrated at the dinner, is epitomized in PBS calling this, not an "assassination attempt" which it was, but a "security incident." That's like calling Kareem Abdul-Jabbar a "good playground baller." Typical of the demented DemoKKKrat Terror Party is a leftoid brewery owner who told customers "We can't give you free beer because the assassination attempt failed." And this---maybe surprising, maybe not: support for political violence increases with educational level.

2) MS is not waiting for the Supes to rule in the racial redistricting case, and will redistrict themselves, adding another likely GOP seat, or diluting the VA redistricting (which has been put on hold by a judge) down to just a gain of 2 for DemoKKKrats. Meanwhile, Kollyfornia has been forced to put a measure for photo ID requirements to vote on the ballot this November.

3) Illicit Mullah Omar's husband/brother shut down his winery after investigations into their $30 million fortune. She also has directed over $1.4 million to a "nonprofit" that has a Somali restaurant as an address.

4) Seth Keshel's new voter revistration numbers through March are up: 16 states swung further red in registrations, 9 to Ds, some had no change. Overall, Rs gained a net of over 1.3 million since November 2024, and many of the D gains have been back and forth or extremely small (as in UT). Still the overall trend is significantly---but now no longer universally---in the direction of the GOP.

5) The Department of War has announced that project Golden Dome to protect the U.S. homeland from missile attack has completed its final blueprint and that cantracts are being let already.

6) Small Business Administration Secretary Kelly Loeffler just announced that over 500,000 fraudulent loans totaling over $22 billion have been referred to J.D. Vance's Fraud Task Force for collection.

7) Shipwreckedcrew explains why Washington State's new "climate commitment plan" is thoroughly spoogified and destructive. It redirects money collected from producing businesses to NGOs that are drenched in DEI. At least 35% of the "remittances" must go to "environmental justice projects." I hope Kash Patel and the FBI are all over this like LeBron James on a camera.

8) The DoJ has brought back firing squalds for federal capital crimes punishment.

9) The USN is back with new ships, EW, and a big budget.

10) The Amazing Moron Zohran started a war with New York City's wealthy, and now is trying to defuse billionaire Ken Griffen of Citadel, who has threatened to take his business elsewhere.

20) The great Ryan Burge shows that while independents aren't moving at all, white Christians are absolutely running to the GOP. As he says, the white Christian DemoKKKrat is going extinct. Good. Let's hope the whole party goes extinct.

21) Another D-R state legislative flip, this one in NH.

22) The Supes reversed a lower court that tried to undo the TX redistricting. Good news. Bad news? It suggests whatever the VA supes do regarding their redistricting will be upheld. And that court is shaky at 4-3 R but not MAGA judges. And Gov. Ron DeSantis announced a redistricting in FL that would add 4 GOP seats, actually gaining one if VA's redistricting holds. MS also is redistricting. All of this should shake out to a net national gain of R+2 or 3.

IN AI NEWS

23) Last week I gave you the doomer/Matrix/Skynet analysis of AI. Now Apple produces a paper that says it can't "reason" at all and can't do a puzzle a 7-year-old can. We have a very, very wide discrepancy of interpretations about AI's abilities.

24) Does this fall under "Know thyself?" Reearchers sent ChatGPT two sets of resumes, one written by ChatGPT and one by a human. ChatGPT picked the AI version most of the time.

25) There are a growing number of men, particularly older men, falling for AI females in a "pandemic of loneliness." Heck, I can spot these right away. They tell me I'm smart and handsome.

26) David Blackmon reports on a cautionary tale regarding AI data centers, one of which failed in TX because it didn't have the business to support the infrastructure.

IN ILLEGAL CRIMINAL ALIEN NEWS

27) This is pretty much the pattern. Either President Trump or a state cracks down on illegals, then a bacteria-burner judge invalidates it, then an appeals court restores it, as in TX where the state now can return to illegal criminal alien border crossings.

28) Housing and Urban Developent just changed the rules for getting housing subsidies. Ya gotta be an 'Merican.

IN CULTURAL NEWS

29) In my Substack yesterday, I looked at new evidence on gun ownership in America, which continues to debunk the goofball book (the contract was subsequently rescinded, as was the Bancroft Prize for best book in history which the fraud "won). Boston siege records of 1775 show that residents could leave the city if they turned in their guns, and over 1,778 weapons were collected from less than half of the city's 5,000 population, including almost 700 (very expensive) handguns..

30) Lisa Britton argues that a decades-long attack on male ambition is having its predictable negative effects. As she writes "Young men today are struggling with purpose, direction, motivation and hope. Suicide rates for males remain tragically high. Workforce participation among men in their prime is dropping."

31) A FL pastor who wrote a book on how to love your spouse was arrested on charges of polygamy. Well, in fairness he didn't say which spouse.

IN ECONOMIC NEWS

32) American oil and LNG exports are soaring.

33) First the Russkies said they would stay with the dollar. Now dollar denominated transactions have risen to an all time high. Goodbye, Yellow BRICS road.

34) In the data center wars, this couple refused an offer of $26 million for their farm. A friend in TX tells me that the data centers are active in trying to separate farmers and ranchers from their lands.

35) A 20 story tower in Groomer City went up for auction and there was not a single bid for it. Not even $1.

36) Not waiting around. TX will build a desalinization plant via an Israeli firm.

IN INTERNATIONAL NEWS

37) The Huns, whose IQ appears to be shrinking faster than the Phoenix Suns title chances, released a new ad for birth control showing a German (nordic) couple in bed . . . with a migrant. Sick, stupid, and suicidal.

38) Aussies are calling it the "ship of shame" as the first of Trump-directed oil tankers arrive to bail out the Roo-ranchers. Yeah, that's what your stupid, woke, green policies get you. Total dependence on the one sane country in the world.

39) The Huns are rapidly deindustrializing.

40) The rest of Europe admits the world runs on gas and oil, and is doing its darndest to deliberately destroy its own resources. Gooood. The sooner this sick cow, the modern Ottoman Empire, shirvels up and dies, the better off the world will be.

41) The head of Occidental Petroleum said "We need to be more of a U.S. company." This is a realization most big corporations will come to.

42) Quite revealing, as the Iranian government just uncovered a new mural of the dead leaders---and the latest guy is on it, meaning he's dead, Jim.

43) Iran's oil supply grows daily as they cannot sell. David Blackmon reports one expert who says: "On April 26, TankerTrackers published satellite-based open-source intelligence reporting approximately one point zero five billion dollars of Iranian crude forced back to Kharg by US Navy interdictions, with a separate three hundred eighty million dollars seized by the US Coast Guard in the Indian Ocean and diverted toward the United States. CENTCOM’s running tally of redirected vessels rose to thirty-eight on April 27. At Brent prices near one hundred seven dollars per barrel, the implied volume returned and seized sits between thirteen and fourteen million barrels." Sorta like Hotel Kollifornia: you can pump it out any time you want . . . but it can never leave.

44) I don't speak Energy Swahili, but in an email David Blackmon was kind enough to explain the details of the pressuring problems the Iranians face: Iran's key formations are low pressure. The longer this blockade lasts, the more production Iran will permanently lose. Keep this in place through the end of this year, and iran's maximum production levels might drop from the previous 3.5 million barrels per day to half of that." We're talking about losses of half their daily output, regardless of any other tanker seizures.

AND FINALLY . . .

45) This is a great story of an MIT Math Professor, Gilbert Strang, who was influential in developing early complex math theories, then started the first "remote learning" program in history from MIT in 2002. When he retired in 2023 with a four-sentence finale, he had likely taught more people worldwide than any living academic. I recall my final day: we had already purchased our house in Arizona, my wife and brother-in-law had already flown out with one of my doggies, and a friend and I would drive from Dayton, OH, to Chandler, AZ with my dog, Stanley, whom we gave sufficient tranquilizers that he didn't run all over the car. He was extremely mellow. Stan is no longer with me, but the memory of that trip and my leaving the U will remain forever.