• Musk sues bigmouth Bowman: Disgraced fire-alarm puller and former Democrat Congressman Jamaal Bowman is in the news again but probably wishes he weren’t. “He’s incompetent. He’s a thief. He’s a Nazi. And people don’t trust him,” said Bowman of Elon Musk during a recent CNN roundtable. How do we know this? “Because,” added Bowman, “they fired tens of thousands of people. … The court said the people have to go back, and now the people are coming back.” This didn’t sit well with Musk, who shot back via X: “I’ve had enough. Lawsuit inbound.” One would think that Bowman, a former middle school principal, would know better than to pick a fight with a guy who buys his bytes by the barrel. But then again, look at the sorry shape of our schools.

• Canadian elections set for April 28: In part to exploit surging nationalistic pride in response to Donald Trump’s trolling rhetoric and tariff increases, Canada’s new Prime Minister Mark Carney yesterday called for snap federal elections to be held on April 28. Canada’s Liberal Party was effectively dead in the water just months ago but is now poised to maintain its grip on power. Carney and the Liberals stand against Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre, whom many have likened to Trump in his populism. Poilievre appeared to be in the driver’s seat for becoming the next prime minister following Justin Trudeau’s collapse in public support and resignation. Ironically, Trump’s rhetoric regarding Canada being the “51st state” and his tariffs appear to have turned Canadian opinion in the Liberal Party’s favor, perhaps robbing him of an ally in the Canadian government with the Conservatives in power.

• Maine government agrees to obey the law: Maine Governor Janet Mills apparently thought she could somehow “obey the law” while still letting boys dressed as girls play in female sports. Mills had recently promised to take Donald Trump to court over his executive order upholding sports integrity, but she didn’t count on Trump’s silver bullet — pausing government funding. The University of Maine System has received $100 million in federal funds in recent years. Ergo, the threat of pulling that funding was all it took to force Maine into compliance on the transgenderism issue.

• AP retracts Trump/Putin “very good friends” lie: The Associated (read: Appropriated) Press has gotten sloppier since being ousted from the White House briefing room. Last week, the bureau yanked its fake news story about Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard saying that her boss and Russian President Vladimir Putin “are very good friends.” Gabbard said no such thing. Instead, she was talking about Donald Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. As the AP noted in an editor’s note at the bottom of the story: “This story was updated on Mar. 17, 2025, to delete erroneous reporting that … Gabbard said [Trump and Putin] ‘are very good friends.’” We’re sure the AP regrets the error, but in its defense, other than implying that Trump and Putin are drinking buddies, the story was accurate.

• FL returns millions to fed: After a meeting with DOGE head Elon Musk, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced that the Sunshine State would return $878 million in taxpayer funding to the federal government. “For years,” DeSantis explained, “Florida has been trying to return federal funds to the federal government due to the ideological strings attached by the Biden Administration — but they couldn’t even figure out how to accept it.” Indeed, that’s exactly why the Biden administration repeatedly rebuffed Florida’s efforts to return funding. That has now changed, as the Trump Treasury Department has accepted and will continue to accept any additional federal funding surplus that the state may identify. This is what fiscal responsibility looks like.

• The Left’s injunctive onslaught: The Democrats love to talk about Donald Trump’s “threat to democracy,” but what we’re seeing today is the real threat: an effort by a handful of leftist district judges to deny Trump his lawful Article II authority. Consider the numbers: During his four years in office, Joe Biden’s actions were hit with 14 nationwide injunctions while Barack Obama and George W. Bush received just 12 and six respectively during their eight years in office. Trump, meanwhile, was slapped with a whopping 64 injunctions during his first term, and he’s already at around 30 injunctions just two months into his second term. This is no way to run a country, and Missouri Senator Josh Hawley says he’s introducing legislation to curb this “dramatic abuse of judicial authority.”

• Trump revokes Biden’s “parole” of 500,000 migrants: The dubious migrant “parole” program created under Joe Biden, known as CHNV (Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela), is being revoked by the Department of Homeland Security, which questioned its legality. Over the last two years, more than 500,000 individuals were brought into the U.S. via the program, which required U.S.-based sponsors to admit applicants. According to the Trump administration, however, the program was rife with fraud. Indeed, the program was such a mess that even the Biden administration temporarily shut it down last year. Biden’s theory behind the CHVN was that it would help stop the masses of migrants illegally crossing the border. However, it had little impact. Now, these unauthorized migrants have 30 days to leave the U.S.

• Trump announces sixth-generation F-47 fighter jet: On Friday, Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced that the Pentagon has awarded to Boeing the contract for the Air Force’s “Next Generation Air Dominance Fighter,” the F-47, because, well, the F-45/47 doesn’t roll off the tongue quite as neatly. “Air dominance is not a birthright,” said Air Force Chief of Staff David Allvin from the Oval Office on Friday. Rather, he said, “[It] needs to be earned every single day. … And with this F-47 as the crown jewel in the next-generation air dominance family of systems, we’re going to be able to keep that promise well into the future.” The F-47 will command a fleet of autonomous drones as wingmen, which will extend its range and capabilities, as well as protect our Airmen from potentially lethal air combat situations.

• Measles resurgence and COVID distrust: Measles outbreaks are on the rise nationwide, even though the disease was nearly eradicated in the U.S. thanks to vaccination efforts. The surge in cases is directly tied to a decrease in the number of children getting vaccines. Prior to COVID, 95% of American kindergarteners received measles vaccines, but that figure has dropped in the years following the pandemic — now down to 93% last school year. In some regions of the country, childhood vaccination percentages have fallen below 80%. While many point to vaccine critics, such as HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., as the cause, in truth, the driver in vaccination distrust was the public health bureaucracy’s abysmal response to COVID. The CDC willingly pushed political narratives aimed at controlling public behavior rather than simply providing scientific data, and people responded with a predictably high level of distrust.

• NC Supreme Court rules student can sue over unwilling vaccination: Do you have the right to control your own medical care and that of your children? That’s the issue at the heart of a case in North Carolina, where two courts ruled that during a nationwide crisis like the COVID lockdowns, the answer is “No.” Now, the North Carolina Supreme Court has overturned those decisions and ruled that the state does not get to force experimental vaccines on non-consenting Americans just because there’s a crisis. A woman and her teenage son now have the chance to advance their lawsuit against the Guilford County Board of Education and the Old North State Medical Society over vaccinating him despite his insistence that neither he nor his parents consented.

Headlines

• Columbia caves to Trump in first stage of $430 million funding fight (Washington Free Beacon)

• Disney’s “Snow White” falls flat with weak $43 million opening weekend (Washington Examiner)

• Effort to block second majority-black district in Louisiana comes to Supreme Court (SCOTUSblog)

• U.S. peace talks with Ukraine, Russia get underway in Saudi Arabia (Fox News)

• Former Utah Congresswoman Mia Love dies after brain cancer battle (Daily Wire)

• Humor: Seven most shocking revelations from the JFK Files (Babylon Bee)

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