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Closing the tabs, opening the tomb …

Ed: For those who celebrate, a blessed Good Friday and Easter weekend! Good Friday is a company holiday here, which is why we had a light schedule today, and will post lightly over the weekend as well. A belated blessed Passover to our Jewish friends and readers as well!





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Ondrasik, who is not Jewish, said “one does not have to be Jewish to support Idit, her family, Israel. One merely needs to be human, have a heart, have a soul.”

Idit Ohel, who has described her son as “the boy whose piano is his second home,” told the New York Post on Wednesday that “music has a way of getting to people.”

“Music helps people connect,” she said. “Connect to the situation that Alon is in.”

Ed: Please share this as widely as you can. Let’s remind everyone what’s at stake. John Ondrasik has worked tirelessly to keep the focus where it needs to be.

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Alleged MS-13 gangbanger Kilmar Abrego Garcia was seen “sipping margaritas” with Sen. Chris Van Hollen on Thursday amid his high-profile deportation battle, according to photos shared by El Salvador President Nayib Bukele.

Bukele shared three pics of Van Hollen (D-Md.) meeting with Abrego Garcia — who was wrongly deported to El Salvador’s notorious megaprison last month — lounging in the country’s “tropical paradise” with what appeared to be salt-rimmed drinking glasses containing an unknown liquid and a cherry.

Ed: One of the pictures Van Hollen took with Abrego Garcia shows tattoos that reportedly are associated with MS-13 affiliation. I’m no expert in organized crime symbology, but if true, it would bolster the case that the Trump administration had a reasonable basis for their deportation order. And either way, this is a strange crusade for a Democrat Senator to launch, especially with a photographer in tow.





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Ed: Democrats will rue those photos in the end.

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A Chinese halt on Boeing, if sustained, risks backfiring on China’s homegrown plane maker Comac before the upstart is globally competitive. …

Now, China’s airlines have been told to withhold new orders for Boeing aircraft and seek approval before taking delivery on plane orders, people familiar with the situation told The Wall Street Journal this week. Nevertheless, Comac’s slow plane production means it is in no position to fill order books quickly, and if anyone benefits from the U.S.-China spat it will likely be Airbus. 

Moreover, by inserting aircraft into the trade war with the U.S., Beijing is inadvertently exposing a vulnerability, highlighting American power over Comac. The company’s leading commercial aircraft model, the C919, is airworthy because of critical technology from U.S. companies including GE Aerospace, Honeywell International and RTX.

Ed: China’s economy and development is much more fragile than ours. China has become a global economic power only by stealing Western innovation. If China loses access to that, it will fall behind rapidly as well as lose access to markets that would drive more organic innovation in a more market-based economy and political system.

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Ed: Is it good to finally get full transparency on 60-year investigations? Absolutely. Do I expect to find any major revelations in these cases that will change the conclusions? Naah. Those would have leaked decades ago. Transparency is being imposed now for transparency’s sake, and that’s a good thing, but don’t expect anything earthshaking otherwise.

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Former New York Times opinion editor James Bennet issued a tearful apology to Sarah Palin on the witness stand Thursday at a libel hearing over a 2017 editorial in the newspaper.

Testifying in federal court during the revived defamation trial, Bennet choked up as he admitted he “blew it” by erroneously linking Palin’s political action committee to the 2011 mass shooting that critically wounded Rep. Gabby Giffords (D-AZ) and killed six others.

“I did, and I do apologize to Gov. Palin for this mistake,” Bennet said, visibly emotional as a lawyer handed him a box of tissues.

Ed: Palin wasn’t impressed, asking reporters, “How many years ago was the untruth?” Bennet didn’t even get loyalty from the New York Times after this attack. They cut him loose for having the temerity to allow Tom Cotton to contribute a column about federal response to riots in 2020, apparently sullying the pages that only had included august figures like Vladimir Putin, mullah mouthpiece Javad Zarif, and other monsters of history previously. Speaking of which …

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Friday that the U.S. may “move on” from trying to secure a Russia-Ukraine peace deal if there is no progress in the coming days, after months of efforts have failed to bring an end to the fighting.





He spoke in Paris after landmark talks among U.S., Ukrainian and European officials produced outlines for steps toward peace and appeared to make some long-awaited progress. A new meeting is expected next week in London, and Rubio suggested that could be decisive in determining whether the Trump administration continues its involvement.

“We are now reaching a point where we need to decide whether this is even possible or not,” Rubio told reporters. “Because if it’s not, then I think we’re just going to move on. It’s not our war. We have other priorities to focus on.”

Ed: This is a real ****show now. Trump apparently thought he could get Putin to negotiate by buttering him up, but Putin’s not in this war to make friends and influence people. Trump belatedly shifted to tougher measures, but while still signaling that the US was preparing to bail out on Ukraine. Putin understands power, and nothing else. This all results from the initial moral inversion of blaming Ukraine for Russia’s invasion and buying into Putin’s narratives. That was a fatal error for Trump’s laudable ambitions to end what has become a purposeless meat grinder in the Donbas and elsewhere. 

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“Let me just say to all New Yorkers and to all Americans: The allegations are baseless. The allegations are nothing more than a revenge tour,” James told NY1 political anchor Errol Louis.





When pressed about the number of units in her Brooklyn home — referring to the federal allegation that the AG illegally listed the home as having four units instead of five — James held her cards close to the vest.

“As you know, as any good attorney, I will not litigate this case in a camera. It is important that we respond to these allegations at the appropriate time and in an appropriate way,” she said.

Ed: If this isn’t the appropriate time and way, why is Leticia Adams talking at all? She wants to testify publicly without cross-examination, essentially. Maybe she should just keep her mouth shut altogether, or else provide a full explanation for these documents and the apparent fraudulent purposes within them. 

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Ed: That seems like an “appropriate time and … way,” no?

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Joseph Seiders, the drummer for indie-rock band the New Pornographers, has been arrested for alleged possession of child pornography.

The Riverside County Sheriff’s Office said in a press release on Thursday that Seiders, who had been the band’s drummer for over a decade, was arrested on April 9 after two reports were made of suspicious behavior at a Palm Desert business. According to the Sheriff’s Office, an 11-year-old boy claimed an older male had recorded him in the bathroom at the location on April 7, and two days later they received another report from an employee who alleged he saw a man entering and exiting the bathroom with underage boys.





Ed: Variety reports further that his band has cut all ties to Seiders. Why? Isn’t that what the band name promoted? Maybe they should consider a name change soon, eh?

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