Tuesday: Three Morning Takes
that’s a wrap / something good almost happened / sig heil
PW Daily
Apr 28, 2026
That’s a wrap
A viral photo of Trump’s latest would-be assassin stripped naked and wrapped in foil like a gay baked potato went viral yesterday, largely stirring a conversation on necessary tactics for ferreting out explosives in our world post-endless jihad. But I couldn’t help but notice the would-be assassin also looked totally pathetic, which is a really good thing actually, and we should do more with this. Psychopathic political influencers turned Luigi Mangione into a new heroic archetype, an image rooted in “cool.” It’s a runaway meme, which means there’s no policing the idea away. Shame is the only thing that can really do damage to these people now, so what happens to them needs to be mortifying. Tour the Blue Anon crazy around the country, I say, so we can all come see the gay baked potato before his public floggings, and throw vegetables. Could work? Idk, just a little food for thought.
Something good almost happened
In Utah, approvals were swiftly underway for a massive data center project that would establish its own power, help refill the Great Salt Lake with clean/recycled water, and create 2,000 high-paying, permanent jobs — all on land owned by the military and private owners who’d already agreed to participate. By Friday, it seemed like these industrious Space Mormons truly were destined to outlast us all. That is, until some 80 people toting “People before profits” signs — concerned over the data centers’ water and energy demands — packed the commission chamber Monday, per the The Salt Lake Tribune, forcing the officials to delay a vote on final approvals until May. Because this is America! Where beanie-wearing Heather Cox Richardson subscribers can trace the noxious odor of progress from their distant rat caves as fast as you can say “town halls seeking public feedback.”
Sig Heil
SEIU-UHW, the union that responded to Trump’s federal cuts to healthcare spending — which hardly ever goes toward rampant fraud and only sometimes toward free care for illegal immigrants — by soberly, rationally calling to seize private assets (the “Billionaire Tax,” they call this, boo to billionaires, yay to Venezuela circa 1998), says they have received enough signatures for their measure to appear on California ballots. While these still must be certified by election officials before the state gets its chance to try a little communism, as a treat, the NYT is already hard at work maligning one of the measure’s chief critics, Sergey Brin, writing a hit piece about the Google co-founder’s “[shift] to the right,” which was prompted, obviously, not by principled opposition to Marxism, but by Brin’s new “Trump-loving, gut-health influencer” girlfriend (?). Say what you will about MAHA wellness girlies, Marxist journos, at least they never threatened to liquidate my net worth to run their Instagram.
