Think More: Thursday, April 16, 2026
The Gabbard referrals, Merriam on Trump v. Affirmative Action, Petkas on The Breaking Point of a Republic, Rufo and Choe on California, Chris Bray on institutional blindness, Rosenthal on Online Censorship 2.0, DHS on the murder of Lauren Bullis, Heritage on the Middle East, and the accountability story continuing to unfold.
Gabbard Refers Impeachment Whistleblower to DOJ for Criminal Investigation
John Solomon & Misty Severi | Just the News
DNI Tulsi Gabbard has sent criminal referrals to the Justice Department naming former ICIG Michael Atkinson and former CIA analyst Eric Ciaramella, the architects of the 2019 impeachment, in the first post-Trump-era referral targeting intelligence-community actors behind a fabricated impeachment.
California Provides Sex-Change Procedures to Homeless Illegal Aliens
Christopher Rufo & Jonathan Choe | City Journal
Rufo and Choe find San Francisco homeless shelters housing trans illegal aliens who receive state-funded gender-affirming care through Medi-Cal, with sanctuary status, welfare capture, and gender ideology stacking into a single civilizational picture.
Trump v. Affirmative Action
Jesse Merriam | TomKlingenstein.com
Merriam argues that affirmative action is surviving despite Students for Fair Admissions and a second Trump administration because it was never merely a legal regime but an institutional and moral one.
The Breaking Point of a Republic
Alexander Petkas | TomKlingenstein.com
Petkas, a former classicist, reads the American citizenship debate through the late Roman Republic, where mass enfranchisement of the Italians produced not integration but the first great civil war.
Giant Impenetrable Mystery About Completely Open and Obvious Reality
Chris Bray | Tell Me How This Ends
Bray reads the Los Angeles Times’ latest attempt to explain the county’s population collapse, a story that names Trump repeatedly while never mentioning encampments, Karen Bass, or the taxes and service cuts driving people out.
Welcome to Online Censorship 2.0
John Rosenthal | The American Mind
Rosenthal argues that online censorship has moved past content removal and account suspensions into visibility filtering, with EU Digital Services Act data showing that major platforms now quietly demote far more speech than they delete.
Citizen Naturalized Under Joe Biden Brutally Murders DHS Employee Lauren Bullis
DHS Statement | Department of Homeland Security
Reporting: Fox 5 Atlanta
DHS names the suspect in the murder of 40-year-old agency employee Lauren Bullis as a man naturalized under the Biden administration, turning a DeKalb County shooting spree into a referendum on who the country admits and how.
The Security Environment in the Middle East
Heritage Foundation | Heritage.org
The strategic frame behind the administration’s Iran measures, treating the blockade, the sanctions, and the Israel-Lebanon ceasefire as parts of a single architecture rather than episodic retaliation.
Ukraine Impeachment Was Continuation of Failed Russia Collusion Plot
Jerry Dunleavy | Just the News
Dunleavy reads the newly declassified Atkinson transcripts alongside the Mueller-era record and argues they describe one operation, not two, with the 2019 impeachment as Phase II of the Russia narrative.
Alan Dershowitz: Trump Could Move to Expunge 2019 Impeachment
Dershowitz argues, in conversation with John Solomon, that the new disclosures create a legal pathway for expungement of the first Trump impeachment.
