Think More: Tuesday, April 28, 2026
Solomon on the rhetoric-to-violence pipeline, Taibbi on press complicity, the Iran deal that isn't Obama's, Rufo's California border billions, and the DHS shutdown at Day 73.
Hate Incorporated: The Left’s Intolerance Machine Threatens Security Forever
Solomon’s post-WHCD column reframes the rhetoric-to-violence pipeline as a security problem rather than a culture-war grievance.
Trump’s Iran Deal Is Nothing Like Obama’s
A blockaded navy and a destroyed missile arsenal are not a JCPOA in reverse. The structural argument for why maximum pressure represents genuine strategic departure.
How Gavin Newsom Subsidized the Migrant Invasion
Christopher Rufo and Susan Crabtree • City Journal
California taxpayer money as the financial substrate of resistance to federal immigration enforcement. Rufo follows the grants, the contracts, and the shadow infrastructure.
The National Temperature Mismatch
Chris Bray • Tell Me How This Ends
Bray dissects the Bulwark’s post-attack “nervous systems” framing as affect-as-politics: therapeutic language displacing civic debate over the public good.
Tech Titans Elon Musk and Sam Altman Head to Court in Trial Over OpenAI
Jury selection begins in Oakland. Musk seeks $150 billion and Altman’s removal, arguing OpenAI’s for-profit pivot betrayed its founding nonprofit mission.
The Press Promotes Violence and Everyone Knows It
Taibbi examines the WHCD shooter’s manifesto and the media’s casual lies that spawn assassination attempts, then asks why the press covers assailants with undisguised sympathy.
Jeffries Stands by ‘Maximum Warfare’ Comments Against Republicans
Mary Chastain • Legal Insurrection
House Minority Leader doubles down on incendiary rhetoric days after the third Trump assassination attempt. Attacks Leavitt, deflects to January 6, refuses to moderate.
House Republicans Eye New DHS Funding Bill, 73 Days into Shutdown
New York Post Secret Service agents protect the president without guaranteed paychecks while Democrats block every funding bill that includes ICE and Border Patrol appropriations
