On Monday, the House Rules Committee decides whether to allow two E15 amendments onto the House floor as part of the forthcoming Farm Bill.

The Sorensen amendment expands government-dictated ethanol by exempting E15 from air quality limits that currently restrain the ethanol mandate.

The Fischbach amendment does the same thing AND it also punishes small refiners by making it much harder for small refineries to obtain exemptions from the mandate.

The House Rules Committee should block both amendments for two reasons:

1) Moral: The amendments entrench and expand the destructive and immoral ethanol mandate, which no one seriously supports on its merits.

2) Procedural: The amendments have nothing to do with farming policy and instead change air quality law, so they should be disqualified as “non-germane” per the Committee’s own rules.

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The New York Times PR account, on Twitter/X a week ago:

Sunday’s crossword puzzle in the print edition of The New York Times Magazine contains a grid that does not match the clues. The correct version of the puzzle can be found in the news section of Sunday’s print edition of The Times. The puzzle on our app is correct.

Maggie Duffy, writing for Vulture:

Some solvers who, like Wegener’s wife, complete the Sunday puzzle in the print magazine (often with pen) complained on crossword forums and social media, saying they were “nearly in tears,” some with fears of “sudden onset dementia” or, worse yet, ineptitude.

For Irene Papoulis, a former writing instructor at Trinity College, the puzzle is typically a source of pride. “It didn’t even occur to me that it could be their mistake,” she told me. “I just blamed myself.” When Mike McFadden, in New Jersey, couldn’t crack it, he had a similar reaction. “I thought something was wrong with me,” he told me. “I didn’t think that they would have an error.” It nagged at him all day. At a function on Saturday, he couldn’t bring himself to mention it to his brother-in-law, a fellow solver; he was still too upset.

Some had such trust in the crossword that they believed the erroneous grid was purposeful. “I’m saying to myself, ‘Okay, maybe there’s some sort of scientific or mathematical trick,’” McFadden said. When I spoke with Will Shortz, the Times’ crossword editor, he said the Times does “so many tricks with the puzzles” that he could see how someone’s first thought would be “I wonder what they’re up to now?”

This is the first such mistake the Times has made in the 84 years that they’ve been printing a crossword puzzle. I came of age doing work in print — writing and editing The Triangle, the student newspaper at Drexel, and then spending a few years as a working graphic designer, at a time when print still ruled. There’s an inherent stress about going to press. Mistakes are forever. We once ran a headline at The Triangle that read “Headline Goes Here”. Once. Going to press is stressful but exhilarating. There’s an adrenaline rush that comes with giving the go-ahead to start a very expensive large-scale full-color press run. The stress focuses the mind.

Print, effectively, is hardware. Atoms, not bits. The web is literally software. If you make a mistake in software that results in incorrect mathematical results, you ship an update. If you make a mistake in a CPU such that it results in incorrect floating-point math, perhaps only in 1 out of every 9 billion calculations, people will remember the mistake 30 years later.

If The New York Times had run the wrong crossword grid on the web or in their app, they would have corrected the error quickly, few people would have encountered it, and fewer still would remember it. But by printing the wrong grid in the Sunday magazine last week, they made a mistake that some people will never forget (and some will never forgive).

Hardware brain is different from software brain. Software brain says Go faster; do more; the only mistake you can’t fix is having gone too slow. Hardware brain says Slow down; do less; focus; strive for perfection and never settle for less than excellence; mistakes are forever.

If his background in hardware means that incoming Apple CEO John Ternus has hardware brain, and will lead Apple accordingly, that suggests Apple will double down on zigging in the midst of a still-escalating AI hype cycle that has the rest of the industry zagging ever more frenetically. That feels right to me.

It’s hard to imagine Jimmy Kimmel sinking any lower, but he did just that this week.

And he had company.

Kimmel, a late-night propagandist, misled the nation about the man who allegedly killed Charlie Kirk last September. He suffered a week-long suspension as a result.

He’ll likely get zero pushback from his ABC bosses for what he said this week.

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CARSON WARNED US ABOUT JIMMY KIMMEL

ALL KIMMEL DOES IS LIE AND CRY

Kimmel used his ABC pulpit for a mock White House Correspondents’ Association roast of, guess who, President Donald Trump. Kimmel roasts Trump every night, but he wanted to do so again under a different label.

Fine. Presidents exist to be mocked, and Kimmel has no other trick up his sleeve at this point. He’s already admitted that humor isn’t his prime directive.

As part of the faux roast, Kimmel shared this quip about First Lady Melania Trump.

“Mrs. Trump, you have the glow of an expectant widow,” Kimmel said of FLOTUS.

Jimmy Kimmel @jimmykimmel joked about President Trump @POTUS being assassinated during his fake White House Correspondents’ speech:

“Mrs. Trump @MelaniaTrump, you have a glow like an expected widow.”

Just another example of how deranged Democrats are.

Sad! pic.twitter.com/St3fIOi3PH

— Loomer Unleashed (@LoomerUnleashed) April 26, 2026

Two years ago, a would-be assassin fired at President Trump at a Butler, Pa. campaign rally. The shooter killed one innocent attendee, wounded two others and clipped Trump in the ear. A second assassination attempt was thwarted by Secret Service agents months later.

Last night, yet another would-be assassin was stopped, but not before he got shockingly close to both President Trump and members of his inner circle at the WHCD gathering in D.C.

Does Kimmel have any regrets about joking about Trump’s assassination? Of course not.

Should ABC be ashamed of programming like “Jimmy Kimmel Live?” Of course.

Except the late-night show often comes second to “The View,” another ABC product, in the embarrassment category. This week, the extreme Left showcase insisted that President Trump was killing people, and not via the country’s current war with Iran.

Co-host Joy Behar made the direct connection between the president and plans to kill American citizens.

“Sometimes, I feel like they’re trying to kill us,” she said. “I mean you’ve got Trump just vetoed anything that has to do with climate change that would alleviate the problem. And we can see it everywhere that the Earth is in a lot of trouble. But here, you’ve got a department with a guy in charge of our health who’s a former heroin addict, he swam in sewage — who does that?! — and he snorted cocaine off a toilet seat. This is who is in charge of your health, America.”

Behar continued, “Do not put up with it [emphasis added]. We’re in a lot of trouble. Don’t the people see that?”

Then, days later, a gunman decided not to put up with it. He attempted to take Trump out personally. The would-be assassin, Cole Allen, spat out the same kind of unhinged rhetoric that Behar spews on “The View” in his manifesto.

Does ABC have any shame? Are there any adults in the news department who recoil at the content aired under its umbrella?

Do Kimmel, Behar and company worry that their extreme rhetoric, which continues despite the serial assassination attempts, is putting the president in danger? 

Or is that the plan?

Sound cynical? Please share why or why not in the comments below.

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