An Indiana lawmaker’s home was shot weeks after left-wing activist groups targeted him, social media posts reviewed by The Daily Wire show. Just days after City Councilor Rob Gibson announced his support for a proposed data center in the Martindale Brightwood neighborhood, a gunman fired 13 times at his house, where Gibson and his family, including his 8-year-old son, were sleeping. A note that read “No Data Centers” was left at his front door.  Social media posts reviewed by The Daily Wire show organizers encouraging residents to contact Gibson to opposed the data center. In one post, activists urged supporters to call residents and connect them with Gibson’s office to voice their concerns. The Indivisible Chapter for Central Indiana’s Facebook page urged allies to “bring a smartphone + charger,” adding, “Our dialing system provides scripts.” The group offered two days to join in for phone calls with “multiple slots” for people to sign up.  The group’s post on X was even more hostile towards Gibson. “There is no support for it [the data center], but Councilor Rob Gibson is committed to delivering on behalf of the developer.” The group added they had spoken with hundreds of residents and “mobilized with community partners to oppose this project.”  The data center has been controversial with months of protests against the project, which is set to be built on an old drive-in movie theater between two residential streets. Metrobloks is planning to build two large buildings, a parking lot, backup generators, and cooling systems. Representatives from Metrobloks argue the data center will help the community by expanding the local tax base and bringing an estimated $500 million to the neighborhood. The company stated they would also cover the infrastructure and utility costs so the burden didn’t fall on local taxpayers.  Community organizers cite concerns with air pollution, rising electricity costs, and other environmental issues. The Sierra Club Hoosier Chapter said they were “advocating on behalf of the environment, the climate, and our communities.” The Daily Wire previously reported on data from the American Energy Institute that both the Sierra Club and Indivisible received funding from foreign left-wing billionaire donors. According to the report, Indivisible received $7.5 million and the Sierra Club received $2.1 million.  Gibson said he and his eight-year-old son were sleeping when the bullets struck his house at 12:45am on Monday. “Just steps from where those bullets struck is our dining room table, where my son had been playing with his legos the day before,” said Gibson. Gibson said despite the disagreement between those opposed to the center and those in favor, “violence is never the answer.” The FBI and the Indiana Department of Homeland Security are investigating the incident.

Democratic Maryland Governor Wes Moore is attacking his state’s largest newspaper, The Baltimore Sun, for investigating his political record and probing potential falsehoods concerning his upbringing and military service. The Baltimore Sun is collaborating with sister television station Sinclair to scrutinize Gov. Wes Moore as he gears up for reelection and weighs a 2028 run for the White House, Semafor reported. The investigative series, Spotlight Maryland, includes FOX45 News, WJLA in Washington, D.C., and The Baltimore Sun. These outlets will examine whether Moore exaggerated his military service and investigate the athletic scholarships he received in college. Reporters with Spotlight Maryland have exchanged tense emails with Wes Moore’s staff, citing frustration over what they describe as a lack of transparency. “Our news team will continue pursuing this matter until they are satisfied that there is either no story – or until further investigation shows that events did not occur as they should have,” the team wrote in one letter to Moore’s office obtained by Semafor. “If our team finds the latter, they will report that. … We are also prepared to present our findings and concerns to the Secretary of the Army’s office; and if gets to that point, we fully expect it will have become a national level news story requiring the Army Secretary’s attention.” Moore’s team has complained that the investigation is “needlessly hostile and politically motivated,” according to Semafor. Then, the liberal governor ran to MS NOW. “The Baltimore Sun used to be our paper of record,” Moore told former Biden White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki. “It’s now become the paper of the right-wing.” Moore complained that in 2024, media executive David Smith, the executive chairman of Sinclair Broadcast Group, bought the paper. “I think we’ve seen how their readership continued to decline, but it’s happened because you’ve had a MAGA billionaire who is now currying favor for the President of the United States,” Moore said. The liberal governor added that he was “deeply proud” of his military service and claimed nobody in the U.S. Army questions his integrity. In 2024, The New York Times reported that Moore falsely claimed on a 2006 White House fellowship application that he had been awarded a Bronze Star for his military service while deployed in Afghanistan. “The soldiers I served with don’t question my integrity,” Moore said. “But we are seeing how the right wing and these right-wing billionaires like David Smith is then using his wealth to be able to manipulate local media.” Spotlight on Maryland executive producer and managing editor Candy Woodall called out Democrats for “putting in a lot of work to discredit a series before it’s even started running.” “This is standard journalism to scrutinize the words and records of elected officials and candidates who hold positions of power and public trust,” Woodall said. “If you want to know more, keep reading The Baltimore Sun, a 200-year-old newspaper that has survived many governors.”

Updates from Artemis II, NASA’s first crewed moon mission in over 50 years, range from extraordinary to heartwarming. Now, everyone following along at home has a way to feel a little closer to the brave crew embarking on a new era of space exploration: a morning playlist. NASA shared a link to the playlist on Spotify yesterday, noting that the selections were picked by the astronauts and continue in a long tradition of playlists. “Artemis II Wake-Up Songs” include:  “Sleepyhead” by Young & Sick “Green Light (feat. André 3000)” by John Legend and André 3000 “In a Daydream” by Freddy Jones Band “Pink Pony Club” by Chappell Roan “Working Class Heroes (Work)” by CeeLo Green “Good Morning” by Mandisa and TobyMac “Tokyo Drifting” by Glass Animals and Denzel Curry “Under Pressure” by Queen and David Bowie Artemis II began its 10-day moon mission on April 1 with a crew including commander Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen. This mission took them further away from Earth than any manned spacecraft has gone before, reaching a maximum distance from Earth of 252,756 miles. Colin Fries of the NASA History Division first compiled a record of NASA playlists in 2015, noting public interest in what the astronauts were listening to. “There have always been inquiries about flown items and mission events as we all know, and those about wakeup calls and music played in space encompassed a steady stream (no pun intended)!” he wrote at the time. Fries included a letter from NASA’s acting director in 1990, Lynn W. Heninger, to Congressman Robert H. Michel. “Use of music to awaken astronauts on space missions dates back at least to the Apollo Program, when astronauts returning from the Moon were serenaded by their colleagues in mission control with lyrics from popular songs that seemed appropriate to the occasion,” Heninger wrote. “The common element of all these selections is that they promote a sense of camaraderie and esprit de corps among the astronauts and ground support personnel. That, in fact, is the sole reason for having wake-up music; and it is the reason that NASA management has neither attempted to dictate its content nor allowed outside interests to influence the process.” The Apollo 10 song list in 1969 included Tony Bennett’s “The Best Is Yet To Come” and Sinatra’s “It’s Nice to Go Trav’ling” and “Come Fly With Me.” Several missions chose Dean Martin’s “Houston” for their last day in space, which includes the repeating lyric “Goin’ back to Houston” and conveys a sense of longing for home and comfort. So far, NASA has not revealed the last day playlist for Artemis II.

A recent YouGov poll found that 47% of Americans view overpopulation in the United States as a “very or somewhat serious problem,” while only 41% say the same about low birth rates. The consequences of such inverted priorities are already catastrophic. America’s total fertility rate has collapsed to roughly 1.6 children per woman — far below the 2.1 replacement level needed to sustain a population without immigration. But don’t share those statistics with Sunny Hostin over at “The View.” The View’s Sunny Hostin: “I think it’s really reckless to be suggesting that people should have children in this country.” pic.twitter.com/iNRzG6AfcG — TheBlaze (@theblaze) March 30, 2026 Source: @theblaze/MRC/ABC’s The View/X.com “It’s really reckless to be suggesting that people should have children,” said Hostin. “…when you now know, in this country, there is this affordability crisis and for a two-person household — a married household — you need over $400,000 for childcare.” Now, you may think planning an armored car heist à la Michael Mann’s 1995 classic “Heat,” is reckless, but according to Hostin, I need $1.6 million to take care of my eight children. Anything less and they would be impoverished, uneducated, homeless, and starving. A taken-aback Ana Navarro then blurted out, “over the lifetime of a child, or what? A year?” “No, a year,” Hostin said. Hostin’s fearmongering would be laughable if it weren’t so effective. In April, the CDC announced that America reached a record low in births in 2025, down 1% since 2024 and 23% since 2007. With an estimated population of 342 million, the United States witnessed 3,606,400 births last year. In 1966, however, America saw a similar number, 3,661,000 births, drawn from a population of less than 200 million. Hostin was born in October 1968, six months after Stanford professor Paul Ehrlich published his landmark book, “The Population Bomb.” When every single one of Ehrlich’s predictions — from mass starvation in the 1970s to global mineral shortages in the 1980s — turned out wrong, he was awarded a MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant in 1990. Only 10% of Americans held a favorable opinion of Ehrlich at the time of his death, according to YouGov — not too shabby given that only 20% of respondents knew who he was. And yet a full 100% of us have been living in his world — or at least his narrative — ever since he sounded the false alarm that human beings are a form of pollution. The MacArthur Foundation tipped its cap to Ehrlich’s checkerspot butterfly expertise, but anyone can study the “behavior of an invertebrate population”. His true genius lay in marketing to other spineless populations.  “A pioneer in alerting the public to the problems of overpopulation,” the award citation says.  Paul Ehrlich may have been perennially wrong as a scientist, but he had a generational talent for scaring the wits out of dimwitted media personalities, craven politicians, cunning public health authorities, unimaginative screenwriters, and over-imaginative teachers. Exactly the type of marks a good con artist would need to capture if he were going to advance a narrative at war with reality.  It worked. On the same episode of “The View,” Sara Haines said, “The world has over 8 billion people. We no longer need to force people to procreate and pump out babies. We have arrived.” Socially, the fallout is devastating. Smaller families mean fewer siblings, weaker extended kinship networks, and the erosion of the “social capital” that once bound communities together. Low fertility reduces community participation, trust, and mutual support — the very glue of civil society.  Militarily, the danger is existential. Fewer young Americans mean a smaller pool of potential recruits at the exact moment great-power competition intensifies. The Pentagon already struggles with recruitment shortfalls; an aging, childless society cannot field the force required to deter adversaries like China.  Economically, the math is brutal. A shrinking native-born workforce cannot support the entitlement programs built for a growing population. Social Security and Medicare face insolvency as the ratio of workers to retirees plummets. Every country that has experienced persistent sub-replacement fertility has seen its GDP growth slow, innovation shrivel, and burden younger generations with crushing tax loads to fund the vacations of the old. The problem with effective propaganda campaigns is that they are hard to reverse. South Korea serves as a warning. In 1960, the average South Korean woman had six children. After decades of state-backed “family planning” and “voluntary” sterilization services lovingly provided by USAID, fertility fell below replacement and eventually below 1. The Clinton State Department lauded South Korean population control as one of America’s standout achievements. No 20th-century public intellectual better apprehended how misanthropic an elite could be. Gilded Age robber barons were at least honest about their rapacious need for more; the postwar meritocrats of the 1960s thought themselves too enlightened for greed but enjoyed all that money just the same. Then, along came a Stanford butterfly researcher, insisting that your neighbors’ kids are hurting the environment, and if only you kept more resources for yourself, nature would heal. A growing cohort of Americans, particularly young Americans, is waking up to the fact that Paul Ehrlich was wrong all along. And Sunny Hostin’s fearmongering, not the science, has always been the point. Gallup found that 43% of Americans aged 18-29 now say the ideal family will have more than 3 children — a 13% jump from the same cohort in 2011. I remember the halcyon days of 2011 well. I welcomed my second daughter that year. Back then, the majority of my peers told pollsters that “Two is too many!” As Millennials settle into middle age, that number has plummeted by more than 20%. We are older and wise enough to know to turn the channel when “The View” comes on. Besides, chances are Michael Mann’s “Heat” is playing on some random cable channel at the very same time. * * * Terry Schilling is president of the American Principles Project.

California Governor Gavin Newsom’s wife has made a lot of news lately for staking out far-left cultural positions, but she wasn’t raised to be a bay area hippie. In the span of a week, Jennifer Siebel Newsom has gone viral for saying she gives her sons dolls and suggesting criminals at San Quentin prison might be there for “accidents,” like her tragically backing over her sister with a golf cart.  But the First Lady of California grew up in a conservative household, and her husband has previously claimed to be married to a Republican.  “I grew up revering Ronald Reagan … my father did, so therefore we did,” she said. She added that even though her dad has always been “the biggest champion of women, especially marginalized and vulnerable women” that “unfortunately his politics led him in a direction that is sort of in conflict with seeing women as equal.”  Gavin Newsom’s wife attributes California’s K-shaped economy to “the devaluation of all that we’ve feminized.” “Everything that we’ve feminized in American culture — whether entire industries like education, health care, etc., or just attributes like empathy, care, and… pic.twitter.com/jIgpWAhXZv — Brecca Stoll (@breccastoll) April 4, 2026 Newsom grew up in an affluent neighborhood of California, ultimately attending Stanford University for both undergrad and graduate school. After school she moved to Hollywood to pursue a career in acting. During her film career, Siebel Newsom claims she was raped by popular film director Harvey Weinstein. She said Weinstein first approached her at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2005 when she was a producer and actress, and he was at the height of his Hollywood power. She said meeting him was like “the Red Sea was parting” and she found him “charming.” He invited her to his hotel, and she said she was nervous when directed to his hotel suite. When pressed about why she didn’t walk away she said, “Because you don’t say no to Harvey Weinstein.”  Gavin Newsom later accepted campaign funds from Harvey Weinstein, which his wife called “complex.” Newsom met her husband in 2006 when Gavin was serving as the mayor of San Francisco, and married two years later. In 2011, Siebel Newsom produced a documentary called “Miss Representation,” which is about sexism in American society.  Despite her militant feminism, Gavin Newsom told a reporter in 2024 that he meets with Republicans every day because he “married one.”