In a Palm Sunday homily treated by legacy media as a direct moral indictment of President Trump’s foreign policy — and possibly a criticism of Secretary of War Pete Hegseth — Pope Leo XIV declared on Sunday that God “does not listen” to leaders who wage war while claiming His name. Speaking to tens of thousands in St. Peter’s Square amid the ongoing war between Iran and a joint coalition of the United States and Israel, the first American Pope said that Jesus “does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war, but rejects them, saying: ‘Even though you make many prayers, I will not listen: your hands are full of blood,’” citing a biblical passage. The Pope did not specifically name any world leaders, but he has been ramping up criticism of ​the Iran war in recent weeks. During an appeal at the end of Sunday’s celebration, the pope lamented that ‌Christians ⁠in the Middle East “are suffering the consequences of an atrocious conflict” and may not be able to celebrate Easter. President Trump has framed the intervention in Iran as a necessary defense of Western civilization. Earlier this month, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, a devout Christian, said at a press conference: My 13-year-old son popped into my office last night while I was editing these remarks. He asked about the war and the families I met at Dover. And I looked at him and I said, “They died for you, son, so that your generation doesn’t have to deal with a nuclear Iran.” It’s the truth, and they did  …  So to the families who said “Finish this,” we will. And I say the same to every American who wants peace through strength: May Almighty God continue to bless our troops in this fight. And again, to the American people, please pray for them every day, on bended knee, with your family, in your schools, in your churches, in the name of Jesus Christ. To the troops:  Keep going. And Godspeed.  Sunday was not the first time the pontiff addressed the hostilities against Iran. Just after the United States launched Operation Epic Fury against the intransigent Iranian regime, Pope Leo stated, “Stability and peace are not built with mutual threats, nor with weapons, which sow destruction, pain, and death, but only through a reasonable, authentic, and responsible dialogue.” The Trump administration has said that it’s decision to strike was made after it determined that the Iranian regime was not negotiating in good faith.

Now that we get a “No Kings” protest every few months, it’s easy to come to the conclusion that there’s no reason to cover these demonstrations anymore. By now, we’re all familiar with the routine. Bored old people see these protests as an excuse to get out of the house (or the nursing home in many cases), all while feeling like they’re mounting a heroic defense against fascism. And young people — to the extent they show up at all — collectively make a strong case for reopening the asylums, abolishing public schools, and enforcing the Communist Control Act. For lack of a better term, these protests are freak shows — the modern-day equivalent of those old traveling circuses that put the most damaged, disabled and otherwise dysfunctional people on full display. And like the freak shows of old, these “No Kings” protests (which turned into riots in some cases) are well-funded. They’re a whole industry, as we’ll discuss in a moment. But before we get into the sources of that funding — and why it’s a serious problem — we have to begin with a note of optimism. After you see the footage of these protests, there’s simply no other way to say it: God has blessed us with truly pathetic and embarrassing enemies. The activists who want to destroy Western civilization aren’t even capable of putting on a single event, over one weekend, in which they don’t humiliate themselves. In that vein, the latest round of “No Kings” protests was — somehow, against all odds — a considerable downgrade from the “No Kings” rallies that preceded it. Even with everything we’ve seen over the past year, this was the single most embarrassing protest that the Left has organized in recent memory. (And for the record, the protest was called “No Dictators” in Hawaii, so as not to offend the indigenous monarchy they used to have. But for simplicity’s sake, we’ll stick with the “No Kings” branding, even though the Left can’t even agree on that). Take this scene from the Minneapolis “No Kings” protest, for example. This is one of their emcees — a woman who’s apparently a comedian. Here’s her rousing message to the crowd. Watch: The emcee at the No Kings rally in Minnesota, Lizz Winstead, says the quiet part out loud, reminding everyone that the so-called “No Kings” movement is a communist movement. “I want people to know that if you want to act like Minnesota, or you think Minnesota is a model, what… pic.twitter.com/8yUkyHOtlS — Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) March 28, 2026 Source: @SteveGuest/X.com Like every other clip I’m about to play, this feels like it has to be satire. But we’ve checked it a million times and indeed, it’s very real. As she stands at a podium that says “No Kings,” she declares to the masses, “What we need is pack mules” who will do whatever the “leaders” tell them to do: “Be the folding chairs.” Bring donuts to the “brilliant minds,” whose brilliance you can’t begin to comprehend. The great lesson of the “No Kings” movement, apparently, is that you need to exercise greater obedience to people in authority. The fundamental position held by actual monarchists and “No Kings” protesters is, it turns out, strikingly similar. The only real difference is that monarchists can typically deliver their message in an eloquent and even inspiring way. Whereas the “No Kings” message is delivered through the nasally, scolding tones of an ill tempered middle aged childless woman. As you may remember, one of the big knocks against the previous “No Kings” protests is that the whole “No Kings” message simply doesn’t work, coming from the Left. These are the same people who, just a few years ago, forced everyone to stay at home and take an experimental mRNA shot — or else they’d lose their job. They caused trillions of dollars in economic damages with the COVID lockdowns, which destroyed small businesses and prevented children from socializing or going to school. This is damage that we still haven’t remotely recovered from. And that’s just *one* area in which the Left has embraced authoritarianism. We all remember the relentless social media censorship, the cancellation campaigns, the forced indoctrination and so on. So how exactly can these same people, with a straight face, claim to oppose authoritarianism with these “No Kings” protests? Now, thanks to the “No Kings” protest this weekend, we have our answer. The answer is: Shut up and be a folding chair and a pack mule, you moron. They don’t actually oppose “authoritarianism.” They just want to be the authoritarians. And that’s why, when they’re asked why exactly they’re protesting, none of these people have a decent answer. A Daily Wire reporter Brecca Stoll was on the ground at the D.C. “No Kings” protest.  D.C. “No Kings” protester says Trump is taking away black women’s rights… When @breccastoll asks how, she can’t come up with a real answer: Protester: “Waking up as a black woman is such a political act…I can’t wait until this sh*t is behind us and…we don’t have to worry… pic.twitter.com/1JokbtsCYR — Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) March 28, 2026 Source: @realDailyWire/X.com So she begins with the familiar refrain. She says that she’s exhausted just from being a black woman. This country is so racist against her that the simple act of being a black woman is courageous, and it exhausts her. All of these people love to talk about how exhausted they are. Which is funny because they don’t do anything at all. They don’t work. They don’t contribute. They don’t have kids or families. They don’t have responsibilities. They just hang around, scroll TikTok, join a protest every once in a while, and then announce that they are utterly exhausted by a life that is, in every way, more luxurious and leisurely than the life of royalty not that long ago. Egyptian Pharaohs could not have even fathomed the level of comfort this “exhausted” woman enjoys. Then she tells us that apparently they’re lining up black women in the hospitals, and shooting them for no reason. She has ten seconds to come up with one example of what she’s protesting against, and after thinking about it for a bit, she comes up with something that’s completely insane. Apparently if you go to the hospital as a black woman with appendicitis or something, they’ll say “Right this way,” and lead you to the back of the hospital where they immediately murder you. Of course, this is actually similar to how health care works in Canada, except that you’re considerably more likely to get that treatment as a white man than a black woman. In this country, in reality, according to DataHazard, 25% of black and Hispanic medical students have below-average scores on the MCAT, which is the test you need to take in order to get into med school. Only around 3% of white and Asian medical students have scores that low. So no, black people are not getting “murdered” in the medical profession. They’re being allowed into the profession, when they clearly should be rejected, in large numbers. The problem is now so bad that half of UCLA medical students are now failing basic tests. By the way, you might have noticed that her shirt said, “Castrate pedophiles.” This was a theme of the weekend. Democrats — who endorse the chemical and physical castration of children, as well as the murder of children both inside and outside the womb  —  have decided that their political opponents are, in fact, a threat to minors. It makes about as much sense as the idea that medical schools are execution chambers for black people, but they’re running with it.  Watch: My friends, including @dontayecarter and @AttorneyGriggs, chant “Release the files! You know they’re pedophiles!” at the No Kings rally in Sandy Springs, Georgia. #NoKings pic.twitter.com/7glpsnvDIa — Seth Taylor (@SethTaylor1991) March 28, 2026 Source: @SethTaylor1991/X.com via Storyful It’s a fun activity for the old woman. She’s getting some sun. She’s playing the drums. She’s hanging out with some new people. And really, the whole “protest” is just an excuse for her to do it. We should be honest about that. None of these people are remotely consistent or coherent. None of them were calling for the release of the Epstein Files until Trump became president, and they don’t care that the Trump administration has been releasing these files. And the last guy in the little conga line there has a sign that’s totally unrelated to the Epstein files. In case you missed it, his sign read, “Eat the rich, wash them down with ICE” — which also doesn’t make any sense, on its own terms. So this isn’t really a protest about “Kings” at all. It’s really about ICE, and rich people, and Epstein, and everything else. It’s a grab bag of every random leftist complaint. No one really knows what it’s about, which is why the one-on-one interviews with the protesters were so entertaining.  Here’s another.  Watch: Uh, uh..um, um pic.twitter.com/Vk14GThRsx — The Daily Sneed™ (@Tr00peRR) March 29, 2026 Source: @Tr00peRR/X.com Well, she was right about sounding like an idiot at least. But as always, there’s no self-reflection. There’s no realization that she’s wasting her time. Instead, she comes up with the claim that Donald Trump is a King because, “We have Trump out there right now pushing up against protesters in major cities.” And she makes this statement *while she’s at a protest in a major city* — one of many similar protests occurring all over the country. So we have a king who doesn’t allow any protest, and to prove that point, we’re going to protest all over the place, constantly, in the most obnoxious way possible, and the King’s not going to do anything about it. Apparently, the King only “pushes up against protesters” when they try to run over federal agents with their SUV, or when they violently attack Border Patrol agents making an arrest. I need to emphasize that I’m not cherry-picking clips here. Every single time one of these people was asked to explain their worldview, it all fell apart. And sometimes children are forcibly dragged into this nonsense as well.  Watch: This is one of the most astonishing interviews I’ve ever seen in my life. A mother/daughter duo at a South Carolina “No Kings” protest could not explain AT ALL to a reporter why either of them were protesting. Zero clue. Not a single coherent sentence, unbelievable to watch… pic.twitter.com/Xzzb1zIdIl — Matt Van Swol (@mattvanswol) March 29, 2026 Source: @mattvanswol/X.com It’s clear that the mother is happy that her child is engaged in politics and activism, as an end in itself. She thinks it’s good for someone to be protesting, as a general matter. This is how we get colleges full of angry, chronically depressed 18-year-old students. This is how we get Antifa lawyers who decide to firebomb police cruisers. If you’re going to encourage your child to be angry about nothing in particular, then they’ll never be happy. It’s one of the worst things you can do to a child. Inevitably, they’ll turn out like this guy. Watch: Liberal man with his face painted orange and wearing a crown gets triggered during ‘No Kings’ protest. “You’re going down the wrong road right now with me. I wouldn’t go any further.”

Kid Rock got to show some love to the troops when he got a surprising flyby from United States Army helicopters over the weekend. In the video posted by Kid Rock on X, the American icon is seen at his home in the Nashville area saluting the choppers as they flew near his pool. This is a level of respect that shit for brains Governor of California will never know. God Bless America and all those who have made the ultimate sacrifice to defend her.

The Daily Wire’s Isabel Brown fired back after the hosts of ABC’s “The View” went into full meltdown mode on Monday over her passionate support for younger women embracing more traditional families. “I’d like to thank the women of @TheView for showing their truest, darkest colors today: they’re literally shrieking like demons at the thought of encouraging young women to have children. PS – ‘stupidest’ isn’t a real word,” Brown posted. “They want you to hate happy, healthy, fulfilled young people with kids. Even more disturbingly, they want you to hate babies so much that you never want them in the first place. Their response to my encouragement for Gen Z women to get married and have kids? ‘You’re telling people to have as many babies as they want to? Again I’m going to send you back into the past,'” Brown continued. “In other words, *wanting* a baby literally is not a choice as a so-called ’empowered’ woman in 2026.” Brown doubled down, saying that she believed the family was the “strongest threat to evil” in the world, and adding, “Again, I reiterate: HAVE THE COURAGE to get married and have a beautiful family. Your life will be better because of it.” After promising to further address the topic — and the comments from “The View” — on her next Daily Wire show, Brown shared the full segment from the ABC midday talk show: “If you just can’t help yourself in the meantime & want to grab some popcorn — here’s the whole segment of 5 grown women screeching about how I am the “stupidest” person on the Internet, who should divorce my husband, and probably never should have become a mom in the first place. Misery sure loves projection, doesn’t it?” WATCH: And if you just can’t help yourself in the meantime & want to grab some popcorn – here’s the whole segment of 5 grown women screeching about how I am the “stupidest” person on the Internet, who should divorce my husband, and probably never should have become a mom in the first… pic.twitter.com/ijm2z8MxfV — Isabel Brown (@theisabelb) March 30, 2026 Whoopi Goldberg opened the segment with a clip of Brown, speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), encouraging young women to get married and have children — and she and her cohosts immediately claimed that Brown was promoting backward thinking. Goldberg began by claiming that women of color had been criticized in the past for having too many children, saying they were the reason that government assistance programs were getting cut. Cohost Sara Haines argued that by promoting traditional families, Brown was reducing women to only the value of their reproductive organs: “The whole women’s movement was not about bucking the trend of staying at home or loving tradition. It was giving women a choice to do what they wanted. And that’s what this is too. Marriage, children. It’s a choice.” “The fact we keep putting this on women, that their only worth in society, politics, policy is if they produce a baby or have a husband is the stupidest, most old-fashioned thing!” Haines continued. “We have come too far! The world has over 8 billion people! We no longer need to force people to procreate and pump out babies! We have arrived here! Women now and girls now have a choice!” Ana Navarro also weighed in, ignoring the fact that Brown had been clear about women getting married prior to starting families and complaining that no one was expecting men to step up and be responsible for all the babies. “If you’re not paying my bills, you don’t get to tell me what I do with my uterus,” she declared. Cohost Sunny Hostin went a different direction entirely, claiming that Brown’s position was untenable primarily because of President Donald Trump. Blaming him for the fact that child care was too expensive for most working families, Hostin argued that women should think twice before following her advice. Goldberg followed right behind, arguing that red states were enacting laws that were not encouraging women to do anything other than “flee” from them: “You’re telling people to have as many babies as they want to? Again I’m going to send you back into the past.”

For the first time in more than 50 years, NASA is preparing to send astronauts back toward the Moon — marking a dramatic step in a new era of human space exploration. The Artemis II mission, scheduled to launch April 1 at 6:24 p.m. EST from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center, is set to carry four astronauts on a ten-day journey around the Moon and back. It will be the first crewed mission to travel to the Moon since Apollo 17 in 1972 and will pave the way for future moon landings using NASA’s Orion deep space capsule. If successful, this mission will bring humans further in space than ever before and travel approximately 252,000 miles from Earth — about 4,000 miles farther than the record set by Apollo 13 in 1970.  The mission will offer a view of the Moon’s far side that has so far been unseen by the human eye. Earlier crews flew past it in darkness, but this time, about 21% will be illuminated, giving astronauts a rare chance to see the hidden surface for themselves. From Orion, the Moon will appear like a basketball at arm’s length, with Earth shining nearly 250,000 miles away, according to NASA.  Unlike the Apollo missions, which orbited much closer to the lunar surface, Artemis II will pass between 4,000 and 6,000 miles above the Moon, providing the entire lunar disk view with an opportunity to see regions near both poles, according to NASA. The four astronauts selected for Artemis II bring a mix of experience and historic firsts. Left to right: Mission Specialist Christina Koch, Pilot Victor Glover, Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen, and Commander Reid Wiseman. (NASA/James Blair) Commander Reid Wiseman, a former Navy test pilot, previously spent 165 days aboard the International Space Station (ISS), where he conducted more than 300 experiments and set a record for 82 research hours in a single week.  Pilot Victor Glover, also a Navy aviator, flew on the Crew-1 Dragon mission to the ISS and was selected as an astronaut while serving as a legislative fellow in the U.S. Senate for the late Sen. John McCain. If the mission proceeds as planned, he will become the first black astronaut to travel around the Moon. Mission specialist Christina Koch holds the record for the longest continuous spaceflight by a woman, having spent 328 days aboard the ISS. Her experience also includes scientific work in both the Arctic and Antarctic. If successful, she will become the first woman to travel to the Moon.  Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen will be making his first spaceflight and will become the first Canadian to travel beyond Earth’s orbit. While Artemis II plans to travel around the moon, it is primarily a test mission to try out the Orion and other equipment. Astronauts are prepared for several different scenarios that may include not going around the moon if tests are not successful. “This is a test mission,” Wiseman told reporters. “We might come right back home. We might spend three or four days around Earth. We might go to the Moon. That’s where we want to go — but we are ready for every scenario.”  After liftoff aboard the 5.7-million-pound Space Launch System rocket, the crew will reach orbit in just about eight minutes, traveling at speeds of about five miles per second. They will then spend roughly 24 hours orbiting Earth while conducting critical checks of Orion’s life support systems to ensure it can provide breathable air, water, and basic human necessities. (NASA) “We’ve got to test everything,” Wiseman explained. “Can it scrub carbon dioxide? Can it keep us alive? Can we drink water? Can we go to the bathroom? All those basic human functions — we need to verify them before heading to the Moon.”  If all systems are working properly, Orion will perform a translunar injection burn to escape Earth’s orbit and begin its four-day journey to the moon. After looping around the far side, the spacecraft will begin its return using a fuel-efficient “free-return” trajectory, relying on the natural gravitational pull of the Earth-Moon system rather than heavy propulsion. This mirrors the emergency return to a free-return trajectory used by Apollo 13 in 1970 after an oxygen tank explosion. The crew had to execute a critical engine burn to move from their landing course back onto a “figure-eight” path that would naturally swing them around the Moon and safely back to Earth with minimal further engine use. While on the other side of the moon, the crew will lose communication with the Earth for 30-50 minutes. The mission is expected to conclude with a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean on April 10, where recovery teams will retrieve the crew from the capsule and transport them via a helicopter airlift to a U.S. Navy amphibious transport dock. Infographic on NASA’s Orion spacecraft. (Graphic by Gal ROMA and Anibal MAIZ CACERES / AFP via Getty Images) Artemis I, launched in 2022, was an unmanned test mission of the Orion spacecraft that revealed unexpected wear to its heat shield during reentry. NASA has since conducted extensive analysis and testing to address the issue ahead of future crewed flights. While the original Space Race was shaped by Cold War rivalry, today’s push comes amid competition with China, which announced plans to land astronauts on the Moon by 2030. The next Artemis flight, scheduled for 2027, aims to test lunar landers developed by SpaceX and Blue Origin, with a goal of landing astronauts on the Moon as early as 2028.  As the International Space Station is scheduled to retire by the end of 2030, NASA is also exploring plans to build a base near the lunar south pole and establish a sustained human presence.  “This time, the goal is not flags and footprints,” NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said. “This time, the goal is to stay. America will never again give up the Moon.”