It's always something.

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United Airlines engine explodes mid-flight after [checks notes] rabbit strike

Stowaway rabbits: one more thing for nervous flyers to worry about.

An unusual animal encounter causing a scare in for passengers on a United Airlines flight.

A rabbit somehow made it into the right engine of flight UA2325 from Denver to Edmonton on Sunday.

The wildlife strike happened as the Boeing 737 with 159 people on board was taking off.

"There was a loud bang and a significant vibration in the plane we proceeded to still climb," passenger Scott Wolff said.

Oh, the humanity! (Updated)

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The Democrats chose the funniest hills to die on: they’re leading a shoddy rescue operation to return a deported illegal alien from El Salvador. I’m not kidding. A bunch of Democrats will head down there to bust him out. Meanwhile, none of these lawmakers said a word about Rachel Morin, who was raped and murdered by an illegal. She was also a Maryland resident, but her representatives would rather waste taxpayer dollars on someone who isn’t a citizen (via Axios):

UPDATE:

Because she's a Democrat: Virgina gubernatorial candidate wishes voters a "Happy Tax Day", bemoans Trump's cutting some of the 87,000 new IRS emplyees she voted to hire (Updated)

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Chris Queen, PJMedia: “Spanberger linked to an Associated Press article about layoffs at the IRS. The AP report gives more details about the layoffs that Spanberger is complaining about:”

The IRS plans to cut as many as 20,000 staffers — up to 25% of the workforce — as part of layoffs that began Friday, two people familiar with the situation told The Associated Press.

The job cuts will begin with the IRS Office of Civil Rights and Compliance, which would be reduced by 75% through layoffs, and its remaining workers would be absorbed into the agency’s Office of Chief Counsel, according to those two people as well as a third person familiar with the matter.

For the record, the Office of Civil Rights and Compliance is the new coat of paint that the IRS put on its Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. But there’s more to the layoffs than that one office.

A Treasury spokesperson who spoke on the condition of anonymity to preview Treasury plans said Friday that any staffing reductions are part of larger process improvements and tech innovations that will allow the IRS to operate more effectively.

Rolling back Biden-era hiring and consolidating support functions are intended to more efficiently serve the public, the spokesperson said in a statement.

Mind you, in Virginia, the loss of 20,000 bureaucratic jobs is considered a direct assault on that state’s voters, who are all employed by the government or lobbying firms, so Spanberger is actually just appealing to her base; she’s probably wise to do so.

UPDATE: They’re being paid through September, so they’ll be free to spend their summer pulling wings off flies and tormenting puppies, or whatever else they do in the spare time:

Almost 20,000 IRS employees taking second Trump buyout offer

A few words from a banished sex predator

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Stephen Green:

GREAT MOMENTS IN SELF-AWARENESS: Garrison Keillor: A few words from your elderly uncle.

I dropped my glasses in a café in New York and couldn’t find them and a young man got down on his knees and got them out from under a table. I thanked him, but it wasn’t enough. I said, “I really appreciate good manners more than I ever used to.” He said, “I know what you mean.”

There’s a lot of ugliness going around. I’ve never been called “scum” or “sleazebag” that I’m aware of though motorists do sometimes curse us slow pedestrians in rough tones but now that national leadership has embraced these particular terms I suppose the day is coming when TSA personnel will feel free (“Is that your briefcase, white trash?” “Hold your hands over your head, buttface, and stand very still.”) and give us a full-body patdown if we object. Security as an excuse for ugly manners, we’ve seen it before.

Some readers have called my writing “garbage,” but that’s literary criticism and I don’t take it personally. Same with “I used to like your writing back when you were funny”: each person is the judge of funny/unfunny. But “sleazebag” and “scum” deny a person’s humanity, and now that they’re accepted in high places, we are in for a rough ride.

Flashback:

The party of Lincoln and Liberty was transmogrified into the party of hairy-backed swamp developers and corporate shills, faith-based economists, fundamentalist bullies with Bibles, Christians of convenience, freelance racists, misanthropic frat boys, shrieking midgets of AM radio, tax cheats, nihilists in golf pants, brownshirts in pinstripes, sweatshop tycoons, hacks, fakirs, aggressive dorks, Lamborghini libertarians, people who believe Neil Armstrong’s moonwalk was filmed in Roswell, New Mexico, little honkers out to diminish the rest of us, Newt’s evil spawn and their Etch-A-Sketch president, a dull and rigid man suspicious of the free flow of information and of secular institutions, whose philosophy is a jumble of badly sutured body parts trying to walk.

—“We’re Not in Lake Wobegon Anymore,” Garrison Keillor, August 26th, 2004.

When can we expect AG Tong to file suit to block this?

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And how do we know he’s in a gang, anyway?

Judge Allows DoJ to Drop Gun Charges Against MS-13 Leader - in Favor of Deportation

A Virginia-based judge has granted the Justice Department's motion to dismiss its illegal firearm case against a Virginia-based Salvadoran national accused of being an MS-13 leader.

The FBI announced the arrest of Henrry Josue Villatoro Santos on March 27 in Woodbridge, Virginia, just south of Washington, D.C., with Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel describing him as the top MS-13 leader on the East Coast.

Villatoro Santos was charged with an illegal firearm charge at the time of his arrest.

He also entered the country illegally, as though that matters to Tong and his ilk.

Here’s where Tong comes in:

Counsel for Villatoro Santos, Muhammad Elsayed, said during the April 15 hearing that the government had not clarified what would happen to his client once the case was dismissed, suggesting Villatoro Santos would likely be "summarily deported" without any due process.

As an El Salvadorian, Mr. Santos can expect to be welcomed in that country’s Terrorist Confinement Center, where he’ll get the attention and care he deserves.

Mead Point continues to be a wanted commodity

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520 Indian Field Road, listed on January 6 for $6.250 million, went immediately to contract and closed today at $7.360. Built in 1936 (it’s always a bit surprising to remember that there was still plenty of money for some people during the Depression, as attested to by so many of our old mansions built in that era that are still around), and an estate sale, I’ll guess that it will require some major renovation; obviously, at least two, probably more, bidders didn’t care.

Compared to the $60 billion already identified and scheduled, for elimination, if a federal judge will allow it, it's peanuts, but keep the pressure on and the momentum going

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State Department Axes $214 Million in Foreign Grants, From Cash for 'Newsroom Sustainability' in Moldova to 'Media Diversity' in the UK

Axed grants include a $14.6 million program that supported "expanded newsroom sustainability and engagement" in Moldova; a $5.2 million "media diversity" grant that funded an "anti-disinformation program in the United Kingdom"; a $400,000 "Building Environmental Resilience" grant in Armenia; a $1 million grant "channeling gig workers' rights" in Brazil; and a $750,000 grant for "building the migrant domestic worker-led movement in Lebanon, where Hezbollah holds sway over the government.

…. In addition to the axed media-related programs, grants on the chopping block include a $2.4 million initiative to combat "disinformation through creative content" in Belarus and $900,000 to establish a "place for women to join to organize" in Mauritania.

Additional cuts include a $4.75 million grant funding "American-style higher education" in Kurdistan, a $1.4 million grant to prevent "internet fragmentation" in Brazil, and a $1.1 million grant aimed at "building trust and keeping hope alive" in Sri Lanka, according to the internal State Department memo.