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Conservative Article Reference List

Below are links with summaries to primarily Conservative, Libertarian-leaning articles and/or blog posts that I have found enlightening with all that is happening in America and worldwide.

Scan the list and read what catches your eye; for some, just reading the headlines and summaries should provide enough insight into the article’s content.

(Some articles may appear outlandish but are also believable, so I leave it to readers to decide for themselves, and many things we considered to be conspiracy theories in the past are now turning out to be true.)

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February 21, 2025

Townhall: The Hostage Bibas Children Were Murdered – The young brothers were not killed in an Israeli airstrike, as Hamas claimed. – ‘The terrorists did not shoot the two young boys; they killed them with their bare hands. – Afterward, they committed horrific acts to cover up these atrocities…

National Pulse: Trump Cancelled The 18-Month Biden-Era Extension for Haitians, Clearing the Way for Deportations. – Consequently, the estimated 500,000 Haitians covered by TPS will see their protections expire in August instead of next February. – While the Trump administration has revoked the TPS extension, Sec. Noem has yet to decide whether the protections for Haitians will be renewed once the August deadline is reached.

American Thinker: The Trump Strategy for Ukraine – Trump never reveals his strategy, either before or during negotiations, and it is usually unconventional. – I believe he intends to make a ceasefire and give Russia almost everything it has already managed to seize. – This will allow Putin to look like a winner and “save face.” – This will be painful for Ukraine, but it’s better to amputate than slowly bleed to death…

Gateway Pundit: Secretary Of State Marco Rubio Reveals the Big Lie Ukrainian President Zelenskyy Told Him and VP JD Vance in a Recent Meeting – Zelensky said, ‘Sure, we want to do this deal. It makes all the sense in the world. The only thing is I need to run it through my legislative process,’ Rubio added. “I read two days later that Zelenskyy is saying, ‘I rejected the deal,’ but that’s not what happened.”

Breitbart: Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum Is Pushing For Changes In Their Constitution That Will Protect The Cartels from The U.S. Government. – The changes would essentially block any investigation or action by foreign law enforcement agencies without their previous permission. – The provisions could enable Mexico to criminally pursue anyone involved in such investigations.

Resist The Mainstream: Kash Patel Vows to ‘Hunt Down’ Those Seeking to Harm Americans in First Statement as FBI Director – “The FBI has a storied legacy—from the ‘G-Men’ to safeguarding our nation in the wake of 9/11.” – “The American people deserve an FBI that is transparent, accountable, and committed to justice. – The politicization of our justice system has eroded public trust—but that ends today.”…

Slay News: U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi has suggested that she’s about to release Jeffery Epstein’s infamous “client list” to the public. – During an interview on Fox News, AG Bondi revealed that the list of sex trafficker Epstein’s powerful clients “is sitting on my desk right now to review.” – Bondi noted that releasing the client list to the American people is “a directive by President Trump.”

Slay News: DHS Secretary Kristi Noem Launches Aggressive New Strategy to Speed Up Arrests & Deportations of Illegal Aliens—Noem has just signed a memo deputizing up to 600 State Department officials as immigration officers. – The agents will help with the arrest and deportation of illegal migrants.

Daily Mail: Caleb Vitello, the acting director of ICE, was reassigned on Friday. – He will be replaced by Madison Sheahan, secretary of the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, a senior Trump official said. – Sheahan worked with Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem while she was governor of South Dakota.

Newsmax: The Defense Department reportedly will delay firing civilian probationary employees so that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and the Pentagon’s Office of General Counsel can learn if and how U.S. military readiness could be affected. – Hegseth, “We’re starting [cuts] with the poor performers among our probationary employees because it’s common sense that you want the best and brightest.”…

Deseret News: Senator Mike Lee pushes to remove the U.S. from the United Nations – The Utah senator, along with other Republican lawmakers, introduced legislation calling for a ‘complete withdrawal’ from the international organization. – The DEFUND Act would specifically repeal statutes that tie the U.S. to the group, including the United Nations Participation Act of 1945 and the United Nations Headquarters Agreement Act. – It would also cease “all forms of U.S. financial support” to the United Nations.

American Thinker: Musk To The American people, “Look what the feds are doing with your money!” – The U.S. population is 335 million, and SS payments are being made to 398 million. – The DOGE report shows there are 3.5 million people between the ages of 140 and 149 years that receive SSA benefits. – If that’s not enough to make you wonder, there are 1.3 million people receiving benefits who are between the ages of 150 and 159. – The report also revealed that there are over 1,000 citizens over the age of 220 and one lucky soul over 360 years old receiving benefits…

Western Journal: Trump Breaks Down DOGE Dividend—President Trump is considering returning some of the money the DOGE is saving to American taxpayers. – On Wednesday, He spoke at the Future Investment Initiative Institute Miami 2025 summit, where he estimated that 20 percent of those savings could be given back to Americans.

Washington Examiner: The nearly 200 migrants detained at Guantanamo Bay have been cleared out of the military base, with all but one person flown back to Venezuela following successful negotiations with the South American nation’s leader. – The detainees are illegal immigrants, most of whom had serious criminal histories, gang affiliations, or had been ordered to be removed from the U.S. by a federal immigration judge.

American Thinker: Can Bounty Hunters Help Solve Our Immigration Crisis? – Two high-level state officials, Missouri Senator David Gregory, and Mississippi Attorney General Matthew Barton, have come up with this idea. It is not about rounding up the innocent but targeting the guilty: illegal aliens who have defied rap sheets, warrants, or deportation orders. – The bounty amount should be determined based on their crime.

Epoch Times: A Federal Judge Vacated The Trial For New York City’s Mayor But Didn’t Dismiss The Charges. – The judge is appointing an outside lawyer to address the motion to dismiss charges against Eric Adams. – The DOJ charged Adams in 2024 with accepting illegal campaign contributions and perks such as luxury travel from foreigners.

Breitbart: The FTC Is Launching An Investigation Into ‘Un-American’ Censorship By Big – “Big Tech censorship is not just un-American, it is potentially illegal. – The FTC wants your help to investigate these potential violations of the law,” Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson said on Thursday, saying, “We are asking for public submissions from anyone who has been a victim of tech censorship…

Epoch Times: The Senate Passed a Budget Resolution as ‘Plan B’ in Case of House Failure to Pass a Bill—Trump has rejected the budget resolution, but a senator describes it as ‘Plan B’ in case the House cannot pass its plan. Republicans have turned to the budget reconciliation process to authorize funding for Trump’s plans because the method bypasses the Senate filibuster rule that requires 60 senators to advance legislation.

American Greatness: The Trump Administration Is Serious About Combatting Global Censorship – Vance’s Munich speech made it clear that the Trump administration is taking a stand against global censorship by defending free speech at home and abroad. – Europe’s Digital Services Act (DSA) would make every European social media user subject to the censorship regime and potentially export that censorship throughout the world, including America…

American Conservative: Out of Europe to Save Europe – Durable peace on the continent can only arise out of European security cooperation. – Despite deeply disingenuous protests to the contrary, NATO expansion to include Ukraine was the primary cause of the war now ravaging eastern Ukraine. So the time has come for the Trump administration to begin to think about what had for 80 long years been unthinkable: America’s withdrawal from NATO. – Far from being radical, such a withdrawal would be in keeping with the wishes of Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1958…

Center For Immigration Studies: On February 19, President Trump issued an executive order titled “Ending Taxpayer Subsidization of Open Borders.” – Among other things, it will place so-called “means-tested public benefits,” including but not limited to Medicaid and food stamps, under an oversight microscope “to ensure that taxpayer-funded benefits exclude any ineligible alien who entered the US illegally or is otherwise unlawfully present in the US.”

Washington Examiner: Trump is putting the screws to increasingly Western-hostile South Africa – In early February, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced he would boycott a G20 conference meeting this week with South Africa, citing the host country’s support of “anti-Americanism.” – Daniel Silke, director of the Cape Town-based Political Futures Consulting, “I don’t think the African National Congress has ever embraced the United States…

Center Square: The Department of Education is empowering states by cutting red tape for charter school authorizations. – The Biden administration required a federal review of “how states approve authorization of charter schools in states where they are already lawful authorizers.” – The department announced that it had removed that requirement Thursday in an effort to promote state autonomy in educational decisions and make more schools readily accessible to students and families.

February 20, 2025

One America News: Following a forensic investigation, the IDF has confirmed that the body said to be that of Shiri Bibas, a Hamas hostage, is not hers, nor is it the body of any other hostage taken by Hamas. – Meanwhile, the remains of her two sons, the youngest victims kidnapped by the Islamist terrorist group, have, in fact, been positively identified.

Fox News: Stephen Miller gave the White House press corps a “civics lesson” on presidential powers at Thursday’s press briefing, to the delight of conservatives. – The White House deputy chief of staff for policy responded to a question comparing media concerns about Elon Musk serving as an “unelected bureaucrat” while ignoring former President Joe Biden’s declining mental state.

Sharyl Attkisson: Media Mistakes in the Trump Era, The Definitive List (Updated) – 170. February 2025 – Numerous media outlets claimed Elon Musk “doesn’t have a security clearance” and shouldn’t be accessing certain government records. – However, Musk has long had a security clearance, and multiple sources say it’s currently at the “Top-Secret” level.

Daily Wire: United States District Judge Carl Nichols Clears The Way For USAID Restructuring – The judge said that initial reports of the harm caused by the restructuring were “overstated.” – Attorneys representing unions for USAID employees argued that key programs have been halted and numerous employees placed on administrative leave, contending that such moves undermine the agency’s day-to-day foreign development functions…

American Thinker: The DOGE FAQs – Tips for responding to people suffering from TDS regarding DOGE – “DOGE has no legal authority to do what it’s doing.” – “Actually, it does because Obama established the U.S. Digital Service. – President Trump merely renamed it and gave it a more sweeping mandate.” – “Trump and Musk have ordered government workers to show up at the office, which puts an undue burden on them and is unfair.” – “Federal workers were allowed to work at home because of the COVID crisis. – “No one elected Elon Musk!” – “True, however, all the cabinet members weren’t elected either.” – And the list goes on…

Breitbart: Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has identified about $20 million a year in savings for taxpayers by ordering her department’s staff to cut all DEI programs. – Additionally, she ordered ODNI staff to stop attending any conferences not central to the ODNI mission or that do not have “defined deliverables,” per her administration.

Vigilant News: A Secret Dept. of Education Operation Is Exposed In An Undercover Video – They’re hiding the use of the encrypted “Signal” app from DOGE and Congress. – Travis Combs told the undercover Project Veritas reporter that federal employees in the DOE are evading Congress and oversight. – “The one nice thing about the program that I work in is that we don’t ask [citizenship] status, and we’ve been able to keep that out of our federal statute. So, we don’t ask them when they enroll what their status is.”…

Epoch Times: A Federal Judge Allows The Trump Administration to Continue The Layoffs of Federal Workers—Unions representing hundreds of thousands of federal workers filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump and the heads of several government agencies, saying they were overstepping the executive branch’s authority.

AMUSE on X: How Citibank Helped Hide a Massive NGO Slush Fund – The EPA transferred the massive sum into escrow accounts controlled by eight nonprofit organizations, effectively putting the money beyond reach before President Trump took the oath of office. – The implications of Biden’s last-minute maneuver extend beyond the immediate $20 billion at stake. – Setting up these financial instruments ensures a continuous flow of climate investment outside of direct government control…

Western Journal: Panicked Adam Schiff Went to The FBI Building for One Last Attempt to Derail Kash Patel’s Confirmation, But It Didn’t Work – Adam Schiff totally lacks integrity, and Republicans in Washington clearly know it. – Schiff was among a half-dozen Democrats to gather outside the FBI, as Schiff managed to further disgrace himself in the annals of American politics.

Updates For This Date Are Above This Note

JD Rucker: Kash Patel Is the New FBI Director—He won with no votes from Democrats and two RINO dissenters. Senators Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski voted against Patel’s confirmation, making the final vote a nail-biting 51-49. Former Republican Leader Mitch McConnell was a question mark but voted in favor of Patel.

Daily Wire: Pete Hegseth Is Considering Removal Of Top Generals Involved In ‘DEI Woke Shit’ – Rumors of pending dismissals have circulated for several weeks, but a list containing the names of officers who could be let go was recently sent to Republican lawmakers. – Several high-profile generals, including Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, could be on the chopping block.

Western Journal: Trump Announces Someone Will Ft. Knox ‘To Make Sure the Gold Is There’ – That does not necessarily mean Trump. – It could mean a visit from Musk, Pete Hegseth, or some other trusted member of the administration. – It should also be noted that, according to the U.S. Mint, the last time a gold vault was inspected by anyone other than authorized personnel was when President Franklin D. Roosevelt inspected the Bullion Depository in 1943, 82 years ago.

Washington Examiner: Senator Mitch McConnell has announced he will not seek reelection in 2026. – He was expected to retire in early 2024 after resigning under pressure as Senate Republican Leader. – The longest-serving party leader in Senate history has held on through numerous falls and health issues, including moments when he froze for almost half a minute.

Gatestone Institute: The U.S. Sent Over $3 Billion to Hezbollah’s ‘Army’ – The State Department spent nearly two decades selling the myth that empowering the LAF [Lebanese Armed Forces] will weaken Hezbollah. – But after $3 billion in spending, Hezbollah is more powerful than ever, with American taxpayers stuck with financing its auxiliary force in the hopes of defeating it. – Hezbollah won’t disarm, nor will the LAF disarm it or prevent it from attacking Israel…

Tucker Carlson Interview: Donald Trump recently called Zelensky a dictator. –  Human rights lawyer Bob Amsterdam has worked in Ukraine for the past couple of years and confirms that, if anything, what Trump said is an understatement. – Topics covered include USAID’s Fake Church Operation, Mike Pompeo’s Involvement, Why the US is bending the Knee to Ukraine, is Zelensky Totally Cocked out, The Push for Sanctions, China’s Role in Undermining the US, and The War’s Impact on the Middle East, and more…

AMUSE on X: The Dictatorship of War, Or Why Zelensky’s Rule Cannot Be Called Democratic – Since the Russian invasion, Zelensky has declared martial law, suspended elections indefinitely, banned opposition parties, consolidated control over the press, and refused to negotiate a peace deal. – A dictator need not wear a military uniform or govern with undisguised brutality; sometimes, the most effective dictators are those who claim necessity, invoking crisis as justification for indefinite rule…

John Daniel Davidson: If The Drug Cartels Are Terrorist Groups, Then Mexico Is Their State Sponsor – The naming of the Sinaloa Cartel as a terrorist organization might mean the collapse of the Mexican government. – The naming of Sinaloa, in particular, is important because it implicates the Mexican state at the highest levels. – Former Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and his ruling MORENA coalition are closely connected to the Sinaloa Cartel, as is his protégé and successor, President Claudia Sheinbaum…

American Thinker: Kash Patel is poised for a Senate confirmation vote to become the FBI’s director, marking a dramatic shift in the agency’s leadership and mission. – For years, the FBI has faced mounting scrutiny over its politicization, weaponization, and failure to remain impartial. – The American people have watched as the bureau targeted political dissidents, interfered in elections, and prioritized ideology over justice. – If confirmed, Kash Patel would signal a long-overdue course correction and a return to true justice.

American Thinker: Democrats Are Defending The Indefensible – In America, we currently have a major political party that finds itself in the political wilderness. – Ordinarily, eliminating blatant examples of waste, fraud, and abuse would be welcomed by both sides of the political aisle. – However, it is the exact strategy that the Democrat Party has officially adopted as it bemoans practically every action Trump has taken thus far, including the long-overdue cost-cutting measures that are so obviously warranted…

Breitbart: Polling shows that Congressional Democrats have hit a record-low job approval rating with voters, while Congressional Republicans currently enjoy a record high. – Twenty-one percent of voters approve of the way the Democrats in Congress are handling their jobs, while forty percent approve of the way the Republicans in Congress are handling their jobs, which is a record high.

American Thinker: DOGE takes on the Social Security monster – Waste and fraud at Social Security uncovered by DOGE highlight that the system should have been privatized years ago. – WHISTLEBLOWER: They were incentivized to qualify illegals for “LONG-TERM DISABILITY” to qualify illegals for Social Security FOR LIFE, “So they were set for life.” – “That doesn’t sound like a refugee to me. Just being honest, that sounds like someone who’s planning on staying here forever.”…

Western Journal: The Trump Administration Made An ‘Extremely Concerning’ Discovery About Biden’s EPA—Billions Were Set Aside for A Stacey Abrams-Linked Group—DOGE found that Biden‘s EPA set aside $2 billion for a grant to Power Forward Communities. – The grant was awarded in April 2024 through the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund program.

Gateway Pundit: President Trump wastes no time proving his second term will be a game-changer for America. – Trump revealed he’s seriously considering a proposal to give 20% to every American taxpayer, funded entirely by the massive savings the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has accumulated.

Rapid Response 47: A Non-Comprehensive Extensive List of Wins So Far In President Trump’s Second Term – President Donald J. Trump hasn’t even been in office for a full month but has already had one of the most significant and positive impacts of any president in modern American history. – This list includes declaring a national emergency at the southern border. – Illegal border crossings have hit lows not seen in decades. – Illegal aliens have started turning around in droves…

AMUSE on X: Members of Congress Make Millions Funding Foreign Wars – The moment a congressman’s career ends, his service to the public should, in theory, be complete. – Their time as a steward of the people’s trust should conclude with a record of upholding national interest over personal gain. But in Washington, careers don’t end; they simply transition from the public sector to the private, often in the most lucrative way possible…

Victor Davis Hanson: Saturday Night Live and EU elites mock Trump supporters, yet their cluelessness further fuels the populist rise they so fear. – Democrats should ask: Who is truly slow-witted? Is it the stumbling Tom Hanks caricature or the real Joe Biden and his ilk? – Of course, the stunned European ministers in Munich sat aghast at Vance’s tutorial. – None refuted what he was saying, namely that European elites’ efforts to delay or cancel elections that might bring national conservative populists to power are contrary to the European enlightenment…

The Daily Fetched: House Oversight Committee Chairman Eli Crane (R-AZ) revealed that former NIAID chief Dr. Anthony Fauci authorized a staggering $241 million in taxpayer funds for transgender studies and treatments on laboratory animals. – The funding was revealed during recent congressional oversight hearings, with experts suggesting it is merely a baseline figure for these unconventional studies.

Zero Hedge: A Boston University Employee Who Called For Death Of DOGE Team Now Under Investigation – Jared May, who works as an assistant media technician at Boston University, shared a post online identifying six young members of DOGE with the caption, “Wanted for Treason, Dead or Alive.” – Under federal law, threatening government officials is a felony…

Resist the Mainstream: The IRS is preparing to terminate approximately 6,000 employees beginning Thursday, marking a significant reduction in the agency’s workforce during the peak tax filing season. – The layoffs are expected to primarily affect recent hires and probationary workers who lack the job security protections of their more senior colleagues…

Resist the Mainstream: HHS Declares ‘There Are Only Two Sexes’—After years of nationwide debate, the Department of Health and Human Services set the record straight on Wednesday. It reaffirmed a binary definition of sex, aligning with an executive order signed by President Trump on his first day in office.

Epoch Times: Delta Offers $30,000 to Each Passenger Aboard The Plane That Crashed And Flipped in Toronto – A Delta spokesperson said the payments are a good-faith gesture with no strings attached. – Communications between the tower and pilot were normal on approach, and the cause of the crash is still under investigation. The airport’s fire chief has said that the runway “was dry, and there were no crosswind conditions.”…

February 19, 2025

Epoch Times: Six Takeaways From Donald The Trump-Elon Musk Interview – 1. Musk Would Have Endorsed Trump Even Without Assassination Attempt. – 2. Trump And Musk Are Not at Odds. – 3. Musk on DOGE-Related Conflicts of Interest: ‘I’ll Recuse Myself.’ – 4. Musk and Trump Talk About The DOGE Workers. – 5. Musk and Trump Discuss Bringing The Astronauts Home. – 6. On DOGE, $1 Trillion Will Be Found…

Vigilant News: During his conversation with President Trump and Sean Hannity, Elon Musk delivered an emotional message to the rich people who have lost their love for America. – “What do you think’s gonna happen to your business… if the ship of America sinks?”- “If America is the central pillar holding up Western civilization, that pillar must be strong. – If that pillar falls, the whole roof comes crashing down, and there’s no place to run.”

Sharyl Attkisson: A new Rasmussen Reports poll finds that 56% of likely US voters say that “partisan judges abusing their positions is a threat to democracy.” This includes 35% who say they strongly agree. – Meanwhile, 36% say they disagree, including 27% who say they strongly disagree.

Dallas Ludlum: The Associated Press Just Got Caught Lying AGAIN – AP’s Version: “Trump said at a press briefing in Florida we have millions and millions of people over 100 years old receiving Social Security benefits.” “They’re obviously fraudulent or incompetent.” – Trump never claimed millions of centenarians are actively collecting Social Security checks. He pointed out that millions of people in the system are listed as over 100 years old and that the government needs to investigate…

Emerald Robinson: The Biden Era Center for Internet Security Gets Cut – Trump’s team at DHS has partially defunded this censorship wing. – It was also at the very center of the illegal Biden regime’s censorship efforts against American citizens. – In fact, CIS received $70 million in grants from the Department of Homeland Security’s sub-department CISA, which is actually much more infamous…

American Spectator: California Eyes Takeover of Oil Refineries – In its latest move to echo Venezuela, California’s energy commission touts government control of the state’s once-booming petroleum industry. – If you think gas prices are high under the state’s absurdly regulated market-based system, just imagine this. California’s leaders don’t want us driving, so they could arbitrarily raise prices rather than indirectly through taxes and regulations to force us into short-range EVs…

Breitbart: President Donald Trump believes the Ukrainian people should get a say in whether and how the war against the Russian invasion ends. – “Well, we have a situation where we haven’t had elections in Ukraine. – “Where we have martial law, martial law essentially, in Ukraine, where the leader, I hate to say it, but he’s down to four percent approval rating.” – That’s not a Russia thing. – “That’s something coming from me and coming from many other countries also.”

New York Sun: Zelensky Accuses Trump of Living in a ‘Disinformation Space’ as Tensions Rise Between Washington, Kyiv – ‘If someone wants to replace me right now, it’s not going to happen,’ Zelensky said. – The Ukrainian President also said he is yet to receive an answer from Washington on his request to increase the number of Patriot missile systems “despite raising the issue repeatedly.”

Epoch Times: 30 Takeaways From Trump’s First 30 Days in Office – 1. Trump’s sweeping policy actions are reshaping DC, foreign relations, and the authority and scope of the executive branch. – 2. The president has issued more than 100 executive actions affecting the economy, national security, federal government, immigration, foreign policy, energy, health, and education. – 3. There are more than 70 lawsuits challenging Trump’s actions as of Feb. 17…

Center For Immigration Studies: The Declining Education Level Of Newly Arrived Immigrants – This trend was driven by the huge increase in illegal immigration from Latin America under the Biden administration.

Slay News: DHS Will Conduct Lie Detector Tests to Expose Source of ICE Raid Location Leaks – The DHS chief was responding after it became clear that agency officials are leaking details about the location of upcoming illegal immigration raids. – Leaks derailed attempts at removing illegal aliens in Aurora, Colorado, and Los Angeles. – President Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, previously said the leak could only have come from someone on the inside.

Washington Free Beacon: GOP Senators Put Red Cross on Notice After The Supposedly ‘Neutral’ Aid Organization Participated In A Hamas Propaganda Ceremony. – When Hamas gunmen paraded emaciated Israeli hostages across a stage in Gaza earlier this month, they were flanked by two representatives from the International Committee of the Red Cross. – ‘Where was the Red Cross’s increasing concern for the safety and well-being of the Israeli hostages the last 493 days?’ Ted Budd asked…

Zero Hedge: “President Trump signed an executive order Friday to defund schools and other education agencies that require COVID-19 vaccines for students and staff. – By cutting off their federal funding for non-compliance, Trump effectively outlawed COVID-19 mandates at the remaining fifteen colleges and universities that still cling to the policy as a prerequisite for students and staff to participate in higher education.

Zero Hedge: DOGE Is Expected To Hit the Defense Department With Mass Layoffs—On Tuesday, DOGE staffers were reportedly at the Pentagon and given lists of probationary employees in compliance with an end-of-business-day deadline. – Though it’s not clear how many DOD employees are probationary, the Pentagon has about 950,000 civilian employees. – Along with the lists of probationary employees, officials were also asked to identify any employees they wanted to spare and provide a justification.

JD Rucker: Leftist Rag Axios Rolls Out RINO Lawmakers Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Bill Cassidy, and Don Bacon to Manufacture a Supposed GOP DOGE Revolt – It isn’t often that I cite a publication without linking to or even quoting from it, but Axios wins that distinction today. Their recent article, “Trump faces growing DOGE revolt from GOP lawmakers,” is such a blatant attempt to manufacture an agenda by faking a narrative that I cannot recommend even reading it for laughs.

Western Journal: Trump’s FBI Nominee Clears Huge Hurdle, Secures Major GOP Endorsement – Kash Patel, a former federal prosecutor, was seen as one of the nominees the Democrats thought was the most vulnerable to an attack. – The Senate voted along party lines to advance his nomination to replace Christopher Wray. – The vote came after Louisiana GOP Senator Bill Cassidy, formerly on the fence, confirmed he would be advancing the nomination.

The Federalist: Kash Patel Is Perfect for FBI Director Because He Already Fought The Deep State And Won. -Kash Patel was targeted not due to a lack of qualifications but because he has the necessary qualifications to challenge the Deep State. President Trump was elected in no small part as a rebuke to a national security apparatus and intelligence agencies that have been weaponized and politicized against dissenters from ruling-class orthodoxy.

The Federalist: Whistleblowers Say FBI Weaponization Is Real, And Here’s Proof – FBI officials, past and present, have marshaled significant evidence via whistleblower complaints and testimony indicating that several terminated leaders routinely used their offices for partisan purposes. – These include allegations that at least two of the fired officials manipulated the security clearance review process to punish conservatives, COVID-19 vaccine skeptics, and January 6 whistleblowers…

The Daily Fetched: The Biden Administration’s Department of Health and Human Services spent $20 billion on grants to help migrants purchase cars and homes and on loans for start-up businesses, among other services.  The giveaway ultimately became a “giant magnet” for those crossing the border and claiming asylum.

American Thinker: Trump Is On Point About The 14th – The purpose of the 14th Amendment was to recognize blacks born in U.S. territory who had no legal status, not hand out citizenship to every illegal border crosser or ‘birth tourism’ traveler. – So here comes President Trump putting the issue on the front pages with an executive order and potentially heading to the Supreme Court. I want to hear what the court has to say about this. – I think that the Court will agree with President Trump.

Slay News: Democrats Panic After Elon Musk’s DOGE Exposes ‘Biggest Fraud in History’ in Social Security System – A DOGE audit found millions of people in the Social Security system who would be over 100 years old. – As of the 2020 census, only about 80,000 centenarians exist in America. – Their published table showed 20 million people listed with ages over 100, including more than 1.3 million people aged 150-159. – “The logic flow diagram for the Social Security system looks INSANE,” Musk said…

New York Post: Karoline Leavitt blasted ‘irresponsible’ Chuck Schumer for blaming the Delta plane crash on Trump – “This unfortunate crash took place in Canadian airspace with Canadian air-traffic controllers overseeing it.” – She went on to blast the Biden administration for sitting “on their hands when it came to aviation safety for four years.”

American Thinker: How Not To Protest For ‘Immigration Reform’ – Arrests of illegal aliens are way up, and leftists are literally losing their minds. – The troglodytes of the left cannot stop their self-destructive meltdowns, as evidenced in so many videos online documenting the utter stupidity of the protesters against ICE or government accountability. – Even the legacy media talking heads are spinning, with some getting downright bitchy…

American Conservative: Twilight of the Fourth Estate – Legacy media gatekeepers are losing their grip on the public conversation, and they don’t like it, even though they mostly deserve it. – That’s one of the reasons Vice President J.D. Vance’s speech at the Munich Security Conference was so well received. – It is telling that there is less consensus around government anti-disinformation efforts at home and the much more sweeping restrictions on freedom of speech in Europe…

American Thinker: Guardians of Liberty, Trump, and the Constitution—Like the Founders, Trump has faced relentless attacks on his character, family, and legacy. – His upbringing in Queens, New York, and later his work in Manhattan real estate gave him an uncommon understanding of middle-class struggles and the inner workings of elite power structures. – His father, Fred Trump, instilled in him a tireless work ethic and a belief in the American dream, emphasizing the value of persistence and entrepreneurial spirit…

American Thinker: Democrats Wonder In the Wilderness – Obama has been the power behind the curtain running the DNC since he was President. As a result, progressive fascists occupy all important positions. – The party cannot turn back, which means Democrats openly espousing their party’s positions will be less and less popular in the polls. – Message refinement, lying, dissembling, distortion, misrepresentation, and projection are the recourses open to Democrats…

Daily Wire: Hakeem Jeffries Debuts A New Trump Nickname, “Captain Chaos,” Proving He Learned Nothing From ‘Cocaine Mitch.’ – Jeffries then suggested that because prices had not yet gone down after Trump’s first month in office, he had already failed to deliver on his campaign promises. – He also claimed that Republicans were “implementing the most extreme parts of the Project 2025 agenda.”…

NBC News: The Trump administration has terminated the approval of New York City’s congestion pricing plan. The plan charged motorists $9 if they entered central Manhattan between 5 a.m. and 9 p.m. on weekdays and 9 a.m. and 9 p.m. on weekends. – In a letter to New York Governor Kathy Hochul, U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said the federal government has jurisdiction over these highways leading to Manhattan and that these additional tolls posed an unfair burden to motorists outside the city.

February 18, 2025

Vigilant Fox: Elon Musk Eviscerates RFK Jr. Critics With One Powerful Statement – “I think he’s unfairly maligned as someone who is anti-science, but I think he isn’t,” – “He just wants to question the science, which is the essence of the science.” – “The scientific method, fundamentally, is about always questioning the science,” Musk declared and also disclosed when he decided to endorse Trump for President…

CNBC: The Senate has confirmed Howard Lutnick as Secretary of Commerce. – He will oversee ~50,000 employees who do everything from collecting economic statistics to running the census. – Lutnick is likely to help Jamieson Greer, Trump’s nominee to be the top U.S. trade negotiator, with the president’s aggressive plans to impose import taxes on U.S. trading partners, including allies and adversaries alike…

Daily Signal: Kash Patel, Elise Stefanik, and Linda McMahon Are Among These Picks Awaiting Senate Approval – Kash Patel for FBI Director has been as difficult as any. – Elise Stefanik for Ambassador to the UN has been delayed not due to obstruction by Democrats, but rather by Republicans. – Linda McMahon for Secretary of Education, with President Trump saying, “I hope you do a great job and put yourself out of a job.”…

Fox News: Trump orders all Biden-era US attorneys to be fired  – Terminating U.S. attorneys from previous administrations is generally standard procedure. – Typically, a new administration will request the resignation of a U.S. attorney being replaced rather than issuing a termination letter.

Slay News: Biden’s $500 Million Student Loan Forgiveness Plan Has Been Shut Down by An Appeals Court – Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey originally sued the Biden admin over its half-a-billion-dollar effort to wipe student debts. – The scheme was known officially as the SAVE plan. – The court’s Tuesday ruling found that Biden’s administration didn’t have the authority to wipe the depts.

Slay News: EPA Chief Lee Zeldin Tells Remote Workers to ‘Return to the Office Full-Time’ – Zeldin noted that the average occupancy at headquarters on Mondays and Fridays since January 2024 has only been “in the single digits.” – “In fact, the highest single day of attendance since January of last year was only just over a third,” Zeldin said.

Courageous Discourse: The USDA spent $1.25 billion on Mass Culling for H5N1 Bird Flu, With Disastrous Consequences. – The strikingly large sum of indemnity payments not only incentivizes farmers to comply with the state-run mass killing of their animals but also represents a serious misuse of taxpayer money, as mass culling triggers a cascade of severe downstream consequences, such as skyrocketing egg prices.

Trending Politics: CBS’ USAID SOB Story Goes Down In Flames After ‘Worker’ Is Identified As Liberal Operative – As it turns out, Drye and her counterpart on the show, former USAID worker Adam Dubard, were not employees at all. They were “consultants” hired by the agency after plum political careers working for Democrat politicians.

Zero Hedge: An Airline Pilot In The Area Captured This Dramatic Video Of The Delta Regional Jet’s Crash Landing At Toronto Airport. – All 80 souls aboard the CRJ900 aircraft survived after the regional jet crashed on the runway upon landing. – While 18 people sustained injuries, miraculously, there were no fatalities.

Daily Wire: Bad Weather Or Human Error? – A Retired Airline Captain Breaks Down The Delta Crash – ‘I do not believe that weather was a factor,’ the pilot told The Daily Wire. ‘Any pilot should be able to handle that. It’s no big deal.’ – The pilot landing the CRJ900 in Toronto on Monday “hit the right main landing gear with such force that it snapped the gear off.” – “I hate to say it,” the captain said. “This is pilot error.”…

AXIOS: America’s Drone-Swarm Crisis – Ask U.S. intelligence experts their biggest fears, and you’ll inevitably hear dire warnings of drone swarms, domestic or foreign, targeting American soil. – Probe deeper, and you’ll learn that China makes the vast majority of these drones and, therefore, they are conceivably controllable by America’s greatest adversary. – TikTok is accused of being a security threat, but it can’t spy or drop bombs on us…

Breitbart: Marco Rubio and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov have met to discuss the future of the Ukraine war. – However, even before sitting down, Russia made clear it was approaching things with a hard bargaining mindset. – Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said that from a Russian perspective, the primary purpose of today’s talks is “restoring the whole complex of Russian-American relations” and organizing a future leader meeting.

Tucker Carlson’s Jeffrey Sachs Interview: Can President Trump actually end the Ukraine war? – Jeffrey David Sachs, an American economist and public policy analyst who is a professor at Columbia University, thinks he can. The interview discussion includes, at (0:00), Jeffrey Sachs’ Story on How He Met Viktor Orban. – (2:55) Bill Clinton’s Shadowy Deep State Project. – (11:13) The Three Most Important Things Donald Trump Has Done So Far…

Breitbart: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Tuesday that Hamas has agreed to release the six remaining live hostages on Saturday from the first phase of the ceasefire agreement and four dead hostages on Thursday. – As of Monday, there were 14 hostages still left to be released under the first phase out of 70 overall hostages.

Slay News: President Donald Trump’s showdown with the administrative state has already reached the Supreme Court. – The president’s lawyers have called on the high court to uphold his power to fire executive branch officials. – The case is a test of Trump’s power and the willingness of the Supreme Court to let him exercise the full scope of executive authority granted by the U.S. Constitution.

Gatestone Institute: How USAID Shipped Bags of Hundred Dollar Bills to the Taliban – Planeloads of cash with zero accountability. – $40 million on the tarmac was part of a much larger scheme under which USAID and the State Department provided over $1.7 billion in funding to the UN, which then shipped $2.9 billion in cash to Afghanistan.

2nd Smartest Guy: DOGE Just Discovered That $4.7 TRILLION In Taxpayer Money Has Totally DISAPPEARED And Cannot Be Traced – This is because the federal government did not record where the money was going. – The Treasury Access Symbol (TAS) is an identification code linking a Treasury payment to a budget line item (a standard financial process). – As of Saturday, this is now a required field…

Slay News: Acting commissioner of the Social Security Administration, Michelle King, resigned on Sunday after a standoff with Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency over access to sensitive government records. – This is the same day Musk described what could be the ‘biggest fraud in US history‘ in which millions of ‘people’ over the age of 100 are currently collecting monthly payments. – See the chart…

Daily Signal: President Trump Placed An Anti-Fraud Expert in Charge of Social Security After Acting Chief Quits in DOGE Clash – Leland Dudek, who manages SSA’s anti-fraud office, will serve as acting commissioner while the Senate vets Frank Bisignano, Trump’s nominee for permanent commissioner.

Zero Hedge: With the Trump administration cutting off billions of US taxpayer funding for the USAID international slush fund, formerly flush NGOs are now begging woke EU nations for money to continue operations, according to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. – “The USAID files exposed the dark practices of the globalist network.” – “We will not take the bait again!”

Trending Politics: DOGE Is Set For A Massive Legal Victory Clearing The Way For A Full-Blown Federal Audit – Federal judge Tanya Chutkan has reportedly refused to place a restraining order on the department after expressing skepticism about the lawsuit against the agency. – The plaintiffs argue that Musk’s actions with DOGE have caused “mass chaos and confusion for state and local governments, federal employees, and the American people.”…

Epoch Times: A Federal Judge Has Declined To Block DOGE’s Access to Student Financial Aid Data – The case revolves around data submitted when college students applied for financial aid. – U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss ruled that the plaintiffs had not shown sufficient irreparable harm to warrant emergency injunctive relief.

Resist the Mainstream: White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt Dismembered the Leftists’ Outrage Over DOGE By Throwing Democrat Words Back in Their Faces. – Leavitt has thrust past statements by Democratic leaders Barack Obama and Joe Biden into the spotlight, highlighting an apparent contradiction between their previous cost-cutting rhetoric and their party’s current opposition to government spending reductions.

Woke Spy: Has The Democrat Party Been Sabotaged? – Its “Stunningly Stupid” Decisions Have Convinced Leftist Political Strategist James Carville. They Are Doomed If They Don’t Change Direction. – While Democrats are fixated on woke politics, Carville notes that Trump’s America First agenda is smoothly sailing through, leaving them overwhelmed. He attributes Trump’s success to Steve Bannon’s strategy of “flooding the media with sh*t.” – As Bannon observed, Democrats are nothing without the Leftist media, and curbing its power leaves them helpless.

Daily Wire: Hegseth Says Biden Admin Hit Him With Politically Motivated IRS Audit – Hegseth, who was confirmed last month in a 51-50 Senate vote, posted a photo on X showing a letter informing him that he was being audited and owed the IRS a balance of $33,558.16. – Trump has tapped former Missouri GOP Rep. Billy Long to be the next commissioner of the IRS. Long has worked as a tax advisor since he left Congress in 2023…

Washington Examiner: Out Desperation, Democrats Return To Their Old Favorite, Class Warfare – Somewhere along the road from their November 5th election defeat to the January 20th inauguration of President Donald Trump, they decided to tamp down discussion of race and gender and revive good old-fashioned leftist class warfare against the rich, by going after Elong Musk. – Never mind their old buddy, Alex Soros, and the many $millions he spends supporting Democrat efforts…

Newsmax: Federal agencies have been told to stop considering a company’s DEI practices when deciding whether to procure its goods or services, according to a GSA announcement on Tuesday. – This policy reverses the Biden administration initiative that considered a company’s internal DEI practices when deciding whether to buy that company’s products or services.

Daily Wire: The Department of Education Has Slashed $600 Million in Grants to Promote ‘Divisive’ Ideologies. – The Grants had been used to train teachers in Critical Race Theory and gender ideology. – According to the department, the sessions included titles such as “Building Cultural Competence,” “Dismantling Racial Bias,” and “Centering Equity in the Classroom. “

Washington Examiner: Where was 60 Minutes when Rust Belt jobs were cut? – Youngstown Sheet and Tube abruptly furloughed 5,000 workers in a single day. – Within months, 16 U.S. Steel plants shut down. – National newspapers buried the story, and if the New York Times wrote about it, it cannot be found in its archives. The people there, it seems, were expendable to the elite. They had no college education, did not live in the right zip codes, and, besides, someone overseas could do what they do.

The Federalist: Elbridge Colby Is The Right Man To Carry Out Trump’s America First Mandate – Colby will actually do what Americans have given Trump a clear mandate to do, and for that reason, the D.C. blob is desperate to stop him. – Unlike military-industrial complex devotees, he embraces a foreign policy of genuine peace through strength, one that avoids wars while protecting our authentic interests, gets our allies to do their part, and focuses on the top threats to Americans rather than irrelevant distractions…

American Conservative: Trump’s Transgender Orders Are Well Within Executive Authority—The lawsuits challenging them confuse several aspects of congressional and executive powers…

American Thinker: Why Would Anyone Want To Be A Democrat Nowadays? – Even after they suffered a devastating loss, they continued to fight against all the issues that Trump ran on and that voters overwhelmingly supported. – Democrats need to find a leader who is bold enough to take on the pernicious gang of extreme leftist reprobates that have turned their party into something that would horrify Dems of a few decades ago.

Bari Weiss: Against the Vandals—What happened on the left over the past decade is a cautionary tale for a right that wants to ignore the danger ahead. – If we have learned anything over this past tumultuous decade, it is that determined human beings are the only thing standing in the way of unraveling. – -People are the only ones guarding the border between civilization and its enemies, both from without and from within.

Western Journal: Ultra Elite Americans Face Painful Hit as Trump Is Set To Initiate A Change To An Insane Tax Break For Billionaire Sports Team Owners That Never Should Have Existed – This is because current tax laws treat them much like any other form of corporation, even though the way they operate are completely different. – “Treating pro sports as if it were a normal business — where machinery and computers wear out and depreciate — is ludicrous.” – “It needs to stop.”…

Powerline: The enthusiastic 60 Minutes segment supporting censorship in Germany reminded me of Lesley Stahl’s 60 Minutes segment on President Trump in advance of the 2020 presidential election. – In Leslie Stahl’s interview with Trump in 2020, they cut out all the facts about Joe Biden and his underhanded dealings in Ukraine. The result was that Trump sounded incoherent in the edited version, and the public remained unaware of the extent of the Biden scandal.

American Thinker: Trump and Hegseth Are Literally Killing It—Their message is clear: only warriors are wanted. – Puppet president Biden and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin spent four years transforming the U.S. military into a woke joke, causing morale and recruitment to plummet. – President Trump and Hegseth have rededicated the military to its essential mission: maintaining a fearless fighting force capable of safeguarding the American people.

American Thinker: This Is Not Your Grandfather’s USAID – How Internews and the Listening Post Collective are hijacking American journalism. – It’s critical to understand Internews because this NGO operates less like an independent media organization and more like a taxpayer-funded propaganda machine embedded in media ecosystems.

Townhall: Here Is What RFK Jr. Said On His First Day At HHS. – “My mission at HSS, and I hope you all will join me, is to reverse the chronic disease epidemic in America.” – “We’re going to work together to launch a new era of radical transparency.” “Only with radical transparency can we provide Americans with true informed consent.” – “Our health shouldn’t be a political issue, but rather an issue of science and basic human compassion.”

WH Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Expands Access to In Vitro Fertilization By Executive Order – The Order recognizes the importance of family formation and that our Nation’s public policy must make it easier for loving and longing mothers and fathers to have children. – The Order directs policy recommendations to protect IVF access and aggressively reduce out-of-pocket and health plan costs for such treatments…

Headline USA: The CIA Is Flying Drones over Mexico to Hunt for Fentanyl Labs – ‘The purpose of providing the intelligence to Mexican authorities is not to kill cartel members, but instead to disable the lab.’ – The drones have proved adept at identifying labs because Fentanyl labs emit chemicals that make them easy to find from the air…

Zero Hedge: Gen Z Job Seekers Face A Difficult Labor Market Due To AI And Their Bad Habits. – When Gen Z (born during or after 1997) prospects are required to engage an employer during in-person interviews, many struggle with social interaction. – Around 20% have even reverted to bringing their parents to interviews as a security blanket…

February 17, 2025

Washington Times: The Senate Needs To Confirm Kash Patel as FBI Chief – The FBI must return to the mission of fighting actual crime. – In recent years, the FBI elevated a liberal agenda over their traditional mission of locking up crooks. – As a former DOJ prosecutor, Mr. Patel is controversial because while serving as an investigator on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, he revealed the FBI’s complicity in a “Russia Hoax” plot to undermine then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.

Slay News: DHS Chief Kristi Noem Blasted The ‘Corrupt’ FBI for Leaking Data On A ‘Large Scale’ ICE Raid To The Press. – Noem vowed that FBI agents would be prosecuted “to the fullest extent” for doing so. – Critical corporate media sources have nicknamed Noem “ICE Barbie” for her frequent appearances and the way she dresses.

Western Journal: EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin revealed on Wednesday that former Biden administration staffers established a $20 billion slush fund to advance their interests once President Trump took office. – Biden’s EPA parked these tax dollars at an outside financial institution. – This scheme was the first of its kind in EPA history, and it was purposefully designed to obligate all of the money in a rushed job with reduced oversight.

Breitbart: DOGE stopped millions of U.S. tax dollars from going to outlandish overseas programs, including $10 million to “voluntary medical male circumcisions” in Mozambique. – Other examples include $9.7M for UC Berkeley to develop “a cohort of Cambodian youth with enterprise-driven skills,” – $486M to the “Consortium for Elections and Political Process Strengthening,” including $22M for “inclusive and participatory political process” in Moldova and $21M for voter turnout in India…

Slay News: DOGE Eliminates Another $370 Million in Taxpayer-Funded DEI Grants – In just 48 hours, DOGE slashed the use of taxpayer dollars being blown on far-left DEI initiatives at the Department of Education. – The DOE has been cracking down on DEI practices in education since President Trump returned to the White House. – Last week, the DOE ordered all 50 state education departments to remove DEI policies within 14 days…

American Spectator: Margaret Brennan and the Good Germans at CBS News – It appears that CBS thinks it’s cool for the government to censor speech it doesn’t like. – It’s relatively clear that JD Vance struck a chord with the common people in Europe as he has with Americans in speaking truth to the power elite of their countries. – But he definitely didn’t strike a chord with Brennan, who said this… That CBS News is treating Brennan as its star reporter is awfully instructive…

American Thinker: An internal memo suggests the City of San Diego’s government could be employing illegals. – San Diego City Hall just issued a guide to its employees on how to stall, deny & stonewall ICE. – Oddly, City Hall seems to be most worried about ICE asking about city staffers. – Are there employees working for the city illegally? – What is Mayor Todd Gloria trying to hide from Border Czar Tom Homan?

American Spectator: Big Pharma’s Reign Is Over – RFK Jr. is game to take on Big Pharma. – Those on the left have long pretended to crusade against Big Pharma, promising to finally rein in drug companies like Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson, but at the confirmation hearings for RFK, this was exposed as the farce it is.

One America News: ‘Sleepy Joe’ Biden Spent More Time On Vacation Than Any Other President In Modern U.S. History – ‘Biden reportedly spent 577 of his 1,463 (39%) days in office on vacation, which is more vacation days than any other president in modern U.S. history. – Former President Biden’s vacation time beat out George H.W. Bush, who previously held the record after spending 37% of his time as president on vacation.

Breitbart: Top Russian and U.S. officials are readying to meet Tuesday to address a negotiated settlement to the war in Ukraine and preparing a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump. – Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Putin’s foreign affairs adviser Yuri Ushakov will fly to the Saudi Arabian capital later in the day to take part in the talks.

Daily Wire: National security adviser Mike Waltz, “Trump Is ‘Deadly Serious’ About Stopping Iran From Obtaining Nuclear Weapons.” – “How we get there, I’m not going to get into the details here, but the president has also expressed a willingness to take whatever action is necessary.” – Waltz’s comments come after reports from last week revealed Israel is planning an imminent strike on Iran.

Daily Wire: A shipment of 2,000-pound bombs arrived in Israel from the U.S. over the weekend, the first such shipment since former President Joe Biden put a hold on the heavy munitions. – President Trump lifted the hold on the MK-84 bombs when he entered office, restarting the flow of the heavy bombs to Israel.

Conservative Brief: The Secret Service has “deep flaws” that allowed the attack at the Trump campaign rally, according to an independent panel that reviewed the July assassination attempt against then-candidate Donald Trump in Butler, PA. – The panel noted in a letter signed by all four members that it had discovered “numerous mistakes” during its investigation that resulted in the attempted assassination of Trump, but also “deeper systemic issues that must be addressed with urgency.”…

Daily Wire: Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy is welcoming a team from SpaceX to the Air Traffic Control System Command Center in Virginia on Monday. – The FAA is looking to Elon Musk’s company for advice on making “a new, better, modern and safer air traffic control system. – SpaceX, the leading rocket and spacecraft company in the world, is visiting shortly after multiple deadly plane crashes sent shockwaves through the United States in recent weeks…

Geller Report: Somehow, The Social Security Administration Is Paying Benefits to a Mind-Blowing 8,952,476 People Aged 110 to 369 Years Old – Even if each of these “super seniors” is raking in a minimum **$1,800 a month**, that amount to a staggering **$193,373,481,600** annually.

Epoch Times: Trump Administration Fires Thousands of Government Workers—The EPA has terminated 388 probationary employees, and 1,165 employees at the National Institutes of Health were let go. – Several hundred workers on probationary status have been fired at the FAA. The Department of Agriculture announced on Feb. 14 that it is “eliminating positions that are no longer necessary” as part of “an aggressive plan” to optimize its workforce, and it continues.

Red State: ’60 Minutes’ Aired an All-Timer, and the Depths They Sank to Will Blow Your Mind – Star anchor Margaret Brennan kicked the day off by claiming that “weaponized free speech” was the cause of the Holocaust, leading to a segment on why Free Speech is bad. – During the same episode, they ran a sob story segment about USAID workers being fired, with someone named Kristina Drye being interviewed, who it turns out is a contracted consultant…

Daily Wire: Border czar Tom Homan revealed a statistic on Presidents’ Day that indicates the US is successfully cracking down on illegal crossings in a way not seen in decades. – “In the last 24 hours, the US Border Patrol has encountered a total of 229 aliens across the entire southwest border. – That is down from a high of over 11,000 a day under former President Joe Biden’s watch,” Homan said.

The Daily Fetched: Speaker Mike Johnson says Elon Musk Cracked the Code for Defeating the Deep State. – “Musk is helping Congress perform its constitutional duty to keep the Executive Branch in check by providing a much-needed level of transparency.” – “The oversight job has been hindered because the deep state and the bureaucracy have not turned over the data that was requested.”

Zero Hedge: Rand Paul Supports a Fort Knox Physical Audit—One of the biggest questions over the past 50 years has been whether the gold at Fort Knox, Kentucky, is really all there or has been plundered. – What we do know is that the last ‘audit’ of America’s gold stash was conducted on Sept. 23, 1974…

Townhall: The Latest Polls Show The Trump Agenda Is Pleasing The American – On mass deportations, acknowledging that there are only two genders, expanding oil and gas production, and declaring the southern border crisis an emergency, all are supported by a majority of the American people…

Trending Politics: A Rogue Judge Blocking A Trump Agenda Item Has A Chilling Link To USAID—The connections of judges like Bates to the agencies under review are being investigated. – One outlet discovered that Bates’ wife, Carol Rhees, is the founder of a nonprofit that receives direct funds from USAID to deliver relief efforts to children in Ethiopia.

Victor Davis Hanson: Is There a Democrat Blueprint to Regain Power? – Democrats seem stuck in a cycle of rage and resistance, recycling failed anti-Trump tactics while losing ground with voters and donors alike. – During the recent cabinet confirmations, Senators Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, and Tim Kaine lost their minds in impotent rage at the nominees and played the fools—furious at a few timid Democrat suggestions to tone it down…

Western Journal: Democrat Lawmakers Are in Chaos Three Weeks Into Trump’s Presidency, Pulling Chuck Schumer in Opposite Directions. – Many have observed that the Democrats lack a clear national figurehead or platform from which they can oppose his agenda, as there is a significant internal divide on how to navigate the next few years…

Washington Examiner: Senator Ted Cruz says the Democrat lawsuits to stop Trump and DOGE ‘aren’t going to work’ – We are going to see hundreds of lawsuits from Democrat attorneys general, from left-wing activist groups. The lawsuits aren’t going to work. The president is going to follow through on the mandate that came from the voters this November.”…

American Thinker: Are Democrats Preparing For The Big House? – Politicians and bureaucrats may be searching for ways to cover their tracks before they leave their positions or if they believe they may soon be investigated for past deeds. – I came across a story wherein the author reported spikes in internet searches on terms like “RICO laws,” “criminal defense attorneys,” “statute of limitations,” and “offshore bank accounts.” – Guess where these spikes occurred? Right, in Washington, D.C.

Washington Examiner: Border Czar Tom Homan is focusing on eradicating illegal drug cartels in the US – “They have a strong foothold here, and that’s why we’re concentrating on drug cartels, concentrating on TDA, Tren de Aragua, I’m not going to be happy till every single one of Tren de Aragua is out of this country.”

Washington Free Beacon: A Taxpayer-Funded Immigration Group Is Working To ‘Disrupt Trump’s Deportation Machine’—The Amica Center filed suit to block President Donald Trump’s executive order, “Protecting the American People Against Invasion. ” – The order paused funding for several Justice Department programs that provide legal services for illegal aliens.

American Thinker: Government Downsizing and the Left’s Instinctive Outcry – One of the more interesting reactions is the shedding of tears over government workers losing their jobs. – Where was the outcry over the myriad of workers fired or out of work due to Biden administration policies?...

American Thinker: The Myth of Income Inequality – Bernie Sanders loves to pound the table about this, but the fact is that America’s problems are far removed from ‘income inequality.’ – So much wealth has accumulated in our country that the government can provide $41,000 a year to millions of families because they choose not to work. – However, millions of jobs are available for the taking...

American Thinker: The Democrat party is now the biggest threat to world peace and freedom – Democrats were once the party of slavery, the KKK, and even segregation. – They are now the party of fraud, disunity, lawfare, political intolerance, open borders, and numerous other calamities…

American Thinker: Canada On Ice – The Canadian people need to understand that it is not Canada or the Canadian people that we oppose, but extreme leftism. – Justin Trudeau has literally destroyed Canada. – Economically, the Bank of Canada even expressed concerns going back to last summer. – Trudeau, like Joe Biden, imposed draconian vaccine mandates and summarily shut down his entire economy…

February 16, 2025

One America News: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Sunday that he refused to accept the United States proposal to provide the U.S. with Ukraine’s rare earth minerals in exchange for military aid. Vice President JD Vance pitched the proposal on Friday at the Munich Security Conference. It would give the United States access to Ukraine’s rare earth minerals “as compensation” for support previously provided by the Biden administration and for future military aid.

Just The News: Newly disclosed emails from former President Joe Biden’s Treasury Department show coordination between the administration and left-wing organizations on tax policy and messaging. These emails raise concerns about the influence of special interest groups over the previous White House. PPT Director Michael Chamberlain says that these nonprofits had too much influence over the Treasury Department.

Vigilant News: Judge Jack McConnell, Who Halted Trump’s Temporary Spending Freeze, Received $128 Million in Gov’t Funding for His NGO – Maybe that’s why he wanted the money to keep flowing. – He’s expecting several more million this year! – This is the same judge who called Trump a ‘tyrant’ and decried racism as a ‘white people problem.’

Epoch Times: Republicans Want To Unleash The President’s Power to Not Spend – Doing so will require lawmakers to repeal a Watergate-era law that reins in the president’s ability to decline to spend funds appropriated by Congress. – Known as impoundment, the practice of declining to spend funds provided by Congress dates back to President Thomas Jefferson…

American Spectator: Trump Is Displacing the Old Ruling Class – Trump’s instincts are Machiavellian in the best sense of the word, and his massive changes have produced great resistance from the old order. – He is striking quickly in many areas, leaving opponents angry and confused…

California Globe:  Gavin Newsom’s Ban on Gas-Powered Cars is Dead – EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin just sent California’s vehicle emissions waiver request to Congress for review. – This is big and kills California Governor Gavin Newsom’s ban on gas-powered vehicles.

American Thinker: MAHA, HHS’s RFK, Jr. Has Gotten Off To An Impressive Start—Vaccine injury registries, ending government-paid junk food, and finding ways to help farmers are just the beginning. – He’s also on board with DOGE, targeting the junk science enthusiasts inside the bureaucracy…

One America News: The Ramaswamy Campaign Filed Paperwork For The Ohio Governor Race—Vivek Ramaswamy has not formally announced his run for governor but has hinted at it several times.

Powerline: Why No One Respects the Legacy Media – CBS’s chief foreign affairs correspondent. – Margaret Brennan tried to tell Secretary of State Marco Rubio that the problem with Nazi Germany was that they had too much free speech. – It tells you something when the media outlets formerly known as “mainstream” are opposed to free speech, hence the Holocaust. – Marco commendably keeps his composure in responding…

AMUSE on X: Political Incitement, Democrats Are Reviving Nazi-Era Tactics – U.S. law recognizes that speech can cross into incitement when it meets the three-prong test established in Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969): There is intent to incite violence, the violent act is imminent, and the act is likely to occur.

Epoch Times: Europe Will Not Participate In The Ukraine Peace Talks. – European leaders are set to hold an emergency summit on Ukraine as the United States and Russia meet in Saudi Arabia to discuss the Russia–Ukraine war. – France President Emmanuel Macron “will convene the main European countries to discuss European security,” Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot told France Inter radio. Barrot described the meeting as a working session and emphasized it should not be “overdramatized.”…

New York Post: Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky says Ukraine has a ‘low chance’ of survival without US support and insists he trusts Trump. – To woo Trump and appeal to his more transactional instincts, Zelensky has pitched a deal for the US to tap into Ukraine’s vast mineral resources as a means of paying for American support.

Epoch Times: U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Pledge to Curb Iran. – After they met, Netanyahu said he and Rubio had a “very productive discussion” on several issues, “none more important than Iran.” – Rubio, “Iran is behind every terrorist group, every act of violence, …and everything that threatens peace and stability for the millions of people that call this region home.”

Wall Street Journal: President Trump Steamrolls His Critics With A Flood-the-Zone Strategy – His style may some allies but draws a strong contrast with Biden’s noted absence during his Presidency. – His strategy is to show supporters he is eager to keep campaign promises, strike a contrast of stamina with former President Joe Biden, and disrupt Washington to a degree he fell short of in his first term…

Wall Street Journal: This 27-Year-Old Press Secretary ‘Speaks Trump Fluently’ – Karoline Leavitt’s rapid rise to the White House showcases both her precocious skill and expected confrontations with the traditional media. – Leavitt is fast on her feet, brisk and forceful, fielding questions on a variety of topics without consulting notes or a briefing book. Her tone with the so-called legacy media, a hate object among many Trump supporters, veers from no-nonsense to outright contempt…

American Thinker: Week Four Shows No Rest For The Grifters — The creation of the Department of Government Efficiency has exposed the often archaic bookkeeping and computer systems and the enormous waste and grifting in the federal government’s operations. – At this point, a rough estimate is that about 10%, or 275,000 federal employees, are no longer on the payroll. – About 200,000 probationary employees were laid off, and 75,000 took the payout option…

Slay News: The Texas Supreme Court has dismissed a politically motivated ethics complaint against the state’s Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton. – The complaint sought to target Paxton as an ally of President Donald Trump. – The ruling finally closes a chapter on a significant legal dispute.

Slay News: A U.S. Army Black Hawk crew may not have heard critical air traffic control messages instructing it to fly behind the regional jet it ultimately collided with midair at Reagan National Airport in Washington on Jan. 29, according to the National Transportation Safety Board. – Additionally, the helicopter crew may have received inaccurate altitude data inside the cockpit…

February 15, 2025

Breitbart: 3,600 probationary Health and Human Services workers are reportedly out of a job as the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) shines a light on government waste. – The move is estimated to save approximately 600 million dollars every year, the outlet said, adding that over half of HHS’s probationary workers remained with the agency.

Declassified With Julie Kelly: The Hammer Drops At The DOJ. – New leadership and new rules are too much for sanctimonious DOJ employees, who resign rather than follow orders to depoliticize the department. – Americans voted for Donald Trump in a partial repudiation of overzealous government lawyers, the sort perfectly embodied by temporary U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Danielle Sassoon, and a company that used their unchecked power to imprison those they consider to be on the wrong side of the political aisle.

Slay News: Joe Biden-appointed U.S. District Judge Jeannette Vargas has extended the block on DOGE investigating Treasury payment systems. The extension comes after 19 Blue State attorneys general filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration over DOGE’s access to the payment system.

One America News: 3 Hostages Have Been Returned To Israel As The Ceasefire Deal With Hamas Continues – Sagui Dekel-Chen, Iair Horn, and Sasha Troufanov have been released to the International Committee of Red Cross. – They were then transferred to the Israeli military and brought back to Israel, where they have since been reunited with their families.

Julie Kelly: The Hammer Drops at the Department of Justice—New leadership and new rules are too much for sanctimonious DOJ employees, who resign rather than follow orders to depoliticize the department. – The exodus represents another in a series of forced and otherwise purges at the DOJ since Trump took office.

Breitbart: Fire-Ravaged California Is Spending Nearly $10 Billion on Health Care for Illegal Aliens – Newsom recently traveled to Washington to seek federal aid for addressing the impact of the recent fires. – He also signed $50 million in new spending to fight President Donald Trump’s policies.

Townhall: Every Show Has Been Cancelled at the Kennedy Center in Protest of Trump – Once celebrated for its commitment to artistic expression, this arts institution has allowed partisan politics to shape its programming decisions…

New York Post: Brazen Canadian ‘coyotes’ that are smuggling migrants across the northern border, even advertising on TikTok – For close to a year, the Canadian “coyotes,” who largely target Indian nationals, promise a hassle-free trip to the States for as much as $5,000, with new border-crossing accounts popping up every time others are removed from the platform…

Daily Wire: What President Trump Did In Week Four – Trump signed a proclamation declaring Sunday Gulf of America Day. – Trump imposed 25% tariffs on steel and aluminum imports, then ordered a review of each country individually to determine reciprocal tariffs. – Trump spoke to and met with several foreign leaders. – Trump and Musk appeared together in the Oval Office to discuss their progress on slashing government bloat, waste, and fraud…

Newsmax: President Trump said Friday that he wasn’t involved in the resignation of DOJ prosecutors involved in the federal case against New York Mayor Eric Adams. – It is typical for most U.S. attorneys from the previous administration after a new president takes office. – “So, when you say resigned, they were gonna be gone anyway,” Trump said

Townhall: Trump and Musk Shut Down the Media’s Efforts to Drive Them Apart – Recently, Time Magazine showcased Musk behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office on the cover of its latest print issue.  – They both recently told Hannity that the mainstream media’s attempts to create a rift between them would fail. – Musk and Trump firmly asserted that their bond remained strong.

American Thinker: Trump is just following Bill Clinton’s bureaucracy-cutting example – Let’s not forget that Bill Clinton oversaw a large reduction in the federal workforce. – It is easy to see that federal spending and debt are out of control. – Here are a few things Bill Clinton did in the 1990s because of what he considered a bloated and inefficient federal bureaucracy…

Washington Free Beacon: The Inspector General Scandal That Wasn’t – President Trump’s firing of 17 inspector generals puts him on the path to fulfill a campaign promise: making inspector generals independent from the people they investigate. – The president only appoints about half of the federal government’s 74 IGs. – Agency heads appoint the other half, that is, by the very people who should be in the crosshairs of the IGs…

American Thinker: A Warrior’s Secretary of Defense – Former, frequently AWOL, SecDef Lloyd Austin assured us DEI, drag queens, trans, pronouns, and the like were our strength and had no role in suppressing recruitment and retention lied to us. – Now that respect has been restored, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that the US Army just achieved its “best recruiting numbers” last month, its highest since 2010…

American Thinker: The Department of Education hasn’t just been failing kids; it’s been destroying them – Whether your children are in kindergarten or a junior at college, they’re being taught that America is evil, heterosexuals, whites, and men are toxic oppressors, everyone who is not an oppressor is oppressed, parents are the enemy, and sex work is a noble calling…

Resist The Mainstream: The U.S. Army announced a major policy shift on Friday, stating it will no longer allow “transgender-identifying” individuals to join the military. – This decision also halts all medical procedures related to gender transition for current service members.

Resist the Mainstream: DOGE Finds $1.9 Billion In Taxpayer Funds ‘Misplaced’ by the Biden Administration. – These funds, earmarked for the administration of financial services within HUD, were found to be unutilized due to a ‘broken process.’ – HUD has now initiated measures to improve financial oversight and ensure that allocated funds are properly utilized.

Forbidden News: With USAID Funds Gone, Massachusetts Representative Ayanna Pressley Solicits Donors to Help “Censor” Americans In Order To Advance “Progress” – JD Vance, “What no democracy will survive is telling millions of voters that their thought and concerns, their aspirations, their pleas for relief are invalid or unworthy of even being considered.”…

Powerline: The Week in Pictures, Xmas Morning Month – It seems like every day is Christmas morning. – You wake up to find yet another Trump Administration triumph, usually involving firing someone, cutting spending, or beating down on our weak “allies” around the world…

February 14, 2025

American Thinker: Trump Establishes The “National Energy Dominance Council” To Be Led by Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum and Secretary of Energy Chris Wright. – The Council will advise President Trump on strategies to achieve energy dominance by improving the processes for permitting, production, generation, distribution, regulation, and transportation across all forms of American energy…

Powerline: The Great DEI Cheat – The Wall Street Journal has reported on “How Colleges and Universities Get Around State DEI Bans,” and it isn’t exactly missile science. – Administrators hide behind vague standards of “accreditors” and/or simply change the names of programs and job titles like this…

The Defender: President Trump signed an executive order to defund schools, universities, and other education agencies that require COVID-19 vaccines for students and staff. – The order directs HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the Secretary of Education to create a plan to end these mandates.

Washington Examiner: A federal judge denied the immediate reinstatement of eight inspectors general who were fired by President Donald Trump last month, opting for a slower time frame to consider the case. – Judge Ana Reyes reportedly raised her voice, cut off one of the lawyers representing the fired inspectors general, and found the plaintiffs’ arguments insufficient for quick action.

New York Sun: Trump Turns Up the Pressure on “60 Minutes”—His Legal Team Is Demanding Reams of Private Documents from CBS News in their $20 Billion Lawsuit Over the Harris Interview—Trump’s team has submitted a detailed list of document requests from the 60 Minutes leadership and any communications between CBS, the Biden Administration, and the Harris Campaign.

Zero Hedge: Ukraine President Zelensky accused Russia of launching a drone equipped with a high-explosive warhead at the now defunct power plant, site of the April 1986 nuclear disaster and meltdown. – The Kremlin strongly rejected that it was behind the incident. – “There is no talk about strikes on nuclear infrastructure, nuclear energy facilities; any such claim isn’t true; our military doesn’t do that.”

Hot Air: World leaders, tech moguls, and others gathered in Paris this week for the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit. – After a charming opening quip about being there ‘for the good company and free wine,’ Vance delivered a brilliant speech with an America-first twist that had to set some European teeth on edge. – Compare it to former VP Harris’ explanation of AI, and your jaw will drop…

Trending Politics: Trump’s Sweeping Reciprocal Tariff Plan Leaves Countries Rattled – Reciprocal tariffs mean that if a country charges a certain tariff rate on American products, the U.S. will impose the same rate on imports from that country. The goal is to create a level playing field in international trade and generate additional revenue for the U.S. government…

Zero Hedge: Wall Street Thoughts On “The Method In Trump’s Reciprocal Tariffs”—The initial scope of the reciprocal plan is broad, with Trump’s memo taking into account not only tariffs but also taxes and non-tariff barriers to trade, a critical distinction. – The good news for the market, which promptly rallied on the news, is that the reciprocal tariffs could take several months to develop. – Therefore, the long lead time and expansive scope may be aimed at negotiation rather than implementation.

Issues & Insights: Isn’t 46 Years Of Failure Enough? – It’s Time To Kill The Department of Education. – In her testimony before Congress to be the head of the Department of Education, Linda McMahon openly and proudly outlined a plan to not just get rid of her job but take the federal government out of the education business. – For instance, McMahon noted that aid for disabled students would likely be better handled by HHS rather than the DOE...

Trending Politics: The White House Has Banned The Associated Press From The Oval Office And Air Force One Briefings – While AP journalists will retain general White House credentials, they will no longer be given access to exclusive presidential settings because the AP continues to ignore the lawful geographic name change of the Gulf of America…

American Thinker: We’re Living Through The Biggest Scandals of All Time – The cover-up of Joe Biden’s decline, Lawfare against Trump, The cover-up of Hunter Biden’s influence-peddling, and now $billions wasted, by not just USAID, but also many other agencies being uncovered by DOGE. – But the worst example is the issue of vanishing migrant children…

The Daily Fetched: Maxine Waters Says Quiet Part Out Loud on the DOGE Audits – Waters, “Well, you know what happened at Treasury, and you know what happened over at the CFPB.” – “The people of this country are being violated because Elon Musk and Trump are taking up all of our privacy, and we don’t know what all they have on us, our bank accounts, everything in our lives.”…

Just The News: The New York Times says Musk has no ‘proof’ of fraud, but simple Google searches show otherwise. The Times concluded that because Musk did not provide reporters with screenshots, receipts, and specific documentation at a single press conference which means, such fraud and waste never happened. – Several inspectors general and the GAO have already proved the Times wrong, and there’s more to come…

Zero Hedge: The US Treasury’s Department of Inspector General is launching an investigation into “alleged fraudulent payments” found by Elon Musk’s DOGE team. The IG will also review the system’s security controls after Democratic senators freaked out over Trump’s access to Musk and DOGE.

Zero Hedge: The Trump administration has intensified its efforts to streamline the bloated government. – It has directed federal agencies to terminate 200,000 probationary workers, those who have been in their roles for less than a year or, in some cases, up to two years. – The move comes shortly after 75,000 federal workers accepted buyout offers.

Daily Wire: Health and Human Services Spent More Than $22B On Illegal Immigrants, Including Home Loans And Cars – News of this comes a year after it was discovered the agency had lost track of nearly 300,000 illegal immigrant children – HHS’ Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) was found to have also assisted in building up credit to start businesses…

Charlie Kirk: What Is Democracy? – America is not a democracy and never has been; we are a constitutional republic that holds democratic elections. – So, who is undermining democracy, DOGE or the people trying to shut it down? – Can you name a single thing Trump is doing right now that doesn’t match what he promised to do before being democratically elected?

American Thinker: Policy Entrepreneurs Raid the U.S. Treasury—Exorbitant federal grants and contracts are noncompliant with IRS charity laws. – The military-industrial complex functions through a revolving door system, enabling retired military officials to transition seamlessly into high-paying positions with defense contractors. – This pattern is also prevalent in NGOs and nonprofits.

American Thinker: High Crimes or Bad Behavior? – There’s more than one way to remove judicial tyrants – Trump reacted philosophically to Engelmayer’s ruling, noting, “The affair provides proof his people are over the target.” – TDS triggers Leftist and RINO self-immolation. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger were early offerings on the funeral pyre. During Trump’s second term, they are lining up…

Breitbart: Border Patrol agents have arrested multiple criminal aliens who illegally crossed the border into the United States. – Many of them have previous convictions for sex crimes and crimes against children. – Other arrests during the week included criminal gang members, drug traffickers, and human smugglers...

American Thinker: High Electric Bills Are the Tip of the Iceberg – A look at who owns our electric companies and what they fund globally will make you recoil. – While these companies are publicly owned, they are just a tiny fraction of the American electric companies working to appease their top shareholders: BlackRock and Vanguard. – Solar power has a dirty record, as roughly 80% of solar components are manufactured in China using slave labor…

FAR: The Never Ending Constitutional Crisis – There has been a barrage of scare tactics from Left Wing media sources claiming we are experiencing a “Constitution Crisis” because Donald Trump is carrying out the agenda he promised while he was running for his second term as President. – If these claims sound familiar, they are, as you can see below…

The Federalist: Why An ‘Education Background’ Makes An Education Secretary Worse—Homeschool parents are generally more effective than the average person with a teaching degree. – Our elementary school teachers typically come from the bottom third in academic ability. – Competing foreign nations ensure they draw teachers from the top quarter in academic performance. – College “Education Departments” are perhaps the most communist of all college departments, and they have been so for decades…

February 13, 2025

New York Post: EPA head Lee Zeldin revealed there was no real oversight of the shocking $20B that the Biden administration funneled through Citibank. – “So this was an all-in, top-priority effort that has instantly been yielding very important results for the taxpayers, and we’re just getting started…

One America News: Donald Trump’s nominee for FBI Director, Kash Patel, was approved by a Senate panel in a party-line vote Thursday, which moves him to a final confirmation vote possibly next week. – All 12 GOP members of the Senate Judiciary Committee voted in favor of Patel, with all 10 Democrats voting against him.

Breitbart: The Trump Administration Has Sent 53 Venezuelans to Guantánamo Bay – The 53 criminal illegals were not identified by name but are now being housed in the military-operated detention center where some of the world’s most dangerous terrorists have been kept since the attacks on our homeland in 2001. – The number of Islamist terrorists now being held in the facility has dwindled to 15…

Courageous Discourse: Establishing the President’s Make America Healthy Again Commission – With RFK Jr. being confirmed as HHS Secretary, President Trump just signed the following executive order to establish the MAHA commission. – By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered…

Vigilant Fox: HHS Secretary RFK Jr. announced plans to launch a vaccine injury reporting system that will overhaul or completely replace VAERS. – Kennedy cited a study that was never officially completed due to CDC noncompliance. – In it, Harvard collected over three years of data on 715,000 patients and concluded that fewer than 1% of vaccine adverse effects were reported.

American Spectator: The Judicial ‘Resistance’ Is Setting Itself Up for an Epic Smackdown – These lower court judges are acting unconstitutionally. – This is a familiar phenomenon. – Black-robed Trump nemeses emerged as a menacing force during the first Trump administration. – As then-VP Mike Pence noted in a May 2019 speech, the first Trump administration “faced more nationwide injunctions than the first 40 American presidents combined.”…

Epoch Times: USAID Employees Sue DOGE and Elon Musk, Arguing He Needs Senate Confirmation. – The White House position is that Musk is a special government employee, meaning he is not beholden to the same rules as other federal workers. – So far, neither Musk, DOGE, nor the Department of Justice has filed court papers in response to the latest lawsuit.

Victor Davis Hanson: Mythologies About Musk Musk’s role in DOGE is misunderstood. – He’s an appointed auditor with legal authority to find waste, not cut programs. – Musk can propose program cuts, but Trump has the authority to approve or reject them. – Musk is as legally legitimate as the national security advisor and his National Security Council, none requiring Senate confirmation.

AMUSE on X: DOGE Explained, or How Trump Outsmarted the Deep State – Contrary to popular belief, Trump did not invent DOGE from scratch; rather, he repurposed the USDS framework initiated by President Obama. – Unlike previous administrations that used the agency primarily for technical support, Trump kept the existing funding and operational framework intact while dramatically expanding its mission…

Epoch Times: Trump Says The IRS Is To Be Audited by DOGE – He continued, saying just about DOGE will examine every federal agency. – “They’re doing a hell of a job. It’s an amazing job they’re doing,” Trump said. – Trump said he did not expect the IRS to be shuttered…

Western Journal: A Secret Pact Between 22 Democrat AGs Has Been Discovered – This agreement, just 3 days after President Trump’s landslide election win, shows that these resistance actors began, as a matter of absolute urgent top priority, plotting their resistance to President Trump’s anticipated actions to end birthright citizenship.

Washington Free Beacon: Trump Shut Down Biden’s Climate Corps Work Program – The program was a direct outgrowth of the Green New Deal. – Far-left lawmakers, climate activist organizations, and Green New Deal sponsors like Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez had spent years calling for a $30 billion federal climate work program…

Breitbart: The Obama-Era Ivanpah Solar Plant, The ‘World’s Largest Barbecue,’ to Close 14 Years Early After Billions in Loan Guarantees – The Ivanpah facility works by using mirrors that concentrate sunlight on a central boiling tower, which then heats water to power turbines. – Ivanpah joins Solyndra in the roster of failed Obama-era “green” energy projects.

American Thinker: It has long been obvious that remote work hurts productivity. – A recent Fortune article explains why private businesses require employees to work at the office. – It is hard to coordinate work when the workers aren’t at the same location. – Many employees aren’t working a full day. – Productivity is lower when no one is watching…

American Thinker: All you need to know about atmospheric physics. – Greenhouse gases affect heat transfer but much less than clouds. – A decrease in low cloud cover of only a few percent could largely compensate for the impact of a doubling of CO2. – This is the same impact the world has been fretting about for the last fifty years. – What does your BS radar tell you? – Mine says since Al Gore first opened his mouth on the subject in a 1976 Congressional hearing, he was full of it…

Vigilant Fox: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been confirmed as the next US Secretary of Health and Human Services, and Senator Mitch McConnell is furious. – Kennedy was confirmed by a vote of 52-48, with the sole “no” Republican vote coming from Mitch McConnell, who issued this bitter statement…

Epoch Times: President Trump Announces Reciprocal Tariffs to Counter Global Trade Barriers – Trump, “Whatever countries charge the United States of America, we will charge no more and no less.“ – According to a senior White House official, the president’s reciprocal plan will customize tariffs on a country-specific basis and be implemented in the coming weeks to months.

Epoch Times: ~75,000 Federal Workers Accepted The Buyout Offer Before Tuesday’s Deadline—The offer was originally to expire on February 6, but a federal court challenge led by the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), representing about 800,000 civil servants, extended the deadline through February 11.

Redstate: EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin Found ~$20 Billion the Biden Administration Tried to Jettison Before Trump’s Inauguration Day. – Roughly 20 billion of your tax dollars were parked at an outside financial institution by the Biden EPA. – This scheme was the first of its kind in EPA history, and it was purposely designed to obligate all of the money in a rush job with reduced oversight.

The Federalist: Federal Judge Didn’t Even Read Final Complaint Before Enjoining Trump – Engelmayer is the first judge ever to grant a temporary restraining order (TRO) against the president of the United States that also forbids a cabinet secretary from accessing his records without allowing these parties to respond. – He offered zero analysis of his constitutional authority to make such a radical ruling…

Conservative Brief: The Trump Administration Is Set To Declassify Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘Client List’ Among Other Secrets – Representative Anna Paulina Luna, appointed by House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer to lead the task force, announced that the declassified files would include information related to the September 11 attacks, the origins of COVID-19, President John F. Kennedy’s assassination, UFOs, and a contact list tied to the disgraced financier.

Slay News: Democrat Insider Lindy Li Confirms Biden’s Presidency Was ‘Obama’s Third Term’ – She also pointed to members of Biden’s inner circle, specifically mentioning Anita Dunn, senior advisor and longtime Democratic strategist, Ron Klain, Biden’s former Chief of Staff along with others within Biden’s White House team who maintained deep ties to the Obama administration.

Issues & Insights: 5 Trillion Reasons Why DOGE Should Have Access To Treasury’s Payment System – Musk pointed out that the Treasury doesn’t employ “basic controls that should be in place. – Checks often don’t have a payment categorization code describing what the check is for, which is needed to pass financial audits. – The comment field, where there’s supposed to be a rationale for the payment, is typically blank…

The Federalist: Trump And Vance Aren’t Defying The Constitution, They’re Following It. – VP Vance received an onslaught of criticism for suggesting that federal district judges “aren’t allowed to control the chief executive’s legitimate power. – Democrats and pundits have exaggerated his remarks into a ‘constitutional crisis.’ – But these usual suspects would be wrong. –  For the right answer, we go to John Marshall, the greatest chief justice in Supreme Court history.

America First Legal: An FOIA Reveals The Documents Case Against Trump Began With A Special Access Request From The Biden Administration…

Powerline: Matt. Taibbi Appearance Before the House Judiciary Committee – $476 million from USAID is just a tiny piece of a censorship machine Michael, and I saw across a long list of agencies. – Collectively, they’ve bought up every part of the news production line: sources, think tanks, research, “fact-checking,” “anti-disinformation,” commercial media scoring, and when all else fails, censorship...

Courageous Discourse: The House Foreign Affairs Committee Exposes Outrageous USAID and State Department Grants – $15 million for condoms to the Taliban through USAID. – $3,315,446 for “being LGBTQ in the Caribbean” through USAID. – $3.2 million to help Tunisian migrants readjust to life in Tunisia after deportation through the State Department…

Liberty Daily: DARPA Paid Reuters’ Parent Company for “Large Scale Social Deception” About COVID in 2018 – Why did they have a program set up to fight COVID disinformation before COVID was known to exist? Why were they tasked with social engineering and “large-scale social deception” by DARPA? – What will DOGE and the Trump administration do about this?

February 12, 2025

Epoch Times: Federal Judge Allows The Trump Administration Buyout Program to Continue—Massachusetts Judge George O’Toole ruled on Feb. 12 that the plaintiffs lacked standing and the court did not have subject-matter jurisdiction over their claims.

The Center Square: Luxury hotels in New York City, recipients of $59 million from FEMA to house immigrants, were a base of operations for the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua and served as a residence for the convicted killer of Laken Riley. – DHS Secretary Kristi Noem shared the startling revelation Wednesday afternoon, just 48 hours after the DOGE team led by Elon Musk revealed the payments.

Slay News: Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth Ends Biden-Era Climate Spending – “The Pentagon Should Be Focused on ‘Deterring and Winning Wars.” – He declared that the Pentagon is not in the business of “solving the global thermostat.” – Hegseth added that Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), led by Elon Musk, will begin reviewing the Pentagon’s spending “very soon.”

Breitbart: President Donald Trump expressed that he wants the Department of Education to be “closed immediately,” describing it as a “big con job.”  Trump criticized how the United States education system was ranked 40th compared to other countries but ranked number one in terms of “costs per pupil.”

Western Journal: Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Wednesday that the DOJ is suing New York for its efforts to shield illegal immigrants. – “New York has chosen to prioritize illegal aliens over American citizens. It stops. It stops today,” Bondi said. – Bondi announced that the lawsuit targets Governor Kathy Hochul, AG Letitia James, and Mark Schroeder, the state DMV.

Breitbart: On Wednesday, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem said she has “clawed back” the full payment made by FEMA for hotels to house migrants in New York City. This comes mere days after the DOGE announced the discovery of a $59 million payment made last week.

American Thinker: How much power does Elon Musk have? – The answer reveals the true genius of the Trump team’s strategy. – Despite Democrat claims to the contrary, Elon Musk and his whiz kids have no policymaking authority. – They are part of the White House executive staff and exist to advise the president. – All they do is ask questions and share their findings with the President.

AMUSE on X: The Retirement Mine Elon Musk Found Is A Monument to Bureaucratic Failure – $Billions were wasted on botched modernization efforts. – Yet, overworked clerks continued to process retirements by hand. – Elon Musk’s DOGE team is doing what they never could: modernizing federal retirement processing.

Just The News: Critics decry Musk’s influence with Trump but ignore the impact of billionaires in the previous White House. – The Biden administration worked closely with billionaires like Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos. – Still, Democrats and the media warn Elon Musk’s cooperation with Trump is unprecedented, even though Trump announced Musk’s involvement long before the election.

City Journal: How USAID Funded Hamas – People shouldn’t just be enraged by USAID’s wasteful spending. – They should also focus on what that spending supported. – A new multiyear study of USAID by the Middle East Forum identified $164 million in grants to radical organizations, including $122 million to those “aligned with designated terrorists and their supporters.”…

Zero Hedge: Elon Musk joined Dubai’s annual World Governments Summit via video link. – “We Need To Delete Entire Agencies.” – “We need to remove the roots of the weed.” – That’s not to say there won’t be an increase in future bureaucracy from another administration, but it will be from a lower baseline.

Washington Free Beacon: The Trump Administration Formally Ends Biden’s War on Gas Stoves—The Consumer Product Safety Commission is formally ending a review initiated during the Biden administration to assess the potential health risks of gas-powered stovetops.

Slay News: Trump & Putin Agree to ‘Start Negotiations Immediately’ to End War in Ukraine – Trump said he and Putin discussed ways to end the war in Ukraine and improve relations between Russia and the United States moving forward. – Trump, “I believe this effort will lead to a successful conclusion, hopefully soon!” – Following his conversation with Putin, Trump said he would contact Ukrainian President Zelensky to inform him of the progress.

Townhall: Pete Hegseth Lays Out the Trump Administration’s Plan to End War in Ukraine – Hegseth, “As the war approaches its third anniversary, our message is clear: The bloodshed must stop, and this war must end.” – “Trump intends to end this war by diplomacy and bringing both Russia and Ukraine to the table, with the help of the Defense Department.“ – “Each party “must start by recognizing that returning to Ukraine’s pre-2014 borders is an unrealistic objective.”…

The Right Scoop: BREAKING, Tulsi Gabbard Has Been CONFIRMED as President Trump’s Director of National Intelligence – The final vote was 52-48, with turncoat McConnell joining Democrats to make their vote 48.

Trending Politics: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is on the verge of becoming the nation’s health secretary after the Senate voted 53-47 on Wednesday to advance his nomination. The vote was split strictly along party lines, setting the stage for a final confirmation vote expected early Thursday morning.

Washington Examiner: Trump is right on birthright citizenship – At the heart of the legal debate over President Donald Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship is the interpretation of the 14th Amendment’s citizenship clause. – The issue is related to this, “subject to the jurisdiction thereof.”-There are various ways illegal immigrants are not “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” in the same way citizens are…

Jeffrey Tucker: Here is the federal government org chart. – Note what the president controls vs. what the judiciary controls. – These are executive agencies, the actions of which only the president is held responsible. – POTUS needs to print this out and show it to the media. The president is held responsible for what these agencies do, so he needs control of them. – Otherwise, this chart and this system make zero sense…

Business Insider: The federal retirement paperwork mine in DOGE’s crosshairs is real and bizarre – Elon Musk said on Tuesday that the government stores key retirement paperwork in a converted mine. – The US government started storing records in underground facilities in the 1960s. – Musk, “We were told the number of people that could retire possibly in a month is limited to 10,000 because all the retirement paperwork is written down on a piece of paper, then it goes down in a mine.”…

Mises Institute: Why They Hate Elon Musk So Much – The establishment’s problem with Elon Musk is not that he’s willing to upend norms and test or break rules, which they enthusiastically do themselves. -Their problem with Elon Musk is that he threatens their power, and to them, that is unacceptable.

Western Journal: Legal Expert Jonathan Turley Says Courts Are ‘Intruding’ on Trump’s Authority in a Way That ‘Can’t Stand’ – First, Turley correctly explained that those buyout offers fall under the president’s Article II authority. – “They went way too far in shutting down Treasury officials from looking at certain things, ultimately that can’t stand.”…

New York Sun: Google Searches for Criminal Defense Lawyers Surge at Washington, D.C. With Trump in the White House – People in Washington, D.C., appear to be very nervous about their potential legal exposure with President Trump back in the White House. – Search results for defense attorneys are roughly five times higher in America’s capital than anywhere else in the US.

Western Journal: Trump Comes Up With A Perfect Punishment for An AP Reporter After The AP Rejects Renaming of The ‘Gulf of America’ In Their News Coverage. – This afternoon, an AP reporter was blocked from attending an executive order signing.

Vigilant Fox: Mike Benz Exposes How USAID Funds State-Sponsored Hit Pieces to Crush Political Opponents – For a mere investment of $20 million, USAID’s state-sponsored hit pieces were able to Generate at least $4.5 billion in fines against targets of these hit pieces, and influence over 548 policy changes across foreign governments and private sectors.

Dailey Fetched: President Trump’s DOE demands NCAA strip transgender athletes, such as Lia Thomas, of women’s titles and records they won while competing in women’s sports. – The ED Office of General Counsel also sent a letter to the NFHS, demanding that the move be implemented at the high school level as well, where biological men have won women’s titles.

Washington Examiner: The General Services Administration is the latest part of the federal government targeted by Elon Musk’s DOGE. – The GSA manages government contracts and the federal government’s real estate and is widely viewed as a prime place for DOGE to make cuts. – Over 12,000 people work for the GSA, with a total budget of over $61 billion, up $2.2 billion from 2023….

American Thinker: No, Trump Does Not Have to Abide by a Mythical ‘Judicial Supremacy.’ – Here are several examples. – The simplest one is that the US Government is divided into three branches: the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial. – The answer is the Founders’: No branch can intrude into the others’ spheres.

The Federalist: Yes, We’re In A Constitutional Crisis, And It’s Democrats’ Fault – The American people need more than just our elected President to be engaged in this fight. Congress needs to wake up and step up. – Democrats claim we’re in a constitutional crisis because President Trump acts on the belief that the chief executive should control the executive branch. – It is a crisis Democrats have forced on Americans for the last 125 years.

Breitbart: ‘It’s Not Just Bragg’: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Indicates More Military Base Names Will Be Restored.- It’s about that legacy. It’s about the connection to the community and to those who served, and we’re not, as the president has said and I’ve said, we’re not done.

Breitbart: President Trump could claw back $4.3 billion in unspent federal funds for California’s high-speed rail project, just as he froze $1 billion for the perpetually delayed and derailed project during his first presidential term. – President Biden restored the funding in 2021 and added more federal funding. – On taking office, however, President Trump vowed to investigate the project…

February 11, 2025

Washington Free Beacon: Israel Fires A Warning Shot at Hamas, Release Our Nine Remaining Hostages By Saturday or Face ‘Intense Combat’ – Hours earlier, Trump said ‘All hell is going to break out’ if Hamas does not release hostages this week. – Netanyahu, “In light of Hamas’ announcement of its decision to violate the agreement and not release our hostages, last night I ordered the IDF to gather forces inside and around the Gaza Strip.”…

Epoch Times: At Least 70,000 Federal Workers Have Accepted Buyout Offer To Date. – Among his many efforts to downsize the federal government, President Trump released his “Fork in the Road” plan to give federal workers deferred resignation with eight months of full pay and benefits if they are willing to leave their jobs.

Vigilant News: Elon Musk said on Tuesday that DOGE would investigate federal employees whose net worth has exploded despite their comparatively low pay. The announcement came after President Trump signed an executive order calling on federal agencies to work with DOGE and a bombshell report that Samantha Power, former head of USAID, saw her net worth explode to $30 million despite an annual salary of under $250,000.

Vigilant News: Seven NGOs, partially funded by American taxpayers, appear to be key players within the so-called Deep State Uniparty. – These organizations have shaped public discourse over the past decade through radical propaganda. – The report is titled “THE UNIPARTY UNMASKED – They are all dedicated to advocating Democracy and have redefined ‘Democracy’ to mean themselves.”…

Western Journal: ‘They Forced Us To Do This’—Tom Homan Is Warning Sanctuary Cities They Are About to ‘Get Exactly What They Don’t Want’—Specifically, Homan says sanctuary cities will now have “more agents in the neighborhoods and more non-criminals being arrested.”

Western Journal: Mainstream Media Blackout? – FEMA Under Trump Handled 80% of The Cases in Western NC in Just 5 Days – Biden Had 116 Days With Little Success – $54 million was secured for needy families, and 2,600 families that needed assistance were registered…

Populist Times: USAID Funneled Millions to Fund “Designated Terrorists” – The Middle East Forum’s multi-year study of USAID and State Department spending has uncovered $164 million of approved grants to radical organizations, with at least $122 million going to groups aligned with designated terrorists and their supporters.

Epoch Times: A new list from the White House assesses DOGE’s financial impact so far at more than $3.4 billion, with substantial savings realized through DOE cuts. – The list also includes a variety of DEI contracts and grants, many in DOE, as well as moves against DEI-related directives and policies deemed out of step with the new administration’s priorities.

Breitbart: Democrats threaten to shut down the federal government during next month’s spending fight because they are enraged over DOGE’s financial audit of government spending, particularly USAID. – This puts the Democrats in the precarious position of supporting waste, fraud, and abuse, three items DOGE is tasked with cutting.

Washington Free Beacon: During the Biden Administration, American Universities Received Nearly $1 Billion From Mystery Offshore Donors, Including Some Linked to China. – Trump has pledged to crack down on foreign influence on college campuses.

California Globe: California’s New Fuel Standards Hurt the Poor, With Little Environment Benefit – Although CARB claims that its LCFS decisions contribute to “clean air improvements that bring public health and climate benefits to California’s communities,” it offers no hard or even semi-hard, data on these benefits. Moreover, it provides no data on the current or future costs of achieving any specific health or climate target.

Washington Examiner: BREAKING, Elon Musk joined President Trump in the Oval Office regarding a new order to clarify DOGE power – Trump has signed an executive order directing federal employees to comply with DOGE as it seeks to cut the size of the government’s workforce. – “I campaigned on this,” Trump said Tuesday. “I campaigned on the fact that I said the government is corrupt. And it is very corrupt. It’s also foolish.”…

New York Sun: President Trump Issued an Ultimatum to Hamas After It Delayed The Further Release Of Hostages – Trump, “All hell will break loose” if the remaining hostages in Gaza aren’t released by Saturday at noon. – “Releasing the hostages ‘in dribs and drabs’ is not viable going forward due to their physical and mental conditions.”…

Daily Wire: King Abdullah of Jordan Agrees to Accept Some Gaza Refugees During His Trump White House Meeting — Abdullah offered to take 2,000 sick children from the Gaza Strip almost immediately. Trump called the gesture beautiful and said, “We appreciate it,” which was “music to his ears.”…

One America News: President Donald Trump and his Special Envoy Steve Witkoff announced that Mr. Witkoff is leaving Russian airspace with Marc Fogel, an American whom Russia detained. – The State Department said in October 2024 that Fogel was determined to be “wrongfully detained.”

Townhall: Former Major Democrat Donor Drops More Damning Allegations About the Biden Presidency – After Joe Biden’s disastrous CNN debate, Hunter Biden commandeered the White House and sat in on sensitive meetings without a security clearance. – Also, Joe Biden was doped up for campaign events…

Slay News: Ukraine Is Reselling Up To ‘Half’ of U.S-Supplied Weapons to America’s Enemies – During a Tucker Carlson interview with Lt. Colonel Daniel Davis, a retired United States Army officer, it was revealed that “half” of the weapons are now in the hands of Mexican drug cartels and other criminal organizations…

Daily Signal: 4 FEMA Employees Are Fired as Trump Calls for Termination of The Agency – The four employees being fired for making payments for housing illegal aliens in luxury hotels in New York City include FEMA’s chief financial officer, two program analysts, and a grant specialist.

Daily Wire: President Trump Is Dead Serious About Our Southern Border – Our U.S. Military Is Using High-Tech Spy Planes To Watch the Cartels – Border Czar Homan: “I think the cartels would be foolish to take on the military.” – At least 18 missions have been flown over the southwestern U.S. and around the Baja California Peninsula in the past two weeks…

Gateway Pundit: The FBI has just miraculously “stumbled upon” a whopping 2,400 previously undisclosed records tied to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. – This revelation comes mere days after President Trump signed an executive order mandating the release of all classified documents concerning the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

FOX Business: Peter Navarro, “It’s a new golden age for American steel and aluminum.” – To strengthen and reinvigorate our pillar steel and aluminum industries, President Trump has reinstated his across-the-board 25% tariff on steel imports and raised the aluminum tariff from 10% to 25% while eliminating all country-specific exemptions and alternative agreements…

Daily Mail: Bizarre twist in the Chinese spy balloon saga – Investigators found the balloon that hovered over the US before it was eventually shot down over the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of South Carolina on February 4, 2023. – Military analysts who dismantled the balloon found it was loaded with American-made satellite communication modules and sophisticated sensors from at least five US companies…

Gateway Pundit: JD Vance Proclaims The U.S. Will Lead Global The AI Race During The Paris Summit – Vance said that it’s troubling that foreign governments are reportedly considering ‘tightening screws on US tech companies with international footprints.’ – He stated that the Trump administration would not accept that. – In what appeared to be a warning shot at China, Mr. Vance also said the US would ‘safeguard AI and chip technology from theft and misuse…

Issues & Insights: The Big Lie About Trump’s NIH Cuts – The Left is in an uproar because Donald Trump is choking off a slush fund that colleges and universities have used for decades to finance left-wing causes. – Colleges accept research grants from the government and the private sector. – All include money to pay for “indirect costs.” In other words, overhead and the amounts are substantial…

Vigilant News: Elon Musk Just Made A Strategic Move to Take Over OpenAI – Never one to sit idly by while AI takes a turn he doesn’t like, has just dropped a staggering $97.4 billion bid to purchase OpenAI. – Yes, the same OpenAI he co-founded in 2015 before leaving after great frustration over its direction in 2019. – Backed by powerhouse investors, including Valor Equity Partners, Baron Capital, Atreides Management, and his own AI venture, xAI, this could upend the AI landscape in ways we’ve never seen before…

Gateway Pundit: Tom Homan Confirmed The ICE Operation Leak Points to The FBI — ” A Criminal Investigation Is Underway.” – “Not Only Will This Person Lose Their Job and Their Pension, but They Are also Going to Jail.” – Tom Homan revealed someone leaked to Tren de Aragua gang members that ICE was raiding Colorado apartments. When ICE agents showed up, the apartments were empty.

New York Post:  Four FEMA employees will be fired Tuesday for sending $59 million to New York City to house and care for illegal migrants. – They are being fired today for circumventing leadership and unilaterally making the egregious payment for hotels for migrants in New York City,” according to Department of Homeland Security officials.

Daily Wire: The First 2026 Senate Forecast Spells More Bad News For Democrats – Republicans are heavily favored to keep control of the Senate and have a good chance to build on their majority. – For Democrats to regain control of the Senate, they will have to pull off upsets in the three races where Republicans hold an advantage and pull off a major upset in one of the 19 seats considered safely Republican.

Washington Examiner: Trump adopts Biden’s legal playbook to challenge sanctuary cities – The Trump administration filed a lawsuit against Illinois, Chicago, and Cook County, challenging local sanctuary laws that limit cooperation with federal immigration authorities by obstructing federal enforcement efforts and preventing agencies such as ICE from carrying out their duties effectively.

Epoch Times: DOGE Cuts Are Now Into The Billions – Amid Democrats’ pushback, lawsuits, and threats to DOGE employees, the cuts keep coming, including almost $1 billion announced yesterday. – Some of the biggest savings reckoned by the White House stem from the cancellation of more than 100 contracts relating to DEI. – DOGE also ended a $748 million contract for a new embassy in South Sudan…

AMUSE on X: Judicial Tyranny As Democrat Judges Assault Trump’s Article II Powers – The Constitution was designed to prevent this crisis. – We have a judiciary that no longer merely interprets the law but has positioned itself as the supposed master of the executive branch. – A coordinated, ideologically driven assault is unfolding. – Democrat-appointed judges in New York, Rhode Island, New Mexico, and Washington, D.C., are working feverishly to nullify the legitimate, constitutional authority of President Trump systematically…

JD Rucker: The Activist Judges Blocking President Trump’s Agenda Will NOT Prevail. – Their attacks on executive actions, particularly those associated with DOGE, will fail spectacularly because the Supreme Court will not subvert the Constitution for the sake of corrupt government agencies.

John Daniel Davidson: After Being Ousted From Power By American Voters, Democrats Turn To Activist Judges To Defend Trump. – Lower federal court judges have no constitutional authority to govern by injunction and undermine the executive branch. – By doing this, Democrats and their allies in the judiciary turn the Constitution on its head and effectively govern negatively through injunctions…

FAR: DOGE, Inside The Revolution Rewiring American Power – If you want to understand what they are up to, this is the best article I’ve read about the takedown of our trillion-dollar bureaucracy. – To say it is mind-blowing is an understatement.

Victor Davis Hanson: Sorry, Liberals. DOGE Is 100% Legal, And Here’s Why. – USAID was created by John F. Kennedy in 1961 by executive order. – Trump created DOGE with an executive order. – There is a statutory authority for DOGE to go through agencies to find waste and fraud…

Washington Examiner: The Left has descended into madness opposing Trump 2.0 – In a collective frenzy, a large group of House Democrats and several Senate leaders converged outside of the Treasury Department building. – With Maxine Waters grinning at her side Representative Ayanna Pressley even referred to Musk as a “Nazi nepo baby.”

The Center Square: Lawmakers push legislation to abolish USAID entirely – U.S. Representatives Gregory Steube and Majorie Taylor Greene have introduced bills that would immediately halt all federal funding to USAID and transfer its essential responsibilities to the U.S. Department of State.

American Thinker: A United America Is The Democrats’ Undoing – Of all the things I loathe about the Democrat party, its celebration of victimhood takes the cake. – As is true of all political parties infected with virulent Marxism, it does not seek to help those truly in need. – It does the opposite by seeking out people who might never have seen themselves as victims and convincing them otherwise...

February 10, 2025

Wall Street Journal: Trump Outsmarts China on Green Energy – He is ramping up economic pressure on Beijing by dismantling the net-zero agenda. – The net-zero agenda, a set of targets and strategies by Western governments and climate diplomats to arrest global warming by limiting emissions, is the most audacious international effort in diplomatic history. – Climate warriors will regroup, but for now, Mr. Trump’s attacks on net zero are working.

Trending Politics: The Obama Appointed Rogue Judge Blocking Trump’s Agenda Is Exposed As A Democrat Megadonor. – He has a history of contributing hundreds of thousands of dollars to Democratic campaigns and political action committees. – While judicial ethics rules prohibit federal judges from making political donations once confirmed to the bench, McConnell’s past financial ties raise concerns about impartiality in high-profile cases, especially those involving Republican-led policies…

Daily Mail: DOGE uncovered a farcical $2.3 million program that trains soldiers to ‘speak and act in a DEI friendly’ way – The Air Force’s Air Education and Training Command had a virtual reality created to enable soldiers to interact with an avatar that would help them speak and act in a DEI-friendly way. – It allowed the participants to have realistic and difficult conversations,’ an Air Force soldier wrote alongside a video testimonial.

California Globe: DOGE Accountability 101 – The Left is Freaking Out With US Taxpayer Gravy Train Being Cut Off – San Francisco’s nonprofit sector is the largest per capita of any California county with $9 billion outstanding in federal grants and loans – It gets worse, as Daniel Greenfield reported today, “USAID Sent $9.3B to Islamic Terror States That Killed 3,000 American Soldiers, And over $18 billion to Islamic terrorist states.”…

American Thinker: Democrats decry Trump’s cancellation of ‘green’ subsidies. – You can’t call a product or service “low-cost” if it is, in fact, expensive, and you use large amounts of taxpayer dollars to subsidize it. – Let’s look at some numbers for reference…

Washington Examiner: According to FOIA documents, the Obama administration may have skirted the law when it approved the unionization of TSA screeners in 2011. – Title 5 of the United States Code authorizes most federal employees to bargain (unionize) collectively.” – “Some parts of TSA are included in Title 5, but TSA screeners are not.

Trending Politics: Iran’s Stunning Plot To Attack Trump’s Plane Is Revealed – “Law enforcement officials warned Trump last year that Tehran had placed operatives in the U.S. with access to surface-to-air missiles.” – “Trump’s team worried that the Iranians could try to down his easily recognizable personal jet — better known as ‘Trump Force One’ — as it was taking off or landing.”…

Townhall: The Iranian-backed terrorist organization Hamas announced Monday it would not comply with the next stage of a previously negotiated hostage deal, falsely claiming “Israeli violations” as the reason for the decision. – The deal Hamas agreed to requires the release of three more hostages this week, which now isn’t happening, while 73 hostages remain in Gaza.

Resist the Mainstream: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has expressed openness to striking a deal with former U.S. President Donald Trump, potentially exchanging Ukraine’s vast rare earth mineral deposits for continued American financial and military support. – The Russia-Ukraine conflict has raged for over two years, and the Biden-Harris administration allocated approximately $175 billion in economic and military aid to Kyiv. 

Powerline: Trump On The Hostages – The Israeli press indicated the appalling emaciation of the hostages is easily explained; they were deliberately starved – Trump, “I watched the hostages come back today, and they looked like Holocaust survivors. They were in horrible condition. They were emaciated. It looked like many years ago, the Holocaust survivors. I don’t know how much longer we can take that…We’re going to lose our patience.”

Breitbart: Israeli hostages are being tortured and deliberately starved by Hamas in Gaza, with some being denied treatment for wounds they sustained during the terror attack of October 7, 2023. – The new information followed the release Saturday of hostages Ohad Ben Ami, Eli Sharabi, and Or Levy, who returned to Israel dangerously emaciated. – They were said to have gone for days without food and then only given a single rotten pita bread to share…

American Thinker: President Trump addressed his largest TV audience during a FOX News’s Bret Baier interview before the Super Bowl yesterday. – A modified interview transcript is provided below for brevity and clarity. – After the question regarding DOGE, the president’s plans for tariffs and relations with Canada and Mexico came up next…

Western Journal: Everything You Need to Know About Post-Woke America – Forget the players on the field: The two most famous people at Super Bowl LIX in New Orleans on Sunday were President Donald Trump and pop icon Taylor Swift. – One got booed, the other roundly cheered. – If you can’t guess properly who got which response, you haven’t been paying attention to the way the cultural wind has been blowing lately.

New York Post: Elon Musk discovered that FEMA sent $59M last week to luxury NYC hotels to house illegal migrants. – Musk, “Sending this money violated the law and is in gross insubordination to the President’s executive order.” – “That money is meant for American disaster relief and instead is being spent on high-end hotels for illegals.”

American Thinker: Lawfare 2.0, Obama Appointed Federal District Court Judge Paul Engelmayer’s Coup—The DOGE team and the US Treasury agreed that all outgoing government payments must have a payment categorization code to pass financial audits. – This code is frequently left blank, making audits almost impossible. – I learned there are over $100 billion a year of entitlement payments to individuals without Social Security or even temporary ID numbers, which makes one wonder what they are hiding…

Washington Examiner: Trump challenges the order barring DOGE from accessing Treasury expenditures – “Basic democratic accountability requires that every executive agency’s work be supervised by politically accountable leadership, who ultimately answer to the president,” DOJ attorneys told Manhattan-based U.S. District Judge Jeannette Vargas, calling a judge’s weekend order barring DOGE personnel from accessing the payment system “impermissible” and “anti-constitutional.”…

Slay News: A USAID Whistleblower Says Employees Are ‘Psychologically Frightened’ About What Elon Musk’s DOGE Will Expose – Speaking to CBS’s “Face the Nation” host Margaret Brennan, the anonymous employee said they and their co-workers have been “psychologically frightened” and would only speak on the condition of anonymity out of fear of putting their family “at any more risk.”

Washington Free Beacon: At USAID, Funding for Terror-Tied Groups and Internal Hostility Toward Israel Goes Back Years – A former State Department official described ‘the lack of embarrassment among some USAID staffers about being associated with terrorist organizations.’ – “For those who believe in a strong U.S.-Israel relationship, elements of USAID have been problematic for years”…

The Daily Fetched: Just 294 Out Of The 14,000 USAID Employees Have Been Identified as ‘Essential’ – The internal review appears to have been initiated by President Donald Trump’s Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, currently serving as the agency’s acting director. – The news came as Secretary Rubio began transferring the few core programs within USAID intended to serve U.S. national interests into the State Department.

The Daily Fetched: – Stephen Miller, Deputy chief of staff for policy and homeland security adviser, “Yes, the USAID was a slush fund, first of all, for left-wing projects around the globe, like gender surgeries around the world, diversity, equity and inclusion policies, crazy Green New Deal, climate scams and every other lunatic left-wing project that is bankrupting this country.”

American Thinker: Homeland Security Secretary Noem accuses FBI of leaking news of impending ICE raids to the press. – If what Noem says is right, this is an amazing breach of professionalism at the FBI, leaking news of raids to the media to undermine another federal agency.

Washington Examiner: Trump’s Military Recruitment Surge – It was no surprise that the U.S. Army announced last week that recruitment had reached its highest levels in 15 years during January. – This showing was built on a strong December, which saw its highest numbers in 12 years. – Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, “America’s youth want to serve under the bold & strong ‘America First’ leadership of @realDonaldTrump.”

New York Post: President Trump mass-fired the military academies’ ‘Boards of Visitors’ in a purge of ‘woke leftist ideologues.’ – “Woke Leftist Ideologues have infiltrated Our Service Academies over the last four years. I have therefore ordered the immediate dismissal of the Board of Visitors for the Army, Air Force, Navy, and Coast Guard.”

American Thinker: Trump Has The Taxpayers’ Back And Democrats Are Freaking Out – As DOGE continues to dig, it now appears three early actions were warranted. At Treasury, there were reports “that payment approval officers at Treasury were instructed to always approve payments, even to known fraudulent or terrorist groups.”…

American Thinker: Trump’s Chess Game Is Improving – Democrats are howling because DOGE findings caught them flat-footed – Does Chuck Schumer believe that $20 million for Sesame Street in Iraq will somehow benefit the U.S.? – Or $7 million to promote LGBT advocacy in Jamaica and Uganda helps America? – He must have forgotten that Uganda enforces the death penalty for gay people…

American Thinker: Our Media Titans Are Being Rattled by Lawsuits—Repackaging the news to push their agenda is becoming increasingly problematic and expensive for the media. Here are some examples…

Victor Davis Hanson: How To Commit Democrat Party Suicide – The Democrats’ radical overreach, election losses, and Musk-fueled government exposés have left them flailing, doubling down on failure instead of recalibrating for a political comeback. – If they were mentally stable, then they might renounce political suicide and perhaps return to something akin to the Clinton efforts of 1992 and 1996…

Center Square: Economic growth will slow further, and inflation fears may be overblown. – When consumers believe prices will rise rapidly, they don’t wait; they spend now. – Big-ticket purchases, long-delayed vacations, and front-loaded demand can put additional upward pressure on prices. – But perhaps these inflation fears are overblown, and here’s why…

American Conservative: Hawaii’s Demented Democrat Resistance – Instead of addressing the Aloha State’s many dysfunctions, the government has prioritized fighting President Trump. – Hawaii is one of the bluest states in the union. Some 34% of registered voters are Democrats, versus only 18% Republican. – While 43% are officially unaffiliated, they usually vote Democrat…

American Thinker: Tribalism Is The Key to Understanding Islam – Decoding Islam’s notorious resistance to assimilation in the West is as simple as understanding the doctrine’s relational values. – The entire appeal of Muhammad’s call to the Arabs of his time lay in its perfect compatibility with their tribal mores, three in particular: loyalty to one’s tribe, enmity for other tribes, and raids on the latter to enrich and empower the former…

February 9, 2025

Trending Politics: President Trump has directed the Secret Service to give him “every bit of information” known about the two attempts on his life that took place this past summer. – “Why did the one guy have six cellphones, and why did the other person have [foreign] apps?” – “The Secret Service has been holding back information because of former President Biden. – “I’m entitled to know. And they held it back long enough.” – “No more excuses.”

Daily Mail: Trump sent the Super Bowl crowd wild as he took to the field with Ivanka and Eric and made history as the first sitting president to attend a Super Bowl game. – He posed for photos with family members of victims in the New Year’s Eve ISIS attack on Bourbon Street and emergency responders and waved to the cheering crowd…

Washington Examiner: Four takeaways From President Trump’s Pre-Super Bowl Interview – His push for Canada as the 51st state appears to be ‘real’ – The Difference between the 45th and 47th administration – The Judge’s decision to restrict DOGE ‘crazy’ – He Picks the Chiefs to win…

Fox News: Fox News: President Trump predicts Elon Musk will find ‘hundreds of billions’ in waste in the next DOGE directives – “He’s not gaining anything personally. I wonder how he can devote the time to it,” Trump said. – “I will tell him to check the Department of Education very soon. He’s going to find the same thing.  – Then, I’m going to go into the military.

American Spectator: Nobody Wants the Palestinians – A ‘Palestinian Two State Solution’ is no longer feasible, yet Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, and Iran want nothing to do with the displaced Gazans. – Two things can be deduced from all this. The first is that the Arab nations don’t want to spend a dime on rebuilding Gaza. – Second is the fact that those nations believe — quite correctly — that the Gazans are a lot more trouble than they’re worth…

American Spectator: Most Americans Support DOGE and ‘Never Tiring’ President Trump – Democrat antics and media mendacity aside, a clear majority favor paring down the government. – In addition to the antics of the Democrats, corporate media is contributing to the hysteria. – NBC News, for example, ran an article on Saturday with the following title: “Inside DOGE’s takeover of the Education Department.”…

Washington Examiner: Trump Ordered The Treasury To Stop The ‘Wasteful’ Production Of Pennies – Trump pointed out that the minting of a penny costs more than the actual value of the coin, adding that this is part of his goal of rooting out wasteful spending in the federal government.

Courageous Discourse: Rand Paul Questioned Samantha Power About USAID Contribution to China for SARS-CoV Research—USAID gave Peter Daszak’s EcoHealth Alliance $207 million between 2009 and October 2019, right when SARS-Cov-2 began to spread.

Breitbart: The 115-Year-Old Boy Scouts of America Ditched Its Name to Be More ‘Gender-Neutral’—The organization officially changed its name to Scouting America.

American Greatness: Trump, Musk, and the Deep State: The Battle Over Transparency Begins—Trump and Musk are unraveling the deep state’s secrets at record speed, and the left is panicking, wielding emergency orders, judicial overreach, and legal theatrics to stop the exposure. – Elon Musk and his lieutenants quickly uncovered a pyramid of waste, fraud, and abuse. – There were no committees, approvals, or red tape; there were just four young coders with unprecedented access and algorithms ready to run.

Breitbart: On Saturday, a federal judge blocked Elon Musk and DOGE from accessing Treasury Department data and records. – U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer received an application for a temporary restraining order filed by attorney generals in 19 states.

Townhall: A federal court has ordered the DOJ to furnish all available files on any communications between former Special Counsel Jack Smith and Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis related to President Donald Trump’s prosecution. – Judicial Watch sued in October 2023 after the DOJ failed to comply with an August 2023 FOIA request for records.

Tucker Carlson’s Mike Benz Interview: The USAID Rabbit Hole Runs Deep. – Is USAID Truly a Humanitarian Operation? – Joe Biden and USAID’s Role in Social Media Censorship—The interview covers these and other important topics.

AMUSE on X: Trump’s Second Chance, Dismantling USAGM and Ending Its Propaganda Machine – The U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) is not a journalistic entity but rather a state-run propaganda machine that manipulates public perception while pretending to be an independent voice. – This agency, which once defended American values, now actively undermines them…

Wall Street Journal: Behind the Oil Industry’s Biggest Divorce, Chevron Versus California – Chevron sank the state’s first successful oil well that kicked off a boom that powered California’s economy for over a century – Now, that goodwill has gone dry. – Chevron CEO Mike Wirth, “Putting bureaucrats in charge of centrally planning key segments of the economy hasn’t worked in other social states.” – “I doubt it will be any different in California.”…

February 8, 2025

Washington Examiner: President Trump said on Saturday night that he has already spoken with Russian President Vladimir Putin by phone about ending the three-year war in Ukraine. – Zelensky is expected to meet with Trump and VP Vance next week before the Feb. 14-16 Munich Security Conference.

Epoch Times: Hamas Released Three Israeli Hostages, Eli Sharabi, Ohad Ben Ami, and Or Levy, in Emaciated Condition – The hostages’ emaciation and scenes of them being forced to speak in a staged ceremony have caused outrage in Israel, further threatening the already fragile cease-fire brought into effect last month…

Epoch Times: Freed Jan. 6 Prisoners Speak Out as They Begin to Rebuild Their Lives – A half-dozen former Jan. 6 prisoners share what they say has been suppressed and distorted for the past four years about how they were treated.

Zero Hedge: The Ayatollah Shuts The Door On Negotiations With The US After Trump Restores ‘Maximum Pressure’ Via Sanctions – The JCPOA called for Iran to limit its nuclear energy program and agree to routine inspections. – The US is now worried that given last year’s tit-for-tat exchange of major strikes with Israel, Tehran leaders are more incentivized than ever to develop a nuke secretly.

Zero Hedge: Afrikaners Respond To Trump’s Historic South Africa Executive Order – Expropriation Act 13 of 2024 enables the government of South Africa to seize ethnic minority Afrikaners’ agricultural property without compensation. – The US shall not provide aid or assistance to South Africa and shall promote the resettlement of Afrikaner refugees escaping government-sponsored race-based discrimination, including racially discriminatory property confiscation…

Just The News: Current and former air traffic controllers say FAA hiring practices and the “immunity program” led to problems, like those related to the recent midair collision near Reagan Washington National Airport. – Former Air Traffic Controllers say that the FAA’s focus on DEI hiring practices has resulted in less qualified air traffic controllers and a staffing shortage.

Slay News: A leading scientist from China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology has spoken out to blow the whistle by claiming that the U.S. taxpayer-funded Chinese lab “engineered” COVID-19 as a “bioweapon” to reduce the population of humans around the world. – This comes as damning evidence has emerged revealing that the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) used taxpayer money to fund the development of COVID-19 as a bioweapon in the same Wuhan laboratory.

Trending Politics: President Trump has stripped security clearances from several left-wing lawmakers and officials, including New York AG Letitia James, Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg, and former Secretary of State Antony Blinken, among several others. – Biden’s former National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, who played a key role in crafting the debunked Russian collusion hoax, will also lose his clearances.

Dr. Sherri Tenpenny: What is USAID and What Are They Funding? – During the Fiscal year 2023, USAID distributed $72 billion. The largest amount, $16 billion, went to Ukraine. – The second largest, $1.7 billion, went to Ethiopia while the Houthis continued to shell civilians. – USAID has funded 6,200 journalists across over 700 media outlets (and 279 media NGOs)…

AMUSE on X: How USAID and Internews Orchestrate Global Media Control – Internews is one of the most insidious forces in global information warfare, boasting the training of 100,000 journalists in over 100 countries. – Internews operates as an international media cartel, shaping narratives that align exclusively with far-left ideologies while undermining conservative movements worldwide…

Washington Examiner: DOGE probes the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as Musk paints a grim picture for the agency. – The CFPB’s charter is to protect consumers by analyzing the practices of large financial institutions like banks, lenders, credit unions, and debt collectors to ensure they are not improperly targeting consumers. – Senator Ted Cruz and Representative Keith Self previously introduced legislation to eliminate the CFBP...

Zero Hedge: Flight tracking data from Flightradar24 shows a US Air Force RC-135V/W Rivet Joint reconnaissance aircraft conducted its second signals intelligence (SIGINT) operation near cartel-controlled territories within Mexico this past week. – The SIGINT mission coincides with remarks from US Border Czar Tom Homan, who warned on Thursday that he “expects” a hot confrontation between the US military and drug cartels.

Geller Report: Democrats were nonplussed when the Communist Chinese successfully breached US Treasury Department workstations in what was a “major incident. – There was generally no media or outrage, nothing. – But now they are in complete meltdown at the idea of an audit, of transparency. – What are they hiding?

Slay News: White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt Skewers Democrats for Violent Rhetoric Over Trump Shutting Down USAID – During the White House press briefing, Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy pressed Leavitt on comments made by some elected Democrats. – Three minutes of profound excellence. Just think back about the Gobaldeguck Karine Jean-Pierre used to come back with…

Daily Wire: DOGE Scored A Legal Win After The Labor Unions Sued To Stop Access To View Potential Waste – The unions failed to provide any evidence of legal injury, the judge said. – The AFL-CIO, a union representing around 800,000 government workers, called the ruling “a setback, but not a defeat.”

Independent Sentinel: Is USAID Humanitarian or a Rogue CIA Operation – Mike Benz’s Interview With Tucker Carlson – “Right now, the people who are trying to defend US aid are stuck between a rock and a hard place.” – “They want to defend it on humanitarian grounds, and then they get deluged with all the ways that it has gone wrong and all the horrible things that it’s funding, so in response, they turn to layer two.”…

AMUSE on X: How USAID and Internews Orchestrate Global Media Control – The dissemination of information has long been a battleground for ideological and political power because if you control the narrative, you control the minds that shape the future. – Internews’s funding sources betray its true objectives. It is no accident that USAID, the CIA’s tool for ideological influence operations, provides up to 90% of Internews’s budget…

American Thinker: The CDC’s Big Mistake—President Trump’s first week in office included an order suspending all CDC, HHS, and NIH communications, including regulations, announcements, reports, advisories, updates, and online posts. – The Alleged COVID Pandemic wasn’t the first time government actions, laws, or regulations imposed dire consequences on ordinary, law-abiding Americans.

American Thinker: When Words Ignite – It’s been said that we don’t change until the pain of change becomes less than the pain of not changing. – Some folks may be approaching that point through their rhetoric and actions. – Five examples of things that are not free speech so are unlawful and fall outside 1st Amendment protections: Speech inciting imminent lawless action – Fighting words that provoke immediate violence – True threats aimed at instilling fear of bodily harm or death…

Powerline: The Week in Pictures, Mar-a-Gaza Edition – Everyone knows the “two-state solution” is never going to happen as long as Hamas and Hezbollah are in existence, so why not blow up this whole hypocrisy?

February 7, 2025

Daily Wire: ICE Arrests 11,000 Illegal Aliens In First 18 Days Of Trump Administration – This included the capture of Fernando Vasquez-Mendoza in Rio Grande Valley, Texas, with ICE explaining that the man, a previously deported Mexican national, is a hired killer working on behalf of the Gulf Cartel…

Zero Hedge: Fentanyl Is Swiftly Moved to Schedule 1 Drug—On February 6, 2025, the House quickly passed the HALT Fentanyl Act with significant Democrat support. – If the legislation is supported in the Senate, it will permanently move fentanyl from a Schedule 2 drug to Schedule 1 under the Controlled Substances Act.

Zero Hedge: An Official Says More Government Workers Are Accepting Trump Admin Buyout Offer – The number of workers who have decided to accept the buyout offer from the Trump administration has risen by about 25,000, according to a White House official, with some 65,000 government employees now having signed up for the generous offer.

Center Square: Trump eyes ‘reciprocal’ trade deals instead of flat-fee tariffs. On Friday, the president announced he would announce reciprocal trade agreements with multiple countries next week during a news conference with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba.

Daily Wire: Trump Brokered A Compromise For Japanese Investment In U.S Steel instead of Acquisition – President Donald Trump announced that Japan’s Nippon Steel would invest heavily in U.S. Steel rather than purchase the company, reversing a $14.9 billion takeover proposal blocked by the Biden administration.

JD Rucker: You thought the news about USAID funding Politico and the BBC was big news. – Now we learn that USAID has paid nearly half a billion dollars to Internews Network, a secretive government-funded NGO that spreads propaganda and controls the media narrative worldwide.

Western Journal: USAID Is Utterly Obliterated—Marco Rubio Announced A 97% Staff Cut—A report from Reuters, based on inside sources, said that when the cuts are complete, 294 people will work for an agency that previously had about 10,000 employees.

Gateway Pundit: Elon Musk announced that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) wasted a staggering “$100 billion of taxpayer money.” – Musk’s DOGE team and two senior veterans from the agency have been meticulously reviewing the CMS’s payment and contracting systems, which are crucial for managing health insurance for approximately one in four Americans.

Daily Wire: Elon Musk And JD Vance Stepped in To Get DOGE Staffer Back After A Journolist Tried To ‘Destroy’ Him – “I don’t think stupid social media activity should ruin a kid’s life.” – Musk ran a poll on Thursday, asking X users to weigh in on Elez’s ouster, to which 78% of respondents said the staffer should be brought back to the DOGE team…

Gateway Pundit: The DOJ is launching an inquiry into individuals and networks stealing government property and threatening government employees. – Earlier this week, US Attorney Ed Martin announced his office would charge and arrest individuals who threatened Elon Musk’s DOGE team. – When he announced the coming arrests and charges, Mr. Martin did not name any names. It is unclear which laws were violated.

American Spectator: The Foreign Aid Racket Funds RINO Grifters, Not Just Democrats – Here are a few profiles of senior USAID presidential appointees in past Republican administrations who have lived on Easy Street for long careers, and most of them never worked a day in a for-profit private enterprise. – Andrew Natsios – Kate Almquist – James Kunder – Patrick Cronin – Mark Green…

Epoch Times: President Trump signed a memorandum on February 6th ordering a review of all funds going to nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) from federal agencies – Trump, “It is the policy of my Administration to stop funding NGOs that undermine the national interest.”

One America News: HUD Secretary Scott Turner declared that the agency will no longer condition funding for homeless shelters and other federally-run facilities based on whether or not they accommodate a person’s “gender identity,” as opposed to their biological sex. – Turner noted that the move is part of President Donald Trump’s plan to “restore biological truth to the federal government.”

Epoch Times: A Coalition of 22 States Sues New York Over AG Letitia James’s Climate Superfund Law. – Their suit contends that the new law forcing a small group of major energy producers to pay retroactively for the costs of alleged climate change damage is unconstitutional.

Fox News: President Trump revoked Biden’s security clearances and intel briefings – “He set this precedent in 2021 when he instructed the Intelligence Community (IC) to stop the 45th President of the United States (ME!) from accessing details on National Security, a courtesy provided to former Presidents.”

The Hill: Trump Is Naming Himself as The New Kennedy Center Board Chair And Terminated Several Board Members – “Just last year, the Kennedy Center featured Drag Shows specifically targeting our youth — THIS WILL STOP.

American Spectator: Examples Of How These Companies Are Responding To DEI Backlash With Even More DEI – Salesforce – The NFL – Ancestry – Coca Cola – The Big Banks…

Western Journal: The Best Clip You’ll See Today – Tucker Carlson Asks A Lib Reporter ‘How Do They Get People This Stupid in the Media.’ – She continues to misquote him, and he throws it right back in her face to the pleasure of the audience…

American Thinker: Trump 2.0, The First Month—Clearly, Trump knows how to keep the opposition guessing by making move after move in rapid succession. – Trump was elected because a majority of Americans wanted a sea change in their economy, immigration policy, culture, and the way politics was run in the country. – The Trump team knows that most of the change Trump wants must come before the U.S. midterm 2026 election. – The iron is hot. – When and where will it strike next?

Trending Politics: President Trump’s nominee for Director of the Office of Management and Budget, Russell Vought, has been confirmed by the U.S. Senate. – This was despite attempts by the Democrats to thwart that effort through a filibuster filled to the brim with speeches aimed at slamming the current administration for daring to hack and slash at the federal government.

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Liberty Daily: RFK Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard Have Been Advanced To Floor Votes – Next week, we will know if President Donald Trump gets his most controversial picks, including Kash Patel for FBI Director. – It’s looking good across the board, but with RINOs lurking, we need to keep the pressure up.

Zero Hedge: Pharma Tool Elizabeth Warren’s Corruption Is EXPOSED Big-Time By X Community Notes – “Warren has received donations from Pharmaceutical companies and PAC organizations amounting to millions of dollars.” – Warren takes more pharma cash than almost any Congress creature, playing second fiddle to only to supposed anti-corruption crusader Bernie Sanders.

Daily Wire: Will Mexico Face A Hot Shooting War With The Cartels By Positioning 10,000 Troops Between Cartels And Their Drug Trafficking Operations? – This time, Trump demanded that Mexico “dismantle transnational criminal organizations, halt illegal migration, and stem the flow of fentanyl and precursor chemicals from China.”

American Greatness: President Trump is Forcing the World to Face Its Hypocrisies on the Gaza Palestinians Problem – The hypocrisies Trump is focused on include: “Gaza is a hell hole.” – No one wants to save the Gaza Palestinians. – Allowing Gaza to be ruled by Hamas after the war ends so it again becomes a platform to launch terrorist attacks against Israel is unacceptable. – The two-state solution is dead…

Geller Report: The DOJ is going after Hamas’ financial backers with a newly launched task force that will investigate and prosecute U.S.-based individuals, entities, and NGOs that fund Hamas’ terrorism. – Hamas is a Muslim Brotherhood group, so every Muslim Brotherhood group in America should be investigated, such as Students for Palestine, ICNA, ISNA, American Muslims for Palestine, and all the domestic terrorist groups.

The Federalist: DOGE Is Deadly To The Swamp, But A Ray Of Light For American Taxpayers – Badly defeated and desperately trying to crawl out of the political wilderness, Democrats are choosing to die on the government-waste-is-good political hill after holding a four-year orgy of waste. – “What we are witnessing here is the biggest heist in American history,” deranged Sen. Chris Van Hollen said at a protest Wednesday near the U.S. Capitol…

Vigilant News: Musk’s DOGE Team Has Uncovered $100 BILLION in Medicare and Medicaid Waste After Gaining Access To Financial Data. – The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) processes over one billion Medicare claims annually, oversees healthcare quality through hospital and nursing home inspections, and disburses billions in matching funds to states for Medicaid programs. The narrative has quickly escalated from lack of efficiency to rampant waste and potential fraud accusations.

Just The News: President Trump has directed all executive branch departments and agencies to review all funding for non-government organizations (NGOs). NGOs often receive government funding and are regarded by many as vehicles for left-wing social causes.

Newsmax: Senator Ted Cruz has accused the Biden administration of financially supporting the Hamas militants. – Cruz recently shared a Daily Caller article about more than $1.3 billion in taxpayer funds provided during Joe Biden’s administration that aided groups that sponsored or committed terrorism. – “USAID secretly poured uncountable hundreds of millions of dollars toward Hamas, including tens of millions of cash they could never account for…

Breitbart’s Exclusive Interview With Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu On His Summit Meeting With President Trump – “It Was The Best Meeting’ Ever Between Israeli And American Leaders.” – Netanyahu has visited DC many times and met with many different American presidents over the years. – Netanyahu said this particular meeting with Trump was special for various reasons. – “The winning team that brought us the Abraham Accords will bring us an expansion of the Abraham Accords.”…

Zero Hedge: Pam Bondi Begins Crackdown on Sanctuary Laws—A Department of Justice lawsuit asserts that sanctuary laws in Chicago, Cook County, and Illinois have obstructed federal efforts to enforce immigration policy. Courts are expected to side with Trump.

American Thinker: USAID’s $53 Million Problem As Trump’s People Follow The Money –  Recent investigations reveal as much as $53 million and counting in U.S. taxpayer dollars were funneled to Wuhan through USAID, the NIH, and the EcoHealth Alliance. – The American people have a right to know how their money was spent, who authorized it, and what consequences those responsible will face, if any.

John Daniel Davidson: We Still Need Answers To The Many Unanswered Questions About January 6th – The Select Committee’s report, issued in December 2022, omitted important information about January 6 and failed to address many lingering questions about the government’s role and response. – Its partisan (specifically anti-Trump) purpose can be deduced from its recommendations…

Lawyer Lisa: USDA Inspector Phyllis Fong is one of the key players behind the artificial inflation of poultry and egg prices in the U.S. – She ordered the culling of MILLIONS of healthy birds, using the FAKE excuse of “mutating bird flu” and allegedly threatened farmers with jail. – But the truth of the matter is there was NO pandemic.

American Thinker: Maybe CBS Stands For Clearly Bull Shit – Does anyone doubt now that CBS was in the tank for VP Kamala Harris? – During the 2024 campaign, many were happy that VP Harris would finally sit down for an interview. – Unfortunately, we only got the edited version. – After watching the unedited video, it is hard to disagree with then-candidate Trump, who said that CBS was out to make the VP look good.

Western Journal: Federal Elections Chief Ellen Weintraub Refuses to Leave After Trump Fires Her, And Vows to Dig In and Cause Trouble – FEC commissioners are supposed to serve six-year terms. – She was appointed by George W. Bush, which means her term should have ended long ago. – If her case goes to court, it could have ramifications for other dismissals the new administration wishes to pursue.

Washington Examiner: Trump escalates the war on the Green New Deal by cutting the $5 billion government EV chargers program. – In Trump’s executive order on the Green New Deal, federal agencies were directed to “immediately pause the disbursement of funds appropriated” through the Inflation Reduction Act and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, “including but not limited to funds for EV charging stations…

Washington Examiner: Sixteen House Democrats voted to help pass a bill that would ban the prohibition of hydraulic fracturing, commonly known as fracking. – House lawmakers on Friday voted 226 to 188 to pass the Protecting American Energy Production Act. – This aligns with the Trump administration’s promise to boost domestic oil production.

Fox News: California plans to continue allowing trans athletes to compete in girls’ sports despite Trump’s executive order – The state has faced multiple controversies over trans athletes competing against girls in the last year. – The NCAA amended its policy on gender eligibility after Trump’s EO, but unfortunately, at the youth and high school level, girls may still be at the mercy of state law.

American Thinker: Fake Insurance Courtesy Of Gavin Newsom’s California – California’s “FAIR PLAN” state fire insurance lives up to Gavin Newsom’s reputation for sheer incompetence. – Since 2018, FAIR plan policyholders have grown from 150,000 to more than 450,000 as commercial insurers have left California due to premium adequacy issues. – What is most tragic is that most people insured by the plan have no idea how weak it is.

February 6, 2025

American Spectator: Trump’s Gaza Gambit and the Art of the Ultimate Deal – It is unclear whether we should take Trump seriously but not literally or literally but not seriously. – He negotiated an impossible Middle East peace deal in his first term, which was said to be impossible. – As Trump told the WSJ back then: “As a deal maker, I’d like to do…the deal that can’t be made, and do it for humanity’s sake.”…

City Journal: We’re In for a Rude Awakening on Cybersecurity – The Chinese Communist Party is now the world’s preeminent practitioner of cyber warfare. – The CCP’s hackers have become stealthy and sophisticated. – They’re intercepting the calls and texts of our leaders and infiltrating servers at our ports, power plants, and water treatment facilities. – Unfortunately, nobody seems to be doing anything about it…

One America News: Senate Democrats delayed a key vote to advance the nomination of Kash Patel to lead the FBI, holding back President Donald Trump’s anticipated pick for FBI director until next week. – A similar move was made on Attorney General Pam Bondi’s nomination in January. – However, the new potential leader of the FBI is still in a strong position to get the go-ahead from Republican senators when it’s all said and done.

AMUSE on X: The Myth Of Nuclear Disarmament Exposed, Ukraine Never Had Nukes to Give Up In The First Place – The widespread belief that Ukraine voluntarily surrendered a vast nuclear arsenal in exchange for ironclad security guarantees is a mischaracterization that has gained undue traction in public discourse. – The warheads and delivery systems stationed on Ukrainian soil at the time of independence were always under Moscow’s control...

Epoch Times: Border Chief Tom Homan Says The Raid on Tren de Aragua Gang Was Leaked, And He Vows Accountability. – Homan said his team has already identified the source of the leak and suggested that future media access to ICE plans could be limited if the leaks continue because they put law enforcement in danger.

Gatestone Institute: How Hamas Plans To Foil Trump’s Gaza Plan – Hamas does not want any US intervention in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, fearing that it will disrupt their Jihad (holy war) against Israel. – Hamas is saying that if the Trump administration dares to implement the relocation and reconstruction plan, they will unleash a wave of terrorism against Americans and Palestinians…

Fox News: A Federal judge has delayed the Trump administration’s buyout deadline for federal workers to at least Monday. – Several labor unions have sued over Trump’s plans. – Trump is trying to downsize and reshape the federal workforce.

Reuters: The White House is preparing an order to cut thousands of federal health workers. – Officials have been told to prepare lists of probationary workers who have essential roles and must be retained and those who don’t. – The White House denied on Thursday that it is drafting an executive order to cut workers across federal health agencies.

Daily Wire: Karoline Leavitt Revealed The Trump Administration’s Massive Tax Cut ‘Priorities’ – Priorities include no tax on tips, no tax on seniors’ Social Security, no tax on overtime pay, a renewal of Trump’s 2017 middle-class tax cuts, an adjustment of the SALT cap, elimination of tax breaks for billionaire sports team owners, closure of the carried interest loophole, and tax cuts for products made in America.

Issues & Insights: Trump’s ‘Revolution Of Common Sense’ Is Bringing Out The Worst In Democrats—Trump meant it when he said in his inaugural address that “we will begin the complete restoration of America and the revolution of common sense.” – The first weeks of the Trump administration have been a whirlwind of common-sense orders: Sending troops to secure the southern border, Requiring federal workers to return to their offices full time, and several more as shown here…

Daily Wire: Americans Support The DOGE Mission And Want Congress To Pass A Border Bill – The “DOGE’s agenda is wildly popular across the political spectrum, and so is the rest of President Trump’s agenda.” – McLaughlin and Associates conducted the poll on January 28th, which has a margin of error of 3.1%.

Fox News: The Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit against the state of Illinois and the city of Chicago for allegedly interfering with federal immigration enforcement. — This is the latest escalation in the battle between the Trump administration and Democrat-led cities and states over the administration’s mass deportation operation.

Daily Caller: Check Out The Corporate Media Outlets Raking In Taxpayer Cash – Politico, $35,018,269. – Dow Jones & Co Inc., $4+ million. – The AP and its associated Press Association, $50+ million. – The NYT, $3,107,520…

Epoch Times: President Trump Announced A DOJ Task Force to ‘Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias’ – The mission of the task force is to immediately halt all forms of anti-Christian targeting and discrimination within the federal government, including at the DOJ, the IRS, the FBI, and other agencies.” – He also announced the formation of a new White House Faith Office, led by Pastor Paula White, and a Presidential Commission on Religious Liberty.

Western Journal: Pam Bondi’s First Day Is Over, Showing Liberals Are in for a Total Nightmare – The list of mandates Bondi ordered should send chills down the spines of the Democrats who engaged in the shameless political persecution: Special Counsel Jack Smith – Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg – Prosecutors of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol Hill protesters – FBI personnel who targeted Catholics as “potential terrorists” – New York Attorney General Letitia James…

Newsmax: More than 40,000 Government Workers Are Taking The Buyout Offer As Thursday’s Deadline Approaches. The buyout encompasses not only employees at the Department of Labor, which has traditionally drawn the ire of Trump’s Republicans, but also intelligence agencies like the CIA.

Epoch Times: The Federal Government Is Restricting DOGE’s Access to Treasury Department Systems – Lawmakers from the Democrat Party called for the access to be revoked. Following this, a coalition of unions sued to block the access on Wednesday. – Elon Musk previously described it as “a wood chipper for bureaucracy.”…

The Free Press: Betsy DeVos, “Shut down the Department of Education.” – “As the 11th U.S. secretary of education, I know it’s beyond repair.” – Since its creation in 1979, the Department of Education has sent more than $1 trillion to schools to close the gaps between the highest and lowest performers. Today, those gaps are as wide as ever and, by many measures, even wider.

Newsmax: Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced Wednesday that the DOGE personnel would assist in upgrading the FAA’s Air Traffic Control Systems. – Changes could include upgrading from radar maps to 3-D maps and some level of automation. It is not immediately known what changes will ultimately be implemented.

American Thinker: USAID Helped Fund The ‘Soros Prosecutors’ – The people who have allowed crime to destroy America’s cities and who went after Trump got a boost from tax dollars funneled through USAID. – The story begins with the Tides Foundation and the Tides Center, a grant-giving organization. – By donating to Tides, the donors aren’t seen as having a direct connection with radical groups…

FAR: USAID Is Used To Fund Left-Wing Efforts – Trump’s team is exposing the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) for the left-wing propaganda and regime change operation that it has become and to shut it down. – @DataRepublican created a searchable database of federal government grants that’s helped uncover even more outrageous projects funded by USAID. – Check it out as I did, and you’ll be astonished…

Slay News: Liz Cheney Lashes Out at Elon Musk Amid Backlash as Her Ties to USAID Emerge—Cheney spent time at USAID working in embassies related to efforts in Poland, Hungary, Russia, and Ukraine.

Washington Examiner: USAID feeds its alumni to left-wing activist organizations – From interns to chief administrators, former USAID employees currently serve in various positions at nonprofit organizations with strong links to the Democratic Party and the broader liberal movement…

American Thinker: Tulsi Gabbard, the Smear Machine, and the Battle for America’s Intelligence Integrity – Tulsi Gabbard dared to question the abuse of the intelligence community, and that’s precisely why the establishment so fears her. – This tried-and-true tactic of the political class and their media acolytes is as dirty as it is effective. – The accusation doesn’t need to be true—it just needs to be repeated and spread by friendly media…

American Thinker: Restoring the FBI’s Mission—The FBI was once the envy of law enforcement agencies worldwide, but now, it’s a cautionary tale. – Instead of focusing on terrorism, violent crime, and border security, leadership diverted resources toward politically charged investigations. – If America is to believe in federal law enforcement again, reform isn’t enough; it will take a reckoning, and Kash Patel is the man to do it.

Victor Davis Hanson: What Are Trump’s Tariffs Actually About? – Trump’s tariffs aim to curb unfair trade, illegal immigration, and fentanyl smuggling while forcing allies and rivals to stop exploiting U.S. generosity. – China is a special case because its entire 20th-century ascendance was based on stealing U.S. technology, dumping its products on the U.S. market below the cost of production to capture market share, and forcing American corporations to relocate, offshore, and outsource…

The Federalist: Now that the full ’60 Minutes’ interview with Kamala Harris is available to the public, it’s even clearer that the media were “all-in” on assisting her failed campaign. – One highly suspect omission from the final cut was an extended portion in which Harris wasn’t asked some convoluted question but simply asked why she wanted to be president.

Cal Matters: California’s surge in EV sales has stalled, so what happens to its landmark mandate? – About 25.3% of all new cars registered in California in 2024 had zero emissions, just slightly more than 25% in 2023. – Under California’s mandate, approved in 2022, 35% of new 2026 car models sold by automakers must have zero emissions. This leaves considerable ground to make up, considering some 2026 models begin rolling out later this year…

February 5, 2025

Revolver Feel-Good Story: A 10-year-old shielded his little sister from flying PA crash debris. – After waking from brain surgery, he asked, ‘Did I save her?’ – What an incredible kid. – And in true Philly spirit, he’s also pretty pumped that the Eagles are heading to the Super Bowl.

Redstate: The U.S. Wins A Major Concession Regarding The Panama Canal, With Trump Picking Up Another Foreign Policy Win—Secretary of State Marco Rubio successfully negotiated a new deal with the nation of Panama that would grant U.S. vessels the right to pass through the waterway without being charged fees. – The move, the State said, will save the U.S. government millions of dollars annually.

Washington Free Beacon: ICE Raided The Infamous Colorado Apartments Overrun by Venezuelan Gang Accused of Torturing Residents – “100+ members of the violent Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua were targeted for arrest and detention in Aurora, Colo., today by ICE and its partners, listing several federal agencies that assisted with the raids…

The Daily Signal: After an escalation in political violence over the past several years, including protesters at the homes of Supreme Court justices, several United States senators introduced legislation on Wednesday to increase the penalties for those that threaten federal judges, including Supreme Court justices. – The bill would increase the maximum penalty for violating 18 U.S.C. § 1507 from one year to five years. – The bill would increase the maximum penalty for violating 18 U.S.C. § 1507 from one year to five years.

Breitbart: The Trump Effect Leads To A Manufacturing Bounce Back. – According to S&P Global, the purchasing managers index for U.S. manufacturers recorded a surge in confidence about the future and a return to growth for new orders and output. – This reflected improved customer confidence in the economy, fueling rising demand.

Vigilant Fox: USAID and The CIA Secretly Worked to Impeach Trump from Office – Journalist Michael Shellenberger blew the lid off the scandal on Jesse Watters Primetime, exposing how the deep state worked behind the scenes to take down Trump. – Back in 2019, Democrats rushed to impeach Trump over a whistleblower complaint claiming he pressured Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden…

Celia Farber: Did You Ever Wonder Who Was Behind The Hollywood/Zelensky PR Ops? – USAID Paid At Least $4 Million To Ben Stiller and $ 5 Million To Sean Penn Just To MEET Zelensky – This Is Important Because The Truman Show/War/Hollywood Propaganda Machine Is Being Exposed Like Never Before

Western Journal: The Latest NTSB Update Confirms The Black Hawk Helicopter Made A Crucial Error Before The Plane Crash — The agency found that the Black Hawk was positioned at 300 feet on the air traffic control display, 100 feet higher than the ceiling of 200 feet for helicopters in the National Capital Region.

Geller Report: The “Dastardly” Democrat Party of Treason Has Filed Articles of Impeachment Against President Trump – It took longer than expected, 16 days. – Let the clown show begin. – We are now watching the death throes of the Democrat party. – Democrat Rep. Al Green just announced he is filing to IMPEACH Trump for “dastardly deeds” (whatever the hell that means)…

Fox News: Pam Bondi’s DOJ Day 1 Directives: Fight weaponization of justice, eliminate cartels, and lift the death penalty ban. – Bondi is establishing a “Weaponization Working Group” to review the activities of all law enforcement agencies over the past four years to identify instances of “politicized justice.” – Joint Task Force Vulcan, created to fight human trafficking, will be “further elevated.” – The DOJ is pausing all federal funding for sanctuary cities, among other actions.

Just The News: Mexico has deployed 10,000 troops to its northern border with the U.S., making good on President Claudia Sheinbaum’s vow to President Trump to bolster border security in exchange for Trump pausing a 25% tariff on Mexican goods.

Zero Hedge: First There Was The Spy Plane, Now A US Navy Nuclear-Powered Aircraft Carrier Has Been Spotted Off Mexico’s Coast. – The USS Nimitz was spotted off Mexico’s northern coast on Wednesday afternoon. – It is transiting international waters off the coast near the northern section of Baja California and underway at 8.8 knots.

The Center Square: Trump Has Signed An Order Barring Men From Women’s Sports. – His Executive Order will stop “dangerous and unfair” situations, allowing males to compete against females in school and amateur athletics. – Schools that fail to comply will face U.S. Department of Education investigations and could lose federal funding.

Slay News: The Federal Government Has Been Funneling Millions in Tax Dollars to Leftist News Outlets Politico and The New York Times. The funding was exposed after Politico staffers complained their paychecks hadn’t been received. The “payroll issue” emerged shortly after DOGE froze USAID funding, leading many to question whether tax dollars were propping Politico up from USAID. – Things went from there.

The Federalist: Norm Eisen, the founder of multiple anti-Trump groups that participated in at least four lawfare attempts to throw Trump off the ballot or in jail during his 2024 presidential candidacy, is now running an op against Trump’s nominee for FBI director, Kash Patel. – Eisen, who was counsel for Democrats’ first attempt to impeach Trump, is the co-founder of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington…

Breitbart: Senate Majority Leader John Thune – “Trump Has ‘Decisive Mandate,’ And The Senate Is ‘Moving as Quickly as We Can’ to Confirm Entire Cabinet.” – “At the moment, at least, despite the Democrat delays and stalling, the Senate is currently confirming nominees at a double pace between 2017 and 2021.”…

Tablet Magazine: The End of ‘Palestine’ – Trump just reminded the world that ideas have sell-by dates – Yesterday, President Donald Trump single-handedly collapsed the most destructive idea of the last hundred years, Palestine. – Palestine was a misshapen idea from the very beginning, engendered by an act of pure negation. – What if they won’t go, or if the Egyptians and Jordanians won’t take them? – They’ll take them, said Trump…

American Thinker: Donald Trump’s Gaza Proposals Is The Equivalent Of A Negotiating Nuclear Bomb – A lot of people, ranging from sensible American patriots to hard-left Hamas supporters, are in a tizzy because Trump said the U.S. would take over Gaza and remove the entire Gazan population. – I’m not worried because I think this was the brilliant opening for negotiations with the Arab nations surrounding Israel and with the Gazans themselves.

American Spectator: Trump’s Gaza Proposal Is A Profile in Courage – Palestinian children surely deserve better than being raised in Hamas’ incubator of hatred. – It is evident that he means once the Palestinians are gone, they’re never coming back. – His proposal is meant to resolve the nearly eight-decade-long conflict that has repeatedly roiled the Middle East, and it is time to end it once and for all…

Fox News: President Trump urged Iran to begin negotiating with the U.S. for a “nuclear peace agreement,” downplaying the possibility of a devastating military strike on the Islamic nation. “I want Iran to be a great and successful Country, but one that cannot have a Nuclear Weapon. Reports that the United States, working in conjunction with Israel, is going to blow Iran into smithereens ARE GREATLY EXAGGERATED”…

American Thinker: A former Newsguard operative opened the door to the leftists’ doxxing of Elon Musk’s young DOGE software engineers – What is it about NewsGuard’s name popping up every time the Deep State needs a dirty favor? – If you recall, NewsGuard is the censorship outfit that seeks to deplatform news and commentary outlets to advertisers by creating blacklists for clients as to which sites are supposedly reliable and which sites are not, according to their Leftist values…

Wall Street Journal: DOGE Aides Are Searching The Medicare and Medicaid Agency Payment Systems for Fraud — DOGE representatives are also examining the agency’s organizational design and staffing…

American Thinker: The FBI Still Refuses To Provide Information On The Murder Of Seth Rich, The Alleged Source of DNC Emails Released By WikiLeaks. – The FBI wants a court to allow another 66 years before being forced to reveal what they know about the mysterious murder. – This is just another example of a massive DNC-weaponized agency protecting itself and the Democrat party...

AMUSE on X: Trump Fired Chopra, And Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent Has Frozen The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Overreach Machine. – From the moment he took the helm, Chopra ruled the agency as an unaccountable overlord, brandishing the regulatory hammer to bludgeon financial institutions into compliance with a progressive economic agenda…

Reuters: Argentina has decided to withdraw from the World Health Organization. – Presidential spokesperson Manuel Adorni said Milei ordered Argentina’s withdrawal because of “deep differences” regarding the WHO’s management of health issues, notably the COVID-19 pandemic. Adorni cited Argentina’s months-long lockdown under the previous leftist government. Trump withdrew the US from the WHO on his first day in office, January 20th.

Axios: The USPS said it would resume accepting inbound mail and packages from China and Hong Kong Posts just hours after suspending service from those regions. The agency didn’t give a reason for the suspension.

American Thinker: Our Healthcare System Is Severely Broken. – Talk to anyone who grew up in the 1940s through the 1970s and see how different things were back then. – The same group of politicians that have done nothing about the exploding obesity rate, our declining health, and chronic childhood diseases are defending Big Pharma while screaming at the guy who’s trying to reverse those trends.

Hot Air: The FCC Has Opened A Probe Into A Soros-Funded Radio Station That Exposed Undercover ICE Operations – The FCC has begun an investigation into the license of KCBS in San Francisco after one of its hosts began broadcasting the locations and descriptions of undercover ICE agents looking for violent illegal aliens…

California Globe: President Trump announced on Tuesday that he would launch an investigation into the high cost of California High-Speed Rail. – Originally estimated to cost $33 billion in 2008, the cost ballooned to $128 billion and $135 billion more, with an estimated partial completion sometime in the late 2030s. – Trump addressed the absurdity of the plan’s high cost, saying it was mind-boggling and has been nothing more than a boondoggle.

Powerline: From Mainline to Sideline—Following Bishop Budde’s egregious hectoring of President Trump at the National Cathedral right after the inauguration, it has emerged that she headed an organization that received over $50 million in federal funds in 2023 to help “resettle” migrants.

February 4, 2025

Fox News: Trump says the US will ‘take over’ the Gaza Strip, then rebuild it to stabilize the Middle East – He envisions a ‘long-term ownership position’ of Gaza Strip – “We’ll own it and be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous, yet to be discovered bombs and other weapons on the site.”…

Western Journal: Rubio’s Bombshell, El Salvador Willing to Jail Our Worst Criminals in Their 40,000 Super Prison – Our new Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, announced that, after a meeting with El Salvador President Bukele, a noted law-and-order stickler, he agreed to “house violent U.S. criminals and receive deportees of any nationality.”…

Sharyl Attkisson: According to a recent Rasmussen poll, 77% of voters say photo voter ID should be required for election integrity. – Most voters also reject claims that voter ID laws are discriminatory, with only 30% saying such laws discriminate against some voters, while 60% do not.

Fox News: The Senate confirmed Pam Bondi, President Donald Trump’s nominee for attorney general, voting 54-46 to install the longtime prosecutor and former Florida attorney general to head the U.S. Department of Justice. – Senator John Fetterman bucked his party to make the vote bipartisan. – He was the only Democrat to join Republicans in support of the nominee.

Washington Examiner: State attorneys general look to prosecute Fauci despite Biden’s Federal pardon – “As state attorneys general, we possess the authority to address violations of state law or breaches of public trust.” – “We are fully committed to investigating any malfeasance that may have occurred to the fullest extent of our authority…

Axios: Director of National Intelligence nominee Tulsi Gabbard has wind in her sails ahead of Tuesday’s Senate Intel Committee vote. – Senators Susan Collins and Todd Young announced their support for Gabbard ahead of the vote. – They were considered the crucial swing votes at the committee level.

One America News: The Senate has confirmed Doug Collins to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs. – He was confirmed following a 77-to-23 vote, one of the widest bipartisan votes of any Trump Cabinet nominee. – Collins formerly served in Congress from 2013 to 2021.

Just The News: On Tuesday, the CIA sent a buyout option to its entire workforce, mimicking the one President Trump’s administration sent to federal employees last week. – Both offers give employees eight months of pay and benefits in exchange for their resignations.

Breitbart: Senator Joni Ernst Exposed USAID’s ‘Anti-American Agenda’ In Detailed Letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio – She concluded in her letter to Rubio, “As I’ve said before, sunshine is the very best disinfectant, now is the time to get to the bottom of USAID’s shady practices once and for all.

The Center Square: Of the billions in questioned USAID spending, millions went to fund terrorism. – A multi-year investigation brought by the DOJ and U.S. Attorney’s Office for DC reveals the scope of how funds were used in one recent terrorism-related case. – “The case represents one of the most significant diversions of USAID-funded humanitarian aid that USAID-OIG has investigated,” USAID’s Office of Inspector General said.

John Daniel Davidson: Defunding USAID Isn’t About Reducing The Deficit; It’s About Shutting Down Left-Wing Propaganda – USAID isn’t just a ridiculous scam on U.S. taxpayers; it funds leftist causes that erode Western civilization and destroy traditional values. – The common theme in many of these grants is that they push LGBTQ, green, and woke ideologies under the pretext of fighting poverty and promoting democracy abroad…

American Thinker: Trump’s Decision To End USAID Is Constitutional And Legally Solid. – Congress never made USAID an official agency, so irate Democrats must now live with the consequences. – The Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 merely granted the President broad discretion to structure foreign aid programs as he saw fit.

AMUSE on X: From Critics to Cheerleaders, Media’s Sudden Love Affair with The US Agency for International Development (USAID) – President Trump’s return threatens the administrative state. – Nowhere is their panic more evident than in the mainstream media’s frantic efforts to rehabilitate USAID. – This bloated and unaccountable agency has long been the CIA’s wallet and Washington’s tool for political meddling abroad.

Western Journal: President Trump Rocks Bill Gates As The USAID Shakeup Squeezes Out The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation – Clearly, Bill Gates needs access to avenues to distribute money and global reach to export his grand schemes, two things, just coincidentally, that USAID, the government agency currently in the process of being shuttered by the Trump administration, provides his charity.

Vigilant News: Even Trump-Hater Bill Kristol’s Group Was Receiving Millions From Inside the USAID Matrix. – As suspected, Bill Kristol has been paid handsomely for sh*tting on President Trump for over eight years now. – Kristol’s group, the Defending Democracy Together Institute, received big money indirectly from USAID through Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors…

Epoch Times: Democrats lay out a roadmap to take down Elon Musk – Senate and House Minority Leaders Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries of New York unveiled legislation they are calling “Stop the Steal” that aims to prevent supposed “unlawful meddling in the Treasury Department’s payment systems.”…

Dayton Daily News: China countered President Trump’s tariffs on Chinese products with tariffs on select U.S. imports and announced an antitrust investigation into Google and other trade measures. – Beijing University of International Business and Economics professor John Gong, “The Chinese response was “measured,  I don’t think they want the trade war escalating. “

Center Square: Trump’s China crackdown may end tax loophole for retailers like Shein and Temu. – There are ongoing questions about these Chinese companies’ business practices, including whether they use slave labor and the exemption to avoid U.S. regulations. – During the Biden administration, their tax loophole drew bipartisan criticism. Trump’s executive orders have explicitly stated that its new tariffs apply even to them.

Zero Hedge: Ukraine Is Open To Trump’s Demand To Exchange Rare Earth Elements For Arms—Trump’s ‘Victory Plan’ for Ukraine involves the war-ravaged country agreeing to grant the US unprecedented access to its rare earth elements in a more ‘equitable’ quid pro quo. – The only problem for Kyiv and Washington is that the bulk of Ukraine’s main rare earth deposits are currently under Russian occupation in the territories annexed by Moscow.

Slay News: President Trump has temporarily cut off U.S. funding to South Africa while his administration investigates the nation’s new land expropriation law. – The law seeks to boot white farmers from their land in South Africa. – Land expropriation has led to murder, rape, and theft.

Breitbart: During a Monday appearance on FNC’s “Special Report,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio discussed the Trump administration’s move to wind down the US Agency for International Development (USAID) functions. – According to Rubio, Trump administration officials who attempted to reform the agency quickly discovered evidence of “rank insubordination.”

Western Journal: Karoline Leavitt Pulls Out ‘Insane’ List of USAID Expenditures as Reporter Frets About ‘Humanitarian Aid’ – Speaking to reporters outside the White House, Leavitt responded to a snarky question about Musk’s level of expertise in “humanitarian aid” first by defending Musk as a common-sense businessman and then by citing a list of totally “insane” overseas projects funded by USAID.

Breitbart: Secretary of State Marco Rubio received a warm welcome from President Nayib Bukele and his family at the presidential palace in San Salvador, El Salvador. – Bukele received Rubio in the company of the First Lady of El Salvador and their two daughters. The exchange occurred entirely in Spanish, an unprecedented moment for American diplomacy as Rubio is the nation’s first Hispanic-American secretary of state.

Daily Wire: Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced she was revoking a Biden administration policy that gave 348,202 Venezuelans living in the U.S. who were given work authorization and shielded from deportation in October 2023. – She said conditions had improved in Venezuela and that it was not in America’s interest to maintain the program.

Geller Report: Trump’s Probe Into USAID Spending Reveals Obscene And Outrageous Wrongdoing – USAID funneled $53 million to EcoHealth Alliance, which then used U.S. taxpayer funds to support gain-of-function research on coronaviruses at the Wuhan lab research that likely led to the creation of COVID-19. – And that’s not all…

Dan Bongino: George Soros’ Fingerprints Are All Over USAID – At long last, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), a political organization masquerading as a development program, may be deleted. – The Soros Foundations Management Training Program (“SFMTP) received and signed Cooperative Agreement HEUR 0045 A 00 4007 00 from “USAID” on November 19, 1993…

Resist The Mainstream: Platform Services Manager Brandon Wright faces imminent termination after being caught on undercover video vowing to obstruct incoming Secretary Kristi Noem’s border policies and launching personal attacks against her. – Wright spoke candidly to an O’Keefe Media Group undercover journalist in footage that has sparked internal investigations…

American Thinker: The Top Five Failed Democrat Initiatives That Cost Americans a Fortune – 1. The CHIPS Act was designed to provide the domestic semiconductor industry with $79 billion in subsidies and loans. – 2. The Broadband Connectivity Act, with its Affordable Connectivity Program, is a $42 billion initiative aimed at improving broadband internet access for households across the country. – 3. The $1.2 Trillion Inflation Reduction Act…

New York Post: At least 20K federal workers are taking Trump’s buyout offer, with more expected to accept. – They accepted the Trump administration’s offer of taking eight months’ pay and benefits in exchange for walking away from the government workforce. – Employees have until Thursday to decide whether to accept the buyout offer that is believed to apply to at least 2.3 million federal employees.

Trending Politics: The Senate voted 77-23 on Tuesday to confirm former Georgia congressman Doug Collins as Secretary of Veterans Affairs. – Collins, a Republican and retired Air Force chaplain, secured bipartisan support, with all 53 Senate Republicans and nearly half of the chamber’s Democrats supporting his confirmation.

Tampa Free Press: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Has Cleared The Committee Vote, Putting Him on Track to Become Health Secretary – The panel voted 14-13 along party lines, with Senator Cassidy of Louisiana voting Yes despite expressing concerns last week about Kennedy’s history of anti-vaccine advocacy. – Next, the full Senate will vote on whether to confirm Kennedy

Trending Politics: Senator Susan Collins, a pivotal Republican swing vote, announced Monday that she will support Tulsi Gabbard’s nomination as Director of National Intelligence, bolstering her path to confirmation. – Collins’s decision places additional pressure on the Senate Intelligence Committee, which is scheduled to meet Tuesday to consider advancing Gabbard’s nomination to the full Senate.

VOZ: White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt Confirmed The Migrant Flights to Guantanamo Have Begun. – In addition, Leavitt recalled that the federal government is in negotiations with the countries of origin of most of the immigrants with the objective that they accept the return of their nationals. – Some countries, such as El Salvador, have offered to lend their infrastructure to meet the administration’s objectives…

American Thinker: Trump Takes On The Octopus — Most people don’t understand the depth and breadth of the grift, graft, and corruption in the federal government that was bequeathed to Trump. – It is not just low-information voters who are uninformed. – The staggering level of corruption to be exposed by the Trump administration and its DOGE will be both mind-blowing and sickening.

American Thinker: DOGE Walks Among Us – The federal leviathan is undergoing a full MRI scan thanks to Donald Trump and Elon Musk. – DOGE will play a key role in dismantling the Deep State. – Once DOGE’s results are publicized, the verdict will come into focus. – Entire agencies will no longer exist, and those surviving will be substantially curtailed.

Gateway Pundit: Under Musk’s leadership, young prodigies are leading a transformative project to slash federal spending. – Just two weeks into its formation, the DOGE operating team has already made significant inroads into reforming how the government operates under Musk’s leadership. – Here is updated data on DEI-related contract cancellations, in full detail, totaling over 1 billion.

Townhall: A Reporter Highlights the One Paragraph That Shreds the Entire NYT Hit Piece on Elon Musk – Forty-three paragraphs into the NYT’s latest hit piece on Elon Musk, the by-lined reporters reveal that the federal government lost $236 billion to apparent fraud (“improper payments”) in 2023 alone…

Revolver: It Turns Out The ‘Deep State’ Used USAID To OUST Bolsonaro From Brazil – Plenty of politicians love USAID, especially crooked ones like Ilhan Omar, whose third-world hellhole of a homeland raked in $2.3 billion of our tax dollars. – USAID is operating with basically zero accountability and a mind-blowing $50 billion budget, which is insane, as Secretary of State Marco Rubio recently pointed out…

American Thinker: On Trump’s Tariffs, The Pain Is Already Subsiding – Preliminary evidence is that tariff pain is dulled and, at least so far, worth the price. – The “Art of the Deal” is beautifully basic and magnificently congruent with human nature; perhaps the methodology works well. – President Trump is resolute but also quite reasonable and flexible…

Gateway Pundit: The US Launched Reconnaissance Aerial Monitoring Aircraft Over The Mexican Border in Run-up to A Potential Cartel Strike – On his second day in office, President Trump officially designated drug cartels on the southern border as terrorist organizations. – This was followed last week with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announcing “all options are on the table” regarding the Mexican cartels.

American Thinker: Trump’s attack on the Deep State is spectacular and almost certainly legal – Sit back and enjoy the screams and lamentations of the leftists as their taxpayer-funded boondoggle finally comes to an end. – In just a few days, “DOGE” has effectively put an end to USAID, gelded the GSA tech division, the Office OPM, and the Treasury, along with firing corrupt people in the FBI, and this is just a short list…

Townhall: Here’s How Many FBI Employees Were Involved In Taking Down Trump—The FBI has submitted over 5,000 agents and staffers who worked on his cases. – The FBI has 38,000 total employees, including some 13,000 agents.

The Daily Fetched: FBI agents involved in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case were escorted from their posts over the weekend after refusing to release the names of agents connected to the January 6 investigations and the probe into President Donald Trump. – Entire squads of FBI agents were removed from the New York, Miami, and Washington, D.C., field offices after Trump appointed Driscoll to lead the agency.

Vigilant News: The Jaw-Dropping Disparities in The Biden and Trump Pardons – The cases against the Jan. 6 defendants overwhelmingly involved legal system abuses. A politicized DOJ brought charges before juries in the District of Columbia that were heavily biased against Republicans and a circuit court that Democrats heavily control. – The jury pool was from a district where Biden had received over 92% of the vote in 2020.

Daily Wire: Trump Will Be the First Sitting President to Attend the Super Bowl. –  Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem assured the public that “there are no credible threats” that DHS has on the “radar” for the big game. – While president-elect, Trump attended multiple college football games, an NFL game, and the Army-Navy game.

Daily Wire: The NFL has reportedly sent the word to remove the message “End Racism” from the end zones for Super Bowl LIX in New Orleans on Sunday. – It will be the first time since February 2021 that the message “End Racism” has not appeared in a Super Bowl end zone…

Daily Wire: The Army Is Set To Expand Basic Training Amid Flood Of New Recruits – Recruitment has surged since President Trump’s election in November. – Former Army Secretary Christine Wormuth said, “What’s remarkable is the first quarter contracts that we have signed are the highest rate in the last 10 years.” – “We are going like gangbusters, which is terrific.”

Western Journal: New York Democrat AG Letitia James sent a letter to hospitals in the state on Monday, threatening them with legal action if they comply with President Trump’s executive order against transgender procedures on children. – Earlier, Trump directed all federal agencies in his order to make sure that hospitals receiving federal grant funds “end the chemical and surgical mutilation of children.”

Newsmax: The Trump Administration Has Opened An Antisemitism Probe Into Four Medical Schools—The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that the investigations target the medical schools at Columbia, Brown, Johns Hopkins, and Harvard.

American Thinker: Hillary Clinton’s Hypersonic Hypocrisy – The next time Hillary Clinton or her media allies wag a finger about “Russian interference,” remember this: Hillary Clinton’s State Department helped arm Russia with hypersonic missile technology. – Yes, the same Hillary Clinton who branded Tulsi Gabbard a “Russian asset.”…

American Thinker: The Threat of Carbon Capture — Climate change isn’t ending the world, but policies intended to combat it rob people of choice, often their property, and increase their living costs. – CCS is one such policy.

American Thinker: The Kids Are Not Alright – Our educational system is failing students big time, and the students are failing themselves. – As just one example, according to The Nation’s Report Card website, just 30% of American public-school 4th graders are proficient in reading according to government standards as of 2024, which is two points lower than in 2022…

February 3, 2025

Fox News: Trump agrees to pause tariffs on Canada for a month – Canada will implement a $1.3 billion border plan and appoint a fentanyl czar. – Canada will also reinforce its border with new helicopters, technology, and personnel and enhance coordination with American authorities…

Wall Street Journal: Trump Advisers Are Weighing A Plan To Dismantle the Department of Education By Shutting Down Key Functions—The order would be a step toward fulfilling a Trump campaign promise to eliminate the department, limit federal involvement in education, and give more authority to the states.

Washington Examiner: Authorities are investigating threats against Musk and DOGE employees – An initial review of the evidence indicates that certain individuals and/or groups have committed acts that appear to violate the law. Authorities have contacted the FBI and other law enforcement partners, and prosecutors are preparing to proceed.

American Spectator: Three Cheers for Kash Patel. – It is time to retire the FBI’s left-wing politics. – For all of the back-and-forth in the last seven years, the iconic Federal Bureau of Investigation members have not been playing by the rules but rather pursuing straight-up law violations.

American Thinker: Big-Tech God Marc Andreessen Boards The MAGA Train – Take a look at these tidbits: Half of the Blacks admitted into a place like Harvard were not American-born Blacks; they were foreign-born Blacks, specifically Northern African, and generally Nigerian or West Indian…

One America News: Chris Wright Has Been Confirmed as The New Secretary of Energy – Wright will run a department that oversees energy research, loans, and the nation’s nuclear weapons arsenal.

American Spectator: The Democrats Are Hogging the Wilderness. – The Democrat Party’s selection of Ken Martin and David Hogg as their new leaders proves that they haven’t learned anything and still need to spend time in wilderness timeout before trying to be relevant again. – Antigun David Hogg’s sole source of political relevance is that he was not killed in the Parkland, Florida shooting…

American Spectator: Trump Was Right About California’s Wildfires – Throughout his first term, Trump repeatedly begged California’s Governor Gavin Newsom and other boneheaded Democrats to reduce vegetation and increase water storage and infrastructure to prevent and, if necessary, defeat the flames.

The Center Square: California’s largest property insurer, State Farm, demands a 22% rate hike due to the wildfires. – Proposition 103 in 1988 empowered state regulators to approve rate hikes, which has led to rates not keeping up with rising claims and risks. – State Farm says it has lost $5 billion over the last nine years in California and had no option but to stop underwriting new policies in 2023.

Reuters: Trump orders the creation of a US sovereign wealth fund, saying it could be used to buy TikTok. – If created, the sovereign wealth fund could place the U.S. alongside numerous other countries, particularly in the Middle East and Asia, that have launched similar funds to make direct investments with government dollars.

Conservative Brief: Russian President Vladimir Putin Says Trump Will ‘Restore Order’ Throughout The European Continent Amid Talk of Ending The Ukraine War – “Trump, with his character and stubbornness, will restore order quickly. – And all of them, you will see, it will happen swiftly. – Soon, they will all sit at the feet of their master and gently wag their tails.”…

American Wire: Now He Tells Us—Zelenskyy says Ukraine never received the over $100B supposedly sent by the Biden regime. – During a weekend interview, the leader of the notoriously corrupt Eastern European country revealed that the money never made it to the battlefield. So where did the money go?

Daily Wire: Trump Will View Footage Of The October 7 Attack Ahead Of Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Visit – The footage includes videos of beheadings, houses, people set on fire, and unarmed people shot at point-blank range.

Daily Wire: Trump To Withdraw The United States From UN Human Rights Council – The factsheet announcing the withdrawal accused the UNHRC of not fulfilling its purpose and being a “protective body for countries committing horrific human rights violations as well as demonstrating consistent bias against Israel. – The president also withdrew from the council during his first term in 2018.

Daily Wire: Hospitals Across U.S. Stop Transitioning Children After Trump Signs Order Protecting Kids – “It’s already having its intended effect, preventing children from being maimed and sterilized by adults perpetuating a radical, false claim that they can somehow change a child’s sex,” the White House said in a Monday release. – ‘President Trump will always protect American children…

Western Journal: Shocking Testimony At The Kash Patel Hearing – Senator Ashley Moody Confirmed That The FBI and DOJ Obstructed The Investigation Into The Second Trump Assassination Attempt – She detailed the absurd levels of resistance to her investigation mounted by federal law enforcement as she questioned Kash Patel, Trump’s nominee to lead the FBI, during his confirmation hearing.

Conservative Brief: The Trump administration fired a group of prosecutors involved in the January 6 criminal cases on Friday and demanded the names of FBI agents who worked on those investigations, potentially paving the way for their likely future removal. – These actions reflect the White House’s efforts to assert control over federal law enforcement and purge agencies of career employees identified as not executing their duties appropriately…

Reuters: Rubio tells Panama to end China’s influence over the canal or face US action. – Rubio says Trump sees the status quo at the Panama Canal as unacceptable, and sovereignty over the canal is not up for discussion. – The U.S. believes China’s influence violates the neutrality treaty…

JD Rucker: That Was Fast – China Is Reportedly Preparing Trade Talks With Trump After The Weekend Tariff Shock – China aims to restore a trade agreement with the US and reaffirm its pledge not to devalue the yuan for a competitive advantage in global trade. – The so-called Phase One deal required China to increase American goods and services purchases by $200 billion over two years…

The Federalist: Trump Pauses Tariffs on Mexico After It Agrees To Send Thousands Of Troops To The Border — Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Monday that she is moving 10,000 members of the country’s National Guard to the U.S./Mexico border to stop drug trafficking. – Sheinbaum’s announcement came after speaking earlier in the day with President Donald Trump following his decision to hit the country with 25% tariffs for not doing more to stop the flow of fentanyl into the U.S…

Daily Wire: The EPA Put 1,100+ Employees On Notice And Warned They Could Be Fired ‘Immediately’ – An email was sent just days into Lee Zeldin’s tenure as head of the Environmental Protection Agency. – “As a probationary/trial period employee, the agency has the right to terminate you immediately,” the email says…

Zero Hedge: Trump Grand Strategy, What All This Has In Common – There’s a common thread between President Trump’s tariffs on Mexico, Canada, and China (and perhaps soon on the EU), his deportations of illegal aliens, his threat to take back the Panama Canal, and his aggressive overtures to buy Greenland. – It’s not normal for the world to have one unipolar power. – We’re returning to a multipolar world with multiple great powers in different parts of the planet…

I&I/TIPP Poll: Trump’s Executive Orders Have Solid Voter Backing – Deploying the U.S. military to secure the southern border received 57% “support. – Banning federal funding for gender identity programs and recognizing only biological sex received 53% support. – Requiring federal workers to return to the office full-time received 56% support. – Looking at responses by party affiliation shows how far apart the major parties are at the onset of the new Trump administration…

James O’Keefe: An AGS-14 DHS Official Admitted That Department Employees Will Defy Trump Appointed DHS Secretary Kristi Noem’s “Marching Orders.”  – He Revealed Their Tactics Of ‘Interpreting Priorities We Don’t Agree With.’ – “By the time the actual marching orders get to me and below, we can filter it in a way that steadies the ship.”…

Center For Immigration Studies: Kristi Noem Stops Taxpayer Funding Of Illegal Immigration – Security Secretary Kristi Noem, “We have stopped all grant funding that’s being abused by NGOs to facilitate illegal immigration into this country.” – “I’ve taken action to stop those funds, to re-evaluate them, and to make sure that we’re using taxpayer dollars to strengthen this country and to keep people safe.”

Real Clear Politics: A 13-year veteran of the Secret Service agent is, for the first time, publicly speaking out against the agency’s diversity, equity, and inclusion policies, which he says contributed to the first assassination attempt against President Trump last summer. – Rashid Ellis, a graduate of The Citadel, a prestigious military college in South Carolina, believes agendas have taken priority at the Secret Service for a long time, which got Trump shot…

Resist The Mainstream: The administration has been cracking down on DEI initiatives, which have faced widespread criticism for promoting divisive identity politics over merit and efficiency in government operations. – According to reports, Federal employees at the Department of Education have been placed on administrative leave after previously participating in a diversity training program.

The Federalist: Trump’s Executive Orders Are Only the First Step In Destroying DEI. – Too many public universities are choosing indoctrination over education. – As a former professor, I have seen firsthand that academia remains the nerve center for the poisonous ideology behind DEI.-  Classroom-based DEI indoctrination in universities will not end without additional outside pressure.

Slay News: Trump Orders All Federal Agencies To Reject Biden’s Last Minute Collective Bargaining Agreements – Many of the CBAs struck with the Biden administration included terms for remote working, something Trump has sought to end. – Biden’s Social SS Commissioner, in December 2024, agreed with the American Federation of Government Employees, guaranteeing that the agency’s 42,000 employees would not have to work in the office during the Trump administration…

Zero Hedge: The USAID Website Goes Dark As Trump Reportedly Plans To Shift Agency Under State Department—Trump has made it very clear to Democrats and their Deep State counterparts that flooding taxpayer dollars into shady NGOs would end under his ‘America First’ agenda. – A post from Elon Musk’s DOGE account on X clarified that USAID went on a woke spending spree in third-world countries.

Daily Wire: Elon Musk said early Monday morning that he had received President Trump’s approval to eliminate the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). – Musk commented during a discussion with Senator Joni Ernst about the work Trump has called on the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to accomplish.

Discern Report: The Purge Begins With Mass Carnage as Trump and Musk Ruthlessly Gut Corrupt Government Agencies. – The largest and most bloated bureaucracy in the history of the world has been thrown into a state of complete and utter chaos. – That being said, let’s look at some of the highlights at the U.S. Treasury, Office of Personnel Management, USAID, the EPA, and the FBI…

Washington Free Beacon: The Biden Administration Quietly Funneled $3 Million to Palestinian Government ‘Security Forces’ for Weapons Training After Its Members Carried Out Attacks on Israelis – The Trump administration ‘must conduct rigorous oversight of this type of funding, which the Biden administration quietly noticed at the 11th hour,’ according to Representative McCaul.

The Daily Fetched: A Soros-Owned Radio Station Put ICE Agents in Danger by Exposing Their Identities And Locations – KCBS 740 AM radio host Bret Burkhart provided descriptions of the unmarked vehicles used by ICE agents and even shared specific locations where they were operating…

Victor Davis Hanson: Ten Problems with DEI That Frighten the Public—Recent disasters have scrutinized DEI policies, raising concerns about their impact on competence, meritocracy, and public safety. – The first issue is whether hiring, retention, and promotion in the airline industry or the military are fully meritocratic.

The Federalist: 5 Shocking Reasons Trump Should Exit The U.N. Now – The UN is the Largest Global Purveyor of Gender Ideology – UN Agencies Promote ‘Sexual Rights’ for Children – The UN has a History of Horrific Child Sex Abuse – UN Officials are Immune to Prosecution – The Current Secretary-General of the UN is the Former President of the Socialist International

American Thinker: Trump’s Tariff War – First off, Mexico’s President says Americans can solve the fentanyl problem by combating “the sale of narcotics on the streets of our main cities. – However, Democrat mayors and district attorneys run them, and they don’t care much about crime unless it can be pinned onto someone in the MAGA world. – Then there is the situation with Canada…

Breitbart: A recent Gallup poll shows that Americans are more bullish on the U.S. economy and the stock market while being more hopeful about crushing inflation and borrowing costs than in 10 years or more. – Some 53% of Americans predicted the U.S. economy would grow over the next six months. – Some 61% also see stocks rising, the most since Gallup began asking the question in 2001.

FAR: What We Know and What We Don’t About January 6 – Many ordinary Americans want the truth about the happenings on that eventful day. – With those Americans in mind, it is helpful to sift through what we have learned about January 6 over the past four years and note the things we still don’t know.

American Thinker: This Paper exposes the pseudoscience behind the methane war on farmers – Farmers are not the villains of the climate story; they are essential stewards of the land who provide food for billions. – First published in 2020 by the CO2 Coalition, Fairfax, Virginia, the updated paper meticulously dismantles the prevailing narrative that methane emissions from agriculture threaten the planet…

Zero Hedge: It’s A Big Club, And You Ain’t In It – Not that long ago, George Carlin and Paddy Chayefsky encapsulated the dystopian nature of our society by accurately portraying who truly runs the show. – You don’t have to be cynical to acknowledge ruling class elite members of “The Big Club” are pulling all the levers, reaping all the wealth, and wielding all the power in our corporate fascist world, run by authoritarians. – There are reasons and strategies behind everything…

Fox News: The Senate Republican campaign committee’s January haul was record-breaking as it aimed to expand its majority. – Republicans flipped four Democrat-held Senate seats in the 2024 elections and now hold a 53-47 majority in the chamber. – The NRSC announced on Monday that it raked in a record $8.5 million in January, its best-ever off-year January haul.

Geller Report: Illegals Shut Down the 101 Freeway in Downtown Los Angeles In A Massive Anti-American Protest Response to ICE Raids—The protest began on Olvera Street and grew to a few thousand people who marched to City Hall before walking onto the 101 Freeway.

California Globe: It’s Time Former ‘Acting’ Labor Secretary Julie Su Faces Heat For California’s Pandemic Fraud – Now would be a good time for President Trump’s new DOJ to investigate California’s $55 Billion unemployment payments that were lost during the COVID pandemic…

February 2, 2025

Breggin Alerts: Was President Donald Trump right to blame the FAA’s woke DEI hiring practices for the January 29th mid-air collision? – The agency is entrusted with protecting our lives in the skies and airports. – Let’s examine various facts showing the federal agency’s utter disregard for human life.

Daily Wire: Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino said on Sunday that his country would withdraw from communist China’s predatory Belt and Road Initiative after meeting with Secretary of State Marco Rubio. The victory on Sunday comes after Trump scored a major victory last week over Colombia’s president after he tried to stop deportation flights.

President Donald J. Trump: The “Tariff Lobby,” headed by the Globalist, and always wrong, Wall Street Journal, is working hard to justify Countries like Canada, Mexico, China, and too many others to name, continue the decades-long RIPOFF OF AMERICA, both concerning TRADE, CRIME, AND POISONOUS DRUGS that are allowed to flow into AMERICA so freely…

One American News: The White House Slams House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries For Calling On Americans To ‘Fight’ Trump’s Agenda ‘In The Streets’ – Jeffries’ “call for violence” came during a recent press conference in Brooklyn on Friday, where he called on Americans to fight back against Trump’s “extreme” agenda “in the streets,” seemingly implying a notion of violence.

Townhall: Elon’s DOGE Just Took Out Another Career DC Bureaucrat – A career ⁦USAID ⁩official tried to reverse a DOGE decision to place 60 senior agency officials on administrative leave earlier this week. DOGE immediately took punitive action for the attempt, and now that official is on admin leave, too.

American Spectator: Trump Fumigates the DOJ—The stench of corruption emanates from every crevice of this thoroughly politicized agency. – Representative Raskin hilariously referred to the terminated and reassigned individuals as “non-partisan professionals.” – He conveniently forgot that these “career prosecutors and federal agents” did their level best to sabotage President Trump’s first term by launching numerous illegal investigations of the President and several members of his administration.

Gateway Pundit: Female Helicopter Pilot Rebecca Lobach’s Entire Social Media Scrubbed Before The Army Released Her Name – So What Are They Hiding? – The US Army and Rebecca’s family scrubbed her social media accounts for three days. – They don’t want the public to know anything about this female pilot. – It is not just that Rebecca Lobach is gone from social media; her sisters and parents were scrubbed as well…

Zero Hedge: Trade Wars Begin – Trump Tariffs On Canada, Mexico, And China Triggered Immediate Retaliation – Just hours after Trump unveiled double-digit tariffs on the three largest US trading partners, Canada and Mexico announced plans for retaliatory tariffs on the US. – Canada will place a 25% counter-tariff on C$155 billion ($107 billion) worth of American-made products. – Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum said she also instructed the economy minister to kick off a response plan that includes retaliatory tariffs…

Geller Report: A Big Mistake – Trudeau Announces 25% Retaliatory Tariffs on American Goods – The United States is Canada’s largest foreign direct investment source. – Canada is largely dependent on our market. – This is not going to end well.

Just The News: ICE ramped up arrests and deportations of criminal aliens in Trump’s first two weeks – As of January 31, ICE-led operations have resulted in the arrest of more than 8,000 illegal immigrants, based on a collection of data the agency’s social media posts have disclosed since January 2023…

Slay News: Trump Established A Watchdog to Tackle Corporate Media Propaganda—President Trump’s administration is taking a bold step to tackle “fake news” and propaganda from the corporate media. – The Trump administration has launched a new social media account, Rapid Response 47. The watchdog aims to challenge what it perceives as “fake news” disseminated by the media.

American Thinker: Trump’s Second Week Is A Turning Point in American Governance – For the Democrats, Trump’s second week has been worse than they ever imagined. – For the rest of us, it has been better than we ever hoped. – In the second week of his second term in office, President Trump has asserted the right of the Chief Executive to manage the Executive Branch…

Geller Report: Trump Signed an Executive Order to Slash Federal Regulations—The new order requires federal agencies to repeal “at least 10 existing rules, regulations or guidance documents” for every new rule or regulation created.

American Thinker: The Uncivil Service Objects To Trump’s Work Ethic – Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution says: The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. – Trump is demanding that federal employees, many of whom have been out of the office since the COVID lockdowns, return to their offices and work 40 hours a week…

American Thinker: What is Trump Doing With All The DIE Stuff? – There’s the truth, and then there’s what the leftist media reports. – The Trump administration has made it a top priority to eliminate any programs that promote Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity in the federal government, but that’s not how it is being reported…

American Greatness: Senator Schumer Is Under Investigation While Trump Works To Reshape Washington – Schumer faces scrutiny over past threats to Supreme Court Justices while Trump dismantles DEI, deports illegal migrants, and strikes ISIS, signaling a shift in Washington’s priorities.

American Thinker: Why Trump’s firing of the HUD Inspector General was Justified. – The Office of Inspector General (OIG) is tasked with investigating mismanagement, fraud, and abuse at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). – However, the HUD inspector general has been failing the public in terms of its oversight of the department.

American Thinker: We Need A “Great Reset” In Our Dealings With China. –  Thankfully, Trump knows that and undoubtedly has a whole series of plans to realign how China’s power is growing at America’s expense. – Trump has a different vision. Instead of giving away our national sovereignty, subsuming the interests of our citizens in favor of equity, and effectively abolishing our Constitution, Trump intends to lead the world into a new era of prosperity and peace…

American Thinker: The Decades of Lies from the Left – The ideological leftist infection grows at many of our institutions of so-called higher education, brought on by a blind spot created by a simple lack of gratitude for the opportunities afforded us as American citizens. – How do you convince the most fortunate people on Earth that they should hate the country they’ve benefited from their whole lives?

Brownstone Institute: Science’s Turn Towards Darkness—In light of RFK, Jr.’s confirmation hearings to be Secretary of Health and Human Services, it is important to remember that much of what is presented as science stems from vested interests and an outdated mechanistic worldview.

February 1, 2025

Daily Wire: President Trump said on Saturday that he ordered a strike on Islamic terrorists in Africa that resulted in the deaths of “many” terrorists. – “The strikes destroyed the caves they live in and killed many terrorists without, in any way, harming civilians,” Trump continued. – “Our Military has targeted this ISIS Attack Planner for years, but Biden and his cronies wouldn’t act quickly enough to get the job done. I did!”

Zero Hedge: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Announced Friday that all options, including military strikes against cartels on Mexican soil, are “on the table.” – Hegseth asserted that nothing is out of the question “if we’re dealing with what are designated to be foreign terrorist organizations who are specifically targeting Americans on our border.”

One America News: The terrorist group Hamas has released three more hostages as part of its current cease-fire deal with Israel. – The hostages that returned home during this release included a U.S./Israeli dual citizen from North Carolina, a father whose children were captured and released in a 2023 ceasefire-hostage deal, and the father of the youngest hostage…

American Thinker: Pete Hegseth Punishes Mark Milley For Arrogantly Defying The President. – If President Trump had known in 2016 how arrogant Mark Milley was, he might never have appointed him to the Joint Chiefs of Staff. – Milley’s treasonous behavior, spectacular incompetence, and rebelliousness against the president justify the punishment now being administered…

Western Journal: Trump Is Right, Obama’s FAA Policy Penalized ‘High Aptitude’ Applicants – Even The Chicago Tribune Was Worried Back in 2021 – This is what the FAA’s webpage said back in 2013. – “Diversity is integral to achieving FAA’s mission of ensuring safe and efficient travel across our nation and beyond,” the page read.

Western Journal: Another Obama-Biden Chinese Spy – Harold Rogers, a former senior advisor to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in the International Finance Division, was arrested for allegedly leaking sensitive information to the Chinese government while receiving large payments and going on fully funded trips to the country.

American Spectator: President Trump’s Extraordinary Firing of the Inspector Generals – In the challenge Trump has posed to the Senate over the power to dismiss officers, we are seeing a remarkable resurrection of constitutionalism. – What stands now is something extraordinary: the Supreme Court acknowledges an Executive power based on a decision made by Congress to affirm the power of the Executive Branch against its own…

Breitbart: The DNC Goes Hogg Wild – Gun Control Activist David Hog Elected Party Vice Chair – “Who’s ready to take the fight to the Republicans and win this thing? Are you guys ready to fight?” Hogg asked during his victory speech.

The Daily Fetched: President Trump confirmed that he will impose tariffs on the European Union. – Trump has long criticized the EU for its unfair trade policies, arguing that they disadvantage American businesses while allowing the EU relatively open access to U.S. markets. – The announcement comes as the Trump administration prepares to implement tariffs on China, Mexico, and Canada.

Just The News: Venezuela has released six American male detainees after President Nicolás Maduro met Richard Grenell, the Trump administration’s special envoy. – Earlier in the day, the White House urged Venezuela to release the hostages and agree to accept Venezuelans deported from the U.S.

The National Pulse: Trump’s FBI Cleans House, At Least 20 Senior Officials Dismissed. – Several top officials with the FBI either left or were forced out of their positions late last night. – At least 20 director or assistant director-level employees were dismissed or resigned across the country, impacting several major field offices, including Miami, Las Vegas, and the FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C.

Slay News: Two Illegal Aliens Have Been Arrested Over The Brutal Murder Of A 63-Year-Old Man in Chicago – The Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office conducted an autopsy that determined Levin died of multiple injuries after being savagely assaulted by the killers.

Red State: The Friday Night Smackdown at the DOJ—Dozens of J6 Prosecutors Sent Packing – While we wait for Attorney General Nominee Pam Bondi to hopefully be confirmed, Interim D.C. U.S. attorney Edward R. Martin Jr. isn’t sitting around sipping tea, and on late Friday afternoon, he axed about 30 federal prosecutors who worked on January 6 cases over the last four years.

Zero Hedge: Musk Reveals Treasury Has Been Auto-Paying Everyone, ‘Even Known Terrorist Groups’ – “The @DOGE team discovered, among other things, that payment approval officers at Treasury were instructed to always approve payments, even to known fraudulent or terrorist groups.” – “They never denied payment in their entire career and triggered their longest-serving, highest-ranked career official to quit in a huff.

Zero Hedge: The man who led the DOJ’s Public Integrity Section has resigned. – Corey Amundson, who had been in charge of the section for years before the Trump administration recently reassigned him to work on immigration issues, has stepped down.

American Conservative: The Real Meaning of the Fight Over Tulsi Gabbard for Director of National Intelligence—Gabbard threatens the self-protective national security clique. – The “threat” Gabbard poses to their ongoing series of worldwide covert regime change operations that benefit only the Pentagon and IC budgets is indeed a serious one, and sensible Americans should welcome it.

American Thinker: Why DEI Policies Threaten Our Safety – The push for DEI, while noble in intent, has, in practice, led to what can only be described as a quota system in disguise. – Where once merit was the sole arbiter, now there’s a shadow of doubt cast over every hire, every promotion. – This doubt isn’t about the individuals themselves, many of whom are undoubtedly capable, but about the system that prioritizes diversity over aptitude…

American Thinker: Farmers Unite For Robert Kennedy, Jr. – The assault on Robert F Kennedy. Jr.’s confirmation for Secretary of Health and Human Services reveals more about his accusers than the man himself. – A recent letter of support signed by over 130 farms across the nation displays exuberant agreement that this cause should be a greater priority for the Senate Committee on Finance than Bobby’s abortion views or his justifiable skepticism about vaccine safety…

American Thinker: The weaponization of government hasn’t died as an issue. – Those of us who believe that the Biden/Harris regime’s weaponization of the American government was one of the most important issues of the 2024 election have been heartened to see that the issue has sustained its energy. – Even if Biden pardons immunize some of the perpetrators, a thorough investigation of their pattern of abuse still needs to be conducted to expose the truth about past transgressions.

The Center Square: Nearly 80 percent of Americans don’t want men playing in women’s sports—The New York Times and polling company Ipsos Surveyed nearly an equal number of Republicans and Democrats, and the results show that the majority of Americans do not want transgender-identifying men in women’s sports.

The Daily Fetched: The Trump White House has reiterated that it does not endorse transgenderism or gender ideology by ordering the State Department to remove the letter ‘T’ from LGBT on its official website. – “LGB” stands for lesbian, gay, and bisexual, while the “T” represents transgender individuals.

American Thinker: Eighteen Blue-State Attorneys General Betray America – While the actions of these AGs likely don’t precisely fit the text of the federal treason statute, it’s not a stretch to consider them treasonous and surely anti-American. – This disdain for the law has given Mexico an opening to sue, claiming American gun makers are liable because they know at least some of their lawful products are used by cartels to commit crimes in Mexico…

Powerline: The Week in Pictures, “I Don’t Care Margaret” — In week two, it has become apparent that the Trump Administration has decided to treat the media and its political opponents like the dogs they are…

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