February 12, 2025
Wednesday Morning Rant
How much, and where?
Big news yesterday about cuts to the Department of Education amounting to around $880 million, with around $100 million of that specifically being cut from DEI-type programs. No matter who you are, that is a lot of money and I am glad to see it get sliced out. It does make me wonder, however, just how much money it actually is. With numbers this large, it is usually easier to understand it by looking at it in its own context.
So how much is $880 million, to the Department of Education? It should be a lot, because Ed shouldn't exist at all, but is it? Per the Department's FY2025 budget proposal as put forward by the Biden administration, I guess the answer is, "kinda." We don't do "budgets" anymore, of course, but we do at least pretend to track spending and per the linked document, the 2024 appropriations amounted to $79.6 billion, with Biden asking for $2.9 billion more for this fiscal year. Yesterday's cuts represent 1.1% of the 2024 appropriation.
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Mid-Morning Art Thread [Kris]
Childe Hassam
This is a painting of the busy street in front of the New York Stock Exchange during the early Twentieth Century. Today the street is blocked off to motorized traffic, but Hassam depicts a wide boulevard full of pedestrians and horse-drawn buses, taxis, and other vehicles. The Stock Exchange is on the center-left. Straight ahead is the Greek-temple-like Federal Hall building where George Washington was sworn in, and the Bill of Rights was written. This painting depicts symbols of America’s political and financial power in the middle of its most populous city. Childe Hassam was an American Impressionist. One of Impressionism’s goals was to capture a moment in time. The modern world was particularly attractive to these artists. Its busy lifestyle inspired them to capture its fleeting moments, to give an impression of what this world felt like. The rush of modernity, moving at a blur, was captured in fuzzy brushstrokes and hurried technique. I like the composition of this piece. The artist places the viewer high over the street, maybe four or five stories above the crowd, looking down and out over the crowded streetscape. The high angle dwarfs the human figures and makes the buildings seem taller. I like how Hassam decided not to put the viewer too high up. The vanishing point and horizon line are near the canvas’ center. To me, the buildings appear to loom over the street and the people, and me. They look less like buildings and more like cliff-faces. Hassam used a tall and narrow canvas that mimics the buildings’ height and makes the street seem narrow. In your mind’s eye, put this scene on a horizontal canvas. Notice how you lose the view and the impact. Hassam would have to either zoom the view out to something more panoramic and lose detail or zoom in and lose the deep view down the street or the buildings that line the street. Either way, the urban canyon effect is wrecked. Another trait of Impressionism is its depiction of color and light at a specific moment in time. In Lower Manhattan, it is near midday. The sun is high in a blue, cloudless sky. The buildings on the left have a white and gold shine. The buildings on the right cast a deep shadow over the street and people — but notice what else is going on with the lighting. Not only does the sunlight shine down at a steep angle so that the Stock Exchange is in full sun, but a beam of light shining down Wall Street in the distance also points right on it. Hassam casts two huge spotlights onto the Exchange. He wants me to see it, to focus on it especially. I decided to look this location up on Google Maps. According to StreetView, it seems that Hassam exaggerated scale some. Unfortunately, StreetView’s angle is very different (it’s street view after all), so my comparison is limited. Over the one hundred eighteen years since Hassam painted Lower Manhattan, some of the buildings have changed, but not the important landmarks. In the painting, the road seems wider and the buildings taller. Additionally, Federal Hall looks more distant here than Google Maps. I think the artist manipulated perspective and proportions to impress me. In this painting, Childe Hassam depicted New York City, and this location specifically, as a bright, clean, busy urban center. The mood is mostly positive. I see a lot of pride here. It also feels a little oppressive. From this angle, the buildings create this narrow passageway flanked by a long, tall wall that seems to have no end. I’m above the bustling fray but far below the canyon ridge. I think Lower Manhattan accurately conveys the sense of smallness I felt when I first visited Manhattan. This work is about the wealth, power, and prestige of the United States of America, and maybe of New York City specifically.
Childe Hassam
This is a painting of the busy street in front of the New York Stock Exchange during the early Twentieth Century. Today the street is blocked off to motorized traffic, but Hassam depicts a wide boulevard full of pedestrians and horse-drawn buses, taxis, and other vehicles. The Stock Exchange is on the center-left. Straight ahead is the Greek-temple-like Federal Hall building where George Washington was sworn in, and the Bill of Rights was written. This painting depicts symbols of America’s political and financial power in the middle of its most populous city. Childe Hassam was an American Impressionist. One of Impressionism’s goals was to capture a moment in time. The modern world was particularly attractive to these artists. Its busy lifestyle inspired them to capture its fleeting moments, to give an impression of what this world felt like. The rush of modernity, moving at a blur, was captured in fuzzy brushstrokes and hurried technique. I like the composition of this piece. The artist places the viewer high over the street, maybe four or five stories above the crowd, looking down and out over the crowded streetscape. The high angle dwarfs the human figures and makes the buildings seem taller. I like how Hassam decided not to put the viewer too high up. The vanishing point and horizon line are near the canvas’ center. To me, the buildings appear to loom over the street and the people, and me. They look less like buildings and more like cliff-faces. Hassam used a tall and narrow canvas that mimics the buildings’ height and makes the street seem narrow. In your mind’s eye, put this scene on a horizontal canvas. Notice how you lose the view and the impact. Hassam would have to either zoom the view out to something more panoramic and lose detail or zoom in and lose the deep view down the street or the buildings that line the street. Either way, the urban canyon effect is wrecked. Another trait of Impressionism is its depiction of color and light at a specific moment in time. In Lower Manhattan, it is near midday. The sun is high in a blue, cloudless sky. The buildings on the left have a white and gold shine. The buildings on the right cast a deep shadow over the street and people — but notice what else is going on with the lighting. Not only does the sunlight shine down at a steep angle so that the Stock Exchange is in full sun, but a beam of light shining down Wall Street in the distance also points right on it. Hassam casts two huge spotlights onto the Exchange. He wants me to see it, to focus on it especially. I decided to look this location up on Google Maps. According to StreetView, it seems that Hassam exaggerated scale some. Unfortunately, StreetView’s angle is very different (it’s street view after all), so my comparison is limited. Over the one hundred eighteen years since Hassam painted Lower Manhattan, some of the buildings have changed, but not the important landmarks. In the painting, the road seems wider and the buildings taller. Additionally, Federal Hall looks more distant here than Google Maps. I think the artist manipulated perspective and proportions to impress me. In this painting, Childe Hassam depicted New York City, and this location specifically, as a bright, clean, busy urban center. The mood is mostly positive. I see a lot of pride here. It also feels a little oppressive. From this angle, the buildings create this narrow passageway flanked by a long, tall wall that seems to have no end. I’m above the bustling fray but far below the canyon ridge. I think Lower Manhattan accurately conveys the sense of smallness I felt when I first visited Manhattan. This work is about the wealth, power, and prestige of the United States of America, and maybe of New York City specifically.
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The Morning Report — 2/12 /25 
So along came Trump and truth be told, I voted reflexively for him if for no other reason than to prevent a president Hilary. But here we are after the past three elections with one of the most unlikely of men who may as Newt Gingrich correctly observes "Be the Most Consequential’ president Since Lincoln For Taking ‘Sledgehammer’ To the Establishment.
He'd be the most consequential because he was at the barest of minimums willing to at least make the attempt to do so and while it is too early to tell if he will succeed, he is causing the heads of this multi-headed hydra that has consumed our society, our government, way of life, security and hope for our future lo these past many years and decades to explode in violent reaction. If he can starve that cancerous beast of its blood — Our money with which they use to forge the chains to bind us and in some cases the rope with which to hang us — then that will indeed be a giant leap forward in Making America, not merely "great" again but making America AMERICA again! But among the monster's most predictable reactions is an out of control and generally corrupt judiciary that is usurping Trump's legitimate power and authority under the pretext that he is abusing his and usurping the legislative branch's vis a vis the power of the purse. What will indeed cement Trump's place in history as truly consequential will be his willingness and ability to tell the Judiciary to piss up the rope it intends to put around his neck. If Trump can confront let alone slay the undead Demon that is Marbury v. Madison then combined with the dismantling, dismemberment and destruction of the shadow government that is the Deep State bureaucracy controlled by the Democrats and their RINO remora, will make him the greatest of Great Emancipators of all real Americans. May it be THY will, oh Lord. While I am not sanguine about the notion of relocating Gazans and/or supposedly transforming Gaza into Riviera Two, if for no other reason than it likely would become Beirut Two and perhaps result in a repeat of not only 10/7 but for us another 1983 Marine Corp Barracks truck bombing. The real problem can be summed up in one word – Islam You're never going to win hearts and minds with that madness coursing through the hearts and minds of the locals. And that's also why Iraq and Afghanistan were such abject disasters. It would have been like defeating the Nazis while allowing the Nazi Party to retain power.
At the very least, Trump putting this in the public consciousness along with the abject wastage of billions and near trillions of our dollars will change hearts and minds right here at home! And his going after the Dept. of Ed to me is also a big freaking deal. Preventing future generations from being brainwashed is also a big part of our Emancipation!
So along came Trump and truth be told, I voted reflexively for him if for no other reason than to prevent a president Hilary. But here we are after the past three elections with one of the most unlikely of men who may as Newt Gingrich correctly observes "Be the Most Consequential’ president Since Lincoln For Taking ‘Sledgehammer’ To the Establishment.
He'd be the most consequential because he was at the barest of minimums willing to at least make the attempt to do so and while it is too early to tell if he will succeed, he is causing the heads of this multi-headed hydra that has consumed our society, our government, way of life, security and hope for our future lo these past many years and decades to explode in violent reaction. If he can starve that cancerous beast of its blood — Our money with which they use to forge the chains to bind us and in some cases the rope with which to hang us — then that will indeed be a giant leap forward in Making America, not merely "great" again but making America AMERICA again! But among the monster's most predictable reactions is an out of control and generally corrupt judiciary that is usurping Trump's legitimate power and authority under the pretext that he is abusing his and usurping the legislative branch's vis a vis the power of the purse. What will indeed cement Trump's place in history as truly consequential will be his willingness and ability to tell the Judiciary to piss up the rope it intends to put around his neck. If Trump can confront let alone slay the undead Demon that is Marbury v. Madison then combined with the dismantling, dismemberment and destruction of the shadow government that is the Deep State bureaucracy controlled by the Democrats and their RINO remora, will make him the greatest of Great Emancipators of all real Americans. May it be THY will, oh Lord. While I am not sanguine about the notion of relocating Gazans and/or supposedly transforming Gaza into Riviera Two, if for no other reason than it likely would become Beirut Two and perhaps result in a repeat of not only 10/7 but for us another 1983 Marine Corp Barracks truck bombing. The real problem can be summed up in one word – Islam You're never going to win hearts and minds with that madness coursing through the hearts and minds of the locals. And that's also why Iraq and Afghanistan were such abject disasters. It would have been like defeating the Nazis while allowing the Nazi Party to retain power.
At the very least, Trump putting this in the public consciousness along with the abject wastage of billions and near trillions of our dollars will change hearts and minds right here at home! And his going after the Dept. of Ed to me is also a big freaking deal. Preventing future generations from being brainwashed is also a big part of our Emancipation!
It seems to me increasingly that the only way our now bankrupt academic community can be reformed is not by reforming it but by completely shutting it down. Either we fire the entire teaching and administrative staffs at these colleges and put in new people (as Trump is now attempting in the federal government), or we close these colleges down completely and start from scratch to establish new institutions completely free from this poison. The halfway measures we are doing so far however are not working. Too many people who run our universities want to teach leftist propaganda and bigoted hate. Too many are actually ignorant buffoons who can’t think critically and really know nothing about the history of our country and its fundamental principles of freedom, individual responsibility, and private enterprise. All they know is that they hate America, its white population, and want it all destroyed. Trying to reform such things just isn’t going to work, because the bad stuff is too deeply ingrained. As long as these people remain so will the cesspool. More radical and fearless action is required. It is time to tear these places down completely, and build anew.As I responded to this essay from friend and friend of the blog Robert Zimmerman about his desire to go absolutely scorched earth: It starts with the unions and then its the educators of the future teachers. That's what Billy Ayers was all about when he stopped making pipe bombs. But unless we can deprogram the past few generations of the brainwashed and prevent future generations from being brainwashed then a total purge of every Leftist freak in the classroom is what is required. How we do that while maintaining the Constitution is the trick. Solve that and win a Republic! And lastly, a quick shout-out and thank you for your continued support in hitting our tip jar. It truly is appreciated more than you can know.
- ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
- CPS profits from family separation, turning child welfare into a billion-dollar industry where courts, agencies, and service providers cash in on every removal. It’s a racket that must end.
The State Sanctioned Kidnapping Industry: How CPS and Its Allies Profit from Destroying Families
- Daniel Greenfield: But USAID would rather throw out half a billion dollars worth of food than give it to Americans.
Use USAID’s Food Stockpiles to Lower US Food Prices
- A federal judge’s decision to bar Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from reviewing the Treasury Department’s payment system is most likely a temporary setback — but it illustrates the urgent need to secure a permanent win for transparency. Progressives are panicking because their 100-year, largely successful assault on American constitutional government is in danger of being reversed. Thanks to Musk’s wise plan to follow the money, he has a historic opportunity to mount a coup — not on behalf of himself or President Trump, but for We the People.
Make the DOGE revolution stick: Let Musk and taxpayers reveal what’s really in America’s checkbook
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Daily Tech News 12 February 2025
Top Story
- Average CPU speed actually went down in 2024, for the first time in twenty years. (Twitter)
There's a lot of speculation as to why, but no clear answers. The fastest available desktop CPUs are two years old, with no replacement models in sight. Meanwhile Intel has dropped its hyper-threading support - multiple threads per CPU core - which meant multi-threaded scores declined for newer chips.
But this average includes AMD chips which still have hyper-threading, and Apple chips which never had hyper-threading, so who knows?
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February 11, 2025
Tuesday Overnight Open Thread - February 11, 2025 [scampydog]
"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office." - Aesop
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Snow Day Cafe
Photograph of the total solar eclipse of July 1991,
taken in Chiapas, Mexico
Puppy tries to take an even smaller puppy for a walk. Compilation of dogs covering their poor ears when the baby's crying. Doggos and toddlers. If you're not cheating you're not trying.
Photograph of the total solar eclipse of July 1991,
taken in Chiapas, Mexico
Puppy tries to take an even smaller puppy for a walk. Compilation of dogs covering their poor ears when the baby's crying. Doggos and toddlers. If you're not cheating you're not trying.
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DOGE Announces $881 Million in Cuts at the Department of Education; Trump and Musk Field Questions from the Fathomlessly Corrupt US Press
Trump and Musk both answer questions from the press.
What an idea, a government that says what they're going to do,
then does what they said what they were going to do,
and then calmly and candidly explains what they're doing and why.
I absolutely love the White House's communications. They are wide-open and responsive, even to their bitter enemies of the Communist Junta Press Corps.
Trump and Musk both answer questions from the press.
What an idea, a government that says what they're going to do,
then does what they said what they were going to do,
and then calmly and candidly explains what they're doing and why.
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) announced $881 million in cuts to Education Department contracts, targeting diversity training and research programs. Key Details: About 170 contracts for the Institute of Education Sciences were terminated. The cuts include 29 diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) training grants worth $101 million. The move comes as President Trump is expected to issue an executive order to wind down the Education Department.This is just the easy stuff, the lowest-hanging fruit. I'm sure he can trim another $2-3 billion without much trouble at all. DOGE is also targeting fake "science" -- allegedly scientific NGOs are handing out (taxpayer funded) grants to do "studies" on DEI and that crap.
President Donald Trump is taking aggressive action to slash taxpayer funding for politically motivated research at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF), following years of wasteful spending on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. Matt Walsh of the Daily Wire reports that Trump attempted similar cuts during his first term, but Congress blocked his efforts. Key Details The NSF awarded one in ten grants between 2021 and 2024 for projects focused on DEI, social justice, or race-related issues, according to a Senate report. Trump's administration is slashing funding, leading to layoffs of up to half of NSF's staff and capping NIH administrative expenses at 15% of grants. Federal judges are attempting to block Trump's budget cuts, but senators like J.D. Vance argue that such judicial overreach is unconstitutional.This should put the fear of Musk into the bureaucrats:
Trump introduced the country to the leader of DOGE's tiger teams, a young go-getter named Mr. X. Note that the press and the Democrat Party and the Deep State -- but I repeat myself not once, not twice, but thrice -- has been running ops for weeks attempting to make Trump jealous of Musk, or to cause problems between them. They're a pair of Aces and the press is trying to get them to fold their hand. It's not working. They appear to genuinely like and respect each other.
Nick Sortor
@nicksortor #BREAKING: Elon Musk just announced in the Oval Office DOGE is investigating federal employees with high net worth despite low pay Many, MANY corrupt feds are sweating right now! Including Fauci's cronies
I absolutely love the White House's communications. They are wide-open and responsive, even to their bitter enemies of the Communist Junta Press Corps.
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Tom Homan: We Think We've Identified the Person Who Leaked Details of ICE Raids. That Person Will Be Fired, and Will Lose His Pension, and Will Go to Jail.
At least he says he thinks he knows who leaked the details of the Aurora, CO leak.
He says he thinks, but does not know, the California ICE raid leaks came from the FBI.Posted by: Ace at 05:45 PM | Comments (404) | Trackbacks (Suck)
FBI Suddenly "Discovers" 2,400 Records About the JFK Assassination They Previously "Lost"
3. Lee Harvey Oswald was recruited as a CIA asset to spy on leftwing pro-Cuba groups but turned out to be an angry, mentally-ill communist and wound up killing Kennedy. The CIA wanted to hide its association with him, so they covered it up for 60 years. I rate this is as pretty likely. I think most people assume this (at the very least). This is the least-damaging version of the conspiracy theory. The CIA recruits a mentally-ill angry young man and loser with a messiah complex, and that mentally-ill angry young man then tries to change history. We hear about "blowback" from covert operations. Wikipedia:
2. The CIA had a direct role in the assassination of... Lee Harvey Oswald. This builds off the last one. "I'm just a patsy," Lee Harvey Oswald said on camera as he was moved through the Dallas police building. The CIA, realizing that Oswald would talk up his connections to the CIA, even if fairly insubstantial, recruited strip-joint owner Jack Ruby to kill Oswald to silence him. Ruby was later diagnosed with lung cancer, which he died from in 1967. Did he already know he was dying? Conspiracists think he knew he had lung cancer and that's why the CIA was able to convince him to kill Oswald and take the fall -- he was dying anyway, and the CIA would pay a lot of money to his family members. I don't know about this one. It always seemed strange that this dirtbag just decided to execute Lee Harvey Oswald because, as he claimed, he wanted to spare Jacqueline Onasis of the heartache of Oswald's trial. I mean: Sure. Whatever, dude. 1. Oswald was part of a team of assassins the CIA hired to kill Kennedy, and was the only one caught. (Or the designated "patsy.") This is obviously the one that JFK assassination buffs really want to prove. I've always doubted this one. To kill Kennedy, the plotters wouldn't have to just kill Kennedy. They'd have also have had to secure permission to kill him from the man who'd replace Kennedy, LBJ, and RFK the Attorney General. You can't get away with killing a president if you don't have the government pre-corrupted to do a slipshod job of investigating and guarantee you they will throw the case and let you get away with it. This last part is why I've doubted these claims since I first got interested in them in high school. Can it really be that most of the top echelon of government, the DOJ, the FBI, the CIA, etc., were all on-board with killing him? Could you really have a Conspiracy So Vast that it would make Hillary Clinton blush? And note that the theory that Oswald was part of the conspiracy but a designated patsy conflicts with the theory that he was a CIA asset. If he's a CIA asset, you wouldn't want him for the patsy. It can be traced back to the CIA. What do you think?
The FBI just discovered about 2,400 records tied to President Kennedy's assassination that were never provided to a board tasked with reviewing and disclosing the documents, Axios has learned. The still-secret records are contained in 14,000 pages of documents the FBI found in a review triggered by President Trump's Jan. 23 executive order demanding the release of all JFK assassination records. Why it matters: The discovery -- 61 years after Kennedy was killed in Dallas -- follows decades of government reluctance to release all documents related to the assassination, which fueled a mountain of conspiracy theories. The existence of the new documents was disclosed Friday to the White House, when the Office of the Director of National Intelligence submitted its plan to disclose the assassination records under Trump's order. Zoom in: The contents of the newly found records are closely held secrets. The three sources who relayed their existence to Axios said they hadn't seen the documents. But the discovery of thousands of records on one of the most scrutinized events in U.S. history is likely to raise questions about the procedures for vetting and releasing information across the entire government.Here are the four possibilities that I see, ranked from least damaging to most damaging. I'm at the point where I'm hoping for "most damaging." 4. Nothing important is disclosed -- there is no there there. I think there's a good chance that we find out that the Warren Report was basically accurate. I was into JFK assassination stuff in high school. A lot of the case for conspiracy is built on questions of irregularities in procedures or paperwork. For example, the emergency room doctor who treated Kennedy put in his notes that there was a bullet wound in his high upper back. But the Warren Report said that the "Magic Bullet" went through his neck, not his back. The implication -- or explicit claim -- was that the ER doctor's notes were accurate, but the Warren Commission needed to lie about the Magic Bullet passing through Kennedy's neck, so they just moved the wound. My last belief in the assassination conspiracy theory was ended by the OJ Simpson trial. I watched as the defense alleged a Conspiracy So Vast, and built their case on various claims of irregularities or unanswered questions -- why was there some kind of blood preservative found in the vials of blood recovered from the crime scene? (Or whatever it was -- I'm hazy on it now.) So the OJ Simpson trial convinced me that in any investigation, if you ask questions about every single bit of paperwork or evidence, you can manufacture doubt where there's really, absolutely no doubt at all. It made me re-evaluate how suspicious -- or non-suspicious -- it is to find tiny discrepancies in paperwork or witness accounts. They're always going to be there. Always.
"This is huge. It shows the FBI is taking this seriously," said Jefferson Morley, an expert on the assassination and vice president of the nonpartisan Mary Ferrell Foundation, the nation's largest source of online records of Kennedy's killing. He sued the U.S. government for more records.
"The FBI is finally saying, 'Let's respond to the president's order,' instead of keeping the secrecy going," Morley said.
3. Lee Harvey Oswald was recruited as a CIA asset to spy on leftwing pro-Cuba groups but turned out to be an angry, mentally-ill communist and wound up killing Kennedy. The CIA wanted to hide its association with him, so they covered it up for 60 years. I rate this is as pretty likely. I think most people assume this (at the very least). This is the least-damaging version of the conspiracy theory. The CIA recruits a mentally-ill angry young man and loser with a messiah complex, and that mentally-ill angry young man then tries to change history. We hear about "blowback" from covert operations. Wikipedia:
Blowback is the unintended consequences and unwanted side-effects of a covert operation. To the civilians suffering the blowback of covert operations, the effect typically manifests itself as "random" acts of political violence without a discernible, direct cause; because the public--in whose name the intelligence agency acted--are unaware of the effected secret attacks that provoked revenge (counter-attack) against them.So, if this turns out to be true, the CIA's covert op against anti-Castro groups winds up producing a CIA-connected-and-protected asset killing the CIA's boss. Obviously, these "patriots' then cover up any connection they have with Oswald.
2. The CIA had a direct role in the assassination of... Lee Harvey Oswald. This builds off the last one. "I'm just a patsy," Lee Harvey Oswald said on camera as he was moved through the Dallas police building. The CIA, realizing that Oswald would talk up his connections to the CIA, even if fairly insubstantial, recruited strip-joint owner Jack Ruby to kill Oswald to silence him. Ruby was later diagnosed with lung cancer, which he died from in 1967. Did he already know he was dying? Conspiracists think he knew he had lung cancer and that's why the CIA was able to convince him to kill Oswald and take the fall -- he was dying anyway, and the CIA would pay a lot of money to his family members. I don't know about this one. It always seemed strange that this dirtbag just decided to execute Lee Harvey Oswald because, as he claimed, he wanted to spare Jacqueline Onasis of the heartache of Oswald's trial. I mean: Sure. Whatever, dude. 1. Oswald was part of a team of assassins the CIA hired to kill Kennedy, and was the only one caught. (Or the designated "patsy.") This is obviously the one that JFK assassination buffs really want to prove. I've always doubted this one. To kill Kennedy, the plotters wouldn't have to just kill Kennedy. They'd have also have had to secure permission to kill him from the man who'd replace Kennedy, LBJ, and RFK the Attorney General. You can't get away with killing a president if you don't have the government pre-corrupted to do a slipshod job of investigating and guarantee you they will throw the case and let you get away with it. This last part is why I've doubted these claims since I first got interested in them in high school. Can it really be that most of the top echelon of government, the DOJ, the FBI, the CIA, etc., were all on-board with killing him? Could you really have a Conspiracy So Vast that it would make Hillary Clinton blush? And note that the theory that Oswald was part of the conspiracy but a designated patsy conflicts with the theory that he was a CIA asset. If he's a CIA asset, you wouldn't want him for the patsy. It can be traced back to the CIA. What do you think?
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Nancy Mace Alleges Her Ex-Fiance and Three Other Men R*ped Her
Her allegations are specific and one assumes she has evidence of them. She alleges these men were taking secret photos of women while undressed and that they drugged Nancy Mace and took advantage of her.
But she says the state of South Carolina threatened to investigate her.
This... Well, there's definitely bad behavior going on here on someone's part. Either Mace is a bad actor and making herself out to be Joan of Arc, or South Carolina officials are protecting sex criminals.
So this statement is 100% true -- but it's also 100% true of most leftwing feminists, who constantly allege that they have been sexually assaulted. Has the Times ever accused leftwing feminists of making rape part of their brand?
Representative Nancy Mace, the South Carolina Republican who in recent weeks has floated a run for governor, on Monday night accused her former fiancé and three other men of having drugged and raped her and other women, and of filming and taking lewd photographs of women and underage girls without their consent. In a stunningly graphic speech on the House floor that had little precedent, Ms. Mace said the men, whom she named and displayed photographs of on a placard where lawmakers more typically display charts and graphs on policy issues, were involved in the "premeditated, calculated exploitation of innocent women and girls in my district." "You've booked yourself a one-way ticket to hell," she said, referring to the men directly at one point in a speech that lasted close to an hour. "It is nonstop. There are no connections. So I and all of your victims can watch you rot into eternity." On the floor of the House, Ms. Mace was protected by the speech and debate clause, even as she accused the men of repeatedly assaulting incapacitated women and filming it. The clause provides lawmakers immunity from criminal prosecutions or civil suits, such as for slander, when they are acting "within the legislative sphere." Ms. Mace offered no evidence to support the accusations, although she said she had plenty of such material. She refused to answer any follow-up questions from reporters outside the Capitol on Monday night and did not respond to a separate request to provide corroboration. The New York Times has not independently verified any of the allegations. In a statement not long after Ms. Mace finished speaking, Patrick Bryant, the former fiancé whom she accused by name, denied her account. "I categorically deny these allegations," he said. "I take this matter seriously and will cooperate fully with any necessary legal processes to clear my name." Ms. Mace has long made her personal trauma part of her political brand.
Nice, NYT. Say, have you ever pointed out that Hillary Clinton poses as a hero of women while defending her credibly-accused rapist husband? Or that Kamala Harris ran on protecting women from Trump while her husband was slapping girlfriends and knocking up nannies?
In the past, she has shared the story of being molested at a swimming pool when she was 14 and said that for years she blamed herself, because she had been wearing a two-piece bathing suit. She said she was raped when she was 16, leading her to drop out of high school, before pulling herself out of a downward spiral and becoming the first woman to graduate from the military college the Citadel. Ms. Mace has tried to position herself as the ultimate defender of women's rights, even as she has expressed unequivocal support for President Trump, who has been found liable for sexual abuse, and a cabinet member who has been dogged by an accusation of sexual assault that he has denied.
In recent weeks, Ms. Mace has made a campaign out of her measure to bar transgender individuals from using women's restrooms and changing rooms in the Capitol complex. A onetime moderate who has made a full-bore turn to Trumpism as she has tried to game out her own political future in a tribal party, Ms. Mace has been vocal in recent weeks about her interest in running for governor in her state. So has Alan Wilson, the South Carolina attorney general, whom she targeted in her speech on Monday as a "do-nothing attorney general" and accused of treating women who came forward like criminals. "During the last year, as I turned everything over to law enforcement, I was told I, as a victim, would be investigated," she said. A spokeswoman for Mr. Wilson, Jaqueline Lane, said that Ms. Mace's statements regarding the conduct of the attorney general were "categorically false" and "politically motivated." "At this time, our office has not received any reports or requests for assistance from any law enforcement or prosecution agencies regarding these matters," said Ms. Lane, who added that neither Mr. Wilson nor anyone in his office had heard of Ms. Mace's allegations until she spoke out on Monday night.
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Kristi Noem and Trump Fire the FEMA CFO Who Defied Trump's Order and Illegally Sent $59 Million to Luxury Hotels to Shelter Illegal Aliens
Benny Johnson
@bennyjohnson BREAKING: This is Big. Senior DHS Official has just confirmed to me that FEMA's Chief Financial Officer Mary Comans was just fired for illegally funding migrant luxury hotels in NYC against the orders of President Trump. Comans is arguably most powerful person at FEMA, controlling billions in funding. "Effective immediately, FEMA is terminating the employment of four individuals for circumventing leadership to unilaterally make egregious payments for luxury NYC hotels for migrants. Firings include FEMA's Chief Financial Officer, two program analysts and a grant specialist.
Under President Trump and Secretary Noem's leadership, DHS will not sit idly and allow deep state activists to undermine the will and safety of the American people." This is an earthquake
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Google Calendar Deletes Black History Month and, Get This, "Pride" Month; Google Maps Includes the "Gulf of America"
LOL. I mean they are, but not in the way these idiots think. Here's Google's explanation: They tried meet the left's demand for an identity-based holiday every other day, but found it was impossible to keep up when the left just kept adding more and more Identity Days to the calendar.
Google Calendar has removed cultural celebrations like Black History Month, Women's History Month and Pride Month as President Trump cracks down on diversity, equity and inclusion policies. The calendar has also erased Indigenous People Month, Jewish Heritage Month, Holocaust Remembrance Day and Hispanic Heritage Month from its pages, as earlier reported by The Verge. Google users attacked the calendar changes, and accused the tech company of trying to curry favor with Trump. "Calendar used to capitulate to fascism," one user wrote on Google's Calendar Help page. "This is shameful. Reinstate these calendar dates!!!" "These bootlickers have immediately shown us who they are," another user wrote on the help page. "I thought I was the only one who noticed! Let's spread the word! Google are Nazi sympathizers."
... "Some years ago, the Calendar team started manually adding a broader set of cultural moments in a wide number of countries around the world," a Google spokesperson told The Post in a statement. "We got feedback that some other events and countries were missing -- and maintaining hundreds of moments manually and consistently globally wasn't scalable or sustainable," the spokesperson added Those who wish to include additional holidays can subscribe to a third-party calendar, import calendar events or create their own events, Google said.Earlier Google announced they were "curbing" DEI. Given the fact that it's illegal, and Trump won't be rewarding lawbreakers as Biden did.
... On Monday, Google officially switched the "Gulf of Mexico" to the "Gulf of America" on its Maps app. Trump's preferred title will only be seen for those searching in the US.
The company said it will also revert back to using Mount McKinley, not Denali, for the mountain in Alaska per Trump's executive order.
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Mentally-Ill Leftwing White Women Aren't Sending Their Best
Delusional leftwing white women -- that's redundant; I can just say "leftwing white women" -- continue to show that they know zero conservatives and read zero right-of-center publications by continuing to insist that we all "regret" our votes for Trump and are now all saying "the left was right about Trump."
But one AWFL takes this delusion a step further. She says that we conservatives are not allowed to complain about Trump -- not, at least, until we all publicly apologize to the left for our enabling of this unprecedented monster who tells us exactly what he's going to do and then, unaccountably, actually does it! Do you get how sick and twisted this delusion is, building upon prior delusions? She's not satisfied with the first delusion, that we all regret our vote and know now that the left was right along. No, she takes that a step further and says that we're not even allowed to regret our vote until we make a public declaration of shame, and our public declaration is approved by the AWFLs. Meanwhile, as Cecil points out, this is us on the right every single morning:Posted by: Ace at 12:40 PM | Comments (488) | Trackbacks (Suck)
The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition
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Mid-Morning Art Thread
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The Morning Report — 2/11 /25 
Perhaps the more appropriate question to ask is not how many divisions do they have but how many do WE and Trump have and if he and we are ready to be deployed. More to the point, If so then how so? What Trump should do is draw a line in the and and declare the Judiciary completely out of order in usurping Executive Branch constitutional authority. Naturally this opens him up not only to impeachment but for sure conviction and removal from office even with a GOP-controlled senate since the latter enjoy the lll-gotten fruits of their sinecures (with few exceptions) and more importantly are fearful of having have to dodge CIA/FBI assassins' bullets and putting out the flames on their children's backs. Also, at some point down the road, there ultimately will be another Democrat President the likes of which will make Obama look positively Reaganesque and they will either be successful packing the courts with hordes of Ruth Bader-Meinhoffs and other wise Latinas and/or removing Clarence Thomases at will on trumped-up charges. Or otherwise bastardizing Trump's decision to nullify a rogue Judiciary and ignore legitimate rulings (if they ever even occur again with a likely non-originialist bench). I think we are truly at a major tipping point in the life of the Republic, as it is or perhaps as we wished it still was but is for sure no longer. Trump is trying to restore something that perhaps cannot be restored, not with the ideologies and political sides as they are constituted. These indeed are the times that try mens souls. Even with all of this to consider and it is indeed a frightening picture of, at least how I perceive, the state of play. Going on with successive administrations of Clintons, Obama/Bidens and Bush/Romney/McCains is unsustainable. Whether it's DOGE, or the EO on tranny perverts in Women's sports, the military and deportations, Trump has got to do to Marbury what he did to birthright citizenship AND declare the Judiciary out of order (Like Al Pacino in "And Justice For All") Perhaps as I mused and hope, the exposure of what USAID is and actually does might open a lot of heretofore closed eyes. Many years ago, while as a twice daily rider of the NYC subway (when all you risked was at worst a mugging if you rode the wrong line at the wrong hour and having to endure the stench of urine and burnt popcorn especially at the Union Square station, I often encountered a “Pan-tangler” (as the marginally-intelligent conductor mispronounced on the PA) who held out his hand and pleaded for a donation to “The United Negro Pastrami Fund). Every now and again, I gave him buck, just because it genuinely made me chuckle. Unlike USAID, I knew my money even here was well worth it. Damn, if only I incorporated the UNPF as a 501C3 all those years ago, I'd be rolling in federal dough-rey-mi and well on my way to roasting in Hades come Judgment Day. Well, With DOGE on the job I guess I missed my shot. Hmm, maybe I can find Soros Junior and fake him out for a few dozen million… And lastly, a quick shout-out and thank you for your continued support in hitting our tip jar. (which is not the UNPF!). It truly is appreciated more than you can know.
There is no way to make meaningful reforms without challenging judicial supremacismAbsolutely goddam 100% right Daniel Greenfield. But the question is how given, paraphrasing the immortal Jimmy Durante "the conditions dat prevail.?"
Dems and their media have been shouting about a “constitutional crisis” for two weeks now. If you believe Rep. Jared Huffman, it’s even the worst constitutional crisis since the Civil War. But the actual constitutional crisis is once again proving to be a judicial coup. Democrat federal judges have blocked lawful moves by the Trump administration under various technical pretexts with the aim of upending legal presidential authority. We’ve already seen this during Trump’s first term, so it comes as no real surprise, but it’s even more aggressive out of the gate with leftist activists and leftist federal judges moving rapidly to try and block nearly anything that the Trump administration does. . . There is no way to make meaningful reforms without challenging judicial review or more properly judicial supremacism, but nonetheless it’s clear that the crisis is approaching sooner than anyone expected. The judicial coup returns us to the fundamental question of who runs the government: elected or unelected officials, by way of the question of what powers the judiciary has and what powers it does not have.The maddening irony of this sort of Catch-22 situation is that the Democrats created the unelected unofficial (and completely anti-constitutional bureaucratic state regardless of what the courts have said [which is the crux of the biscuit in the first place) and as such placed the Executive Branch in charge of it. So President Trump is wielding his authority as the head of said branch of government to do with this branch as he sees fit. Be it cutting funds or dismissal of employees. But some fucking Hawaiian hack-in-black blocking Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent from accessing Department records, the Judiciary is blatantly encroaching on the authority of the Executive Branch and usurping power. The only reason they are doing this is because Trump and team are ironically using their authority to attempt to rip out root and branch the Bureaucracy that keeps Leftist/Democrats and their RINO stooges in control regardless of who is elected President. As Ben Franklin fretted, "A Republic if You Can Keep It." Well, we're well past that for at least 80 years to a century between Wilson and FDR. In the intervening decades, because the Legislative Branch ceded its lawmaking authority and responsibilities to unelected bureaucrats while Judges abrogated their oaths in allowing the latter to issue rules and regulations on the citizenry with no real right to do so, the entire system has been turned on its ear and it has been made shall we say kosher for consumption and normalized for successive generations, so much so that any challenge to it brings about the harshest response. Trump, Musk et al are to be praised for doing all they can to expose this and please God end it. Unless one is out of their minds, a Democrat Leftist (BIRM) or clueless and uninformed unwilling to take a good long look at the ugly truth, then what they (Trump and allies) are doing is the most crucially important work in at least getting us on the road and giving us a chance, no matter how slim, at restoring some if not all vestiges of the Republic. Or at least some form of government that is at least minimally in keeping with the spirit of '76 as we approach its 250th birthday. So as Daniel Greenfield pondered earlier, how does Trump challenge if not defeat judicial supremacism? He can issue an Executive Order as he did in showing the crucifix to the undead zombified malinterpretation of the 14th Amendment granting birthright citizenship to any foreigner who spawns on our shores. But, that ultimately will wind up at the courts, and unless the court had 9 justices who were the living embodiment of Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Joseph Story we might have a shot. As we all know that is far from the case. Having to rely on courts and justices that in the main abrogate their oaths for political expediency or other amoral reasons, at this stage is the definition of insanity. Well, tweaking the immortal words of Leftist Superhero Joseph Stalin, "How many divisions does the Judiciary have?" It is way past time that the Spectre of Marbury v. Madison be exorcised. I know Musk is pushing to have these hack-in-black Hawaiian Judges de-frocked and kicked off the bench but it presupposes the political will of the GOP to lead the way to impeach them, and since the GOP sadly is also part of the problem my guess is this is a non-starter sadly.
Perhaps the more appropriate question to ask is not how many divisions do they have but how many do WE and Trump have and if he and we are ready to be deployed. More to the point, If so then how so? What Trump should do is draw a line in the and and declare the Judiciary completely out of order in usurping Executive Branch constitutional authority. Naturally this opens him up not only to impeachment but for sure conviction and removal from office even with a GOP-controlled senate since the latter enjoy the lll-gotten fruits of their sinecures (with few exceptions) and more importantly are fearful of having have to dodge CIA/FBI assassins' bullets and putting out the flames on their children's backs. Also, at some point down the road, there ultimately will be another Democrat President the likes of which will make Obama look positively Reaganesque and they will either be successful packing the courts with hordes of Ruth Bader-Meinhoffs and other wise Latinas and/or removing Clarence Thomases at will on trumped-up charges. Or otherwise bastardizing Trump's decision to nullify a rogue Judiciary and ignore legitimate rulings (if they ever even occur again with a likely non-originialist bench). I think we are truly at a major tipping point in the life of the Republic, as it is or perhaps as we wished it still was but is for sure no longer. Trump is trying to restore something that perhaps cannot be restored, not with the ideologies and political sides as they are constituted. These indeed are the times that try mens souls. Even with all of this to consider and it is indeed a frightening picture of, at least how I perceive, the state of play. Going on with successive administrations of Clintons, Obama/Bidens and Bush/Romney/McCains is unsustainable. Whether it's DOGE, or the EO on tranny perverts in Women's sports, the military and deportations, Trump has got to do to Marbury what he did to birthright citizenship AND declare the Judiciary out of order (Like Al Pacino in "And Justice For All") Perhaps as I mused and hope, the exposure of what USAID is and actually does might open a lot of heretofore closed eyes. Many years ago, while as a twice daily rider of the NYC subway (when all you risked was at worst a mugging if you rode the wrong line at the wrong hour and having to endure the stench of urine and burnt popcorn especially at the Union Square station, I often encountered a “Pan-tangler” (as the marginally-intelligent conductor mispronounced on the PA) who held out his hand and pleaded for a donation to “The United Negro Pastrami Fund). Every now and again, I gave him buck, just because it genuinely made me chuckle. Unlike USAID, I knew my money even here was well worth it. Damn, if only I incorporated the UNPF as a 501C3 all those years ago, I'd be rolling in federal dough-rey-mi and well on my way to roasting in Hades come Judgment Day. Well, With DOGE on the job I guess I missed my shot. Hmm, maybe I can find Soros Junior and fake him out for a few dozen million… And lastly, a quick shout-out and thank you for your continued support in hitting our tip jar. (which is not the UNPF!). It truly is appreciated more than you can know.
- ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
- Daniel Greenfield: There is no way to make meaningful reforms without challenging judicial supremacism
The Judicial Coup Against Trump
- USAID does wonderful things for the poor and oppressed of the world. And there’s a heckuva bridge available right now, real cheap, in Baltimore.
After USAID, America Will Never Be the Same
- Doxing is more than exposing personal data—it’s about silencing political opposition by using privacy breaches as weapons.
Don’t Give In to the Doxers
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Daily Tech News 11 February 2025
Top Story
- A group of investors led by Elon Musk has made a $97.4 billion bid for OpenAI. (Tech Crunch)
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said "no thanks" and offered to buy Twitter, but neither decision is up to him.
- Meanwhile French president Emmanuel Macron said that Europe is not in the AI race. (CNN)
Ignoring the fact that increasingly Europe is not in the anything race.
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February 10, 2025
Monday Overnight Open Thread - February 10, 2025 [Doof]
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Pet Playtime Cafe
The Milky Way in the skies of Western Australia
photographed by Trevor Dobson
via Curiosity
Mondays am i rite Senior dog finishes the race last but gets the biggest applause. Cat wants you to chase him. It's a dog-like play-bow. Donkey likes his rabbit friend. Beach cat. Noon in Antarctica. Dog owners pretend to fall unconscious to see if their dogs save them. They don't. In fact, one draws a knife and cuts his owner. These pets are going to have to start observing the five-inch-door-ajar rule. "Owls are just cats with wings." Cat ghostie. Jealous dogs. Cat decides to play with cat toy, but, of course, not the way it's designed for a cat to play with it. Red panda plays with his red panda stuffed toy. Swimming cow. Swimming bat. Whatever you're doing, dogs are interested and want to be involved. If you're excited, then dogs are excited. They don't even know what's supposed to be so exciting. But they know they want to be part of the celebrations. Inman: Moped thieves face ramifications (that is, being rammed, hard, by a Good Samaritan Driver.) A machete-wielding lunatic faces more ramifications, and then a spirited session of Street Court. Highway thief gets hard-checked by the car he intended to rob. Cars don't even need drivers to take out scumbags.
The Milky Way in the skies of Western Australia
photographed by Trevor Dobson
via Curiosity
Mondays am i rite Senior dog finishes the race last but gets the biggest applause. Cat wants you to chase him. It's a dog-like play-bow. Donkey likes his rabbit friend. Beach cat. Noon in Antarctica. Dog owners pretend to fall unconscious to see if their dogs save them. They don't. In fact, one draws a knife and cuts his owner. These pets are going to have to start observing the five-inch-door-ajar rule. "Owls are just cats with wings." Cat ghostie. Jealous dogs. Cat decides to play with cat toy, but, of course, not the way it's designed for a cat to play with it. Red panda plays with his red panda stuffed toy. Swimming cow. Swimming bat. Whatever you're doing, dogs are interested and want to be involved. If you're excited, then dogs are excited. They don't even know what's supposed to be so exciting. But they know they want to be part of the celebrations. Inman: Moped thieves face ramifications (that is, being rammed, hard, by a Good Samaritan Driver.) A machete-wielding lunatic faces more ramifications, and then a spirited session of Street Court. Highway thief gets hard-checked by the car he intended to rob. Cars don't even need drivers to take out scumbags.
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Quick Hits: Small Change Edition
Democrats will pass law to delay the the elections to replace Stefanik.
Schumer announced a website -- where did the funding for it come from? -- for Deep State ringers to "report" on DOGE workers.
The party that claims to want to "defend democracy" has decided to abandon the struggle in New York. New York state Democrats are going to pass a bill that allows Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul to delay scheduling special elections until November. Current law requires Hochul to schedule a special election 90 days after a vacancy is declared. The nomination of former Rep. Elise Stefanik to be UN ambassador will create a vacancy in her deep red district once the Senate confirms her nomination. Once the bill passes (Democrats have large majorities in both Houses), Hochul could deny citizens of New York's 21st Congressional District any representation for an extra six months. The move has profound national implications. Speaker of the House Rep. Mike Johnson will have one fewer vote to pass Trump's agenda. Currently, Johnson has a 218-215 majority with two vacancies, as well as Stefanik's seat once she's confirmed. In addition to Stefanik's seat, Florida's Mike Walz resigned to become Trump's national security advisor, and Rep. Matt Gaetz resigned when Trump nominated him for attorney general. All three seats are expected to be filled by Republicans. But in the meantime, Speaker Johnson has a nightmare majority where he can't lose more than one GOP vote.
Nike ran a Super Bowl ads promoting women's sports -- despite having used all their corporate power to displace female athletes with male ones.
Schumer's announcement touts the new portal as a means to encourage "brave public servants" to report wrongdoing, but the move raises skepticism about its true purpose. While whistleblower protections are important, the timing and framing of this initiative suggest it could be used selectively rather than as a genuine tool for government transparency. The online form allows individuals to file complaints on issues like fraud and wasteful spending, but concerns remain over how these complaints will be handled and whether they will only target agencies or individuals unfavorable to Democratic leadership. Given the history of politicized investigations in Washington, critics argue this could be another tool to shield allies while selectively targeting opponents.
The Boy Scouts have officially dropped "Boy" from their name.
Nike's Super Bowl advertisement managed to combine a grating woke lecture with the gender ideology hypocrisy that has come to define the brand over the last several years. ... However, instead of celebrating women's sports, Nike chose to present its ad with obnoxious woke talking points. The commercial's narrator (rapper Doechii) asserted that men are telling female athletes that they can't be confident, emotional, ambitious, set records, keep score, or have any fun. The ad then says female athletes should do those things, ending with the tagline, "You can't win. So win." It's a bizarre ad that would still be out of place in 2020, when woke corporate posturing was the norm. Who is out there telling female athletes they can't keep score in their games, set records, or have fun playing sports? Watching Nike's ad, you would think there is some large-scale sexist backlash against women's sports for existing. Weirder, though, is that Nike is doing far more damage to women's sports than this phantom group of sexists. Nike is one of the biggest promoters of the transgender movement, to the point that it partnered with Dylan Mulvaney, a man who claims to be a woman, to promote sports bras and other women's sports attire. In 2023, Nike announced its "No Pride, No Sport" campaign that asserts that sports without transgender people are "incomplete." The campaign urged people to "prioritize safe spaces for trans and non-binary youth" and promoted "trans-led grassroots" movements. Nike is trying to present itself as the brand of women's empowerment despite its own shortcomings when it comes to female athletes. That includes boosting a movement that asserts that men should be able to break women's records in women's sports and force female athletes out of women's locker rooms so men can be more comfortable in them. If anyone is telling female athletes what they can't do, it's Nike. They tell women that they can't have their own sports without including men who claim to be women, which makes the sanctimonious preaching that much more bizarre.
Surprise! The Communist Samantha Power used USAID to fund terror groups in the Middle East.
The Boy Scouts of America's recent name change to "Scouting America" has ignited debate over the organization's legacy and the role of traditional masculinity in raising strong men. Mark Hancock argues that instead of erasing history, America should reaffirm the foundational principles that once guided young men toward honor and purpose. Key Details: Mark Hancock warns that American boys are struggling due to a culture that has "devalued traditional masculinity" and failed to provide them with a clear sense of purpose. The principles set forth by scouting founder Robert Baden-Powell offer a "roadmap" for raising strong, capable men. Programs like Trail Life USA seek to preserve and expand on these values, offering boys the mentorship and challenges needed to build character.
While Biden was telling us that FEMA just didn't have the money to help American victims of Hurricane Helene, he was spending tens of millions of dollars to put up illegal aliens in "luxury hotels." Note that FEMA attempted, illegally, to make a payment to house illegals in hotels even after Trump ordered them to pause their spending.
As the Trump administration works to shutter the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), current and former U.S. officials who worked closely with the embattled aid group say they watched for years as it funneled millions of dollars to anti-Israel advocacy groups and entities linked to terrorism. That funding caused internal friction across multiple administrations, according to those who spoke with the Washington Free Beacon. In some cases, USAID fought to conceal how taxpayer funds were spent. And when it came to Israel, officials recalled battling USAID over funding for groups that worked to undermine the Jewish state or maintained ties to terror organizations. "For those who believe in a strong U.S.-Israel relationship, elements of USAID have been problematic for years," said one former State Department official who worked with USAID during the Biden administration. "There was even a lack of embarrassment among some USAID staffers about being associated with terrorist organizations." Some of the terror-tied funding initiatives are publicly known. In November 2022, for instance, USAID awarded $100,000 to a Palestinian activist group whose leaders hailed the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a designated terror group. Just six days before Hamas's Oct. 7 assault on Israel, USAID handed $900,000 "to a terror charity in Gaza involved with the son of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh." USAID's hostilities toward the Jewish state, however, ran deeper than the agency's grantmaking. Under Samantha Power, former president Joe Biden's pick to run USAID, agency officials fought pro-Israel policymaking at the State Department, often urging their colleagues at Foggy Bottom to pare down statements that praised the Jewish state, former officials said. In 2021, during a period of conflict with Hamas, Power herself refused to meet with Israel's ambassador unless Israel reached a ceasefire with the Iran-backed terror group. The decision put Power at odds with the White House National Security Council, which had signed off on the meeting, emails obtained by the Free Beacon show. Years later, in September, Power's USAID accused Israel of deliberately blocking Gazan aid deliveries, which Hamas is known to steal for its own use and for black market sales that fund its terror activities. USAID staffers went as far as to urge the Biden State Department to end military aid to Israel. Former secretary of state Antony Blinken rejected the request. The overwhelming majority of those staffers were set to go on leave by midnight Saturday. A federal judge blocked the action until Feb. 14, though the decision is temporary and the case is expected to go to the Supreme Court. Democratic lawmakers have vehemently opposed the cuts, arguing that they endanger millions of vulnerable people across the globe. "People can quibble about this or that," the current U.S. official said of the Democratic attention surrounding USAID. "But let's not make the perfect the enemy of the good. This is long overdue."
Elon Musk
@elonmusk The @DOGE team just discovered that FEMA sent $59M LAST WEEK to luxury hotels in New York City to house illegal migrants. 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! A clawback demand will be made today to recoup those funds.
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