Posts on Friday, February 14, 2025
TUCSON, Ariz — The margin in the House of Representatives currently sits at 218-215. That's a slim majority for the Republican party. But Elise Stefanik's (R-NY) nomination for ambassador to the United Nations could lower that majority even more. On the Democrat side, Raul Grijalva (AZ-07) has not voted since Jan. 3. Grijalva announced he was diagnosed with cancer in early 2024, missing all 351 votes from April through September while getting treatment. He won re-election over Republican challenger Daniel Butierez in November, and announced his return to Capitol Hill later that month. But he has since only voted a handful
A bitter feud — which began in 2015 when Donald Trump said of former POW John McCain “I like people who weren’t captured” — is over, Page Six is told.
Trump wasn’t invited to the senator’s funeral in 2018, and the then-president fumed afterward that he didn’t get a “thank you” for Sen. McCain’s state funeral.
McCain was also, famously, gave his “thumbs down” vote against Trump’s attempt to repeal Obamacare. (Photos) Sen. McCain’s daughter, political analyst and commentator Meghan McCain, had been particularly furious about the stunning digs, defending her father and calling Trump “a piece of s*** election-denying huckster.”
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), the Elon Musk-led group tasked with eliminating wasteful spending, on Friday said it found $1.9 billion that was misplaced by the Biden administration.
The funds were from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and have been recovered.
"$1.9 billion of HUD money was just recovered after being misplaced during the Biden administration due to a broken process. These funds were earmarked for the administration of financial services, but were no longer needed," a DOGE post on X stated.
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi launched legal action this week against three top New York officials, including Gov. Kathy Hochul and the state's AG Letitia James, over their so-called "sanctuary" policies that shield illegal aliens from federal deportation operations.According to the 16-page complaint naming Hochul, James, and Commissioner Mark Schroeder of the state's Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) as defendants, they are accused of impeding federal immigration enforcement's ability to arrest and deport violent criminals, thereby endangering the lives of law-abiding Americans.
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump signed an executive order establishing the National Energy Dominance Council to advise the president on strategies to make the United States energy-dominant.
A White House document on the order provided to Breitbart News notes that Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum will chair the council, while Energy Secretary Chris Wright will be the vice chairman. Various cabinet and agency members will also serve on the council. “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,” the White House document states.
President Donald Trump has announced a reversal of energy efficiency standards from the Biden era that the Obama administration initially implemented. He intended to reinstate incandescent light bulbs and restore previous water pressure regulations. Trump has been vocal about opposing the ban on incandescent light bulbs, calling it "ridiculous" and arguing that it restricts consumer choice. The initiative seeks to provide consumers with more options and lessen government-imposed restrictions.
President Donald Trump’s border czar Tom Homan on Friday clashed with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., over a webinar she hosted advising migrants about how to handle an encounter with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
“Let’s pray that she is not ‘educating’ the next murderer of a young college nursing student on how to evade arrest by ICE,” Homan told Fox News Digital on Friday.
“How many more young women have to be raped, murdered and burned alive until she wakes up?”
Homan had first said on “The Ingraham Angle” that he had emailed the deputy attorney general asking whether Ocasio-Cortez’s hosting of a “Know Your Rights with ICE” event
Democrat mega-donor Lindy Li, who served as the Women’s Co-Chair and Mid-Atlantic Regional Chair at the Democratic National Committee, faced an intense grilling on Laura Loomer’s show, leading to an emotional breakdown.
In December, Li announced that she was leaving the Democrat party following Kamala’s embarrassing defeat.
“All these so-called Democrats, the party of inclusion, the party of diversity, masks off,” Li said during her interview with Fox News in December.
“And it’s even worse because they pretend to occupy the moral high ground.
he Louisiana Department of Health said it will no longer promote mass vaccination, according to a memo released by the state’s surgeon general this week.
A spokesperson for the Department of Health (LDH) confirmed that Louisiana Surgeon General Ralph Abraham had ordered his staff to stop engaging in media campaigns and community health fairs to encourage vaccinations and shared the memo with The Epoch Times on Friday.
“The State of Louisiana and LDH have historically promoted vaccines
A federal judge on Feb. 14 rejected an emergency bid by eight inspectors general fired by the Trump administration to have their jobs restored.
District Judge of the District of Columbia Ana Reyes forced the attorney for the inspectors general to drop the request for a temporary restraining order during a virtual hearing, opting instead for an expedited schedule to hear their request for a preliminary injunction.
Reyes expressed frustration that the plaintiff’s counsel, Seth Waxman, filed suit on Feb. 12 for the order requesting emergency same-day relief, which would have included backpay 21 days after the firings occurred,
“Hitler” was their favorite. Trump was “just like Hitler,” they warned us. Forget about the fact that Trump has close relatives who are Jewish and was a staunch supporter of Israel in his first term – and also before and after.
And forget the fact that it’s the Democrats who proudly exhibit sympathy for barbarians who mass-murder, mass-behead and mass-rape the Jews.
Democrats’ proof that Trump was Hitler despite the facts we are supposed to forget was that Trump wanted to disallow the illegal immigration of Latinos into America, just like Hitler wanted to disallow the illegal immigration of Jews into Germany.
Er, no, that’s not it.
Anywaaaaay, you get the point.
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After He Calls for Use of 'Actual Weapons'
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As the Department of Government Efficiency continues its work, Democrats’ rhetoric is becoming more radical. On Wednesday, Democrat Rep. Robert Garcia spoke with CNN’s Brianna Keilar about DOGE Chairman Elon Musk, as Garcia had called Musk a “d***” in a hearing earlier that day. In his explanation to Keilar, Garcia called for using “actual weapons” against DOGE and Musk. Now, Republican Rep Nancy Mace is calling for his censure. “What I think is really important, and what the American public want, is for us to bring actual weapons to this bar fight,” he explained regarding Musk.
Former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich told Fox Business host Larry Kudlow Thursday that “there’s a lot at stake” if the Republicans lose the House in the 2026 midterm elections to the Democrats. In an appearance on “Kudlow,” Gingrich predicted a bleak scenario for the Republican Party if they fail to retain control of the House in the 2026 elections. Gingrich said there’s a need for a robust economic agenda to secure a Republican victory and prevent potential legislative setbacks under a Democrat-led House.
Homan, AOC clash over webinar to help
immigrants 'evade' ICE raids: 'I thought
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immigrants 'evade' ICE raids: 'I thought
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President Donald Trump's border czar Tom Homan on Friday clashed with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., over a webinar she hosted advising migrants about how to handle an encounter with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
"Let’s pray that she is not ‘educating’ the next murderer of a young college nursing student on how to evade arrest by ICE," Homan told Fox News Digital on Friday. "How many more young women have to be raped, murdered and burned alive until she wakes up?"
Elon Musk’s DOGE Website Hacked
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The website for Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was hacked, with tricksters exploiting a security weakness to post their own messages to the site. One message read, “THESE ‘EXPERTS’ LEFT THEIR DATABASE OPEN.”
DOGE’s website tracking Musk’s cuts to the federal government was not secure and pulls from a database that could be edited by anyone, two separate people who found the vulnerability told 404 Media. A hacker who became privy to the vulnerability made an update to the site, making it so that doge.gov displayed a message that read, “This is a joke of a .gov site.” “THESE ‘EXPERTS’ LEFT THEIR DATABASE OPEN,” a second message
J.D. Vance sends another message to Europe
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by meeting snubbed German anti-immigration
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Vice President J.D. Vance held talks with Alice Weidel, the co-leader of Alternative for Germany (AfD), at the Munich Security Conference after crictizing organizers for not inviting members of her party. Vance made his debut on the international stage by issuing a blistering attack on Europe for 'criminalizing' free speech and ignoring its own 'core democratic values'.
He then became the most senior U.S. official to meet with immigration hardliner Weidel, with the Afd heading for their strongest election showing in years when voters heads to the polls in nine days.
Russia is preparing to attack Nato states next year and Donald Trump does not have a plan to end the war in Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky warned yesterday. The Ukrainian leader led a backlash against the White House alongside Sir Keir Starmer over concessions the US President made as part of a proposed Ukraine-Russia peace deal.
His comments came after it emerged that on Wednesday Mr Trump had spoken to Russian president Vladimir Putin for an hour and a half about the conflict, sparking horror.
Trump’s hidden tax increase?
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I’ll admit I agree with almost all of President Donald Trump’s initiatives, but there’s one about which I have some doubts: stopping the minting of pennies. Yes, I know that pennies cost more to make than they’re worth. (Snip) The nearest rounding option would be five cents (though there’s a smaller lobby gunning to kill the nickel, too). That means every transaction in Colorado — the lowest state sales tax at 2.9% — will get rounded up. New York City, whose combined tax cut on most sales is effectively 8.875%, will also get rounded up.
President Trump is sending a hug and a kiss goodbye to illegal migrants this Valentine’s Day.
The White House posted a Valentine’s Day card on X Friday featuring Trump and his border czar Tom Homan’s stern-looking faces with a less-than heartfelt message: “Roses are red, violets are blue, come here illegally, and we’ll deport you.”
“Happy Valentine’s Day,” read the X post. (Photo) The pink heart-covered card shouldn’t fool anyone as it showcases Trump’s hard-line messaging on illegal immigration as part of his mass deportation offensive and border crackdown.
President Donald Trump’s famous mug shot is now hanging in the Oval Office entryway, commemorating an unprecedented day in American history.
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Dan Scavino shared footage of a framed New York Post front page, showing Trump, head tilted down, gazing intensely at the camera. (X Video) The newly-placed picture was spotted before Scavino’a video was released. (X) The renowned photo was the most famous image of the campaign, by far, until it was unseated by Trump’s defiant fist-raised pose while shouting “fight” immediately after being shot in the ear in Butler, Pennsylvania.
It's been nearly one month since President Donald Trump returned to the White House, with a new look for the Oval Office.
"Like four years ago, a portrait of George Washington now hangs over the fireplace, which is flanked by portraits of Alexander Hamilton, the country’s first Treasury secretary, and Thomas Jefferson, the country’s third president. A bust of Winston Churchill rests on a table near the fireplace, sitting in the same spot Trump originally had it before President Biden moved it out of the Oval Office when he took office in 2021. A bust of Martin Luther King Jr.,
On Wednesday night, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow thought she was delivering a zinger against President Trump and Elon Musk.
Instead, she accidentally slammed Joe Biden.
Maddow criticized a contract between Tesla and the U.S. Department of State for armored Teslas and seemed to suggest that this was somehow an example of some sort of shady payback by Trump to Musk for his support.
But there is a problem with Maddow’s fake news.
JD Vance: Everything We Do Should be to
Defend Democracy, But Europe is Abandoning
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Defend Democracy, But Europe is Abandoning
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America finds Europe’s retreat from shared values as the continent turns away from democracy and towards censorship “shocking”, Vice President JD Vance told leaders in Germany in a hard-hitting speech. Europe is increasingly acting like the ‘bad guys’ in the Cold War as it turns towards censorship and fails to uphold democracy, U.S. Vice President JD Vance told a stunned hall at Germany’s major annual Munich that despite obsession among the European elite about subversion by Russia and China, actually the greatest threat to the continent is “the threat from within”. In a withering check-list of failures
Mythologies About Musk
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Here are some of the untruths told about Elon Musk and DOGE:
"Musk has no right to cut USAID."
Elon Musk and his team are not cutting any federal programs.
They are auditors. They were given legal authority under a presidential executive order creating the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Its mandate is to identify waste, abuse, fraud, and irrelevance in the federal budget at a time when the U.S. is $37 trillion in debt.
The agency will expire on July 4, 2026.
Ultimately, Musk can propose program cuts, but Trump holds the authority to approve or reject them. He may or may not act on all, some, or none of the DOGE recommendations.
Today, February 14th, is Valentine's Day — a Hallmark holiday in which we're supposed to show our loved ones how much we care for them by giving them cards and flowers, hopefully purchased at the local Hallmark store or an accomodating local florist. Yes, I'm a tiny bit cynical about that; you shouldn't need to set aside a special day to show your significant other how important they are to you. You should do that every day.
So, let's set that aside for a moment. Today, as it happens, is a big day in firearms history as well. On February 14th, 1911 — 114 years ago —
Elon Musk's group at DOGE is moving to scrutinize the agency responsible for the most federal spending at the direction of President Donald Trump.
DOGE agents arrived at the Pentagon on Friday, a source confirmed to DailyMail.com, and are conducting meetings.
The Wall Street Journal published an image of an unofficial sign featuring the faces of 15 known DOGE agents posted in the bathroom in the Pentagon.
'Meet the DOGE Team,' the sign read.
Trump's Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has stated that he welcomes additional scrutiny to the department and its spending.
'We welcome DOGE to the Pentagon, and I hope to welcome Elon to the Pentagon very soon,' Hegseth said
Everybody needs to calm down and take a deep breath – the DOGE revolution is not in danger because a bunch of obscure district court judges in blue jurisdictions have signed ridiculous temporary orders purporting to limit President Donald Trump’s ability to actually be president. Don’t listen to the black pill battalion. We’re not losing this fight. We’re going to win it. Listen to the vice president – JD Vance has gotten a lot of heat because he pointed out that this is a legal farce. As usual, he’s right. And, to the extent there is a constitutional crisis – which there isn’t –
President Donald Trump's mugshot is framed and hung right outside the Oval Office new pictures from the White House reveal.
The mugshot was first noticed on social media as it poked through the door of the Oval Office in a photo shared by Trump staffer Margo Martin. DailyMail.com confirmed the image in photos taken by media photographers during a meeting between President Donald Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.The door to the Oval Office was left open, allowing the view into the hallway outside.
Trump's decision to hang the photo outside the Oval Office insures that everyone who goes into the room to meet the president
Love was not in the air for illegal immigrants in the United States.
The White House posted a Valentine's Day card on social media accounts Friday.
It featured President Donald Trump and border czar Tom Homan's faces with a pink background.
'Roses are red, violets are blue, come here illegally and we'll deport you,' the message read.
The Valentine - which articulated the Trump administration hardline immigration policy - stood in stark contrast to the candy heart displays former first lady Jill Biden installed on the North Lawn during the last four years.
World Economic Forum (WEF) founder Klaus Schwab tells the World Governments Summit that he is writing a new book on The Intelligent Age, where the economy will be based on “knowledge, data, and intelligent insights.” [Snip] “We are living in the transition to a new time, which will change everything,” said Schwab, adding, “It will change how we communicate, how we work, how we live.” [Snip] The unelected globalist said that governments must also work with other governments to usher in this intelligent age, aka great reset of society and the global economy that is powered by emerging technologies.
Mayor Eric Adams said Friday he wants to loosen New York City’s sanctuary laws to allow the NYPD to cooperate with ICE even on civil enforcement — only to quickly walk back the remarks.
In a joint appearance alongside President Trump’s border czar Tom Homan, Hizzoner told Fox News’ “Fox & Friends” that he has been pushing the City Council to tweak the law so cops can help the feds
Tone deaf and powerless, Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee ran out of stall tactics and finally had to submit to a vote Thursday on the confirmation of President Donald Trump’s FBI director nominee, Kash Patel.
“We have a pretty good idea of what the outcome will be today, and I am appalled that my Republican colleagues are prepared to confirm a man so publicly hostile to the agency, its people, its goals, its mission, that he intends to lead,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., said.
Yes Dick, we all did. Last week. When Democrats delayed the vote for a week, and again Thursday morning when Democrats forced
There are two wars that President Trump understandably wants to end.
The conflict in the Middle East is actually the easier of the two to solve.
And who thought anyone would ever be able to say that? In order for that war to end, Trump simply has to put pressure on the main backers of Hamas — Qatar and Iran — and make sure Hamas is isolated and alone.
But the war in Ukraine is a much harder one to solve.
New York federal Judge Paul Engelmayer’s temporary restraining order blocking the Trump administration’s access to Treasury documents happened so fast it’s unlikely he carefully read the case filings. The filings from the 19 suing Democrat state attorneys generals were so voluminous, and Engelmayer’s order was entered so quickly, that it could not possibly have been the product of reasoned judicial analysis and reflection. The stench is so bad, questions of possible corruption must be answered.
A report from the Dana Cambole Show gives a sensational explanation on why U.S. President Donald Trump seems to have Canada in his sights. ...Canadian investigative journalist Samuel Cooper,...says: “Canada has become a node of Chinese infiltration and organized crime activity--especially in Vancouver.” His bold claim buttresses the accusations made by Trump that the U.S. faces a crisis on its northern border. ...the Canadian government had failed in its duty to address these issues. [Snip] Canada has become a Chinese drug production hub. [Snip] Trump’s solution, as Asher outlines, appears not to be “annexation” but the restoration of law and order and the exposure of corruption.
The IRS will be audited by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), President Donald Trump said on Feb. 13.
“The Internal Revenue Service will be looked at like everybody else,” Trump told reporters at the White House in Washington.
He said that just about every federal agency will be examined by DOGE, led by billionaire Elon Musk. “They’re doing a hell of a job. (snip) you know they go up, and they talk to some of the people about certain deals, and they get all tongue-tied because these people get it. They’re very smart people. We need smart people.”
The IRS declined to comment
Former President Barack Obama kicked off Valentine’s Day with a flirty message to his wife Michelle affirming she’s still the one after more than three decades together.
“Thirty-two years together and you still take my breath away,” the former president wrote in a post on X Friday.
“Happy Valentine’s Day, @MichelleObama,” Obama, 63, added, along with a selfie of the two beaming together. (Photo) Michelle Obama responded to her hubby with a sweet post of her own.
Whoa: MSNBC's Response to RFK's Swearing-In
Explains Exactly Why People No Longer
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Explains Exactly Why People No Longer
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As we reported, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was confirmed by the Senate on Thursday, 52-48, to be the new Secretary of Health and Human Services, despite the failed efforts of Democrats to derail him. Kennedy was then sworn in, in the Oval Office by Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch, and both he and President Donald Trump delivered remarks. Given the drama around Kennedy, particularly from the Democrats, you would think that this would be big news to show — one way or another, that it was pretty historic. Kennedy delivered some very powerful and touching remarks in which he praised Trump. I'll tease that we have
For your edification, here’s a selection of recent headlines published in our major news outlets:
“Elon Musk’s political power grab threatens democracy and the economy.” “How Trump’s war on federal workers threatens democracy.”
“Trump showdown with courts puts U.S. on the brink of abandoning democracy.”
“Trump’s blitz to expand his power is direct threat to democracy, experts say.”
I could find a few dozen more if I wanted, but I think you get the point. The Washington swamp and its media allies have settled on their line of attack against the new Trump administration, and it’s a tired one: Our democracy is in peril!
When I read about cagey Gazans gaming an immigration program meant to facilitate Ukrainian refugees relocating to the United Kingdom, I thought that was insanity squared.
I mean, no one wants those homicide-happy, white/Anglo-Saxon/Christian/Jew haters plopping down in their hood and then paying for the privilege of supporting their doing so.[snip]
The 'integration, not immigration' crew hasn't done so well throwing the country's doors open.
When and if such a dark time ever descends upon us permanently in the United States, I'll be the one saying, 'Just shoot me.'
Vice President JD Vance confronted European leaders at the Munich Security Conference on Friday over their support for authoritarian restrictions on speech, putting the assembled dignitaries on notice that the Trump administration expects the continent to revive its commitment to Western values.
“The threat that I worry most about vis-à-vis Europe is not Russia, not China, it’s not any other external actor. What I worry about is the threat from within, the retreat of Europe from some of its most fundamental values,” Vance said. “When I look at Europe today, it’s not clear what happened to some of the Cold War’s winners.”
Independent voters show significant disapproval
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A focus group of voters showed Independents were disapproving of the Democratic Party's antics of opposition to President Donald Trump. Independent viewers in the focus group responded negatively to a protest earlier this month led by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., against Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
The focus group consisted of 75 Democrats, 49 independents and 32 Republicans, and was represented by blue, yellow and red lines, respectively.
In the video, Schumer led chants of "we will win" and "we won't rest." During Schumer’s chants, the dials showed unfavorable reactions from the independents and Republicans
America, unfortunately, has long been suffering from a crisis of civics. Put simply, many Americans are woefully ignorant about the structure and features of their government. But every so often, an opportunity emerges to reteach some basics. The media's predictable shrieks and howls of "constitutional crisis" notwithstanding, we are in the throes of a grand separation-of-powers standoff that will both serve as one such edifying civics lesson.
First: Enter the energetic executive.
In his frenetic opening weeks, President Donald Trump has channeled the spirit of The Federalist No. 70, in which Alexander Hamilton argued that only a unitary executive can govern with "decision, activity, secrecy, and despatch."
Denver Public Schools has filed a lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem over a policy allowing ICE immigration agents to enter schools.
The federal lawsuit claims that the policy has caused attendance to plummet due to the amount of illegal aliens in the district.
“DPS is hindered in fulfilling its mission of providing education and life services to the students who are refraining from attending DPS schools for fear of immigration enforcement actions occurring on DPS school grounds,” the lawsuit states, according to a report from ABC News.
On Thursday night ICE Director Tom Homan joined Laura Ingraham on The Ingraham Angle on FOX News. During their discussion Homan announced that he had referred socialist open-borders Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez to the Department of Justice.
This comes after AOC proudly announced that she was holding webinars to teach illegal aliens how to avoid ICE agents in New York City.
Homan is not playing around. It’s about time the immigration laws were followed in America – especially by elected lawmakers.
MUNICH - U.S. Vice President JD Vance said Washington would be able to wield economic and military leverage in talks with Russia to ensure a good peace deal over Ukraine, but his spokesman later denied he was making any threats against Moscow.
Vance also urged Europe to spend more on defence in remarks before arriving for the Munich Security Conference, a major annual gathering of political leaders, military officers and diplomats. In his keynote address to the conference, Vance lambasted the European Union for its regulation of hate speech and misinformation, which he said amounted to censorship.
He only briefly referred to Ukraine, saying he hoped a "reasonable settlement"
I Was Wrong About Trump
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No, I am not in love with Trump. He still makes me cringe sometimes, and I still don't understand the Canada/51st state thing at all, and want nothing to do with Gaza if he is serious about that.
But there are two vital things about him which I got completely, totally, and without question wrong.
Walter Kirn slapped me in the face (not literally) with a single tweet. Boom. At least it was a "boom" for me, because I was one of those people who was absolutely certain that Trump was too immature, too narcissistic, and too lacking in self-awareness to put his ego in check and hire
A Russian drone struck the containment shell protecting the radioactive reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, causing significant damage, Ukraine claimed Friday morning.
The protective covering that was placed around Reactor 4 in 2016 sustained a large hole from the unmanned aircraft.
“Last night, a Russian attack drone with a high-explosive warhead struck the shelter protecting the world from radiation at the destroyed 4th power unit of the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant,” Ukraine President Volodomyr Zelensky said Friday.
“This is a terrorist attack for the entire world,” he added.
In announcing the relocation of Palestinians from Gaza, Trump gave the world a brilliant masterclass in realpolitik. Let’s break it down:
If there is one thing we should be able to agree on, at least the few of us who have opened a history book, it is that ethnic hatred courses just under the skin of civilized men ready to erupt from the slightest of provocations.
This has been the case throughout history. The Ancient Greek city-states, from Athens to Sparta, from Thebes to Corinth, despite having so much in common, would periodically descend into brutal wars over seemingly nothing. This paradigm has continued unabated for millennia.
Americans who care deeply about education were treated to a rare sight on Thursday. 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. We wish her luck.
In January, before Trump first bruited his idea to close the Education Department, I&I archly suggested that “The most successful secretary of Education will be the one who shuts it down.” Little did we know that President Donald Trump would propose just that, and let his pick to lead the department make
Exclusive— Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth:
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BRUSSELS, Belgium — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview on Thursday that he is paying “very close attention” to who is executing the lawful orders from President Donald Trump and that woke generals “will have a different job in due time.”
“I’m paying very close attention. There’s plenty of three- and four-star generals up for promotion or up for new positions, and there will already be a few folks that that we’ve identified who will have different jobs in due time,” the defense secretary said.“I’m not here to declare anybody woke and they’re out. We’re watching the the execution of culture change and willingness to support
What the hell is this? I get why Ohio Democrats are doing this, trying to be cute with the whole ‘regulate our bodies’ narrative that no one cared about in 2024. Abortion and female voters did not save Democrats, who obsess over the weirdest issues that will keep this party in the political wilderness.
(Snip) A bill proposed to the Ohio statehouse will make male ejaculation without intent to have a baby, a fineable offense of up to $10,000.
The bill has been proposed by State Representatives Anita Somani and Tristan Rader, who wrote it to point out what they see as the absurdity of rules that control women's bodies
In the past couple of weeks, devastating information has erupted into the public domain detailing the malign activities of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
The Trump administration has effectively shut USAID down by freezing its existing foreign assistance programs (Snip)
Far more alarming information has now surfaced suggesting that USAID has been a major contributor to extremist and subversive activity. The Washington Free Beacon reports current and former US officials who worked closely with the aid group, saying they watched for years as it funnelled millions of dollars to bodies engaged in anti-Israel advocacy and that were linked to terrorism.
All four of the biggest scandals in U.S. history have happened in just the past few years:
(a) the cover-up of Joe Biden’s decline;
(b) lawfare against Trump;
(c) the cover-up of Hunter Biden’s influence-peddling, and now; and
(d) billions wasted, by not just the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), but also by many other agencies, and being uncovered by Elon Musk’s DOGE.
In this writer’s opinion, it’s all a series of causes and desired effects. The Democrat party Deep State (DPDS) loathe Trump. They used every trick in their trick bag, from “Russia collusion” to lawfare to assassination attempts, to beat him and present Hillary, then Biden, then Kamala
Nearly one year ago, I met my friend at a table streetside at Andechser am Dom, a restaurant in the heart of Munich, for beer and conversation. (Snip)
We had had dinner the night before. My friend, J.D., skipped out a dinner at the event he was in town attending — the Munich Security Conference, the annual gathering of military heavyweights that bills itself as the “world’s leading forum” to discuss security policy. What was the point, he had told me? He was a first-term US Senator from Ohio who was getting cold-shouldered by the Good and the Great at the conference. Why? His views on the Ukraine War
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on Thursday night didn’t rule out removing Mayor Eric Adams from office after allegations emerged that the feds would drop their criminal case against Hizzoner in exchange for his help with President Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration.
Hochul, the only official in the state who has the power to boot Adams from his position, revealed on MSNBC that she’s consulting with officials about the mayor’s future.
The governor told host Rachel Maddow that she read a letter penned by now-former acting Manhattan US Attorney Danielle Sassoon that claimed Adams’ legal team offered a “quid pro quo” in hopes of seeing his federal charges get dismissed.
Former Manhattan US Attorney Damian Williams rushed to charge Big Apple Mayor Eric Adams – then grandstanded about the corruption case to further his own career, a top Justice Department official claimed Thursday.
In a searing memo to Williams’ successor Danielle Sassoon, Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove blasted Williams for “inappropriately politiciz[ing] and taint[ing]” the the historic case he filed against Adams in September.
He noted that Williams launched a personal website akin to a “campaign website” filled with puff-piece stories about his prosecutions of Adams and Sean “Diddy” Combs and penned a January op-ed in City & State New York titled,
His political career may be over — but his heart will go on.
Former Mayor Bill de Blasio revealed Thursday that he is in a new romantic relationship — with a raven-haired progressive pundit decades his junior, who shares his lefty views and his desire to “cuddle.”
The 63-year-old Democrat is romantically involved with liberal activist Nomiki Konst, 41, and plans to spend Valentine’s Day snuggling with her and sipping wine.“Nomi and I have started a really lovely relationship, just in time for Valentine’s Day. We’ve known each other for a long time and are very kindred souls,” he texted The Post — adding a red heart emoji.
A Russian drone with a high-explosive warhead hit the protective containment shell of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Kyiv region during the night, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Friday.
Radiation levels have not increased, Zelenskyy and the U.N. atomic agency said.
Russian officials made no immediate comment, and it was not possible to independently confirm Ukraine’s claim of Russian responsibility. The U.N. atomic agency did not attribute blame, saying only its team stationed at the site heard an explosion and were informed that a drone had struck the shell.
Zelenskyy said that the strike damaged the structure and started a fire,
We’ve all heard stories about power-mad Federal Judges who had been told so many times by people who are required to be nice to Federal Judges they were all-powerful they actually started believing it but this one just might top them all!
A Federal Judge, Paul A. Englemayer, in Manhattan (of course) wholeheartedly complying with a request by attorneys general of 22 deep blue states, entered an order in the dark of the early morning hours of last Saturday banning - are you sitting down?- the Secretary of the Treasury from accessing the records of… the Treasury Department.
Just think about that for a moment or two;
The Trump administration is preparing to designate a series of Mexican drug cartels and two from Central and South America as foreign terrorist organizations. The move comes as Mexico continues to experience unprecedented levels of violence, including the widespread use of landmines and improvised explosive devices, despite empty government claims that crime has decreased and impunity has ended.
A document reviewed by Breitbart Texas revealed that the U.S. State Department is expected to designate the Sinaloa Cartel, Cartel Jalisco New Generation, The Gulf Cartel, The Cartel Del Noreste faction of Los Zetas (Northeast Cartel), Carteles Unidos, and Familia Michoacana as foreign terrorist organizations on February 19.
A military aircraft transporting Secretary of State Marco Rubio to the Munich Security Conference in Germany was forced to return to Washington Thursday night after it encountered a “mechanical issue.”
“This evening, en route from Washington to Munich, the plane on which Secretary Rubio is flying experienced a mechanical issue,” State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce said in a statement.
“The plane has turned around and is returning to Joint Base Andrews,” she added, referring to the Maryland air base just outside Washington, DC.
“The Secretary intends to continue his travel to Germany and the Middle East on a separate aircraft,” Bruce said.
The mass firings of government workers have begun. On Thursday, the Trump administration met with the Office of Personnel Management, advising them to fire federal workers on probationary status. NBC News said this could put hundreds of thousands of workers in the crosshairs. These workers are essentially recent hires, and some might get fired very soon (via NBC News): President Donald Trump's administration began a mass firing of federal workers Thursday.
Office of Personnel Management officials met with agency leaders and advised them to dismiss probationary employees,
President Donald Trump locked horns with CNN's Kaitlan Collins as he signed a reciprocal tariff plan at the White House Thursday, saying her network has "no credibility."
As he held up the signed plan for the cameras of the press gathered in the Oval Office, Collins began asking, "Mr. President, you won the White House, in part, because of high inflation. If your tariffs make prices go up-"
"Excuse me," Trump replied, "We haven't asked you to speak yet." (Photo) Trump then answered questions from reporters about the military conflict in Ukraine, saying he believes Russian President Vladimir Putin wants the war to end.
"I believe he wants peace,"
The Trump administration has sent 53 Venezuelan nationals to the Guantánamo Bay detention facility in Cuba as the effort to deport criminal illegals gains steam.
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 New York Times reported.Officials from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Defense Department have not made any statements on the more than four dozen detainees, but did confirm they had entered the U.S. illegally and are “violent gang members and other high-threat illegal aliens.”
A $20 billion Biden administration green-energy slush fund was collecting interest at a private bank and is being distributed without proper oversight, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin reveals in an exclusive interview.
President Joe Biden’s EPA parked $20 billion at the financial institution, which The Post has learned is Citibank, as part of the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. But the awardees weren’t announced until August 2024 and Citibank not brought in until September — after Biden’s disastrous June debate performance led him to withdraw from re-election in July, making a very different race with Kamala Harris the Democratic nominee.
14 Democrat state attorneys general sued Trump and DOGE and claimed Elon Musk is operating with unchecked power since he is not senate confirmed.
Blue states such as Arizona, Michigan, Rhode Island, New Mexico, Massachusetts and others filed a lawsuit arguing President Trump violated the Appointments Clause of the Constitution when he created DOGE and gave Elon Musk ‘unchecked power.’
The attorneys general argued that since Elon Musk is not senate confirmed, he should be barred from issuing orders to anyone inside of the executive branch.
“We are asking the court to invalidate his directives and actions
A group of 14 states have sued DOGE and Elon Musk claiming that Musk is a "designated agent of chaos" given unlimited power to make them sad. Okay, that last part is made up but the rest is real. They are demanding that Musk be confirmed by the Senate.
"Musk's seemingly limitless and unchecked power to strip the government of its workforce and eliminate entire departments with the stroke of a pen, or a click of a mouse, would have been shocking to those who won this country's independence," reads the complaint, which was filed Thursday in federal court in Washington, D.C.
Led by the state of New Mexico,
Among Democrats, those are fighting words. Among Republicans, it would be a compliment. In the real world, the call for La Résistance 2.0 is as tone-deaf as Florence Foster Jenkins singing a Mozart aria -- the real problem Democrats refuse to acknowledge.
That's not the only problem facing Hakeem Jeffries either.
The Washington Examiner and Newsmax both report that Democrats have grown restive under Jeffries and the long string of losses under his leadership. They want a full-on return to Nancy Pelosi-style tactics, and that's awkward while Pelosi remains in the caucus, to be sure:
In the days since Trump won a second term, everything has changed