James Jinnette @james_jinnette1
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Are you ready to have your mind blown?
USAID has given a total of… wait for it…
$164,749,304.99 to terrorist linked organizations.
ONE HUNDRED SIXTY-FIVE MILLION
Thank goodness @DOGE came along and discovered all of this insanity.
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5:33 PM · Feb 21, 2025
JHW252
7 hours ago
Has anyone noticed that no one in Congress from either side of the aisle has acknowledged that the oversight occurring by Musk and his team was the job they were elected to do ?
The entire Congress should be embarrassed and humiliated that their incompetence and malfeasance has cost the taxpayers millions.
Politicians have hides like rhinoceroses my father used to say. //
Sane & Logical
8 hours ago edited
I didn’t hear her going on about how bad it was for the Keystone Pipeline employees who lost their jobs. Or any other number of private sector employees who had lost jobs because of government shutting down coal and gas companies.
As far as I am concerned, government employees should not be paid more than the average private sector worker. And no lavish bonuses or benefits. They are supposed to be public servants.
Also need to get rid or all the lifetime pensions, perks, and benefits for members of congress and senators.
Steamfish Sane & Logical
8 hours ago
Nor did she shed a tear over military personnel and defense contractor employees who were sacked for refusing The Holy Vax.
Two centenarians broke the Guinness World Record for longest marriage of a living couple, as reported by Jam Press and confirmed by LongeviQuest, a database on the life and times of the world’s oldest people.
Manoel Angelim Dino, 105, first met Maria de Sousa Dino, 101, while collecting sweets in Brazil in 1936. They remained acquaintances until they met again in 1940.
When the couple reunited, Manoel said he fell in love at first sight. He declared his sentiments to Maria, who felt the same. The couple has now been happily married for 84 years and 86 days.
AfD's mission statement is this: "We are liberals and conservatives. We are free citizens of our country. We are convinced democrats." Here is some of what the party, often described by the media as "far right," stands for:
Strong opposition to illegal immigration and asylum policies.
Emphasis on preserving German cultural identity.
Reforming or leaving the EU altogether ("Dexit" has been debated within the party).
Opposition to green energy policies, favoring traditional energy sources like coal and nuclear power. //
German elections : 84% voter turnout, highest since reunification. [Previous high was 42%] The CDU/CSU wins, but with only 30%. They refuse to deal with AfD and so must ally with smaller parties including, in the words of the soon-to-be Chancellor, "green and left wing idiots". //
Minister of War
8 hours ago edited
Explanation of German political parties to Americans:
CDU (Christian Democratic Union): German version of a Mitch McConnell, Lisa Murkowski & George W Bush party
AfD (Allianz fur Deutschland or Alliance for Germany) German version of a Donald Trump/Nigel Farage party
SPD (Social Democrats) German version of a Chuck Schumer party
Grüne (Green) German version of a American moron tree hugger party
Die Linke (The Left) German Communists - German version of a Bernie Sanders, the Squad & their hero Joseph Stalin party
Baker would have his readers believe that Putin woke up one morning and said it looked like a nice day to start a war. That’s not what happened. //
The timeline is clear. Biden comes into office, Zelensky feels emboldened to antagonize a much bigger and more powerful country under the belief that Ukraine will be protected by NATO (other nations’ armies and money), Russia reacts, and we end up funding Ukraine’s defense. //
As for Zelensky being a “dictator,” it’s not like he outlawed political opposition, shut down places of worship that had traditional ties to Russia, forced the closure of media outlets critical of his administration, and indefinitely suspended elections to keep himself in power. Wait, let me re-check my notes. Never mind. He did do all of that in a process known in permanent Washington as “democracy and freedom.”
When people like Peter Baker claim that it’s “rewriting” history to acknowledge the truth, what they really mean is that the propaganda they prefer has been a failure.
Since 2020, hundreds of Republican attorneys have faced challenges to their law licenses for making conservative arguments in court. //
Republican Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita petitioned the state Supreme Court Thursday to stop threats to his law license over his pro-life legal efforts. It’s the latest development in years of abortion litigation and advocacy involving Congress, the White House, and ongoing media coverage that began in 2022, when Indiana abortionist Caitlin Bernard disclosed she’d committed an abortion on a 10-year-old rape victim from Ohio. //
In the 2024 elections, Rokita was the largest vote-getter of all statewide candidates, winning re-election by nearly 18 points despite the charges against his law license. Rokita earned more votes than every other candidate on Indiana ballots, except for Donald Trump. Hoosier voters clearly weighed in strongly against procedural efforts to impede Rokita’s work as attorney general. //
At the time it began pursuing charges against Rokita, public records showed every Disciplinary Commission member with a record of political donations had donated to Democrat Party candidates. At the time, the board was also chaired by a Democrat prosecutor who publicly supported Wells in 2024 and has made numerous donations to other pro-abortion candidates.
Elon Musk @elonmusk
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The reason this matters is that a significant number of people who are supposed to be working for the government are doing so little work that they are not checking their email at all!
In some cases, we believe non-existent people or the identities of dead people are being used… Show more
Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok
Literally takes 2 minutes to respond.
Reporting to your boss about what you accomplished at work is very standard.
Why is this so controversial?
1:43 PM · Feb 23, 2025. //
Elon Musk @elonmusk
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This email is a very basic pulse check. //
Employees are accountable to their employers. In the case of government workers, we are their employers. President Trump is the man we chose to oversee our employees. He has assigned Elon Musk and the DOGE to examine the federal payroll and eliminate the dead weight. That's a worthy task, and the president seems determined to get it done. This is something that should have been done decades ago.
Although the Easter egg was discovered on Android 6.0 Marshmallow’s stock dialer, it still works on modern Android phones, provided you use the Phone by Google app. To activate the Easter egg:
Open the Phone by Google dialer on your device.
Punch in 0118 999 881 999 119 725 3 like a phone number.
After entering the “3” the Call button will flash blue and red, like a police car. Your phone should also vibrate rapidly.
Remember that the feature only works on the Phone by Google app or the stock Android dialer.
Nick Sortor @nicksortor
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🚨 #BREAKING: President Trump is expected to appoint Kash Patel to Acting Director of the ATF in addition to his role as FBI Director, per ABC
The ATF’s days are NUMBERED 🔥
11:46 PM · Feb 22, 2025. //
Gun Owners of America @GunOwners
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🚨BREAKING🚨
President Trump has asked Kash Patel to be acting director of the ATF. Kash is a true constitutionalist and is fiercely pro-gun. 🇺🇸 🔫
2:24 AM · Feb 23, 2025. //
anon-8ry7
6 hours ago
Maybe Kash won't be as busy as we thought because maybe he was told to shut the ATF monstrosity down.
The speed and efficiency with which the new POTUS and his team are setting fire to The Swamp has even the most seasoned Washington D.C. veterans looking around in a daze. I know that the majority of those who have watched and written about politics are also stunned, including those of us here at RedState. //
I can't recall at any time over the past 30 years anyone talking about cutting and restructuring the FBI or the CIA, even as campaign rhetoric. That Trump and his team are actually moving forward with this is an absolute first in the history of how the federal government is used and how it interacts with the citizens that they serve. //
Some of the pie-in-the-sky predictions of cutting the overall deficit within a year to a year and a half could become reality. Trying to tackle long-term entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare could start to be moved upon and not with fantasy 10-year projections.
7+ Taskbar Tweaker allows you to configure various aspects of the Windows taskbar.
Most of the configuration options it provides can’t be tweaked using the taskbar properties or the registry.
The tweaker is designed for Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 10.
He has never served on the Air Staff in the Pentagon. He has never served with the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He has never worked in the procurement community or for a Defense contractor. In short, there is nothing about him that would make him stand out as a choice other than he is untainted by the uncontrolled coercive medical experimentation that masqueraded as the COVID-19 vaccination program and also by any contact with the Air Force's DEI program. You can read his full bio at JOHN D. CAINE > Air Force > Biography Display.
Another plus for him is that retired Lieutenant Colonel Alexander "Krispy Kreme" Vindman disapproves.
There is a lot in Caine's selection that recalls General George C. Marshall's decimation of pre-World War Il Army leadership and dipping deep to find lieutenant colonels, like George S. Patton, Jr., to catapult into the general officer corps. It is hard to believe he will not be the only top military leader with a non-traditional background.
Sensational new findings published in Nature Communications effectively blow the politicised wildfire climate change scam out of the water. Far from human-caused climate change making wildfires worse across the United States and Canada, it was found that recent fires occurred at a rate of only 23% of that expected from a review of the previous historical record going back to the 17th century. The researchers note that a current “widespread fire deficit” persists across a range of forest types and the areas burned in the recent past “are not unprecedented” when considering the multi-century perspective. //
These are facts. Fire scars are actual, physical evidence of a historic event, one that, due to stacking historic tree-ring data, can be very accurately dated. The records go back to the mid-1700s, conveniently when European explorers and settlers first came into the various landscapes and started cutting trees for building houses and other buildings - and some of these trees bore fire scars, and some of those structures are still standing.
It's an interesting technique.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-56333-8
Quizzical
3 hours ago
You say that this is journalistic malpractice. But many journalists have no other type of practice besides malpractice.
MSNBC is set to write a large check after the network chose to settle a $30 million defamation lawsuit. Multiple hosts were caught up in the scandal, including Rachel Maddow, Chris Hayes, and Nicolle Wallace, all of which repeated the lie that a doctor was performing "mass hysterectomies" at an ICE facility under the Trump administration.
"Today, around 9:20 a.m., we received information from employees of one of the companies from Komornik near Poznań that, after starting work, they noticed an unspecified object resembling a reservoir on its premises," said Łukasz Paterski of the Poznań Police, according to a website that provides news for the city. "No one was affected as a result of this incident."
Jonathan McDowell @planet4589
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The Falcon 9 second stage from the Starlink 11-4 launch failed to deorbit itself on Feb 2. It reentered over Northern Europe last night, with entry over the Irish Sea at 0343 UTC Feb 19 and the reentry track extending to Poland and Ukraine a couple of minutes later
11:45 AM · Feb 19, 2025
Trump maintains an informal relationship with many journalists, calling them spontaneously or sending them articles ripped out of newspapers with his handwritten thoughts out of the blue. But I guess you could say I know him better than most. I was the only journalist to predict he would win in 2016. My former editor at the New York Post used to call me the “Trump Whisperer.” I am also the reporter who popularized the phrase coined by Republican strategist Brad Todd: “the press takes him literally, but not seriously; his supporters take him seriously, but not literally.” And I was four feet away when a bullet hit Trump in 2024.
Plenty of journalists have disparaged me for being too sympathetic to Trump. They’ve blasted me for not being critical enough of his crimes, his coarseness, his history with women. But all I’ve ever done is report on what I see. I grew up among his base, and I know why they love him.
The Republican candidate took his case to a shale-industry gathering, and found a welcoming crowd. //
The press takes him literally, but not seriously; his supporters take him seriously, but not literally.
Of course, Trump presenting himself as a king got the knickers of many folks in a twist—including some Republicans who weren’t amused. Hochul, meanwhile, said in a snitty retort, “We are a nation of laws, not ruled by a king.”
My take on these sorts of provocative posts by the president is that they are done on purpose with the full knowledge of the outrage they will fire up in some quarters. There are several reasons for this: 1) He’s very possibly the funniest president we’ve ever had, with the exception perhaps of Ronald Reagan, and 2) he enjoys watching the meltdown because it causes leftists to go into hysterics and make utter fools out of themselves.
Some have argued that, seeing as the NYC skyline is in the back of the meme, he means he's the King of New York, which is both the title of a movie and a phrase. It could be construed as a clapback at the city and state that he feels has treated him so poorly over the last decade.
But does anyone truly believe his goal is to bring back monarchy to the United States? //
Tech in RL
2 days ago
This is Trump’s version of, “Look, squirrel!” While leftists go into conniption fits about declaring himself King of New York and start shouting at the sky, Trump slips out the back and implements another part of his agenda. //
anon-jzji
2 days ago
Dems pick the worst side of every issue and then double down on it. Definitely, fight to keep an irksome toll in place- a toll people hate! Yeah, that'll work. She has a lot of gall to write that we're a nation of laws, considering she is daily defying the nationals' "laws" by protecting illegals. //
anon-ymous99
2 days ago
Democrats take Trump literally but not seriously.
Supporters take Trump seriously but not literally.
Don’t know who said it originally (Bari Weiss?), but the statement is spot on. Dems as a group are utterly humorless, lecturing scolds, who paradoxically play on emotion and outrage to control and distract their portion of the electorate. Hochul exemplifies them.
FreeNation anon-ymous99
2 days ago
It was Salena Zito, a journalist from Pennsylvania. Part of the appeal of Trump (and the horror for many) is that he doesn't speak diplomatically. Obama would speak for an hour and nobody would even know what he said because diplomatic jargon. Then the journalists would come on TV and tell us the meaning of all that jibberish. All part of the elite's control of the uneducated people.
Mopani FreeNation
2 ago
Interestingly, I first heard it from my wife, who never reads or listens to the news unless I tell her stuff (she just can't stand all the garbage and asks me to filter it for her). I commented on it here a month or two ago, and now I hear it frequently! 😂
January 18, 2017 at 07:43 AM
Trump's New York years deserve a better look to discern the eventual President-in-the-making. //
One of the innumerable ironies about Trump is that the candidate embraced by "Middle America'' was long regarded as the quintessential New Yorker – loud, brash, a lover of the good life and seeker of the limelight. The idea he would emerge years later as the 45th president of the United States, would have seemed as unlikely as the star of "Bedtime for Bonzo'' ending up as 40th Chief Executive. Yet just as historians have since scoured Reagan's Hollywood years for clues to his metamorphosis as a successful politician and statesman – including his stints as president of the Screen Actors Guild – so also do Trump's New York years deserve a better look to discern the eventual President-in-the-making.
Meanwhile, President Donald Trump is focused on keep his promises which includes cutting costs for the American people. One of the things he promised was to stop the congestion pricing in New York. New York had imposed a $9 fee on everyone entering NYC below 60th Street. That would include a lot of the people who go to work in NYC. They were able to do this because they got approval under a Federal Highway Administration pilot program.
Trump revoked the approval this week, and celebrated freeing the people from the oppressive nature of the fee, "CONGESTION PRICING IS DEAD. Manhattan, and all of New York, is SAVED. LONG LIVE THE KING!" He may have been trolling. He also may have been making reference to the movie "King of New York," or how some referred to him as "King of New York," given his prominence there in the past. But you're not acting like a king when you're trying to give money back to the people.