the Trump administration totally expects they are going to lose in court a lot. Do you know what it costs to do an executive order? A piece of paper and a Sharpie. That’s it. And they can go right back to the drawing board. One of these courts said, hey, the language was too vague. You know what that tells them? Just go draft another one. It's not like legislation where you need a bunch of people to agree on something.

[...]

They’re going to fight at every single turn. And that means appealing absolutely everything with the knowledge that they’re going to lose some of them because it costs them nothing. Executive Orders are the easiest thing to issue.

I do not see this as Trump losing over and over and over again. I think the more important bigger story is that they’re not going to stop and they’re going to keep fighting it every time, and they are going to win some of these. //

Political-Paige
4 hours ago
SCOTUS could end all this tomorrow with a sweeping (and utterly unassailable) order that these District Courts lack the power to issue nationwide injunctions against the Executive.
But the Roberts Court is so timid that it's allowing unprecedented chaos to reign across the country as activist inferior court judges strut their unearned power games.
It's appalling.

In Texas, a doctor and whistleblower at the Texas Children’s Hospital was persecuted by the Biden administration for going public with the reality of these treatments. Award-winning journalist Catherine Herridge interviewed Dr. Eithan Haim and his wife Andrea and released the full interview Monday on X. It is truly must-see TV. Dr. Haim was, of course, persecuted by the Biden Justice Department for blowing the whistle on this unethical and unnecessary care for minors. //

Not only does this case represent an unforgivable instance of lawfare by a presidential administration against a medical practitioner who has gone public with his concerns over what is arguably an unethical practice, but it also shows the depth to which the adherents to gender ideology will go to keep treating kids.

Some key segments follow. The title of the interview is telling as well: "Government Malpractice - vindicated Texas surgeon speaks out after exposing Biden era gender affirming treatments for minors."

While the mainstream press screams bloody murder over the Trump administration's trimming back of the bureaucratic state, shocking new details have emerged about how government resources were being misused. A new report from City Journal has obtained chat logs showing NSA representatives, including from the CIA and FBI, used the NSA's government interlink program to discuss various transgender fetishes and aspects of "transitioning."

The report shows topics such as "genital castration, artificial vaginas, piss fetishes, sex polycules, and gangbangs" were posted using the government system. This is what your tax dollars were going to. //

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Government officials have lived in an alternate universe where all their most disgusting, corrupt desires are not only met but encouraged. All while getting paid hefty salaries and benefits packages. And to do what? No one really knows, but they clearly had quite a bit of free time on their hands.

These agencies have to be gutted to the studs, and that's why the work of DOGE and the Trump-appointed heads is so important. Leaving the masses in place and changing a few regulations won't fix this, and the more insane revelations we get, the more of a mandate the administration has. The U.S. government has been inundated by lazy, wasteful, degenerates for decades, and it's about time the hammer dropped. Taxpayer money should not be used to fund a funhouse for mentally ill people.

It has become commonplace in Liberia for people to arbitrarily create streets, towns, and places with willy-nilly names. Streets without logical naming conventions hinder efficient navigation and hamper effective police and fire responders in critical situations.

To ensure meaningful, consistent, and practical street names, cities nationwide must adopt naming policies that include public consultation, historical relevance, community engagement, and clear guidelines. Such measures will maintain order.

Astronomers will find a lot more of these
City-killer asteroids the size of 2024 YR4 are fairly common in the inner Solar System. This asteroid was likely somewhere between 40 and 100 meters across, which is large enough to cause regional destruction on the planet, but small enough to be difficult to find with most telescopes. However, we should expect to find more of them in the coming years.

"An object the size of YR4 passes harmlessly through the Earth-Moon neighborhood as frequently as a few times per year," Richard Binzel, one of the world's leading asteroid experts and a professor of planetary sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, told Ars. "The YR4 episode is just the beginning for astronomers gaining the capability to see these objects before they come calling through our neck of the woods.". //

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, formerly known as the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, is nearing completion in Chile. Among its primary scientific objectives is finding small asteroids near Earth, and it is likely to find many. A little more than two years from now, the NEO Surveyor is scheduled to launch to a Sun-Earth Lagrange point. This NASA-backed instrument will survey the Solar System for threats to Earth. Finally, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope due to launch in 2027 will not look directly for asteroids, but also is likely to find threats to Earth.

With all of these tools coming online, astronomers believe we are likely to find 10 or even 100 times more objects like 2024 YR4. //

In fact, the message people should take from this whole experience is that the Solar System is full of small rocks whizzing all around. And when it comes to asteroids and comets, knowledge is power.

The findings from UC Riverside and Caltech were derived by using a widely used modeling tool from the US Environmental Protection Agency. The EPA model translates the estimated air quality and human health impacts into a monetary value.

Hoi Polloi Boy
6 hours ago
Lib: It's been called the Gulf of Mexico for centuries!!

Dude: Cool bro! Now do genders.

EDMUND
6 hours ago
They really wanna die on this hill?

GeoMcGeo
5 hours ago
Democrats have used the hammer of controlling local schools through access to federal funding for decades.

frylock234
6 hours ago
No, I believe the Feds can withhold funding over refusal to follow Federal policy. They've done it before to enforce speed limits I think it was? Nice highway funding ... too bad you don't want to conform to our thoughts on proper speed (or maybe it was blood alcohol limits). The state could do as they wished, just without those federal highway dollars.

Stoutcat
7 hours ago
”…the irony of it all is that Donald Trump never served a day the freaking coward…”

Did Biden? Did Obama? Did Clinton?

NavyVet Stoutcat
6 hours ago
President Trump was shot by a democrat, in the democrat war on America.
That makes President Trump a combat veteran in my book.

Fight! Fight! Fight!

TexasVeteran Stoutcat
7 hours ago
At least he attended a the New York Military Academy and learned to salute properly! That puts him well ahead of the three presidents mentioned above!😁

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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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.