By spotlighting AP, Trump is amplifying Republican and conservative criticisms that the AP Stylebook, a first reference for most U.S. news organizations, shapes political dialogue by favoring liberal words and phrases concerning gender, immigration, race and law enforcement.

Taylor Budowich, Deputy White House Chief of Staff, elaborated on their position:

"This isn't just about the Gulf of America," White House deputy chief of staff Taylor Budowich told Axios. "This is about AP weaponizing language through their stylebook to push a partisan worldview in contrast with the traditional and deeply held beliefs of many Americans and many people around the world."

First create an interface list for all user/customer interfaces: //

Last, apply the bridge filter to the forward train to catch traffic moving through the bridge.

#this filter rule will block DHCP servers
/interface bridge filter
add action=drop chain=forward in-interface-list=customers ip-protocol=udp mac-protocol=ip src-port=67

If the device has a default or existing configuration that requires replacement, it is necessary to initiate a configuration reset.

This involves applying a clean, empty configuration using the command /system/reset-configuration no-defaults=yes, followed by a device reboot. //

For example, load saved configuration file

[admin@MikroTik] > import address.rsc
Opening script file address.rsc

Script file loaded and executed successfully
[admin@MikroTik] >

• verbose Reads each line from the file and executes individually, allowing to debug syntax or other errors more easily.
• dry-run Simulates the import without making any configuration changes. This helps in catching syntax errors. This option is only available in verbose mode.

Today is Presidents Day. It shouldn’t be.

It’s yet another example of Washington politicians screwing around with important, organic commemorations that celebrate key national figures in our country’s history for superficial contemporary priorities.

Most recently, in 1968 a Democrat Senate, a Democrat House, and a Democrat president eliminated the national celebration of George Washington’s birthday on Feb. 22. The first president was dead, so he couldn’t object. //

News Flash! George Washington was not born today, on Feb. 17. No president was. He was born on Feb. 22, 1732, in Virginia just in time for his historical calling. He reportedly paid little attention to his birthday. No bouncy tent, no clowns and balloon tricks.

But in 1789, a grateful new nation began celebrating Feb. 22 as a government holiday in Washington, along with July 4th. In 1879, that became the official national holiday. //

The same was true for No. 16, Abraham Lincoln, who was born on Feb. 12, 1809, the first president born outside the 13 original colonies (KY). //

We did not learn much about the president’s four sons. I suspect because three of them died as children. That and the Civil War would explain their father’s sad face shortly before his murder in 1865 (on the right above). //

But that all ended in 1968.

That’s when Congress turned the third Monday in February into Presidents Day.

Who cares about actual history if you can wrangle another three-day weekend by ignoring it.

The invention of "Presidents Day" from whole cloth has sapped most of the meaning from its observance.

Largo Patriot
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It's so typical of a federal bureaucracy run by Democrats for the last half century that two of the most consequential presidents in our nation's history have to share a holiday so one black civil rights hero can have his own.

RouterOS allows resetting configuration with /system reset-configuration command //

The backup file of the existing configuration is stored before reset. That way you can easily restore any previous configuration if the reset is done by mistake.

If the router was installed using Netinstall and had a script specified as the initial configuration, the reset command executes this script after purging the configuration. To stop it from doing so, you will have to reinstall the router.

It is possible to override the default reset behavior with the parameters below:

• keep-users Do not remove existing users from the configuration
• no-defaults Do not load the default configuration, just clear the configuration

Though they lost, they got a solid dissent to work with and went to the Supreme Court.

Their arguments are that the president has absolute authority to remove officials at will and that every time the Supreme Court has heard a case similar to Dellinger's, they have agreed. //

Whatever the agency, for the President to discharge his constitutional duty to supervise those who exercise executive power on his behalf, the President can “remove the head of an agency with a single top officer” at will. Collins 594 U.S. at 256. On that basis, President Biden in 2021 fired the single head of the Social Security Administration without cause. //

!This Court should not allow lower courts to seize executive power by dictating to the President how long he must continue employing an agency head against his will. “Where a lower court allegedly impinges on the President’s core Article II powers, immediate appellate review should be generally available.”. //

As a general matter, the Constitution “scrupulously avoids concen-trating power in the hands of any single individual” save for the President, who is“the most democratic and politically accountable official in Government.” Id. at 223-224. Single agency heads thus must be accountable to the President through at-will removal. There are only four single agency heads upon whom Congress has sought to confer tenure protection: the Directors of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), the Commissioner of Social Security, and the Special Counsel here. The former three are undisputedly subject to at-will removal under Article II. This Court’s precedents foreclose any special exception for the Special Counsel.

"Death field set to false" means the number is still active, according to the system.

His chart showed more than 20 million over 100 years old "including more than 3.9 million in the 130-139 age range, more than 3.5 million in the 140-149 range and more than 1.3 million in the 150-159 range." Not to mention the couple of folks who must be the original vampires who are between 240 and 369 years old.

Musk also noted how there were unresolved inconsistencies between the Social Security and Treasury files.

"The logic flow diagram for the Social Security system looks INSANE. No one person actually knows how it works. The payment files that move between Social Security and Treasury have significant inconsistencies that are not reconciled. It’s wild," Musk declared in a post on X.

In another post, Musk said "there are FAR more ‘eligible’ social security numbers than there are citizens in the USA. This might be the biggest fraud in history."

The fact that the numbers are active in regard to people who can't be alive doesn't necessarily mean that money is going out to them. Musk seems to be implying at least some of it is, as he talks about "vampires collecting Social Security." But it does mean that the numbers are active, and for more people than are in the U.S. So that means there's a big problem in the system, with these numbers theoretically still active. //

Quiverfull
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Amazing that the same people who cheered about getting 87,00 new IRS agents to audit us, are the same ones screaming to high heaven about the one guy auditing the government, and he's doing it for free. //

SouthernRoots
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These numbers add up to 398,416,213. According to http://census.gov , the US population today is 341,356,247.

There are 57,059,966 more individuals active in SS than the population of the US. If all of these get $24,000 a year, that is a waste of $1.369 Trillion a year.

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio defends @JDVance's "historic" speech last week in Munich, leaves ABC's Margaret Brennan speechless after she tries to claim that free speech was "weaponized" by the Nazis. Incredible exchange: 👇

3:56 PM · Feb 16, 2025. //

To start, the "investigative news program" did an entire segment on why free speech is bad, fawning over German laws that throw people in jail for posting "disinformation," and be sure to stick around because that comes back into play later in the episode. Here's the CEO of an NGO called "HateAid," an ironic name if I've ever seen one, explaining how free speech must have "boundaries" lest people rely on it to "say anything they want.". //

I wonder why half of Germans might be scared to post their political opinions online. What could possibly cause so many people to live in fear of what they say? Could it be because Germany throws people in jail for speech its officials deem to be "disinformation?". //

In broad terms, I don't think trying to make overpaid government bureaucrats who spent their time dolling out taxpayer money to foreign entities into victims is going to be very effective. Did "60 Minutes" run segments shedding tears for the people who lost their jobs when the same bureaucratic state pushed for the shutting down of the country for COVID-19? Or what about the workers who were left hanging when former President Joe Biden canceled the Keystone XL pipeline? I could spend all day listing examples.

Now, are you ready for the big twist? In the same episode "60 Minutes" lauded anti-free speech laws in Germany under the guise of policing "disinformation," it turns out they lied about who Drye and Dubard were. It turns out both were not actual USAID employees by contracted consultants, with one being a speechwriter for Samantha Power, the politically appointed head of the agency during the Biden administration. //

So a major news outlet promoted laws that punish the spreading of "disinformation" and then proceeded to spread disinformation for partisan gain. You can't make this stuff up. Truly, CBS News is on another level right now.

Western Lensman
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🚨Hakeem Jeffries left grasping for a response after ABC's Jon Karl reads off massive favorability numbers for Trump:

“Donald Trump's favorability rating is HIGHER than it ever was the first time around.”

63% favor govt recognizing only two sexes

60% favor deporting illegals

60% favor expanding O&G production

59% favor declaring emergency at southern border

Trump has put Democrats in the position of opposing his massively popular positions — “defending the indefensible” — and they have no coherent answers.
3:53 PM · Feb 16, 2025. //

My favorite part about this whole clip is the expression of utter shock on Jeffries' face. He looks like a deer in the headlights on a dark highway. I was half expecting him to splutter, "But, but… CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS! THERE’S A CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS!”

To be clear, none of these people are under any kind of threat from the greater world. All the supposed "attacks" they're enduring aren't attacks at all. They're either pushback against the transgender activist community for trying to impose its will on the rest of America, or it's nothing at all, much like the U-turn sign. As I said before, conflict as the heart of the Cluster B personality, and if they can't find it, they'll create it.

This isn't a healthy kind of mentality to have on a personal level, and it's definitively not beneficial for a society to be infected by it either.

Transgenderism is a mental illness. It never stopped being one, even after the name was changed from "gender dysphoria." As you've likely seen repeatedly, and in various ways, people who identify as transgender are usually infested with mental illness and sicknesses, many of which are self-diagnosed and others which are reinforced through their community, as well as doctors and psychologists who should lose their license.

People with this kind of mental sickness can hardly handle their own lives, yet a good deal of give them the power to dictate others' lives, including politicians who capitulate to these people, when they should be smiling, nodding, and then moving on from them.

As an American who believes in American values, I think everyone should have a voice, and I think everyone should get to speak their minds to power, even people I disagree with on a fundamental level. In fact, I want them to speak their minds as openly as possible, as it only ever seems to help my point.

But just because they have a voice, it doesn't mean we have to weigh their input with equal measure to someone who clearly hasn't lost their mind. //

To be clear, these people are on a quest to inadvertently destroy themselves, and capitulating to them only brings us down with them. The people in this country need to get to a point where they aren't afraid to simply shrug the demands of the mentally ill off. There is no compassion in giving them what they want, because what they want isn't helping anyone, including them. We need to return to a culture where we recognize that these people are people, but they're troubled.

The cultural position our country needs to take is that transgenderism isn't normal or healthy. These people need assistance to get off the crazy train. //

These people need help, not power. Power is the last thing they need.

The cadre of elite disease detectives at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is expected to be left in ruin today as the Trump administration continues to slash the federal workforce.

Many members of the CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service, EIS—a globally revered public health training program—were informed earlier Friday that they were about to be fired, according to reporting from Stat News. Multiple sources told CBS News that half of EIS officers are among the ongoing cuts.

The Trump administration is ousting thousands of probationary federal workers in a wide-scale effort to dramatically slim agencies.

The EIS is a two-year program filled with competitively selected, highly educated and trained experts. EIS officers are the ones deployed in critical public health situations, such as deadly outbreaks or bioterror attacks. The program has a long, rich history since its establishment in 1951, which includes contributing to the eradication of smallpox, among other achievements.

Researchers have uncovered a sustained and ongoing campaign by Russian spies that uses a clever phishing technique to hijack Microsoft 365 accounts belonging to a wide range of targets, researchers warned. //

Advisories from both security firm Volexity and Microsoft are warning that threat actors working on behalf of the Russian government have been abusing this flow since at least last August to take over Microsoft 365 accounts. The threat actors masquerade as trusted, high-ranking officials and initiate conversations with a targeted user on a messenger app such as Signal, WhatsApp, and Microsoft Teams.

KanekoaTheGreat @KanekoaTheGreat
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Al Sharpton Asks: Can you imagine if James Madison or Thomas Jefferson tried to overthrow the government?

🙄🙄

9:04 PM · Feb 16, 2025.

One day, our children's children will read American history, and can you imagine our reading that James Madison or Thomas Jefferson tried to overthrow the government? So they could stay in power? That's what we're looking at, we're looking at American history. //

Lisa Steves @theLisaSteves
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Thomas Jefferson along with 55 other men committed treason by signing the Declaration of Independence from the British Government. So Yes, I can 100% see Thomas Jefferson overthrowing a government.
10:28 PM · Feb 16, 2025