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                Wednesday, February 19. 2025
                        
                                                    
            
            
                 
  Quillette has annoyed me with their sign-in thing Blue State Bill Aims To Jail Those Who ‘Misgender’ Dead People  The Welsh Are Whack: Pharmacists Now Need to Know About Drugs, Jabs... and Climate Change  What would a Harris-Walz administration be doing right now?  It’s Wednesday, February 19. This is The Front Page, your daily window into the world of The Free Press—and our take on the world at large. Coming up: Muslim groups defend Australian nurses who say they’ll kill Israelis. Trump makes IVF more accessible. The National Endowment for Democracy—scrap it or save it? An incredible letter from the New England Patriots owner. And more. But first: USAID funded the vast majority of “independent” media in Ukraine—and spent our tax dollars to suppress the truth.  Wednesday Potpourri  They Just Don’t Get It by Matthew Continetti  Trump Is Right About Greenland. Bringing the island closer to America makes national security sense.  Trump Gets Broad Backing On Illegal Immigration Crackdown: I&I/TIPP Poll  Trump Blasts Critics Of His Ukraine Peace Initiative, Including Zelensky, Questions Where Hundreds Of Billions Went  Dem Congressman Likens J.D. Vance’s Munich Speech to Hitler — Claims Rhetoric Could Be Used to ‘Justify The Holocaust’  JONATHAN TURLEY: Critics Prove Vance’s Point on the Threat of the Anti-Free Speech Movement.  Orban Issues 'WARNING!' Over 'Soros NGO Network Fleeing To Brussels' After USAID Funding Freeze  The End of the ‘Deliberate Starvation’ Lie 
                Tuesday, February 18. 2025 
                Monday, February 17. 2025
                        
                                                    
            
            
                  This President’s Day, remember what George Washington can teach us — and Trump  ‘Choco-holic’ opossum hospitalized after annihilating entire Costco chocolate cake: ‘Too much of a good thing’  Martin Gurri: What Does It Mean to Be a Man? In a world of eunuchs, buffoons, and beasts, we need new heroes.  What Sexual Liberation Really Looks Like - Hookup culture benefits men at the expense of women. OK, but women get horny too 
 Americans are keeping their cars longer.  The Free Press - A Showdown in Massachusetts Schools over Antisemitism. Plus. . .Matt Schlapps another man’s crotch (allegedly). Cartels can’t traffic kids anymore. Musk’s new baby mama. And more.  Appearing at the annual Munich Security Conference today, Vice President J.D. Vance torched Europe in a manner they’ve never heard before. Marco Rubio Leaves CBS News' Margaret Brennan Speechless After She Claimed Nazis 'Weaponized' Free Speech  Victor Davis Hanson Gives Funny Explanation for Why EU Leaders Reacted Badly to JD Vance’s Speech Reynolds:  Abolishing the Income Tax - Something that might actually happen? And the implications go beyond lower taxes. Democrats Have Trump Fever, and There Is No Cure. And no, we are not sick of all the winning.  Color Me Confused By The Left’s Unhinged Reaction To Trump  "Washington Recession Begins": DC Active Home Listings Soar, Jobless Claims Spike As DOGE Drains Swamp "... we can cheer on DOGE, but without knowing whether taxpayers will eventually benefit, or not."  Democrats rage against DOGE — but shouldn’t everyone be against waste?   "Taking Away Everything We Have": Democrats & Unions Launch An Existential Fight Over Buyouts  Lee Zeldin Cancels Millions in Wasteful DEI Contracts, Reveals Shocking Amount of Money Spent on ‘Media Contracts’ After Stopping Biden EPA’s ‘Gold Bar’ Heist  What the heck was she even trying to say?   Trump Is Likely to Win the Battle on Birthright Citizenship  Regimepresse: 60 Minutes Sees German Censorship, Finds It Wunderbar  Munich Bloodbath Ruptures Western Order Wide Open 
                Saturday, February 15. 2025
                        
                                                    
            
            
                   The Free Press in Love - This Valentine’s Day, we’re sharing tales of romance found in unexpected places—on rooftops, in newsrooms, across
 continents, and in a fourth-grade crush that finally came true.
 What's the difference between love and desire? The friendship component? American Crocodiles Are Thriving in Florida’s Nuclear Power Plant Cooling Canals Tick-tock 
 Mitochondrial Dysfunction Is a Bit of a Fad Coffee is a cure 
  Liberal women the 'least happy and loneliest' in America, according to a new survey Sorry, but government does not love you 
  ‘Manifest Destiny’ on Mars: Trump’s remark stirs up disagreements in astronomy community 
 TESLA is a Nazi car  Saturday Miscellany  RFK Jr. Sworn In On Raw 32-Ounce Ribeye NTSB Reveals New Details Regarding the Deadly D.C. Mid-Air Collision The Department Of Education: A Boondoggle Since Its Inception. Parents should be in charge of the education of their children.  It's Your Own Damn Fault, Liberals  Trump has his framed mug-shot on the wall next to the door to the Oval Office. A Master Troll  The Democrats’ reaction to the Department of Government Efficiency’s necessary mission might seem a bit excessive. But it is understandable.
 Their taxpayer-funded slush fund has been exposed.
 It's not their $. Spending OPM is fun. 
  Surprise: HHS Wasted $22 Billion On Getting Cars And Homes For Fake Asylum Seekers  JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon GOES OFF on Employees Who Don’t Want to Return to Working in Person  Trump Revives Incandescent Light Bulbs, Puts an End to Biden-Era Ban No more candles 
  Pampered greenie princelings set to jet into Brazil's COP30 rainforest summit advised to 'sleep under the stars' James Carville admits Trump’s fast pace is leaving Democrats reeling: ‘We are overwhelmed’   Letitia James Steps on Multiple Rakes in Wild Rant Against Trump, Musk Over DOGE
  Zeldin Cancels $50 Million Contract for Environmental Group Working for a ‘Free Palestine’. “Thedays of irresponsibly shoveling boatloads of cash to far-left activist
 groups in the name of environmental justice and climate equity are over”
  The Democrats are foaming at the mouth over everything the Trump administration does, but so far the public isn’t buying it.  Trump Is Unleashing DOGE on the Pentagon Budget: Here’s Where Musk Should Look  Full Charge: EPA Sent $160 Million to now Bankrupt Canadian Electric Bus Company
  France, Arabs to Counter Trump Gaza Plan With Proposal to Keep Making Same Mistake Again. The only alternative they can come up with is a
 terrorist state.
 Think more creatively.... 
 Douglas Murray: Trump wants peace and an end to the war in Ukraine – it’s by far his toughest objective  No One Actually Objects to Resettling Gaza  Wasn't Gaza part of Egypt? Give it back...but they don't want it.  EU: Say, Maybe We Should Invest In Our Own Defense After All  The Guardian view on Trump and Putin: Ukraine’s future must not be decided without it: The US president wants to end this war – and is happy to do so on Russian terms Sheesh. I guess Trump and I are Russian stooges. 
                Friday, February 14. 2025
                        
                                                    
            
            
                 Who was Saint Valentine? 
 New Jersey man sues after his wife was killed by a rampaging hippo while on safari in Zambia It has been obvious for a long time that remote work has a negative impact on productivity The Real Reason the Elites Were So Taken Aback by Taylor Swift Getting Booed  The pope barks up the wrong tree  TGIF: Be (My Limestone) Mine? America’s the new Mexico, cocaine’s the new whiskey, and hospitals are where you go to be killed. Plus: DOGE
 vendettas, chicken nugget immunity, and more.  By Nellie Bowles
  My Statement to Congress - Opening remarks on John Kerry, European speech law, and USAID before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday,
 February 12th, 2025 by Matt Taibbi
 How to Dismantle the Department of Education - GOP presidential candidates have long vowed to shrink or abolish the department, but its budget has only grown. Dem suggests "actual weapons"   It is perhaps too obvious to have to say it, but the dozens of tech broswho are working for DOGE are nearly all suffering from toxic
 masculinity.
  DOGE Insider Joe Lonsdale: Deep State Has Finally 'Met Their Match' With Elon Musk  DOGE Exposes Insane Federal Use Of Old Limestone Mine And 700 Mine Workers To Store Files  I Was Wrong About Trump  The Trump Team fooled everybody, including me.  VDH: Mythologies about Musk 
 Congress Discovers $2.7 Trillion in Fraudulent Government Payments — Why Is This Not a Bigger Story?  Elizabeth Warren's Hubris Allowed Trump To Defund the CFPB. Instead ofisolating the CFPB from Congress' budget-making authority, Warren and
 former President Barack Obama made it easier for a president to
 effectively shut it down.
  The loss-of-China narrative mangled US politics for decades.   UAE Ambassador Says Arab World Has 'No Alternative' To Trump's Gaza Plan 
                Thursday, February 13. 2025 
                Wednesday, February 12. 2025
                        
                                                    
            
            
                  On The Probability Of Large Rocks From Space! Fort Bragg Is Back  Students struggle to recover from COVID learning loss  The Prophet of Trump’s Second Term - Today’s political vocabulary—ruling class, Deep State, uniparty—comes from Angelo
 Codevilla’s pen. His students are now enacting his vision in Washington
  Salman Rushdie: ‘I Was Dying.’ Plus. . . DOGE comes for the National Endowment for Democracy. What DEI isn’t. J.D. Vance’s overseas debut. And more. By Oliver Wiseman  Trump Fires Democrat FEC Chair, Weintraub Refuses To Step Down  DOGE announces cancelation of almost $900 million in Department of Education contracts AVI on government:  
  You asked us to trust you all these years. We were uncomfortable but went along, tried to limit the cost, worried that you might be right and not wanting to be seen as Simon Legree. We didn't trust you, but we respected playing by the rules. You insulted us and called us evil, and that seems to be the main tactic now as well. 
 *Whenever I see argument from sad anecdote, I smell a rat.  (One of many examples over the years.) If they had facts and real numbers, they would rely on those instead. 
 Musk: Whaaa? I have detractors?  5 of the Worst USAID Scandals in History - The agency's low points, from working with child sex abusers to enabling drug trafficking  A CNN Host's Frustration Was Visible When His Anti-Elon Musk Talking Points Got Wrecked  DOGE Investigating Feds Whose Net Worths Have Exploded After Samantha Power Bombshell  President Trump Releases Statement on FEMA, Which is “Under Review and Investigation” After Spending $59 Million to House Illegals in Luxury
 Hotels
 
  French Far-Left Leader Mélenchon Openly Calls For Great Replacement In Shock Speech
 
                Tuesday, February 11. 2025 
                Saturday, February  8. 2025 
                Thursday, February  6. 2025
                        
                                                    
            
            
                   Ancient duck-like creature discovered in Antarctica may be the oldest modern bird ever discovered  A "city-killer" asteroid has a slim chance to crash into Earth. Here's what to know.  Radicals Have Burned California Before
 FCC Releases RAW ’60 Minutes’ Train Wreck Interview with Kamala Harris – CBS Responds   At Least 40,000 Fed Workers Accept 'DOGE Buyout' As Deadline Looms Tonight
 USAID Shut Down?! USAID supported the Politico blog  " According to the Columbia Journalism Review, USAID supported 6,200 journalists, 707 news outlets and 279 media sector civil society
 organizations in 30 different countries. No wonder the news all sounds the same."
  CBS Faces Internal Backlash As Paramount Considers Settlement In Trump Lawsuit Trump's Plan for Gaza
 
 
 
                Tuesday, February  4. 2025 
                Saturday, February  1. 2025
                        
                                                    
            
            
                 
 Quillette's new system is annoying me   Dumbing Down American Children  Why big tech turned right Is the climate doomsday cult finally losing power? Trump Signs Sweeping School Choice Executive Order Aimed at Empowering Parents  How MAGA Won the ‘Sensitive Young Man’ Saturday Miscellany  Chuck Todd to Exit NBC News  Hegseth: 'One of the Dumbest Phrases in Military History' Do Dems threaten violence?  Ibram Kendi will shut down functionally inactive ‘antiracist’ center, move to Howard  The RFK Jr, Patel and Gabbard Inquisitions Showcase One Irrefutable Conclusion… Why are they so hostile? MSNBC:  Tulsi Gabbard can’t be trusted to run American intelligence She's a Russian spy? 
 The Dying Establishment Laments 
                Thursday, January 30. 2025 
                Wednesday, January 29. 2025
                        
                                                    
            
            
                  "you can still find interesting and potentially valuable houses out in the sticks. And you can turn them into real investments, if you turn
 them into a part time job for yourself. I did it recently, and made a
 900-percent profit on the deal. Tax-free, too, because as long as you
 live in it for at least two years before you sell it, you can make
 $250,000 before capital gains taxes kick in. Or $500,000, if you’re
 married, which I highly recommend."
  The Left Never Runs Out of Reasons to Complain  Andreessen: Substack And Elon Musk's Twitter Takeover Broke The Social Media Censorship Dynamic
  Trump Puts an End to Taxpayer-Funded Child Mutilation
  Trump Administration Offers Buyouts to Millions of Federal Workers  Dismantling The Administrative State Is A Critical Task Requiring Great Effort  The Short Arm of Trump’s Diplomacy. Plus. . .DeepSeek gives America a paradoxical gift, San Francisco sours on ‘harm reduction,’
 Google Maps adopts ‘Gulf of America,’ and more.
  Trump's Fight Against Online Censorship Quickly Goes Global  DeepSeek AI Shows You Can’t Compete With China and Outsource Development to China 
                Tuesday, January 28. 2025
                        
                                                    
            
            
                  It's not your cataracts: Why have headlights become so bright?  Top 6 Wild Animals to Beware of While Hiking  Strategic disinvestment from masculinity linked to poor psychosocial outcomes Julie Burchill:  In praise of hospital food - There’s something reassuring about custard and fish pie  The courageous Texas surgeon was facing a decade in federal prison for blowing the whistle about gender surgery for minors. Trump just
 dismissed the case.
  Britain to tighten laws on buying knives after Southport murders   How To Rescind The Endangerment Finding In A Way That Will Stick  Unleashing the Deep State Rat Catchers The Left Gave Us Trump 2.0 - And They're Not Going to Like It  Federal employees are big mad at Trump for making them go back into the office.  So tumultuous was the first week of Donald Trump’s second term that people have barely noticed, a week on, that last Tuesday he repealed
 affirmative action by executive order. That is astonishing.
  Is "Cheap AI" A Black Swan Event?  If reshoring’s happening, where does the US get the capital goods? 
                Sunday, January 26. 2025
                        
                                                    
            
            
                
 Things Worth Remembering: ‘We Fell Morally Ill’
   
                Saturday, January 25. 2025 
                Friday, January 24. 2025
                        
                                                    
            
            
                  Bulk Carrier Paralyzed On Lake Erie As Ice Coverage Exceeds 50-Year Trend  Limitations and Loopholes in the EU AI Act and AI Liability Directives: What This Means for the European Union, the United States, and Beyond
  How the NBC News Hit Piece Against Pete Hegseth Just Got Worse, But Not in the Way You Think VDH:  Maga agonistes - On the new president’s plans.  Nate Silver Asks: ‘Are We Entering a Conservative Golden Age?' No. Just normal and centrist 
  TGIF: I Solemnly Swear - DONALD TRUMP ATTEMPTS TO KISS MELANIA TRUMP AT HIS INAUGURATION. Trumptook the oath, Biden pardoned Fauci, Ross Ulbricht walked free, China
 cut the cord, TikTok got more time, Kemi ate lunch, the Constitution got
 a fact-check, and much more. By Nellie Bowles
 " As tempting as it is to begin a regular feature called “Winning Chronicles,” I’ll have to resist because I don’t think I can keep up
 with Trump."
  Always Bet Against the Davos Man  Trump’s ICE raids turn up pedos, gangbangers,and NY-based suspected terrorist as 538 migrants arrested  NYT Article on Trump's Inauguration Shows the Media Still Doesn't Get It  The Endangerment Finding: It Looks Like Trump 2.0 Will Be Much More Fun Than Trump 1.0  Milei Gives Blistering WEF Speech: Slams DEI, Says Woke Ideology "Cancer", And Calls For Limited Government 
                Thursday, January 23. 2025
                        
                                                    
            
            
                  Canadian common sense Revoking the Lying 51's security clearances: Trump was more than justified  New Secretary of State Marco Rubio Headed to Panama  Bill Maher Is Turning Purple  America Loves an Anti-Elite Elite Trump executive orders smash leftist pieties that kept America paralyzed Team Trump Packed a Month's Worth of Work Into Its First 2 1/2 Days  In Two Days, Trump Answered More Reporter Questions Than Biden Did In Four Years– And Without A Cheat Sheet
  The End of DEI? Plus. . .Coleman Hughes on Trump’s color-blind agenda. Plus: Is the president’s meme coin a scam? Kat Rosenfield on
 ‘Severance.’ Ben Kawaller on San Francisco’s moderate turn. Eli Lake’s
 new podcast. And more.
  The Trump we wanted - He's finally saying, "You're fired."  Trump Ended Birthright Citizenship, but Legal Challenges Are Doomed to Fail  The 14th Amendment Protected the Civil Rights of Freed Slaves, Not Illegal Aliens  All Federal DEI Offices To Be Closed By Wednesday EOD, Workers Placed On Paid Leave: White House  How the Media Broke the Immigration Debate - What good is a free press if it lacks the courage to ask difficult questions about our most important problems?  On Elon Musk & the grooming gangs of England.   |