Tuesday, February 25. 2025
Monday, February 24. 2025
 Back in January, I wrote about how, as of 2023, the USDA reported that "46 million acres of crop, pasture, and forest lands were held by investors from outside of the United States." That's 3.6% of all public land in the U.S.
NPS Staffers Hang Upside-Down Flag in Yosemite to Protest Firings -- They Don't Get Reaction They Expect
The Online Right Is Building a Monster. Their increasingly extreme rhetoric is eventually going to freak the hell out of ordinary people.
Really? Well, I don't read X. Who has time?
FBI Freak Out As Dan Bongino Named Deputy Director
Kash Patel Is Already Making Huge Changes At The FBI
MSNBC President Holds Rushed Meeting with Joy Reid’s Staff After Show’s Cancellation Leaks to Media
“Journalist” Susan Glasser Tries to Play Race Card Against President Trump But Forgets One Key Fact
Why all eyes are on Egypt during the Israel-Hamas cease-fire — and how its own ‘Gaza’ problem could soon emerge
The neocons lost Ukraine and want to blame it on Trump
Germans Say ‘No’ to Immigration. Plus...
Sheinbaum Blocks US Intervention As Cartels Tighten Grip On Mexico
Andrew Sullivan doesn't like Trump's approach to Ukraine and NATO.
Saturday, February 22. 2025
The Week in Pictures
Saturday Miscellany
Citi Scraps Diversity Goals, ‘DEI’ Term Under Trump Pressure
They are happy to be "pressured"
Why they raged at JD Vance - His was a rare voice of dissent that couldn’t be silenced or dismissed.
Apple Nukes End-to-End Encryption In UK After Refusing To Give Backdoor Access
What's up with the UK?
Kash Patel Gets Right to Business, Immediately Shakes Up FBI Washington Field Office
You Knew CNN Was Going There With This Attack on Trump
Why Trump is so threatening to the permanent bureaucracy By Byron York
Duh. It's secure jobs.
Democrats are about to go to court to force taxpayers to keep paying welfare to illegals.
European Military Chiefs Proposed Dubious Plan To Send 30,000 Troops To Ukraine
Rubio reveals why everyone in the administration is pissed at Zelensky.
Here’s How The Media Are Lying Right Now: ‘Rewriting’ Ukraine War History Edition
Alex Karp: We Need a New Manhattan Project. “J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER REPORTEDLY WONDERED ALOUD IF A WEAPON THIS DESTRUCTIVE MIGHT SOMEHOW CONTRIBUTE TO AN ENDURING PEACE,” WRITES ALEXANDER C. KARP AND NICHOLAS W. ZAMISKA IN THEIR NEW BOOK. Our technology industry is capable of building a weapon that could ensure peace. But why court controversy when you can build another app?
Victor Davis Hanson: Can Trump Troll His Way to a Peace Deal in Ukraine?
Friday, February 21. 2025
Thursday, February 20. 2025
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’. “The
days 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 bros
who 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 of
isolating 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?
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