Tuesday Overnight Open Thread. February 25, 2025. [scampydog]

—Open Blogger

ONT! Good evening and happy Tuesday. It is national chili day. We'll set the over/under at 64 chili comments.

Why does Irish chili only have 239 beans? Because anymore and it'd be too farty.

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List five things accomplished at work this week? Sure let's have a go it - it's the ONT, we will do two. Mad Lib style.

Last week, I (verb), multiple times - in each (noun), "Who is taking this (noun) on? And when can we expect it to be (verb)?"

Reminded at least (number) of (noun), that "reply all" should be (adverb) (verb) - like a secret (noun).

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February 25th. Some interesting happenings on this date in history.

Samuel Colt. Samuel Colt patents first multi-shot revolving-cylinder revolver, enabling the firearm to be fired multiple times without reloading.

Colt's revolver had its roots in young Samuel's inability to stay focused at the boarding school his father had sent him to; he preferred reading scientific encyclopedias and tinkering with his own experiments than tending to his schoolwork, and was consequently expelled.

United States Paper Currency

1862 First Legal Tender Act 1862 is passed by the US Congress, authorizing the United States note (greenback) into circulation, the first fiat paper money that was legal tender in America.

United States Notes were also called Legal Tender Notes because of the text originally appearing on the back of the note that begins, "This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private." This provision made the currency a valid and legal form of payment on par with gold and silver. This was a very controversial action at the time as it made the United States Note a fiat currency, meaning its value was established by law alone and was not based on some other unit of value such as gold, silver, land, etc. Many people during and after the Civil War believed the creation of a fiat currency to be unconstitutional as the Constitution considered only gold and silver legal tender. The matter was settled in 1871 in the Supreme Court case of Knox v. Lee wherein the court declared that making United States Notes legal tender was constitutional.

Those dirty bastards. 1919 Beaver state is 1st to tax gasoline (1 cent per gallon).

Oregon used the tax money to finance construction of the Pacific Coast Highway, among other projects. Seeing the state's success, others soon followed with taxes of their own. Colorado, New Mexico and North Dakota followed that same year. Ten more states joined in 1921, and twenty in 1923. By the end of the decade all 48 states, minus the future Alaska and Hawaii, had gasoline taxes.

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It is science time with an assist from our AoSHQ friend, [publius]! Some facts, some confusion, no lab coats, and pants optional.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool. Richard P. Feynman

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— Spill The Memes (@SpillTheMemes) January 18, 2025

SMOD

Don't worry they said.

The planetary parade.7 planets viewable.

[publius]

While this planetary alignment isn't particularly rare, it is relatively uncommon. Spotting two, three, or even four bright planets at once is not unusual, but the chance to see all five together doesn't come around often. Looking ahead, a similar alignment will occur in late October 2028, though that event will take place before sunrise, requiring early risers to catch the view.

Mercury will likely be too low to see before Saturn disappears into the sunset. When an object disappears into the setting sun, it's called the heliacal setting. Planetary motion makes this a bit more complex than with stars, which pretty much remain fixed against the celestial background. The inner planets, being between Earth and the Sun, have very different motions from Earth's perspective, and pop up only before sunset and sunrise-you never see an inner planet in the middle of the night sky. "Elongation," or how far the object is from the Sun (in degrees on the celestial sphere), determines this.

Then there's the Moon. After a new moon, moving much faster than the Sun across the ecliptic, it first appears on the sunset side and then disappears in the sunrise on the morning side over a lunar month. But for stars and the outer planets (with some complications due to retrograde motion and all that), it's usually that a star first appears just before sunrise, the heliacal rising. As the Sun moves eastward, the star becomes more visible at night before finally disappearing in the sunset. It's just about where the Sun is against the celestial backdrop, which shifts over the course of the year. When the Sun is opposite the star, you get the "acronycal rising." The star rises at sunset, sets at sunrise, and is directly overhead at midnight.

Mercury will be more visible in early March. If you're interested in this, the desktop version of Stellarium is great for seeing what the sky will look like. You can adjust the date and time and see how things change over a few weeks and so on.

Mars. Elon is on a roll. If Lynn Carter is on Mars, I'm in.

America now has a once-in-a-generation opportunity to open the space frontier by initiating a sustained program of human exploration of Mars. Elon Musk's SpaceX Starship launch system will soon be operational, offering payload delivery capability comparable to a Saturn V Moon rocket at about five percent of the cost. Musk has positioned himself close to President Donald Trump, who at his inauguration in January promised that his administration would be "launching American astronauts to plant the Stars and Stripes on the planet Mars." As far as meeting the central political and technical conditions for making a bold reach to the Red Planet are concerned, it's game on.

[publius]

If we're serious about getting to Mars, NASA is basically going to have to be DOGE'd and reformed. Big time. The current model, which is basically a bunch of pork to keep various congresscritters happy and favored contractors greased and all that, has got to be thrown out, and the mindset behind it stomped into the ground and killed.

Elon and SpaceX can take the lead, but they're going to need a reformed NASA working with them, throwing out all the crap. If you want to get to Mars, well, roll up your sleeves and engineer an effective way, and don't do all the mess of contractors spread out in favored congressional districts and pork, not to mention the DEI crap.

Walter Lewin making science fun.

Trump selects Isaacman to be NASA administrator

Dave Cavossa, president of the Commercial Space Federation, also praised Isaacman's selection. "CSF is 'over the moon' happy to hear of the nomination of fellow commercial space advocate and friend Jared Isaacman for NASA administrator," he told SpaceNews. "At this critical time, as NASA and commercial space become inextricably linked toward the success of our nation's space program and our continued global leadership in space, I cannot imagine a better candidate for this role."

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Not limited to bourbon. What are some purchases that didn't live up to the packaging?

Cool box, good presentation. It looks like bourbon but tastes like it was aged in a gas can.

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Adult version of, "Don't eat the yellow snow."

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Awkward Friendships Cafe

—Ace

The puppy grows up but does not outgrow his toy dragon.

Dog-Horse friendships.

Dog playing ball with his dolphin friends.

Birds sexually molesting innocent dogs.

Supermeowdel.

Supercrowdel.

The dog didn't like the sermon and thought maybe he could wake the joint up.

Kitten is great at sitting.

Bathing your baby elephant, if you know what I mean.

Swan reunion as injured bird is returned from hospital to see its mate again.

This goat just said FIRST!

i halp

A cat who actually likes belly rubs.

This dumb cat just showed that it is as qualified to run a planetarium as Neil DEIGrasse Tyson.

Netherlands doggo.

World traveler.

Bumblebee Boy.

Stopping traffic so that a sheep mom can feed her lambs.

She's almost as bad at Not Walking In the Street as he is at Not Colliding With Stationary Objects.

This bear. SMDH.

Can you blame him?

Hugs are better than drugs, Jack Straw.

Quick Hits

—Ace

Sheldon Whitehouse voted in favor of bills and massive wealth transfers that benefited his wife's "non-profit" environmental grift.

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., is being accused of violating ethics rules after backing laws that financially benefited his wife's environmental organization.

The Democratic senator and climate hawk voted for key laws that provided funding for grants to the environmental non-profit group that works with his wife, Sandra Whitehouse, and pays her through a consulting firm.

The ethics watchdog, the Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust (FACT), is asking the Senate Select Committee on Ethics Chairman James Lankford, R-Okla., and Vice Chairman Chris Coons, D-Del., to investigate Whitehouse "to determine whether he violated the Senate ethics rules on conflicts of interest." The group works primarily to draw attention to potential Democratic lawmaker ethics violations.

Ocean Conservancy has received more than $14.2 million in federal grants since 2008, per USASpending.gov. During 2024 alone, it was given two sizable grants, one for $5.2 million from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) for marine debris cleanup in September and another for $1.7 million from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), again to assist with marine debris cleanup.

The former was funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) championed by the Biden administration and voted for by Sen. Whitehouse. The latter was funded through the EPA's annual appropriations bill, which Whitehouse also voted for.

Supposedly, Doomcock is Finally Right. Puck says that Kathleen Kennedy, Destroyer of Billion-Dollar IPs, reckons she's done enough brand damage and can now retire.

According to Puck, Kathleen reportedly turned in her resignation notice, ending her 13-year run as head of Lucasfilm at the end of the year:

After years of speculation, and polite urging from observers like me, Kathleen Kennedy has informed Disney, as well as friends and associates, that she will exit as Lucasfilm president by the end of the year, per three sources. Disney and Kennedy's personal publicist declined to comment.

[...]

Kennedy has been telegraphing her exit lately, selling her and husband Frank Marshall's Malibu house, offloading art, and talking to friends about working with Frank more. She's also been collecting career honors from everyone from the Austin Film Festival to the American Society of Cinematographers to this week's Oscar Wilde Awards in L.A. Departing this year will allow a successor to handle the 2026 release of The Mandalorian and Grogu, the first Star Wars movie since 2019's The Rise of Skywalker. This year she's got only the second season of Andor, which will likely be an Emmy contender (the trailer looks good), and some kids' stuff on Disney+.

These rumors have been circulating for some time, and while it's still not wholly confirmed, as Puck notes, the reports are likely true.

This is a "who cares" thing for me. These brands no longer have any value or appeal. They were destroyed. People had been emotionally invested and begged them to not destroy billion-dollar modern myths, but they did anyway. Now no one cares. Star Wars is a dead brand, even Indiana Jones is a dead brand.

Their toys no longer sell. There are no new young fans being created.

They sought the "modern audience." Well, they got it. Except the modern audience doesn't exist. There is groundswell of twenty million radical left BIPOC transgenders who have taken up the mantle of LucasFilm Fandom.

Disney can't sell LucasFilm now, because Bob Iger can't take realizing (admitting publicly) that he's taken LucasFilm from a $4.05 billion evaluation to whatever it is now -- $1 billion? -- but eventually Iger will retire and Disney will unload it someone else.

Maybe whoever buys MSNBC will be interested in making flop Star Wars prequels and side-quels.

Sonny Hostin wants to be the next Joy Reid.

And there are rumors that she might be -- rumors are flying that ABC has ordered the ugly hens of The View to stop being so toxic and divisive, and may be looking to dump most of them.

So here's Sonny Hostin make her appeal to Middle America.

The fun began when noted Christian theologian Hostin declared (shouted) about how opposition to the cancer of "woke" ideology is "ungodly" and "not Christian."

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That's how I feel. My parents, you know, they grew up in the Civil Rights movement. I grew up in the late '60s/'70s. I was always a part of it, and so I've never been asleep. And so it angers me when people are, like, 'this woke stuff's got to go.' That's telling me that you don't care about my lived experience! You don't care about the oppression of the LGBTQ community! You don't care about the oppression of the disabled! You don't care about the oppression of immigrants! You don't care about your fellow neighbor, and that is ungodly! That is not Christian! So.

Big Ben has tolled thirteen o'clock in the former United Kingdom. The police are now intimidating grandmothers for the crime of... criticizing the Labour government.

Furious Brits have slammed Manchester Police and Labour for 'shameful' behaviour targeting a grandmother exposed by The Mail on Sunday.

Two police officers were caught on camera paying a visit to a grandmother simply for criticising Labour politicians on Facebook.

Detectives have been accused of acting like East Germany's Stasi secret police for quizzing Helen Jones over her calls for the resignation of local councillors embroiled in the WhatsApp scandal exposed by The Mail on Sunday.

Police conceded that the 54-year-old had committed no crime -- yet Mrs Jones said she has effectively been silenced by the officers, as she was intimidated by them calling at her door and is too terrified to post on social media again.

Voters have rallied to her defence and blasted the 'shocking' incident as a waste of police time and accused the Government for alleged 'abuse of power'.

Former Tory Cabinet minister Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg called the behaviour 'extraordinary'.

It is the latest in a string of incidents in which police have investigated people for social media posts, including newspaper columnist Allison Pearson, feminist writer Julie Bindel, and former policeman Harry Miller, whose name was added to a database for his 'non-crime hate incident'.

Greater Manchester Police has one of the highest crime rates in Britain and fails to solve almost three out of four shoplifting incidents.

Mr Rees-Mogg told MailOnline: 'It is extraordinary that the police even for a moment thought that expressing mild criticisms of an elected politician of the governing party could constitute harassment.

'It is not just that this is a poor use of resources but it has sinister undertones.

'Opinion is legal and confidence in the police is damaged by this type of interference in free speech.'

Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp said: 'This is a total waste of Police time.

'People's free speech is being infringed.

'So-called Non Crime Hate Incidents are not working. The Police should only investigate actual crime, or where there is a real and imminent risk of it.

'The Police must get back to their actual job.'

Tory MP Robert Jenrick, the shadow justice secretary, told MailOnline: 'It's absurd that the police are spending their time investigating critical tweets.

'Thefts and burglaries are going unsolved and yet the police are wasting their time with nonsense like this. We desperately need to go back to common sense policing.'

Fascism is forever descending upon America, but landing in Europe.

Rolling Up the Deep State Saboteurs: Noem Said She Found the ICE Raid Leakers, Kash Patel and Dan Bongino Want Comey Investigated

—Ace

Noem said she found some of the classified-information leakers who leak details of ICE raids to put officers' lives in danger, and is looking for others.

I have found some leakers, we are continuing to get more.

They will be fired, there will be consequences. And remember, when they leak information to the press in order to blow an Op, they are putting law enforcement lives in jeopardy. They are risking their lives and putting their families in the position where they have to live without those individuals any further. So, you bet, we have used every tactic that we have.

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If you remember we talked, just last week, about how I'm using polygraphs to go after and to really interview these folks. Because we are a national security agency, I have that tool I can use. Also looking at their emails, looking at their communications. And it's amazing how these bureaucrats who have an agenda to stop the work that we're doing to bring safety to America, how they will sell each other down the river if it's just to protect themselves. So, don't worry, I am doing everything to find these leakers, and to get rid of them; so that we can do our work, and so our law enforcement officers and agents can do it safely.

She announced this in an interview with Sean Hannity.

Related: Bill Melugin reports that anti-ICE "activists" are doxing ICE agents, marking them for possible execution.

Bill Melugin @BillMelugin_

NEW: Per multiple federal law enforcement sources, anti ICE activists, which have been disrupting & live streaming ICE operations in the LA area in recent days, have now put up posters doxing SoCal ICE & HSI agents, revealing their faces, names, & phone numbers. I'm told ICE is aware and investigating. I've redacted one poster, which translates roughly to to the following:

"CAREFUL WITH THESE FACES"

"These armed agents work in Southern California. ICE and HSI racially terrorize and criminalize entire communities with their policies. They kidnap people from their homes and from the streets, separating families and fracturing communities. Many people have died while locked up in jails, prisons, and detention centers."

"Possible execution/implementation measure/action 2/23/25".

(Appears to warn of possible ICE operation about to take place in this area today?)

It is unclear which activist group is posting these.

We learned long ago that the pardoned criminal James Comey assigned female FBI agents to spy on Trump's campaign, acting as "honeypots."

Kash Patel and Dan Bongino just began the follow-up on this long-neglected plot thread:

Collin Rugg @CollinRugg

BREAKING: The FBI has launched an investigation into former FBI Director James Comey for his "honeypot" operation targeting Trump in 2016, according to the Washington Times.

The announcement comes just days after Kash Patel was sworn in as the new FBI director.

As reported by the Washington Times, the FBI is looking into an off-the-books operation launched in 2015 by Comey.

According to a whistleblower, two undercover female FBI employees infiltrated Trump's 2016 campaign to act as "honeypots."

"In the intelligence community, a honeypot commonly refers to an undercover operative, usually a woman, who feigns sexual or romantic interest to obtain information from a target," the Washington Times reported.

The whistleblower claimed Comey ordered the investigation and "personally directed it" despite not having a specific crime.

The operation was likely a "fishing expedition" to "find" a crime against Trump.

During a recent interview before the election, Comey was visibly concerned about what Trump would do if reelected.

This may be related to the earlier story about the FBI destroying records.

Karoline Leavitt Says She Is Taking Back the Power to Decide Who Enters the WH Press Room From the Far-Left Propaganda Organization the WHCA

—Ace

Good.

They were given this role with the understanding that they would be neutral and objective. They have violated this understanding.

The White House said Tuesday that it would take over which outlets are allowed into the press pool covering the president, wrestling such control from the White House Correspondents' Association.

Press secretary Karoline Leavitt said moving forward, the White House press pool, a small group of reporters that travels with and cover the president's daily activities, will now be determined by administration officials. Traditionally, the press pool is coordinated by the Correspondents' Association, which White House officials across multiple administrations have traditionally given deference to.

"It's beyond time the White House press pool reflects the media habits of the American people in 2025," Leavitt said during a briefing with reporters.

The goal, Leavitt said, is to give new or alternative media companies greater access to the administration while still keeping certain "legacy" outlets in the rotation.
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Leavitt's announcement comes as the White House continues to bar The Associated Press from access to President Trump in the Oval Office, on Air Force One, and in other spaces where typically only the pool gathers, due to lack to space.

The barring came in response to the news organization indicated it would not change its influential stylebook to reflect Trump's renaming of the "Gulf of Mexico" to the "Gulf of America."

In related news, a DC judge finally turned down a lefty for a temporary restraining order against the President:

A federal judge in Washington, D.C., on Monday declined to restore The Associated Press's access to certain spaces open to the media at the White House, saying AP failed to show a likelihood of success on the merits and emphasized that additional briefing on the matter is necessary "given the stakes" for both parties. The judge set an expedited schedule and ordered arguments on a preliminary injunction for March 20.

Leavitt celebrated the judge's ruling Tuesday and said the White House wants "more outlets and new outlets to cover the press pool."

The WHCA -- the same people who put on the savage Trump-bashing "Nerd Prom" for "journalists" and their leftwing celebrity guests every year -- complained that they weren't being treated fairly.

In a statement issued on Tuesday, the WHCA said the White House "did not give the WHCA board a heads up or have any discussions about today's announcements."

"This move tears at the independence of a free press in the United States. It suggests the government will choose the journalists who cover the president. In a free country, leaders must not be able to choose their own press corps," the organization said.

"For generations, the working journalists elected to lead the White House Correspondents' Association board have consistently expanded the WHCA's membership and its pool rotations to facilitate the inclusion of new and emerging outlets."

Nick Sortor: Eric Swalwell Is a Huge National Security Threat. He Openly Bragged About "Orgies" and "F***ing 10s" to Lobbyists Who Were Perfect Strangers to Him as I Eavesdropped

—Ace

Sortor claims he was a direct ear-witness to Swalwell "compromising" himself to lobbyists who could use his drunken disclosures to blackmail him.

He has video, but it's not of Swalwell bragging about the orgies. It's video of Sortor asking him about his admissions.

Nick Sortor @nicksortor

#BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: Eric Swalwell PANICS when I ask about his Chinese spy girlfriend Fang Fang, and whether that's a bigger "national security threat" than Elon Musk

I sat next to a drunk Swalwell at dinner for 90 minutes. He was IMMEDIATELY compromised by a group of lobbyists he'd JUST MET, spilling intimate details about his job and asking for HELP CHEATING ON HIS WIFE.

MASSIVE national security threat. This guy should have his clearances revoked.

Swalwell spent his dinner bragging about "ORGlES" on Capitol Hill, telling them he's bored of his wife and "only wants to f*ck tens."

Worse, he spoke about ABUSlNG his power on the House Intel Committee (which he's since been booted off of), saying he pushed to SUBPOENA Ivanka Trump because she's "hot as f*ck"

THIS GUY MUST BE REMOVED FROM THE HOMELAND SECURITY COMMITTEE. He CANNOT keep his freaking mouth shut.

After I began questioning him, Swalwell jumped back into the group of lobbyists to hide from me, but I pressed on.

Dude looked absolutely TERRIFIED and 100% guilty. He knows he's been caught.

More to come later. I have about an hour and a half of audio to go through 😉

And big shoutout to @LauraLoomer
for assisting me with digging into this clown while I was focusing on listening in!

Rachel Maddow: MSNBC, the Corporation That Pays Me $25 Million Per Year to Do One Hour of Work Per Week, Is an Unfathomably Racist Organization Devoted to White Supremacy

—Ace

By Jove, I think she's got it!

Yes I know that Rachel Maddow is working five hours per week now, but that's only for the first 100 days of the Trump Restoration. Then she goes back to one hour per week.

In case you missed it, Joy Reid's face rained down Tears of Shame after her summary firing.

But then she delivered her final address to her tiny audience of 47,000 permanently meltbrained covid hysterics, transgender face-piercers, drag queen child groomers, and Black Hebrew racists.

She wanted to talk about, get this, fascism and how to #Resist it.

Among the civil rights she says that #Resistance has brought us? The "right to work from home."

What? That's a great civil rights victory?

"We begin tonight with what I think is the question; when you are in the midst of a crisis and specifically a crisis of democracy: How do you resist-- when fascism isn't just coming, It's already here? So, what, if anything, can you do about it?" Reid began her show Monday. "For one thing, you can try to learn from history, from what people in this situation, in countries around the world and in America have done before. As my friend Rachel Maddow always says, history is here to help."

FBI Whistleblower Garrett O'Brien Reports That FBI Agents Are Illegally Destroying Evidence

—Ace

Michael Shellenberger responded to an Ana Paulina Luna post.

CNN is attacking Trump's plan to fire CIA agents by stating that these same CIA agents might steal US intelligence and sell it to foreign adversaries.

This, CNN thinks, is a good argument against firing these agents.

Terrorist traitors are threatening to take secret US information and sell it to Russia and China -- and that's the reason to keep them in positions of power and trust!

As Trump Attacks the Democrats' Covert Taxpayer-Embezzlement Funding Scheme, Democrat Donors Also Close Their Wallets

—Ace

The Party of Grifters is having trouble with its grifting game.

Democrats are anxious to rebuild their party on the heels of President Trump's victory in November. But they have a major problem as they try to refashion their brand: The money isn't there.

Democratic donors -- from bundlers to small dollar donors -- say they are still angry about the election results and uninspired by anything their side has put forward since then.

"I'll be blunt here: The Democratic Party is f‑‑‑ing terrible. Plain and simple," one major Democratic donor said. "In fact, it doesn't get much worse."

A second donor was equally as pointed. "They want us to spend money, and for what? For no message, no organization, no forward thinking. ... The thing that's clear to a lot of us is that the party never really learned its lesson in 2016. They worked off the same playbook and the same ineffective strategies and to what end?"

The reporter writes that donors feel burned by having had Biden's mental fitness problems concealed from them, and then felt burned again when they gave Kamala Harris $2.5 billion and she spent it on Beyonce's Brazillian waxing.

"This is worse than 2016," the first Democratic donor said. "Our party is so weak and so diminished."

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Douglas Wilson, a North Carolina-based political consultant who has worked on fundraising for Democratic races, said donors have been "semi on the fence" over whether to contribute again so freely. Because Democrats are out of power, there's little that they can do but fight from a disadvantaged position. And some donors, Wilson said, don't feel like Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill are "fighting back hard enough" for larger-scale reforms.

"This is having a trickle-down effect," Wilson said. "Grassroots donors want to see more fight and less text message requests asking for contributions."

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High-level donors are less likely, the strategist said, to give when they're not sure what the plan is. Some have said that they don't believe Democrats can win against Trump-style candidates, so they're sitting things out for now

"Folks are saying right now, 'What's the Democratic Party to me as an investment?' I'm hearing from DNC [Democratic National Committee] members, they don't really believe where we're at right now. They don't believe that we can counter Trump, so why lose dollars?" said the strategist.

Speaking of grifters whose grift is coming to an end: Eyepatch John McCain threatened to murder Tucker Carlson because he's such a conservatively conservative who conserves.

The controversy began when GB News reporter Steven Edginton shared on X that Crenshaw made the threat after an interview earlier this month. According to Edginton, when he asked Crenshaw if he had ever met Tucker Carlson, Crenshaw responded, "I would kill him if I saw him." When Edginton laughed, Crenshaw reportedly reiterated, "No seriously, I would kill him."

After Edginton's post, Republican Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene publicly questioned Crenshaw about the accusation. Crenshaw responded dismissively, writing, "lol, no." However, less than 30 minutes later, GB News released a video that contradicted Crenshaw's denial.

The footage showed Edginton asking, "Have you ever met Tucker?" as the two removed their microphones. Crenshaw responded, "No, we've talked a lot on Twitter. If I ever meet him, I'll f*cking kill him." Edginton laughed, but Crenshaw continued, "No, seriously, I'll kill him. He's the worst person I've ever met."

Children's Hospital Colorado To Resume Gender-Affirming Treatments For Youth [Muldoon]

—Open Blogger

What is the proper role of a pediatric physician? Core pediatric training largely focuses on normal growth and development of children. Understanding normal progress allows the physician to recognize deviations from normal. The pediatrician should help guide children from birth through childhood, and eventually to becoming sound, functioning adult members of society.

Somewhere along the way some in the pediatric community lost the plot and abandoned that core principle. I believe that this began along with the emergence of Adolescent Medicine as a subspecialty within Pediatrics. In its early days Adolescent Medicine took the stance that teens deserved some degree of autonomy. Teens being teens, this unsurprisingly led to a three-party conflict involving parents, teens and physicians over all sorts of issues (drugs, alcohol, sex, you name it). The doctor's role eventually shifted from being a mediator to being a partisan arbiter who always took the side of the child. Validating the feelings of the child, even if their choices became self-destructive, became paramount. With the emergence of "gender dysphoria" as the greatest thing since the hula hoop, adolescents have learned that being a bully brings results. Parents and doctors alike, in their eagerness to please the child, are susceptible to intimidation. These days a threat of "If I don't get my way I'll kill myself," only has to be implied to get a result. When dealing with a 4 year old who throws a tantrum the first rule of parenting should be "We don't negotiate with terrorists."

Mid-Morning Art Thread

—CBD

The Morning Report — 2/ 25 /25

—J.J. Sefton

Good morning kids. Following on from yesterday, what do you call it when blubber blubbers? That's what you'd be asking yourself had you tuned into MSNBC (or as I call it MSNSDAP) last night to witness the spectacle of the unceremoniously shit-canned Joy Reid emit her final cloud of toxic waste on their airwaves as streams of black-mamba-venom-laced tears flowed down the distended face that launched a thousand shits. And yet why did she get the chop while the equally hideous Zero audience murderer's row – in the case of Joe Scarborough that is especially accurate regardless of the official story in the death of his former intern – of so many others like him, Rachel Maddow and most especially Al Sharpton remain. Well, in the case of the latter, He'd have turned 30 Rockefeller Plaza into Freddies Fashion Mart 2, race riot arson boogaloo.

As stated, they have zero audience and yet look at the lineup of every major broadcast and cable network as well as the editorial board of every major newspaper and all are composed of the most strident, hardcore leftist true-believers. Regardless of Reid's departure and supposed attempts to stem the hemorrhaging of viewers and subscribers, it's never going to work because of the media's innate and preternatural hatred of the very people they have alienated for years. The very fact that an Al Sharpton has daily access and visibility on American airwaves let alone is pimped as some sort of rational, American voice of reason and moderation when he and his sewer-lid medallion and Morris Day hairdo should have been rotting in prison for a litany of crimes, fraud and violence means something else is afoot here.

As I have often stated, I am a firm believer in the first amendment right of free speech as well as in the free market. What I detest are those who palm themselves off as journalists when they are naked shameless partisan hacks. If someone wants to be a pundit and editorialize, hey no problem but admit it and let the chips fall where they may. Whatever is wrong with Fox News these days, not so very long ago they counterbalanced someone like Sean Hannity with the late Alan Colmes. Meh, basta cosi. I think the point has been made, but the media's mission is not the honest reportage of news nor is it a balanced presentation of both sides of an issue via pundits and editorials. It is the advancement of the Leftist/globalist agenda along with the concomitant transmogrification of the American government as a massive centralized bureaucracy to further that aim. Even the rejection of Jimmy Carter in 1980 and the coming of Ronald Reagan is nothing compared to the emergence of Donald Trump, especially this time around and most especially with what he has exposed and is now taking a wrecking ball to via DOGE.

Trust in American media had been on a sharp decline for years and is only accelerating, while at the same time the MAGA agenda's popularity is skyrocketing across a broad swathe of society, and not merely conservatives.

It's why stories like this are laughable while in a sense encouraging.

“I’ll be blunt here: The Democratic Party is f***ing terrible. Plain and simple,” a major Democrat donor told The Hill. “In fact, it doesn’t get much worse.”

The donor said that the 2024 loss was much worse than the loss in 2016 because the party is currently “so weak and so diminished.”

A second donor told the publication that they were equally as turned off about the party.

“They want us to spend money, and for what? For no message, no organization, no forward thinking,” the donor said. “The thing that’s clear to a lot of us is that the party never really learned its lesson in 2016. They worked off the same playbook and the same ineffective strategies and to what end?”

Well, Mr. Moneybags anonymous Democrat Party donor, What is the Party? In the end the party is what it and its base stand for.

In this case, everything that is wrong with this country and everything that has brought us virtually to our knees since the New Deal, ramped up with the Great Society, Obama/Biden. Everyone and everything you have donated money to and for are responsible for the misery, suffering and waste of blood, treasure lives and potential.

Considering that unless and until the GOP gets behind the MAGA agenda and does a mea culpa for decades of get-along to go-along bipartisanship and worse, a place at the trough to wet their snouts, hold on to your money.

Then examine everything you believe in and admit that open borders, sexualization of our children, a massive welfare state, promotion of abortion, the shredding of our Constitutional freedoms, the continued brainwashing of our children that America as founded is irredeemably racist white supremacist/misgynist etc. etc, acquiescence to the march of Isam abroad and here are wrong and dangerous in the extreme, then you will have learned your lesson of 2016.

In short, the Leopard will have to change its spots. Not going to happen. Given this leopard is evil and seeks absolute power by any means necessary. Because the evil that defines it needs to see us destroyed ignorer to achieve its aims.

Maybe, Mr. Anonymous Donor should have a little conversation with Bro-Fo Omar about calling Trump voters idiots. Of with Chuck Schumer or Robert Garcis, elected officials for publicly threatening Musk as well as SCOTUS justices along with Trump himself.

Acting United States Attorney Ed Martin of the District of Columbia replied to a post Monday showing a video of a woman calling for the assassination of Tesla CEO and White House Senior Advisor Elon Musk.

Martin previously opened probes into Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York and Democratic Rep. Robert Garcia of California over allegedly threatening comments they made about Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and U.S. Supreme Court justices, CBS News reported. The TikTok user admitted to not filing her taxes for eight years before she called for Musk’s murder in a video reposted to X by LibsofTikTok. . .

. . . “I promised myself I would avoid the news,” the woman, who goes by the username “sarahcroberts” on the since-deleted account, said. “But obviously, I haven’t. Here’s my one thought – I have many thoughts – Elon Musk,” before making a gesture that appeared to mimic cutting a throat. “Like when you do X him, and by X, I mean formally mean assassination and it’s a warning from the FBI is going to fucking show up, I don’t… arrest me,” the user said. “You don’t have enough people to even investigate me at this point. I haven’t filed my taxes in like… eight years and yet no one’s come for me, so I’m going to fucking say it. Let’s assassinate some motherfuckers.”

And there is your Democrat base, my friends.

And lastly, a quick shout-out and thank you for your continued support in hitting our tip jar. It truly is appreciated more than you can know.

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Monday Overnight Open Thread - February 24, 2025 [Doof]

—Open Blogger

Howdy Hordelings! How has your Monday been? Maybe you are ready to wind down and hang out with us here on tonight's ONT. There's a mixed bag of fun and interesting stuff waiting for you. Come on in and join the conversation!

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Orange Man Wasn't Bad

Kathie Lee Gifford says Trump saved her and baby daughter from ‘psychopathic murderer’ in 1993

The former host of “Live with Regis and Kathie Lee” broke down in tears as she recalled the incident on a podcast appearance earlier this month.

Gifford was set to host the Miss America pageant that year in Atlantic City, when she said her late husband Frank Gifford got a call from the FBI.

“They said, ‘Mr. Gifford, we have a problem. There’s this guy. This is a very, very bad human being … And he’s coming to get your wife,” she shared during a Feb. 6 interview on “The Sage Steele Show.”

Gifford, 71, said the FBI told her husband the family shouldn’t change their plans so as not to tip off the stalker. But her husband was leery.

Gifford said unbeknownst to her, her husband made a call to Trump, who then owned the Miss America franchise, to tell her about the unsettling news he’d just received.

“Frank, don’t you worry about it. I’ve got your girls,” Trump told Gifford’s husband, referring to Gifford and her 6-week old daughter.

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The morning of the pageant, she went down to the hotel lobby to buy a paper.

She was stunned by the headline.

“It says Daily News — Kathy Lee Gifford, death threat,” she recalls.

That’s when she put the pieces together.

Read the whole thing. Very interesting.

Funny clip of DJT on SNL several years ago.

Donald Trump as a janitor on SNL in 2004 pic.twitter.com/WpI2QaI3bK

— internet hall of fame (@InternetH0F) February 24, 2025

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History Nerd Content

13 Facts About the 13 Original Colonies

New Hampshire Was the First Colony to Grow Potatoes

New Hampshire was the first of the American colonies to form an independent government, as well as the first colony to have a state constitution. Yet it’s the humble potato that might be the Granite State’s biggest contribution to American history.

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Connecticut’s Royal Charter Was Hidden in a Tree

In 1662, the Colony of Connecticut was granted a royal charter by England’s King Charles II. But in 1686, King James II, after taking the throne following his brother’s death, decided he wanted the royal charters returned so he could establish the Dominion of New England...

...Legend has it that while the matter was being debated in Hartford between the royal governor and the colonists, the candles in the meeting hall suddenly went out. Under cover of darkness, the royal charter was spirited away by colonial captain Joseph Wadsworth and hidden in the trunk of a nearby white oak tree.

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South Carolina Had a Booming Indigo Trade

South Carolina was the first of the colonies to successfully grow indigo — a crop so vital to the colony’s economy that it was referred to as “blue gold.” Indigo’s production, and subsequent success in the colonies, is attributed to teenager Eliza Lucas (later Eliza Pinckney), whose father shipped indigo seeds to America from Antigua in the 1730s. Her father also hired Nicholas Cromwell, a dye-making expert from Montserrat, to guide her. Cromwell was caught sabotaging the dye-making process and was dismissed, only to be replaced by his brother Patrick, who was also caught sabotaging Lucas’ production efforts.

More at the link. History is kewl!

Also from historyfacts.com - Where Did the QWERTY Keyboard Layout Come From?

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Chew on This Palette Palate Cleanser For a While
(Thank you Hadrian the Seventh for making me feel dumb catching the error.)

How bubblegum is made

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DJ Doof – Another Round of Birthday Tunes

Born on this day in 1959: Colin Farley, British bassist with Cutting Crew who had this US No.1 hit in 1987...

Born on this day in 1950: American musician, singer and songwriter George Thorogood.

Born on this day in 1947: British-American composer, singer-songwriter Rupert Holmes, who had the 1980 US No.1 single 'Escape, (The Pina Colada Song) and also this 1980 hit...

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Tonight's ONT brought to you by good ol' days.

(Bonus mystery click?)

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Close it up

Clearing Out My YouTube Watchlist Cafe

—Ace

Cochem Castle
@pierrebrauer

I've been saving various cute videos on YouTube for a year. It's time to post them and delete the links.

The summer can't come quickly enough.

Fostering an orphaned baby otter.

A fluffy otter pup doesn't like the water yet.

Lion "kneads" like a kitty cat.

URGENT: It's not just bears. Now elephants are out-of-control, too!

And gorillas!

Now the lions are out of control. These bears have staged an insurrection of all of the big circus animals!

An oldie but a goodie: Tiny elephant calf charges at the camera.

Norbert the dog won't let his owners kiss each other without involving himself. More about Norbert here.

Rufus the Couch Kangaroo.

Crane knocks on the door every day and eventually brings his family along.

And a groundhog decides to adopt a human family.

Bat babies.

This K-Tel record is fire!

"Center Right" Party in Germany Wins Elections, Vows to Not Close the Borders

—Ace

The fake "center right" party won the election. They made noises about cracking down on illegal immigration, but, as you can see in the video below the fold, their leader and the next German PM vows that "no one is talking about closing the borders."

The "far right" party, AfD or Alternative for Germany, came in a strong second at 20%, receiving its highest vote share ever, will have... zero participation in the new government.

That's because the CDU vowed to not form a government with the "far right" (they're far right because they oppose unlimited eternal mass migration from the third world) AfD.

The "Center right" party, the Christian Democrat Union or CDU, is the party of Andrea Merkel, whose "Wilkomen" policy of allowing mass migration without even the most basic vetting has plunged Germany into crisis.

Note that they do not have a majority of the seats in Parliament, or the Bund I guess the huns call it, so that means they will have to form an alliance with another party to secure a majority and form a government.

Because the CDU abides by the "cordon sanitaire" or "firewall" policy that all the Euro Regime countries do, refusing to form governments with any party that's "far right" (again, meaning "against unlimited mass migration from Islamic countries"), that means that this "center right" party will form a coalition government with... either the German Socialist Party and/or the German Green Party, who are themselves big champions of unlimited third-world mass migration.

You might wonder: Why not just start a new party that isn't "far right" but still opposes open borders?

Well, silly, because any party that opposes open borders is "far right" and subject to the "firewall" policy of excluding closed-border parties.

So the "center right" party will be pursuing a socialist, mass-migration open borders agenda.

But they've kept those dirty "far right" voters out of power.

And what happens when the German government collapses again because the "center right" party cannot agree with its socialist and green partners?

Well, we go through the same process again: a government is allowed to govern without a majority, citing an emergency, and they stage another election in which the will of the people will again be thwarted, and the "center-right" party again forms a coalition with the leftwing open borders parties.

How long can this inherently unstable situation persist for?

Merz, the 69-year-old incoming Prime Minister, also wants a "firewall" against the US:

Europe must seek to "achieve independence" from the United States, Germany's likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz said after exit polls showed his opposition conservatives were on track to win Sunday's election, in a vote that also saw surging support for the far-right.

Merz, an old-school conservative who has never held a government role previously, is set to lead Europe's biggest economy and most populous state, after his center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its sister party won 28.6% of the vote, according to preliminary official results.

Oh sure, CNN, he's a real "old school conservative."

Look at this old-school conservative policy profile:

Bernie @Artemisfornow

GERMANY - The Globalists win again.

New chancellor Friedrich Merz is their perfect pick.

▪️Ex Chairman of Blackrock Germany
▪️Dedicated to deeper EU integration
▪️member of the WEF's Board of Trustees
▪️ regular atendee WEF in Davos
▪️attended Bilderberg Group meetings
▪️supported Covid vaccine passports
▪️Wanted restrictions on unvaccinated
▪️advocated for digital ID in Germany
▪️supported EU-wide asylum policies
▪️supports carbon trading markets

The penetration of the cabinets continues. You cannot help the people if the people will not help themselves.

Good luck Germany.

Back to CNN:

"Let's get the party started," Merz, 69, told supporters as he declared victory at the CDU’s party headquarters in central Berlin, an apparent nod to wanting to get coalition negotiations underway quickly as the region grapples with US President Donald Trump's upending of Europe and US relations.

In a televised roundtable later Sunday evening, Merz also criticized US "intervention" in the German election campaign in recent days. "The interventions from Washington were no less dramatic and drastic and ultimately outrageous than the interventions we have seen from Moscow," he said. "We are under such massive pressure from two sides that my top priority is to create unity in Europe."

Are you kidding me? All our European "allies" do is interfere in US politics, constantly undermining us and even sending their political operatives to run ops in favor of the Democrats, but it's the US which is "interfering" in Europe?

I used to be very resistant to Trump's criticisms of NATO. No more. I want out.

Cut them loose. They contribute nothing to us. They are perpetually entitled teenagers who want Daddy America to continue paying their rent while they spend their days getting high and getting their septums pierced.

Cut them off, and let them die in the corner.

Below: 24 hours after winning an election based on the promise he would close the border, Merz declares that "no one is talking about closing the border."

Whoops, Merz did that thing in Germany's mouth that he promised he wouldn't do.

Elon Musk Sends Federal Workers a Mass-Email Asking Them What They Actually Accomplished In the Past Week

—Ace

I don't know if this is a real question or a rhetorical one, but maybe it will spur some deadweight to clear out and spur others to focus more on their jobs.

Some Trump-appointed heads of departments, like Kash Patel, are actually advising workers to ignore the email, or "pause their response," at least.

Elon Musk is finding himself locked in a power struggle with top Trump administration officials over an out-of-the-blue email blast to federal workers Saturday demanding that they list their professional accomplishments last week -- or risk being fired.

Multiple Trump-appointed agency and department heads -- including the Department of Defense, State Department and FBI -- have instructed their employees to ignore the email despite the billionaire's public warning that "failure to respond" by 11:59 p.m. Monday "will be taken as a resignation."

In an email Saturday, Trump loyalist and newly-minted FBI Director Kash Patel instructed his staff to "pause any response."

"FBI personnel may have received an email from OPM requesting information," Patel said.

"The FBI, through the Office of the Director, is in charge of all of our review processes, and will conduct reviews in accordance with FBI procedures. When and if further information is required, we will coordinate the responses. For now, please pause any response."

Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has already pushed for sweeping personnel cuts across the government, with the latest move raising concerns that the Tesla CEO intends to make more personnel decisions based on replies to the missive.

"If Elon Musk truly wants to understand what federal workers accomplished over the past week, he should get to know each department and agency, and learn about the jobs he's trying to cut," moderate Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) griped on X.

"Our public workforce deserves to be treated with dignity and respect for the unheralded jobs they perform. The absurd weekend email to justify their existence wasn't it."

Of course Lisa Murkowski objects. The GOP should censure her, not just for this but for being clearly a Democrat on every single issue.

The liberal Senator from Utah -- why do Mormons keep electing liberals? -- also urges Musk to have more "compassion" for federal workers.

Speaking on CBS's "Face the Nation" on Sunday, Sen. John Curtis (R-Utah) said the SpaceX billionaire needs to have more compassion.

"I don't think this is a request that is that difficult," Sen. Curtis said, before adding that it also doesn't need to "be so cold and hard."

"Let's put a little compassion and, quite frankly, dignity, in this as well," he said.

Trump, meanwhile, is standing behind Musk in full force.

Yes, definitely, let's have more compassion for these hardworking stewards of the public fisc.

The "intelligence community" is one of the most powerful parts of the American national security apparatus. In theory, it works tirelessly to keep the nation safe. But according to internal documents that we obtained, some intelligence agency employees have another on-the-job priority: sex chats.

We have cultivated sources within the National Security Agency--one current employee and one former employee--who have provided chat logs from the NSA's Intelink messaging program. According to an NSA press official, "All NSA employees sign agreements stating that publishing non-mission related material on Intelink is a usage violation and will result in disciplinary action." Nonetheless, these logs, dating back two years, are lurid, featuring wide-ranging discussions of sex, kink, polyamory, and castration.

One popular chat topic was male-to-female transgender surgery, which involves surgically removing the penis and turning it into an artificial vagina. "[M]ine is everything," said one male who claimed to have had gender reconstruction surgery. "[I]'ve found that i like being penetrated (never liked it before GRS), but all the rest is just as important as well." Another intelligence official boasted that genital surgery allowed him "to wear leggings or bikinis without having to wear a gaff under it."

These employees discussed hair removal, estrogen injections, and the experience of sexual pleasure post-castration. "[G]etting my butthole zapped by a laser was . . . shocking," said one transgender-identifying intel employee who spent thousands on hair removal. "Look, I just enjoy helping other people experience boobs," said another about estrogen treatments. "[O]ne of the weirdest things that gives me euphoria is when i pee, i don't have to push anything down to make sure it aims right," a Defense Intelligence Agency employee added.

These revelations come at a moment of heightened scrutiny for the intelligence community. President Donald Trump, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard have each made the case that the intelligence agencies have gone "woke," prioritizing left-wing activism over national security. These chat logs confirm their suspicions and raise fundamental questions about competence and professionalism.

According to our sources, the sex chats were legitimized as part of the NSA's commitment to "diversity, equity and inclusion." Activists within the agency used LGBTQ+ "employee resource groups" to turn their kinks and pathologies into official work duties. According to the current NSA employee, these groups "spent all day" recruiting activists and holding meetings with titles such as "Privilege," "Ally Awareness," "Pride," and "Transgender Community Inclusion." And they did so with the full support of NSA leadership, which declared that DEI was "not only mission critical, but mission imperative."

More at the link.

Trump signed an order demanding that federal workers actually show up for work -- and they continue ignoring this order.

Elon Musk warned on Monday that federal employees who have not complied with President Trump’s return-to-office directive will be placed on administrative leave. Musk stated that workers had received ample warning and that the new policy would take effect immediately. His warning follows a Saturday announcement requiring employees to report their weekly accomplishments or risk termination.

Musk reiterated Monday that employees had over a month to comply with Trump's executive order. Those still refusing to return to the office this week will face administrative leave.

Surprise! Stonewall LGBTQ Pressure Group Is Funded by the State Department and USAID

—Ace

Fake and gay, fake and gay, fake and gay...

Note that this is the UK organization Stonewall. I'm sure a lot of American gay pressure groups are being funded by US taxpayers, too, but this one is a foreign organization.

Which I'll bet pressures US social media companies to censor speech. Funded by the people being censored.

Stonewall could be forced to cut up to half of its staff after President Trump's decision to freeze foreign aid, The Times understands.

So we're funding at least half of it, eh?

Workers at the LGBTQ+ charity were told on Thursday that restructuring would take place, and that only roles with dedicated funding would be safe.

Simon Blake, the chief executive of Stonewall, made the announcement in an office-wide Teams call, which was said to have left its 114 staff "shellshocked".

Sources said they believed up to half of the workforce could be made redundant in the move, which they were told would "secure the future of Stonewall for the long term as a significant LGBTQ+ organisation able to deliver impactful campaigns and legislative change across the UK and further afield".

Insiders believed the announcement was linked to decisions made by Trump over the provision of foreign aid. Blake has previously warned of the impact Trump's move would have on Stonewall's operations.

Funding from the US came to Stonewall through the Global Equality Fund (GEF), administered by the US state department, which has given the charity more than half a million pounds in the past three years. The GEF focuses on "advancing LGBTI rights around the world" and is a pooled fund with contributions from numerous countries and private businesses, but it has not published accounts since 2015.

In recent years the GEF has been Stonewall's largest funder. Charity accounts show the GEF increased its funding for Stonewall year on year, handing over £137,254 in 2021-22, rising to £204,442 in 2022-23 and reaching £233,583 in the most recent set of accounts.

Lester Holt Will Step Down as Fake Anchor on NBC "News" By Summer; MSNBC #Cancels Three More Left Wing Zeroes

—Ace

This is a bloodbath and I need to bathe.

Lester Holt, who NBC claims is a "Republican" despite being yet another aggressively mediocre liberal, is stepping away from the anchor desk to go back to
hosting Dateline.

Lester Holt is stepping down as anchor of NBC News' "Nightly News" after a decade. He announced the move in a memo to staff, revealing plans to take on an expanded anchor role at NBC's crime news drama show, "Dateline." Holt will continue anchoring "Nightly News" until the summer, and NBC News has not yet named his replacement.

Key Details:

Holt will transition to a full-time anchor role at "Dateline," where he plans to expand his influence and craft in-depth segments on topics he is passionate about.

Is that what this is about, his "passion"?

That's one theory. Here's another one: All of these media companies see a huge decline in their ratings and are offering their "talent" deep pay cuts if they want to keep their jobs.

John Sexton has more on the Night of Long Axes at MSNBC.

From the New York Post: Racist MSNBC actually is getting rid of all their minority hosts.

Or, at least, getting rid of their shows while keeping them in diminished roles.

MSNBC's new president continued to shake up the embattled network Monday -- canceling shows hosted by left-wing anchors Ayman Mohyeldin, Katie Phang and Jonathan Capehart, The Post has learned.

The overhaul follows the ouster of rabid anti-Trump anchor Joy Reid after reports surfaced Sunday that the Comcast-owned network is canceling her show, "The ReidOut."

On Monday, an MSNBC insider told The Post that staff working for Capehart and Phang were informed that their weekend shows will be canceled.

The source spoke shortly after The Guardian reported that Mohyeldin's program will be taken off the air. His show "Ayman Mohyeldin Reports," which airs on the weekends at 7 p.m., will broadcast its final episode on April 20, according to the UK paper.

An MSNBC spokesperson confirmed the shakeup when contacted by The Post.
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Mohyeldin, Capehart and Phang will remain at the network, with the two men hosting shows in new time slots, the rep said.

As you probably know, Comcast-Universal is putting MSNBC and a bunch of other dying cable channels up for sale. They're scrambling to make this basketcase presentable for sale.

From a previous Sexton report: Joy Reid lost 47% of her ratings since Trump won the election. I can't imagine she was highly rated before the election, either.

"The ReidOut" has shed 47% of its total audience, averaging just 759,000 viewers after averaging 1.4 million viewers throughout 2024 leading up to Election Day, according to Nielsen Media Research.

Reid lost even more viewers among the advertiser-coveted demographic ages 25-54, losing a whopping 52% of them, now averaging only 76,000 key demo viewers.

Clay Travis mocks Reid and other liberal #Resistance propagandists:

Clay Travis @ClayTravis

The most remarkable thing about people like Joy Reid, Don Lemon and Jim Acosta is they have been paid millions of dollars for years to talk on TV and yet they have developed no actual fan base. The minute they leave TV, their careers are over. Do you know how hard this to do?

You are gifted an incredible opportunity to enter people's homes and talk to them directly for YEARS EVERY NIGHT. Yet the moment you aren't on TV, your audience vanishes. That means none of your "audience" actually likes you. It's all just platform/network based.

This is fascinating to me because the Internet arena is the exact opposite -- your audience is directly connected to you because the audience has an infinite array of choices and picked you. It's far more competitive & authentic online so the connection is much deeper.

I'm not sure how many people realize this, but Don Lemon's career is a perfect example. He went from a show competing with two other networks every night to competing with the entire Internet. No one followed him online. His career is essentially over.

It's way harder to win online, but when you do, you have a career for life. Your audience will follow you anywhere. Because you are the platform. Anyway, I still don't think most realize this. Joy Reid will soon. Her career is over.

Trump Names New Deputy Director of the FBI

—Ace

Good get.

I have to imagine that Bongino was making a lot more with his podcasting venture than he'll make as a Deputy FBI Director. He's taking a paycut to do the right thing.

President Donald Trump has appointed former Secret Service agent and conservative commentator Dan Bongino as Deputy Director of the FBI. The announcement, made on Truth Social, highlights Bongino's law enforcement background and commitment to justice.

Key Details:

Bongino, a former NYPD officer and Secret Service agent, will serve under newly confirmed FBI Director Kash Patel.

Trump praised Bongino's credentials, including his graduate degrees and successful podcasting career.

He expressed gratitude to Trump, Attorney General Pam Bondi, and Director Patel for the opportunity.

Diving Deeper:

President Donald Trump has tapped Dan Bongino, a former Secret Service agent and prominent conservative commentator, to serve as Deputy Director of the FBI. The announcement, made via Trump's Truth Social account, underscores Trump's commitment to reshaping federal law enforcement under his administration.

"Dan Bongino, a man of incredible love and passion for our Country, has just been named the next DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF THE FBI, by the man who will be the best ever Director, Kash Patel," Trump wrote. He lauded Bongino's extensive background, which includes service in the New York Police Department, the U.S. Secret Service, and his rise as one of the most influential conservative voices in media.

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With Patel at the helm of the FBI and former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi now leading the Department of Justice, Trump has assembled a leadership team determined to restore "fairness, justice, law, and order" to federal law enforcement. The appointments mark a decisive shift away from what Trump and his allies have long decried as politicization within the intelligence community.