February 22, 2025

EVERY DAY IS CHRISTMAS:

Posted at 10:57 pm by Glenn Reynolds

PANIC AT THE DISCO:

Posted at 10:44 pm by Glenn Reynolds

OPEN THREAD: Saturday night’s all right for blogging. Get a little action in.

Posted at 9:30 pm by Glenn Reynolds

AP SUES TRUMP ADMINISTRATION OVER WHITE HOUSE BAN:

The Associated Press is filing this suit to protect other (legacy bullsh#t) news outlets from suffering the same fate of being banished from The White House. Whatever would we do without CNN, MSNBC and the likes of them?

 

In the words of senile old Joe Biden, whose dementia AP willfully covered up for, what…? Four-plus years?

C’mon man.

And, while we are on the topic of Mr. Biden, remember when he banned The New York Post from a briefing on airline policies with Pete Buttigieg because of

One name: Miranda Devine. But it wasn’t just The New York Post that had their crews revoked back in 2023. More than 440 reporters lost their press badges when Biden was at the helm in 2023. More from Potato Head Stelter and CNN:

For decades The AP has been a foundational part of the so-called White House ‘press pool’ that travels with the president at all times and shares information with the wider press corps.”-Brian Stelter

Foundational. They are the standard all (liberal) news outlets follow. They do have their own Stylebook, after all.

The AP has not lost credentials. They can, in fact, still report on the news coming from The White House. They are just not invited to be present at certain times. They can continue to make up the fake news from afar. They were right up in former pResident Biden’s grill at all times back in the day and never once questioned his mental acuity or his son’s laptop. No one is stopping AP from writing or publishing their propaganda.

Such as this: Associated Press Continues to Act As Hamas’ PR Firm With Insulting Headline About How Bibas Family Died.

‘Died in captivity.’

No. The Bibas family were taken hostage by Hamas a year and a half ago. Her children were murdered in November 2023, and once Israel completes an autopsy on Shiri Bibas, we’re certain they’ll find the same.

Wire services played a major role in disseminating news in the first half of the 20th century, when building the first radio and then TV networks was a tremendously difficult and expensive proposition. Because there were comparatively few national news outlets back then, those that existed had to at least feign some sense of objectivity. And if those conditions still existed in 2025, then AP might have a case today. (And they still might, if they can shop their lawsuit to one of the proverbial sympathetic far left “Hawaiian judges,” of the type that hamstrung President Trump’s first term.) But given how biased AP’s reporting has become in recent decades, and their role in allowing Team Biden to hide the (p)resident’s cognitive decline for four years, they are simply yet another leftist legacy news source, and should be treated as such.

Posted at 6:55 pm by Ed Driscoll

SHOW ME YOU’RE A JEALOUS MIDWIT WITHOUT — WELL, NO, YOU’RE PRETTY MUCH TELLING ME YOU’RE A JEALOUS MIDWIT, TOO: Musk Biographer Claims There Is Zero Evidence Elon Musk Is Smart. “Boeing can’t make a space capsule anymore; the Space Launch System is a boondoggle, and Starlink and SpaceX are indispensable to the world. Musk did that. Tesla and SpaceX did not appear out of thin air, everybody said that their success was impossible and they have never been duplicated, and Blue Origin began with the same advantages as SpaceX–more, really–and has accomplished next to nothing. Everybody goes gaga over Nikola Tesla, rightly so, but he doesn’t hold a candle to Elon Musk. The world’s space industry would be 1/20th the size it is without Musk.”

Posted at 6:00 pm by Glenn Reynolds

TAIBBI HAS A GREAT IDEA: If you aren’t reading Matt Taibbi’s Substack column (ditto Glenn’s on Substack) on a regular basis, you are missing all kinds of important analyses, information, rebuttals and resources. And today, Taibbi offers up a great reference source that has the potential to spark a revolution in digital news tools. Here’s how he describes it:

“This morning, I sent out an article titled: ‘The Library: Timeline of Foreign Censorship Laws.’ It’s neither a news article, nor a finished product. It’s simply a chronological list of primary source documents around the theme of foreign speech laws. Twitter Files and/or FOIA documents may appear in these collections.

“The idea will be to create similar reference homes for emerging news stories: about USAID contracts, the EPA ‘gold bars’ scandal, court challenges to the Trump administration, whistleblower complaints, declassified information about controversies like Covid, and anything else that comes up.

“We’re living through a period of revolutionary change and are awash in revelations and document releases, yet few outlets are making an effort to show core materials. As these stories come out, I’m encouraging readers who work in relevant fields, follow these narratives, or who simply want to pitch in, to write to: , especially if they know of documents that should be added.”

This is an idea that ought to catch on quickly.

 

Posted at 5:11 pm by Mark Tapscott

I’M LOVING THIS.

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Let them fight actual crime outside of DC, rather than commit crimes in DC. And Huntsville is hardly a place of exile; it’s a very nice university town and nowadays the largest city in Alabama, though that perhaps says as much about Birmingham’s urban decay as about Huntsville’s growth.

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Posted at 4:15 pm by Glenn Reynolds

I FEEL LIKE THE LUXURY SEDAN MARKET ISN’T AS IMPORTANT AS IT USED TO BE: Mercedes Is Readying a Significant S-Class Update for 2026.

As I said when I looked at the Maybach sedan, it would be nice if I had a driver, but most of the luxury is in the back seat. I do like that you can still get a V8, though a friend of mine is hoarding his V12.

Plus: “Mercedes’ plan to retain gas engines is likely a smart move, as buyers have proven to be fickle when it comes to high-priced EVs, especially with performance models like those made and tuned by AMG.”

At present, EVs are a niche product.

Posted at 4:00 pm by Glenn Reynolds

WELL, YES:

Posted at 3:28 pm by Glenn Reynolds