PARAMOUNT MINUS: Bloodbath at Paramount claims 800 jobs including CBS News journalists embroiled in controversy.

Catherine Herridge — an award-winning senior correspondent whose First Amendment case is being closely watched by journalists nationwide — was among the hundreds of employees at CBS parent Paramount who got pink slips on Tuesday, sources told The Post.

The carnage provoked outrage from the rank-and-file at CBS, with some focusing their ire on Paramount Global CEO Bob Bakish, who pulled down $32 million in total compensation last year despite the company’s ever-shrinking financial profile.

“Everybody in the newsroom is pissed that Bob Bakish is making over $30 million and he’s making these cuts,” one insider fumed.

Elsewhere, some suspected the layoffs were more than just cost-cutting. Sources said Herridge had clashed with CBS News president Ingrid Ciprian-Matthews — a sharp-elbowed executive who was investigated in 2021 over favoritism and discriminatory hiring and management practices, as revealed by The Post.

Sources said CBS News’ Washington bureau, where Herridge covered national security and intelligence, was hit particularly hard.

Herridge committed actual journalism at a network that’s otherwise been a reliable Democratic Party PR organ since 1964. No wonder she was axed.

TO BE MEMORY HOLED BY THE DNC-MSM ASAP: House Republicans impeach DHS Secretary Mayorkas over border crisis.

MAYORKAS IMPEACHED: By one vote, thanks to the return to the House chamber of Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) who missed the first, failed impeachment attempt against Alejandro Mayorkas last week.

MEH, THE DIFFERENCES AREN’T VERY IMPRESSIVE: The Blood of Exceptionally Long-Lived People Reveals Key Differences.

WELL-DESERVED: House Republicans impeach Alejandro Mayorkas in historic vote. “After being impeached, Mayorkas will now face a trial in the Democratic-controlled Senate, where a two-thirds majority vote will be needed to convict and remove him from office, which is very unlikely to happen.”

UPDATE: More here.

WELL, OKAY THEN: Professor Mark Graber Lectures Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson About White Supremacy.

LOL, ALWAYS: Axios: Watch the Republicans Pounce!® Over Biden’s Cognitive Crisis.

BASED ON MY OWN EXPERIENCE, THIS IS BECAUSE OF THE QUALITY OF MATH TEACHERS: Children’s positive attitude towards mathematics fades during the early school years. I didn’t really enjoy math (except for Geometry, where I had a great teacher, Miss Keeble) until I started seriously using it in science classes like Physics and Chemistry.

A YEAR AGO TODAY: The Power of Old Men.

ARE THEY AFRAID IT WON’T POOP ON THE SIDEWALK? Waymo Autonomous Vehicle Set Ablaze By Crowd In San Francisco.

We’re constantly told how advanced the Bay Area is, but with filthy humans sleeping on the sidewalks and Luddite mobs burning new inventions, that’s now how it looks to me.

UNDERDELIVERING BY OVERCONSUMING: Our 2023 Honda Accord Touring’s Fuel Economy Is Coming Up Short.

STANDING UP AGAINST HATE AND DISCRIMINATION: Idaho Bill Bans Public Contracts For Companies That Discriminate Against Gun Industry.

I LIKE MY STANDARD PDP, THIS SOUNDS NICE: Review: Walther PDP Match Steel Frame Pistol.

READER FAVORITE: Keurig K-Express Coffee Maker, Single Serve K-Cup Pod Coffee Brewer. #CommissionEarned

ANYBODY BUT JOE: Guess Who Biden Blames for His Own COVID Failure.

WHAT ARE THE ODDS: That convincing evidence of extra-terrestrial life will be found within the next 15 years, that is. The Discovery Institute’s Mind Matters reports on a wager among a couple of smart guys:

“Astrobiologist Dirk Schulze-Makuch, who leads the Astrobiology Research Group at the Technical University of Berlin, has bet University of London planetary scientist Ian Crawford a bottle of whisky that within 15 years, ‘convincing evidence for technological life elsewhere in the Universe will be found.’”

ONCE UNLEASHED, INFLATION IS DIFFICULT AND PAINFUL TO CONTAIN: Consumer prices rise 3.1% in January, defying forecasts for a faster slowdown. “Both measures were higher compared to economist forecasts of a 0.2% month-over-month increase and a 2.9% annual increase, according to data from Bloomberg.”

THIS IS CNN: CNN worries that Muslim migrant gang rape in Italy will bolster ‘far right.’

“Hannah Arendt had it right,” Patrick Moynihan once said. “She said one of the great advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties was to turn any statement of fact into a question of motive.”

THE ESTABLISHMENT CONTINUES ITS ASSAULT: Court orders Elon Musk to testify for SEC, rejects his claim of “harassment.”

HOW IT STARTED: How Joe Biden Is Positioning Himself as a Modern FDR.

—Time magazine, October 28th, 2020*.

How it’s going: The Last Time an Unfit Incumbent Ran for Reelection.

Few self-respecting physicians with the trust of the president are going to betray it. By early 1944, FDR had been diagnosed with a life-threatening condition, namely “acute congestive heart failure.” An examining physician called his health status simply “God-awful.”

Nonetheless, the White House rolled out FDR’s doctor in September to pronounce the president’s health “perfectly O.K.,” with “absolutely no organic difficulties at all.” He said the president, who had experienced alarming weight loss, had just decided to shed some pounds and that he’s “proud of his flat — repeat F-L-A-T — tummy.”

Journalistic defenders can be trusted to attack and shame anyone who mistrusts the official story.

Pro-Roosevelt writer Marquis Childs called the well-founded rumors about FDR’s health a “wicked business” and “the vilest kind of fear campaign.” The problem wasn’t FDR’s underlying condition but the malignancy of his enemies: “Some people hate the President so much that the wish is father to the thought that his health is seriously undermined.”

Sound familiar?

Of course, the political allies will always do their duty. Harry Truman, recently selected as FDR’s new vice-presidential nominee, told reporters after a lunch with the president that he was “still the leader he’s always been, and don’t let anybody kid you about it.”

Truman told a friend, in contrast, that the president’s “hands are shaking and he talks with considerable difficulty.” According to Truman, FDR was “just going to pieces” physically, and he said he was like “a phonograph record played at the wrong speed.”

This wasn’t an unusual reaction. People around Roosevelt were in great fear of his dying, yet no one let on.

—Rich Lowry, NRO, today.

Hopefully this isn’t an exact repeat of 1944. Otherwise, which nation will Kamala, Michelle, or Gavin nuke first shortly after taking office?

Related: Biden Will Once Again Refuse to Take a Cognitive Test at His Upcoming Physical.

* Joe’s boss also got the “next FDR” treatment from Time magazine in 2008, of course.

ROBERT SPENCER: Hamas Member Reveals That Organization’s Goal Is Not Just to Free ‘Palestine.’ “Leftists who are expressing their support for Hamas and hatred for Israel these days are likely neither to know nor care that Hamas has these aspirations, as they simply cannot imagine a world in which their Muslim allies would turn against them.”

HMM: Study suggests tai chi is better at reducing high blood pressure than aerobic exercise.

MY LATEST SUBSTACK ESSAY: The election was rigged. Biden is incompetent. Time for consequences.

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THEY AREN’T SAYING IT’S ALIENS BUT IT’S ALIENS: Multiple US military whistleblowers reveal how a disc-shaped UFO intercepted nuclear missile and disabled it with ‘laser-beams’ in mid-air over California.

WHERE’S HUNTER, FAT?

Shot:

FLASHBACK: Joe Biden previously said “I have never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings”

Today it’s reported that Biden met with the chairman of the Chinese energy firm Hunter sought to create a joint venture with at the Four Seasons.pic.twitter.com/mTsD5XItMI

— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) February 13, 2024

Chaser:

And here it is: the “H to Zang” letter from March 22, 2016. Was an attachment on Hunter Biden’s laptop previously inaccessible, but now it has been produced to the House Judiciary Committee by Hunter ex-partner Rob Walker. Shows the relationship with CEFC began during Joe Biden’s… https://t.co/4Xt7VjR0H3

— Miranda Devine (@mirandadevine) February 13, 2024