CULTURE OF CORRUPTION:
Over $4 billion to Haiti but Haiti only got 2% of it. The rest went to firms in DC and "other" pic.twitter.com/5CzzZT0i2H
— Peachy Keenan (@KeenanPeachy) February 5, 2025
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February 6, 2025
THE SCIENCE IS NEVER SETTLED: The uncertainty of science: Scientists now say eating eggs reduces your chances of a heart attack.
STATE-RUN MEDIA ANGRY ABOUT COFFERS BEING CUT: NBC, ABC Remain Bitter Over DOGE Obliteration of USAID.
CBS — which tried to sway the 2004 election and had newsreaders reciting pro-Obamacare Christmas poems in 2009 isn’t very happy, either:
CBS News treating a government employee like they are in witness protection is amazing. Blurred silhouette and everything. https://t.co/1av8WDMqwN
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) February 6, 2025
Related: You Knew This CNN Panel Was Going to Descend Into Total Chaos. Scott Jennings has “the patience of a saint:”
The man faces of @ScottJenningsKY during the DEI segment pic.twitter.com/85uffqU4lw
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) February 6, 2025
CHARLATAN’S CAREER HEADS SOUTH: The Downfall of Ibram X. Kendi: The race guru’s research center will close. You spelled “race grifter” wrong.
THE AMOUNT TRIPLED IN JUST A FEW HOURS. ARE WE SURE IT’S ALL BE FOUND?
The Politico scandal is worse than you think.
It’s not $8M that Politico received from USAID.
It’s $34.3M that Politico has received from various swampy federal govt agencies.
Politico is, without a doubt, a totally corrupt propaganda arm of the swamp.
Follow along below. pic.twitter.com/OxF7Zrc4GP
— Liz Wheeler (@Liz_Wheeler) February 5, 2025
Related: The USAID Scandal Is Getting Worse by the Minute
Much more to come.
HOW THE SCAM WORKS:
1️⃣ Gov-funded NGO gets a USAID grant for something vague like “strengthening education.”
2️⃣ That NGO dumps millions into a DAF (Donor-Advised Fund).
3️⃣ The DAF isn’t required to disclose what the NGO told them to do with the money.
4️⃣ But somehow, every hyperpolitical…
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) February 5, 2025
ELI LAKE: Radicals Have Burned California Before.
The veneer of civilization was peeling away, and the average Californian blamed one man: San Francisco mayor Joseph Alioto. He was a Democrat, but a traditional one: the kind who runs on a platform of being tough on crime. Nevertheless, the people wanted regime change.
Enter: George Moscone, a fun-loving, charismatic California state senator. In 1975, he began campaigning to be the next mayor of San Francisco. He appealed to the traditional constituencies like the labor unions, but he also embraced the legendary gay activist Harvey Milk. He appealed to environmentalists, hippies, and other radicals who were on the outside looking in. It was a political coalition as experimental as any of the art being made across California at the time.
In David Talbot’s history of the San Fran ’70s, Season of the Witch, he describes Moscone’s visit to a commune, where the candidate was given the “ultimate Haight-Ashbury test:” a “pillow-sized reefer.” He and his staff were sitting at a giant wooden table with some hippies while the joint was being passed around. One of Moscone’s aides tried to intercept it, to save the future mayor from violating federal and city law, but Moscone was having none of it.
“Wait a minute,” he said.
Then he proceeded to take a huge toke.
“The whole room burst into applause,” Talbot writes. “The candidate passed the test. The Haight was in his column.”
Moscone’s rival in the race was John Barbagelata, a realtor who wanted to return San Francisco to what it was like before the hippie invasion. But Moscone had an advantage: The 1975 mayoral election was the first race under a new law that limited campaign spending to just over $120,000. This tempered the influence of the wealthy downtown real estate developers and lawyers who had powered Alioto’s campaigns in 1967 and 1971, and would naturally get behind Barbagelata.
In a runoff on December 11, 1975, Moscone beat Barbagelata—albeit narrowly. In a city of 700,000 people, the margin was 4,315 votes.
Many of Moscone’s moves were admirable. He got rid of the mayor’s limousine and announced that his door would always be open for any San Franciscan who wanted to talk. He appointed Milk to the powerful board of permit appeals, making him the first openly gay city commissioner in the U.S.
But other reforms were ill-considered. Moscone appointed Charles Gain—a so-called “sociological cop”—to be the chief of police. One of Gain’s first moves was to remove the American flag that hung outside the commissioner’s office and replace it with a plant. He also insisted on repainting all the police cars baby blue. And, in the fall of 1977, he attended something known as the Hookers Ball, “the social event of the year for heterosexuals, bisexuals, trisexuals, transexuals, nonsexuals, and other minorities who feel they are discriminated against.” Gain was photographed wedged between one of the city’s prostitues and someone calling herself “Wonder Whore,” a superhero with a dildo in her holster.
San Francisco’s rank-and-file cops couldn’t stand Gain, whose policy interventions were rarely relevant to the actual fighting of crime. Their attitude was best captured in the 1971 movie Dirty Harry, in which Clint Eastwood played Inspector Harry Callahan, who doesn’t care for the mayor’s passive approach to crime. He’s got his own approach—killing the bad guys.
Moscone, who stood by Gain, was exactly the kind of do-gooder liberal who Dirty Harry despised. Whereas his predecessor sent SWAT teams to the Haight communes, the new mayor shared a joint there. But he was popular in the city because he was willing to share power with the left-wing street organizers and political activists that had been relegated to the margins.
To build a new San Francisco, Moscone was willing to work with anyone—and I mean anyone.
Take the Reverend Jim Jones. He’d been the leader of a religious cult known as Peoples Temple for a couple of decades by the time Moscone welcomed him into his administration in 1975.
There’s a condensed version of this story in the video version narrated by Lake that the Free Press uploaded to YouTube yesterday. From the wondrous background shots in Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo to acid casualties and Altamont to Jim Jones and the birth of the homeless crisis is quite an amazing descent for a once beautiful American city:
GET’EM SKEERED AND KEEP THE SKEER ON’EM: Bondi Just Ordered an Investigation Into Biden’s Politicization of DOJ.
#CommissionEarned
Captain Jem Raznick of the Tanager dreams of nothing more than sailing the stars with his crew—a family forged in the vacuum of space. When a mysterious pirate threat looms, what seems like a routine trading run spirals into a cosmic adventure!
Family isn’t just blood—it’s the bond that holds the galaxy together.
Every time the enigmatic Jade Star enters their orbit, routine turns upside down. Jem must outwit the treachery that lurks in the shadows of space to keep his crew alive. Prepare for a journey between planets where loyalty, betrayal, and survival are the only constants. Join Captain Raznick as he navigates through danger, deceit, and the deep, dark unknown!
WHY DO TODDLERS THROW TANTRUMS? Democrats Are Already Trying to Impeach Donald Trump. Here’s Why.
NEVER GOOD IN THAT REGION: Thousands Leave Greek Island of Santorini as Tremors Rattle Region.
IT’S AMAZING WHAT KNOWING YOU’RE SUPPORTED WILL DO: Army Recruiting Numbers Surge After Trump Win.
THIS BLOG AIN’T BIG ENOUGH TO LIST ALL THINGS JOY REID DOESN’T UNDERSTAND: Charlie Kirk and Judge Jeanine Pirro: Joy Reid Doesn’t Understand the Constitution.
YES. CACKLES. OH, YES: US State Department Recalls All USAID Staffers from Foreign Assignments.
If any fans of Terry Pratchett could hear me now, they’d know I’m in danger of turning to the dark side. (It’s the cackle. It’s always the cackle.)
THEY CAN’T SAY ANYTHING THAT WOULDN’T MAKE THINGS WORSE: Independent Journalist Highlights Why Dems Are So Quiet About Trump Right Now.
(Cackle!)
INTERESTING? THEY’RE GETTING DOWNRIGHT RIVETING: Now things are getting interesting.
AND THIS IS A PERSON YOU SHOULD BE AWARE OF AND SORRY, YOU HAVE TO HAVE X FOR THIS: Research tip: If you are curious about political connections within a list of principal officers, copy and paste the list into ChatGPT and ask about the political connections of the list. In this case, American Idea Foundation, @SpeakerRyan‘s nonprofit, appears to be a retirement home for his staffers.
I’M BETTING YOU RIGHT NOW THAT THE ENTIRE LEFTIST ENTERPRISE WAS PAID FOR BY THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT… BY OUR TAXES: Tides Foundation is the Soros ‘charity’ that funded much of the Antifa BLM protests in 2020. (Besides many other crappy things.) USAID was one of Tides’ primary funders.
SOMETIMES ONE OF OUR GROUP HAS A CRYING AND SUDDEN NEED: Supporting Tiffany’s Recovery.
IN CASE YOU’RE CURIOUS: DOGE – A Lawyer’s Perspective on the @elonmusk@realDonaldTrump Policy Centerpiece.