#METOO ERA OFFICIALLY DEAD AND BURIED AT THE NEW YORK TIMES:

How it started: The Undoing of Jeffrey Toobin — How a leading man of legal journalism lost his sweetest gig.

—The New York Times, December 15th, 2020.

How it’s going:

Here's the thing that annoys me — everyone talks about THE INCIDENT with Toobin, which is a shame because it overshadows a very long illustrious career of stupid, slanted, lazy, dishonest legal commentary, womanizing, adultery, abuse of the legal system, and just generally being…

— Jarvis (@jarvis_best) February 12, 2025

Given the paper’s brittle safetyism culture that was on full display during their 2020 freakout over Tom Cotton’s op-ed, Toobin at the Times probably won’t have a happy ending.

(Hi-Yo! Try the veal! Be sure to tip your waitress!)

WAGING PEACE: So Donald Trump Just Got Off the Phone With Vladimir Putin…

NOT GOING WELL: ULA’s Vulcan rocket still doesn’t have the Space Force’s seal of approval.

THAT IS NOT WHAT MY TUESDAY LOOKED LIKE:

Federal workers just want the dignity and privileges all normal American workers have, like taking a Tuesday off to sing about throwing their boss in jail, without fear of repercussions. Is that not what your Tuesday looked like? https://t.co/Rbkoch1PG2

— Mary Katharine Ham (@mkhammer) February 12, 2025

Looks like a firable offense to be. Let the pink slips fly as a warning to the others.

CHAOS AT DOJ IN THE FIRST WEEK OF THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION? Blame Barack Obama. For 12 of the past 16 years the ranks of DOJ Attorneys have been stuffed full of liberal progressives — time to go.

The story also addresses the issue of January 6 prosecutors and the fact that there were hundreds of Assistant U.S. Attorneys brought from across the country to staff the cases since the volume was greater than the U.S. Attorney for D.C. could manage. The story notes that the sheer numbers in that regard mean “they all can’t be fired” — most do not deserve to be fired — there is certainly a meaningful way for new management to review the work done and make a determination whether continued employment in the same capacity is warranted. It might not be next week or next month, but where the work of individual prosecutors is found to have exceeded what could be called “doing justice” that prosecutor could pay for that with their job.
“Fairness” and “justice” are the North Stars of public prosecutors, not winning. Some — not all — either never realized that in their zealotry or they lost track of it somewhere along the way. I saw many examples and, with the benefit of my 21 years doing the same job in a very different way, I would sign the termination paperwork for many based on my experiences.
Let them go chasing social justice objectives that are at the center of their worldview. But they aren’t entitled to do it in the name of the United States Department of Justice.

Read the whole thing.

SPACE: NASA chooses SpaceX launch site in Texas for Pandora mission launch.

SCHADENFREUDE: The Democrats’ Downfall Is a Sight to Behold.

IS THERE ANYTHING THESE DRUGS CAN’T DO? GLP-1 medications show promise in slowing kidney disease progression.

THIS IS CNN:

CNN meltdown after Scott Jennings asks: A judge can cover up fraud, but the President of the United States can’t stop it? 🤔🔥

The panic is real! Jennings hit a nerve, and now CNN is spiraling. Apparently, an unelected judge can sweep fraud under the rug, but if a sitting… pic.twitter.com/5zsa75bNIT

— TheWakeninq2 (@wakeninq2) February 11, 2025

If you’re taking the side of the people helping cover up the fraud, I have to assume that in some way, you’re in on it.

READER FAVORITE: Kidde Carbon Monoxide Detector, Plug In Wall. #CommissionEarned

CHICKS DIG BAD BOYS: House Dem: I’m Deeply Sexually Attracted to a Real Leader! “Hey, all the signs are there! The nervous laughter, the subconscious preening, the head tilt — she’s totally into him! And why shouldn’t she be? Dexter just watched the last few years with a senile placeholder in the Oval Office rather than someone who could take charge, and clearly the contrast has deeply affected her. Dexter might want to check on the White House social schedule to see when Melania will be out of town next.”

I’m really enjoying all the mockery of Democrats and leftists. The devil hates to be mocked.

JIM GERAGHTY: The Answer to Charges of ‘Nobody Elected Elon Musk.’

Americans Elected the Guy Who Pledged He Would Give Elon Musk This Task

On February 8, Democrats held a “Nobody elected Elon!” rally outside the U.S. Treasury Department.

It’s become the party’s new rallying cry. Maxine Waters, who has served in public office since 1976 and who is 86 years old, said at the rally, “We have got to tell Elon Musk, ‘Nobody elected your a**.’” Democratic members of Congress Jamie Raskin of Maryland and Melanie Stansbury of New Mexico have introduced the ‘‘Nobody Elected Elon Musk Act,” which declares any special government employee in charge of the Department of Government Efficiency “shall be liable for any claim against the federal government relating to activities of the department.”

It is true that no one cast a ballot for Musk in 2024. Born in Pretoria, South Africa, Musk is not a natural-born U.S. citizen, and is ineligible to be president under the U.S. Constitution. But no one in the president’s cabinet was elected to their jobs, other than the vice president. Back in 2020, nobody voted to put Alejandro Mayorkas in charge of the border, Antony Blinken in charge of foreign policy, Jake Sullivan in charge of national security, or Janet Yellin in charge of the economy. You don’t vote for the guys around the president, other than the vice president. You vote for a president, who selects his team and, in positions where it’s required, gets them confirmed by the U.S. Senate.
And Donald Trump gave America plenty of advance notice that he intended to put Musk in a role looking for ways to cut federal spending.

Congresswoman Yassamin Ansari (D-AZ) is screaming that “King Trump and Elon Musk are going after all of your freedoms, all of your rights, all of your money:”

“King Trump and Elon Musk are going after all of your freedoms, all of your rights, all of your money…” -Rep. Yassamin Ansari https://t.co/UyilTbFPH3 pic.twitter.com/WCjzEDlMAp

— Matt Orfalea (@0rf) February 12, 2025

But Ansari pledged to support the Green Nude Eel, which to borrow from Ansari’s language, explicitly went after “all your freedoms and all your rights,” and would need a huge chunk of your money to implement. It’s difficult to shout fascism when you’ve already pledged to do fascist-y type stuff yourself.

JOHN HINDERAKER: It’s corruption, all the way down.

#WINNING: Literally on a government watch list a few weeks ago, and now she’s in charge of her tormentors.

✅CONFIRMED: Tulsi Gabbard is your new Director of National Intelligence. pic.twitter.com/GKxOeptBoM

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) February 12, 2025

Mitch McConnell voted no on her, of course.

Next, Kash Patel.

ABSOLUTELY, IT’S INSTITUTIONALIZED RACISM: Conservative Groups Call On EEOC To Investigate ABA Diversity Programs. “A coalition of conservative legal groups on Monday asked the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to investigate several of the American Bar Association’s diversity hiring programs, claiming they discriminate by giving priority to minority applicants and other underrepresented groups.”

“Underrepresented.”

IT’S OFFICIAL: Chuck Schumer Is the Worst Politician in Washington.

CDR SALAMANDER: “It appears that someone is messing with one of the new construction German Braunschweig-class corvettes that is carrying the name of one of my favorite ships.”

JAMES PETHOKOUKIS: JD Vance offers an accelerationist AI vision in Paris: The veep offered world leaders and CEOs at the AI Action Summit an Up Wing message about technology empowering workers, not erasing them.

THIS IS CNN: Meltdown: CNN Host Calls Sununu (!) a ‘D*ck’ In DOGE Discussion With…

Imagine getting so flummoxed by a Republican as moderate and non-MAGA as Chris Sununu on a panel discussing reductions in government spending. That sounds like an ancient episode of a Frontline debate on a Saturday morning. Pipes should be puffing, tweed jackets donned, perhaps even with the elbow patches, horn-rimmed glasses firmly affixed in front of a two-camera set with black-and-white broadcasting.

Instead … this is CNN, and usually milquetoast anchor Anderson Cooper (via Twitchy):

🚨 WOW… Chris Sununu was just called a "d*ck" by Anderson Cooper over DOGE.

COOPER: Some of the details, like millions for hotels, it's actually not…

SUNUNU: You mean the FEMA money for migrants? That's OK now?

COOPER: I'm not saying it's OK, don't put words in my mouth.… pic.twitter.com/MCNAnRLMkR

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) February 12, 2025

COOPER: Some of the details, like millions for hotels, it’s actually not…

SUNUNU: You mean the FEMA money for migrants? That’s OK now?

COOPER: I’m not saying it’s OK, don’t put words in my mouth. Don’t be a d*ck.

Emphasis mine. Also, let’s emphasize that the other panel member in this discussion is Jeffrey Toobin, who’s best known for literally whipping it out during a business meeting on Zoom. If Cooper wanted to discuss male genitalia, the comment should have been directed at his colleague Toobin, who for some reason CNN still employs. You just can’t make this up.

Cooper later apologized, but that hardly matters. Why would a broadcast professional drop that into a policy debate?

In 2017, Brooke Baldwin got the vapors over Clay Travis joking that he believes in “the First Amendment and boobs,” even as Don Lemon told Kathy Griffin on a CNN New Year’s Eve broadcast: “Nice rack.” During the past two weeks, its distaff newsreaders are tut-tutting a teenage DOGE wonk whose handle is “Big Balls” and Elon Musk himself temporarily changing his Twitter handle to “Harry Bolz,” while Anderson Cooper is deploying locker room talk with Chris Sununu (with Toobin on-camera as well). CNN is once again trying to have it both ways when it comes to maintaining a veneer of civility, and not surprisingly, failing badly.

BREAKING: Tulsi Gabbard Confirmed as Director of National Intelligence.

PEPPERIDGE FARM REMEMBERS:

Federal employee retirements are processed using paper, by hand, in an old limestone mine in Pennsylvania. 700+ mine workers operate 230 feet underground to process ~10,000 applications per month, which are stored in manila envelopes and cardboard boxes. The retirement process… pic.twitter.com/dXCTgpAWLs

— Department of Government Efficiency (@DOGE) February 11, 2025

I couldn’t believe this was real at first, but apparently WaPo reported on it ten years ago — and of course, nothing was done.

RABBI MICHAEL BARCLAY: Today, Trump Made the World a Safer Place and the Middle East Primed for Peace.

MUSK KEEPS FINDING NEW WAYS TO SQUEEZE THEM WHERE IT COUNTS:

BREAKING: DOGE is looking into federal workers who have a high net worth despite having a low salary, according to Elon Musk.

🔥🔥

"We find it sort of rather odd that there are quite a few people in the bureaucracy who who have a salary of a few hundred thousand dollars, but… pic.twitter.com/XnHAUnysIX

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) February 11, 2025

Maybe a message could be subtly sent to take the buyout and avoid the investigation. Or maybe not.

IF YOU’RE TALKING ABOUT “PALESTINIAN GENOCIDE,” YOU’RE A MORON: ‘Ongoing genocide’: UMich students fail to get Israeli doctor’s talk canceled.

Or a liar.

MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: Jeff Bezos and Walmart Are Wetting Themselves Over This Threat.