IT DOES SEEM THAT WAY:

Whenever you think Democrats have screwed up so badly, they’ll finally learn their lesson- they dig in and find a way to make it worse pic.twitter.com/ik11WtLJUk

— Buck Sexton (@BuckSexton) January 31, 2025

THE POWER LINE WEEK IN PICTURES: I Don’t Really Care Margaret.

DISPATCHES FROM BIZZARO WORLD:

STOP TRYING TO ERASE AMERICA’S HISTORY: Professor says monuments to American pioneers ‘reinforce white supremacy.’

SUNLIGHT IS THE BEST DISINFECTANT: California university cancels CRT activist’s webinar after Campus Reform report: Campus Reform reported in December that the university was hosting a two-day webinar by Dante King, who said all white people are ‘psychopaths.’

MATT TAIBBI: About Those Onesies: A brief note to Senator Bernie Sanders. “Many who (like you) who opposed mandates lost jobs, were removed from the Internet, or denounced as ‘anti-vax.’ Others lost services, like the protesting truckers who had online fundraisers blocked. You did not speak in defense of these people. Many concluded that there were no defenders of free speech left in the Democratic caucus.”

Bernie always falls in line with the party’s demands when the chips are down.

FOLLOW THE MONEY:

This is arguably the single most important aspect of Trump's funding freeze.

The immigration crisis isn't an accident. It's a well-oiled system, facilitated by powerful NGOs—and funded by your tax dollars.

By defunding the NGOs, Trump is crippling the entire system. 🧵 pic.twitter.com/OJs1GN0O3y

— Nate Hochman (@njhochman) January 28, 2025

USAID essentially functions as one of many money laundering machines for Democrats in DC. Here’s how it works:

• Activists create obscure NGO
• Dems fund it lavishly
• NGO does bare minimum (or actively hurts the United States)
• Activists get paid and donate to Dems

Not… pic.twitter.com/oaEF4ON3Q0

— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) February 1, 2025

We are entering the "WTF" discovery phase of DOGE. https://t.co/9VHTeZr5Q2

— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) February 1, 2025

I HOPE AND EXPECT THAT THE SUPREME COURT WILL AGREE: D.C. Circuit Declines to Reconsider Decision Concluding CEQ Lacks Authority to Issue NEPA Regulations.

HOW BAD WAS IT? THIS BAD. CNN Makes Shocking Admission on How Badly Democrats Did Against RFK Jr.

FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT! ‘…What You’re Increasingly Seeing Is a Frontal Assault on the Institutions That Buttress the Left.’

THE END OF JANUARY IS A HARD TIME [VIP]: Heavy History on Sky Candy Today.

I usually concentrate Sky Candy on astronomy and space photographs with a little bit of space history. But all of NASA’s major losses of astronauts happened in the last part of January or the first of February.

IS IT JUST ME, OR DOES IT SEEM LIKE THEY’RE TRYING TO BRAND EVERYTHING ADMIRABLE AS “WHITE SUPREMACY?” STUDY: Objectivism and Rationalism Now Signs of “White Supremacy”.

Is that really a good strategy?

AND NO QUALIFIED IMMUNITY FOR THE OFFICIALS, WHICH REALLY MAKES THIS NEWS: U Tenn Pharmacy School Pays $250K Settlement for Trying to Expel Student for Sexually Themed Tweets. “For years, colleges around the country have wielded professionalism codes against students for their expression even when the student’s speech has no bearing on their ability to succeed in a given field. Kim’s posts were wholly separate from the college, as her accounts operated under a pseudonym and did not reveal her then-identity as a student.”

Related: Universities That Target Their Students’ Free Speech Should Have To Pay A Public Price For It. “It’s shocking how audacious public universities can be about this sort of thing — the extent to which they will pursue “investigations” or disciplinary acts against students for what would clearly seem to be protected speech (given that public university students are generally protected by the First Amendment). But “clearly seems to be” can take you only so far if you don’t have access to legal recourse. Diei was very fortunate to have pro bono help from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression. . . . A lot of universities act similarly to cowardly, risk-averse corporations. Their response to the sort of whiny narc who ‘reports’ someone’s social media posts sometimes defaults to ‘OH MY GOD WE ARE SO SORRY WHAT CAN WE DO TO MAKE YOU FEEL LESS OFFENDED??’ That is: They’re not going to do the right thing out of loyalty to their students, or out of a principled stance on free speech. They’re going to do the right thing when it becomes too expensive, from a monetary or public-relations perspective, to do the wrong thing.”

HAH:

“Who will pick blueberries?!"

Well, Margaret, let’s start with your jobless 20-year-old, blue-haired, Reddit-addicted trans son living in your basement.

— Coco 🇺🇸 (@CoClarified) January 31, 2025

IS ANYONE SURPRISED BY THIS? Trump Was Right: FAA Turned Away Qualified Controllers Over Race.

GOOD IDEA:

I would terminate all the probationary agents. Let them reapply – they’ll get hired back if it wasn’t DEI that got them hired. That creates more openings for non-DEI in 2025. https://t.co/isThEIycEE

— Shipwreckedcrew (@shipwreckedcrew) January 31, 2025

OPEN THREAD: Make it special.

ELON’S END-RUN: iPhone Starlink compatibility sends direct-to-smartphone stocks sliding. “Shares in Globalstar, which enables connectivity beyond the reach of cellular towers on the latest iPhones via a far-reaching partnership with Apple, closed down nearly 18% the following day. Constellation developer AST SpaceMobile slipped 12%. Canada’s MDA, which is building at least 17 satellites for Globalstar after Apple agreed to cover most of the costs to replenish the constellation, also saw its shares fall more than 9%.”

Starlink is a (much) more robust network, technically superior, and already in existence. That makes it a formidable competitor, to say the least.

THEY WERE UNTHINKING PARTY LOYALISTS:

No kidding. pic.twitter.com/PUl8VcVY7i

— Rothmus 🏴 (@Rothmus) January 31, 2025

And thought there was no way the Democrats would ever be out of power.

STRANGE BEAUTY: Eerie Features Seen on Mars Are Unlike Anything on Earth. All of this will disappear once the terraforming is complete.

CHANGE:

Excellent. I love that Donald Trump is doing the exact things that he promised to do when we eagerly voted for him. https://t.co/BPGDlVWHjn

— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) January 31, 2025

BREAKING: Massive Explosion, Possible Plane Crash in Philly.

CHANGE:

A Chinese national who organizes pro-Hamas rallies at UCLA just got arrested and her visa revoked. She’s going back to China. pic.twitter.com/jWqBA0TS4O

— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) January 31, 2025

DEVELOPING: Plane crashes in Philadelphia, igniting inferno near homes and mall.

BREAKING NEWS: Reports that a plane has crashed striking a mall in Philadelphia just moments ago #BreakingNews pic.twitter.com/oLMlqLBCwK

— Bret Baier (@BretBaier) February 1, 2025

WE’RE SAFE FOR NOW, THERE WON’T BE A PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION FOR FOUR YEARS: Scientists Discover First Henipavirus in North America, Raising Pandemic Fears.