A HUGE SUBSIDY TO ACADEMIA JUST BIT THE DUST: NIH slashes overhead payments for research, sparking outrage: Move to cut indirect cost rate to 15% could cost universities billions of dollars.

THIS REALLY IS REVENGE OF THE NERDS WRIT LARGE:

This is a job for Big Balls 😂 https://t.co/vqYD0XyCfB

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 8, 2025

Elon’s strategy of unashamedly mocking the critics and having fun is exactly right.

LARRY CORREIA: “The best thing about DOGE gutting everything is it has conclusively demonstrated that there is no organic left. There is no lefty grass roots. It’s all been one giant, organized, top down scam, where we’ve been footing the bill for our own destruction.”

TRUMP REVOKES BIDEN’S SECURITY CLEARANCE, ACCESS TO DAILY INTELLIGENCE BRIEFINGS:

Trump stated there is no need for Biden to continue receiving access to classified information and that his administration cited Biden’s ‘poor memory”.

Trump, 78, argued that the former president set the precedent when he barred him from receiving access to the same briefings four years ago, citing Trump’s “erratic behavior.”

“There is no need for Joe Biden to continue receiving access to classified information,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social Post.

“Therefore, we are immediately revoking Joe Biden’s Security Clearances, and stopping his daily Intelligence Briefings,” the president continued.

That’s truly shocking — where would Trump get such an idea?! Oh wait:

Hey Joe,

Thanks for setting this precedent. pic.twitter.com/75S0LKqQlp

— MAZE (@mazemoore) February 7, 2025

LIGHTNING DEAL: TUFFIOM 7.5 x 20 FT Garage Floor Mat. #CommissionEarned

WELL, YES: New Age ‘prophet’ Ibram X. Kendi revealed as just another fraud after country emerged from BLM-induced mania.

GRAY LADY DIVES FOR FAINTING COUCH:

The poor New York Times is pushing its Trump Derangement Syndrome meltdown well past eleven. Here are just a few opinion section headlines from the last couple days:

Those are just a few Times headlines that Steve Hayward of Power Line has collated; click over for the rest. If your friends or relatives get all/most of their news from the Gray Lady, you might want to do a wellness check-in.

Not the WaPo is much better, of course:

WE CAN HOPE: Matt Taibbi: The Media is Busted. And will soon die. “I held off on writing about the ‘payoffs’-to-media story, for fear I might say too much. The betrayal I feel is almost too vast to express. It’s bad enough that I grew old in this business watching it break its own rules, screw up, and smear its best practitioners, many of whom were friends or mentors. Now, at a critical juncture, the smearers are playing victim. It’s the last straw. The legacy press needs to be put out of its misery.”

FLASHBACK: Trump can fix biased, bloated bureaucracy — by abolishing the civil service.

MARK JUDGE: Elon and the End of the American Stasi.

OPEN THREAD: Ring in the weekend.

SURE, WHY NOT? Make the Arts Great Again: Trump Names Self as Chairman of Kennedy Center and Ends Drag Shows for Kids.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Hopping robot will hunt for moon water on China’s 2026 lunar mission: The hopper will carry a water molecule analyzer into permanently shadowed craters.

AND THEY’VE ALREADY USED IT AGAINST CITIZENS WHO HAVE THE “WRONG” POLITICAL VIEWS:

Every utility company, every insurance company, every credit card company, every social media company has all this. https://t.co/GWEiCWg1dn

— Justine Bateman (@JustineBateman) February 7, 2025

By saving that staffer’s job, Trump, Vance, and the team will end up putting an entire class of point-and-sputter journalists out of theirs

No one will pay for digging up mean tweets if there’s no payoff at the end

— Will Chamberlain (@willchamberlain) February 7, 2025

JUST SAY NO TO SCREECHING DEMOCRATS: He Is ALL OF US: Twitter Celebrates BASED Security Guard Saying ‘NO’ to Screeching Democrats.

HOLLYWOOD, INTERRUPTED:

Munchausen by Proxy has become a cancer in leftist culture. Mass hysteria no different than the Salem witch trials.

I am speaking of the cultural zeitgeist in generaI.

I have no specific knowledge of this tweety bird and her flock of “transgenders.” https://t.co/N3mbXr9nva

— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) February 7, 2025

Charlize Theron is a horrible mother. pic.twitter.com/tft3qyALNt

— Dr. Clown, PhD (@DrClownPhD) February 7, 2025

HMM: Some Drugs Seem to Lower Risk of Dementia. A Neuroscientist Explains Why.

THAT TACTIC ONLY WORKS IF YOU LISTEN TO THEM.

The old lib media tactic to search/destroy an individual must no longer work. We don’t give care what they think. And we shouldn’t, ever again. Cry more, libs. https://t.co/PjBfcT4MM1

— Buck Sexton (@BuckSexton) February 7, 2025

IT KEEPS HAPPENING: Leaked USAID Docs: Helped Overthrow Bangladeshi Government With Military Coup.

SO WSJ REPORTERS CAN DOXX DOGE STAFF, BUT: Deal Reached to Protect Names of FBI Agents in Jan. 6 Probes: Temporary agreement with Justice Department will shield identities from being publicly released over safety concerns.

FBI employees and the Justice Department reached a tentative deal to bar the Trump administration from releasing the names of personnel who participated in investigations of the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, after a judge said that publicizing their identities could put them in danger.

The federal government has temporarily agreed not to make public a list of the FBI personnel who worked on Capitol riot cases, the Justice Department said in a court filing Friday, after FBI agents sued earlier in the week to block disclosure.

“If this information were released, I think there’s no question that it would put a number of FBI agents in significant and immediate danger,” U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb, a Biden appointee, said during a court hearing in Washington on Thursday. She pushed lawyers for both sides to negotiate the interim agreement.

The agreement will remain in effect until Cobb can rule on a request by the FBI agents for an injunction prohibiting public disclosure of the list. The Trump administration agreed to give the FBI agents 48 hours’ notice if it reverses course and decides to make the names public, which would give the agents time to ask the judge to intervene.

Basically they’re afraid if the public finds out what they did and who they are, they’ll be tarred and feathered or something.

FASTER, PLEASE: “Pushing the Boundaries of Radiation Treatment”: Breakthrough Cancer Therapy Advances to Clinical Trials.

MAKE THE RUBBLE BOUNCE:

Unburdened by what has been. pic.twitter.com/NK2bcK3hlH

— Department of Government Efficiency (@DOGE) February 7, 2025

HAHA:

Guess we know who’ll be picking our fruits and veggies. https://t.co/VDgADRgQ0C

— The🐰FOO (@PolitiBunny) February 7, 2025

The 2025 answer to “learn to code.”

LIST: Best Used SUVs.

“DEMOCRATIC” LEFTISM SUMMED UP IN ONE BRILLIANT HEADLINE: Taxpayers Paying For The Systemic Preference Falsification Scam Being Run Against Them.