KICK THE TIRES AND LIGHT THE FIRES: Air Force planes will fly deportation flights under Trump order. “The aircrews and maintainers involved in the deportation flights will be in addition to 1,500 active-duty troops that the Pentagon will deploy to the southern border by the end of the week, the senior defense official said.”
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January 24, 2025
READER BOOK PLUG: From Mara Schiffren: The Mistake.
JAMES CARVILLE: Biden ‘Has Nobody To Blame But Himself’ For Damaged Legacy.
Carville briefly mentioned Biden’s repeated claim that he could have beaten Trump in November if he’d remained in the race, and made it clear that he wasn’t buying it: “No one f***ing believes that at all!”
“And then fighting with Jill Biden and Alexandra Pelosi,” Carville continued. “I mean, just look, guy — you had a noble career. Your last act was terrible. Just get out of the way. The party’s moving on. I mean, they’re really moving on, and it’s very sad, but that’s just where we are. And he created this himself. He has nobody to blame but himself. Nobody.”
It’s a typically epic Carville rant, but also typically for Carville, rather disingenuous. Those who propped up Biden, virtually the whole of the Democratic Party, including their news media, should share in the blame for four years of deceiving the public. Actually, at least five, given that signs of Biden’s decline were quite evident on the 2020 campaign trail.
COLD WAR II: Guess Who Is Buying Up U.S. Farmland Now? “With all this talk about the Chinese government infiltrating the United States through TikTok, many have asked: Aren’t the Chinese already doing so through the purchase of U.S. farmland?”
THE TRUMP SHUTTLE IS REBORN! ‘Deportation Flights Have Begun:’ Trump Administration Begins Returning Criminal Aliens to Home Countries.
The Trump administration is beginning to fly criminal illegal aliens out of the country after rounding them up as part of the long-promised mass deportation program.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced Friday that deportation flights have started and shared two pictures of what appears to be group of illegal immigrants walking into a military aircraft.
“Deportation flights have begun,” Leavitt said on X.
“President Trump is sending a strong and clear message to the entire world: if you illegally enter the United States of America, you will face severe consequences.”
No word yet if excursions to Martha’s Vineyard will also be an option for what at least one Newsweek scribe has suddenly dubbed “unauthorized citizens:”
UPDATE: Trump’s ICE nabs child sex offenders among 530+ illegal immigrants caught in single day.
Jesse Kelly tweets, “The point has been made by others but just consider for a second that ICE is snatching up all these animals within 72 hours of Trump taking office. Meaning Biden knew exactly where all these people were and they let these barbarians stay here to prey on you. Democrats are evil.”
Well, there certainly were an “unexpected” number of “crises by design” during the past four years.
(Classical reference in headline.)
I WONDER WHAT THEY’LL TALK ABOUT: Rubio will visit Central America, including Panama, on first trip abroad as secretary of state.
“This is a serious approach by the secretary to deal with the issues that directly affect our ability to get this nation back on her feet and to deal with why there is such high migration,” Bruce said.
She said the trip “signals something to those countries, it should signal something to Americans and to those who also said that ‘America First’ was an isolationist argument. It is the opposite.”
While migration will be at the top of Rubio’s agenda, the stop in Panama probably will draw the most attention because of Trump’s repeated calls for the United States to retake control of the Panama Canal.
Developing…
I WANT TO BELIEVE [VIP]: Sky Candy and the World of Tomorrow.
And yes, I know it’s behind the paywall. That’s what “VIP” means.
WE AREN’T OUT OF THE WEIMAR YEARS YET: Hollywood Nominates a Dude for ‘Best Actress.’
LIMITED TIME DEAL: Kidde Carbon Monoxide Detector, Plug In Wall with 9-Volt Battery Backup. #CommissionEarned
DEI MUST DIE:
New: Janet Petro, the President-Trump-appointed acting director of NASA, has sent a message informing all NASA staff that it is shutting down all DEI offices and DEI contracts.
The message says the agency knows government employees are trying to disguise DEI by using new names… pic.twitter.com/phGm8pc3jF
— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) January 23, 2025
Full text:
Janet Petro, the President-Trump-appointed acting director of NASA, has sent a message informing all NASA staff that it is shutting down all DEI offices and DEI contracts.
The message says the agency knows government employees are trying to disguise DEI by using new names and vague language. (This is documented.) It tells staff to report those violations for investigation.
Fire them all for insubordination, fraud, whatever works.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Job postings in higher ed hyperfocus on equity, omit traits like ‘quality,’ ‘efficiency’: research.
JUST GO ON AND TAKE THE RED PILL: Charlamagne Tha God Is Starting to Catch on to the Left’s Game.
THE EV BUBBLE CONTINUES TO DEFLATE: EV maker Nikola exploring options including potential sale.
EV maker Nikola is exploring options including selling parts of its business or the entire company as it struggles with a cash crunch, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday.
The company’s shares slumped 28% in late-afternoon trading.
Possibilities under consideration also include bringing on partners or raising new funds, the report said, citing people familiar with the matter.
Nikola did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.
The company has been grappling with high costs related to the production ramp up of its fuel-cell electric truck. Its cash and cash equivalents had fallen sharply to $198.3 million at the end of September, compared with $464.7 million at the end of last year.
Nikola’s shares lost nearly 96% of their value in 2024.
Startups are hard. Startups in the auto industry are much harder. Startups in a segment of the auto industry dependent on subsidies and mandates to overcome market forces… well, there’s more shaking out left to do.
LIMITED TIME DEAL: Black Shower Faucet Set, Rainfall Shower System. #CommissionEarned
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Hallelujah! Trump Continues to Empty Out the Biden/Garland Gulag. “In a perfect world, Merrick Garland would already be behind bars for having targeted innocent people for the last four years, He wasn’t senile, after all. At the very least, he should have already fled the country to be expatriated somewhere that doesn’t have an extradition treaty with the United States. We can still hope — Garland didn’t get a preemptive pardon from Sir Sniffsalot — but he remains free for now.”
IT’S WORKING ALREADY: Swaths of U.S. Government Grind to a Halt After Trump Shock Therapy: Rescinded job offers, delayed health updates and confusion over cutting government checks upend business as usual across Washington. I know this headline is supposed to alarm me, but . . .
HA HA, LIZ WARREN IS THE WORST:
“The Secretary of Defense has to be ready to go 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.”
Twice in his tenure, the last SecDef, who she voted for, literally disappeared and didn’t tell anyone where he was! https://t.co/q7TilrwqZK
— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) January 24, 2025
MESSAGE SENT AND RECEIVED:
Kevin O'Leary translates Donald Trump's WEF speech for Canada:
"Start spending on security for the northern border. Pay your 2% to NATO. Stop sending fentanyl from China over the border into the United States or you're going to face tariffs." pic.twitter.com/A1Mj0n9CU9
— Stephen Taylor (@stephen_taylor) January 23, 2025
The Canadian government needed no translation, of course. The question is whether they think Trump might be bluffing.
They ought to know better.
Related:
Just two months ago, DC Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly sentenced Paulette Harlow who is 75-year-old and in poor health to 2 years in prison for praying outside an abortion clinic.
When her husband begged for mercy for fear she would die in prison due to poor health, the Judge… pic.twitter.com/ootBjC3Nt6
— Dr. Ben Braddock (@GraduatedBen) July 17, 2024
Also:
Maybe the birthright citizenship order will ultimately be held unconstitutional, but I find it highly embarrassing for a judge to say something so unequivocally at a preliminary stage without the slightest acknowledgement that there is an entire literature that disagrees. 1/2 pic.twitter.com/2R4OE9lT8a
— Ilan Wurman (@ilan_wurman) January 23, 2025
A BLOW AGAINST RACISM AND BIGOTRY: Cal State Alters Systemwide Program Excluding Whites and Women Challenged By Equal Protection Project.
KEEP THOSE JUDICIAL VACANCIES COMING:
CHANGE:
Yesterday, there were 45 reported ARTICLE III vacancies. Today, 47 vacancies are reported.
new:
J. JAMES O. BROWNING, DISTRICT OF NEW MEXICO;
C.J. DANNY C REEVES, DISTRICT OF EASTERN KY;— Seth Barrett Tillman (@SethBTillman) January 24, 2025
MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Trump can fix biased, bloated bureaucracy — by abolishing the civil service.
LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY: Trump signs order to declassify files on JFK, RFK and MLK assassinations.
President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order to declassify files on the assassinations of former President John F. Kennedy, his brother Robert F. Kennedy and civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.
Trump had promised to release the previously-classified documents during his 2024 campaign following decades of speculation and conspiracy theories about the killings.
“Everything will be revealed,” Trump told reporters as he signed the order in the Oval Office of the White House.
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U.S. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., praised the declassification of the JFK files.“Our government, led by corrupt bureaucrats, has hidden this information from the American people for far too long. Americans deserve to know the truth, whether it makes the government look good or not,” she said in a statement. “As part of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, I want to continue to deliver transparency to Americans. The truth belongs to the people, and we won’t rest until they have it.”
Want to restore trust in the federal government? This is a start.