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BUILD, BABY, BUILD: Space launch executives warn U.S. infrastructure unprepared for coming launch surge.

WELL, YES. I think people are noticing.

“I voted for Democrats my whole life. They never did anything they promised…. “I vote for a Republican once in my life, and this dude does everything he promised on steroids! Everything I voted for I’m getting!”

BOOM pic.twitter.com/GQl3Nc9QlP

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) March 5, 2025

PROGRESS:

✅ CONFIRMED: Deputy AG Todd Blanche. 52-46. https://t.co/VA1FCI4egG

— Markwayne Mullin (@SenMullin) March 5, 2025

THE PLANETS ARE LINING UP: Seven planets will line up in ‘parade’ on Friday.

THIS NEEDS TO BE ADDRESSED WITH DOGE-LIKE RESEARCH AUDITS:

Jay Bhattacharya on the topic most would-be NIH directors would assiduously avoid: How much NIH research is irreproducible or outright fraudulent? The fake amyloid beta *56 protein in Alzheimer's research is the perfect example. pic.twitter.com/4vjh4Ed4lt

— Emily Kopp (@emilyakopp) March 5, 2025

ACE: DJ Daniel and the Democrat Id of Unreasoning Demonic Hatred for Anything Good and Normal.

AVE ATQUE VALE: Australian Man Whose Blood Donations Saved Millions Dies Age 88.

I BELIEVE THIS: Bad meetings can produce a productivity ‘hangover,’ researchers say.

#WINNING: Honda Won’t Build Civic Hybrid in Mexico Because of Looming Tariffs.

I HAVE ONE AND I LIKE IT: S&W’s Bodyguard 2.0 .380 Pistol – One Tiny Lifesaver!

LIFE IN THE 21ST CENTURY: NASA uses GPS on the moon for the first time.

I THINK KEIR STARMER IS BIG ON THE BACKDOOR STUFF: Apple refuses to break encryption, seeks reversal of UK demand for backdoor.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Japan’s ispace set to attempt lunar landing in June.

IS THAT ALL: Coaches abusive to 1 In 5 NCAA athletes, survey finds.

THE TRUTH HURTS.

Student A, from Detroit: "I consider myself a Scandinavian-style Democratic socialist – not all the way to Marxist advocacy, but very much into the Scandinavian 60%-tax-rates model."

Student B, from Appalachia: "That there's a lot of words for 'lazy.'"

— Wilfred Reilly (@wil_da_beast630) March 5, 2025

THE PENTAGON KNOWS THIS: Military Starship: How SpaceX Is About to Make America Globally Dominant. “Starship makes possible a world where the U.S. can deploy an entire armored division anywhere on Earth in under an hour, and supply it entirely from home. ‘Hegemony’ doesn’t begin to cover it. . . . Logistics is the lifeblood of war, and Starship would make resupply and sustainment a continuous, high-speed operation. Instead of waiting weeks for sealift convoys, a division operating overseas could be resupplied from the U.S. mainland in real-time. Ammunition, fuel, medical supplies — whatever is needed — delivered from American soil directly to the battlefield in under an hour.”

Elon Musk was smart enough to enlist the support of the most influential part of the Deep State against the rest of it, by making himself indispensable.

ANN ALTHOUSE FACT CHECKS “FACT-CHECKER” GLENN KESSLER’S “FACT CHECK” OF TRUMP’S COMMENT ABOUT FEDERAL WORKERS NOT COMING IN:

There are 2 problems with this fact check.

First, the numbers Kessler gives do not undermine the assertion that there are hundreds of thousands who don’t come into work. There are something like 2.1 million federal employees (if you leave out the military and the postal service). Even if we restrict ourselves to the 10% who work only from home, there are over 200,000. If you add in the people who telework most of the time, that’s another 400,000+. Kessler makes it look as though his numbers are powerful, but they support Trump!

Second — and harder to notice — there’s a quibble about the meaning of “not… showing up to work.”

Trump is using the expression to mean not coming into the workplace. Kessler may want to argue for the industriousness of the workers: They’re showing up to work at home! Fine, make your argument for respecting working from home. But don’t use the “false” rating for this semantics disagreement. Clearly call attention to it for exactly what it is, and don’t mix it up with those numbers you’re bandying about. It has nothing to do with the numbers!

It all makes sense when you realize that Kessler’s job is to cover for what Democrats say and give media folks an excuse to discount what Republicans say.

YAWN, SAME OLD SAME OLD: Professors accuse Trump, Musk of lawlessness, anti-democratic extremism in UMich teach-in.

RESOURCE: Campus Reform’s Anti-DEI Legislation Tracker.

HAHA: CNN Panel Blows Up Over Dem ‘Fantasy Land Where Donald Trump Is Not Popular.’

DON SURBER: Zelensky and the Art of the Trumpenfreude.

WOW:

Hahaha wow. I mean I loved the speech obviously but this reaction is so positive it's stunning. America is back. pic.twitter.com/KcMXB6Oyg5

— Shem Horne (@Shem_Infinite) March 5, 2025

Great point by @DanaPerino – Trumps speech could go on for 80 minutes simply listing what he's already done in the first month. Last year, Biden's biggest achievement, and only achievement – was that he made it through the speech.

— GregGutfeld (@greggutfeld) March 5, 2025

UPDATE: Asked what was the “best moment” of Trump’s speech, 2 of the NYT’s 9 opinion writers said it was Al Green disrupting the session. Show me you’re out of touch, with one simple statement. “Meanwhile, at home, I was comparing the scene to January 6th. You don’t like what’s going on in the Capitol? Disrupt! Try to stop the proceedings!”

Dems were a little insurrection-y at times. They would have been moreso, but they were obviously too depressed.

Meanwhile, in America:

They thought Green should have been thrown out. pic.twitter.com/IvQAdv0jg0

— Lady (@lovingit111) March 5, 2025

SO SAME OLD, SAME OLD THEN.

Democrat Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove accidentally reveals her party's plan to fight Trump & Musk's DOGE.

"We are gonna continue to speak lies to his truth, to his stealing and to his cheating." pic.twitter.com/54cWjbrwoP

— MRCTV (@mrctv) March 4, 2025

GOOD: Mexico’s Lawfare Attack On American Gun Makers Got a Rough Ride in the Supreme Court.