FLASHBACK: Time for Consequences: The “Cabal” who bragged about rigging the 2020 election stuck us with an incapable president at a time of crisis. Examples need to be made. “I would like to see some accountability for the election of 2020. A cabal of insiders colluded to control the outcome, through all sorts of underhanded tactics. (Tech companies censored the Hunter Biden laptop story broken by The Post, and retired intelligence officials falsely claimed it was fake, Russian disinformation). The press allowed Biden to campaign from his basement, covering up the truth that he was already unfit for office.”

MY WEIGH-IN: LOL, WHAT A MAROON. Experts weigh in on ‘misinformation’ scholar who used fake AI citations.

“Misinformation scholars” are by definition frauds.

NATURE IS HEALING: UPenn becomes sixth Ivy League school to end pandemic ‘test-optional’ policy for undergrads: The University of Pennsylvania announced it would require standardized test scores for undergraduates in the upcoming admissions cycle. The school says the change will bring ‘clarity and transparency to the application process.’

FLASHBACK: The Clock Strikes Thirteen. “What happened? It’s like a spell broke. Since November’s election (re-election?) of President Donald Trump, the woke is going away, and all sorts of problems are resolving themselves. In law we talk about the proverbial thirteenth chime of the clock, which is not only wrong in itself, but which calls into question everything that has come before. Most of our institutions have been chiming thirteen for quite a while, and people have noticed.”

PLENTY OF DEADWOOD TO BE CLEARED: Hegseth set to remove generals and senior officers – report.

STANDING UP AGAINST RACISM AND BIGOTRY: Lawsuit filed against American Bar Association over race-based internships.

DON SURBER: They forgot the Forgotten Man. Trump didn’t.

LOWEST APPROVAL EVER, SO FAR. Yikes! Democrats Hit Lowest Approval EVER. “This news comes from Quinnipiac University’s latest poll, which is hardly right-leaning to begin with. According to the RealClearPolitics Pollster scorecard, Quinnipiac tends to make fairly large errors that lean toward the Democrats almost all the time. Over the past decade, Quinnipiac leans about 7 points leftward.”

THEY’RE NOT SENDING THEIR BEST: Seven Foreign Nationals Charged For String Of Athlete Mansion Heists That Hit Maholmes, Kelce.

CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: DOGE Finds $2 Billion in Taxpayer Funds Earmarked for Stacey Abrams-Linked Group: EPA chief Lee Zeldin says revelation ‘extremely concerning.’

THE CIVIL SERVICE’S PARTISANSHIP PROBLEM: “Here’s a dirty secret about the federal government many Americans are just learning: It’s run by Democrats, even when voters elect Republicans. Presidents come and go, but the permanent federal bureaucracy remains the same, and it has a distinct partisan tilt. When Americans send a Republican to the Oval Office, they get a government still administered mostly by the other party. Yes, that makes a sham of democracy. But no president before Donald Trump was prepared to confront the problem.”

Solution: Abolish the civil service.

THAT’S NOT THE NARRATIVE: CNN: January Had a Record Low Number of Airplane Accidents.

LEFTISTS HAVE A COMPULSION TO MAKE EVERYTHING THEY TOUCH AS UGLY AS THEIR SOULS:

“The Britain I grew up in was the most peaceful, gentle & homogenous society that has ever existed with extraordinarily low levels of crime & high levels of public trust. That has been deliberately destroyed.” — Historian David Starkey, 2024.

Britain needs #Remigration. pic.twitter.com/6A7OuSQILb

— Sapphire (@sapphire18_) February 18, 2025

Flashback: Labour wanted mass immigration to make UK more multicultural, says former adviser. “The huge increases in migrants over the last decade were partly due to a politically motivated attempt by ministers to radically change the country and ‘rub the Right’s nose in diversity,’ according to Andrew Neather, a former adviser to Tony Blair, Jack Straw and David Blunkett.”

LOL, GAYLE KING:

Gayle King tried to bait the Delta Air Lines CEO into blaming Trump for the recent crashes.

It did not go as she planned. pic.twitter.com/3wTcXPgNpM

— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) February 20, 2025

ME, TWO MONTHS AGO: End Home Rule for Washington, DC.

Trump, now: End home rule for Washington, DC.

Actually, I went farther: “The Constitution empowers Congress to create and govern such a district; it doesn’t actually require that district to exist. What’s now DC could be ceded back to Maryland, where it came from in the first place. Since Maryland is already a blue state, this wouldn’t affect its political makeup much.”

Also, if the District were abolished, its three (always Democratic) presidential electors would vanish with it, something that didn’t occur to me when I wrote my piece.

GOOD:

SCOOP: Following my investigation, the Department of Education has terminated $226 million in grants to its "comprehensive center" NGOs that have been pushing schools to "decenter whiteness," reject the "gender binary," and reduce the number of "white students" in STEM.

Winning.

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) February 19, 2025

AT THIS POINT WE STILL DON’T KNOW THE STORY REGARDING THE CREW OF THAT ENDEAVOR AIR FLIGHT THAT CRASHED IN TORONTO. But that alone is suspicious.

Airlines that started promoting DEI quotas for pilots made it inevitable—and rational—for the public to ask questions about every plane crash from that point onward. When competence is no longer the highest criterion, the whole system is compromised. https://t.co/v39CsN1hqV

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) February 19, 2025

OPEN THREAD: Hump Day.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: United States and India to expand collaboration in space innovation.

LOTS OF POSITIVE NEWS ABOUT THESE DRUGS. I WONDER HOW MANY OF THESE STUDIES WILL REPLICATE? Ozempic Reduces Desire to Binge Alcohol, Suggests Amazing New Study.

HIS TOUGHEST TASK YET: Trump Promised to Fix McDonald’s Ice Cream Machines—Will He Deliver? Heh. “While fixing McDonald’s ice cream machines may seem minor, it would be a symbolic reminder to Americans each day of Trump’s commitment to business innovation, solutions, efficiency and deregulation — core ideas that galvanize President Trump and the Republican voting base.”

RUSSIA IS A PAPER TIGER, AND NOW EVERYONE KNOWS:

BTW, the Boeing astronauts are still waiting for a ride home.https://t.co/KOu2DqTApU

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) February 19, 2025

RESOURCES FOR COLONIZATION: Scientists Uncover Ancient Salt Deposits on Asteroid Ryugu – Was There Water?

THE NEW DRUGS WITH FEWER SIDE EFFECTS WILL PROBABLY DO BETTER: Many adults stop GLP-1 therapy within a year with low restart rates, analysis finds.

BRINGING BACK INTERNAL COMBUSTION: Rumor: Dodge Wants to Do a Cheap, Hardcore Sports Car.