#JOURNALISM: Associated Press Now Making S**t Up Because They Are Big Mad at Trump. “The Associated Press claims to be the gold standard of journalism, but their reporters are about what you would expect: entitled midwits who are emotionally incontinent and who weaponize their hatred for their own ends.”

More fake news from the @AP

1. DOGE doesn’t even have a Facebook page

2. No air traffic controllers nor any professionals who perform safety critical functions were terminated https://t.co/vhrusRu3NS

— Karoline Leavitt (@PressSec) February 17, 2025

Related: Kaitlan Collins Is Not Very Good At Her Job.

CDR SALAMANDER: USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) Got Bumped Ugly. “No one was killed, no flooding, no injuries. We got lucky.”

Plus:

If, as initially reported, after TRUMAN gets patched up in Souda Bay and can complete her deployment, well, that is a great thing for the other CVN’s in our fleet. They won’t have to cover her unexpected absence.

Let this be another reminder that we do not have enough aircraft carriers and airwings, and because of decisions made in the last half decade, the problem will get worse. We simply do not have enough CVN authorized to replace the ones that will decommission. Our airwings are short on aircraft, and the aircraft they have are limited in range due to both design and the myopic removal of organic tanking assets (buddy tanking does not count).

Our navy isn’t up to its mission. Of all the armed forces, its mission is the least likely to change drastically in the next few years.

ALEX BERENSON: Flu is out of control in the United States: Could a long-term immunosuppressive effect of repeated mRNA Covid shots be part of the reason? Don’t expect the media to ask. I have no idea if that’s the case, but I have a pretty good idea of whether the media will ask.

IN A NUTSHELL:

This is the entire Democratic Party platform: rich people pretending to be good people calling working class people racist and stupid for refusing to vote to make rich liberals even richer. https://t.co/nb0kQcMTGN

— Batya Ungar-Sargon (@bungarsargon) February 17, 2025

AN INDEPENDENT DOJ IS ONLY IMPORTANT WHEN THE PRESIDENT IS REPUBLICAN. DUH.

""I’m still enjoying what I’m doing, there’s still work to be done.  I’m still the President’s wing-man, so I’m there with my boy." – AG Eric Holder.

Ah yes. The famously independent DOJ of Barack Obama. pic.twitter.com/Mx3Rq2IG8z

— Cernovich (@Cernovich) February 17, 2025

NO, NO IT’S NOT.

“The death of expertise is really about the rise of two social ills: narcissism and resentment.” https://t.co/nF4CJZu3Jl

— Josh Kraushaar (@JoshKraushaar) February 18, 2025

The “death of expertise” is about experts selling out, telling lies, and just not knowing what they were doing. It was The Suicide Of Expertise.

OPEN THREAD: Monday, Monday.

#JOURNALISM:

NBC’s Tom Costello instantly blames President Trump, Elon Musk, and DOGE for the Delta plane crash in Toronto.

Really can’t hate these people enough.
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— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) February 17, 2025

Does Tom Costello understand that Canada isn’t a state yet? It’s still another country.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Improving spaceport infrastructure could ease strain at Cape Canaveral and Vandenberg.

THIS IS REAGAN ALL OVER AGAIN: More CNN #Sadz: Frank Luntz Says Clinton Voters Who Flipped to Trump ‘Lovin’ It.’

JONAH LIVES: Incredible Video: Whale Swallows Man Then Spits Him Out Again.

MICROBIOME NEWS: New Study Uncovers a Shocking Side Effect of a Parkinson’s Drug: A new study reveals that entacapone, a drug used to treat Parkinson’s disease, significantly disrupts the gut microbiome by inducing iron deficiency. “

UGH: Flu and stomach bugs are spreading fast: Are you prepared? Tamiflu is a good drug, but my friends who have used Xofluza say it’s a game-changer.

THE LIST KEEPS GETTING SHORTER: The best manual transmission cars of 2025.

I’M SURE LEFTIES ARE ALREADY TRYING TO BLAME TRUMP FOR THIS ACCIDENT, WHICH HAPPENED IN CANADA. Delta Plane Crashes and Overturns While Landing at Toronto Airport.

GOOD LUCK: Gun Control Orgs Doing Battlefield Prep As Trump Administration Zeroes In On Biden Gun Control Policies.

EVERYTHING WAS FINE WHEN THEY WERE AFRAID HUMANS WOULD SHOOT THEM: Deadly encounter: Mountain lion attacks spark controversy. “A mountain lion attack that killed a young California man last year has reignited a debate over how the big cats should be managed.”

David Baron, call your office.

QUALIFIED IMMUNITY: No penalties even when deputies share a woman’s nudes after an illegal phone search.

COLOR ME UNSURPRISED: Dangerous bacteria lurk in hospital sink drains, despite rigorous cleaning, study reveals.

JEFFREY CARTER: What You Don’t Know.

THAT’S WHY THEY WERE FORMED, OF COURSE:

Also, coincidentally, those norms protect a large group of people who are pretty heavily weighted to one side of the political spectrum.

Coincidentally.

— Jay Lampert (@MortChristenson) February 17, 2025

Also, Democrats ignore “norms” when they’re in power, so why should Republicans care about them?

SCIENCE:

Shot:

At the moment, mansion-sized Asteroid 2024-YR4 has a one-in-fifty chance of hitting Earth in the next eight years.

Now might be a bad time to reduce spending on Science. Just sayin’. pic.twitter.com/hzmIjEJRBr

— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) February 15, 2025

Chaser:

If we had cut grants to NIH earlier there would have been no Covid https://t.co/gnU5ajY3Lm

— Jeff Carlson (@themarketswork) February 16, 2025

MATT TAIBBI: CBS Loses Its Mind: Two days after J.D. Vance’s historic address to Europe on speech, CBS and 60 Minutes offer a counterattack.

EXACTLY:

Changing the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America and then abusing journos who don’t go along with it, to me, is hilarious, ironic performance art because it’s playing off something libs did to the public in 100s of instances with zero awareness that was no less ridiculous.

— Coddled affluent professional (@feelsdesperate) February 17, 2025

WHY DO THEIR OPINIONS MATTER? ‘Manifest Destiny’ on Mars: Trump’s remark stirs up disagreements in astronomy community.