THAT’S BECAUSE IT WAS NEVER ABOUT IMPROVING EDUCATION. It was literally just Jimmy Carter repaying the teachers’ union for support.

Massive increase in spending after the Department of Education was created with no actual improvement in education! https://t.co/J72BUVqGsl

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 5, 2025

MAKE THEM PAY: Ohio State U. professor can sue for firing after using n-word in class, judge rules.

OH, PLEASE: Trump admin drafting executive order to abolish Department of Education.

YES:

🎯 https://t.co/RbuJ2maF6T

— Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 (@pmarca) February 5, 2025

KNOW THE TRUTH AND THE TRUTH WILL MAKE YOU FREE: Court Orders Justice Department to Provide Information on Special Counsel Jack Smith’s Communication with DA Fani Willis.

Popcorn.

ONE OF THE WAYS YOU KNOW THAT ACADEMIA HAS TOO MANY ADMINISTRATORS IS THAT THEY HAVE A TIME FOR STUFF LIKE THIS: FIRE Blasts University Of Hawaii For Censoring Law Prof’s PowerPoint Presentation.

#WINNING: “CNN didn’t say this outright, but it’s time for Democrats to face reality: they’ve lost the war against President Donald J. Trump’s nominees.”

IT WOULD TAKE A HEART OF STONE NOT TO LAUGH: Obama’s $800M Presidential Center Slapped With DEI Lawsuit.

FUCK THESE FASCISTS:

At an anti-@elonmusk protest in D.C., Democrat politicians and their supporters call for Musk to immediately be imprisoned to stop the President’s efforts to end waste and fraud of American taxpayer funds. pic.twitter.com/PhVbMi5bXX

— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) February 4, 2025

Audit, prosecute, convict.

MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Smashing the ‘rice bowls’ — Why elites are lashing out at Trump and Musk’s reforms.

WELL, YES.

Ilhan Omar: USAID is the reason I’m here and not in Mogadishu.

Literally everyone: That’s why we want to get rid of it.

— Bad Hombre (@joma_gc) February 4, 2025

HAHA: Nation Shrugs as Godzilla Eats Washington: Donald Trump’s sequel return is already an epic monster movie, and the country seems to think the capital’s trampling is a net plus.

Trump has been in office two weeks and changes are coming so fast, even I’m freaked out. He’s Godzilla, stomping on everything: news networks, billions in federal grants, USAID, DEI, Mexico and Canada and China, South Africa, immigrants, maybe the Department of Education, and many other things. His daily “No more of this shit!” signing sessions have become destination television:

Courts will be busy for years weighing which of his acts are legal, with virtually all under challenge. In the interim, carnage continues, with opposition in total message paralysis. Whether it’s planned or just Trump’s luck is unclear, but harrumphing bureaucrats are now daily rushing to defend the indefensible, from Jaffer’s slanderous networks to Schiffer’s waste and budget scammery. Monday scenes of legislators like Ilhan Omar and Jamie Raskin chaining themselves to the Matterhorn of suck that is USAID were just the beginning of what looks like a rash of optics suicides. We’ve never seen anything like it.

Popcorn, please.

Marching orders went out today! You can clearly see they got their marching orders ….suddenly, they flooded the streets with microphones and podiums …..protesting and inciting violence on cue. Just like the media when they all get handed the same script. This isn’t organic.…

— Brooke Gossett (@luvgod) February 4, 2025

Senator John Kennedy: “To my friends who are upset, call somebody who cares. You better get used to this. It’s USAID today, it’s gonna be Department of Education tomorrow.”

🔥🔥🔥 pic.twitter.com/k43BDnQmjt

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) February 4, 2025

INDEED.

Defund NPR. It should survive on its own.

pic.twitter.com/dtm5qbbxix

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 4, 2025

Do play the clip.

YES: Daniel Penny Gets Hired by Andreessen Horowitz: “Daniel acted with courage in a tough situation,” said partner David Ulevitch in a statement explaining the hire.

The left takes care of its people. The right has never been good about that, but it seems to be changing.

BETTER PUT SOME ICE ON THAT BURN:

Eugene should never be ashamed that he’s Jewish

It’s enough that we’re ashamed that he’s Jewish https://t.co/6mXV0EKUzT

— Ron Coleman (@RonColeman) February 5, 2025

OPEN THREAD: Tuesday’s groovy.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: China to launch 2 new space station cargo spacecraft on commercial rockets in 2025.

MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Smashing the ‘rice bowls’ — Why elites are lashing out at Trump and Musk’s reforms.

Related:

I don’t like reporting secondhand info, so take this with a grain of salt. I repeat: take this story of rich liberal panic with a grain of salt.

A liberal friend of mine has a very liberal friend—let’s call him Marko. Everybody loves him. He’s rich, always relaxed, has a ton of… pic.twitter.com/SMRVugj6Vm

— John Ʌ Konrad V (@johnkonrad) February 4, 2025

UPDATE:

You have to understand that hundreds if not thousands of parasitic NGO offices are located in and around DC.

And all of the people staffing them are staring at the abyss of not being able to pay their bills with our confiscated earnings. https://t.co/sZSbafL6Rc

— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) February 5, 2025

SECOND-HAND SMOKE: Children Who Live With Cannabis Smokers Also Test Positive for the Drug.

We’ve been warned about second-hand tobacco smoke for years. Weed somehow gets a pass.

ONLY WHEN DEMOCRATS LOSE:

Is that what we’re calling elections now? https://t.co/BlgPMHwLnM

— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) February 4, 2025

WHY THEY’RE SQUEALING SO LOUDLY:

48 vCPUs are throttled curating the USAID grant network for every single EIN, will take a while (~12 hours). Which is fine, it gives @watilo time to prettify it in the morning.

Blame the federal government for creating such computational complexity.

But here's a teaser – this… pic.twitter.com/a8v2ERxxXC

— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) February 4, 2025

UNSURPRISING: Police Constable Who Investigated British Grooming Gangs Says Evidence was Met with Indifference.

THE E.V. BUBBLE CONTINUES TO DEFLATE: Aston Martin CEO Teases Hybrids and Scales Back EV Plans.

NEVER A BAD IDEA: GOA Encourages Members To Remind Trump About 2A Promises.

CHANGE: Starlink profit growing rapidly as it faces a moment of promise and peril. “The key takeaway I want everybody to walk away with is, if SpaceX was building the Starlink system to pay for a Mars colony, we’ve got evidence that the company will generate the type of free cash flows from the business that could pay for said endeavor.”