DOWN AND DIRTY: What Is Lexus Overtrail? Charting a Dirty New Direction.

ADVICE: Don’t Overthink Your Shooting: As Yogi Berra famously said, 90 percent of the game is 50 percent mental.

PSYCHOLOGY: Why people develop ‘the ick’ regarding potential dating targets.

LIKE TRANSGENDERISM? From headaches to tics, how mass nocebo effects spread real symptoms: Social media is enabling health symptoms and mass psychogenic illnesses to spread quickly around the world.

WELL, YES: Federal Prosecutors Routinely Use Carrots and Sticks to “Induce” Defendants to “Support [DOJ] Policy Objectives.” Another problematic point raised in a resignation letter.

STACY MCCAIN is currently at the Allegheny County Courthouse for the arraignment hearing of the “Zizian” Transgender cult terrorists. He texts: “‘Ziz’ Lakota ordered held without bond; same for suspect Daniel Blank. 3rd suspect, Zajiko, will be heard in a while. They’re going in alphabetical order.”

UPDATE: He has a full report posted now.

NEVER TRUST A “FEMINIST MAN:” Ex-Argentine President Charged With Beating First Lady While in Office: Alberto Fernández, who called himself the country’s first feminist leader, allegedly battered his partner for years.

The charges, made public Monday after a seven-month investigation by Judge Julián Ercolini, charged Fernández with aggravated serious assault as part of gender-based violence, several counts of aggravated minor assault and coercive threats.

Fernández and his lawyer didn’t respond to a request for comment. In a recent court appearance, Fernández said, “If anyone in the relationship was assaulted, it was me. If anyone had to endure insults and mistreatment, it was me.”

The case, which Yáñez has discussed publicly, has led to an uproar in Argentina, with both opponents of Fernández and his onetime allies in the leftist Peronist movement calling the case horrific.

As president, Fernández called himself the “first feminist” of Argentina and created the Ministry of Women to crack down on batterers.

The more they talk, the worse they are.

FASTER, PLEASE: Biomarker panel offers hope for early pancreatic cancer detection.

MARK JUDGE: Alyssa Milano Owes Brett Kavanaugh and Me an Apology.

I SEE . . . DEAD PEOPLE:

🚨Karoline Leavitt says Elon Musk and DOGE have been sent to investigate DEAD PEOPLE receiving Social Security payments:

“They suspect that there are tens of millions of deceased people receiving fraudulent Social Security payments.”
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— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) February 18, 2025

I wonder how many of these 120 to 150-year-olds also voted? https://t.co/rTUhD7hGVq

— Kari Lake (@KariLake) February 18, 2025

FOREIGN COLLUSION: Chinese Communist Party-linked group sends ‘clean energy’ money to American universities.

YOU KNOW, I KNEW WE HAD AN UPHILL BATTLE IN THE CREATION OF ALTERNATIVE MEDIA, BUT AT THE TIME I HAD NO IDEA JUST HOW UPHILL:

The Left not only controlled the media infrastructure for decades, they used our money to maintain that control.

The Right responded with the rise of citizen journalism and now the Left is angry they’ve lost the ability to lie without recourse. https://t.co/Ds2WegyIAR

— Jeff Carlson (@themarketswork) February 18, 2025

THE ENEMY WITHIN: New bill targets private universities’ financial ties to China and Iran.

LOL, TIM KAINE:

This is inaccurate. The referenced “classified information” is actually public FedScope data, posted publicly by OPM (Office of Personnel Management) in March 2024. https://t.co/VjECnq2KKj https://t.co/AHwLx3jmfu

— Department of Government Efficiency (@DOGE) February 17, 2025

FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, A MAGA DEAR COLLEAGUE LETTER on race discrimination in education.

DON SURBER: AP’s silly gulf war: I hate to say it but the press hates free speech.

JOURNALISM:

Media last week: The AP not being given rides on Air Force One is a blatant attack on free speech

Media this week: What makes Germany great is that they imprison people for posting memes

— Sunny (@sunnyright) February 17, 2025

OF COURSE THEY DO. THE CRITICS ARE ON THE GOVERNMENT TEAT. THE PUBLIC, ON THE OTHER HAND, IS SUPPLYING THE TEAT.

Musk brings the receipts as polling shows Trump and DOGE have public backing despite critics https://t.co/DqXYloIAoS

— John Solomon (@jsolomonReports) February 18, 2025

Related: More CNN #Sadz: Frank Luntz Says Clinton Voters Who Flipped to Trump ‘Lovin’ It’.

#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.