SO EVERYTHING POLITICO HAS PUBLISHED IS NOW SUSPECT:

Remember when Politico leaked the Dobbs decision and conservative Supreme Court justices were almost assassinated?

Turns out that was govt-funded pic.twitter.com/2AfOxy2ZOL

— Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) February 5, 2025

MOVE FAST AND BREAK THINGS: CIA Employees Get A Buyout Offer. “The staggering speed with which Donald Trump has implemented his agenda has caught progressives flatfooted and without a coherent message. The USAID crisis turned into the Gaza crisis, which is now the CIA crisis, and the week is only halfway over. But as progressives lose their mind again over a voluntary buyout offer that has only been accepted by a small percentage of federal employees, a majority of Americans are increasingly wondering, ‘What’s the big deal?’ Meanwhile, Trump is making tangible progress with reining in federal agencies and uprooting entrenched bureaucrats who oppose his agenda. This is a good thing, especially at the CIA.”

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Always Carry Pepper Spray: Conflict can pop up in unexpected places.

ALSO THOMSON/REUTERS:

It's not just Politico. The Associated Press has been raking in millions of dollars in government money for years.

The AP's bias also makes perfect sense. pic.twitter.com/RrH5JPykvY

— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) February 5, 2025

What is this? pic.twitter.com/YYW73hlFMq

— Phil Holloway ✈️ (@PhilHollowayEsq) February 5, 2025

ANSWERING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Does wearing a continuous glucose monitor help people without diabetes? We asked experts.

SPACE: SpaceX Version 3 Starship and Version 3 Starlink Both Arrive in 2025.

WHEN THE DEMON IS AT YOUR DOOR, IN THE MORNING HE WON’T BE THERE NO MORE: Generally, things really do seem better in the morning, large study suggests.

IF CANADA WERE A STATE, THEY’D HAVE RFJ, JR. TO FIX THIS: Ultra-processed foods provide nearly half of calories for Canadian children.

THIS.

Perfect response. I have no notes. https://t.co/82S00gi6XW pic.twitter.com/U6NSn2pdO0

— Upstate Federalist (@upstatefederlst) February 5, 2025

I AGREE: Jeffrey Carter: Strategic Funds: Both Are Terrible Ideas.

I call them as I see them. I have thoroughly enjoyed the first two weeks of the Trump Administration and I hope it keeps going right until he leaves office. Wouldn’t it be funny if his last act in office was an Executive Order that limited Presidential power to the original meaning in the Constitution?

Trump signed an executive order authorizing a Strategic Wealth Fund (SWF) for the US. It’s a terrible idea. Wyoming Republican Senator Cynthia Lummis wants a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve (SBR). It too is a terrible idea. I hope David Sacks has enough sense to push back on it.

There are similarities in why both are terrible ideas. There are also unique aspects of both that make them singularly terrible ideas.

Sooner or later, a strategic fund will turn into a slush fund just like what we’re dismantling at USAID.

I’VE HAD PEOPLE ASK ME: “How can you, as a libertarian, support Trump?”

In one week Donald Trump dismantled an agency that has 10,000 people in it and a 70 billion dollar budget. He shuttered the space and put the remaining 1,400 employees on administrative leave (statistics per WSJ).

I would say he is pretty serious about taking down the deep…

— Insurrection Barbie (@DefiyantlyFree) February 5, 2025

What should concern Democrats isn't the immediate threat of defunding USAID. What's concerning is that extent of corruption and government waste is no longer abstract — it's concretely evident to normie voters.

Political debates will never be the same after DOGE.

— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) February 5, 2025

We do indeed appear to be funneling large sums of tax money to @politico so that some bureaucrats can read left-wing journalists complain about Republicans https://t.co/sAhsJcJxoN pic.twitter.com/HDiBfZrj5U

— Sunny (@sunnyright) February 5, 2025

Good Politico Morning !

Your Federal tax dollars used as revenue to underwrite hit pieces on OUR revenue. 🤡

Your tax dollars IN ->https://t.co/MNwKKkA0RJ

Their hit pieces OUT -> https://t.co/wYEXyzlhfq pic.twitter.com/dwwWtGgmRa

— Rasmussen Reports (@Rasmussen_Poll) February 5, 2025

It's not just Politico. The Associated Press has been raking in millions of dollars in government money for years.

The AP's bias also makes perfect sense. pic.twitter.com/RrH5JPykvY

— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) February 5, 2025

Related:

“I didn’t vote for Elon Musk and his autistic tech bros to get a line-item veto on federal spending!”

Yeah well I didn’t vote for Joe Biden’s non-binary Deep State theater kids to get a blank check to give my tax dollars to fringe left-wing NGO slush funds for four years, but… pic.twitter.com/FHeCnTSNNe

— Robert Sterling (@RobertMSterling) February 3, 2025

🤨 https://t.co/R32kbLTeTW

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 5, 2025

The U.S. government has become one corrupt, progressive shell game after another

It’s time to break it all down and then put it back together—this time sticking to the original structure and blueprint supplied by the Constitution https://t.co/rfXf2FjoLi

— Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee) February 5, 2025

Plus:

and all the Democrats screaming about it are just the customer service agents screaming:

"ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO CANCEL?!!!!"

😂

— Matt Van Swol (@matt_vanswol) February 5, 2025

Democrats Warn Trump’s Unelected Shadow Government Is Dismantling Their Unelected Shadow Government https://t.co/ZD1Z8wOPYp pic.twitter.com/JKCOwjdA3S

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) February 5, 2025

Also, it’s just so damn entertaining.

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.