Author Archive: Stephen Green
February 6, 2025
THE AMOUNT TRIPLED IN JUST A FEW HOURS. ARE WE SURE IT’S ALL BE FOUND?
The Politico scandal is worse than you think.
It’s not $8M that Politico received from USAID.
It’s $34.3M that Politico has received from various swampy federal govt agencies.
Politico is, without a doubt, a totally corrupt propaganda arm of the swamp.
Follow along below. pic.twitter.com/OxF7Zrc4GP
— Liz Wheeler (@Liz_Wheeler) February 5, 2025
Related: The USAID Scandal Is Getting Worse by the Minute
Much more to come.
GET’EM SKEERED AND KEEP THE SKEER ON’EM: Bondi Just Ordered an Investigation Into Biden’s Politicization of DOJ.
February 5, 2025
DOES DATA REPUBLICAN EVER SLEEP?
🚨 NEW TOOL: PRINCIPAL OFFICER SEARCH & USAID TRACKING 🚨
🔎 FOLLOW THE LEADERS. TRACE THE MONEY. 💰
I’ve built a powerful tool to help you track nonprofit leadership and follow USAID grant flows with ease.Here’s what you can do:
✅ Search by Principal Officer – Find nonprofits… pic.twitter.com/kr1sHCnRwR— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) February 5, 2025
I’ve been too busy to play around with this new tool but it might be her best yet.
TIRED OF ALL THE WINNING?
BREAKING: New Jersey's massive lawsuit accusing the oil industry of causing climate change was just dismissed with prejudice.
The case was pursued by the NJ AG, but funded by liberal NGOs. Similar cases in MD and Delaware have also been tossed.
A huge blow for eco activists. pic.twitter.com/Mv044iMLWp
— Thomas Catenacci (@ThomasCatenacci) February 5, 2025
Me neither.
IT’S GRIFT ALL THE WAY DOWN: You’ll Never Believe Who Else Is on the USAID Dole.
THAT GIANT SUCKING SOUND YOU’LL HEAR IS CREDIT TAKEN AWAY FROM MILLIONS OF AMERICANS: Sens. Hawley, Sanders Propose 10% Cap on Credit Card Rates.
Hawley should know better.
CHANGE:
BREAKING: Google is eliminating minority hiring goals and will review its DEI programs – WSJ
— Insider Paper (@TheInsiderPaper) February 5, 2025
Unrelated, but more proof that leadership matters:
BREAKING: In December 2024, the @USArmy had its best recruiting number in 12 years.
In January 2025, the Army hit its best recruiting number in 15 YEARS.
BOTTOM LINE: America’s youth want to serve under the bold & strong “America First” leadership of @realDonaldTrump.
— Pete Hegseth (@PeteHegseth) February 4, 2025
SOUNDS LIKE GROUNDS FOR TERMINATION: Top Justice Department Official Accuses FBI Leadership of ‘Insubordination.’
WE ARE THE MEDIA, AS THE WISE MAN ONCE SAID: Joe Rogan Exposes Team Kamala, Legacy Media.
The most embarrassing part?
Rogan says the book’s authors never bothered to contact him to get his side of the story. Now, if a reporter is working on deadline that kind of miscue is more forgivable. Time matters, and getting important news to the public fast may mean every “T” can’t be crossed.
These authors had all the time a book project offers, and, according to Rogan, they didn’t reach out for his side of the story. Do they have proof that they reached out in the first place?
To be fair, embarrassment requires a sense of shame that Harris and her team clearly lack.
And do read the whole thing.
YOU’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BLOG: Comics, Drag, and Atheism: List of USAID’s Outrageous Grants.
THE DEEP STATE FUNDS ITS OWN… ON YOUR DIME, OF COURSE:
The US Government gave the New York Times tens of millions of dollars over just the past 5 years despite paying relatively little money to the NYT in the years preceding 2021. For instance, in August 2024, the US government awarded $4.1 million to the NYT.
The bulk of the funds… pic.twitter.com/XWvv3CplI8
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) February 5, 2025
More to come.
UPDATE: More… that was quick:
What we’re finding out in real time is the entire modern left is just smoke and mirrors.
There is no left wing voter base, all the elections are rigged and fake, all the liberal media outlets have no audience and are kept alive by USAID funding. All their politicians and…
— Aesthetica (@Anc_Aesthetics) February 5, 2025
Correction: The modern left is smoke and mirrors and other people’s money.
CAMPAIGN PLEDGE FULFILLED: Big Deportation Raids Begin In Tren De Aragua-Infested Aurora, Colorado. “The ATF’s Denver division announced on X that its agents and Department of Justice partners are assisting Homeland Security and other federal law enforcement agencies in citywide ‘immigration enforcement efforts’ today.”
Related (From Ed): Pam Bondi’s DOJ Day 1 Directives: Fight weaponization of justice, eliminate cartels, lift death penalty ban. “And as for illegal migrants, Bondi has directed the DOJ to pause all federal funding for sanctuary cities. Bondi also has directed the DOJ to identify and evaluate all funding agreements with nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) that provide support to illegal aliens. She is also directing litigating components of the Justice Department to investigate instances of jurisdictions that are impeding law enforcement, and directing they be prosecuted, when necessary.”
HMM: Iran Update, February 4, 2025.
Iran is conducting nuclear research that would enable it to build a nuclear weapon in a period of months. The New York Times reported on February 3 that a “secret team” of Iranian weapons engineers and scientists is “exploring” a faster approach to build a nuclear weapon in a “matter of months.”[i] The engineers and scientists could be from the Organization of Defense Innovation and Research (SPND), which, under a different name, played a leading role in the Iranian nuclear weapons research program before 2003. The new approach would decrease the time Iran needs to turn weapons-grade uranium (uranium enriched to 90 percent) into a nuclear weapon. This approach would significantly reduce the time that the International Atomic Energy Agency would have to detect Iranian weaponization activity. It would also reduce the time that the United States or Israel would have to take military action against Iranian nuclear facilities. Iran currently possesses near weapons-grade uranium (uranium enriched to 60 percent), but Western estimates indicate that Iran could further enrich this material to weapons-grade levels within days. Unspecified US officials said that Iran could build an “older-style nuclear weapon” using the new approach, but that such a weapon would not fit on a ballistic missile and would likely be less reliable than a modern weapon. CTP-ISW does not assess that Iran has decided to build a nuclear weapon at this time.
Iran’s nuclear weapons research comes as Israel has eroded key elements of Iran’s deterrence since October 2024.
Trump:
I want Iran to be a great and successful Country, but one that cannot have a Nuclear Weapon. Reports that the United States, working in conjunction with Israel, is going to blow Iran into smithereens,” ARE GREATLY EXAGGERATED. I would much prefer a Verified Nuclear Peace…
— Donald J. Trump Posts From His Truth Social (@TrumpDailyPosts) February 5, 2025
Developing…
MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: Crazy Talk, Vol. 2: Trump’s Radical Plan to Take Over Gaza. “Everybody, Left and Right, please take a deep breath and relax. Trump’s opening bid is almost never his play — and I think I have his play figured out.”
FLASHBACK:
More Green New Scam vote-buying: Harris-Biden pour another $133 million of Inflation Reduction Act money into battleground states:
– Pennsylvania get $87 million
– Michigan gets $33.2 millionThis is on top of the $64 billion that previously went to five battleground states.… pic.twitter.com/ZCUdQlP10T
— Steve Milloy (@JunkScience) October 22, 2024
Steve Milloy reposted this, adding, “Musk should check this out: Biden directed almost half of the Inflation Reduction Act climate money spent last year to five battleground states. Who received that money and what did they do with it?”
Congress needs to repeal Biden’s Green New Deal (Not So) Lite.
FASTER, PLEASE: 20,000 federal workers take ‘buyout’ so far, official says.
MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: Crazy Talk, Vol. 1: Trump’s Radical Plan to Force Putin to Talk Peace. “It’s been a busy month for the Trump 47 administration these first few days in February, so I hope you’ll forgive me if I missed one of the potentially biggest developments until a full 36 hours after it happened on Monday. It was Tuesday evening — a good three weeks after lunch on Monday in Trump 47 Standard Time — that I read about another one of those crazy-stupid Trump ideas that just might work.”
TYLER O’NEIL: Trump Deals a Huge Blow to the Left’s Funding Empire.
By pausing foreign funding from the U.S. Agency for International Development, President Donald Trump has dealt a major blow to the ecosystem of nonprofits that promote woke ideology against America’s interests.
It is no accident that USAID’s funding has dovetailed with the grantmaking of leftist billionaire George Soros’ Open Society Foundations—and the foreign funding pause will undermine his efforts.
Trump placed a 90-day freeze on foreign assistance on his first day in office. This weekend, agents of the Department of Government Efficiency entered the USAID facility and the USAID website shut down. On Sunday, Trump named Secretary of State Marco Rubio acting head of the agency.
Full details at the link. It isn’t just USAID, either, that’s going to feel the sting. I missed this WSJ piece on Sunday but the headline tells a brutal truth: Democratic States Are Wards of Washington.
Democratic states and their economies depend much more on Washington largesse than Republican states do. This year, New York received roughly $4,900 per capita from the feds and California $4,300—two to three times as much as Florida ($1,700) and Texas ($1,500). That’s because Democratic states provide more generous social welfare, which is increasingly funded by Washington thanks to regulatory changes by the Biden administration.
Democratic states also received a disproportionate share of the more than $1 trillion that Congress sent to state and local governments in 2020 and 2021 as pandemic relief. Between 2018 and 2022, federal dollars flowing to state and local governments increased by about $515 billion, more than the rise in Social Security and Medicare combined.
Most Covid funds are running out, though the Biden Federal Emergency Management Agency planned to hand out disaster-relief funds to states and cities for pandemic “emergency” spending through August 2026. This year’s Los Angeles city budget includes $208.2 million in FEMA Covid funds, including for housing vagrants in hotels. New York state’s budget this year includes nearly $3.5 billion in FEMA dollars for Covid “emergency protective measures” such as home test kits.
DOGE is derailing the gravy train at USAID and State but taxpayer subsidies to tax & spend blue states ought to be next.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Trump 47 —Come for the Freedom, Stay for the Democrats’ Exploding Heads. “That new noise that you may be hearing in any part of this great land is the weeping and gnashing of teeth in the United States Department of Justice. The Swamp rot is critically deep there, and they know that the new sheriff in town will not take kindly to what they’ve been doing these last four years. The Department of Justice will once again be focused on — surprisingly — justice.”
WHAT’S A BROWN MEDICAL DEGREE CURRENTLY WORTH?
SCOOP: Brown University Medical School now gives "diversity, equity, and inclusion" more weight than "excellent clinical skills" in its promotion criteria for faculty."
The criteria say DEI is a "major criterion." Clinical skills, by contrast, are only a "minor criterion."🧵 pic.twitter.com/5vOYSZZ3H0
— Aaron Sibarium (@aaronsibarium) February 4, 2025
Not as much as it used to be.
The cost, however, is still dear.
More at the X thread.
RAYMOND IBRAHIM: Muhammad’s ‘Evil Genius’ Was to Make Islam Tribal.
I’m really enjoying Raymond’s video podcasts.