HOW THE CULTURAL MARXISTS TOOK OVER THE CIA, FBI: If that headline doesn’t get your immediate attention, you haven’t been paying attention to the growing evidence that these two agencies are strongholds of the surveillance/censorship complex within the federal government that is focused on millions of individual Americans whose views are completely politically incorrect.

And if that headline did get your attention and you have been paying attention, you will definitely benefit from watching Bill Walton’s interview with J. Michael Waller, author of “Big Intel: How the CIA and FBI went from Cold War heroes to deep state villains.” I thought I knew a lot of the relevant history, but Waller zeroes in on people like Herbert Marcuse, the “father of the New Left, who was also on the payroll of the CIA’s predecessor. There is much, much more in this interview that every American should know.

DISPATCHES FROM WEIMAR AMERICA: Women’s Basketball Game Ends With Forfeit After Transgender Player Injures Three Girls.

BLACK HISTORY MONTH THOUGHTS: We Are Too Good for DEI: Diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives that portray Black Americans as perpetual victims aren’t doing us any favors.

SO HE’S DEMANDING THAT HAMAS SURRENDER? Prince William Goes Rogue: Calls for End of War in Gaza.

Of course not. Somehow that obvious solution is always left out.

RIGGED: Government-Backed Censors Who Rigged The 2020 Election Are Now Stealing 2024. “But this isn’t a thing of the past. All of the censorship infrastructure described above is still intact, still functioning, and is firing on all cylinders right now ahead of the 2024 election. If anything, the censorship-industrial complex is more robust than it was four years ago.”

MOSCOW ON THE HUDSON: Letitia James says she’s prepared to seize Trump’s buildings if he can’t pay his $354M civil fraud fine.

CELEBRATE DIVERSITY: North Las Vegas Mayor Celebrates Black Businesses. There’s Just One (Huge) Problem.

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NEW YORK’S WAR ON BUSINESS. The political winds shift unpredictably, and no one can know that they’re safe, or will be in a few years. The only winning move is not to play, and I expect a lot of businesses will make that move. “Engoron has also decreed that Trump is not allowed to ‘do business’ in New York, which includes borrowing from his previous lenders to pay the money for this bond. In other words, Engoron has both levied an excessive fine against Trump, while simultaneously forbidding him from obtaining enough in loans to pay for the bond to protest the excessive fine. . . . Ah, but don’t worry about New York going after all the other big businessmen who routinely evaluate their properties at the outer limits of plausibility — Kathy Hochul admits that this is a political prosecution directed at one single political enemy and will never be used against anyone else.”

Related: The Fix Is In: The $455M ‘Poison Pill’ in Trump Judgment.

EARLY WARNING/THE NEW SPACE RACE: AI company developing software to detect hypersonic missiles from space. “Hypersonic missiles travel at speeds of at least Mach 5, which is five times the speed of sound, posing a significant challenge for current defense systems. The Space Development Agency (SDA), an organization within the U.S. Space Force, is building a network of satellites in low Earth orbit with the goal to provide global indications, warning, tracking, and targeting of advanced missile threats.”

THAT’S A GOOD WAY TO FOMENT AN INSURRECTION: Stop ‘insurrection’ threat with gun control: Johns Hopkins report.

NARRATOR: “IT WAS NOT A COINCIDENCE.” Coincidence? Ford’s Adventure in DEI Coincided With Its Disastrous Drop in Quality.

HARVARD IS SUCH A CESSPIT OF ANTISEMITISM: Harvard faculty group backtracks after sharing ‘despicable’ anti-Semitic Instagram post.

THAT’S A BIG HAUL: Biden Campaign Reports $42 Million in January Fundraising.

President Biden’s re-election effort on Tuesday said that it raised more than $42 million last month, continuing a strong fundraising streak as he and former President Donald Trump are increasingly likely to face each other in the general election.

Biden, 81, has faced persistent questions about his age and increased anxieties among Democrats who worry that he is trailing in many national and battleground-state polls. But his fundraising has been strong. His campaign said it and related entities had about $130 million in the bank by the end of January, a month during which Trump fended off several GOP challengers for the Republican nomination. Trump handily won party contests in Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada, while former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley remains his sole challenger ahead of that state’s GOP primary on Saturday.

The Biden numbers include results from his campaign committee, the Democratic National Committee and Biden joint fundraising committees, the campaign said. The $130 million in cash is up from $117 million it reported at the end of 2023. Trump’s campaign and outside political groups reported $65 million in cash at the end of last year.

Seriously, don’t get cocky.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: It’s Getting Rougher for Biden’s Handlers to Make Him Appear Lifelike. “If it was Adderall that they were pumping him full of before, he’s obviously developed a tolerance. They might be thinking about switching to high quality, uncut cocaine. Rumor has it that there is someone in the First Family with connections for that sort of thing.”

THAT’S WHO USUALLY RUNS TYRANNIES: We’re Living Under A Tyranny Of Mediocre Morons. “What I will emphasize, however, because a lot of people are too polite to say it out loud, is that above and beyond her obvious corruption, Fani Willis is a complete moron. Put aside the fact that she’s trying to sabotage the upcoming election in a flagrant act of election interference. Fani Willis — the chief law enforcement officer in Fulton County, Georgia — is not even remotely close to being a bright woman. This hearing made that very clear. And the implications could not be any more significant.”

GIVEN THE RAMPANT GENOCIDAL ANTISEMITISM THAT FLOURISHES AT PENN, THIS PUNISHMENT IS IRONIC AND DISGRACEFUL: Amy Wax Appeals Sanctions Imposed By Penn Faculty Senate (1-Year Suspension At 50% Pay, Loss Of Chair).

WE MUST NOT HAVE THROWN ENOUGH TAX DOLLARS AT EVS: Lithium and nickel producers begin mass layoffs and pause multi-billion-dollar projects as US says no to electric car push.

Americans were sold the promise that electric vehicles would bring production companies and an influx of jobs to small towns nationwide as part of a modern day goldrush.

However, as interest in EVs has slipped, lithium and nickel facilities – metals used in lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles – are taking cost-cutting measures including mass layoffs and suspending operations.

The demand for electric vehicles surged in 2022, rising by 76 percent in April of that year, but by the end of 2023, the number of vehicles sold dropped to just 50 percent.

Car buyers are still reluctant to trade in their gas-guzzling vehicle for an EV over the high price tag and concerns about their ability to easily charge the vehicle.

Gas-guzzling? Does the author of this piece even know what that means and how it doesn’t apply to today’s gas cars?

Regardless, sometimes the dogs just don’t like the dog food, even with incentives and mandates.

HE’S RIGHT TO WORRY: Justice Alito worries about improperly removing jurors with ‘traditional religious beliefs.’

WHAT HE’S DONE IS PHENOMENAL, AND BASICALLY WITHOUT PARALLEL IN HUMAN HISTORY:

Why Elon Musk is the most indispensible man in America today. pic.twitter.com/t9H4QNFpLL

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EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: It’s Been 30 Years Since Food Ate Up This Much of Your Income. “The last time Americans spent this much of their money on food, George H.W. Bush was in office, ‘Terminator 2: Judgment Day’ was in theaters and C+C Music Factory was rocking the Billboard charts. Eating continues to cost more, even as overall inflation has eased from the blistering pace consumers endured throughout much of 2022 and 2023. Prices at restaurants and other eateries were up 5.1% last month compared with January 2023, while grocery costs increased 1.2% during the same period, Labor Department data show.”

George H.W. was a one-termer.

HIS FOREIGN POLICY IS AS CONFUSED AS HE IS: FYI, Biden Doesn’t Really Want Ukraine to Win Either.

WHY IS HARVARD SUCH A CESSPIT OF ANTISEMITISM? Chair of Harvard University History Department Belongs to Group Behind Grotesque Anti-Semitic Cartoon: Sidney Chalhoub pledged to support ‘Palestinian liberation’ as part of Harvard Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine.

DON’T GET COCKY: Biden should lose reelection, odds ‘increasingly bleak.’ “Biden’s chances may rest on him experiencing a comeback similar to what Obama achieved in 2012 when Biden was serving as vice president. That year, national mood indicators and Obama’s job approval rating significantly improved during the campaign, and the president was elected to a second term. Unlike Obama, though, Biden also faces questions about his age and ability to carry out his duties in a second term. Biden is also starting at a lower point in job approval than Obama did, meaning he has to show a bigger improvement.”

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