KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Gavin Newsom Wants Folks to Know He’s Down With the Struggle. “Newsom’s dyslexia is the Joe Biden’s stutter of 2026. We’re hearing a lot about it lately. Dems who can’t play a race card suddenly have childhood problems that they like to brag about having to overcome. In all of Joe Biden’s decades in Washington I never heard of his boyhood stutter until he started struggling with English during the 2020 presidential campaign. Newsom recently brought his dyslexia front and center in an attempt to dunk on Sen. Ted Cruz on X. That ended up being a huge self-own, but Democrats are incapable of being embarrassed by their own actions anymore. All it seems to have done is prompt Newsom to bust out the dyslexia excuse even more.”
February 24, 2026
IT’S ONLY OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY: Medicaid’s ‘perverse incentives’ tanking Colorado’s budget.
As economist Linda Gorman recently explained, the rapid 2010 expansion of Medicaid did not produce large gains in physical health, suggesting that the new expansion enrollees were mostly healthy people not in need of taxpayer-subsidized healthcare.
Because Medicaid spending in Colorado is mostly driven by enrollment, Gorman suggests the legislature target the bloated rolls to close the state’s budget hole and make healthcare spending more affordable and sustainable.
The Paragon report adds to that by noting Medicaid is “plagued by perverse incentives” that are fundamental to the programs’ structure due to its open-ended federal reimbursement of state spending.
“The policy encourages states to spend more to receive more federal money, leading to the proliferation of financing schemes that function as de facto money laundering mechanisms to obtain federal funds without commensurate state expenditures,” the report reads, in part. “The Affordable Care Act’s 90 percent federal reimbursement rate for able-bodied, working-age adults—providing roughly seven times more federal funding per state dollar than for traditional Medicaid enrollees—has diverted resources away from the truly needy.”
In Colorado, this has led to health care eating up one third of the state’s budget, quickly crowding out other budget priorities.
Exit quote: “It remains ultimately up to Colorado legislators to address the program’s systemic issues.”
I get the feeling that Medicaid grift and fraud are Denver’s budget priorities.
PUERTO VALLARTA; Cartel Kingpin Taken Out — Now Americans Are Caught In The Middle.
IT TOOK THEM UNTIL NOW TO FINALLY NOTICE ALL THE TORPEDOES CIRCLING BACK?
The New York Times just published an opinion by Daniel Richman titled ‘The Epstein Files Should Never Have Been Released’ pic.twitter.com/TPF4cLLu3n
— unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) February 23, 2026
MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Not so toxic: Masculinity’s comeback makes America thrive.
SMART PEOPLE SURE CAN ACT DUMB SOMETIMES:
This person is the head of AI safety and alignment at Meta
This is like watching a police safety instructor clean his gun while it's still loaded pic.twitter.com/C2eToSR3i1
— PoIiMath (@politicalmath) February 23, 2026
Some background here from earlier this month: And so It Begins: AIs Now Talking With One Another Behind Our Backs.
WHY IS THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY SUCH A CESSPIT OF RACISM AND BRYLCREEM?
His way of bonding with black ppl is to tell them how stupid he is & that he can’t read.
This means my first read on him was correct. He’s been handed so many things & put in high positions he never earned or deserved.
Do you wanna know the craziest part of this footage that… https://t.co/llo1k7F7wB
— Nicki Minaj (@NICKIMINAJ) February 23, 2026
THE TORPEDOES THE DEMOCRATS PUT IN THE WATER FOR TRUMP KEEP CIRCLING BACK ON THEM:
The NYT is acknowledging the epic backfire they are experiencing as the epstein files turns out out to be basically a who's who of democrats. https://t.co/QF2veZLgqt
— unseen1 (@unseen1_unseen) February 24, 2026
LIGHTNING DEAL: CS CELERSPORT Men’s Ankle Running Socks with Cushion. #CommissionEarned
CHANGE: Trump poised to fill two influential appeals court vacancies.
Last week, Chief Judge Jeffrey S. Sutton, of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, based in Cincinnati, and Chief Judge Debra Ann Livingston, of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, in New York City, announced their plans to assume senior status later this year. Both judges were appointed by President George W. Bush.
Judicial appointments have remained a central priority for the Trump administration, though vacancies on the federal appellate courts have been limited in recent years. The impending departures offer a significant opportunity to extend the administration’s influence over courts that routinely adjudicate consequential constitutional, regulatory, and commercial disputes.
The Sixth Circuit, which hears appeals from Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee, already holds a conservative supermajority. A new appointment there would likely reinforce the court’s existing ideological balance.
The Second Circuit presents a more consequential opening. Covering Connecticut, New York, and Vermont, the court presently maintains a narrow liberal majority. Given its prominent role in cases involving financial regulation, national security, and major civil litigation, a conservative appointment could have a meaningful impact.
That would nice.
FAIL, BRITANNIA:
🇮🇴WATCH: Chagossian First Minister Misley Mandarin has – from the new settlement on the Chagos archipelago – given Donald Trump formal permission to strike Iran from Diego Garcia.
He says: "We, the people of the Chagos Islands, give our blessing for the United States to use the… pic.twitter.com/3eKdeoVuZx
— Guido Fawkes (@GuidoFawkes) February 23, 2026
Take that, Starmer.
COOL: Webb imaged a star before it went supernova.
Also, Behind the Black is having its fundraiser, ending soon.
OUR HATEFUL MEDIA:
This is a classic example of assassination prep, the purpose of which is to implicitly encourage and justify terroristic violence against half the country. https://t.co/XlR0YaxaAh
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) February 23, 2026
EVEN IF IT PROVIDES MORE OF THE SAME, IT WILL BE THE DEATH OF THE TWO TRADITIONAL PARTIES: Would a Reform government just be more of the same?
WELL, THAT’S THE SIDE HE’S ON: Starmer bends the law to reward Iran belligerence and thwart Trump.
SOMEPLACE WHERE GOVERNMENT SUPPORTS TRADITIONAL WESTERN CIVIL RIGHTS? White Flight from London to Cumbria – where next?
THAT’S THEIR PARENTS’ PROBLEM, AND NO REASON TO RESTRICT ADULTS’ FREEDOM OF SPEECH: One in Five Young Teens Said They Saw Sexual Content on This Social Media Platform.
WHAT! AGAIN? THE DEMAND FOR HATE CRIMES FAR OUTSTRIPS SUPPLY: Virginia Tech Professor’s Hate Crime Allegation Turned Out to Be a Total Hoax.
OR AT LEAST YOU SHOULD MOVE. WE’LL HELP YOU PACK: Feel Queasy about American Patriotism? There’s Something Wrong with YOU.
MEN LIKE HIM KEEP CIVILIZATION GOING IN THE FACE OF BARBARISM: ‘We Are All Jews Here’: Master Sgt. Roddie Edmonds to Receive the Medal of Honor.
RACISM AND STUPIDITY ARE A HECK OF A COMBO: Newsom to Black Voters: ‘I’m No Better Than You. I’m a 960 SAT Guy’.