babylonbee | The United States Navy announced this morning that the USS Harvey Milk will be officially renamed the USS No Homo.
Christened
the 'Harvey Milk' four years ago in honor of the infamous gay sexual
predator, the ship's name change reflects a broader effort by military
leadership to clarify that the Navy isn't actually that gay.
"Despite
the uniforms, the Navy isn't just nancy boys and fairies," said
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. "The names of our ships ought to
reflect that non-gayness. It's hard enough for them already, wearing
their fruity little sailor outfits, without also having their ships
named after gay child molesters. Therefore, we have officially renamed
the ship the 'No Homo' out of love and care for our Navy brothers. No
homo."
Gay rights activists have condemned the decision, stating
it is a blatant denial of the truth as the ship is obviously very gay.
"Who do you think you're fooling? The ship is a literally called an
'oiler', its whole job is oiling up other ships, and it's docked in San
Fran. It's a total flamer," said local activist Mikai Danielson.
"Methinks Secretary Hegseth doth protest too much."
At publishing time, Secretary Hegseth had issued an order for everyone to stop calling Navy guys "seamen."
DailyCaller | Jean-Pierre announced her new book “Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party Lines” set to publish in October 2025 on Wednesday. The book, according to her publisher Legacy Lit, encourages Americans to “vote their values and maintain individuality within party lines.”
“Jean-Pierre didn’t come to her decision to be an Independent
lightly. She has served two American presidents, Obama and Biden,” the
book description from Legacy Lit reads.
“In 2020, she joined
Biden’s campaign as a senior adviser, becoming Harris’s chief of staff
and then, two years later, White House press secretary. She takes us
through the three weeks that led to Biden’s abandoning his bid for a
second term and the betrayal by the Democratic Party that led to his
decision,” the statement continues.
“In an era of misinformation, disinformation, the regressiveness of
social policy, what we’re seeing currently, right now, what I have
decided to do, and I really have thought long and hard about this, is to
follow my own compass. And that’s what I’ve done, and that’s what this
book does,” Jean-Pierre said in a statement.
“And here’s the
truth, and here’s how I will lay it out to you. I think we need to stop
thinking in boxes and think outside of our boxes, and not be so
partisan. And the way that I see moving forward in this space that we’re
in right now is if you are willing to stand side by side with me,
regardless of your political — how you identify politically, and as long
as you respect the community that I belong to and vulnerable
communities that I respect, I will be there with you. I will be, I will
move forward with you,” she continues.
During the Biden administration, Jean-Pierre
defended the former president’s fitness as concerns about his declining
state grew. Just weeks before Biden dropped out of the race, she decried
videos of the former president looking lost and wandering off as “cheap fakes,” claiming they were edited to make the 82-year-old look bad.
X |Our private research universities are not actually purely private. They are designed to be both a cryptic soft extension of the state (e.g. national security, priming the prosperity pipeline with blue sky research, truth adjudication, etc.), which is also oppositely intended as an independent check on the state and state power in times of abuse as well. This tacit and quiet knowledge, which used to be held at the AAU and the relevant professors, has been mostly lost.
So 'overhead' or 'indirect costs' is not actually overhead at all. It is supposed to be cryptic state support based on research merit to avoid political pressure to fund 3rd tier universities at the same level as Princeton.
So the whole system was designed back in the Vannevar Bush era but without leaving the esoteric knowledge with modern academicians.
It's a disaster. It was a quiet game which worked brilliantly to serve the nation and its population until lunatics started to get a foothold in the research universities.
This is why when you audit this stuff, you see waste. It wasn't ever intended to be what it appears to be: this was the USG paying to have a totally ELITE and EXCLUSIVE quasi-private, quasi-public resource. Think Manhattan project. Think The Jasons. Think winning.
And, despite my deep dislike of how @realchrisrufohas acted towards me, his point is spot on. If the elite U.S. universities are so confused as to think that they are truly 100% private and that they should be allowed to destroy their role of ELITE service to the nation which built them up with federal dollars, that is a moment to remind them of the "Endless Frontier" agreement.
First the USG welched on the agreement with the Mansfield Ammendment and Dole Bayh and then IMMACT90. Then the universities welched with DEI.
BOTH parties need to get back to the quiet agreement, or the whole thing will just fall apart. And the US research achipeligo is a *MAJOR* part of american greatness which we seem to be about to destroy because we can't figure out how to do this.
[And for those of you who seem to believe that quiet and tacit agreements are always bad, so that the Manhattan Project should have been academic and totally open because 'Sunlight is always the best disinfectant!!', I highly encourage you to use the comment section to complain again about elitism, gatekeeping, Fauci, experts, science, government and credentials. I get it. You can't stop to listen...or think. I totally get you. Looking forward to your vitriol. Just make sure to remind me repeatedly that markets are always right, all tax is theft, DEI is poison, and that Trump and Elon know exactly what they are doing at all times.]
radiolab | This is the story of a few documents that tumbled out of the secret archives of the biggest empire the world has ever known, offering a glimpse of histories waiting to be rewritten.
Just down the road from a pub in rural Hanslope Park, England is a massive building — the secret archives of the biggest empire the world has ever known. This is the story of a few documents that tumbled out and offered a glimpse of histories waiting to be rewritten.
When professor Caroline Elkins came across a stray document left by the British colonial government in Nairobi, Kenya, she opened the door to a new reckoning with the history of one of Britain's colonial crown jewels, and the fearsome group of rebels known as the Mau Mau. We talk to historians, archivists, journalists and send our producer Jamie York to visit the Mau Mau. As the new history of Kenya is concealed and revealed, document by document, we wonder what else lies in wait among the miles of records hidden away in Hanslope Park.
CNN | After the White House argued, repeatedly, that there was no
classified information in the now-infamous group chat of national
security officials, The Atlantic published it.
CNN reporters annotated the entire chat,
which included Hegseth’s description of F-18s and drones preparing to
strike targets, which anybody listening in would have known were to
occur in Yemen since the name of the chat included the word “Houthi.”
The White House and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth
continued to argue, even after release of the chat, that the information
wasn’t classified, but only sensitive.
Multiple experts advised on CNN Wednesday that people should
not get sidetracked by whether or not the information was classified.
What’s below are the assessments of:
Retired Brigadier Gen. Mark Kimmitt, who during his military
career worked as deputy director for strategy and plans for US Central
Command, and then worked in the State Department as assistant secretary
of state for political-military affairs during the George W. Bush
administration
and Beth Sanner, a CNN National Security analyst who was
deputy director of national intelligence for mission integration during
portions of both the first Trump and Joe Biden administrations.
Kimmitt and Sanner both appeared on CNN Wednesday, and I subsequently followed up with Sanner on the phone.
Was classified information shared?
CNN has reported that sources within the Pentagon believe
that the information shared by Hegseth, which detailed when, to the
minute, US fighters and drones would strike Houthi targets, was clearly classified.
Whether it was technically classified is beside the point, according to Kimmitt.
“I think everybody’s missing the relevant issue,” he said,
noting that Hegseth has the authority to declassify Pentagon
information.
“If he says it’s not classified, it’s not classified,”
Kimmit said. But “the fundamental question that we should be asking is,
‘Should it have been classified?’ And the answer, of course, is yes.”
What should be classified?
“I think we’re watching a lot of bob and weave, instead of
just making this simple,” said Sanner, who added that the rule of thumb
is that anything that shouldn’t be put into an unclassified email should
be treated as classified material.
“Another really easy way to look at this is, ‘If I’m sitting
in Moscow or Beijing, would I be happy to get this information and
think that I’ve gotten something really interesting?’” she said.
Obviously yes.
What’s interesting to adversaries?
First, the military portions of what was shared clearly should not have been shared.
“If there are planes, trains automobiles, whatever, heading toward an attack, it is classified,” Sanner said.
And if Hegseth wants to declassify something, there is a process of documentation that should be followed, she said.
MAGA can’t find any dirt so they have resorted to being outraged that I attended private school 🤯. I am me, unapologetically! GET A LIFE & start caring about how people are losing their jobs and our economy is tanking!
▶️ Powerful video here: revealing the deep and dark corruption which has been fueling this disastrous proxy war from the first moment of its inception. Zelensky is a media creation - a puppet of the West, designed to empty Ukraine of its sovereignty, and ultimately its resources… pic.twitter.com/5xH0vbGool
eng.mil.ru | Report by Russian Defence Ministry on progress of special military operation (22 February 2025)
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.
In Kharkov direction, the Sever Group of Forces hit formations of two territorial defence brigades close to Izbitskoye and Volchansk (Kharkov region).
The AFU lost up to 40 troops, an armoured personnel carrier, an artillery gun, and an electronic warfare station.
As a result of decisive actions, the Zapad Group of Forces liberated Novolyubovka (Lugansk People's Republic).
Russian units hit manpower and hardware of four mechanised brigades,
an assault brigade of the AFU, and a national guard brigade close to
Topoli, Kondrashovka, Golubovka, Novay Kruglyakovka, Borovaya, Shiykovka
(Kharkov region), Yampol (Donetsk People's Republic) as well as
Serebryansky forestry.
The enemy's losses amounted to more than 200 troops, a U.S.-made M113
armoured personnel carrier, five motor vehicles, and five field
artillery guns, three of them manufactured by NATO countries. Three
electronic warfare stations and an ammunition depot were neutralised.
Units of the Yug Group of Forces took more advantageous
lines and positions. Russian troops engaged manpower and hardware of
four mechanised brigades, an airmobile brigade, two assault brigades of
the AFU, and foreign legion units near Seversk, Reznikovka, Slavyansk,
Vasyukovka, Kramatorsk, Novomarkovo, Belokuzminovka, Chasov Yar,
Stupochki, Konstantinovka, and Ulakly (Donetsk People's Republic).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 220 troops, an infantry fighting
vehicle, nine motor vehicles, and six field artillery guns including a
U.S.-made 155mm M777 howitzer. One electronic warfare station and one
ammunition depot were neutralised.
Units of the Tsentr Group of Forces improved the
tactical situation. Ten mechanised brigades, a jaeger brigade, an
airmobile brigade, two assault brigades, an assault regiment of the AFU,
a marine brigade, and a national guard brigade near Shcherbinovka,
Dimitrov, Krasnoarmeysk, Udachnoye, Uspenovka, Novoandreyevka, and
Andreyevka (Donetsk People's Republic).
The enemy lost more than 375 troops, four armoured fighting vehicles
including a U.S.-made MaxxPro armoured vehicle, five motor vehicles, and
seven field artillery guns including a U.S.-made 155mm Paladin
self-propelled artillery system.
Units of the Vostok Group of Forces continued advancing
into the depth of enemy defences. A mechanised brigade, an air assault
brigade of the AFU, and three territorial defence brigades were hit near
Konstantiopol, Bogatyr, Burlatskoye (Donetsk People's Republic),
Temirovka, and Gulyaypole (Zaporozhye region).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 160 troops, two tanks including a
German-made Leopard tank, three motor vehicles, and two field artillery
guns.
The Dnepr Group of Forces engaged manpower and hardware
of a mountain assault brigade of the AFU and two territorial defence
brigades close to Malaya Tokmachka, Shcherbaki, Lobkovoye (Zaporozhye
region), Sadovoye, and Dneprovskoye (Kherson region).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 85 troops, six motor vehicles, an
artillery gun, three electronic warfare stations, and an ammunition
depot.
Operational-Tactical Aviation, attack unmanned aerial vehicles, Missile
Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces have engaged the
infrastructure of military airfields, strike drones stocking and
training sites, ammunition and fuel depots of the Ukrainian Armed Forces
as well as temporary deployment areas of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in
157 areas.
Russian air defence systems shot down a Ukrainian MiG-29 aircraft, two
French-made Hammer guided bombs, two U.S.-made HIMARS MLRS projectiles,
and 58 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles.
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 656
aircraft, 283 helicopters, 44,190 unmanned aerial vehicles, 596
anti-aircraft missile systems, 21,698 tanks and other armoured fighting
vehicles, 1,521 MLRS combat vehicles, 21,948 field artillery guns and
mortars, and 32,033 units of support military vehicles have been
neutralised.
WaPo | Elon
Musk, the head of the U.S. DOGE Service, announced Friday that he would
rehire a staffer who resigned after he was tied to a social media
account with a history of racist posts.
“He will be brought back,” Musk wrote on X, the platform he owns. “To err is human, to forgive divine.”
CTH | Yes, the Govt is in crisis, and just as
sure as you are reading this, the administrators within the IC already
have the solution ready to roll.”
♦ RESULT
– “We will use advanced technology and non-partisan AI programming, to
make the government more efficient and ensure this level of corruption
and wasteful spending never happens again.”
Every dollar will be tracked, monitored
and oversight will be transparent and available for everyone to see.
Just ignore the part where the same efficiency system is monitoring your
real ID, connecting your personage to the new govt and private sector
interfaces, and click “I agree” on your next federal tax filing. Trust
us Comrade citizen, the new technologically advanced DODGE approved govt
system cares about responsible stewardship and you. Swear.”
The process starts by downloading government data to an AI enhanced database for review and filtration.
Good Stuff – […] Trump created DOGE through
a day one executive order with a stated mission to cut government
waste. Musk and his aides have assumed control of federal IT
infrastructure as his team swiftly blitzes through departments and
agencies. Trump, with Musk’s guidance, this week gutted the
United States Agency for International Development and merged it into
the State Department. The president has signaled he might try to eliminate the Department of Education by executive order next.
“They’re
putting a shot across the administrative state’s bow,” Steve Bannon,
Trump’s former chief strategist, said last week of the mass federal
buyout plan on his “War Room” podcast. “That’s DOGE signaling to you
that they’ve got a plan of how to take the personnel down.”
[…] Federal
employees who want to remain in the federal workforce were told in the
“Fork in the Road” email they must return to in-person work, embrace new
“performance standards” and be “reliable, loyal and trustworthy” in
their work. The email also warned that most federal departments and
agencies will be “downsized through restructurings, realignments, and
reductions in force.”
Some federal employees said they were alarmed at the short timeframe they were given to make their decisions.
“I
have invested way too much time and energy and interest into my career
to just say, ‘hell with it’ and leave when I only have, like, five to 10
years left before I retire,” one federal worker said. “I’m not taking
the resigning bait. So, I guess I’ll essentially just ride down with the
ship if they decide to get rid of us,” the worker added, though he
acknowledged some less experienced colleagues might take the buyout. (more)
The streamlining and
downsizing of government through the use of AI systems is a good thing,
perhaps a very good thing. However, watch out for deployment into the
DHS apparatus because that will give rise to the newly expanded
Surveillance State.
Peaceniks don’t build
bombs; and those who genuinely believe in liberty do not build nor
support domestic surveillance networks that can be weaponized depending
on who is in power.
JONATHAN TURLEY ON DOGE: THE TERROR ALERT IN WASHINGTON IS QUITE ASTONISHING
“You have people all over the Beltway breathing in paper bags right now because of the idea that they could bring in these people, and that they're going to think outside the box.
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