CDR SALAMANDER: Condition of the Navy’s Amphibious Fleet And Its Impacts on Marines: the View from GAO. “Amphibious warfare ships are critical for Marine Corps missions, but the Navy has struggled to ensure they are available for operations and training. In some cases, ships in the amphibious fleet have not been available for years at a time. The Navy and Marine Corps are working to agree on a ship availability goal but have yet to complete a metrics-based analysis to support such a goal. Until the Navy completes this analysis, it risks jeopardizing its ability to align amphibious ship schedules with the Marine Corps units that deploy on them.”
January 27, 2025
WELL, IF “EDUCATED” PEOPLE THINK IT’S OKAY, CAN IT REALLY BE ILLEGAL?
Everyone understood that this was going on, in private business as well as universities. Acquaintances would just outright say "We're looking to hire a woman of color/queer person/etc for this position". I never figured out how to politely ask why they were confessing a crime to… https://t.co/ayEKvPRwmY
— Megan McArdle (@asymmetricinfo) January 27, 2025
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Drummond Woodsum, a leftist law firm in Portland, Maine with lucrative public contracts, has told public school officials to destroy immigration-related evidence and records to obstruct possible federal law enforcement investigations by @ICEgov or @CBP. https://t.co/MPy8gfabc8
— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) January 27, 2025
MY LATEST SUBSTACK ESSAY: The Left Gave Us Trump 2.0: And they’re not going to like it one bit.
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MAKE THEM PAY:
They had a choice between following the law and bowing to their most ridiculous cultural revolutionaries. They chose the latter, they broke the law, and now there’s a sheriff in town that’s going to make them pay the price for it. https://t.co/jyD1dqfKSM
— Inez Stepman ⚪️🔴⚪️ (@InezFeltscher) January 27, 2025
TRUTH:
The difference between Trump 1.0 and Trump 2.0 this time around is like the difference between Michael Jordan as a freshman at North Carolina and Michael Jordan as NBA MVP.
— John Hawkins (@johnhawkinsrwn) January 26, 2025
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it’s pretty funny that democrats couldve just not fought trump in 2020 and gotten four years of squishy mike pence neocon policies and instead they got a lucius cornelius sulla warlord version of trump
— Ashley St. Clair (@stclairashley) January 25, 2025
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YOU DON’T SAY: CIA now says Covid-19 is more likely to have originated from a lab leak.
The Central Intelligence Agency said Saturday that it’s more likely a lab leak caused the Covid-19 pandemic than an infected animal that spread the virus to people, changing the agency’s yearslong stance that it couldn’t conclude with certainty where the pandemic started.
The agency made its new assessment public two days after former Republican lawmaker John Ratcliffe was sworn in as its new leader.
“We have low confidence in this judgement and will continue to evaluate any available credible new intelligence reporting or open-source information that could change CIA’s assessment,” an unnamed CIA spokesperson wrote in an email sent to reporters Saturday.
The statement didn’t include any additional details about what led the agency to change its assessment and whether it had intelligence that would add weight to the theory that the virus had leaked from a research lab in Wuhan, China.
What Politico’s Carmen Paun and John Sakellariadis left out of their report is that while Washington remains divided on COVID’s origins, Washington and crap outfits like Politico once mocked and silenced anyone with questions.
BYE, BYE GAVIN: Joel Kotkin: LA fires have extinguished Gavin Newsom’s presidential dream.
Two years ago Gavin Newsom was widely seen as a rising Democratic star and likely future presidential candidate. Meanwhile Donald Trump, facing massive legal troubles and the results of his own intemperance, seemed to many, like those at CNN, a fading figure.
How quickly things change. Over the weekend, Trump met with the California Governor as they toured parts of California devastated by the wildfires. As Newsom was forced to greet the President with his cap in hand, Trump wasted no time in attacking the state’s progressive policies. On his arrival, Trump called on Newsom to change the state’s water policies, blaming the spread of the fires on deficient supplies. This is partially accurate: although water policy has been poorly implemented, the immediate issue lay in the city’s failure to maintain fire spending and key infrastructure like water pressure for hydrants and keeping the local water reservoir filled and operable.
Trump’s demands have drawn attention to the state’s self-inflicted wounds, and its pattern of astounding incompetence. In 1971, the economist John Kenneth Galbraith described the state government as run by “a proud, competent civil service,” and enjoying among “the best school systems in the country”. This year Wallet Hub ranked the state last in terms of return on investment for taxpayers.
50 years of Democratic political dominance will do that to you.
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it’s pretty funny that democrats couldve just not fought trump in 2020 and gotten four years of squishy mike pence neocon policies and instead they got a lucius cornelius sulla warlord version of trump
— Ashley St. Clair (@stclairashley) January 25, 2025
Of evil will shall evil mar.
AND ANOTHER ONE: Florida Democrat Official Arrested for the Most Disgusting Reasons.
ON SUNDAYS I DO A PROMO POST FOR (MOSTLY) INDY AUTHORS: Book Promo And Vignettes By Luke, Mary Catelli and ‘Nother Mike.
There is also a fun vignette challenge.
OUT: LUXURY GOODS. IN: LUXURY BELIEFS. This makes sense.
Hypothesis: The woke crack up of culture and institutions that started in ~2013 was driven in significant part by the democratization of good taste that happened in the 2010s. Bonus: This also explains why hipsters disappeared.
Prior to around 2010, those who considered…
— Ozmodiar (@cmonjussthetip) December 17, 2024
(Via Marc Andreesen).
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Leftist Jews in NYC are going to keep staying quiet as Jewish owned businesses keep getting targeted hoping their windows will get broken last. It’s so pathetic to watch. This is the “activist” class. They always have something to say, except now.
— Karol Markowicz (@karol) January 26, 2025
BAN HOMESCHOOLING? As President Donald Trump moves to encourage the home schooling movement, the Left and the public education unions — but I repeat myself — are marshaling their usual fallacies in opposition.
But the homeschooling movement is all but certain to continue growing because of the deepening rot of public education and the reality that homeschooled kids learn far more and more of the essential skills than do kids in the average public school. That’s according to the latest “What Would You Say” video from the Colson Center on HillFaith.
STAY HUMBLE : The more you know, the more you know you don’t know.
MEET THE NEW BOSS, NOT AT ALL LIKE THE OLD BOSS: Trump announces immediate retaliation against Colombia after socialist president turns back US deportation flights.
THEIR PATH IS TO EARTHLY, NOT HEAVENLY SALVATION … IT’S A DEAD END: Beware the expedient Christianity of the secular Left.
CAN’T ARGUE WITH THIS – STEYN’S VISION IS CLEAR AND HIS VOICE UNCOWED: My TCW week in review – no one says it better than Steyn.
THEY JUST CAIN’T HE’P THEYSELVES: The Media Ran With Total Fake News Story About ICE Raids at Chicago Public Schools.
THERE’S A LOT OF THAT GOING AROUND: Hakeem Jefferies’ claims about DEI are LITERALLY INSANE. (It’s a video.)
DANCING IN THE ENDZONE: WH Hails Capturing Top Illegal Immigrant Criminals and It’s Monumental.
WHAT A TSUNAMI: Trump 2.0: A Shockwave of Change in Just Six Days.