Acting great Gene Hackman has died at the age of 95.
A day after Rachel Maddow throws her bosses at MSNBC under the bus, half her staff is cut.
And Trump is striking down one of America’s favorite bureaucracies.
Some News
Here is some news:
- Donald Trump has cancelled the Chevron oil contracts with Venezuela because they are not adhering to the agreement.
- Pam Bondi said that she was going to release the Jeffry Epstein files as early as today.
- John Roberts of the Supreme Court quashed a ruling by a district judge the prevented the Trump administration from spending $2 billion on a foreign project. This is great!
- The White House announced on Tuesday that the administration — not an independent group of journalists — will determine which outlets have access to the president as part of a pool allowed into the Oval Office, aboard Air Force One and into other meetings and events that cannot accommodate the full press corps.
- Press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced the newest changes in the briefing room on Tuesday, asserting that the White House Correspondents’ Association “should no longer have a monopoly” on organizing press pools and that the White House would determine the makeup of the pool on a day-to-day basis.
- Democrat California Governor Gavin Newsom was roundly mocked on Wednesday after he announced plans for a podcast while his state struggles with crime, homelessness, and more.
- Actor Gene Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, were found dead in their home in New Mexico along with their dog. It is being investigated. He was 95 years old.
https://nypost.com/2025/02/27/us-news/gene-hackmans-daughter-suspects-he-and-wife-died-of-carbon-monoxide-poisoning/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nypost
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/trump-says-hes-terminating-chevrons-venezuela-oil-agreement
https://www.foxnews.com/us/epstein-client-list-release-could-imminent-after-blackburn-pushes-transparency-lets-get-them-jailed
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2025-02-27/supreme-court-foreign-funds
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/25/trump-white-house-press-pool-access-00206001
https://www.dailywire.com/news/youre-failing-newsom-mocked-after-announcing-podcast-plans
This is the Way to Debate
FAFO
According to Fox News:
MSNBC star Rachel Maddow will lose much of her staff as part of the network’s production cuts, Fox News Digital has confirmed.
Maddow’s team is expected to be slashed in April after she finishes broadcasting five nights a week as part of MSNBC’s primetime coverage of President Donald Trump’s first 100 days in office. “The Rachel Maddow Show” will then revert to only Mondays, an arrangement the network’s most powerful host has brokered despite her lofty salary.
Much of the staff being laid off also worked on “The Alex Wagner Show,” the now-canceled program that previously took over Maddow’s 9 p.m. ET time slot Tuesday through Friday, when “The Rachel Maddow Show” only airs on Mondays. “Inside with Jen Psaki” will be taking its place in MSNBC’s revamped programming lineup, with the Maddow-Wagner shared staffers being let go.
Maddow’s most senior producers were spared and staffers being cut have been invited by the network to reapply for open positions. MSNBC does not consider these “widespread layoffs,” and resources are being reallocated to support new programs and priorities.
MSNBC declined Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
Oh, No! Say It’s Not So!
According to the Post Millennial:
The Trump administration is moving forward with plans to shut down more than 120 IRS offices that provide taxpayer assistance as part of a broader effort to reduce the federal government’s footprint and cut costs.
The decision, outlined in a letter from the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) obtained by The Washington Post, comes at a crucial time—right in the middle of the federal tax filing season, which ends on April 15.
This move follows the recent layoffs of approximately 7,000 probationary IRS employees and aligns with the administration’s push to decrease the agency’s headcount. The closures will impact at least 128 taxpayer assistance centers across the country, where filers can receive free, in-person tax help by appointment. It remains unclear whether these centers will be relocated or permanently closed.
According to the letter, signed by GSA Commissioner for Public Buildings Michael Peters, all soft-term leases—those that can be terminated on short notice—will be ended unless deemed “public-facing.” These cases will be reviewed individually.
The decision marks a huge shift after years of expansion aimed at supposedly improving customer service. The agency had opened or reopened more than 50 assistance centers since the passage of the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act, increasing the total number of locations to over 360 nationwide.
Per the letter, IRS employees will have at least 120 days to vacate the affected offices once lease terminations are officially announced. Notifications to landlords are expected to begin imminently.
https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-irs-to-shutter-120-offices
Dumbass of the Day
According to the New York Post:
A wannabe influencer from New York sickeningly called for Elon Musk to be assassinated while bragging about not paying taxes — quickly getting her on the feds’ radar.
Sarah C. Roberts, who calls herself a Big Apple-based executive producer, shared a video to her 4,000 TikTok followers saying Musk’s name — then gesturing as if slitting his throat.
The short video was reshared on X on Monday by Libs of TikTok, where it has been viewed more than 16 million times — including by Musk himself, who tagged Ed Martin, the US attorney for DC, to make sure the feds were aware.
“Death threat and admission of multiple counts of tax fraud,” wrote Musk, a chief White House adviser, adding: “Uh oh… now she’s in trouble. Don’t you love when they admit their crimes on video for the world to see.”
Martin later responded on X, resharing the viral clip and addressing Roberts in his post.
“Duly noted. Thx for letting us know. We’ll put you in the system. Talk soon, Ma’am,” he warned, with the hashtag #NoOneIsAboveTheLaw.
Roberts has since deleted her TikTok account and made her Instagram account private.
Have Him Move Next to the Guys That Released Him
According to The Gateway Pundit:
A cannibal in Connecticut has been granted conditional release from a psychiatric hospital after brutally killing a man with an axe, eating one of his eyeballs, and part of his brain.
Tyree Smith had been found “Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity” in 2013 and sent to Connecticut Valley Hospital in Middletown for “up to 60 years” for the murder and cannibalism of 43-year-old Angel Gonzalez.
Smith was diagnosed with schizophrenia and had been abusing drugs and alcohol at the time of the murder.
The Hartford Courant reports:
Gonzalez’s decomposed body was found in an abandoned building on Brooks Street in Bridgeport on Jan. 20, 2012. He had suffered severe wounds to his face and head.
Three days later, Smith’s cousin, Nicole Rabb, told police Smith arrived at her house in mid-December and said he had “to get blood on his hands,” the arrest warrant affidavit, according to Courant archives. He was going to Beardsley Park and his former home on Brooks Street, the Courant reported. The next day he returned with blood on his pants and carrying an ax saying he wanted to take a bath.
Rabb said Smith told her he was sleeping on the second-floor porch of 216 Brooks St. when a man invited him to the third floor to get out of the cold, archives said. Smith said he then beat the man with the ax so severely that he was able to remove an eye from the man’s head along with pieces of brain matter and a piece of his skull, the Courant reported.
According to previous Courant reports, Smith then went to Lakeview Cemetery, where he said “he ate the eyeball, which tasted like an oyster, and the brain matter,” according to the warrant affidavit.
The Connecticut Psychiatric Security Review Board issued the decision to allow Smith’s release on Friday.
“The board previously determined that Mr. Smith has demonstrated long-term stability, remained engaged in all recommended treatments, and consistently followed his care plan,” Vanessa Cardella, a spokesperson for the board, said in a statement obtained by the Hartford Courant. “His release will be conditional, ensuring that he remains under structured supervision and continues receiving the necessary mental health services.”
“Before being considered for conditional release, individuals first go through a temporary leave process, where they remain under hospital supervision while gradually increasing their time in the community,” Cardella added. “This phased approach ensures stability before conditional release, allowing individuals to build relationships with outpatient providers while maintaining high levels of oversight. Conditional release continues this supervision with strict conditions to prioritize both public safety and the individual’s ongoing treatment. Rehabilitation, not punishment, is the goal for all individuals found not guilty by reason of insanity.”
Gonzalez’s family adamantly opposed the cannibal’s release.
.https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/connecticut-cannibal-who-killed-man-axe-ate-his/
WE ARE THE COUNTER CULTURE!
According to the Post Millennial:
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court heard arguments in a case brought forth by an Ohio woman who claimed that she was discriminated against at her work because she was straight.
The suit was brought forth by Marlean Ames against the Ohio Department of Youth Services under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. The section prohibits sex discrimination in the workplace. The complaint was lodged after a lesbian woman received the promotion Ames, who worked at the department since 2004, was also pursuing, with Ames being demoted and her old position being given to a gay man, NBC News reported.
Lower courts had sided with the state agency, prompting Ames to bring her case to the Supreme Court, which the outlet said appeared to side with Ames’ case.
Attorneys for Ames are challenging a precedent in which some lower courts have said that someone in a “majority group” has a high bar to meet for a discrimination case to move forward than someone from a minority group. Courts, including the Cincinnati-based 6th Circuit, have said that the plaintiff must present “background circumstances” to show that the defendant is “that unusual employer who discriminates against the majority,” wrote Ames’ lawyers.
In the Supreme Court on Wednesday, there was agreement, even from the lawyer representing Ohio officials, that the rule is not consistent with federal employment law. NBC News said that the Supreme Court decision could be a unanimous one, based on the questions asked by justices on both sides of the aisle, with the case likely being sent back to lower courts for further litigation.
Justice Amy Coney Barrett said, “it doesn’t matter if she was gay or whether she was straight, she would have the exact same burden and be treated the exact same way under Title VII.” Justice Neil Gorsuch said that a narrow ruling in Ames’ favor would be a “wise course,” adding that there was “radical agreement” in the courtroom. Justice Sonia Sotomayor said that there was “something suspicious” about what had happened with Ames.
Ohio Solicitor General T. Elliot Gaiser acknowledged that “everyone here agrees everyone should be treated equally” when pressed by the justices about his defense of the lower court’s ruling in favor of Ohio.
America First Legal filed a brief in Ames’ case citing other cases the conservative legal group has brought forth against companies like Starbucks and IBM alleging race and sex discrimination.
The state has argued that Ames has failed to show that she was discriminated against, and that she was demoted because new leadership in the agency wanted to restructure operations to prioritize sexual violence in the juvenile corrections system. Ames was reportedly seen as difficult to work with, the state claimed in court papers.