Links for 2–19-25

just one month to control the border

⭐️ Daily border encounters down 98% under Trump compared to Biden. From: Eric Lendrum/American Greatness. “In the last 24 hours the US Border Patrol has encountered a total of 229 aliens across the entire southwest border. That is down from a high of over 11,000 a day under Biden.”

Biden admin spent $20 billion on cars, home loans, other services for migrants. From: Thomas Stevenson/Post Millennial. The taxpayer-funded assistance was used to help purchase cars, homes, as well as loans for start-up businesses.

🚩 California’s dangerous path: Oil refinery takeovers and the coming supply crisis. From: Charles Rotter/Watts Up With That. California is contemplating an extreme measure that could tip it into full-blown crisis mode.

“The threat From within”: J.D. Vance delivers a historic defense of free speech. From: Jonathan Turley. For the free speech community, it was truly Churchillian.

🎯 CBS is wrong about free speech in Germany and the rise of Nazism. From: Robby Soave/Reason. Margaret Brennan should immediately Google the Weimar Fallacy.

Most Americans believe US Aid is wasted or stolen. From: Kyle Anzalone/Libertarian Institute. Just over one in ten Americans thought the funds reach their intended target.

👉 Trump the myth-buster: Wrecking the left's delusions is his superpower. From: Issac Schorr/NY Post. Donald Trump's brash style has proven an effective, if imperfect, antidote to the left’s stranglehold on the zeitgeist — and he’s reaping the rewards, as his approval rating surges.

Bureaucrat paranoia reaches new levels as feds take drastic steps to avoid DOGE surveillance. From: Eireann Van Natta/Daily Caller. The goal to eliminate wasteful programs has sent Washington bureaucrats into a panic.

🔨 Circuit court puts final nail in the coffin for Biden's $500M student loan forgiveness plan. From: Anders Hagstrom/Fox News. Biden tried a litany of policy maneuvers to push through student loan forgiveness.

Acting Social Security head resigns over DOGE access of recipient information. From: Fatima Hussein/Washington Times. The departure from the agency was initiated after she refused to provide DOGE staffers at the SSA with access to sensitive information.

😮 Eruption in "BleachBit," “wipe hard drive," “offshore bank" searches In DC suggest Deep State panic mode. From: Zero Hedge. Growing panic within the federal bureaucracy indicated by internet search trends.

The nation’s report card should trigger alarm bells. From: Ray Domanico/City-Journal. Decades of federal, state, and local reforms have largely failed to yield improvements in student achievement.

🙄 ‘Absolutely nuts’: Blue state bill aims to jail those who ‘misgender’ dead people. From: Hudson Crozier/Daily Caller. A Colorado bill could put doctors, government employees or morticians in jail if they accurately record the sex of deceased people who identified as transgender.

Hawaii can auction off your car without ever convicting you. From: Alban & Pohl/Reason. Civil forfeiture allows the government of Hawaii to take your property and sell it for profit without proving you did anything wrong.

🙄 ‘Absolutely nuts’: Blue state bill aims to jail those who ‘misgender’ dead people. From: Hudson Crozier/Daily Caller. A Colorado bill could put doctors, government employees or morticians in jail if they accurately record the sex of deceased people who identified as transgender.

How Did 108 economists predict Milei’s results exactly wrong? From: Jon Miltimore/The Daily Economy. Leading lights on the left said Milei’s free market reforms would be disastrous. Instead, they’ve been hailed as a miracle.

🇨🇦 Canada is crying out for an anti-woke leader. From: Meghan Murphy/Spiked. Canadians are sick of Justin Trudeau, but the opposition needs to be bolder and more populist.

📌 SHORT: Jordan Peterson - Offensive Speech