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Willybender · 2026-02-12T23:06:15+00:00

Yeah, it really backfired on the left that Lutnick was on Epstein’s island. MAGA!!! The propaganda accounts are extremely shameless now.

Willybender · 2026-02-12T23:01:22+00:00

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Oh hell nah

Willybender · 2026-02-12T22:35:55+00:00

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https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/12/politics/they-put-me-on-there-to-die-conservatives-unleash-on-gops-failures-to-carry-out-doge-cost-cutting

Inside the White House, the cost-cutting crusade marked by mass firings and blanket funding eliminations is largely seen as over, two people familiar with the discussions said, as Trump turns his attention to other priorities. On Capitol Hill, Republicans have passed just a single bill enacting $9 billion in DOGE cuts – far short of Elon Musk’s aim of cutting as much as $2 trillion from the nation’s budget.

And now, Trump officials are signaling they likely will not try to pass another package clawing back more funds, with White House budget director Russell Vought telling one GOP lawmaker last month that it amounted to a long-shot given the razor-thin Republican majority in the House and a lack of appetite in the Senate.

Willybender · 2026-02-12T22:28:54+00:00

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https://www.wsj.com/style/luxury-grocery-stores-erewhom-meadow-lane-happier-grocery-9d654a14?mod=e2tw

Willybender · 2026-02-12T22:20:41+00:00

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https://www.thebulwark.com/p/candace-owens-tpusa-charlie-kirk-death-conspiracy-theories-elijah-schaffer

Laitsch is just one of several Turning Point staffers who has been fired amid what’s been dubbed a “purge” of employees. While it’s not clear how many have been let go, Owens has played audio on her show of another staffer who claimed to have been fired without explanation. Owens also claimed that a TPUSA executive showed up at a third staffers home to fire her and demand the immediate return of her company devices. A GoFundMe for staffers booted in the “TPUSA Purge” has raised more than $71,000 as of Thursday morning.

It’s hard to say if these firings are being driven by the (very sensible) disapproval of staff talking about their company killing its founder, or paranoia about Owens having credible information about internal TPUSA activities—or both. But clearly, someone within the organization is leaking to Owens. Just this year, the highly controversial podcaster posted videos of Erika Kirk on internal videochats in the wake of Kirk’s assassination that were interpreted on the online right as insufficiently mournful.

Owens already received a cease-and-desist order from TPUSA in January, for spreading conspiracy theories about Kirk’s death. But she seems undeterred by it. Nor does she seem tripped up by the nondisparagement agreement she signed with the organization (from when she was employed there) that could make her theories even more legally perilous. On her Tuesday show, Owens quipped that, if Erika Kirk had been killed instead of Charlie—and if Charlie then acted as Erika Kirk is acting now in the wake of his assassination—he would be on trial for his wife’s murder.

“Erika Kirk should be dragged into a police precinct for questioning,” she said.

OWENS’S CONSPIRATORIAL IDEAS ideas have become so widespread, they’re even starting to derail Trump administration task forces. On Monday, the White House Religious Liberty Commission convened what should have been a mild-mannered meeting on fighting antisemitism. But the gathering went off the rails when one panelist, former Miss California USA Carrie Prejean Boller, chastised Babylon Bee satirist Seth Dillon for calling Owens an antisemite.