MSNBC is pulling the plug on Joy Reid’s show, "The ReidOut," as part of a major shakeup, Fox News Digital has learned—and I can’t stop laughing. Honestly, there’s no one more deserving of cancellation. Well, maybe Rachel Maddow... and pretty much everyone else at MSNBC.
According to the report, "The ReidOut" has been struggling to hold viewers, averaging just 973,000 in February 2025—a sharp 28% drop from the 1.3 million it pulled in during the same month last year. Reid has become notorious for her relentless anti-Trump rhetoric and a string of controversial moments.
After the November election, Reid claimed that black women had lost interest in "saving America," blaming their supposed disillusionment on white female voters, who turned out in stronger-than-expected numbers for President Trump.
Just last month, she went even further, outrageously comparing Trump’s immigration policies—and his presidency as a whole—to Hitler ...late Fuehrer of Germany, founder of the Third Reich, currently communing with his pals Himmler and Heydrich. He is reincarnated every few days, sometimes every few hour if it's an election year, as a politician somebody doesn't like... ’s Germany and the Holocaust.
One of the most shocking events in recent media history came in 2018 when Reid famously claimed that homophobic comments on her old blog, "The Reid Report," were not written by her in a story that stunned the TV news industry. She blamed hackers and claimed to enlist the FBI to investigate her implausible claim, but she became emotional on air when her story fell apart.
The MSNBC host then admitted it was unlikely she was hacked, but claimed that she didn’t recall making the offensive remarks, for which she apologized anyway. The bizarre ordeal made her a punchline to many, but she continued to rise up MSNBC’s ranks and emerged as one of the network’s most prominent liberal pundits.
But, don't think that just because they’re letting Reid go means they’re replacing her with a more sensible choice. In fact, Reid’s 7 p.m. slot will be taken over by a trio that sounds like the setup to a bad joke: Symone Sanders-Townsend, a former spokesperson for Kamala Harris once a marijuana-busting Caliphornia DA ; Alicia Menendez, daughter of the scandal-ridden ex-Senator Bob Menendez; and Michael Steele, the former RNC chair who’s now an MSNBC regular, and sounds more like a Democrat than Republican these days.
According to a source familiar with the plans, Reid will sign off from "The ReidOut" for the last time this week.
[JustTheNews] During her tenure at the DOE, former Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm was accused of a number of widely reported potential ethics violations, including conflicts of interest and using her official position to promote companies in which she purportedly had a financial stake or relationship.
Former Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm announced on Thursday that she will be joining the boards of directors for Southern California Edison Company and its parent corporation Edison International, one of the largest utility companies in the U.S. This comes just six months after Granholm's Department of Energy awarded $600 million to a consortium of California utilities, including Southern California Edison.
During her tenure at the DOE, Granholm was accused of a number of ethics violations, including conflicts of interest and using her official position to promote companies that she had a financial stake or relationship with. Nonetheless, despite the widespread reporting of her controversial tenure, she was never charged or disciplined for any wrongdoing.
EARLY PRAISE, LATER INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING
Following her nomination and through her confirmation hearings, the legacy media showered Granholm with favorable press, calling her a “champion” of “clean” energy policies and the climate agenda. Despite the early praise by climate-focused news publications, her tenure was marred by controversy and ethics questions.
In May 2021, four months after Granholm’s confirmation hearing, it was reported that she had held shares in Proterra, an electric bus company that the Biden-Harris administration had heavily promoted. According to the Associated Press, she told congress in 2023 that "she mistakenly provided false information about her family’s stock holdings" in testimony that year. Graholm had by then divested of those shares, earning a profit of $1.6 million, according to the Washington Free Beacon.
In April 2021, Granholm had told the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee that she owned no individual stocks and only invested in mutual funds. In February 2023, U.S. ethics officials, The Wall Street Journal reported, warned top officials at the Energy Department, including Granholm, that they or their family members owned stocks that could violate conflict-of-interest rules.
In June of 2023, Granholm confirmed to the Committee on Energy & Natural Resources that she had owned stocks in six companies, which U.S. ethics officials had judged to be “non-conflicting.” Her husband had a previously undisclosed investment in Ford Motor Company. She said in a letter to the Energy and Natural Resources Committee that she had “mistakenly” testified she didn’t own any individual stocks. The committee took no further action.
Proterra went bankrupt in August 2023, and left transit districts across the country with broken buses that couldn’t be repaired.
In 2023 Granholm suffered embarrassment after a widely touted "EV Road Trip" turned into a PR disaster. Planning to fast-charge her caravan of EVs — including a luxury Cadillac Lyriq, a hefty Ford F-150 and an affordable Bolt electric utility vehicle — her advance team realized there weren’t going to be enough plugs to go around.
The embarrassment started when, according to reports, "one of the station’s four chargers was broken, and others were occupied. So an Energy Department staffer tried parking a nonelectric vehicle by one of those working chargers to reserve a spot for the approaching secretary of energy. A family with a baby, in need of the blocked spot, objected to the Energy Department’s misuse of energy infrastructure and public vehicles. The parents called 911. "
INVESTIGATIONS AND CALLS TO RESIGN
Shortly after the revelations, Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., who was ranking member of the committee at the time, called for the inspector general to investigate Granholm’s alleged conflicts of interest. In April, Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., called for her resignation over the matter. House Republicans on the Oversight Committee also investigated Graholm’s investments in Proterra.
More than a dozen public interest groups also called for Granholm’s resignation. In an August 2023 letter to Joe Biden, the groups cited her failure to report financial holdings, involvement in actions that benefited companies she was connected to, as well as other ethically questionable actions the groups argued would justify her removal from office.
Among the signatories was government watchdog group Protect the Public’s Trust (PPT). The group used a Freedom of Information Act Request to obtain Graholm’s calendar. Among the previously unknown meetings discovered in the document were Graholm’s meetings between billionaire Microsoft founder Bill Gates. The DOE authorized up to $2 billion in a 50-50 cost-share program for Gates’ Terra Power Natrium reactor in Wyoming.
[Breitbart] House Oversight Committee Democrats are panicking over comments President Donald Trump made Friday about reforming the U.S. Postal Service.
While Trump has not established a specific plan, he criticized the Postal Service and talked about how it might be improved upon during the swearing in of Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick.
“We want to have a post office that works well and doesn’t lose massive amounts of money, and we’re thinking about doing that,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. “And it will be a form of a merger, but it’ll remain the Postal Service, and I think it’ll operate a lot better than it has been over the years.
“It’s been just a tremendous loser for this country, tremendous amounts of money they’ve lost,” he added. “And we think we can do something that will be very good and keep it a very similar way, but whether it’s a merger or just using some of the very talented people that we have elsewhere so it doesn’t lose so much.”
Following his remarks, Democrat members of the House Oversight Committee sent a letter to Trump urging him to abandon any plans to reform USPS, the Hill reported.
“Your reported efforts to dismantle the Postal Service as an independent agency would directly undermine the affordability and reliability of the U.S. postal system,” ranking member Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA) and the panel’s other members wrote in the letter. “We urge you to abandon immediately any plans that would either privatize the Postal Service or undermine the independence of the Postal Service.”
The letter also followed reporting from the Washington Post that the 45th and 47th president is weighing firing USPS’s board and absorbing USPS into the Department of Commerce.
Connolly countered in the letter that such a change would require congressional cooperation, “which Congress would not provide.”
While USPS is not funded by Congress and earns revenue from its services, it is mandated to reach every single mailbox in the United States, “something private companies have no obligation to do,” according to the report.
“Congress prescribed a clear and critical mandate for the Postal Service: to deliver efficient, reliable, and universal service to all Americans,” Connolly continued. “Your reported plans for the Postal Service would put at risk the timely, affordable delivery of life-saving medications, mail-in ballots, important financial documents, and letters from loved ones, especially in rural or less profitable areas that the private sector refuses to service.”
Connolly further argued that reforming USPS would not put the independent agency “on a path of fiscal sustainability,” but could instead “subject the Postal Service and the entire mail network to political interference, shifting priorities of Administrations, and skyrocketing prices.”
Trump’s comment and the Democrats’ letter also come after Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, who was appointed during Trump’s first administration, announced earlier this week that he is stepping down.
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The USPS missed an opportunity to securely manage email through verification and lineage delivery of email to customers. I believe businesses, email providers and customers would have appreciated the end result. I have 5000+ unread emails and about 20 of them that require my attention.
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On a related typical USPS POS for service note:
We just found out a USPS Certified Letter, we send to Atlanta (about 140 miles from here) on Feb.13th.
Still has not arrived.
Where is it?
USPS.com Tracking site data shows it never left the Post Office we registered it and sent it from, 11 days ago.
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“We want to have a post office that works well and doesn’t lose massive amounts of money, and we’re thinking about doing that,”
Sorry to break everyone's bubble. Art.I, Section 8 of the Constitution, powers of Congress -
To establish Post Offices and Post Roads;
It said nothing about profitable. It was and is intended to tie the country together. Whether you send a letter across town or to Barrow AK, its the same price. When they moved the appointment of post masters and higher personnel from your congresscritters you lost your most effective office of appeal in dealing with it. Of course, they were happy to pass it off.
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When I request USPS priority overnight for an address 14 miles away, the parcel goes 14 miles to the delivery city hub then 64 miles to Dallas for distribution back to the 14 mile hub and delivery address. Takes two days.
FedEx runs out of the local Dollar General storefront where overnight is tomorrow morning.
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To try and drive Direct TV customers to online payments, AT&T sends out my monthly bill by mail, and when it arrives, the due date is approximately two weeks later. I always put my payment in the mail, at the post office, the next morning. Unfailingly, AT&T sends out a late payment reminder the day before the payment is due, and the bank notes my check is cleared by AT&T 15-20 days after the date I mailed it. Much of that is the USPS sloth!
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] The Federal Reserve has moved into a near standstill as President Donald Trump continues to rail through and cut government contracts, workforce, programs and even entire agencies.
While much remains up-in-the-air within the federal government, the U.S. central banking system is struck trying to adjust to the fallout in real time as Trump and his 'first buddy' Elon Musk make dramatic changes.
Federal Reserve officials speaking on the matter claim policy is 'well-positioned' to adjust to the risks emerging from swift and sweeping change taking shape at the federal government.
Increasingly, however, post-meeting sentiment appears to be more cautious about the volatility.
President Trump has taken a very aggressive trade stance, announcing over his first month in office intention to apply sanctions and tariffs on multiple partners throughout the world.
He has also been ambitious in his overall economic agenda, forcing agencies, departments and the central bank to remain fluid to what appears to be daily changes that influence policy.
In a blog post made on Thursday, Atalanta's Federal Reserve Bank President Raphael Bostic noted: 'In recent weeks, we've heard not only enthusiasm — particularly from banks, about possible shifts in tax and regulatory policies — but also widespread apprehension about future trade and immigration policy.'
'These crosscurrents inject still more complexity into policymaking,' he added.
Additionally, with the help of Musk, entire agencies are being overhauled and some slashed – including USAID.
Thousands of federal workers have agreed to take the buyout to voluntarily leave their jobs for full pay through September 2025 and billions in government contracts have been canceled at agencies like the Department of Education and National Institutes of Health.
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell has been meeting with central bank governors and regional presidents in recent weeks amid all the chaotic change.
Chatter is that while the message is about how 'well-positioned' they are to handle the ups and downs, there is increasing anxiety about the rate and level of change happening with spending and policy.
Bostic said that 'uncertainty' is an increasingly common theme among Fed leaders.
The Federal Open Market Committee released minutes from the meeting on January 28 and 29, which included dozens of references to this uncertain climate.
It specifically cited 'elevated uncertainty regarding the scope, timing, and potential economic effects of possible changes to trade, immigration, fiscal, and regulatory policies.'
'Right now, I see the risks of inflation staying above target as skewed to the upside,' St. Louis Fed President Alberto Musalem told reporters on Thursday.
'My baseline scenario is one where inflation continues to converge towards 2 percent, providing monetary policy remains modestly restrictive, and that will take time,' he continued. 'I think there is a potential for inflation to remain high and activity to slow.'
'That's an alternative scenario, not a baseline scenario, but I'm attentive to it.'
The U.S. central bank for the last four years has targeted inflation at 2 percent.
Though Chicago Federal Reserve President Austan Goolsbee is thought to be among the least hawkish on inflation, he remained more measured when it comes to tariff assessments.
'If you're just thinking about tariffs, it depends how many countries are they going to apply to, and how big are they going to be, and the more it looks like a Covid-sized shock, the more nervous you should be,' Goolsbee said during an appearance on CNBC.
[Clarice Feldman on FB] In a shocking revelation that has sent ripples through Washington, sources within the White House have confirmed that the Oval Office—including the historic Resolute Desk—was subjected to a high-level security sweep following suspicions of covert surveillance.
The sweep reportedly uncovered sophisticated listening devices, leading to the immediate removal of the President’s desk for a comprehensive off-site scan.
A senior official, speaking anonymously, revealed that the discovery followed routine electronic countermeasures that detected unusual signals. "The anomalies were subtle but consistent—enough to trigger a full investigation," the source said. "We couldn’t risk compromising the integrity of the President’s workspace."
Specialized teams using cutting-edge radiofrequency detection technology were dispatched, and initial findings allegedly pointed to concealed audio surveillance devices hidden within the office.
The Resolute Desk, gifted by Queen Victoria in 1880, was transported to a secure, undisclosed location for thorough inspection by counterintelligence and forensic tech experts. Early reports suggest at least one miniature transmitter—small enough to evade standard detection—may have been embedded within the desk’s structure. Official confirmation of this discovery is still pending.
White House spokesperson Emily Harrow declined to provide specifics but confirmed that "enhanced security measures" had been put into effect. "The administration takes all potential threats to national security seriously," Harrow stated. Once burned, twice shy
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Time to get some cheap plastic folding tables in there.
Local politician puffs out chest, screeches, “PAY ATTENTION TO MEEEEE!!!”
[FoxNews] A member of the Boston City Council called out Border Czar Tom Homan in a post on social media, calling his promises to enforce President Donald Trump's border policy "laughable."
Councilwoman Sharon Durkan posted her response on X after Homan said he would "bring hell" to Beantown after Boston Police Commissioner Michael Cox recently doubled down on the city’s sanctuary policies.
"You said you doubled down on not helping the law enforcement officers of ICE. I'm coming to Boston, and I'm bringing hell with me," Homan said at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Saturday. "I looked at the numbers this morning... I stopped counting at nine. Nine child rapists that were in jail in Massachusetts, but rather than honoring an ICE detainer, you released them back into the street."
"You're not a police commissioner," Homan continued. "Take that badge off your chest. Put it in the desk drawer. Because you became a politician. You forgot what it’s like to be a cop."
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Sharon Durkan was elected to the Boston City Council for District 8 in the special municipal election on July 25, 2023. Sharon was sworn in on August 7, 2023. Councilor Durkan is bringing her passion for civic participation, equity and advocacy for her community to City Hall. A community organizer to her core, she has been an agent for change in her professional, academic and civic life. Her District 8 constituency includes the neighborhoods of Back Bay, Beacon Hill, Mission Hill, the Fenway, Kenmore and the West End.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] California Governor Gavin Newsom has asked Congress for nearly $40 billion to help Los Angeles and its surrounding areas recover from the deadly wildfires that raged out of control last month.
Newsom, who has previously warned that the fires could become the costliest natural disaster in history, wrote a letter Friday to House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries to ask for their assistance.
'Los Angeles is one of the most economically productive places on the globe, but it can only rebound and flourish with support from the federal government as it recovers from this unprecedented disaster,' Newsom wrote in the letter also addressed to Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.), the House Appropriations Committee chair; and Rep. Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut, the lead Democrat on that committee.
The fires, which burned for weeks as firefighters worked to get them under control, killed at least 29 people, destroyed more than 16,000 structures and torched over 57,000 acres of land in the Pacific Palisades, Malibu, Pasadena and Altadena.
The total economic loss from the fires is estimated to be $250 billion, which includes factors such as anticipated cleanup costs, housing displacement and businesses shutting down.
Real estate losses from the Palisades and the Eaton fires are predicted to surpass $30 billion, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Newsom's letter to lawmakers reveals how the $39.7 billion in aid he is requesting will be spent on rebuilding homes, infrastructure, businesses, schools, churches and healthcare facilities.
The biggest chunk of the money - an additional $16.8 billion from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) - will be used to rebuild property and infrastructure. Of that, $5 billion will be earmarked for debris cleanup.
Newsom also requested $9.9 billion from the Department of Housing and Urban Development to provide grants for fire victims, homeowners, renters and businesses.
He wants the Small Business Administration to send the state $5.29 billion for loans to homeowners and businesses, while also increasing the loan maximum for home reconstruction from $500,000 to $2 million.
Additionally, he is asking for $4.32 billion in recovery grants for local governments from the Economic Development Administration and $2 billion in low-income housing tax credits from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
President Donald Trump and Speaker Johnson have both suggested that there could be conditions that California will need to meet in order to continue to get federal aid for the wildfires. During the Conservative Political Action Conference on Friday, Trump's special envoy Ric Grenell confirmed this, telling Politico 'there will be conditions.'
One of Trump's demands could be to take away federal dollars from the California Coastal Commission, a state agency that protects public access to beaches but has also been criticized for putting burdensome red tape on development.
Last month, Trump confronted Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass about potential overregulation getting in the way of rebuilding.
'I think squeezing their federal funds, making sure they don't get funds, putting strings on them to get rid of the California Coastal Commission is going to make California better,' Grenell said.
Newsom's letter to Congress does not mention his fraught relationship with Trump, rather he thanked the current administration for what it has done so far in supporting fire debris removal.
'We are eternally grateful,' Newsom wrote. 'And we are confident that if we work together, Los Angeles will continue to serve as a beacon to the world and securely place the city on solid ground in the coming years as it hosts the FIFA World Cup and Olympics - and thrive for the century to come.'
Newsom's plea comes as Trump and Elon Musk are in the midst of a project to slash federal spending they deem to be wasteful and fraudulent through the Department of Government Efficiency.
Congressional Republicans are also in the throes of readying their $340 billion budget bill, with the Senate ramming their version through early Friday along party lines. A final package is likely to include roughly an extension of $4.5 trillion in tax cuts, as well as cuts to Medicaid and other social safety net programs.
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If the money is approved while Newsome is in power, it will all be stolen.
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Can the DOGE geniuses follow the money trail as it happens? Because then it would be very useful to give some to California, just like giving to Gaza.
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If the money is approved while Newsome is in power, it will all be stolen.
You got that right. If he hadn't stolen so much money already, he would have had more than enough to make sure those fires never got so badly out of control in the first place.
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I saw an estimate some time ago that it would cost about $10b initially and then $2B/yr to reduce the chances of catastrophic fires by 90%.
Aside from the money there would be a lot of other problems doing this because critter habitat would be removed, nice looking trees cut down, unsightly barriers and reservoirs built and so forth.
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You chose to spend money on other things. So Fuck Off. No more Uncle Sugar for you
Lt. Gen. Jennifer M. Short served as the senior military assistant to the secretary of defense since October 2024. She most recently served as the legislative liaison of the Office of the Secretary of the Air Force. She previously served as the deputy director for strategic planning and policy of the United States Indo-Pacific Command.
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Not immediately apparent she got to where she is today based on looks.
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She is the daughter of the worst officer I have ever met. He was self absorbed and caused the suffering and elongation of the war in Yugoslavia. I would not take the time to piss on his grave. I know its bad to talk about the dead, but this guy was a mess.
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Oh my. That’s definitely a useful insight, 49 Pan.
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What did her dad do to lengthen the Kosovo war? I was just a CAOC pogue and it was an unnecessary fight, but recall him several times providing direction to protect air crews. I don’t remember anything to prolong the war. If he did, I wish I’d known it.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...late Fuehrer of Germany, founder of the Third Reich, currently communing with his pals Himmler and Heydrich. He is reincarnated every few days, sometimes every few hour if it's an election year, as a politician somebody doesn't like...
[Clarice Feldman on FB] In a shocking revelation that has sent ripples through Washington, sources within the White House have confirmed that the Oval Office—including the historic Resolute Desk—was subjected to a high-level security sweep following suspicions of covert surveillance.
