• DOGE is done? The Department of Government Efficiency no longer exists as an independent department with centralized leadership. However, U.S. Office of Personnel Management Director Scott Kupor insists that this does not constitute the end of DOGE as a project, saying, “The principles of DOGE remain alive and well: deregulation; eliminating fraud, waste and abuse.” Kupor’s position is supported by the fact that the DOGE X account posted on Sunday, with an update on 78 contracts representing $335 million in savings identified and cut over the last nine days. Former DOGE employees have now been embedded in other departments, such as Zachary Terrell, the new CTO of HHS, and Joe Gebbia, who heads the newly established National Design Studio intended to improve the design of government websites. DOGE is technically no more, but taxpayers can rest easy knowing wasteful spending is still being found and cut.

• FBI says “no cover-up here” over no Crooks motive: Following a months-long investigation into the failed assassination attempt against Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, by 20-year-old Thomas Crooks, the FBI has concluded that Crooks acted alone. “We have reviewed this case over and over, looked into every nugget. We have spoken to the families, the president — there is no cover-up here,” FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino explained on Friday. “There is no motive for it, there is no reason for it.” FBI Director Kash Patel echoed Bongino, noting that Trump was “satisfied with the results and where we left it.” The case is now classified as “pending, inactive.” Should any possible new credible information come to light, it will be investigated. This announcement comes roughly a week after reports surfaced alleging that Crooks’s digital footprint revealed he used “they/them” pronouns and engaged in “furry” fantasies online.

• 100 House Dems vote for socialism: With NYC Socialist Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani visiting President Trump at the White House on Friday, congressional Republicans decided to officially express their opposition to socialism. They introduced a resolution that amounts to little more than a virtue signal condemning socialism. While the resolution easily passed, it exposed the fact that nearly half of House Democrats, 96 of them, refused to condemn socialism. This comes as little surprise given the party’s increasing embrace of radical leftism. For years, the Democrats have peddled soft socialism, and now more of them are willing to embrace this inherently anti-American, freedom-robbing ideology in the open.

• Supreme Court allows use of new TX congressional map: Late Friday, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito issued an order temporarily restoring Texas’s new congressional map, which favors Republicans, in response to an emergency appeal from state officials after the Fifth Circuit Court ruled the map unconstitutional. The lower court had ordered the state to revert to its older map, which Gov. Greg Abbott argued was a decision that came “far too late in the day.” As Texas Solicitor General William Peterson noted, “The chaos caused by such an injunction is obvious: campaigning had already begun, candidates had already gathered signatures and filed applications to appear on the ballot under the 2025 map, and early voting for the March 3, 2026, primary was only 91 days away.” Alito set a 5:00 p.m. Monday deadline for those suing to block the new map to file a response.

• X adds location feature, leaving political shills in shambles: The social media platform X unveiled a new feature this weekend that users had been wanting for months — a way to identify an account’s national origin. As expected, several large “MAGA” accounts were identified as foreign grifters either attempting to manipulate the movement or cash in on clicks. @1776General was posting from Turkey, and @AmericanVoice__ was posting from Southeast Asia. AmericanVoice deleted their account after exposure. Leftists were quick to celebrate the “fall of MAGA,” but it’s hardly a one-sided phenomenon. “Gaza-based journalist” @AbujomaaGaza is based in Poland, @xIsraelExposedx is based in Saudi Arabia, and @CounterAIPAC is based in Egypt. As this feature becomes fine-tuned, it will strike a fatal blow to international accounts manipulating politics under a mask of patriotism.

• Joyless Behar defames Trump: President Trump is a litigious man, having brought multiple defamation suits just this year. Apparently, the harridans of “The View” forgot that. The Epstein files were once again a source of much talk last week, when legislation to release more information on the investigation was signed into law. Joy Behar jumped on the topic Thursday to defame Trump: “But isn’t it obvious he was — that Trump was involved with Epstein?” Perhaps Behar isn’t aware that Trump was one of the few celebrities to break ties with Epstein before the allegations against him became well-known. Of course, anyone paying attention realizes that if Trump were implicated in the investigation, the Biden administration would’ve worked overtime to leak that information. Her comments were particularly bizarre given that Trump signed the Epstein legislation the night before.

• Trump wants Somalis out: President Trump has revoked Temporary Protected Status for the 300,000 Somalis in the country. This announcement follows the recently exposed scam perpetrated by Somalis on the state-run insurance program. Christopher F. Rufo summarized, “Somalis in Minneapolis opened fake autism treatment centers, secured fraudulent autism diagnoses, stole hundreds of millions of dollars from taxpayers, and gave kickbacks of $300 to $1500 per month to parents who participated in the scheme.” They also sent millions back to Somalia to the coffers of an al-Qaida-linked terrorist organization. The problem is that many of them, like Rep. Ilhan Omar, are already citizens or have been granted green cards. While we may not be able to deport all of them, citizens who defraud the government and support terrorist organizations can be charged with crimes and sent to jail. Whether or not Gov. Tim Walz’s corrupt state will do so is another matter.

• Judge blocks IRS from sharing data with ICE: On Friday, U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly ruled that the IRS engaged in “unlawful conduct” in sharing immigrant taxpayer information with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. “Plaintiffs have shown that the IRS’s implementation of the Address-Sharing Policy was arbitrary and capricious because the IRS failed to recognize that it was departing from its prior policy of strict confidentiality, failed to consider the reliance interests that were engendered by its prior policy of strict confidentiality, and failed to provide a reasoned explanation for the new policy,” Kollar-Kotelly wrote. She further ruled that the IRS did not offer a good reason for entering the sharing agreement with ICE and therefore violated the Administrative Procedure Act. The IRS is permitted to share taxpayer information with law enforcement to identify criminals.

• The golden age of homeschooling? The COVID lockdowns pushed many parents to begin homeschooling after Zoom lessons exposed the hogwash teachers were pushing on their kids. A lockdown-inspired boom in homeschooling could be expected to end when the lockdowns did, and indeed, many students returned to traditional schooling. However, the rate of homeschooling growth nationally has never returned to the meager 2% annual rate seen before the lockdowns. In the last reported year, 2024-2025, the growth rate was 5.4%. Three states and the District of Columbia showed a decrease in homeschool enrollment from the previous year, but Vermont and New Hampshire, which shrank in the last year, grew by more than 10% in 2024-2025, so long-term trends are still being assessed. More than a third of states that report homeschool numbers recorded their highest enrollments ever, with several experiencing double-digit growth — South Carolina homeschooling grew by an astonishing 21%.

Headlines

• Trump will designate Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization (Just the News)

• Democrats consider using ranked-choice voting in 2028 presidential primaries (National Review)

• Maine’s Platner calls to abolish ICE, drag agents before Congress (Washington Free Beacon)

• Trump admin gives mass migration warning to U.S. allies (Newsweek)

• Sex trafficking was “widely tolerated” on Meta’s sites, according to unsealed court docs (Not the Bee)

• New Arctic discovery could deal massive blow to Chinese dominance of rare earth minerals (Fox News)

• Humor: Breaking: Hamas breaches White House perimeter (Babylon Bee)

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