🇺🇸 "US population growth has largely come from nonwhite groups," per FT:

🔗 unusual_whales

🇺🇸 THE CUT THAT NEVER WAS: So the 8% annual cut that Pete Hegseth was reportedly about to order at the Pentagon… turns out not to be a cut to defense at all. Instead the plan is to -reallocate- 8% of spending -within- the DoD budget from “legacy” programs to Trump priorities.

🧵 https://fxtwitter.com/SydneyFreedberg/status/1892546519250731373

🇺🇸 Trump: "We're going to open the doors and we're going to inspect Fort Knox."

🔗 Rapid Response 47

📝 Bishop Robert Barron: In response to the executive order calling for policies to make in vitro fertilization (IVF) less costly and more available, Bishop Daniel Thomas and I issued the following statement as chairmen of the USCCB’s committees on Pro-Life Activities and Laity, Marriage, Family Life and Youth.

🔗 BishopBarron

⛪️👶 New Order Churches in Holmes County, OH, seem to have a comparable share of under 10 and 20 yo as Larsmo in Finland which has had a TFR around 3,5 for decades.

🔗 Ulmer

🇨🇭🇺🇸 Swiss January gold exports to the US reach highest for 13 years

Gold exports from Switzerland rose year on year in January as supplies to the United States soared to the highest in at least 13 years and offset lower deliveries to top consumers China and India, Swiss customs data showed on Thursday.

Switzerland, the world's biggest bullion refining and transit hub, alongside Britain which is home to the world's largest over-the-counter gold trading hub, saw a surge in gold transfers to the U.S. in recent months as President Trump readies wide-reaching import tariffs that some market participants fear could affect gold deliveries.

According to the Swiss data, gold exports from the country to the U.S. rose to 192.9 tons in January from 64.2 tons in December. This was the highest monthly amount of exports in the customs data going back to 2012.

https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/swiss-january-gold-exports-us-reach-highest-13-years-2025-02-20/

🇺🇸 Trump signs order to claim power over independent agencies

President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed a sweeping executive order bringing independent agencies under the control of the White House — an action that would greatly expand his power but is likely to attract significant legal challenges.

It represents Trump’s latest attempt to consolidate power beyond boundaries other presidents have observed and to test the so-called unitary executive theory, which states that the president has the sole authority over the executive branch. And it reflects the influence of Russ Vought, Trump’s budget chief, one of several conservatives in his orbit who have called for axing independent arms of the executive branch.

The theory was long considered fringe, and many mainstream legal scholars still believe it is illegal, given that Congress set the agencies up specifically to act independently, or semi-independently, from the president. These include the Federal Communications Commission, the Federal Trade Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission, all of which enact regulations and can impose hefty fines on businesses that violate the rules.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/18/trump-order-power-independent-agencies-00204798

🇺🇸🇷🇺 Trump to abandon Russia war crimes prosecution

The US has signalled that it could leave an international effort to prosecute Russia for invading Ukraine, The Telegraph can reveal.

US envoys refused to label Russia as an “aggressor” at a meeting of a “core group” of countries preparing a Nuremberg-style tribunal to try Vladimir Putin for his war crimes, according to Western officials.

Washington is similarly refusing to co-sponsor a United Nations statement that supports Ukraine’s territorial integrity and demands Moscow to withdraw its forces from the war-torn nation.

Mr Trump’s administration has also refused to sign off a planned G7 statement calling Russia the “aggressor” in the war with Ukraine to mark the third anniversary of the conflict on Monday.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/02/21/donald-trump-us-putin-zelensky-ukraine-russia-war-tribunal/

📝 Charlie Kirk: Trump deported 37,660 people during his first month in office.

📝 Keith Woods: If this number is consistent across Trump's term, he will deport about 1.8 million people.

Obama did about 3.2 million his first term with fewer illegals in the country. Am I missing something?

🔗 Keith Woods

🇺🇸 BREAKING: Trump Administration removes acting ICE director due to slow pace of deportations.

🔗 Dominic Michael Tripi

🇺🇸🇮🇱Trump's FBI Director Kash Patel:

We need America to wake up and prioritize Israel.

🔗 Clash Report

Normie conservatives- “White replacement in Texas is good because Mexicans are conservative.”

These guys have no idea how the younger right wing actually feels about this.

These Fox News talking points aren’t going to work anymore.

White replacement in the US is abomination.

If you want to live around Mexicans, move to Mexico.

🔗 Uncommon Sense