• Bondi tackles weaponization: Donald Trump’s attorney general was confirmed Tuesday night and sworn in Wednesday morning, and she wasted no time in getting to work. Yesterday, she issued directives to combat the weaponization of our two-tiered justice system, to seek the federal death penalty when appropriate, and to work with DHS to “completely eliminate” the Mexican drug cartels and transnational criminal organizations. As to the first of these, Bondi announced the establishment of a “Weaponization Working Group.” Among the items on the working group’s agenda will be a review of potential misconduct regarding the January 6 prosecutions, the targeting of “radical-traditionalist” Catholics by the FBI, the Biden DOJ’s focus on concerned parents at school board meetings, and abuses of the onerous Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act.

• Politico and USAID: More revelations are coming out regarding how USAID was spending U.S. taxpayer money, and it isn’t pretty. Beyond spending millions on contraceptives for terrorists, the agency was also shelling out millions to Leftmedia outlets, including $8 million to Politico. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt explained, “I can confirm that the more than $8 million taxpayer dollars that have gone to essentially subsidizing subscriptions to Politico on the American taxpayers’ dime will no longer be happening.” In 2022, Politico published the leaked Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade, which was intended to undermine the Supreme Court. Lately, Politico has been pushing federal workers to resist Trump and his efforts to drain the Washington Swamp via its reporting. The Leftmedia rag has an $8 million motive for doing so.

• Google ends race-based hiring: Diversity for diversity’s sake will no longer guide Google’s hiring goals. The Big Tech giant announced the change to its hiring practice on Wednesday, ending a policy of race-based hiring targets it adopted in 2020 in the wake of George Floyd’s death. At the time, Google pledged to increase by 30% “leadership representation of underrepresented groups” by 2025. Furthermore, Google will stop releasing annual diversity reports, a practice initiated in 2014, explaining that the company is reviewing its DEI-related programs, including those that “raise risk, or that aren’t as impactful as we’d hoped.” Apparently, Google recognizes that leaning into DEI is not a pathway toward greater business success or a more just society.

• McConnell falls: Republican Senator and former GOP Senate Leader Mitch McConnell fell down a small flight of stairs while exiting the Senate chamber on Wednesday. The 82-year-old was quickly helped to his feet by Senators Steve Daines and Markwayne Mullin. A spokesman for McConnell said that the senator was fine and blamed the fall on “the lingering effects of polio in his left leg,” a disease he contracted as a child. However, McConnell was later seen in a wheelchair. Should McConnell have to vacate his seat due to declining health, Kentucky law requires the governor to call a special election to fill it. Should this occur, it would provide an opportunity for Democrats to shrink the Republican majority.

• The NYT misleads on Trump’s pro-life pardons: When word gets out that your side was imprisoning 75-year-old women for peacefully protesting on behalf of the unborn, you tend to look, well, bad. So it’s not surprising that The New York Times went into spin mode to rehabilitate its fellow pro-abortion Democrats, charging those pro-lifers with having “shoved their way into the waiting room,” causing a nurse to sprain her ankle, and denying access to an abortion-seeker and her husband. But as Monica Miller and Michael New report, “It was not pro-lifers who were violent that day — it was the abortion facility staff. When three of the elderly pro-lifers attempted to enter the clinic, video shows a nurse charging the door and the facility manager repeatedly striking and jabbing the pro-lifers with a broom handle — seeking to force them back.” So much for “all the news that’s fit to print.”

• Trump speaks at National Prayer Breakfast: “It’s great to be back at the Prayer Breakfast. And I hope you all agree it’s nice to once again have a president that shows up to the Prayer Breakfast.” So began Donald Trump’s remarks this morning, which combined free-form political riffs and occasional snippets of teleprompted material. Trump connected prayer to peace, noting, “As the Bible says, ‘Blessed are the peacemakers,’” adding that he hopes his greatest legacy will be as a peacemaker and a unifier. “I will always protect religious liberty,” he said, before announcing a presidential task force to do just that. “America’s glorious destiny is within our reach,” he said in closing. “And so, together, we will make America stronger, prouder, safer, freer, greater and more faithful to our God and ever before.”

• Former UPenn female swimmers sue Ivy League and NCAA: “I never expected my Ivy League education to teach me that women must silently accept losing their opportunities and privacy,” said Grace Estabrook, one of three former University of Pennsylvania female swimmers who have raised a lawsuit against the university, the Ivy League, and the NCAA alleging Title IX violations. The former swimmers were on UPenn’s women’s team while “transgender”-identifying male Lia Thomas was on the team breaking women’s swimming records. The lawsuit, which seeks to have Thomas’s swimming records expunged, states, “Women swimmers throughout the Ivy League were left shattered by the disregard of their rights and opportunities in order to create new rights and opportunities in women’s sports for a man with biological advantages they could not hope to match.”

• West Point shuts down woke student clubs: Elections have consequences, and in yet another undeniable example of The Trump Effect, the U.S. Military Academy at West Point announced that it’s done away with a dozen campus clubs built around wokeness. As it happens, all American warriors bleed red, and the Left’s obsession with such superfluities as race, ethnicity, sex, and gender has no place in our nation’s military academies. Among the canceled groups are clubs for Asian-Pacific, Latin, Black, and Women cadets. Orders from the Trump Defense Department also shut down Spectrum, a West Point gay-straight alliance. Never fear, though. As a West Point statement noted, “More than one hundred clubs remain at the U.S. Military Academy, and our leadership will continue to provide opportunities for cadets to pursue their academic, military, and physical fitness interests while following Army policy, directives, and guidance.” That’s just as it should be.

Headlines

• Surrounded by young female athletes, Donald Trump bans men from women's sports (Daily Wire)

• Trump administration sues Chicago, state of Illinois over sanctuary laws (NY Post)

• Senate confirms Scott Turner to lead HUD (The Hill)

• Dems delay Kash Patel committee vote, deride Trump FBI pick as danger to U.S. security (Fox News)

• CBS releases unedited transcript, raw video of Kamala Harris interview (Daily Wire)

• Humor: Trump becomes first fascist in history to reduce size of government (Babylon Bee)

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