• The politicized Oscars: The 97th annual Academy Awards were held last night in Hollywood. What made the headlines and served as the primary interest for tuning into the increasingly unpopular Oscars was the drama surrounding Best Picture nominee “Emilia Perez,” a movie about a Mexican drug lord who becomes “transgender.” The movie, starring a transgender-identifying male actor calling himself Karla Sofia Gascon, received 13 nominations but ended up with just two awards, and not Best Picture, which went to “Anora.” In woke Hollywood, after Gascon’s past social media posts criticizing Muslims and George Floyd were exposed, the accolades turned to acrimony. Unsurprisingly, Hollywood’s leftist politics were front and center, which underscored why so many Americans have long since tuned out the self-aggrandizing display.

• Biden incensed with Obama, Pelosi: It’s hard to imagine a lonelier social club than that of presidential election losers, but Joe Biden’s status as the only sitting president to ever have been booted by his own party makes his a fraternity of one. So lonely was Joe, in fact, that he told Donald Trump during a post-election White House visit that he blamed not the unlikeable Kamala Harris for the Democrats’ electoral shellacking but Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi. “He told me he blamed those two people,” said Trump. On a related note, history’s worst White House press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, likened the party’s treatment of Biden to “a firing squad around a person who I believe was a true patriot.” With delusion and denial like this, it’s no wonder the Democrats are in such dire straits.

• Biden aid admits gaslighting: One of the most predictable parts of presidential election loserdom is the post-mortem finger-pointing, and there’s been plenty of that among Democrats. The recriminations, however, have been punctuated with occasional honesty, as was the case with Michael LaRosa, press secretary to former first lady Jill Biden. “There are some things that are true, like the gaslighting,” LaRosa admitted. “There was a lot of denial of the polling.” He’s telling us. When asked whether he was “concerned” about Joe Biden running in 2024, LaRosa said, “Um, yes,” adding that everyone “just assumed” the Big Guy would be on the last Amtrak back to Wilmington. Coupled with the more detailed accounts of opportunistic booksellers like CNN’s Jake Tapper, LaRosa’s admission helps us get a fuller picture of the widespread conspiracy to hide the truth of Biden’s condition from the American people.

• WaPo rebellion: Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos’s announcement last week that the paper’s opinion section would be changing to focus on supporting and defending personal liberty and free markets went over like a lead balloon among the Leftmedia outlet’s staff. The WaPo journalists are now said to be in “open rebellion” against Bezos, with the Post’s former executive editor Marty Baron smearing Bezos for prioritizing “those commercial interests over The Post, and he is betraying The Post’s longstanding principles to do so.” And what are these “commercial interests”? The Post lost $100 million last year alone, continuing its money-losing trend over the last several years. For the paper to change its fortunes, it seems that more of its leftist staff will need to depart. Perhaps that’s exactly what Bezos is counting on.

• Trump polling at +9 approval: Donald Trump recently passed the one-month mark of his second term, and his polling numbers are solidly in the black. According to a Harvard CAPS/Harris survey, 33% of respondents strongly approved of his job performance, while 19% somewhat approved. That’s 52% approval against roughly 43% disapproval, with another 5% still reluctant to admit the obvious improvement in energy and competence that Trump has brought to the White House. Indeed, an issue-by-issue look at the popularity of Trump’s policies indicates that he’s on the right side of one very popular issue after another — from closing the border to deporting illegals to rooting out government waste to declaring the biological truth of two genders to eliminating race-based discrimination to reducing foreign aid to slapping reciprocal tariffs on trading partners who don’t play fair.

• Border invasion update: Roughly 3,000 U.S. troops have been deployed to the southern border to bolster the Border Patrol’s efforts to stop illegal immigration. According to the Pentagon, “Their deployment underscores the Department’s unwavering dedication to working alongside the Department of Homeland Security to secure our southern border and maintain the sovereignty, territorial integrity, and security of the United States under President Trump’s leadership.” Speaking of securing the border, over the weekend, Donald Trump noted a record low of 8,326 border apprehensions in February, declaring, “The Invasion of our Country is OVER.” He further observed, “In comparison, under Joe Biden, there were 300,000 Illegals crossing in one month, and virtually ALL of them were released into our Country.”

• Trump slashes funding for “fair housing” nonprofits: The so-called Fair Housing Act, which has for nearly half a century lined the pockets of leftist ambulance chasers and an endless stream of “discrimination” victims, is finally getting some much-needed scrutiny. The Trump administration has begun canceling grants to organizations that enforce the FHA by fielding and investigating complaints and then siccing the law on unwitting landlords and property owners. “Americans want to see an end to the barrage of rising housing costs and a lack of housing supply,” said one aggrieved bureaucrat. “They need increased support and intervention from our federal government, not a withdrawal from basic civil rights.” On the contrary, a rash of 34,000 expensive discrimination lawsuits were lodged in 2023, more than half of which were based on disability and 75% of which were processed by these so-called nonprofits.

• UK PM willing to put “boots on the ground” in Ukraine: Apparently, seeking to show Europe’s strong commitment to Ukraine following President Volodymyr Zelensky’s blowup with Donald Trump in the Oval Office over a mineral rights peace deal, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer welcomed Zelensky to the UK, telling him that Europe has his back. Starmer even went so far as to say, “The U.K. is prepared to back this with boots on the ground and planes in the air. Europe must do the heavy lifting.” However, Starmer added, “To succeed, this effort must have strong U.S. backing.” He didn’t elaborate, but given the fact that the U.S. has provided far more in money and military equipment to Ukraine since Russia invaded than any other country, it would appear that Starmer means more of the same.

Headlines

• Andrew Cuomo announces bid for New York City mayor (Just the News)

• Boston mayor ripped for offering “condolences” for slain knife-wielding attacker (Daily Wire)

• Haitian man charged in NC triple murder flew into U.S. under Biden migrant flights program (Fox News)

• Israel halts aid into Gaza, citing Hamas refusal to extend first phase of truce (Times of Israel)

• Trump to pardon baseball legend Pete Rose who was banned from baseball for gambling (Just the News)

• Satire: Zelensky tries bold new strategy of insulting the people he’s begging for money from (Babylon Bee)

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