The Morning Rant

I'll take European solidarity with Ukraine seriously when they start sending troops.

It is relatively easy to send military aid and "humanitarian" support...after all, that is simply a financial transfer from their citizens to Ukraine, of course with hefty chunks of those funds going to the well-connected.

And let us not forget the ongoing purchase of Russian natural gas and even a bit of oil by the oh-so-sophisticated EU bourgeoisie, who spout anti-Russian platitudes while heating their homes with Russian gas. The smug hypocrisy would be difficult to tolerate if they weren't masters at it. They have been safe under the American military umbrella for 80 years while simultaneously criticizing America at every turn.

European Leaders Rally Behind Ukraine as War Enters 5th Year

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council António Costa are in Kyiv for the anniversary, along with the leaders of Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Croatia, Norway, and Sweden.

“Our objective is a comprehensive, just and lasting peace for Ukraine based on the principles of the UN Charter and international law,” Costa, von der Leyen, and European Parliament President Roberta Metsola said in a joint statement.

"We support all efforts aimed at achieving such a peace – a peace with dignity and long-term security. Respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity is the cornerstone. No country can annex its neighbour. Borders cannot be changed by force. The aggressor cannot be rewarded," the EU leaders added.

How very high-minded of them! Now send your young men and women and trans-men and trans-women to fight alongside the Ukrainian people, and your empty words of support might be taken seriously. And rebuild your militaries so that you can at least support the American mission to protect Europe and its trade routes.

Otherwise, shut up, support American efforts to end this regional border dispute, and continue to lose your cultures and your souls to the Muslim invaders you invited in.

And here is the smuggest of them all! Macron, whose country has provided barely half of what the UK has sent to Ukraine, is the biggest chicken-hawk of them all!

French President Emmanuel Macron said in a post on X that the war is a “triple failure for Russia: military, economic, and strategic.”

“It has strengthened NATO—the very expansion Russia sought to prevent—galvanized Europeans it hoped to weaken, and laid bare the fragility of an imperialism from another age. Because Ukraine is the first line of defence of our continent, France and Europe stand resolutely by its side.” Macron added.

Strong words coming from a man whose country has an almost unblemished record of defeat in the last 100 years. Ukraine had better hold the line, because once the Russians get to the French border, they will have a clear path to the channel.

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

Fisherman's Bride
Theodore Roszak

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The Morning Report — 2/24/26

Good morning kids. Let's talk about some heroes and villains, no, I'm not referring to an old Beach Boys tune. But starting off with the latter:

U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro’s office is allegedly halting a case against several Democrats who took part in a video and encouraged military members to disobey orders, according to a report. “Three people familiar with the matter” reportedly told NBC News that Pirro’s office “decided to stop pursuing the case” against Sens. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) and Mark Kelly (D-AZ), and Reps. Chris Deluzio (D-PA), Chrissy Houlahan (D-PA), Maggie Goodlander (D-NH), and Jason Crow (D-CO).
The decision reportedly comes after a “federal grand jury in Washington, D.C., unanimously rejected an attempt by Pirro” to have the Democrat lawmakers indicted for their roles in a video in which they encouraged military members to disobey orders,

The miscreants cited above quite literally were encouraging military personnel to commit mutiny. Their excuse was that they were assuring those serving in uniform that they had their backs in the event that President Trump were to issue illegal orders that supposedly endangered the citizenry. This of course was both as a means of destabilizing/kneecapping President Trump's legitimate authority as commander-in-chief to maintain order in the face of an actual Democrat led/instigated/fueled/fomented insurrection by instigating a fiction that the President was going to institute martial law and declare himself President for life or some such other pornographic drivel. I am referring to the civil disorder and rioting and violent confrontations against ICE, National Guardsmen and law enforcement agencies who are merely doing their duty. As well as military action vis a vis the Venezuelan drug running operations, and elsewhere around the globe.

I have never served in uniform but knowing many who have and I know that even the lowliest enlisted man or woman, let alone those in the officer corps are certainly instructed and have a basic understanding and the morals and ethics to know right from wrong. It is otherwise axiomatic that those who choose to serve their country in our armed forces are innately decent moral upstanding individuals who have a love of their country, something totally alien and abhorrent to those on the Left and the Democrat Party.

And what of Jeannine Pirro? If a federal grand jury refuses to indict the traitors, there's not much she can do I suppose, or did she just throw up her hands and quit.

And now the diametric opposite of all of the above in a truly inspiring story of real American heroism:

The Nazi soldiers made their orders very clear: Jewish American prisoners of war were to be separated from their fellow brothers in arms and sent to an uncertain fate.

But Master Sgt. Roddie Edmonds would have none of that. As the highest-ranking noncommissioned officer held in the German POW camp, he ordered more than 1,000 Americans captives to step forward with him and brazenly pronounced: “We are all Jews here.”

He would not waver, even with a pistol to his head, and his captors eventually backed down.

Edmonds’ moral stand in a Nazi prison camp is finally being marked with the United States’ highest military honor, the Medal of Honor, more than eight decades after he calmly faced down a German officer’s pistol.

When you consider the hideous nature and intention behind what Mark Kelly and those other traitorous bastards did with that video, and it is a complete debasing of the blessed memory of Roddie Edmonds as well as every other wonderful guy and gal who faithfully served and still serve our nation. And that makes my blood boil.

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Daily Tech News 24 February 2026

Top Story

• Is age verification a trap? Yes. (IEEE Spectrum)
  
  Online age verification intrinsically damages user privacy, while failing to work in both directions:

  False positives are common. Platforms identify as minors adults with youthful faces, or adults who are sharing family devices, or have otherwise unusual usage. They lock accounts, sometimes for days. False negatives also persist. Teenagers learn quickly how to evade checks by borrowing IDs, cycling accounts, or using VPNs, and posting old Altered Images and Mental As Anything videos to their blogs that they've been running continuously since... 2003.

  Okay, I'm maybe not so young that I need to worry about that problem.

  The appeal process itself creates new privacy risks. Platforms must store biometric data, ID images, and verification logs long enough to defend their decisions to regulators. So if an adult who is tired of submitting selfies to verify their age finally uploads an ID, the system must now secure that stored ID. Each retained record becomes a potential breach target.

  One more quote:

  The age-verification trap is not a glitch. It is what you get when regulators treat age enforcement as mandatory and privacy as optional.

  This is not an accident.
  
  
  
• But how big is the problem really? Surely nobody is out there putting terabytes of age-verification data in unprotected databases accessible to anyone on the internet oh that just happened again. (Tech Radar)
  
  IDMerit, an AI-powered age-verification service, had three billion user records exposed in an unprotected MongoDB database.
  
  Hey, at least they weren't running Elasticsearch.

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Overnight Open Thread [02/23/2026]

One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner now and out of all sound except the distant speaking of the voices I sometimes hear a moment before sleep, that I can never remember whether it snowed for six days and six nights when I was twelve or whether it snowed for twelve days and twelve nights when I was six.

-- Dylan Thomas

To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake it is necessary to stand out in the cold.

-- Aristotle

Yeah, that's a classical quotation because I couldn't find one about a snow hat!

Winter is a grand season, and the inconvenience of a foot or so of snow on the ground is dwarfed by its beauty. Yes, it's my favorite season, and why I will never live in the south, no matter how wonderful a place it is!

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Capybara Crash-Up Cafe

Have a nice day

Pupper waits for his young master to come home.

Monday came crashing in.

Owl wants to fix his friend's doo.

Old but funny: Dog loses at two-cup Monty and wants to change his mid.

Cat enjoys using his cat-toy to entertain the dog.

Meanwhile, this dog enjoys the cat-tree.

Dog helps his friend pass a fallen tree.

Lascivious kitten is suddenly overcome by modesty.

A methodical way to take the stairs.

On the other hand, there's the YOLO method.

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Quick Hits

LOL: Close friend of both Jeffrey Epstein and Queer Starmer, "Prince of Darkness" Peter Mandelson, has been arrested on suspicion of "public misconduct." This is almost certainly regarding his passing of confidential government information about the UK preparing to bail out the British banks to Epstein, who no doubt used that information for profit.

And it probably includes the payments of over $90,000 Epstein made to Mandelson and his husband. What was that money for?

British police on Monday arrested Peter Mandelson, a former U.K. ambassador to the United States, in a misconduct probe stemming from his ties to the late Jeffrey Epstein. It came days after a friendship with Epstein landed the former Prince Andrew in police custody.

Both men are suspected of improperly passing U.K. government information to the disgraced U.S. financier, and the high-profile British arrests are some of the most dramatic fallout from the trove of more than 3 million pages of Epstein-related documents released last month by the U.S. Justice Department.

In his dissent to Friday's tariff decision, Clarence Thomas ripped the anti-law majority.

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas ripped the court's decision blocking President Donald Trump's use of an emergency law to impose sweeping tariffs on trading partners, calling it a fundamental misread of both the governing statute and the Constitution's separation of powers.

"As (Kavanaugh) explains, the Court's decision ... cannot be justified as a matter of statutory interpretation. Congress authorized the President to 'regulate ... importation,'" Thomas wrote in his dissent. "Throughout American history, the authority to 'regulate importation' has been understood to include the authority to impose duties on imports."

The court invalidated Trump's use of an emergency law to impose tariffs in a 6--3 decision Friday morning after weeks of Trump championing that the court should rule in his favor as part of his larger effort to boost the economy, jobs and bring down costs for Americans. Thomas and Justice Samuel Alito joined Justice Brett Kavanaugh in dissenting from the ruling, with Thomas also offering his own separate dissent.

The majority of the court ruled Friday that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act does not authorize the president, even after declaring a national emergency, to impose tariffs -- and that Congress did not speak clearly enough to transfer its tariff-and-tax power to the executive branch.

The International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) is a 1977 law that allows the president, after declaring a national emergency in response to foreign threats, to regulate or block certain economic transactions and property interests, such as by imposing sanctions.

"The president asserts the extraordinary power to unilaterally impose tariffs of unlimited amount, duration, and scope," Supreme Court Justice John Roberts wrote for the court. "In light of the breadth, history, and constitutional context of that asserted authority, he must identify clear congressional authorization to exercise it."

In his dissent, Thomas argued that nondelegation doctrine is a narrow constraint, saying a line is crossed only when Congress delegates "core" power to make rules triggering deprivations of "life, liberty, or property" -- not "from delegating other kinds of power," such as tariffs.

The nondelegation doctrine forbids Congress from delegating core legislative power to the president.

Alarmingly, the Court's two most reliable conservative justices may retire this summer.

At least so Josh Hammer speculates:

Justice Samuel Alito is 75 years old -- and will be 76 by the end of this term. Justice Clarence Thomas is 77 years old -- and will be 78 by term's end. Alito just celebrated 20 years of service on the high court, and Thomas would mark 35 years of service this October -- nice round numbers. Alito has a forthcoming book set for release this October, around the start of the next Supreme Court term. That isn't anywhere near dispositive -- Justice Amy Coney Barrett published a book last September, and Justice Neil Gorsuch has released two books since he was confirmed to the court in 2017 -- but it has certainly fed speculation.

Thomas and Alito are, by some order of magnitude, the two most principled conservative justices currently sitting on the high court. It stands to reason that they would like to be replaced by ideological fellow travelers -- something that likely requires a likeminded president and a likeminded U.S. Senate majority. As the late Justice Antonin Scalia, who was very much an ideological fellow traveler, told Chris Wallace in a 2012 interview, "I would not like to be replaced by someone who immediately sets about undoing what I've tried to do for 25-26 years. I mean, I shouldn't have to tell you that, unless you think I'm a fool."

It's better that these old guys retire when the Senate is safely in Republican hands.

But I have no earthly idea where Trump will find their equal. So far he's appointed one libertarian (Gorsuch), one soft-handed establishment RINO (Kavanaugh), and one flaky AWFUL (Coney-Barrett).

Judge Aileen Cannon has barred the fake Special Counsel Jack Smith from releasing his fake report on the fake classified documents scandal, because he's not a duly authorized special counsel and has no right or power to issue reports.

She points out that it is wrongful for a "prosecutor" who was unable to obtain any indictments to release a report smearing the very people he was unable to indict.

A federal judge on Monday permanently barred the release of special counsel Jack Smith's investigation into President Donald Trump's hoarding of classified documents that led to charges once seen as the most perilous of the four criminal cases the Republican faced.

U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, who was nominated to the bench by Trump, granted a request from the president to keep under wraps the report on an investigation alleging Trump stored sensitive documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate after he left the White House following his first term and obstructed government efforts to get them back.

Smith and his team produced a two-volume report on the classified documents investigation and a separate probe into Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election after he lost to Joe Biden. Both investigations produced indictments that were abandoned by Smith's team after Trump's November 2024 election win in light of longstanding Justice Department legal opinions that say sitting presidents cannot face federal prosecution.

Attorney General Pam Bondi had already determined that the report was "an internal deliberative communication that is privileged and confidential and should not be released" outside the Justice Department, according to court papers. The Trump administration has characterized Smith's investigation as politically motivated and said in recent court papers that the report belongs in the "dustbin of history."

Cannon's order, however, blocking the release also applies to Bondi's successors at the Justice Department. Cannon, who in 2024 dismissed the case after concluding that Smith was unlawfully appointed after multiple other favorable rulings for Trump, said the release of the report would present a "manifest injustice" to the president and his two co-defendants.

"Special Counsel Smith, acting without lawful authority, obtained an indictment in this action and initiated proceedings that resulted in a final order of dismissal of all charges," she wrote. "As a result, the former defendants in this case, like any other defendant in this situation, still enjoy the presumption of innocence held sacrosanct in our constitutional order."

What AP hides from you, but Julie Kelly reports, is that Jack Smith continued ignoring Aileen Cannon's ruling that he was not a duly appointed special counsel and kept using his non-existent authority to subpoena documents -- and write this report!

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I am certain Judge Cannon's legitimate and provable allegations that Special Counsel Jack Smith and his team repeatedly violated her court order dismissing the documents case in July 2024 after finding Smith had been unconstitutionally appointed with get NONE of the same coverage as phony, baseless accusations of Trump DOJ violating court orders.

As I noted in the Halligan dismissal order and threats by at least one judge to hold her in contempt for continuing to sign her name as "US Attorney" in court filings, Jack Smith continued to represent himself as "Special Counsel Jack Smith" for MONTHS after Cannon removed him as special counsel in the documents case.

She called him out again today in an order prohibiting the release of Smith's "report" on the docs investigation, which Smith prepared after he was disqualified. Smith used discovery in the dismissed case to prepare the report and, along with AG Garland, tried to publish the document before Trump was inaugurated. (Cannon denied that stunt as well.)

Cannon: "Despite the Court's holding in July 2024 that 'the actions of Special Counsel Smith in connection with this proceeding must be set aside' due to his unconstitutional appointment Special Counsel Smith and his team went ahead for months, undeterred, preparing Volume II using discovery collected in connection with this proceeding and expending government funds in the process. Defendants learned of this continued work in December 2024 through media reports and then timely raised their objections to Special Counsel Smith--but he continued unabated, offering defendants only the courtesy of brief review under strict conditions, including forced deletion of discovery materials in the custody of the defense."

She continued. "To say this chronology represents, at a minimum, a concerning breach of the spirit of the Dismissal Order is an understatement, IF NOT AN OUTRIGHT VIOLATION OF IT." (Emphasis added.)

So will the media offer the same level of performative outrage about Smith's ACTUAL contempt of court conduct for MONTHS that it has offered on a near-daily basis about baseless allegations Trump DOJ prosecutors are intentionally defying court orders?

Hm, maybe we do have someone to replace Alito or Thomas with. Though the faggy RINO Senators would of course balk. They want someone with a better pedigree who will reliably vote in favor of the leftwing Regime.

Mamdani prayed at a mosque which just so happens to be a front for Iran. After Mamdani's prayer, the imam called for the murders of all infidels.

Can you feel the Diversity Strengthening you?

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Drew Holden: Leftwing Media "Analysts" Are Baffled by the "Mysterious" One-Year Plunge in Crime.
Spoiler: It's Only a Mystery to Propagandists Who Won't Admit the Obvious

How did crime plunge so suddenly -- so "unexpectedly," if you will -- the moment Weekend at Biden's was shuffled out of the White House to be replaced by a law-and-order, deportation-minded president?

The leftwing media insists this is a giant mystery whose depths cannot be plumbed.

They're lying, Drew Holden reports.

Crime--particularly violent crime--is down dramatically over the last year. Cities like New York, Memphis, and Washington, D.C. where murders, carjacking, and theft plagued the public in the wake of COVID-19, were all found to have experienced double-digit decreases in violent crime. Experts, the legacy media, and many Democrats are scratching their heads. As a recent New York Times headline declared, "What's Behind the Staggering Drop in the Murder Rate? No One Knows for Sure."

Other outlets and commentators have been similarly befuddled. New York Magazine dubbed it "The Mysterious Plunge in America's Murder Rate." Experts "said it's too early to tell what is prompting the change," the Associated Press intoned; the Washington Post cited a liberal expert who cautioned that there was "no silver bullet" to make sense of the data. For TIME, the drop in violent crime "can be attributed to a kaleidoscope of factors, none of which can singularly or definitively account for the decline." CNN shrugged that "it's nearly impossible to zero in on any one reason" for the drop. "The bottom line: Experts aren't sure why violent crime continues to fall," Axios reported

Not until 21 paragraphs into the Times piece do the authors give us a hint about how it happened: experts "do not wholly discount" policing, particularly "the multipronged effort that many cities mounted against violence in the past few years, including hot-spot policing, summer jobs for youth, cognitive behavioral therapy and focused deterrence, an approach that calls for paying sustained attention to the small number of people at highest risk of committing violence."

In other words, violent crime is in freefall across the country thanks in large part to better, more targeted policing aimed at restoring law and order. The biggest threat to our renewed ability to combat crime might be a legacy media hamstrung by the baggage of prior anti-police animus.

Holden looks at the bright white evidence that apparently blinds the media from seeing the clues:

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The Democratic mayor of Memphis, Tennessee--long among the most violent places in America--welcomed a federal task force to the city in September. Federal agents provided additional capacity for local and state law enforcement to bring the necessary force to bear to combat crime. As even the New York Times admitted, "to date, the task force has made more than 6,300 arrests, conducted more than 68,000 traffic stops and recovered 1,532 firearms... crime rates, which had already been declining, have dropped even more since Oct. 1: Murder and sexual assault are down nearly 42 percent, while aggravated assault is down about 35 percent."

Similarly, Baltimore, Maryland, saw a 50-year low in murders in 2025. City officials credit federal support, more aggressive hiring efforts, and a focus on arresting repeat violent criminal offenders as a key source of the decline.

Read the whole thing. In case after case, crime is down because, get this, cops started enforcing the law, usually with federal help.

Relatedly: The Somali pirates who fleeced this country for billions and billions of stolen booty are angry that their piracy has been slowed and are demanding... reparations.

Brandon Straka #WalkAway
@BrandonStraka

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SOMALI FRAUD: Somali migrants in Minnesota are demanding reparations over alleged trauma from law enforcement actions. After $10B in fraud, now they want more.

Tosca Austen
@ToscaAusten

Feb 20

You've got to be joking!

Somalis in MN are demanding reparations for "ICE trauma" while 81% of their households are sucking up government welfare?

So here we are. We give them a new life, handouts galore--food stamps (54%), Medicaid (73%), cash welfare (27%)--and now they want MORE from hardworking Americans?

Americans should demand reparation for the taxpayer dollars that were stolen from welfare and SNAP schemes.

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Donkey-Chompers: If You Thought My Shocking 21-Second Brain Glitch Followed by Drunk Kamala-Level Word Salad Made Me Look Stupid, Maybe The Real Problem Is With Your Stupid Brain, Stupid

She says you're just so used to Trump firing off quick answers, almost as if he's thought about the questions before and so has a firm answer already in mind, that you just can't appreciate a World Class Mind such as hers taking 21 painful seconds to "um" and "uh" and "err" and "uhhh" her way before delivering an "answer" that sounds suspiciously like a stoner trying to bluff her way through an oral report about a book she never even checked out of the library.

If you need to review her attempt to show she's ready to be president, check out Gutfeld's recap.

She does not explain why she thinks that cowboys existed before horses, or what philosophical Imponderable she was attempting to conjure when she said that Venezuela was south of the equator.

Here's what Flake Titicaca said:

In the video, an emotional AOC, appearing to hold back tears, pushed back against critics who saw her faceplant in Munich, convinced she has no idea what she's talking about. Her defense? It's not her, it's you, who's the problem. "If you think that I don't understand foreign policy because out of hours of discourse about international affairs, I paused to think about one of the most sensitive geopolitical issues that currently exist on Earth, I'm afraid the issue is not my understanding, but rather the problem is perhaps you've gotten adjusted to a president that never thinks before he speaks."

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After Killing of Top Narcoterrorist In Military Raid, Cartels Engage In Widespread Violence and Arson Across Mexico

Mexican police, with the assistance of US intelligence, killed a narcoterrorist during a raid.

They drug terrorists retaliated by killing a mayor and setting Mexico ablaze.

Major drug lord 'El Mencho' killed in Mexican military operation with US intelligence support

Nemesio Oseguera's death triggers widespread cartel violence across Mexico as armed groups block highways and burn vehicles

Cartel leader's death sparks violence in Mexico, US embassy issues shelter-in-place order

Major Mexican drug lord Nemesio Oseguera, known as "El Mencho," was killed in a military operation Sunday morning, the country's Defense Department announced, marking one of Mexico's most significant blows to organized crime amid pressure from President Donald Trump to intensify the crackdown on drug cartels.

The announcement came as government officials warned of clashes in Jalisco state and widespread criminal activity across the country, prompting the U.S. Embassy in Mexico to issue shelter-in-place advisories for multiple states.

On Sunday, Mexican troops reportedly conducted operations in Tapalpa, Jalisco, targeting Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes, a former police officer who became the elusive leader of the Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG), a major supplier of fentanyl to the United States.

Known as "El Mencho," Oseguera Cervantes carried a $15 million U.S. bounty and rose to power following the arrest of Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, the former head of the Sinaloa Cartel. Over the past 15 years, CJNG has grown from a local criminal group into a global trafficking organization operating out of its stronghold in Jalisco.

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The Mexican Defense Department said the operation was conducted as part of bilateral coordination and cooperation with the U.S., whose authorities provided complementary intelligence that contributed to Oseguera Cervantes' capture.

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During the capture, the CJNG ringleader became wounded and died en route to Mexico City, the Defense Department said.

Four others were reportedly killed at the scene of a shootout between Mexican troops and criminal suspects in Jalisco, with Oseguera Cervantes among three additional individuals who were wounded and later died.

Authorities said they detained two other members of the criminal organization and seized a range of weaponry, including armored vehicles and "rocket launchers capable of downing aircraft and destroying armored vehicles."

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Widespread criminal activity has been reported in Jalisco, the cartel's stronghold, as well as in northern regions that serve as key border and transit corridors for the organization.

The Security Cabinet of the Government of Mexico noted that multiple buildings were reportedly damaged during the "violent incidents," including roughly 20 branches of Banco del Bienestar, a state-run banking institution.

At least 21 highways remain blocked, with authorities reporting that five have already been reopened.

Photos showed numerous roadblocks and burning vehicles, with dark smoke rising into the sky, across the country -- tactics officials say cartels often use to slow or block military operations.

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"We remain in Code Red. We reiterate the recommendation to avoid leaving your homes. The clashes are occurring in several federal entities," Jalisco state Governor Pablo Lemus Navarro added.

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The operation against Oseguera follows sustained pressure from the Trump administration on President Claudia Sheinbaum's government, urging Mexico to step up its fight against drug trafficking amid threats of potential U.S. intervention.

"There is absolute coordination with the governments of all states; we must remain informed and calm," Sheinbaum said on Sunday. "In the vast majority of the national territory, activities are proceeding with complete normality."

The president of Mexico was installed into office by the narcoterrorists. She is both an extreme leftist, an open borders (with the US) extremist, and a catspaw of the cartels.

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Cartel violence is being allowed in Mexico because President Claudia Sheinbaum works for the Cartel

A Senator from Mexico went on Fox News and exposed it all

* The President of Mexico works for the Cartels
* She was funded by money from the cartels
* It's not just the President, there are an entire group of Mexico politicians labeled the "arco politicians"
* Mexico is a "Narco state"
* Mexicans are afraid of the alliance between the Mexican government and the cartels
* The Morena (political party) is financed by the cartels, that's how they get elected
* Once they get elected the deal is for the Mexican government to then protect the cartels
* The President of Mexico Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo doesn't want this information getting out
* Mexicans and the Politicians who are no paid off by the cartels want Donald Trump to help with the cartels

The Mexico Senator exposing all this says she is now being threatened with prison for speaking out "The President has threatened me to proceed against me with criminal prosecution to get me out of the Senate and get me in jail just because I told you in this space in Fox News"

And now the assassination of Uruapan Mayor Carlos Manzo, an own cartel critic...

The cartel runs the Mexican government

She says that she will not join America in taking action against the cartels burning Mexico to the ground because drug terrorists have "human rights."

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Mamdani Calls Upon New Yorkers to Do the Jobs the Government Just Can't Do -- Shoveling Snow;
He Says All Applicants Must Show ID Before Shoveling Snow

Wait, is he saying that black and brown people aren't allowed to shovel snow? And married women?

Because I have been repeatedly told that black and brown people (and married women) don't have ID and don't know how to get ID.

Should we crowdfund an employment discrimination campaign against NYC?

Mamdani is begging for cheap labor to shovel snow because his Theater Kid Incompetence was revealed when he allowed the late January snow to stick around in huge four-foot piles of snow, garbage, and rat feces for a month.

But he says you need to bring ID.

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Breaking:

Zohran Mamdani can't afford any more city employees so he's giving citizens the " Opportunity " To work for half the city worker rate and without the benefits. But only if they bring 3 forms of ID. You need that to shovel snow. Just not to vote.

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Yet Another Would-Be Trump Assassin, Programmed to Kill By the Traitor Left

As you certainly know, a 21-year-old lunatic from NC snuck into Mar-a-Lago by jumping on the back of a truck that had been cleared to pass through the gate. He carried a shotgun and a can of gasoline.

Unknown to this loser -- but easily discoverable by anyone with a sane mind -- Trump was not at Mar-a-Lago over the weekend, but at the White House doing events.

Secret Service and security demanded the man drop the gun and the gas. He dropped the gas, but then raised the shotgun to his shoulder, preparing to fire.

He was killed.

But he was programmed to kill by Democrats' (and Thomas Massie's and MTG's) insane conspiracy theories that Donald Trump is a Secret Epstein Pedo.

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Gavin Newsom to Black Democrats: I'm Like You, I'm Low IQ and I Can't Read

That's one way to ingratiate yourself to an audience.

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THE MORNING RANT: Musings on the Door Dash Lifestyle; Dave Barry Takes a Waymo Ride

I may not understand the “Door Dash Lifestyle,” and I certainly don’t live it, but it’s still fascinating to me. On the one hand I am horrified at the Door Dash business model and its use of illegal, off-the-books labor. At the same time, I am mystified at its customers’ spending habits, especially when we hear of the financial squeeze those same consumers are under in regards to housing, inflation, etc. From DoorDash’s own website, half of its customers have household income below $75,000 per year, and 33% of its customers are in households with income below $50,000.

So, today’s post has a few quick items related to the Door Dash / food delivery industry, including a little bit of humor. But first, here is a link to my initial Door Dash piece from three months ago titled “Behind the Restaurant Meal Delivery Industry, there is a Black Market Exploiting Illegal Foreign Labor.” In it I documented that, “If you are having restaurant food ‘dashed’ to your residence, there is a very good chance that the person delivering your meal is part of a black market of non-citizen labor, illegally subcontracted by the actual ‘independent contractor’ of Door Dash, Uber Eats, and the like.”

Meanwhile, a new revenue source other than food delivery has opened up for DoorDash drivers: “Waymo Is Paying DoorDash Gig Workers to Close its Robotaxi Doors” [CNBC – 02/12/2026]

Waymo’s cars are driven without humans. But when a departing passenger leaves a door open, the car won’t move until a person closes it. For that task, Waymo is turning to gig workers from companies like DoorDash.

The [Google]-owned self-driving car company confirmed on Thursday that it’s running a pilot in Atlanta to compensate delivery drivers for closing Waymo doors that are left ajar. DoorDash drivers are notified when a Waymo in the area has an open door so the vehicles can quickly get back on the road.

Chris Bakke sees a humorous way for DoorDash to lean in to this new revenue stream, stating that “If I ran growth at Doordash, I would pay Doordashers $5 to open doors on random Waymos so that Waymo has to hire our Dashers to close them for $6.25.” Per the Reddit post below, Waymo is actually paying DoorDashers $11.25 to close doors.

If I ran growth at Doordash, I would pay Doordashers $5 to open doors on random Waymos so that Waymo has to hire our Dashers to close them for $6.25. https://t.co/BvclHW6PN1

— Chris Bakke (@ChrisJBakke) February 13, 2026

Irrespective of the door-closing opportunity, the demand for “dashed” food is growing: “DoorDash sees strong quarterly growth in sales and orders but warns of big costs” [Seattle Times – 2/18/2026]

DoorDash said Wednesday its revenue rose 38% in the fourth quarter as it gained new U.S. customers and added new services like restaurant reservations.

DoorDash just reported its largest jump in orders ever.

Total Orders: 903M, +32% YoY$DASH pic.twitter.com/VQ4KE87XET

— Fiscal.ai (@fiscal_ai) February 18, 2026

As inexplicable as it is to me why someone would want cold restaurant food delivered for twice the price of eating at the restaurant, or picking it up myself, I did read an explanation on “The DoorDash Lifestyle” from someone named “SightBringer” on Twitter/X that helps me see it in a different light:

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

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The Morning Report — 2/23/26

Good morning kids. Well, as a major Nor'easter is set to pummel the east coast with a massive winter storm, the likes of which we've not had in years, NYC's Muz-unist mayor Mamdani has an opportunity to solve the city's homeless crisis by moving all of them to the middle of the Central Park lake, and providing each with a sheet of used toilet paper, i.e. the front page of the NY Times and voila, no more homeless faster than you can say Gulag Archipelago! In all seriousness, if you are in the path of the storm, please stay safe at home, stock up on food and other essentials ahead of time and and stay off the roads if at all possible.

And speaking of bomb cyclnes, a real killer-diller has erupted south of the border. . .

Americans are being asked by the State Department to remain sheltered in place in parts of Mexico due to civil unrest following the successful killing of Jalisco New Generation Cartel leader Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes on Sunday.

Cervantes was killed by the Mexican army with “complementary information” provided by the United States, The Daily Wire reported.

The State Department’s travel alert specifically notes that Americans in the Mexican states of Jalisco, Baja California, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Michoacán, Oaxaca, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas and Quintana Roo State “should shelter in place until further notice.” The states contain major tourism hubs such as Puerto Vallarta, Guadalajara, Cancún, as well as Playa del Carmen and Tulum, among other major cities. “Due to ongoing, widespread security operations and related road blockages and criminal activity in many areas of Mexico, U.S. citizens should shelter in place until further notice,” the U.S. Department of State Consular Affairs posted to X on Sunday afternoon.

¡Hay chihuahua! Literally.

And elsewhere in the world, with Iran on the brink internally, there is still the potential that President Trump might order airstrikes or other military operations against the Iranian regime to help bring about its long overdue demise. The question of should we or shouldn't we and the consequences domestically and internationally, both long- and short-term are of course debatable.

With that said, despite making some cogent points that I happen to agree with, the author gets otherwise completely lost in a sea of isolationist idiocy.

The United States government (USG) should not go to war with Iran. Iran’s nuclear program is not a meaningful threat to the United States. How Iran is governed, how its government treats its people, and who the Iranians trade with is none of our business.

A genuinely America First strategy toward Iran would mean ignoring the country and the Middle East as a whole. The United States government has no core interests on the Asian landmass.

The USG should lift all trade sanctions on the Iranian regime, grant diplomatic recognition to whatever regime is currently in power there, and cease efforts to regulate or manage the Iranian nuclear program. Iran’s conflicts with Israel and the Arab states are not our problem.

Regarding the Middle East more broadly, the USG should shut down all of our bases and cut off all flows of foreign aid to the region. I mean this literally: no military aid to the Israelis, Jordanians, Egyptians, etc., and no humanitarian aid to the Palestinians. American officials should avoid giving any sign of favoritism to any nation, people group, or religious minority in the area.

The abject cluelessness as to the nature of the Iranian regime post the Shah and its driving force, ISLAM, for the past 1,500 years is absolutely radiant. The Jordanians, Egyptians and so-called "Palestinians" are one thing to be sure. But Israel, not only our one true ally in the region but aside from us the one remaining keeper of the flame of Western civilization and the advancement of humanity left in the world. Yes, whatever money in the form of aid that goes to Israel should be regulated and accounted for and dispensed responsibly, but the dividends to our national security are well-known and manifold as history has proven. The record is clear on that.

And as I and CBD have made clear on many a recent podcast (the latest episode linked here and in the sidebar as well as available on the usual outlets listed below). it is clearly up to the Iranian/Persian people to take matters into their own hands and take the lead in deposing their oppressors. If the US can help in that goal minus troops on the ground or the failed democracy projects of the past then we should be as minimally involved as we can. And no we should not recognize another Islamo-fascistic government should it God-forbid come to power.

Shifting gears completely, we have the Supreme Court striking down President Trump's tariff regime in a blatantly political decision. Legal eagle extraordinaire Alan Dershowitz noted:

“I thought that the lawyers for Trump made the wrong argument to the Supreme Court, and I predicted they were going to lose based on their argument. Look, if you argue that it’s fundraising activity by Congress, of course you’re going to lose,” Dershowitz said. “This, the Article One of the Constitution, says that duties and taxes can be imposed only by Congress, and Congress can delegate that authority to the president.”

“But if you argue that tariffs can be a weapon of foreign policy, a weapon of diplomacy, a weapon of preventing war, then it’s an Article II power of the president, and Congress has no power to limit it. And so I think what the president has said in his press conferences today is that we may have gone under the wrong statute, and maybe we have no power under that statute,” Dershowitz added. “But I want to prevent a war with Iran, and so I’m going to impose a very very steep sanction on Iran, not to raise money but to stop a war. I’m gonna have a big, big, big tariff on, who knows, in order to make sure that they comply with the foreign policy of the United States. Turn this into an Article II, not an Article I, function.”

Dershowitz said the president could still use tariffs as a foreign policy tool, within constitutional limits.

Funny how Roberts could rewrite the Obamacare individual mandate and declare it kosher, but is otherwise ignorant of Dershowitz's salient point regarding the wrong argument and take his red pen to make Trump's tariffs kosher too. Heaven forfend.

Bastard.

Lastly, congratulations to the US olympic hockey team for winning the gold medal in what by all accounts was a thrilling match against Canada. Not a fan of hockey in the first place and for sure I have not been interested in the Olympics perhaps since I was a kid. I think the last time I watched the games was the actual "Miracle On Ice" victories of 1980!

Have a great day.

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS
• Millions of Americans across the Interstate 95 corridor throughout the Northeast are getting prepared to be heavily impacted by a potent nor’easter bomb cyclone that will generate large amounts of snow in a strong portion of the region beginning Sunday.
  Potent Nor’easter Bomb Cyclone To Blast Northeast With Largest Snowstorm In Years

• Our discussion, in media and in law, has been about Trump’s excesses and boundary-crossing. A better starting place would be the laziness and uselessness of the Article I branch.
  America Slides Into A Congress-Shaped Hole, And Gorsuch Helps

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Daily Tech News 23 February 2026

Top Story

• The US spent $30 billion giving every schoolchild a laptop or tablet. It made them dumber. (Yahoo)
  
  And particularly less capable to maintain attention to the task at hand.
  
  How do we solve this?
  
  I don't know, I got distracted and stopped reading at that point.
  
  
  

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Sunday Overnight Open Thread - February 22, 2026 [Doof]

Howdy Hordelings! Welcome to the Sunday ONT.

What a day for the USA!

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Gun Thread: Fourth February Edition!

Howdy, Y'all! Welcome to the wondrously fabulous Gun Thread! As always, I want to thank all of our regulars for being here week in and week out, and also offer a bigly Gun Thread welcome to any newcomers who may be joining us tonight. Howdy and thank you for stopping by! I hope you find our wacky conversation on the subject of guns 'n shooting both enjoyable and informative. You are always welcome to lurk in the shadows of shame, but I'd like to invite you to jump into the conversation, say howdy, and tell us what kind of shooting you like to do!

Holy Shitballs! How in the ever-loving Hell did it get to be the fourth February edition? Coming soon; March editions!!

I finished my taxes this week so I'm in a bad mood. Don't talk to me!

With that, step into the dojo and let's get to the gun stuff below, shall we?

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Food Thread: Snow-Roasted Pulled Pork!

Pork Butt has become oddly scarce around here, and even more irritatingly, relatively expensive. You damned hipsters ruin everything!

I found a very nice one at a local market, and as my one consideration to the impending weather catastrophe of biblical proportions ($50 says I get one foot of snow...not the two+ feet forecasted), I am making slow-roasted pulled pork.

If you look closely you will see a piece of parchment paper on the rack, which supposedly will keep the pork butt from sinking into the rack and making more of a mess. I have never tried it, so we shall see!

As for spices? Eh...I'm winging it. Salt, pepper, Mexican Oregano, paprika, some chile powder, garlic, and probably some other stuff I have forgotten. But it smells great, and I am looking forward to a large portion of it with some beans and cornbread as a reward for snow-blowing the 93 feet that the hysterics are predicting.

By the way, this will be an abbreviated Food Thread, because I was watching a hockey game this morning instead of writing it!

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