11 Arrested in Antifa Lynching Murder of Young Man Protecting Women from Muslim Thugs;
One of the Killers is Legislative Aide to Far-Left Member of French Assembly

As you might know, a college student named Quentin Deranque was lynched on the street by a gang of antifa-associated far left terrorists. He was kicked to death.

This young man was committing no offense. He wasn't even technically protesting. Rather, he was protecting a female protest group named "Nemesis Collective" which protests the many rapes committed by Muslim migrants.

Why was he protecting him? Because these women are frequently attacked on the street by Muslim migrants. The left-wing establishment claims it wants to protect women from violence and rape... unless that violence and rape is being perpetrated by their Muslim allies. Then it's the girls being attacked who are the "dangerous" ones.

That's foreshadowing. Wait until later. Prepare for what should be a shock but unfortunately won't be.

For this "extremist" act of protecting young girls from being assaulted by angry foreigners, the press insists on calling him a "far right extremist." Murdoch's NY Post, quoted below, calls him a "far right militant."

Really, Murdoch? Protecting girls from foreign hordes of assailants and molesters makes you a "far right militant"?

The Post is probably just posting an AP or AFI story but you do know you're allowed to edit their vicious propaganda, right?

At least some of these thugs are now being arrested.

French police investigating the beating of a far-right militant who died of brain injuries have arrested 11 people, prosecutors said Wednesday, in a case adding fuel to long-standing divides in French politics ahead of presidential elections in 2027.

Quentin Deranque, a 23-year-old student described as a fervent nationalist, died in a hospital on Saturday.

He was beaten two days earlier by a group of people in the city of Lyon, in fighting that erupted between far-left and far-right supporters on the margins of a student meeting where a far-left lawmaker, Rima Hassan, was a keynote speaker.

He's a "far right militant," but the people who kicked him to death are identified as (checks article) "people."

Oh, and "fighting broke out." Who knows who was responsible. Probably the people who kicked this man to death, but who can say, really?

An autopsy found that Deranque suffered a fractured skull and fatal brain injuries, according to Lyon's prosecutor, Thierry Dran.

He launched the police investigation for homicide and other potential criminal charges.

Dran's office said police detained a man and a woman on Wednesday morning, with nine other people taken into custody on Tuesday night.

...

Deranque's death triggered a storm of recriminations, mostly targeting France Unbowed.

The party is led by veteran hard-left firebrand Jean-Luc Mélenchon, a former Trotskyist who stood for the presidency in 2012, 2017 and 2022 and failed to advance to the decisive run-off round.

Just so you know, you'll see references to LFI. LFI is what is being called "France Unbowed." The French for that is Le France Insoumise. That's the left-wing coalition that perpetrated these murders and is defending the murderers.

So, is it this LFI/France Unbowed who is directly responsible for the street assassination of a boy who conveniently stood in the way of Muslim migrants determined to beat up French girls?

Well... one of the killers is a parliamentary aide to an LFI assembly member.

The first wave of arrests was announced late on Tuesday, as Dran said nine suspects had been arrested. Those detained included people who were suspected of having participated in the violence and others who had provided support to them, sources told Agence France-Presse.

Hours later, two more suspects were arrested: a man who the prosecutor said was suspected of being directly linked to the violence as well as his partner, who was suspected of trying to help him evade justice.

The LFI politician Raphaël Arnault confirmed that his parliamentary assistant was among those detained, adding the aide had "ceased all parliamentary work".

On Wednesday, as news of the arrests spread, the LFI said it had been forced to evacuate its national headquarters. "The national headquarters of LFI have just been evacuated following a bomb threat," the party's coordinator, Manuel Bompard, said on social media. "Police services are on site. All employees and activists are safe."

Oh, get f***ed. Standard issue left-wing hoax. The left gets in trouble, and then starts calling in bomb threats on themselves to elicit sympathy.

Remember what I said about the 100-pound girls being the "dangerous" ones?

In response to his party's antifa thugs kicking a man to death in broad daylight for the crime of protecting young girls from violent foreign ruffians, Melanchon is calling for, if you can believe it, the dissolution and banning of Nemesis Collective, calling these young girls "dangerous."

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One of Epstein's Recruiters Decided to Inform On Him to the Police, and Epstein Schemed to Give Him a $3 Million Bribe to Keep Quiet;
He Discussed the Plan with Obama WH Counsel and Friend of Jeff Kathyrine Ruemmler

WSJ:

The Accomplice Who Was Going to Testify Against Jeffrey Epstein--Then Went Dark

French model scout Jean-Luc Brunel was negotiating to provide prosecutors with evidence against the sex offender in 2016--three years before he was finally arrested--but ultimately backed out

Jean-Luc Brunel was ready to turn on the man who had been his patron and partner. The French modeling scout was prepared to tell prosecutors what he knew about Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking.

Brunel was secretly negotiating in 2016 with lawyers representing Epstein's victims, according to newly released Justice Department files. Brunel's lawyer told them his client recruited girls for Epstein and had incriminating photographs. They discussed a date for Brunel to walk into the U.S. Attorney's office in New York--in exchange for immunity.

"One of Epstein's bfs, Jean Luc Brunel, has helped get girls. He is wanting to cooperate," according to handwritten notes taken by a federal prosecutor in February 2016. "Brunel is afraid of being prosecuted."

And then Brunel went dark.

That's as much of the paywalled story that I can see, but the reporter posts this summary on X:

Khadeeja Safdar
@khadeeja_safdar

NEW: In 2016, Jean-Luc Brunel was discussing a date to walk into the U.S. Attorney's office in New York to provide evidence against Jeffrey Epstein--in exchange for immunity. On May 3, Epstein fired off an email to Kathy Ruemmler. He wrote that Brunel was planning to go to prosecutors the following week and one of Brunel's friends had "asked for 3 million dollars so that Jean Luc would not go in."

Hans Mahncke
@HansMahncke

This is pretty astonishing. When Jean-Luc Brunel, who ran Epstein's "modeling agency," was about to get an immunity deal to spill the beans on the operation, hush money negotiations began. The first person Epstein turned to for advice was Kathryn Ruemmler, a key member of Obama's inner circle. In the end, Brunel never testified.

I have no idea whether Ruemmler actually pulled any strings, but the fact that Epstein felt comfortable putting this in writing to her (while she responded by insisting on a phone call), speaks volumes about the level of trust, access and influence he enjoyed.

Also, Ruemmler tipped off Epstein about an investigation into a prostitution scandal -- something that would be of major interest to Epstein.

Note this Bloomberg article's headline refers to Ruemmler as "Goldman lawyer" rather than Obama's White House Council, which is far more relevant, because that's how she came into possession of this confidential information.

Kathryn Ruemmler corresponded with Jeffrey Epstein about a prostitution scandal that engulfed the US Secret Service during her tenure as White House counsel under former President Barack Obama.

Ruemmler forwarded to Epstein a draft email that contained detailed, nonpublic information about the behind-the-scenes role the White House Counsel's office played in investigating the 2012 prostitution scandal.

Ruemmler resigned as the chief legal officer and general counsel of Goldman Sachs after the emails with Epstein were released and publicized, with her spokeswoman saying she "has done nothing wrong and has nothing to hide" and that she has "deep sympathy for those harmed by Epstein".

Kathryn Ruemmler, who resigned last week as the top lawyer at Goldman Sachs Group Inc., corresponded with Jeffrey Epstein about a prostitution scandal that engulfed the US Secret Service during her tenure as White House counsel under former President Barack Obama.

In a dozen or so exchanges that were sent months after Ruemmler left her White House position in 2014, she complained to Epstein about "this secret service crap" and forwarded to him a draft email that contained detailed, nonpublic information about the behind-the-scenes role the White House Counsel's office played in investigating the 2012 prostitution scandal.

Although Ruemmler had left the White House, she remained embroiled in the matter as lawmakers and journalists probed her work investigating the scandal. At the time she was under consideration for US attorney general.

Epstein offered advice, as well as what he described as "edits" to the email draft, which Ruemmler indicated she was planning to send to a journalist. "Breathe, smile. You're free," he wrote in one message.

These messages were among hundreds between Ruemmler and Epstein, a set of exchanges that reveals they had a relationship close enough that she accepted gifts from him and referred to him as "Uncle Jeffrey." After this latest batch of emails was released and publicized, Ruemmler resigned last week as the chief legal officer and general counsel of Goldman Sachs. She said June 30 would be her last day.

It's unclear whether Ruemmler accepted any advice on the Secret Service scandal from Epstein, who was already a convicted sex offender at the time. Jennifer Connelly, a spokeswoman for Ruemmler, said the former White House counsel "has done nothing wrong and has nothing to hide. Nothing in the record suggests otherwise."

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LOL: Anderson Pooper's Team Rushes to the Media to Claim He Wasn't Pushed Out, He Quit on Prinzibuhls

Do you believe that CBS was all-set to re-sign Anderson Pooper and in fact make him "the face of 60 Minutes"?

Because, garsh, I sure don't.

But that's the story being peddled, to the NY Post of all places.

The semen-pale propagandist claims that he just didn't like Bari Weiss, CBS News' editor in chief, "inserting" herself into editorial decisions.

Anderson Pooper will do all the inserting, thank you very much.

Anderson Cooper's recent decision not to renew his contract with "60 Minutes" came at the last minute and left execs at the struggling network flat-footed, a source with knowledge of the matter told The Post on Wednesday.

LOL. I imagine they made him a deliberately-insulting offer to induce him to turn them down.

The journo had been poised to become the face of "60 Minutes" under CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss and president Tom Cibrowski, who privately lauded him as an important player at the struggling news network.

Sure sure sure. Who wouldn't want an old, cum-colored no-ratings hack from soon-to-be-bankrupt CNN as the face of your top news magazine?

But Cooper's decision to pull out came as the deal was in its final tages, the source said.

And it's well known that he rarely pulls out.

"They must be pissed," the person said of Weiss and Cibrowski, who'd seen the CNN anchor as a prominent face of "60 Minutes."

For some reason I hear "They must be pissed" in Anderson Pooper's voice.

"They wanted to build the show around him," the source added.

Uh-huh.

The article says that Pooper wants to spend more time "with his two young sons."

Both CBS News and a rep for Cooper declined to comment.

[S]ources said a series of recent decisions by Weiss were what prompted Cooper to end his nearly 20-year run at "60 Minutes."

Those include her revamp of "60 Minutes," which will likely include pushing out veteran correspondents like Scott Pelley and Sharyn Alfonsi, as previously reported by The Post.

Sources also pointed to Weiss' unwillingness to fire wellness contributor Peter Attia over his chummy, eyebrow-raising emails with late financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Recently surfaced emails showed Attia telling Epstein the "biggest problem [about] becoming friends" with him was having to keep quiet about his "outrageous lifestyle" -- in an exchange with the chilling subject line, "Got a fresh shipment."

Raise your hand if you believe that Anderson Pooper is scandalized by an "outrageous lifestyle" or even having sex with underaged people. Now take that hand and slap yourself in the back of the head, you big dummy.

Sources also pointed to Weiss' involvement in the journalism and management of "60 Minutes," which long operated in a silo under its executive producer.

"He doesn't like that she has inserted herself," a CBS source said of Cooper, pointing to Weiss' recent editorial scrutiny of his "60 Minutes" piece on the Trump administration's decision to accept refugees from South Africa.

I have a rule that helps me tell when people are lying: People who tell the truth will tell one story. Similarly, they will also usually offer one, or at most, two reasons for a decision they're making, and stick to those.

When people are lying, they start spamming out a bunch of reasons for a decision because they don't trust their own lie. They don't have the confidence to go with just one dishonest reason, because most liars feel they're on shaky ground when lying, and they're afraid that if they put all their eggs in one basket, that one basket will be interrogated and proven false and then they'll be exposed as a liar. So instead they start flooding the filed with a bunch of different lies, feeling safe that if any of those lies is disproven, they still have five more to fall back on.

So no, I don't believe Anderson Pooper's Aerial Chaff of lies to explain his departure. I believe they either told him they would not renew, or made an embarrassingly low fake offer, and told him "We'll let you say this was all your idea."

I briefly mentioned this in quick hits, but here's a longer article: Jake Tapper is very, very mad that CNN brass have curtailed "journalists'" ability to self-promote, both on their own shows as well as in their social media because they were embarrassed by Tapper turning his show (and Twitter feed) into a never-ending infomercial for his Biden Cover-Up book. (The other article was at the Satanic Daily Beast so I didn't want to link it.)

CNN anchor Jake Tapper is said to be fuming over a new company policy that sharply restricts how on-air talent can promote their own books.

Tapper, who hosts "The Lead" and co-anchors "State of the Union" at the Warner Bros. Discovery--owned network, is "very, very unhappy" with a directive from CNN chief Mark Thompson that prohibits anchors from promoting books beyond publication day, a network journalist told Breaker Media.

The veteran political anchor, who has authored eight books, most recently co-writing a bestseller about President Joe Biden's decline and his disastrous decision to seek reelection, used his CNN platform extensively to promote the title -- a rollout that some colleagues internally described as turning the network into a "rolling infomercial," according to Breaker.

On Feb. 4, CNN updated its standards guide in what Breaker reported was a direct response to Tapper's on-air promotion.

The revised policy states: "We should not mix news and advertising, even when what is being advertised is work by a leading CNN journalist."

Under the new guidelines, anchors may acknowledge publication of a book on its release date if integrated into a journalistic segment -- but they "should not promote it following publication day on their own program."

The policy also bars the use of websites, QR codes or links to drive personal sales and requires CNN authors to meet with members of the executive leadership team to approve any rollout plan tied to CNN platforms.

In addition, all book-related promotion must be reviewed and approved by CNN PR, and no third parties beyond a publisher may be contracted without approval from the head of CNN PR, according to the policy reviewed by Breaker.

Tensions had already been simmering inside the newsroom.

Breaker previously reported that staffers questioned the decision to air anonymously sourced claims from Tapper's book, arguing that limited internal fact-checking of outside works put CNN in an awkward position.

I like that this sissy did what girls do and got a group of his Beties together to issue a joint complaint to management. Possibly Anderson Pooper was part of his Girl-Squad.

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Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor Arrested, Has Home Searched; Suspected of, Get This, Passing Sensitive Insider Trade Information to International Financier and Child Sex Trafficker Jeffrey Epstein

This is the former Prince Andrew. Today is also his 66th birthday, coincidentally.

NBC "News:"

Police today arrested the former Prince Andrew after weeks of revelations over the former prince's friendship and dealings with convicted sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein.

The Thames Valley Police said it arrested a man in his 60s on suspicion of misconduct in public office, which carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment in the United Kingdom.

And he's not Muslim (yet) so he might actually go to prison.

The force, which covers an area in southern England where Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, as he is now known, did not name him, as is standard practice under British law.

Asked whether Mountbatten-Windsor had been arrested, the police responded with a statement: "We understand the significant public interest in this case, and we will provide updates at the appropriate time," Assistant Chief Constable Oliver Wright said. "Following a thorough assessment, we have now opened an investigation into this allegation of misconduct in public office."

And what is the "misconduct in public office" Mountbatten-Windsor is accused of?

Insider Paper
@TheInsiderPaper

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, the younger brother of King Charles, shared official British trade documents with Jeffrey Epstein in 2010, leaking information to the late sex offender from his role as a government envoy, emails appear to show -- Reuters

Gay rent-boy squabbler Queer Starmer said that no one is above the law:

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said today that "nobody is above the law" when asked about Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, speaking ahead of the royal's arrest this morning.

Starmer told British public broadcaster the BBC the principle was "very important" and "has to apply in this case in the same way it would in any other case."

Sad cuck Charles said he approved of the arrest of his brother:

In a statement released by Buckingham Palace this morning but signed "Charles R," the monarch pledged his full support for the police probe.

I think the R stands for "Rex." Snobby bastard.

The statement reads:

"I have learned with the deepest concern the news about Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and suspicion of misconduct in public office. What now follows is the full, fair and proper process by which this issue is investigated in the appropriate manner and by the appropriate authorities."

"In this, as I have said before, they have our full and wholehearted support and co-operation. Let me state clearly: the law must take its course. As this process continues, it would not be right for me to comment further on this matter. Meanwhile, my family and I will continue in our duty and service to you all."

Butch low-IQ narcissist Marjorie Taylor-Greene took the opportunity to bash Trump:

Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green criticized President Donald Trump and U.S. authorities in the wake of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's arrest.

"The UK has arrested Andrew because of the Epstein files and over here the President signed an EO protecting cancer causing Glyphosate in our foods and we have zero Epstein related arrest and investigations since release of the files," she said in a post on X. "And we are on the verge of going to war against Iran."

"That's the current state of MAGA and MAHA," she added.

Typical "libertarian" flake and attention-whore grandstander Thomas Massie is flapping his cocksucker, too:

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The Morning Rant: The SAVE Act

You don't hate the media enough.

You might think you do, but the lies they spout about the SAVE act should disabuse you of the notion that they are anything other than evil servants of a malign movement whose one goal is the destruction of America.

They dutifully parrot the Democrat Party talking points that are themselves baldfaced lies, and horribly insulting to vast swaths of America.

Translated into simple English, those talking points are: Black and Brown people, and married women are too dumb to get ID, and only good White liberals are smart enough to take care of them.

Of course that is arrant nonsense...the real reason for fighting the SAVE act is to allow illegals to vote, and for the oceans of uncontrolled mail-in ballots that swamp America every election to continue to corrupt the will of the voters.

Text: H.R.22 — 119th Congress (2025-2026)
What counts as acceptable proof?

The bill outlines categories of documents that could qualify, including:

• A valid U.S. passport
  
• A REAL ID-compliant ID that indicates U.S. citizenship
  
• Military ID together with a military record showing U.S. birthplace
  
• Government-issued photo ID showing U.S. birthplace
  
• Other government documents demonstrating citizenship (such as naturalization records)

If a person does not have these standard and common documents, the bill requires states to create an alternative process where additional documentation may be submitted to prove citizenship.

That sounds like the bill is mandating a reasonable process to allow American citizens access to their voting rights, even if they don't have traditional forms of identification. It doesn't sound like disenfranchisement of women or minorities or midgets or left-handed lesbians or any of the pressure groups that the Democrat/leftist apparatus trots out to prove that we filthy conservatives are just itching to throw them in camps.

It does one thing; it keeps non-citizens out of the voting systems.

Don't let them obfuscate...don't let them lie...don't let them subvert our voting...don't let them get away with their typical lies that filter into the American consciousness by sheer volume.

The resistance to this sane, rational, thoroughly acceptable bill is a strong indicator of the true politics of those who are fighting it. Senators Collins (a tepid yes with a procedural no) and Murkowski are against it, but we knew that already. The big issue is getting rid of the so-called filibuster, and any senator who resists that is also an enemy of our true voting rights.

We can argue incessantly about the wisdom of the filibuster, but a legislative victory for this administration is a powerful signal to the country, and will last far longer than presidential memos and administrative rules changes that can be cancelled the first day of a Democrat administration.

And who knows...maybe Fetterman will vote for it and President Trump can talk about his bipartisan triumph!

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

Two Men Contemplating the Moon
Caspar David Friedrich

This is the artist's third version of this scene...supposedly one of the men is Friedrich himself.

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The Morning Report — 2/19/26

Good morning kids. I link to the latest essay from lurker extraordinaire and Ace cruelty fanboi #1 Prof. Victor Davis Hanson if for no other reason than it's great to see his byline due to his recent serious health issues. While the gravamen of his as usual erudite discourse is, at least to all of us and anyone with more than two functioning brain cells to rub together, obvious, to wit:

Biden’s border chaos wasn’t accidental—it was a political strategy to reshape America’s electorate and expand left-wing power.

To even expand upon this with the observation that no wonder the Democrat/Left is now actively fomenting and engaging in political/legal/judicial obstruction, as well as violent confrontations with federal and local law enforcement officers attempting to do their duty; all of which IMHO and that of legal experts and historians constitutes dictionary definition insurrection and revolution — would earn me a well deserved, duh, hey, no shit Sherlock!

If I want to be an optimist, I could look at that observation by the good professor Hanson as perhaps a tacit admission by the Democrat/Left that their political influence/brand and policies do not resonate with the vast majority of the American people and indeed are turning them off in droves, regardless of their controlling the high ground of the media, culture and most crucially academia. Had it been otherwise, HIllary Clinton should have won massive back-to-back victories in 2016 and 2020 and we'd now be enduring the second half of a Tim Kaine regime, or the vicissitudes of American politics being what they are even a Jeb Bush administration.

Instead, three times (yes 2020 was stolen) the American people chose not only a Republican but an anti-establishment outsider named Donald J. Trump. The question remains, will he be a one-off or has there been or are we still in the midst of a sea change in the political/cutural dynamic of our nation that puts us back on the path to sanity or are we still headed off of a cliff?

The forecast from the American Redistricting Project shows Democrats losing nine seats in reliable blue states. Two swing states, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, would each lose a seat. Those 11 seats would go to states that Trump won in 2024. A different projection from Jonathan Cervas at Carnegie Mellon University has solid red and lean red states gaining 13 seats.

If these projections hold, the Republican presidential candidate in 2032 could lose Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and Nevada and win the presidency. The Democratic candidate would have to win those swing states and either Arizona or Georgia.

Liberals could help mitigate this by having more babies. Blue states can’t make adults stay, but newborns don’t have a choice. That’s unlikely to happen. The Institute for Family Studies found that in 2023 the 10 states with the highest fertility rates were deep red states. The 10 states with the lowest fertility rates were deep blue states. Further, conservative women have more kids.
This trend is unlikely to reverse. Just 25% of women who voted for Kamala Harris said they wanted children, a recent New York Times poll found. Among Trump voters, it was 43%. Both numbers skew low because the response group includes adults 45 and older.

You can see the left’s dilemma. People are fleeing the misery caused by its terrible policies, while its adherents reproduce at low levels.

From the essay "Trump isn't just deporting illegals. He's deporting the voters Dems need," to which my snarky but accurate retort is Unfotuntately, you can't deport dead people and mail-in ballots: which no doubt comprise the vast majority of Democrat votes in any given election.

And speaking of violent insurrections aimed at the destruction of America as founded . . .

Speaking on "The Dan Bongino Show," Patel said the FBI under President Donald Trump has been conducting a financial investigation into how demonstrations linked to the loosely organized far-left movement are supported.

"These organizations don’t operate alone or in silence," Patel said. "They operate with a heavy, heavy stream of funding.

And we started looking into it, and guess what? We found them."

. . .Patel didn't name specific donors, financial institutions, or nonprofits, but he did confirm that federal agents are examining whether funding flowed through U.S.-based nonprofit groups, including some with tax-exempt status, and whether foreign sources played a role.

He said more details could emerge in the coming months as the investigation develops.

If proven, the implications are enormous.

Antifa has long described itself as an idea, not an organization. Members work in loose networks, often masked and decentralized, and deny the lack of a leadership structure.

Yet coordinated violence has appeared in city after city.

Find the money, seize every RED cent, emphasis on the word RED for obvious reasons, and dismantle with extreme prejudice the sources from whence it comes. Be it Beijing, Davos and/or DNC headquarters.

It's us or them.

Have a great day.

And lastly, a quick shout-out and a huge thank you for your continued support in hitting our tip jar. It truly is appreciated more than you can know.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS
• Victor Davis Hanson: Biden’s border chaos wasn’t accidental—it was a political strategy to reshape America’s electorate and expand left-wing power.
  Why Exactly Did They Destroy the Border?
  
• A biological warfare mass casualty attack waiting to happen?
  Biological Agents Infiltrate America

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Daily Tech News 19 February 2026

Top Story

• Open source game engine Godot is getting overwhelmed with pull requests on GitHub. (PC Gamer)
  
  It's taken a surprising amount of time for AI to turn into an avalanche of spam like email and blog comments.
  
  But it's here now, and the spam filters need to catch up.
  
  Quickly.
  
  

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Wednesday Overnight Open Thread - February 18, 2026 [TRex]

Good evening Horde. The time has come for very random mid-week shenanigans of the post-cafe overnight variety.

Welcome to the Wednesday night ONT which means another edition of overnight fun and games. Pull up a chair and sit a spell. Good will offerings of amusing puns are happily accepted. Pants are optional. Be nice to your fellow commenters and AoS contributors. Happy Ash Wednesday.

[Top photo: Muckross Abbey Yew tree, Loncarphotography]

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Handicapable Hounds Cafe

Melbourne by Mikuma1998

Prancing bison.

A dog's greatest fantasy.

Cats do not even pretend to love all of their family members equally.

A dance-off with your dog.

All it takes to impress a cat is sorcery.

I can't guarantee this video is real, but I know pull-on masks are now of Mission: Impossible quality.

The guard dog lied on his resume.

Oof: Cyclists zoom off a road on to what is actually a driveway and don't see the turnpike blocking the drive until it clotheslines them.

This better not be AI.

Unexpected friendship.

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Quick Hits

Paul Sperry
@paulsperry_

16h

NEW: Newly declassified FBI emails from October 2016 reveal the Crossfire Hurricane team was operating under the assumption their alleged Russian agent target Carter Page was a "homosexual," until their informant Christopher Steele fed them another rumor Page had a Russian girlfriend who was a ballerina in Moscow.

Paul Sperry
@paulsperry_
·
14h
BREAKING: President Obama and his National Security Adviser Susan Rice were so distraught after Trump won in 2016 they literally broke down and cried in front of White House staff, according to 1,100 hours of new audio and video compiled by Columbia University in cooperation with the Obama Foundation. After all they'd built, they feared their accomplishments were "at risk" of being torn down by a "con man" and a "clown." Ergo, Trump had to be stopped?

From Ed Morrissey's summary of reactions to Donkey-Chomper's Mitch-McConnell-level brain glitch:

Charles C.W. Cooke at NRO: Browning suggests that AOC went to Munich to insist that "wealthy world leaders must better provide for their working classes or risk their countries sliding toward authoritarianism." Apparently, he considers this exonerative. In truth, though, that is the whole problem: AOC is a one-trick pony. What she says in America is what she says in Munich, because she doesn't know how to say anything else. At some point in her life she became attracted to warmed-over democratic socialism, and since that point she has declined to learn anything more. She's a meme, an avatar, a vibe. In her interview with Browning, she griped that the press had focused on "any five-to-10-second thing" from her remarks. But of course it did. She is a five-to-10-second thing. She is a limerick competing with a bunch of novels. What did she think was going to happen?
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Elsewhere, AOC implies that the media's interest in her potentially "running for president" has made it tough for her agenda to break through. But one must wonder why, if political drama is to blame, this did not apply to Marco Rubio, who is constantly depicted as being involved in a monumental power struggle with JD Vance, and yet managed to deliver a speech at the same conference that was widely regarded as masterly. As it happens, the explanation for this difference is simple: Marco Rubio went to Germany to make a discrete case to the Munich Security Conference, and AOC went to Germany to make yet another Instagram video about nothing. The results matched the aims.

Wait, I don't understand -- does Jake Tapper use Twitter for self-promotion?

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As the Communist Cuban Junta Enters End-of-Life Care, Marco Rubio Begins Secretly Talking to Raul Castro's Grandson About a Living Will

Nine days ago, John Sexton predicted the communist regime of Cuba was entering its last year.

They've run out of airplane fuel, leading to grounded airplanes. And they're rationing gasoline. They are no longer receiving gas and oil from Venezuela in return for the state police thugs they sent to protect Maduro and find and torture his critics.

Russia is no longer sending its Dark Fleet to aid them either. In fact, the NYT reports that Cuban communists are realizing they are completely isolated and alone.

Predictions of the demise of Cuba's government have been made before, notably after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, which had been Cuba's main benefactor, only to be proved wrong.

But this time, experts say, the survival of Cuba's government appears very much in doubt...

The U.S. government "has determined that Cuba must be free before the end of 2026," said Marcell Felipe, a prominent Cuban exile leader in Miami who chairs the American Museum of the Cuban Diaspora and said he had met with U.S. diplomats. "This is a plan in motion."...

A U.S. official who was not authorized to speak publicly about the administration’s interactions with Havana said Cuban officials were nervous because they were starting to realize their revolution was coming to an end."

And now Axios reports that Rubio is talking to Cuban officials -- to talk about what happens when the regime collapses and society descends into chaos.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has been holding secret talks with the grandson and caretaker of Cuba's aging de facto dictator, Raul Castro, as the U.S. puts unprecedented pressure on Havana's regime, three sources tell Axios.

Why it matters: The talks between Rubio and Raul Guillermo Rodriguez Castro are bypassing official Cuban government channels. They show that the Trump administration sees the 94-year-old revolutionary as the communist island's true decision-maker.

"I wouldn't call these 'negotiations' as much as 'discussions' about the future," a senior Trump administration official said.

Zoom in: Rubio and his team see the 41-year-old grandson and his circle as representing younger, business-minded Cubans for whom revolutionary communism has failed -- and who see value in rapprochement with the U.S.

"Our position -- the U.S. government's position -- is the regime has to go," the senior official said. "But what exactly that looks like is up to [President Trump] and he has yet to decide. Rubio is still in talks with the grandson."

Called "Raulito," the younger Castro is known in political circles by his nickname "El Cangrejo" ("The Crab") because he has a deformed finger.

Zoom out: After 67 years of U.S. sanctions and Cuban mismanagement, the totalitarian government appears closer than ever to collapse as the island teeters on the edge of a humanitarian crisis.

The power grid is failing. Hospitals are limiting surgeries. Food and fuel are increasingly scarce. Tourism is drying up. Uncollected garbage is piling up on some street corners.

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Between the lines: The U.S. military's success and technical superiority in the Maduro operation shook Cuba's leadership after American forces suffered no losses and killed at least 32 Cuban intelligence and military officials who were supposed to be guarding Maduro, U.S. officials say.

But the U.S. decision to keep Maduro's governing partners in power --notably his Vice President Delcy Rodriguez, who's now acting president -- signaled to Cuban insiders that Trump and Rubio are willing to make deals with rivals.

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Surprise! Harvard Refuses to Obey the Supreme Court Ruling Outlawing Race Discrimination in Admissions. All They've Done Is End Discrimination Against Asians -- and Doubling Up on Anti-White Discrimination

I don't know how many surprises I can take in a week!

Matthew Schmitz:

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@matthewschmitz

Harvard did not stop discriminating by race, @herandrews writes. It simply stopped doing so against Asians. Affirmative action continues, but now it is entirely at the expense of one race instead of two.

Meanwhile, colleges are de-emphasizing standard English and championing black vernacular as a more authentic form of (academic!) speech.

That directive is a byproduct of the NCTE's 2020 Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), whose delegates demanded that

Teachers stop using academic language and standard English as the accepted communicative norm, which reflects White Mainstream English!

and that

Teachers develop and teach Black Linguistic Consciousness that works to decolonize the mind (and/or) language, unlearn white supremacy, and unravel anti-Black linguistic racism!

In short, delegates to that conference "DEMAND[ed] Black Linguistic Justice."

If you thought that academe's social-justice warriors would retreat in 2025, you will be disheartened to hear what just happened at the Metropolitan State University of Denver (MSU).

In compliance with the CCCC's 2020 resolution, in December MSU's Writing Center redefined Standard American English as "a social construct that privileges white communities and maintains social and racial hierarchies." The writing center's new policy urges students to "us[e] their English (whatever that may be) in communicating their thoughts and ideas."

The Independence Institute was quick to mock MSU's decision, calling it "Good News for White Supremacists" because it "helps assure that people of color stay at the bottom." When the MSU writing center's new posting made national news, university officials "removed that content" and assured students that MSU "remains committed to rigorous academic standards and preparing all students for success in life and careers."

The NCTE's "new priests" view grammar instruction as "an instrument of imperialist oppression."

Meanwhile, an Ivy League president admits the undeniable: College education is suffering a historic lack of public confidence, and that lack of public trust is well-earned.

Very few do what President Beilock did. But I recommend that others try.

If you have not yet caught up with this story, here is what Beilock did: She published an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, frankly acknowledging the drastic decline in public confidence in American higher education. She allowed that the loss of confidence is warranted.

As a reader of the Chronicle of Higher Education and other megaphones of the liberal establishment, I know that college presidents know Beilock is right, but they also know that it is an unspeakable truth. The best they can do is declare that the loss of confidence is temporary and that when people come to their senses, they will realize that their colleges and universities fully deserve the respect that students, parents, and taxpayers used to have for the nation's thinkeries.

But the American public is more skeptical than ever before in our nation's history that college is "worth it" and that judgment will only grow more intense in the years ahead--unless Beilock's sage advice is heeded.

Her short essay names five problems and their possible solutions. The problems are: unaffordability, poor return on investment, political posturing, erasure of poor performance, and corrupt admissions. I've phrased some of those more bitingly than Beilock does. For example, what I label "corrupt admissions," she phrases as the need "to reinstate an SAT/ACT requirement." That requirement was, however, banished mostly because it stood in the way of favoritism in admissions.

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It Begins: Canada Now Murdering People For Minor Ailments, Just As Predicted

The left rails about insurance companies not covering certain drugs or treatments because they're too expensive.

But when the state literally murders people as a way of keeping down government health costs, they applaud.

Distraught family blasts Canada for euthanizing son, 26, who suffered from 'seasonal depression'

By KELLY GARINO, US REPORTER

A family has accused Canada's laws of 'killing the disabled and vulnerable' months after their son, who suffered from seasonal depression, died by assisted suicide.

Kiano Vafaeian, a 26-year-old blind man with Type 1 diabetes, died in December using Canada's Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) program, which allows patients with 'grievous and irremediable' medical conditions to request a lethal drug.

So he was blind and suffered from Type I diabetes, which I understand is quite treatable with injections. (Let me know if I'm wrong.)

So Canada deemed these maladies "grievous and irremediable" and performed yet another Doctor-Directed Murder.

Eligibility was expanded in 2021 to include people with chronic illnesses, disabilities and, pending parliamentary review, potentially individuals with certain mental health conditions.

Vafaeian faced mental health struggles stemming from a car accident at 17, and according to his mother, his depression often flared during the winter months.

For years, the family had successfully prevented their son from using the program. Last year, however, Dr Ellen Wiebe, a MAID provider in British Columbia, approved Vafaeian's death - news the family only learned about days later.

Vafaeian's mother, Margaret Marsilla of Ontario, alleged that Wiebe was 'coaching' her son on how to qualify as a Track 2 patient - those whose natural deaths aren't deemed 'reasonably imminent,' according to Fox News Digital.

'We believe that she was coaching him on how to deteriorate his body and what she can possibly approve him for and what she can get away with approving him for,' Marsilla told the outlet.

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Vafaeian's death certificate now lists the 'antecedent causes' of his assisted suicide as blindness, severe peripheral neuropathy - nerve damage outside the brain and spinal cord that causes pain and numbness - and diabetes.

But his parents said his medical records did not back up the claim that 'severe peripheral neuropathy' was a qualifying factor for his assisted suicide.

'Realistically, safeguards for patients would be reaching out to their family members, giving them a whole bunch of different treatment options,' Marsilla told Fox.

She argued that doctors can approve and carry out euthanasia on Track 2 patients in just 90 days under the current system.

'How is that safe for patients?' she added.

Read the whole thing. Dr. Death is proud and cracks jokes about her murders:

In an interview with the Free Press, Wiebe joked that she had brought more than 1,000 babies into the world while also helping 'more than 500 patients die.'

She also described assisted suicide as 'the best work I've ever done.'

'I have a very strong, passionate desire for human rights,' Wiebe explained. 'I'm willing to take risks for human rights as I do for abortion.'

Canada is a world leader in killing the sad:

Canada has one of the highest rates of medically assisted deaths in the world, 5.1 percent, or a total of 16,499 deaths in 2024.

Obviously the same people who approve of child genital mutilations and consider abortion a religious sacrament will also support murdering the sick and sad.

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Democrat Snake Ted Lieu: The Epstein Files, Which Are Filled with Disproven False Tips About Everyone, Show That Trump was Raping Children

Investigatory files are full of false claims. The cops don't just receive valid leads, of course. They receive a lot of absolute nonsense "tips," which is why you always hear the cliched line in a movie about a gruesome murder, "We don't want the press getting a hold of this." Because they know their phone lines will be jammed with the hallucinations of attention-whores and schizophrenics.

The Epstein files are likewise filled with a lot of absolute garbage. Particularly because left-wing lunatics took the opportunity to flood the FBI and police with a ton of a completely-fabricated (or completely-hallucinated) claims that Donald Trump was raping everyone.

Raping who?

Raping EV-ER-Y-ONE!

Thanks to the great work of Thomas Massie and MTG, the Democrats are now paging through completely fake "tips" and claiming they're all real:

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Democrats Demand Censure for Congressman Randy Fine Due to His Protection of Dogs From Arrogant Foreign Colonizers

Breitbart:

Democratic politicians have found themselves indirectly defending Islam's 7th-century hatred of man's best friend, dogs.

Several Democrats have instinctively accused Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL) of racism after he reacted to a New York-based Muslim advocate, Nerdeen Kiswani -- who said house pet dogs will not be welcome in a non-secular, Islamic New York.

"NYC is coming to Islam," said a February 12 tweet from Kiswani, referring to the November electoral victory of Zohran Mamdani, the Ugandan-born, Indian-origin, immigrant, populist, and Muslim Mayor of New York. She added:

Kiswani responded to many critics: "Lmao at the Zionists frothing at the mouth at this, thinking they're doing something. It's obviously a joke I don't care if you have a dog, I do care if your dog is shitting everywhere and you're not cleaning it."

Fine responded three days later, on February 15: "If they force us to choose, the choice between dogs and Muslims is not a difficult one."

Many Democrats immediately accused Fine of racism and bigotry.

"We must call this what it is. Disgusting bigotry," Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) reacted. "Fine must be censured."

After thousands of users pointed out that Khanna was clearly missing the context of Fine's post, he tried again: "Taking an alleged comment by one person and attributing it to everyone who shares that person's faith is the definition of bigotry," he stated.

Fine mocked Khanna's wording of "an alleged comment," as there was no disputing that Kiswani's statement was publicly posted. "Perhaps you should have read it before spouting off like an idiot," the Congressman quipped.

Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) lamented that Fine's "Islamophobic" comment is "incredibly damaging to Jews trying to combat antisemitism."

"America is BETTER because of our Muslim community," Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) wrote. "And we are WORSE when assholes like this guy spout hate."

"This is genuinely one of the most disgusting statements I have ever seen issued by an American official," Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) vented. "Fine should be censured & stripped of committees."

Fine's November opponent, Jennifer Jenkins, responded, "I'm running to kick that bigot out of Washington."

They're plotting to force a censure vote.

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🚨 BREAKING: Rep. Chip Roy vows to oppose any Democrat effort to censure Rep. Randy Fine after Fine stood firm in defense of Americans' right to own dogs.

The left is furious, but Roy says he won't back down.

Will Chamberlain predicted that softhand cucked "Republicans" will go along with this. They will virtue signal their adherence to the left-wing Gay Race Communism agenda, while having previously refused to vote for censures of Ilhan "Omar" Nur and Epstein PR manager Stacey Plaskett, among others.

Granny Groyper won't say anything about Candace Owens accusing Erika Kirk of murdering her husband or, now, that she's a secret groomer and sex trafficker, but she did freak out like a good AWFUL (which is all she's ever been) when Randy Fine said that if Muslims want to ban dogs, we'll chose dogs over Muslims 11 times out of ten:

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Leftwing Media 2-in-1 Post: CNN's Low-IQ DEI Propagandist Abby Philip Defends AOC's Performance By Saying "Buh Trump;"
Steven Colbert Caught in Lie About CBS Censoring Him

That's from my first but not last experiment with Grok's AI image creator.

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Wednesday Morning Rant

Bad Actors

Last week marked a major film festival in Germany, called the Berlinale. It has been particularly interesting this year, given the major cultural and political shift through which we're living. Everyone has come to expect political grandstanding at any event by and for the media. Actors, directors and producers historically adore delivering stern political lectures to the hoi polloi. You can usually set your watch by it. Whatever the issue, some loudmouthed celebrity will wax retardedly about it.

But Berlinale has been interesting because it shows a major shift in how these things go. First, a number of the apparently smarter actors have started to just refuse to engage. This started slowly years ago when one of the smarter (or perhaps just the worst-burned) of the Hollywood actors - Brie Larson - refused to wade into politics when a reporter at Cannes asked her about the Johnny Depp/Amber Heard trial. This is becoming more a theme at this year's Berlinale.

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

Elizabeth Farren (born about 1759, died 1829), Later Countess of Derby
Sir Thomas Lawrence

What the hell is she wearing?

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The Morning Report — 2/18/26

Good morning kids. Well, to paraphrase poet Ernest Lawrence Thayer, There is some joy in Hymietown for Jesse Jackson has checked out.

I'm somewhat surprised that I did not come across more notices/obits of the fish-eyed blackguard in my gathering up of the links for this morning. I assume that the usual house organs of the Leftist propanda machine will have hagiographies galore especially this weekend come the Sunday op-ed sections and TV news shows. He truly deserves a prominent position in the pantheon of this nation's worst citizens. His horrendous record is linked here at the invaluable Discover the Networks.

If ever there was a poster child for Divide & Conquer, it would be Jackson. It was, is and always will be the stock in trade of the Democrat Party and anti-American Left, and he was arguably one of, if not its most effective practitioners, as much of the societal dissolution and destruction that had its roots 60 or so years ago, that we are enduring unto this very day has his fingerprints all over it.

And that said, did President Trump really have to heap praise on him? Yeah, I get it, Jackson was a prominent figure among blacks, but surely he could've just come up with some boilerplate sentence of condolences to his family (including his bastard child) and a white lie (pun intended) about his achievements as a civil rights activist and left it at that.

Meanwhile, in the completely shocking news department, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, affectionately referred to by yours truly as Titty-Caca lives up to that moniker every time she opens her mouth to rattle those Donkey Chompers of hers and spout the most inane, inchoate idiotic stupidity. As she did con gusto in Munich.

Democrat New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez invested months preparing for her highest-profile overseas trip, but when she arrived at the Munich Security Conference, the progressive lawmaker fumbled through basic foreign policy questions and is now faulting conservatives for the backlash. . . Democratic strategist Hank Sheinkopf told The Hill that Ocasio-Cortez is “not ready for prime time on the international stage.”

“It was a beauty pageant to show that she had some chops about international issues, and she showed a complete lack of chops about international issues,” Sheinkopf said.

Independent journalist Glenn Greenwald offered perhaps the sharpest critique. “Whoever convinced AOC that she had successfully completed her tutoring and was now ready to give book reports about foreign policy in public really should look for another line of work,” Greenwald said in a post on X.

Supposedly she is contemplating a run at the Democrat presidential nomination in 2028? While yes she's a blithering idiot, if she does indeed land at the top of the ticket or even in the Veep slot, her idiocy and insane worldview are in complete alignment with millions of voters that constitute the base and overwhelming majority of the Democrat Party. And having udders and being latina will only help to seal the deal. Now if only her redheaded pasty husband would turn tranny and/or come out of the closet and convert to Islam, she'd be a shoe-in, nein?

In other unsurprising news we have the completely corrupt judiciary shoving excrememnt down our throats and demanding we ask for seconds.

An Obama-appointed federal judge has once again ruled in favor of suspected gang member and human trafficker Kilmar Abrego Garcia, giving him a lifeline he doesn't deserve.

Psaki-Psircling back to Jackson for a second, I remember when an open mic caught him in a fit of pique at the ourple-lipped dog-eater promising Al Sharpton that he'd cut Obama's nuts off!"

And speaking of dog-eaters and dog shit, if only the world could eradicate Islam.

Outrage against Rep. Randy Fine (R-Fla.) is the left’s outrage du jour. The rage mob swung into action after Fine wrote: “If they force us to choose, the choice between dogs and Muslims is not a difficult one.”

Yeah, that was it. He didn’t say “Kill them all” or even “Deport them all.” He didn’t recommend any action at all. He was actually responding to an X post from far-left, pro-Hamas activist Nerdeen Kiswani. In response to a news item about two grocery stores removing people with dogs, Kiswani wrote: “Finally, NYC is coming to Islam. Dogs definitely have a place in society, just not as indoor pets. Like we’ve said all along, they are unclean.”

Animal rights groups have expressed outrage over Morocco’s alleged killing of millions of stray dogs ahead of the 2030 FIFA World Cup, according to a recent report.

Organizations such as the International Animal Welfare and Protection Coalition (IAWPC) and PETA have criticized Moroccan officials for culling the population of roughly three million stray dogs, according to the Daily Mail.

The animal rights organizations have reportedly “released images and testimony” claiming that Moroccan officials are resorting to “using harsh methods” such as “clamping dogs by the neck, loading them into trucks and poisoning or shooting them before disposing of their bodies,” according to the outlet.

But Jews and Nigerians and other Christians being slaughtered and crickets

Be nice to see PETA come to the defense of Randy Fine. Be nice if I won Powerball every week for the next 10 years or could go back in time and have a threesome with Raquel Welch and Ann Margret. Well at least those latter two are realistic unlike my first sentence.

Have a great day.

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