The Morning Report — 2/16/26

Good morning kids. Hope you all had an enjoyable Valentine's Day weekend. With that in mind we kick off the week with terrorism at home and abroad and how they are linked, politically and perhaps quite literally.

First to a train in Brussels.

A short video clip filmed at the beginning of February has made its way onto social media, showing a pair of vacationing mothers from Alabama and their two 12-year-old daughters, who were confronted and terrorized by a knife-wielding man aboard a train in Brussels, Belgium.

Amanda Hardy, one of the mothers, later told reporters that a man emerged from the train car bathroom and approached them, first asking whether the women were American. He then asked, Hardy recounted, “‘Do you like ICE?’ And we did not respond to that. He then pulled out a knife – our estimation is about 18 inches long or so. He then threw down a jacket and a scarf on the ground, and that’s when he said, ‘F__ ICE, I can shoot too. I shoot faster than Americans.’”
. . .Hardy and Sucher reportedly believe this happened to them because they are American and because of their perceived political beliefs (hence the question about ICE). I think it’s clear that this is so. As for the perpetrator: the lack of even a rough description in the media, the presence of an 18-inch knife, the casual terrorizing of women and children in public… Add an unsympathetic police force to the mix, and all this points to the usual suspects – and it’s not indigenous French men.

Yes, and considering this is Belgium which will very soon become absorbed into the global Islamic ummah, it's most likely that the perpetrator was indeed a Muslim. And yet, something to me stinks on ice (pun intended). No doubt the situation in America and in particular Minnesota is getting global media coverage and so the perp was likely a swarthy third-worlder. But then again he could've been an American leftist who, upon hearing either the victim's southern accent or even a snippet of her conversation with her fellow travelers decided to snap into action.

Europe is after all the birthplace of Islam's political kissing cousin and current ally of convenience, Antifa.

A 23-year-old Frenchman has reportedly died after being severely beaten by Antifa terrorists during a violent confrontation in Lyon on the evening of February 12, according to local reports and messages shared on social media. The incident took place near Sciences Po Lyon in the city’s 7th district, where a conference was being held by Rima Hassan, a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) representing the ultra-left-wing party La France Insoumise (France Unbowed).

Members of the female-led anti-mass migration activist group Collectif Némésis had gathered outside the venue to protest Hassan’s appearance. Tensions reportedly escalated between them and counter-protesters described as far-left militants. The situation devolved into a street brawl.

Meanwhile, far from Brussels, the insanity is sprouting all over back here in the US of A...

A woman was captured on surveillance video attempting to set fire to a warehouse in Kansas City, Missouri, that had been rumored as a possible immigration detention facility. Footage shared by local outlet KMBC shows the woman, dressed in sandals, jeans, a short-sleeve black shirt, and carrying a small backpack, pouring an accelerant along the side of the building before striking a match. A second container of accelerant is visible near her feet.The warehouse is located within the 49 Crossing industrial complex and had previously been considered for sale for potential use by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as an immigration detention center. However, the property owner, Platform Ventures, announced Thursday that it would not proceed with the sale. . . The arson attack comes amid heightened tensions nationwide over immigration enforcement and the expansion of detention facilities. In recent months, leftist activists have clashed with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents at various sites across the country, including protests that escalated into confrontations outside detention facilities. Federal officials have also confirmed investigations into organized anti-ICE activist networks.

And here's a two-fer from the Oscar Hammestein "You've Got to be Carefully Taught Dept. Firstly:

Eighth-grade students at a Minnesota middle school were taught in geography class that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents use “tricky & violent tactics,” and were given extra credit for watching a British-produced video on the problem of illegal immigration in the United States.

Materials obtained by Defending Education show that the students at Hermantown Community School were given a highly politicized lesson on illegal immigration and ICE operations. The materials included a PowerPoint that adopted left-wing talking points on immigration and a video produced by a British broadcaster on ICE operations in Chicago.

The instruction at the Duluth-area school took place in December 2025 and featured a PowerPoint where students were asked: “In what ways do people think the Ice agents have ‘gone too far’?”

. . . “It’s bad enough that this biased lesson is replete with falsehoods — but [for] the school principal to defend such garbage truly adds insult to injury,” she said. “Students are being force-fed ideological propaganda during finite lesson time (when they’re not being encouraged by activist teachers to walk out of their classrooms, that is) and told what to think, rather than how to think. It’s little wonder that families are fleeing the public education system in droves.”

Number two, thank goodness for the sanity of our military, eh?

Few organizations know more about leadership than the United States Army. Yet for years, the Army paid an outside consultant for instruction on the topic: A fly-by-night company co-founded by a Pakistani who sits on the board of an organization once linked to the Muslim Brotherhood.

Between 2021 and 2025, the Army Corps of Engineers shelled out $1.7 million across eight contracts to the vaguely-named Nonprofit Empowerment Group. The group is actually a for-profit, bare-bones operation configured to scoop up federal contracts using woman-owned “set-asides.”

And so it goes. The aforementioned gives you a PRETTI GOOD idea of how we wind up with Spenser Rapones and Nidal Hasans and other Guerrillas in our midst.

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS
• “Do you like ICE?"
  Terror on a Brussels Train

CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
• The property will not be sold to DHS, and local leaders continue opposing the use of warehouses as detention centers.
  WATCH: Extremist Sets Fire to Building Considered for Conversion to ICE Detention Center.
  
• White students were told to “shield” vulnerable classmates.
  Minnesota Professor Conducts Classroom “ICE Drill”
  
• Students were taught that ICE agents engage in “tricky & violent tactics."
  SEE IT: The Anti-ICE Slideshow Given To A Middle School Geography Class

• Yes, in one sense these people are playing dress-up. But the incantations contained in these militant direct-action “spell books” are all very real.
  Minnesota Insurgency Needs to Be Addressed
  
• Hypocritical, purely performative land apologies from leftists have become a boring trope from coast to coast.
  Stolen Land From California to the New York Island..and Maine

• “But I want to remember all those images of masked men, the secret police, something familiar in Germany. Those first images came out of my state.”
  Gavin Newsom Compares ICE Agents to Nazi ‘Secret Police’
  
• Last week, Olivia Jensen stalked ICE agents around Rochester, Minn., harassing them while they tried to track down an illegal immigrant accused of child rape and murder. When an agent finally told her what kind of monster they were after, Jensen's response cut through every pretense the left hides behind: "No, I don't care.”
  Trump Derangement Syndrome Has Hit a Sick New Low
  
• Lemon faces federal charges under the FACE Act and conspiracy to violate religious freedoms.
  Don Lemon Pleads Not Guilty in Church-Storming Case.

• “We feel this is just a wanton act of vandalism done against the Republican Party by somebody on the left. Apparently, based upon the slogan that was painted on our windows, they must suffer from ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome,'” he explained.
  PHOTO — Wisconsin: Republican Party Headquarters Targeted in ‘Despicable Act’ of Vandalism
  * * * * *

• Roger Kimball: The deep state resists exposure—but not forever. Patience, persistence, and power may yet cauterize the Leviathan.
  How Deep Is the Deep State?
  
• “Acknowledging past injustice does not give the government license to spend public resources on programs that sort people by race and ancestry today”
  San Francisco Being Sued Over Controversial Reparations Fund

  
  "BIDEN BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY

• The February 13 memo, marked “For Official Use Only” and published on the New Hampshire governor’s website, states that the initiative is needed to address the agency’s orders from President Donald Trump to increase mass deportations. The program calls for eight “mega-centers” with a capacity of up to 10,000 detainees each. The $38.3 billion project is planned for completion by the end of November.
  ICE ‘Detention Reengineering’ Plan Will Expand Capacity, Speed Deportation of Criminal Aliens
  
• Hillary Clinton says migration "went too far" now calls for "secure borders" after a decade of attacks on President Trump's border policy.
  Hillary Clinton Admits Immigration Has Been ‘Disruptive And Destabilizing’
  
• Clinton wasn't the only Democrat in Munich struggling with optics. Rep. Titty Caca Ocasio-Cortez (D-imwit-N.Y.) and California Governor Gavin Newsom also faced criticism during their appearances. Both tried to present themselves as seasoned global leaders, but drew scrutiny for remarks that appeared tone-deaf and disconnected from global realities.
  Hillary’s Script, Interrupted

• "I think he should come back here and he should get arrested."
  Irish Illegal Alien Claiming ‘Torture’ In ICE Custody Abandoned His Family, Twin Daughters Say

• . . .tens of thousands of unmanned flights used to track Border Patrol agents, coordinate smuggling, and probe American airspace. . . calling the threat “rapidly evolving” as cartels expand their aerial surveillance capabilities.
  CBP: Cartels Flew 42,000 Drones near U.S. Border in FY25

• "I'm really good at killing people. Didn't know that was going to be a strong suit of mine."
  Larry Elder: 12 Question Quiz - What ‘Fascist’ ‘Xenophobe’ ‘Tyrant’ Said This?

  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE

• America’s ills began in the early twentieth century. Trump has his work cut out for him.
  Trump Is Turning Around a 100-Year-Old Problem
  
• The firing underscores the constitutional authority of the President to appoint U.S. attorneys and raises questions about judicial appointments to such roles.
  Trump Fires New U.S. Attorney Appointed by Courts, Not Admin, on Day One.
  
• Another billionaire flees the state that creates job-creators and wealth-producers like criminals.
  How Much Longer Before California Falls Into the Ocean?
  
• Michelle Wu is backing a bad housing policy that refuses to die.
  Boston’s Mayor Makes the Wrong Call on Rent Control
  
• Office of Inspector General Report shows lax controls and permissive management practices allowed improper payment issues to grow rather than be corrected.
  Audit Finds Biden EPA Pushed Billions Through State Fund With Little Oversight

  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

• Mamdani invoked Islamic doctrine to define civic obligation and delegitimize lawful, constitutional authority.
  Mamdami Demands U.S. Immigration Policy Start Obeying Islam

• As the saying goes, the Constitution is not a suicide pact, and there are several Supreme Court decisions and statutes protecting America from Sharia law.
  Expelling Sharia-Adherent Muslims is Not Unconstitutional
  
• And would likely rejoice at your death. (if not bring it about - jjs)
  Meet Your Baggage Handler. He Hates You.
  
• Six million.
  France: Muslim Foreigners Voting?

  
  OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY

• "1 Israeli left in this world would be too many!"
  Under Mamdani, ‘Community Engagement’ Specialist Called for Killing All Israelis
  
• The owner of an Ethiopian-Israeli restaurant in Harlem says she has been forced to close her establishment for regular dining due to alleged harassment and antisemitism.
  Black Woman Forced To Shut Down Restaurant After Leftists Allegedly Won’t Stop Harassing Her

  SHAMPEACHMENTS, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION

• Criminalizing unresolved executive-privilege disputes doesn’t vindicate the law—it chills presidential candor and hands Congress a dangerous new lever over the presidency.
  Peter Navarro Op-Ed: Clinton Is Not Navarro: A Constitutional Distinction That Matters

  
  THE ECONOMY, STUPID

• "Inflation is falling. The labor market is holding. Growth has been solid."
  Wall Street Journal: Trump Achieved Impossible With Economy
  
• Easing inflation may provide some relief to consumers, though many still feel burdened by rising costs of living.
  Trump Economy: Inflation Report Beats Expectations, Falls to Just 2.4%.
  
• The one tax that has never provoked a significant revolt keeps climbing higher.
  Sales-Tax Escalator
  
• “A new National Bureau of Economic Research study confirmed what the numbers already showed: higher per-delivery pay was completely offset by fewer deliveries and lower tips. Active drivers saw zero net gain in monthly earnings.”
  Report Confirms Seattle’s 2024 ‘Gig Worker’ Law Has Been a Miserable Failure

  FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH

• Once synonymous with investigative dominance, the Washington Post now serves as a case study in how perceived partisanship and hubris can corrode credibility and audience trust.
  The Decline and Fall of the Washington Post

  RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,

• The U.S. government is dismantling the legal foundation of numerous climate protection measures from the era of President Barack Obama. 
  Trump Buries Obama’s Climate Policy (Meh, it's undead and will be resurrected by he next Democrat who steals the election - jjs)

  
  THE 2020 and SUBSEQUENT ELECTION HEISTS , SHENANIGANS/FRAUD and AFTERMATH

• The Republican weakness on the SAVE Act, which a huge majority of Americans support, shows how the Founders’ failure to require term limits is killing America.
  Watching The Founding Fathers’ Fatal Oversight Playing Itself Out Right In Front of Us
  
• “About 83% of the American people, including a majority Democrats, support voter ID laws,” host Jake Tapper told Schumer during their exchange. Tapper was referring to an August 2025 Pew Research Center survey which also found that 71% of Democrats and 95% of Republicans support mandating “all voters to show government-issued photo identification to vote.”
  Chuck Schemer Vows To Fight Supposed ‘Jim Crow 2.0’ Bill With Policy 83% Of Americans Support

  
  L'AFFAIRE EPSTEIN

• We're starting to get a hint of Epstein's connections to Obama. 
  Epstein Sex Trafficking Immigration Fraud Linked to Top Obama Officials
  
• “Among the strangest casualties of the entire affair is Noam Chomsky...The moral and factual parameters of this entire issue have already been conclusively settled...Chomsky should be commended for seeing through the sham.”
  Noam Chomsky Was Right About Epstein

  
  DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY

• From Chuck Schumer’s race-baiting false equivalencies to Lisa Murkowski being, well, Lisa Murkowski, it was a great week for bad people. 
  From Chuck To Titty-Caca AOC, Here Are The Worst People Of The Week
  
• The Virginia Supreme Court handed Democrats a massive win Friday, allowing them to move forward with a redistricting referendum that would gerrymander the commonwealth’s U.S. House districts from five Republicans and six Democrats to one Republican and 10 Democrats.
  Virginia High Court Greenlights Democrat Effort To Give Millions Of Republicans A Single Seat In Congress
  
• If his messaging sounds familiar it’s because it echoes the rhetoric of politicians like Titty Caca AOC and Bernie Sanders.
  ‘I’m Not A Socialist’: Michigan’s Mamdani Leans On The Left’s New Playbook But Rejects The Labels

  POLITICS

• The agency announced that it will no longer chart presidential approval ratings, saying in a statement that the move “reflects an evolution in how Gallup focuses its public research and thought leadership.”
  After 88 Years, Gallup Will Discontinue Historic Presidential Approval Polling
  
• The recent report comes as Harris, Newsom, and Titty-Caca Ocasio-Cortez “have been floated as likely contenders” to run for president in 2028, according to Newsweek.
  Kamala Harris Polling Average Leads in 2028 Democrat Primary Presidential Polls

• California Republicans, long shut out, could shock the state: two GOP candidates are leading the jungle primary as Democrats splinter and voters crave common sense.
  Election 2026: California Republicans Have a Chance
  
• Democrats see even fellow Democrats as expendable.
  Democrat Officials Discard Americans as Collateral Damage
  
• Dunn’s campaign, which claims to be “100% pro police,” focuses on abolishing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and his usual trope of claiming President Donald J. Trump is a threat to American democracy.
  Failed House Candidate and Capitol Police Grifter Harry Dunn is Running Again, Vowing to Abolish ICE.

  IRAN ON the BRINK?!

• Iran supposedly has some of the most advanced surveillance capabilities in the world, including tracking citizens through facial recognition software and mobile device and app monitoring. In 2019, a digital identity was created for citizens that forced them to register their phones and sim card numbers into a government database in order to have access to national mobile networks, according to The New York Times. Domestic banking and commerce services are also tied to a state registry, according to The New York Times.
  Iran Using Full Surveillance State To Crack Down On Anti-Regime Protests

  ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS . . . AND LEFTISTS

• We’re not building a nation, we’re building a terrorist movement at war with us.
  New ‘Palestinian’ Constitution Shows We’re Creating an Islamic Terror State
  
• A dangerous reset.
  Hamas Strengthens – and the 'Palestinian' Authority Returns

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• Miranda Devine: An American statesman was born on a German stage over the weekend. Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s impressive performance at the Munich Security Conference gives us an alluring glimpse of the president he could be one day.
  Marco Rubio delivers tough love to Europe — and the overgrown teenage brats know ‘dad’ is right
  
• Last month, the leftist coalition government announced that it would enact by Royal decree — thus skirting the need for a vote in the parliament — to grant residence permits to illegals who could demonstrate that they do not have a criminal record and have been in the country for at least five months.
  Nearly Seven in Ten Spaniards Oppose Socialist Government’s Illegal Migrant Amnesty Scheme
  
• The death is just the latest act of extreme violence from Antifa terrorists in Europe.
  Right-Wing Activist Dead After Beating by Antifa Terrorists: Report.
  
• Funny how the Muslims don't have this problem.
  France to send out letters to young women urging them to have babies before it’s too late

  DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS

• This strike marks the fourth publicly disclosed operation in 2026.
  U.S. Military Says It Obliterated Another Narcoterrorist Drug Boat In Caribbean
  
• Great powers don’t stay great when led by talkers.
  Something overlooked by renewed U.S. military action
  
• If America’s War Colleges teach politics instead of war, strategic failure is inevitable; restore warriors, not bureaucrats, and make winning—not credentials—the mission.
  Making the War Colleges Great Again
  
• Contract intended for "academic institution" went to a small business affiliated with a Muslim fundraising network thanks to minority contracting law.
  Army Paid For “Leadership” Training From Company Founded By Director Of Muslim Brotherhood-Linked Group

• We deserve an agency that puts us first. The Veterans Bill of Rights will protect veterans from bureaucracy, neglect, and indifference.
  Why veterans need a VA bill of rights now

  HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE

• The changes reportedly form part of efforts to strengthen the management team and advance health policies ahead of the midterm elections.
  RFK Jr. Overhauls HHS Leadership.

  ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY

• In other words, the SLS fueling system is like playing whack-a-mole. You fix one problem, and others show up. I predicted this.
  NASA testing SLS fuel leak repairs; UPDATE: Problems!
  
• The approval will allow SpaceX to do 25 launches per year (three of which are at night). The approval also appears to lay the groundwork for bringing Superheavy back not only to Boca Chica, but to Florida. It also lays the groundwork for bringing Starship back to Boca Chica after completing an orbital flight, to be caught by the tower chopsticks.
  FAA confirms “no significant impact” to environment for Starship/Superheavy at Boca Chica

  FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY

• If they want to avoid being permanently labeled as cowards and hypocrites, Christian legislatures in red states must start acting on their claimed principles.
  Red States Pay Lip Service To Christianity, But Won’t Touch Same-Sex Marriage
  
• Now, the FTC amplifies this – potentially unraveling a scheme where memberships and provider lists hype demand while hiding horrors. WPATH's SOC-8 is a sham: no age minimums for interventions – despite "very low" evidence ratings on most recommendations.
  Trump's FTC demands answers from WPATH, American Academy of Pediatrics, on support and advocacy for trans treatment
  
• The investigation could lead to consequences for the school district if Title IX violations are confirmed, potentially affecting policies on sports participation and locker room access.
  Trump Admin Investigates School Where Trans Athlete Allegedly Sexually Assaulted Teen Wrestler.

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• This is not the first time Gu, who turned her back on America to embrace China, has spoken publicly about the Games.
  Eileen Gu, U.S.-Born Olympian Competing for China, ‘Disappointed’ at Lack of Support for Her Packed Schedule
  
• Christian Toto: Berlin Film Festival under fire for refusing to take Legacy Media's bait.
  ‘Free Speech’ Bullying Shows Sorry State of Hollywood, Journalism
  
• Discovering the European Film Awards.
  Keep Your Movies. I’ll Take Cinema!

  HITHER & YON

• On Friday morning, the consistently pro-Nixon docents hadn’t heard about the important Feb. 8 story in The New York Times that describes a plot within the government to spy on the Nixon White House, with Navy Yeoman Charles Radford stealing documents and sending them to the Pentagon as insurance against budget and policy meddling from the person serving as the president of the United States.
  The Nixon Library Is Wrong About Nixon And The Deep State
  
• From Tocqueville to Kuran, history’s lesson endures: regimes rarely fall at peak oppression, but when fear fades, private truths surface, and the cascade begins.
  Tocqueville Meets the Human Rights Campaign

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