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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CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
• After the man was apprehended the Capitol Police posted to X: “At this time, there does not appear to be any other suspects or ongoing threat. Out of an abundance of caution, please continue to stay away from the area while we investigate and collect evidence. Again, at this time, one person is in custody.”
  DC Police: Man with Shotgun Runs Toward Capitol, Gets Arrested (Arrested? Why wasn't he ventilated?!- jjs)
  
• Unhinged insults, rants, delusion, demands, and demagoguery.
  The Left’s Descent into Madness

  "DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST/GLOBALIST BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY

• Abrego Garcia has an American wife and child and has lived in Maryland for years, but he immigrated to the U.S. illegally as a teenager. In 2019, an immigration judge ruled that he could not be deported to El Salvador because he faced danger there from a gang that had threatened his family. By mistake, he was deported there anyway last year.
  Federal, OBAMA Hack-in-Black, rules Kilmar Abrego Garcia can’t be re-detained by immigration authorities
  
• "If this matter were actually about the law or due process, Kilmar Abrego Garcia would already be deported and would never set foot in this country again; Judge Xinis will not be satisfied until he is authorized to live in the United States forever,” Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement (he'd have been put to death and turned into shark chum - jjs)
  An Obama Judge Gives MS-13 Gang Member a Free Pass to Stay in America
  
• Over the week, 21-year-old illegal alien Zaid Mayen and 20-year-old illegal alien Jonathan David Garcia Larios were arrested by the Pitt County Sheriff’s Office and charged with first-degree burglary, assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, first-degree kidnapping, and first-degree forcible sexual offense. (Islamo/Wetback/Homo/subhuman beasts, a veritable quadfecta of Democrat constituencies - jjs)
  Pair of Illegal Aliens Accused of Torturing, Sexually Assaulting Man in North Carolina Home Invasion

• Fahey said, “I think sanctuary cities is where you go because, one, that’s where the numbers are. and we need to and I think Congress needs to do more to figure out a way to withhold funds from sanctuary cities.”
  Exclusive — Former Acting ICE Director: We Are Going to Move on from MN, Target Sanctuary Cities and States, Withold Funds
  
• Oscar Vasquez Lopez, 38, initially complied when ICE agents attempted a traffic stop in Chatham County but then made a “reckless” U-turn and fled, running a red light before colliding with a civilian vehicle, according to an ICE statement.
  Illegal Alien Kills Georgia Teacher While Fleeing From ICE
  
• The mayor said he made the choice "at a time when immigrant New Yorkers face escalating attacks and uncertainty."
  Meet The Radical ‘Abolish ICE’ Activist Tapped As Mamdani’s New Immigration Chief
  
• McLaughlin originally planned to begin her departure in December, but the spokeswoman pushed back her leave following the Renee Good and Alex Pretti shootings in Minnesota, a source familiar with her plans told the Caller. The exit comes as DHS faces turmoil and backlash amid immigration efforts in Minnesota.
  DHS Spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin To Leave Trump Admin

• The accused face up to 20 years in federal prison for each human trafficking count, with additional charges for fraud and neglect.
  Haitian Migrants Charged With Presiding Over Fraud, Forced Labor, Patient Neglect at Adult Daycare.
  
• How many more people have to die?
  If You Can’t Speak English, Should You Be Allowed to Drive?

• The Census Bureau recently announced its plan to administer a survey that includes the query ‘Is this person a citizen of the United States?’
  Trump Admin Fights To Keep Illegal Immigrants From Distorting Census

  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE

• Everything Woke turns to shit - DC Water CEO David L. Gadis has championed equity and diversity throughout his tenure. He was also named in a lawsuit against his former employer for allegedly withholding information about water contamination in Flint, Michigan.
  DC Water’s CEO Oversaw $520 Million In DEI Contracts — And The Biggest Sewage Spill In US History
  
• The Virginia Supreme Court has an obligation to step in and uphold the state’s founding document — no matter how politically unpopular it may be.
  VA Supreme Court’s Gerrymandering Charade Shows How The Judiciary Is Wrecking Its Credibility
  
• One item on which Republicans need to do a better job is learning how to play the long game in politics, especially the courts. 
  The GOP and the Courts
  
• "This would effectively be a tax on working- and middle-class New Yorkers."
  Mamdani’s $127B Budget Plan Relies On Property Tax Increases And ‘Raiding’ Rainy Day Fund

  
  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

• Apparently, Americans must give up their dogs to avoid appearing “Islamophobic.”
  Leftist Outrage Mob Comes for Congressman Who Loves Dogs
  
• 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.
  REPORT: Three Million Dogs to be Killed by Firing Squad Ahead of World Cup

• State Representative Gabe Woolley introduced House Joint Resolution 1040, which would prohibit Oklahoma courts from applying Sharia law or other foreign legal systems in judicial decisions. The proposal is framed in the press release as an effort to ensure courts remain grounded in the United States Constitution and Oklahoma law.
  Exclusive: Oklahoma Lawmakers Introduce Measures to Bar Sharia Law in Courts and Restrict Foreign Influence

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

• New York City staffer praised Hamas terrorist attack, said it’s not fair to expect people to remain peaceful after being “locked up in a cage.”
  New York City ‘Mental Health’ Staffer: October 7 Attack on Israel Justified

  
  THE ECONOMY, STUPID

• Restoring free market capitalism.
  Trump: Restoring Capitalism in America

  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

• Boston gets an Islamic Valentine’s Day miracle.
  Murdering Husband of Illegal Alien Muslim Councilwoman Freed

• President Donald J. Trump’s new Homeland Security Task Force (HSTF) conducted a nationwide enforcement surge in January that resulted in more than 500 arrests, according to the White House. The task forces were established under Trump’s day-one executive order . . The operation targeted criminal cartels, transnational gangs, and cross-border smuggling networks, with a particular emphasis on crimes involving children. Authorities arrested 507 individuals during the surge. Of those, 231 face federal charges and 276 face state charges, and officials secured 16 federal indictments.
  New Trump Task Force Captures 500 in War on ‘ISIS of the Western Hemisphere.’
  
• When a society chooses to tolerate violent behavior, it does not abolish violence -- it reallocates it.
  A Revolving Door of Predators

  
  DIVINE’s MADNESS — Ongoing Leftist Fueled Transgender Terrorism

• Karol Markowicz: We can’t continue to engage in the delusion that one can actually change their gender, that “gender-reassignment surgery” is more than just mutilation and, of course, that the urge to change one’s birth gender isn’t already a mental-health emergency in and of itself that has recently become accompanied by horrific violence.
  The rise in transgender killers proves that we have a major mental health crisis unfolding

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

• Potential legal battle over FCC’s authority and implications for TV ownership rules.
  Newsmax CEO Ruddy ‘Prepared to Litigate’ Against Trump Admin.
  
• Details of Dorgan’s trans identity have been deemed unpublishable by corporate media outlets which refuse to call him a man.
  Corporate Media Give Trans Hockey Game Shooter The ‘Gunperson’ Treatment
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• Trump’s FTC is cracking down on Big Tech, with Ferguson targeting censorship and anticompetitive practices at Microsoft and Apple.
  Trump’s FTC Takes Up The Fight Against Big Tech Wokeness
  
• A new Politico poll on how Americans feel about data centers spells some iffy, not-so-good news for the Trump administration and pro-AI tech boosters who want to keep pushing forward with the country’s massive, and potentially transformative, AI buildout.
  Poll Spells Not-So-Good News For Trump Admin’s Most Ambitious Project Yet

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

• Ending EPA’s endangerment finding curbs climate-driven micromanagement, aiming to safeguard affordable energy, expand housing, and keep U.S. competitiveness anchored in abundance.
  Trump Repeals EPA’s Endangerment Finding, Preserving Affordable Energy and Housing

  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• It is time to restore education’s core mission: knowledge first, civics always, activism never.
  My Students Protesting ICE Cannot Answer One Question On The U.S. Citizenship Exam
  
• School groups claim the State prohibits them from expressing viewpoints on gender identity with which it disagrees.
  NY AG Letitia James Sued for Censoring Parents and School Boards Over Gender Debate
  
• Woke Portland Public Schools (PPS) are in trouble for blatantly racist programs. I know you’re shocked. . . The ironic part is that in districts where schools claim to be focusing specifically on helping minority students, the minority students usually have appalling scores. Obviously the racist programs are not helping anyone—neither those who receive special privileges nor those excluded. 
  Education Department Investigates Portland Schools for Racism
  
• Knowledge is not an optional decoration in a democracy. It is the raw material of self-government.
  How Oklahomans Can Outsmart The Bureaucracy To Require Better History Instruction In Public Schools
  
• 'The fix is in!' warns environmental economist, describing it as 'slanted'; also, 'Hamas minders … must be smiling' at new Harvard award
  Harvard Launching New Green Major Led by Divestment Activist

  SECOND AMENDMENT

• Fortunately, the nation’s highest court appears likely to strike down the new restriction. But there’s still so much work left for the court to do when it comes to protecting the right to keep and bear arms—including, specifically, against infringements by the Hawaiian government. Even without the express permission requirement hanging over their heads, Hawaiian concealed carry permit holders will still be prohibited from exercising their rights in an absurdly long list of “sensitive places.”  
  Look at the Defensive Gun Uses that Hawaii Wants to Criminalize
  
• Attorney General Pam Bondi said, “It is both unlawful and unacceptable for Veterans who serve our country to have their constitutional rights threatened. It has been my pleasure to partner with [VA Secretary Doug Collins] on this project, and I am directing the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms to review its regulations and propose changes that will prevent current and future violations of our Veterans’ Second Amendment rights.”
  Trump VA Ends Reporting Veterans to NICS for Simply Using a Fiduciary

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

• If there is a way to cheat, can there be any doubt that they will take it?  
  There is Ample Evidence to Enact the SAVE Act

  DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY, INSANITY

• Joe Morrissey himself received a pardon from Virginia's governor after child sex charge.
  FBI Investigated Scandal-Plagued Virginia Dem For Taking Bribes To Push For Pardons

• Shoffner said she joined a California-based climate group because of its support for a bill that would tax Americans for their emissions
  Arkansas Senate Candidate Running To 'Fight for Farmers' Backed Carbon Tax That Could Cost Them Hundreds of Millions of Dollars
  
• Democrat New York Reprobate. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez attempted to mock Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Sunday for factually stating that Spanish explorers brought horses to Mexico.
  Titty Caca AOC Attempts To Mock Marco Rubio Over Basic Historical Fact — It Quickly Blows Up In Her Face
  
• Democrat 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.
  TItty Caca AOC Spent Months Prepping For Disastrous Munich Appearance, Blames Conservatives For Poor Reviews

  POLITICS

• The results of these primaries could influence the balance of power in the U.S. Senate, with both parties vying for critical seats.
  Texas Early Voting Kicks Off as America First AG Paxton Seeks to Oust RINO Senator Cornyn.
  
• It is a new milestone in self-owning.
  ‘Sparkle Beach’ Newsom Admits It:  Trump Is No Threat To Democracy
  
• He presents Democrats as gentle, kind souls, riven by internal dissension, desperately trying to repel rabid Republican aggression.
  A Democrat’s Advice To His Party Is Completely Disconnected From Reality
  
• Democrat Wes Moore's presidential ambitions imploded over the past 10 weeks, but you'd have to be a pretty close student of the Maryland governor to know it, since most of the mainstream press is in cahoots with the aspiring 2028 Democratic presidential cohort.
  Wes Moore 2028 Drowning in River of Bullshit

  IRAN ON the BRINK?!

• Iranian state-affiliated outlets reported that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) launched missiles from coastal and inland positions during what it called the “Smart Control of the Strait of Hormuz” exercise, while drone units operated under signal-jamming conditions.
  Iran Fires Live Missiles in Strait of Hormuz as Talks Begin — IRGC Says U.S. Carriers ‘Can’t Do a Damn Thing’
  
• The Islamic Republic has stated it will not end its enrichment or ballistic missile programs, while Trump said a good deal would mean ‘no nuclear weapons, no missiles’
  Khamenei Threatens American Troops, Attacks Iranian Civilians Mourning Slain Protesters Amid Nuclear Negotiations With US
  
• : Oil prices initially rose due to military activity in the Strait of Hormuz, but later fell following news of progress in talks.
  Trump’s Iran Diplomacy Makes Headway, Price of Oil Drops.

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

• Stefan Renna, who works for Radio Television Suisse, went on a tirade against Israeli bobsleigh pilot Adam Edelman, spending more time blasting the athlete for his social media history than commenting on the event he was competing in, according to GBNews.
  Olympics Broadcaster Accuses Israeli Athlete of ‘Supporting Genocide’ During Live Broadcast
  
• Riyadh's reversal reminds us: America has only one real ally in the Middle East.
  The Saudi Mask Slips

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• Hearn warns that “no one is pure enough for these inquisitions. Jews fled the Soviet Union. They were expelled from communist Poland and fled the Middle East, except from Israel, because of antizionist campaigns.”
  Leftists Go Jew-Hunting in Britain
  
• Hillary was the vessel into which Europeans could pour their refusal to accept American political change.
  Attacking America Abroad, Hillary Clinton Is The Eileen Gu Of Politics 
  
• When all the ‘release valves’ for a civil society have been welded shut, society stops being ‘civil.’
  Europe’s Civilizational War Will Be Bloody

  
  DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS

• Dave Butler was close to General Vanilli Milley, and a frequent target of Secretary Hegseth.
  Hegseth Just Canned Top Pentagon Official

  
  HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE

• I’ve lost 50 pounds with GLP-1 drugs, and I’ve never felt better.
  Weight-Loss Medication May Have Dangerous Side Effects. I Don’t Care.
  
• Republicans should have spent the past months developing Obamacare alternatives, not engaging in a pointless effort to bail it out.
  GOP Focus On Futile Obamacare Bailout Instead Of MAGA Is A Great Way To Lose Midterms

  ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY

• What we think we know is that these mountains are likely made of ice, which at Pluto’s eternally cold environment is as hard as granite. We also think we know that they float on a layer of frozen nitrogen, but because that nitrogen can sublimate into gas when Pluto’s climate warms as its orbit brings it closer to the Sun, the foundation of these mountains is quite unstable. They can roll and drift about, even if they are the size of the Appalachian mountains in the eastern U.S.
  Pluto’s floating mountains of frozen ice
  
• Scientists have devised a mission profile that could actually get a spacecraft close to Comet 3I/Atlas sometime around 2085.
  A realistic plan to send a spacecraft to interstellar Comet 3I/Atlas

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

• A new bill would secure privacy for women in intimate spaces, including bathrooms and locker rooms.
  California Lawmaker Fights Back As Trans-Identifying Men Invade Women’s Spaces
  
• : Unfortunately, the medical association’s recommendation changes—and a change in tune from some among the globalist elite—will come too little, too late for many of the children who have been subjected to irreversible surgical and chemical alterations.
  Even The Atlantic Magazine Is Now Out AGAINST Child ‘Trans’ Genital Mutilation.
  
• John Stossel: Yes there are differences, but which is better?
  Girls vs. Boys

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• The end of moral asymmetry in American intellectual life.
  The Chomsky Moment And The Cracks In Cultural Hegemony
  
• Christian Toto: MMA stars unite for Netflix grudge match, but media reaction is more telling
  Carano-Rousey Fight Reveals Ugly Blacklist Truth
  
• Beloved actor James Van Der Beek died Feb. 11 after a battle with colorectal cancer. Fans know him for his famous roles in “Dawson’s Creek” and “Varsity Blues,” among other films and shows, including appearing on “Dancing with the Stars.” But it wasn’t until he came face-to-face with a grave cancer diagnosis that Van Der Beek told fans that being an actor wasn’t the role he cherished most. I think we can learn a lot from the way a Hollywood actor embraced cancer, faced death, and leaned into being a husband, father, and God’s child. Van Der Beek chose to love people rather than a career.
  James Van Der Beek’s greatest role wasn’t in Hollywood, it was fatherhood
  
• The partisan fertility gap.
  Will Falling Birth Rates Mean a More Conservative World?Unfortunately, birth rates are holding steady if not rising among Muslims all over the world.

  HITHER & YON

• “The Reverend Jesse Jackson is Dead at 84. I knew him well, long before becoming President. He was a good man, with lots of personality, grit, and ‘street smarts.’ He was very gregarious — Someone who truly loved people!” he wrote. (He loved HYMIETOWN best of all! - jjs)
  Trump Says Jesse Jackson Couldn’t Stand Obama

• Elana Meyers Taylor jumped from her sled in celebration, held up the American flag and shared the news with her two deaf sons through sign language.
  Elana Meyers Taylor Honorably Freaks Out After Winning Gold Medal For America In Her 5th Olympics
  
• Ford and Conrad saw it coming: great powers compete without apology, and a West paralyzed by guilt risks losing not just territory, but the will to defend itself.
  Déjà Vu All Over Again

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