The Morning Report — 2/24/26

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS
• Victor Davis Hanson: Elite fashions harden into dogma, dissent becomes taboo, institutions fall in line—and only when reality intrudes does yesterday’s madness begin its overdue collapse.
  The Graveyard of Destructive Ideas

CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
• Legal Insurrection Urges the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights to Address Intersectionality Ideology Which Has Fomented Hate and Violence
  Intersectionality is an “intellectual foundation for violence, terrorism, antisemitism, and anti-westernism”
  
• “Three people familiar with the matter” reportedly told NBC News that Pirro’s office “decided to stop pursuing the case” against Sens. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) and Mark Kelly (D-AZ), and Reps. Chris Deluzio (D-PA), Chrissy Houlahan (D-PA), Maggie Goodlander (D-NH), and Jason Crow (D-CO).
  Report: U.S. Attorney Pirro’s Office Halts Case Against Democrats Who Encouraged Military Disobedience

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

• The Supreme Court’s upcoming decision on birthright citizenship could reshape immigration law and affect millions of individuals.
  Trump Warns Supreme Court Ruling in Favor of Birthright Citizenship Would Boost China.
  
• (Laken) Riley is the young nursing student who was attacked and killed during a morning jog on the University of Georgia campus. President Trump chose the date, February 22, because Riley was brutally murdered on February 22, 2024.
  WATCH: President Trump Declares ‘National Angel Family Day’ Honoring Victims of Illegal Alien Crime
  
• Then I urge ICE to use a fire-axe to lop the bastard's arm off, then throw his putrid corpse into a cesspool- jjs
  Dem Rep. Ryan: I’ll ‘Quite Literally’ Chain Myself to Perimeter to Block ICE Facility

  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE

• Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) defended the U.S. Coast Guard for continuing to work while not getting paid during the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shutdown, noting that “America loses” as a result of the shutdown.
  John Fetterman Defends Coast Guard, Blasts DHS Shutdown: ‘America Loses’
  
• But despite the setback, he retains his tariff authority under other statutes.
  Conservative Supreme Court Strikes Down Trump’s Sweeping “Emergency” Tariffs
  
• This is a truly Bizarro World story out of deep blue Prince George’s County, Md.
  You Will Not Believe Why This Deep Blue County Is Evicting Condo Residents

  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

• The Greens, a formerly marginal far-left party focused on environmentalism, are increasingly displacing the governing Labour Party on the British left as they court ethnic minorities and pro-'Palestinian' activists.
  WATCH: Far-Left Greens Court Muslim Vote in UK Special Election with Urdu-Language Ad Campaign.

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

• Sensitivity seminars won’t deter harassment. Equal treatment under the law will.
  This Group Thinks the Answer to Anti-Semitism Is More DEI
  
• The party of Roosevelt faces a consequential choice that will shape its moral credibility and political future. The question is simple: Will Democrats confront antisemitism and anti-Zionist extremism within their ranks, or continue to excuse, elevate, and normalize it? (Pimping the progressive/fascistic FDR as sane, pro-America-as-founded and Judeophilic is laughable, but hey, it's the NY Post - jjs)
  How anti-Israel Democrats are radicalizing the party
  
• (Robert) Spencer believes that Mamdani deliberately omitted the part where Muslims massacred Jews. “There is no way he does not mean this as a warning to the Jews of New York,” said Spencer, “that he is going to be fostering mass Muslim migration into New York and he expects it to shake out exactly as it did when Mohammad moved to Medina.” Most Jewish New Yorkers have no idea what Mamdani is doing. They think he is just quoting his religious tradition to foster tolerance, when in fact he is threatening the entire New York Jewish community.
  Mamdani’s Disguised Threat to New York City’s Jews

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

• U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon was appointed by President Donald Trump.
  Judge Rips Jack Smith’s ‘Brazen’ Attempt To Release Report On Trump Docs
  
• Dragged through the Democrats’ endless lawfare campaign, Jim Troupis is asking the liberal-led state Supreme Court to consider due process.
  Blue State Justice: Lawfare-Plagued Trump Lawyer Asks Judge Who Smeared Him As Racist To Recuse

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID

• The mayor’s budget bluster may be his first political misstep.
  Tax the Rich—Or Mamdani Will Tax You All

  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

• They make Jeffrey Epstein look like Mother Teresa.
  Gov. Newsom Frees the Worst Child Rapists in America

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

• During Tucker Carlson’s disturbingly dishonest, ultra-combative interview with U.S. Ambassador Mike Huckabee, Carlson replayed his biggest tropes: America’s “toxic relationship with Israel.” Israeli leaders were in league with Jeffrey Epstein and had visited Epstein Island. (After Huckabee suggested a defamation lawsuit, Carlson immediately backtracked and uploaded an apology video.) Israel was “purging Christians from the Holy Land,” with those dastardly Jews scheming “to keep Americans from noticing.” (No apology for that one.) 
  Apparently, Tucker Carlson Supports the Muslim Ownership of Christian Slaves
  
• "The police must stop their two-tier approach of criminalising lawful speech," the preacher's lawyer, Jeremiah Igunnubole, said.
  UK Christian street preacher arrested on suspicion of inciting religious hatred for preaching against transgenderism, Islam
  
• The State Department announced its intention to revoke the visas of five foreign individuals who have allegedly censored Americans.
  State Department Works To Revoke Visa Of U.K. Operative Who Allegedly Censored The Federalist, Other Americans
  
• ‘We are prepared to walk off the job,’ reporters say, as they foist large inflatable rat at protest
  ProPublica Faces Threat of Newsroom Strike
  
• Cooper’s investigation, aired as a 15-minute segment on “60 Minutes” on Feb. 22, prioritized diminishing Trump’s hyperbolic claims while missing multiple human rights allegations. Cooper said he visited South Africa’s farms “because of what President Trump said last May about the murders of South African farmers” and ultimately reported that the country faces rampant crime with farmers becoming targets of opportunity. However, multiple South Africans told the Daily Caller that targeted attacks against white residents have been a serious issue.
  Vanderbilt Poofter/Anderson Cooper’s South Africa Report Whitewashed Brutal Reality Of Afrikaner Murders

  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• New evidence shows that the Supreme Court’s ban on affirmative action is not a setback; instead, it facilitates improved outcomes for all.
  Surprise: Basing College Admissions On Merit Instead Of Skin Is Good For Everyone

  L'AFFAIRE EPSTEIN

• The former British ambassador to the United States, hand-picked to serve Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s government in that role, has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office. The arrest follows alleged revelations in emails published by the U.S. Department of Justice of Mandelson’s communications with now deceased, disgraced, financier and influence peddler Jeffrey Epstein.
  Labour Grandee, Former Ambassador to Washington Peter Mandelson Arrested After Epstein Emails Claims
  
• The Epstein files sent shockwaves through the global political sphere.
  Epstein Accusations Against Dem Strategist Trigger Campaign Chaos
  
• This development coincides with Paramount Skydance’s new pitch for Warner Bros. Discovery.
  CBS News Drops Peter Attia After Epstein Revelations.
  
• Benz, who served in President Donald Trump’s first administration and is now the executive director of the Foundation of Freedom Online, told the Daily Caller News Foundation (DCNF) there needs to be “a much heavier transparency drive” in order for much of Trump’s MAGA base to turn out to back Republicans in the midterms.
  EXCLUSIVE: Mike Benz Says Trump Admin Has ‘Once-In-Generation’ Chance To Put Deep State On Defense Post-Epstein Files

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

• The political playbook has three parts: 1-Convince Americans that mass AI job loss is inevitable. 2-Channel that fear and ennui into galvanizing support for Universal Basic Income (UBI) redistribution in the long-term. 3-Co-opt populist concerns over AI data centers driving up electricity and water bills for everyday Americans in the short-term.
  ‘CODE RED:’ Inside the Left’s 2026 Strategy to Weaponize AI Job Loss Fears Before the Midterm Elections
  
• “He was like a 10-year-old, name calling, foot stomping, berating Supreme Court justices. He’s like a baby”
  Chuck Schemer Suddenly Against ‘Berating Supreme Court Justices’

  POLITICS

• And in doing so, they endorse her destructive policies.
  Dems Pick a Communist to Give Response to the State of the Union
  
• Democrats drew much criticism for their behavior while he spoke in 2025, the Hill reported Monday. At the time, many of them “held signs accusing Trump of lying, others walked out mid-speech, and Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) made waves by standing and heckling the president with a cane pointed at the dais — an extraordinary scene that led to Green’s ejection from the room.”
  Democrats Hope to Avoid Wild Antics During President Trump’s SOTU After ‘Embarrassing’ Behavior at 2025 Speech
  
• As always, we just need to get our voters to show up, and the Republican Party has the necessary information and money to step up and make this happen.
  Looking Ahead To Voter Turnout In The Midterms
  
• An all-you-can-eat buffet of free stuff and Trump sucks represented the ideological substance of California’s late-AWFL Khmer Rouge party.
  California Democrats Pile Out Of Clown Car At Their Convention
  
• The outspoken rapper Nicki Minaj was just as direct: “His way of bonding with black ppl is to tell them how stupid he is & that he can’t read,” she posted.
  How Gavin Newsom’s cringe ‘racist’ boast spells trouble for ‘28 Democrats
  
• Biss, the mayor of Evanston, Illinois, and Abughazaleh, a prominent left-wing social media influencer, are both running in Illinois’ 9th congressional district, which will hold its crowded Democratic primary on March 17 to replace retiring longtime Democratic Illinois Rep. Jan Schakowsky, 81. Both were spotted next to each other at Uptown Chicago’s Green Mill Cocktail Lounge, photos from multiple accounts posted to X on Thursday show.
  Married Democrat Candidate Cozies Up To Much Younger Far-Left Opponent Over Drinks

  IRAN ON the BRINK?!

• They were the first sizable protests held since the terror masters of Tehran crushed last month’s uprising by slaughtering thousands of their own citizens.
  More Student Protests Break Out in Iran as Reports Suggest U.S. Military Strikes
  
• BBC: “Students at several universities in Iran have staged anti-government protests – the first such rallies on this scale since January’s deadly crackdown by the authorities.” 
  Trump ‘Is A Man Of Action’: Iranians Receive Text Messages as Protests Reignite in Tehran
  
• Today, familiar voices are again urging renewed engagement, a recalibrated nuclear accord that would exchange sanctions relief for partial limits on enrichment. It is a seductive proposition. De-escalation packaged as pragmatism. But it risks repeating a dangerous illusion.
  Security Without Illusions — Iran, Munich, And A Test Of Western Credibility
  
• There are three wildcards today. If Iran fights back by bombing aircraft carriers, bombers, bases, and the Israeli homeland, what would happen if things go badly? What would happen if an American aircraft carrier were sunk or a stealth bomber shot down? Would Congress issue a declaration of war? At what point would we need to have an all-in response? And at what point in an extended conflict could Israel think it needs to deploy its nuclear arsenal? And if it did, would Pakistan, perhaps prompted by the Saudis who have long funded them, supply a bomb or two to Iran?
  Iran War Risks
  
• Approximately 50 embassy staff are affected, amid escalating tensions between the U.S. and Iran.
  U.S. Orders Partial Embassy Evacuation in Beirut as Iran War Looms.
  
• Addressing the Knesset — Israel’s parliament — during a special debate, Netanyahu said the country is navigating “very complex and challenging days,” cautioning that “no one knows what tomorrow will bring.”
  U.S. Military Aircraft Land in Israel as Netanyahu Warns Iran of ‘Force They Cannot Even Imagine’
  
• Israel's defense establishment is 'providing targets and discussing the different capabilities that need to be dealt with' in a potential strike, Israeli military adviser Amir Avivi said
  Not Just Nukes: Iran Producing Ballistic Missiles with ‘Chemical and Biological’ Warheads

  
  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• The State Department also expanded the “shelter in place” declaration for Americans in Mexico.
  U.S. Gave Mexico Intelligence for Operation That Killed Drug Cartel Leader
  
• The Mexican military killed CJNG leader Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, also known as “El Mencho,” during an operation Sunday after a shootout at his Jalisco home in which eight cartel members were killed, according to the AP. El Mencho and two bodyguards were reportedly critically wounded during the operation and died during evacuation, Mexican National Defense Secretary Ricardo Trevilla Trejo said in Spanish at a Monday press conference. 
  Drug Cartel Slaughters Mexican Soldiers After Deadly Raid Against Kingpin
  
• Trump has dealt a decisive blow to Mexico's cartel rule.
  Quiet in Mexico now -- but not business as usual
  
• Majority backs Trump's engagement in Latin America, Caribbean and Canada.
  Voters Give ‘Thumbs Up’ To Trump’s Foreign-Policy ‘Donroe Doctrine’ Activism: I&I/TIPP Poll
  
• Thankfully, enough social work member organizations voted against applying a harsh double standard to Israel last Wednesday.
  Effort To Expel Israel From Int’l Social Workers’ Federation Fails
  
• The funny thing is that conquering the entire country would actually be considerably easier, and less bloody, than that hockey game.
  We Vanquished Canada In Hockey. Should We Vanquish The Entire Canadian Regime Next?

  DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS

• Since 2017, at least 14 U.S. defense research projects supported by the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) — which is tasked by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) with investing in “high-risk, high-payoff research programs” — have included investigators simultaneously affiliated with Chinese national laboratories, state surveillance entities, military units and nuclear weapons development institutions, according to the report published by Parallax Advanced Research, a nonprofit funded by U.S. federal, state and municipal governments...
  EXCLUSIVE: US Intel Funded Projects Riddled With Chinese Gov’t-Linked Researchers
  
• China has seeded the West with thousands of agents pushing propaganda, engaging in espionage, fomenting protests, and silencing domestic dissent.
  China’s ‘Magic Weapon’ Reaches Deep Into America and the West
  
• Beijing’s data laws and America’s appetite for cheap, Chinese-linked tech created a quiet surveillance risk—one that may already sit inside millions of U.S. homes.
  Big Brother Is Here, and It’s China

  HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE

• “Americans deserve low-cost, high-quality healthcare – not anticompetitive hospital system contracts that make healthcare less affordable,” Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a written statement. “Under President Trump’s leadership, this Department of Justice will continue taking legal action to protect consumers and drive down healthcare costs across America.”
  Justice Department Sues OhioHealth for Anticompetitive Healthcare Contracts
  
• State bills that undercut TrumpRx and partners like CVS Health threaten to erase steep drug discounts, restrict patient access, and turn policy missteps into voter backlash.
  A Prescription for Disaster: Saving TrumpRx From State Legislation

  ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY

• Using both the Hubble Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers have made the first visual detection of another star’s heliosphere, in both X-rays and in the infrared.
  First visual detection of another star’s heliosphere
  
• ...the Webb Space Telescope has made its first detection of a supernova progenitor, in the infrared. That image is to the right, showing the star prior to the June 2025 supernova explosion.
  Webb imaged a star before it went supernova

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

• The hospital will no longer provide transgender surgeries for anyone.
  After Boasting About $40K Trans Surgeries, Vanderbilt Health Reverses Course

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• Rice boasted during a podcast last week that “it is not going to end well” for corporations, news organizations, and law firms that “bent the knee” to Trump, claiming that their deference to the president is unpopular. She said that firms aligned with Trump could face an “accountability agenda” if Democrats return to power, stating, “This is not going to be an instance of forgive and forget.”
  Netflix’s Stock Plunges After Refusing to Fire Susan Rice Over Threats to Trump Officials
  
• Fortune 500 companies are waking up and understanding what time it is. It’s time for businesses to get back to business.
  Fortune 500’s DEI Retreat Shows The Corporate Social Credit System Is Collapsing
  
• Christian Toto: Inspiration behind nominee 'I Swear' sets off wave of apologies, critiques
  BAFTA Meltdown Captures Woke Mind Virus to Perfection
  
• “Saunders is one of the few writers everyone seems to really like...Saunders is also capable of more sustained effects...The reader is left with the feeling that Saunders has boxed himself into a corner artistically.”
  George Saunders’ Reluctant Morality Tale

  HITHER & YON

• Nuyorican music icon, activist, and retired law enforcement officer Willie Colón passed away in his native New York on Saturday at the age of 75, leaving an unfillable and quintessentially American void in Spanish-language music.
  World Mourns Willie Colón: The Unapologetically Pro-Police, MAGA Founding Father of Salsa

  FINALLY . . .

• In 2015, Edmonds became the first American serviceman to be recognized with Israel’s highest honor for non-Jews, “Righteous Among Nations.”
  ‘We Are All Jews Here’: Master Sgt. Roddie Edmonds to Receive the Medal of Honor

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