YEP:

It’s important to understand that progressive technocracy has become a looting operation.

It’s just connected people feeding at the trough.

You could argue that’s always been the case but now nothing gets built. There’s nothing to show for it. Not even a Boss Tweed Courthouse.… https://t.co/KA3bDhvemp

— Coddled Affluent Professional (@feelsdesperate) February 21, 2026

Related:

Are you guys ready to make a ruckus? I’m looking at MILLIONS of dollars going from the CA budget directly to orgs whose core function is to protest.

They then, on their socials post that they are hiring “organizers” to conduct such protests. With your money. pic.twitter.com/Wimte37GO5

— Cam Higby 🇺🇸 (@camhigby) February 21, 2026

NO KINGS:

The whole world knows that the @EU_Commission weaponized its censorship law against @elonmusk because he bought Twitter and made it a free speech platform.

The Committee will continue to expose the @EU_Commission as it tries to hide its decade-long censorship regime.…

— House Judiciary GOP 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 (@JudiciaryGOP) February 20, 2026

STANDING UP AGAINST HATE AND BIGOTRY: Yale Vows to Investigate Anti-Semitic Graffiti On Campus Quads.

THAT’S A REAL POSER: USA Today: Trump’s economy is resilient. So why doesn’t he get more credit?

WARNING:

This is important. It signals the kind of dynamic that gripped Spain in first half of 1930s, as the govt of the Republic lurched btw Left and Right. Eventually, both sides hated each other so much that civil war was inevitable. Watch this for background:https://t.co/pDpfw5ATzz https://t.co/GuKVrFT7Nv

— Rod Dreher (@roddreher) February 20, 2026

OPEN THREAD: Because I love you and I want you to be happy.

CLOSE CALLS: ‘We almost did have a really terrible day.’ NASA now says Boeing’s 1st Starliner astronaut flight was a ‘Type A mishap.’

But worse than the technical problems were the management problems:

The dividing lines between them are clearly defined. For example, any incident that causes at least $2 million of damages or other unplanned mission costs, or involves unexpected “departure from controlled flight,” is a Type A mishap.

CFT clearly met those criteria, Isaacman said today. But NASA did not classify the mission as a Type A mishap during and shortly after CFT, apparently because agency officials were too focused on getting Starliner certified to fly operational astronaut missions to the ISS.

“Concern for the Starliner program’s reputation influenced that decision,” Isaacman said today. “Programmatic advocacy exceeded reasonable balance and placed the mission, the crew and America’s space program at risk in ways that were not fully understood at the time decisions were being contemplated. This created a culture of mistrust that can never happen again, and there will be leadership accountability.”

With CFT officially being designated a Type A mishap, he added, “the record is now being corrected.”

People need to be canned, with serious prejudice, for that.

ALIENS: Giant Gravity Anomaly Under Antarctica Is Getting Stronger, Scientists Reveal.

Something was awakened by the Neueschwabenland Campaign, wasn’t it?

FASTER, PLEASE: New Inhalable Tuberculosis Treatment Could Replace Months of Daily Pills.

FASTER, PLEASE: Closing in on a universal vaccine: Nasal spray protects mice from respiratory viruses, bacteria and allergens.

IF I CAN’T BUY ONE IT’S NOT REAL: Volkswagen’s 503-HP GTI From Gran Turismo Is Back in the Spotlight. No, “fresh new images” don’t count.

IT’S PARENTAL MALPRACTICE TO SEND YOUR KIDS TO PUBLIC SCHOOL THESE DAYS:

🚨 BREAKING: Leftist school faces mass calls for a lawsuit after an 11 YO CHILD with SPECIAL NEEDS got left in the dust, miles from school, during an anti-ICE walkout

He called the mother. She didn’t even know it was happening.

THIS HAS TO BE STOPPED! pic.twitter.com/mUNpRDfCmv

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) February 20, 2026

WAIT, I THOUGHT SUICIDE WAS AN INALIENABLE RIGHT? Finding No Link to Increased Homicides, NYU Uses Bloomberg Data to Claim 3D Guns Mean More Suicides.

SAVAGES AND BARBARIANS:

Douglas Murray:

"Imagine what kind of a psychopath you have to be to gang rape a girl and then shoot her in the head. Most won't be proud of that, but Hamas is."

The vast majority of Gazans celebrated this. pic.twitter.com/xa9O7Omlon

— Vivid.🇮🇱 (@VividProwess) February 19, 2026

OH, CANADA:

"Ontario’s euthanasia regulators have tracked 428 cases of possible criminal violations — and not referred a single case to law enforcement, say leaked documents." https://t.co/WjBF0v2IKk via @tnajournal

— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) February 19, 2026

THE KIDS AREN’T ALRIGHT: Gen Z is skipping sex to do this instead, study says.

Or maybe they are: “They’re not drinking and they’re not having sex. So what is today’s youth actually doing? According to an EduBirdie survey of 2,000, 67% of Gen Zers would choose a restful night’s sleep over a good romp in the sheets. Further shocking frisky generations before them, the survey also revealed that 64% of youngsters would rather prioritize keeping a stable job, 59% are focused on their personal success, half are shifting their attention to maintainig healthy friendships and 46% prefer some solo time to getting it on.”

Personally, I always found a restful night’s sleep was easier after a good romp in the sheets. But I guess that’s old-fashioned now.

I’VE SEEN THE LOCKDOWNS AND THE DAMAGE DONE: A quarter of pregnant women are delaying prenatal care, CDC report finds. “It’s possible the pandemic played a role in delayed care.”

The overturning of Roe v. Wade is also mentioned as a possibility, though it’s hard to see how limits on abortion would affect prenatal care.

I NOW START WITH THE ASSUMPTION THAT INCIDENTS LIKE THIS ARE HOAXES: Police refute claim that black Virginia Tech professor was victim of racist attack.

I’m seldom wrong.

MASSIVE RESISTANCE: University of Iowa job postings include ‘DEI language’ despite state ban.

DON SURBER: Why They Want California Ruined.

CHANGE: The Global Revolt Against Greenism.

LOL, TOM FRIEDMAN: New York Times Columnist Tom Friedman Plays His Readers for Fools—Again: Friedman cites phony Soros-PLO poll to smear Israel as apartheid pariah state.

Is he a useful idiot? Or just . . . useful?

JONATHAN TURLEY ON RO KHANNA’S ABUSE OF POWER: Ro Khanna and the Impunity of “Wealthy, Powerful Men.”

Last year, I wrote a column expressing concerns over the move to release the Epstein files en masse, including grand jury material. The files include a wide range of tangential figures and unsupported allegations common to criminal investigations. Politicians eager to capitalize on the scandal would likely show little concern for the underlying facts in “outing” names and repeating unproven allegations.

That fear was realized this week with the chest-pounding speech of Rep. Ro Khanna (D., Cal.) on the House floor in which he took credit for outing six “wealthy, powerful men” who he suggested were actively shielded by the DOJ from public exposure. After the DOJ unredacted the names at his request, he read them on the floor. It turns out that four have nothing to do with Epstein.

Had Khanna made these comments outside of the House floor, he would be looking at four defamation lawsuits. However, Khanna knew the men could not sue him because of the immunity afforded to him under the Constitution’s Speech and Debate Clause.

The four were literally just randoms who stood in a police lineup, as people do, along with the actual suspect. Congress should have internal remedies for abuse of the House and Senate floor.

CDR SALAMANDER: Again…ESB’s Carry the Tactical Load …build more of what proves itself.

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY:

This BRITISH woman trying to exit the bus is a metaphor for the entire West right now. pic.twitter.com/nSvJAublyX

— Don Keith (@RealDonKeith) February 18, 2026