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February 24, 2026
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CHANGE: US military begins withdrawing from main base in northeast Syria, Syrian sources say. “Qasrak has been a main hub for the US-led global coalition fighting Islamic State in Syria, where US troops deployed over a decade ago, partnering with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) against the jihadist group. Kurdish forces agreed last month to integrate their institutions with Damascus.”
EXCUSE ME STEWARDESS, I SPEAK NEWSOM:
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) February 23, 2026
IF THERE’S A STRANGER TIMELINE THAN THIS ONE, I DON’T WANT TO LIVE ON IT:
DUDE ACCIDENTALLY FOUND THE CCP BACKDOOR. https://t.co/9sn1hhI2cs
— INVESTMENT HULK (@INVESTMENTSHULK) February 24, 2026
SINCE TIME IMMEMORIAL. NEXT QUESTION? Are Democrats Working Against Their Own Voters?
MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Not so toxic: Masculinity’s comeback makes America thrive.
LIMITED TIME DEAL: Beckham Hotel Collection Bed Pillows King Size Set of 2. #CommissionEarned
ANSWERING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Why do falls rise with age? Study points to cerebellar neuron firing.
WHICHEVER WAY THE (LUCRATIVE) WINDS BLOW:
It is uncanny how 2014 Tom Nichols, Bill Kristol, Rick Wilson, et al sounded exactly like the people they call dangerous fascists today. https://t.co/pi9Gue4FZn
— Noam Blum (@neontaster) February 24, 2026
Also from Miller: “Trump was a permission structure for them. ‘Someone that bad can’t be the same as me, so I am not like him.’ So now they believe they can grift any way they want, because to them, he is always worse. See Tim Miller, Bulwark etc..”
Earlier (From Ed): The Atlantic’s Got a Fevah, and It Needs More Nazism!
NEOFEUDALISM: Illinois ranks near bottom in social mobility.
Ugaste told The Center Square. “Those who are in dire economic straits, giving them a handout, more SNAP benefits or putting them on Medicaid isn’t a help. That’s a safety net to help them get over a hump. We have to have good paying jobs with good benefits.”
With Archbridge Institute researchers defining social mobility as “the ability to better oneself and those around them,” based on such factors as institutions and rule of law, entrepreneurship and growth, education and skills development and social capital, Illinois now ranks 38th across the country, including behind at least five other midwestern states that were all ranked in the top quarter.
Data also points to the state’s ongoing struggles with economic growth, high regulations and persistent corruption by elected officials as some of the biggest drivers for its poor overall standing.
Illinois’ lowest rankings came on institutions and predatory state action at 49th, followed by entrepreneurship at 45th and judicial system quality at 40th.
Big Government is how the well-connected use state power to protect their status and freeze out any rabble who might otherwise become competitors.
HOW THE REVOLUTIONARY LEFT EMBRACED RADICAL ISLAM:
In 2006, in a public discussion of Israel’s assault on Lebanon, the feminist scholar Judith Butler characterized Hamas and Hezbollah as “part of the global left.” Butler’s remarks provoked a scandal at the time, but after the October 7 attacks, it became common to hear Western leftist protesters chanting slogans like “long live Hamas!” How did Middle Eastern terrorist groups rooted in radical Islamic ideology come to occupy such a central place in otherwise secular left-wing politics? In The Revolutionists: The Story of the Extremists Who Hijacked the 1970s, journalist Jason Burke takes up this question, exploring the historical roots of the Palestinian national movement and situating its rise within the transition from 1970s left-wing radicalism to the emergence of radical Islamism, which reshaped global politics in the 1980s.
Burke’s account brings to life the central figures of this transnational revolutionary movement: Leila Khaled of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), Fusako Shigenobu of the Japanese Red Army, Ulrike Meinhof from the German Red Army Faction, and “Carlos the Jackal,” the nom de guerre of the sociopathic Venezuelan-born gun for hire Ilich Ramírez Sánchez. These leftist militants moved fluidly across borders, traveling from sympathetic regimes in the Middle East to hubs of revolutionary fervor, most notably the PLO’s refugee camps in Lebanon and Jordan. They hijacked airplanes and marched with Kalashnikovs in the desert. Inspired by the revolutionary tracts of Frantz Fanon, Régis Debray, Che Guevara, and Mao Zedong, they forged a transnational network of anti-colonial insurgency and solidarity.
These left-wing radicals took Mao’s dictum that “political power grows out of the barrel of a gun” to heart and concluded that electoral politics and peaceful protest were insufficient for taking on the global forces of capitalism, imperialism, and colonialism. But this analysis also created its own problems. The enemy these militants fought was not a single politician, national government, or corporation, but a vast, complex global political and economic system, so it was always unclear how a small number of assassinations and kidnappings could defeat it.
This is part of why Israel became their primary target. The radicals of the era viewed the Jewish state as the most egregious manifestation of capitalist decadence and settler colonialism, but also as small and weak enough to be brought down through violent direct action. By doing so, they believed they could hasten the inevitable collapse of a rotten Euro-American imperial system.
As Mark Steyn wrote 20 years ago, “our tolerance of our own tolerance is making us intolerant of other people’s intolerance, which is intolerable. And, unlikely as it sounds, this has now become the highest, most rarefied form of multiculturalism. So you’re nice to gays and the Inuit? Big deal. Anyone can be tolerant of fellows like that, but tolerance of intolerance gives an even more intense frisson of pleasure to the multiculti masochists.”
QED:
None of this was accidental or inevitable
Your ruling class manufactured this outcome for a reason
Time to ask why https://t.co/y6HtbJ4tXu
— Auron MacIntyre (@AuronMacintyre) February 24, 2026
Meanwhile, in Old Blighty:
If the government sanctioned rape of children isn’t your red line, then you have no red line. pic.twitter.com/aeMSOaPjBI
— InfantryDort (@infantrydort) February 24, 2026
Speaking of which: While Serving as UK’s Top Prosecutor, Keir Starmer Routinely Let Off Grooming Gang Rapists With… A Warning Letter.
“FLUSHING CHAGOS”: ‘Right Now, That Deal Is Worth Toilet Paper, Basically.’
As do the sad tales of the continued unraveling of all the excuses the Starmer government has offered for why the deal must go through.
For one thing, it’s dragged out long enough that Starmer’s Number One Guy in Washington to sell the deal to Trump, former British ambassador to the US, Peter Mandelson, was arrested early this morning (our time) over his ties to?
None other than Jeffrey Epstein.
So much more at the link.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: The most famous local sandwich from every state.
TALKING POINTS HAVE GONE OUT:
The most debunked Dem lie. According to the WaP/NYT, Martha’s Vineyard would be more idyllic if they mass absorbed illegals from failed, violent nations. Third world migration bring third world crime & third world conditions. There’s a reason no reporters live in migrant housing. https://t.co/ZRHBNYYLEz
— Stephen Miller (@StephenM) February 24, 2026
Martha’s Vineyard, you say?
MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: AI Blog Post Tanks IBM $30 Billion… And That’s the Least Weird Part.
DEWALT 20V MAX Cordless Drill and Impact Driver. #CommissionEarned
DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: Killer of Caltech Astrophysicist Had Previous Gun Charges Dropped ‘In the Interest of Justice.’ “It is unclear why Snyder’s charges were dropped by the judge under the code. The electronic court records did not provide the name of who was overseeing the case.”
#HIMTOO?
🚨 NEW: Norway’s former Prime Minister Thorbjørn Jagland is hospitalized following a suicide attempt after police began an investigation following his appearance in the Epstein files.
He is previously in the files telling Epstein that “If Trump wins I’ll settle on your island.” pic.twitter.com/o8oSEzzagg
— Autism Capital 🧩 (@AutismCapital) February 24, 2026
NEWSOM’S COMM SHOP CONTINUES TO FLAIL:
lol this is the worst spin job ever.
Was he talking to a dyslexia support group? No. He told a room of full of black people that they can’t read. pic.twitter.com/b37XE7HDxa
— Dan Crenshaw (@DanCrenshawTX) February 24, 2026
Because the will to power runs through victimhood on the left, Newsom’s going to wring every last drop that he can out of that “dyslexia:”
Did you know that Gavin Newsom was "dyslexic" before he brought it up last week?
It's obvious what he's doing. He knows that the woke left is going to heavily penalize him for being a straight, white guy. He desperately needed to surface some "oppressed" intersectional identity.…
— Colin Wright (@SwipeWright) February 23, 2026
THEY ENABLED MUTILATING CHILDREN AND MUST BE HELD TO ACCOUNT:
Honestly, who didn't see this train wreck coming? Legacy organizations from the AMA to the ACLU should not be let off the hook for what they promoted and defended. Their ideologically motivated gross irresponsibility must not be forgotten. https://t.co/oC7JcFPvpf
— Robert P. George (@McCormickProf) February 24, 2026
TO BE FAIR, AT LEAST HALF OF ALL POLITICIANS LOSE, IF NOT NECESSARILY IN A LANDSLIDE: If AI Were a Politician, It Would Lose in a Landslide.
UNEXPECTEDLY: SF Homeless Nonprofit CEO Charged with Nine Felonies for Allegedly Misappropriating over $1M in Public Funds.
The former CEO of a San Francisco-based homelessness nonprofit was charged Monday with nine felony counts after allegedly misappropriating more than $1.2 million in public funds.
Gwendolyn Westbrook, 71, is the former CEO of the United Council of Human Services. Charges against Westbrook include misappropriation of public funds, grand theft, and filing four years of false tax returns.
According to prosecutors, Westbrook misappropriated the $1.2 million through unauthorized payments to herself, improper cash withdrawals, and fraudulent reimbursements from 2019 to 2023. Prosecutors also claim Westbrook directly stole $91,000 from the United Council of Human Services. Court documents show that other large amounts of money are also missing from UCHS accounts.
The nonprofit has long faced scrutiny for its practices.
A 2022 audit by the city controller’s office found deeper issues with the group. UCHS, which had received close to $28 million in city funds, failed to place tenants in appropriate housing, failed to accurately calculate rent prices, and disregarded required hiring processes.
In 2023, “Gavin Newsom’s 10-year plan to end San Francisco homelessness [marked] 20-year anniversary.” Along the way, in December of 2009, SF Weekly had this classic Fox Butterfield-esque line: “Despite its spending more money per capita on homelessness than any comparable city, [San Francisco’s] homeless problem is worse than any comparable city’s.”