MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE: Joel Kotkin: Why China wants Calif. Gov. Gavin Newsom to be US president.

#WINNING:

Over 330,000 Federal employees have been fired, resigned, or retired last year and were not replaced.

The Federal workforce is now at its lowest level since 1966. pic.twitter.com/cRu6x8XAS4

— Christian Heiens 🏛 (@ChristianHeiens) February 15, 2026

ROGER SIMON: A Tale of Two Foxes: Enroute Nashville/Miami Beach, media schizophrenia is revealed. “What I learned was, on the surface, something I always knew, that there were two foxes—Fox News and Fox Business. (Yes, there are smaller tributaries, but we’ll ignore them for the moment.) What I didn’t realize was how deeply divergent the two Foxes could be at times, and what that says about media in general.”

CHANGE OF THE GUARD:

The Atlantic, a far left publication, has come out today with a piece about how indefensible it is to transition kids. Massive sea change. We’ve won the PR war to end this absurd abuse. pic.twitter.com/0GO56aqhRy

— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) February 15, 2026

So “Climate Change” is over now that Big Tech needs power for AI, the trans BS is out, Hillary’s speech suggests that immigrants are losing their appeal, so what will the next crazed Current Thing be for the left? You know there will be one, because there always has to be one.

AS MANY OF YOU KNOW, I’M ON THE BOARD OF THE NEW CIVIL LIBERTIES ALLIANCE, a nonprofit legal shop engaging in pro-liberty litigation, mostly in the context of the administrative state. Here’s the annual report on what they’ve accomplished in the past year.

OH, PLEASE HILLARY:

"Oops! We forever changed the demographics of America and Europe, destroyed social cohesion in the West, and called you a bigot for correctly saying it was bad. Anyways… you should put us back in charge now." https://t.co/VYQicdCMPy

— Geiger Capital (@Geiger_Capital) February 15, 2026

CHANGING THEIR MESSAGING BUT NOT THEIR GOALS:

I told you that their internal polling was apocalyptic https://t.co/5iClH5lwxu

— Edward Badgette (@acrimonyand) February 15, 2026

HAHA: Who could have seen this coming?

I’m lurking in this ICE alert chat and one of the AWFLs invited an illegal to the chat, who then invited like 50 more illegals and now the chat is entirely in Spanish and the AWFLs are getting REALLY ANNOYED pic.twitter.com/FLthNDgfoy

— Chadwick Moore (@Chadwick_Moore) February 15, 2026

SO MUCH WINNING: Batya Ungar-Sargon: The Latest Jobs Report Proves Trump’s Theory of the Economy: Tariffs and Deportations Put Money in the Pockets of Working-Class Americans.

THE LEFT LOOKS AFTER ITS OWN: She Resigned as Penn President After a Controversial Hearing. Now She’s Back. Liz Magill, the former president of the University of Pennsylvania, will be the new dean of Georgetown University’s law school.

OPEN THREAD: Ring out the weekend.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Why the SpaceX IPO will be good, bad, and ugly for other space stocks.

ROGER KIMBALL: How Deep Is the Deep State? The deep state resists exposure—but not forever. Patience, persistence, and power may yet cauterize the Leviathan.

PARTY OF HATE: Democrats Openly Fantasize About Anti-White Revolution While GOP Grovels.

RFK, JR.’S IMPACT: Popular Fast-Food Chain Removing Microwaves From All Its Restaurants.

AI AND THE LAW: “The Quality of Counsel’s Filings Further Deteriorated. . . . AI presents opportunities for efficiency gains to be sure, but the costs to clients and public faith in attorneys is steep where ethical duties and judgment are cast aside and a litigation put on autopilot.”

HERE’S A REVIEW OF THE Smith & Wesson Bodyguard 2.0. “Smith & Wesson revamped its Bodyguard 380 and may have created the best handgun in that caliber.

Here are my thoughts.

WELL, GOOD: I Love the Smell of Schadenfreude in the Morning: Gun Hater Stephen Colbert’s Ratings Have Collapsed.

YOU SHOULD OWN YOUR DEVICES: Verizon imposes new roadblock on users trying to unlock paid-off phones.

THEY WON’T LET YOU? No water or electricity, and children begging in streets filled with rubbish – but this is why I won’t leave Cuba. “In the pit of an economic slump, the island has gone from being run-down and picturesque to a horror show. The economy contracted by 11% between 2019 and 2024, with a further 5% fall through September 2025. Rubbish fills the streets, picked over by burgeoning bands of beggars. Rolling power cuts rack the island, spoiling the little food people have in their fridges, and making it hard to sleep. Anyone who protests is met with authoritarian force.”

If you want to leave, but are afraid of missing it, you might want to check out Zohran Mamdani’s New York.

Related: The Coming Revolution Down South: Will Cuba be Libre soon, and if so what happens next? And after that?

WELL, GOOD: Combining GLP-1 drugs with hormones may lower uterine cancer risk.

WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: IVF Without the Injections? How a Pain-Free Patch Could Become a Reality.

MICROBIOME NEWS: Your gut health might be messing with your sleep — here’s what to know.

MESSAGING:

Trump needs to be talking about Poop River non-stop. https://t.co/VgcRKEqiSl

— Cernovich (@Cernovich) February 15, 2026

BARACK OBAMA IS A BIG, FAT LIAR:

I get angry a lot when I hear Democrats lie, but I'm not sure I've ever been angrier than over the below video clip.

No one in the history of the USA has purposely caused more hateful division in America than Barack Obama.

For Frankfurt School Marxists, hate and division is THE… https://t.co/jQiz0Ldfz1

— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) February 15, 2026

Related:

Self-important jackasses destroying the lives of random people with no connection to Epstein at all. pic.twitter.com/yQeRsWWzmu

— Karol Markowicz (@karol) February 14, 2026

Motherfucker literally sued nuns to try to force them to pay for contraception and abortions.

Fuck outta here. https://t.co/4YFkLbxMrj

— RBe (@RBPundit) February 14, 2026