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.

THIS ACTUALLY BEGAN UNDER ADAMS, BUT WATCH IT ACCELERATE:

Under Mamdani, the Muslim calls to prayer in NYC is becoming the new normal @AmyMek pic.twitter.com/M5zuPXs8yX

— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) February 16, 2026

LIMITED TIME DEAL: The North Face THERMOBALL Jacket. #CommissionEarned

PURR:  I sent my book manuscript–Why We Walk on Eggshells:  How Our Civil Rights Law Helped Bring About the Woke Era–And the Trump Era, Too–to the publisher on Friday.  I’m finished … except for the part about the editing process, which will certainly take up some time.  I hope to be able to post more on Instapundit.  My first thought was that I would be able to spend the day cleaning out my closets and then maybe get a manicure.  Dammit, I’m a girl, and girls ought to be allowed to do girl things now and then.  Alas, the California Legislature is again trying to gut Proposition 209, so that is likely to be my full-time job for a while.  With luck, we’ll be able to kill the bill (as we did in 2023-24 with help from Instapundit readers).  I’ll be posting about that soon.

The closets will have to wait … maybe until 2027.  But I am going to have a Dr. Pepper float to celebrate the book manuscript.

IT’S ONLY JOBS: City Hall boots Israel drone supplier from Brooklyn Navy Yard — after Mamdani took office.

A NYC manufacturer that supplies drones to Israel to monitor the Gaza Strip border was booted from the city-owned Brooklyn Navy Yard six weeks after pro-Palestine Mayor Zohran Mamdani took office.

The Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corp. — whose board members serve at the pleasure of the mayor and manage the 300-acre industrial park — opted not to renew its lease with Easy Aerial, Councilman Lincoln Restler (D-Brooklyn) gloated on X Thursday.

“This public asset should not be leasing space to companies producing drones that are being transformed into weapons of war,” he said.

The company has long been the target of protests outside the former Navy shipyard, including by a group called “Demilitarize Brooklyn Navy Yard” that demanded the board evict tenants that assist Israel.

State Assemblyman Kalman Yeger (D-Brooklyn), a staunch Zionist, said the decision to boot Easy Aerial is foolish.

“Chasing good jobs out of New York because Mr. Mamdani and his friends hate Jews is probably not a very good economic development program,” he said.

But it’s excellent moral preening.

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.

HEH: In Honor of Gov. Newsom: Use ‘Obama Day’ to Celebrate His 3,797 Drone Strike Victims.

ON SUNDAYS I RUN PROMO FOR INDIE AUTHORS (AND OTHERS) TO THE RIGHT OF LENIN:  Book Promo And Vignettes By Luke, Mary Catelli and ‘Nother Mike.

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.

BOOK REVIEW:  Boy’s Own Starship Book Review (Boys Adventure Fiction). (Video)

TAKES ONE?  Barack Obama says yes, aliens are real. Interviewer asks zero follow-up questions.

WELL, AS A YOUNG CHILD IN PORTUGAL, I WANTED TO LIVE IN DENVER…  Walking Duluth. A wonderful town that reminds you, place still matters.

HE WAS BIDEN’S (AND OBAMA’S) HE RARELY SAYS WHAT HE MEANS AND NEVER MEANS WHAT HE SEEMS TO SAY:  The road to Keir Zero — my Starmer dictionary

THE EDITOR OF THE CONSERVATIVE WOMAN LOOKS BACK ON WHAT MATTERED IN OLD BLIGHTY:  My TCW week in review: Rupert Lowe and Ben Habib, your time is now.

THANK G-D THIS WOMAN WAS NEVER ELECTED PRESIDENT:  Hillary Clinton Gushes Over Transgender Congressman Who Headlined Panel Discussing Women’s Rights.

TSK. SO GAUCHE!  Marco Rubio Stuns With Speech Defending Western Civilization.

FOR THE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGING:  Amelia: The UK’s Digital Aisling.

I DON’T  REQUIRE WE BURN EDUCATION THEORISTS AND THE EDUCATION SCHOOLS THAT TEACH THEIR TRIPE TO THE GROUND: But can we abolish them?  This sounds like a joke, but it’s not: – 1 in 12 incoming UCSD freshmen don’t know middle school math, – and the remedial math course was too advanced, – so UCSD had to create a remedial remedial math course, – and a quarter of the students placing into it had a perfect 4.0 GPA in their high school math courses.

That sounds so ridiculous, like something you’d read in The Onion, but it’s unfortunately real.

AND FOR THE: Cancelled of X.

UM:  This drone combat exchange reality is something US Army officers refuse to acknowledge via claiming ‘airpower can fix it.”  Reality: The F-35 is as relevant to stopping the FPV drone threat as a 203mm shell is to stopping the 5.45mm Russian caliber rifle bullet threat.

And for the Exiled of X.

OF COURSE THEY AREN’T:  No, Women Aren’t Being Arrested for Miscarriages. A fear promoted by pro‑choice advocates urges women to avoid seeking care in the event of a miscarriage, but the idea that miscarriage is being criminalized collapses the moment you look at the cases.

HE WOULD. IT’S PART OF KEEPING SOCIETY CIVIL:  Trump exonerated on Epstein.

NO. JUST BETTER TAUGHT:  Americans Used to Be Smarter. Why today’s math teaching doesn’t work.

We need to get rid of education colleges ASAP.  I don’t believe they can be reformed.