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.

LIMITED TIME DEAL: FOXWELL NT301 OBD2 Scanner Live Data Professional Mechanic OBDII Diagnostic Code Reader Tool. #CommissionEarned

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

FROM PAM UPHOFF:  Ruin and Redemption (Chronicles of the Fall Book 21).

A collection of six related stories

The Orgy Drug was just a snickery rumor . . . until an afternoon garden party when someone spiked the punch.

In a society divided by class, and ruled by the Mentalist Elite, who even keep their wives controlled with brain chips . . . Six upper class young ladies and their maids are faced with the ruination of their reputations—and the reactions of friends and family—and they’re going to deal with it, each in their own way.
Using the cultural changes forced by the loss of Zhivvyy Provoda, the Power Plague attacks, the illegal Orgy Drug circulating widely . . . and contact with other dimensionally-able civilizations, they’re all going to make it, one way or another.

A TALE OF TWO OLYMPIANS:

I think almost everything that can be said about Eileen Gu and Alysa Liu has already been said, but when I step back and look at the full picture, I keep getting blown away by how reality handed us a script far more perfect than anything fiction could invent.

On one side, you…

— Hans Mahncke (@HansMahncke) February 20, 2026

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

CUTE:  Magical Assistants Anonymous. Because all kinds of people need a support group.

THE WAGES OF INSANITY:  California Importing Foreign Fuel After Running Refineries Out Of Town.

READER FAVORITE: Airmoto Tire Inflator Portable Air Compressor. #CommissionEarned

DAFT. COMPLETELY DAFT:  Bye-Bye Frying Pan, Hello Gas Ring.

RIDICULOUS:  NASA on Starliner: Too much freedom caused the failure!

THE FRENCH ARE, AS ALWAYS, INSCRUTABLE:  Shifting French politics.

NOT EVEN CLOSE:  SCOTUS Tariff Ruling Is Not Quite The Win Democrats Think It is .

I MUST STRONGLY PROTEST THE LACK OF PAPIER MACHE PUPPETS: Have the democrats lost all pride in their nutbaggery?   Presidents Day Protest: Woke DC Dancers Reenact ICE Shootings of Good and Pretti.

GREAT BRITAIN IS NOT WHAT IT WAS AND IS NOT A COUNTRY THAT A FREE COUNTRY CAN BE ALLIED WITH:  The Special Relationship Should.

AND ABOUT TIME:  Forging the Mineral Alliance: U.S. to Form Trading Bloc to Counter China’s Grip.

AND NOT A MINUTE TOO SOON:  Jackalope Wind Project Hops onto Ash Heap of Green Energy History.

A MAN OF MOMENTOUS HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:  Anniversary of the Death of Rush Limbaugh: Mark Steyn.

ABSOLUTELY WHAT HE SAID:  Governments exist within the context of the wider world. You can’t just decide to kneecap your own industry for ideological reasons and expect that other places will helpfully do the same.

AND FOR: The Cancelled of X.

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.

BREAKING: Trump Responds to Supreme Court’s Decision on Tariffs.

UPDATE (From Ed):

Trump has already maxxmogged by finding multiple alternate bases for the tariffs, thereby reclaiming aura and rugging premature celebration by jestergooning Democrats. https://t.co/VzANtlpamB

— David Sacks (@DavidSacks) February 20, 2026

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

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