THE NEW SPACE RACE: Firefly Aerospace prepares Alpha rocket for 1st launch since explosive mishaps last year.
To build a working rocket requires going through some explosions along the way.
February 21, 2026
MAKE THEM PAY:
BREAKING: JPMorgan Admits It Shut Trump’s Accounts After Jan. 6 Capitol Attack
Nation’s largest bank, in response to a lawsuit filed by the president, confirmed his longstanding complaint about “debanking.”
Per the New York Times: “For years, President Trump has complained that… pic.twitter.com/V2Pa20vYiC
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) February 21, 2026
STOCKPILE FOOD AND BOOZE: Massive blizzard set to wallop NYC with up to 20 inches of snow as bomb cyclone puts millions in danger. Up and down the East Coast, and worse in Boston.
I LIKE JUST SOCKS, IF THE SURFACE ISN’T SLIPPERY: Scientist Reveals The Best Shoes to Wear While Lifting Weights. I often wear Puma driving shoes, which are almost like barefoot shoes, but cheaper and a bit more supportive.
IS THE AUTISM EPIDEMIC JUST AN OUTBREAK OF DIAGNOSES? “Autism’s apparent explosion cannot be understood without first clarifying what the term now encompasses. What was once a rare, severe neurodevelopmental condition, often accompanied by intellectual disability and institutionalization, has expanded into a broad diagnostic spectrum that includes many individuals with normal or exceptional cognition and minimal functional impairment. This diagnostic elasticity, combined with deinstitutionalization, shifting social expectations, and powerful policy incentives such as mental health parity, has dramatically altered who is counted and why.”
And don’t forget the role played by Somali scammers.
HOW ABOUT JUST LEAVE THEM THERE, THEN? Scientists Warn: 5,000-Year-Old Ice Cave Bacteria Resistant to Modern Antibiotics.
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ALL THE BEST PEOPLE TOLD ME THAT “REEFER MADNESS” WAS A MYTH: Adolescent cannabis use linked to doubling risk of psychotic and bipolar disorders.
WAS IT OVER WHEN JOHANNES VERMEER BOMBED PEARL HARBOR?
We will see evidence of IQ collapse the likes of which we can’t even imagine https://t.co/NSLGYCCfdS
— Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry (@pegobry_en) February 21, 2026
Could be far, far worse, though: Too Many People To Count Who Were Responsible For This:
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In a recent podcast appearance, former Obama National Security Advisor Susan Rice said that businesses and other entities that “take a knee to Trump” will be “held accountable” when Democrats come back into power.
Rice said on Stay Tuned with Preet Bharara on Thursday, “The corporate interests, the law firms, the universities, the media, I agree with you, Preet, it is not, it’s not going to end well for them, for those that decided that it was, you know, that they would act in their perceived, very narrow self-interest, which I would underscore is very short term self-interest, and, you know, take a knee to Trump.”
Susan Rice: "If these corporations think that the Democrats, when they come back in power, are going to play by the old rules…they've got another thing coming — There will be an accountability agenda."
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) February 20, 2026
Nice business you’ve got there. Shame if something were to happen to it:
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I HAD NO IDEA I WAS EATING “BOY KIBBLE:” Gym bro version of ‘girl dinner’ dubbed ‘boy kibble’ takes over TikTok. After I had oral surgery, I couldn’t eat steak or chicken so we started making ground beef in a pan. Glenn even got me adding ketchup to it. I had no idea it was known as “boy kibble.” That sounds kind of insulting but it is honestly delicious.
One guy’s description about his “boy kibble” reads “Making boy kibble in a girl-dinner-trying-to-add-protein-to-my-meal way, not a scary-villainous-bro way,” he captioned his video. Notice how this guy has to virtue signal that he is like a girl and not scary? Why not just say he is adding protein and leave it at that?
NATURE, RED IN TOOTH AND CLAW: A Tyrannosaurus tooth embedded in dinosaur skull tells a violent story.
PLAYING WITH FIRE:
Susan Rice is threatening revenge against corporations, the universities, and other institutions.
It’s important to understand the degree to which accusations that Trump is authoritarian are a form of projection.
It’s also important for these entities, before they get their… https://t.co/LkVWuUSGA9
— Coddled Affluent Professional (@feelsdesperate) February 21, 2026
THE 21ST CENTURY IS NOT TURNING OUT AS I HAD HOPED: Lawsuit: ChatGPT told student he was “meant for greatness”—then came psychosis.
AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD:
In Historic First, Socialist Runs Out Of Money https://t.co/YPgzFrmn3F pic.twitter.com/e8wgGRIOwJ
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) February 19, 2026
MY PHILOSOPHY IN A NUTSHELL: ‘Kick it while it’s down’ approach to cancer treatment could improve cure rates.
HE WAS FROM KNOXVILLE, UNSURPRISINGLY: ‘We are all Jews’: Soldier who defied his German captors to be awarded Medal of Honor.
It was within these conditions that the POWs subsisted until roughly one month after their capture, on Jan. 27, 1945, when Roddie Edmonds, the highest-ranking American noncommissioned officer at Ziegenhain stalag that day, was told to order his nearly 200 Jewish-American soldiers out of the morning roll call.
Instead, the master sergeant ordered more than 1,000 of his fellow prisoners to stand together in front of their barracks.
The commandant scoffed, noting that they couldn’t all be Jewish.
Roddie Edmonds was defiant, telling the Nazi: “We are all Jews.”
The commandant furiously marched over to the master sergeant, placed his Luger to Roddie Edmonds’ forehead and once again told him to order his Jewish soldiers to step forward or this time he would execute him.
“You can shoot me,” Tanner, who was standing next to Roddie Edmonds at the time, recalled the NCO saying. “You can shoot all of us. But we know who you are. And this war is almost over, and you’ll be a war criminal.”
The Nazi slowly lowered his pistol, did an about-face, and walked away.
He deserves the Medal.
NO ONE IS ILLEGAL ON STOLEN LAND AND/OR IN STOLEN CARS! Thief who swiped Oakland mayor’s $75K car was ‘squatting’ in City Hall for days: source.
The bandit who stole the mayor of Oakland’s $75,000 SUV had been “squatting” inside City Hall before swiping the keys from her office, the California Post can reveal.
Barbara Lee’s black Ford Expedition was reported missing on Tuesday but was recovered just “hours later” in nearby Vallejo, California, thanks to a tracker attached to it.
A source told the Post the thief had been living inside the complex since Friday and managed to stay undetected despite the highly paid ABC Security Services being on site.
The suspect was holed out on the 11th floor of the deserted offices over the Presidents Day weekend, according to the insider.
They are understood to have “jimmied” the door to Lee’s office on Monday and made off with the city-owned car using an unsecured parking lot entrance.
Police said the alleged thief had been identified through security footage and an arrest was made on Thursday.
Police? Lee runs hot and cold on her feelings for them: Barbara Lee Praised Defunding Police; Now Her SUV Has Been Swiped From City Hall.
The timeline here matters.
In 2020, during the height of the defund movement, Lee said she was “really proud” of the Minneapolis City Council’s pledge to defund the local police.
Really proud.
There was no distancing language. No caveats. No hesitation about the direction the movement was pushing. At the time, “defund” was not a misunderstood slogan. It was a demand to redirect resources away from police departments and shrink their footprint.
Lee embraced that energy.
She later declared:
“We have to restructure our funding priorities in terms of how we make our communities safe.”
That was not a throwaway line. In the political climate of 2020, “restructure” meant fewer officers, less traditional enforcement, and more faith in alternative approaches. It meant the old model was flawed and needed to be scaled back.
And she did not stop there.
“We can’t wait. It’s time to overhaul our policing system.”
Overhaul contemplates far more than a trim around the edges — it is a teardown. It assumes what exists is fundamentally broken and must be rebuilt from the ground up.
Oakland has been living inside that rebuild.
The city recorded 9,914 motor vehicle thefts in 2024. Its overall crime rate has run several times the national average. The police department has been operating roughly 280 officers short. Residents have not needed policy papers to explain the consequences. They have been double-checking their locks and hoping their cars are still where they left them.
Then crime stopped being a statistic and became a symbol.
It did not stay in the neighborhoods. It did not politely avoid elected officials. It allegedly walked into City Hall, went into the mayor’s office, took the key to a city vehicle, and drove off.
Car thefts for thee, but not for me. Exit quote: “It is remarkable how quickly the traditional law enforcement model becomes essential when crime crosses the threshold of City Hall.”
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THERE SHOULD BE THE DEATH PENALTY FOR THIS: Mississippi hospital system closes all clinics after ransomware attack.
