SARAH ANDERSON: A Surprise High-Level U.S. Visitor Lands in Venezuela. “It’s hard to put into words just how historic this is, but it’s yet another win for the Trump administration. I just Googled it to see if the MSM is reporting on it — so far, it looks like just a few outlets, like the Jerusalem Post and Reuters, are the only others mentioning it. That could change tomorrow, but the media does not like to celebrate these wins. I will.”
February 19, 2026
I TAKE THIS TO MEAN THAT HARVARD STUDENTS AREN’T NEARLY AS LEFT-WING AS THE HARVARD FACULTY OR STAFF — NOT EVEN AFTER FOUR YEARS AT HARVARD:
The ease with which the few dominate the many, the helplessness of the many to protect their rights against the few — this is what happens when an astroturfed pseudo-consensus is enfranchised and the people are disenfranchised. What happens in microcosm even within Harvard has… https://t.co/scRqOFmsew
— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) February 19, 2026
PUNCH BACK TWICE AS HARD: Hassett says authors of New York Fed tariff study should be disciplined: ‘Worst paper I’ve ever seen.’
White House economic advisor Kevin Hassett said Wednesday that the authors of a recent New York Federal Reserve paper that found U.S. companies and consumers are shouldering most of the tariff burden should be “disciplined.”
In a CNBC interview, the National Economic Council director ripped the report, saying that central bank researchers ignored key aspects of how the duties worked and instead simply focused on prices. Hassett said the research also should have included the upward impact on wages and benefits that U.S. companies see by bringing more production onshore.
“I mean, the paper is an embarrassment,” Hassett said during the “Squawk Box” interview. “It’s, I think, the worst paper I’ve ever seen in the history of the Federal Reserve system. The people associated with this paper should presumably be disciplined, because what they’ve done is they’ve put out a conclusion which has created a lot of news that’s highly partisan based on analysis that wouldn’t be accepted in a first-semester econ class.”
As long as wage increases continue to outpace price increases — which they generally did in 2025, and one helluva quick turnaround from the Bidenflation years — Trump’s policies are working as intended, no matter what the Fed says.
MASSIVE RESISTANCE: DEI remains strong at UMich a year after president promised to gut it.
THIS IS EXPLAINED BELOW:
The UK: We’ve arrested the former prince
Everyone: what about the horde of Pakistani child rapists?
The UK: the what?
— The Dank Knight 🦇 (@capeandcowell) February 19, 2026
PROOF THE PETER PRINCIPLE IS POSITIVELY PANGLOSSIAN:
I hadn't realized that the same guy who screwed up in Flint (and if you dig deep on that it was because he didn't understand water chemistry) is now in DC.
Totally makes sense to me but I've been watching this shit for longer than most. https://t.co/fjpLpC3pjE
— John Ringo SF Author (@Jringo1508) February 19, 2026
EVERGREEN HEADLINE: Affluent White Female Liberals Are Living In A Made-Up World.
In a recent viral video, an angry mob (composed almost entirely of white women) hurled expletives at the staff of a Minneapolis CorePower yoga studio, berating them because they reportedly removed anti-ICE signage. While their verbal onslaught apparently worked in this case, these females revealed just how many women live in a Land of Make Believe where everyone magically bends to their will.
This tiny glimpse into the world of make-believe perpetuated by Affluent, White, Female, Liberals (AWFL) has been a long time in coming; many are waking up to the saccharine dream where the AWFLs can do whatever they want, unscathed, while the rest of us must conform and then clean up their messes. For decades the West has built itself around the ideal life for these women, requiring very little by way of sacrifice, inconvenience, earnest effort, or real scrutiny. In today’s world, it is good to be a victim. It is a made-up world that most of us have grown used to believing is real.
As a famous — albeit — fictional law enforcement official famously said, let’s be careful out there:
THIS IS WHO DEMS TRY TO PROTECT: ICE nabs Iranian national with rape, sodomy convictions after Virginia Democrats move to curb cooperation.
The Washington, D.C., office of Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced the arrest of an illegal immigrant and Iranian national who had a criminal history that included multiple charges relating to sodomy.
The arrest comes weeks after Gov. Abigail Spanberger reversed by executive order her predecessor Glenn Youngkin’s 287(g) agreement with DHS that allowed the commonwealth’s law enforcement agencies and federal immigration authorities to share resources and information to help apprehend illegal immigrants and criminals.
Virginia State Sen. Saddam Salim, D-Dunn Loring, also crafted a bill to bar Virginia law enforcement agencies from cooperating with ICE in most instances. The Democratic-controlled chamber passed the measure 21-19.
Gooder and harder, Virginia.
I REMEMBER WHEN HIGHER EDUCATION WAS SUPPOSED TO FOSTER CIVIL DISCOURSE: University of Houston student wishes paralysis and cancer on TPUSA chapter members and their families in profane outburst.
IN THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC, EVERYONE’S A BILLIONAIRE!
1 USD = 1,637,000 Iranian Rials
Khomeini's face fittingly represents the most worthless currency on planet Earth.
All of Africa has stronger currencies than Iran.
Absolute insanity. This regime has screwed us so badly. pic.twitter.com/J7TKytBvjb
— 𝐍𝐢𝐨𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠 🇮🇷 ✡︎ (@NiohBerg) February 19, 2026
Next week, trillionaires.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Karoline Leavitt’s Continued Manhandling of the Press Is Pure Poetry. “Right off the bat, I would like to say how grateful I am to be on the side where we can say that a woman is ‘manhandling’ someone and not have to deal with a gaggle of male feminist professors getting their gender neutral undergarments in a wad. Yeah, they’re still out there, but conservatives aren’t obligated to participate in the leftist manufactured outrage delusion.”
ULTIMATE ENGINEERING: That’s the title of a new book out this week by Brit Stuart Burgess that makes a tremendously compelling case for the proposition that the human body is chock full of illustrations of a level of engineering expertise and knowledge that far exceeds the capabilities of evolutionary natural selection.
If you’ve ever been told your wrist, knee or ankle are examples of bad design, this book will demonstrate why from the perspective of one of the world’d top-flight biomechanical engineers that claim is the opposite of the reality. Here’s my review for The Washington Stand.
A friend writes: “Interesting. Does this mean they’re gonna start arresting all those Pakistani rape gangs, plus the police and other public officials who turned a blind eye to that?”
Don’t be silly. That would be racist or something. Also it would interfere with the leftist/Islamist takeover of Britain. Arresting (former) Prince Andrew weakens the royal family, and thus promotes that takeover. Not that King Charles has shown any sign of getting in the way, but just by existing the monarchy is a potential center of resistance.
HOW ARE THOSE NUCLEAR TALKS GOING? Trump has discussed timeline for Iran strikes — including as soon as this weekend — but no decision yet.
Top national security officials have told President Trump the military is ready for potential strikes on Iran as soon as Saturday, but the timeline for any action is likely to extend beyond this weekend, sources familiar with the discussions told CBS News.
Mr. Trump has not yet made a final decision about whether to strike, said the officials, who spoke under condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive national matters.
The conversations have been described as fluid and ongoing, as the White House weighs the risks of escalation and the political and military consequences of restraint.
Over the next three days, the Pentagon is moving some personnel temporarily out of the Middle East region — primarily to Europe or back to the United States — ahead of potential action or counterattacks by Iran if the U.S. were to move ahead with its operation, according to multiple officials.
Stay tuned.
WORST. HITLER. EVER:
Craziest part of fascism is when you take to social media to put out a public statement announcing you're going to protest, all without fear of any legal repercussions. https://t.co/F8kHOE2HrP
— Sunny (@sunnyright) February 18, 2026
THE WARMTH OF COLLECTIVISM, GOOD AND HARD: Mamdani Abandons Key Leftist Policy As Homeless New Yorkers Freeze To Death.
And for the Cancelled of X.
LAW AND ORDER:
Trump brings a D.C. anti-crime activist who lost her son to violence to speak. She says Democrats never sent anyone to talk to her. No one talked to her until Trump who finally did something.
She gives Democrats hell:
“I love Trump. I don’t want to hear nothing you have to say… pic.twitter.com/LShHxvgrNV
— Bad Hombre (@Badhombre) February 18, 2026
Tweet continues, “I don’t want to hear nothing you have to say about that racist stuff. And don’t be hating on me because I’m standing up for somebody that deserves to be stood up for. Get off the man’s back. Let him do his job!”
IT’S MY THURSDAY ESSAY FOR VIP SUBSCRIBERS: Make Gunboat Diplomacy Great Again.
HIGHER EDUCATION IS A MONEY LAUNDRY FOR THE LEFT THESE DAYS: The Resurrection of Liz Magill: Georgetown Law Search Committee That Tapped Disgraced Penn President As Dean Included 11 Democratic Donors and a Democratic Political Aide.
And the left, unlike the right, always takes care of its own.
LIGHTNING DEAL: NEENCA Professional Knee Brace. #CommissionEarned
LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON: Rhode Island trans shooter’s son, 37, jailed for torching black church year before dad’s deadly hockey rampage.
The troubled, racist son of trans Nazi-loving Rhode Island killer Robert Dorgan was jailed last year for setting a series of fires at a predominantly black church, according to a report.
Kevin Colantonio, one of six children Dorgan had with three different women, is serving a nearly seven-year sentence in a Texas federal prison for using gasoline and a lighter to spark five fires outside Shiloh Gospel Temple Ministries in North Providence in February 2024, WPRI reported.
The church — which the deranged arsonist labeled as a place of worship for “Atheist God mockers” in a text to his family after the blaze — serves a mostly black congregation of 100 and was empty when the flames erupted.
Considering that dad had an SS symbol tattooed on his arm, is Colantonio aware of their views on religion? The Nazis’ love affair with the occult.
[O]ccult-related activities and organizations were often suppressed in Nazi Germany at the behest of Heinrich Himmler’s Rasputin-like personal occultist, Karl Maria Wiligut. The point of this was to ensure that Wiligut’s own brand of occultism would be the eminent philosophy of the Nazis.
Wiligut had developed a religion centered on worshipping the Germanic god Irmin. According to Wiligut, German culture dated back to 228,000 BC, a period of time when the Earth had three suns and was populated by giants, dwarfs, and other mythical creatures. He also claimed to be descended from a line of kings from this period of time. It should also be noted that Wiligut was a diagnosed schizophrenic.
Himmler, who was an avid follower of the occult, consulted Wiligut on a wide variety of issues. Using Wiligut’s prophecies, Himmler chose the castle Wewelsburg to serve as a base of operations for his SS troops and established a room in the castle with a crystal representing the Holy Grail. Wiligut also helped in the design of the rune-covered death’s head rings that the SS troops wore, personal awards that Himmler issued himself.
Himmler was particularly attracted to Wiligut’s brand of paganism, as he disliked the Judaic origins of Christianity. After the end of the WWII, Himmler believed that the “old Germanic gods will be restored.” Leveraging his influence and his boss’s desire to see a Germanic paganism, Wiligut attempted to stamp out competing philosophies to his Irminism.
Related: “Hitler presented himself as a Christian patriot to win over the German public as they faced economic and moral degradation during the unchecked liberalism of the 1920s, but in private he was not a fan of the religion. Hitler is noted by Albert Speer as saying: ‘You see, it’s been our misfortune to have the wrong religion. Why didn’t we have the religion of the Japanese, who regard sacrifice for the Fatherland as the highest good? The Mohammedan religion [Islam] too would have been more compatible to us than Christianity. Why did it have to be Christianity with its meekness and flabbiness?’”
