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On Tuesday, while Donald Trump was calling the Democrat Party crazypants, Democrat officials were sharing the stage with people dressed as frogs. At the time, I didn’t want to do any of my diligence as to why, because some videos you need to let speak for themselves. CNN, on the other hand, rushed to get an exclusive interview with Slurmitt. He’s the head frog in charge, leading other specimens dressed as amphibians to, quote, remind Trump to uphold the Constitution.
Apparently, the resistance frogs are popular amongst leftists as a symbol of…I don’t know, something something fascism. Keep in mind, this is the same CNN that got cranky over Donald Trump calling Democrats crazy, lamenting, “Are we ever going to get back to normal?”
A THIRD relative of transgender killer Robert Dorgan has died nine days after a horror ice hockey shooting.
Gerald Dorgan, 75, the shooter’s ex-father-in-law, had been in critical condition since the February 16 shooting.
Democrats did it. They actually did it. At Tuesday’s State of the Union address, Rep. Seth Moulton brought an illegal immigrant as his guest, and then Moulton’s staff reportedly hid the illegal in his office to protect him from the police.
🚨 WTF?! Democrat Rep. Seth Moulton SMUGGLED IN an illegal alien to Trump’s State of the Union address, then had his Chief of Staff HARBOR the illegal in Moulton’s office to SHIELD him from police
Harboring an illegal is a FEDERAL FELONY
ARRESTS need to be made! Or our laws are… pic.twitter.com/TdVjcxNKxX
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) February 26, 2026
We’re repeatedly told that transgender-identifying individuals are not prone to commit gun violence. Major outlets — including the The New York Times, AP, CNN, and The Washington Post — publish articles arguing that transgender attacks are extremely rare and run headlines calling out conservative bias: “The right exploits Nashville shooting to escalate anti-trans rhetoric” and “Conservatives use Minneapolis shooting in anti-transgender campaigns.”
In the wake of the attacks in Canada and Pawtucket, Rhode Island, over the past couple of weeks, public debate has once again focused on transgender murderers. But the AP, CNN, ABC News, NBC News, MS Now, and the New York Times never mentioned the Rhode Island shooter identified as transgender. AP never mentioned the Canadian mass murderer was transgender. Other transgender-identifying people recently also posed serious threats even though they never got a chance to fire a shot. For example, Nicholas Roske, who now identifies as transgender, attempted to murder Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh and took concrete steps toward carrying out the attack before authorities stopped him.
If voter ID requirements truly threaten civil rights, it follows that many other civil rights are also threatened. Identification is needed throughout American society, including for transportation, accommodation, and housing — historical battlegrounds for civil rights.
The SAVE America Act would require documented proof of citizenship for voter registration and photo identification for voting in federal elections. President Trump and Republicans support the legislation, and Americans overwhelmingly support voter ID, which is at the heart of the measure. Democrats, on the other hand, overwhelmingly oppose the SAVE America Act and, by implication, the election integrity requirements it would implement.
Russian President Vladimir Putin issued a ruthless attack order in the face of peace efforts(Image: POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
Russia launched a mass overnight onslaught of almost 500 bombs on Ukraine injuring at least 26 people – as the Kremlin dampened peace talk hopes.
At least 420 deadly drones and dozens of missiles were used in the attack, plus anti-ship , ballistic and cruise weapons , many of which were aimed at Kyiv and seven other regions.
While Iran engages in fake negotiations to stall, deceive, and lie to the Trump Administration, they announce that they will be buying anti-ship missiles from China. President Trump must stop these asinine negotiations with Iran. Iran’s butchers will never honor an agreement with the U.S, most especially when President Trump leaves office in January 2029. History will not be kind to President Trump if he signs a bad nuke deal with Iran.
Related – ‘Complete game-changer’: Iran close to buying supersonic anti‑ship missiles from China
PRESIDENT TRUMP on IRAN: My preference is to solve this problem through diplomacy, but one thing is certain: I will NEVER allow the world’s number one sponsor of terror to have a nuclear weapon.
We have to be strong. It’s called peace through strength. pic.twitter.com/0CPKHtvQDt
— Department of State (@StateDept) February 25, 2026
Trump said that for 47 years the Iranian regime and its proxies “have spread terrorism and hate,” killing thousands of people in the region, including American soldiers and at least 32,000 civilians during protests that erupted last December.
Trump said the Iranian regime has… https://t.co/2T5GODAGZW
“Anything you can do, I can do better,” the famous duet from the musical “Annie Get Your Gun,” comes to mind as Republicans in blue states watch their red congressional districts disappear because Democrats turned the tables on President Donald Trump’s plan to push mid-decade redistricting to make it easier for the GOP to hold the House majority. Once Republican states decided to employ this strategy, Democrats would have been derelict not to do the same.
House Republicans leaders are beginning to realize that their chances of midterm victory may shrink because this Pandora’s Box was opened. It’s not just that blue states might create more safe seats than red states might. The debate has energized the Democrat base and allowed their big money donors to argue to the public that this is just another “authoritarian” attempt by Trump to rig the system.
Washington — President Trump has grown increasingly frustrated with what aides describe as the limits of military leverage against Iran, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter who spoke to CBS News under condition of anonymity to discuss national security issues.
Unlike previous targeted operations, including the recent one removing Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro from power, Mr. Trump has been told that any strike on Tehran’s assets would almost certainly not be a singular, decisive blow. Instead, limited strikes could open the door to a wider confrontation — one that risks drawing the United States into a protracted conflict in the Middle East.
Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent told “Sunday Morning Futures” host Maria Bartiromo on Sunday that revenue from tariffs would not drop, despite the Supreme Court’s ruling against the authority President Donald Trump’ invoked to levy his “Liberation Day” tariffs.
The high court decided Trump exceeded his powers under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) in a 6-3 ruling issued Friday. Bartiromo questioned Bessent about claims made Friday by the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget that the deficit would increase due to the loss of revenue.
“Yes, so, Maria, let’s take a step back here. And Maya MacGuineas should be ashamed, and they should take the word ‘responsible’ out of her organization’s name,” Bessent responded. “Everything she told you was completely irresponsible and, look, where were they when the Biden administration blew out the deficit that we had a fiscal contraction last year? So she should be ashamed.”
“So let me tell you what’s going to happen first, this ruling was a very narrow ruling in terms of the president’s ability to use IEEPA to collect revenues. The Supreme Court said the president can put in a full embargo, but he cannot collect one dollar,” Bessent continued.
It’s the largest incident of liquid pollution in American history, with reports stating that roughly 250-million gallons of raw sewage has poured from the Washington, D.C., sewer system into the Potomac River over the last month. This biohazard tide infects much of the Chesapeake Bay, and will eventually make its way along the eastern seaboard via the Atlantic Ocean. Astute observers in times past noted how it seems as if the beltway deliberately craps on Americans. As it turns out…
The technology giant Nvidia just reported a great fourth quarter. The company operates on a January fiscal year. It comfortably beat analyst expectations, primarily because of the explosion in artificial intelligence infrastructure spending. Importantly, the largest U.S. data center companies just announced dramatic increases in artificial intelligence capital spending. Spending by the so-called hyperscalers will rise well over 50% to almost $700 billion in 2026.
Nvidia’s revenue reached $68.1 billion, a growth rate of 73% year over year. That exceeded the consensus estimate of around $66 billion. Data center revenue was up 75%, a huge beat. Earnings per share were also higher than expected. The market was looking for earnings of around $1.53. The reported number was $1.62. Nvidia’s gross margin was also outstanding at 75%. That indicates the company continues to have pricing power and appears to be largely unaffected by the shortage of high-bandwidth memory semiconductors.
Many have disagreed with the rationale for the Trump tariffs, lamented their content and consequences, and been alarmed about the president’s expansive use of emergency powers to impose them. But the Supreme Court’s ruling challenging them ought to be alarming because it allows Congress’s dereliction of duty to continue while tipping the balance of power even further toward the judiciary.
The Supreme Court’s decision, written by Chief Justice John Roberts, is also alarming for a number of other reasons. To begin, it was dubious, seeing as how a splintered majority dismissed all “[s]tatutory text, history, and precedent” to the contrary in holding that tariffs are not a means to “regulate … importation” under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), as Justice Brett Kavanaugh, joined by Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, persuasively argued in his dissent. The court’s decision was also nonsensical, given that under its ruling, per the dissent, a president could “shut off all or most imports from China, but not … impose even a $1 tariff on imports from China.”
… President Donald Trump’s whirlwind, time-defying performance left me (and maybe you, too) with a nagging question/realization that I’ll try to explain today: How do you give a speech — particularly a speech of two hours — without giving a speech?
It was the longest State of the Union in history, but it was no slog.
“I wasn’t even planning to watch the whole thing and I just kept watching,” blogfaddah Glenn Reynolds posted to Instapundit last night, and my friend and partner in thoughtcrime Stephen Kruiser added in today’s Morning Briefing, “It may seem weird to say it about a speech of that length, but there was an economy to it that made it effective.”
The left promised that Canada’s Eunathasia program was not a slippery slope. It turns out, however, that it is the slipperiest of slopes in the history of slopes.
First, they said MAiD would be reserved for the terminally ill. Then, they expanded it for mental illness. Now, they are mulling whether or not children should be included in this evil state-sanctioned suicide. Worse of all, this may or may not be done with parental consent.
According to Life News:
A report by the Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying (AMAD) was tabled in the House of Commons on February 15 calling for a drastic expansion of euthanasia (MAiD) in Canada. Among other recommendations, the report recommends that euthanasia be expanded to include children “mature minors.”
A California community college professor cannot be required to embed diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility practices in his classroom, a federal judge has ruled.
The decision is the latest development in a nearly three-year-old lawsuit filed by Daymon Johnson, a history professor at Bakersfield College, part of the Kern Community College District. Johnson is also faculty lead of the Renegade Institute for Liberty.
Two California Code of Regulations provisions would require Johnson to employ teaching, learning, and professional practices reflecting diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility, or DEIA, as well as mandate the professor establish proficiency in DEI to teach or lead within California’s community colleges, the decision states.
The New York City Police Department released photos of two people wanted in Monday’s mob attack on cops amid a snowball fight, which reportedly caused multiple injuries to officers.
The NYPD Facebook post indicates that “two uniformed police officers were inside Washington Square Park when two individuals intentionally struck the officers multiple times with snow and ice causing injury to their head, neck, and face. Anyone with information is asked to contact @NYPDTips or 800-577-TIPS.”
Democrats held their applause during several moments of President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address Tuesday night, including when Trump promised to ensure justice for Iryna Zarutska, the slain Ukrainian refugee.
Anna Zarutska, Iryna Zarutska’s mother, was teary-eyed as Trump recalled her daughter’s final moments.
“He was arrested over a dozen times and was released through no cash bail. Stood up and viciously slashed a knife through her neck and body. No one will ever forget — there were people on that train — no one will ever forget the expression of terror on Iryna’s face as she looked up at her attacker in the last seconds of her life. She died instantly,” said Trump, referring to Decarlos Dejuan Brown, Jr., the man accused of stabbing Iryna Zarutska to death in August 2025. Brown has been indicted by a federal grand jury and faces one count of violence against a railroad carrier and mass transportation system resulting in death, according to the Department of Justice (DOJ).
NOW – Democrats refuse to stand for Anna Zarutska, the mother of Iryna Zarutska. pic.twitter.com/rB2atshSk1
— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) February 25, 2026
Bill Gates acknowledged to Gates Foundation employees that he had affairs with two Russian women while emphasizing they were not connected to Jeffrey Epstein’s victims, according to a Wall Street Journal report on a staff town hall this week.
Addressing employees Tuesday, the Microsoft co-founder described his past interactions with Epstein as a serious error in judgment and offered an apology.
“I apologize to other people who are drawn into this because of the mistake that I made,” Gates said, according to a recording referenced by the Journal.
A majority of U.S. Supreme Court justices were absent from President Donald Trump’s 2026 State of the Union address Tuesday night, a notable development that came just days after the high court struck down his global tariff policy.
Only Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Associate Justices Elena Kagan, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett attended the speech.
Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Sonia Sotomayor, and Ketanji Brown Jackson did not attend.
High Democratic turnout in Texas’s Senate primary is driving record early voting numbers, giving hope to Democrats in the reliably red state.
Though primary turnout is usually lower in nonpresidential election years, the 2026 primary has drawn unusually close attention, largely due to the race between state Rep. James Talarico and Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX). In the first seven days of primary voting, a record 1,259,356 votes were cast — 665,664 for Democrats and 593,692 for Republicans, according to unofficial data from the Texas secretary of state, obtained by the Texas Tribune.
Several Democratic representatives channeled Sleepy Joe Biden by snoozing on live TV during President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address on Tuesday.
In so doing, the congressmen spotlighted their inexcusable rudeness and shameful disdain for the voters whose taxes pay their lofty salaries.
Among the sleepy stooges was Rep. David Scott, 80, of Georgia, who appeared to be in deep slumber as Trump directly addressed Americans to discuss the current condition of the country.
Democrat Rep. David Scott is literally sleeping at the State of the Union.
Democrats are unserious people. pic.twitter.com/D0ZDHcMKzL
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) February 25, 2026
For House Majority Leader, Rep. Nancy Pelosi has responded to President Trump’s State of the Union address.
Immediately after Trump’s address, Pelosi did an interview with CNN where she wasted no time in ripping Trump’s speech.
Pelosi claimed Trump’s speech was “lazy” and took jabs at the President over his Big Beautiful Big.
She also criticized him for not speaking longer about Ukraine.
Good morning! Welcome. This is Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2026, the morning after the night before. Kinda. Quite a night last night, but I’ll get to that. First, though, what has become a tradition for this column, Today In History:
The hideous thug Rep. Ilhan Omar heckled at President Trump during his SOTU speech. President Trump is 100 percent correct. Rep Ilhan Omar is garbage. As is the Keffiyeh clad Rep. Rashida Tlaib, who whore a ‘Fuck Ice’ pin at the speech.
What lowlifes. How are these seditious criminals still in this country?
Without the illegal vote, the jihad caucus would never have been elected.
She married her brother. Deport her.
President Donald Trump blasted Democrats and the gender transition industry Tuesday night during his State of the Union speech.
“Surely we can all agree no state can be allowed to rip children from their parents’ arms and transition them to a new gender against the parents’ will. Who can believe that we’re even talking about it? We must ban it, and we must ban it immediately,” Trump said in a video posted to X.
Trump then glared at Democratic lawmakers who refused to applaud protecting children.
TRUMP: “Surely we can all agree no state can be allowed to rip children from their parents arms and transition them to a new gender against the parents will.”
*Democrats stay seated*
TRUMP: “Look, nobody stands up. These people are crazy. I’m telling you, they’re crazy!” pic.twitter.com/3PPqvhaOn8
— Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) February 25, 2026
“For weeks, social media was flooded with these wonderful patriots. Videos of unicyclers, naked bike riders, the guy in the chicken suit, and a whole lot of frogs,” he said.
At an event held by Democrat lawmakers on Tuesday night in protest of the State of the Union, Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon was heard praising the anti-ICE “patriots” of Portland that swarmed the city’s ICE facility after Trump’s announcement that he was deploying troops to protect it.
“The day we heard Trump was deploying troops to Portland, we rushed over to the ICE facility because, based on Trump’s Truth Social, we expected to just see a violent mob. But apparently, one guy in a chicken costume is what Trump considers a war zone.”
“For weeks, social media was flooded with these wonderful patriots. Videos of unicyclers, naked bike riders, the guy in the chicken suit, and a whole lot of frogs,” he added, with people dressed in inflatable frog costumes flanking him on stage.
“No war zone to be found. Friends, when Donald Trump sent his agents to the streets of Portland, we took on authoritarianism ’cause we had the frogs and we won,” he said.
President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address drew strong support from viewers Tuesday night, according to a CNN poll conducted by SSRS, reinforcing that his message on border security and economic reform continues to resonate with his base.
Nearly two-thirds of those who watched said they had at least a somewhat positive reaction to the speech, with 38% describing their response as very positive. While media outlets were quick to note the audience skewed Republican, that has long been the case for State of the Union viewers, who typically tune in because they are engaged and invested.
More importantly, Trump appears to have strengthened confidence among those watching.