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The right’s unwillingness to mount a coherent defense against racist anti-white animus encourages the left to keep it up. The leading academics who write about “white privilege,” (left to right) Ta-Nehisi Coates, Robin DiAngelo, and Ibram X. Kendi. (Profile images via Wikimedia Commons) One of the most important but least mentioned developments over the last 10 to 12 years has been the growth in respectability of anti-white hate. In an era when criticism of various identities has become a firing offense, we might have gone one of two ways. We could have tried to be fair about it and mandated...

Conservative icon and Hollywood legend James Woods has announced he’s ditching the Republican Party. Woods, a fierce patriot and vocal supporter of President Trump, blasted the “uniparty traitors” in a fiery post on X, declaring, “I am done with the Republican Party.” Woods’ decision comes amid growing frustration with Senate Republican leadership, particularly cowardly Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD), who has continuously stalled the crucial SAVE Act, a bill designed to safeguard American elections by requiring proof of citizenship for voter registration. Without this measure, Woods warns, the floodgates will remain open for election fraud, illegal aliens pouring in,...

Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper has hit back at President Trump's criticism of the UK response to the conflict in Iran. Appearing on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, Cooper said: "It won't surprise you that we don't agree with President Trump on every issue." It's the prime minister's job to "take decisions in the UK's national interest... not in the interest of any other country", she added. In a social media post, the US president had earlier said the UK was considering sending aircraft carriers to the Middle East. He appeared dismissive of the move, writing: "We don't need people that join...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio skipped the interpreter and took matters into his own hands Saturday, switching to fluent Spanish to deliver President Donald Trump’s agenda directly to a dozen Latin American leaders at the Shield of the Americas Summit. “We don’t need an interpreter for this one,” Rubio told Trump before addressing the room in Spanish, as shown in the video shared by The White House. The moment went viral across social media. Trump looked on with approval as his top diplomat assumed translation duties. The exchange set the tone at Trump National Doral in Miami. Defense Secretary Pete...

...a coffin crashed down from a cliff near the Baltic Sea near the village of Bagicz, Poland, in 1899... Made from the hollowed trunk of an oak tree and exceptionally preserved, it protected the bones of a young woman from the ancient Wielbark culture who was thought at the time to have likely been a member of the social elite. She was buried with a bronze fibula, a necklace of glass and amber beads, a brooch, and bronze bar bracelets; was laying on a cowhide; and had a wooden stool at her feet....almost forgotten until the 1980s, when archaeologists rediscovered...

Watch as a live streamer captures the moment an anti-ICE protester accidentally lights himself on fire while attempting to burn an American flag outside the Portland ICE facility. During the demonstration, the flames briefly spread and ignite parts of his own clothing before he quickly manages to put the fire out as people nearby try to put it out

Ebrahim Zolfaghari, spokesman for the IRGC emergency headquarters, delivered a message aimed at demoralizing Israelis in broken Hebrew. Video of Zolfaghari"Your political and military leaders, as well as your Prime Minister, are only using you as a human shield," he declared. "They are part of a triad of officials, defense companies, and media outlets who are pursuing financial gain," he continued. ..... Ebrahim Zolfaghari, spokesman for the Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters in Iran, addressed Israel in Hebrew on Saturday evening.

Well Starship Version 3 Is Finally About To Light Up! SpaceX is about to roll Super Heavy Booster 19 to Pad 2 at Starbase in Texas. In this week's update we break down the latest Starship testing at Massey's, including Ship 39 cryogenic testing, flap actuation tests, and new Version 3 hardware ahead of Flight 12. We also cover major progress on the orbital launch mount, Pad 2 preparations, Ship 40 production for Flight 13, updates to NASA's Artemis program and lunar landing plans, multiple Falcon 9 Starlink launches, Rocket Lab's Electron mission, and the latest developments across the rapidly...

“Saturday Night Live” mocked former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem for being “reassigned under the bus” after President Trump fired her this week. Ashley Padilla’s Noem – decked out in the 54-year-old’s signature coiffed hair and caked-on makeup – opened the sketch show by claiming she wasn’t axed, she “self-deported,” while taking aim at her rumored plastic surgery and a shocking excerpt from her book about killing her dog. “I just want to make it clear that I didn’t get fired, I self-deported,” she joked, skewering Noem’s controversial ads that pushed immigrants to leave the US voluntarily. “And though I...

The California Department of Motor Vehicles said the federal government is requiring approximately 13,000 non-domiciled commercial truck drivers statewide to have their licenses revoked, effective immediately. CBS News Sacramento first reported the news in November of last year, which the state said came following the discovery that the expiration dates on the licenses had passed the immigrant drivers' legally allotted time to stay in the U.S. On Friday, the DMV said those affected by this federal requirement had already received notice from the agency that their licenses were subject to cancellation. Approximately 20,000 drivers were at risk of seeing their...

It's 2026, and if you've been wondering what happened to Dream Chaser Tenacity, you're not alone. For a while, it looked like Sierra Space's lifting-body spaceplane was right on the edge of flying, sitting in Florida, moving through final prep to launch on United Launch Alliance's Vulcan Centaur. Then things went quiet. Now we're finally getting clarity -- and the picture is both promising and complicated... NASA's New Spaceplane Dream Chaser Tenacity Is About to Launch! Everything Finished! | 9:24 SpaceX Community | 69.2K subscribers | 80,309 views | February 22, 2026

In the United States — and the civilizational “West” more broadly — we are a society divided by slogans, propaganda, and social media memes. It is an unfortunate part of our present reality that we no longer engage in honest “public debate.” We haven’t done so for a very long time. The Founding Fathers wrote essays and pamphlets and delivered hours-long speeches during which they articulated the reasons for their beliefs. We get pink-hatted people — who may or may not identify as women — “shouting their abortions.” We get automatons screaming, “Black lives matter,” “Free Palestine,” “Trump is Hitler,”...

The Seventh Circuit just delivered a haymaker to Obama-appointee Judge Sara Ellis for her efforts to limit federal enforcement of immigration laws. It accused her of "effectively establish[ing]" herself "as the supervisor of all Executive Branch activity in the city of Chicago."

Donald Trump’s apparent interest in regime change in Iran is a welcome development. The opening days of the US-Israeli military campaign against the ayatollahs and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (“IRGC”) have proceeded beyond expectations, although harder days undoubtedly lie ahead. The Pentagon’s planning and professionalism are on full display. By contrast, the political side of this politico-military assault on the Tehran regime is hurting.

US President Donald Trump said Saturday he didn’t want Kurdish fighters from Iraq to join the war against Iran, after previously expressing support for the idea. “I don’t want the Kurds to go into Iran… They’re willing to go in, but I’ve told them I don’t want them to go in… The war is complicated enough as it is… We don’t want to see the Kurds get hurt or killed,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One, after attending the return of the bodies of the six American soldiers killed in the conflict with Iran. The US leader spoke as...

Man’s best friend has once again proven its ability to detect someone in trouble and lead its human companion to the scene to summon life-saving help. Dan DiCandilo in Richmond, Virginia suburb of Ashland told WWBT how a dreary, bitterly cold morning just after sunrise turned into a life-saving rescue during his daily walk around the neighborhood with his dog, Gozier. “We walk five miles a day, every day, and we’ve been doing that for nine years,” said DiCandilo. “Gozier is the child we’ve never had.” He continued, “We were about halfway up Henry Clay, heading towards the tracks as...

If you were to ask legacy media or many prominent Democrats, they’d tell you that young men are getting radicalized. Yes, many young men are isolated and pessimistic about their futures. Some are falling down content rabbit holes that normalize misogyny and antisemitism. But while men are listening to provocateurs such as Nick Fuentes to cope with their low societal cachet, young women are getting radicalized too. There’s evidence that men have actually stayed relatively stable, while women have lurched left with the widespread adoption of social media and the collapse of marriage. Most concerningly, a new study shows that...

By patiently and methodically setting the stage, President Trump has realigned the Middle East, formed a strong new alliance against communism and narcoterrorism in this hemisphere, and is forcing power-grabbing federal judges to stay within their constitutional lane. The Middle EastThere are ridiculous claims about the targeting of the Mullahocracy. The truth is clearer: Iran posed an obvious threat to almost every country. In negotiations with Iran to avoid warfare, Steve Witkoff was informed by Iran’s negotiators that it was “proud” it had evaded all previous ”oversight protocols.” They bragged that they controlled “360 kilograms of 60% enriched uranium” from...

"Proof You Don’t Need Words to Roast Someone" from the channel Film Leak Shorts (uploaded around February 13, 2026, and it's racked up millions of views).

Man’s best friend has once again proven its ability to detect someone in trouble and lead its human companion to the scene to summon life-saving help. Dan DiCandilo in Richmond, Virginia suburb of Ashland told WWBT how a dreary, bitterly cold morning just after sunrise turned into a life-saving rescue during his daily walk around the neighborhood with his dog, Gozier. “We walk five miles a day, every day, and we’ve been doing that for nine years,” said DiCandilo. “Gozier is the child we’ve never had.” He continued, “We were about halfway up Henry Clay, heading towards the tracks as...