Sunday, February 22, 2026

The violent murderous leftists do not permit opposing views

"We'll Be Monitoring This Case": US State Dept Condemns Far-Left Activists Killing Of French Conservative

BY TYLER DURDEN
SUNDAY, FEB 22, 2026 - 06:20 AM

Authored by Thomas Brooke via Remix News,

The U.S. government has weighed in on the killing of French conservative student Quentin Deranque by far-left militant activists, warning that “violent radical leftism is on the rise,” and demanding that those responsible be brought to justice.

In a statement posted on X, the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Counterterrorism said, “Reports, corroborated by the French Minister of the Interior, that Quentin Deranque was killed by left-wing militants, should concern us all. Violent radical leftism is on the rise, and its role in Quentin Deranque’s death demonstrates the threat it poses to public safety. We will continue to monitor the situation and expect to see the perpetrators of violence brought to justice.”

Under Secretary of State Sarah B. Rogers also addressed the case, warning about the consequences of pandering to political extremism.

“Democracy rests on a basic bargain: you get to bring any viewpoint to the public square, and nobody gets to kill you for it,” she wrote.

“This is why we treat political violence — terrorism — so harshly. Once you decide to kill people for their opinions instead of persuading them, you’ve opted out of civilization. We will continue to watch this case,” she added.

Deranque, 23, was fatally beaten in Lyon following clashes linked to a far-left demonstration. 

French prosecutors have confirmed that 11 individuals have been arrested in connection with the attack.

Those detained include two parliamentary staff members affiliated with the hard-left La France Insoumise (LFI) party led by Jean-Luc Mélenchon, and a former intern of LFI MP Raphaël Arnault. 

One of the parliamentary assistants, Jacques-Élie Favrot, has now been indicted for intentional murder, serious violence, and criminal association, and his role and the roles of others in the far-left party La France Insoumise are leading to calls for a political “firewall,” usually reserved for the right, to be applied to the left in France.

News of the killing has reverberated across Europe, sparking protests, as well as a diplomatic spat between Paris and Rome.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni publicly expressed solidarity following Deranque’s death, warning that “polarizing ideologies” and a climate of hatred were contributing to growing militancy across the continent.

Her remarks prompted a sharp response from French President Emmanuel Macron, who rebuked foreign leaders for commenting on French domestic affairs.

Macron said he was “always struck by the fact that nationalists, who do not want to be disturbed in their own country, are the first to comment on what happens elsewhere,” in comments that were widely interpreted as directed at Meloni.

Meloni hit back on Thursday evening in an interview with Sky TG24, lamenting the fact that Macron “did not understand” the difference between interference and expressing solidarity and concern.


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If the police would only have allowed us to get away excuse!

Smirking Vegas thieves blame police for crash that killed 101-year-old WWII veteran — as they’re sentenced to prison



By 
Nicholas McEntyre
Published Feb. 22, 2026, 5:37 a.m. ET
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Taxpayer funded virtue signaling patronage job creation!

Greenberg: The Irony – Ineligible Blacks May Fund SF Reparations


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Germany: You let these Nazi Islamists in. They would gladly kill Jews for their heinous religion

‘Keffiyehs in Buchenwald’? Protest Planned at Nazi Concentration Camp on Liberation Day

By Ben Smith  | 8:50 AM on February 22, 2026 
The opinions expressed by contributors are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of RedState.com.
AP Photo/Vincent Thian

A planned protest at the Buchenwald concentration camp memorial on the anniversary of its liberation is igniting backlash in Germany for a simple reason: Activists intend to turn a Holocaust commemoration into a contemporary political demonstration.

According to reports, radical organizations are organizing a demonstration at the site on April 11 under the slogan “Keffiyehs in Buchenwald,” accusing the memorial’s management of “spreading Israeli propaganda” and not being “hostile enough toward Israel.” Among the groups involved are the student wing of Germany’s Left Party, the anti-Israel group Jewish Voice for a Just Peace in the Middle East, and the German Communist Party.

The date is not incidental. April 11 marks the liberation of the camp in 1945.

Buchenwald was liberated by U.S. forces in April 1945. About 56,000 prisoners were killed there, including many Jews. Each year, survivors, families, and public officials gather at the former roll call grounds where prisoners once stood for hours in freezing weather. The purpose of that day is remembrance.

The protest follows an incident last year in which a woman was denied entry while wearing a keffiyeh during what was described as a protest action. Israel Hayom reports that a German court later upheld the memorial’s decision. Organizers now accuse the site of promoting “historical revisionism” and advancing an “Israeli narrative.”

German officials have responded directly. Felix Klein, Germany’s commissioner for combating antisemitism, described the initiative as more than a policy disagreement.

Klein called the planned demonstration “a frontal assault on the dignity of commemoration and on the memory of the victims of the Holocaust.” 

The Buchenwald Memorial Foundation likewise warned against attempts to repurpose the site for present-day politics.

The foundation cautioned against efforts “to exploit the memory of the camp for contemporary political purposes,” stressing its commitment to preserving historical memory and opposing antisemitism and incitement.

Holocaust memorials are not neutral public squares. They mark places where human beings were reduced to numbers, forced into labor, and systematically murdered. The victims commemorated at Buchenwald were not casualties of a modern geopolitical dispute, and memory is not a political prop.

Political protest has its place in democratic societies. A concentration camp memorial on liberation day should remain devoted to remembrance, not repurposed for contemporary spectacle.

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To shovel snow but not to vote?

Mayor Mamdani Urges New Yorkers to Help Shovel Snow — But They Must Show Two Forms of ID!

By  Feb. 21, 2026 7:40 pm
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Report: NY's Most Lenient Immigration Judge Gets Culled,

Report: NY's Most Lenient Immigration Judge Gets Culled, and DOJ's Reaction Is Chef's Kiss

By Becca Lower  | 7:13 PM on February 21, 2026 
The opinions expressed by contributors are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of RedState.com.


Remember during the first year of the Trump 2.0 administration, when the Justice Department started cleaning house, as part of the process of fixing the immigration system left in tatters by former Pres. Joe Biden and VP Kamala Harris?  As we wrote, over 100 immigration court judges were either fired or left of their own accord. In another part of the change-over, the Defense Department brought in hundreds of lawyers from the military ranks to serve as judges.READ MORE: Full Speed Ahead. Department of Defense Will Appoint 600 Military Lawyers As Temporary Immigration Judges

Big: Jury Reaches Verdict in Judge Hannah Dugan Case on Obstructing Federal Agents Over Illegal Alien

That seems to have kicked things into high gear. Syracuse University's TRAC program showed that almost 80 percent of asylum seekers were deported in the last quarter of 2025. And while this next big win also happened last year, it's the first time the details have been reported.

Among those judges who were culled by the DOJ, according to an exclusive report The NY Post just published, was New York's most lenient judge, who doled out approval for nearly every asylum claim that came before her court. 

Judge Vivienne Gordon-Uruakpa, who ruled in favor of asylum claimants 97% of the time — more than any of her colleagues in the state – was terminated without public notice back in September because of her prolific record of asylum rulings, according to a government official.

Gordon-Uruakpa no longer appears on the web site of the downtown Manhattan courthouse where she used to serve.

The report continued with some of Judge Gordon-Uruakpa's background:

Gordon-Uruakpa, 66, attended Fordham University in the Bronx and the Howard University School of Law. Her background is in legal aid and criminal defense.

But I think my favorite part of the story is the Justice Department's comment, after The NY Post asked them about the judge's entry on the court's homepage being taken down. They simply said the site is "up to date."

How perfect is that, readers? I'd call it a chef's kiss. It seems like just yesterday that Biden-Harris and their cronies in the DOJ and Homeland Security (DHS) were doing everything possible to allow illegals to stream across our borders, and remain in the country pretty much unaccounted for. Now, the border is locked up tight as a drum.

Earlier in Feb., my colleague streiff wrote that the DOJ isn't done making things right, by proposing a new rule expected to start in March that could streamline the bloated backlog of immigration cases. And while he rightly avers that expected legal challenges to it could end up at the Supreme Court, we'll see what happens in the meantime.

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When corporations act politically JPMorgan Admits to Closing Over 50 Trump Bank Accounts

JPMorgan Admits to Closing Over 50 Trump Bank Accounts


JPMorgan Chase admitted that it closed more than 50 of President Donald Trump’s bank accounts after his first term as president concluded.

The bank admitted on Friday that “more than 50 Trump accounts” were cut off in February 2021, weeks after the January 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol, according to the New York Times.

The revelation by JPMorgan came after Trump “and the Trump Organization” filed a lawsuit in January against JPMorgan Chase and its CEO, Jamie Dimon, for having debanked the president, according to the outlet.

Per the outlet, accounts that JPMorgan reportedly “debanked” were accounts “for Trump hotels, housing developments and retail shops” in several states, along with “Trump’s personal private banking relationship that handled his inheritance:”

The accounts included those for Trump hotels, housing developments and retail shops in Illinois, Florida and New York, as well as Mr. Trump’s personal private banking relationship that handled his inheritance from his father, according to letter filed to the court.

JPMorgan did not specify in those letters a specific reason for the mass account closings. In one unsigned note to Mr. Trump, dated Feb. 19, 2021, the bank wrote that he would need to “find a more suitable institution with which to conduct business.”

Breitbart News’s John Nolte reported, Trump’s attorneys filed a $5 billion lawsuit against JPMorgan and Dimon, claiming that the institution debanked several of his accounts:

The lawsuit says that on February 19, 2021, Trump received notice, “without warning or provocation,” that several of his and his company’s bank accounts would be closed “just two months later, on April 19, 2021.

“In essence, JPMC debanked plaintiff’s accounts because it believed that the political tide at the moment favored doing so,” the lawsuit claims.

Prior to the revelation by JPMorgan, the institution had previously requested “the case be moved from Florida state court… to a federal court in New York,” according to the NYT.


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Iranian Spies Busted

Iranian Spies Busted: Three Silicon Valley Engineers Charged with Stealing Google Trade Secrets and Funneling Data to Tehran

By  Feb. 21, 2026 9:00 pm

A federal grand jury has indicted three engineers for stealing hundreds of confidential files from Google and other tech giants, then smuggling the sensitive data to Iran.

The defendants, Samaneh Ghandali, 41, a U.S. citizen; her sister Soroor Ghandali, 32, an Iranian national on a student visa; and Samaneh’s husband Mohammadjavad Khosravi, 40, an Iranian national and legal permanent resident, were all residents of San Jose at the time of the theft.

Samaneh and Soroor previously worked at Google before joining another unnamed tech firm, while Khosravi, a former member of the Iranian army, was employed at a developer of system-on-chip (SoC) platforms, such as Qualcomm’s Snapdragon series used in high-end Android phones and Apple’s iPhones.

Charged with conspiracy to commit trade secret theft, theft, and attempted theft of trade secrets, and obstruction of justice, the trio allegedly exploited their insider access to steal processor security, cryptography materials, and Snapdragon SoC hardware architecture secrets that serve as valuable intel not readily available to competitors.

The trio routed the files through third-party platforms like Telegram, copied them to personal devices, and even photographed computer screens to dodge digital monitoring.

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Good news for the economy

OPINION

Five important reasons why the Trump economy is about to really blast off

Federal workforce cuts and spending reductions set stage for sustainable growth

  By E.J. Antoni Fox News

If you’re struggling to make sense of the economy today, you’re not alone. Many so-called experts completely whiffed their forecasts, while positive economic data — the Dow Jones Industrial Average at 50,000 points — seemingly contradicts negative survey responses. But understanding five key elements reveals we’re about to be off to the races.

First, 2025 was a year of transition for the economy. Under Democrat President Joe Biden, particularly his last two years in office, job growth was disproportionately due to government hiring. Similarly, government purchases played an outsized role in growing overall economic activity, as measured by gross domestic product (GDP).

President Donald Trump turned off those spigots, slamming the brakes on government spending growth and firing a record number of bureaucrats at the federal level. Shrinking the unproductive public sector while growing the private sector is a welcomed change, but it initially shows us as a negative in many economic metrics.Shrinking the federal workforce and cutting wasteful government spending subtracts from the overall job numbers and GDP, respectively. Just as Biden was able to boost these figures with government largesse at taxpayer expense, now cutting the bloat drags down the headline numbers. Nevertheless, it’s a positive change.

HARVARD ECONOMIST SAYS TRUMP INFLATION REPORT LEAVES ‘NO OTHER WAY TO SPIN IT’ BUT GOOD NEWS

The second element is the distinction between inflation and prices. You can think of inflation as how fast you’re driving down the highway, and prices as the mile markers on the side of the road. Your speed (the inflation rate) can stay constant at 60 miles per hour, and the mile markers (prices) will keep going up, at a rate of one per minute.

But now let’s say your speed drops by half, to 30 miles per hour. The mile markers keep going up, but now it’s only once every two minutes. This is like prices going up more slowly when the inflation rate drops. If you come to a complete stop, your speedometer hits zero, and the mile markers don’t go up at all. That’s zero inflation.

But notice that the mile markers aren’t going down even when there’s no inflation. That’s nearly where we’re at today, with real-time inflation metrics like Truflation showing an inflation rate well below 1%, about as good as it gets outside of a recession.

The problem today is not the rate of inflation but how bad inflation was for the four years under Biden, which caused prices to skyrocket. People are not mad about inflation right now, but that prices aren’t coming back down. To make that happen, we need Congress to make serious cuts in both spending and to bureaucratic red tape.Even if Congress doesn’t act, the good news is that income growth is helping solve the problem, albeit more slowly, and that’s the third element which has changed significantly in the economy.

Under Biden, wages grew substantially, but prices rose much more rapidly. The average American’s weekly paycheck, adjusted for inflation, shrank 4% during those four years. But with inflation so much lower now during the Trump administration, the average American’s weekly paycheck buys about 2% more than when he was inaugurated.

That tells us two very important facts: things are getting better, but we also haven’t regained all the lost ground from the Biden years.


Emblematic of these two facts is the fourth element to understand, which is federal finance. Because the economy is growing faster, tax receipts to the Treasury are up 11.8% this fiscal year, compared to the same months in the prior fiscal year — which were the last four months of the Biden administration.

Shrinking the unproductive public sector while growing the private sector is a welcomed change, but it initially shows us as a negative in many economic metrics.

On the spending side of the ledger, outlays rose just 1.9%, causing the federal deficit to fall 17.0% — tremendous progress in just a year! Again, this doesn’t mean the government’s finances are sunshine and rainbows, but they’re not doom and gloom either. We’re not where we want to be yet, but we are absolutely improving.

That brings us to the final element: investment. Between tax and regulatory cuts along with Trump’s trade negotiations, trillions of dollars in investment are pouring into the country. That will mean more factories, higher productivity and wages, more products and services, higher tax receipts to the Treasury and even lower inflation, if not lower prices.

That’s all incredibly bullish and paints a picture of an economy that has just rounded the turn and will soon blast down the straight. After years in the doldrums, the finish line of prosperity is fully in sight.


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Trump has delivered on rural health care


Rural health care in America faces a host of chronic challenges: high costs, limited access, and aging infrastructure. For millions of families across the heartland, these problems aren’t abstract — they determine whether patients can see a doctor, reach a hospital, or receive timely care close to home.

By expanding flexibility, encouraging innovation, and meeting rural communities where they are, policymakers have begun to confront the unique realities of rural health care.

More than 60 million Americans — nearly one in five — live in rural areas where patients routinely travel long distances only to find fewer doctors, hospitals, and clinics available to serve them.

Under-resourced communities face over-sized health challenges. Nowhere is this more evident than in rural America, where higher rates of chronic disease, premature mortality, and addiction persist compared to the rest of the country.

In recent months, the Trump administration and Congress have advanced a set of reforms — largely overlooked in the national debate — that directly address long-standing disparities and structural weaknesses in rural health care, and they could meaningfully strengthen care delivery in these communities, improve health, and save lives.



The most significant of these efforts is the Rural Health Transformation Program, established last year in President Trump and the Republican Congress’ signature One Big Beautiful Bill Act. This $50 billion program represents the largest investment ever dedicated specifically to rural health, far exceeding the scale of prior grant programs. States that receive awards can use these resources to modernize and stabilize their rural health systems.

The program allows states to invest in innovative care models tailored to rural realities — whether expanding outpatient capacity, strengthening the health care workforce, or upgrading aging facilities. Instead of imposing a one-size-fits-all approach, the program gives states the flexibility to design reforms that reflect local needs and constraints.

Although media attention has shifted elsewhere, the White House and congressional leaders should continue to emphasize the long-term importance of this investment. The program addresses a foundational weakness in America’s health system and delivers tangible support to rural communities that have too often been left behind.

As part of the recently enacted FY 2026 appropriations legislation, Congress also extended Medicare telehealth flexibilities through December 31, 2027, delaying a return to statutory barriers that once limited access to telehealth services. Telehealth allows patients to connect with specialists, receive mental health services, and manage chronic diseases without traveling hours for an appointment.

In communities facing persistent provider shortages, telehealth has become not a convenience but a lifeline — a bridge over miles of empty road, connecting rural patients to care that would otherwise remain out of reach.

The FY 2026 appropriations legislation also reauthorized the Acute Hospital Care at Home initiative, which allows eligible patients to receive hospital-level care in their own homes. This approach reduces costs, eases pressure on rural hospitals with limited capacity, and improves patient satisfaction. For small hospitals struggling to keep beds staffed and doors open, Acute Hospital Care at Home offers a practical way to deliver high-quality care while preserving local access.

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Finally, although Congress has not yet enacted it into law, lawmakers are working to reauthorize the Rural Health Care Services Outreach Program. This program supports community-based efforts to expand access to care, strengthen coordination among providers, and address persistent service gaps. Its grants help rural health systems collaborate across institutions and tailor solutions for populations that too often fall through the cracks.

Taken together, these reforms do not promise a quick cure — but they do offer a realistic treatment plan. They don’t strengthen rural health care because it’s easy; they make it easier because rural health care must be strong. While these efforts will not eliminate every challenge rural communities face, they are designed to deliver tangible improvements that deserve recognition.

By expanding flexibility, encouraging innovation, and meeting rural communities where they are, policymakers have begun to confront the unique realities of rural health care. Yet as the news cycle moves on, these achievements risk being overlooked. Policymakers in both Congress and the executive branch should resist the urge to rush to the next challenge and instead highlight the significance of these steps in the right direction.

Editor’s note: This article was originally published by RealClearHealth and made available via RealClearWire.


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